The Truth About Employment-Based Immigration
Although big business likes to claim that our present high level of immigration is necessary for its survival and the robustness of our economy, the fact is that only a small fraction of today's million plus new green cards issued annually go to highly-skilled workers.

Immigration, Poverty and Low-Wage Earners: The Harmful Effect of Unskilled Immigrants on American Workers
The U.S. has a responsibility to protect the economic interests of all of its citizens, yet the immigration system, which adds hundreds of thousands to the labor force each year, is bringing in workers faster than jobs are being created. Moreover, only a small portion of admissions are based on skills or educational criteria, creating an enormous glut of low-skilled workers who struggle to rise above poverty.

Immigration and Big Labor
Over eleven million Americans are out of work and millions more are in danger of losing their jobs. One would think that, at this time, American labor unions would be stepping up to protect American workers, but just the opposite is occurring. Right now the largest labor unions in the U.S. are lobbying Congress to grant amnesty to millions of illegal workers, to stop enforcing laws against employers who hire illegal workers, and to keep up the flow of millions more foreign workers.

Interior Immigration Enforcement - Musical Chairs
The Obama Administration has launched a new worksite enforcement policy that ostensibly is aimed at employers and avoids the arrests of illegal workers that was an integral aspect of previous enforcement efforts. This new policy likely will have the effect of undermining any effective prosecution of employers for deliberately hiring illegal alien workers and leave the illegal workers free to seek a new job.

Employer Sanctions
News accounts of employer convictions or confessions of hiring illegal aliens

Examples of Serious Crimes of Illegal Aliens
News accounts of crimes that may have been prevented if the alien had been deported or stopped from entering the country illegally.

Immigration and Job Displacement
Mass immigration displaces U.S. workers with foreign workers willing to work for lower wages.

National Academy of Sciences Immigration Study
Analysis of the NAS 1996-97 study of the fiscal costs of immigration.

Low Immigration and High Economic Growth
America's experience with a low level of immigration shows that we do not need mass immigration to have economic growth.

The Cost of Immigration
A 1996 estimate (pre-welfare reform) of the fiscal burden on American taxpayers by Dr. Donald Huddle outlines $32.7 billion in costs from illegal aliens and $112 billion from legal immigrants.

Lower Wages for American Workers
Mass immigration drives down wages and working conditions.

Immigration and Welfare
Immigrant use of welfare programs is 43 percent higher than non-immigrants' use.

The Wages of Agricultural Workers
Experts disprove the claim that higher wages due to increased immigration enforcement would lead to a major increase in the cost of food.

Immigration and the Economy
Even studies estimating an overall gain for the economy from immigrant workers have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost to taxpayers.

Why Immigration Can't Solve the Social Security Deficit
More foreign workers means more future retirees creating an endless, and increasingly costly, treadmill.

The Costs to Local Taxpayers for Illegal Aliens
Summary fiscal cost estimates by state amount to $36.6 billion dollars annually for providing public K-12 education, incarceration and emergency medical care for illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children.

Employer Sanctions
Effective enforcement needed against employers of illegal aliens

Employment-Based Immigration
A tiny fraction of visas go to highly skilled professionals, and Americans are available for those jobs.

Other Classes of Non-Immigrant Admissions
Foreigners legally enter on a number of nonimmigrant visas some of which allow adjustment of status to permanent residence and legal work status, e.g., fiancés and spouses of U.S. citizens (K visas).

Free Trade Agreements
which provide for freer trade in goods and services, have also been used to limit the flexibility of the United States to adjust its immigration admissions downward. Congress has warned the Executive Branch to avoid including immigration provisions in future agreements.

Remittances to Mexico
Even as the federal government expands its criminal investigation of companies hiring illegal aliens, it has been helping those same workers send money home cheaply.

Foreign Students
Student visas are unlimited and are often used as a stepping stone to permanent residence, which does have limits. Unrealistic expectations are thereby created

Nonimmigrant Visa Types
An overview of nonimmigrant visa categories, including student, tourist, and business visas.

Visa Waiver Program
The VWP allows visitors from 27 countries to bypass consular screening abroad. The 9/11 Commission recommended ending the program.

The Costs to Local Taxpayers for Illegal Aliens
Summary fiscal cost estimates by state amount to $36.6 billion dollars annually for providing public K-12 education, incarceration and emergency medical care for illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children.

Other Classes of Non-Immigrant Admissions
Foreigners legally enter on a number of nonimmigrant visas some of which allow adjustment of status to permanent residence and legal work status, e.g., fiancés and spouses of U.S. citizens (K visas).