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1. Memorandum: America’s Collection of Quasi-Amnesties
2. Radio: Steven Camarota Debates Immigration Issues on the Diane Rehm Show
3. Radio: Mark Krikorian Discusses the Case of Jose Antonio on NPR
4. Video: Steven Camarota Gives Senate Testimony on DREAM Act
5. Blog: Immigration News: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Really New
6. Blog: State Dept. Policy: No Mexican Left Behind
7. Blog: Napolitano Is Releasing a Border Strategy Tomorrow; Does Anyone Care?
8. Blog: As U.S. Gets More Like Mexico, More Mexicans Stay in Mexico
9. Blog: On Turning E-Verify 'Sprinkles' into 'Icing'
10. Blog: H-1B Cluelessness in the Shadow of Lady Liberty
-- Mark Krikorian]
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America’s Collection of Quasi-Amnesties
The Gray Area Between Legal and Illegal
By David North
CIS Memorandum, July 2011
http://www.cis.org/quasi-amnesties
Excerpt: While the immigration policy debate usually discusses amnesty or legalization programs in black-and-white terms, in reality there are numerous existing quasi-amnesties for subsets of aliens; this report focuses on four of them, all complex, all partial, three fully active and one partially so, and all providing significant economic benefits to aliens other than green card holders.
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Steven Camarota Debates Immigration Issues on the Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm Show on NPR, July 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/RadioInterviews/SteveCamarota-DianeRehm-070711
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Mark Krikorian Discusses the Case of Jose Antonio
NPR, July 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/MarkKrikorian-NPR-JoseAntonio
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Steven Camarota Gives Testimony for Senate Hearing on DREAM Act
CIS Video, July 6, 2011
http://www.cis.org/Videos/CamarotaDREAMSenateHearing
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Immigration News: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Really New
By David North
CIS Blog, July 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/good-news-bad-news-new-news
Excerpt: There has been an abundance of immigration news lately, some good, some bad, and some reflecting genuine new thinking. All related to issues covered in our previous blogs.
Good News. Perhaps the best news was the abject surrender of one of the largest H-1B users in the nation's school systems, that of Prince George's County Md., a Washington, D.C., suburb.
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State Dept. Policy: No Mexican Left Behind
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, July 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/no-mexican-left-behind
Excerpt: The recent New York Times article celebrating the supposed end of illegal Mexican migration to the United States offers little to inform a discussion of the illegal immigration problem, but does usefully illustrate the extent to which legal and illegal immigration feed off of one another. (See here for my colleague David North's take on the article.) And, the article also recounts yet another example of the Obama administration's policy of amnesty by abuse of executive authority, this time by the State Department.
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Napolitano Is Releasing a Border Strategy Tomorrow; Does Anyone Care?
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, July 6, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/napolitano-border-strategy-7-11
Excerpt: Local TV in Arizona has reported that on Thursday, July 7, 2011, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, with Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin and Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, will be announcing the 2011 Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy in Nogales, Ariz.
Ironically, I was just reviewing the 2010 'Implementation Update' for the 2009 Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy yesterday for a larger piece I am doing on the growing national security threat on our southwest border stemming from the uncanny connectivity between the Mexican drug cartels, arms trafficking, Hezbollah, the Colombian FARC, Venezuela's Chavez, and Iran. (I am an expert in a lawsuit on this, as are two former 9/11 staff, two CIA Mideast veterans, three high-level Iranian defectors, and a number of other court-recognized experts on Iran and terrorism. The legal documents for the case are here). Now that we have substantial proof that Iran helped train, plan, and support the terrorist travel of al Qaeda's 9/11 hijackers, Hezbollah's support of the cartels and easy access into the United States seems potentially more than just access by operatives to conduct the terror financing we know has gone on here for years. However, I divert.
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As U.S. Gets More Like Mexico, More Mexicans Stay in Mexico
By David North
CIS Blog, July 6, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/as-U.S.-gets-more-like-mexico
Excerpt:The New York Times' lead story this morning made an interesting case for what it sees as a decline in illegal migration from Mexico to the U.S.
But it played down a central element of the picture: the fact that the U.S., with its widespread poverty and huge wages gaps between the rich and the poor, is rapidly getting to be more like Mexico than in the past, so the Mexican poor no longer have as many reasons to want to come here. Being sensible, they stay home.
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On Turning E-Verify 'Sprinkles' into 'Icing'
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, July 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kephart/everify-sprinkles
Excerpt: President Obama has half-heartedly stated that 'E-Verify can be an important enforcement tool'. This simple commentary, although riddled with predictable qualifications, is a huge step forward for a president silent on the subject until after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold Arizona's E-Verify compliance law.
Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, and well aware that he has no plan at all for his over-talked Comprehensive Immigration Reform, E-Verify may seem like something he should embrace. Even the most vehement opponent of E-Verify, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is now supporting House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) in his one big bid for immigration reform this year: mandatory E-Verify (H.R. 2164). With the Chamber no longer stridently seeking E-Verify's demise, the president was, up until last week, standing alone in his silence on this successful worker authorization tool, which I have shown to be 99.5 percent effective in my studies.
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H-1B Cluelessness in the Shadow of Lady Liberty
By David North
CIS Blog, July 5, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/H1b-teachers-NYC
Excerpt: School systems all over the country – well, some school systems – are deciding that it was not a good idea to hire nonimmigrant teachers from overseas in the H-1B program, and are not only not seeking new ones, but are beginning to think about laying off the old ones, as we noted in a recent blog.
The H-1B program has been primarily used for high tech workers, but there has been extensive employment of K-12 teachers through the program, as we reported in a CIS Memorandum this spring. Most school systems did not use the system, but many did, such as the ones in Prince George's County, Md., in Oakland, Calif., in New York City, and many in Texas and Louisiana.
