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[FYI --
1. Keep SBInet (Op-ed)
2. Department of Error-Riddled Immigration Op-Eds (Blog)
3. The Price of L.A.'s Illegals – and Then Some (Blog)
4. Why Not a Hispanic-American Identity? (Blog)
5. Cancellation of SBI on FOX News (Blog)
6. A Sad Little Announcement: Some Nations Want the Crumbs of Our Economy (Blog)
7. The Value of a Hyphenated Identity (Blog)
8. Supreme Stop Sign (Blog)
9. The Hyphen as a Bridge to an American Identity (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Keep SBInet
By Janice Kephart
USA Today, January 21, 2011
http://www.cis.org/keepsbinet
Excerpt: The Obama administration's unbelievable message that our border with Mexico is 'as secure now as it has ever been' puts public safety and U.S. sovereignty increasingly at risk. Today's border is ravaged by violence spilling from Mexico that is already a U.S. national security emergency.
Texas' Department of Public Safety has declared war against the drug cartels, while Arizona has suffered kidnappings, murders, destruction of its wilderness, and warnings about danger posed by cartels and smugglers as far as 80 miles from the border.
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Department of Error-Riddled Immigration Op-Eds
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 23, 2011
http://www.cis.org/renshon/error-riddled-immigration-opeds
Excerpt: In reading through the many commentary pieces related to our national immigration debates, it's worthwhile to start to draw some distinctions. There are those rare successful efforts to make sense of a specific immigration issue whose analysis leaves you more informed than when you started. There are those with which you essentially agree, but which are not much help in advancing your understanding because they essentially restate conclusions you have already reached. There are those with whom you disagree, but nonetheless state their arguments in a way that allows you to understand and accept the legitimacy of their viewpoint, while still ultimately disagreeing with it.
And then there are tendentious advocacy pieces riddled with assertion and devoid of analysis. Such is the op-ed by Mort Kondracke entitled: ''Nativist Lobby' is Winning on Immigration'.
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The Price of L.A.'s Illegals – and Then Some
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, January 23, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/price-of-las-illegals
Excerpt: An estimate by a Los Angeles County supervisor finds that his county spent more than $600 million in 2010 on welfare for the children of illegal aliens. That's up more than $30 million over the previous year.
The cost estimate accounts only for food stamps and welfare benefits through the CalWORKS program. The figure does not reflect any direct costs from illegal alien parents themselves, nor from their children's education, health care, or public safety. However, the supervisor notes that illegal immigrant parents typically collect the kids' welfare. Such costs fall primarily upon localities and states. L.A. County saw 22 percent of its welfare spending go to illegal aliens' U.S.-born children.
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Why Not a Hispanic-American Identity?
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 21, 2011
http://www.cis.org/renshon/hispanic-american-identity
Excerpt: Hyphenated American identities have helped many millions of new legal immigrants to the United States, from every continent in the world, find their way eventually to becoming full-fledged members of our national community. So why do we seem to have discarded that unparalleled record of success when it comes to America's largest and fastest grown new immigrant groups – 'Hispanics'/'Latinos' ?
The demographics of this group are startling. Between 2000 and 2009, the U.S. population grew by about 9 percent, 'rising from 281 million to 307 million. The Latino population increased by 37 percent – four times more rapidly than the United States overall – and accounted for slightly more than half of the nearly 26 million people added to the U.S. population during this past decade. Today, Latinos make up almost one-sixth of the U.S. population.'
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Cancellation of SBI on FOX News
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, January 19, 2011
http://www.cis.org/Kephart/SBICancelled
Excerpt: Late Friday night, with information only briefed to a few key figures on Capitol Hill and the littlest fanfare possible, the Obama administration deleted more security from our southwest border by canceling the Security Border Initiative (SBI), commonly referred to as the 'virtual fence'. Relying on year old information from a faulty prototype developed by SBI's contractor, Boeing, the administration dissed SBI stating that it is fails to support a 'one size fits all' border security measure. SBI was never developed to be a one size fits all anything, but rather the eyes of the Border Patrol, enabling them to use a control room to see the all the landscape they patrol in one place, the illegal activity on it, and decide when and how to interdict that activity. Known as 'situational awareness', SBI for the past year was providing just that with Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector reduced from 24 in the field at a time, to four with eighty percent of the cov! ered area covered by a combination of towers, sensors, radars and other devices. The smugglers lost alot of loads early last year, and then the traffic stopped. Why? SBI worked!
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A Sad Little Announcement: Some Nations Want the Crumbs of Our Economy
By David North
CIS Blog, January 19, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/new-h2a-h2b-nations
Excerpt: You had to read between the lines to get the full meaning, but USCIS issued a sad little immigration announcement last week.
It was about the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (non-ag) foreign worker programs run by our government to benefit employers who would rather not cope with the demands of the American labor market. Or, as USCIS says of the H-2A program, it 'allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary agricultural jobs.'
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The Value of a Hyphenated Identity
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 19, 2011
http://www.cis.org/renshon/value-of-a-hyphenated-identity
Excerpt: Hyphenation helps new immigrants resolve a very personal and consequential set of questions: How can I acknowledge who I am while at the same time recognizing the reality of a fresh start in a new country of whose community I would like to be a part? But it does more than this.
The core of identity's value in the United States is that in spite of efforts on the part of some to make it ascribed on the basis of race, gender, economic status, or nationality, identity here remains fundamentally a matter of personal choice. Inherent in that capacity for choice is the bedrock condition of flexibility. You are not required to have the same identity at age 13 that you have at 30. You can focus more on your profession at 40, but then decide to switch gears at 50. You can be a feminist at 20 and a doting mother at 25 or a playboy at 20 and a proud father at 26.
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Supreme Stop Sign
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, January 18, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/supreme-stop-sign
Excerpt: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck a blow for common sense. And its recent ruling is the first rational measure to check some of the worst ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court's overreaching Padilla v. Kentucky decision.
The Padilla opinion, a judicial breach of Congress's plenary power over immigration that Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent called a 'sledge hammer,' has led to criminal aliens seeking to reopen their cases, lawyers' shenanigans, and judges' manipulation, if not abuse, of their power. I warned about such deplorable consequences in an earlier post.
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The Hyphen as a Bridge to an American Identity
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, January 18, 2011
http://www.cis.org/renshon/hyphen-as-a-bridge
Excerpt: New legal immigrants have chosen the United States as their home in which to live and work, but it is not yet fully their country. Nor, can we expect it to be right away.
The new immigrant arrives having spent his childhood and formative years in his country of origin. She has absorbed its language, culture, and outlook, while at the same time having had an uncountable number of experiences that reinforce and deepened the connections among these elements. So that immigrant arrives here with an already formed identity. He or she is a Nigerian, a Chilean, a Vietnamese, and so on.
