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Appendix D: A Review of Statistical Aspects Contained Within Pending Immigration Legislation: A Letter Report to the INS, May 1983
Appendix D: A Review of Statistical Aspects Contained Within Pending Immigration Legislation: A Letter Report to the INS, May 1983
Pages 293-300
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Appendix A REVIEW OF STATISTICAL ASPECTS CONTAINED WITHIN PENDING IMMIGRATION LEGI SLATION: A LETTER REPORT TO THE INS, MAY 1 983 293
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In the interim, we propose the use of a violation ratio based on the number of The National Research Council is the principal operQ! ing age icy of the National Academy of Sciences and the Nahonal Academy of Engineering to scrod government and other organizahons
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2. Data collection aspects of legalization of certain qualifying The proposed legalization process presents a unique opportunity to obtain much needed information concerning a group about which virtually nothing is known.
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C ALEJANDRO PORTES, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University JACK ROSENTHAL, The New York Times, New York City MARK ROSENZWEIG, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota TERESA SULLIVAN, Department of Sociology, University of Texas MARTA TIENDA, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison JAMES TRUSSELL, Office of Population Research, Princeton University KENNETH WACHTER, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley DANIEL B
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The language in the two bills differs in only very minor respects. Essentially, a country cannot qualify as a pilot country unless the number of refusals to grant nonimmigrant visitor visas in the preceding fiscal year to citizens of that country is less than 2 percent of the number of nonimmigrant visitor visas granted or refused to such citizens.
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Currently, measures of the extent and variability over time of such errors are not known, but in our judgment if the proposed requirements are put into effect, the 2-percent threshold is likely to defeat the object of the proposed visa waiver legislation, removing from eligibility countries with very low true violation rates, and indeed probably removing all countries from eligibility. The Panel believes that tests of eligibility of this sort should be based upon measures that can be reliably evaluated, with probable error levels that are small in comparison with trigger levels.
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Objective findings on the progress of assimilation of the legalized population following enactment of the law would provide the basis for developing a consensus in regard to facts, bringing closer together the groups with highly diverse perspectives that have joined in the debate about proper immigration policy. Furthermore, the periodic updating of geographical and employment information on at least one group of former unlawfully resident aliens would be essential in realizing the potential value for law enforcement of statistical information acquired as part of the legalization program; this potential value was emphasized by the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy in its report.
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Efforts to obtain information about this even more inaccessible group through other approaches should continue. The value of information about aliens seeking legalization also would be greatly enhanced by parallel studies of legal immigrants and refugees.
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