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Removing Criminal Aliens and Protecting Public SAFEty
| There are major differences between the immigration bill passed a few weeks ago in the Senate and the SAFE Act, the immigration bill pending in the House of Representatives, especially in the approach taken toward aliens who, in addition to being in the United States illegally, commit criminal offenses. Read more... |
Investor Visa Program Gets Another Black Eye, This Time from the FBI
| The immigrant investor (EB-5) program got another black eye, this time from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the Associated Press. A USCIS-licensed regional center in South Texas, used as a conduit for funds in the EB-5 program, was raided by the FBI, which hauled away a Mercedes SUV and a "Texas-sized pick-up truck" belonging to the conspirators, according to a local reporter. Both apparently had been purchased with siphoned-off EB-5 funds, invested by wealthy Mexican nationals wanting to flee that country. The McAllen Monitor called it a "Ponzi Scheme" because new EB-5 investments were used to pay off other, earlier investors. Read more... |
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McCain, Pitching for the Gang of 8 Bill, Is Juuust a Bit Outside with His Facts
| Appearing at a public forum Tuesday in Arizona, Sen. John McCain made a pitch for the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate in June to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. But he cited public support for conditions regarding payment of back taxes and English language acquisition that are not in the bill. Read more... |
Immigration Enforcement: A History of Neglect
| If there's one thing that former Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) agree on, it is that the enforcement of our immigration laws have been (Secretary Napolitano), and still remain (Sen. Rubio), broken. In 2007, former Secretary Napolitano wrote in the Washington Post that, "No one favors illegal immigration. But there are upwards of 12 million people illegally in this country — people who work, who have settled their families and who have raised their children here. For 20 years our country has done basically nothing to enforce the 1986 legislation against either the employers who hired illegal immigrants or those who crossed our borders illegally to work for them. Accordingly, our current system is, effectively, silent amnesty." (Emphasis added) Read more... |
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DHS Terrorist Grant Goes to Obscure Island in Alaska
| Every year the Department of Homeland Security distributes funds to local government entities to help prevent terrorism and every year it makes some outlandish (but politically correct) grants to locations that are unlikely to attract any right-minded terrorist. Clearly New York, Boston, and Washington have been targets of terrorist attacks and the local defenses need to be shored up, but the grant-makers also have other, and more exotic, ideas. Read more... |
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Heal Thyself Archbishop – Moral Obligation Is Not a One-Way Street
| The Rev. John C. Nienstedt, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, asserts that "We have a moral obligation to provide those who have come here [illegally] with an opportunity for full citizenship." The archbishop's effort to impose a moral obligation on all Americans for the benefit of foreign nationals is nothing new and it is done with a high level of confidence that we will accept yet another moral obligation because of the guilt imposed on us by influential religious, political, media, and civic leaders. Read more... |
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention - and Realism: Canada's Wake-Up Call
| "Necessity is the mother of invention." Aesop's insight continues to be true in the various facets of life — both personal and societal. For immigration and immigration policy, too, necessity is the mother of invention. Actually, it is perhaps more accurate to say, in the case of immigration, that "necessity is the mother of realism". Necessity can be a reality check — much as we see in the Biblical story of the prodigal son, whose hunger (necessity) prompts his "coming to his senses" (Luke 15:17). Our neighbors to the north, known for their peaceful juxtaposition and quiet reserve, and also known as a nation that proactively promotes multiculturalism, because of necessity are re-evaluating their approach to and standards for immigration. An interesting recent Wall Street Journal article highlights this. Read more... |
Immigration: No Fix for an Aging Society
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Dual Citizenship and American National Identity
| Download pdf version Table of Contents Introduction So What? Some Basic Questions About Dual Citizenship The Domestic Context of Dual Citizenship Dual Citizenship and the Integration of Immigrants Dual Citizenship and Conflict: The War of 1812 Redux? Read more... |
'Jimmy Hoffa in a Dress': Union Boss's Stranglehold on Mexican Education Creates Immigration Fallout
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Estimated First Year Public Assistance: 1991 Immigrants, Refugees, and Other Settlers Projected Under House Immigration Reform Bill (HR 4300)
| Summary HR 4300, a major legal immigration reform bill now awaiting floor action in the House of Representatives, would result in the projected settlement of 1,642,000 immigrants, refugees, asylees and parolees in its first year in effect, 1991, and an estimated 8.1 new settlers by 1995. Read more... |
Immigration and Free Trade With Mexico:
| Summary: Free trade is likely to increase immigration from Mexico to the United States before ultimately slowing it. Read more... |
The Slowing Progress of Immigrants
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America's Identity Crisis: Document Fraud is Pervasive and Pernicious
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Postscript 9/11: Media Coverage of Terrorism and Immigration
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Crime & the Illegal Alien: The Fallout from Crippled Immigration Enforcement
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Amnesty Under Hagel-Martinez
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The First Principles of Immigration Policy
| National Defender (published by the Daughters of the American Revolution), September 1996 Both houses of Congress recently passed bills intended to reduce illegal immigration, although they decided not to reform our system of legal immigration. Immigration may continue to be a hot topic through this fall's presidential election campaign, and is likely to come up again in Congress next year or the year after. Read more... |
Controlling Illegal Immigration: There Are Ways, But Little Will
| Investor's Business Daily, March 21, 2001 "New data suggest that the U.S. has nearly twice the number of undocumented immigrants than officials thought - possibly 11 million or more, compared with earlier estimates of 6 million," the Los Angeles Times reports. Is this really a news flash? After all, the discussion of immigration in America has been based on the assumption that mass immigration from Mexico is inevitable, whether or not it is legally permitted. Read more... |
Immigration and Terrorism: Should the U.S. pare back immigration until it has full security measures in place against terrorism?
| The only realistic solution is to cut immigration across the board, regardless of the religion the immigrant claims to profess, and target our other security procedures at the smaller number of people arriving from abroad. Only in this way do we have any hope of limiting al-Qaeda's access to the United States. We fail to act at our peril. Read more... |
The Case Against Immigration
| The Washington Post, December 19, 2007 Amy Chua's recent Outlook article on immigration contains more common sense than one might expect from a Yale professor. Her calls for limiting family chain migration, encouraging assimilation and simply enforcing the law are long overdue. Her concern that we not erode the "unifying identity" that has made our country so successful is an urgent matter that too much of America's elite ignores or dismisses. Read more... |
DREAM Act Offers Amnesty to 2.1 Million
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Judge: Social Security Cards Not Valid ID
| Federal Judge Harry S. Mattice Jr. (Tennessee Eastern District Court), a former Republican Party chairman and Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney, has called into question the validity of describing a Social Security card as a form of identification. He was presiding over a case resulting from an ICE workplace enforcement operation earlier this year at five different poultry processing plants operated by Pilgrim’s Pride. ICE arrested 311 foreign nationals, 91 of whom were charged with criminal violations. Read more... |
Immigration Enforcement Disrupts Criminal Gangs in Virginia
| Immigration law enforcement has been a key ingredient in the success of criminal gang suppression efforts in Virginia, says a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies. As state lawmakers consider steps to address the illegal immigration problem this session, they should give high priority to institutionalizing partnerships between state and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and federal immigration authorities (ICE), as well as to immigration’s fiscal costs. Read more... |
Senate Stimulus: 300,000 Jobs for Illegals? - 1 in 7 New Construction Jobs Could Go to Illegal Immigrants
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