Reports Spur Debate Over Immigrant Detention Conditions July 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on immigrant detainee medical care, a federal court's dismissal of Arar v. Ashcroft, the National Guard leaving the Southwest border, and more. Women Migrants in Detention in Mexico: Conditions and Due Process June 2 — Approximately 400,000 migrants transit through Mexico each year in order to reach the United States, many of them women from Latin America. Gabriela Diaz and Gretchen Kuhner explain how the detention system's structure and new detention procedures affect women. Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America April 30 — Traditional gateways like New York and Los Angeles still attract immigrants. But metro areas including Atlanta, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Austin, Texas, have become new destinations for immigrants as Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell explain.

Indian Immigrants in the United States July 11 — The 1.5 million Indian immigrants residing in the United States accounted for 4.0 percent of all US immigrants in 2006. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Indian-born unauthorized population. Past Week Past Month Reports Spur Debate Over Immigrant Detention Conditions Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants in the United States Indian Immigrants in the United States Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrants in Suburban America Mexican Immigrants in the United States Foreign-Born Wage and Salary Workers in the US Labor Force and Unions Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era Iowa Raid Raises Questions about Stepped-Up Immigration Enforcement Chinese Immigrants in the United States Material Support to Terrorism — Consequences for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States    Arizona Hosts Groups on Both Sides of the Immigration Debate In no state is the immigration debate more polarized than in Arizona. Malia Politzer examines the proimmigrant and border watch groups active in the state and how they seek to influence policy.

Nonimmigrants from India and the United Kingdom made up more than one-third of all H-1B "specialty occupation" worker admissions in the United States in 2006. Click here for more information.

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