Immigration:
Government Reports, etc.
Information concerning Mexican President
Fox's state visit to the United States on September 5 and 6, 2001,
appears at the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010905.html)
and in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, vol. 37,
no. 36, September 10, 2001 at 1268-1278; http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/v37no36.html.
INS' southwest border strategy: Resource
and impact issues remain after seven years (GAO-01-842, August 2,
2001).
This
GAO report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, mandated by the
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), assesses the 1994
immigration law enforcement strategy known as Operation Gatekeeper in the San
Diego sector. The report concludes that illegal alien traffic has
shifted from urban to rural areas (mountains, deserts, and rivers) where
border crossers face a greater risk of injury and death. The report is available online at
the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov/.
Click on GAO Reports and search by report number (GAO-01-842) or
date.
U.S.-Mexico joint communiqué on migration, border safety (June 22,
2001)
An
announcement of binational efforts to insure the safety of migrants, law
enforcement officers and communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This
initiative is a follow-up to meetings in Guanajuato, Mexico, between the U.S. and
Mexican presidents in February 2001. Available at http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/traffic/01062201.htm.
Alien smuggling: Management and operations improvements needed to address
growing problem (GGD-00-103, May 1, 2000).
The
fourth in a series of reports to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees
mandated by IIRIRA. The topics explored are the nature and extent of alien
smuggling in the U.S., the INS strategy for combating it, and the results
of that strategy. The report is available online at the GAO website:
http://www.gao.gov/.
Click on GAO Reports and search by report number (GGD-00-103)
or date.
Illegal
immigration: Status of southwest border strategy implementation (GGD-99-44,
May 19, 1999).
A
report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, mandated by IIRIRA,
assessing the INS' progress in implementing the Attorney General's 1994
strategy to prevent illegal immigration during fiscal 1998.
The report is available online at the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov/.
Click on GAO Reports and search by report number (GGD-99-44)
or date.
Illegal aliens: Significant obstacles to reducing
unauthorized alien employment exist (GGD-99-33, April 2, 1999).
A
report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees mandated by IIRIRA,
assessing the success of the employment verification process created by
the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA).
The report is available online at the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov/.
Click on GAO Reports and search by report number (GGD-99-33)
or date.
Illegal
immigration: Southwest border strategy results inconclusive; more
evaluation needed (GGD-98-21, December 11, 1997).
Report
to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, mandated by IIRIRA. As the
title indicates, the report concludes that a formal evaluation plan is
required to evaluate the Attorney General's 1994 strategy to deter illegal
immigration by strengthening border enforcement.
The report is available online at the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov/.
Click on GAO Reports and search by report number (GGD-98-21)
or date.
U.S. Commission
on Immigration Reform
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/
The commission,
chaired by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, was created by
the Immigration Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-649) and dissolved at the end of
1997. This web page, from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
at the University of Texas at Austin, contains links to a binational
(U.S.-Mexican) report, CIR reports to Congress (Becoming
an American: Immigration and immigrant policy (1997); U.S. refugee
policy: Taking leadership (1997); (1995); U.S.
immigration policy: Restoring credibility (1994)), and
Congressional testimony concerning immigration (1994-1996). A
National Research Council study requested by the Commission,
The new Americans: economic,
demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration (1997), is available
online at http://books.nap.edu/books/0309063566/html/
along with supporting research in The immigration debate:
studies on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration
(1998) at http://books.nap.edu/books/0309059984/html/.
Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on international law.
Immigration-related issues in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
November 3, 1993. 103rd Congress, 1st Session.
An oversight hearing
on immigration-related issues of the NAFTA: 1) the probable impact of the
NAFTA on illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S.; 2) border management
and control; 3) the implementing language of NAFTA's immigration
provisions regarding temporary entry for business persons; 4) whether
Congressional support for NAFTA should be conditioned upon the Mexican
government's cooperation in preventing illegal immigration.
U. S. immigration policy and the national interest: Staff
report of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy.
Washington: U.S. GPO, 1981.
The
commission was created by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments
of 1976 (P.L. 95-412) and chaired by Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then president of
the university of Notre Dame. In what is often referred to as the Hesburgh
Report, the commission proposed revisions
to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Many of its recommendations were
incorporated into the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, IRCA.
Report of the Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1968.
The
commission was created by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments
of 1965 (P.L. 89-236) and charged with recommending whether numerical
limitations should be imposed upon immigration to the United States from
nations of the Western Hemisphere.
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IIRIRA
is the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 (P.L. 104-208)
IRCA
is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-603)
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