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Understanding DHS’ 2015 Deportation Numbers
This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its fiscal year (FY) 2015 deportation numbers. According to DHS, immigration enforcement agencies apprehended 406,595 individuals nationwide and conducted a total of 462,463 removals and returns. These totals include both people deported at the border and those removed from the interior of the United States. However, […]
Read MorePNAE Highlights from 2015
2015 was a busy year for PNAE! Immigration reform won’t be achieved with one argument or by one party. So we’ve been busy shining a light on how immigration affects every sector of our economy — from agriculture, to technology, to housing and manufacturing. Fixing this broken system will spur job creation and economic growth. […]
Read MoreTalking Turkey on Immigration 2015
Today, I have the pleasure of following in the footsteps of Mary Giovagnoli, who, during her five years at the American Immigration Council, entertained and enlightened us with her annual blog about how to survive and thrive when the topic turns to immigration at the Thanksgiving Day table. With good humor, she reminded us that […]
Read More2015 Immigration Polling Results
New American Economy and Burning Glass Consulting conducted polling in both early primary states and general election battleground states to assess the views of American voters on immigration. Focus groups were also conducted in Iowa and Ohio. See Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus Study questions and results here. See New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary Study questions […]
Read More2015 Immigration Polling Results
New American Economy and Burning Glass Consulting conducted polling in both early primary states and general election battleground states to assess the views of American voters on immigration. Focus groups were also conducted in Iowa and Ohio. See Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus Study questions and results here. See New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary Study questions […]
Read MoreCongress Pursuing Anti-Immigrant Agenda in 2015
Americans—77 percent, according to a recent Public Religion Research Institute poll—want Congress to take action on immigration reform. In the last Congress, comprehensive reform passed the Senate by two to one, and received 192 supporters in the House. Yet the new Congress in 2015 has turned the clock back. According to the Alliance for Citizenship, […]
Read MoreStatement on Introduction of the SKILLS Visa Act of 2015
CONTACT Sarah Doolin, Partnership for a New American Economy, [email protected] “This year, the United States will turn away almost 150,000 highly-skilled immigrants who are needed to fill job openings in our economy,” said John Feinblatt, Chairman of New American Economy. “The SKILLS Visa Act is a good first step to addressing this problem. We […]
Read More2015 Guide: Moving Forward on Immigration: How the U.S. Employment-Based Immigration System Works – and How It Can Work Better
The Council for Global Immigration (CFGI) and the Society for Human Resource Management have complied a comprehensive guide, “Moving Forward on Immigration: How the U.S. Employment-Based Immigration System Works – and How It Can Work Better” that lays out the elements of the current, outdated system and puts forward solutions supported by U.S. employers to modernize it. […]
Read MoreA Guide to H.R. 15: The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
On October 2, 2013, Democrats in the House of Representatives proposed an immigration reform bill addressing border security, legalization of the undocumented, interior enforcement of immigration laws, and fixes for our dysfunctional legal immigration programs. The bill is based on S.744, the bipartisan bill passed by the Senate by a vote of 68-32 on June 27, 2013. However, the bill removes the Corker-Hoeven border security amendment and replaces it with the bipartisan House border security bill, H.R. 1417, which was passed unanimously by the Homeland Security Committee in May 2013.
Read MoreObama’s 2015 Budget Adopts Contradictory Stance on Immigration
The Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal is of two minds about how to deal with the broken U.S. immigration system. On the one hand, the document calls for the creation of “a pathway to earned citizenship for hardworking men and women” who are in the United States without legal status. On the other […]
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