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  • How does education affect the proclivity to emigrate to the U.S? The case of Mexico
  • Where Haitian TPS workers work
  • 3% of unauthorized persons detained have violent crime history
  • What unauthorized farm workers said in a survey
  • Mayor Zohran Mandami address July 4
  • More insights into the H-1B workforce.
  • Justice Thomas’ dissent in Trump v Barbara
  • Majority opinion on birthright citizenship
  • An Abrego Garcia timeline through July 2026
  • Hispanic support of Trump continues to fall
  • Threat of immigration cutbacks to human service programs
  • Facts about educational attainment of Asian immigrants
  • Suit: U.S. coordinates with Iran to deport Iranian asylum seekers
  • Great majority of court decisions rule against the government
  • Timeline for Temporary Protected Status for Haitians
  • Adverse economic activity due to ICE enforcement
  • Adverse employment impact of heightened ICE enforcement
  • White House goes full zenophobia
  • Another chapter in the Abrego Garcia story
  • How Trump has squeezed the H-1B program
  • Hair raising press release about green card applicants now in the U.S.
  • What happened in Chicago
  • Global low birthrates: the ultimate victory of liberal democracy?
  • Impact of deportations on American workers
  • Pro-deportation sentiment and “sovereignty”
  • Appellate court bars one element in strategy to kill asylum program
  • Assimilation of Muslims
  • More on the contribution of immigrants to innovation
  • The status of Trump’s effort to obtain state voter lists
  • How have foreign-born entries fallen — and did they?

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  • ►2026 (70)
    • ► August (8)
      • How does education affect the proclivity to emigrate to the U.S? The case of Mexico
      • Where Haitian TPS workers work
      • 3% of unauthorized persons detained have violent crime history
      • What unauthorized farm workers said in a survey
      • Mayor Zohran Mandami address July 4
      • More insights into the H-1B workforce.
      • Justice Thomas' dissent in Trump v Barbara
      • Majority opinion on birthright citizenship
    • ► July (7)
      • An Abrego Garcia timeline through July 2026
      • Hispanic support of Trump continues to fall
      • Threat of immigration cutbacks to human service programs
      • Facts about educational attainment of Asian immigrants
      • Suit: U.S. coordinates with Iran to deport Iranian asylum seekers
      • Great majority of court decisions rule against the government
      • Timeline for Temporary Protected Status for Haitians
    • ► June (4)
      • Adverse economic activity due to ICE enforcement
      • Adverse employment impact of heightened ICE enforcement
      • White House goes full zenophobia
      • Another chapter in the Abrego Garcia story
    • ► May (7)
      • How Trump has squeezed the H-1B program
      • Hair raising press release about green card applicants now in the U.S.
      • What happened in Chicago
      • Global low birthrates: the ultimate victory of liberal democracy?
      • Impact of deportations on American workers
      • Pro-deportation sentiment and “sovereignty”
      • Appellate court bars one element in strategy to kill asylum program
    • ► April (8)
      • Assimilation of Muslims
      • More on the contribution of immigrants to innovation
      • The status of Trump's effort to obtain state voter lists
      • How have foreign-born entries fallen --- and did they?
      • three key issues in Trump administration immigration policy
      • Global migration since WW II in 400 words
      • A touch of evil
      • The birthright case before the Supreme Court today
    • ► March (10)
      • Denmark vs U.S. -- a valid comparison?
      • Many foreign-born workers are in high risk jobs
      • Syrian refugees in Northern Europe
      • The source of top AI talent today
      • One way U.S. competes to attract foreign students
      • Continued labor shortage in seasonal farm workers
      • Refugees settlement now aimed almost exclusively for white South Africans
      • Criminal vs non criminal arrests
      • Again, Drivers of global migration
      • Warrantless and Preemptive arrests
    • ► February (10)
      • Population change 2025 - 2050
      • Looking back at the immigration raid in Chicago
      • The Hispanic swing vote and the Nov 2026 elections
      • Plans by DOJ to claim voting fraud
      • An historic pivot in migration of technologists
      • how foreign-born workers flow into the healthcare sector
      • Anti-ICE resistance: Seattle
      • Almost all unauthorized persons now subject to mandatory detention
      • Arrests and Deportation under Trump
      • The backlash dissected
    • ► January (16)
      • From a friend in Minneapolis
      • "Rights being violated like nothing I ever imagined." 
      • The resistance in Minneapolis
      • Birthright citizenship: the government’s orginalist rationale
      • The Pretti shooting and past pivotal events in American history
      • Voter fraud audits still coming up blank
      • Witness statement on killing of Alex Pretti
      • One small incident in mass deportation
      • The economic burden of immigrants
      • Polling on mass deportation: no major change
      • Venezuelan, Syrian, Ukrainian refugees
      • Comments by Minneapolis mayor on January 14
      • The Good killing and standing in front of her car
      • How Europe overhauled asylum migration
      • Stripping citizenship
      • How the SC blocked Trump's use of the National Guard for mass deportation
  • ►2025 (208)
    • ► December (16)
      • Christian nationalism and immigration
      • Unitarians and immigration
      • The administration's rationale for barring nationalities
      • Banning nationals from many countries from entering the United States
      • The rise in ICE arrests and in public fatigue
      • What you need to know about birthright citizenship
      • Refugee program in complete collapse
      • The latest on the Abrego Garcia case
      • The Gold Card Fantasy
      • President Trump's views on immigration
      • the City of Miami, December 9 2025
      • The National Security Strategy and immigration
      • Court enforces probable cause, bars ICE pick 'em off the street style
      • New immigrants have been more working age than the total population
      • Suspending applications
      • Arrest and deportation from the interior -- why so slow
    • ► November (15)
      • Judicial revolt over DHS practice of detaining persons
      • How Trump’s  broad nationality-focused attack on immigration has evolved
      • President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving message on Truth Social
      • Lincoln in 1858, welcoming immigrants
      • How ICE is allowed to make wide sweeps, arrests and detention
      • How a decline in international students is playing out
      • Messages from the Pope and American Catholic Bishops
      • How ICE finds people – and those courthouse arrests
      • The rise of second generation Blacks
      • The American Enterprise Institute on immigration, 2015 and 2025
      • How many unauthorized persons in the US now?
      • The rising trend of the Republican Hispanic voter has reversed
      • What is driving the Hispanic vote?
      • The case for skilled worker immigration
      • Foreign born workers and the supply of software engineers: Japan vs U.S.
    • ► October (12)
      • Palantir’s immigration work  
      • The drug cartel bust that wasn’t
      • How deportations happen -- the legal issues
      • DACA status: A Russian doll of legal reasoning
      • Most Americans don't think that ICE is acting execessively in enforcement
      • foreign personal caregivers: Japan vs U.S.
      • September Harvard Poll, immigration responses
      • Trump is boosting temporary farm visa workers to replace unauthorized workers
      • Update on Abrego Garcia, in detention since August
      • Facts about Hispanics in the U.S.
      • DHS used private sources to identify foreign students
      • Birthright citizenship right affirmed
    • ► September (14)
      • Thirty-plus years of the rise of transnational US-Indian IT workforce
      • H 1 B: the fundamental driver of the controversy
      • Summary estimate of deportations
      • Where do F1 students work?
      • Foreign students working here
      • Repairing the damage with South Korea
      • Short term business visitors, such as the Hyundai workers
      • Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
      • the Hyundai raid and the humiliation of persons
      • Trump's immigration policy: the impact on the labor force 2025- 2028
      • Alien Enemies Act struck down as means to deport persons
      • Further step by ICE to create a surveillance state
      • Court strikes down Trump use of military for city incursions
      • Chicago confronts the Trump administration about expected incursion
    • ► August (14)
      • Bondi threatens state officials with criminal suits
      • Abrego Garcia released, returns to custody, Xinis bars preemptory deportation
      • A restrictionist's assessment of Trump’s immigration actions
      • Fishing for non-citizen voters in Nevada
      • Military occupation of Washington and mass deportation
      • Doonesbury on mass deportation
      • Not so-overwhelming poll results regarding safe zones
      • Taxes paid by unauthorized persons: $100B  
      • Where elite AI workers study and work
      • Greater Boston high in immigrants, deeply penetrating STEM and medicine
      • World population trends, some up some down 2025 – 2045
      • Higher ed enrollments are plummeting
      • Chinese and Western urban growth: the role of migration
      • The foreign worker share in the U.S. exceeds that of Europe
    • ► July (18)
      • What is impacting our dependence on foreign-trained doctors?
      • Abrego Garcia case and US El Salvador agreements
      • These kinds of local articles can blunt mass deportation
      • Stunning shift in immigration polls
      • A progressive plan for immigration reform
      • The Trump Administration cannot coerce state+local governments
      • Where are ICE detainees held?
      • Grandparents arrested by ICE
      • Projected impact of reduced foreign workers on the economy 2025- 2027
      • Big impact of mass deportation in the hospitality sector
      • Battle over mass deportation on Los Angeles streets, January through July 11, 2025
      • Foreign workers and the rapid decline in the workforce since April
      • Trump administration shown to be controlling its El Salvador deportees
      • Vast expansion of denaturalization power by Justice Department
      • Abrego Garcia was tortured in El Salvador
      • Texas Gov Abbott's arrest and deportation actions 2017 - June 2025
      • Some provisions in the Senate and House OBBB bills
      • Texas Gov. Abbott's actions on border, arrests and deportations 2017 - June 2025
    • ► June (20)
      • Trends in arrests, detention and deportation January - June 2025
      • The next stage in the court battle over birthright citizenship
      • Remittances from the U.S., the case of Honduras
      • The Trump Administration and international students: what happened Jan-June 2025
      • Pew Research: disapproval of Trump immigration policy increasing
      • What is ICE's legal power to arrest and detain persons?
      • Suspension of ICE raids on hotels and restaurants
      • The ICE raid on Glenn Valley Foods and e-Verify
      • Abrego Garcia case contempt request by plaintiffs
      • Suspension of ICE raids on farms and meat processors
      • Mexican border: vastly excessive military / police force to contain a trickle of crossers
      • A timeline on National Guard deployment to LA and court rejection
      • Republicans (including Trump!) push back against ICE arresting non-criminals
      • Mass arrests in Southern California began on June 6
      • The public continues to support mass deportation -- not by a lot
      • ICE action has picked up by a lot
      • Update on time line of Abrego Garcia case through June 7
      • The new country bans
      • Trump uses old obscure laws to create a hostile immigrant climate
      • More on the surveillance system being built
    • ► May (15)
      • May 29: typical deportation news of one day
      • Persons in the US vulnerable to deportation
      • Many Hispanics feel affected by deportation effort
      • Onshoring textile and clothing production will require more foreign-born workers
      • Removal of unauthorized farm workers in California will create a national crisis of produce supply
      • Trump ICE volume of activity still not higher than Biden
      • The NY Times poll on immigration
      • So far in May, more visible ICE enforcement and more public fear
      • U.S. trying to coerce states to support mass deportation
      • Time line on Hispanic voting 2016 through April 2025
      • The role of federal district courts in deportation cases
      • Will there be a surge in worksite inspections?
      • Immigration in Spain
      • Administration's use of Alien Enemies Act rejected by Court
      • Mohsen Mahdawi released from detention
    • ► April (22)
      • Building for immigration a system to spy on all
      • Deportation orders pending like Abrego Garcia’s - FAQs
      • Immigration enforcement now entering red zone
      • Time line on the Abrego Garcia case between April 7 – 24
      • The Mohsen Mahdawi Case as of April 23 2025
      • Finding persons to deport through the IRS
      • What about a comprehensive immigration bill, Senator Cotton?
      • Collapse of migration to the Mexican U.S. border
      • Judge Wilkinson's opinion in versions you might better understand
      • Colorado advice on ICE resistance
      • Public opinion backdrop to Abrego Garcia case
      • The Abrego Garcia case as of morning on April 14
      • Supreme Court: Administration to facilitate return of Abrego Garcia
      • Polls show relatively high popular support for Trump immigration measures
      • The Supreme Court and the Alien Enemies Act
      • Time line on the Abrego Garcia case through late April 6
      • Revocation of student visas - an informal militia at work?
      • Canadian immigration update
      • Venezuelans, TPS and Florida
      • Is Trump trying to promote racial differences?
      • The ALCU’s Supreme Court submission regarding the Alien Enemies Act
      • Update on the use of the Alien Enemies Act: evasion of due process
    • ► March (27)
      • National immigrant advocate organizations focusing on law
      • How the Administration refers to an invasion of foreign criminals
      • Rubio memo on review of visa applicants
      • Here is Catholic Charities New Orleans program on protecting persons from ICE
      • Education and age disparities between foreign-born and U.S. born
      • ICE results not above Biden
      • Profiles of 15 deported persons supposed to be Tren de Aragua members
      • March 15 deportations and court order: a time line
      • Termination of humanitarian parole to affect half million persons
      • ICE arrests and deportations
      • Jerce Reyes Barrios and the wrong tattoo
      • Janine Mooney's weeks in ICE detention
      • Why Immigration actions fit into autocratic aspirations
      • The case of Jeanette Vizguerra, Colorado resident
      • Here is Catholic Charities San Diego's program to protect immigrants from ICE
      • Deportation tactics and the Rasha Alawieh case
      • The White House invokes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
      • The case of Mahmoud Kahlil in broad context
      • Labor crisis in Californias farm sector
      • We need some one to report on ICE enforcement on a regular basis
      • The Alien Registration Act
      • Trump and immigration Part 6 (final)
      • Trump and immigration Part 5
      • Trump and Immigration Part 4
      • Trump and immigration Part 3
      • Trump and Immigration Part 2
      • Trump and immigration in six parts Part 1
    • ► February (14)
      • ICE enforcement has not picked up under Trump
      • CBO: without immigration total population to decline in 2033
      • First year mass deportation budget
      • Six Hispanic Republican Congressman and Trump's mass deportation policy
      • Special identity documents at a time of mass deportation
      • Why mass deportation?
      • STEM graduate education foreign students/faculty, and indirect costs
      • How much do immigrants impact the total workforce?
      • Annual employment-based green cards - an overview 
      • White South Afrikaners as refugees to the U.S.
      • Trump's first two weeks: immigration
      • UK's troubled recruitment of foreign doctors
      • “Mass influx” declaration on immigration law enforcement
      • Baseline on arrests, detention and removals
    • ► January (21)
      • Trump administration halts all refugee effort, abandoning tens of thousands of cases without notice
      • civil violation vs misdemeanor vs felony in immigration law enforcement
      • Farm workers and the new administration
      • What we see in greater deportation activity
      • Humanitarian parole under attack by Trump
      • Federal troops at the border: what for?
      • Trump directives on refugees
      • If the Supreme Court approves the end of birthright citizenship...
      • Job growth and immigrant share 2022 – 2024
      • The Trump White House: Make America Safe Again
      • The NY Times swallows the bait of the Laken Riley Act
      • UK and German program to recruit nurses from other countries
      • Plan for large scale ICE raid in Chicago on January 21
      • How Many American live outside the US?
      • Indians in the US: a thriving and growing community
      • Laken Riley Act - the controversional provision
      • Do immigrant workers create, complement, or displace?
      • Bernie Sanders on H-1B
      • How the AMA influences physician immigration
      • Immigrant parents have higher educational expectations for their children
      • Roadblocks to mass deportation
  • ►2024 (156)
    • ► December (16)
      • Revised figures for number of recent immigrants
      • Scapegoating of immigrants
      • The Tech Bro Battle and MAGA: H-1B visas
      • The battle between tech bros and MAGA: the lust for global STEM talent
      • Lant Pritchett and rotational migration
      • Fertility rates of some countries
      • Did the Dems lose their way in immigration, or did Biden?
      • Biden initiatives on immigration at the outset of his administration
      • How unauthorized persons are deported
      • Aaron Reichlin-Melnick’s statement to Congress on mass deportation
      • Chances a judge will grant you asylum
      • mass deportation amok
      • Dependence on foreign-born workers
      • Senator Tom Cotton’s immigration ideas
      • An important analysis of the immigrant vote in November
      • Latino resentment about surge of temporary immigrants
    • ► November (18)
      • Aging trends in U.S.
      • Thanksgiving poem
      • Which countries are most dependent on remittances?
      • The Jordan Commission on immigration in the 1990s
      • The mass deportation idea is dead
      • Mayorkas' memo on deportation priorities
      • Mass deportation will not happen, something else will
      • Where have Ukrainian refugees gone?
      • Why people get deported.
      • History of large workplace raids, 2006 - 2018
      • Trump appoints Tom Homan as "border czar"
      • The Public Charge Determination and the Public Benefit Rule
      • Hispanics turned to Trump
      • Temporary Protected Status explained
      • The Lichtman test and the Trump victory
      • The next Trump administration's plan for immigration
      • Allan Lichtman’s presidential race "keys" and immigration
      • Effect of unauthorized deportations
    • ► October (19)
      • An immigration research center which sold its soul
      • One way to look at the economic impact of immigration: impact on the federal budget
      • The rise of household wealth and of global mobility
      • Most Repulicans say that immigrants "poison the blood" of Americans
      • Japan struggles with finding workers
      • Latinx: a word most Hispanics don’t want used
      • EU as a bloc will reduce immigration
      • Which country's immigration is most biased toward highly educated immigrants?
      • Dairy workers with no legal immigration pathway
      • How the Manhattan Institute looks at profit and loss from immigration
      • Poll on high-skilled immigration
      • What does the UNHCR do?
      • Ronald Brownstein documents Trump's steep descent in zeno-phobia
      • Why there will be a major immigration bill during the next administration
      • marriage green card practice quiz
      • Biden quadrupled refugee admissions over Trump, and more than Obama
      • Higher education: the white advantage as declined and will continue to do so.
      • Biden not to renew temporary special visas for four countries
      • Hispanic opinions about abortion
    • ► September (16)
      • Three September polls: what they report about immigration
      • Do countries whose workers migrate to advanced economies lose or gain?
      • What Trump has in mind for immigration
      • Springfield OH and Storm Lake IA: united in dependence on immigrant workers
      • The relentless rise of Hispanics in America
      • Policy tools to promote innovation include immigration
      • Role of immigrants in U.S. business innovation
      • Mayorkas interviewed
      • Why recent immigrant estimates differ so widely
      • A gov't estimate of the immigrant surge under Biden
      • The phenomenal performance of Haitian immigrants
      • Demographic crisis in Cuba
      • Boston Globe article “Gov Abbott was right about the border”
      • Biden has greatly cut back on Mexican border encounters. Here is how,
      • Canada cutting back on immigration
      • Parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela restarted
    • ► August (13)
      • A JD Vance projection of replacement, courtesy of the Census Bureau
      • Texas once again searches for non citizens on its voter rolls.
      • Owen Cass on immigration
      • Again, can countries boost the fertility rate?
      • Evidence of extremely few non-citizens on voter logs
      • The cost of sheltering migrants
      • JD Vance on violent immigrant enclaves
      • American farming and unauthorized workers
      • Parole program halted due to abuse concerns
      • "Seventy Miles in the Darien Gap" by Caitlin Dickerson
      • The rise of foreign-born under Biden
      • Refugees in the world
      • Where are the workers in the world?
    • ► July (11)
      • Migrant bussing by Texas in the context of shelter
      • “Multicultural,” “diversity:” when did these terms rise?
      • Politicians of Indian origin in politics
      • Trump: Nothing new on immigration
      • Planning migration into Ireland
      • Unauthorized population of the U.S.
      • Public opinion: less support for immigration, contradictory views
      • Mass deportation planned by Trump
      • A target for a Trump administration: Temporary Protected Status
      • A second Trump administration and long term immigration strategy
      • "nomad" visas
    • ► June (13)
      • Great study of present and future impact of immigration on US workforce.
      • When the United States helped to plan massive forced migration
      • How slow our visa system is
      • Biden's new policy regarding unauthorized spouses
      • More on the positive effect on immigration on recent job growth
      • Right wing political leaders in France, Germany and UK on immigration
      • A critique of Biden's border policy
      • Political alignment and immigration views
      • 8% of children in the U.S. have at least one unauthorized parent
      • Again how many immigrants have come recently?
      • Hispanic representation in Congress and the voting deficit of Hispanics
      • The power of the President to bar asylum seekers is very limited
      • How the eductional status of immigrants has flipped in the past 10 years.
    • ► May (12)
      • Trends in eligible voters 2000 to 2024
      • Australia overhauling its points system
      • Florida's law that makes it illegal to support an unauthorized person
      • Learning English: how long does it take?
      • Trump’s nuclear weapon of immigration powers
      • Trump allies plan mass deportation
      • An explanation of the recent economic phenomenon in the U.S.
      • Foreign-born students, after dipping during pandemic, are back up to prior levels
      • Zenophobic laws prohibiting foreigners from property ownership
      • Net outmigration from Mexico is approaching zero  
      • How many came into the US under Biden? How many new workers?
      • Time Magazine interview with Donald Trump.
    • ► April (9)
      • Canada trims back immigration
      • Maine's workforce and the role of immigrants
      • Update on Cupertino
      • Non-English spoken at home
      • American service sector and its impact on the world -- the role of immigrants
      • highly educated foreign born by country
      • Visualization of foreign born persons in the U.S.
      • The MS-13 gang, born in Los Angeles, deported to El Salvador
      • The role of immigrant workers in strategic industries
    • ► March (8)
      • Construction increasingly depends on immigrant workers
      • Immigrants in U.S. from four sub-Sahara countries
      • The decline then rise of the unauthorized population
      • How immigration will affect the presidential election
      • March 2024 poll on immigration
      • The surge in AI jobs and American advantage
      • Hotel staffing shortages and immigration
      • CBO ties population growth to immigration
    • ► February (12)
      • The new House immigration bill
      • Who is attending college?
      • Global higher education quality, migration and innovation
      • Open cases in immigration court
      • EB-5 abuses, including Jay Peak
      • Polling puts immigration as top concern
      • The immigration reform efforts in 2007 and 2013 that failed
      • An exceedingly wierd 24 hours
      • Michele Hackman’s analysis of the Senate bill
      • Senate and House immigration bills
      • Does American industry stereotype East Asians as less creative?
      • Can immigration finally work for Republicans as a wedge issue?
    • ► January (9)
      • Are Dems, Reps or both responsible for polarization?
      • What is the controversy about parole in the immigration system?
      • News reports on the Senate's draft Mexican border provisions
      • How many "irregular" crossings at the Mexican border that create the crisis?
      • Americans less demanding of immigrants than most other countries -- except for American conservatives
      • Republican recruiting the immigration topic for 2024 elections
      • The Asian countries are aging much faster that the United Stares
      • Ireland's population is booming
      • A note on climate change and migration
  • ►2023 (131)
    • ► December (9)
      • New EU pact on asylum
      • Why are first generation Hispanics healthier?
      • Discrimination against Asian Americans
      • Trump on immigration
      • The Border/amnesty negotiation and Republican's ambivalence
      • Immigration and conservative response: evidence at the local level
      • Senate Republican ideas for immigration reform
      • New research shows climate change behind some Central American migration
      • Thumbnail data on immigration courts FY 2023
    • ► November (12)
      • Temporary decline in immigration had limited impact job market
      • Who is supplying new workers to the European working age population?
      • Time line for Trump's child separation policy
      • Democrats can no longer depend as much on non-white ethnic and racial groups
      • Hong Kong birth rate in steep decline
      • World population trends and global migration
      • Time line of large scale ICE enforcement raids on workplaces
      • Trump’s plan for immigration in his second term
      • Working age population trends U.S., Germany, Canada and China
      • Wealth in America by race / ethnicity: very recent trends
      • Palestine and other forced migrations since 1945: a summary
      • How many foreign born persons today in the U.S. ?
    • ► October (11)
      • The race for artificial intelligence talent
      • How the big 1965 and 1986 immigration bills are enacted 
      • Foriegn born workers trends, 2010 - 2030
      • China fertility rate plummets
      • Are foreign born workers driving down labor force participation?
      • Temporary Protected Status
      • growth in interracial marriage, 1980 vs 2021
      • Remittances update
      • Climate migration and Africa
      • Countries which are promoting inbound remittances
      • Two websites with easy to read explanations about immigration law
    • ► September (14)
      • Gallup polls on partisan divide 2003, 2013 and 2023
      • Refugees and economic migrants to Europe
      • An example of private sponsorship to bring in immigrants
      • Cosmopolitan cities (vs. Tokyo)
      • Venezuelan refugees and New York City's workforce
      • tiny shoots of immigration reform
      • Global move to population non-replacement rates
      • Update on DACA
      • Human development and the drive to emigrate: Costa Rica vs. Honduras
      • Michael Bloomberg on our broken asylum system
      • Differences in population growth point to imbalances in workforces
      • Private sponsored immigration is surging
      • More on the Asian higher education phenomenon
      • The root of the border crisis is a broken asylum system
    • ► August (10)
      • Fairfax County VA: diverse and well off
      • Challenges to the surge of immigrants
      • When unauthorized persons are not legally able to drive
      • Rise of the college educated foreign born workforce
      • Foreign born by origin 1965 to 2065
      • Biden's use of the parole system
      • Business start ups and foreign born involvement
      • Asian restaurants in the US: how many?
      • National nursing shortage - contraints on producing more domestically
      • How do immigrant families get child care?
    • ► July (9)
      • Increasing polarization over immigration
      • Temporary Farm Labor H-2A visas have surged
      • What drives Africran Migration to Europe
      • Canada poaching our temporary skilled workers
      • Our aging population and how immigration matters
      • 1st and 2nd Gen immigrant workers -- 33% of all workers by 2030??
      • Florida’s work shortages and its new immigration law
      • Central American immigrants in the US
      • Biden made border administration worse
    • ► June (10)
      • Evangelicals more likely Hispanic; Hispanics more likely evangelicals in last ten years
      • Black African immigrants and healthcare jobs
      • E-Verify is effective
      • Foreign born farm workers in California
      • Residential construction: 40% of workers are immigrants
      • Germany's immigration agenda
      • Foreign born labor force now back to pre-COVID trend
      • Hungary’s unique program to encourage children through student loan relief
      • Non whites dominate migration to suburbs
      • Do higher incomes discourage or encourage migration?
    • ► May (13)
      • Out migration from Venezuela
      • Asylum and "credible fear"
      • New bipartisan bill in the House
      • A new study on immigration to solve labor shortages
      • Where immigrants cannot obtain federal public benefits
      • Surge in demand for workers in advanced countries
      • The stalemate in immigration reform and the underlying cause
      • The DeSantis Immigration bill
      • A guide to our new Mexican border rules
      • Death of Title 42; continuation by other means
      • Expedited removal
      • What if the 2013 immigration reform bill had passed
      • Who are the workers without a high school degree?
    • ► April (12)
      • How much would higher recent immigrant alleviate the labor shortage today
      • Latinos a "demographic lifeline to rural America"
      • "boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades"
      • Half of “missing” immigrants are college educated
      • High growth in lowest wage categories and immigrant economics
      • SNAFUs in Humanitarian Parole for Afghans
      • Wage differentials between US and emerging countries
      • DeSantis' hostile environment for unauthorized persons
      • Biden’s new proposed rule on asylum applications
      • The Migration Policy Institute's information resources
      • Who is working here with irregular status
      • The UK is running out of workers
    • ► March (10)
      • Who wants to migrate?
      • Non-citizens in the US military
      • Bureaucratic nightmares of immigrants that Biden can end without Congress
      • Global remittances and charges
      • Is population decline a bad thing?
      • “A sober assessment of asylum cases”
      • CBO population projections to 2053 and the role of immigration
      • Slow and fast chain migration
      • Government efforts to increase fertility
      • States involved in approving immigrants?
    • ► February (10)
      • Gallup poll many more people want immigration reduced
      • History of migration from and to China since 1949
      • Why have immigration? David Miller on immigration policy
      • Californian economy and immigrants
      • China, India, U.S. workforce size trends
      • Labor shortages have benefited low wage immigrant workers
      • A summary of Biden's views on immigration
      • College enrollment: foreign students down, and Hispanics up
      • Racial and ethnic diversity in Congress
      • A fresh look at STEM workers and immigration
    • ► January (11)
      • What ChatGPT tells me about AI and immigration
      • How Indians came to dominate the independent hotel business
      • Naturalization is back up.
      • The EB-5 program
      • One third of innovation is by immigrants
      • Effect of immigration on wages: an overview of research
      • Countries that are in the American workforce basin
      • Vulnerability of climate change: The Sahel
      • Fast tracking refugee admissions - privatized humanitarian parole
      • Dependence on unauthorized workers
      • Climate stresses in Pakistan
  • ►2022 (146)
    • ► December (14)
      • Who wants more skilled immigrants?
      • How geographically concentrated is the Hispanic population? A lot.
      • Many thousands of amnesty seeking persons from U.S. sanctioned countries are crossing at the Mexican border
      • Economic disparities among Hispanics in the U.S.
      • Migrant workers in Qatar
      • Failure of immigration reform in this Congress
      • The Eritrean diaspora
      • Should we increase the H-1B program?
      • Semi conductor workforce shortage
      • Status of immigration bills as of December 8 2022
      • Once again the labor shortage
      • Pay attention to India
      • Afghan admission to the US, as of late 2022
      • Who gets Green Cards?
    • ► November (12)
      • Recent emigration from Russia due to the war
      • Canada: top immigrant country
      • The Latino vote in November 2022
      • U.S. vs foreign born compared by education level
      • Indian IT college grads are staying in India
      • Title 42 ruled illegal
      • Recent changes in the electorate due to immigration
      • Ukraine's demographic decline
      • Canada releases new immigration targets
      • Australia's educational system as an export industry
      • Big role of U.S. in global work and study migration
      • U.S. a Christian nation?
    • ► October (13)
      • Venezuelans at the border
      • Asylum officers and the backlog: a time line
      • The upcoming Hispanic vote in November 2022
      • Climate change migration: some observations about India
      • My five-session course on immigration
      • How foreign students in the U.S. transition to permanent status
      • Unauthorized workers and their IRS, Social Security and Medicare payments
      • What Afghan refugee resettlement looks like in the United States
      • Anti and pro key words on immigration since 1850
      • Asian vs Mexican immigrant educational achievement
      • International refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine
      • Temporary Safe Haven: a primer on Temporary Protected Status
      • How immigrations make it, past and today
    • ► September (10)
      • Why children of immigrants are especially upwardly mobile
      • Skill level of immigrants has been rising
      • Climate change migration
      • 3 Million Americans live outside the U.S.
      • STEM workers are increasingly immigrants
      • U.S. and U.K. private refugee sponsorships inspired by Canada's program
      • Canada's private sponsorship program for refugees
      • Georgia's audit of voters among non-citizens
      • Venezuelan refugees surging at Mexican border
      • Congressional Budget Office growth of labor force entirely due to immigration through mid century
    • ► August (13)
      • African emigration
      • Anti immigration Republican rhetoric
      • Digital Nomad Program in Greece.
      • Recent opinion poll on immigration
      • Hispanics are home buying in a big way
      • World university rankings and the attraction of global talent
      • What if you want to work remotely from in Costa Rica?
      • The Black Migration in the 20th Century, in art
      • Trump's family separation policy at the Mexican border
      • The new Nigerian diaspora
      • Foreign workers share has been rising
      • Big role of U.S. in global work and study migration
      • Immigration court decisions on asylum
    • ► July (9)
      • Germany is losing workers
      • A farm worker immigration bill?
      • One million talented immigration program
      • Academic studies of negative effects of immigration
      • The Jamaican Diaspora
      • The economics of smuggling people into the U.S.
      • The results of skilled migration
      • Long term care for the elderly and international migration
      • U.S. by far most popular migration destination
    • ► June (11)
      • Internal migration in US has declined
      • Visa appointment wait times  
      • Simple math for worker shortfall due to pandemic
      • India fertility rate below replacement
      • What makes an American?
      • Localities which are recruiting immigrants
      • deportation fears among Latinos
      • A profile of unauthorized women
      • Scaling up refugee settlement by community involvement
      • Work visa trends since 1997: big growth, then halt
      • How much Immigrant migration affects total state and local populations
    • ► May (10)
      • A sermon for Memorial Day
      • Republicans have been pushing US towards anti-immigration
      • The demographic crises in Japan and Korea
      • Migrants in Russia have declined
      • Replacement theory and immigration
      • If STEM workers get faster visas, what about nurses?
      • Can Biden walk the talk on refugee settlement?
      • China's demographic crisis
      • What immigration adds to the labor force
      • Why democracies fail
    • ► April (14)
      • The border crisis and young men
      • What is going on at the Mexican border?
      • Far easier for skilled people to migrate to Canada vs, U.S.
      • Motivations for migration from Central America
      • Humanitarian parole for Ukraine refugees
      • Lack of social trust and fear of immigration
      • The Border crisis and young men
      • Tech workers flee Russia. Will they come to the U.S.?
      • Reducing the immigration backlogs
      • the H-1B program and the growth of the Indian IT sector
      • Global Skills Partnerships
      • Continuing rise in immigration backlog
      • New fast track asylum system
      • 46.6 million immigrants now
    • ► March (15)
      • Tyler Cowen on global talent and immigration
      • The Hispanic immigration since the mid 1960s in a few words
      • Asian women soar above others in wage income
      • Rising educational status of recent immigrants
      • How many refugees should we accept?
      • Canada increases even further employment-based immigration
      • Racial and ethnic mixing is up, better identified
      • Latino income and wealth in the U.S.
      • Immigrants are a birthing factory
      • How Nigerian immigration is growing fast
      • Number of Ukrainians in western democracies is soaring
      • Arguing for more immigration court judges
      • Seven drivers of global migration
      • Biden State of the Union Address: open citizenship up to over 10 million persons
      • Black immigrants in U.S. now 10% of all Blacks 2 28 22
    • ► February (11)
      • Cost of remittances: too high
      • Republican Immigration proposal of February 2022
      • Russian aggression = ethnic wars = refugees
      • The Special Immigrant Visa crisis explained
      • Private Latino wealth in the US
      • Worker shortages: 2 million immigrant worker gap
      • Rising contribution of foreign born in our labor force
      • More on the soaring immigration court backlog
      • "Biden betrayal of Afghan will live in infamy"
      • Governor Abbot's border ploy
      • Three middle class Indian-American suburban communities in the U.S.
    • ► January (14)
      • How Australia, Canada and US abandoned race based immigration
      • What happened at the Mexican US border in 2021?
      • Temporary skilled workers and the shift from Trump to Biden  
      • Biden's immigration actions: three themes
      • For 85 year olds, race/ethnic demographics is like the U.S. 40 years ago
      • Non English spoken at home
      • Internal migration in China was fundamental to its success
      • Where are 11 million unauthorized persons living
      • New York City’s new voter law for non-citizens
      • If U.S. pop trends were that of Japan...
      • Key driver of increased world migration: costs have declined
      • Four questions about non-English speakers in the U.S.
      • Why global commitment to support refugees is essential
      • Refugee resettlement in the US explained
  • ►2021 (171)
    • ► December (22)
      • Visa backlog dissected
      • Threatened population expulsions as a strategy of conflct
      • Global remittances back up in 2021
      • A muted Merry Christmas
      • Four questions about chain migration.
      • US population growth nil
      • Child separations at Mexican border: a time line
      • Global Refugees today: 28 million, a tiny fraction permanently resettled
      • How immigration policy degenerated into unilateral action
      • How US immigration leadership is balkanized in the Executive Branch
      • How Immigration reform bills will affect immigrants
      • Naturalization trends
      • Undetected illegal Mexican border jumping: relatively less a problem today
      • Diverging population trends drives migration, raises risk of interstate conflict
      • Where Dem politics collides with Hispanic voters
      • US remittances to countries heavily influenced by income of immigrants in US.
      • Alarm over Biden Admin mishandling of Afghan refugee applications
      • Why Immigrants self employ and cluster
      • A time line for Title 42 expulsions on Mexican border
      • Time line for Stay in Mexico Policy Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
      • More on the status of our recent Afghan refugees
      • More low-income immigrant workers will lower nursing home admission rates
    • ► November (19)
      • Climate migrating in the US today: the problem with Dallas
      • The immigration court backlog
      • Intensified advanced country demand for immigrant workers
      • Conflict within the Biden Administration, with Haiti migrants as example
      • Refugees created by American post 9 /11 wars -- aren't we meant to fix it?
      • The immigrant sections in the November 19 reconciliation bill
      • Proposed new pathways for non-farm Latin American workers
      • How to respond to a 3% decline in workforce
      • Much higher approval of inter-racial marriage
      • New York Times calls for an end of using Title 42
      • immigration shortfall since 2016
      • About 1,000 people are the basis of today's 7.8 billion people
      • Conservatives vs Liberals on decline of White pop share
      • Why immigrant policy making is so hard to do
      • Immigrants are over a third of meat processing workers
      • “Parole” to legalize immigrant status in budget reconciliation bill
      • Green card expansion in budget reconciliation bill
      • Comparing racial/ethnic diversity with state political profiles
      • Current state of immigration provisions
    • ► October (16)
      • Economic migrants and the Mexican - U.S. border
      • One million people have left the United Kingdom
      • Storm Lake, the fastest growing city in Iowa
      • Worker gaps growing in upper and middle income countries.
      • The asylum applicant backlog
      • The rise and decline of unauthorized migrant farm workers
      • High school drop-out rates by nationality or ethnic groups.
      • Shortage of truck drivers and the supply chain crisis: more workers from abroad?
      • The global market in artificial intelligence experts
      • How generations in America went from 18% to 48% non-white
      • One million Indians waiting for Green Cards
      • Say Hispanic or Latino, but not Latinx
      • When the U.S. thought of others on October 5, 1947
      • Declining popular support for Biden immigration initiative
      • Does skin pigmentation of migrants affect their health?
      • How the Del Rio camp of Haitians evaporated
    • ► September (21)
      • Tucker Carlson and Gaetz endorse Replacement Theory
      • Big decline in green cards FY 2021 vs. FY 2019
      • Registry approach to immigration law changes
      • Arizonans want legalization
      • National Immigration Forum and Noorani's Notes
      • Half of Americans under 16 are nonwhite
      • Washington Post editorial on Del Rio
      • Del Rio described and explained
      • Parliamentarian nixes immigration changes in reconciliation bill
      • Farmworker provisions in the reconciliation bill
      • Our STEM educational system is globalized
      • Millions of workers to become more productive due to immigration changes
      • Two key Dem supported immigration changes
      • Fastest increases in immigrants by national source since 2010.
      • 100,000 Afghan refugees are flowing into the US now
      • The Congressional Dreamer agenda gets very hot
      • How many, and who are, current green card holders?
      • Rosh Hashanah and Jewish Immigration
      • In Texas, Hispanics almost as many as whites
      • The pandemic leads to attacks on foreigners and strangers
      • Study recommends more immigrants
    • ► August (16)
      • Winston Churchill's racism
      • The unauthorized population is smaller and longer tenured
      • Lots of data on the Asian population in the U.S.
      • The last time Washington spoke coherently about immigration
      • Will Afghan refugees affect the U.S. job market? No. 
      • Biden’s new asylum rule
      • Refugees who helped us in our wars
      • Biden Administration's indifference to Afghan lives
      • Foreignness/strangeness perceptions about non-whites is high in U.S.
      • The Census reports a sharp rise in multiracial self-identity
      • Milestones in White criteria for U.S. Citizenship
      • e-Verify and the infrastructure bill
      • That dreadful program for Afghan support staff
      • A kid who jumped the border, then graduated from Harvard Med
      • Farm labor is evolving - more legal immigrant workers
      • Poll on perceptions of threats to American culture
    • ► July (9)
      • The UK workforce and migrants from the E.U.
      • Biden to expel more border migrants
      • Extreme polarization on immigration
      • The surge at the Mexican border has persisted
      • Texas-sized migration
      • Human Trafficking
      • Asian Americans have almost doubled since 2000
      • The American Basin of foreign labor
      • Taking a holiday
    • ► June (10)
      • Crisis in employment green cards
      • A Mexican foreign minister reflects on the U.S.
      • Interesting fact about immigrant impact
      • Canada 1, U.S. 0
      • Low income immigrants: some survey findings
      • How much wage gain by migrating to the U.S.?
      • More on the impeding tragedy of Afghan civilian allies
      • Evacuation of Afghan civilian allies
      • Improving judicial process at the border
      • The mess in the asylum process
    • ► May (11)
      • National identity has become more inclusive
      • We are becoming bilingual
      • Another take on the Hispanic presidential vote
      • The birth rate argument for immigration
      • Declining Chinese population
      • Hispanic house buying
      • Bipartisan call for immigration reform
      • Wanting to migrate to the U.S.
      • Trends in public opinion re unauthorized persons
      • Japan actually has some immigrants
      • Douglass and the composite society
    • ► April (12)
      • Mexican Americans vs. Cubans in political clout
      • Frey on the shift from white children
      • The great educational success of Nigerian Americans
      • “People of Color” and immigrants
      • Differences between sending and host immigration countries
      • How much of a country’s population is foreign-born?
      • Total Immigration flat, unauthorized population down
      • A troubled guest farm worker system in the U.K.
      • Central American governments and emigration to US
      • Construction workforce woes and immigrants
      • How immigration wonks are talking about the border crisis
      • Hard core immigration stances of Americans
    • ► March (16)
      • The Bronx, El Paso and Boulder show different immigration fortunes
      • A tiny explanation of what is going on at the Mexican border
      • What happened with the Hispanic and Asian vote in November?
      • Four ways for broad legalization of unauthorized persons
      • Immigrant-related higher ed enrollment
      • Why today’s Mexican border crisis is part of a predictable pattern
      • Immigrants and health status in New York City
      • Homeland Security statement about the Mexican border
      • Farm workers and immigration reform
      • Higher education attainment of immigrants
      • More migrants at the Mexican US border
      • Rebuilding the refugee program
      • Guest worker program for U.S.?
      • Farm Workforce Modernization Act
      • How Biden's immigration bill will reshape green card flow
      • World migration today
    • ► February (11)
      • Tenure in U.S. of unauthorized persons
      • Quinnipiac Poll: immigration questions
      • Interior arrests declined under Trump!
      • Text of the Biden immigration bill
      • Biden comprehensive immigration bill
      • Popular ambivalence about immigration
      • Trump immigration policy and its reversal by Biden
      • Types of temporary skilled foreign worker programs
      • Immigrants have been upwardly mobile for a long time
      • Immigrant performance: three indicators
      • Working population trends China vs U.S.
    • ► January (8)
      • Global talent pool and student migration to the U.S.
      • The demographic shifts within the immigrant population
      • Where immigrant communities swung to Trump
      • Biden First Day Plan for Immigration: legalize all persons
      • Black migration in America in three charts
      • Pandemic and household financial distress
      • Biden initiatives on Central American immigration
      • Some major counties are predominantly Hispanic
  • ►2020 (136)
    • ► December (10)
      • Brief introduction to US Immigration system
      • The melting of race and ethnic boundaries
      • The unauthorized population in America
      • Effect of COVID on international movement
      • Asian-American votes for President in 2020
      • Revisiting crime rates among unauthorized immigrants
      • Trump’s latest step to reduce immigration: the asylum system
      • Labor participation rates and the pandemic
      • Federal Appeals court rules against Trump public charge rule
      • The growing gap between Dems and Reps re: immigration
    • ► November (7)
      • Supreme Court to consider unauthorized resident issue
      • Who is adding to the U.S.population?
      • Rapid decline in international students
      • Immigration and the electorate 2000 to 2020
      • Biden and immigration
      • Unauthorized workers and the future of the American economy
      • Immigration post-Trump
    • ► October (13)
      • Rising economic status of Hispanic workers
      • Immigrants staffed the early 20th C manufacturing industry
      • Trump Administration tightens H-1B rules
      • Impact of immigration of U.S. population growth since 1965
      • What happened with the caravans?
      • why the decline in unathorized persons?
      • The higher educated immigrant
      • Trump vs. Biden on immigration
      • Local roadmaps for immigration
      • Target: 1,700,000 new green cards a year vs. 780,000 in 2020
      • The Asian voter
      • If Dems win the WH and Senate, perhaps a surprise in immigration policy?
      • Immigrants and ethnic diversity: decline of social trust and rise of Trump?
    • ► September (11)
      • More on Public Charge, Part Two
      • ESL suffering from pandemic
      • More on Public Charge, Part One
      • Countries trying to manage their emigrants
      • Quick review of Hispanic vote potential in November
      • Do Hispanics use the term "Latinx"?
      • The Love Connection, Part Two
      • The Love Connection, Part One
      • Ellis Island then and now
      • Latinx voting preferences in six swing states.
      • Unauthorized immigration in Europe far less than U.S.
    • ► August (10)
      • The Indian community in Middlesex County NJ
      • The Republican Platform on Immigration
      • The rise of the Indian immigrant elite in the United States
      • Australia’s COVID-19 immigration crisis
      • Kamala Harris' family and intermarriage across the U.S.
      • Black domestic workers and COVID
      • Indian caste discrimination in America?
      • How the administration plans to estimate non-citizen numbers
      • Jobs occupied by low wage immigrants to decline
      • American immigration policy and global talent
    • ► July (12)
      • Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf and the pandemic
      • USCIS crises
      • Marriage based green cards
      • If undocumented are not counted for House seats
      • Coming decline of international students this coming academic year
      • Jaw dropping forecast of world population trends
      • Biden position on immigration
      • Reforming pandemic aid
      • Ban on temporary work visas - H-1B visas
      • Look who wins the Nobel Prizes and MacArthur Fellowships
      • Four ways immigration has become more difficult
      • Look closely at the actual trends in immigration....
    • ► June (11)
      • Housecleaning workers in America
      • Making sense of the latest immigration order
      • El Salvador’s crisis in remittances
      • Crisis in college STEM enrollment
      • SCOTUS: Trump cannot now terminate DACA
      • Hong Kong citizens to the United Kingdom?
      • Meatpacking plants update
      • Asian American voters on a rapid rise
      • The Federal safety net: what citizens and non-immmigrants need
      • The worldwide rise of the educated
      • Racial intermarriage trends
    • ► May (12)
      • Immigrants in the IT field - what states depend on them
      • Popular misperceptions about immigration
      • Why the anti-migration sentiment in Eastern Europe
      • California's pandemic relief for unauthorized persons
      • The unheralded rise of immigrant worker status since 2000
      • the slowest demographic growth ever
      • The essential workforce and immigrants
      • Collapse of world remittances 5 13 20
      • the Pandemic and the plight of ten million workers
      • CDC’s report on meat processing plants
      • Global migration and disease spreading
      • Mixed status couples locked out of COVID-19 aid
    • ► April (14)
      • Update on meat processing, COVID-19 and immigrant workers
      • The shutdown of immigration explained
      • How will unauthorized workers get COVID-19 healthcare?
      • Trump's immigration ban exposes the vital need for immigrant workers.
      • The virus is shutting down meat processing plants
      • The future role of skilled immigrants
      • Barring asylum seekers but not others
      • Work visa holders out of luck for unemployment compensation
      • India’s migrant workers and the pandemic
      • Lower benefits to guest farmworkers sought by Trump
      • Immigrants among essential workforces
      • American employers drew unauthorizated Hispanics into the U.S.
      • Study: Skilled immigration's effect on employment in U.S. companies
      • Countries which import skilled workers
    • ► March (15)
      • Collapse of remittances to labor exporting countries?
      • Unauthorized workers excluded from $2T rescue package
      • Temporary farm workers and the COVID 19 crisis
      • Immigration enforcement of Public Charge rule suspended for COVID 19
      • COVID 19's impact re: international students
      • Hispanic voters -- more of them, better educated
      • Immigration to America in five stories
      • The Michigan Compact
      • Where non-English speaking is dominant
      • 2 of 5 recent green card awardees might be rejected today
      • Why do refugees take such a long time to gain employment?
      • Germany’s persistent dependence on foreign workers
      • Coronavirus and non-citizen immigrants
      • Sanders' ambivalence on immigration
      • Update on severe restrictions on asylum processing at Mexican border
    • ► February (12)
      • Anti-immigration in early 20th C mainly cultural in nature
      • Sanders’ success with Latino voters in Nevada
      • Mulvaney confirms labor shortages
      • Further on the mystery of Nigeria’s visa ban
      • Innovation in Silicon Valley and immigrant migration
      • Why Trump must beat up on sanctuary cities
      • Survey: Why do Central Americans want to migrate?
      • The new public charge rule part 2
      • Why was Nigeria added?
      • Impact of new “Public Charge” rule – part 1
      • EB-5 reforms, update
      • U.S. population growth
    • ► January (9)
      • Coronavirus and Chinese travel to U.S.
      • What Hispanics think of Trump
      • Chinese immigration to the U.S.
      • The Hispanic electorate in Nov 2020
      • Rick Wilson on immigration in the 2020 Presidential campaign
      • Hotels: 8 million workers, many of them immigrants
      • How big a problem is birthright tourism?
      • Temporary visa volume has been declining
      • Globalization = mass migration
  • ►2019 (142)
    • ► December (5)
      • Trends in migration since 1960
      • Venezuelan refugee crisis bigger than the Syrian crisis
      • Bi-partisan farmworker bill passes House
      • A refugee from Liberia in Montana politics
      • Increased migration of doctors and medical students
    • ► November (10)
      • The farm worker crisis
      • Are visa overstays a problem?
      • Sanders' immigration policy
      • Miller on Confederate memorabilia
      • Regions vary in immigrant experience
      • Family medicine doctors --- immigrants needed
      • The Virginia elections and the rise of the educated naturalized immigrant
      • How many Americans live in Mexico?
      • Iowan attitudes about unauthorized immigrants
      • Revival of proposal for immigrant farm workers
    • ► October (10)
      • Foreign language speakers has surged 1980- 2018. 45% of them are U.S.born.
      • Survival Migration
      • Choking off immigration to Texas
      • Latinos in America Today: economics
      • Two new Trump policies on refugees
      • The new health insurance requirement
      • Latinos in America Today: demographics
      • Eastern European countries quietly recruiting guest workers
      • Wider gap between Reps and Dems over immigration
      • How Indians and other Asian-Americans have voted in 2016
    • ► September (9)
      • What are DACA recipients thinking these days?
      • Where Brazilians emigrate to
      • Europe’s future population and migration
      • America’s refugee program in danger of total collapse
      • Guatemala, asylum applications, and the safe third country concept
      • How anti-immigrant rumors work for Trump
      • EB-5 program to be drastically revised
      • Immigrant representation in Congress
      • Ukraine’s remittance economy
    • ► August (9)
      • Major delays in student visas
      • Poland trying to bring back its citizens
      • Filipino workers around the world
      • question for today
      • Dairy workers: at least half are immigrants
      • Insightful profile of an immigrant family
      • Very few asylum applications are accepted
      • Sharp increase in temporary worker denials
      • Expect most climate change-related migration to be relatively local
    • ► July (13)
      • Forum participants support immigrants, want laws obeyed
      • A man from Louisiana waiting to get into the U.S.
      • Revisiting the hourglass of immigrant workers
      • Spotlight on migration to the Persian Gulf States
      • The death of immigration vision among Democrats
      • Stephen Miller won: the leadership changes in immigration enforcement explained
      • If electoral districts were based only on citizens or eligible voters
      • Recent Mexican immigrants more likely to be college educated
      • “They are not from Norway, let’s put it that way”
      • Why the border crisis now?
      • How the detention center crisis blew up: timeline
      • Our foreign-born population divided into four segments
      • Numbers game at the Brownsville border
    • ► June (12)
      • Global explosion in refugees
      • Farmers desperate for guest workers
      • More Hispanic and Asian men work
      • E Verify: a few facts 2006 -2018
      • Mixed feelings in Canada about immigration
      • Who voted in 2018?
      • Compare Canada's plans for immigration vs the U.S.
      • Massive increases in global remittance flows
      • What the U.S. - Mexico agreement says
      • poorly educated workers sort into different jobs by origin
      • Trump goal: Increase the cost of migration to the U.S.
      • What states are people deported from?
    • ► May (16)
      • How these new tariffs on Mexican imports will impact the U.S.
      • Beto O'Rourke's Immigration Plan
      • Major origins of current Asian immigrants to U.S.
      • Where were deported people deported to?
      • Boston's demographic global revitalization since 1990
      • Growth of non-white voting population
      • Latest poll on racial/ethnic diversity
      • Bopha Malone
      • What Trump’s merit based system might look like
      • One undocumented family member would throw families out of public housing
      • Oath of Allegiance
      • The administration “is dismantling the infrastructure” of refugee resettlement
      • Medical care for the 13,000 migrant children in U.S. custody
      • A Century Ago America Built Another Kind of Wall
      • The aging of the white race in America
      • More undocumented from Mexico
    • ► April (15)
      • Half of pop growth in U.S. is by immigrants
      • Deported to Mexico
      • Why aren’t Dem candidates talking about immigration?
      • One author on immigration and threats to liberal democracy
      • National opinions about immigration
      • Top immigrant occupations
      • Where to migrants live in the world?
      • Letter from two former American ambassadors
      • The crisis at the Mexican border
      • Trump creating an opportunity for Democrats to lead on immigration
      • The divergence over immigration
      • Interviews with caravan members on Mexico / Guatemala border
      • Dreamers: key demographics
      • What Deported Mexican face when back in Mexico
      • Liberian special status extended for 12 months
    • ► March (14)
      • Huge impact of immigrant Asians on social mobility
      • Poll: weak support for legal immigration
      • Deportation of a long time American resident to Liberia
      • Atlantic Monthly article calls for reduced immigration
      • Florida compact on immigration
      • Caribbean immigrants in U.S.
      • Foreigners in prison Part Two
      • Foreigners in prison Part One
      • Majority of Americans would fail citizenship test
      • Frederick Douglass -- a "composite" America
      • Where Americans migrate to
      • Toronto destination for high tech immigrants
      • More on the Texas voter fraud folly
      • Picking strawberries by machine instead of immigrant worker
    • ► February (14)
      • Undocumented immigrants and violent crime
      • Faith based organizations for refugees and immigrants worldwide
      • Unauthorized immigrant population by state
      • Childbirths by immigrant mothers
      • 50 years of ethnic workforce change in NYC.
      • National workforce growth and tight labor markets
      • Immigrant-related students account for 100% of student pop growth
      • Spotlight on Australia
      • Immigrant representation in Congress: 68
      • Skyrocketing remittance growth
      • Texas’ fantasy about non-citizens voting
      • The Government Accountability Office analyzes physical border security
      • Immigrant dairy workers have higher rates of work injuries
      • U.S. remittances to countries heavily influenced by income of immigrants in U.S.
    • ► January (15)
      • What Wall supporters really want: close down immigration
      • unauthorized Mexican residents are long term residents
      • The standoff
      • Japan turns to immigrants
      • Immigrants: outdoor sculpture in Montreal
      • A mosque in Nebraska
      • Utah: a model for domestic and global migration
      • Dreamer wins Rhodes Scholarship
      • Some popular conceptions on illegals, crime and the wall
      • U.S. stands out for positive views on immigration
      • Worldwide migration: those actively planning to migrate
      • Worldwide in-migration: the most desired countries
      • Worldwide out-migration: the hardest impacted areas
      • A migration researcher on the proposal for The Wall
      • Immigration pressures on Europe vs U.S.
  • ►2018 (201)
    • ► December (18)
      • San Joaquin Valley
      • Murder rates in Central American countries are declining
      • Some Central American counties depend on remittances
      • Why high skilled immigration is so strong
      • Demographic transformation of the U.S. workforce
      • Why Trump is fighting over The Wall
      • Have immigrant workers stopped reporting work injuries?
      • A Comprehensive immigration policy: Dreamers
      • A Comprehensive Immigration Policy: internal immigration law enforcement
      • A Comprehensive Immigration Policy: The Mexican border
      • A Comprehensive Immigration Policy: undocumented immigrants
      • A Comprehensive Immigration Policy: Legal Immigration
      • A Comprehensive Immigration Policy: Oversight
      • increase in American workforce due to immigration
      • Unauthorized immigrants today are fewer, longer tenured
      • Numbers of birthright births have declined.
      • “What Happens If Your Parents Don’t Come Home Today.”
      • Latino concerns about life under Trump
    • ► November (19)
      • Mexican Border apprehensions high
      • Surge of foreign students going into employment
      • Trudeau on Canada’s superior immigration policy
      • Home Care Workers and Immigration
      • Legal grounds for denying entry to US.
      • One employer’s hiring of foreign born workers
      • Mid terms: pro-diversity voters
      • Why one Syrian refugee wanted to come to the U.S.
      • Visa denial rate is up under Trump
      • Migrant Justice Suit against ICE
      • Where non-citizens can vote
      • Time line of the citizen census question
      • Hispanic vote in mid-term elections
      • Persian Gulf guest worker programs
      • What the Dems in the House need to do on immigration
      • ICE enforcement partnerships have driven Hispanic kids from schools 
      • Hispanic voters in Florida growing fast
      • Why Trump focuses on immigration so much - survey data
      • Examples of sanctuary city programs
    • ► October (21)
      • Farm labor shortages in California
      • Youth in America today
      • The underclass scenario in immigration
      • Rising number immigrants who are college grads and/or speak English
      • The last attempt at comprehensive immigration reform, in 2013
      • Germany and immigration today
      • Immigrant representation in Congress
      • Very low wage workers by country of origin
      • Green cards by way of chicken factories
      • The big wave of Italian immigrants
      • Hispanic purchasing and voting power
      • Labor law violations and low wage immigrant workers
      • A much higher estimate of undocumented persons in U.S.
      • Immigrants in the military
      • Trump interior enforcement summarized
      • The New American Workforce Project
      • Young Latinos in the US today
      • Rich countries need to improve immigration policies
      • What the New Testament says about the undocumented
      • A vision for immigration: think multigenerational.
      • Who lives with a non-citizen?
    • ► September (17)
      • No workforce deal in NAFTA
      • Health insurance among Californians with Mexican backgrounds
      • Dominican doctor in Boston
      • Public Charge Rule proposal
      • Wage earnings and education Mexicans in U.S. vs. native born workers.
      • Religious vs. non-religious Trump voters and immigration
      • ICE: a thumbnail history
      • We don't plan for native-born workforces
      • Striking misperceptions about immigration
      • Business Roundtable grades U.S. poorly on immigration policy
      • A 2017 Census report on immigration trends.
      • Sweden and immigration: a lot has to do with jobs
      • Brett Kavanaugh’s court record on Immigration
      • El Salvador and the U.S.
      • Can Mexico be more prosperous?
      • Immigrants dropping out of support programs
      • Immigration in context of a more threatening world
    • ► August (18)
      • Italian immigrants murderers?
      • Profile of Dallas and immigrants
      • Stephen Miller in profile
      • 700 million people want to migrate
      • Immigration waves and anti-liberalism
      • New York City immigrants today
      • Worksite investigations by ICE are up
      • Nixon and Ocasio-Cortez on abolishment of ICE
      • Allegations of voter fraud are spurious
      • People vastly overestimate the size of the illegal population
      • Today's Europeans in the U.S.
      • Abraham was an immigrant
      • Asylum seekers at border face stronger headwinds 8 21 18
      • Waiting times for green cards
      • Military spouses vulnerable to deportation
      • Balkanization of immigration management
      • Attitudes about immigration by region
      • Transformation of Mexico in one generation
    • ► July (19)
      • 200 years of immigration to the U.S. in one graphic
      • A Unitarian view’s on immigration
      • Recent rapid immigrant-growing states
      • Goodlatte farm bill opposed by California farmers
      • Who are these young deportees in Mexico?
      • Continued widespread support for DACA
      • The Democratic Party and Latinos
      • Three questions about refugees and asylees
      • Displaced persons rising fast in the world
      • Which children do better than their parents, by race/ethnicity
      • Religious affiliation of immigrants
      • Inter-racial inter-ethnic marriage in U.S.
      • How to de-toxify the immigration issue
      • Immigrants in construction -- key facts
      • Why do Central Americans migrate?
      • Trump's Four Pinocchios Score on his crime figures
      • White population began to decline in 2016
      • America's great internal migration
      • Re-Definition of ‘Public Charge’ Could Drastically Slash Family Immigration
    • ► June (20)
      • Modern day slavery legislation
      • How an African sought asylum at the Tijuana / U.S border
      • House to vote on farm guest worker bill in July
      • Immigrant dairy farmers in Vermont
      • Republicans aim to cut immigration by 40%
      • Temba Maqubela, immigrant from South Africa
      • What is the impact of E-Verify?
      • Immigrants commit fewer crimes
      • Two out of 400,000 plus crossing the border illegally
      • ICE inspections of employers at a pace of 219% of last fiscal year
      • David Brooks on the Republican Party losing its humanity
      • Nigerians in the U.S.
      • Fear of immigrants
      • The guest worker proposal in the House
      • New evidence of firm creation by immigrants
      • How busy are immigration court judges?
      • Undocumented population in U.S.
      • From college to green card for foreign students
      • Four questions about illegal crossings at the Mexican border
      • Bipartisan Senate sentiment for moderate immigration reform
    • ► May (17)
      • Immigration seen more favorably, especially by Democrats
      • Croatians and the Louisiana oyster industry
      • Wealthy Chinese are coming to the U.S.
      • Crab crisis in Maryland due to lack of Mexican workers
      • A potential slim House majority for moderate immigration reform
      • Mirjana Kulenovic
      • Sub-Saharan immigrants grew 26% since 2010
      • Trump: "I want a merit-based immigration system."
      • Immigration and the workforces of advanced economies
      • Immigrants: no increase in crime
      • The current bipartisan immigration bill
      • Downturn in foreign doctors wanting to come to U.S.
      • Immigrants, global cuisine and restaurants
      • How long in US before deported?
      • Public opinion on a wall with Mexico
      • Who speaks other than English at home?
      • Vibrancy of immigrant owned small businesses
    • ► April (14)
      • Children of immigrants in science talent competitions
      • What counts in immigration success is local
      • Federal judge defends DACA
      • Bean Station TN raid of April 5 and aftermath
      • How the heart of Silicon Valley compares
      • Every day perceptions when immigrants arrive in large numbers
      • Snapshot of Dominicans in the United States
      • 32% of U.S. Nobel prizes won by immigrants
      • Half of H-1B workers in five metro areas
      • Project to translate immigration documents into Spanish
      • Pervasive slowing of legal immigration
      • As Hispanic population rises, Spanish language use falls
      • The U.N. origins for the Temporary Protected Status program
      • Census experts argue against inclusion of citizenship question
    • ► March (9)
      • The Census crisis
      • The end of discretion in ICE enforcement
      • Foreign students in US from boom to decline
      • Idaho dairies dependent on undocumented workers
      • Who are the Mexicans being deported?
      • Crossing the Mexican border illegally
      • Immigrants and meat packing in rural Texas
      • Past versions of Trump’s “crime and rapists” speech
      • Deportations leaving American children behind
    • ► February (10)
      • Undocumented population continuing to decline
      • No agency pays attention to immigration needs
      • Four questions about foreign language speakers in the U.S.
      • Foreign trained doctors in the U.S.
      • Arrests of undocumented immigrants in Boston are up 50%
      • Outsourcing hospital jobs to India
      • Immigration bills -- today's voting
      • ICE arrests expand to ensnare long term, peaceful residents
      • Republican point system for ranking immigrants
      • Digging into the Trump plan to cut immigration
    • ► January (19)
      • Republican initiative to boost skilled immigration
      • Polling results support compromise deal in midst of agreements, disputes
      • Deal on immigration reform?
      • New White House statement on immigration reform
      • El Salvadoran immigrants and Temporary Protected Status
      • 40 years in U,S, Michigan doctor faces deportation
      • White voters and immigration
      • More immigrants are becoming citizens
      • Four questions about chain migration
      • Immigration top problem for Reps, not for Dems
      • Illegal workers pay into Social Security, rarely benefit
      • Recent events show that comprehensive reform will not happen
      • Where American immigrants came from, a dynamic display
      • Africa Is Sending Us Its Best and Brightest
      • Roadmap for DACA deal
      • Six Questions about the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Workforce
      • Non immigrant visitors to the U.S.
      • How the Koreans in New York City evolved
      • Public charge policy changes could severely reduce green cards
  • ►2017 (121)
    • ► December (9)
      • A year of Trump and immigration
      • World migration trends
      • The economics of dreamers
      • A typical day at U.S. borders
      • The “Northern Triangle” immigrants
      • In the Political Battle Over Immigration, Trump Is Winning
      • Mexican educational assimilation in the US
      • US withdraws from UN migration pact
      • Canada's success with immigration
    • ► November (4)
      • Foreign students here, American students abroad
      • Executive Branch tightens up legal immigration
      • Biggest settlement ever for hiring undocumented workers
      • Trump voters and the sharp rise of cultural diversity from nil
    • ► October (8)
      • Foreign temp farm workers close to 10% of farm wage workforce
      • Potential DREAMERs - over one million
      • Profile of leader of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
      • Congress to act by itself on DREAMERS?
      • Trump sets annual refugee cap lower than ever
      • Immigration behind Trump victory in 2016
      • Ben and Jerry's agrees to compact with dairy workers
      • What is chain migration?
    • ► September (6)
      • Illegal border crossings declined by less than reported
      • Puerto Ricans in a nutshell
      • Attracting PhD talent to the US
      • Immigrants over-represented in creativity in U.S.
      • California Labor Commissioner nixes ICE interference
      • Nobel prizes, faculty appointments, and immigrants to the U.S.
    • ► August (10)
      • Unauthorized workers in Harvey clean-up: out of luck
      • School students: 23% are from immigrant families
      • The Raise Act's point system
      • Wake up call on immigration policy
      • Pro Publica / NPR expose of Florida deportations of injured workers
      • English language skills of low skilled immigrants
      • Immigration a lifeline for Midwestern cities
      • American farms hire more Mexicans on temp visas
      • Refugees in America, in historical context
      • Cut immigration proposals – today and in 1997
    • ► July (7)
      • Mass Supreme Court: Detaining is unconstitutional
      • The Trump Adminstration's enforcement changes
      • Skilled immigrant workers and our economic future
      • Labor shortages driving up demand for temp foreign workers
      • One quarter of second gen children at risk of losing parents by deportation
      • Multiracial and multiethnic babies: 14% of all infants
      • Do non-citizens vote in American elections? Recent evidence says no.
    • ► June (9)
      • Australia: immigrant nation
      • New Brain Gain for the U.S.
      • "If John Cunningham is not safe, no one is safe.”
      • Trump extends, withdraws protections of unauthorized persons
      • Changing the business model of seasonal business?
      • A Cambodia-born state representative in Massachusetts
      • role of immigration in new workers, 1977 - 2026
      • Mexican Crab pickers along Chesapeake Bay
      • Deportations for non-criminals soar
    • ► May (9)
      • Thinking of African Americans as an immigrant group not well assimilated
      • Recent immigrants have diversified American religion
      • Portrait of an immigrant from Africa
      • Snapshot of immigration in Washington State
      • Poll on perceptions of threats to American culture
      • Trump's economic growth is dependent on immigrants
      • Trump's 3 Pronged Immigration strategy
      • Fear among vulnerable immigrants
      • Sold for Parts: Pro Publica's report on chicken processing workers
    • ► April (10)
      • Frederick Douglass argues for the Chinese immigrant and "composite nationality"
      • Trump admin targets temporary skilled foreign workers
      • Low wage Mexican immigration on the way down
      • Iraqi Christians learn American civic culture
      • Camarota's argument for less immigration
      • Day laborers who are injured
      • Unauthorized dairy workers in Vermont in a time of Trump
      • Six Million Children of unauthorized parents
      • Foreign healthcare workers in the U.S. - one out of six
      • Do high skilled immigration policies work? - Yes
    • ► March (14)
      • Immigration in Iowa Congressman Steven King's district
      • As expected, wages on the rise on California farms
      • Yang Chen
      • U.S. demographic future relatively bright
      • Merit based immigration system supported, criticized, by Right and Left
      • Trump-leaning evangelicals are more anti-immigration.
      • What is happening to the migration crisis in Europe?
      • Impact of foreign IT workers
      • Trump can already claim a slow down in immigration
      • Drop off in foreign grad student applications
      • Change in education level of immigrants past and present
      • Immigration: Trump's cornerstone policy initiative
      • 7,000 doctors from six banned countries in U.S.
      • Administration’s inconsistences on temporary work visas
    • ► February (19)
      • Barriers to productive employment by skilled immigrants
      • Enforcement only strategy: dark times for farming
      • Where immigrants come from
      • Sanctuary Cities: the legal battle
      • Trump re-setting expectations about unauthorized population
      • Community colleges and immigrant education
      • ICE sweeps in February 2017 and March 2015
      • Draft Executive Order on means testing of legal Immigrants
      • Immigration from Muslim-dominant countries - shapshot
      • Facts about immigration in California
      • Types of visas issued by the U.S. in 2016
      • The Wonder that is Silicon Valley
      • New analysis of the rare event: foreign terrorism
      • Do immigrants incur relatively more work injuries?
      • The long shadow of the 1965 immigration act
      • Possible language of immigration bill for April
      • Survey: What does it take to be American?
      • Recent polling on immigration
      • Refugees and domestic terrorism: the facts
    • ► January (16)
      • Trump admin stopped short of rescinding Dreamers executive order
      • Muslims in America: why terrorism risk is low compared to Europe
      • Trump Administration greatly expands scope of unauthorized persons to be targeted.
      • The world trade in human capital
      • Video of Trump signing immigration orders and responses to them
      • Dreamers, other unauthorized persons, and their economic contribution today and tomorrow
      • Profile of an illegal immigrant, now a citizen
      • World immigration key numbers
      • Cuban immigration in a nutshell: dramatic changes
      • Application for citizenship denied for having a "big mouth"
      • Senator Jeff Sessions on immigration
      • Melons, pickles and post-Bracero employer response
      • State of ICE – local law enforcement collaboration
      • Why do people immigrate to the U.S.?
      • Summary of the immigration commission created by President Carter
      • Senator Cotton on immigration
  • ►2016 (96)
    • ► December (5)
      • Portrait of a refugee
      • Widespread labor violations in Los Angeles' garment industry
      • New Americans at work: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD
      • FAIR's agenda for immigration in 2017
      • What happens when immigrants leave farming?
    • ► November (10)
      • How immigration looks better in San Jose, CA than in Green Bay. WI
      • How will police departments respond to more aggressive deportation?
      • Internal migration in China
      • Muslim immigrants: welcome to Thanksgiving
      • Trump's evolving deportation plans
      • Muslims in America: why so little terrorism?
      • 820,000 illegal criminals instead of Trump's 2 million
      • State restrictions on immigration: a surprising finding
      • Trump on 60 Minutes about deportation
      • The Hispanic vote on November 8
    • ► October (4)
      • Births by undocumented mothers decline
      • Foreign-born workers, from HS drop-outs to CEOs
      • Gradations of farm workers by national origin and ethnicity
      • The global flow of top talent today
    • ► September (13)
      • A brief analysis of the new NAS report on immigration economics
      • Why have immigrants at all?
      • What Hispanic poultry workers in North Carolina say about their work
      • The home care workforce and immigrants
      • A graph showing the Obama administration's enforcement of immigration law
      • Proposal: a new bilateral worker agreement between U.S. and Mexico
      • Expanding exposure to immigrants, 1990 to 2014
      • Why did we get so many illegal residents?
      • A Value-Added Immigration Policy, such as Canada's
      • If undocumented farm workers gained legal status...
      • STEM employment in the U.S. and foreign workers
      • Do poorly educated immigrant workers compete with or complement their native-born peers?
      • Trump overestimates by ten times the crime rate of aliens
    • ► August (18)
      • Why immigration policy is so elusive
      • A case study of mechanization and lower demand for immigrant workers
      • An intoxicating error
      • Do foreign-born health workers compete with native-born workers or reduce labor shortages?
      • Trump’s limited options in immigration
      • Column: Serious Debate About Immigration Is Needed
      • Breitbart and Trump’s immigration ideas
      • Community colleges and immigrants
      • Stemming demographic winter: Immigrants slow population decline in many counties
      • Why have immigration? David Miller on immigration policy
      • The "Turbo Tax" for Green Cards and Citizenship
      • Limited English Proficiency in US: one in ten workers
      • The Hispanic vote in Arizona in 2016
      • 1995 and 1996: when Immigration was almost curtailed
      • More on Melania Trump
      • Farmworker Justice
      • Did Melania Trump break immigration laws in the 1990s?
      • What low skills jobs do immigrants and native Americans appear to compete for?
    • ► July (16)
      • Hispanic formal education gap has greatly narrowed.
      • Why have immigration? One in a series
      • Children of immigrants: 88% born here, 1/3 with a native born parent
      • Opinions stable but partisanship sharper on immigration since mid 1990s.
      • Old industrial cities and recent immigration
      • Americans like diversity, a lot more than do Europeans
      • Impact of out-migration of undocumented workers from Arizona
      • Extraordinary visual of international migration
      • Survey: how people differ in opinions about immigration
      • Six common features of the 1920s and the 2010s on immigration sentiment
      • How to find data on immigrants in your area fast
      • Foreign-born workers in U.S to rise from 16% to 20% of workforce
      • "Bring Back the Melting Pot" ideal, Michael Lind writes
      • Early talk about immigration reform in 2017
      • Proflle of permanent resident visas (green cards) in 2014
      • The Immigration Film Festival in D.C. Oct 20 - 23
    • ► June (7)
      • How work visa policies evade public oversight
      • A dark report on American attitudes
      • Remittances from foreign-born in U.S.: up 455% from 1990
      • The needed housing construction boom and immigrant workers
      • Demographic winter in the Midwest: too few immigrants
      • Asian American voters this November
      • Footloose college graduates around the world
    • ► May (12)
      • President Johnson and the 1965 immigration reforms
      • A Somali refugee's encounter with meatpacking work
      • H-1B and the IT job market in California
      • How America ranks worldwide in migration
      • Donald Trump on illegals and the Wall
      • Felipe Vieira: a defrauded EB-5 investor
      • Immigration an overlooked factor in the shrinking middle class
      • Milestones in foreign-born farm workers in America, 1900 - 2016
      • Amazing visualization of U.S. immigration since 1820
      • Census Bureau Infographic on Mexico, India and China immigration
      • Virginia and the Presidential Vote: more influenced by Hispanics and Asians
      • Some facts on immigrants in high skilled jobs
    • ► April (11)
      • Poll: Trump vs Clinton supporters on immigration
      • Mexican workers and American farms, 1945 - 2015
      • English proficiency rising among young Hispanics
      • "Why [Mexican] Border Enforcement Backfired"
      • Why do we accept refugees?
      • EB-5 train wreck in Vermont
      • Snapshot of an immigrant: Ana Ramos Martinez
      • Borjas on immigration's impact on U.S. labor markets
      • Educational status of new immigrants has been sharply rising.
      • Do immigrant workers win big from a $15 minimum wage?
      • Use this tool to track migration trends by state since 1900
  • ►2015 (6)
    • ► May (3)
      • Profile of domestic workers in the U.S.
      • Construction fatalities fall on immigrant workers
      • Trends in the undocumented workforce
    • ► April (1)
      • ACLU protests treatment of injured undocumented workers
    • ► March (1)
      • OSHA's critique of workers' comp
    • ► January (1)
      • States that allow undocumented workers workers' comp benefits
  • ►2014 (20)
    • ► December (4)
      • The Diversity Explosion
      • In your state, how many undocumented immigrants?
      • Notable facts about undocumented immigrants
      • Arguments pro and con re legality of Executive Actions
    • ► November (6)
      • Pew Hispanic Center's estimates for the Executive Action
      • Some specifics about the Obama Administration’s “Executive Actions”
      • How Obama devised his Executive Order
      • Impact of the Executive Order on workers' compensation
      • Reagan and Bush Sr. used executive orders for immigrants
      • Chronology of recent news about Executive Orders to come
    • ► June (2)
      • Food manufacturing workers in NYC
      • Undocumented workers ensnared by workers comp
    • ► May (1)
      • California’s undocumented immigrants use fewer health services
    • ► March (1)
      • Health coverage and health literary among adult Hispanics
    • ► February (3)
      • Home Economics: the lives of domestic workers
      • Trends in state immigration laws, from punitive to constructive
      • No immigration reform? Big cutbacks in farm production, higher food prices
    • ► January (3)
      • Importance of work safety training in native language
      • More on Pro Publica’s temp worker report: higher injury risk
      • Pro Publica’s investigation of temporary labor: Raiteros
  • ►2013 (43)
    • ► December (3)
      • Most of construction fall fatalities in New York are foreign-born workers
      • A free guide to immigrant worker safety and health
      • Lazarus - like resurrection of immigration reform?
    • ► November (5)
      • We need joint workforce planning with Mexico
      • Business and Labor Leaders send letter to Washington
      • An end to draconian state laws that target undocumenteds?
      • Does lack of English cause work injuries?
      • Why training foreign-born workers in their native language is important
    • ► October (2)
      • Remittance flows: new World Bank report
      • The Year of Immigrant Workers and their work injury risks
    • ► September (5)
      • Many work deaths expected from a project in Qatar
      • Why we must address immigrant work safety now
      • Migration of skilled workers from under-developed countries: is it harmful?
      • Cooperation between OSHA and Latin American consulates
      • Ethnic networks in Southern California
    • ► June (4)
      • Temporary agricultural workers: no workers comp coverage?
      • Strategies of opponents to immigration reform
      • prospects for immigration reform: good
      • House Republicans to Undocumented Residents: Drop Dead
    • ► May (1)
      • Temporary staffing firm and low wage immigrants
    • ► April (4)
      • Key points in Gang of 8's immigration reform bill
      • IT workers and H-1B visas: necessary or a scam?
      • Immigrant workers unaware of workers compensation
      • Reforms to Legal immigration of low skilled workers
    • ► March (1)
      • Latino voters and immigration
    • ► February (7)
      • Reforming temporary worker programs
      • Remittances from the United States: big, getter fairer
      • Congressional seats: ready to go Red with slight change in Hispanic voting
      • The transformation of Mexican farm labor supply to the U.s.
      • New facts about unauthorized immigrants
      • Do undocumented workers pay taxes? Answer: Most do today.
      • Is the STEM problem a fiction?
    • ► January (11)
      • Five things economists know about immigration
      • President Obama’s immigration reform plans Jan 29 2013
      • Senators’ statement of principles on immigration reform
      • Non-English preference speakers in the U.S doubled since 1980
      • Introduction to H-2A temporary agricultural worker program
      • Asian immigrants adding largest numbers to workforce
      • Chamber of Commerce for comprehensive immigration reform
      • Introduction to H-2A temporary agricultural worker program
      • Temporary worker programs: Introduction
      • Wealth of 2011 data on foreign born workers
      • Key findings about immigration’s economic impact
  • ►2012 (25)
    • ► December (7)
      • Capsule Profile of the Immigrant Worker
      • Colorado’s surge of Latino voters: sea change in state politics
      • The "Texas Immigration Solution": Guest worker programs
      • The Colorado Compact
      • Large share of small business owners are immigrants
      • High immigration rates for the future do not fix our aging problem
      • What are the facts of the decline in the immigrant birth rate?
    • ► November (10)
      • Nine principles of immigration reform
      • Trafficking: what is it?
      • Immigration reform prospects for 2013
      • Indian immigrants and American hotels
      • The emerging Latino voting bloc in Arizona
      • Ten politicans to watch on immigration reform
      • Asian Americans overwhelmingly for Obama
      • Latinos delivered for Democrats on Tuesday
      • Last minute update on Latino voting power
      • Bloomberg Magazine: lunacy of immigration policy for educated immigrants
    • ► October (5)
      • Net Labor flow from Mexico to U.S. turns positive again
      • Snapshot of Indian immigrants: fast growing, highly educated
      • Importance of Hispanic vote in November
      • Dream Act: employment and economic impact
      • Race matters in award of workers comp benefits
    • ► June (1)
      • Labor force impact of new Obama policy will be large
    • ► April (1)
      • Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less
    • ► January (1)
      • Immigrant farm workers in New Mexico given a legal boost
  • ►2011 (29)
    • ► December (2)
      • Questionable coverage by workers comp for migrant workers
      • Alabama now reaping the harvest of its immigration law
    • ► October (1)
      • Colorado farmer can’t find local workers to replace Hispanic immigrants
    • ► August (2)
      • NY Times editorial about Alabama Law
      • Alabama’s Immigration law dissected
    • ► July (3)
      • further on impoverishment of Hispanics
      • Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest
      • In-migration from Mexico has dried up
    • ► June (1)
      • To boost economy, boost immigration
    • ► May (3)
      • IT CEOs pitch for a better immigration policy
      • Tougher ICE enforcement against employers
      • Supreme Court: key provision in Arizona immigration law is OK
    • ► April (5)
      • The Latino Electorate in 2010: More Voters, More Non-Voters
      • Civil rights suits against temporary worker visa violators
      • More on Utah's new immigration related laws
      • Critique of H-2A farmworker visa program
      • Welfare use among immigrants
    • ► March (6)
      • Hispanic population now 16% of total
      • The Utah Compact on immigration
      • New guest worker and other legislation from Utah
      • E-Verify soon available to individuals
      • Portrait of Middle Eastern and North African immigrants
      • The immorality of denying workers comp benefits to illegal workers
    • ► February (2)
      • States may bar workers comp for illegal immigrants
      • Estimate of illegal immigrant population in 2010
    • ► January (4)
      • Analysis of the 287(g) program
      • workers comp benefits for injured illegal workers: where are we?
      • "Close to Slavery" ; guest worker programs
      • State house battles in 2011 over illegal immigration
  • ►2010 (44)
    • ► December (2)
      • Will New Mexico farm workers finally be covered by workers comp?
      • Web of Mass. employer abuses of immigrant worker rights
    • ► November (2)
      • 20% of households speak a language other than English at home
      • The occupational risks of older Hispanic workers
    • ► September (4)
      • Immigrant workers in four key sectors: brilliant analysis
      • A question to readers of Working Immigrants
      • The Feds crack down on restaurants
      • Illegal immigration inflow down sharply
    • ► August (5)
      • Farm Workers' "Take our job" campaign
      • A brief overview of compensation rights of illegal workers
      • Another analysis of the Bolton ruling on the Arizona Law
      • What Judge Bolton ruled what was unconstitutional in the Arizona law
      • Ohio legislation to bar illegal workers from collecting workers comp
    • ► July (5)
      • Foreign born workforce growth and distribution
      • Legal analysis of the Arizona law
      • Obama’s “silent” raids to enforce immigrant laws
      • DOJ sues to void new Arizona immigration law
      • Text of Obama's speech on immigration reform 7/1/10
    • ► June (3)
      • Paranoia about immigrants: case study in Tennessee
      • Obama Administration to sue Arizona
      • ICE targetting five states
    • ► May (1)
      • A profile of residents of Mexican origin
    • ► April (8)
      • The new Arizona law outlined
      • DHS estimates of illegal immigrant population in 2009
      • Fact sheet on Arizona and Hispanics
      • Green card activity, 2009
      • How foreign college students become American workers
      • What Reid said to predict immigration reform
      • Joel Kotkin on immigration
      • Schumer / Graham plan for immigration reform
    • ► March (3)
      • Health insurance coverage among Hispanics
      • H-2B Guest worker woes
      • Immigration reform "on ice"
    • ► February (5)
      • Illegal immigrants and healthcare coverage
      • injury in migrant housing covered by workers compensation
      • Profile of Haitian immigrants and workers
      • illegal population dropped in 2009
      • The recession's inpact on immigration
    • ► January (6)
      • Mexican program to support its citizens in U.S.
      • Illegal worker awarded workers comp benefits in legal twist
      • A new book on immigrant entrepreneurs
      • Expose of criminal behavior by immigration detention officials
      • Poor labor protections for low wage labor in Los Angeles
      • NY Times editorial on immigration reform
  • ►2009 (68)
    • ► December (3)
      • How a New Jersey town lost one third of its population due to a crackdown
      • How do illegal immigrants fit into the American economy?
      • Expanded auditing of American employers re: illegal workers
    • ► November (5)
      • NIOSH Blog on of immigrant worker safety and health
      • How do and will immigrants get health insurance?
      • High injury rates among hotel housekeepers
      • ICE says 17,500 people trafficked into the US each year
      • Important 2008 statistics about immigration
    • ► October (5)
      • H-1B work visas go begging
      • New York City’s Immigrant-related policies
      • Expose of private prisons for immigration violators
      • “Wrong Paths to Immigration Reform”
      • Healthcare insurance coverage for legal and illegal immigrants
    • ► September (4)
      • Global Workers Defender Network
      • Study of low income workers in New York City: violations of worker protections
      • New study on exploitation of low wage workers
      • Immigration reform priorities of the administration
    • ► August (4)
      • health uninsured rates among immigrants: far higher
      • immigrant employment and unemployment -- figures
      • Obama expects immigration reform legislation later this year
      • E-Verify push: update
    • ► July (6)
      • Another study of foreign born entrepreneurs in the U.S.
      • Mexican inmigration off, few are returning there
      • Did ICE enforcement lead to worker unionization at Smithfield?
      • Global remittances to decline by 7% - 10% this year
      • Federal program to deputize local law immigration enforcement cut back
      • The Obama policy: no more showboat raids
    • ► June (9)
      • Global trend: multicultural societies due to immigration
      • Immigration reform: Republicans demand guest worker program
      • The nursing shortage, now back in the news
      • Update on Global Workers Justice Alliance
      • Obama to scale back on Real ID
      • Spotlight on immigrants in Virginia
      • A note on E-Verify
      • Immigration reform prospects are up
      • New California program to assist in workers comp benefits
    • ► May (9)
      • New York City trains illegal workers for better jobs
      • Immigrant wages compared to native worker wages in New England
      • immigrant carwashers in Los Angeles
      • Postville IA today
      • DHS press release about new enforcement guidelines
      • DHS shifts enforcement focus onto employers
      • Supreme Court: ICE can no longer use identity-theft charges
      • Indians living in the U.S.: 2 million
      • Voting by minorities is up, whites slightly down
    • ► April (7)
      • Unemployment rate for Immigrant labor, 1st Qtr 2009
      • Latest Pew Hispanic Center report on illegal immigrants, April 2009
      • Made in L.A.: the immigrant documentary
      • Mexican immigrants in the U.S.: a profile of a huge presence
      • Unions are supporting immigration reform
      • Will Obama push immigration reform?
      • Farm worker rights: time to set right?
    • ► March (7)
      • Delay in immigration raids may signal Obama policy change
      • the competitive demographic edge of the U.S. thanks to immigration
      • The economics of the Swift meatpacking plant raids of 2006
      • Remittances to Latin America to decline this year.
      • Colorado local police raid tax practice to nab illegals
      • Immigrants and the California economy
      • illegal Immigration control items in the FT 2010 budget
    • ► February (4)
      • Dept of Homeland Security: illegal count is down
      • Federal tax payments by illegal workers
      • Unemployment Rises Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008
      • Surge in Hispanic vote, November 2008
    • ► January (5)
      • White House website posting of immigration policy
      • Immigrant labor in the economic crisis
      • Immigrant workers figure in the fastest growing industries
      • Pew Hispanic Center: Latinos under economic stress
      • remittances to Mexico fell sharply towards end of 2008
  • ►2008 (96)
    • ► December (10)
      • Hispanic employment down, immigrants returning home
      • Is the Obama team prepared to protect immigrants?
      • 28% of workers in New Jersey are immigrants.
      • New court ruling: illegal worker eligible for permanent disability award
      • The Filipino immigrant population
      • Agriprocessors declared bankruptcy in November
      • Changes to H-2A farmworker visa program sought by Bush
      • A look into incarceration of immigrants
      • What will the Obama administration do?
      • Medical care for badly injured illegal workers
    • ► November (2)
      • Fallout from an immigrant murder in New York
      • A rich study of the illegal workforce’s economic impact
    • ► October (9)
      • Former CEO of Agriprocessors arrested.
      • A book on internal worker migration in China
      • Delusional thinking about immigrants and voting registration fraud
      • New analysis of workers comp laws and illegal workers
      • Federal court upholds Arizona law sanctioning employers for illegal hires.
      • Raid at House of Raeford plant nabs 330 workers
      • Remittances from the United States declining
      • Sharp decline in median income of non-citizen immigrant households
      • Pew Hispanic Center estimates of illegal immigrants, 2008
    • ► September (8)
      • Assessment of economic benefits of migration to Australia
      • Homeland Security estimates of illegal population 2007
      • E-Verify is working better
      • Occupational risks of Seattle day laborers are very high
      • An important work safety program for Brazilian workers in Massachusetts
      • Our broken immigration system
      • Follow up on the Mississippi ICE raid
      • Community health centers and occupational injury response
    • ► August (3)
      • Another large ICE raid
      • Immigrants create environmental pollution ???
      • Number of illegal residents way down?
    • ► July (11)
      • High death rate among Hispanic workers
      • Agriprocessors' worker safety record
      • Chained to bed while delivering baby
      • Employers pushing back against anti-immigration crowd
      • Hispanic employment figures worsen
      • Mass convictions after the Postville raid – railroading the defendants
      • More on Postville IA raid
      • NY state illegal worker denied work rehab benefits
      • Profile of a pro-immigrant advocacy coalition
      • The link to the complete New Bedford Standard-Times series
      • High quality profile of immigrant labor in one city
    • ► June (8)
      • A great pro-immigrant blog
      • 4 in 10 green card holders had a prior illegal period of stay
      • EU toughens stance on illegal immigrants
      • Two cases of immigrant labor abuses
      • Postville, IA: nogoodnik employer
      • Burmese workers replace illegal meat processing workers
      • 14% of Mexicans work in the U.S.
      • Immigrant Hispanic unemployment rate: 7.5%
    • ► May (13)
      • One of out six workers is an immigrant
      • A conservative's endorsement of liberal immigration policy
      • Incremental immigration reforms held up by Hispanic caucus
      • Grey market employer crackdowns and illegal workers
      • Second generation immigrants doing well – study in New York City
      • Canada recruiting Mexican labor
      • Follow up on House of Raeford case
      • Canada needs more immigrant workers
      • how illegal farm workers from Mexico get healthcare
      • A mass of data about immigrants in the U.S.
      • News from Global Workers Justice Alliance
      • Immigration Mexican American blog
      • Remittances to Latin America are flat or down
    • ► April (11)
      • State legislation on illegal immigration: a 2008 inventory
      • Article on status of Arizona’s Legal Arizona Workers Act
      • Iowa House of Reps hammers illegal immigrants
      • How immigration laws really work
      • All States Deemed Compliant with Real ID
      • CBS News profile of illegal immigrants
      • Case of instant local police – ICE data link.
      • Sent back to El Salvador with its 50% unemployment rate
      • NPR: Jobs for day laborers decline due to housing slump, economy
      • NPR story of a new illegal immigrant returned to El Salvador
      • Arizona employers slow to E-Verify
    • ► March (6)
      • H-1B year to begin again April 1
      • New York City area losing jobs due to visa barriers
      • New Bedford raid follow up: Boston millionaire puts up bail for 40
      • Seasonal immigrant workers severely cut back, pawn in immigration bill struggle
      • CT's strategy to cut down on illegal workers
      • Immigrant votes in 2008
    • ► February (8)
      • Immigrants have lower incarceration, crime rates
      • House of Raeford Farms: three quarters of workers are Hispanic
      • Expose of immigrant worker poultry factory injuries in North Carolina
      • U.S. population projections: huge impact of immigration
      • Airzona's economy drying up?
      • Bush trying to grow the temporary farm worker H-2A program
      • Michigan law and undocumented workers - contending proposals
      • States where the Hispanic vote is most important
    • ► January (7)
      • Analysis of the Legal Arizona Workers Act
      • Philippines and the planned export of labor
      • correction: foreign born labor is 17%, not 30%
      • 30% of working age adults are foreign born
      • Illegal worker in Rhode Island wins workers comp award
      • South Carolina court approves workers comp for illegal immigrant
      • A case study of identity theft involving illegal immigratns
  • ►2007 (131)
    • ► December (7)
      • Legal analysis of AZ and TN illegal immigrant laws
      • Arizona about to implement draconian law
      • Arizona crackdown on illegal workers may hit state economy
      • More on aftermath of December 2006 Swift raids
      • Records of Hispanic deaths on the job
      • After the meatpacking raids: one year later
      • Domestic slavery in America among foreign workers
    • ► November (8)
      • “Legal, Illegal Immigrant Numbers at Record Highs”
      • Florida employer scam involving illegal workers
      • Searching for farm labor in California
      • Immigrants in Arkansas
      • $300 billion a year in worker remittances back home.
      • Illegal immigrants’ Emergency Care Is Limited by U.S. Rule
      • Analysis of farm labor economics in California
      • Case study of work injured immigrant who was deported
    • ► October (6)
      • Spitzer waffles on driver licenses for illegal immigrants
      • Illegal immigration and Dem-Rep competition
      • Don’t get a work injury if you live in Arizona…
      • Bring back AgJobs? 500,000 workers may be affected
      • Effort to Curb Illegal Workers' Hiring Blocked
      • U.S. Immigrant worker figures in a nutshell
    • ► September (9)
      • Driver licenses in New York State
      • Legal assaults against illegal immigrants
      • Global Workers Justice Alliance – update
      • Working on Faith: failures to protect workers in the Katrina cleanup.
      • Partnership between DOL and Interfaith Worker Justice
      • 2006 Remittances to Mexico flat – housing downturn in U.S.?
      • Immigrant nation – new census data from 2006
      • Tomato farms in Florida – what they say they are doing for workers
      • for the record: how the Senate killed immigration reform -- the votes
    • ► August (4)
      • Resistance to illegal immigration crackdown
      • Senate roll call vote data S. 2611 5 25 2006
      • Attempt to revive AgJobs portion of Immigration bill
      • New crack down on illegal workers: what it means.
    • ► July (6)
      • Refugio: OSHA - Hispanic worker joint safety project in NJ
      • Real ID program implementation plan issued by DHS
      • The bill that will not go away
      • Review of workers compensation coverage of illegal workers
      • Immigration Malpractice by Citizenship and Immigration Services
      • Workers comp protections for illegal workers cut in New York
    • ► June (8)
      • "I think that is something that can be dealt with at a later time.”
      • Senate to try again on immigration reform
      • Big trouble with temporary work visa for professional workers.
      • Coaching Mexicans on labor rights in the U.S.
      • Green card disasters
      • Legislative update
      • Do we need a point system? We cannot avoid it.
      • Immigration debate resumes
    • ► May (13)
      • Accuracy in media coverage
      • Hispanic labor share continues to grow, now 25% of construction
      • “Make a Bad Bill Better”
      • Some provisions in Title IV, Temporary worker program
      • Edgar Velázquez: Maimed at work, then deported
      • Tracking the aftermath
      • The Senate has done what it needed to do....
      • What the Senate Bill is trying to do
      • What is an immigration point system?
      • Senate Bill expected for test vote Monday
      • Chronology of Senate immigration reform bill this year
      • Ranking economics over family in immigration
      • guest worker program and all immigrant workers
    • ► April (8)
      • Operation Return to Sender
      • Can OSHA protect low wage immigrant workers?
      • Progress on Immigration reform law
      • House and White House proposals compared
      • Republicans continue to be divided.
      • Huge demand for H-1B visas this month
      • Senate to address immigration reform in late May, per Sen Reid
      • STRIVE Act introduced in House, 3/22
    • ► March (17)
      • White House PowerPoint outline of its proposal
      • Overview of non-immigrant visa activity
      • No immigration reform bill yet
      • slow movement on immigration reform bills
      • Son of illegal Mexican immigrants makes good
      • Trafficking in identity papers - a case study
      • Senator Kennedy leading Senate effort to pass immigration reform bill.
      • Senator Kennedy on New Bedford sweat shop raid
      • More on expose about current guest worker programs
      • New expose on H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs.
      • 2008 Elections and immigration reform
      • Regional sources of Mexican workers in U.S.
      • sweat shop in New Bedford MA busted, 350 illegal workers out of work
      • Two of three new construction jobs go to Hispanics
      • Live-in domestic foreign in workers in the U.S.
      • Data about the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs
      • Digging into abuses of H-2A and H-2B temporary worker programs in U.S.
    • ► February (27)
      • The IFCO guilty pleadings: what was behind them
      • Recruiter abuses in H-2A agriculture guest worker program
      • California labor law enforcement in the underground economy
      • Executives indicted for tax evasion re: illegal employees
      • Wealth of statistics on illegal immigrants in the U.S.
      • AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s statement on immigration reform.
      • U.S. Border Patrol has become more aggressive
      • OSHA and regional business association join forces to train Hispanic workers
      • Robert Feenstra on the powerful dynamics linking U.S. and Mexican workforces
      • Immigration’s impact on American wages by educational level of workforce
      • Poorly educated immigrant workers hurt, help American workers: 2005 study
      • New York Times editorial on immigration reform.
      • Skilled foreign workers – summary statistics
      • Essential Worker Immigration Coalition: Reform platform
      • How long do Mexican migrants work in the U.S.? 6 – 11 years
      • Contractor insurance fraud and why it matters
      • Human trafficking suit in CT
      • Tidbits from the first year of this blog
      • Mexican Government guide for illegally entering the U.S.
      • Another follow up on the Swift raid: what happened to Cactus, TX.
      • The net fiscal impact of illegal immigrants? New Jersey and Texas studies clash
      • A new information center for immigration issues
      • Mexican remittances were $25 billion in 2006
      • 2/5/07 update on Swift raid
      • An initiative in California to protect immigrant workers from insurance fraud
      • H-IB visa quota for this year may be exhausted in first 15 days
      • American immigration and world trade: the connection
    • ► January (18)
      • Swift plants for sale after raids?
      • Reform proposals to protect workers comp rights of day laborers -- Texas
      • SEIU on immigration reform
      • NYCOSH online library on immigrant work safety
      • What President Bush said about immigration reform
      • Income tax and social security tax payments of illegal immigrants - a legal analysis
      • Where to find country population, migration and related projections
      • France’s new skilled labor focus on immigration
      • Case study of employment results of a large ICE raid on a poultry plant
      • Shortages of farm labor hit Florida, California. Are they due to immigration enforcement?
      • Can a work injured illegal immigrant obtain benefits? In Indiana, it depends
      • Mexican immigrant worker economics - remittances are the goal
      • Major problems in immigration and future guest work info systems
      • 150 million internal migrants in China today
      • “Open Doors Wider for Skilled Immigrants”
      • Immigrant entrepreneurs involved in one quarter of technology start-ups
      • United States the leader in cities with large foreign born populations
      • A valuable new public interest group: Global Workers Justice Alliance
  • ►2006 (253)
    • ► December (13)
      • From the Economist: government policies to attract the highly talented worker.
      • Capitol Hill analysis of immigration reform prospects for 2007
      • A case of sex work coercion of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
      • DREAM Act proposal: citizenship through military service
      • Economics of remittances from U.S. to Brazil
      • New Texas study says illegal immigrants are net benefit to economy
      • NY Times editorial on Swift Company raids
      • Things are heating up for a reform bill
      • Case study of immigrant workers in Hilton Head
      • Remittances from U.S. to Mexico, 1995 – 2005
      • MA Governor Romney’s foot caught in illegal worker raccoon trap
      • Why poorer educated Mexican men come work in the U.S.
      • Key Democrat tells Homeland Security to back off on new rules about employment of illegal workers
    • ► November (11)
      • Two reservations about an immigration reform bill
      • Guest workers in the future: union organizing
      • Construction accidents in New York City up 61%
      • “Independent contractor” abuses among immigrant construction workers in Boston
      • The nursing shortage: real, getting worse, and global
      • Senate Bill 2612: Guest worker provisions
      • Senate Bill 2612: rights of current illegal workers
      • The dog that didn’t bark: failure of anti-immigration as a campaign position
      • Electoral result: We'll enact a guest worker program next year
      • Spanish language barriers increase hazards on construction sites
      • Immigration reform - for 2007?
    • ► October (12)
      • Immigrant worker fatalities from violence
      • Arizona, microcosm of views on immigration: candidates positions
      • Arizona, a microcosm of views on immigration – the ballot questions
      • size of Indian work populations in the United States.
      • The Hispanic vote and the next Congress
      • Immigrant labor essential for New Orleans recovery
      • Remittances to Mexico expand, new Federal Reserve program helps
      • Major study of low wage immigrant workers in California
      • Barriers to occupational health services tolow wage workers in CA
      • I'll bet the fence is never built
      • Disparities in education, income among second generation immigrants
      • Ten top migration issues of 2005
    • ► September (9)
      • “Subidos” or Mexicans working legally in migrant construction work
      • Canada’s use of skills based point system for immigration: do we need it?
      • How an ICE raid crippled a rural Georgia town
      • A Marie Antoinette statement on illegal immigrants
      • An analysis of WC law protections for illegal immigrants
      • New article: Illegal immigrants frequently denied compensation
      • Many immigrants working at WTC cleanup
      • Throwaway workers: dangerous jobs take toll on illegal immigrants
      • House Republicans to stop beating the immigration reform drum
    • ► August (13)
      • Mexican remittances at annual rate of $20 billion
      • Wal-Mart further penetrates the banking activities of Mexicans
      • A new legal tactic against illegal workers in California
      • Legal battle over WC coverage for illegal workers in AZ
      • Homeland Security estimates of unauthorized immigrants January 2005
      • ABCs of Immigration: H-2B (non-agricultural work) Visas
      • New Orleans suit over H-2B guest workers
      • Why the Basic Pilot program is a failure
      • U.S. was 12.4% immigrant in 2005, vs. 11.2% in 2000
      • Pew Hispanic Center: immigration has not hurt American workers
      • ABCs of Immigration – H-2A (agriculture work) visas
      • A closer look at Immigration Voice
      • “Building boom in Mexican town was born in Minnesota”
    • ► July (21)
      • Immigration Voice, or "Green Card applicants unite!"
      • More aggressive enforcement by ICE re: employers
      • A source of practical advice for immigrant professionals
      • The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 2
      • The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 1
      • Where are Hispanic voters concentrated?
      • Poll: hispanic voters turning away from Bush, Repubican party
      • High impact of immigrant workers on civilian labor force, 1990 - 2001 and beyond
      • New study of low wage Korean immigrant workers in New York City
      • Two loopy proposals to control those pesky illegals
      • Illegal workers, employers, being pressured by state and local legal action
      • Do immigrants depress existing wages?
      • Bloomberg: Economy would fail if illegal immigrants deported
      • Why the hotel industry wants a guest worker program
      • Third study out on labor rights violations on Katrina cleanup
      • More on remittance traffic to Latin America
      • New Mexico Workplace Safety for Immigrant Workers From Mexico (2005)
      • Industries lobbying for a guest worker program
      • Bush may shift more towards House’s immigration proposal
      • Major developments regarding illegal immigrants, first half of 2006
      • Massachusetts State Police, IRS use the same illegal worker cleaning crew
    • ► June (25)
      • Senate immigration bill to lift ceilings on foreign nurses
      • Wage and benefits by job category, U.S.
      • Phased immigration reform?
      • Three suits over subcontracted janitor labor violations
      • Massachusetts Governor wants state police to round up illegal immigrants
      • Second report on breakdown of worker safety in Katrina cleanup
      • Serious breakdown in workers comp for Katrina cleanup
      • Republican Senator: REAL ID is a real stinker
      • Jim Platner's analysis of higher construction deaths among Hispanics
      • Locations of worker centers in U.S.
      • Fake IDs among Massachusetts construction workers
      • George Will on short vs long term politics on immigration
      • Overseas Indians send back $21 billion.
      • Awareness of workers comp, safety regulation is troublingly low among immigrant workers
      • Poll: Senate's immigration bill more popular than House's
      • Illegal immigrant workers face serious risks in Katrina cleanup
      • Homeland Security's SAVE program to verify employment
      • How the Senate bill increases worker immigration
      • Easy to buy fake IDs in Los Angeles
      • immigration population estimates vary widely
      • Working conditions in a 800 person poultry plant in Iowa
      • Colorado split on immigration reform
      • The two waves of Hispanic labor into the United States
      • Mohawk RICO case dismissed by Supreme Court
      • Analysis of employer liabilities over illegal employees
    • ► May (24)
      • Working in the military to gain U.S. citizenship
      • 10% of young working ago persons in U.S. are non-citizens
      • Roll call vote for S. 2611 62 yes 36 no
      • Senate passes S. 2611 62 to 36
      • Senate ready to vote on final S.2611 with guest worker provision intact
      • Summary of Senate Bill 2611
      • A good source for info about working immigration news
      • My prediction for an immigration reform bill this year
      • How much illegal workers pay to Social Security: over $6B
      • Millions of illegal working immigrants may be here on expired visas
      • Mistreatment of H-2B immigrant guest forestry workers
      • "Blood Sweat and Fear" - Meat and Poultry Plants (Human Rights Watch, 2005)
      • House, Senate and Bush ideas on illegal immigrants compared
      • Bush's May 15 speech on illegal immigration in outline and full text
      • Rare use of Social Security numbers and IRS data to search for illegal immigrant workers
      • Political pork and the tamper-proof identification card
      • Census Bureau reports on Hispanic growth rate
      • Labor centers for immigrant workers
      • Wages and economics of immigrant restaurant workers: a case study
      • Pandering and posturing in Arizona about illegal immigrants.
      • NPR report on social impact back home of Mexican work migration to U.S.
      • Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Reform and the Catholic Church
      • Strangers No Longer: Catholic Church's statement on Hispanic illegal immigration
      • May Day Immigrant rallies and aftermath
    • ► April (34)
      • Using fear of raids to estimate the numbers of illegal immigrants
      • Immigrant labor and agriculture today: fully integrated
      • RICO suit against Mohawk Industries heard by U.S. Supreme Court
      • Dept. of Labor helps illegal workers in Katrina clean up to get paid
      • Can the U.S. reduce its illegal immigrant population by attrition?
      • Illegal immigrants want to stay, become U.S. citizens
      • Federal government unable to enforce immigration laws effectively
      • Nursing shortages: foreign workers to fill them?
      • What is behind the ICE initiative on illegal immigrants
      • ICE raids an employer, IFCO, for hiring illegal workers
      • New Georgia law on undocumented workers S. Bill 529: worth a look
      • How illegal workers get and use documentation
      • Another look at immigrant workers and declining labor force participation
      • Medicaid's new strict identification requirements to create barrier to illegal immigrants.
      • Congressional poll on immigration bill
      • Ten reasons why illegal immigrants should file income tax returns
      • recruitment of foreign nurses to the United States
      • Economists surveyed about impact of illegal immigrants
      • Economic impact of a guest worker program on American agriculture
      • This week’s immigrant demonstrations make big impact
      • A few handy figures about immigration to work in the U.S.
      • Lessons from immigration reform in 1986
      • Opinions by Washington Post, NYT's Nicholas Kristoff
      • U.S. Senate struggles on April 6 with immigration bill compromise
      • Case study of Nevada: Do immigrants take jobs from Americans?
      • developed world pop growth: mostly immigrants
      • Douglas Massey of Princeton: a blast of fresh air on Mexican immigrant workers
      • Study: without immigrants, almost 2 million poorly educated Americans would be back in labor force.
      • The Tyson Foods - illegal immigrant case: past and present.
      • Anti-guestworker panel argues its case
      • AgJobs bill passes Judiciary Committee March 27
      • The Farmworker Justice Fund
      • David Brook’s illuminating column about immigrants
      • Large Los Angeles immigration rally echoed protests about Proposition 187 in mid 1990s
    • ► March (32)
      • Latin American migrants send back $54B in year in remittances
      • The great demographic shift in the American workforce
      • Study asserts H-1B visa program undercuts American computer programmers
      • Senate Committee approves McCain bill on March 27
      • ICE no longer to impersonate OSHA personnel
      • Paul Krugman on immigration reform
      • Skilled labor immigration into the U.S.: some highlights
      • Legal and illegal immigration survey results
      • Immigration bill debate heats up in Washington; filibuster threatened
      • Washington Post columnist: "We don't need guest workers"
      • Meat processing: an industry engineered to hire immigrants
      • Non-white populations continue to penetrate more areas of the country
      • Bill Gates on H1B visas; Manhattan Institute on immigration reform
      • Does immigration depress wages of native Americans?
      • Stalemate for Immigration reform this year?
      • Smuggling of Chinese workers into the United States
      • Wall Street Journal article on employer use of illegal immigrants
      • Why Hispanic workers have higher work fatality rates
      • Study of Hispanic North Carolina Poultry Workers
      • The “Real ID” program to catch illegal immigrants: Stalled? Dead?
      • Sen. Specter Guest Worker bill to expand foreign worker programs for professionals
      • The working immigrant and social mobility in America
      • Immigration of medical doctors to the U.S.
      • Types of work done by illegal immigrants and other data from the Pew Hispanic Center
      • More than 70% of Congress supports a guest worker program
      • Study: Fatal occupational injuries among Asian workers
      • Employer obligations in Sen. Specter's guest worker bill
      • Farm workers labor contractor fraud
      • Data on immigrants (2000 - 2005)
      • Sen. Specter bill on illegal immigrants: some key provisions
      • The undocumented worker debate in Washington this week
      • Failure of existing guest worker programs as seen in FL figures
    • ► February (42)
      • The day laborer: characteristics of the individual
      • McCain Guest Worker bill S 1033: strong worker rights provisions
      • New study on economics of rural immigrant workers
      • Florida's improves work protections to migrant workers, progess report just out
      • Deaths at work: who dies, how
      • Line up of endorsers of McCain guest worker bill
      • H-2A visas - snapshot of wage and worker comp rules
      • Thai worker case in WA reveals turmoil in use of foreign workers
      • New York court in Balbuena case: worker gets full lost wages
      • WA Employer settles private RICO suit over use of illegal immigrants
      • 2004 Green card awardees: what work they do
      • Proposals to tighten worker documentation enforcement
      • Can illegal immigrants receive workers compensation benefits? MA said, “Yes”.
      • Illegal immigrants pay taxes, like we do
      • Immigrant worker injuries at day labor
      • SAFE: Socially Accountable Farm Employers in Florida
      • Number of undocumented workers by state and their workforce share
      • Wall Street Journal article on Brazilian immigrant cleaning business in MA
      • One out of eight new jobs to be filled by immigrants, 2002 - 2012
      • IRS gives taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN) to undocumented workers
      • How immigrants without bank accounts get by
      • Where immigrant workers live in the United States
      • What day laborers earn by hour, month, year
      • Demand for foreign nurses is intensifying
      • NY Times: U.S. officials defend fake OSHA sting
      • New York construction safety expert: safe practices hard to find in Brooklyn
      • Migrant Clinicians Network
      • Inconsistent quality of healthcare for work injured immigrant workers
      • Time Magazine poll on views about illegal immigration
      • H-1B visas and the engineering workforce shortage, per Chair of Intel
      • Access to medical care denied by ID requirements
      • High future demand for immigrant construction workers
      • Immigration officials to continue to impersonate OSHA safety trainers
      • Avian flu and immigrant workers in poultry plants
      • National Employment Law Project on wage abuses
      • serious worker injuries by ethnic group, job and diagnosis
      • Occupational fatalities of immigrants
      • TN's program for driver’s license and Real ID
      • Size of the illegal alien population (2000 - 2005)
      • Polarization of American labor market
      • Oakland garment workers and failure to file claims
      • New IL law to protect labor rights of day laborers
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      • Mexican Immigrants save Vermont milk industry
      • IL Governor supports Panel on Latino Work Safety
      • MA program on employer insurance fraud
      • Where undocumented immigrants live and work
      • Whom day laborers work for, what they do
      • How Mexicans in U.S. send money back to Mexico
      • Jennifer Gordon: Professor, Researcher, Activist, MacArthur Fellow
      • Employer insurance fraud inflicts damage on workers
      • undocumented worker vs. illegal alien
      • Florida construction injuries and Hispanics (2005)
      • Brazilian Immigrant Center (Boston, MA)
      • More on Nationwide survey of day labor hiring sites
      • Work injury risks in Oakland CA garment industry (2002)
      • North Carolina employer tries to keep a work fatality out of the workers comp system
      • The Erosion of Worker Safety (1/4/06)
      • Nationwide survey of day labor hiring sites
      • Workers compensation rights of undocumented workers (2006)

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