Overview of Key Immigration Issues Facing the Immigrants' Rights Movement (Nov. 2009, prepared for the 2009 Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference).

Notable Litigation

Orantes-Hernandez v. Gonzales

• Court orders, news releases, etc. (11/07)

• Court Upholds Nationwide Injunction of Immigration Detention and Removal Processing Abuses (IRU, 10/5/07)

Barahona-Gomez v. Ashcroft (class action for suspension applicants)

• Deadline for filing motions to reopen extended to Mar. 20, 2005 (9/21/04)

• Court Approves Settlement (12/23/02)

• Final Court-Approved Settlement Agreement (12/6/02) (Word | PDF)

• Settlement Preliminarily Approved in Class Action for Suspension Applicants (10/21/02)

• Notice to Barahona-Gomez Class Members (9/23/02) (Word | PDF)

Escutia v. Ashcroft: Settlement Reached in Family Unity Class Action

• Court Gives Final Approval to Settlement in Family Unity Class Action (11/1/02)

• Settlement in Family Unity Class Action Preliminarily Approved (9/10/02)

• Notice to Escutia Class Members (8/26/02) (Word | PDF)

• Final Settlement Agreement (Word | PDF)

Information on Walters v. Reno Settlement

• INS Press Release and Q & A on Walters Settlement

• Text of Settlement Agreement

General Information about Immigrants

• Facts About Immigrants (PDF, 7/04).

• The Urban Institute's Children of Immigrants Data Tool (posted 8/09) "enables users to generate detailed charts of the characteristics of children age 0 to 17 nationwide and for individual states and [DC]."

• New State-Level Research Debunks the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Immigrant-Rich States Echo Same Story as National Trends (Immigration Policy Center, 7/17/08)

• Children in Immigrant Families: A California Data Brief (Children Now, 8/07).  Presents the most current data available on the health, education and family well-being of children in California's immigrant families, who represent 51% of the state's total child population.

• Immigration's Economic Impact (Council of Economic Advisors, 6/20/07).

• 2005 American Community Survey and Census Data on the Foreign Born by State (Migration Policy Institute, May 2007).  State-specific fact sheets about the demographic & social, language & education, workforce, and income & poverty characteristics of the foreign-born population.

• Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population in the U.S.: Estimates Based on the March 2005 Current Population Survey (Pew Hispanic Center study, 3/7/06).

• Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000 (by William H. Frey, Brookings Institution, 3/06).

• In Our Own Words: Immigrants' Experiences in the Northwest (Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, 2/14/06). (PDF) (Link is to the website of PCUN, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste / Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United.)

• The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market (PDF) (Congressional Budget Office, 11/05).

• Naturalization through Military Service (PDF, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 5/16/08) |  Facts About Immigrant Participation in the Military (PDF, NILC, 6/04)

• 2000 Census: Foreign-Born Population Data (5/02) (requires Excel)