Immigration: Web pages

American Immigration Lawyers Association

http://www.aila.org/

Click on Latest News for hot topics, press releases, legislation, and AILA Issue papers. The publications section (http://www.ailapubs.com/) contains lists of AILA publications by topic and title. 

Federation for American Immigration Reform / FAIR
http://www.fairus.org/
The FAIR website provides statistics, press releases, information about pending immigration legislation and reports supporting their view that U.S. immigration should be curtailed.

Links about Mexico, Migration

Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo/ Center of Research for  Development/CIDAC

http://www.cidac.org/ingles/linksof_mexico/migration.htm

Collection of links, to English- and Spanish-language web pages about Mexican immigration to the United States. Many of the links focus on farmworkers and Braceros. CIDAC is a think tank, researching Mexico's economic and democratic development.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund / MALDEF

http://www.maldef.org

U.S. Latino civil rights organization. The immigration section (http://www.maldef.org/immigration/) contains information about successful litigation and efforts to inform immigrants in the United States about their legal rights. The legal department section  (http://www.maldef.org/legal/) includes background information about MALDEF litigation strategy and pending litigation.

National Council of La Raza -- Immigration
http://www.nclr.org/policy/immigrat.html
Press releases and a list of publications on immigration policy.

U.S. Border Patrol

http://www.usborderpatrol.gov

Information about the Border Patrol, including a sector map and list of sectors. Information about the San Diego sector is available at:

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/fieldoffices/sectors/sandiego/aboutus.htm

U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/
The commission was created by the Immigration Act of 1990 and dissolved at the end of 1997. The web page contains links to binational (U.S.-Mexican) research (Binational study: Migration between Mexico and the United States / Estudio binacional: Migracion entre Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1997: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/binational.html), CIR reports to Congress, CIR research papers, and Congressional testimony concerning immigration, 1994-1996. 

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov

See By Topic: Equal Employment Opportunity, Hiring Foreign Labor (http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/). The Office of the Administrative Law Judges Law Library Immigration Collection  -- http://www.oalj.dol.gov/libina.htm -- has links to en banc decisions of the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals/BALCA decisions, Cases Involving Attestations by Facilities using Nonimmigrant Aliens as Registered Nurses/ARN decisions, and more.

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs

http://travel.state.gov

Includes links to information about student, immigrant and employment visas for foreign visitors to the United States, visa applications (http://travel.state.gov/visa_services.html), the visa waiver program, visa reciprocity and fees, and the Visa Bulletin.

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service/INS

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/

Source for INS forms, information about fees  (http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/formsfee/), links to immigration  laws, regulations and decisions  (http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/lawsregs/) and statistics (http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/). 

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Last revised: 6/18/02