Publications from the National Immigration Forum

See also:

• Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Issue Papers 
• Legislative Analysis

Immigration Basics 2010
Our publication covering basic facts and figures on immigrants in the U.S. and a basic explanation of U.S. refugee and immigration policies. Updated June 2010.

Date Published: June 2010 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document) 
Price: Free

Immigration and American Values are Synonyms
Remarks delivered to the National War College by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. Immigration enforcement schemes carried out in the absence of immigration reform do not make our nation safer.

Date Published: January 26, 2010 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document)  
Price: Free

Testimony of Brittney Nystrom, Esq., Senior Legal Advisor, National Immigration Forum before the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittee, “Moving Toward More Effective Immigration Detention Management,” December 10, 2009

Date Published: December 2009 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document)  
Price: Free

2008 Impact Report
A brief summary of Forum accomplishments and finances in 2008.

Date Published: April 2009 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document)  
Price: Free

Assets or Enemies: Securing our Nation by Enforcing Immigration Laws
Remarks delivered to National War College by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. This document argues that we must change our priorities in immigration enforcement. A critique of the way enforcement of our immigration laws has been carried out since September 11, 2001.

Date Published: January 27, 2009 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document)  
Price: Free

Out of Focus: The Hidden Crisis of the Latest Backlogs in Naturalization Processing
This publication highlights processing backlogs in applications for naturalization that developed in 2007, puts these backlogs in the context of a cycle of backlogs and promises to reduce them, and provides examples of the problems processing backlogs cause for immigrants waiting to become citizens.

Date Published: August 2008 
Author: National Immigration Forum 
Format: Electronic publication (PDF document)  
Price: Free