Stories by Walter Ewing
Walter Ewing is a Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC). He's a regular contributor to IPC's blog, Immigration Impact.
Posted on Feb 18, 2012, Source: Immigration Impact
The rising Latino share of the workforce highlights the increasingly important role that immigrants and their children play in labor force growth.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012, Source: Immigrant Impact
The report reaches a number of conclusions not only about the benefits of immigration to Maryland, but about which policies maximize those benefits and which policies stifle them.
Posted on Mar 14, 2011, Source: Immigration Impact
An economy with more people does not mean lower wages and higher unemployment -- it's simply a bigger economy. New workers actually create more jobs.
Posted on Mar 1, 2011, Source: Immigration Impact
Native-born workers get a small increase in wages as a result of immigration.
Posted on Feb 21, 2011, Source: Immigration Impact
With limited exceptions, Obama's proposed budget remains hostage to the insatiable appetite for enforcement measures that has fueled the growth of DHS for years.
Posted on Oct 8, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
FAIR is not pleased with the Republicans' promises.
Posted on Aug 9, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
A century’s worth of evidence demonstrates that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be behind bars.
Posted on Jul 27, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
The Obama administration has chosen to follow its predecessor in pursuing the criminal prosecution of unauthorized immigrants for minor, nonviolent offenses.
Posted on Mar 24, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
The portrait of the U.S. economy that emerges from a new FAIR report is one in which every misfortune since 1980 is somehow tied to immigration.
Posted on Mar 10, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
Blaming immigrants for pollution, dependence on fossil fuels, or the emissions systems on automobiles won’t fix the environment or the dysfunctional immigration system.
Posted on Feb 23, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact
In a stunning misreading of causality, the opponents of legal immigration are calling on the GOP to oppose immigration reform because immigrants don’t vote Republican
Posted on Dec 8, 2009, Source: Immigration Impact
Understanding poverty as a racial issue, as some anti-immigration advocates do, is to ignore a host of other problems (and successes).
Posted on Oct 21, 2009, Source: Immigration Impact
The Center for Immigration Studies' most recent poll is useful from a sociological standpoint. But when it comes to shaping policy, it's no better than a psychic consultation.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009, Source: Immigration Impact
Educating U.S. citizens is an investment in our future, not a sunk cost.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: Immigration Policy Center
Simple: Harsh immigration policies are not effective in fighting crime because the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
