Immigration + Research Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 18, 2009
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies announces the publication of the first fieldwork-based study of the impacts of the U.S. economic crisis on Mexican migration to the United States
November 7, 2009
George Mason University Study Shows Deep Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Pockets of Prince William County
November 6, 2009
THE LEGALIZATION SOLUTION – IPC Reports Highlight Gains Made From Legalization Programs Past and Explore Future Legalization Proposals
November 5, 2009
Mixed impressions inside the poll numbers – Texans on immigration
October 28, 2009
American Rights at Work – Immigration Study Finds Enforcement Has Undermined Workers’ Rights
October 9, 2009
Manhattan Institute Report: Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States – How has the recession impacted immigrants and where they choose to live? Do immigrants learn English more quickly now than one hundred years ago? What impact have hurdles on the path to citizenship had on naturalization rates?
October 7, 2009
Migrants Give More than They Take, Says U.N. – Often vilified and mistreated, migrant workers benefit both the countries they move to and the ones they leave behind, says the latest Human Development Report released Monday.
September 28, 2009
Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2009 Edition
September 24, 2009
Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S. – one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could – new Pew Research report
September 17, 2009
New Study Finds Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws Led to Racial Profiling – UC Berkeley
September 8, 2009
Migration Slowing as Recession Bites – Report from Migration Policy Institute
August 24, 2009
Study: Immigration judge as stressed out as emergency room doctors, prison wardens
August 17, 2009
New Cato Report Highlights Economic Benefits of Legalizing Immigrants – Reform that Includes Legalization Would Yield a Net Benefit of $180 Billion Over 10 Years, While Enforcement Efforts Alone Would Incur $80 Billion in Losses
August 12, 2009
Immigrants Are ‘Greening’ our Cities, How About Giving them a Break?
August 10, 2009
Americans Return to Tougher Immigration Stance – More want immigration decreased than kept the same or increased
July 22, 2009
Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?
June 16, 2009
In a new report, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)—an anti-immigrant hate group – Takes Aim at Virginia’s Immigrants and Children
January 26, 2009
Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States.
January 16, 2009
Hispanics and the New Administration – Immigration Slips as a Top Priority – Pew Hispanic Report
January 2, 2009
Vatican view of Hispanic immigration to U.S. – Prepared by FIDES, the Vatican information service, the historical and economic origins of Latino immigration and the U.S. response are summarized. The position of the Catholic bishops in the U.S. is also reviewed.
December 10, 2008
Immigrant Political Incorporation in the United States
December 2, 2008
Search for Work and Workers at Heart of Migration in This Century, Says IOM’s World Migration Report 2008
November 17, 2008
Children caught trying to slip illegally into the U.S. are mistreated while in custody, transported home unsafely and denied access to representation, a study released Thursday contends. The Austin-based think tank Center for Public Policy Priorities outlined a series of what they said were shortcomings by the federal government in dealing with unaccompanied illegal immigrant children taken into custody.
October 20, 2008
Immigrants contribute $10.6 billion a year to Long Island’s economy by increasing productivity, generating new business and paying taxes, according to a study to be released Monday by Adelphi University’s Center for Social Innovation.
October 15, 2008
Immigrants integral to Nebraska state economy, UNO study finds – If immigrants vanished and weren’t replaced in three of its key industries, Nebraska would lose 78,000 jobs, including some filled by U.S.-born workers. Production throughout the state would drop nearly 9 percent, or by $13.5 billion.
October 2, 2008
Flow of illegal immigrants slows, Pew Center finds
September 18, 2008
More than four-in-five Hispanics (81%) say that immigration enforcement should be left mainly to the federal authorities rather than the local police; 76% disapprove of workplace raids; 73% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of undocumented immigrants who are working without authorization; and 70% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of employers who hire undocumented immigrants. A narrow majority (53%) disapproves of a requirement that employers check a federal database to verify the legal immigration status of all prospective hires.
September 5, 2008
Guest Voz: Academic researchers discover the lack of comprehensive immigration reform increases disparities and limits future progress of Latinos nationwide – Dr. María del Carmen Salazar of the University of Denver
August 6, 2008
Experts Slam Report by Anti-Immigration “Think-Tank” Claiming Undocumented Migrants Leaving Due to Raids – CIS known for twisting the facts to fit its agenda.
August 4, 2008
A recent report (CIS) that suggests the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. has declined because of immigration law enforcement ignores some critical factors, says Walter A. Ewing, Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation’s leading immigrant rights advocates.
August 1, 2008
Comment (about the widedly covered CIS report) by Wayne A. Cornelius, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD – (Very good read)
Study finds 11% drop in illegal immigrants – Conservatives hail the report as proof Bush’s controversial policy of enforcement via workplace raids is working.
July 30, 2008
Attrition Through Recession: New Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Report Suggests Spend More, Say Nothing, and Hope for a Recession
July 17, 2008
New Report from Migration Policy Institute – Hometown Associations: An untapped resource for immigrant integration?
May 29, 2008
Concerns about immigration affect attitudes about public spending, University of California – Riverside study finds
May 27, 2008
State Aid to Immigrants Lags, University of Oregon Study Says
May 22, 2008
Fear and Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News
May 21, 2008
“New Center to Study Immigrant Integration” – Mayor Villaraigosa attends a conference featuring the announcement by USC College and the School of Policy, Planning and Develop
Immigration economics: six from six – (the problem with statistics/numbers and the conclusions based on them when they are as ’squishy’ as those concerning the number of illegal immigrants within the US :: aka Nobody knows how many exactly there are!)
May 20, 2008
Study: Loss of illegal immigrants would cripple economy
May 13, 2008
Immigrants assimilate quicker today, study shows – (same Manhattan Institute study cited but quite a different headline)
April 30, 2008
Annual study finds Houstonians’ attitudes sour toward immigration
April 14, 2008
Did You Know? About two-thirds of immigrants in the Rockies are Hispanic, but more than 60% of Hispanics in the region are not immigrants. There is not a single state in the Rockies in which the immigrant Hispanic population outnumbers the native Hispanic population.
April 7, 2008
Research looks at costs, resources for educating immigrants in Carolinas
April 1, 2008
New Synovate Study Shows Hispanic Voters Have Views Similar to Whites, Blacks and Asians in the US – Except on Immigration and the War in Iraq
January 30, 2008
Group Links Gang Activity in Virginia to Illegal Immigrants – (the biased think tank, The Center for Immigration Studies, is at is again)
January 28, 2008
THINKING AHEAD ABOUT OUR IMMIGRANT FUTURE: New Trends and Mutual Benefits in Our Aging Society
New Immigration Analysis Uncovers Startling Trends: Immigration Leveling Off and Aging U.S. Workforce Needs Immigrants (Latina Lista)
January 10, 2008
The ChamberPost: Economic Impact of Immigration – (Arizona studies)
December 13, 2007
Extending In-State Tuition to Undocumented Immigrants – North Carolina (policy analysis/research)
December 11, 2007
More Central American women immigrating to US
Immigration poll finds ‘fault line’ in support for children versus adults – Wisconsin
December 9, 2007
US Commerce Dept. Funds Labor & Immigration Study
December 5, 2007
1 in 3 would deny illegal immigrants social services – 60% — favors allowing illegal immigrants who have not committed crimes to become citizens if they pay fines, learn English and meet other requirements.
November 30, 2007
Two Independent Studies Arrive at Same Conclusion: Illegal Immigrants are Wrongly Accused of Taxing U.S. Healthcare System (Latina Lista)
November 28, 2007
Arizonans generally support the concept of local police officers enforcing federal immigration laws, but their support is fractured deeply along political and racial lines.
November 26, 2007
Immigrants Create Almost a Quarter of New York State Economic Output ($229 billion) – Fiscal Policy Institute Report: Immigrants in New York State
November 13, 2007
Study to Determine Economic Impact of Immigrants – Nebraska
November 5, 2007
Facts show immigrants don’t deserve crime blame
October 31, 2007
Study: Kids of immigration raid arrestees face mental problems
October 26, 2007
Report says illegal workers not so hard on Iowa economy
October 14, 2007
Groups at odds over number of illegal immigrants in U.S.
October 10, 2007
NEW JERSEY IMMIGRATION ATTITUDES STABLE – Poll finds little change after Newark shooting
Report criticizes Hazleton immigrant crackdown
September 26, 2007
Immigrant cost study officially received by county board – San Diego – $101.5 million in 2006-07 fiscal year
Americas Majority Foundation Releases New Study: Border Wars: The Impact of Immigration on the Latino Vote
September 24, 2007
Children of immigrants form ethnic identity at early age
September 9, 2007
Report estimates San Diego county’s illegal immigrant cost at $256 million in 2006 (the study “must be viewed with a certain amount of caution” because its estimates were based on anecdotal evidence.)
August 13, 2007
DPS tracked troopers encounters with illegal immigrants – Dallas
July 30, 2007
New Jersey Poll Shows Mixed Feelings on Immigration
July 26, 2007
Most day laborers are illegal immigrants with little formal education, report says
July 12, 2007
Migrantless Arizona economic output would drop 8.2%
June 13, 2007
Esperanza to Release Today Results of Hispanic Immigrant Homeownership Study
June 12, 2007
U of M professor to bike 8,500 miles across North America to study attitudes and perceptions of modern immigration
U.S. Would Give Second Chance to Immigrants
May 26, 2007
Americans Oppose Recent Immigration Bill
May 21, 2007
Immigration Proposals Split Views in U.S.
May 10, 2007
Latin migration studied
April 25, 2007
Americans Assess Illegal Immigration: Angus Reid Global Monitor
April 19, 2007
78% in poll call for giving illegal immigrants path to citizenship
April 5, 2007
Immigrants fill void as Americans leave cities
Study: Half of immigrant population in Arkansas undocumented, fuel economy
April 4, 2007
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation has released a new publication “A PROFILE OF IMMIGRANTS IN ARKANSAS”
March 21, 2007
Two University of Florida professors receive $450,000 grant to study Atlanta immigration
March 13, 2007
Undocumented Immigrants Childbirth Is Top Emergency Medicaid Expense
March 9, 2007
U.S. Wants Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants (according to newe poll)
February 28, 2007
Immigrant Influx Raises Wages of Native Workers in California
February 16, 2007
Immigration Policy Brief – A Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: New Estimates of Deaths Among Unauthorized Immigrants
December 6, 2006
Immigrants’ health assessed in Rand study
Lack of U.S. immigration reform forcing states to act, study says
Nebraska: One of Immigration’s New Frontiers; New Report Looks at Challenges and Community Responses Toward Immigrant Population
1 in 7 Mexican workers employed in the U.S.
November 16, 2006
Latina Lista: Four Myths About Undocumented Immigrants are Dispelled in New University Study
Study shows immigrants’ tough transition – South Carolina
