Congress may not have intended it, but this was hardly unforeseeable: immigration policy has been swept up in the federal budget impasse.The sequester - those massive across-the-board budget cuts that took effect earlier this month - was never supposed to happen. Congress designed this as...
The renewed push for comprehensive immigration reform has called attention to the sorry state of our STEM visa policy, which makes it harder than it should be for the United States to attract and retain the best and brightest scientists, doctors, programmers, and engineers from...
It's often said that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions. Given the political machinations surrounding immigration reform, some observers might be tempted to add a corollary: that even the best-intended legislation is no match for misinformed or deliberately tendentious debate.According to journalist...
Though much of the immigration debate has centered on issues like STEM visa reform and what to do about 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living here, legal immigration of low-skilled workers remains a significant concern for businesses, organized labor, and many politicians on Capitol Hill....
It bodes well for the future of immigration reform that the Wall Street Journal is talking up the potential profits to be made, both for individual investors and the economy as a whole, if and when immigration reform finally becomes law. (One hopes this is...
When the last major effort for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) collapsed, back during the second term of President George W. Bush, many assumed piecemeal legislation was the only way any immigration reforms would get through Congress. Perhaps, the thinking went, we could at least agree...
In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal recently reported on some fascinating economic research that - once again - underscores immigration's value as an engine for growth. [See America Needs Immigration for Economic Growth, by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Wall Street Journal Market Watch, 08.Feb.2013.]...
Perhaps the hardest question facing Congress, as it wades into the turbulent waters of immigration reform, is what to do about the 11 million undocumented immigrants who entered or remained in the United States without legal authorization. The scale of the problem is daunting, and...
Immigration researcher and entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa, was among the experts called to testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform, held on February 5th. His message to Congress was clear: fix STEM immigration now, or face the economic fallout when our knowledge-based economy...
A recent dispatch from Bloomberg Businessweek puts us in mind of the old line about Nero fiddling while Rome burned. For the past several years, the U.S. Congress has batted around various schemes that - it was hoped - would attract more immigrant entrepreneurs to...
