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Asylum Antics
| While media grannies are getting their knickers in a twist over the antics of a Missouri rodeo clown, a cascading, Mariel Boatlift-style immigration emergency may be brewing on the Mexican border. Fox reports: A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in San Diego, forcing agencies to rent hotel rooms for some undocumented families and release others to cities around the U.S. Read more... |
Using Financial Controls to Limit the Adverse Impact of Illegal Migration
| "No — no fences, no drones, no more agents; you do not need them; if you want to limit the impact of unauthorized immigrants make it difficult for them to send money home; we have the technology to do that right now." The source of this advice was an unexpected one; a Hispanic income tax consultant in a small, rural town on the Delmarva Peninsula; he was not terribly upset by the presence of lots of illegals in the workplace — "we need their labor," he said, but he was concerned about the financial ramifications of the illegals' presence in the country. "Many of them come to America to send money back home; if you limited their ability to do that, a lot of them would not come. Make it mandatory that they can send money home only with an electronic card of some kind, set a limit on those payments, and punish the wire transfer companies if any individual sends too much," he continued. Read more... |
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Immigration, Mainstream Media, and the 2008 Election (Updated December 2008)
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An Examination of U.S. Immigration Policy and Serious Crime
| Table of Contents Introduction Immigrant Crime as an Exaggerated Fear: The Evidence Immigrant Crime as an Underestimated Problem: Evidence and Practical Considerations Federal Immigration Law Enforcement: Procedures and Complaints Controlling Immigrant Crime: The Challenge Ahead Bibliography Introduction Read more... |
Farm Labor Shortages: How Real? What Response
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The Basic Right of Citizenship: A Comparative Study
| "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. United States Constitution, Amendment 14, section 1, clause 1 Read more... |
Dual Allegiance: A Challenge to Immigration Reform and Patriotic Assimilation
| Foreword by Newt Gingrich Introduction by Thomas L. Bock, National Commander of the American Legion, and Dr. Herbert I. London, President of the Hudson Institute *** Download this Backgrounder as a pdf Read the panel discussion transcript Read more... |
Illegitimate Nation
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Shortfalls of the 1996 Immigration Reform Legislation
| April 20, 2007 Statement of Mark Krikorian Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives The shortfalls of the 1996 immigration law come in two parts defects in the legislation itself and, more important, defects in the execution of the law. Read more... |
Senate Stimulus: 300,000 Jobs for Illegals? - 1 in 7 New Construction Jobs Could Go to Illegal Immigrants
| Related Publications: Blog Contact: Steven Camarota, sac@cis.org, (202) 466-8185 Read more... |
Catholics, Immigration, and the Common Good
| Click here to download a pdf version of this Backgrounder Fr. Dominique Peridans is an Associate Pastor at a Roman Catholic parish in Maryland. Read more... |
Illegal Immigrants Receive Billions of Dollars More from the IRS than They Pay in
| The July 7, 2011, report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration provides summary data from IRS tax returns that show illegal immigrants collected far more in dollars from the IRS than they paid in federal income taxes for each year in the period of 2005-2010, the total six-year net benefit amounting to about $7.3 billion. Read more... |
The Food Stamp Program Rewards Households with Illegal Aliens
| Readers, let us immerse ourselves in the convoluted language and thinking of the immigration policy world. You know, where "parole" is a good thing (you can, despite your apparent disqualifications, enter the country), and where "voluntary departure," which might sound positive actually means that you have to leave, albeit without shackles. Similarly, the double negative verdict of "cancellation of removal" is good news, because it means you can stay here (though you probably should have been thrown out). Read more... |
3,400 Border Patrol Agents on the Chopping Block
| In an amazing untold story reflecting President Obama's doubletalk on immigration, during Tuesday's town hall-style debate with Mitt Romney he claimed responsibility for putting more agents on our border than ever before. What he did not say is that come January 2, 2013, the president's failure of leadership could result in 3,400 Border Patrol agents losing their jobs. Also on the chopping block are 3,400 Customs and Border Protection inspectors, 932 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, and 802 ICE deportation and removal officers. Read more... |
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Does the Department of Defense Want the DACAs?
| Does our military establishment want to recruit anyone from the new set of amnesty grantees, those granted short-term legal status by Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program? Apparently not. Given the White House's glowing description of this population of illegal aliens, those who arrived before the age of 16 and were under 31 on June 15 of this year, one might expect that the Department of Defense would look upon them as a useful addition to the pool of potential military recruits. Read more... |
New Waiver Shields Sponsored Illegal Aliens From Penalties
| In the latest installment of the Obama administration's "amnesty by executive decree" scheme, DHS has announced the creation of a new waiver that will enable an unknown number of illegal aliens who have married U.S. citizens or who have moved here illegally to join naturalized family members to avoid penalties enacted by Congress in the mid-1990s. Read more... |
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America's Immigration System
| Center Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughn's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, entitled, "America's Immigration System: Opportunities for Legal Immigration and Enforcement of Laws against Illegal Immigration." Read more... |
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Utah Chamber Leader Threatens Senators Hatch and Lee with Recall
| Lane Beattie, president and CEO of the powerful Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, threatened Republican Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee with recall if they don't bow to the Chamber's demands for immediate amnesty for illegal aliens and their employers. Beattie characterized the senators' requests for more time to evaluate and debate the overhaul of the nation's immigration system as "absolutely ridiculous to me". Then he played the recall card: "Good night. Maybe it's time to recall and get some people who understand what we need in business because in businesses we need some immigration changes. (Click here to listen to Beattie.) Read more... |
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Two More EB-5 Projects, in Vermont and Virginia, Are in Trouble
| Hard on the heels of the news of the huge EB-5 fraud scandal in Chicago, two other EB-5 projects, one in Vermont and the other headquartered in Virginia, were reported to be in trouble recently. The Vermont case involved plans for building retirement centers, while the one in Virginia related to the production of small automobiles at a planned plant in Mississippi. Unlike the Chicago case — in which two developers were indicted on criminal charges — the two new cases do not involve any indictments. Read more... |
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Enforcement Declining Despite High Rates of Alien Crime
| For the first time since 2006, the U.S. Sentencing Commission is reporting a decline in the number of immigration cases in federal court, echoing other indications of a significant decline in immigration enforcement, despite continued high levels of illegal immigration. Read more... |
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New Amnesty for Parents and Nannies
| One of the first acts of the Obama administration's new ICE Director, John Sandweg, was to expand the president's amnesty-by-executive fiat beyond the so-called DREAMers to cover also illegal aliens who are parents or caretakers of children — anybody's children, anywhere, of any immigration status. Like the other decreed amnesties, this directive issued on August 23, is so broadly written that it could cover potentially millions of illegal aliens. It is the next step in the gradual dismantling of enforcement, and perhaps signals a White House understanding that it probably cannot get the mass legalization it seeks the old-fashioned constitutional way, through Congress, and that instead it must resort to the more familiar method of executive action. Read more... |
Stagnant Wages and the Connection to Immigration
| New data from the Census Bureau released this week confirm that while the economy is improving, incomes remain stagnant for all but the wealthiest Americans. Read more... |
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H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest
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Rethinking Purposes of Immigration Policy
| By Otis L. Graham, Jr. CIS Paper #6 May 1991 (Reprinted July 1992) Table of Contents Executive Summary The Elusive Goals of U.S. Immigration Policy Revealed Goals of Current Policy: Family Reunification A Second Revealed Goal: Admit Refugees A Distant Third Revealed Goal: Workers The Larger Result-Goal: The Demographic Transformation of America Read more... |
Outsmarting Smart Growth: Population Growth, Immigration, and the Problem of Sprawl
| http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2003/sprawl.html Download the .pdf version Panel Discussion Transcript Selected News Coverage Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Background Findings Policy Implications Conclusion Read more... |