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Also, some states are enacting legislation to give "illegals" 'in-state tuition' rights!  Democrats in Congress are crafting legislation to make it easier for illegals to obtain citizenship.  And, the Department of State is still issuing 'random' visas for easy entry into the U.S.!  -- rfh

From: kd Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 From: center@cis.org

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1. Backgrounder: A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty
2. Backgrounder: Religious Leaders vs. Members: An Examination of Contrasting Views on Immigration
3. Backgrounder: Immigration Policy in Free Societies: Are There Principles Involved or Is It All Politics?
4. Memorandum: Immigration-Related Provisions of Senate and House Health Reform Bills
5. Video: Three Years of Fraud in the U.S.: The Case of Manoj Kargudri
6. Blog: Marriage Fraud Bill--An Argument for a Targeted Approach to Immigration Reform
7. Blog: The American-Bashers Revisited
8. Blog: Dead on Arrival
9. Blog: Let's Abolish the Casino Visas – a Bit of Targeted Immigration Reform
10. Blog: Every City a Sanctuary City
11. Blog: Diagnosis for Congressional Dems: Battle Fatigue
12. Blog: Taqiyya in Immigration
13. Blog: Senate Amendments Seek to Plug Immigration Loopholes
14. Blog: Rhymes With Dumb: Legalizing Illegals Before They Even Immigrate
15. Blog: Insane Asylum
16. Blog: Who Profits from Casino Visas? Well, There's Williamsburg, Ky. (Pop. 5,143)
17. Blog: Rep. Gutierrez's Long Road to Al Punto
18. Blog: The Self-Censorship of a Would-Be Truth-Teller: Paul Krugman's 'Spots of Commonness'
19. Blog: Amnesty without Justice: Sacrificing American Children on the Pathway to Citizenship
20. Blog: Napolitano's Lack of Leadership on Secure Driver's License Legislation Leaves States Worse Off than Before
21. Blog: Taxpayers Losing Potential Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Casino Visa Program
22. Blog: Washington Post's Take on Illegals in Health Reform
23. Blog: Increased U.S. Financial Support for Foreign PhD Students
24. Blog: New PhDs with Temporary Visas Much Less in Debt than U.S. Counterparts

-- Mark Krikorian]

1.  A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty
By David North
CIS Backgrounder, January 2010
http://cis.org/irca-amnesty

Excerpt: By now most of us realize that the government handled the $700 billion bailout of the big banks badly. The money went out in a whoosh to the Wall Street outfits that had created the crisis, but without the needed regulatory changes to prevent its repetition.

Is Congress about to make a parallel mistake about the illegal alien population and give that group a blanket amnesty like the one it lavished on the (much smaller group of) bankers, without giving a thought to the inevitable impacts of such an action?

2.  Religious Leaders vs. Members: An Examination of Contrasting Views on Immigration
By Steven Camarota
CIS Backgrounder, December 2009
http://cis.org/ReligionAndImmigrationPoll

Excerpt: In contrast to many national religious leaders who are lobbying for increases in immigration numbers, a new Zogby poll of likely voters who belong to the same religious communities finds strong support for reducing overall immigration. Moreover, the poll finds that members strongly disagree with their leaders' contention that more immigrant workers need to be allowed into the country. Also, most parishioners and congregants advocate for more enforcement to cause illegal workers to go home, while most religious leaders are calling for putting illegal immigrants on a path to U.S. citizenship. The survey of Catholic, mainline Protestant, born-again Protestant, and Jewish voters used neutral language and was one of the largest polls on immigration ever done.

3.  Immigration Policy in Free Societies: Are There Principles Involved or Is It All Politics?
By Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
CIS Backgrounder, November 2009
http://cis.org/immigration-principles

Excerpt: Free societies with industrialized economies such as Canada and the United States are characterized by certain unique features. Among these is the fact that they both allow their citizens to come and go across their borders with few restrictions and they annually permit millions of non-citizens to travel, to conduct business, to visit, and to study in their countries with only minimal regulation. Both nations also allow some non-citizens to enter their countries and to work in competition with their citizen work-force for temporary periods under specific conditions. Furthermore, they regularly allow a generous number of non-citizens to immigrate or to take refuge as permanent residents and eventually to become citizens. It is primarily these latter situations, where work and residence issues arise, that pose the question whether years of experience have generated any principles that can guide policy makers when debates re-surface? Or, is it always simply a matter of political power and special interests at the moment that determine immigration policy on an ad-hoc basis?

4.  Immigration-Related Provisions of Senate and House Health Reform Bills
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Memorandum, November 2009
http://cis.org/immigration-related-health-provisions

Excerpt: The Senate's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, substituted into HR 3590, and the House-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962, each contain provisions that purport to bar illegal aliens from benefiting from certain health programs. But neither bill would satisfactorily or effectively keep unlawful U.S. residents from obtaining new health benefits — thus forcing American taxpayers to subsidize health care for illegal aliens and certain unscrupulous employers.

5.  Three Years of Fraud in the U.S.: The Case of Manoj Kargudri
By Janice Kephart
CIS Video, December 2009
http://cis.org/Videos/CaseOfManojKargudri

Excerpt: Kephart examines the case of Manoj Kargudri, an Indian national who exploited simple loopholes in our immigration system five times over three years to enter and remain in the United States. Kargudri was finally stopped at the San Antonio airport on August 28, 2008, by the Transportation Security Administration. He was not stopped because of his immigration violations, but rather because he had a one-way ticket to Washington and in his carry-on luggage were box cutters and a homemade battery strapped to his MP3 player. Luckily, he turned out not to be a terrorist, but the fraud in the immigration system allowed Kargudri to obtain a visa and enter and stay in the United States for three years before he was finally arrested and deported.

6.  Marriage Fraud Bill: An Argument for a Targeted Approach to Immigration Reform
By David North
CIS Blog, December 15, 2009
http://cis.org/north/marriagefraudamendments

Excerpt: Most of the conversation about immigration policy reform these days involves the word 'comprehensive', as if this is the best, if not the only, way to tackle the issue. (The latest attempt at a comprehensive bill will be introduced today.)

I argue that there also is utility in a more targeted approach – the use of a rifle rather than a blunderbuss – and that an excellent example of this is the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 (Public Law 99-639).

7.  The American-Bashers Revisited
By John Miano
CIS Blog, December 15, 2009
http://cis.org/miano/americabashers2

Excerpt: Recently I authored a posting titled 'The American-Bashers,' describing how those who seek to increase the supply of cheap foreign labor in technical fields have resorted to name-calling and the bashing of U.S. natives to promote their agenda. Apparently to prove my point, 'The Startup Visa and Why the Xenophobes Need to Go Back into Their Caves' by Vivek Wadhwa appeared just two days later. Its content reflects the current marketing campaign to sell more cheap foreign labor by promoting it as 'entrepreneurs.'

8.  Dead on Arrival
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, December 15, 2009
http://cis.org/krikorian/democraticamnestybill

Excerpt: Not all change is reform. Sometimes the status quo is better than proposed changes, and the new Democratic amnesty bill is a case in point.

9.  Let's Abolish the Casino Visas – a Bit of Targeted Immigration Reform
By David North
CIS Blog, December 16, 2009
http://cis.org/north/visalottery

Excerpt: Restrictionists should call them Casino Visas, and the awarding body, the Visa Casino. The terms are equally as accurate as Visa Lottery, but the negative implications are – appropriately – stronger.

A good way to tackle the needless expenditure of up to 55,000 'diversity' visas each year is to use the congressional Floor Amendment as a technique for targeted immigration reform, the subject of an earlier blog. If a majority of the members of a legislative body favor a measure, even one bottled up in committee, they can often bring up the matter on the floor; this is usually done in the shape of an amendment to another bill.

10.  Every City a Sanctuary City
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, December 16, 2009
http://cis.org/krikorian/statelocalauthority

Excerpt: The Democratic amnesty bill (HR 4321) is relatively modest in size, compared to other recent efforts, at a 'mere' 644 pages. But those pages are packed with juicy bits of open-borders goodness. I mentioned some of the highlights yesterday, here and here, but there's plenty more.

11.  Diagnosis for Congressional Democrats: Battle Fatigue
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, December 17, 2009
http://cis.org/kammer/battlefatigue

Excerpt: Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who was lead pollster for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, surveyed the political terrain this morning in a discussion with Charlie Cook of the National Journal, Democratic pollster Fred Yang, and Hotline editor Amy Walter. McInturff predicted that congressional Democrats, exhausted with the Obama agenda, will have little enthusiasm for immigration reform bills in the near future.

12.  Taqiyya in Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, December 17, 2009
http://cis.org/Krikorian/Taqiyya

Excerpt: The Democratic amnesty bill is almost like something I'd write as a parody. Sec 157, for instance, prohibits the arrest of any illegal or criminal alien on the premises of, or in the immediate vicinity of, a childcare provider, a school, a legal-service provider, a Federal court or State court proceeding, an administrative proceeding, a funeral home, a cemetery, a college, university, or community college, a victim-services agency, a social-service agency, a hospital or emergency-care center, a health-care clinic, a place of worship, a day-care center, a head-start center, a school bus stop, a recreation center, a mental-health facility, or a community center. Depending on how you define 'immediate vicinity,' that wouldn't leave much of anywhere to arrest illegal aliens, which is the point.

13.  Senate Amendments Seek to Plug Immigration Loopholes
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, December 18, 2009
http://cis.org/edwards/senatehealthamendments

Excerpt: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to try to force a Senate vote to pass health reform before Christmas. Not even a pep talk/arm twisting, when all Democratic senators met with President Obama at the White House Tuesday, could secure the votes needed to end a filibuster.

While his arbitrary deadline looms and the timing to break off debate dwindles, Reid's bill that he's revising behind closed doors seems to keep his immigration loopholes intact. That is, there's no indication Reid has fixed any of the several serious flaws in H.R. 3590 through which illegal aliens would get taxpayer-funded health care.

14.  Rhymes With Dumb: Legalizing Illegals Before They Even Immigrate
By David North
CIS Blog, December 18, 2009
http://cis.org/north/rhymeswithdumb

Excerpt: The proposed House amnesty bill (HR 4321) not only grants legal status to virtually all 12 million illegal aliens in the country, it also provides (in Sec. 317) legalization 100,000 wannabe illegals each year for three years who have not yet even set foot in the country. For a summary of the 644-page bill see here, and for the complete text see here.

15.  Insane Asylum
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, December 18, 2009
http://cis.org/krikorian/insaneasylum

Excerpt: Another thing the Democrats' amnesty bill would do is eliminate the requirement that asylum applications be filed within one year after the person's last entry into the United States. The deadline rule was passed by Congress in 1996 to incorporate into U.S. law a provision of the UN refugee convention that illegal aliens must be permitted to apply for asylum 'provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities.' One might think that a full year is a pretty broad definition of 'without delay' (the Republican sponsors of the bill originally wanted 180 days), but at least it's a deadline. But if the deadline were repealed, an illegal alien who'd lived here for years and finally gotten caught would again be free to concoct a bogus asylum claim in order to delay his removal. This would take us back to the bad old days when asylum claims were routinely used by immigration lawyers as a dilatory tactic and the backlog of unresolved asylum claims ballooned.

16.  Who Profits from Casino Visas? Well, There's Williamsburg, Ky. (Pop. 5,143)
By David North
CIS Blog, December 19, 2009
http://cis.org/north/williamsburgky

Excerpt: We all know that the benefits of immigration are highly concentrated, on the immigrants themselves, their family members, their lawyers, and their employers – and that the costs of massive (low-income) migration are spread almost invisibly throughout society in terms of lower wages for many workers, and higher costs for many taxpayers.

17.  Representative Gutierrez's Long Road to Al Punto
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, December 21, 2009
http://cis.org/kammer/gutierrezunemployment

Excerpt: Rep. Luis Gutierrez offered a curious set of responses to a question about how the high unemployment rate among U.S, workers affects his newly presented legislation (HR 4321) to legalize all illegal immigrants who entered the country before December 15.

18.  The Self-Censorship of a Would-Be Truth-Teller: Paul Krugman's 'Spots of Commonness'
By Stephen Steinlight
CIS Blog, December 22, 2009
http://cis.org/steinlight/spotsofcommonness

Excerpt: Krugman's 'spots of commonness,' his susceptibility to being infected by 'conforming falsities' or accepting 'silly conclusions' in order to go on leading his comfortable, privileged, high-profile but ultimately ordinary life is what likely caused him to retrace his steps. Through his silence, through a sin of omission, he disowned the truth and made meet obeisance to the politically correct household gods of his social universe, knowing them to be false gods whose worship has become a grave social danger. He didn't face the headman's axe: only the disapproval of his peers, but that was evidently enough to suppress a truth that might have helped millions of his countrymen.

19.  Amnesty without Justice: Sacrificing American Children on the Pathway to Citizenship
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, December 22, 2009
http://cis.org/mortensen/hr4321

Excerpt: The advocates for the 'comprehensive immigration reform' bill that was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 4321) claim that it is not an amnesty bill because illegal aliens have to pay a $500 fine, which is roughly 5 percent of the cost of the services of a good 'coyote' or alien-smuggler.

This means that for a $500 payment, illegal aliens will be granted total amnesty from the multiple felonies that they commit in order to get jobs – document fraud, perjury on I-9 forms and identity theft.

20.  Napolitano's Lack of Leadership on Secure Driver's License Legislation Leaves States Worse Off than Before
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, December 22, 2009
http://cis.org/kephart/realiddeadlinepushedback

Excerpt: A key secure driver's license deadline of December 31, 2009, has now been pushed back to May 11, 2011, due to the Secretary of Homeland Security's failure to push through Congress her top priority for this Congress: repeal of a law known as REAL ID that encapsulated the intent of the 9/11 Commission recommendation pertaining to state-issued ID security. For the past year, even before former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano's confirmation as DHS Secretary, she vowed to work closely with the National Governors Association to repeal the REAL ID law. Key issues the secretary had with the law, including the imposed deadlines she is now pushing back, she spent the year claiming she did not have the authority to do without congressional approval. We now find out she had the authority all along.

21.  Taxpayers Losing Potential Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Casino Visa Program
By David North
CIS Blog, December 23, 2009
http://cis.org/north/diversityapplicationfees

Excerpt: While I think the Casino Visa program is a terrible idea, as I argued in a previous blog – granting 55,000 totally needless 'diversity' visas by lottery to people with no U.S. connections – we taxpayers might as well get something out of it if it has to continue.

How about a quarter of a billion dollars a year?

22.  Washington Post's Take on Illegals in Health Reform
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, December 27, 2009
http://cis.org/edwards/illegalsexchange

Excerpt: Post editors aren't much concerned whether illegal aliens receive taxpayer-funded subsidies in the exchange to pay their insurance premiums. Yet that subsidy, which the Senate makes some attempt to prevent from going to illegals, unjustly would force lawfully resident Americans to pay their own plus foreign lawbreakers' health premiums. Paying tax money for illegal aliens' emergency care already happens and remains unchanged in the legislation. That's bad enough. But forcing extra payment on the backs of people living here lawfully would unduly make illegal residents better off than they already are and in many cases better off than their American counterparts. It's effectively a reward for breaking immigration laws. It's unjust, unfair, and partial. And such 'free' health care would increase even more the incentive to immigrate outside the law.

23.  Increased U.S. Financial Support for Foreign PhD Students
By David North
CIS Blog, December 29, 2009
http://cis.org/north/foreignphdsubsidies

Excerpt: Hidden within the pages of a newly released, highly regarded federal report on higher education in the U.S. are these facts: in 2008 there were more new PhDs with temporary visas than ever before, and their degree of reliance on American funding, always high, was higher than in earlier years.

24.  New PhDs with Temporary Visas Much Less in Debt than U.S. Counterparts
By David North
CIS Blog, December 31, 2009
http://cis.org/north/lessphddebt

Excerpt: A comprehensive survey of America's more than 15,000 new PhDs indicates that the ones on temporary visas, such as student visas, have much less debt than their U.S. citizen and permanent-resident (i.e., green-card holding) counterparts.

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