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[FYI --
1. The Carnegie Corporation and Immigration: How a Noble Vision Lost Its Way (Backgrounder)
2. Jessica Vaughan on Illegal-alien Murderer Who Was Set Free (Video)
4. Mojitos vs. Mogen David: Mi Primer Pensamientos de Hispanic Jews and Patriotic Assimilation (Blog)
5. My Great-Grandfather, President Obama, and Preserving Our Federal Lands (Blog)
6. USCIS Involves White House as It Streamlines H-1B Process (Blog)
7. House Panel Has Lively Session on Illegals' Impact on Black Workers (Blog)
8. Saintly Leadership? (Blog)
9. Should Employer Fines Be Cut Because of the Recession? (Blog)
10. Hatch Bill Targets Several Loopholes (Blog)
11. Multi-Tasking Coast Guard Does a Lot Besides Stopping Illegal Entries (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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The Carnegie Corporation and Immigration: How a Noble Vision Lost Its Way
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Backgrounder, March 2011
http://www.cis.org/carnegie-immigration
Excerpt: Despite a professed commitment to inform and expand democratic discussion, the foundation’s grantmaking on immigration has become dogmatic and polarizing. Ideological rigidity has trumped its mission to advance knowledge and understanding.
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Illegal immigrant and convicted killer, but set free
Ruling lets killer out while awaiting deportation
FOX News 25 (Boston, Mass.), February 27, 2011
http://www.cis.org/News-AshtonClineMcMurrayMurder
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Mojitos vs. Mogen David: Mi Primer Pensamientos de Hispanic Jews and Patriotic Assimilation
By Stephen Steinlight
CIS Blog, March 4, 2011
http://www.cis.org/steinlight/mojitos-vs-mogen-david
Excerpt: From my earliest days at CIS, a principal target for my speaking engagements has been Florida's slowly northward migrating Jewish heartland, and I've addressed every sort of Jewish audience prepared to listen, excepting those already stone-deaf or on life-support, though truth to tell, on occasion I've spoken to groups bordering on both. In sundry settings I've made our case to thousands in the aggregate. Having spent a considerable amount of time in the state, I'd grown pretty confident about my knowledge and understanding of the geography, politics and socio-economic situation of its Jewish community. But recently I discovered my expertise wasn't all I imagined; I'd missed something important . . .
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My Great-Grandfather, President Obama, and Preserving Our Federal Lands
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, March 3, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/national-parks-horace-kephart
Excerpt: Two years ago hidden camera sources in Arizona started sending me e-mails containing footage of illegal aliens unabashedly violating our federal lands with illegally-cut trails and trash by the hundreds of tons. Since then, I have produced three mini-documentaries on the subject. So far, these films have received a combined total of nearly 700,000 views. Since then, I have sought answers as to why Arizona is such a massive gateway for illegal activity. I have also tried to both analyze what the federal government has done about the illegal activity and promote real solutions to stem the escalating tide of illegal activity and attending destruction of the federal lands where most of the illegal activity occurs.
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USCIS Involves White House as It Streamlines H-1B Process
By David North
CIS Blog, March 2, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/h1b-streamlining
Excerpt: The USCIS involved the White House in its announcement at five this afternoon of a proposed rule that would save H-1B-using corporations millions of dollars a year.
The proposed rule, which would not go into effect for 12 months, will not affect the basic rules of the program nor the various ceilings set by Congress, but it would potentially cut costs for employers, presumably making it even more attractive to corporations than it is now.
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House Panel Has Lively Session on Illegals' Impact on Black Workers
By David North
CIS Blog, March 2, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/house-immigration-hearing-black-workers
Excerpt: The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement held a lively but largely good-tempered discussion yesterday morning about the extent of the impact of illegal alien workers on the labor market experiences of blacks, particularly black men.
Presiding was Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA), the new chair of the subcommittee; also very much present were the new chair of the parent Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and the ranking member (and former chair) of the parent organization, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).
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Saintly Leadership?
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, March 1, 2011
http://www.cis.org/peridans/saints-medical-center
Excerpt: A Massachusetts hospital has become the country's first health care facility to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to strengthen hiring practices and to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.
Saints Medical Center is a not-for-profit, full service, 157-bed acute care community hospital in Lowell, Mass. (since 1839), with nearly 400 physicians and 1,300 employees, providing health services to 315,000 residents in 25 towns. The Saints Medical Center President and CEO Stephen Guimond and the Special Agent in Charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, Bruce M. Foucart, signed the IMAGE ('ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers') agreement during a recent ceremony at the health care center. This new collaboration was proudly publicized. To the hospital's delight, the broader Lowell community quite favorably welcomed this initiative, manifesting overwhelming support.
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Should Employer Fines Be Cut Because of the Recession?
By David North
CIS Blog, March 1, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/employer-fines-recession
Excerpt: When jobs for American residents are scarce, should an employer pay smaller fines for ignoring the rules on hiring illegal aliens because there's a recession?
That's the odd position taken by an administrative law judge (ALJ) who works for the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), an arm of the U.S. Justice Department.
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Hatch Bill Targets Several Loopholes
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, February 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/hatch-bill-targets-loopholes
Excerpt: My colleague Janice Kephart recently highlighted the tremendous risks of the visa lottery program in a recent blog here. Indeed, the visa lottery needlessly clogs the system with millions of applications (a portion of them multiple applications by the same applicant). More than 12 million people filed for this year's lottery – 55,000 visas – and almost 15 million applied for next year's lottery. The lottery generates plenty of fraud and abuse, as well as poses a threat to national security, as Mark Krikorian has noted.
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Multi-Tasking Coast Guard Does a Lot Besides Stopping Illegal Entries
By David North
CIS Blog, February 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/multi-tasking-coast-guard
Excerpt: Since I am curious about the apparent current and strange lack of illegal entry attempts from Haiti in recent months, I have been following the flow of press releases out of Coast Guard's Seventh District headquarters in Miami.
The image I get is an entity as busy as a one-armed paperhanger, who is also charged with cooking the meals, watching the dog, changing the baby . . . and catching illegal immigrants.
