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Tiny Bit of Good News – More Migrants Retiring Overseas, Not Here
| The United States is financially better off when people who would probably be eligible for various social benefits — such as Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, SSI, etc. — leave the country. You might call it the emigration of the elderly, something we rarely discuss. The good news is that the outward movements of such persons have been increasing, albeit slowly, over the last six years. Most of these are foreign-born. How do we know this? Read more... |
Morning News, 3/31/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. VP says no to amnesty during recession 2. DHS to shift focus to employer sanctions 3. NJ Gov. backs select recommendations 4. US employers expect fewer worker visas 5. Obama aunt becomes emblematic Read more... |
Morning News, 3/11/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. 75 Reps. called for stimulus E-Verify 2. Stimulus likely to give illegals jobs 3. Officials warn of radicalization 4. DOJ to probe AZ sheriff's efforts 5. Rep. wants focus on security Read more... |
Univision Reports Pressure on Obama to Take Direct Action on Immigration
| "Under immigration pressure" read the graphic that showed a photograph of President Obama on Univision's evening news Monday. It was the theme of a story that Univision anchor Jorge Ramos introduced by noting that "some activists want the president to do much more for the undocumented." Read more... |
Katherine Vargas on the State of Play in Immigration Reform
| Katherine Vargas, the White House director of Hispanic media, was interviewed yesterday on "Al Punto", Univision's Sunday morning talk show. Here are some excerpts of her responses to questions from host Jorge Ramos (my translations from Spanish): Read more... |
Morning News, 3/13/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. E-verify sustained through September 2. Congress passes religious, refugee visa bills 3. Experts debate immigration policies 4. Feds probing death at RI detention center 5. Mexico extradites BP agents Read more... |
Morning News, 3/19/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Wages rose in wake of workplace raids 2. Obama promises 'reform' in 2009 3. AZ BP sector reports criminal illegals 4. BP employing X-Ray technology 5. Parents neglected at schools Read more... |
Morning News, 3/10/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. E-verify currently in expired status 2. Stimulus to generate jobs for illegals 3. NC co. sheriff stands by 287(g) 4. Activists protest against 287(g) 5. Stimulus bans foreign bank hires Read more... |
The GOP's Immigration Reform Dilemma: Presidential Enforcement
| The president and the House GOP are each caught in a bind. Although the two dilemmas spring from vastly different origins, they share a similarity. They both have to do with trust. Read more... |
Morning News, 1/12/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Bush warns against appearing 'anti-immigrant' 2. Feds place emphasis on prosecutions 3. Obama talking with Mex. Pres. 4. Economy may delay Obama response 5. TX legislators consider policies Read more... |
Morning News, 4/13/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Admin. entertains amnesty 2. Census frets count 3. CA seeks more Fed. funds 4. VA crime stats released 5. Activists continue push Read more... |
"Firemen First " in Immigration?
| Whenever there's a partial shutdown of the federal government -- or even discussion of cutting government budgets, including at the state and local levels -- politicians often follow the "Fireman First Principle", described by Mickey Kaus this way: a clever bureaucrat, faced with a budget reduction, will threaten to cut not the least essential services but the most essential (in order to provoke public outrage that results in the budget reduction getting cancelled) Read more... |
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Morning News, 2/26/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. DHS boss orders review of raid 2. SCOTUS hears arguments on ID theft 3. 1m illegals may access benefits 4. Report critical of feds 5. TX agencies to work with feds Read more... |
IBM Settles Discrimination Claim
| I have written several times about visa abuse at IBM. I wish I could share everything on IBM that comes across my desk, but often the sender requests it only be used for background. When the eventual discrimination lawsuit does hit IBM, I am sure the discovery process will unearth a sewer. Read more... |
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Return of the 'E' Word
| National Review Online, August 20, 2013 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... |
Teleconference Transcript:
| A teleconference was held to discuss the findings of this report. The teleconference was moderated by Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at of the Center, and included speakers Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL). Read more... |
Rep. Labrador Meets the Press: Round 1
| "Meet the Press", hosted by David Gregory, is one of the nation's oldest and most respected Sunday news shows. Each week it invites noteworthy political leaders and opinion makers to deliver their views and discuss them with the host and in turn have them discussed by a panel of political commentators. Read more... |
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The Speechifying of Charlie Rose and Concerns of an Immigrant's Grandson
| Two comments in different media venues last week grabbed my attention. The first came from PBS interviewer Charlie Rose. The second on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal", came from the grandson of an immigrant from Mexico. Rose's comment came in an interview with Max Levchin, the Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal whose family immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine when he was a young boy. Read more... |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Immigration Case
| The answer to the headline's question in a recent immigration case is: "Right here, boss." I will get to the specifics in a minute. This is another instance of an obscure appeals agency, in keeping with the administration's policy tilt, reversing a sensible staff decision on an immigration matter. Read more... |
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Immigration Policy Decision-Making by Insulated Decision-Makers
| The elite establishmentarians who make immigration policy — senators, foundation heads, ranking federal officials, corporate CEOs, and their ilk — are totally out of touch with the mass of Americans who are impacted by those policy decisions. And the former's mas-migration decisions reflect this. The policymakers' kids and grandkids, of course, do not compete with international migrants for jobs at the bottom of the labor market. Likewise, the policymakers typically do not experience first-hand the impacts of over-population by, say, riding the New York subways. Read more... |
USCIS Warns of EB-5 Immigrant Investor Fraud
| U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has, belatedly, taken a useful step regarding the immigrant investor (EB-5) program. Together with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency this week issued a warning against middle-man fraud in the program. Read more... |
Home Sweet Home
| The Economist recently ran an interesting article about the Conservative Party in Britain and its longer-term strategy in preparation for the next general election to be held May 7, 2015. Three policies have emerged in the Conservative Party as central and believed to be popular with the people, and consequently destined to "put the opposition on the wrong side of popular opinion". Economics, of course, loom large. The policy of interest here, however, is not economic, strictly speaking: that of reducing immigration. In the UK, 11.3 percent of the total population is foreign-born, and there are some estimates of almost 900,000 illegal immigrants. Read more... |
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Like Fish in the Sea
| In 1937, Mao wrote in On Guerrilla Warfare about “the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops,” noting that “the former may be likened to water, the latter to the fish who inhabit it.” The image is as relevant to today’s asymmetric warfare against terrorists and drug cartels as it was to Mao’s war against the Japanese. Large, constantly refreshed and poorly assimilated immigrant communities serve as cover and incubators for our enemies, even though — obviously – most of the people in them are not included among the ranks of those enemies. I was reminded of this by two recent news stories. 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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