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All about immigration: Green cards? Citizenship?

About two-thirds of permanent legal immigration to the U.S. is family-based, compared with about 15 percent that is employment-based, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

May Day activists cheer state immigration laws

"The vacuum created by inactivity at the federal level is certainly a major factor, if not the major factor, in states' action on this issue," said Muzaffar Chishti, director of the New York...

Families look for relief from immigration bill

About two-thirds of permanent legal immigration to the U.S. is family-based, compared with about 15 percent that is employment-based, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Commentary: Too much misinformation surrounding immigration

According to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, D.C., the Obama administration spent nearly $18 billion on immigration enforcement last year.

Immigration reform can't wait | Guest columns | Fort Worth, Arlington, Northeast...

Fortunately, advocates have just received new impetus for the effort to fix the system in the form of a new report by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

Gov't spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement

The report from the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute says in the 2012 budget year that ended in September, the government spent about $18 billion on immigration enforcement programs run by...

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A job unfinished on immigration

A recent report on immigration enforcement from the Migration Policy Institute, touted in these...