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[FYI --
1. The Party Lines Grow Clearer (Op-Ed)
2. Mark Krikorian debates DREAM Act on News Hour (Video)
3. Mark Krikorian debates DREAM Act on Bloggingheads.tv (Video)
4. While the DREAM Act Dominates the Scene, a Bit of Haitian Action Elsewhere (Blog)
5. Military DREAM Is a Mirage (Blog)
6. DREAM in Uniform (Blog)
7. Potemkin ICE (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Debate: Why Congress Falters on Immigration; Other supposedly intractable issues have been resolved. Why is immigration the exception?
The Party Lines Grow Clearer
By Mark Krikorian
New York Times Room for Debate, December 9, 2010
http://www.cis.org/node/2453
Excerpt: But an issue that cuts so thoroughly across ideological lines remains fuzzy, and voter choices don't send clear signals. President Bush was a Republican, and thus more likely to have received the votes of immigration hawks -- yet he was the most open-borders president in recent history. President Clinton, on the other hand, won the Latino vote in both of his elections, yet endorsed the Barbara Jordan Commission's recommendations to reduce future immigration by one-third.
Thus the vocal support for the Dream Act and other amnesty measures by a Democratic president and Democratic Congressional leadership is actually helpful in clarifying the politics of the issue. It unites most Republicans in opposition (even some who might otherwise be unreliable on immigration) and presents voters with a clearer choice for the future between Republican immigration hawks and Democratic immigration doves. There will continue to be exceptions, but they will remain anomalies, like pro-choice Republicans and pro-gun Democrats, able to hold their heterodox opinions so long as they keep quiet about them.
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Mark Krikorian Debates DREAM Act with Angela Kelley
PBS News Hour, December 8, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBCtyMryBM
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Mark Krikorian Debates DREAM Act with Josh Bernstein
Bloggingheads.tv, December 2010
http://www.cis.org/BloggingHeadsDreamAct
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While the DREAM Act Dominates the Scene, a Bit of Haitian Action Elsewhere
By David North
CIS Blog, December 10, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/haitian-interdiction-bvi
Excerpt: While the DREAM Act has been the focus of the immigration field this week, I continue to keep my eye open for the strange sideshow in the Caribbean, the usually quiet, the dog-does-not-bark, story of illegal immigration from Haiti.
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Military DREAM is a Mirage
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, December 8, 2010
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/military-dream-mirage
Excerpt: In short, the argument that Republicans need to support the DREAM Act because the Pentagon wants it is complete hogwash. Even if the military wanted to foreignize our armed forces as way of keeping labor costs down (as Max Boot has suggested), DREAM wouldn't fit the bill.
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DREAM in Uniform
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, December 7, 2010
http://www.cis.org/edwards/dream-in-uniform
Excerpt: Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the DREAM Act fight is how the U.S. military's top brass has taken the pro-amnesty side. Once people get posted at the Pentagon in the top echelons, it's like beat cops who become police chiefs: They become politicians. They're often not much more than political chameleons.
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Potemkin ICE
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, December 6, 2010
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/potemkin-ice
Excerpt: A story in today's Washington Post reveals the lengths to which this administration will go to give people the false impression that they are serious about immigration law enforcement. Remember all that high-fiving and fist-pumping in October when ICE announced that it had broken all the records for removals? It will come as no shock to loyal readers of the CIS blog that, surprise, surprise, ICE had to do some creative accounting to get there.
