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- State and Local Restrictions on Employing, Renting Property to, or Providing Services for Unauthorized Aliens: Legal Issues and Recent Judicial Developments
- This report discusses the constitutional issues raised in relation to state and local laws intended to deter the presence of unauthorized aliens, along with the implications that federal civil rights statutes might have on the implementation and enforcement of measures restricting such persons' ability to obtain employment, housing, or other state and local benefits or services.
- Immigration: The Effects on Low-Skilled and High-Skilled Native-Born Workers
- The report opens with a discussion of how to analyze the impact of immigrants on the pay and job opportunities of native-born workers. It then uses this framework to examine and interpret the empirical literature on the subject. The report concludes with a discussion of policy implications.
- Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation
- This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 110th Congress, notably new technologies, impact on travel and commerce, and security concerns.
- Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens
- This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years. The section on current law explains the legal definitions of "terrorist activity," "engage in terrorist activity," and "terrorist organization," and describes the terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal.
- Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy
- This report first explains the connection made over the past several years between farm labor and immigration policies. It next examines the composition of the seasonal agricultural labor force and presents the arguments of grower and farm worker advocates concerning its adequacy relative to employer demand. The report then analyzes trends in employment, unemployment time worked and wages of authorized and unauthorized farm workers to determine whether they are consistent with the existence of a nationwide shortage of domestically available farm workers.
- Federal Civil Rights Statutes: A Primer
- This report provides information about a primer on Federal Civil Rights Statutes. it also provides a brief summary of selected civil rights statutes, including the civil rights acts, the equal pay act, etc.
- Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs
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- Immigration-Related Document Fraud: Overview of Civil, Criminal, and Immigration Consequences
- This report mainly discusses about the Overview of Civil, Criminal, and Immigration Consequences on Immigration-Related Document Fraud. It also discusses about the primary civil, criminal , and immigration related penalties associated with immigration related document fraud.
- Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border
- This report is about the information related to U.S international border security and barriers deployed along the border.
- Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and "DREAM Act" Legislation
- Multiple bills have been introduced in recent Congresses to address the unauthorized student population. While there are other options for dealing with this population, this report deals exclusively with the DREAM Act approach of proposing relief for unauthorized students in light of the widespread congressional interest in it.
- Foreign Students in the United States: Policies and Legislation
- This report examines various issues pertaining to foreign students in the United States. Since the Immigration Act of 1924, the United States has expressly permitted foreign students to study in U.S. institutions. Most foreign students are at least 18 years old and are enrolled in higher education programs. Foreign students are generally considered to enrich cultural diversity of the educational experience for U.S. residents as well as enhance the reputation of U.S. universities as world-class institutions. Concerns have arisen in recent years that have caused Congress to take a new look at the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provisions that govern their admission.
- Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 110th Congress
- Report detailing issues and legislative concerns regarding immigration during the 110th Congress, with a focus on comprehensive reform.
- Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens
- This report provides information about the Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens on Immigration. The INA spells out a strict set of admissions criteria and exclusion rules for all foreign nationals. It gives an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years.
- Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement
- This report provides information about The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement on Enforcing Immigration Law.
- Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers
- Report detailing the upcoming deadline on increases to foreign temporary professional workers, with a description of the issues, economic effects, and more.
- Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue
- Report summarizing the issues presented by immigration reform, including the disagreement whether incremental reform is preferably to a complete overhaul of the immigration systems, border security, smuggling, and more.
- The Federal Protective Service and Contract Security Guards: A Statutory History and Current Status
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- Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs
- This report provides the policy considerations related to guest worker programs on immigration.
- Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs
- This report provides an overview of the policy considerations related to guest worker programs on immigration.
- Border Security: The San Diego Fence
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- Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion and Removal of Aliens
- This report opens with an overview of the grounds for inadmissibility and summarizes key legislation enacted in recent years. The section on current law explains the legal definitions of "terrorist activity," "engage in terrorist activity," and "terrorist organization," and describes the terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal.
- Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force
- This report discusses the increased presence of foreign students in graduate science and engineering programs and in the scientific workforce that has been and continues to be of concern to some in the scientific community. Enrollment of U.S. citizens in graduate science and engineering programs has not kept pace with that of foreign students in those programs. Many in the scientific community maintain that in order to compete with countries that are rapidly expanding their scientific and technological capabilities, the country needs to bring to the United States those whose skills will benefit society and will enable us to compete in the new-technology based global economy. This report analyzes this issue in detail and includes discussion of related legislation.
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Immigration Fees and Adjudication Costs: The FY2008 Adjustments and Historical Context
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- Border Security: The San Diego Fence
- This report outlines the issues involved with DHS's construction of the San Diego border fence and highlights some of the major legislative and administrative developments regarding its completion.
- Immigration: Legislative Issues on Nonimmigrant Professional Specialty (H-1B) Workers
- This report discusses the latest legislative developments regarding immigration policy for professional workers. It provides analysis for H-1B admissions and legislative issues in the 110th Congress.
- Immigration Fraud: Policies, Investigations, and Issues
- Report on immigration fraud, including statistics, previous investigations, security improvements, issues, and more.
- Foreign Students in the United States: Policies and Legislation
- This report examines various issues pertaining to foreign students in the United States. Since the Immigration Act of 1924, the United States has expressly permitted foreign students to study in U.S. institutions. Most foreign students are at least 18 years old and are enrolled in higher education programs. Foreign students are generally considered to enrich cultural diversity of the educational experience for U.S. residents as well as enhance the reputation of U.S. universities as world-class institutions. Concerns have arisen in recent years that have caused Congress to take a new look at the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provisions that govern their admission.
- Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue
- This report synthesizes the major elements of immigration reform in the 110th Congress and provides references to other CRS reports that fully analyze these legislative elements.
- Immigration of Foreign Workers: Labor Market Tests and Protections
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- Unauthorized Employment in the United States: Issues and Options
- As Congress considers immigration reform and ways to address the unauthorized alien population, the issue of unauthorized employment is the focus of much discussion. This report discusses options for addressing unauthorized employment in the United States.
- Immigration Statistics on the Web
- This report identifies selected websites that provide general and statistical information on immigration topics. Selected government and organizational website addresses are included. As with all statistics, it is important to note the source and methodology when consulting immigration statistics, taking into account any organizational bias.
- Private Immigration Legislation
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- Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy
- This report mainly provides information about the Farm Labor Shortages and Immigration Policy.
- Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and “DREAM Act” Legislation
- This report examines the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or the DREAM Act. The bills were introduced in the 109th Congress, one of which was incorporated into the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate. A key issues in the current debate about immigration reform is how to address the resident unauthorized alien population.
- Immigration Issues in Trade Agreements
- This report provides background and analysis on the complex nexus of immigration and trade. This report opens with an overview of the specific elements of immigration law and policy that are germane to trade-related immigration and follows with a summary of the recent FTAs that include changes to U.S. immigration law. An analysis of research on the interaction between trade and migration is discussed, with caveats on the limitations of such analysis. The report concludes with a set of immigration policy questions that arise in the context of FTAs.
- Immigration-Related Detention: Current Legislative Issues
- Report on legislative issues related to detain noncitizens, including policy issues, previous acts, statistics, and more.
- Toward More Effective Immigration Policies: Selected Organizational Issues
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- U.S. Immigration Policy on Asylum Seekers
- This report provides an overview of the U.S. immigration policy on asylum seekers.
- Border Security: The Complexity of the Challenge
- This report is the first in three-part series of CRS reports that make use of analytical frameworks to better understand complex problems in border security and cast them in terms that facilitate the consideration of alternative policies and practices.
- ILW The leading immigration COM law publisher Immigration Policy on Expedited Removal of Aliens
- This report provides an overview of the immigration policy on expedited removal of aliens.
- Nonimmigrant Overstays: Brief Synthesis of the Issue
- This report discusses a fundamental problem of immigration control in which foreign nationals enter legally on a temporary basis and continue to stay after their visas expire.
- Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation
- This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 110th Congress, notably new technologies, impact on travel and commerce, and security concerns.
- Immigration: S Visas for Criminal and Terrorist Informants
- Report on the visa process for informants reporting on terrorist activities, including historical background, related conditions, legislative history, and more.
- Cuban Migration Policy and Issues
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- Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue
- This report synthesizes the major elements of immigration reform in the 110th Congress and provides references to other CRS reports that fully analyze these legislative elements.
- U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants
- This report examines U.S. immigration policy regarding Haitian migrants. The environmental, social, and political conditions in Haiti have long prompted congressional interest in U.S. policy on Haitian migrants, particularly those attempting to reach the United States surreptitiously by boat. While some observers assert that such arrivals by Haitians are a breach in border security, others maintain that these Haitians are asylum seekers following a 30-year practice of Haitians coming by boat without legal immigration documents. Migrant interdiction and mandatory detention are key components of U.S. policy toward Haitian migrants, but human rights advocates express concern that Haitians are not afforded the same treatment as other asylum seekers arriving in the United States.
- Immigration: The Effects on Low-Skilled and High-Skilled Native-Born Workers
- This report opens with a discussion of how to analyze the impact of immigrants on the pay and job opportunities of native-born workers. It then uses this framework to examine and interpret the empirical literature on the subject. The report concludes with a discussion of policy implications.
- Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force
- The scientific community has been divided over proposals to impose stricter immigration limits on people with scientific and technical skills. Attempts to settle upon the balance between the needs for a highly skilled scientific and technical workforce, and the need to protect and ensure job opportunities, salaries, and working conditions of U.S. scientific personnel, will continue to be debated. This report addresses these issues and their implications.
- Countries of the World and International Organizations: Sources of Information
- This report provides a selection of materials for locating information on foreign countries and international organizations. In the general information section, it presents sources giving an overview of politics, economics, and recent history. A specialized information section cites sources on human rights, immigration, international organizations, military strengths, terrorism, and other topics. Included are the titles of some of the most frequently consulted bibliographic sources that are available for use in many libraries.
- Immigration-Related Document Fraud: Overview of Civil, Criminal, and Immigration Consequences
- This report mainly discusses about the Overview of Civil, Criminal, and Immigration Consequences on Immigration-Related Document Fraud. It also discusses about the primary civil, criminal , and immigration related penalties associated with immigration related document fraud.