Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Migration Policy Institute. February 28, 2013. Over the past five decades, the single largest origin group of Latin American immigrants in the United States has been from Mexico. The number of Mexican...
View ArticleThe Economic Effects of Granting Legal Status and Citizenship to Undocumented...
Center for American Progress. March 20, 2013. The movement toward comprehensive immigration reform has accelerated significantly in recent months. A bipartisan “Gang of 8” in the Senate—a group of four...
View ArticleImmigration Is Changing the Political Landscape in Key States
Center for American Progress. April 8, 2013. In the wake of the overwhelming Latino and Asian American support for President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election—support that was critical to his...
View ArticleImmigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes...
Migration Policy Institute. April 16, 2013. Today, the United States may be on the threshold of major new reforms that would address longstanding problems of illegal immigration, as well as those in...
View ArticleSweeping Senate Bill Sets the Stage for Fundamental Overhaul of US...
Migration Policy Institute. April 26, 2013. While most of public attention has been drawn to one aspect of the 844-page bill — a legalization program for many of the nation’s estimated 11 million...
View ArticlePopulation Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed
Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project. September 23, 2013. The sharp decline in the U.S. population of unauthorized immigrants that accompanied the 2007-2009 recession has bottomed out, and the number...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration Reform
Urban Institute. November 2013. In the past few years, there has been a fierce debate about what type of immigration policy best fits the interests and character of the United States. A milestone in...
View ArticleMore than 11 Million: Unauthorized Immigrants and Their Families Fact Sheet
Urban Institute. December 23, 2013. The effects of immigration reform proposals will extend well beyond the 11 million unauthorized U.S. residents. Those unauthorized immigrants share their homes with...
View ArticleHow Citizenship Helps the Economy
Center for American Progress. March 11, 2014. Allowing unauthorized immigrants to become citizens brings a whole host of economic benefits, from greater wages for workers, to increased economic growth...
View ArticleUnderstanding Immigration Federalism in the United States
Center for American Progress. March 24, 2014. In the past decade, state and local governments have produced a flurry of legislation related to immigrants and immigration. Much of the legislation...
View ArticleThe Current Record on Deportations: What Underlies the ‘Eye of the Beholder’...
Migration Policy Institute. April 2014. Within days, the Obama administration is expected to reach a milestone that has brought fear and anger to immigrant communities: A record 2 million removals...
View ArticleDiffering Approaches to Immigration on Two Sides of the Atlantic
YaleGlobal. April 24, 2014. Politicians opposed to immigration are making electoral gains throughout Europe, and legislators in the United States are also polarized over immigration reform, especially...
View ArticleWhat the President Can Do on Immigration If Congress Fails to Act
Center for American Progress. July 1st, 2014. With immigration reform legislation stalled, and deportations reaching a crisis level, President Barack Obama asked his new secretary of homeland security,...
View ArticleStatistical Analysis Shows that Violence, Not Deferred Action, Is Behind the...
Center for American Progress. July 8, 2014. A humanitarian refugee situation at the U.S. southern border has been unfolding over the past few years and dramatically intensifying over the past several...
View ArticleCitizenship Matters: How Children of Immigrants Will Sway the Future of Politics
Center for American Progress. July 24, 2014. Immigration reform may be off the table for 2014, but make no mistake: Failing to enact—or even bring to a vote—immigration reform that includes a pathway...
View ArticleThe Surge of Unaccompanied Children from Central America
Center for American Progress. July 24, 2014. The majority of unaccompanied children and families who are arriving come from a region of Central America known as the “Northern Triangle,” where high...
View ArticleUnaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview
Congressional Research Service. July 28, 2014. The number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) arriving in the United States has reached alarming numbers, straining the system put in place over the...
View ArticleUnaccompanied Alien Children – Legal Issues: Answers to Frequently Asked...
Congressional Research Service. July 18, 2014. Recent reports about the increasing number of alien minors apprehended at the U.S. border without a parent or legal guardian have prompted numerous...
View ArticleAsylum Policies for Unaccompanied Children Compared with Expedited Removal...
Congressional Research Service. July 30, 2014. The sheer number of Central American children coming to the United States who are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and who lack proper...
View ArticleExecutive Action for Unauthorized Immigrants: Estimates of the Populations...
Migration Policy Institute. September 2014. In the absence of legislative movement to reform the U.S. immigration system, the Obama administration is considering executive action to provide relief from...
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