Center for Immigration Studies, articles Aug-Sep 2009

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1. Backgrounder: 'Catholics, Immigration, and the Common Good'
2. Memorandum: 'Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers'
3. Memorandum: 'Health Reform Legislation and Immigration'
4. Memorandum: 'Facts on Immigration and Health Insurance'
5. Blog: 'Two Staffers Featured on Lou Dobbs'
6. Blog: 'Our Borders 8 Years Later'
7. Blog: 'An Irony Within the Immigration Policy Debate'
8. Blog: ''There You Go Again''
9. Blog: 'Immigration/Population Concerns Rise in Britain'
10. Blog: 'Education in Mexico: Calderon's Vision Meets Test Results'
11. Blog: 'Not Much of a Debate'
12. Blog: 'We're Taking Refugees from Where?'
13. Blog: 'Mexico's Twin Tales of Astronaut Jose Hernandez'
14. Blog: 'And the Farmers Are Demanding Even More Foreign Labor?!'
15. Blog: Krikorian Discusses Health Care Issue
16. Blog: 'Mexico's Rising Fear of Social Unrest'
17. Blog: 'A Modified Limited Hangout'
18. Video: 'Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts to Debate Impact of Current Policies'
19. Video: The Elephant in the Room: Panel on Immigration's Impact on Health Care Reform'
20. Blog: 'Is the Congressional Research Service Making 'False Claims' Too?
21. Blog: 'Jorge Ramos's Problem with President Obama'
22. Blog: 'Mission Impossible for Secretary Napolitano?'
23. Blog: 'Does the Health Care Bill Bar Illegal Aliens from Taxpayer Funds? Not Really'
24. Blog: 'Protesting Too Much, or Acknowledging Too Little'
25. Blog: 'Politicians Do It Comprehensively'
26. Blog: 'USA Today Backs REAL ID'
27. Blog: 'Nativo Lopez to Census: Count Me Out!'

-- Mark Krikorian]

1.
Catholics, Immigration, and the Common Good
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Backgrounder,August 2009
http://cis.org/catholics-and-immigration

Excerpt: The following are considerations offered by someone engaged in the complex arena of Christian ministry. They are reflections by a Christian pastor, a minister in the Roman Catholic tradition, prompted by a statement on immigration issued in November 2007 by the three Bishops of Maryland — Edwin F. O'Brien of Baltimore, Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, and Michael A. Saltarelli of Wilmington — entitled "Where All Find a Home: A Catholic Response to Immigration." Return to Top
 
2.
Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers
By Steven Camarota
CIS Memorandum, September 2009
http://cis.org/IllegalsAndHealthCareHR3200

Excerpt: Based on our analysis of Census Bureau data, we estimate that there are 6.6 million uninsured illegal immigrants in the United States who could be covered by the new health care reform bill (HR 3200). Even though HR 3200 states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the proposed taxpayer-funded affordable premium credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this. An amendment was defeated in committee that would have required the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, used by almost all other means-tested programs of this kind. Return to Top 

3.
Health Reform Legislation and Immigration
By James Edwards,
CIS Memorandum, August 25,2009
http://cis.org/IllegalHealthcareReform

Excerpt: Immigration will affect and be affected by the health reform legislation being crafted in the U.S. House and Senate. There are around 12 million uninsured immigrants. Their presence means every provision designed to extend health coverage to those without insurance will potentially expand taxpayers' costs by billions of dollars. Many immigrant households have children who are automatically eligible for government health care, even if their parents are here illegally. Return to Top

4.
Facts on Immigration and Health Insurance
By Steven Camarota
CIS Memorandum, August 25, 2009
http://cis.org/HealthCare-Immigration

Excerpt: As Congress and the nation debate health care reform, the impact of immigration policy is an important component of that discussion. This Memorandum provides information about immigration's effect on the nation's health care system. The analysis is primarily based on data collected by the U.S. government in March 2008 about insurance coverage in the prior calendar year (2007). Return to Top

5.
Two Staffers Featured on Lou Dobbs
By Bryan Griffith
CIS Blog, September 11, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Griffith/Video-EVerifyandHealthCare-LouDobbs

Excerpt: Since Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech on health care, the issue of whether illegal immigrants will be eligible to receive benefits has once again been thrust to the forefront. Steven Camarota, our Director of Research, explains what's needed to verify immigration status in the video below. Return to Top

6.
Our Borders 8 Years Later
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, September 11, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kephart/8yearslater

Excerpt: On 9/11, I was in Old Town Alexandria, Va., celebrating the first morning of my son entering preschool. It wasn't long before I noticed the cars coming south from the Pentagon, the smoke billowing into the air into clear blue skies, and the looks of fear and sadness on the faces of the drivers moving past me. Return to Top

7.
An Irony Within the Immigration Policy Debate
By David North
CIS Blog, September 11, 2009
http://www.cis.org/north/detention

Excerpt: An irony within the immigration policy debate relates to the treatment of incarcerated illegal aliens.

Immigrant advocate groups complain that those being held prior to deportation are sometimes mistreated and sometimes have inadequate medical care. Return to Top

8.
'There You Go Again'
By James Edwards
CIS Blog, September 10, 2009
http://www.cis.org/edwards/healthreform

Excerpt: Watching President Obama's health care speech before Congress Wednesday night, I was reminded of another President's words.

As the President flatly asserted that illegal aliens are definitely not covered in health reform, I thought of Ronald Reagan's jovial rejoinder when Jimmy Carter played fast and loose with the facts: 'There you go again.' Return to Top

9.
Immigration/Population Concerns Rise in Britain
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 10, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/britain

Excerpt: The role of immigration as the leading source of population growth is a divisive issue among U.S. environmentalists. The Sierra Club, which once called for immigration policies aimed at stabilizing the population, has backed away from the issue. Others (see here, for instance) make the case that curtailment of immigration is essential to efforts to safeguard the environment. Return to Top

 

10.
Education in Mexico: Calderon's Vision Meets Test Results
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 9, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/education

Excerpt: Elected officials in Mexico often buy radio and TV time or use the Internet to distribute spots in which they describe their efforts to build a better future for their people. President Felipe Calderon has been particularly active with such efforts, including one on education that was released at the end of August and is posted on Youtube here. Return to Top

11.
Not Much of a Debate
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, September 9, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/TheEconomistNonDebate

Excerpt: The Economist's website is hosting a 'debate' on the following proposition: 'This house believes there is too much international migration.' Arguing against the proposition is one Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, saying all the usual tranzi stuff. But what's curious is the person selected to speak in support of the proposition: Demetri Papademetriou, head of the Migration Policy Institute, which is basically CIS's counterpart on the high-immigration side of the debate. His opening paragraph: Return to Top

12.
We're Taking Refugees from Where?
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, September 9, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/RefugeesFromBhutan

Excerpt: Ann Corcoran over at Refugee Resettlement Watch points out that Refugees from Bhutan are the third-largest group of refugees resettled so far this year in the U.S. The perversity of this policy is clear when you learn that they're ethnic Nepalese kicked out by the Bhutanese government and living in refugee camps in — Nepal! I'm sure Nepal's glad to palm them off on us, but coping with their compatriots is their business, not ours. The State Department is using resettlement to serve a transnational human-rights agenda that has nothing to do with promoting our vital national interests. In effect, our foreign-policy elite views the actual United States as a sort of hinterland where they can dump their overseas problems. Return to Top

13.
Mexico's Twin Tales of Astronaut Jose Hernandez
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 8, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/astronaut

Excerpt: The story Astronaut Jose Hernandez, the flight engineer on the Space Shuttle Discovery's ongoing mission, is being told two ways in Mexico: one of pride in the accomplishments of the son of poor immigrants and one of pain because of the lack of opportunities in Mexico. Return to Top

14.
And the Farmers Are Demanding Even More Foreign Labor?!
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, September 2, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/FoodAidGrowsInCA

Excerpt: Talk about a reserve army of labor. And if you don't believe that farmers are still lobbying for amnesty and increased immigration, see here, here, here, here, etc., etc. Return to Top

15.
Krikorian Discusses Health Care Issue
By Bryan Griffith
CIS Blog, September 1, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Griffith/Krikorian-CNBC-IllegalImmigantsAndHealthCare

Excerpt: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, discussed the issue of health care for illegal aliens on CNBC yesterday morning. Robert Shapiro, a former Undersecretary of Commerce, discussed from the opposing side. Their exchange is available in the video below. Return to Top

 

16.
Mexico's Rising Fear of Social Unrest
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 1, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/unrest

Excerpt: Hurricane Jimena, now closing in on Baja California, is only the most dramatic of the threats confronting Mexico. Deepening unemployment and poverty, the brutal war between the government and drug cartels, and even looming water shortages all have ratcheted up the country's anxiety and social tension. Return to Top

17.
A Modified Limited Hangout
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, September 1, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/HealthCare-Immigration-RealityCheckMyth

Excerpt:So I checked the site — http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/ -- and I also couldn't find any reference to the 'myth' that illegal immigrants will get coverage. It looks like the White House is already preparing the ground for its inevitable caving on the issue and agreement to a verification requirement. I can already hear Obama saying 'As I've said before, I oppose coverage for illegal immigrants, which is why we're urging Congress to fix this oversight Return to Top

18.
Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts to Debate Impact of Current Policies
By Steven Camarota, Philip Cafaro, Don Weeden, Bryan Griffith, Andrew Light
CIS Video, August 2009
http://cis.org/Video/EnvironmentalPanel

Excerpt: It is well-documented that current U.S. immigration policies will increase Americas population by about 100 million people over the next half-century. Past attempts to restructure the federal immigration program have often included debates on education, assimilation, health care, labor, and many other issues. But the environmental impact of immigration-driven population growth is usually missing from the discussion, despite the fact that environmental concerns are high on the Obama Administrations priority list. Return to Top

19.
The Elephant in the Room: Panel on Immigration's Impact on Health Care Reform
By Steven Camarota, Robert Rector, Mark Krikorian, James Edwards,
CIS Video, August 2009
http://cis.org/Video/HealthCare-Immigration-Panel

Excerpt: While there has been some discussion of whether illegal immigrants should be covered by proposed government insurance plans, the enormous impact of immigration, both legal and illegal, on the health care system has generally not been acknowledged in the current debate. On August 19, the Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussing the health care issue. Return to Top

 

20.
Is the Congressional Research Service Making 'False Claims' Too?
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, August 26, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/CRS-HealthCare-IllegalImmigration

Excerpt: Rep. Lamar Smith quotes from a new report by the Congressional Research Service to debunk President Obama's 'willful misrepresentations,' 'outright distortions,' and 'outrageous myths' on immigration and health care.* Given the political importance of the illegal-alien question, it's worth quoting Smith's press release at length, especially since CRS reports aren't usually released to the public: Return to Top

21.
Jorge Ramos's Problem with President Obama
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 25, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/ramos

Excerpt: Jorge Ramos, the influential Miami-based co-anchor of the nightly newscast on the Spanish-language network Univision, has been broadcasting his disappointment with President Obama for not fulfilling a promise to deliver immigration reform during his first year of office. Return to Top

22.
Mission Impossible for Secretary Napolitano?
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 24, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/WHmeeting

Excerpt: Is it possible to play tough cop and nice cop at the same time? That's roughly the assignment facing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. In addition to leading the agencies responsible for enforcing immigration law, she has been designated by President Obama to work with Congress to forge 'comprehensive immigration reform' legislation that would legalize millions of people who have broken the law. Return to Top

23.
Does the Health Care Bill Bar Illegal Aliens from Taxpayer Funds? Not Really
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, August 21, 2009
http://cis.org/feere/healthcare

Excerpt: As members of Congress get an earful from their constituents on the proposed health care overhaul, one topic is becoming front and center: immigration. How the legislation addresses both legal and illegal immigration will have a significant effect on public support, but as of this writing, the 1,000-page health care bill only includes a few, ambiguous and entirely inadequate clauses on immigration. Return to Top

24.
Protesting Too Much, or Acknowledging Too Little
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 21, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kammer/protesting

Excerpt: As President Obama complains that his critics protest too much about his health care plans for illegal immigrants, he appears to be acknowledging too little. Consider his appearance yesterday with radio talk show host Michael Smerconish, specifically his exasperated response to a caller who raised the issue. Return to Top

25.
Politicians Do It Comprehensively
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, August 19, 2009
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/comprehensive

Excerpt: Of course, instead of asterisks she had the word 'health-care,' but she identifies the problem with 'comprehensive immigration reform,' as well. Nothing Congress and the administration would come up with under that rubric would be good (in fact it would also require us to surrender our self-determination). Instead, they should 'tackle a few fixable problems with consensus and support from Americans,' like employment verification, Social Security no-match letters, and getting rid of the Visa Lottery. Return to Top

26.
USA Today Backs REAL ID
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, August 18, 2009
http://www.cis.org/kephart/usatoday

Excerpt: In late July, the Senate Homeland Security Committee passed out of committee the PASS ID Act, the 'repeal and replace REAL ID' legislation promised by DHS Secretary Napolitano to the Nationals Governors Association (NGA), the lobbying shop in which she was extremely active during her tenure as Arizona governor. While the NGA's original version of PASS ID has been amended for the better, it remains completely unnecessary, reduces security, and generally permits states to do little to nothing over current secure ID issuance procedures while giving them access to new federal monies. Return to Top

 

27.
Nativo Lopez to Census: Count Me Out!
By Jerry Kammer,

CIS Blog, August 17, 2009

http://www.cis.org/kammer/census

Excerpt: Rejecting as a slap in the face last week's statement by President Obama that immigration reform would not advance until next year, Mexican-American activist Nativo Lopez called on illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 census. Return to Top

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