IMMIGRATION RESOURCES for JOURNALISTS
Dan Kowalski’s Short List:
http://dmkbb.blogspot.com/2007/12/kowalskis-short-list.html
U.S. Government:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, www.ice.gov, 202-514-2648
Customs and Border Protection, www.cbp.gov
Citizenship and Immigration Service, www.uscisc.gov
Department of Homeland Security, www.dhs.gov
Statistical Yearbook, www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/yearbook.shtm
Mexican Government:
Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior, www.ime.gob.mx
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, www.sre.gob.mx and news clipping service, Lazos@lazos.tralcom.com
Research:
Pew Hispanic Center, www.pewhispanic.org, 202-419-3600
Migration Policy Institute, www.migrationpolicy.org, 202-266-1910
Brookings Institution, www.brook.edu 202/797-6105
Inter-American Development Bank, www.iadb.org, 202-623-1000
Immigration Policy Center, AILA’s Foundation, www.ailf.org 202-742-5608
TRAC immigration project, Syracuse University. http://trac.syr.edu/tracdhs/index.html (315) 443-3563
Lawyers:
American Immigration Lawyers Association, www.aila.org 202-216-2400
ACLU, Nat’l Immigration Project, www.aclu.org, 212-559-2660
National Immigration Law Center, Josh Bernstein, www.nilc.org 202-216-0261
Bender’s Immigration Bulletin Daily Edition, www.bibdaily.com
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, (202) 463-5682 www.uschamber.com
Advocates, restrictionists:
Federation for American Immigration Reform, www.fairus.org, 202-328-7004
Immigration Reform Law Institute, www.irli.org
Center of Immigration Studies, www.cis.org , 202-466-8185
NumbersUSA, www.numbersusa.org, 202-543-1341
Americans for Legal Immigration, www.alipac.us, (919) 787-6009
Advocates, pro-immigrant:
Asian American Justice Center, www.advancingequality.org, 202-296-2300
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, www.maldef.org, 213-629-2512
Puerto Rican Legal-Defense-Education-Fund, www.prldef.org (212) 219-3360
Nat’l Immigration Forum, (202) 383-5989
Americasvoiceonline.org, (202) 261-2388
Freedom of Information Act:
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, www.rcfp.org
Yale Law School, Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/MFIA.htm
Movies:
A Better Life, The Visitor, Gangs of New York, My Beautiful Launderette, Namesake, El Norte
Bread and Roses, Dirty Pretty Things, Fast Food Nation, God Grew Tired of Us, The Terminal
Under the Same Moon, Born in East L.A.
Immigration Statistics and Studies:
Berkeley report on parent deportations
American Justice Through Immigrants’ Eyes
Most Frequently Requested Immigration Statistics
Friends and colleagues: Technical snafus have kept me off the air on justnews.org and ijjblog.org, but I’m working on it, and meanwhile you’ll find 99% of what you need on http://www.bibdaily.com. Thank you for your patience.