National Immigration Forum

Policy Update: With Reform Stuck, Advocates Gear Up for Washington March

March 04, 2010

Since the last update, there has been no concrete action on immigration reform legislation. The leadership in Congress has been pre-occupied with figuring out the meaning of the Republican victory ...

Policy Update: Budget and Appropriations

March 04, 2010

The Administration submitted its budget for Fiscal Year 2011 in February, and Congress has begun to hold hearings on the Administration’s request. Some budget highlights: U.S. Citizenship and ...

How Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and Business

March 02, 2010

This fact sheet discusses how expanding E-Verify and making it mandatory would threaten the jobs of thousands of U.S. citizens and saddle U.S. businesses with additional costs. Expanding E-Verify now ...

The Year in Nativism

March 02, 2010

Nativist extremist groups increased nearly 80% in 2009, rising to 309 from 173 in 2008. The spike in the numbers over the last year is almost entirely accounted for by the rapid growth of the Federal ...

Reform Immigration FOR America: Congress, It’s Go TIme on Immigration Reform

March 11, 2010

Administration Makes Strong Commitment to Achieving Reform This Year Washington, D.C. — Today Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum and Chair of the Reform Immigration ...

President Obama Gets Ball Rolling on Immigration but Concrete Legislative Action is Still Needed

March 05, 2010

thousands to mobilize for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Washington, DC –Yesterday, La Opinión and Los Angeles Times reported that President Obama met with members of his Domestic Policy to ...

Game Changer?

March 15, 2010

As the New York Times put it on Saturday, there is “Nothing like 100,000 angry, frustrated, impatient marchers, representing millions of voters, to focus the Congressional and presidential mind….” ...

A Separate Reality

March 11, 2010

Images: (c)iStockphoto/Simon McConico; (c)iStockphoto/helenecanada There was a happy ending recently in the case of a man from China who was to be deported under rules set by an immigration law ...