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Immigrant Workers Enhance and Expand the U.S. Economy

Over the years, more and more economists have come to the conclusion that immigrant workers “complement” the native-born majority of the labor force by bringing different sets of skills and different demographic profiles with them, both of which enhance and expand the economy as a whole.

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Value Added: Immigrants Create Jobs and Businesses, Boost Wages of Native-Born Workers

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January 1, 2012
Immigrants are not the cause of unemployment in the United States. Empirical research has demonstrated repeatedly that there is no correlation between immigration and unemployment. In fact,...
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Rebooting the American Dream: The Role of Immigration in a 21st Century Economy

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November 8, 2011
There is plenty of evidence that immigration helps to fuel the U.S. economy, just as it has...
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Fiscally Irresponsible: Immigration Enforcement without Reform Wastes Taxpayer Dollars

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October 19, 2011
Many political pundits, GOP presidential aspirants, and Members of Congress want to have it both ways when it comes to federal spending on immigration. On the one hand, there is much talk about the...
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses…But Don’t Let Them Work?

September 21, 2011

Every year, thousands of people flee persecution in their home countries and seek safe haven in the United States. Many of them spend their entire savings on the journey, travel under life-...

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House Subcommittee Continues Assault on All Forms of Immigration

April 5, 2011

Washington D.C. - Opponents of immigration reform are often quick to differentiate their disdain for unauthorized immigration from their alleged support of legal immigration.

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The Racial Blame Game

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March 1, 2011
Immigrants Are Not the Cause of High Unemployment and Low Wages Among Minority Workers Some observers have suggested that immigrants are to blame for the high unemployment rates and low wages...
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Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Force

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August 4, 2010
New CBO Report Underscores Diverse Contributions of Foreign-Born Workers A recent report from the...
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Not In Competition: Immigrants and Native-Born Workers

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June 10, 2010
High levels of unemployment have led some to propagate the myth that every immigrant added to the U.S. labor force amounts to a job lost by a native-born worker, or that every job loss for a native-...
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How Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and Business

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March 2, 2010
Expanding mandatory E-Verify would threaten the jobs of thousands of U.S. citizens and saddle U.S. businesses with additional costs—all at a time when we need to stimulate our economy. Expanding E-...
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Report Provides Solutions to Broken Asylum Employment Authorization Clock

February 12, 2010

Asylum applicants and their attorneys have long struggled to better understand how the employment authorization asylum clock (“EAD asylum clock”) functions. The clock, which measures the number of...

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