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The immigrant paradox in the United States is an observation that recent immigrants often outperform more established immigrants and non-immigrants on a number of health-, education-, and conduct- or crime-related outcomes, despite the numerous barriers they face to successful social integration.
The NRC report found that although immigrants, especially those from Latin America, caused a net loss in terms of taxes paid versus social services received, immigration can provide an overall gain to the domestic economy due to an increase in pay for higher-skilled workers, lower prices for goods and services produced by immigrant labor, and ...
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986. The Immigration Reform and Control Act legalized most undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the country prior to January 1, 1984.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) says that “you cannot understand America without all the people who came here,” which is why he is aiming to highlight the immigrants who have made the U.S ...
The number caught my attention the moment I saw it. In a recent Pew Research Center report about the situation at the US-Mexico border, 57% of Americans say the large number of migrants seeking to ...
[68] [69] Hispanic immigrants suffered job losses during the late-2000s recession, [70] but since the recession's end in June 2009, immigrants posted a net gain of 656,000 jobs. [71] Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010, [72] and over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008.
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019). The major scholarly history; excerpt; also see online review; Lee, Erika. At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (2003). Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard UP ...
Former Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. is calling for reform of the H-1B visa program to better effectuate its policy goals, while also urging broader immigration policy reform to enhance the ...