Placating Americans with Fake Immigration Law EnforcementHow our leaders create fantasy 'solutions' for our immigration-related vulnerabilities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com
Therefore
the Visa Waiver Program should have been terminated after the terror
attacks of 9/11 yet it has continually been expanded.
It
is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations
and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party
affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action
to stop that flow of aliens into the United States.
. . .
The
obvious question is why the Visa Waiver Program is considered so
sacrosanct that even though it defies the advice and findings of the
9/11 Commission no one has the moral fortitude to call for simply
terminating this dangerous program.
The
answer can be found in the incestuous relationship between the Chamber
of Commerce and its subsidiary, the Corporation for Travel Promotion,
now doing business as Brand USA.
The
Chamber of Commerce has arguably been the strongest supporter of the
Visa Waiver Program, which currently enables aliens from 38 countries to
enter the United States without first obtaining a visa.
The U.S. State Department provides a thorough explanation of the Visa Waiver Program on its website.
Incredibly,
the official State Department website also provides a link, “Discover
America,” on that website which relates to the website of The Corporation for Travel Promotion, which is affiliated with the travel industries that are a part of the “Discover America Partnership.
much more here:
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1. "Let Them Eat H-2B Visas," Mark Krikorian
2. "Hysterical Response to Immigration Enforcement Theater," Mark Krikorian
3. "Update on Sanctuary Jurisdictions," Jessica Vaughan
4. "Setting the Record Straight: NPR Corrects Mischaracterization of CIS Stance on ICE Operation," Jessica Vaughan
5. "No Evidence of Labor Shortage in H-2B Occupations," Steven A. Camarota
6. "On Immigration and Assimilation," Dan Cadman
7. "Don't Reward Illegal Cuban Arrivals with the Benefit of Adjustment," Dan Cadman
8. "Will the Supreme Court Take the DAPA Case?," John Miano
9. "Three Immigration Issues Unresolved in 2015," Jon Feere
10. " 'If You Are From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Please Dial 8'," David North
11. "Social Security Data Points to Growth in 2nd-Generation Muslim Population," David North
12. "The New York Times' Radical Transformation on Immigration," Jerry Kammer
13. "First Group of U.S.-Bound Cubans Will Leave Costa Rica January 12," Kausha Luna
14. "New Obama Executive Action to Shred Immigration Caps," Sen. Jeff Sessions
15. "How the Republican Congress Expanded Guest-Worker Immigration," Elaina Plott
16. "Message to the GOP: Trump Supports Amnesty," Marc A. Thiessen
17. "The Immigration Maelstrom Engulfs America," Investor's Business Daily
18. "Illegal Aliens Use Fake Puerto Rican Birth Certificates to Get U.S. Passports, Licenses," Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles
19. "How Ted Cruz's New Immigration Ad Trumps Donald Trump's Ad," Peter Grier
20. "Ted Cruz, Unlike Donald Trump, Won't Let Deportees Back Into America," Ed Straker
21. "Muslim Male 'Refugees' Are Gang Raping Women in Europe," Katie Pavlich
22. "Vetting Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be," Ron Edwards
23. "Political Theater is at the Heart of DHS Deportation Raids," Jorge Bonilla
24. "Muslim Mass Sexual Assaults in Germany on New Year's Eve," Carol Brown
25. "Fannie Mae Rolls Out Easy Mortgage, Catering to High-Risk Immigrants," Investor's Business Daily
26. "Obama Intends to Violate Federal Immigration Law. Again.," John Hinderaker
27. "Battening Down the Hatches, Reminiscent of the 1930s," Michael Barone
28. "Talking Truth to a Sanctuary City," Tammy Bruce
29. "Memo To My Fellow Jews: Immigration Restriction Is NOT Nazism," Charles Bloch
30. "Obama’s Covert Immigration Plan Underway," Michael F. Haverluck
31. "Donald Trump's Muslim Immigration Comments Are Not a Bridge Too Far," Benjamin Chevlin
32. "Merkel’s Germany: 'The Systematic Assaults on Women Are a New Type of Crime'," Steve Sailer
33. "A Gay Illegal Alien (and Fraudster) Can’t be Deported Because Mexico is Homophobic — Wait, What?...," Allan Wall
34. "How Trump-Style Politics Turned California Into a Blue State," Jason Riley
35. "Immigration Raids Would be a Big Error," KCCI.com (Des Moines, IA)
36. "Psst: Illegal Immigration is Actually Declining," Haley Sweetland Edwards
37. "Why Conservatives Praise Bernie Sanders on Immigration," Sam Frizell
38. "Whatever Happened to Latino Political Power?," Robert Suro
39. "Marco Rubio Doesn’t Add Up," Frank Bruni
40. "The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads," The New York Times
41. A Shameful Round-Up of Refugees," The New York Times
42. Europe: "The 'Refugee' Flood and the Rape of Europe," Investor's Business Daily
43. Sweden: "New Sweden," G. Perry
44. Germany: "Germany in Shock After 'Monstrous' Attacks, Rape by 1,000 Men 'Of Arab or North African Origin'," ZeroHedge.com
45. Germany: "Cologne Mayor to Victims of Migrant Sex Assaults: You Asked For It," Robert Spencer
46. Germany: "The Long Silence — The Cologne Sex Attacks and the German Media," Friedrich Zauner
47. Germany: "Rape Jihad Shows 'Germany is No Longer German'," WorldNetDaily.com
1.
Let Them Eat H-2B Visas
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, January 7, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429408/guest-worker-visas-wheres-labor-shortage?target=author&tid=982
On the home page Elaina Plott has a behind-the-scenes look at how the
increase in H-2B guestworker visas ended up in the omnibus spending
bill. The provision potentially could quadruple the number of these
visas for non-agricultural “seasonal” (up to 10 months per year)
workers, but will more likely “only” double them.
Supporters of the increase say lawmakers should have known it was in
there because the Appropriations Committee had already slipped it into
the Homeland Security appropriations bill last summer. Putting aside the
fact that the visa increase wasn’t even mentioned in the committee’s
summary of the DHS funding bill and that Senate appropriations chairman
Thad Cochran had assured Jeff Sessions that the provision wouldn’t be in
the omnibus, it’s worth asking: Why was a guestworker visa increase put
into an appropriations bill in the first place? Because the industry
lobbyists pushing the measure knew they couldn’t get it passed any other
way. It was pure donor service from the get-go.
But more important than the political machinations behind this latest
example of corporate welfare is the policy question: why import more
unskilled guestworkers at all? Paul Ryan and Steve Scalise justified the
increase by claiming a labor shortage.
My colleague Steve Camarota looked for evidence of such a labor shortage in the wage data. He didn’t find any.
If there really were a labor shortage, wages should be rising as
employers try to recruit and retain staff. In fact, most of the top H-2B
occupations show a
decline in real wages from 2007 to 2014.
Even the occupation that did best – maids and housekeepers – on average
saw their weekly earnings rise by a mere $2 each year, for a total
seven-year earnings increase of 4.1 percent. Cooks, on the other hand,
saw their wages drop 4.4 percent over the seven-year period; security
guards, down 6.1 percent; and hotel, motel & resort desk clerks,
down 7 percent.
Now, a tight labor market is the best social policy, so we should
welcome
increased wages for less-educated workers, rather than try to
short-circuit such increases with surges of foreign workers. But even if
you think that higher incomes for the poor are a bad thing, current
immigration policy is taking care of that problem just fine – why add to
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Hysterical Response to Immigration Enforcement Theater
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, January 5, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429276/central-american-deportations-hysterical-responses?target=author&tid=982
Over the weekend DHS took 121 Central American illegal aliens – adults
plus their children – into custody to be deported. This is the
initiative I wrote about last week, and it appears to be as
inconsequential as I’d expected.
Considering the laughably small numbers and the very narrow range of
targets (only Central American families who snuck in after January 1,
2014, and have been ordered deported and “have exhausted appropriate
legal remedies, and have no outstanding appeal or claim for asylum or
other humanitarian relief”), you’d think there would be little
objection.
You’d be wrong.
The ACLU denounced the arrests as “a scare tactic… designed to deport as
many as possible, as quickly as possible.” The National Immigration
Forum said “Deportation raids instill fear in immigrant communities.”
The group #Not1More Deportation called effort “disgusting” and has
started a petition to “stop the terror.” The Coalition for Humane
Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles told a Guatemalan paper (in Spanish)
that “It’s a new wave of terror against our community, it’s horrible and
inhuman.” And BuzzFeed headlined its story yesterday on the arrests
“Undocumented Immigrants Detained Across U.S. For Mass Deportation”.
The removal of one one-thousandth of one percent of the illegal
population – recent arrivals who’ve run out of excuses to stay – is
mass deportation? It’s been clear for some time that the left – the mainstream, ostensibly respectable left – rejects the very
idea
of enforcing immigration laws. Their hysterical outbursts at this tiny
little dribble of enforcement confirm what we already knew.
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Update on Sanctuary Jurisdictions
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Immigration Blog, January 7, 2016
. . .
Fed up with the unwillingness of California leaders to reverse sanctuary
laws even after a string of violent acts committed by criminal aliens
drew national attention to the problem, a California citizens group has
launched a new ballot initiative that would overturn the state sanctuary
law that went into effect on January 1, 2014. The initiative would
direct all law enforcement agencies and jurisdictions to cooperate fully
with ICE in a variety of ways. It also would clarify that all law
enforcement officers in the state may inquire about a person's
immigration status.
Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who had long maintained
obstructive sanctuary policies, undid them before leaving office in
December 2015. One of the very first acts of new Mayor Jim Kenney,
within hours of his swearing-in, and after accepting some homemade bread
baked by illegal aliens, was to insttute a new sanctuary policy.
In addition to Dallas County, other new sanctuary jurisdictions include
the city of Lawrence, Mass., and five counties in Kentucky. In addition,
in December, a committee of the Massachusetts legislature approved a
strict and far-reaching sanctuary bill.
According to government documents I have obtained through FOIA requests
and other channels, and independent research, I have been able to
determine that there are approximately 340 sanctuary jurisdictions in
the United States. These are cities, counties, and states that have
laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices
that protect criminal aliens from deportation — either by refusing to
or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing
unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, or otherwise impeding
open communication and information exchanges between their employees or
officers and federal immigration officers.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/update-sanctuary-jurisdictions
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Setting the Record Straight: NPR Corrects Mischaracterization of CIS Stance on ICE Operation
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Immigration Blog, January 7, 2016
On January 6, NPR's "Morning Edition" ran a story on the recent ICE
operation to remove Central American adults and children who arrived
illegally in the surge of 2014, who have failed in their request for
legal status and been ordered removed in person by an immigration judge,
but who have not departed. The story included comments from me that
were over-edited and presented an incomplete and therefore misleading
impression of my opinion on ICE's operation.
. . .
The four-minute story goes on to present strong criticism of the raids,
with comments from advocates for illegal aliens and from a deportee. It
includes no other comment or explanation that is supportive of enforcing
the law. The listener is left with the impression that even
pro-enforcement experts such as myself do not support these operations.
That is a false impression.
NPR edited my comments so that the listener hears that I have
reservations about the raids, but is not able to hear why. I do lament
that the raids – not because I think our immigration system is broken,
but because I believe that the administration has terribly mishandled
the border surge crisis, and that the raids would not be necessary if
the new illegal arrivals had not been released into the country to begin
with. It is the administration's "catch and release" policy that is at
fault, not ICE's careful and professionally conducted removal
operations.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/setting-record-straight-npr-corrects-mischaracterization-cis-stance-ice-operation
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No Evidence of Labor Shortage in H-2B Occupations
By Steven A. Camarota
CIS Immigration Blog, January 6, 2016
. . .
In a recent radio interview, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
justified the insertion of this provision on the grounds that without it
businesses would face shortages of seasonal workers of the kind covered
by the program.
Is there evidence for Ryan's claim of a labor shortage?
If there is a labor shortage, then wages should be rising rapidly for
these occupations as employers struggle to recruit new workers or retain
the ones they already have. In economics, the price of anything —
steel, wheat, or workers — rises if demand outstrips supply, and of
course the price of workers is primarily wages.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/a/no-evidence-labor-shortage-h-2b-occupations
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On Immigration and Assimilation
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 5, 2016
. . .
Here is my take:
First, Singer's article deliberately attempts to blur the line between
legal and illegal immigration. This is unacceptable. Such distinctions
aren't semantic niceties; they are the essence of a society of laws and
the foundation for a nation that values its sovereignty.
Second, even as she and the NAS assert that the "obstacle" of lacking
legal status impedes the assimilation process (thus implicitly
suggesting that everyone should be made "legal" with a wave of the
president's magic "executive action" wand so that they can integrate
into society at large), others who advocate amnesty in any of its many
forms have been going to great pains to tell us that the 11 or 12
million aliens living unlawfully in the United States are already
"Americans in everything but name". So which is it? Assimilated in all
but legal status, or outside the margins?
Third, if assimilation is, as she, the president, and the NAS suggest, a
multi-generational effort, then it isn't "sudden" at all. This need for
assimilative seasoning over the course of generations is, to my way of
thinking, a strong argument in favor of a balanced immigration system
that enforces its laws fairly and uniformly. The national community must
have the time, space, and economic resources needed for this two-way
process to be able to take hold successfully. Unbridled immigration
makes it impossible to absorb individuals in a way that does anything
but balkanize and ghettoize various populations coming to the country,
and strains the social safety nets needed to stabilize these populations
and permit them to bootstrap themselves into the mainstream.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/cadman/immigration-and-assimilation
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Don't Reward Illegal Cuban Arrivals with the Benefit of Adjustment
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 4, 2016
. . .
How should our government react? Unless they're interested in
really
exacerbating the already complicated mess involving Central American
surge arrivals on our southern border (which has never abated, but just
left the public's consciousness; see here and here) — and there are
signs that the Obama administration realizes this would be a political
disaster for Democrats in an election year — then the U.S. government
needs to take firm steps, both now and upon arrival of any Cubans who
have straggled northward as a result of the "deal" that's been cut, to
put an end to the charade, deny the Cubans the ability to make such a
mockery of our laws, and in the process ensure the trickle doesn't
become a flood.
Assuming that, notwithstanding the lack of any immigration documents
giving them the ability to seek admission, some show up at a southern
border port of entry (POE), seek asylum, and are given a date and time
to reappear at the POE for a "credible fear" threshold interview, they
should
not be paroled into the United States to permit that
interview, for reasons I explain below. And, at the credible fear
interview, it should weigh heavily — very heavily — in the asylum
officer's mind that these individuals spent months in Costa Rica and
transited through several other nations without claiming asylum. One of
the prime requisites in both international and domestic law is that if
you are truly fleeing persecution, then you seek refuge or asylum at the
first opportunity. You don't get to be choosy about where you go. That
smacks of abuse of the asylum process, and strongly suggests that such
individuals are economic migrants, not people who truly fear persecution
if returned to Cuba.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/cadman/refusing-reward-illegal-cuban-arrivals-benefit-adjustment
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Will the Supreme Court Take the DAPA Case?
By John Miano
CIS Immigration Blog, January 4, 2016
. . .
Here, I am going to play devil's advocate and explain why the Supreme Court should not hear
Texas right now. I do not recommend placing bets on this analysis.
The Supreme Court should not hear Texas now because it a decision over
whether to grant a preliminary injunction. The Supreme Court normally
only takes cases that are final.
Step back a moment and ask, what was the scope of the Fifth Circuit's decision?
Really there were only two things. First, does the court have
jurisdiction? In other words did the states have standing? I wrote about
that previously. Second, did the District Court abuse its discretion
when it granted the preliminary injunction?
That does not give the Supreme Court a whole lot to review if it were to hear the case.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/miano/will-supreme-court-take-dapa-case
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Three Immigration Issues Unresolved in 2015
By Jon Feere
TheHill.com, January 5, 2016
. . .
Though there are many immigration issues that came into greater focus in
2015 — from the highly controversial H-1B cheap labor agenda, to the
H-2B controversies — the following still-unresolved issues were on the
forefront of everyone's mind and must be addressed in 2016:
1. Kate Steinle's death in sanctuary city San Francisco. On July 1,
Steinle was shot and killed, allegedly by an illegal alien with seven
felonies who had been previously deported five times. San Francisco's
sanctuary policy had previously allowed for suspect Juan Francisco
Lopez-Sanchez to be released after appearing before police on another
charge.
. . .
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/264667-3-immigration-issues-unresolved-in-2015
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"If You Are From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Please Dial 8'"
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, January 7, 2016
. . .
NPU, which the venerable
Times of India says is engaging in a
"massive academic rip-off", is an allegedly non-profit educational
institution that, as we reported earlier, made a profit of $29 million
from revenues of $40 million in tuition payments in 2014. Over a period
of three years, NPU reported no help from volunteers, no receipt of
gifts, and no government grants — yet it has the IRS status of a 501(c)3
charity.
Most of the students are from India and, according to other segments of
the Indian press, as many as a hundred would-be NPU students have been
turned back at U.S. airports or prevented from boarding Air India
flights to California. The immigration inspectors apparently sense that
some of the incoming students are not really nonimmigrants, coming to
the United States for a temporary period, and that they plan to stay.
NPU has responded by saying that their entity has not been "blacklisted
by DHS", which, as of today (January 7), is technically correct. NPU is
run by a Chinese family named Hsieh.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/north/if-you-are-us-department-homeland-security-please-dial-8
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Social Security Data Points to Growth in 2nd-Generation Muslim Population
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, January 5, 2016
. . .
About a tenth of the total flow of new immigrants and about three tenths
in the diversity lottery are from predominantly Muslim countries. But
how about the next generation, the ones born here? Our government,
unlike many in Europe, religiously avoids counting people by religion,
so we must look for indirect measures.
One such indirect measure doesn't shed light on the size of the second-generation Muslim population but is suggestive of its
growth,
which has been huge over the last 50 years, based, admittedly, on a
small base. And the data source is a highly reliable government system.
I am referring to the Social Security Administration's count of the
names of newborn babies in the United States. A boy named Mohammed (or
with one of a dozen other spellings) born here is likely to grow up in a
Muslim environment and, at the same time, be a U.S. citizen. So we can
get a rough proxy of the growth of the population of second-generation
Muslim immigrants by noting how many of them carry these names.
(Third-generation babies are also included.)
. . .
http://www.cis.org/north/social-security-data-growth-muslim-population
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The New York Times' Radical Transformation on Immigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Immigration Blog, January 4, 2016
. . .
In 1983, a
Times editorial warned that failure to contain
illegal immigration would inevitably produce a public backlash against
immigration. "For reasons of vitality, humanity and history, America
wants and needs immigrants," the editorial observed. "What it does not
need is such an uncontrollable flood of illegal migrants that it tries
public patience and foments a backlash against all newcomers. That's the
genuine danger." That editorial was titled "Time to Turn the Illegal
Tide".
. . .
How the
Times has changed. In the editorial from last month
cited above, the current editorial board praised the American Civil
Liberties Union, which never met a worksite identifier it couldn't tie
up in the courts, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which never saw
an advocate of immigration controls that it couldn't label as intolerant
and hateful. The paper hailed these obstructionists of effective reform
as "civil rights groups ... defending the displaced against blatant
discrimination."
The radicalized
Times editorial policy is the creation of its
publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. Sulzberger, who inherited his job
from his late father, regards attempts to regulate immigration as a sin
against the inclusiveness that is his gospel.
Sulzberger preached that gospel in a 2006 commencement address at the
State University of New York at New Paltz. In what Vanity Fair called "a
vapid political message", he told the graduates that they would have to
make fateful decisions regarding such issues as "the rights of
immigrants to start a new life; or the rights of gays to marry; or the
rights of women to choose."
He made no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants as he
declared, "You will choose at each point whether to be bold or hesitant,
inclusive or elitist, generous or stingy."
. . .
http://www.cis.org/kammer/new-york-times-radical-transformation-immigration
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First Group of U.S.-Bound Cubans Will Leave Costa Rica January 12
By Kausha Luna
CIS Immigration Blog, January 8, 2016
. . .
As indicated by the long title of the Cuban Adjustment Act ("An Act to
adjust the status of Cuban refugees to that of lawful permanent
residents of the United States "), the CAA was not intended for economic
migrants. Nevertheless, both the Cuban migrants and the Central
American countries have predicated the success of their plans upon the
CAA and the "wet-foot/dry-foot" policy that stems from it. Why should
they not? Over the years the U.S. has allowed Cubans to repeatedly and
systematically abuse the CAC. Despite this ongoing abuse and the
impending arrival of the latest group of Cuban, the Obama administration
has said it has no intentions of changing its procedures, even though
the president has the legal authority to prevent the islanders from
taking benefitting from the CAA , as my colleague Dan Cadman recently
explained. (In short, automatic residency is only available to those
Cuban illegal aliens who are paroled into the U.S.; if they're kept in
detention, the provisions of the CAA do not apply.)
. . .
http://www.cis.org/luna/first-group-us-cubans-will-leave-costa-rica-january-12
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New Obama Executive Action to Shred Immigration Caps
By Sen. Jeff Sessions
The Daily Signal, January 4, 2016
. . .
The number of aliens authorized to work in the United States each year
is limited by law, according to the number of foreign work visas and
green cards that are statutorily available. Under this breathtaking
executive action, those limits set by Congress are waived.
Here is how the scheme works: Under current law, there is a statutory
cap on the number of aliens who can receive green cards based on
sponsorship from their employers, and thus a cap on the number who can
receive the all-purpose work authorization those green cards provide.
Under this new rule, the administration can bypass those caps with two
easy steps.
First, it would simply approve as many aliens as it wishes to seek green
cards in excess of the cap. Then, it would give those workers—and their
spouses and children—a renewable all-purpose work permit while they
wait for their green cards to become available, nullifying Americans’
statutory protections against job-threatening flows of excess foreign
labor. Adding further to the pool of workers, it expands the number of
H-1B visas exempt from the annual cap.
. . .
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/04/new-obama-executive-action-to-shred-immigration-caps/
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How the Republican Congress Expanded Guest-Worker Immigration
By Elaina Plott
National Review Online, January 7, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429354/h-2b-guest-worker-immigration-expansion-republicans-congress
. . .
Much confusion has surrounded how the measure was included in the
omnibus, with lawmakers and pundits alike claiming bitterly that the
House slipped it in at the last minute. The truth is more complicated:
The measure sat quietly for seven months after the Appropriations
Committee approved it in July, never reaching the House floor for a
vote. When it wound up in the massive omnibus spending package passed
through Congress before Christmas, several lawmakers complained that
they were blindsided by the provision, and they argued that Republican
leadership was continuing to ignore voters’ concerns about immigration’s
negative impact on wages.
. . .
But stripping the measure would have represented an abuse of the
speaker’s power, says AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan. “Speaker
Ryan committed to allow committees to take the lead in drafting
legislation, and that’s exactly what happened with this provision. . . .
He’s speaker of the House, not dictator of the House, and [he’s] not
going to be in the practice of interfering with the will of his
conference,” she says. Another Ryan aide refutes the charge that the
speaker violated his promise not to push immigration reform: “He didn’t
say the House would not touch programs related to visas, [but] rather
that it wouldn’t pass comprehensive immigration reform. This is not
that, and not even close.”
. . .
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429354/h-2b-guest-worker-immigration-expansion-republicans-congress
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Message to the GOP: Trump Supports Amnesty
By Marc A. Thiessen
American Enterprise Institute, November 13, 2015
. . .
Eric Trump is right. His father has been crystal clear that he wants all the illegals to return and live in America.
Listen closely to what Trump is actually proposing. In an interview with
CNN’s Dana Bash earlier this year, Trump explained his plan this way:
. . .
This is a policy called “touchback” and it was first proposed in 2007 by
moderate Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX). She offered a
“touchback” amendment on the Senate floor that would have required
illegal immigrants to return to their home countries to apply for a
special “Z visa” that would allow them to reenter the United States in
an expedited fashion and work here indefinitely.
Her amendment lost by a relatively close margin, 53-45. It was supported
by most Republicans and even got five Democratic votes — Sens. Claire
McCaskill, Max Baucus, Jon Tester, Byron Dorgan and John Rockefeller all
voted for it.
The idea was considered so reasonable that in an April 22, 2007
editorial entitled “Progress on Immigration,” the New York Times
declared:
It’s not ideal, but if a touchback provision is manageable and reassures
people that illegal immigrants are indeed going to the back of the
line, then it will be defensible.
So what Trump is proposing today — sending illegal immigrants back to
their home countries and then allowing the “good ones” to return in an
“expedited” fashion — was endorsed by the liberal New York Times!
In fact, the idea even got the support of — wait for it — illegal immigrants.
In 2007, the Los Angeles Times did the first telephone poll of illegal
immigrants and asked whether they would go home under a “touchback” law
that allowed them to return with legal status. Sixty-three percent said
yes, 27% said no and 10% were undecided. If they were promised a path to
citizenship when they returned, the number who said they would leave
and return legally grew to 85%.
. . .
https://www.aei.org/publication/message-to-the-gop-trump-supports-amnesty/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fdpaeideas
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The Immigration Maelstrom Engulfs America
Investor's Business Daily, December 29, 2015
. . .
On Monday, Costa Rica announced a "deal" with Panama, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mexico and the International Organization
for Migration to transport least 8,000 Cuban migrants holed up at its
border to San Salvador by airlift. It will then transport them by bus
through Guatemala and into Mexico, with the goal of depositing them at
the U.S. border for illegal entry.
The Cubans, who had been been denied travel visas by Nicaragua, could
then take advantage of the Cuban Adjustment Act for permanent residence
in the U.S.
The 1995 rule, familiarly known as "wet foot, dry foot," was a relic of
an earlier era, when Cuban refugees really did flee the horrors of
communism for freedom.
Today, the migrants leave for economic reasons, according to a report
Monday in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which interviewed new Cuban
arrivals.
This deal is notable in that Uncle Sam wasn't invited to it. Despite the
cultural and language affinity that Cubans have with the rest of Latin
America, it's just to dump them at the U.S. border and let the gringos
pay. Win-win for them, lose-lose for us.
It's a significant story because the border surge is now bigger than
ever. As word spreads about President Obama's unguarded border and the
decades-long judicial backlog on deportations, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection has released new data showing that illegal immigration among
unaccompanied kids and families soared in October and November.
. . .
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122915-787300-the-immigration-maelstrom-engulfs-america.htm
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Illegal Aliens Use Fake Puerto Rican Birth Certificates to Get U.S. Passports, Licenses
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, January 4, 2016
As if the country’s monstrous immigration crisis weren’t dire enough, an
increasing number of illegal aliens are using fake Puerto Rican birth
certificates to obtain authentic U.S. passports and driver’s licenses.
. . .
It turns out that fraud involving Puerto Rican birth certificates has
been pervasive for many years, yet the U.S. government and its various
agencies accept the documents blindly. The problem got so out of control
that back in 2010 Puerto Rico’s government invalidated every birth
certificate and issued new ones considered to be safer. One mainstream
news report called it a “radical solution to what many say has been a
serious and growing crisis involving Puerto Rican birth certificates,
which are used to apply for everything from U.S. passports to Medicaid.”
The same report, published in April, 2010, revealed that the U.S. State
Department was well aware of the problem. In fact, the agency estimated
back then that a mind-boggling 40% of all U.S. passport fraud cases
involved Puerto Rican birth certificates. Four years later, a separate
news report confirmed that little had changed, that the fraud is still
rampant. Here’s an excerpt of the story published in the summer of 2014
by a Florida-based nonprofit investigative journalism outlet:
“Counterfeit, altered or stolen birth certificates coming from Puerto
Rico are the Holy Grail to Florida’s undocumented. With a phony birth
certificate you can live the American dream. You can also enroll in
school, land a job and get a driver’s license.”
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/01/illegal-aliens-use-fake-puerto-rican-birth-certificates-to-get-u-s-passports-licenses/
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How Ted Cruz's New Immigration Ad Trumps Donald Trump's Ad
The ad’s careful construction may be yet more proof that Sen. Ted Cruz
is attempting to slipstream behind Donald Trump while snatching some of
his voters.
By Peter Grier
The Christian Science Monitor, January 5, 2016
. . .
The ad’s construction may be yet more proof that Cruz is attempting to
slipstream behind Mr. Trump while snatching some of his voters. It
combines two issues that are of great importance to the predominantly
less-educated, lower-income core of Trump’s vote: economic insecurity,
and immigration.
Plus, it slams the media, lawyers, and bankers – unpopular professions
all. No mention of doctors or tech entrepreneurs racing across the Rio
Grande, we notice.
Critics say Cruz’s assumptions here are bogus, however. Writing in Vox,
Matthew Yglesias says it is “simply false to say that the current rate
of immigration to the United States is an economic calamity.” Research
shows that incomes of native-born Americans are higher, not lower, due
to the economic activity generated by immigration, according to Mr.
Yglesias.
But focusing on the economics of illegal immigration is less
inflammatory than simply calling many Mexican immigrants rapists, as
Trump has done. In that sense, Cruz’s approach is softer.
. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2016/0105/How-Ted-Cruz-s-new-immigration-ad-trumps-Donald-Trump-s-ad
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Ted Cruz, Unlike Donald Trump, Won't Let Deportees Back Into America
By Ed Straker
American Thinker Blog, January 6, 2016
. . .
Ted Cruz has made the interesting argument that he is tougher on illegal
immigration than Donald Trump. Trump has called for the mass
deportation of illegals but promised to let the "good ones" back in. He
has never described what percent of illegals are the "good ones," and
many Trump supporters, caught up in the cult of personality for the
candidate, don't seem interested in the details.
But Ted Cruz has said he will enforce the law, and the law requires the
deportation of illegal aliens. If Cruz will enforce the law, and Donald
Trump will allow illegals back into America, does this mean that Ted
Cruz is tougher on illegal immigration than Donald Trump?
Not necessarily. It is true that Ted Cruz was the first to call for
finishing the border fence, back when Donald Trump was still calling for
amnesty for illegal aliens. But Donald Trump has called for
legislatively ending birthright citizenship, something Cruz is doubtful
of.
What it seems to come down to is that Cruz will order deportations, with no option to return, and Trump will order
mass deportations, with options to return for an unknown number after an unknown period of time.
. . .
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/ted_cruz_unlike_donald_trump_wont_let_deportees_back_into_america.html
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Muslim Male "Refugees" Are Gang Raping Women in Europe
By Katie Pavlich
Townhall.com, January 7, 2016
Two weeks ago the
New York Times ran a story about the need to
host classes in Norway and Denmark for Muslim men new to the country.
The topic? Rape is wrong and unacceptable.
. . .
During New Years Eve celebrations in the western city of Cologne, dozens
of Muslim men allegedly participated in rape mobs. They surrounded
young women, touched them, raped them and stole their wallets and cell
phones. Tensions surrounding how the situation is being handled are
rising by the day. From ABC News:
. . .
If you have to educate an entire influx of Muslim men about how rape is
wrong, you probably shouldn't be letting them into your country.
. . .
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/01/07/muslim-male-refugees-are-raping-women-in-europe-n2100918
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Vetting Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
By Ron Edwards
NewsWithViews.com, January 1, 2016
. . .
For example, Syrian Refugees Offices must undergo a one week training
course on Syrian-specific issues, including classified information. On
top of that, scrutiny already is being applied to Syrians through the
enhanced review for Syrian applicants process that put additional
security and intelligence resources at the disposal of adjudicators.
Only at this point can an applicant be approved. For those that are
approved, health screenings and orientations begin. The traitorous State
Department and Office of refugee Resettlement within the Department of
Health and Human Services work with voluntary resettlement agencies to
arrange for resettlement agencies to arrange for resettlement services
and assistance. After an average of 12 to 18 months, this process ends
with entry into the United States.
My concern amongst many is that President Obama in typical bigoted,
progressive fashion has stepped up efforts to make sure tens of
thousands of Muslims file into the United States, while denying entry to
Christian refugees from Syria. It does not matter to Mr. Obama or other
progressives in general that Christians are being slaughtered for
sport, while the black African Christian that aren’t murdered are forced
into brutal slavery, per instructions in the little quran.’
. . .
http://www.newswithviews.com/RonEdwards/ron158.htm
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Political Theater is at the Heart of DHS Deportation Raids
By Jorge Bonilla
Media Research Center, December 31, 2015
. . .
When I heard of the scope of the deportation order, I was reminded of
the memo that leaked during the government “shutdown” of 2013, which
directed agencies to follow the law in a manner most painful to the
general public- so as to increase political pressure on Congress. Fast
forward to 2015, and the tactic is at play again. It doesn’t matter that
the Obama administration are the ones pushing for these deportations.
Term-limited Obama has now created an opportunity for the Democratic
field to separate from him and his failed immigration promises. Martin
O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have denounced the deportations, and I
expect that Hillary Clinton will soon follow suit.
Univision News jumped on the story from Day One, and will continue to
push this immigration reset. With at least 100,000 families slated for
deportation, there is the very real potential that these raids could
yield the left’s own Elián González- and with it, a powerful, polarizing
image that Democrats can leverage in order to shore up their fraying
coalition in 2016.
. . .
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/2015/12/31/political-theater-heart-dhs-deportation-raids
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Muslim Mass Sexual Assaults in Germany on New Year's Eve
By Carol Brown
American Thinker, January 5, 2016
The American mainstream media are ignoring a horrifying example of
sexual violence on the part of Muslims in Germany. The little darlings
Europe is importing couldn’t contain themselves on New Year’s Eve. As
Breitbart and RT report, Europe’s newest group of residents rang in 2016
by launching fireworks into crowds, molesting, raping, assaulting, and
robbing as fights also broke out among groups of invaders, who numbered
in the thousands. And that was just in and around one railway station in
one city (Cologne, Germany). Extrapolate to the rest of Germany, the
rest of Europe, and here is the not too distant future.
. . .
Speaking of which, prior to New Year’s Eve, some German towns canceled
fireworks lest they upset the frail sensibilities of their new friends
from Islamic hellholes. The rationale? Heaven forbid the loud noises
trigger horrific reminders of the war zone the colonizers fled.
. . .
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/muslim_mass_sexual_assaults_in_germany_on_new_years_eve.html
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Fannie Mae Rolls Out Easy Mortgage, Catering To High-Risk Immigrants
Investor's Business Daily, January 7, 2016
. . .
You don't have to bring much financial wherewithal to the table. You can even live in government-subsidized housing.
Just as long as you round up enough income-earners and pool finances to help meet the debt-to-income ratio of 43%.
You don't need good credit either. You can qualify with a FICO credit
score as low as 620, which is subprime. And you can put as little as 3%
down.
It's available for first-time homebuyers and repeat deadbeats. It will also expand to include refinancings.
It's all part of a government campaign to ease access to home loans for
Hispanic immigrants who tend to live in groups and pool finances.
Fannie says that 1 in 4 Hispanic households share dwellings — and
finances — with extended families. It says this is a large "underserved"
market.
The program actually targets properties "in high-minority census tracts."
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, a
liberal trade group, is praising the move, arguing it will bring tens of
thousands of Hispanic families into the home market who have been
"skipped over" by stingy (meaning prudent and responsible) lenders.
. . .
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010716-788747-government-wants-to-lend-more-to-high-risk-immigrants.htm
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Obama Intends to Violate Federal Immigration Law. Again.
By John Hinderaker
PowerLine.com, January 4, 2016
On New Year’s Eve, the Obama administration published a 200-page
proposed rule in the Federal Register. The proposed rule is another
executive order, in plain violation of the immigration laws. Obama’s
executive order would illegally ignore the immigration caps that are
enshrined in law. Senator Jeff Sessions denounced Obama’s usurpation,
which, interestingly, was covered by hardly any “mainstream” news
sources.
Sessions wrote:
The President has announced another brazen, illegal executive
action. … In a proposed federal rule published on New Year’s Eve,
President Obama decreed that hundreds of thousands of additional foreign
workers will be licensed to replace American workers at lower pay.
. . .
When the history of the Obama administration is written, it will be
condemned, more than anything else, for its lawlessness. Its many policy
failures and betrayals of the American people are important,
individually. But the overarching theme of the Obama administration has
been its contempt for the rule of law. President Obama, in seeking to
govern illegally by executive decree, has taken us half-way down the
path toward a tinpot dictatorship in the Mussolini/Peron/Chavez mold.
This is unprecedented in American history, and the first task of Obama’s
successor will be to restore the rule of law to the United States.
. . .
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/obama-intends-to-violate-federal-immigration-law-again.php
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Battening Down the Hatches, Reminiscent of the 1930s
By Michael Barone
NewsMax.com, January 6, 2016
. . .
The prospect of stagnant world trade and growing trade barriers may be
cheered by those who think that will bring back the auto assembly plants
of the 1960s. But battening down the hatches tends to make the air
inside stale and to hinder the ship from moving forward.
A similar phenomenon may be happening: tightening of the borders. Some
of this is necessary and beneficial. There is no reason to tolerate mass
low-skill illegal immigration (which in fact has vastly diminished,
down toward zero in the case of Mexico, since 2007).
And there are good reasons to be especially watchful about Muslims
seeking visas or green cards, given the significant amount (though low
percentage) of terrorists who are likely to be in their numbers. This is
not nativism or bigotry but common sense.
But tightening the borders has already reduced the flow of visiting
students and tourists — not a good thing. Neither is our politicians'
inability to encourage more high-skill immigration.
These developments, again, are not nearly as dire as the situation in
the 1930s, when immigration was close to zero and we blocked the entry
of most Jewish and political refugees from Nazi-threatened Europe. That
decade was brought to a close by world war.
. . .
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Michael-Barone-Hatches-Borders-immigration/2016/01/05/id/708226/
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Talking Truth to a Sanctuary City
Crime rises in Los Angeles and other cities awash in illegal immigrants
By Tammy Bruce
Washington Times, January 4, 2016
. . .
The reaction to the surge of crime in Los Angeles is like seeing the
emergence of, oh the Islamic State terror group, but then pretending
it’s really no big deal in an effort to preserve your political
narrative. The longer you let the lie prevail, the more devastating, and
uncontrollable, the problem becomes. Sound familiar?
In the politically correct world of Los Angeles, the
Times does
manage to let slip a few clues as to the issue at hand, noting the jump
in “gang-related homicides” in certain “southside neighborhoods.” The
LAPD, we’re assured, is partnering with “gang intervention workers.”
Touted is the city spending an extra $5.5 million for their Gang
Reduction & Youth Development program.
How and why there are so many more violent gang members is never
broached. Perhaps Los Angelenos were bitten by mosquitoes transforming
them suddenly into gangbangers. And if you listen carefully enough, city
leadership sounds strangely like Sgt. Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes,”
muttering under their breath, “Nothing! We know nothing!”
Beyond the liberal world of unicorns, rainbows, gangs and murder, we do know a few things.
. . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/4/tammy-bruce-crime-rises-in-sanctuary-cities/?page=all
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Memo To My Fellow Jews: Immigration Restriction Is NOT Nazism
By Charles Bloch
VDare.com, January 4, 2016
. . .
A small number of conservatives are pushing back against the
Trump=Hitler, Syrian Refugees=Jews in Nazi Germany meme. But most do
still accept that the US was in the wrong for not accepting Jewish
refugees in the 1930s. For example, Jonathan S. Tobin noted in
Commentary that “the refusal of the United States to take more than a
token number of those Jews fleeing was a death sentence for those stuck
in the Nazi empire of death” [Why Syria is not the Holocaust, November
20, 2015]. Breitbart contrasted the security concerns over Muslim
immigrants to the supposedly racist concerns of Americans in the past:
“One of the main reasons immigration laws restricted Jewish entry into
the U.S. was to promote the racial, i.e. genetic, superiority of the
national ‘stock.’ (Such eugenicist ideas were widespread, far beyond
Nazi Germany.)” [Why Syrian Refugees are not like Jewish Refugees in
WWII, by Joel Pollack, November 17, 2015]
But this assumption of American guilt about the death of Jews is simply a
collection of tropes, easily disproved. Let’s examine them in turn.
. . .
http://www.vdare.com/articles/memo-to-my-fellow-jews-immigration-restriction-is-not-nazism
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Obama’s Covert Immigration Plan Underway
By Michael F. Haverluck
One News Now, January 2, 2016
. . .
Just the beginning ...
But the abuses allowing illegal immigration don’t stop there, as the
spouses and children of the illegal foreign workers entering would also
be granted work permits under the president’s new law, further hurting
employment for citizens.
“Many of the changes would apply to work permits issued to foreign
college-graduates who will compete against Americans primarily for
white-collar positions,” Hohmann added. “The new rules, which completely
bypass Congress, will make foreign graduates cheaper for U.S. employers
to hire than many U.S.-born college grads.”
And the abuses go on ...
. . .
http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2016/01/02/obama-s-covert-immigration-plan-underway
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Donald Trump's Muslim Immigration Comments Are Not a Bridge Too Far
By Benjamin Chevlin
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, January 1, 2016
. . .
Two aspects of Trump's plan that have been misinterpreted must be
addressed. First, in an interview with Fox News anchor Greta Van
Susteren, Trump stated that the ban on Muslims "does not apply to people
living in this country." Critically, the proposed ban is only directed
at noncitizen Muslims, and is focused on identifying, among the Syrians
currently seeking "refuge," those radical Islamists using the crisis as a
cover to do jihad in America.
Second, the ban would only be in place until this "country's
representatives can figure out what's going on," or at least until the
U.S. intelligence community can improve its screening process. While
admittedly it is not clear what Trump means by "figure out" or how long
that will take, it is contemplated to be a "temporary" ban, and that
time period should be narrowly defined to make it reasonable to
Americans and politically feasible.
The questions skeptical Americans should be asking are: "Is a temporary
ban on Muslim immigrants unconstitutional? And if it is not, "Is it more
harmful to impose than the likely alternative?" I say no to both.
. . .
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/01/donald_trumps_muslim_immigrati.html
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Merkel’s Germany: “The Systematic Assaults on Women Are a New Type of Crime”
By Steve Sailer
VDare.com, January 5, 2016
. . .
What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been
organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly
with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.
A policeman who was outside Cologne station during the New Year’s Eve
trouble told the city’s Express news website that he had detained eight
suspects. “They were all asylum seekers, carrying copies of their
residence certificates,” he said.