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1. Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs (Backgrounder)
2. H-1B + K-12 = ? A First Look at the Implications of Foreign Teacher Recruitment (Memorandum)
3. Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to Eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery Immigrant Program (Testimony)
4. BIA Does the Right Thing – Let's Hope America Publicizes It (Blog)
5. Arizona Prop 100 Upheld (Blog)
6. Viewing the H-1B Program from a Different Angle (Blog)
7. Birthright Citizenship Report Sparks Debate (Blog)
8. USCIS Shoots Self in Foot Trying to Streamline an Application Process (Blog)
9. DOL Adds Big D.C.-Area School System to List of H-1B 'Willful Violators' (Blog)
10. 'A Special Political Responsibility of Protection and Nourishment' (Blog)
11. Importing Poverty (Blog)
12. On Decoding ICE Press Releases; or, Why Was That Farmer Criminally Charged? (Blog)
13. USCIS Waives Fees at the Rate of at Least $44 Million a Year (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs
By Steven Camarota
CIS Backgrounder, April 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011
Excerpt: Thirteen years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing.
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H-1B + K-12 = ? A First Look at the Implications of Foreign Teacher Recruitment
By David North
CIS Memorandum, April 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/h-1b-teacher-recruitment
Excerpt: The H-1B nonimmigrant worker program is deeply controversial, hailed by employers as an opportunity to bring the best and the brightest to the United States, and assailed by workers and many analysts as little more than a technique for industry to reduce its labor costs and, simultaneously, to replace older American workers with younger, more recently trained foreign ones.
Most of the discussion of the utility or the evil of this program has been focused on the high-tech industries and on academia, but the program, in recent years also has been used to recruit overseas workers for kindergarten through 12th grade teaching assignments. This is a very preliminary examination of this use of the program in the field of primary and secondary education.
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Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to Eliminate the Diversity Visa Lottery Immigrant Program
Statement by Janice Kephart
House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, April 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2703
Excerpt: Thank you for the invitation to testify on the terrorist travel and national security vulnerabilities that remain with the 20-year-old program commonly referred to as the “Diversity Visa Lottery” (DV Program). My testimony is based on the following work, plus additional research specific to today’s hearing . . .
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BIA Does the Right Thing – Let's Hope America Publicizes It
By David North
CIS Blog, April 9, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/BIA-Bosnian-Serb-MUP
Excerpt: The Board of Immigration Appeals did the right thing on April 8 – and I hope governmental publicists let the Muslim world know about it.
They probably won't, partially because the Congress may be shutting down the government, and partially because foreign policy writers rarely pay attention to immigration issues, both unfortunate situations.
Here's what happened: a Bosnian Serb police officer, whose initials are D- R-, had secured refugee and then green card status in the United States. The government said that his application for refugee status had left out a key fact – that during the Bosnian War he had been an officer of MUP in the Republic of Srpska's Army . . .
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Arizona Prop 100 Upheld
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, April 9, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/prop-100-upheld
Excerpt: No thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union, Arizona's law to keep criminal aliens behind bars has won in federal court. At the bull's eye of a failed legal strategem stands the lawman the open-borders crowd loves to hate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The law came about through a 2006 referendum, Proposition 100. Arizonans approved the measure to keep illegal aliens charged with felonies from having the option of gaining release on bail. To no one's surprise, posting bail had become a loophole the illegals exploited.
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Viewing the H-1B Program from a Different Angle
By David North
CIS Blog, April 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/h1b-different-angle
Excerpt: Usually foreign worker programs are viewed from a distance by observers, as useful or destructive activities, or by employers as good ways to cut wage costs. Sometimes they are seen through the eyes of U.S. workers displaced by the program. Sometimes, when abuses are severe, one sees the program from the point of view of the exploited worker.
In the case of the H-1B program – which I think should be reduced drastically and reformed – I have had an opportunity to see the program through eyes of the willing participants, people who are either in the program or who are headed towards it.
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Birthright Citizenship Report Sparks Debate
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, April 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/Vaughan/BirthrightCitizenshipReport
Excerpt: Last week I appeared on a CNN news program to discuss our recent report on the national security implications of the U.S. practice of granting citizenship to the children of foreign temporary visitors. This is related to, but distinct from the issue of citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.
Beneficiaries of this practice include the children of so-called 'birth tourists', such as the women found in the maternity halfway house for Chinese mothers that was recently discovered in San Gabriel, Calif. They also include the children of foreign students, guestworkers, residents of Mexico with Border Crossing Cards, and those who enter through the regular B-2 tourist visa and visa-waiver programs. We assume that most of these individuals are raised in the country of their parents, although some may end up living here permanently, if their parents later obtain green cards or remain here as illegal aliens. Some will be sent back to the U.S. for schooling (a common practice for families in some Asian countries) and others may keep their U.S. passports current for vacations and in case they need the services of the U.S. embassy, such as evacuation in the event of unrest.
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USCIS Shoots Self in Foot Trying to Streamline an Application Process
By David North
CIS Blog, April 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/uscis-vibe
Excerpt: As noted here in the past, USCIS desperately wants to 'streamline' its application processes.
Even if eligibility rules are not changed a bit, modifying an application process to make it faster, or less expensive, or more convenient to the applicant, inevitably makes that process more attractive, and thus it is used more often, and that creates more migration.
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DoL Adds Big D.C.-Area School System to List of H-1B 'Willful Violators'
By David North
CIS Blog, April 6, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/PGschools-h1b-violations
Excerpt: One of the nation's major educational users of the H-1B program has been cited as a 'willful violator' of that program by the U.S. Department of Labor.
The Prince George's County (Md.) school system has been ordered by DoL to pay $5.9 million dollars in fines and back pay to about 1,000 of its foreign worker teachers, in a highly unusual bit of aggressive enforcement by the department, as reported by the Washington Post. (The DoL press release is here.)
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'A Special Political Responsibility of Protection and Nourishment'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 6, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/clamor-at-the-gates
Excerpt: Yesterday, CIS hosted a panel discussion on a new report about welfare use by immigrants, which was written by Steven Camarota, our director of research. (The video and transcript of the discussion will be posted next week.) The report has obvious significance in the national debate about immigration policy. The goal of social justice, which welfare programs seek to advance, requires an effort to limit eligibility for those programs. Below is an excerpt from a fascinating discussion of this and related issues. It was written by immigration scholar and Yale law professor Peter H. Schuck. It was published as a chapter in the 1985 book, Clamor at the Gates. The chapter is titled 'Immigration Law and the Problem of Community':
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Importing Poverty
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, April 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/importing-poverty-rmn
Excerpt: In news sort of related to today's new CIS welfare report comes this disturbing information in the latest Rural Migration News:
The Fresno county city of San Joaquin has a higher share of children under 18 than any other California city, 41 percent compared to the state average of 25 percent. Orange Cove has the second-highest share of children. Both cities are over 95 percent Hispanic, and both have per capita incomes lower than the per capita income of Mexico, which was $10,000 in 2009, or $14,000 at purchasing power parity. Per capita income in San Joaquin was $8,000, and $7,500 in Orange Cove.
So we now have communities with lower per capita incomes than Mexico. But don't worry — I'm sure it'll all work out fine.
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On Decoding ICE Press Releases; or, Why Was That Farmer Criminally Charged?
By David North
CIS Blog, April 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/decoding-ICE-press-releases
Excerpt: I had two reactions: first, why should this be news – shouldn't ICE being doing this all the time? My sense is that many farms hire and harbor illegals, and that few are fined, much less charged with a criminal offense.
Secondly, why was this farmer sorted out for this treatment? The full text of the press release, which follows, spoke to neither of those concerns
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USCIS Waives Fees at the Rate of at Least $44 Million a Year
By David North
CIS Blog, April 4, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/44-million-in-USCIS-fee-waivers
Excerpt: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, understandably, is funded largely by fees levied on corporations and individuals seeking immigration benefits.
It also can waive some of these fees when it decides that the applicant has a sufficiently low income, and it has just released some data that seems to indicate that it is losing at least $44 million a year in those fees.
