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[FYI --
1. Statement before the House subcommittee on immigration on the HALT Act (Testimony)
2. The U.S. Needs a Way to “Score” Immigration Bills (Blog)
3. Three Bright Spots in an Otherwise Dull Senate Hearing (Blog)
4. All College Student (F-1) Visa Fraud Comes in Three Parts (Blog)
5. The Grassroot Latino Concern About Immigration (Blog)
6. Case History: DHS, In Effect, Grants 2.5 Citizenships to One Illegal Alien (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act (H.R. 2497)
Statement by Jessica Vaughan
House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, July 26, 2011
http://www.cis.org/House-Hearing-HR2493
Excerpt: Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today to discuss H.R. 2497, Mr. Smith’s bill to suspend certain discretionary forms of relief from immigration law enforcement. This bill would prevent these tools, which are intended to benefit only the most exceptionally compelling cases, from being used to create backdoor legalization programs for large numbers of otherwise unqualified or ineligible illegal aliens. Such schemes run counter to the expressed wishes of Americans and their elected representatives, who have already rejected large scale legalization programs several times in the last few years. This bill would help uphold popular and revered principles for immigration policy, namely that immigration to the United States should occur through legal, fair and open processes, and in numbers and characteristics that are consistent with our national interest and determined by our elected representatives, not by administrative fiat or in service of ! the political agenda of executive branch appointees.
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The U.S. Needs a Way to “Score” Immigration Bills
By David North
CIS Blog, July 29, 2011
http://www.cis.org/North/Scoring-Immigration-Bills
Excerpt: This week’s hearing of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, reported in an earlier blog, suggested to me that the nation needs a neutral system for “scoring” the impact of individual immigration bills on population growth.
In other words, were we to pass a given bill, how many more people would be brought to the nation, over what period of time?
There is no such system for people, currently, but there is one for dollars.
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Three Bright Spots in an Otherwise Dull Senate Hearing
By David North
CIS Blog, July 26, 2011
http://www.cis.org/North/SenateHearing-EconomicImperative
Excerpt: There were three bright spots in an otherwise cut-and-dry immigration policy hearing chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer (D - NY) this morning.
Schumer, chair of the Senate’s Immigration Subcommittee, is an old hand at tilting hearings toward the open borders types, people who argue that more skilled alien workers are needed by corporations, and that refugees are good for the local economy. Predictably, seven of the eight witnesses this morning took one of those approaches.
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All College Student (F-1) Visa Fraud Comes in Three Parts
By David North
CIS Blog, July 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/North/College-Student-Visa-Fraud-F1
Excerpt: Aliens on F-1 visas are supposed to be attending recognized academic institutions, full time, and have only limited rights to work while in that status. If they work when they are not supposed to, or drop out of their classes, they become illegal aliens.
I suspect that the listing above shows, in descending order, the size of the three different F-1 abusing populations. The individual dropouts are the hardest to catch, because each is a one-off phenomenon; there usually are no ties to other people similarly placed or to organized activities. Given the lack of a tracking system for nonimmigrants within the country, something that Congress has been fuming about for years, the authorities have no handy ways of detecting this kind of illicit activity. (The little, poverty-stricken, Third World country of Fiji has had this capability for decades, but the mighty U.S. does not. Go figure.)
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The Grassroot Latino Concern About Immigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, July 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/Kammer/Gutierrez-WallsandMirrors
Excerpt: As President Obama addresses the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza today in Washington, he will face renewed pressure to push for “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation that would not only provide legal status to illegal immigrants but expand future immigration from Latin America and other parts of the world.
But as Obama confronts that pressure from the Latino political class, and as the economy continues to struggle with its inability to put millions of Americans to work, it is worthwhile to keep in mind that grassroots Latinos have a long history of unease about the continuous waves of immigration.
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Case History: DHS, In Effect, Grants 2.5 Citizenships to One Illegal Alien
By David North
CIS Blog, July 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/North/2.5-Citizenships
Excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security, in effect, has given two and a half citizenships to one illegal alien from Haiti.
One, or at most two, citizenships should be enough for any single human being, but the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) of DHS, a semi-judicial agency, has ruled in a recent case that a Haitian citizen, who is also a Canadian citizen carrying a Canadian passport, can also enjoy Temporary Protected Status in the U.S.
This grants her the right to work legally in the U.S., despite (apparently) nearly two decades of illegal status here; and TPS, as has been shown repeatedly in the past, turns out to be a permanent (or at least, never terminated) condition. Hence, in my eyes, it is at least half a citizenship.
