Immigration

In addition to the demographic, labor market, and fiscal effects of immigration summarized in the previous chapters, how immigrants and their children will fit into American society now and in the future depends also on other aspects of immigration.

Immigrants are seen as taking up valuable resources, making it more difficult to cohere communities and undermining a sense of national identity.

A belief in "the inherent worth and dignity of every person" is core to Unitarian Universalism: every person, no exceptions. As religious people, our Principles call us to acknowledge the immigrant experience and to affirm and promote the flourishing of the human family.

MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world.

Immigration and asylum are becoming increasingly controversial issues. Hype and fear are used promoting differences and intolerance it seems.

Find an Immigration Timeline online here.

The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. has stabilized in recent years after decades of rapid growth. But there have been shifts in the states where unauthorized immigrants live and the countries where they were born.

It's no secret that parents in India urge their kids to excel in math and science, believing that it's the clearest path up the social ladder. But education is only part of the reason Indian immigrants are reaching the top executive ranks at major U.S. corporations.

Is unauthorized immigration as much of a problem for the U.S. as some claim?

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization. Since our founding in 1985, we have pursued a single mission - providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

Inside the Gang of Eight's immigration deal.

Overwhelmed courts have little time or resources to weigh the fates of those facing deportation.

Immigration is the movement of people into a destination country to which they are not native or do not possess its citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker

Process US visas, a Green Card renewal, a citizenship application or other naturalization and US immigration processes, like the application for a US passport, with our self-help guides. See filled-out naturalization and immigration forms.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It performs many administrative functions formerly carried out.