legalization

A new report prepared for the Immigration Policy Center finds that illegal immigrants who gained legal status in the 1980s via the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) went on to earn substantial gains in their socioeconomic status. The report suggests that, contrary to the idea that legalizing immigrants will increase competition for scarce jobs [...]

A new study from the libertarian CATO Institute concludes that legalizing the more than eight million undocumented workers in the United States would have significant economic benefits for the country, while simply enhancing border enforcement and applying restrictive immigration laws would actually hurt the U.S. economically.

At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing this morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano carefully skirted repeated questions about her views of whether longtime undocumented immigrants living in the United States ought to get a chance at legalization.
Although Napolitano did say she supports the DREAM Act — which would provide some children of undocumented immigrants [...]

In a recession, can President Obama make the case for immigration?

Norman Stamper, the retired Seattle police chief and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com) shakes his finger at President Obama for laughing at the question of whether he’d support legalizing marijuana, one of the top questions asked at the president’s online town hall forum last week.
It’s “no laughing matter,” Stamper writes on The Huffington [...]

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a research organization that favors restricting immigration, released a report Wednesday analyzing a set of immigration raids at six Swift meatpacking plants conducted in December 2006 in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas and Utah. The raids led to the arrest of about 1,300 workers on immigration charges.
Although CIS advocates [...]