Highlights

Business and Labor on Immigration Contrasting Views of Leaders vs. Rank and File
By Steven Camarota

A new Zogby poll of senior executives, business owners, and members of union households finds that each of these groups thinks the best way to deal with illegal immigrants in the country is to enforce the law and cause them to return home. Read More...


Overview: Haitian Immigration

An overview page that contains a fact sheet on basic socio-demographic statistics, CIS blogs, and news articles. Read More...


Fixing Flores: Assuring Adequate Penalties for Identity Theft and Fraud
By Janice Kephart

Flores crippled prosecutors’ longstanding practice of using the aggravated identity theft statute by requiring that prosecutors now also prove that a defendant knew he was using a real person’s identity information, as opposed to counterfeit information not connected to an actual person. Read More...


Overview: CIR ASAP

The Democratic amnesty bill, CIR ASAP, has been released. The Center has gathered blogs, articles and other content for quick reference. More information will be posted as it becomes available. Read More...


A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty
By David North

With the Democratic amnesty bill on the horizon, it is a good time to take a careful look at the dysfunctional inner workings of the last major bailout of America’s illegal alien population, the alien legalization program that Congress created with the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Read More...


Religious Leaders vs. Members: An Examination of Contrasting Views on Immigration
By Steven A. Camarota

In contrast to many national religious leaders who are lobbying for increases in immigration numbers, a new Zogby poll of likely voters who belong to the same religious communities finds strong support for reducing overall immigration. Read More...


The New Case Against Immigration,
Both Legal and Illegal

By Mark Krikorian
Sentinel (part of the Penguin Group), 2008

As Mark Krikorian argues in this provocative book, what's different today is not the immigrants, but us. Today's immigrants are very similar to those of a century ago, but they are coming to a very different America -- one where changes in the economy, society, and government create fundamentally different incentives for newcomers. Read More...

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