This award-winning documentary by Rebecca Cammisa premieres tonight on HBO. The film “shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.” To watch the trailer, click here.
“Immigrants are vital to recovery.”
Posted on August 24, 2009 | link
In this Philadelphia Inquirer editorial, a senior policy researcher for the Immigration Policy Center argues that a pathway to legalization for undocumented workers would increase their tax contributions and purchasing power, whereas deporting millions of undocumented workers (and consumers) and/or implementing the E-Verify system would cost taxpayers tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars. To read the article, click here.
CATO Institute Finds $180 Billion Benefit to Legalizing Illegal Immigrants
Posted on August 17, 2009 | link
In Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform, a new report released by the CATO Institute, the authors claim legalizing undocumented workers could contribute $180 billion to the U.S. economy over 10 years. To read the article and access the report, click
here.
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/
