On August 27, 2014, President Obama nominated Sarah Saldaña to serve as the new director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is the chief investigative and enforcement arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She currently serves as the U.S. Attorney...
Most of us have long heard about the immigrants who come from Mexico and Central America to plant and harvest California's farms - farms that produce almost half of all the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Migrant workers have toiled arduously,...
In case you missed it, earlier this summer, the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) released a briefing paper outlining The Increasing Importance of Immigrants to Science and Engineering in America, National Foundation for American Policy, Jun.2014.] The NFAP paper is a bracing reminder of...
Unless you've spent the last several weeks completely cut off from all forms of mass media, you've probably seen plenty of news coverage about the recent spike in unaccompanied minors crossing our southwestern border. It would be hard to miss, especially given the blaring, sensationalistic...
In June 2013, the Senate lobbed its comprehensive immigration bill squarely into the lower chamber of Congress, where it bounced several times before reaching a dead stop. And there it remains to this day. Most have concluded that immigration reform is, in the best-case scenario,...
Immigration reform has dropped from the Congressional agenda for the foreseeable future - at least until after the mid-term elections in November, and likely not until the new Congress is sworn in next January - but the need for immigration reform continues, unabated. That's the...
IndianAmericans have come a long way in a short time. According to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington D.C., the Indian diaspora is growing ever more robust in this country. MPI's fascinating demographic portrait shows...
The sudden surge of unaccompanied minors across our southwestern border caught nearly everyone by surprise, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP notes that although "overall border apprehensions have only slightly increased" in recent months, "and remain at historic lows," the number of children...
Our nation's immigration debate is stuck in a rhetorical time warp that has yet to catch up with present-day reality, according to Ben Casselman of FiveThirtyEight.com. Much of what we think we know about immigration is outdated, he argues: although immigration demographics have changed in...
House Speaker John Boehner recently ended speculation about whether his chamber would consider companion legislation to the comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill that was passed by the Senate over a year ago. The answer: a flat "no," kicking the can down the road until -...
