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Employment & Public Benefits-related Issues in Comprehensive Immigration
Reform Proposals |
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Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants: An Essential Tool in Fighting
Poverty (Jonathan Blazer & Josh Bernstein, CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW, Nov.-Dec. 2008). Immigration
reform that both broadly legalizes undocumented immigrants currently
here and legalizes future immigration flows would (1) improve the
economic well-being of legalized immigrants and their families, who are
disproportionately low-income; (2) have a positive economic impact on
other low-income individuals and on economic recovery and growth; and
(3) create political space for broader antipoverty legislation. |
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Immigrant Worker Issues in
Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
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Pulling at a Thread: Anti-Immigrant
Proposals Threaten Social Security Traditions. By
enacting the Ensign amendment, Congress set a dangerous precedent . . .
. If Congress is willing to start pulling at the thread of the
contributory principle underlying the Social Security entitlement
program, there is no telling where it will stop and who else it will
harm. (1/08; posted 2/19/08) |
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Confiscating Immigrants'
Contributions to Social Security. Proposals requiring
legalized workers to forfeit Social Security credit for their prior work
and tax contributions would impoverish future citizens, burden state and
local governments, frustrate efforts to correct Social Security records,
and undermine immigration reform. (5/10/07) |
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Proposal to Strip Workers of Social
Security Earnings Based on Prior Employment Status: Bad for the System
and an Affront to Our Values (2/28/07)
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2008:
Immigration Reform Legislation under
Consideration |
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Anti-Immigrant
Bills Threaten in the House. As members of Congress
left Washington, DC, for a two-week spring recess, the fate of pending
anti-immigrant legislation remained uncertain. (3/26/08) |
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NEW EMPLOYEE
VERIFICATION ACT OF 2008 (HR 5515) |
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Rep. Sam Johnson’s New Employee
Verification Act: Another Version of the Shuler-Tancredo Bill
(posted on the "Employment Eligibility Verification and
Antidiscrimination Protections" page) (3/21/08) |
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SECURE
AMERICA THROUGH VERIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT (SAVE) ACT
(HR 4088 / S. 2368) |
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Shuler-Tancredo Employment
Eligibility Verification System: Poorly Designed, Dangerous for the
Economy (posted
on the "Employment Eligibility Verification and Antidiscrimination
Protections" page) (2/14/08)
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2007: Immigration Reform Proposals/Legislation |
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2007
SENATE-WHITE HOUSE IMMIGRATION REFORM PROPOSAL |
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Analysis
and Information from NILC |
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Statement:
NILC Statement on Today's Cloture
Vote (Thur., 6/28/07) |
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Statement:
NILC Opposes Current Senate Bill
Because It Would Preclude Real Reform (6/25/07) |
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Analysis: How the Current Senate
Bill Would Preclude Real Reform (6/25/07) |
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NILC Statement on the Thursday, June
7, Senate Vote (6/8/07) |
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Update on the Senate's Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Bill: Interim Report (5/31/07) |
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NILC's Statement on the Senate-White
House Immigration Reform Proposal (5/21/07)
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Security Through Regularized
Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE Act) (HR 1645) |
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Text of
Security Through Regularized
Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE Act) (HR 1645)
(link to Govt. Printing Office website) |
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Analysis
and Information from NILC |
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NILC statement:
STRIVE
Act of 2007 Introduced (3/22/07)
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2006: Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Act of 2006 |
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S 2611) (Bill
that passed the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006) (PDF) |
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Analysis
and Information from NILC |
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Proposal to Strip Workers of Social
Security Earnings Based on Prior Employment Status: Bad for the System
and an Affront to Our Values (2/28/07) |
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The Economic and Fiscal
Effects of the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act
of 2006 (PDF)
(9/06) |
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Senate approves sweeping but
flawed immigration reform bill: The Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Act of 2006
(5/30/06) |
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Update on
amendments to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006:
Amendment that adds antidiscrimination, privacy, and due process
protections to the bill's proposed Employment Eligibility Verification
System passes.
Kennedy amendment to strengthen labor law defeated. (5/24/06;
posted 5/25/06) |
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Summary of the Title III Substitute
Amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
(S 2611) (PDF) (5/24/06) |
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Document fraud provisions in Senate
immigration bills could put legalization out of reach for millions (first posted 5/15/06;
revised 5/16/06) |
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Immigration reform and access to
public benefits: The return of an uneasy coupling (HTML |
PDF) (5/15/06) |
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Provisions of the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2006 That Affect Immigrant Workers
(HTML
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PDF) (posted
4/26/06) |
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Efforts stall
in Senate: Compromise bills contain mixture of generous and regressive
provisions that present legislators with tough choices (4/9/06) |
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Senate Judiciary Committee Approves
Sweeping Immigration Bill (3/30/06) |
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The Week Beginning March 26, 2006,
May Be Decisive for Immigration Reform (HTML |
PDF) (3/23/06) |
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Considering Flawed Immigration Reform Bill (3/2/06)
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Analysis
and Information from Other Nonprofits |
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chart comparing
four major immigration reform proposals
Prepared by the
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild,
Migration Policy & Resource Center, South Asian Network, and
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
(PDF) (English |
Spanish)
(6/5/06) |
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SUMMARY OF S 2611
Summary of the Senate immigration
reform legislation that passed the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006
(PDF) (National Immigration Forum) |
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compromise bill
(specter-hagel-martinez)
Analysis of the "Compromise"
Immigration Reform Proposal under Consideration by the U.S. Senate:
A Guide for Community-based Organizations, Hometown Associations,
Religious Groups, Unions, Street Demonstrators, and Other Organizations
Concerned with National Immigration Reform (Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law) (PDF) (posted
5/4/06).
(This material is posted here as a public service. The
analyses and opinions it expresses are its authors' and may not coincide
with NILC's position on the issues it addresses.) |
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compromise bill
(specter-hagel-martinez)
Analysis of the Legalization
Provisions of the Senate "Compromise" on Immigration Reform: A Flawed,
Inadequate, Anti-Worker Proposal (Center for Human
Rights and Constitutional Law) (PDF) (posted
5/4/06).
(This material is posted here as a public service. The
analyses and opinions it expresses are its authors' and may not coincide
with NILC's position on the issues it addresses.) |
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Section by Section Summary of the
February 23, 2006, Specter Chairman's Mark of the "Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2006" (USCCB, AILA, NYU,
NYSDA, NILC) (PDF) (3/1/06)
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2005: Border Protection,
Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437) |
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Border Protection, Antiterrorism,
and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (Bill that passed
the House of Representatives on Dec. 16, 2005) (PDF) |
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Analysis
and Information from NILC |
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How HR 4437 Would Criminalize
Immigrants (HTML |
PDF) (2/06) |
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How Helping an Immigrant Could
Become a Crime Under HR 4437 (HTML |
PDF) (2/06) |
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House
passes border and immigration enforcement bill: Immigrants, noncitizens,
even citizens face unprecedented assault on rights
(12/22/05)
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Other Immigration-Reform
Legislative Proposals |
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Securing America's Borders Act (S 2454)
(Introduced
by Sen. Frist) |
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S. 2454: Securing America's Borders Act (PDF) (posted
3/20/06) |
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Securing America's Borders Act (SABA): Section by Section Analysis (PDF) (posted 3/20/06)
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Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 |
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An Analysis of the Secure America
and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005
(PDF) (7/8/05) |
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A Summary of the
Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act
(S. 1033 / H.R. 2330)
(PDF)
(7/8/05, rev. 7/25/05) |
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NILC Statement Re: Newly
Introduced Landmark Bipartisan Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Legislation
(PDF)(5/12/05)
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Other legislation introduced or proposed prior to 2006 |
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Senators Cornyn and Kyl Introduce
the Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Control Act
(PDF) (7/21/05) |
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SOLVE Act: Democrats introduce
comprehensive immigration reform proposal (PDF, 5/20/04) |
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Statement
by the National Immigration Law Center on "Evaluating a Temporary Guest
Worker Proposal" (PDF, 2/12/04) |
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Important
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill Introduced by Senators Hagel and Daschle
(PDF, 1/24/04) |
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NILC
Reflections on President Bush's Immigration Reform Proposal: A Compelling
Vision But A Seriously Flawed Proposal (1/9/04)
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Immigrants' Rights Update Articles
(back
to IRU index) |
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Anti-Immigrant
Bills Threaten in the House (3/26/08) |
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Confiscating Immigrants'
Contributions to Social Security (5/10/07) |
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The
Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Senate's Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2006
(9/29/06) |
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Enforcement-only approach to immigration reform will give boost to the
most unscrupulous employers, EJC & NILC testify (8/17/06) |
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Immigration reform and access to
public benefits: The return of an uneasy coupling (5/23/06) |
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Document fraud provisions in Senate
immigration bills could put legalization out of reach for millions (5/23/06) |
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Immigration Reform: Senate Judiciary
Committee sets another markup session for March 27; May adopt provisions
from Kennedy-McCain bill; Frist also introduces bill
(3/23/06) |
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House
passes border and immigration enforcement bill: Immigrants, noncitizens,
even citizens face unprecedented assault on rights
(12/22/05) |
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A discussion of
immigration reform bills introduced in 2005 (9/16/05) |
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