194 research outputs found
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
A Postmortem Examination of the Kerner Commission Report : Discussion
Volume 1 - Paper #7. Comments presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, St. Louis, MO._7PostmortemintotheApprenticeTrades.pdf: 652 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Achieving National Economic and Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role of Contemporary U.S. Immigration Policy
Volume 4 - Paper #58_58AchievingNationalEconomic.pdf: 632 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
The Rural Labor Force: Unemployment and Underemployment Issues
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given before the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation of the Joint Economic Committee, Ninety-ninth Congress, June 13, 1985
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
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