In recent months, immigration demographers have noticed that many foreign-born graduates of American universities, especially in the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, are going back home to seek their fortunes. This is in part because we make it hard to stay...
The debate rages on: is any meaningful progress possible on immigration reform before the 2012 elections? Immigration reform advocates might be tempted to see a light at the end of the tunnel - a faint light, admittedly, but better than nothing. In recent months, President...
Congressional opponents of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) often take the tack that they don’t oppose CIR per se, but cannot support it until some time in the (distant, utopian) future, when the U.S.-Mexican border is completely sealed, and illegal immigration is no longer a problem....
Earlier this month, we discussed a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), that found a substantial majority of the top science and math students in American high schools are children of immigrants. (See Study: Immigrant Children Boost U.S. Science Achievement, MurthyBlog,...
Frustration with the state of the U.S. immigration system is endemic; restrictionists rail against any proposal that smacks of amnesty for illegal immigrants, and decry what they view as an overly-permissive system - one that is "soft" on illegal immigration, while immigrant rights groups argue...
The U.S. government is working hard to clear the backlog of pending cases currently clogging our immigration courts, hiring 44 new Immigration Judges in the past 12 months, but this apparently is not enough. Their efforts are laudable, but nonetheless have failed to reduce the...
There is mounting concern about what some observers call the "reverse brain drain" - the emerging trend among foreign science and technology students to leave the United States after they complete their high-level training, rather than trying to find a way to stay here and...
It has been a problem for years: scam artists cheating immigrants out of their hard-earned savings, promising to help them with complicated immigration paperwork, only to make off with their money and leave them without a legal leg to stand on. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
Based on the amount of air time, blog space, and old-fashioned printer's ink spent on illegal immigration, one might forgive the media-saturated public for thinking that most immigrants are here illegally, working in low-skill, low-wage jobs like fruit and vegetable picking, meat packing, landscaping, and...
Everyone has to eat, and somebody has to pick the fruits and vegetables that wind up on our tables each day - just who picks it is very much on the minds of farmers and government officials who need to resolve an ongoing problem: the...
