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Immigration Enforcement: Weaknesses Hinder Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement Efforts: The opportunity for employment is one of the most important magnets attracting illegal immigrants to the United States. Immigration experts state that strategies to deter illegal immigration require both a reliable employment eligibility verification process and a worksite enforcement capacity to ensure that employers comply with immigration-related employment laws. This...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, immigration, strategy; White papers 2005-08-01
The Impact of Immigration on Health Coverage in the United States: This article examines the issue of immigration and health insurance coverage in the United States. It first examines the status of health insurance coverage among immigrants as compared with non-immigrants. It then examines the impact of immigration over the period 1994û2003, a much longer period than is covered by previous...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, immigration, health insurance, health care, U.S.; White papers 2005-06-01
The Labor Market Effects Of Fragmentation, Outsourcing And Immigration: Two Sides Of The Same Story?: Using a variant of the Ricardo-Viner model, fragmentation of manufacturing is analyzed, outsourcing of services, and immigration of both skilled and unskilled workers. Situation is considered in which; Fragmentation arises out of the Heckscher-Ohlin factor intensity difference; Outsourcing is caused by increasing returns to scale in production; and skilled immigrants...; Tags: immigrant, fragmentation, outsourcing, adjustment, manufacturing, worker; White papers 2005-03-07
Public Finance and Individual Preferences Over Globalization Strategies: This paper develops a framework for examining how pre-tax and post-tax cleavages may differ across globalization strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. It then applies this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade preferences across U.S. states. It has two main findings. First, high exposure to immigrant fiscal pressures...; Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, immigration, globalization; White papers 2005-01-01
Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the Housing Market: The empirical approach in this paper is to estimate models of housing tenure choice on a sample of recent movers. Immigration has long been a force that shapes the housing and labor markets in gateway metropolitan areas. This study focuses on the housing outcomes of households who currently live in...; Tags: University of Southern California, housing market; White papers 2004-08-29

Immigration: A Policy For The 21st Century: The official authorities in the U.S are thinking of revamping their immigration policies. People believe that the policies will prove beneficial for the ones who have not received official documentation from the country. Experts suggest that with the onset of 21st century, immigration policies also need a change. There is...; Tags: Webcast, tool; Webcasts 2004-03-10

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Uncommon ground: across the country, Africans and African-Americans still struggle to come together: Mohamed Adam came to the United States 12 years ago fleeing ethnic and tribal clashes in his native Somalia that turned the East African country into a civil war zone. He never imagined when he arrived in America that cultural conflict would put him in the center of...; Articles 2008-07-01
Our History is Still Being Written - The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution: Waters, Mary-Alice, (ed.), Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moises Sio Wong. Our History is Still Being Written - The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. New York, NY: Patiifinder Press, 2005. 215 pp. This book chronicles the military service of three Cuban-Chinese generals - Choy, Chui...; Articles 2008-06-30
Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France?: Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France? Think of her in And God Created Woman. Once she decided to make no more movies, her transformation into angry matriarch was a bit of a shock. First she took up animal rights, and then she began to...; Articles 2008-06-30
Government of Canada Enhances Services at Visa Office in Beirut, Lebanon: The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced today that the Department is enhancing the services offered by its visa office in Beirut, Lebanon. Effective immediately, permanent resident applicants from Lebanon can choose to be interviewed by immigration officers in Beirut. "Citizens of Lebanon deserve to have their...; Articles 2008-06-26
Immigration policy is keeping talented people out of the U.S.: PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin to Dallas, to Texas Instruments, where he helped invent the...; Articles 2008-06-26
Most Utahns stand behind get-tough immigration bill: A new poll suggests that three in four Utahns want the state Legislature to keep in place a new get-tough immigration measure -- and just over half want to make the law even tougher. A legislative panel is evaluating SB81, a new law aimed at preventing undocumented...; Articles 2008-06-26
Immigration crackdown could cost Okla. $1.9B in lost spending: The Oklahoma economy would lose $1.9 billion in annual consumer spending if all undocumented workers are forced out of the state, said a new nonprofit group in support of national immigration reform efforts. A new study by The Perryman Group of Waco, Texas, suggested U.S. consumer spending...; Articles 2008-06-26
Citizens sue after being detained in workplace: LOS ANGELES -- Nitin Dhopade, the chief financial officer for Micro Solutions Enterprises, was headed toward the accounting department on the afternoon of Feb. 7 to deliver checks he had just signed. Suddenly, he says, he encountered armed men and women wearing bulletproof vests and uniforms branded with "ICE," which...; Articles 2008-06-25
Car wash firm, managers plead guilty to fraud: A Horsham car wash company and three of its managers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, harbor illegal immigrants, and commit identity theft. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia said Car Care managers operated a scheme between 2000 and March 2006 that allowed car washes to hire...; Articles 2008-06-25
N.J. Turnpike killer not guilty by reason of insanity: A man who beat a 75-year-old stranger to death with a rock at a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop last year was insane at the time of the killing, a Burlington County Superior Court judge ruled yesterday. Brian White, 27, believed God ordered him to attack Russian immigrant Michail J....; Articles 2008-06-25
Correction: In the June 23 issue, the article "Helping immigrants find their way" misstated the income level at which Legal Services of Eastern Missouri will offer representation. The threshold is 125 percent of the federal poverty level. We regret the error...; Articles 2008-06-25
New league of 'deficit hawks' revive attacks: WASHINGTON -- Eleven years after the last major effort to balance the federal government's books, advocates of fiscal integrity are seeking to make a comeback. Most notable is Pete Peterson, a son of Greek immigrants and Wall Street chieftain who has vowed to invest $1 billion of his...; Articles 2008-06-25
Take inventory of your pantry before purchasing more: Climbing rice prices and news reports of rice shortages in Asia are causing an unexpected ripple here at home: Many people, especially immigrants from countries where rice is a mainstay, are stocking up. And while experts stop short of calling this behavior hoarding, some warehouse stores have limited consumers to...; Articles 2008-06-25
'Jacob the Jeweler' gets 2 1/2 years in prison for lying: The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring. Jacob Arabov, 43, pleaded guilty in October to falsifying records and giving false statements...; Articles 2008-06-25

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