Resources and Credits
Research Sources
We’re grateful to the following resources for providing background information for this activity:
Special thanks to Andrew Becker of the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program.
Government
- Department of Homeland Security
- Energy Information Administration
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission)
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
Articles and Background
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- “American Immigration Law Foundation Presents Celebrity Immigrants”
- American Immigration Law Foundation, 2002
- “The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 commission), July 22, 2004
- “U.S. Financial Sector Is Losing Its Edge, Report Says”
- by Jenny Anderson, New York Times, January 22, 2007
- “Opposing view: Our economy is at risk: Laws, regulations put burden on U.S. firms trying to compete”
- by Charles Schumer and Michael Bloomberg, USA Today, February 13, 2007
- “Cosmopolitan Masala: Diversity Enriches Us All”
- by Philippe Legrain, YaleGlobal, 16 November 2007
- “Novelist McEwan barred from US”
- by Audrey Gillan, The Guardian (UK), April 1, 2004
- “Unfriendly, Suspicious, Arrogant... ”
- by Catherine Elsworth and Melissa Whitworth, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 23, 2006
- “British author detained 24 hours at border”
- by John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 1, 2004
- “Global Unease With Major World Powers: Rising Environmental Concern in 47-Nation Survey”
- Pew Global Attitudes Project, 27 June, 2007
- “Bolivia calls new visa rule for U.S. tourists 'a matter of reciprocity”
- by Dan Keane, Associated Press, September 11, 2007
- “Consular Services: Visas”
- Consulate General of Brazil in New York (BrazilNY.org), January 1, 2008
- “Brazil to fingerprint US citizens”
- BBC News, December 31, 2003
- “Rio starts ID checks on US flyers”
- BBC News, January 4, 2004
- “Practical Traveler; Tighter Borders, More Delays”
- By Susan Stellin, New York Times, March 7, 2004
- “Plenty of Apples, but Possibly a Shortage of Immigrant Pickers”
- by Lisa W Foderaro, New York Times, August 21, 2007
- “2008 Business Issues and Legislative Guide: Immigration”
- CalChamber.com, California Chamber of Commerce
- “Silicon Valley executives call for immigration reform for workers”
- Associated Press/International Herald Tribune, August 29, 2007
- “Coming to America”
- by Bernd Debusmann, Reuters, February 27, 2008
- “Survey of International Travelers”
- Discover America Partnership/RT Strategies, November 20, 2006
- “9/11 and Terrorist Travel: Staff Report”
- by Thomas R Eldridge, Susan Ginsburg, Walter T Hempel II, Janice L Kephart, Kelly Moore, Joanne M Accolla, and Alice Falk (Editor), National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, August 21, 2004
- “Visas that Should Have Been Denied: A look at 9/11 terrorists’ visa applications”
- by Joel Mowbray, National Review Online, October 9, 2002
- “Identity and Immigration Status of 9/11 Terrorists”
- Federation for American Immigration Reform, Febuary 2004
- “Immigration and National Security”
- Federation for American Immigration Reform, October 2002
- “Immigration and Terrorism: Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff report on Terrorist Travel”
- by Janice L Kephart, Center for Immigrations Studies, September 2005
- “California's Changing Climate: Water at risk as state warms”
- by Mike Taugher, San Jose Mercury News, January 25, 2007
- “Estimates of the Unauthorized Migrant Population for States based on the March 2005 CPS”
- Pew Hispanic Center, April 26, 2006
- “California WaterPlan Highlights”
- Department of Water Resources Bulletin, December 2005
- “California Energy Demand 2008-2018: Staff Revised Forecast”
- California Energy Commission, November 2007
- “Statement of Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- United States Senate, March 4, 2008
- “State and County QuickFacts”
- U.S. Census Bureau, January 2, 2008
- “U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2004”
- Immigration Statistics Staff, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, February 22, 2005
- “Table 4: Cumulative Estimates of the Components of Population Change for the United States, Regions, and States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007”
- Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, December 27 2007
- “Table 5: Estimates of the Components of Population Change for the United States, Regions, and States: July 1, 2006 to July 1, 2007”
- Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, December 27 2007
- “U.S. POPClock Projection”
- U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
- “Immigration to Play Lead Role in Future U.S. Growth”
- by Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center, February 11, 2008
- “The New Demography of America's Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act”
- by Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Julie Murray, Jason Ost, Jeffrey S Passel, Shinta Herwantoro, Urban Insitute Education Report, September 30, 2005
- “National Population Projections”
- by Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, February 8, 2008
- “The Overstayers”
- Pew Research Center, May 23, 2006
- “With Feds Stuck, States Tackle Immigration”
- by Daniel C Vocl, Stateline.org/Pew Research Center, December 13, 2007
- “Illigal Immigrants are Bolstering Social Security with Billions”
- by Eduardo Porter, New York Times, April 5, 2005
- “US immigration”
- Economist.com, February 27, 2008
- “2000 Cal Facts: California's Demographics”
- Legislative Analyst's Office, December 2000
- “Undocumented Immigrants: Myths and Reality”
- by Randy Capps, The Urban Institute, and Michael Fix, Migration Policy Institute, October 25, 2005
- “Of Bedsheets and Bison Grass Vodka”
- The Economist, January 3, 2008
- “A Fence in the North, Too”
- The Economist, February 28, 2008
- “Employment Verification Proposals Without Immigration Reform: Not Wise, Not So Popular, and Not Ready For Prime Time”
- National Immigration Forum, February 28, 2008
- “Immigration: Myths and Realities”
- PBS.org, August 30, 2007
- “U.S. About to Become Net Food Importer”
- by Ken Meter, Grist, February 10, 2006
- “How globalization is smothering U.S. fruit and vegetable farms”
- by Tom Philpott, Grist, August 30, 2007
- “U.S. Population Grows Due to Immigration as Infrastructure Weakens”
- by Byron King, The Daily Reckoning, February 13, 2008
- “Why don't all immigrants come here legally?”
- by Brady McCombs, Arizona Daily Star, March 9, 2008
- “100 Million More: Projecting the Impact of Immigration On the U.S. Population, 2007 to 2060”
- by Steven A Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, August 2007
- “International Migration Outlook, 2007”
- OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, 2007
- “Activists say firms exploiting immigrant workers”
- by Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff, Boston Globe, December 19, 2006
- “Arizona law targeting employers is pushing illegal immigrants out”
- Associated Press, February 29, 2008
- “Food and Agricultural Commodiety Consumption in the United States: Looking Ahead to 2020”
- by Biing-Hwan Lin, Jayachandran N Variyam, Jane Allshouse, and John Cromartie, Economic Research Service, USDA
- “Mass Immigration and Education”
- by Peter Brimelow, Common Sense on Mass Immigration,
- “ASJA Protests U.S. Visa Requirements for Foreign Journalists”
- American Society of Journalists and Authors, July 7, 2004
- “Top 10 Migration Issues of 2007”
- Migration Policy Institute, December 2007
- “Estimating the Foreign-Born Population on a Current Basis”
- by Georges Lemaitre and Cécile Thoreau, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, December 2006
- “Backlog Elimination Plan”
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, December 11, 2006
More Information
Explore each candidate’s immigration policies.
- Hillary Clinton
- www.hillaryclinton.com
- Barack Obama
- www.barackobama.com
- John McCain
- www.johnmccain.com
Organizations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- www.aila.org
- Center for Immigration Studies
- www.cis.org
- Common Sense on Mass Immigration
- www.commonsenseonmassimmigration.us
- Federation for American Immigration Reform
- www.fairus.org
- Migration Policy Institute
- www.migrationpolicy.org
- Pew Research Center
- www.pewresearch.org
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- www.splcenter.org
- The Urban Institute
- www.urban.org
Credits
- Researched and written by Keith Laidlaw
- Produced and edited by Meghan Laslocky
- Designed by Rick Elizaga and Eric Westby
- Created by KQED Interactive
- In memory of Sean Fagan
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