Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Race In Mortgage Lending
Shaking Down Banks
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Political Reasons For Housing Crash
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Free Market Response To Housing Crash
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Shelter People From Bad Mortgage Decisions?
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Do Foreclosures Have A Political Solution?
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Politicians Push For Mortgage Modification
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Role Of Race In Mortgage Lending
Luke Ford writes: The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell. People charged higher interest rates than average also have higher rates of payments, defaults and foreclosures. The market has accurately assessed the risks. (Pg. 6) From Pg. 16-17: While housing payments often made up more than half of income in Los Angeles and New York, the percentage of median income required to buy a house in Tampa was 21% and in Dallas 13%. These latter two places had few buildings restrictions. The more the government intervenes in the housing market, the more expensive the housing.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Dennis Prager's Radio Show Highlights
Prager 20110428 – 1 Liberal Snobs
Prager 20110428 – 2 Superman Renounces US
Prager 20110428 – 3 Losing My Cool
Prager 20110427 – 1 The Birth Certificate
Prager 20110427 – 2 Male/Female Hour: Received Wisdom
Prager 20110427 – 3 Standing for Racism
Prager 20110426 – 1 Back from Mexico
Prager 20110426 – 2 What Easter Sunday?
Prager 20110426 – 3 Ultimate Issues Hour: The Case for Hell
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny VI
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny V
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny IV
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny III
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny II
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Diana Spechler's New Novel - Skinny
Luke Ford writes: I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new novel Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her first novel – Who By Fire.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Immigration News
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[FYI --
1. The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration (Backgrounder)
2. Mark Krikorian Debates Birthright Citizenship on CNN (Video)
3. A Misleading Article on Illegal Aliens and Income Tax Payments (Blog)
4. Insecuring the Border (Blog)
5. Angels Dancing on Pins and the Meaning of Moral Turpitude (Blog)
6. GAO Updates Cost of Criminal Aliens (Blog)
7. Deconstructing the New York Times
8. Firm on CIS 'Taking Names' List Zapped Again for Labor Practices (Blog)
9. Father of Earth Day on Population and Immigration (Blog)
10. Failure of Imagination (Blog)
11. Montana Adopts Legal-Presence Requirement of REAL ID Act (Blog)
12. Brookings Holds Spirited Debate on Dream Act Variations (Blog)
13. Agents Speak Out Against 'No Apprehension' Policy (Blog)
14. White House Tries to Calm the Waters (Blog)
15. The Regrettable Demise of the Journal 'People and Place' (Blog)
16. 61% of Americans Oppose Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens (Blog)
17. Immigration Activist Warns of 'Civil War' (Blog)
18. BIA Exposes Weakness in Immigration-Through-Marriage Law (Blog)
19. Framing the Discussion on Univision (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Backgrounder, April 2011
http://www.cis.org/mormon-church-and-illegal-immigration
Excerpt: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church) regards Christ as head of the church and considers members to be Christians.1 Unlike many religious organizations that clearly and candidly stake out their positions on illegal immigration, however, the LDS Church officially takes no position on this highly divisive issue. This pleases neither those who oppose illegal immigration nor those who support it.
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Mark Krikorian Debates Birthright Citizenship Issues
CNN, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/Videos/KrikorianDebatesBirthrightCNN
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3.
A Misleading Article on Illegal Aliens and Income Tax Payments
By David North
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://cis.org/north/GE-income-taxes-illegals
Excerpt: For advocates of the illegal alien population the headline seemed to be a winner. It said:
'Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid $11.2 B in taxes last year, unlike GE, which paid zero'
The news story was by Albor Ruiz and appeared in the New York Daily News on April 20.
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Insecuring the Border
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/insecuring-the-border
Excerpt: Fox News recently made an exclusive report confirming that Border Patrol and Homeland Security officials are manipulating apprehension figures.
That is, border security agencies are forcing Border Patrol officers not to apprehend aliens attempting to cross the Mexican border illegally. You read that right: Let them go, never touch them.
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5.
Angels Dancing on Pins and the Meaning of Moral Turpitude
By David North
CIS Blog, April 24, 2011
http://cis.org/north/moral-turpitude
Excerpt: It's not that the alien in the dock is not deportable – that he's deportable is usually conceded by all parties. Nor is there a question of whether or not the alien has committed a crime; again, that is pretty clear.
The question almost worthy of medieval disputation is: is the crime one of moral turpitude? If it is not, then the IJ can, at his or her discretion, decide for or against a one-case amnesty for the about-to-be-removed alien in the court. If the crime is one involving moral turpitude (MT hereafter) then the IJ has no discretion and the alien must be tossed out of the country. Many cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), an arm of the Justice Department, revolve around these and related questions.
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GAO Updates Cost of Criminal Aliens
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, April 23, 2011
http://cis.org/vaughan/gao-report-criminal-aliens
Excerpt: The incarceration of criminal aliens cost the federal government more than $1.6 billion in 2009, according to a new GAO report. In addition, taxpayers shelled out tens of millions more that year to incarcerate aliens in state prisons and local jails.
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Deconstructing the New York Times
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/Kammer/Deconstructing-the-NYT
Excerpt: No reporter should allow his byline to sit atop a 2,900 word story about a highly controversial topic if that story has no room for an essential element of balance. Not when the void results in a story that is egregiously one-sided and indifferent to ongoing excesses. Not when those excesses are at least as poisonous to the national immigration debate as 20-year-old quotes from a 77-year-old man who has Parkinson’s disease and is quietly fading from the scene.
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Firm on CIS 'Taking Names' List Zapped Again for Labor Practices
By David North
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/north/global-horizons-zapped-again
Excerpt: Global Horizons, a Beverly Hills-based farm labor contractor, listed in a recent CIS publication, 'Taking Names', as one of the few misbehaving employers of aliens to be penalized by the government, is now in trouble with a different government agency.
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9.
Father of Earth Day on Population and Immigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/gaylord-nelson-on-immigration
Excerpt: As we observe Earth Day today, it's fitting to note some of the concerns expressed by its founder, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Here are some excerpts from his 2002 autobiography, Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise.
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10.
Failure of Imagination
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/failure-of-imagination
Excerpt: The goal of the campaign — the high point of which was the Southern Poverty Law Center's bogus designation of one of the national restrictionist organizations as a 'hate group' — was to drive all immigration skeptics out of the public debate by labeling any skepticism about immigration as inherently racist. In other words, to make questioning mass immigration the same as questioning the desegregation of lunch counters. The smear campaign was developed at a series of meetings after the defeat of the 2007 amnesty out of despair at having failed so completely despite their holding the commanding heights of society and economy and politics. While I'm sure some of the principals saw it as a cynical move, I think many of the open-borders folks (including those on the right) were sincere because they are literally unable to conceive of any reason other than hate for favoring less immigration and tighter enforcement. It's not just that they think Jeff Sessio! ns and Lamar Smith and Roy Beck and I are racists, but that there's no way we could be anything but racists.
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Montana Adopts Legal-Presence Requirement of REAL ID Act
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/montana-real-id-legal-presence
Excerpt: Montana has just passed a law requiring both legal presence for driver's license applicants and expiration of a driver's license on the same day that the holder's federally mandated legal presence expires (in the case of nonimmigrants). Oddly, this is the same REAL ID secure driver license law that Montana's Gov. Brian Schweitzer described in March 2008 on NPR as a 'harebrained scheme' for 'kookie IDs that do not make us more secure.' Back then, Schweitzer touted that his legislature voted 150 to 0 to not implement REAL ID. On April 18, 2011, three years later, he partially swallowed his words (although he had not a word to say) by signing a law that directly supports the legal presence aspects of REAL ID. The law had passed the House and Senate by more than two-to-one.
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Brookings Holds Spirited Debate on Dream Act Variations
By David North
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/north/dream-act-brookings
Excerpt: By Washington standards it was a 'fair and balanced' session, with both presenters being mass migration sympathizers, as were two of the four panelists. But one of the two restrictionists present was CIS's Mark Krikorian, who suggested that a Dream Act with four major changes could be acceptable public policy, as outlined later
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Agents Speak Out Against 'No Apprehension' Policy
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/border-agents-speak-out
Excerpt: In a strange confluence of news surrounding the activities of the Border Patrol, the agents are speaking out quite loudly – through the conduit of local law enforcement that has repeatedly challenged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's claims that the 'border is as secure as it has ever been.'
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14.
White House Tries to Calm the Waters
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/white-house-calm-waters
Excerpt: Politico has provided a concise explanation of yesterday's White House confab in favor of 'comprehensive' immigration reform, reporting that 'The meeting itself has been framed as an effort to show Obama supporters that he is trying to make progress on the issue even if it's doomed to stall in Congress.'
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15.
The Regrettable Demise of the Journal 'People and Place'
By David North
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/north/demise-of-People-and-Place
Excerpt: It is sad to report that People and Place, an Australian academic quarterly, has published its last edition.
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16.
61% of Americans Oppose Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/feere/birthright-citizenship-rasmussen
Excerpt: The survey shows that 61 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that a child born in the United States to a woman who is here illegally should not automatically become a U.S. citizen. This is up three percentage points from a Rasmussen survey on the same subject taken last August. Interestingly, the survey represents the highest level of public opposition to automatic birthright citizenship policies in five years of Rasmussen Reports surveying.
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17.
Immigration Activist Warns of 'Civil War'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/gutierrez-civil-war
Excerpt: Juan Jose Gutierrez, the president of an immigration activist group called Vamos Unidos, predicts that hundreds of thousands of people will march in Los Angeles on May Day, demanding legalization for illegal immigrants.
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18.
BIA Exposes Weakness in Immigration-Through-Marriage Law
By David North
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/north/fiance-visa-loophole
Excerpt: You might think that if an alien obtains legal status in the U.S. through a marriage-related visa that the government would want the marriage to last for a while, say, two years. Right?
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19.
Framing the Discussion on Univision
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 18, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/framing-the-discussion-on-univision
Excerpt: The Univision Sunday morning program 'Al Punto' yesterday offered a discussion that illustrated how the Spanish-language television network frames as 'anti-immigrant' any measures directed against illegal immigration. It also included comments from a Los Angeles activist about President Obama's political calculations regarding immigration reform.
[FYI --
1. The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration (Backgrounder)
2. Mark Krikorian Debates Birthright Citizenship on CNN (Video)
3. A Misleading Article on Illegal Aliens and Income Tax Payments (Blog)
4. Insecuring the Border (Blog)
5. Angels Dancing on Pins and the Meaning of Moral Turpitude (Blog)
6. GAO Updates Cost of Criminal Aliens (Blog)
7. Deconstructing the New York Times
8. Firm on CIS 'Taking Names' List Zapped Again for Labor Practices (Blog)
9. Father of Earth Day on Population and Immigration (Blog)
10. Failure of Imagination (Blog)
11. Montana Adopts Legal-Presence Requirement of REAL ID Act (Blog)
12. Brookings Holds Spirited Debate on Dream Act Variations (Blog)
13. Agents Speak Out Against 'No Apprehension' Policy (Blog)
14. White House Tries to Calm the Waters (Blog)
15. The Regrettable Demise of the Journal 'People and Place' (Blog)
16. 61% of Americans Oppose Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens (Blog)
17. Immigration Activist Warns of 'Civil War' (Blog)
18. BIA Exposes Weakness in Immigration-Through-Marriage Law (Blog)
19. Framing the Discussion on Univision (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Backgrounder, April 2011
http://www.cis.org/mormon-church-and-illegal-immigration
Excerpt: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS or Mormon Church) regards Christ as head of the church and considers members to be Christians.1 Unlike many religious organizations that clearly and candidly stake out their positions on illegal immigration, however, the LDS Church officially takes no position on this highly divisive issue. This pleases neither those who oppose illegal immigration nor those who support it.
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2.
Mark Krikorian Debates Birthright Citizenship Issues
CNN, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/Videos/KrikorianDebatesBirthrightCNN
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3.
A Misleading Article on Illegal Aliens and Income Tax Payments
By David North
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://cis.org/north/GE-income-taxes-illegals
Excerpt: For advocates of the illegal alien population the headline seemed to be a winner. It said:
'Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid $11.2 B in taxes last year, unlike GE, which paid zero'
The news story was by Albor Ruiz and appeared in the New York Daily News on April 20.
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4.
Insecuring the Border
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/insecuring-the-border
Excerpt: Fox News recently made an exclusive report confirming that Border Patrol and Homeland Security officials are manipulating apprehension figures.
That is, border security agencies are forcing Border Patrol officers not to apprehend aliens attempting to cross the Mexican border illegally. You read that right: Let them go, never touch them.
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5.
Angels Dancing on Pins and the Meaning of Moral Turpitude
By David North
CIS Blog, April 24, 2011
http://cis.org/north/moral-turpitude
Excerpt: It's not that the alien in the dock is not deportable – that he's deportable is usually conceded by all parties. Nor is there a question of whether or not the alien has committed a crime; again, that is pretty clear.
The question almost worthy of medieval disputation is: is the crime one of moral turpitude? If it is not, then the IJ can, at his or her discretion, decide for or against a one-case amnesty for the about-to-be-removed alien in the court. If the crime is one involving moral turpitude (MT hereafter) then the IJ has no discretion and the alien must be tossed out of the country. Many cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), an arm of the Justice Department, revolve around these and related questions.
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6.
GAO Updates Cost of Criminal Aliens
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, April 23, 2011
http://cis.org/vaughan/gao-report-criminal-aliens
Excerpt: The incarceration of criminal aliens cost the federal government more than $1.6 billion in 2009, according to a new GAO report. In addition, taxpayers shelled out tens of millions more that year to incarcerate aliens in state prisons and local jails.
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Deconstructing the New York Times
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/Kammer/Deconstructing-the-NYT
Excerpt: No reporter should allow his byline to sit atop a 2,900 word story about a highly controversial topic if that story has no room for an essential element of balance. Not when the void results in a story that is egregiously one-sided and indifferent to ongoing excesses. Not when those excesses are at least as poisonous to the national immigration debate as 20-year-old quotes from a 77-year-old man who has Parkinson’s disease and is quietly fading from the scene.
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8.
Firm on CIS 'Taking Names' List Zapped Again for Labor Practices
By David North
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/north/global-horizons-zapped-again
Excerpt: Global Horizons, a Beverly Hills-based farm labor contractor, listed in a recent CIS publication, 'Taking Names', as one of the few misbehaving employers of aliens to be penalized by the government, is now in trouble with a different government agency.
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9.
Father of Earth Day on Population and Immigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 22, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/gaylord-nelson-on-immigration
Excerpt: As we observe Earth Day today, it's fitting to note some of the concerns expressed by its founder, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Here are some excerpts from his 2002 autobiography, Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise.
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Failure of Imagination
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/failure-of-imagination
Excerpt: The goal of the campaign — the high point of which was the Southern Poverty Law Center's bogus designation of one of the national restrictionist organizations as a 'hate group' — was to drive all immigration skeptics out of the public debate by labeling any skepticism about immigration as inherently racist. In other words, to make questioning mass immigration the same as questioning the desegregation of lunch counters. The smear campaign was developed at a series of meetings after the defeat of the 2007 amnesty out of despair at having failed so completely despite their holding the commanding heights of society and economy and politics. While I'm sure some of the principals saw it as a cynical move, I think many of the open-borders folks (including those on the right) were sincere because they are literally unable to conceive of any reason other than hate for favoring less immigration and tighter enforcement. It's not just that they think Jeff Sessio! ns and Lamar Smith and Roy Beck and I are racists, but that there's no way we could be anything but racists.
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11.
Montana Adopts Legal-Presence Requirement of REAL ID Act
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/montana-real-id-legal-presence
Excerpt: Montana has just passed a law requiring both legal presence for driver's license applicants and expiration of a driver's license on the same day that the holder's federally mandated legal presence expires (in the case of nonimmigrants). Oddly, this is the same REAL ID secure driver license law that Montana's Gov. Brian Schweitzer described in March 2008 on NPR as a 'harebrained scheme' for 'kookie IDs that do not make us more secure.' Back then, Schweitzer touted that his legislature voted 150 to 0 to not implement REAL ID. On April 18, 2011, three years later, he partially swallowed his words (although he had not a word to say) by signing a law that directly supports the legal presence aspects of REAL ID. The law had passed the House and Senate by more than two-to-one.
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12.
Brookings Holds Spirited Debate on Dream Act Variations
By David North
CIS Blog, April 21, 2011
http://cis.org/north/dream-act-brookings
Excerpt: By Washington standards it was a 'fair and balanced' session, with both presenters being mass migration sympathizers, as were two of the four panelists. But one of the two restrictionists present was CIS's Mark Krikorian, who suggested that a Dream Act with four major changes could be acceptable public policy, as outlined later
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Agents Speak Out Against 'No Apprehension' Policy
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/border-agents-speak-out
Excerpt: In a strange confluence of news surrounding the activities of the Border Patrol, the agents are speaking out quite loudly – through the conduit of local law enforcement that has repeatedly challenged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's claims that the 'border is as secure as it has ever been.'
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14.
White House Tries to Calm the Waters
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/white-house-calm-waters
Excerpt: Politico has provided a concise explanation of yesterday's White House confab in favor of 'comprehensive' immigration reform, reporting that 'The meeting itself has been framed as an effort to show Obama supporters that he is trying to make progress on the issue even if it's doomed to stall in Congress.'
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15.
The Regrettable Demise of the Journal 'People and Place'
By David North
CIS Blog, April 20, 2011
http://cis.org/north/demise-of-People-and-Place
Excerpt: It is sad to report that People and Place, an Australian academic quarterly, has published its last edition.
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16.
61% of Americans Oppose Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/feere/birthright-citizenship-rasmussen
Excerpt: The survey shows that 61 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that a child born in the United States to a woman who is here illegally should not automatically become a U.S. citizen. This is up three percentage points from a Rasmussen survey on the same subject taken last August. Interestingly, the survey represents the highest level of public opposition to automatic birthright citizenship policies in five years of Rasmussen Reports surveying.
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Immigration Activist Warns of 'Civil War'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/gutierrez-civil-war
Excerpt: Juan Jose Gutierrez, the president of an immigration activist group called Vamos Unidos, predicts that hundreds of thousands of people will march in Los Angeles on May Day, demanding legalization for illegal immigrants.
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18.
BIA Exposes Weakness in Immigration-Through-Marriage Law
By David North
CIS Blog, April 19, 2011
http://cis.org/north/fiance-visa-loophole
Excerpt: You might think that if an alien obtains legal status in the U.S. through a marriage-related visa that the government would want the marriage to last for a while, say, two years. Right?
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19.
Framing the Discussion on Univision
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 18, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/framing-the-discussion-on-univision
Excerpt: The Univision Sunday morning program 'Al Punto' yesterday offered a discussion that illustrated how the Spanish-language television network frames as 'anti-immigrant' any measures directed against illegal immigration. It also included comments from a Los Angeles activist about President Obama's political calculations regarding immigration reform.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria VII
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria VI
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria V
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria IV
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria III
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria II
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Alexander Technique Teacher Adolfo Santamaria
Luke Ford writes: Adolfo trained at the Alexander Training Institute of L.A. in Santa Monica, California completing a three-year training program in 2010.
The Alexander Technique provided Adolfo with much-needed relief from the pain of a herniated disc in his lower back. Today he has resumed an active lifestyle and maintains a teaching practice on the Westside.
Psychiatrist Dr. Steve Wiseman on controversial award to Tom Cruise: The Simon Wiesenthal Center - On a Cruise to Nowhere?
Michael Barger from San Francisco emails:
Dialog Ireland has just published an article by Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Steve Wiseman on the controversy over the Simon Wiesenthal Center humanitarian award to Tom Cruise to be made on May 5 in Los Angeles. SWC is a high-profile Jewish human rights group dedicated to the promotion of tolerance and education about the lessons of the Holocaust.
US and Israeli Jews, particularly those with relatives who died in the Holocaust, are dismayed in light of Scientology's savage campaign of terror against its leading Jewish critic, Paulette Cooper, who is a Holocaust survivor, and in view of its exploitation of the Holocaust in its campaign to destroy psychiatry and all the mental health professions and replace them with L. Ron Hubbard's dangerous pseudo-medical and pseudo-psychiatric practices.
Dialog Ireland has also posted an article on Dr. Wiseman speaking on Scientology's anti-psychiatry front group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). Former American Psychiatric Association President Dr.Nada Stotland has referred to CCHR and Scientology as an anti-psychiatry hate group.
Dr. Wiseman has encouraged people to circulate the article. Feel free to send to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, contacts in the Jewish community, media contacts, and to post on blogs and forums.
For other background on the controversy see:
Daniele Berrin's article at the Hollywood Jew blog of the Jewish Journal: Should the Wiesenthal Center honor Tom Cruise?
William Burke's article at Ask the Scientologist: What's Wrong with the Wiesenthal Center Honoring Tom Cruise?
Jewish blogger Luke Ford has published Michael Barger's extensive backgrounder on the controversy: Controversy over Wiesenthal Center's honoring Tom Cruise as humanitarian
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Mormons And Immigration
WASHINGTON (April 20, 2011) – In the wake of Utah's passage of a guestworker/amnesty bill, the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that effort, and the stance of the Church on immigration issues generally, has come under scrutiny. While nominally neutral on the issue, the Church seems to have moved toward support for illegal immigrants and opposition to immigration enforcement. Contradictions between official Church policies, the statements of senior Church leaders, and the actions of the Church’s public affairs and media groups have sparked considerable debate among members.
A new paper from the Center for Immigration Studies is the first look at this issue. “The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration” is authored by Ronald W. Mortensen, PhD, a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, retired career U.S. Foreign Service Officer, and member of the LDS Church. The report is available at: http://www.cis.org/mormon-church-and-illegal-immigration.
Among the findings:
- The Church still teaches that 'Members should obey, honor, and sustain the laws in any country where they reside or travel.' In spite of this, the Church baptizes and extends full membership to illegal aliens who are not obeying, honoring, and sustaining the laws of the United States where they now reside.
- The Church calls for compassion for illegal aliens who are committing serious violations of U.S. immigration and criminal laws, but ignores justice for an estimated 50,000 Utah children and over one million Arizona children and their families, who are the victims of job-related identity theft.
- At the same time the Church tells new converts in the poorest countries and villages in the world to stay where they are in order to build up the Church there, its public affairs and media groups and surrogates accuse those who ask people illegally in the United States to return to those very same countries and villages of being mean-spirited and cruel.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Immigration News
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[FYI --
1. Panel: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children (Video, Transcript)
2. Sin 'Salon' (Blog)
3. April in Vekol Valley, Ariz.: Drug Shootings, Again (Blog)
4. DHS Pressies Face a Quandary Regarding Publicizing Some Deportations (Blog)
5. House Hearing Lays Down Record for Ending the Visa Lottery (Blog)
6. Fired Illegals Say Chipotle Was Soft on Immigration (Blog)
7. Rising Frustrations, Call to the Streets (Blog)
8. Massachusetts Health Plan Giveaway (Blog)
9. Salt Lake Chamber Dupes the Supporters of the Utah Compact (Blog)
10. A Worm's-Eye View of IRS Tax Collection Practices vs. Some Aliens (Blog)
11. Univision Does It Again (Blog)
12. 61% of Americans Agree: Unregulated Immigration Increases Poverty (Blog)
13. What about Nativism? (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Panel: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
Speakers: Steven Camarota, Mickey Kaus, Iain Murray, and Mark Krikorian
CIS Video and Transcript, April 13,2011
Video: http://www.cis.org/Videos/Panel-Immigrant-Welfare-Use
Transcript: http://cis.org/PanelTranscripts/Panel-Immigrant-Welfare-Use
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Sin 'Salon'
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/sin-salon
Excerpt: The seamy side of immigration often gets glossed over, dismissed, or explained away by open-border apologists calling for unfettered legal immigration and unchecked illegal immigration. But an honest look at immigration shows that human sin nature doesn't stop at the border.
The Washington Post reports that a pair of Korean immigrant women is headed to prison for trafficking in illegal South Korean females. The illegal aliens worked at the jail-bound madames' bar, which profited the madames several million dollars. According to the Post, the 'hostesses' served, drank with, flirted, sang, and danced with customers, who were required to buy an expensive bottle of liquor. The women 'dress[ed] provocatively.'
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April in Vekol Valley, Ariz.: Drug Shootings, Again
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/april-in-vekol-valley
Excerpt: In the same area where I filmed 'Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 3: Guns, Drugs, and 750 Illegal Aliens', one likely drug runner was shot and another killed yesterday evening in a shoot out between drug smugglers. The exact area of the shooting, Antelope Peak, was about a mile from the first segment of that film which highlights the travel methods of drug cartels. I had recently posted new footage and analysis of the issue after hearing that drug smuggling activity from across the border had picked up again in this area known as Vekol Valley. The surge of such activity came after months of quiet caused by significant attention to the area driven by sources as diverse as my Hidden Cameras film, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's pronounced immigration law enforcement effort, and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's immigration laws.
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DHS Pressies Face a Quandary Regarding Publicizing Some Deportations
By David North
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/dhs-pressies-face-quandary
Excerpt: ICE agents had arrested him almost a year ago and, as the press release did not state, he must have retained a lawyer and managed to delay his deportation for a year by appealing to an immigration judge, and then to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), both in vain. Then ICE, at some considerable expense, chartered a small plane to carry him and his keepers from Chicago to the Lower Rio Grande Valley; from there they conveyed him to Mexican officials on the other side of the river.
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House Hearing Lays Down Record for Ending the Visa Lottery
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 15, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/visa-lottery-hearing
Excerpt: On April 5, 2011, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement on a bill that would eliminate the Diversity Visa lottery (DV) program. The hearing was specifically on H.R.704, the SAFE for America Act, is sponsored by Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA), who has been seeking to do away with the visa lottery for years. This was the first time Goodlatte has received a legislative hearing on this bill.
The lottery provides 50,000 visas every year to those from more than 170 nations who send relatively few immigrants to the United States, including state sponsors of terror and nations with known radicalized, anti-U.S. populations. Organized crime also takes advantage of the program in a multitude of ways. In addition, the program is riddled with fraud, and none of the problems outlined by CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian in his 2005 Congressional testimony on the subject have been reduced sufficiently to justify maintaining the program.
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Fired Illegals Say Chipotle Was Soft on Immigration
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/fired-workers-chipotle-soft-on-immigration
Excerpt: Reuters has written an expose on the illegal hiring practices at Chipotle, the fast-food burrito chain that continues to be the focus of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit. The article is worth reading in full, as it generally avoids the frivolity found in most immigration reporting. Shockingly, the journalists admit: 'Chipotle could have found anomalies had it used E-Verify.' Here is part of the article . . .
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Rising Frustrations, Call to the Streets
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/grijalva-call-to-the-streets
Excerpt: On today's 'Democracy Now!' program, co-host Juan Gonzalez interviewed Rep. Raul Grijalva. Both men expressed frustration with the lack of action on immigration reform by Congress and the Obama administration. Here are the principal exchanges, including a suggestion from Gonzalez that it is 'time to shut down Phoenix' in protest. The interview took place the day after advocates of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles announced plans for a major demonstration there on May 1:
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Massachusetts Health Plan Giveaway
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/health-plan-giveaway
Excerpt: For a preview of how a federally-run health care system might deal with uninsured illegal immigrants, watch Massachusetts. In 2006 the state enacted Romneycare, which many consider to be the precursor to Obamacare. A recent report from the Massachusetts Inspector General has found that state agencies have failed to implement controls to prevent ineligible people – including illegal immigrants – from getting free taxpayer-funded health care.
The audit found that the Commonwealth has provided millions of dollars worth of free health services to residents of foreign countries, as well as residents of other states, who should not have qualified in the 'free care pool,' which is supposed to be only for legal residents of Massachusetts who do not have health insurance.
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Salt Lake Chamber Dupes the Supporters of the Utah Compact
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/salt-lake-chamber-dupes-supporters
Excerpt: Did the Salt Lake Chamber dupe Utah's religious organizations, social justice groups, and media outlets into helping it pass legislation that guarantees its business members a large pool of low-cost, easily exploited illegal alien labor? It appears that that may have been the case.
In 2010, the Salt Lake Chamber played a leading role in the development of the Utah Compact, which makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.
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A Worm's-Eye View of IRS Tax Collection Practices vs. Some Aliens
By David North
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/worms-eye-view-irs
Excerpt: A single Border Patrol agent, dealing with, say, a five-mile stretch of the southern border, may not have a good understanding of the nation's immigration enforcement policy, but he certainly knows how it plays in his own turf.
Similarly, I do not have a good grasp of IRS policies, generally, regarding the collection of taxes from aliens, but I do have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of how they work vis-a-vis foreign graduate students. This is the case because I have been running, for 12 years now, a volunteer program to help graduate students at a major D.C.-area university with their income tax filings. Most of our clients are from overseas.
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Univision Does It Again
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/Univision-Does-It-Again
Excerpt: The nightly newscast of the Univision network makes little effort to report on legitimate concerns about immigration. Last week, for example, it ignored the CIS report on the high rate at which immigrants make use of federal welfare programs.
But on Tuesday, the newscast came out of a commercial for Kellogg's cereals with this information:
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61% of Americans Agree: Unregulated Immigration Increases Poverty
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/rasmussen-poverty
Excerpt: According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 61 percent of adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty in America. Only 19 percent disagree with that assessment.
Seventy-seven percent of Republican respondents and 58 percent of adults not affiliated with either of the two political parties feel there would be less poverty if immigration laws were enforced. Forty-eight percent of democrat respondents agreed.
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What about Nativism?
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, April 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/peridans/what-about-nativism
Excerpt: Is nativism really mean? Is nativism really naïve? Is nativism the beginning of the end?
An editorial last month in the New York Times entitled 'The Anti-Arizonans' celebrates different expressions of opposition to legislative action taken in Arizona aimed at restricting illegal immigration. Such celebrations of righteous indignation have become fairly commonplace in much of the media. The Gray Lady is no exception.
[FYI --
1. Panel: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children (Video, Transcript)
2. Sin 'Salon' (Blog)
3. April in Vekol Valley, Ariz.: Drug Shootings, Again (Blog)
4. DHS Pressies Face a Quandary Regarding Publicizing Some Deportations (Blog)
5. House Hearing Lays Down Record for Ending the Visa Lottery (Blog)
6. Fired Illegals Say Chipotle Was Soft on Immigration (Blog)
7. Rising Frustrations, Call to the Streets (Blog)
8. Massachusetts Health Plan Giveaway (Blog)
9. Salt Lake Chamber Dupes the Supporters of the Utah Compact (Blog)
10. A Worm's-Eye View of IRS Tax Collection Practices vs. Some Aliens (Blog)
11. Univision Does It Again (Blog)
12. 61% of Americans Agree: Unregulated Immigration Increases Poverty (Blog)
13. What about Nativism? (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Panel: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children
Speakers: Steven Camarota, Mickey Kaus, Iain Murray, and Mark Krikorian
CIS Video and Transcript, April 13,2011
Video: http://www.cis.org/Videos/Panel-Immigrant-Welfare-Use
Transcript: http://cis.org/PanelTranscripts/Panel-Immigrant-Welfare-Use
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2.
Sin 'Salon'
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/sin-salon
Excerpt: The seamy side of immigration often gets glossed over, dismissed, or explained away by open-border apologists calling for unfettered legal immigration and unchecked illegal immigration. But an honest look at immigration shows that human sin nature doesn't stop at the border.
The Washington Post reports that a pair of Korean immigrant women is headed to prison for trafficking in illegal South Korean females. The illegal aliens worked at the jail-bound madames' bar, which profited the madames several million dollars. According to the Post, the 'hostesses' served, drank with, flirted, sang, and danced with customers, who were required to buy an expensive bottle of liquor. The women 'dress[ed] provocatively.'
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3.
April in Vekol Valley, Ariz.: Drug Shootings, Again
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/april-in-vekol-valley
Excerpt: In the same area where I filmed 'Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 3: Guns, Drugs, and 750 Illegal Aliens', one likely drug runner was shot and another killed yesterday evening in a shoot out between drug smugglers. The exact area of the shooting, Antelope Peak, was about a mile from the first segment of that film which highlights the travel methods of drug cartels. I had recently posted new footage and analysis of the issue after hearing that drug smuggling activity from across the border had picked up again in this area known as Vekol Valley. The surge of such activity came after months of quiet caused by significant attention to the area driven by sources as diverse as my Hidden Cameras film, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's pronounced immigration law enforcement effort, and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's immigration laws.
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4.
DHS Pressies Face a Quandary Regarding Publicizing Some Deportations
By David North
CIS Blog, April 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/dhs-pressies-face-quandary
Excerpt: ICE agents had arrested him almost a year ago and, as the press release did not state, he must have retained a lawyer and managed to delay his deportation for a year by appealing to an immigration judge, and then to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), both in vain. Then ICE, at some considerable expense, chartered a small plane to carry him and his keepers from Chicago to the Lower Rio Grande Valley; from there they conveyed him to Mexican officials on the other side of the river.
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5.
House Hearing Lays Down Record for Ending the Visa Lottery
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, April 15, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/visa-lottery-hearing
Excerpt: On April 5, 2011, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement on a bill that would eliminate the Diversity Visa lottery (DV) program. The hearing was specifically on H.R.704, the SAFE for America Act, is sponsored by Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA), who has been seeking to do away with the visa lottery for years. This was the first time Goodlatte has received a legislative hearing on this bill.
The lottery provides 50,000 visas every year to those from more than 170 nations who send relatively few immigrants to the United States, including state sponsors of terror and nations with known radicalized, anti-U.S. populations. Organized crime also takes advantage of the program in a multitude of ways. In addition, the program is riddled with fraud, and none of the problems outlined by CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian in his 2005 Congressional testimony on the subject have been reduced sufficiently to justify maintaining the program.
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6.
Fired Illegals Say Chipotle Was Soft on Immigration
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/fired-workers-chipotle-soft-on-immigration
Excerpt: Reuters has written an expose on the illegal hiring practices at Chipotle, the fast-food burrito chain that continues to be the focus of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit. The article is worth reading in full, as it generally avoids the frivolity found in most immigration reporting. Shockingly, the journalists admit: 'Chipotle could have found anomalies had it used E-Verify.' Here is part of the article . . .
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Rising Frustrations, Call to the Streets
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/grijalva-call-to-the-streets
Excerpt: On today's 'Democracy Now!' program, co-host Juan Gonzalez interviewed Rep. Raul Grijalva. Both men expressed frustration with the lack of action on immigration reform by Congress and the Obama administration. Here are the principal exchanges, including a suggestion from Gonzalez that it is 'time to shut down Phoenix' in protest. The interview took place the day after advocates of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles announced plans for a major demonstration there on May 1:
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8.
Massachusetts Health Plan Giveaway
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, April 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/health-plan-giveaway
Excerpt: For a preview of how a federally-run health care system might deal with uninsured illegal immigrants, watch Massachusetts. In 2006 the state enacted Romneycare, which many consider to be the precursor to Obamacare. A recent report from the Massachusetts Inspector General has found that state agencies have failed to implement controls to prevent ineligible people – including illegal immigrants – from getting free taxpayer-funded health care.
The audit found that the Commonwealth has provided millions of dollars worth of free health services to residents of foreign countries, as well as residents of other states, who should not have qualified in the 'free care pool,' which is supposed to be only for legal residents of Massachusetts who do not have health insurance.
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9.
Salt Lake Chamber Dupes the Supporters of the Utah Compact
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/salt-lake-chamber-dupes-supporters
Excerpt: Did the Salt Lake Chamber dupe Utah's religious organizations, social justice groups, and media outlets into helping it pass legislation that guarantees its business members a large pool of low-cost, easily exploited illegal alien labor? It appears that that may have been the case.
In 2010, the Salt Lake Chamber played a leading role in the development of the Utah Compact, which makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.
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10.
A Worm's-Eye View of IRS Tax Collection Practices vs. Some Aliens
By David North
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/worms-eye-view-irs
Excerpt: A single Border Patrol agent, dealing with, say, a five-mile stretch of the southern border, may not have a good understanding of the nation's immigration enforcement policy, but he certainly knows how it plays in his own turf.
Similarly, I do not have a good grasp of IRS policies, generally, regarding the collection of taxes from aliens, but I do have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of how they work vis-a-vis foreign graduate students. This is the case because I have been running, for 12 years now, a volunteer program to help graduate students at a major D.C.-area university with their income tax filings. Most of our clients are from overseas.
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11.
Univision Does It Again
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 13, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/Univision-Does-It-Again
Excerpt: The nightly newscast of the Univision network makes little effort to report on legitimate concerns about immigration. Last week, for example, it ignored the CIS report on the high rate at which immigrants make use of federal welfare programs.
But on Tuesday, the newscast came out of a commercial for Kellogg's cereals with this information:
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12.
61% of Americans Agree: Unregulated Immigration Increases Poverty
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, April 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/rasmussen-poverty
Excerpt: According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 61 percent of adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty in America. Only 19 percent disagree with that assessment.
Seventy-seven percent of Republican respondents and 58 percent of adults not affiliated with either of the two political parties feel there would be less poverty if immigration laws were enforced. Forty-eight percent of democrat respondents agreed.
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13.
What about Nativism?
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, April 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/peridans/what-about-nativism
Excerpt: Is nativism really mean? Is nativism really naïve? Is nativism the beginning of the end?
An editorial last month in the New York Times entitled 'The Anti-Arizonans' celebrates different expressions of opposition to legislative action taken in Arizona aimed at restricting illegal immigration. Such celebrations of righteous indignation have become fairly commonplace in much of the media. The Gray Lady is no exception.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Luke Ford - Just A Gigolo
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
Bids - Pay Attention When People Bid For Your Attention
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
Rabbi Rabbs Has No Nieces To Tempt Him
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
The Last Time Someone Got This Upset With Me
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
The Torah Case Against Incest
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
Relationship With Uncle Not Same Since He Asked Her For
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
18 Forbidden Sexual Relationships According To Torah
Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube. This week’s we study Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30).
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