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1. Blog: 'On a Roll'
2. Blog: 'One Step Forward, Three Steps Back'
3. Blog: 'At CFR, No Clarity on Family Unification'
4. Blog: 'Saddam's BFFs Coming to a Town Near You'
5. Blog: 'Obama Supports Secure Borders'
6. Blog: 'Another Bad Sign for the Amnesty Crowd'
7. Blog: 'Bad Poetry Makes for Bad Policy'
-- Mark Krikorian]
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On a Roll
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 10, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/SenateAmendments
Excerpt: Wednesday and Thursday saw Senate approval of four good immigration amendments to the Homeland Security appropriations bill — not silver bullets that will solve everything, but real steps in the right direction nonetheless. A measure sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions would permanently reauthorize E-Verify and require federal contractors to use it (the similar contractor rule hyped by the administration is much narrower and riddled with loopholes). This amendment had failed in March by a vote of 47–50, but passed this week 53–44, with eight Democrats switching from no to yes votes (and two switching the other way). Every single Republican voted for it. A measure to require completion of the border fencing passed 54–44, and two other amnedments passed by voice vote — i.e., unanimously: one requires implementation of the Social Security No-Match Rule (overturning the administration announcement Wednesday to rescind the rule), while the other would permit employers to screen their existing workforce with the E-Verify system, which now may be used only for new hires.
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One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 9, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/NoMatchRecinded
Excerpt: The administration has announced that it's abandoning an important immigration initative that would have identified large numbers of illegal immigrants in the workforce. To camouflage this capitulation, the same press release reiterates a promise to finally implement a different, much smaller initative.
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At CFR, No Clarity on Family Unification
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, July 8, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Kammer/CFR-Recommendations
Excerpt: As the Council on Foreign Relations rolled out its recommendations for immigration policy reform on Wednesday, a panel discussion covered ground that is familiar to advocates of the comprehensive reform proposals.
The CFR task force wants to combine calls for tough enforcement against illegal immigration with sweeping legalization of those who are already here. The panelists, who sat on the task force, said there was strong agreement that a demonstrated commitment to enforcement was essential to the effort to win support for “earned legalization.”
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Saddam's BFFs Coming to a Town Near You
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 8, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/SaddamsBFFs
Excerpt: Besides the specific problem of welcoming to our shores people who danced in the streets at the destruction of the Twin Towers, there's the more general issue of resettling as refugees people who have somewhere else to go. There are 21 members of the Arab League, other than Iraq, that could take these Palestinians, and if they don't want to (and they don't) then we should apply pressure to our 'friends' in the Arab world to make them do so. Resettlement in America, regardless of the total numbers (and I obviously prefer lower numbers), should be reserved only for those who can't stay where they are and will never have anywhere else to go. Many, perhaps most, of those resettled here as refugees don't fit that description, these Palestinians being simply the latest example.
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Obama Supports Secure Borders
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, July 7, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Feere/ObamaOnSecureBorders
Excerpt: As the last sentence indicates, the president’s words were aimed at Russia. But this is powerful language that must be reiterated if and when the president begins pushing illegal alien amnesty. Obama cannot back peddle from this statement without losing credibility on both an international and national scale.
Time will tell if Obama’s a man of his words.
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Another Bad Sign for the Amnesty Crowd
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 7, 2009
http://www.cis.org/node/1294
Excerpt: From Politico: 'Labor declares war on Chamber', as in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This story doesn't touch on immigration, but the two big union federations already gave business the finger in agreeing to oppose any guest-worker plan as part of an amnesty bill. And amnesty just isn't making it through Congress unless business and labor are swapping spit in the shower.
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Bad Poetry Makes for Bad Policy
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 6, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/StrangersAmongUs
Excerpt: Roberto Suro, a former WaPo reporter turned professor at USC, is no restrictionist but he is a contrarian on immigration. His 1998 book Strangers Among Us is anathema to the open-borders crowd, with its assertion that stopping illegal immigration is necessary to improve the lives of low-skilled immigrants already here and its confidence that enforcement is actually feasible.
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