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	Justice and Home Affairs - Freedom Security and Justice - Immigration
		In spite of the restrictive immigration policies which have been in place since the 1970s in most Member States, large numbers of legal and illegal migrants have continued to come to the EU together with asylum-seekers.
		As the first step in creating a common EU immigration policy, the European Commission presented in November 2000 a communication to the Council and the European Parliament in order to launch a debate with the other EU institutions and with Member States and civil society.
		This was followed in July 2001 by another communication which proposed the adoption of an open method of coordination for the Community immigration policy, to encourage the exchange of information between the Member States on the implementation of the common policy.
	ec.europa.eu /justice_home/fsj/immigration/wai/fsj_immigration_intro_en.htm (2098 words)

	Immigration Policy
		Otherwise immigration policy was concerned mainly with quarantine stations, the responsibilities of transportation companies, and the exclusion of criminals, paupers, the diseased and the destitute.
		But after the massive immigration between 1903 and 1913, WWI and subsequent political upheavals and economic problems, a much more restrictive immigration policy was implemented and remained unchanged until 1962, when Canada's present universal and nondiscriminatory policy was introduced in stages.
		During the 1970s, immigration and population policies were officially reviewed, and a Green Paper on Immigration Policy and a report to Parliament (1975) by a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons were prepared.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0003961 (2304 words)

	U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility
		The credibility of immigration policy can be measured by a simple yardstick: people who should get in, do get in; people who should not get in are kept out; and people who are judged deportable are required to leave.
		Serious problems undermine present immigration policies, their implementation, and their credibility: people who should get in find a cumbersome process that often impedes their entry; people who should not get in find it all too easy to enter; and people who are here without permission remain with impunity.
		Policies regarding the eligibility of aliens for public benefits should be consistent with the objectives of our immigration policy.
	www.utexas.edu /lbj/uscir/exesum94.html (7651 words)

	immigration
		Immigration policy is a paradigmatic example of conflict of interest between ethnic groups because immigration policy influences the future demographic composition of the nation.
		By prescribing that immigration be restricted to 3% of the foreign born as of the 1890 census, the 1924 law prescribed an ethnic status quo approximating the 1920 census.
		The opposition to needed skills as the basis of immigration was consistent with the prolonged Jewish attempt to delay the passage of a literacy test as a criterion for immigration beginning in the late nineteenth century until a literacy test was finally passed in 1917.
	www.csulb.edu /~kmacd/books-immigration.html (16996 words)

	On Free Immigration and Forced Integration
		Immigration becomes immigration by foreigners across state borders, and the decision as to whether or not a person should be admitted no longer rests with private property owners or associations of such owners but with the government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and the ultimate super-owner of all their properties.
		In brief, while through his immigration policies a king might not entirely avoid all cases of forced exclusion or forced integration, such policies would by and large do the same as what private property owners would do, if they could decide who to admit and who to exclude.
		Indeed, though rarely noticed, the immigration policy of a democracy is the mirror image of its policy toward internal population movements: toward the voluntary association and dissociation, segregation and desegregation, and the physical distancing and approximating of various private property owners.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/hermann-hoppe1.html (2602 words)

	IRC Americas Program \| Toward A Comprehensive Immigration Policy
		Outside the policy community, the AFL-CIO and many progressive immigrant advocates oppose the introduction of new guest-worker or temporary worker programs because they contend that they will be used by business to undermine prevailing wage rates, obstruct union organizing, and deny workers their rights.
		Immigration is too important an issue—one that has defined our past and will be a key in defining the future of our nation—to be left to the kind of political opportunism that is now rife in Washington and in state capitols as politicians position themselves to play on the emotions of voters.
		The aim of a comprehensive immigration reform bill would be to effectively discourage all unauthorized immigration while working to ensure an adequate supply of labor to all sectors of the economy primarily through a combination of citizens and legal immigrant residents.
	americas.irc-online.org /am/3161 (4434 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies
		Recognizing that immigration was depressing wages for most workers and that it provided employers with an increasing supply of would-be strikebreakers that hampered union organizing, the Knights launched a full-scale attack on prevailing immigration policy.
		Although the subject of immigration, and its adverse effects on working people, was a frequent subject of criticism at the early annual conventions of the AFL, it was not until 1896 that the leadership formally raised the issue and offered its first resolution to reduce the level of immigration.
		Indeed, the hard lesson of labor history is that the more generous the immigration policy, the worse it is for all workers in their efforts to raise wages, to improve working conditions, and to secure employment opportunities.
	www.cis.org /articles/2001/back1001.html (7953 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education \| U.S. Immigration Policy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The annual immigration ceiling is further reduced to 150,000; the quota is revised to 2 percent of each nationality's representation in the 1920 census.
		Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) This nonpartisan "think tank" is devoted to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.
		Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) A center at the University of Minnesota, IHRC maintains archival and library collections, sponsors academic and public programs, and publishes bibliographic and scholarly works on immigration to the United States.
	www.closeup.org /immigrat.htm (4829 words)

	Immigration Policy Center (IPC)
		The failure of Congress and the White House to enact immigration reform legislation has led a number of policymakers to support local ordinances that target undocumented immigrants.
		The Immigration Policy Center hosted a teleconference on to discuss the paper, and compiled a list of additional resources on the issue of immigrants and crime.
		Finding Tomorrow's Immigration Voices: Part of the mission of the IPC is to encourage critical thinking by the next generation of immigration policy experts.
	www.ailf.org /ipc/ipc_index.asp (565 words)

	The Right Immigration Policy by Steven Malanga, City Journal Autumn 2006
		Those quotas helped cut immigration in half, though it was the Depression that truly ended the great migration, turning America into a net exporter of emigrants during the 1930s, as 60 percent of those who came for a better life left when the economy soured, according to the National Academy of Sciences study.
		Today’s family-based immigration policy has resulted in millions of Hispanic immigrants living in insulated, unassimilated ethnic communities, where their children retain the characteristics of their immigrant culture, including out-of-wedlock childbearing and a low valuation of education.
		A reformed immigration policy would result in fewer such enclaves, where the ethnic capital handed down by one generation to the next is out of step with what it takes to succeed in the American economy.
	www.city-journal.org /html/16_4_immigration_policy.html (3348 words)

	Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class
		The debate over the future of immigration policy in this country is expected to become one of the most pressing policy conversations in the year ahead.
		We argue that immigration policy must be connected to the larger conversation about America's squeezed middle class and those striving to attain a middle-class standard of living.
		Accordingly, the Drum Major Institute offers a lens through which to evaluate immigration policy that operates from the basic principle that immigration policy is sound only if it also helps to strengthen and expand America’s middle class.
	www.drummajorinstitute.org /library/report.php?ID=21 (841 words)

	Canada’s Immigration Policy - Council on Foreign Relations
		With its small population and vast tracts of unsettled land, Canada's immigration policy was initially fueled by a desire for expansion, with most immigrants settling in rural, frontier areas.
		In the early twentieth century, Canada began to control the flow of immigrants, adopting policies that excluded applicants whose ethnic origins were not European.
		Don DeVoretz, codirector of Vancouver's Center for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM) at Simon Fraser University, says the policy is designed so that economic immigrants will fuel growth in Canada, offsetting the cost of other types of immigrants.
	www.cfr.org /publication/11047 (2266 words)

	Immigration Policy in France (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As macroeconomic and industrial policy ceased to be divisive political questions in France—especially with the 1983 policy reversals of François Mitterrand's Socialist party—the political left and right seized on new societal issues such as immigration.
		By the early 1990s, even though immigration in all categories of legal entries had fallen, Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme-right National Front party was attracting a significant portion of the electorate with its demagogic demand to expel Muslim immigrants from France.
		And the emerging EU regime on immigration and asylum, negotiated by national interior and justice ministry bureaucrats, is also characterized by a general policy of restrictiveness.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/cuse/analysis/immigration.htm (1820 words)

	Border & Immigration Agency \| Law and Policy
		Whether you are working in the immigration advisory sector, or interested in learning more about the law and policy on immigration and asylum, these pages offer a detailed reference source for your information..
		The Immigration Rules are the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.
		If you are an asylum seeker or failed asylum seeker or if you have no legal basis of stay in the UK and are interested in returning voluntarily to your country of origin, there are a number of assisted voluntary return schemes available.
	www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk /lawandpolicy (518 words)

	Statewatch Observatory on EU asylum & immigration policy
		Statewatch Observatory on EU asylum and immigration policy
		EU measures or policies in the field of Freedom, Security, and Justice should not be based on the general presumption that migrants within the EU are to be treated as suspected terrorists.
		That is, one on the introduction of armed "air marshals" on flights in the EU and another on the immigration aspects eg: the joint deportation of asylum-seekers.
	www.statewatch.org /asylum/obserasylum.htm (8717 words)

	VDARE.com: A Progressive Indictment: Immigration Policy and Corporate Welfare, by Randall Burns
		The point for progressives: immigration policy is generally a form of Corporate Welfare.
		Especially insidious is illegal immigration’s interaction with the broad-based US tax system that—I would argue—is lax on taxation of concentration of wealth or monopoly influence.
		Legal and illegal immigration is a weapon in a vicious class war.
	www.vdare.com /misc/050127_burns_welfare.htm (1024 words)

	VDARE - Immigration Policy Stupid, Evil and Hurting Americans, by Peter Brimelow
		It is a stupid policy because there is absolutely no reason for it—in particular, Americans as a whole are no better off economically because of mass immigration.
		It is an evil policy because it second-guesses the American people, who have shown through smaller families that they want to stabilize population size.
		Unfortunately, our current immigration policy is consuming the environment with urban sprawl, hurting the poor and minorities with intensified wage competition, and ultimately threatening the American nation itself—what Abraham Lincoln called "the last, best hope of earth"—with cultural and linguistic fragmentation.
	www.vdare.com /pb/cc_times.htm (751 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Immigration Policy
		The report, to be released today by the Center for Immigration Studies, says the number of impoverished people in the nation's immigrant-headed households nearly tripled from 2.7 million in 1979 to 7.7 million in 1997.
		The report by the center, a Washington-based research group that advocates reduced immigration, uses information compiled in the 1980 and 1990 censuses, as well as information contained in the March 1998 Current Population Survey, to make its case that poverty in the United States is increasingly being driven by the nation's immigration policy.
		Immigration advocates objected to the report's conclusions, saying they overlook the proliferation of low-wage jobs in the U.S. economy as well as the contributions that immigrants have historically made to the nation, frequently through sheer enterprise and hard work.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/immig/immig.htm (770 words)

	Immigration Policy
		The view that immigration restrictions play an indispensable part in defining us as a nation, so that a failure to enforce restrictive immigration rules, to prevent cultural and demographic infiltration across our borders, would cause us to lose our identity in the resulting flood.
		In addition, from the perspective of the emigration/immigration dichotomy, the immigration phenomenon is clearly a two-way street.
		While state sovereignty allows the United States legally to disregard international standards, the United States' internal immigration policies may still be influenced by international condemnation or pressures placed on the United States by other countries.
	web.utk.edu /~tnlatina/immigpolicy.html (3308 words)

	MPI \| Research Project \| U.S. Immigration, Borders and Security
		Immigration reform is a stated priority for both the 110th Congress and President George W. Bush.
		Concluding that immigration is essential to US national interests and will become even more so in the years ahead, the Task Force recommended that the United States fundamentally rethink its policies and overhaul an outdated system to better reflect current realities.
		Its final report, Immigration and America’s Future: A New Chapter, details recommendations for policies that are needed both to harness the advantages of immigration in a new era and to minimize its inherent tensions.
	www.migrationpolicy.org /research/usimmigration.php (1489 words)

	Toward a Sensible Immigration Policy
		The assumption that policy should strengthen the rights of immigrants in the workplace forms one half of the Drum Major Institute's middle-class litmus test for evaluating immigration policy.
		A considered, legal immigration policy can be a benefit only if it isn't rendered worthless by rewarding illegal immigrants with the same rights as those who enter the country lawfully.
		It's also now accepted that excessive immigration is much more destabilising than trying to deal with the fiscal and social problems that arise as a result of low birth rates and an increasingly aging population.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=50618 (1106 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Immigration Policy - Decmber 12, 2001
		Since millions of people around the world want to live and work in the United States, the immigration system used by the federal government is often overwhelmed by the number of applications.
		Many people believe if a better immigration system was in place, many of the September 11 hijackers would not have been able to complete their deadly task and future terrorists won't be able to cause additional destruction.
		Others worry that relaxed immigration and security measures in the name of diversity and liberty could lead to another attack like the one on September 11.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/july-dec01/immigration.html (837 words)

	The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
		By working at the intersection of academic research and public policy, the program's primary goal is to promote reasoned dialogue on immigration that avoids simplistic formulations and examines immigration to the United States in the context of current law and global political and economic realities.
		Because an enforceable immigration policy must balance complex social, political, economic, and national security interests, the program's secondary objective is to foster a deeper understanding of the tradeoffs involved in formulating immigration policy so that the key elements of an enforceable system are identified.
		These objectives will be accomplished by providing credible, independent information on immigration and by bringing together stakeholders, expert researchers, and policymakers in a structured, interactive setting designed to illuminate issues, identify common ground, and explore solutions to the problems facing the immigration system.
	udallcenter.arizona.edu /programs/immigration/index.html (189 words)

	AEH: WORLD.DEMO: Immigration Policy and Economic Growth in Two Settler Economies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of the two, United States immigration policy at the time was more open to immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe while Australian policy provided considerable assistance to potential immigrants from the British Isles.
		Our approach is to develop quantitative estimates of the impacts of immigration on the rate of growth of GDP per capita under a variety of immigration scenarios.
		Transmission mechanisms include: capital dilution; increased demand for capital; increased labor-force participation; increased saving and investment; increased rates of inventive and innovative activities; economies of scale; and the importation of free "human capital" that had been paid for in the immigrant's country of origin.
	www.eh.net /pipermail/abstracts/2003-December/000083.html (203 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| U.S. Immigration Policy on the Table at the WTO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Center for Immigration Studies raises the additional concern that by including visa matters in the WTO, U.S. trade officials open the door for other countries to challenge U.S. immigration laws as barriers to trade in services subject to the WTO dispute resolution mechanism.
		Sarah Anderson is the Director of in the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies (www.ips-dc.org) and a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org).
		Immigration policies restricting the flow of “natural persons” would be considered a violation of the WTO rules because borders must be kept open for the movement of these international laborers.
	www.fpif.org /fpiftxt/2962 (4810 words)

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