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1. Backgrounder: Deportation Basics: How Immigration Enforcement Works (or Doesn’t) in Real Life
2. Op-Ed and Blog: How Can the Asylum System Be Fixed?
3. Video: Jon Feere discusses birthright citizenship and foreign diplomats on Fox News
4. Blog: Asylum Fraud Takes Center Stage
5. Blog: Case Study: ICE Moves at Glacial Speed to Deport Convict
6. Blog: Alabama's Religious Left Sues
7. Blog: The Death Penalty for Immigration Marriage Fraud?
8. Blog: Government Departments Offer Dueling Nonimmigrant Worker Programs
9. Blog: USCIS Hails More Permissive Handling of EB-5 Alien Investor Program
10. Blog: More Secure Communities Kabuki
11. Blog: The Tale of Two Immigration-Related Freedom of Information Act Requests
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Deportation Basics
How Immigration Enforcement Works (or Doesn’t) in Real Life
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Backgrounder, July 2011
http://www.cis.org/deportation-basics
Excerpt: Many people, including, surprisingly, those whose occupations might bring them into contact with federal officers who enforce immigration laws, don’t seem to have a clear notion of how removal proceedings against an alien take place, and exactly what “due process” means in that context.
For instance, state and local police and prosecutors often do not charge or will move to dismiss charges against an alien, once Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers or agents express interest in removal, in the mistaken belief that once ICE takes custody of the individual, he (or she) will be forthwith whisked to a bus, plane, or train, and unceremoniously shoved across the border or dropped into the midst of his (or her) country of origin. Such notions are greatly mistaken.
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How Can the Asylum System Be Fixed?
Expand the 'Safe Third Country' Idea
By Mark Krikorian
Room for Debate, New York Times Online, July 12, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2993
Excerpt: Because claims are so hard to prove, asylum will always be one of the most fraud-ridden parts of the immigration system. Limiting such fraud is especially important because asylum represents a surrender of a portion of our sovereignty, since foreigners can sneak into our country illegally and demand asylum, and if they qualify we are bound by international law to let them stay.
Reforms in the mid-90s tightened the asylum system significantly, but much work remains. Perhaps the most important change would be to expand the concept of a 'safe third country.' This principle, widely used elsewhere, holds that a foreigner should not even be allowed to apply for asylum if he has passed through another country where he could have applied first.
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Accompanying blog post:
Not Enough Room for Debate
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, July 14, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/room-for-debate-asylum
Excerpt: I like the New York Times 'Room for Debate' web feature, which solicits mini-op-eds on the topic of that day from five to ten people, giving you a better sense of the various wrinkles of a given policy discussion. Wednesday's installment was on the asylum process, pegged to a story on asylum-seeking liars like the DSK accuser and famous police-shooting victim Amadou Diallo . . .
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Jon Feere discusses birthright citizenship and foreign diplomats
Fox News, July 12, 2011
http://cis.org/TVInterviews/Feere-FOXNews-Birthright-Diplomats
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Asylum Fraud Takes Center Stage
By David Seminara
CIS Blog, July 18, 2011
http://cis.org/seminara/asylum-fraud-takes-center-stage
Excerpt: In a bizarre turn of events, the DSK Affair has served to highlight the issue of asylum fraud. Last week, The New York Times published a well-researched front page story, and a 'Room For Debate' op-ed forum on how to tackle the problem. And Jesse Ellison at the Daily Beast weighed in with a ludicrous piece which asserted that 'dishonesty is common when it comes to refugees – not because they're intentionally trying to scam the system, but because the way such claims are processed and determined puts asylum-seekers in a position where they may feel they have no other choice.'
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Case Study: ICE Moves at Glacial Speed to Deport Convict
By David North
CIS Blog, July 17, 2011
http://cis.org/north/glacial-speed-deporting-convict
Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security argues it should not deport some deportable aliens on the grounds that it wants to use all its resources to remove criminal aliens.
Sometimes the deportations of criminals take a long, long time, as we can see by examining the most recent precedent decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), issued last week.
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Alabama's Religious Left Sues
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, July 15, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/alabamas-religious-left-sues
Excerpt: Even Alabama has a Religious Left, and the ecumenical crowd – typically more concerned with bringing about temporal comfort than heavenly peace – has joined the despicable Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU in suing to stop the state's new immigration enforcement law.
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The Death Penalty for Immigration Marriage Fraud?
By David North
CIS Blog, July 15, 2011
http://cis.org/north/death-penalty-for-marriage-fraud
Excerpt: Fake marriages to obtain green cards are evil, criminal acts and the government should pursue them more vigorously – but the death penalty?
I am all for jailing, then deporting, the alien or aliens involved and simultaneously jailing the citizen 'spouse' if the marriage is a fraud, but a penalty of death?
Don't get me wrong – Secretary Napolitano has not gone haywire in her (usually tepid) enforcement of the immigration law.
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Government Departments Offer Dueling Nonimmigrant Worker Programs
By David North
CIS Blog, July 14, 2011
http://cis.org/North/Dueling-Visa-Catagories
Excerpt: Suppose you are a manager in a multi-national corporation and you want to hire a graduate engineer from another nation. The nonimmigrant worker programs in the U.S. are so numerous, and so lightly supervised, that you can choose among as many as four different programs, in three different cabinet agencies, for your migration mechanism.
Suppose you are a principal in a K-12 school somewhere in America, and you want to bring in a teacher from, say, Peru, for two years. You can choose from two or perhaps four different visa programs to arrange for that teacher's temporary admission.
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USCIS Hails More Permissive Handling of EB-5 Alien Investor Program
By David North
CIS Blog, July 12, 2011
http://cis.org/north/EB5-more-permissive-handling
Excerpt: Apparently nothing frustrates USCIS more than an underutilized visa program, such as the one that allows a well-to-do-investor's family to get a collection of green cards by – briefly – investing half a million dollars in the U.S. So, the agency has announced its efforts to expand that program.
This is the EB-5 investor's program (called that because it is the fifth Employment-Based green card category), that requires a two-years-only investment, usually a passive one, in a commercial venture OK'd by an USCIS-approved regional center. At the end of two years (plus some processing delays) every member of the family gets a green card for life, and the investor can withdraw the investment.
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More Secure Communities Kabuki
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, July 11, 2011
http://cis.org/Vaughan/SecureCommunities-Boston
Excerpt: The program has removed 115,000 aliens who were under arrest by local authorities from U.S. soil in the last two and one-half years, including 352 from Boston, which was one of the pilot sites. It is highly unlikely that Boston actually would drop out of the program, even if they could (they can’t; once you’re in, you’re in, unless you want to stop doing all criminal history checks with the FBI). It’s too important to public safety, and everyone in law enforcement knows it, including Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, who has consistently supported Secure Communities during his tenure. The Massachusetts Major City Chiefs Association reportedly is in the process of drafting a statement supporting Secure Communities, and at least five county sheriffs and several police chiefs in Massachusetts are begging ICE and the FBI to turn on Secure Communities in their jurisdictions because they want help with all the crime problems associated with ! illegal immigration.
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The Tale of Two Immigration-Related Freedom of Information Act Requests
By David North
CIS Blog, July 11, 2011
http://cis.org/North/FOIA-USCIS-Treasury
Excerpt: Last year the Center for Immigration Studies filed formal requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with two different federal agencies, and we got answers of vastly differing quality. Both requests related to operations of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The faster, totally complete answer came in weeks from the U.S. Department of the Treasury (see the table below) and cost us $431.97; the much slower, incomplete and perhaps deliberately evasive reply came from USCIS, after a wait of 14 months, and was free.
4 comments:
Illegal Immigration, the Debt Ceiling and Discretionary Spending.
Only the Liberal progressives hidden beneath the Democratic Sub-Rosa disguises would deny that the Federal government has grown too large. The Tea Party which is materializing in the tens of millions, insist that agencies of this administration, should be returned to the authority of each State, County and municipal jurisdiction. There is nothing more important than after the 14.4 Trillion US treasury deficit be resolved, that rational Americans should demand of their government, that this nation returns to the written word in our founding fathers document. Another extremely important issue, is the connection between discretionary spending and Illegal Immigration. This has been completely ignored for thirty years or more and must be part of capping the debt ceiling. In 2012 will be the historical pinnacle of all general elections, demanding that bureaucrats no longer undermine our public school system and placing the fate of our countries education back in the eager hands of local government, where these entities are meant to be. President Obama or any of the previous administrations have permitted this type of overwhelming influence to happen, even more so in the last few years.
The only connection I have with Los Angeles is an uncle in the police force, that concurs with me about a Leftist Governor and Mayor, who are still writhing under a massive treasury deficit of 24 billion dollars and yet are out to force through the majority in the Liberal Capitol, a California Dream Act. Even the Dream Act on a national scale being the chief issue, its the CHAIN MIGRATION that pours in afterwards. The liberals well no disclose the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, for previous and subsequent Amnesties of any kind? Promising no public funds would be in the outlay, anybody with a prudent mind knows that these students will find some form of concealed money available. With no real transparency dollars will come from somewhere, while the kids of US citizens remain on the sideline. John, a police Sergeant has informed me of rising crime in his precinct and the deterioration of the neighborhoods; full of fast food wrappers littering streets, junk cars, old furniture and other garbage discarded there. The only reason he stays in the State is his pension and benefits, otherwise he would be gone.
While the Maryland's Dream Act approval is going to be decided by the people of the State, then while there is a huge divide in this predominant interest of illegal immigration, shouldn't the Legislators in Washington provide a Nationwide Referendum on whether this sovereign nation should be given the right decide the future governing this ugly issue. A Referendum before the People, could approach these issues; which are many, including a National Dream Act, A moratorium on all immigration, mass amnesty, sanctuary cities and States, 14th Amendment birthright baby citizenship that will settle this growing disaster for good. Americans and not open border lobbyists or activists, will end this torment once and for all and remove the welfare payouts.to economic foreigners, closing hospital doors, the children gaining admittance to our once high performance high schools and lowering the rate of illegal individuals ending up in our prisons.
I took my son out of a Los Angeles public school, because the majority of the children in the classroom were of foreign nationality. He was just not learning, because the overworked school teachers had to spend more time with students with English as a second language. This was in the late 1970s and that illegal immigration to the golden state was influencing the politics in Sacramento. Federal agencies should be downsized including the Dept of Education, Dept of Labor, Freddie Mac/ Mae that has some obligation for the real estate crash and hundreds of agencies, which could be reestablished in the 50 States, where they would not be bloated with over-manned public servants. As in many issues, same sex marriages should be the under the authority of individual States, not the feds. Government was never meant to reign over THE PEOPLE with so much influence and power, that seems only to be the agenda of the George Soro's and his political puppets who donated to:
ACORN (Supposedly dismantled, that was caught up in fraudulent voter registrations) Tides Foundation, Huffington Post (a Liberal-oriented Media) The Southern poverty law Center, People of the American Way, Planned Parenthood and one of the most radical pro-immigration groups of all, National Council of La Raza ( The latter organization has indoctrinated young Hispanics, with the brainless idea that Southwest America belongs to Mexico? ) Soros has said openly he would like nothing better than for America to become submissive to international entities and with his money to restrict American sovereignty. This fanatical billionaire has been trying since 1993, to influence our government and away from the document that greatly benefits us all, the US Constitution. In his early intervention in his push for Liberal success, was his financial support that spring-into-action Barack Obama’s political career. To me it’s surprising that this George Soros, a dangerous to our society hasn't met the wrong end of a bullet from some crazy with a gun.
Something that must stay in full daylight, is illegal aliens are voting in—only citizens-- elections. But neither the US government nor the main stream media, if publicized at all will a short paragraph in some elusive corner of the national newspaper. One has to scour the Internet for "Voter Fraud" information, to see that this is not a local occurrence, but wide spread.
That was when I found another professional position in a community outside of Indianapolis, and fled there with my family. In the less populated areas, there was no illegal alien gang members and where I am is quiet and peaceful. I still have relatives in Los Angeles County, who keep me abreast of the invaders who have brought wide scale corruption and rot to the greater metropolis and a huge reservoir of debt, from liberals and Democrats catering to the millions of unlawful aliens. It's also apparent that nothing on this issue is going to get better, as foreign nationals from other States are giving a wide berth to the policing laws effective in Arizona. It also seems inevitable that hundreds of thousands are running scared by rightful laws in Georgia, Alabama and other less welcoming states of illegal nationals fleeing into California, Nevada and Washington State.
Only the Tea Party believes in self-reliance on one’s own ability to succeed, and not live of the strained welfare gifts of taxpayers. In this time of need, we should be assisting our own citizens and legal residents. Immigration at the federal level has been the worst of failures. Not since the 1920's has there been a true time of enforcement. States have been suffering under the illegal immigration occupation for years, with a disregard by the federal government to implement any real restrictions. If such was the case, much of the necessity for enforcement would not be needed if illegal entry carried a felony and imprisonment. Why bother to even recognize the sovereign laws of this nation, if you can just be deported, unless there was a heinous criminal act involved. Under the laws now set by Congress, thousands still return and disappear. Even the nation across our border has more harsh laws, such as a felony and prison. Our federal immigration courts are crammed with undesirables, who have committed crimes. There is an avalanche of data, which ominously indicates that thousands of illegal aliens are causing mayhem on our highways, killing and maiming pedestrians and other innocent drivers.
Right now on paper President Obama is showing some fortitude in going after business owners hiring illegal workers, but hidden from view is a memo to Czar Holden not to apprehend aliens with minor criminal complaints against them. Does this new order from higher ups mean it’s irrelevant to the "Rule of Law?" It seems to me and a good part of America’s population, that the President's appointees, can do whatever they like. Doesn’t seem to matter that this country has 13 million US born or permanent residents out of work? U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith R-San Antonio, said the illegal aliens hold 8 million jobs, according to a news release distributed last December. So what should the US government do about this bold public disclosure? It should permanently put on the books, the E-Verify and Secure Communities tools, with zero tolerance policies. E-verify to identify illegal workers and those who are arrested and their fingerprints released to ICE and other enforcement agencies. The democrats are adamantly stating in their editorials, that illegal immigration is shrinking, but say little or nothing about the 20 million plus already illegally settled here eating away at welfare and public services.
Most Americans know by now that both parties are to blame, with many subsidized resources being lapped up by a major majority through either forged ID, or just using other legal family members Social or in some cases Drivers Licenses. Even today after the massacre at the New York Trade Center, Washington State, Utah are still issuing some form of Drivers License to illegal immigrants. New Mexico and others have finally have realized the negative impact of giving licenses to illegal migrants and immigrants. The Sanctuary state of California, could well be caught in the brunt of illegal people fleeing with their baggage. Even Nevada may not fare so well, on the move from policing laws.
Not necessarily Rep. Michele Bachmann, but we need a social conservative, a Tea Party leader, who bring Obama to his knees, stop the future bleeding of our Health care system with Obamacare, slow the monolithic progress of federal government and return power to the States. Re-negotiate honest, fair free trade agreements compromised by China. Remove job-killing regulations and taxes, from corporate and the small businessman who will start hiring again.
Under the Democrats and its hidden Liberal interference less taxes on companies, will improve the viability of high paying jobs from being exported. Overtime thousands of businesses will return home, having a more stable environment and not being under constant pressure from government and its minions. Remember, America is the greatest consumer nation in the world, and we can wheel and deal for the best trade agreements. People in our nation are finally returning from a deep sleep, realizing we are giving away our countries manufacturing and industrial base.
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