Riots in prisons across Mexico point toward a crisis in the country’s penitentiary system

By Katherine E. Bliss, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 10/2008
Highlighting persistent problems related to overcrowding, faulty infrastructure, and internal corruption, the uprisings at facilities in the states of Sinaloa, Baja California, Nuevo León, Tabasco, Zacatecas, and Tamaulipas have left more than 60 prisoners dead, with dozens wounded. Law enforcement analysts attribute the increasing levels [...]

Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States

By Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix with Peter A. Creticos, Migration Policy Institute, 10/2008

More than 1.3 million college-educated immigrants in the United States are unemployed or working in unskilled jobs because they are unable to make full use of their academic and professional credentials, MPI reports in the first assessment yet of the scope of [...]

Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow

Pew Hispanic Center, 10/2/2008
There were 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in March 2008, according to new Pew Hispanic Center estimates. The unauthorized immigrant population grew more slowly in the period from 2005 to 2008 than it did earlier in the decade. The inflow of immigrants who are undocumented has now fallen [...]