Current U.S. Immigration Policy and Its Implications on the Southwestern Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Current U.S. Immigration Policy and Its Implications on the Southwestern Border write by Molly Hillier-Betancourt. This book was released on 1996. Current U.S. Immigration Policy and Its Implications on the Southwestern Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yearbook of Immigration Statistics write by . This book was released on 2004. Yearbook of Immigration Statistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
U.S. Immigration Policy
U.S. Immigration Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Immigration Policy write by Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy. This book was released on 2009. U.S. Immigration Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few issues on the American political agenda are more complex or divisive than immigration. There is no shortage of problems with current policies and practices, from the difficulties and delays that confront many legal immigrants to the large number of illegal immigrants living in the country. Moreover, few issues touch as many areas of U.S. domestic life and foreign policy. Immigration is a matter of homeland security and international competitiveness, as well as a deeply human issue central to the lives of millions of individuals and families. It cuts to the heart of questions of citizenship and American identity and plays a large role in shaping both America's reality and its image in the world. Immigration's emergence as a foreign policy issue coincides with the increasing reach of globalization. Not only must countries today compete to attract and retain talented people from around the world, but the view of the United States as a place of unparalleled openness and opportunity is also crucial to the maintenance of American leadership. There is a consensus that current policy is not serving the United States well on any of these fronts. Yet agreement on reform has proved elusive. The goal of the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy was to examine this complex issue and craft a nuanced strategy for reforming immigration policies and practices.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Smoke and Mirrors write by Douglas S. Massey. This book was released on 2002-03-14. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Migration between Mexico and the United States is part of a historical process of increasing North American integration. This process acquired new momentum with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, which lowered barriers to the movement of goods, capital, services, and information. But rather than include labor in this new regime, the United States continues to resist the integration of the labor markets of the two countries. Instead of easing restrictions on Mexican labor, the United States has militarized its border and adopted restrictive new policies of immigrant disenfranchisement. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors examines the devastating impact of these immigration policies on the social and economic fabric of the Mexico and the United States, and calls for a sweeping reform of the current system. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors shows how U.S. immigration policies enacted between 1986–1996—largely for symbolic domestic political purposes—harm the interests of Mexico, the United States, and the people who migrate between them. The costs have been high. The book documents how the massive expansion of border enforcement has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, yet has not deterred increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from heading north. The authors also show how the new policies unleashed a host of unintended consequences: a shift away from seasonal, circular migration toward permanent settlement; the creation of a black market for Mexican labor; the transformation of Mexican immigration from a regional phenomenon into a broad social movement touching every region of the country; and even the lowering of wages for legal U.S. residents. What had been a relatively open and benign labor process before 1986 was transformed into an exploitative underground system of labor coercion, one that lowered wages and working conditions of undocumented migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens alike. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors offers specific proposals for repairing the damage. Rather than denying the reality of labor migration, the authors recommend regularizing it and working to manage it so as to promote economic development in Mexico, minimize costs and disruptions for the United States, and maximize benefits for all concerned. This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be fixed.
The New Reality of Migrant Flows at the U.S. Southwest Border
The New Reality of Migrant Flows at the U.S. Southwest Border - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Reality of Migrant Flows at the U.S. Southwest Border write by Alan Bersin. This book was released on 2019. The New Reality of Migrant Flows at the U.S. Southwest Border available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States Government made remarkable progress from the 1990s through the early 2010s (coupled with changing demographic and economic conditions in Mexico) in improving security and reducing illegal immigration at its border with Mexico. Beginning in 2014, however, the situation changed, and it has deteriorated substantially in the last year. A flood of asylum seekers from the Northern Triangle countries of Central American—Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala—have overwhelmed U.S. (and Mexican) border officials. Urgent attention is required to address a mounting crisis, requiring action across numerous policy fronts: from foreign affairs and international assistance through reform of the U.S. immigration system and asylum law to amelioration of the dismal security conditions extant in the Northern Triangle. Following preparation of this paper, the Trump and López Obrador administrations reached an agreement pursuant to which Mexico will take additional action to attempt to stem the flood of Central American asylum seekers. The core aspects of the accord are (1) Mexico’s deployment of some 6,000 members of its new National Guard to address the flows of Central Americans crossing Mexico’s southern border and (2) an expansion of the Migrant Protection Protocols, under which more asylum applicants will wait in Mexico during the adjudication of their petitions. There also is apparently a preliminary accord regarding some form of a “safe third country” agreement, which the Government of Mexico may submit to its Congress. This all amounts to a positive development: not only does the agreement take President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexico off the table (at least for now), these steps have the potential to modestly deter and disrupt the human smuggling networks fueling the current crisis. However, the agreement is not a comprehensive and permanent solution. It remains to be seen how the agreement is implemented, including whether Mexico has the capacity and infrastructure to deport tens of thousands of migrants let alone to care properly for an increase in Central Americans waiting in Mexico. Consistent with the original analysis of this paper and accompanying recommendations, the situation still requires urgent attention and a concerted response from the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch.
