Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the ... 15 Jul 2010, 2:42 pm

Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2009 Edition By Amy Traub, with assistance from Afton Branche & Amy Taylor TALKING POINTS o Read Talking Points on Immigrants and The Middle Class o Read Talking Points on Immigration Policy FACT SHEETS o Read Fact Sheet: Immigrants' Economic Contributions o Read Fact Sheet: The Exploitation of Undocumented Workers EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As Congress again prepares to debate comprehensive immigration reform before the end of 2009, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy releases “Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2009 Edition,” building on our earlier immigration research.

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Raising the Floor for American Workers | Immigration Policy Center 30 Jun 2010, 6:46 pm

According to the report, legalizing undocumented workers through comprehensive immigration reform would yield $1.5 trillion to the U.S. GDP over a ten year period, generate billions in additional tax revenue and consumer spending and support hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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Not In Competition | Immigration Policy Center 30 Jun 2010, 6:41 pm

As data from the 2009 Current Population Survey illustrates, most immigrant and native-born workers are not competing with each other in today’s tight job markets.

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Immigrant Women in the United States: A Portrait of Demographic Diversity 30 Jun 2010, 6:39 pm

The 18.9 million immigrant women and girls in the United States in 2008 present a portrait of demographic diversity on many fronts. An analysis of Census Bureau data reveals that immigrant women are not easily categorized or stereotyped—and that many common myths about immigrants are shattered when we look carefully at the demographic diversity of these women.

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Principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform — Center for Community Change 30 Jun 2010, 3:15 pm

An alliance of our country's leading immigrant rights coalitions calls upon Congress and the President to enact humane and comprehensive immigration reform legislation that makes sense for America and it's newcomers.

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Does Immigration Cost Jobs? | FactCheck.org 30 Jun 2010, 3:12 pm

Economists say immigration, legal or illegal, doesn't hurt American workers.

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Immigration Could Be Responsible for Dropping Crime Rates 30 Jun 2010, 3:11 pm

Tim Wadsworth, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, studied U.S. cities with more than 50,000 people, collecting statistics on murder and robberies from the FBI and demographic data from the Census between 1990 and 2000. His conclusion defies a common perception that an influx of immigrants can increase social problems, including crime.

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Immigration: No Correlation With Crime - TIME 30 Jun 2010, 3:08 pm

Research recently released shows that immigrants in California are, in fact, far less likely than U.S.-born Californians are to commit crime.

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Video: Immigration Reform by the Numbers 29 Jun 2010, 5:50 pm

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The Costs of Mass Deportation 29 Jun 2010, 5:46 pm

This paper demonstrates in detail the severe consequences of a deportation-only policy on the nation’s economy and how the execution of such a policy would require massive direct expenditures.

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Fact Sheet: Setting the Record Straight on Border Crime 29 Jun 2010, 5:13 pm

With all the hype around a purported crime epidemic caused by undocumented immigrants, it’s ironic that newly released statistics from Arizona’s Department of Public Safety and the FBI show that violent crime rates in the state and along the southwest border region have been declining.

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Immigration Myths and Cable News 23 Jun 2010, 9:00 pm

From Media Matters

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10 Harmful Misconceptions about Immigration 21 Jun 2010, 9:25 pm

In “10 Harmful Misconceptions About Immigration” we try to set the record straight about a number of immigration issues badly mangled through current discourse that often seems shaped to appeal to one particular voting block or another.

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Top 10 Immigration Myths and Facts 21 Jun 2010, 9:23 pm

Compiled by the National Immigration Forum

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