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Do the President’s New Immigration Policies Really Mark the End of Secure Communities?
The misnamed Secure Communities program has been plagued with problems since its inception—most fundamentally, its failure to make communities more “secure.” Critics of the program have cited to its adverse impact on community policing, asserted that it encourages racial profiling, and highlighted the mounting evidence that many individuals encountered and subsequently removed through the program […]
Read MoreLegal Challenges to Immigration Executive Action: Long on Politics, Short on Law
Within hours of President Obama’s November announcement of his executive actions on immigration, collectively referred to as the Immigration Accountability Executive Action, lawsuits challenging these new policies began. The lawsuits appear to be politicized attempts to use the courts to challenge President Obama’s authority to defer deportations, even though widespread agreement exists that the president’s […]
Read MoreHow Immigration Executive Action Opens Doors for Foreign Entrepreneurs
Much of the attention on President Obama’s executive action on immigration has focused on his use of prosecutorial discretion to defer deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants, including certain parents of U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents. But as part of the November announcement, President Obama also signed a memorandum to explore ways to upgrade […]
Read MoreHispanic Voters Think Opposing Immigration is Disqualifier, Poll Says
Poll confirms findings of GOP “autopsy” on 2012 election Immigration reform is a threshold issue for most Hispanic voters, a new poll out Thursday finds, putting the Republican Party at a disadvantage heading into 2016. The poll conducted by Democratic and Republican pollsters for the Michael Bloomberg-backed immigration reform group Partnership for a New American […]
Read MoreCommittee Fails to Question Legality of President’s Immigration Executive Action
The House Judiciary Committee held a held a hearing Tuesday on President Obama’s recent Immigration Accountability Executive Action, focusing on the administration’s executive action that defers deportation for the parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. Known as the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) program, this portion of executive action has provoked the […]
Read MoreLaw Professors Affirm Obama’s Immigration Action Within Legal Authority
Today, more than a hundred legal scholars released a letter after reviewing the President Obama’s announced executive actions on immigration, that confirms that his plan for immigration action is “within the legal authority of the executive branch” of the United States. The letter, spearheaded by Hiroshi Motomura of University of California, Los Angeles, School of […]
Read MoreObama Immigration Order to Impact Millions, Includes Provisions for High-Skilled Workers
Nov. 21 — President Barack Obama Nov. 20 unveiled a large-scale immigration plan that includes several measures designed to keep highly skilled immigrant workers in the U.S. as well as deportation protection for an estimated 5 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. “Today our immigration system is broken and everybody knows […]
Read MoreWhy Fewer Detainers Does Not Equal Fewer Deportations
Throughout the last two years, states and counties increasingly have stopped honoring ICE detainer requests. This huge shift is in response to local political opposition as well as legal and liability concerns spurred by federal court rulings. Recent data shows that ICE also may be modifying its detainer practices. Yet even while ICE detainers drop, […]
Read MoreResearch Shows U.S. Electorate Could Gain as Many as 25.6 Million New Hispanic and Asian Voters by 2020
CONTACT Ryan Williams, New American Economy, [email protected] U.S. has 13.2 million unregistered Hispanic and Asian eligible voters New York, NY — New American Economy today released new data showing how an increasing number of Hispanic and Asian voters could shift the electorate in 18 key states across the country. Three concurrent forces could create up to […]
Read MoreThe Changing Face of the Nation
New American Economy’s new research brief, “The Changing Face of the Nation: How Hispanic and Asian Voters Could Reshape the Electorate in Key States,” shows how an increasing number of Hispanic and Asian voters could shift the electorate in 18 key states across the country by 2020. Key findings include: There are currently more than 13.2 million unregistered Hispanic and Asian eligible […]
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