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1. Immigration and Economic Stagnation: An Examination of Trends 2000 to 2010 (Backgrounder)
2. Foiling Terrorists by Keeping Them Out (Blog)
3. ICE Finds Huge New Tunnel at Border, But Are Congratulations Really in Order? (Blog)
4. USCIS Takes Small Steps Forward on Alien Worker Programs (Blog)
5. Tories May Have Overreached vis-a-vis Language Requirement for Spouses (Blog)
6. Fading DREAMs (Blog)
7. Immigration Lessons from the Chandra Levy Murder Case (Blog)
8. ICE to Sanctuaries: Just Say No to Holds (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Immigration and Economic Stagnation: An Examination of Trends 2000 to 2010
By Steven Camarota
CIS Backgrounder, November 2010
http://cis.org/highest-decade
Excerpt: New Census Bureau data collected in March of this year show that 13.1 million immigrants (legal and illegal) arrived in the previous 10 years, even though there was a net decline of a million jobs during the decade. In contrast, during the 1990s there was a net growth of 21 million jobs and 12.1 million new immigrants arrived. Despite fundamentally different economic conditions, the level of immigration was remarkably similar for both 10-year periods.
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Foiling Terrorists by Keeping Them Out
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, November 28, 2010
http://cis.org/ImmigrationBlog
Excerpt: Anybody fixated on building and detonating a bomb big enough to kill a large crowd at a Christmas tree lighting right downtown in an American city is a criminal sociopath. Enough sociopaths spring forth organically. We certainly don't need to import more. Nor do we need to keep on feeding the petri dishes that stimulate radicalism. Yet that is what legal immigration on the scale we now sustain does. Whether it's continually fostering political and cultural ties to the old countries of Latin America or of Muslim nations, the assimilation ideal cannot be achieved with mass immigration. The perpetuation of one million-plus legal immigrants year in and year out foils the melting pot.
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ICE Finds Huge New Tunnel at Border, But Are Congratulations Really in Order?
By David North
CIS Blog, November 28, 2010
http://cis.org/north/huge-new-border-tunnel
Excerpt: The tunnel, when found, was in full operation, and ICE seized 20 tons of marijuana. I have little first-hand knowledge of such things, but marijuana consists of dried leaves, and even if compressed, it must occupy about as much space as baled hay (something I do know something about). Now 400,000 pounds of hay or marijuana would fill a large building, and hauling it through a tunnel would take considerable time and effort.
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USCIS Takes Small Steps Forward on Alien Worker Programs
By David North
CIS Blog, November 27, 2010
http://cis.org/north/small-steps-forward
Excerpt: These blogs are often critical of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), but in this case we want to note some useful (if almost invisible) steps forward.
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Tories May Have Overreached vis-a-vis Language Requirement for Spouses
By David North
CIS Blog, November 24, 2010
http://cis.org/north/language-requirement-for-spouses
Excerpt: My sense, and I may be wrong, is that imposing such a test on spouses – as opposed to, say, prospective workers – is likely to kick up such a fuss that the Cameron government will drop the whole idea. We will see.
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Fading DREAMs
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, November 23, 2010
http://cis.org/edwards/fading-dreams
Excerpt: Oh, the cruelty of leading people on and sowing false hopes. But the Democratic leadership in Congress and the Obama White House keep up the charade with the DREAM Act amnesty.
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Immigration Lessons from the Chandra Levy Murder Case
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, November 23, 2010
http://cis.org/feere/lessons-of-levy-case
Excerpt: The public can be happy that one violent MS-13 member is no longer on the streets, but there are many other violent illegal aliens throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. It is well time for local authorities to get serious about public safety and stop appeasing open-border activist groups.
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ICE to Sanctuaries: Just Say No to Holds
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, November 22, 2010
http://cis.org/vaughan/just-say-no-to-holds
Excerpt: In what appears to be yet another astounding display of mission apathy, a senior ICE official is now advising sanctuary jurisdictions on how they can opt out of his program. Earlier this month, the top manager of the Secure Communities program, David Venturella, suggested to the San Francisco Sheriff's Department that if the county did not wish to participate, it could simply ignore ICE's requests to take custody of the removable aliens that are discovered in county jails.
