Illegal Aliens: The Need For a More Restrictive Border Policy

[Excerpt] In late 1974, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice publicly stated that “the United States us being overrun by illegal aliens” and, he warned, “we are seeing just the beginning of the problem.” During that 1974 fiscal year, 788,000 illegal aliens were actually apprehended by INS. Of greater significance, however, is the fact that INS estimated that the number of undetected illegal aliens who entered the United States in that year ranged upwards to 4 million people. Moreover, the INS estimated the accumulated number of illegal aliens currently residing in the United States in 1974 to be between 7 and 12 million people

Income Distribution: The Adverse Effects of Immigration Policy

Volume 4 - Paper #59_59IncomeDistributionTheAdverse.pdf: 754 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Immigration Policy and Its Impact: The Relevance for New York

Volume 3 - Paper #53_53ImmigrationPolicyandItsImpact.pdf: 479 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Alien Migration from Mexico: the Search for an Appropriate Theory and Policy

Volume 1 - Paper #14_14AlienMigrationfromMexico.pdf: 407 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Chicano---Mexican Immigrant Interface

Volume 1 - Paper #16_16ChicanoMexicanImmigrantInterface.pdf: 407 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Ethics Trumping Economics? The Ethics of Immigration Control

Volume 4 - Paper #63_63EthicsTrumpingEconomics.pdf: 731 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

American Unionism and U.S. Immigration Policy

Throughout its lengthy history, few issues have caused the American labor movement more agony than immigration. It is ironic this should be the case as most adult immigrants directly enter the labor force. So eventually do most of their family members. But precisely because immigration affects the scale, geographical distribution, and skill composition of the labor force, it affects national, regional, and local labor market conditions. Hence, organized labor can never ignore immigration trends. Immigration has in the past and continues to affect the developmental course of American trade unionism. Labor\u27s responses, in turn, have significantly influenced the actual public policies that have shaped the size and character of immigrant entries

Error Discovered in Unemployment Rate

A widely circulated 1997 U.S. Census Bureau publication contains a computational error that shows a much lower unemployment rate for immigrants than was actually the case

The Role of Public Policies in Rural Labor Markets

[Excerpt] For over a century, governmental programs and policies have influenced both the demand and the supply forces that operate in rural labor markets. These interventions emerged as logical responses to growing and more complex economic problems in an increasingly interdependent national and world industrial order. Thus, the evolutionary role of government has not been an ideological issue as much as it has been a pragmatic reaction of a nation seeking to build a just society. Viewed in this context, it is not surprising that governmental involvement has included new initiatives and increased support for ongoing programs followed by periods of retrenchment and reduced commitment. In the 1980s the political cycle entered a retrenchment in the government\u27s role in both the rural and urban economies. But, with many old problems still unresolved and a host of new challenges confronting the rural economy, a more activist period may be on the horizon

ILR Impact Brief - Doomed to Fail: The Unintended Consequences of Guestworker Programs

The ILR Impact Brief series highlights the research and project based work conducted by ILR faculty that is relevant to workplace issues and public policy. Brief #2 highlights the authors\u27 research on immigration policy and the American labor force