Illegal Aliens

Introduction Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History

I 2001  U S Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered Rosario Hernandez of Garland, Texas, deported to his native Mexico. Hernandez, a 39-year-old construction worker, had immigrated to Texas from Guadalajara, Mexico, when he was a teenager. His removal was ordered on grounds that he had been convicted three times for driving while intoxicated—twice nearly twenty years ago an...

How ‘‘undocumented workers’’ and ‘‘illegal aliens’’ affect prejudice toward Mexican immigrants

Although the terms ‘‘illegal aliens’’ and ‘‘undocumented workers’’ are often used interchangeably to refer to the same immigrant population, they have very different connotations. The present study investigated why these two terms invoke different levels of prejudice. A group of undergraduate students (n1⁄4 269) were assigned to evaluate either ‘‘illegal aliens’’ or ‘‘undocumented workers.’’ Tw...

Comptroller General - OF THE UNITED STATES New Alien Identification System - - Little Help In Stopping Illegal Aliens

Are aliens among us?

A Queueing Analysis to Determine How Many Additional Beds Are Needed for the Detention and Removal of Illegal Aliens

Due to lack of detention capacity, tens of thousands of apprehended illegal aliens are released into the U.S. interior each year instead of being removed. We construct a queueing model of the detention and removal operations and estimate the model parameters using 2003 data from the U.S. Government. While current funding is for approximately 21,000 detention beds, we estimate that approximately...