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[FYI --
1. Estimating the Impact of the DREAM Act (Memorandum)
2. DREAM On (Op-Ed)
3. Amnesty Advocates Trumpet Distinction Without a Difference (Blog)
4. GAO Reports Fraud and Abuse in H-2B Program (Blog)
5. Straw Man Arguments and Chutzpah Used to Defend Tuition Break for Illegals (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Estimating the Impact of the DREAM Act
By Steven Camarota
CIS Memorandum, November 30, 2010
http://www.cis.org/dream-act-costs
Excerpt: This Memorandum examines the costs and likely impact of the DREAM Act currently being considered by Congress. The act offers permanent legal status to illegal immigrants up to age 35 who arrived in the United States before age 16 provided they complete two years of college. Under the act, beneficiaries would receive in-state tuition. Given the low income of illegal immigrants, most can be expected to attend state schools, with a cost to taxpayers in the billions of dollars. As both funds and slots are limited at state universities and community colleges, the act may reduce the educational opportunities available to U.S. citizens.
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DREAM On
By Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, December 1, 2010
http://www.cis.org/node/2440
Excerpt: There’s no doubt that this is the most sympathetic group of illegal immigrants. That is precisely why DREAM has been dangled as bait for the more general amnesty proposals described as “comprehensive immigration reform,” with amnesty advocates brandishing the situation of these young people as justification for a broader amnesty. (Though no one seems to have stopped to ask: If such a comprehensive bill would provide amnesty for all illegals, then why would we need DREAM?)
Nonetheless, now that the amnesty crowd has belatedly decided to move ahead on DREAM as a standalone measure, many in the public and Congress are open to the idea of addressing the situation of such young people. But the DREAM Act, in every one of its iterations over the years, has four fatal flaws . . .
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Amnesty Advocates Trumpet Distinction Without a Difference
By David North
CIS Blog, December 3, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/distinction-without-a-difference
Excerpt: The ever-creative advocates of amnesty for illegal aliens are pressing what they regard as a historical argument for the proposed DREAM and AgJobs Acts – that those kinds of specialized programs, not general amnesties, are, in effect, the American Way. That's their position.
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GAO Reports Fraud and Abuse in H-2B Program
By David North
CIS Blog, December 2, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/h2b-fraud-and-abuse
Excerpt: The H-2B program for unskilled non-agricultural migrant workers is one of the nation's many alien worker programs, and one that, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report, is subject to extensive fraud and abuse.
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Straw Man Arguments and Chutzpah Used to Defend Tuition Break for Illegals
By David North
CIS Blog, December 1, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/straw-men-and-chutzpah
Excerpt: Those supporting tuition breaks for illegal aliens attending college sometimes use both straw man arguments and chutzpah math to advance their cause.
There is, for example, a November 23 article in the Fresno Bee headed 'Illegal immigrants are not getting free college education, Calif. official says.'
