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[FYI --
1. Census: Population Up 27 Million in Just 10 Years (Announcement)
2. Panel: The Illusionary Allure of Immigration Grand Bargains (Transcript and Video)
3. USCIS Does the Right Thing on Immigrant Investor Scam in the Mojave (Blog)
4. Obama's Immigration Warning (Blog)
5. Medical Cost Exposure Forcing States' Hands (Blog)
6. How to Revise the DREAM Act, Part II: The Permanent Administrative Visa (Blog)
7. Non-Accredited Language Schools Given More Time for F-1 Admissions (Blog)
8. Housing Prices' Upside from Local Enforcement (Blog)
9. Why a Revised DREAM Act Might Help American Immigration Policy (Blog)
10. Preserving the Border Insecurity Environment (Blog)
11. USCIS Further Waters Down Requirements for Investor Visas (Blog)
12. Dangerous Compassion? Conservatives on a Revised DREAM Act (Blog)
13. Mexican Senators Want Safe Passage for U.S.-Bound Central Americans (Blog)
14. Immigrant Entrepreneur Visas: A Solution in Search of a Problem? (Blog)
15. Case Study: When Klutz and Chutzpah Combine in the Immigration Business (Blog)
16. No Big Surprise: Obama Administration Not Fully Implementing Border Passport Requirements (Blog)
17. The Center's Negative Christmas List (Blog)
18. Amnesty Advocates Continue the Battle, Offer Differing Approaches (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Census: Population Up 27 Million in Just 10 Years
By Steven Camarota
CIS Announcement, December 2010
http://www.cis.org/2010CensusPopulation
Excerpt: Most of the media coverage of the 2010 Census will likely focus on the country's changing racial composition and the redistribution of seats in Congress. But neither of these is the most important finding. Rather, it is the dramatic increase in the size of the U.S. population itself that has profound implications for our nation's quality of life and environment. Most of the increase has been, and will continue to be, a result of one federal policy: immigration. Projections into the future from the Census Bureau show we are on track to add 130 million more people to the U.S. population in the just the next 40 years, primarily due to future immigration.
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Panel: The Illusionary Allure of Immigration Grand Bargains
Discussants: Stanley Renshon, Hans von Spakovsky, and Mark Krikorian
CIS Event, December 2010
Transcript: http://cis.org/PanelTranscripts/illusionary-allure-panel
Video: http://www.cis.org/Videos/illusionary-allure-panel
Paper: http://cis.org/illusionary-allure
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USCIS Does the Right Thing on Immigrant Investor Scam in the Mojave
By David North
CIS Blog, January 2, 2011
http://cis.org/north/mojave-investor-visa-scam
Excerpt: Once in a while – if the situation is both very, very bad and very well-publicized – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) does the right thing regarding its bizarre immigrant investor program.
It did that recently regarding a dicey investment scheme involving the City of Victorville, on the edge of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
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Obama's Immigration Warning
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 2, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/obamas-immigration-warning
Excerpt: The president is a grand master at conveying the impression that he understands and even finds areas of agreement with his opponent's point of view. His policy behavior is often quite different.
And the president's view of himself as determined is absolutely right. He is determined to be a 'great' president, as his choice of pushing health care legislation at the expense of focusing on economic issues reflected. Stymied in his efforts to gain a historic cap-and-trade energy policy, immigration presents the next most enticing opportunity for 'greatness' legislation.
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Medical Cost Exposure Forcing States' Hands
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, January 1, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/forcing-states-hands
Excerpt: Despite the Ornsteins of the world, Obamacare is playing out with real-world ramifications. The federal government can run a trillion-dollar budget deficit. States, however, cannot. Cost-cutting decisions are being made. And health programs necessarily have a target on their backs. Reducing legal immigration levels substantially, stepping up 'attrition through enforcement' to drive down the illegal alien population, and reviving 'public charge' doctrine to hold immigrant sponsors accountable for the public costs imposed by those they brought into the country would help relieve the coming health costs of health 'reform.'
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How to Revise the DREAM Act, Part II: The Permanent Administrative Visa
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 1, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/revising-dream-2
Excerpt: Assuming that moderates and conservatives want to act on the common ground of addressing the plight of those brought to this country as infants or young children and have grown up here, the best solution would be to include in relevant legislation the creation of a new immigration visa category: The Permanent Administrative Visa.
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Non-Accredited Language Schools Given More Time for F-1 Admissions
By David North
CIS Blog, December 29, 2010
http://cis.org/north/nonaccredited-language-schools
Excerpt: The enormous difficulty getting Congress to close even the most glaring loopholes in our immigration system was shown again this month in its feeble action regarding the controversial, visa-creating, English-language instruction schools.
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Housing Prices' Upside from Local Enforcement
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, December 29, 2010
http://cis.org/edwards/prince-william-housing-prices
Excerpt: Obviously, the county's immigration-related policy wasn't the only reason for this rebound in housing prices during a down market for most of the rest of the country. But no one can deny that engineering the departure of thousands of illegals who overcrowded single-family houses, broke zoning laws, and drove down housing values did contribute to the county's housing price appreciation.
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Why a Revised DREAM Act Might Help American Immigration Policy
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, December 29, 2010
http://cis.org/renshon/revised-dream-might-help-policy
Excerpt: For any DREAM Act revision, all of the issues must be addressed and resolved within the context of a group that merits some policy compassion because of their widely acknowledged personal innocence for the circumstances in which they find them themselves.
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Preserving the Border Insecurity Environment
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, December 28, 2010
http://cis.org/edwards/border-insecurity-environment
Excerpt: The latest flare-up of border security versus environmental preservation is happening along the southwest border in New Mexico. The pernicious proposal to consolidate 250,000 acres of wilderness preserve would worsen things for border enforcement, ease the lawbreaking of illegal border crossers, and actually put the area's natural resources at greater risk.
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USCIS Further Waters Down Requirements for Investor Visas
By David North
CIS Blog, December 28, 2010
http://cis.org/north/eb5-further-watered-down
Excerpt: The already pallid rules for investor (EB-5) visas have been watered down, yet again.
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Dangerous Compassion? Conservatives on a Revised DREAM Act
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, December 28, 2010
http://cis.org/renshon/dangerous-compassion
Excerpt: Those who accuse conservatives with heartless and unshakable antipathy to immigrants, devoid of any understanding of the human and moral complexities that are part of our nation's immigration dilemmas, don't bother to know much about conservative thinking. Case in point: Debra Saunders' heartfelt column supporting a future GOP written version of the so-called 'DREAM Act.'
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Mexican Senators Want Safe Passage for U.S.-Bound Central Americans
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, December 27, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/mexico-safe-passage
Excerpt: Upset at the abuses suffered by Central Americans illegally crossing Mexico, a group of Mexican senators is proposing a law that would offer safe passage for migrants headed for the United States.
The proposal would require Mexico's Interior secretary to establish safe routes for the migrants to ravel by land, sea, and air. According to an article in the December 24 Excelsior newspaper, it has the support of senators from across the political spectrum, including members of the conservative PAN, the centrist PRI, and the leftist PRD.
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Immigrant Entrepreneur Visas: A Solution in Search of a Problem?
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, December 27, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/startup-visas
Excerpt: In a burst of ironic serendipity, the Wall Street Journal published two articles on the perilous state of the American economy and the idea, now gaining traction, that immigrant entrepreneurs are one solution to our economic problems. The more recent article, from earlier this month, is headlined 'New Pitch for Start-Up Visas.' It details the travails of one Canadian entrepreneur who has 'already hired two employees and secured $300,000 in funding for his start-up, and hopes to have a staff of 40 or more full-time workers by this time next year.' However, as the articles notes, 'his long-term immigration status is up in the air.'
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Case Study: When Klutz and Chutzpah Combine in the Immigration Business
By David North
CIS Blog, December 27, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/klutz-and-chutzpah
Excerpt: Once upon a time there was an illegal alien with a remarkable imagination, unlimited nerve, but limited intelligence. This is a story of what happened to him, and what did not, in the immigration decision-making process. (I stumbled on the case while researching something else.)
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No Big Surprise: Obama Administration Not Fully Implementing Border Passport Requirements
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, December 22, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kephart/whti-oig-report
Excerpt: Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), began investigating whether DHS had fully implemented a rule concerning secure travel documents known as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The report is now out, entitled 'Customs and Border Protection's Implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative at Land Ports of Entry.' In sum, the DHS OIG has concluded that DHS has not fully implemented the law, leaving a significant vulnerability at our land ports of entry that should have been closed in 2009. This is what the OIG concluded:
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The Center's Negative Christmas List
By David North
CIS Blog, December 22, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/negative-christmas-list-2010
Excerpt: As a public service, the Center for Immigration Studies is providing you with a negative shopping list, so that you will not patronize any of the enumerated firms, ones with really grim records of abusing foreign worker programs.
I say that because while many firms have their labor certification requests denied, only a handful have handled the program so badly that they are formally debarred from it. The current lists, on two different locations on the Department of Labor's website (here and here) contain only 42 citations, a random sampling of which is shown below.
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Amnesty Advocates Continue the Battle, Offer Differing Approaches
By David North
CIS Blog, December 21, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/differing-approaches-to-amnesty
Excerpt: Despite the DREAM Act defeat, different amnesty advocates continued the argument this week, using different approaches.
There was the raw political approach reported in a blog by my colleague Jerry Kammer, 'NCLR to Republican Senators: 'Watch Out',' in which the National Council of La Raza threatened political repercussions for DREAM Act opponents, including the two GOP Senators from Texas. (And when is the last time that the Republicans lost a U.S. Senate race in Texas? – the answer is below.)
