Sep 23, 2010
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell had the guts to say it like it is on national television. In straightforward terms, Powell had the audacity to declare that illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S.
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Sep 22, 2010
Stephen Colbert, political satirist and coiner of the word "truthiness," will testify Friday at a House hearing on an agricultural jobs bill, a spokesman for the panel said Wednesday afternoon.
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In 1909, at the height of the last great immigration wave, when immigrants reached a peak of almost 15 percent of the U.S. population, they made up about half of all public welfare recipients.
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Sep 3, 2010
A new study about the effects of immigration on U.S. employment supports the long-standing arguments of immigration advocates: Rather than displacing American workers, immigrant labor actually makes our economy stronger. Kevin Drum has the details at Mother Jones.
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The contributions by unauthorized immigrants to Social Security -- essentially, to the retirement income of everyday Americans -- are much larger than previously known, raising questions about the efforts in many states and among Republicans in Congress to force these workers out.
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Defending the state against lawsuits related to Senate Bill 1070 has cost more than $440,000 to date, and outstanding bills could easily add up to an excess of $1 million or more.
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The U.S. risks a slow economy, fraud and a disenfranchised underclass, among other problems, if it renounces birthright citizenship. Countries that have done so have had to reconsider.
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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 30, 2010
The San Francisco Fed is wading into the contentious debate over whether immigrants help or hurt employment for American citizens, in a paper that asserts new entrants to the nation help make almost everybody wealthier.
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Aug 17, 2010
Implementing proposed immigration legislation modeled after Arizona's controversial law could cost Utah millions of dollars, according to a state senator, who is working on an alternate plan.
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