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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]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
