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Napolitano Unveils Enforcement-Heavy Immigration Budget for DHS
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by myvisausa
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled yesterday, exemplifies the enforcement mentality which pervades the federal government’s approach to immigration. The two immigration-enforcement compon ...
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Shining a Light on ICE Misconduct
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by myvisausa
he New York Times reported yesterday on a lawsuit filed against federal contractor Signal Construction, which includes allegations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) colluded with Signal to illegally deport workers as a scare tactic and for retaliation purposes against 500 Indian guest w ...
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New Study Confirms Positive Impact of Immigration on Wages of Native-Born ...
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by myvisausa
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) yesterday released a new study, Immigration and Wages, which confirms what many other economists have found: “that immigration has a small but positive impact on the wages of native-born workers overall.” The report, by economist Heidi Shierholz, finds that the “e ...
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Future Employment-based Immigration Flow
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by myvisausa
One of the greatest challenges in immigration reform is the need to realistically assess our future employment-based immigration needs. This includes permanent and temporary visas, high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Many people agree that our current legal immigration flow is drastically out of s ...
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El Condado de Hidalgo apoya la reforma de inmigración
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by staff
EDINBURG, TX – La corte de comisionados del Condado de Hidalgo aprobó hoy una resolución para reafirmar su compromiso con los esfuerzos ciudadanos a favor de una reforma justa, amplia y humana de las leyes de inmigración de este país. Con el voto unánime del juez René Ramírez y los comisionados del ...
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On Immigration, Scrap the Obituary
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by myvisausa
For months, pundits in Washington have been dying to write the obituary for comprehensive immigration reform. Predictably, they’re using (last) Tuesday night’s special election in Massachusetts as a chance to do just that. But what they overlook is that immigration may well be one of the few issues ...
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Will comprehensive immigration reform pass in 2010?
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by myvisausa
One of the big questions emerging in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s Democratic election disaster in Massachusetts is whether the Obama administration will push forward with the rest of its legislative policy agenda. While “cap-and-trade” climate legislation appears to have gone by the boards, at le ...
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U.S. Jews and Latinos form unlikely bond over immigration policy
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by myvisausa
Even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate, and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in the fight for immigration reform, but the weakening of the De ...
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