Strengthening a covenant.
The share of the American workforce filled by foreign-born workers has increased from one in 10 in 1990 to one out of six in 2006. Immigrants thrive here as workers because labor shortages exist along a broad expanse of jobs. Close to half of the software engineers in this...

Reinventing American immigration policy for the 21st century.
ABSTRACT With an estimated eleven to twelve million undocumented workers currently in the United States, the need for immigration reform is critical. As lawmakers grapple with the question of how to best meet the needs of the country, they should keep in mind that the United States...

Guests in the machine: guest worker programs mean legal inequality, tight government controls, and sometimes terrible abuses. They are also the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lot in life.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE TOWERS OF Marina Bay Sands will reach 50 stories into the sky, narrowing in the middle and splaying at the tops and bottoms, arching toward the water's edge like giant joysticks in play. A thumb shaped pier, known as the "sky garden," will hover...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Nov 14 - GCC Ministers Propose 11-Point Program To Cut Foreign Manpower.
Labor Ministers of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have approved 11 recommendations to be discussed by Gulf leaders next month in Doha. The primary focus of the recommendations is the recruitment of indigenous GCC manpower along with slowly decreasing dependence on foreign labor. The ministers also focused...

NumbersUSA Reminds President That Guestworker Talk is Affront to Millions Already Driven Out of Job Market.
Black Men and Less Educated Americans Especially Hard Hit by Current Foreign Labor WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As President Bush is expected to again promote amnesty and a guestworker program in his State of the Union Address tonight, NumbersUSA urges him to recognize that large-scale importation...

New push for illegal alien "guest worker" amnesty.
ITEM: "Harvest havoc is predicted for this fall," warned the headline of a California Central Valley Business Times story for August 24, 2007. The CVBT story reported that the agriculture business lobby was pushing for revival of the Ag JOBS proposal included in the immigration bill that stalled in...

GoffWilson Opens Nashua Office.
Immigration law firm adds to Concord, NH and Paris locations CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Concord-based law office of GoffWilson today announced it has opened a new office in Nashua at 20 Trafalgar Square, Suite 424. The office will help GoffWilson meet rapidly growing demand...

Recent Texas State Study of Illegal Alien Fiscal Costs: A First Effort With a Flawed Methodology Other States Should Not Use, Says FAIR.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- FAIR calls into question the legitimacy of the findings in a recently released Texas State Comptroller's study of the fiscal impact illegal aliens have on the state. According to Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, it is "the first time any state has done a comprehensive...

FAIR Says President's State of the Union Remarks on Immigration Offers the Same Old Amnesty Plan Opposed by the American People.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Bush once again proposed a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens, while denying that it is an amnesty for lawbreakers. While the president proposed a long list of immigration enforcement measures that...

Skilled immigrant and native workers in the United States; the economic competition debate and beyond.
1593321368 Skilled immigrant and native workers in the United States; the economic competition debate and beyond. Batalova, Jeanne. LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC 2006 180 pages $58.00 Hardcover The new Americans HD8081...