Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue

Abstract

U.S. immigration policy is a highly contentious issue in the 110th Congress. The number of foreign-born people residing in the United States is at the highest level in U.S. history and has reached a proportion ofthe U.S. population not seen since the early 2Oth century. There is a broad-based consensus that the U.S. immigration system is broken. This consensus erodes, however, as soon as the options to reform the U.S. immigration system are debated. Senate action on comprehensive immigration refbn% legislation stalled at the end of June 2007 after several weeks of intensive debate. This report synthesizes the major elements of immigration reform in the 10th Congress and provides references to other CRS reports that fully analyze these legislative elements. It will be updated as needed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 23, 2007
Accession Number
ADA471746

Entities

People

  • Ruth E. Wasem

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Border Security
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Determinants (Mathematics)
  • Employment
  • Homeland Security
  • Human Population
  • Immigration
  • Immigration Control
  • International Law
  • Labor
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • National Security
  • Security
  • United States

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