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If you have any questions or comments about the repository, please email CIPC’s Communications Director, at ialegria@caimmigrant.org

We would like to thank all the organizations that gave us permission to post their valuable work in our repository. In addition, we would like to recognize the hard work and dedication of Adrienna Wong, who organized our documents.

Welcome to CIPC's research repository. For more than a year we have been working to locate and assemble a body of information - reports, research papers, and fact sheets - about immigrants in California and other parts of the U.S. Please take a moment to explore this collection of 180+ studies to aid you in your research.

The California Immigrant Policy Center is pleased to welcome you to a new resources page on our website. For more than a year, CIPC has been working to locate and assemble a body of information - reports, research papers, fact sheets and other documents - about immigrants in California and other parts of the U.S. that we could make accessible to those of you who visit our website. Please take a moment to explore this wonderful repository of information and research into immigrants, our communities and families.

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Building a 21st Century Immigration System
Date
May 2011
Description

On May 10th, 2011 President Obama reconfirmed his commitment to Comprehensive Immigration Reform during a speech in El Paso. Accompanying the speech, the White House released this immigration blueprint outlinint their thoughts on the content such a reform needs.

Demographics, United States, Education, Immigrants and the U.S. Economy, Immigration Policy and Reform, Border, Naturalization and Civic Participation, Legal Permanent Residents, Public Attitudes, Unauthorized Immigrants, Enforcement, Border Enforcement
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Unauthorized Immigrants Pay Taxes, Too
Date
April 2011
Description

Using estimates derived by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, the Immigration Policy Council finds that unauthorized immigrants are in fact paying billions in property, personal income and sales tax.

Immigrants and the U.S. Economy, Taxes, Unauthorized Immigrants
Report
Executive Action on Immigration
Date
March 2011
Description

In a Migration Policy Institute Report, researchers Donald Kerwin, Doris Meissner and Margie McHugh identify six ways the Obama administration could make the immigration system work better, without requiring an act of Congress. 

Immigration Policy and Reform, Border, Naturalization and Civic Participation, Unauthorized Immigrants, Enforcement
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Date
March 2011
Description

In their report of entrepreneurial activity, the Kauffman Foundation finds that the rate of entrepreneurship amongst immigrants has increased sharply since 2009.

Immigrants and the U.S. Economy, Economic Growth, Labor Force
Report
The High Price of Policing Immigrant Communities
Date
February 2011
Description

This investigative report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California explores the costs and consequences of policing immigrant communities. 

California, Immigration Policy and Reform, Language, Unauthorized Immigrants, Enforcement, Documenting Enforcement, Checkpoints & Impoundments, S-Comm
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