Efforts to reform immigration are, at a minimum, delayed because of lack of support in the U.S. Congress. Attempts to … impose more restrictive measures are expected in the coming year. Whether new legislation is pro-immigration or anti-immigration …, it is important to understand the rules, quotas, and reality of the current employment-based immigration system if we are …

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …

U.S. immigration enforcement policy seeks to change the behaviors and views of not only individuals in the United ….S. immigration system. The two policies that the current study examines are immigration detention and nonjudicial removals. The … survey results provide no evidence that a heightened awareness of these U.S. immigration enforcement policies affects …

. 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 …

greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration … over the 2008-2018 decade, we find evidence of intensified immigration enforcement suppressing Hispanics' willingness to …

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 …