Regulating Low-Skilled Immigration in the United States.
With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low-skilled foreign workforce, there is widespread agreement that the current U.S. immigration system is broken. Past reform agendas haveemphasized strengthening border security, incr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010
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| Summary: | With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low-skilled foreign workforce, there is widespread agreement that the current U.S. immigration system is broken. Past reform agendas haveemphasized strengthening border security, increasing the number of visas for foreign guest workers, and defining a path to legal residence for illegal immigrants already living in the country. When the Obama administration addresses immigration reform-asit has promised to do before 2012-should it pick up where previous reform proposals left off. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (61 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780844743714 0844743712 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
