Studying Immigration: A Border Crossed

National Center for Border Security and Immigration

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Is Immigration a Racial Issue? Anglo Attitudes on Immigration Policies in a Border County*

Objective. This study assesses the association between Anglo aversion to Latinos, physical proximity to Latinos, and contact with ethnic minorities, with expressed preferences for immigration policies. Methods. Data were drawn from a telephone survey of San Diego County, California, residents (N5 549 Anglos) using randomdigit-dial procedures during 2005–2006 that was conducted by closely superv...

The Effect of Illegal Immigration and Border Enforcement

Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration

Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this ...

Measuring Illegal Immigration at US Border Stations by Sampling from a Flow of 500 Million Travelers

Five hundred million travelers enter the US yearly at a Port of Entry (POE) after an Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) interview. We describe a general method for sampling from a flow, and summarize results from random reinspections of travelers at 20 POEs. Analyses reveal that 47 in 5614 travelers (0.8% ± 0.24%) were erroneously granted entry. Results suggest INS intercepts 9.3% to 16...