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[FYI --
1. Built to Fail: Deception and Disorder in America’s Immigration Courts (Backgrounder, Panel Discussion)
2. Fewer Jobs, More Imported (Poverty-Class) Workers (Blog)
3. The Story of Q: The Greedy Search for the Most Exploitative Visa Category (Blog)
4. Awakening from the Dream Act: Sen. Rubio vs. Frank Sharry (Blog)
5. In-Secure Communities (Blog)
6. Misrepresentation in the Coverage Claimed for Secure Communities (Blog)
7. Iraqi Refugee Terrorists (Blog)
8. Two Types of Admission Decisions: the Sensible Way and the American Way (Blog)
9. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Deserves Our Thanks (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Built to Fail
Deception and Disorder in America’s Immigration Courts
By Mark Metcalf
CIS Backgrounder, May 2011
http://cis.org/Immigration-Courts
Mark Metcalf discussed his report at a panel discussion with Mark Metcalf, Hans von Spakovsky, Grisel Ibarra, Andrew McCarthy, and Mark Krikorian.
Video: http://cis.org/Videos/Panel-Immigration-Courts
Transcript: http://cis.org/Transcripts/Panel-Immigration-Courts
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Fewer Jobs, More Imported (Poverty-Class) Workers
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, June 6, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/fewer-jobs-more-imported-workers
Excerpt: The Congressional Budget Office has updated a report on the foreign-born labor force in the United States. It uses census data from 2009. Meanwhile, the U.S. jobs outlook has weakened.
A few nuggets from the CBO report . . .
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The Story of Q: The Greedy Search for the Most Exploitative Visa Category
By David North
CIS Blog, June 5, 2011
http://cis.org/north/the-story-of-Q
Excerpt: It is the latest twist on an old story, the constant hunt through the intricacies of the immigration law for the best way to exploit nonimmigrant workers. As we have previously reported, the INA is chock full of obscure visa categories, most written with the desires of special interests in mind.
Today's story, which actually has a happy ending, is about one firm's efforts to turn Q visas into its own little gold mine. It is based on court and agency records.
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Awakening from the DREAM Act: Sen. Rubio vs. Frank Sharry
By Stephen Steinlight
CIS Blog, June 2, 2011
http://cis.org/steinlight/rubio-vs.-sharry
Excerpt: The DREAM Act amnesty, the sole piece of immigration legislation to come before the 111th Congress where it was defeated despite the fact that the Democrats got pretty much everything else they wanted in an unethical Lame Duck session where dead men walking acted as if they had received a fresh mandate, refuses to die, at least die a quiet, seemly death.
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In-Secure Communities
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, June 2, 2011
http://cis.org/peridans/insecure-communities
Excerpt: As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle last month, 'San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey will start releasing illegal immigrants arrested for low-level crimes from jail even if federal officials notified through a controversial fingerprint identification program request that they be held for a deportation hearing.' The 'controversial fingerprint identification program' is Secure Communities, the federal program launched in 2008 and managed by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The program relies on partnership between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
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Misrepresentation in the Coverage Claimed for Secure Communities
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Blog, June 2, 2011
http://cis.org/reasoner/SC-coverage-misrepresentation
Excerpt: Secure Communities (SC) is a sound program that helps protect the law abiding from the effects of crimes committed by aliens.
It's a shame that U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) has made such a muddle of explaining to ordinary Americans what the initiative is and how it works. Worse, they have done the program real harm with a constant stream of misinformation and disinformation put out on a near-daily basis. Nowhere is this more true than in their manipulation of statistics.
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Iraqi Refugee Terrorists
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, June 1, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/iraqi-refugee-terrorists
Excerpt: Two Iraqis (apparently Sunnis) have been arrested in Kentucky for conspiring to ship weapons and money to fellow terrorists in their homeland. The two were admitted as refugees, one less than two years ago. And these weren't just blowhards, either; the fingerprints of one of these guys was found on a bomb in the Sunni Triangle, and another told the FBI's informant that he’d been arrested by Iraqi authorities after placing an IED.
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Two Types of Admission Decisions: the Sensible Way and the American Way
By David North
CIS Blog, June 1, 2011
http://cis.org/north/two-types-of-admission-decisions
Excerpt: When there are more people wanting to migrate to your country than slots for them, there are two ways of resolving that matter.
There is the sensible way, adopted by most of the rest of the world, and then there is the American way.
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9.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Deserves Our Thanks
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, May 31, 2011
http://cis.org/mortensen/chamber-deserves-our-thanks
Excerpt: Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Arizona's mandatory E-Verify program, the U.S. Chamber deserves a huge vote of thanks.
If the U.S. Chamber had not challenged Arizona's law, opponents of mandatory employment verification would have been able to continue to tell the states that they could not mandate the use of E-Verify.
