A new study by the San Francisco Fed, highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Reuters, provides state-level proof that immigrants, well, make us richer. According to the author of the report: otal immigration to the United States from 1990 to 2007 was associated with a 6.6% to...
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Aug 27, 2010
The U.S. birth rate has hit a record low, falling for the second year since its peak in 2007, according to the National Bureau of Health Statistics. Demographers mostly blame the economy for the drop, as recession-hit families have been more cautious about having children and fewer immigrants have...
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Aug 25, 2010
Latino voters made a difference in yesterday's Arizona and Florida primaries, advocates for comprehensive immigration told reporters today.
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Aug 15, 2010
Solid majorities of the public and overwhelming majorities of DC elites want some kind of comprehensive immigration legislation passed now.
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Aug 13, 2010
This isn't inaction, it's bad action. President Obama has continued many of the worst enforcement policies of President Bush. Both the Obama Administration and congressional Democrats have fallen prey to the border-first mantra of the GOP. In an election year where swing voters are looking for solutions and Latino...
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Aug 12, 2010
It was stunning to see a senior senator declare, "I'm not sure exactly what the drafters of the 14th Amendment had in mind, but I doubt it was that somebody could fly in from Brazil and have a child and fly back home with that child, and that child...
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Three recent polls of Latino voters show how the current immigration debate—including the national attention to Arizona's anti-immigrant law—has dramatically influenced Latino voters' view of political candidates, as well as their propensity to vote in November.
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The latest flap over "birthright citizenship" has exposed a new low for Republican politicians hell-bent on politicizing the immigration debate and obstructing action on comprehensive immigration reform. Apparently, GOP politicians would rather change the Constitution than just do their job and fix the broken immigration laws--a sad commentary...
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Today, leading Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) unveiled a plan to spend an additional $600 million on border security. This follows months of Republican complaints that the President is "doing next to nothing to secure the border," despite the cold hard fact that spending...
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Scheduled to take effect only last week, enforcement of Arizona's new anti-immigration law was largely enjoined by a federal judge in Phoenix. The court order will have a number of effects, both expected and unexpected.
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