U.S. may fall behind global race for talents with current immigration policies.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas warned Wednesday that the United States is at the risk of falling behind in the global race for talent peoples because of Washington’s current immigration policies. The bank released its 2010 yearly report and says U.S. needs highly-skilled foreign-born workers who actually contribute more to the American economy than take away.

According to latest statistics, immigrants with more than a high school education contributed $105,000 more in taxes than they used in public services, while lower-skilled migrants actually cost $89,000 more than they contributed in taxes during their lifetime. Fed senior economists pointed out that too much focus by Washington on illegal immigration causes federal authorities to miss that the legal system of immigration needs reform as well. He added, “45 percent of medical scientists and 37 percent of computer programmers are immigrants”.

Since 1996 the number of permanent resident visas is unchanged and more than 1 million skilled-workers still waiting from an employment-based green card from the government. Because of this situation, some have given up waiting or applying, while relatives of U.S. citizens and other legal residents or even refugees find it easier to acquire green cards.

Illegal Immigrant Population in U.S. Static in 2010, Study Says

The illegal immigrant population in the U.S. in 2010 was little changed from the previous year, according to estimates from a nonpartisan research organization. Unauthorized immigrants last year numbered 11.2 million, or 3.7 percent of the nation’s population, compared with 11.1 million in 2009, the Pew Hispanic Center said today in Washington.

People from Mexico comprise 58 percent of the total illegal immigrant population, according to the report, which uses figures derived from March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau sample surveys that measure portions of foreign-born residents. There were 3.5 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. in 1990, the report said.

The illegal immigrant population last year decreased in Florida, New York, Virginia, Colorado, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, while increasing in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, according to the study.

States Take First Step in Eliminating Birthright Citizenship

The state legislators from across the nation gathered for a press conference in Washington, DC to unveil legislation that they hope will restore proper application of the 14th Amendment by eliminating the automatic granting of citizenship to children born to illegal aliens. The State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) has written two bills for introduction in multiple legislatures that SLLI hopes will spur the federal government into ending the practice of granting birthright citizenship to children born to illegal aliens.

In the proposed legislation includes both a bill and a state compact. Mr Kris Kobach (Kansas’s Secretary of State) explained that the bill does not amend the United States Constitution or change the legal rights of any individual.  Rather, the bill serves to restore the concept of state citizenship and asserts states’ authority to establish requirements for state citizenship. Meanwhile, the compact would serve as an agreement among signatory states to distinguish the birth certificates of those born to illegal aliens in comparison to those born to legal permanent residents or citizens. Even after adopted by the states, however, the compact will not take effect until Congress gives its consent to the agreement.

At the press conference, state representatives from Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia and Arizona spoke in support of the legislation and each member will be introducing the legislation before his own representative assembly in the coming weeks. SLLI expects that legislators in at least 14 states will work to advance these measures on birthright citizenship.

Plans to Change U.S. Approach to Immigration Policy

The New York congressman Peter King plans to tighten border security and have more undocumented immigrants arrested if they cross the border, once he becomes the new chairman of the House’s Homeland Security Committee in next week. He believes strongly that Obama administration’s has not doing well in the border security and undocumented immigrant’s issues and he commanded Obama's immigration policies were failing.

"The Obama administration continues to display an obvious lack of urgency when it comes to gaining operational control of the border, which is absolutely critical" said Peter King.

His proposals will target private companies that hire undocumented immigrants and increasing federal support for local police to arrest. He wants more illegal’s arrested.

Arizona Immigration Law is wrong: Napolitano

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano agreed that Arizona's law to get tough on immigration is the wrong way to get local police involved in enforcement and she remembered district court ruling in July and that "we cannot have 50 different immigration enforcement teams across the country." Arizona is appealing the judge's ruling.

Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona, said in a Denver speech that there are better ways to involve local law enforcement in fighting illegal immigration, including the federal Secure Communities program that has been implemented in several hundred jurisdictions nationwide. Immigrant advocates across the country have criticized the fingerprint-sharing program as too broad.

So, we have to wait and watch how it will impact in Governor Election.

Who is the Next after Arizona?

After Arizona passed illegal immigration law (SB 1070) across the politician planned to introduce similar law in their states. Based on past enforcement policies and Republican support, four states (Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina) were likely to pass anti immigration law (copycat laws). Georgia gets support for tough immigration enforcement, like 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (It made harder for illegal immigrants to get state benefits). So the state likely to list SB 1070, recently the state restricted access for undocumented immigrants to some of its public universities. In the same way Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina lawmakers would try to copy Arizona’s law

Obama defends failed US Visa and immigration reform efforts

On Monday Obama said it will take time to change US Visa and immigration policies, he told on a Spanish-language radio programme. He said that even after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, it took years more for African Americans to achieve many of their goals. Let me say this as an African American: We worked for decades on civil rights, Obama said. "It didn't come after two years. People had to march, they had to have their heads beaten, they had fire hoses put on them . . . Change isn't easy. It doesn't happen overnight.

Many Latino voters have grown disenchanted over the signature issue of US Visa and immigration policy and the President is heavily courting Latino voters in the final days of the fall political campaigns.

Many people think millions of undocumented workers already in the U.S. while others insist, the country need tighter border controls to stop illegal immigrant.