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ImmigrationProf Blog
Press Release on Immigration and Crime from the Immigration Policy Center
Immigration Policy Center (IPC)...providing factual information about immigration and immigrants in the United States.For Immediate ReleaseCongressional Event Perpetuates Myth of Immigrant CriminalityCrime forum overlaps with restrictionist organization's lobby daysSeptember 10,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Nuanced Study on Immigrant Crime Recidivism
There are many studies on immigrant crime rates, many of them undermining the claim that we as a nation are undergoing an immigrant crime wave. The L.A. Times reports on…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Book: “Illegal People”
David Bacon, Illegal People How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (available sept. 1);For a schedule of coming book discussions and photography exhibitions, go to: http://dbacon.igc.org/IndexPS/schedule.htmlIn Illegal People, Bacon explores…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New State-Level Research Debunks the Myth of Immigrant Criminality
From the Immigration Policy Center:The persistent myth that immigrants are more prone to criminality than the native-born continues to circulate among politicians, commentators, and the public despite a century's worth…
ImmigrationProf Blog
On Immigrant Crime and Human Tragedy
We have been following the response to the recent tragedy in Los Angeles about a death allegedly caused by an alleged unddocumented immigrant. Now, a car accident in Iowa has…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ILRC’s Anti-Fraud Campaign
Unfortunately, immigrants often are victimized by unscrupulous notarios and others who claim immigration expertise. Here's once campaign against these practices waged by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center:ILRC Announces Major Immigration…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ILRC Anti-Fraud Campaign
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center Announces a Major Immigration Fraud Public Awareness CampaignWhat: Press Conference Announcing ILRC’s Anti-Immigration Fraud CampaignWhen: Friday, March 28, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.Where: ILRC, 1663 Mission…
ImmigrationProf Blog
PA Reps Issue Report on “Illegal Alien Invaders”
We previously have reported about the growing number of studies undermining the frequent claim that immigrants are responsible for an inordinate amount of crime. A task force to study immigration…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Looks Like Newt Gingrich is Running for President!
It looks like Newt Gingrich may be joining Mitt Romney and Rudy Gingrich and run for President on the backs of immigrants. Cox News reports that Gingrich, who it rumor…
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Russian Employee Arrested for Fraud
Suzanne Presto writes for Voice of America:U.S. authorities arrested an United Nations' Russian employee on Monday on charges of immigration fraud. From VOA's New York bureau, Suzanne Presto reports the…