Hispanic Immigration and Select Commission on Immigration's Final Report: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, April 27, 28, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 200 pàgines |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
administrative American amnesty arrest believe border bracero program ceiling Census Census Bureau Chairman Civiletti Commission on Immigration committee Congress Congressional Hispanic Caucus Cuba Cuban DAVID CARLINER domestic workers effect employer sanctions enforcement estimates fact family reunification Federal flow foreign policy foreign workers GARCIA going Government gration H-2 program hearings Hispanic population ID card illegal aliens illegal immigration illegal residents immi Immigration and Naturalization Immigration and Refugee immigration laws immigration policy important increase issue labor market Latin America legal immigration legislation major ment Mexican Americans Mexican immigration Mexico migration million Naturalization Service number of illegal officers percent permanent residents persons political preference problem proposals question quota raids Refugee Policy resident aliens SCULLY Select Commission Select Commission's spouse statement status subcommittee temporary worker program Thank tion U.S. citizens U.S. workers undocumented workers United visas wage
Passatges populars
Pàgina 53 - If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now.
Pàgina 1 - Washington that the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment ". ' For approximately two decades, US immigration policy had labored under the archaic " National Origins
Pàgina 31 - My opinion, with respect to emigration, is, that except of useful mechanics, and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement ; while the policy or advantage of its taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned ; for by so doing they retain the language, habits, and principles, good or bad, which they bring with them.
Pàgina 13 - The total number of illegal residents in the United States for some recent year, such as 1978, is almost certainly below 6.0 million, and may be substantially less, possibly only 3.5 to 5.0 million.
Pàgina 54 - the most significant consequence of illegal immigration appears to be the creation of a two-class society." They argue that some significant job displacement and a general depression of wages and standards are the inevitable results of the presence of large numbers of workers without rights of citizenship who work at the bottom of the labor market and unwittingly "create and maintain substantial inequities in what is supposed to be an egalitarian society.
Pàgina 157 - US citizens) : 10 percent of overall limitation plus any numbers not required by the first three preference categories ; Fifth preference (brothers and sisters of US citizens 21 years of age or over...
Pàgina 10 - This review of the existing studies on illegal residents finds that there are currently no reliable estimates of the number of illegal residents in the United States or of the net volume of illegal immigration to the United States in any recent past period.
Pàgina 54 - ... view. And they make the unassailable but little-noted point that such workers represent only a temporary solution, as their aspirations and those of their children will rise; and they will resent and in their turn abandon jobs formerly sought, leaving an unreformed secondary labor market to attract a fresh round of desperately poor people who will be the next underclass. North and LeBel are convinced that Americans, white and nonwhite, would...
Pàgina 57 - The moral center is the ability to see beyond the immediate self-interest of a group we glimpse only in small daily increments and in only a few sections of the nation; to recognize that their potential numbers are so awesome that the sixty-odd exporting nations could pack our nation; to understand that this serves the interest of neither world; and thus to prefer the broader good of the poor in both sending and receiving societies (and also the broader good of the non-poor), which can only come...