The immigration context also shows the importance of an additional parameter: the impact of immigration on the size of the consumer base relative to its impact on the size of the workforce.
This is particularly true in the immigration context, because Congress, in the Immigration and Naturalization Act, made it clear that the enforcement of immigration laws is vested with the Executive Branch.
"It's unfortunate in the immigration context, because if an American citizen made a similar comment—and I'm sure many have—those [comments] aren't a problem".
In the immigration context, aggravated felons need not to have committed an "aggravated" crime nor a "felony" to be denied a broad range of protections and forms of relief.
Relatively minor, nonviolent crimes like burglary, tax evasion, and a broad number of drug offenses were now considered "aggravated felonies" in the administrative immigration context, even if those same crimes did not constitute felonies, aggravated or otherwise, under criminal law.
These means of exercising discretion in the immigration context have been used many times by the executive branch under Presidents of both parties, and Congress has explicitly and implicitly endorsed their use.
While Congress can set priorities, the Executive still holds great deal of power, and he can impound funds in the area of prosecutorial discretion, whether it is the criminal or immigration context.
Other studies have also found that such patterns of response may be reinforced in an immigration context [ 19- 21].
While both the pre and post immigration context can influence health and help seeking, [ 8, 10, 13] research rarely accounts for immigrant source region.
Increased risk was equal for both first and second generation immigrants, and this finding has led to a growing consensus that the development of psychotic disorders in immigrants is associated with sensitization to environmental stressors related to the post-immigration context [ 4- 8].
