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. subscribe to Walter Ewing's feed

Civil Rights Hotline Reveals 3 Dangerous Trends Following Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law

Posted on: Sep 8, 2012, Source: Immigration Impact

Anti-Latino discrimination is alive and well in Alabama, and has gotten a seal of approval from the governor and the state legislature.

Center for Immigration Studies: Best Way to Deal With Latino Vote? Ignore It

Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: Immigration Impact

How the nativist group is trivializing the 2012 Latino vote

Latino Share in Work Force Rises, Highlighting Immigrants' Crucial Role in Labor

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.

New Research Shows Many Ways Immigrants Benefit Maryland's Economy

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.

GOPers Try to Propagate Myth that Immigrants Steal Jobs

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.

Reality-Check: Immigrants Aren't the Cause of Minority Unemployment and Low Wages

Posted on: Mar 1, 2011, Source: Immigration Impact

Native-born workers get a small increase in wages as a result of immigration.

Obama’s 2012 Budget Reveals Conflicted Priorities on 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.

Nativist Group Comes Unhinged Over GOP's "Pledge to America"

Posted on: Oct 8, 2010, Source: Immigration Impact

FAIR is not pleased with the Republicans' promises.

Hard Evidence Contradicts Tea Party Propaganda On Immigrant Labor

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.

Change? Obama's "Crimmigration" Policies Mimic Bush's

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.

Nativist Group Blames Immigrants for Unemployment and Low Wages

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.

Restrictionist Front Group Still Pushing Green Xenophobia

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.

Nativist Group Discovers Most Immigrants Don’t Vote Republican

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

Studies Show Latinos Are Climbing the Socio-Economic Ladder of Success

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).

It's Time to Debunk the Fuzzy Logic That Plagues Immigration Policy

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.

Hardline Anti-Immigration Group Targets VA Immigrants ... and Kids

Posted on: Jun 16, 2009, Source: Immigration Impact

Educating U.S. citizens is an investment in our future, not a sunk cost.

Separating Fact from Fiction about Immigrants and Crime

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.