6th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
In a major address at the 6th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference sponsored by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center, Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer outlined the seven principles he said will form the basis for the immigration legislation he intends to introduce by this fall. The conference, also addressed by Homeland Security Assistant Secretary John Morton and other top immigration experts in and out of government, included sessions on “Bringing Immigration Policymaking into the 21st Century,” “Prospects for Immigration Reform: What to Expect from Washington?” “ Discussion on the Economic Recession and its Impact on Immigration,” “ Communities Laying the Groundwork for Immigration Reform and Beyond,” and “Immigrant Integration: A Full Federal Policy Agenda.”
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Moving Toward More Effective Immigration Detention Management
Testimony of Donald Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs, before the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism at its hearing: "Moving Toward More Effective Immigration Detention Management."
December 10, 2009
Prospects for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Testimony of Doris Meissner, Director of MPI's US Immigration Policy Program, before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship, at its hearing: "Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?"
April 30, 2009.
Examining 287(g): The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement in Immigration Law
Testimony of Muzaffar Chishti, Director of MPI's Office at New York University Law School, before the House Homeland Security Committee.
March 4, 2009
Weaknesses
in the Visa Waiver Program
Testimony of Susan Ginsburg, Director of MPI's Mobility and Security Program,
before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and
Homeland Security.
Feb. 28, 2008
Examining Point Systems as a Method for Selecting Immigrants
Testimony of MPI President Demetrios G. Papademetriou before
the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration,
Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International
Law.
May 1, 2007
New Concepts in Regularization: Earned Legalization
As Congress considers legislative proposals that include earned legalization programs for unauthorized immigrants, Demetrios Papademetriou provides insight into considerations for setting up such a system.
(Additional resource for May 1, 2007 testimony)
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| Foreign-Born Veterans of the US Armed Forces
By Iris Ho and Aaron Terrazas
Fact Sheet No. 22, October 2008
As the United States prepares to commemorate Veterans Day, an MPI analysis finds there were about 645,000 foreign-born veterans of the US armed forces in 2007, representing nearly 3 percent of all surviving US veterans. The Fact Sheet, using data from the US Census Bureau's 2007 American Community Survey, provides a demographic portrait of the foreign-born veterans' countries of origin, states of residence, and periods of service.
Fact Sheet | Press Release
The Redesigned Citizenship Test: High Stakes
By Laureen Laglagaron and Bhavna Devani
MPI Backgrounder No. 6, September 2008
More than a decade in the making, the redesigned citizenship test required for use after October 1, 2008 is supposed to provide a more meaningful opportunity for applicants to demonstrate knowledge about US history and civics, and allow the government more standardized test administration. This MPI Backgrounder details the redesign process, examines whether the government met its goals, and provides policy recommendations.
Backgrounder | Press Release
Behind the
Naturalization Backlog
By Claire Bergeron and Jeremy Banks
Fact Sheet No. 21, February 2008
The processing time for naturalization applications has risen
dramatically since mid-2007, to an 18-month average, as the
federal government has struggled to cope with a surge in applications
driven in part by a substantial fee increase. More than 460,000
people filed naturalization applications in July 2007 right
before the fee hike took effect — fully one-third of
the nearly 1.4 million applications that were filed during
the entire fiscal year.
Europe’s
Disappearing Internal Borders
By Hiroyuki Tanaka and Trinidad Macias
Fact Sheet No. 20, December 2007
The Schengen Area allows European Union citizens and third-country
nationals in 15 Schengen Member States to, in almost all
cases, travel freely to another Schengen Member State. On
December 21, 2007, the Schengen Area enlarged to include
nine of the 10 countries that entered the European Union
in 2004.
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| Side-by-Side Comparison of 2009 House CIR ASAP Bill with 2006, 2007 Senate Legislation
MPI analysis, title by title, of the major provisions in the 2009 Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act introduced in the House and comparison with legislation considered by the Senate in 2006 and 2007.
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Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?
By Randy Capps, Marc R. Rosenblum, and Michael Fix
Health care reform proposals under consideration in Congress that would exclude many legal immigrants from core benefits and impose new verification requirements would have important spillover consequences for taxpayers and other health care consumers. In a new report, MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy offers the first-ever estimates of the size of uninsured immigrant populations in major immigrant-destination states, the number of immigrant workers covered by employer-provided plans, and the share of immigrants employed by small firms likely to be exempted from employer coverage mandates. The report, based on MPI analysis of Census Bureau data, also examines health coverage for immigrants by legal status, age, and poverty levels.
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State Responses to Immigration: A Database of All State Legislation
The State Responses database is a unique, searchable online tool that catalogues all 1,059 immigration-related bills introduced in state legislatures in 2007, and allows users to search legislation by state, geographic region, subject area, bill status, and legislative typology. The database includes a synopsis of each bill and is accompanied by a report, Regulating Immigration at the State Level: Highlights from the Database of 2007 State Immigration Legislation and the
Methodology.
Report | Press Release
New Data Guide On Finding, Using the Most Accurate, Recent Immigration Data Resources 
The Immigration: Data Matters guide shows where to locate some of the most credible, up-to-date US and global immigration-related data compiled by government and non-governmental sources. The online guide, also available in hard copy, includes clickable links to resources that offer immigrant population estimates; the size of the unauthorized immigrant population; English proficiency rates; the share of immigrants in the workforce; education, health, and income and poverty statistics relating to immigrants; and other data.
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Role
of Foreign-born Voters in Elections
MPI election profiles for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, examining
voter registration by nativity, providing breakdowns for foreign-born citizens
as a share of total state population, and detailing their turnout in the 2004
general election, and by ethnicity.
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MPI
POLICY BEAT
Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron examine the debate and issues surrounding the May 2008 raid of an Iowa meat packing plant by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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