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The New 'Boat People': Ensuring Safety and Determining Status
This report examines the approaches to interception and rescue of “boat people,” and evaluates their distinct humanitarian needs as well as possible solutions to maritime migration.
Blurring the Lines: A Profile of State and Local Police Enforcement of Immigration Law Using NCIC Database
A first glimpse at use of federal records by local police raised critical questions about the blurring of lines between criminal law enforcement and civil immigration enforcement.
Legal Immigration to United States Up from Last Year
Legal immigration to the United States increased by one-third between fiscal years 2003 and 2004, even as refugee and temporary admissions largely rebounded to near pre-9/11 levels.
Leaving Too Much To Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy
Fifty experts convened to assess immigrant integration across education, employment, and civic life found too much left to chance and offered concrete policy fixes.
Immigration Enforcement Spending Since IRCA
U.S. immigration enforcement spending more than quadrupled between 1985 (the year before the Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed) and 2002, with 60 percent aimed at the border.
Documentation Provisions of the Real ID Act
The REAL ID Act's identity document mandates carry steep, disputed costs and raise unresolved legal, privacy, and humanitarian concerns.
An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come? The Case for Employment Verification
This brief argues the time is right to build a reliable, automated U.S. employment verification system that is mandatory for all employers.
Eligible to Work? Experiments in Verifying Work Authorization
The Basic Pilot employment verification program was promising but flawed, with compliance gaps. It can only achieve its goals if made mandatory, but reassessment is first needed.
U.S. Border Enforcement: From Horseback to High-Tech
This brief traces a century of U.S. border enforcement, from low-tech horse patrol to billion-dollar operations, and questions whether the massive investment has achieved its aims.
Immigration Enforcement at the Worksite: Making it Work
Systemic flaws exist in the U.S. employer sanctions regime, making critical reforms, including a real-time employment verification system, necessary.