If you are in the country illegally, it is a good idea to start paying taxes as soon as possible. Being able to prove that you’ve paid taxes might help you get legal status if immigration reform passes. Here’s how you can pay taxes if you’re in the country illegally. STEP 1. Fill out a . . .
Regular readers will remember guestblogger Kacie Jesus, the Utah mother of five whose husband Ray (a native of Guatemala who moved to the US legally in 1989, but remained in the country illegally after his visa expired) was deported in August 2011. As Kacie reported back in July, she decided to move herself and the . . .
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DREAM Act is an acronym that stands for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. It’s a piece of bipartisan legislation that would create a path to citizenship for certain undocumented/illegal immigrants who entered the United States when they were kids. The people who would benefit from DREAM Act legislation are sometimes referred . . .
I made The Other Side of Immigration while doing research in rural Mexico for my Ph.D. in political science. This film initially grew out of my desire to create a dynamic teaching tool for my students. The film has since won a 2011 Notable Video Award from The American Library Association and is widely used . . .
The two words sound identical when spoken, but they mean slightly different things. It all depends on whether you are talking about people entering a country or leaving a country. Immigration is the act of entering a new country. Immigrants are the people who do the entering. Since more people enter the US than leave . . .
Although high rates of migration to the US persist in major border cities like Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, and Nuevo Lardeo, you may be surprised to learn that Mexico’s border states have among the lowest levels of out-migration in the country. Most Mexican immigrants actually come from the center-west region of the country—from states like . . .
The US Census Bureau estimates that there were 37.6 million foreign-born people living in the United States in March 2010. The term “foreign-born” is how the Census Bureau refers to anyone born outside the United States. The foreign-born population includes naturalized citizens, non-citizen legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants. NOTE: 37.6 million is just an estimate. . . .
Twenty-two years ago, at the age of fourteen, my husband Ray Jesus fled Guatemala on foot to save himself from being kidnapped or killed. His country was in the middle of a civil war, and the military had already killed tens of thousands of indigenous people just like Ray, including his eighteen-year-old brother-in-law. After living . . .
A lot of unauthorized immigrants want to file taxes using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), but many don’t do so because they’re afraid the IRS will report them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Do unauthorized (illegal/undocumented/whatever you want to call them) immigrants put themselves at risk for deportation when they file taxes? In 2007, IRS . . .
Winner of the 2011 American Library Association Notable Video Award, "The Other Side of Immigration" explores the root causes of Mexican immigration like no other documentary.
