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[FYI --
1. Obama's
Immigration Fiat (Op-Ed)
2. Thinking of First
Responders (Blog)
3. 9/11 + 10: Time to Keep
Extremists Out (Blog)
4. A Thought About Uncle
Omar (Blog)
5. WARNING: Obama's Drunk-Driving
Illegal-Alien Uncle Back on the Streets (Blog)
6.
Protest at Hershey Gaining Support (Blog)
7.
Financial Losses Due to USCIS Fee Waivers Soar to $87 Million a Year (Blog)
8. Milford, Mass., Tells Ecuador (and ICE): Enough
Already! (Blog)
9. Limbaugh Mistakenly Warns GOP:
Don't Be 'Distracted' by Illegal Immigration (Blog)
10. Census Report Shows Enforcement Works (Blog)
11. Immigration: A Litmus Test for the GOP? (Blog)
12. 'Illegals Raiding the U.S. Treasury' – The Civics
Lesson Therein (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Obama's Immigration Fiat
By Mark Krikorian
The National Interest,
September 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/3147
Excerpt: Most U.S. states require all those riding in an automobile to
wear seat belts. But failure to wear a seat belt is usually a 'secondary
offense,' meaning that you cannot be pulled over and ticketed solely for that
infraction but instead must be pulled over for speeding or some other offense
first.
The Obama administration is working diligently to make all
violations of the immigration law into secondary offenses. The goal is to ensure
that no illegal immigrant, ever, is removed from the United States solely for
being an illegal immigrant. Rather, only those illegal immigrants guilty of some
additional crime—and a 'serious' crime, at that—should be deported.
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2.
Thinking of First Responders
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Blog, September 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/reasoner/thinking-of-first-responders
Excerpt: It's natural that, with the advent of the tenth anniversary of
the terror attacks on our nation, one's thoughts would drift to the first
responders who go about protecting us throughout the nation on a daily basis.
They so often go unnoticed until trauma or tragedy strikes, as it did so quickly
and so violently on September 11, 2001. It's a sad truism that only then do we
seem to stop, take stock, and come to recognize their dedication and quiet
heroism.
'First responders' are almost inevitably the state and local
police, firefighters, emergency medical workers who live side-by-side with us.
This is no surprise. Even in times of starkly drawn political lines about the
size and role of the federal government in our lives, the fact remains that the
federal government is not, will never be, and should not be, so large as to
effectively supplant the role of those who live and work in, but at the same
time serve, their communities as first responders.
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3.
9/11 + 10: Time to Keep Extremists Out
By James R. Edwards
Jr.
CIS Blog, September 11, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/time-to-keep-extremists-out
Excerpt: Ten years after 9/11, there are still plenty of threats to
America's security stemming directly from mass immigration. And there is still
plenty of room for better ways for fighting the threat from ideologically
dangerous foreigners.
Most prominently, al Qaeda is suspected of
targeting New York and Washington around the September 11th 10-year remembrance
ceremonies. Reported the New York Times, 'the initial intelligence report
described how at least three suspects, one of them an American citizen, had left
Afghanistan and entered this country by air last month.' As of this writing,
these foreign terrorists remain at large.
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4.
A Thought About Uncle Omar
By David North
CIS Blog,
September 10, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/a-thought-about-uncle-omar
Excerpt: Here's a thought about what the Obama administration might do
with Uncle Omar, who is America's most prominent illegal alien this month.
As my colleague Jon Feere noted yesterday, the president's half-uncle,
Onyango Obama, the illegal alien with the drunk driving citation, has been
released from jail, and no official will tell us what the government plans to do
with him – despite the outstanding deportation order of some years ago.
The ICE leadership is caught between a rock and a hard place. No
individual government official wants to sign a deportation order against a
presidential relative, no matter how silent the White House is on this matter.
Besides, it may be contrary to current administration policy to deport aliens
with something less than a conviction for criminal violence. That, of course,
should not be the case, but is.
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5.
WARNING:
Obama's Drunk-Driving Illegal-Alien Uncle Back on the Streets
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, September 9, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/uncle-omar-released
Excerpt: In a decision that seems to unnecessarily risk the lives of
many people, ICE has released Onyango Obama, President Obama's 'Uncle Omar'
about two weeks after he was detained following a drunk driving accident. He had
been ordered deported to his native Kenya back in 1992. It remains unclear what
justification immigration authorities used in releasing Obama, but it certainly
is troubling considering he will likely go back to drinking and driving on the
streets of Massachusetts. In an earlier blog post, I listed a number of
'low-priority' aliens released by ICE who later went on to allegedly kill a
number of young people. Had the aliens in these cases been deported during their
first brush with the law instead of being released, lives would have been
spared.
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6.
Protest at Hershey Gaining Support
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 9, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/protest-at-hershey-gaining-support
Excerpt: The protest against Hershey Co, the corporate chocolate icon,
by foreign students working under a State Department cultural exchange program
is not diminishing, even as many of the students prepare to return home at the
end of their four-month J-1 visas.
To the contrary, protesting students
are gaining new support in their effort to expose what they call sweatshop
conditions at Hershey's Eastern Distribution Center. The massive plant, located
just east of the Pennsylvania town that bears the company's name, ships candies
made at the nearby Hershey factory.
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7.
Financial
Losses Due to USCIS Fee Waivers Soar to $87 Million a Year
By David North
CIS Blog, September 9, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/USCIS-fee-waivers-soar
Excerpt: USCIS has revealed – if one applies some math to an obscure
government document – that it is now experiencing fee-waiver-caused losses at
the rate of $87 million a year for FY 2011, sharply up from $27 million a year
for FY 2009.
A USCIS press officer gave me the $27 million figure a year
or so ago.
The government has long had a program allowing certain very
low-income persons – mostly aliens – to seek waivers of immigration and
naturalization fees; the basic policy is appropriate but what USCIS has done in
the last year was to make it much, much easier for applicants to file for fee
waivers.
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Milford, Mass.,
Tells Ecuador (and ICE): Enough Already!
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog,
September 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/milford-protest
Excerpt: On August 20, Matt Denice, age 23, was out riding his
motorcycle in his home town of Milford, Mass., when, according to police and
witnesses, he was struck, dragged, and killed by an Ecuadoran illegal alien
drunk driver, Nicolas Guaman. It was a horrific crime that has sparked
widespread public outrage and renewed resentment toward Massachusetts Gov. Deval
Patrick's sanctuary policies and ICE's reluctance to implement the Secure
Communities program here. What I have found most interesting and refreshing,
though, is the reaction of Milford officials, who have wasted no time in taking
steps locally to address the conditions that encourage illegal settlement.
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9.
Limbaugh Mistakenly Warns GOP: Don't
Be 'Distracted' by Illegal Immigration
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog,
September 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/limbaugh-dont-be-distracted-by-immigration
Excerpt: During the past week, Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly told his
radio audience that Republicans should ignore illegal immigration because the
left and its mainstream media allies are using it to distract them from the key
issues that will guarantee a Republican victory in November – jobs, stimulus
spending, and higher taxes.
On September 2, Limbaugh instructed his
listeners to ignore a U.S. Department of Treasury audit that found that (1) the
IRS paid illegal aliens $4.2 billion dollars in Additional Child Tax Credits,
(2) the IRS protects illegal aliens who are using the Social Security numbers of
American citizens, and (3) the IRS's actions serve as an incentive for illegal
aliens to enter, reside and work in the United States.
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10.
Census Report Shows Enforcement Works
By David North
CIS Blog, September 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/census-CNMI-enforcement-works
Excerpt: Open-borders advocates often argue that changes in the
immigration law, and/or added enforcement, cannot change the size of the legal
and illegal alien populations. No mere governmental activity can resist the
human tide of would-be migrants, is their view. They say, in effect, 'Why try?'
The totally neutral U.S. Census Bureau offers a stunning rebuttal of
that position in its latest report on the shrinking population of the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). These islands, north of
Guam in the western Pacific, are the newest additions to the U.S. territorial
family, having been conquered by the U.S. late in World War II.
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Immigration: A Litmus Test for the GOP?
By
James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, September 8, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/immigration-litmus-test
Excerpt: Immigration has become a litmus test for Republican voters, the
Washington Post has reported. This marks a significant development for the issue
and for the GOP electorate, which leans more to the right on issues in general.
It also has political ramifications for candidates. (Mark Krikorian commented on
the article here.)
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12.
'Illegals
Raiding the U.S. Treasury' – The Civics Lesson Therein
By David North
CIS Blog, September 7, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/raiding-the-treasury-civics-lesson
Excerpt: My colleague Jim Edwards, in a blog entitled 'Illegals Raiding
the U.S. Treasury' has called (appropriately) to our attention the way that
illegal aliens have, apparently, robbed the U.S. Treasury of $4.2 billion,
according to a report from the Treasury Department Inspector General.
They did so by claiming child tax credits to which they were not
entitled. The children may or may not have been present, but the department had
no right to give cash tax refunds to illegal aliens. Treasury has done nothing
about it.
