American Immigrant Policy Portal Update, May 2021

American Immigrant Policy Portal

Newsletter

May, 2021

Research to Inform Policy, Practice, and Advocacy on

Migration-Related Issues

Policy-related reports, studies, and information about the challenge and promise of immigrant integration. Materials organized by collection topic.

Click on headlines for abstracts and links.

New Public Policy Research and Reports

Adult Education and Workforce Training

Paper critiques government use of the term "hard-to-serve" to describe immigrant and other adult learners

Paper argues for a social justice framework for adult education programs serving immigrants in order to empower learners and address "intersectional" challenges

Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration

Study argues for a doubling of annual immigration to maintain the position of the U.S. as the world's largest economy

Paper describes the vital role played by undocumented immigrants in the U.S. economy

Employment and Labor Issues

Study finds that the entry-level salaries of H-1B immigrant workers are 30 percent higher than the salaries of their U.S.-born counterparts

Human Services (General)

Paper argues that the "public charge" provisions of immigration law are antiquated and incompatible with the development and mission of public benefit programs

MPI paper documents the disproportionate reliance of immigrants on public transit and argues that their dependence on public transit should be factored into transit planning and resource allocation decisions

Intergroup Relations

Cato survey explores how Americans think about immigration, as well as the beliefs and values underlying their opinions

Law Enforcement

Report claims that the Trump administration's anti-immigrant legacy will live on in the decisions of his appointed judges, many lacking a background in immigration law and policy, who have ruled in favor of deportation in 87 percent of cases (compared to a rate of 58 percent for all judges)

National Perspectives/Immigration Policy

Cato publishes "The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They're Wrong"

LATEST NEWS AND COMMENTARY

Featuring a selection of recent Op-eds from

Immigration researchers and major opinion leaders

May 17, 2021

Tucker Carlson's cries about immigrants have a disturbing 19th-century parallel

Zachary M. Schrag, The Washington Post

May 11, 2021

Immigration emerges as a policy response to slowed US growth

Suzanne Monyak, Roll Call

May 11, 2021

How updating an old Herbert Hoover law would offer new hope to undocumented immigrants

Editorial Board, Chicago Sun-Times

May 5, 2021

Immigrants to the Rescue: for countries facing a demographic crisis, immigrants are the answer

John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus

May 3, 2021

Immigrants Vote With Their Feet for Greater Freedom

Ilya Somin, Reason

May 1, 2021

Biden's chaotic immigration policy

Ruben Navarrette, Jr., Las Vegas Review-Journal

April 30, 2021

An Old Immigration Program Could Help Solve Our New Border Problems

Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes

April 28, 2021

The Original Sin of America's Broken Immigration Courts

Isabela Dias, Mother Jones

April 27, 2021

Some bad news about our future gives Biden a big opening (on immigration). Will he seize it?

Greg Sargent, The Washington Post

April 23, 2021

Can two former presidents unravel the immigration knot?

Hugh Hewitt, The Washington Post

April 21, 2021

Reconciliation May Not Solve Democrats' Immigration Woes

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

April 19, 2021

What America would look like with zero immigration

Justin Gest, CNN Opinion

Our Mission

As the United States strives to build an immigration system for the 21^st century, the Portal enables advocates and policy-makers to use evidence-based research to guide their work.

Our goal is to preserve and disseminate the findings of leading researchers seeking answers to questions critical to the future of the country.

To date, our team of volunteers has produced over 2,000 research summaries in 19 different subject collections.

These summaries, as well as links to original research, are available at the Portal website and at the website of the Public Education Institute of the Immigrant Learning Center.

Please write us with any thoughts or suggestions you might have at: mail@usdiversitydynamics.com