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The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform...
....was my "agency". Clever, no?
A. Title of agency or organization?
U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
B. Where is home base (city/state/country)?
United States
C. Date founded?
USCIR was created by the Immigration Act of 1990; it was dissolved
on December 31, 1997.
D. Names of key spokespersons/officers.
Chair: Shirley M. Hufstedler
Vice Chair: Lawrence H. Fuchs
Executive Director: Susan Martin
E. What/who is key constituency or audience?
The American public; I think it supports those who are
anti-immigration, or at least those who would wish to control
immigration a little more.
F. What are the agency’s main activities?
USCIR was created to examine the United States’ immigration policies
and suggest reforms to current policies (or, polices that were
current between 1990 and 1997).
G. Mission statement? (you may quote mission statement if
available; use quotation marks!)
"The credibility of immigration policy can be measured by a simple
yardstick: people who should get in do get in; people who should not
get in are kept out; and people who are judged deportable are
required to leave." This is not so much an actual mission statement
as simply a three-pronged thesis of the issues that the Commission
believes should be reformed.
H. What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this
agency?
How to prevent illegal immigrants from entering this country; how to
make the United States less appealing to illegals; how to stop the
population explosion and subsequent shortage of resources caused by
immigration in general, and changing laws so that migrants who no
longer follow our society’s rules are no longer allowed to
participate in this society and are deported back to their country
of origin.
I. As best as you can determine, on what
evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its
informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.?
The Commission does (did) its own research, and subjected its
findings to Congress as recommendations for policies.
J. Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online,
give links)
Interim Report: U.S Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility
(http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/exesum94.pdf) Interim Report: Legal
Immigration: Setting Priorities (http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/exesum95.pdf)
Final Report: U.S. Refugee Policy: Taking Leadership (http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/refugee/full-report.pdf)
Final Report: Becoming an American: Immigration and Immigrant Policy
(http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/becoming/full-report.pdf)
Research Paper: Averting Immigration Emergencies (http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/respapers/aie-feb94.pdf)
Research Paper: Environmental Degradation and Migration
K. Give at least one citation about this agency from a
newspaper article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation
index to research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the
Migration Course Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:
http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html Briefly
state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the
article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of
this agency’s perspective on im/migration. Note: not a quote from
agency’s own web site!
*due to the length of time that the Commission has been dissolved,
there were no Arizona newspapers with information about it.
Nethway: Uncle Sam: Fix immigration
http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2006/02/01/20060201wacnethaway1.html
The Nethway article was about the proliferation of American jobs
that American workers do not want and that are filling up with
“foreign” (read: illegal) workers, who are then abused within the
system.
“In 1994, the blue-ribbon, bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration
Reform concluded an exhaustive study of the nation's illegal
immigration problem. The diverse panel unanimously recommended to
Congress that a standardized identity system had to be established
to permit the enforcement of employer sanctions and other
immigration laws.”
L. Any other issues of interest about the agency?
Not particularly
M. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? (You may
need to determine this from “reading around” in its position papers,
press releases, news reports, etc)
From the publications, as well as multiple critiques of the
Commission, it would appear that USCIR is against immigration.
N. Web site? Give URL
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/
http://www.brookings.edu/gs/projects/www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir:
This site is currently deactivated due to the dissolution of the
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