Resources
Online Briefing Materials and Resources
Tip Sheet for Localizing and Understanding
Immigration
There is no shortage of websites dedicated to or talking about immigration
but only a small handful that are worth checking regularly:
The Migration Policy Institute
(Known as one of the more balanced and well-informed
D.C. think tanks on immigration)
http://www.migrationpolicy.org
Pew Hispanic Center
(Some of the best demographic information related to immigration)
http://www.pewhispanic.org/
Center for Immigration Studies
(perhaps the best website from the restrictionist
camp)
www.cis.org
Investigative Reporters and Editors in Spanish
(a new section of the IRE website
that focuses heavily on immigration and related issues)
http://www.ire.org/esp/index.html
National Border Patrol Council
(the website of the Border Patrol union)
http://www.nbpc.net/
If you subscribe to PACER, it’s worth checking federal courts on a regular
basis to track cases of interest. This is particularly relevant for reporters
based in states along the border, but those cases can impact others spread
out across the country.
Talk to people in your community. Soccer coaches, restaurant owners, priests
and teachers. Don’t rely on public information officers or activists
to put you in touch with undocumented immigrants.
 If you would like to download the tip sheet, please click
here.
Agency
and Legislation Documents
 National Immigration Law Center: DREAM Act: Basic Information (109KB PDF)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Press Release: USCIS Proposes Significant Changes to the H-2B Program, Jan, 27, 2005 (157KB PDF)
CRS Report for Congress: Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs, May 31, 2005 (146KB PDF)
CRS Report for Congress: Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions, May 9, 2005 (40KB PDF)
CRS Report for Congress: Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol, May 10, 2005 (178KB PDF)
National
Immigration Forum Legislative Analysis: Analysis of NCIC Provisions in the Gang Deterrence of Community Protection Act of 2005 (169KB PDF)
Bender's Immigration Bulletin: Sanity for the Southwest Border (31KB PDF)
U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services Fact Sheet: Welcome to the United States:
A Guide for New Immigrants, June 7, 2005 (96KB MS Word)
Testimony of Jennifer Gordon, Professor of Law, on Employer Sanctions for
hiring of undocumented workers
Reports
 Persons Naturalized During Fiscal Year 2003 (16.5KB MS Excel)
Special
ABA Committee Report: The Canada-U.S. Border: Balancing Trade, Security and
Migrant Rights in the Post-9/11 Era (274KB MS Word)
U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services Fact Sheet: Military Naturalizations,
May 19, 2005 (98KB MS Word)
Florida
Immigrant Advocacy Center: Securing Our Borders: Post 9/11 Scapegoating of
Immigrants, April 2005 (1.69MB
PDF)
Migration
Policy Institute: Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implementation
of US-VISIT, June 2005 (199KB PDF)
 Alternatives
to Amnesty: Proposals for Fair and Effective Immigration Reform (Heritage,
2005)
"Fixing our
Immigration Predicament" (American
Enterprise, 2000)
The Case for Immigration Reform (FAIR, 2003)
News Articles
"Report Describes Immigrants As Younger and More Diverse," John Files, The New York Times, June 10, 2005 (11KB MS Word)
"Few
Visas, Fewer Resort Workers," Denny Lee, The New York Times, June 10, 2005
(34KB MS Word)
"Loophole
to America Migrants exploiting border law for non-Mexicans," Jerry Kammer,
Copley News Service, June 4, 2005 (45KB MS Word)
"We
Need a Deportation Deadline," (Editorial), Mae M. Ngai, The Washington Post,
June 14, 2005 (10KB MS Word)
Court Documents
United
States Court of Appeals, National Council of La Raza, New York Immigration
Coalition, American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Immigration
Law Center, National Immigration Forum, National Immigration Project of the
National Lawyer's Guild, Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition,
American Civil Liberties Union, National Employment Law Project v. Department
of Justice, May 31, 2005 (89KB PDF)
Immigration
Resource Links
News & Reports
Border Patrol seeks more personnel, might enlist citizen
patrols (GovExec.com, 2005)
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0505/051305c1.htm
Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the
Undocumented Population (Pew, 2005)
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=44
More Jobs for New Immigrants but at Lower Wages (Pew, 2004):
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=45
Omaha World Herald’s series on Immigration
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u
_pg=528&u_xid=917
Senator Kennedy’s Press Release & Bill Overview
http://kennedy.senate.gov/
~kennedy/statements/05/05/2005512A04.html
Senator McCain’s Press Release & Floor Statements
http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.
ViewPressRelease&Content_id=1569
Summary of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act
http://www.visalaw.com/05may4/3may405.html
Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics (Pew, 2005):
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=46
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000:
Trafficking in Persons Report (U.S. Dept. of State, 2005):
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/
What if Undocumented Workers were Gone? (NPR, 2005)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=4656828
Law, Policy, and Analysis
Association for Borderland Studies
http://www.absborderlands.org/2links.html
Borderlines
http://www.americaspolicy.org/borderlines/index.html
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/
Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies
http://usmex.ucsd.edu/
Human Rights Library
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html
Immigration Virtual Law Library
http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/vll/libindex.html
Legal Information Institute (Cornell University)
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html
?query=immigration
NIRA’s world directory of think tanks
http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/index.html#1
Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Rand Public Safety and Justice
http://www.rand.org/psj/
Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy
http://www.scerp.org/
Udall center for studies in public policy
http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/
University of California Migration Dialogue
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/
The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/
Advocacy Sites
The ABC’s of Immigration – H-2B Visas for Temporary
Nonagricultural Workers:
http://www.visalaw.com/01jan2/12jan201.html
American Immigration Lawyers Association
http://www.aila.org/
American Immigration Lawyers’ Association: Ties that
Bind: Immigration
Reform Should be Tailored to Families, Not Just Individuals :
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/tiesthatbind.asp
Backfire at the Border, Why Enforcement Without Legalization
Cannot Stop Illegal Immigration (Cato, 2005)
http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-029.pdf
California Rural Legal Assistance
http://www.crla.org/
Caring for America; Health Care Workers & Immigration:
http://www.ailf.org/pubed/healthcare_brochure.asp
(the need for immigrants to work in U.S. health care system)
Center for Immigration Studies
http://cis.org/
Citizens and Immigrants for Equal Justice
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/equalrights/index.html
Divided Families Unite
http://www.dividedfamilies.org/
Environmental Health Coalition
http://www.environmentalhealth.org/border.html
Fair Immigration Reform Movement
http://www.fairimmigration.org/wearemarie/
Farm Worker Justice Fund
http://www.visalaw.com/legallinks.html
(Monitors immigration-related legislation in Congress)
Federation for American Immigration Reform
http://www.fairus.org/
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
http://www.fiacfla.org/fiacpublications.php#92
Frontera Norte Sur (English)
http://frontera.nmsu.edu/
(News from U.S./Mexico borderland)
Global Competitiveness Project
http://www.ailf.org/pubed/pe_gcp_polrep.asp
(Discusses role immigrants play in keeping U.S. competitive on global scale)
Immigration Policy Center(AILA)
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/ipc_index.asp
Index and links to past issues of Immigration Policy in Focus (AILA)
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/ipf_index.asp
Nation of Immigrators (“A public policy blog on our dysfunctional
immigration system”)
http://www.nationofimmigrators.com/?p=22
National Lawyers’ Guild (National Immigration Project)
http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/
Pew Hispanic Center
http://pewhispanic.org/
Population Connection
http://www.populationconnection.org/
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
http://www.citizen.org/trade/
Government Sites
Census Bureau (Foreign-born population)
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign.html
The Center for Information Law and Policy (directory of federal
sites)
http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/
GAO Homeland Security and Justice Issues
http://www.gao.gov/homelandsecurity.html
Office of Immigration Statistics
http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/index.htm
Thomas (Legislative Information)
http://thomas.loc.gov/
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
http://www.ice.gov
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
http://uscis.gov/graphics/
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
http://www.cbp.gov
U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate
http://www.senate.gov/
US-Visit
http://www.dhs.gov/us-visit
General Resources
A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet
http://reporter.umd.edu/
A site listing
everything from maps to politics to sites to search tools.
American Journalism Review
http://www.ajr.org/
AJR reviews all stories and holds the most monumental and prevalent news stories
of the day. There is also access to wire services.
Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/
Published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, this bi-monthly
publication investigates the most pressing subjects in journalism.
Foundation for American Communications
http://www.facsnet.org/
Reporter’s
online journalism tools.
Gebbie Press
http://www.gebbieinc.com/
All
in one media directory.
The Journalistic Resources Page
http://www.markovits.com/journalism/jlinks.shtml
Links
to online journalism resources
Lexis Nexis
http://www.lexisnexis.com/
Lexis Nexis news content holds a vast majority of news articles from around
the country and around the world. It contains current news from all major sources
and archive possibilities.
News Link
http://newslink.org/
This newspaper index contains major news sources from around the country and
the world. All facets of journalism are offered, including but not limited
to television, magazine, and radio.
Niles Online
http://nilesonline.com/data/
Finding data on the Internet. Links to online government and private databases
that can be used for stories.
Poynter Online, The Poynter Institute
http://www.poynter.org/
A wide variety
of journalism related links and subjects are presented.
Reporter.org
http://www.reporter.org/
Searchable database of investigative stories and a collection of professional
forums and associations.
USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php
OJR holds articles detailing the face of journalism when affected by daily
groundbreaking stories.
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