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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Prince William County Case Study: Immigrants, Politics, and Local Response in Suburban Washington

Prince William County Case Study: Immigrants, Politics, and Local Response in Suburban Washington
The failure of federal immigration reform in 2007 has reverberated in some fast-growing local areas, including in Virginia’s Prince William County—where community leaders and residents successfully organized to pressure county government to crack down on illegal immigration. Following these trends for a year, Audrey Singer, Jill Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis have completed a case study of the local, regional, and ultimately, national factors that led Prince William County to adopt new policies toward unauthorized immigrants.

 

Monday, February 23, 2009

Immigration, Politics and Local Responses

Immigration, Politics and Local Responses
On February 26, the Metropolitan Policy Program and Greater Washington Research at Brookings will host a discussion focusing on a new report that examines the local, regional and national factors that led Prince William County, an outer suburb of the nation’s capital, to adopt tough measures against unauthorized immigrants. Additional case studies will be explored, with a focus on the ripening immigration debate and ideas for successfully addressing long-term demographic changes and challenges.

 

Friday, February 20, 2009

Immigration, Politics and Local Responses

Immigration, Politics and Local Responses
Event Information:
February 26, 2009, 2:00 PM to 4:00 pm
On February 26, the Metropolitan Policy Program and Greater Washington Research at Brookings will host a discussion focusing on a new report that examines the local, regional and national factors that led Prince William County, an outer suburb of the nation’s capital, to adopt tough measures against unauthorized immigrants. Additional case studies will be explored, with a focus on the ripening immigration debate and ideas for successfully addressing long-term demographic changes and challenges.

 

Friday, February 13, 2009

Immigration and the Courts

Immigration and the Courts
Event Information:
February 20, 2009, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
The Justice Department’s immigration courts have been the object of attention not only for how their judges have been selected but also for their heavy caseloads and shortage of resources, including the inadequacy of legal representation available to aliens. On February 20, Brookings Visiting Fellow Russell Wheeler will moderate a discussion with Robert A. Katzmann, who has served since 1999 as a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Juan P. Osuna, who chairs the Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals; and Andrew I. Schoenholtz, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and deputy director of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration.

 

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Real Economics of Immigration Reform

The Real Economics of Immigration Reform
By ignoring the role of immigration policy in our economic situation, Americans are actually hurting themselves.

 

Monday, February 09, 2009

Immigrants Bring Big Bucks For Jails

Immigrants Bring Big Bucks For Jails
The federal government pays sheriffs $90 a day to hold immigrants awaiting deportation. Some sheriffs are aggressively lobbying to have immigrants put in their jails. Local jailers receive $1.7 billion a year from taxpayers to keep people charged with overstaying their visas instead of releasing them pending trials.

 

Monday, February 02, 2009

Joblessness Jumps Sharply Among China’s Migrants

Joblessness Jumps Sharply Among China’s Migrants
China’s government announced at a briefing that more than one in seven rural migrant workers have been laid off or are unable to find work.