cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens … of the United States. -- immigration ; immigrant visas ; social stratification ; gender ; race ; Hispanic origin ; skin …

. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on …

This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration … American Community Survey, we find that a one standard deviation increase in the intensity of immigration enforcement lowers … the sustainability of the welfare state and the spread-out embracement of a piece-meal approach to immigration enforcement …

intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

, the latter using estimates developed by DHS (2002), Passel (2002), and Costanzo et al. (2002). -- Illegal immigration … ; legal immigration ; administrative data ; survey data …

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …

their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be … accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …