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[FYI --
1. Jerry Kammer and Donald Kerwin Debate Immigration Issues (Video)
2. Where are the H-1B Geniuses? (Blog)
3. Obama's Rule of Lawlessness (Blog)
4. Holder Sends Signal Supporting Marriages of Gay Immigrants (Blog)
5. Just Another Mafia (Blog)
6. An Intriguing (but Probably Flawed) Idea - the Sacrifice Bunt Visa (Blog)
7. Illinois Governor Moves to Protect Illegal Alien Criminals (Blog)
8. Republicans and Immigration (Blog)
9. U.S. Islands' Immigration Policies Overruled by Mainland Standards (Blog)
10. USCIS Spends Too Much Time on Tiny Populations, Including Dead Ones (Blog)
11. 'You must . . . study for at least part of your time in the USA' for an F-1 Visa (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Jerry Kammer and Donald Kerwin Debate Immigration Issues
Blogging Heads TV, May 2011
http://cis.org/BloggingHeads050311
Details: Jerry Kammer, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, and Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs at the Migration Policy Institute, debate various immigration issues during a BloggingHeads.tv episode.
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Where are the H-1B Geniuses?
By John Miano
CIS Blog, May 8, 2011
http://cis.org/miano/where-are-the-h1b-geniuses
Excerpt: The U.S. imports about 100,000 people a year on H-1B visas. The public is constantly told that this mass of labor imports represent the 'Best and Brightest' in the world.
Where are the big accomplishments from those on H-1B visas?
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Obama's Rule of Lawlessness
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, May 8, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/holder-decision-same-sex-marriage
Excerpt: The Obama administration seems married to an ideology of willful lawlessness. Attorney General Eric Holder has vacated a ruling of the Board of Immigration Appeals concerning a deportable alien on account of sexual orientation. The next day, a similar deportation was held up on the same grounds.
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Holder Sends Signal Supporting Marriages of Gay Immigrants
By David North
CIS Blog, May 8, 2011
http://cis.org/north/holder-decision-same-sex-marriage
Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder sent a signal earlier this week, opening the possibility that the Justice Department might view marriages involving gay migrants as comparable to traditional (i.e., one man-one woman) marriages.
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Just Another Mafia
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, May 7, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/just-another-mafia
Excerpt: The Washington Post ran a front-page story Saturday about a Mexican ID forgery ring that had operated in eleven states, from Rhode Island to North Carolina to Arkansas. This news item makes clear that the Mexican mobsters in charge of this illicit business amount to nothing more than a bunch of foreigners willing to break the law to make big bucks – and nothing less than a bunch of hardened criminals whose business opportunity relied solely on the failure of American officials to get serious about immigration.
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An Intriguing (but Probably Flawed) Idea - the Sacrifice Bunt Visa
By David North
CIS Blog, May 6, 2011
http://cis.org/north/sacrifice-bunt-visa
Excerpt: I am not at all sure it is a good idea, but it certainly is an intriguing one.
The reference is to the proposed 'Sacrifice Bunt Visa.' An illegal alien in the U.S. would agree to leave the nation, and in return, he or she would nominate one other illegal alien to be legalized. Thus at a single stroke, the total population of the country would shrink by one, and the population of the illegals in the country would drop by two.
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Illinois Governor Moves to Protect Illegal Alien Criminals
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, May 6, 2011
http://cis.org/vaughan/Illinois-backs-out-of-secure-communities
Excerpt: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has announced his intention to cancel the state's agreement with ICE to allow law enforcement agencies in his state to share arrest information with ICE under the Secure Communities Program, saying he was 'not satisfied' with the results. Quinn expressed concern that ICE has removed a large number of illegal aliens who committed minor crimes in addition to dozens of criminal aliens with convictions for serious felonies.
Let's take a look at those Secure Communities results in Illinois. Twenty-six counties have been using the program since it started there in November 2009. Cook County, which is the largest in Illinois and one of the largest in the country, has refused to participate, declaring itself a sanctuary for illegal aliens. Cook County jail officers routinely release illegal alien offenders, even if ICE has asked for custody. Their policy is, 'We do not work with immigration.' (See this posting of mine from last year.)
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Republicans and Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, May 5, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/republicans-immigration-hawley
Excerpt: The standard line among the high-immigration right (earnestly, if insincerely, seconded by their fellow-travelers on the left) is that Republican opposition to open immigration is driving otherwise-conservative immigrant (and/or Hispanic) voters into the arms of the Democratic Party. Some new research suggests it's actually the other way around. Far from Republican anti-immigration views pushing immigrants further toward the Democrats, it's immigrant anti-Republican views that pushes Republicans further toward restriction.
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U.S. Islands' Immigration Policies Overruled by Mainland Standards
By David North
CIS Blog, May 4, 2011
http://cis.org/north/islands-overruled-by-mainland-standards
Excerpt: The underlying immigration policy of some U.S. island territories might be characterized as: 'Let 'em in, deny 'em political rights, and exploit 'em.'
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USCIS Spends Too Much Time on Tiny Populations, Including Dead Ones
By David North
CIS Blog, May 3, 2011
http://cis.org/north/form-revision-tiny-populations
Excerpt: USCIS, thanks to its own inclinations and congressional thoughtlessness, spends too much executive time on tiny populations, including dead ones.
Recently that agency's busy Office of Public Engagement, unwittingly exposed this tiny- population focus when it, usefully, reminded all and sundry of some form revision notices in the Federal Register.
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'You must . . . study for at least part of your time in the USA' for an F-1 Visa
By David North
CIS Blog, May 2, 2011
http://cis.org/north/foreign-student-middlemen
Excerpt: There's an interesting difference between U.S. government rules on the F-1 visa for foreign students and how those rules are described by the visa middlemen in India.
