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[FYI --
1. Long May She Waive (Blog)
2. Granted Asylum in U.S., Mexican Reporter Talks of Corruption (Blog)
3. Here's an Arm of USCIS That's Tough on Disputed R-1 (Religious) Visas (Blog)
4. Yes, Joe Wilson Was Right! (Blog)
5. Child Labor and Illegal Immigration like Peas in a Pod (Blog)
6. USCIS Tries to Bar DoJ from Looking at Its Records (Blog)
7. Making Illegals the Victims (Blog)
8. ABA Wades into Birthright Citizenship Debate (Blog)
9. Citizen Action on Immigration (Blog)
10. Isolated, Vulnerable, and Broke? Declining 'Hispanic' Wealth (Blog)
11. Congress Toys With Another Tiny Visa Class – For Exactly 14 Hospitals (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Long May She Waive
By David North
CIS Blog, August 15, 2011
http://cis.org/north/waive-the-flag
Excerpt: The Migration Policy Institute, an open-borders think tank in Washington, has had the following helpful piece of information on its website for two months now:
'Independence Day in the United States, which is on the fourth of July, is just around the corner, and with it comes the traditional holiday festivities, fireworks, and waiving of American flags . . . [emphasis added]'
Thank you, MPI, it is good to know when Independence Day is, but the U.S. does not waive its flag – it annually waives the need for visas for millions of alien tourists.
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Granted Asylum in U.S., Mexican Reporter Talks of Corruption
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 15, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/mexican-reporter-corruption
Excerpt: The former Juarez crime reporter who received political asylum in the United States after claiming that his life had been threatened says Mexican police, not drug traffickers, are the greatest threat to Mexican reporters.
'The narcos don't care (about reporters),' Jorge Luis Aguirre said on Univision's Sunday Spanish-language news program, Al Punto. 'How does a reporter concern them if they control the government and control the police?
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Here's an Arm of USCIS That's Tough on Disputed R-1 (Religious) Visas
By David North
CIS Blog, August 14, 2011
http://cis.org/north/tough-on-disputed-R1-visas
Excerpt: We have noted in an earlier blog how secretive USCIS is with its decisions about R-1 (nonimmigrant religious worker) visas.
Recently in an FOIA request that produced data on yes/no decisions on every other classification of petitions for nonimmigrant workers, there was no information on what USCIS did with the R-1 requests. I think that was deliberate, as noted in another blog.
But whether or not the USCIS, and its semi-judicial administrative review panel, the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), have strange ideas about privacy in its cases, the latter has a strong record for rejecting questionable R-1 appeals.
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Yes, Joe Wilson Was Right!
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, August 13, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/joe-wilson-was-right
Excerpt: President Obama and all those Democrats who jumped all over Rep. Joe Wilson a couple of years ago owe Mr. Wilson an apology. For he was dead on when he challenged the president's bald-faced assertion, trying to sell his government takeover of health care, that illegal aliens wouldn't benefit from his health care scheme.
Lo and behold, the truth is coming out: 'Migrants' who seek medical care from community health clinics won't face any screening to ensure their legal immigration status. The Obama administration has awarded these clinics several million dollars in Obamacare money, no immigration strings attached.
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Child Labor and Illegal Immigration like Peas in a Pod
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, August 12, 2011
http://cis.org/feere/child-labor-and-illegal-immigration
Excerpt: When businesses get away with violating immigration laws in the workplace, there's no telling how many more laws will fall by the wayside. Three years ago I wrote a blog post highlighting this phenomenon, pointing to the fact that the ICE enforcement raids in Postville, Iowa, uncovered not only employment of illegal immigrants but also more than 9,000 violations of child labor laws involving 32 youths.
Yesterday ABC News reported that the U.S. Department of Labor found children between the ages of six and 11 working in strawberry fields in the State of Washington, likely right alongside illegal immigrants. The three companies listed – George Hoffman Farms, Berry Good Farms, and Columbia Fruit, LLC – are not using E-Verify, according to the helpful NumbersUSA database.
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USCIS Tries to Bar DoJ from Looking at Its Records
By David North
CIS Blog, August 11, 2011
http://cis.org/north/USCIS-tries-to-bar-DoJ
Excerpt: USCIS got its wrist slapped this week by an arm of the Justice Department, when USCIS tried to hide a quasi-amnesty application from an immigration judge.
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Making Illegals the Victims
By James R. Edwards, Jr.
CIS Blog, August 11, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/making-illegals-the-victims
Excerpt: An Associated Press report is designed to tug at Americans' heartstrings and imply a question: Why is the U.S. so mean to those illegal Mexican aliens, making them leave the country?
The article describes a subset of illegals of the thousands dropped across the border routinely at Tijuana, Mexico. These illegals consist of drug abusers, mental cases, and ne'er-do-wells present in any and every society. But the AP report insinuates that these are particularly needy or unique people. They aren't. They are the victims of their own bad (often law-breaking) choices.
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ABA Wades into Birthright Citizenship Debate
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, August 11, 2011
http://cis.org/feere/ABA-birthright-citizenship
Excerpt: The increasingly feckless American Bar Association continued pushing an open-border agenda at its annual meeting this week, which was, oddly, held in Toronto. The organization passed a resolution opposing any change to the way in which the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause is enforced. Specifically, the resolution, prompted by the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities, urges Congress and state legislators to reject any legislation that would amend the U.S. Constitution on this issue, any legislation that would alter the current practice of granting U.S. citizenship to anyone and everyone born on U.S. soil, and any legislation that would make a parent's immigration status relevant as to whether or not a child should be considered a U.S. citizen at birth. The ABA held a panel discussion on the topic.
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Citizen Action on Immigration
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, August 10, 2011
http://cis.org/peridans/georgia-review-board
Excerpt: Bloomberg Businessweek magazine recently did a piece on a unique piece of legislation passed in Georgia, on a part of the state's new immigration statute. Some qualify the statute as one of the toughest in the nation. Others might qualify it as one of the clearest and/or most comprehensive in the nation, whose enforcement is not tough, but simply a fact. Take your pick. I suppose it depends on how one views the role of law in governance.
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Isolated, Vulnerable, and Broke? Declining 'Hispanic' Wealth
By Dominique Peridans
CIS Blog, August 9, 2011
http://cis.org/peridans/isolated-vulnerable-broke
Excerpt: A recent New York Times article by Princeton professor of sociology and public affairs, Douglas S. Massey, 'Isolated, Vulnerable, and Broke', offers an analysis of a recent Pew Research Center study on current disparity of wealth between the 'races'. The study, conducted and analyzed by Rakesh Kochhar, Richard Fry and Paul Taylor, is entitled 'Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics' (the unnecessary complexity generated by the inclusion of these categories together – two racial and one linguistic, with many of the latter to be included racially in the first two – in this or any study is worthy of analysis, but would take us far afield). It is interesting to note that for unknown because unmentioned reasons, Asians (towards the top of the wealth hierarchy) are included amply but not consistently in the study (and obviously not included in the study's name). Massey's op-ed piece boldly proposes to re-analyze what is already ! an analysis. 'Immigration policy, not just the housing bust, sank Hispanic wealth' is stated. As Massey says, 'this has nothing to do with nativist tropes like work ethic or resistance to assimilation and everything to do with misguided government (immigration) policy.'
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Congress Toys With Another Tiny Visa Class – For Exactly 14 Hospitals
By David North
CIS Blog, August 9, 2011
http://cis.org/north/immigration-earmark-for-14-hospitals
Excerpt: The waste of administrative resources devoted to tiny classes of migrants – which we have covered in a previous blog – may get worse in the near future.
