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[FYI --
1. New Online Feature: Center for Immigration Studies' Website Index
2. This Year’s Most Important Jobs Bill (Op-Ed)
3. Baptists Call for Amnesty (Blog)
4. Russian Ad: 'Come Work in the Best Strip Clubs in the U.S., on a J-1 Visa' (Blog)
5. Arizona Fires: Too Hot for Feds to Handle? (Blog)
6. Birth Tourism Fraud from China: 'The return on investment is higher than robbing a bank' (Blog)
7. Trying Again on Driver's Licenses (Blog)
8. DoJ Judge: It's OK to Fire a Good Man for Doing a Good Deed (Blog)
9. A Look Back to 1953 (Blog)
10. You Can Tell the Feds How to Change Our Immigration Policy (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Center for Immigration Studies' Website Index
http://www.cis.org/CenterforImmigrationStudiesWebsiteIndex
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This Year’s Most Important Jobs Bill
By Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, June 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2909
Excerpt: Rep. Lamar Smith has introduced what is probably the most consequential jobs bill of this Congress — the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2164), which phases in use of the E-Verify system for all new hires. (There was a hearing on the bill yesterday morning.)
Mandatory E-Verify schemes have been proposed before, but with the Supreme Court’s decision giving the green light to state mandates, business finally has a strong interest in a single national standard. Not only are perhaps a dozen additional states poised to pass E-Verify mandates over the next year (there are, I believe, 14 with full or partial mandates now), but county and city mandates are proliferating as well.
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Baptists Call for Amnesty
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, June 20, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/baptist-amnesty-resolution
Excerpt: The Southern Baptist Convention, which met last week in Phoenix, adopted a resolution endorsing the legalization of virtually all illegal aliens. This action followed the SBC's 2006 passage of a similar pro-amnesty resolution.
The resolution calls for 'our governing authorities to implement, with the borders secured, a just and compassionate path to legal status, with appropriate restitutionary measures, for those undocumented immigrants already living in our country.'
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Russian Ad: 'Come Work in the Best Strip Clubs in the U.S., on a J-1 Visa'
By David North
CIS Blog, June 17, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/EPI-J1-visa-report
Excerpt: To illustrate how loosely the State Department's J-1 foreign-worker program is being administered, the speaker at a Georgetown University Law School session this morning told of this internet advertisement, translated from the Russian:
Come work in the best strip clubs in the United States, on a J-1 visa.
The speaker was Daniel Costa, who has just completed a lengthy report on the misuses of the State Department's J-1 Exchange Visitor program for the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank; the sponsor of the meeting was Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration; the setting was the GU Law School, a few blocks from the Capitol.
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Arizona Fires: Too Hot for Feds to Handle?
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, June 17, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/arizona-fires-too-hot-to-handle
Excerpt: For at least two years now, Arizona journalist Leo W. Banks has been writing and speaking about the strange silence of the federal government on the connection between forest fires in southern Arizona and the smugglers of drugs and human beings.
Banks has contrasted the widespread public belief that the fires are caused by the smugglers – either accidentally or in an effort to distract the Border Patrol – with the refusal of federal officials to address the issue.
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Birth Tourism Fraud from China: 'The return on investment is higher than robbing a bank'
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, June 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/birth-tourism-fraud-from-china
Excerpt: A Chinese news article titled 'China's ‘Born in the USA' Frenzy' highlights the effort of one of its nationals engaging in birth tourism fraud in the United States. The practice is so troubling that even the Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, Marshall Fitz, recently said the following on CNN in a debate with CIS's Executive Director Mark Krikorian
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Trying Again on Driver's Licenses
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, June 16, 2011
http://www.cis.org/peridans/trying-again-on-drivers-licenses
Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal noted last week that 'Gov. Susana Martinez is renewing her battle to make New Mexico the 49th state to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses.' If her efforts were to succeed, Washington would remain the only state to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. We shall see.
Martinez's efforts, however, are not as recent as the article may suggest. Governor of the 'land of enchantment' since the start of this year, Martinez made her position on illegal immigration rather clear in her campaign. Her logic, based on common sense and an obvious reading of the law, is consistent, and informs her position on illegal immigration and such specific issues as driver's licenses. As was reported by a local ABC affiliate, KOAT, in February, Martinez has stated what is indisputable to many, namely that, 'giving licenses to people who are here illegally is wrong.' On the issue, she is plain and simple.
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DoJ Judge: It's OK to Fire a Good Man for Doing a Good Deed
By David North
CIS Blog, June 15, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/fired-for-good-deed
Excerpt: This is a story of how a good man who blew the whistle on his own employer for immigration law violations was fired, and how a federal hearing officer said that was OK. Here are the facts and the law.
Fact #1. Daniel Cavazos, Jr. had worked for Wanxiang America Corp., a Chinese-owned auto parts manufacturer, apparently in the Middle West; he told the warehouse supervisor that he was planning to tell federal authorities that the firm was hiring illegal aliens. He was fired.
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A Look Back to 1953
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, June 15, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/a-look-back-to-1953
Excerpt: Last week this blog noted a comment by economist Pia Orrenius that U.S immigration policy is effectively 'restricting high-skilled immigration, which tends to be legal, and is encouraging low-skilled immigration.'
Orrenius is co-author of Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization. Speaking at the Migration Policy Institute, she noted that low-skilled immigrants make up large numbers of both the 'unauthorized' population of 11 million and of the recipients of several hundred thousand green cards that are awarded annually on the basis of family connections with citizens or permanent residents.
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You Can Tell the Feds How to Change Our Immigration Policy
By David North
CIS Blog, June 14, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/how-to-submit-public-comment
Excerpt: There is an often overlooked opportunity for individual citizens to give advice to the government about specific parts of the nation's immigration policy, and I want to encourage (and help) the reader to participate.
Frequently various agencies of the executive branch ask for public comments on proposed regulations, fee levels, form changes, and information collection systems; you can be sure that big business and other big pro-mass-immigration groups are well aware of these requests, and respond regularly.
