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Feb 26, 2018

Neither Deportation nor Amnesty: An Alternative for the Immigration Debate Building a Bridge Across the Deportation–Amnesty Divide

This Perspective examines the current debate over individuals present in the United States without lawful immigration status, proposing that minor changes in existing immigration law offer a compromise solution for millions of individuals.
Commentary

Feb 10, 2017

Why a Travel Restriction Won't Stop Terrorism at Home

It's not unreasonable to seek a review of immigration, and refugee-vetting procedures make sense. But America's jihadist terrorists are not imported from abroad. They are mostly homegrown.
Podcast

Feb 9, 2017

Duration 43:40

Will Banning Travelers and Refugees Make Us Safer?

In this Call with the Experts, RAND's Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the nation's leading experts on terrorism and homeland security, discusses what we know about the perpetrators of terrorism in the United States.
Research Summary

Aug 4, 2016

Understanding the Costs and Benefits of State-Level Immigration Policies

State-level action on immigration policies is a contentious issue. RAND researchers developed a cost-benefit framework for classifying consequences of specific policies and assessed studies of specific policies' fiscal and economic impacts.
Press

Mar 8, 2016

State-Level Immigration Policies Grow More Common; Cost-Benefit Tool Offered to Assess Full Impact of State Actions

The expanding role of U.S. states in immigration policy raises questions about the consequences of state-level action. A cost-benefit framework identifies the economic and fiscal impacts of state-level immigration policies and how different stakeholders would be affected.
Research

Mar 8, 2016

A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies

This report uses a cost-benefit framework to classify potential impacts, by stakeholder, of specific state-level immigration policies; assembles empirical evidence of expected impacts; and assesses the rigor of cost-benefit analysis of the policies.
Commentary

Dec 7, 2015

If Terrorism Is Homegrown, a Visa Overhaul Won't Keep Americans Safe

Despite being the focus of renewed scrutiny, only three people involved in terrorist incidents have entered the United States via the visa waiver program in the past quarter-century.
Commentary

Jul 28, 2015

Should Undocumented Immigrant Youth Pay In-State Tuition to Attend College?

Undocumented children are entitled to free primary and secondary public education everywhere in the United States, regardless of their legal status. But when they finish high school, their options for college vary depending on the state in which they live.
Commentary

Apr 30, 2015

The Forgotten Cornerstone in the Immigration Reform Debate

The Executive Office for Immigration Review manages the U.S. immigration court system and thereby plays a pivotal role in assuring the timely processing of foreign nationals and the security of the nation and its borders. It should not be left out of discussions of immigration reform.
Nov 26, 2013

RAND Review: Vol. 37, No. 2, Fall 2013

Stories discuss U.S. and Mexican immigration and labor reforms; British, French, and German defense policies in the face of austerity; seven ramifications of the Affordable Care Act; and the cost-effectiveness of correctional education programs.
Commentary

Oct 24, 2013

Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for New Homeland Security Secretary

To ensure the Department of Homeland Security makes progress in the current constrained budget environment, its new secretary must put in place a strategic perspective to guide priorities for how to address the country's most pressing problems in disaster management, immigration reform, cybersecurity, violent extremism, and nuclear terrorism.
Commentary

Jul 15, 2013

Border Security Is Key to Immigration Reform

Two important aspects of border security bear continued attention: strategy must be developed as one part of a holistic system of immigration management and any progress on improving this system is reliant on having concrete and sensible objectives and measures of success.

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