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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]
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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.
