Immigration Restrictions
High quality essays written by experts on immigration laws are presented. Essays discuss the history of immigration laws in the U.S., current debates related to immigration, and an overview of the debate over existing illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
History of Immigration Laws in the U.S.
With the exception of Native Americans, all persons living in the United States are descended from immigrants or slaves who came to the country during the last 400 years...
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Current Immigration Laws in the U.S.
The modern immigration debate in the United States focuses primarily on illegal immigration. Recently, a committee within the House of Representatives formulated a new...
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An Overview of Legal and Illegal Immigration
Modern restrictions place more emphasis on the economic and social effects of immigration. The United Nations High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development...
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Editor's Choice
Becoming an AMERICAN CITIZEN: NATURALIZATION.
World Almanac for Kids
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No fruits, no shirts, no service.
Reason
Looks at the argument by anti-immigration activists that immigrants take away jobs from Americans. Typical jobs of immigrants; Possible consequences...
Proving the right to work in UK.
Caterer & Hotelkeeper
The article highlights the importance of verifying credentials and documents of emigrant employees who want to work in Great Britain. Nationals of...
Selected Current Books.
New Republic
Lists several books published in the February 15, 1922 issue of the periodical "The New Republic." "The Immigrant Press and its Control," by Robert E...
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Immigration: The Sleeping Time Bomb
USA Today Magazine
Comments on the socio-economic and political impact of immigration. Popularity of the issue of restricting immigration in Europe; Reasons for the...
Immigration in Harness
New Republic
Presents a letter to the editor about a policy of moderate restriction on immigration.
Some immigrants wrongly turned away
H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks
Reports the denial admission of Medicaid coverage to legal immigrants. Restrictions to legal immigrants; Role of the Congress on the said problem.
SO NEAR YET SO FAR AWAY: THE EFFECT OF SEPTEMBER 11TH ON MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy
Examines the effects of the September 11 terrorist attack on Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Restrictions for immigrants; Detention of hundreds of...
Should citizens, legal immigrants, and illegal aliens receive different benefits?
American Enterprise
Comments on the proposal to limit the entry of and entitlements to immigrants in the United States. Existence of prohibitions on illegal immigration...
Immigration policy for a post-industrial economy
American Enterprise
Focuses on the persistence of tension between proponents of increasing and restricting immigration to the United States. Historical image of the...
Immigration spurs debate on Capitol Hill
Education Week
Focuses on US Congress' consideration of immigration-related proposals that could affect schools. Restriction of immigrants' access to federal...
Liberalized immigration as free trade: Economic welfare and the optimal immigration policy
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Suggests that the immigration restrictions in the United States bear little resemblance to those that would maximize either national or global...
Restriction to end?
Advocate
Reports on the announcement made by Robert Andras, minister of manpower and immigration in Ottawa, Ontario regarding putting an end to restrictions...
Open the gates
Inc.
Opinion. Argues for continued, rather than restricted immigration into the United States, particularly for immigrants from Hong Kong, citing...
Immigration announcement set
San Diego Business Journal
Reports that Senator Spencer Abraham, Representative for Michigan, will be making an announcement at the offices of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation...
Our Immigration Problem
America
The author comments on the immigration situation in the U.S. According to the author, people have contrasting views regarding the issue of...
House passes immigration reform and Gallegly bill, Senate nixes moves on appointees, travelgate,
Human Events
Cites legislative developments during the months of September and October 1996 in the United States. Includes House of Representatives' approval of...
Immigration Act of 1921
Immigration Act of 1921
Presents the text of the United States' Immigration Act of 1921. Definition of terms; Restriction of the number of immigrants admitted into the...
THE NETHERLANDS IMMIGRANTS BEWARE
New African
Reports on restrictions to African immigrants in the Netherlands. Rules when going to that country and when marrying a Dutch citizen; Language policy...
The Open Door Is Swinging Shut
ENR: Engineering News-Record
Focuses on the impact of September 11 terrorist attack on the immigration industry in the United States. Restrictions of immigration practices;...
Immigration Restrictions Articles A-Z
- 'HE DOESN'T MANAGE MANAGERS.'
- `Interest convergence' and the liberalization of discriminatory immigration and naturalization
- A tale of ten cities
- A Vast, Afflicted Landscape
- Access to Driver's Licenses
- America or Utopia?
- America's Immigration Restriction Policy
- Anglo-Saxonizing Machines
- Another brick in the wall
- Asian immigration effects debated
- ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRATION PROJECTED TO CHANGE
- Banking still foreign to Russian immigrants
- Before Attacking Immigration Law, Why Not Read It?
- Before We Weaken the Immigration Laws, Let's Study the Facts
- Border policies: time to try again
- Bordering on Softer Stance
- Borders and Blessings: Reflections on the National Immigration Crisis from the Arizona Desert
- Bureaucracy limits legal immigration
- Bushwhacking Immigration
- California GOP Still Shuns Immigration Issue
- Call of the Foreign Legion
- Cancer Risk From Extreme Stressors: Lessons From European Jewish Survivors of World War II
- Care providers fear immigration plans
- Changes to Chinese visas would give inbound market huge boost
- Clinton Administration gets tough on illegal immigration
- Closing the door on undocumented workers
- Closing the door, a little
- Community Colleges In N.C. Move to Bar Illegal Immigrants
- Congress poised to slow turnstiles on immigration
- Contributions of Chinese-American Women in the West
- Coping With the Crackdown
- Counterterrorism experts say new immigration controls not much help
- Cutting through the red tape
- Demography as destiny: Immigration and Schools
- Disease, Deformity, and Defiance: Writing the Language of Immigration Law and the Eugenics Movement on the Immigrant Body
- Division and reunion: Woodrow Wilson, immigration, and the myth of American unity
- Dutch minister warns that illegal immigrants must receive care
- EDITOR'S PAGE
- Election Bait
- Election Day Lawmaking
- Ellis Island a welcome site? Only after years of reform
- Embrace Entrepreneurial Immigrants
- Employment law dilemmas: What to do when the law forbids compliance
- Enforcing and challenging exclusion in San Francisco
- Europe's sanctuary movement: Grappling with governments
- Expect New INS Policy
- Experts Say New Immigration Controls Not Much Help
- Farmers left out of feds' debate on immigration reform
- Fees on foreign workers killed
- First Things First
- Flap over legal immigration is all in the family
- Food stamp restrictions biased against Latinos
- Forty percent of Vancouver's population will be Chinese by year 2000
- Free Trade Restrictions
- From Emigration to Immigration: The German Experience in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- From Pluribus to Unum
- German reunification
- Getting the Development Done
- Giants in the Land
- Global Protection and the Health Impact of Migration Interception
- H1B Visa Restrictions Stall Workforce Development
- HEAVY HAND OF THE STATE
- Hispanics leave school in face of Alabama's tough immigration law
- House allows state control of illegal immigrant education
- House nixes recommit on immigration bill
- House passes immigration reform and Gallegly bill, Senate nixes moves on appointees, travelgate,
- House strips immigration restrictions
- How the PCG carefully shot itself in both feet
- How to limit population growth
- Huddled excesses
- Ideologues using immigrants to symbolize countercultural values create more public opposition to
- Immigrant workers can help tech force
- Immigration Act of 1921
- Immigration and Birth Control
- Immigration and the American future
- Immigration and the Brahmins
- IMMIGRATION AND THE EMPLOYMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WORKERS
- Immigration and the U.S. Economy
- Immigration announcement set
- Immigration as Viewed by the Foreign Language Press
- Immigration chaos forces lawyers to shun regulations
- Immigration Impasse
- Immigration in Harness
- Immigration legislation hurts kids
- Immigration must be better managed
- IMMIGRATION POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
- Immigration Policy and its Possible Effects on U.S. Agriculture and the Market for Hired Farm Labor: A Simulation Analysis
- Immigration policy for a post-industrial economy
- Immigration rules hit potential GP registrars
- Immigration spurs debate on Capitol Hill
- Immigration Timeline
- Immigration
- Immigration: The Sleeping Time Bomb
- Incorporating New Perspectives into an Immigration Course
- Industry Strength and Immigrant Policy in the American States
- Institutionalist Perspectives on Immigration Policy
- Ireland's population hemorrhage
- Irish, great emigrants, not keen on outsiders
- Is Restriction a Labor Handicap to Industry? Con
- Is Restriction a Labor Handicap to Industry? Pro
- Is There a Right to Immigrate?
- Japanese Brazilian style
- Keep Up the Bars!
- Keep Up the Bars
- Labor pains
- Law puts restrictions on some foreign students
- Legislation clamps entitlement of immigrant workers
- Liberalized immigration as free trade: Economic welfare and the optimal immigration policy
- Local immigrant community praises Giuliani on No.187
- Mandatory HIV Testing for European Tourists, Migrants Is Uncommon
- Medicaid restrictions on legal immigrants are a bad idea
- Migrations Forced and Free
- Moving on
- New Immigration Policy
- New Sources of Labor
- NO ENTRY
- No welcome mat, no workers
- No, Virginia
- Note: United States--British Collaboration on Illegal Immigration to Palestine, 1945--1947
- Open the gates
- Our Immigration Problem
- PANEL TO CLINTON: ACT NOW
- Population Growth
- President signs long-delayed $1.8 trillion federal budget
- PUTTING OUT THE UNWELCOME MAT
- Race, gender and Canadian immigration policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932
- RACE, RELIGION AND NATIONALITY IN IMMIGRATION SELECTION: 120 YEARS AFTER THE CHINESE EXCLUSION CASE
- RAISIN HELL
- Refugee advocates hope for papal help
- Restricted
- Restriction to end?
- Restrictions on Undocumented Immigrants' Access to Health Services: The Public Health Implications of Welfare Reform
- Rewriting the Rules
- Rising issue
- Senate passes Catchall spending bill for 1997
- Serving America's newcomers
- Should citizens, legal immigrants, and illegal aliens receive different benefits?
- Should Present Restriction Laws Be Modified? Con
- Should Present Restriction Laws Be Modified? Pro
- Should U. S. Adopt More Liberal Immigration Policy? Pro
- Sierra Club: Birth control, not border patrol
- SO NEAR YET SO FAR AWAY: THE EFFECT OF SEPTEMBER 11TH ON MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
- Some Consolations of History
- Some immigrants wrongly turned away
- SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW?: AFRICAN AMERICANS, UNAUTHORIZED MEXICAN IMMIGRATION, AND COALITION BUILDING
- Statement on 1997 appropriations for the Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Sufferings of Jewish Emigrants to America in Transit Through Germany
- Swing to the Left
- Tailor's tale wins sympathy but no reprieve by Dutch
- Texas bishops call for health care for immigrants
- The Bishops and The Laws
- THE CLOSING DOOR
- The Crisis of the Human Waste Disposal Industry
- The Global Raiders: Nationalism, Globalization and the South African Brain Drain
- THE IMMIGRANT WITHIN
- THE IMMIGRATION CRISIS
- The Immigration Question
- THE IMPACT OF MASS MIGRATION ON THE ISRAELI LABOR MARKET
- The jittery `other illegals.'
- The labor worries of a successful emigre
- THE LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN DENMARK
- The Law and Economics of Immigration Policy
- THE LITERACY TEST AND ITS MAKING
- The nation's gatekeeper
- THE NETHERLANDS IMMIGRANTS BEWARE
- The Open Door Is Swinging Shut
- THE POLITICS OF HATE
- THE SCUM OF EUROPE
- They work to soften immigration bills
- Through the Back Door: Evading the Chinese Exclusion Act along the Niagara Frontier, 1900 to 1924
- Tightened immigration law could hurt business
- Tightening the United States Immigration Laws in the 21st Century
- Trouble for Aliens
- U.K. customs relaxed but not eliminated
- U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Children's Well-being: The Impact of Policy Shifts
- U.S. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS DEPORTATION ORDER UNDER IIRIRA OVER OBJECTIONS THAT PETITIONER'S ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY OF U. S. TOOK PLACE BEFORE EFFECTIVE DATE OF STATUTE
- Uncle Sam Breaks up a Home
- Uncle Sam's Turnstile
- Unfunded mandate law gets a test
- UNHOLY ALLIANCE
- Unions & Immigrants
- Urban Clusters
- WELFARE BILL RESTRICTS MEDICAID COVERAGE
- Welfare reform advocates look to Senate
- Welfare Reform: Many States Continue Some Federal or State Benefits for Immigrants: HEHS-98-132
- What�s Unique About Immigrant Protest?
- WHEN DOES DISSENT BECOME TREACHERY?
- When They Need Help the Most
- Who Can Come
- Why don't scientists have the same visa exemptions as footballers, ask Nobel winners
- Would Increased Immigration Benefit Business? Pro
- Would Increased Immigration Help the Farmer? Con
- Write-ins, now
- �Amigo o Enemigo?: Context, Attitudes, and Anglo Public Opinion toward Immigration
