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[FYI --
1. Refugee Resettlement: A System Badly in Need of Review (Backgrounder)
2. Public Comment on Proposed H-1B Regulations (Testimony)
3. An Unusual Voice on Univision (Blog)
4. Does Parroting Lobbyists Constitute 'News analysis'? (Blog)
5. USCIS Overturns 'Early Bird Gets the Worm' Rule in H-1B Program (Blog)
6. State Department Regs Guarantee Loss of 120,000 American Jobs (Blog)
7. SB1070 as Bogeyman (Blog)
8. Superman Meets His Match: Los Hermanos Ortiz (Blog)
9. Utah's Actions Analyzed at Immigration Policy Conference (Blog)
10. Jason DeParle Has the Last Word, for Now (Blog)
11. Bahamas Gets It Right on Investment Levels and Streamlining (Blog)
12. Is it Time for a National Latino Museum? (Blog)
13. A Message from Jason DeParle, and a Response (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Refugee Resettlement
A System Badly in Need of Review
By Don Barnett
CIS Backgrounder, May 2011
http://www.cis.org/refugee-system-needs-review
Excerpt: One has to be careful when trying to explain the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Too much truth and in too much detail leaves those unfamiliar with the program looking at you like you are crazy. Among those unfamiliar with the topic — and therefore unable to completely process and act on information about it — are most of the political elite, especially Congress.
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Public Comment on DHS Docket No. USCIS-2008-0014 (Proposed H-1B Regulations)
By David North
CIS Testimony, April 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2765
Excerpt: This is a proposed 'streamlining' of an aspect of this foreign worker program, H-1B, that would come into play after the Congressionally-mandated ceilings of 65,000 and 20,000 new visas are exhausted under this program. It would allow would-be employers to place in priority order the foreign workers they wanted though this program if their applications were among those that reached and exceeded the ceilings. In former years a lottery had been conducted among the names of the wanted workers, which gave the employers some of the workers they wanted, but not in the order that they wanted them. No employer was ever saddled with a foreign worker the employer did NOT want.
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An Unusual Voice on Univision
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, May 2, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/unusual-voice-on-univision
Excerpt: Univision's Sunday Spanish-language news program 'Al Punto' gave voice to the sort of Latino not often heard on the network: a conservative Republican who does not favor amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Host Jorge Ramos spoke with Adryana Boyne, an immigrant from Mexico who has long been active in Republican politics. In 2008 Boyne was a delegate to the Republican National Convention and was active in the Mike Huckabee presidential campaign.
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Does Parroting Lobbyists Constitute 'News analysis'?
By John Miano
CIS Blog, May 2, 2011
http://www.cis.org/miano/cokie-roberts-news-analysis
Excerpt: This week provided a wonderful example of why public funding for NPR should be cut off.
In the tech industry it has become routine for Americans to be replaced by lower-paid foreign workers on H-1B visas. The repeating pattern is for the U.S. employer to contract with an H-1B bodyshop to supply labor to replace its American workers. The U.S. employer then requires its American workers train their foreign replacements.
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USCIS Overturns 'Early Bird Gets the Worm' Rule in H-1B Program
By David North
CIS Blog, April 29, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/USCIS-overturns-early-bird-rule
Excerpt: Throughout our lives we are told that 'that the early bird gets the worm,' that it is a good idea to be 'early to bed and early to rise,' and that a 'stitch in time saves nine,' but USCIS has now overruled those mottos in the H-1B program.
It now is about to impose a set of rules in that foreign high-tech worker program to, in effect, make life easier for the late birds, the late risers, and the non-stitchers among the greedy employers who use the H-1B program to lower their labor costs, and deny jobs to American workers.
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State Department Regs Guarantee Loss of 120,000 American Jobs
By David North
CIS Blog, April 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/state-department-regs-guarantee-loss-of-jobs
Excerpt: I suppose it is progress when one of the State Department's alien worker programs decides that foreign college students can no longer be used as rickshaw operators, or in their words: 'as pedicab or rolling chair drivers'.
It certainly is a refreshing bit of transparency when the department admits that its Summer Work Travel program had sometimes been used to staff 'money laundering, money mule schemes and Medicare fraud', though no details are provided.
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SB1070 as Bogeyman
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, April 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/tamar-sb1070
Excerpt: After the passage of Arizona's SB1070 and Republican gains in many state legislatures, there was a lot of talk of similar immigration measures sweeping other states. There has been some real progress, most notably in Georgia, but not as much as you would have thought from the hype. Some of that is because it was hype, and most bills in any legislature never get anywhere.
But Tamar Jacoby, head of the open-borders business lobby ImmigrationWorks USA, revealed at a conference yesterday the strategy that succeeded in a number of states . . .
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Superman Meets His Match: Los Hermanos Ortiz
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/superman-es-ilegal
Excerpt: The blogosphere is abuzz with the news that the latest edition of the Superman comics series has the superhero renouncing his American citizenship, declaring he is 'tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy.'
But in the world of Spanish-language corridos, the ballads that give voice to the experience of illegal immigrants, Superman's citizenship has long been in doubt. That is mostly due to the group known as 'Los Hermanos Ortiz,' the Ortiz Brothers, in the catchy and clever 'Superman Es Ilegal'.
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Utah's Actions Analyzed at Immigration Policy Conference
By David North
CIS Blog, April 27, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/utahs-actions-anaylzed
Excerpt: While all the talk was, subtly, in favor of mass immigration, there were some conflicting views regarding the recent Utah developments at the 8th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference in Washington on April 26.
The event, at the Georgetown University Law School, was co-sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. It is a continuation of a series of such events that, with somewhat different sponsorships but with an identical policy orientation, have been happening every spring since at least 1969.
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Jason DeParle Has the Last Word, for Now
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 26, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/deparle-last-word
Excerpt: In yesterday's blog, I noted that New York Times reporter Jason DeParle had responded to questions I had emailed him regarding his April 17 front-page story. I did not quote from the response because I had offered to embargo it for a year. I offered the embargo because I thought he might be more comfortable and candid if he knew that the answers would be printed long after the initial controversy of his story had cooled. I hope to write at length about the story and about the Times' immigration coverage and commentary. But not today and not for awhile.
Last night DeParle sent me an email, giving me the okay to lift the embargo. Below is his response, as I received it. The only change I have made to the substance is the deletion of the name of the Times editor he mentions in the second paragraph. The editor, an acquaintance for whom I have tremendous respect, did not edit DeParle's story. DeParle refers here to the CAP and the SPLC; they are the Center for American Progress and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Bahamas Gets It Right on Investment Levels and Streamlining
By David North
CIS Blog, April 26, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/bahamas-investor-visas
Excerpt: Sometimes it is downright embarrassing to find tiny Third World nations handling immigration challenges better than the mighty U.S. does.
For example, The Bahamas has just decided to triple the investment needed if you want to get permanent residence there; the bar used to be $500,000 (often used to buy a house) and now it is $1,500,000. These are Bahamas dollars, but they are worth, depending on the mood of the market, a hair more or a hair less than the U.S. dollar.
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Is it Time for a National Latino Museum?
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/peridans/national-latino-museum
Excerpt: The New York Times recently published an article by Kate Taylor, on a proposed national museum intended to honor 'Hispanic' Americans: 'National Latino Museum Plan Faces Fight' (for our purposes, 'Hispanic' and 'Latino' will be used interchangeably). I would venture to say, from the outset, that the 'fight' cannot simply be another disturbing example of sportive activity by entrenched naysayers of the majority who have found another worthwhile project to deny those whose different ethnicity makes them feel uncomfortable. Real questions do arise. What exactly would such a museum mean? What exactly would such a museum represent? Whom exactly would such a museum represent?
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A Message from Jason DeParle, and a Response
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, April 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/message-from-deparle-and-response
Excerpt: In Friday's blog post, which responded critically to the previous Sunday's lengthy New York Times article about John Tanton, I noted that on April 17, DeParle had responded to an email from me in which I had questioned the story. As I noted in the blog, while DeParle's email said he would send me a note the next day, I had not heard from him.
About six hours after I submitted that blog, I received an email from DeParle. It was a thoughtful response that I want to acknowledge here. But since I had pledged to embargo his comments for one year if he preferred, I will not quote from it here. If I write an analysis of immigration journalism, as I hope eventually to do, I expect I will quote him there at some length. That will not happen for at least a year.
