From CIS.org: 1. Population, Immigration, and the Drying of the American Southwest (Backgrounder)
2. Child Tax Credits for Illegal Immigrants (Memorandum)
3. Opaque DHS Border Study Implies Diminishing Returns for BP Staff Increases (Blog)
4. Between Calderon's Rhetoric and Border Reality (Blog)
5. Paying Illegal Immigrants to Go Home (Blog)
6. Dean Baker on Immigration's 'Mixed Bag' (Blog)
7. About That Recent Decline of Illegal Immigrants... Part II: Illegal Tide Rising Again? (Blog)
8. Good News: The Department of Justice Hires 24 More Immigration Judges (Blog)
9. About That Recent Decline of Illegal Immigrants... Part I: Illusionary Hiatus? (Blog)
10. Running, Not Running from, Hispanics in 2012 (Blog)
11. 'Let My People Stay!' – Iraqi Prime Minister Discourages Emigration (Blog)
12. The White House Should Welcome Arizona's Assistance (Blog)
13. Politico's Advice Regarding Wooing Hispanics, Part II: Tokenism (Blog)
14. Politico's Advice Regarding Wooing Hispanics, Part I: Pander to Their Narrow Self- Interest (Blog)
15. Washington State Takes Baby Step on Illegal Aliens and Driver's Licenses (Blog)
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Population, Immigration, and the Drying of the American Southwest
By Kathleene Parker
CIS Backgrounder, November 2010
http://www.cis.org/southwest-water-population-growth
Excerpt: This Backgrounder offers an historical overview of the critical issue of water in the American Southwest, where the water situation is becoming increasingly dire during a prolonged — but not uncharacteristic — drought in the arid region. We also examine the demographic trends that drive high rates of U.S. and, as a result, Southwest population growth. We present evidence that indicates there is insufficient water for the region’s current population, much less the larger future populations that will result if immigration continues at its present high rate.
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Child Tax Credits for Illegal Immigrants
By Peter A. Schulkin
CIS Memorandum, November 2010
http://www.cis.org/child-tax-credits
Excerpt: Many illegal immigrants are regularly accessing welfare benefits in the United States in different ways. They may do so through those state and local governments that do not verify citizenship or that accept false proof of citizenship. In many cases, they access welfare benefits through their citizen children born in the United States. Additionally, and this is the focus of this report, there are ways illegal immigrants can obtain a form of federal welfare that is available to income tax filers. Since a significant percentage of illegal immigrants have low incomes, work “off the books,” or work with false names and Social Security numbers, it is likely that many report little or no income when applying for federal, state, or local benefits.
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Opaque DHS Border Study Implies Diminishing Returns for BP Staff Increases
By David North
CIS Blog, November 12, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/bp-diminishing-returns
Excerpt: I may be completely wrong, but I read into a new and rather opaque DHS research document an implication that increasing spending on Border Patrol staff may be reaching the point of diminishing returns.
The study, just issued by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS), is entitled 'An Analysis of Migrant Smuggling Costs along the Southwest Border' and was written by three OIS staffers – Bryan Roberts, Derekh Cornwell, and Scott Borger, plus Gordon Hanson, who is with the University of California at San Diego.
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Between Calderon's Rhetoric and Border Reality
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, November 12, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/calderons-rhetoric-border-reality
Excerpt: A column in today's Reforma newspaper highlights the troubling gap between Mexico's rhetorical commitment to the human rights of migrants and the abuses suffered by Central American migrants within Mexico. The column in the Mexico City daily is authored by Navi Pillay, United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
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Paying Illegal Immigrants to Go Home
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, November 11, 2010
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/cpaw
Excerpt: Gallup reports that 18 percent of Hispanic immigrants in the United States want to emigrate to another country, a third of them to Mexico and the rest to other Latin American countries or Canada or Europe. They are more likely than other Hispanic immigrants to be poor and not speak English well — i.e., almost certainly disproportionately illegal aliens, though the survey didn't ask about legal status. (The survey was conducted last year, so the number might actually be higher now, in the wake of last week’s debacle for the amnesty crowd.)
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Dean Baker on Immigration's 'Mixed Bag'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, November 11, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/baker-mixed-bag
Excerpt: Some straightforward comments on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' program this morning from Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Said Baker
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About That Recent Decline of Illegal Immigrants... Part II: Illegal Tide Rising Again?
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, November 11, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/recent-decline-2
Excerpt: So, do the new Pew numbers mean that even with only a small uptick in the American economy, the number of illegal immigrants is beginning to rise again? If this were the case, it would undercut administration claims that it was its tough enforcement policies that were responsible for decline in illegal immigration that Pew had found in an earlier study.
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Good News: The Department of Justice Hires 24 More Immigration Judges
By David North
CIS Blog, November 11, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/24-more-immigration-judges
Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it has hired 24 additional Immigration Judges. That's an increase in that judicial work force of about 10 percent.
That's good news; it means that there will be many more deportations, some more judgments that aliens can stay in the country, and, one hopes, fewer aliens, on average, in detention centers, thus saving the taxpayers about $100 a day per detainee.
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About That Recent Decline of Illegal Immigrants... Part I: Illusionary Hiatus?
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, November 10, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/recent-decline-1
Excerpt: The Pew report delivers its most noteworthy finding in the first paragraph; 'The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center. This sharp decline has contributed to an overall reduction of 8% in the number of unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S.-to 11.1 million in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million in March 2007, according to the estimates. The decrease represents the first significant reversal in the growth of this population over the past two decades.'
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Running, Not Running from, Hispanics in 2012
By Stephen Steinlight
CIS Blog, November 10, 2010
http://www.cis.org/steinlight/politico-hispanic-vote
Excerpt: My blood up, I was anticipating the prospect of tearing to shreds the astoundingly specious social analysis and 'political lessons' allegedly to be derived from the mid-term elections about 'the Hispanic vote' in 2012, as well as the ugly appeal to herd instinct to be found in Politico's piece 'Hispanic vote a 2012 wild card'. But my CIS colleague Stanley Renshon beat me to the punch in 'Politico's Advice Regarding Wooing Hispanics, Part I: Pander to Their Narrow Self-Interest.'
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'Let My People Stay!' – Iraqi Prime Minister Discourages Emigration
By David North
CIS Blog, November 10, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/iraq-let-my-people-stay
Excerpt: Usually it is the receiving countries that play the dominant roles in immigration policy discussions.
But that is not the case right now in Iraq.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has issued an unusual appeal, saying to France, in effect, 'Let my people stay.' He is asking the West not to accept Christian Iraqi refugees, despite the recent Muslim violence against them.
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The White House Should Welcome Arizona's Assistance
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, November 10, 2010
http://www.cis.org/feere/welcome-arizonas-assistance
Excerpt: States regularly assist the federal government in making sure federal laws and regulations in a whole host of areas are followed. The feds generally welcome the support. But when it comes to immigration, the Obama administration has signaled opposition to states that wish to provide assistance. The administration argues that states are preempted from getting involved in immigration policy, but this argument is overbroad and ultimately incorrect.
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Politico's Advice Regarding Wooing Hispanics, Part II: Tokenism
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, November 9, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/politico-wooing-hispanics-2
Excerpt: The recent Politico story entitled 'Hispanic vote a 2012 wild card' does not present a very attractive picture of 'Hispanics.' It presents them as having a narrow, self-interested focus on the almost total advancement of their group in the immigration process with little regard to the possible needs of other groups or the United States more generally.
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Politico's Advice Regarding Wooing Hispanics, Part I: Pander to Their Narrow Self- Interest
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, November 9, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/politico-wooing-hispanics-1
Excerpt: Every once in a while an immigration news story comes along that is just so bad, that there is no other word to describe it but awful. Regretfully that is a case with a story on the role of 'Hispanics' in the just concluded 2010 elections. The Politico story is entitled 'Hispanic vote a 2012 wild card' and is written in part by the ordinarily sensible journalist Ben Smith.
The premise of the story is contained in its title and more specific the view that 'Hispanics' are now a 'wild card.' A wild card is defined as 'an unknown or unpredictable factor' and the story's premise is that 'Hispanics' have emerged from the 2010 election as such an electoral factor for the 2012 presidential race.
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Washington State Takes Baby Step on Illegal Aliens and Driver's Licenses
By David North
CIS Blog, November 8, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/drivers-licenses-washington-state
Excerpt: The State of Washington, one of a handful of states that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens, took a baby step today to limit – but not eliminate – such issuances.
According to an Associated Press report, Washington, along with New Mexico and Utah, issues licenses to illegal aliens, but starting today Washington State will insist on a proof of in-state residency if the applicant does not provide a 'verified' Social Security number (SSN).
