Immigration Reform
Our immigration system in this country is broken. Executive action does not solve the problem but neither would any attempt at a mass deportation. The United States needs to identify the people who are here and ensure they are properly taxed.
June 27th, 2024
Crime committed by illegal immigrants is an important and contentious public policy issue, but it is notoriously difficult to measure and compare their criminal conviction rates with those of other groups such as legal...
June 13th, 2024
Texan Business and faith leaders and immigration policy experts met recently in Dallas to urge lawmakers and the Biden administration to enact policy changes that would allow long-term undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to...
May 30th, 2024
On Friday, May 31, at 9:30 a.m. CT, FWD.us, the American Immigration Council, Every Texan, the National Immigration Forum, the Texas Immigration Law Council, and the American Business Immigration Coalition, will host an...
May 23rd, 2024
Business, Political, and Faith Leaders in Houston Push for ID and Tax, Practical Immigration Reforms
Business, political, and faith community leaders met recently at the Center For Houston’s Future for an event titled Securing the Texas of Tomorrow: Building through Practical Immigration Reforms to examine how the broken U....
May 8th, 2024
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April 25th, 2024
Here is some good news for US businesses seeking to hire workers at a time of unprecedented workforce shortages. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Biden Administration is currently considering administrative ac
April 11th, 2024
Political debate in the modern world is only possible after memorizing a list of euphemisms, and there is no shortage of public opprobrium for those who talk about certain topics without using them.
March 27th, 2024
Immigration strengthens the U.S. economy and contributes to greater prosperity for all Americans. Immigrants help create jobs, raise wages, reduce inflation, and increase productivity and innovation.
March 14th, 2024
Along with broadening support for immigration reform, evangelicals are increasingly viewing the Bible as the most important influence on their thinking on immigration, with 4 out of 5 indicating that they would like to hear...
March 6th, 2024
As long as this practice, and the lack of a required ID, prevails, we will find it almost impossible to stop the surge at the border. The magnetic pull of jobs is so strong, people will keep coming illegally until we change...
June 20th, 2024
On Tuesday, June 18, the Biden Administration issued an executive order to create a method for long-term unauthorized immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens and can pass background checks to obtain work permits through...
June 6th, 2024
Thomas Sowell is an influential and prolific writer whose books span the social sciences. My shelves are full of them, decorated with underlines, marginalia, and dog‐eared pages.
May 23rd, 2024
The need for immigration reform in America is clear, and this year, there is an opportunity for President Biden to enact lawful protections for approximately 3 million undocumented individuals, benefitting Texas communities...
May 16th, 2024
A coalition of evangelical denominations and organizations recently submitted a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of a hearing about undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children...
May 2nd, 2024
New research from the American Immigration Council highlights the key role that immigrants are playing in the City of Dallas’ workforce and as taxpayers, consumers, entrepreneurs, international students, and more.
April 18th, 2024
Making employers the scapegoat for lawmakers’ intransigence didn’t work before, and it won’t work now. At the very least, if we want employers to keep the undocumented off their payrolls, they need tools that actually work...
April 4th, 2024
Throughout this election year, Civil Dialogues will host town halls on a variety of topics across the country at various presidential libraries, policy institutes and other forums to engage and educate Americans as they...
March 21st, 2024
Business leaders, immigration experts, and elected officials gathered at a recent event hosted by Amegy Bank and the Texas Association of Business in Houston, Texas, to discuss data that proves the significant po
March 7th, 2024
HOUSTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, March 2, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- About two hundred people gathered in person and online for the launch of Civil Dialogues at the Baker Institute at Rice University o
February 29th, 2024
A newly updated white paper by Dennis E. Nixon, CEO, International Bank of Commerce Laredo, and Texas Chairman, International Bancshares Corporation, discusses the current state of the border and proposes effective and...