Who Will Enter the United States? Immigration Reform and the Policy Process

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Johnston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration

Changing Occupational Characteristics of U.S. Immigrants

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon F. De Jong ◽  
Marilou C. Legazpi Blair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
America South ◽  
Skilled Immigrant

Although the proportion of legal immigrants to the United States reporting an occupation remained nearly stable from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, there was a decline in the proportion of immigrant workers admitted with professional and technical occupations — a trend that the 1990 Immigration Act seeks to address in this decade. Using 1972 and 1986 United States Immigration and Naturalization Service public use data, this analysis shows that a major explanation for the decline is the recomposition of immigrant worker streams; notably large increases in admissions from Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean vs. Asian workers; and increases in immediate family numerically exempt and sixth preference new arrivals and older workers — all categories with a low proportion of professional and technical workers. Contrary to expectations, immigrants admitted with family preference visas recorded an increase in professional and technical workers, even though the proportion of highly skilled immigrant workers in this admission category is still quite low.

scholarly journals Global and Local Challenges to Refugee Protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Silas W. Allard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Global And Local

On October 12, 2017, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, took a short trip from Pennsylvania Avenue across the Potomac to Falls Church, Virginia. The Attorney General went to Falls Church to address personnel of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), the agency that administers the United States’ immigration courts. The Attorney General's chosen topic for the day was “the fraud and abuse in our asylum system.” “Over the years,” the Attorney General argued, “Congress has rationally passed legislation designed to create an efficient and fair procedure to properly admit persons andexpedite the removalof aliens who enter the United States illegally.” The Attorney General is referring here to the “expedited removal” procedures that Congress created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Expedited removal gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to deport, without a hearing, any person who was not admitted to the United States and who cannot prove continuous presence for the prior two years. The Department of Homeland Security currently exercises a narrower expedited removal authority pursuant to the Department's prosecutorial discretion. Only individuals apprehended within two weeks of entry and within 100 miles of a land border are subject to expedited removal, per Department regulations.

Uprootedness as (Cruel and Unusual) Punishment

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Zaibert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration

In spite of some protestations to the contrary, some of the practices that the United States immigration law permits are punitive. They are, moreover, terribly severe. If American citizens were to be treated in the ways in which some noncitizens are treated in the United States, they would be victims of cruel and unusual punishment. The paper seeks to show the implausibility of the euphemistic maneuvers that seek to deny this fact, by appealing to arguments put forth by the United States Supreme Court. In particular, the paper argues that the reasons why the United States Supreme Court considers expatriation to be cruel and unusual punishment apply as well to some instances of deportation.

Revocation of Citizenship in the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Herzog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World View ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
American Concept

AbstractRogers Brubaker in his 1992 path-breaking study proposes a theory of citizenship as a coherent world view: the French liberal model identifies citizenship as a community based on territoriality; the German ethno-nationalist model bases citizenship on blood-line. Rogers Smith challenged Brubaker and, based on a 1997 study of United States immigration laws, claims that the American concept of citizenship is a non-coherent mix of various principles: liberal, ethno-nationalist and republican at the same time. Both authors inspired a great deal of research, but all studies so far have attempted to adjudicate between the two competing theories by looking at inclusionary practices, at the various ways citizenship is granted in various countries, and their results are inconclusive. This paper reports findings for a study which looked at exclusion. The data on United States laws and legislative debates about the states’ rights to revoke, and citizens’ privilege to renounce, citizenship lends support to Rogers Smith’s arguments regarding inclusion and citizenship, while underlining war as an independent sociological source for the genesis, persistence and dispersion of these bundles or equilibria.

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