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CCIS works extensively with the media to disseminate its research findings. Research content has been provided for more than 350 print and electronic news reports distributed nationally and internationally. The Center has produced 13 programs on immigration issues for public television. These programs have been broadcast locally, statewide, and nationally by UCSD-TV, UC-TV, and the Dish Network. In addition, CCIS has provided significant amounts of content for programs or segments on immigration policy that were broadcast by CBS “60 Minutes” (two segments, broadcast in 2005 and 2009), PBS “Frontline,” PBS “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Utah Public Television, CNN, NBC Nightly News, ABC Evening News, BBC World Service, and HBO Documentaries, as well as for several independent films on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The most recent stories in which CCIS-affiliated researchers appear are below. The full archive can be found here.

Immigration decline (San Diego Union-Tribune)
June 06, 2009

…When a team of researchers from the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD interviewed more than 1,000 people from a small town in the Mexican state of YucatÁn, they found that about 25 percent …

Mexico: Crimes at the Border (PBS | Frontline/World)
May 27, 2009

Read the extended interview here »

County not go-to spot for Latinos in region (San Diego Union-Tribune)
May 14, 2009

…”Migrants these days go where the non-agricultural jobs are, and where their relatives have taken up residence,” said Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego. …

U.S. Border Policy: How To Fix What’s Broken (Huffington Post)
May 14, 2009

…An eye opener: Wayne and his research team also found that U.S. Immigration enforcement away from the border area does not scare undocumented workers to return to Mexico. There is not yet enough enforcement activity …

Mexican Data Show Migration to U.S. in Decline (NY Times)
May 14, 2009

…But Wayne Cornelius, the director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, predicted that if the United States job market revived, border enforcement would become much less of …

Employers, not immigrants, targeted (San Diego Union-Tribune)
May 10, 2009

“…The depressed jobs magnet – particularly in construction – has been a deterrent to illegal immigration, said Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego. But work-site enforcement has …

And still, Mexicans come (Arizona Daily Star)
April 19, 2009

…Agents catch one in three border crossers, according to research from Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego. If that’s true, as many as 3,000 people …

Interpreting Mexico (LA Times)
March 25, 2009

…Wayne Cornelius
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
It’s very clear that the Obama administration is not going to get to comprehensive immigration reform this year. There are simply too many distractions. So …

Mexico’s drug war finally gets Washington’s attention (Los Angeles Times)
March 20, 2009

[this editorial was prepared with the research assistance of CCIS]
…A good start would be for the U.S. and Mexico to cooperate. The U.S. could shift some resources from immigration enforcement to fighting drug and weapons …

Recession Hits Migrant Workers (KPBS)
February 20, 2009

“Here’s another sign the economic recession is global. Money sent home by Mexican migrants last year fell for the first time on record. Economist say its part of a global trend that could get worse.
As …