Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
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Meeting with the Mexican and Canadian presidents in Guadalajara, Mexico on August 10, 2009, President Obama said that comprehensive immigration reform would have to wait until 2010 to allow Congress to deal with health care, energy and financial regulation. Obama said that the US "can create a system in which you have strong border security, we have an orderly process for people to come in, but we're also giving an opportunity for those who are already in the United States to be able to achieve a pathway to citizenship so that they don't have to live in the shadows, and their children and their grandchildren can have a full participation in the United States."
On June 25, 2009, Obama met with a bipartisan group of 30 Senate and House members to discuss immigration reform. On August 20, 2009, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano met with 100 immigrant advocates at the White House; Obama paid the group a visit. The advocates urged Obama to push for immigration reform in 2009 and urged DHS to slow the effort to have state and local police receive training to enforce immigration law. The advocates formed the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) and pledged to push for comprehensive immigration reform.
E-Verify. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), chair of the Immigration Subcommittee, held several hearings to prepare for comprehensive immigration reform. Schumer criticized E-Verify, the now voluntary internet-based system that allows employers to submit the information presented by newly hired workers to be checked against government databases to ensure that they are legally entitled to work in the US. Schumer asserted that E-Verify is not accurate, cannot detect identity theft, and can lead to discrimination.
Migration News is produced with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacAurther Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and UCB Institute of European Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
Rural Migration News is produced with the support of the Colcom, Farm, and Giannini Foundations, and the UCD Gifford Center for Population Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two-years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
This network of researchers hosts seminars on labor and immigration issues affecting science and engineering workers, compiles and distributes information on these issues, and cooperates closely with the NBER's SEWP.
The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.
Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.
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