Walter Ewing
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Posts by Walter Ewing
New Reports Describe the “Green-Washing” of Nativist Hate
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
July 28, 2010 - 1:19 pm
Posted in Environment, Hate Groups, Immigration Blog, Restrictionists, Undocumented Immigration | No comments
In a new report, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes the rejuvenated efforts of anti-immigrant groups to repackage themselves as environmentalists who are trying to save the United States from the supposed ecological ills of “over-population.” According to the report, entitled Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism & the Hypocrisy of Hate, the two-faced nature of [...]
Obama Administration Mimics George W. Bush on Immigration Prosecutions
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
July 21, 2010 - 11:23 am
Posted in Courts, Department of Justice, Enforcement, Immigration Blog | No comments
It would seem that the Obama administration has chosen to mimic its predecessor in its zeal to pursue the criminal prosecution of unauthorized immigrants for minor, nonviolent offenses such as crossing the border. As the Associated Press reported recently, “federal prosecutions of immigrants soared to new levels this spring, as the Obama administration continued an [...]
Congressional Hearing Dissects the Many Failures of SBInet
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 17, 2010 - 10:36 am
Posted in Border, Congress, Enforcement, Immigration Blog, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Undocumented Immigration | No comments
At a hearing held jointly today by two subcommittees of the House Homeland Security Committee, lawmakers and witnesses took turns dissecting the many faults and failures of the Department of Homeland Security’s ill-fated Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet—the $1.1 billion effort led by the Boeing Corporation to create a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico [...]
CIS Claims California is ‘Least-Educated State’ Because of Immigration
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 11, 2010 - 7:53 am
Posted in Immigration Blog, State and Local Immigration Law | No comments
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) yesterday released a report claiming that, due to immigration, “by 2008 California had the least-educated labor force in the nation in terms of the share [of] its workers without a high school education.” The report, entitled A State Transformed: Immigration and the New California, grossly mischaracterizes the educational [...]
New Report Sheds Light on Economic Value of Immigration
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 8, 2010 - 1:12 pm
Posted in Economics, Economy, Immigration Blog | No comments
A report released yesterday by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), entitled The Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion, argues persuasively that immigration is a valuable economic resource. The report, by economist Giovanni Peri of the University of California, Davis, finds that “immigration unambiguously improves employment, productivity, and income,” increasing the earnings of [...]
New Report Highlights Economic Gains from Immigration and Immigration Reform
originally posted by Walter Ewing for Immigration Impact [click here]
May 27, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Posted in Economics, Economy, Immigration Blog, Reform, Taxes | No comments
In a report released this week, the New Policy Institute (NPI) synthesizes much of the available research on the ways in which immigration ultimately raises wage levels for the vast majority of native-born workers and benefits the U.S. economy as a whole. The report, entitled The Impact of Immigration and Immigration Reform on the Wages [...]
Restrictionist Group Blames Immigrants for Teen Unemployment
May 12, 2010 - 10:37 am
Posted in Demographics, Employment, Immigration Blog, Research, Restrictionists | No comments
In a new report, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) attempts to blame immigrants for the declining share of native-born teenagers in the United States who join the U.S. labor force during the summer months. However, in its rush to blame immigrants, CIS completely overlooks an even more important factor that has fueled declining [...]
‘Fox & Friends’ Trumpets Farcical Claim About Murders by Unauthorized Immigrants
May 7, 2010 - 7:59 am
Posted in Criminality, Immigration Blog, Research, Restrictionists, Undocumented Immigration | No comments
The infotainment show Fox & Friends recently trumpeted the absurd and baseless claim that unauthorized immigrants kill 2,158 people in the United States each year. However, as Media Matters describes in detail, this random number is based on a 2005 article in the right-wing journal Human Events that uses a methodology no serious researcher [...]
Polls Show Americans Want Broken Immigration System Fixed
May 4, 2010 - 11:33 am
Posted in Demographics, Enforcement, Immigration Blog, Reform, Research | No comments
Two new public opinion polls reveal that the majority of the American public believes the U.S. immigration system is broken, and that fixing it should include the creation of a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants already in the United States. The polls, conducted by the New York Times/CBS News and USA Today/Gallup, [...]
Arizona’s Punishing New Immigration Law Doesn’t Fight Crime
April 28, 2010 - 1:26 pm
Posted in Criminality, Demographics, Enforcement, Immigration Blog, Immigration Law, Police Enforcement, Research, State and Local Immigration Law, Undocumented Immigration | No comments
Supporters of Arizona’s harsh new immigration law claim that it is, among other things, a potent tool in the crime-fighting arsenal. For instance, the bill’s author, Republican State Senator Russell Pearce of Mesa, confidently predicts that the law—which requires police to investigate the immigration status of anyone who appears to be unauthorized—will result in [...]