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Immigration Opinions
September 12, 2009
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1. 'We're Taking Refugees From Where?' Mark Krikorian
2. 'Not Much of a Debate,' Mark Krikorian
3. 'Debate on International Migration,' Mark Krikorian
4. 'Immigration/Population Concerns Rise in Britain,' Jerry Kammer
5. 'An Irony Within the Immigration Policy Debate,' David North
6. ' 'There You Go Again',' James R. Edwards Jr.
7. 'Illegal Immigrants Difficult To Remove From ObamaCare,' Sean Higgins
8. 'Illegals and Health Insurance — Not So Simple,' Victor Davis Hanson
9. 'Illegal-Alien Census Boycott? Bring It On!,' Hans A. von Spakovsky
10. 'U.S. Won't Secure a Single Additional Mile of Border in 2010,' Terry Jeffrey
11. 'Obama Won’t Give Federal Insurance Benefits to Illegal Aliens, He’ll Make Them Legal First,' Terence P. Jeffrey
12. 'Immigration and 9/11 – What Lessons Have We Learned?,' Michael Cutler
13. 'Illegal Immigration Continues. Environment Suffers For It,' Carl Braun
14. 'Where Does Napolitano Stand on Illegal Immigration? Just Look at Her Record,' Carl Braun
15. 'Unemployment Hits a 26-Year High—Time for An Immigration Moratorium!,' Edwin S. Rubenstein
16. 'Half a Loaf On Labor Day 2009: With Jobs Down, Illegals Are Leaving,' Joe Guzzardi
17. 'Message On Labor Day: Working America Needs an Immigration Moratorium,' James Fulford
18. 'Imprisoned Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported,' Ed Koch
19. 'Health Care, Taxation, Free Speech, and Illegal Immigration Debates Entwine,' MichNews.com
20. 'Goldwater vs. Goldwater vs. Sheriff Joe Arpaio,' Peter B. Gemma
21. 'For MSM, 9/11 Is About Anti-Muslim Backlash and Islamic Victimhood,' Brenda Walker
22. 'Welcome To Harvest Season—Mexifornia Style!,' Brenda Walker
23. 'Unlicensed Illegal Alien Driver Killed Two, Gets Eight Years,' Brenda Walker
24. 'New Jersey Attorney General Forgets Victims of Newark Triple Execution Murders,' Brenda Walker
25. 'Multiculturalism: Europeans' Guillotined From Their Cultures,' Frosty Wooldridge
26. 'Multiculturalism: Crime Against Humanity,' Frosty Wooldridge
27. 'A Bad Sign - Illegal Immigrants Are Leaving,' Jeff Jacoby
28. 'Health Fight Arouses Immigration Battle,' Gebe Martinez
29. 'Who's a Liar? In Search of the Million Dollar Illegal Immigrant to End All Health Care Reform,' Esther J. Cepeda
30. Canada: 'Moratorium Now! - More Evidence From Canada,' Peter Brimelow
31. Europe: 'International Migration,' Sir Andrew Green
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1.
We're Taking Refugees From Where?
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, September 9, 2009
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWIxMjAzM2ZhNjJmMTYyYjg4NzY3MDYxM2NlYzEzMzk=
Ann Corcoran over at Refugee Resettlement Watch points out that Refugees from Bhutan are the third-largest group of refugees resettled so far this year in the U.S. The perversity of this policy is clear when you learn that they're ethnic Nepalese kicked out by the Bhutanese government and living in refugee camps in — Nepal! I'm sure Nepal's glad to palm them off on us, but coping with their compatriots is their business, not ours. The State Department is using resettlement to serve a transnational human-rights agenda that has nothing to do with promoting our vital national interests. In effect, our foreign-policy elite views the actual United States as a sort of hinterland where they can dump their overseas problems.
We've seen this with other groups as well. Meskhetian Turks, for instance, were deported by Stalin from Georgia (not our Georgia, the other one) to Central Asia during the war, after the fall of the Soviet Union were filtering back into Russia, Georgia, and Turkey. The ones in southern Russia came into conflict with the locals, so instead of moving on to Turkey, where they should have gone, our State Department decided to move more that 11,000 of them to Atlanta (Georgia!) and elsewhere in the United States.
Likewise with the Somali Bantu. These are the descendents of slaves shipped by the Arabs to Somalia from the slave markets fo Zanzibar (any Arab potentates visited there recently to apologize?) in the 1800s. To this day they're considered subhumans by the Somalis. Some ended up in refugee camps in Kenya and the Somalis certainly didn't want them back. Tanzania offered to welcome back its kidnapped cousins, so long as we and other developed nations helped out financially. But, as the BBC writes, 'But the plan was aborted at the eleventh hour due to what was described as lack of resources.' Instead, we've moved some 12,000 of them here (in addition to tens of thousands of ethnic Somalis).
It's the same story with refugees from Burma, who are in camps in Thailand and, frankly, should be Thailand's problem. And the Palestinians in Iraq — in a sense, we're responsible for their plight since we overthrew their sugar daddy Saddam, but since their Arab brethren never tire of bemoaning the plight of the Palestinians, our responsibility extends no farther than buying them bus tickets to Riyadh, not flying them to Rochester.
The central problem is that we are not making decisions about what refugees will be resettled here based on a person's individual characteristics and circumstances. Instead, we are making sweeping grants of eligilibility based on group membership, regardless of a person's specific situation or alternatives. As resettlement expert Don Barnett writes:
The U.S. State Department admits these individuals under a group designation offered to those who fit the profile of the selected group. The vast majority of refugees admitted to the United States since the Refugee Act of 1980 have been admitted under a group designation or have been family members of someone admitted under a group designation. They become groups of 'special concern' to the U.S. government and, for many, group membership automatically confers the main criterion for refugee status: 'a well-founded fear of persecution.'
Refugee resettlement should be reserved only for the most desperate persecuted people in the world, who face imminent death if they stay where they are and will never have anywhere else to go. If they think about it at all, this is what ordinary Americans think the refugee program is doing already, but it isn't.
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Not Much of a Debate
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Immigration Blog, September 9, 2009
http://www.cis.org/Krikorian/TheEconomistNonDebate
The Economist's website is hosting a 'debate' on the following proposition: 'This house believesthere is too much international migration.' Arguing against the proposition is one Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, saying all the usual tranzi stuff.
But what's curious is the person selected to speak in support of the proposition: Demetri Papademetriou, head of the Migration Policy Institute, which is basically CIS's counterpart on the high-immigration side of the debate. His opening paragraph:
There is little doubt that legal, organised and well-managed migration can bring great economic benefits to receiving societies, immigrants and their families, both at origin and destination. And in an increasingly interdependent world, migration's benefits that are not directly economic,
such as greater cultural, social and even political understanding, cannot be ignored, though typically they are.
Mind you, this is the defense of the proposition that 'there is too much international migration.'
True, Demetri points out that immigration is sometimes managed badly and receiving countries should do a better job of integration, blah, blah, blah, but the bottom line is that the post-national Economist's idea of a 'debate' over immigration is premised on the fact that large-scale immigration is a great thing for all concerned. Sure, they'll permit 'guests' who are actual critics of mass immigration — I have a piece up today and on Friday there will be one from the formidable Sir Andrew Green of MigrationwatchUK. But even when the proposition to be debated is 'there is too much international migration,' there's no chance a xenophile institution like The Economist could ever select a participant who actually believes there is too much international migration.
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International Migration
This house believes there is too much international migration.
By Mark Krikorian
The Economist, September 2009
http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/375
Immigration is a challenge for both less-developed and advanced societies. The settlement of Nigerians in South Africa, for instance, or Bolivians in Argentina creates many problems familiar to anyone who has explored the history of American immigration a century ago.
But immigration to advanced nations creates special problems. Modern societies have been transformed so thoroughly from the past as to represent a difference in kind, not just in degree. The changes over the past century—in the economy, society, technology, government—are so profound as to render our previous experience with immigration irrelevant.
And these changes mean that immigration is not compatible with the goals and characteristics of a modern society. For the United States, at least, mass immigration was an important factor shaping our national adolescence, but is no longer appropriate for a mature nation. It was a phase we went through, like pioneers crossing the prairie in covered wagons, that is simply out of place in the 21st century.
Start with economics. A century ago, the largest portion of our workforce was still in the primary sector of the economy—farming, mining, and so on. In today's post-industrial, knowledge-based economy, the vast majority of workers are in the tertiary (service) sector. Most immigrants work in the service sector, too, but due to the vast changes in the economy, their low levels of skill and education ill-suit them to success in modern America. This creates three problems: First, it undermines the life chances of the immigrants themselves, and their children, leading to generations of poverty, with all the social and political problems that follow. Secondly, the life chances of our own low-skilled workers are undermined; however advanced a society becomes, there will always be millions of people who will never have the wherewithal to succeed, whether because of limited cognitive ability or because of the burdens of past mistakes. And third, flooding a modern economy's low-skilled labour market with foreign workers stifles technological innovation and the resulting productivity improvements in those industries where the foreign workers are concentrated; we've seen this quite strikingly in agriculture, specifically in the harvest of fruits and vegetables, where advances slowed dramatically once illegal immigration picked up speed.
This conflict between mass immigration and a modern society is also clear in the area of taxpayer-funded government services. As Milton Friedman said, 'You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state'—and the problem isn't just welfare, but also schooling and other services the modern state provides. A century ago, all levels of government in the United States, combined, spent some 5% of GDP. Today the figure is well over a third and is even higher in many other developed nations. The research on this has been overwhelming; while there is indeed a small net economic benefit created by immigration (by lowering the wages of the poor and distributing the gain thinly across the rest of the populace), the benefit is swamped by the social costs. In the United States, each family of four headed by a high-school dropout (immigrant or native-born) costs taxpayers nearly $20,000 a year more in services than they are able to pay in taxes. This is not a moral indictment; no one is at fault. But it is an ineradicable feature of modern society, which is precisely why we spend so much money, often in vain, to raise the skills and education attainment of our population. But to add to this burden by importing even more low-skilled people from abroad is irrational, to say the least.
Next, consider assimilation. Two aspects of modernity complicate immigrant assimilation, or Americanisation, as we'd say in the United States. First, modern communications and transportation technology—cheap flights and phone calls—permit transnationalism on a scale and depth never before possible. A century ago you couldn't just hop on a plane and attend your cousin's wedding in Palermo or call your mother in Vilna every Sunday, but today you can. And while this may be attractive to the people involved, it interferes with the necessary process of refocusing the immigrant's emotional and psychological attachments from the old country to the new. Again, there is no fault here—it's normal for people to want to maintain ties to the land of their birth. But modern conditions enable those attachments to continue longer and more deeply than was ever possible before.
The second modern characteristic that impedes assimilation is the fact that in all modern societies the elites lose much of the cultural self-confidence needed to persuade newcomers to become more like you, rather than the reverse. This takes the form of multiculturalism, bilingualism, and related phenomena. A century ago, immigrant workers at Ford plants were offered English classes, where the first sentence they learned was 'I want to be a good American,' while schools taught the children of immigrant families to revere President Washington and memorize the Gettysburg Address. The difference with the present could hardly be starker. And here, again, the immigrants are not the problem; rather, it is we who have changed.
This same pattern is repeated in other policy areas: security, sovereignty, population growth. The various concerns may seem unconnected, as though critics of immigration were selecting from a menu of options to cater to the concerns of varying constituencies. But in fact, the many challenges posed by immigration are simply different facets of the same problem: the incompatibility of mass immigration (legal or illegal) with modern society.
In the words of our greatest president, 'As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.'
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Immigration/Population Concerns Rise in Britain
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Immigration Blog, September 10, 2009
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The story notes that rising immigration, coupled with a baby boom also led by immigrants, has given Britain the 'biggest annual increase in its population in almost 50 years.' Norman Myers, a professor of development economics at Oxford University who specializes in sustainability issues, expressed concern that the nation's population has reached 61.4 million and is growing fast.
'More people means more pollution, more pressure on the climate system,' said Myers. 'It means all kinds of adverse pressures.'
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http://www.cis.org/kammer/britain
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An Irony Within the Immigration Policy Debate
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, September 11, 2009
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The irony is that if the immigrant advocate groups had not campaigned so successfully for so much due process for those in the deportation process there would be far fewer detained aliens to worry about in the first place. The question of how the illegals are treated in Homeland Security facilities was raised Wednesday in a New York Times article headed: 'Immigration Official To Run New York's Jails'.
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http://www.cis.org/north/detention
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'There You Go Again'
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Immigration Blog, September 10, 2009
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'There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.'
False? There you go again, President Obama.
The Medicaid provisions of the House bill, H.R. 3200, and the premium subsidy both would benefit illegal aliens. That's due to the sin of omission; there's no requirement that those being enrolled in the expanded Medicaid program or seeking the premium subsidy be screened through the same program required for more than 70 other federal programs.
No eligibility verification, easy enrollment, curbs on state scrutiny. That combo virtually guarantees illegal aliens will wind up with Medicaid or taxpayer-funded premium subsidy money.
It's the same basic loophole by which illegals get jobs in America. Claim eligibility to work here, and no questions asked, no E-Verify checks for most jobs.
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http://www.cis.org/edwards/healthreform
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Illegal Immigrants Difficult To Remove From ObamaCare
By Sean Higgins
Investor's Business Daily, September 10, 2009
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The bill's individual mandate to get coverage does include illegals.
'Wilson was inappropriate and rude, but he does have a point,' said Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors immigration restriction.
As an Aug. 25 CRS report notes, the bill's individual mandate to get health coverage extends to 'unauthorized aliens' who have a 'substantial presence' in the U.S. That means they have lived here for at least 31 days in the current year and 183 days in the past two years.
Trust, Don't Verify
Another provision would create health exchanges for people to buy public or private insurance. The CRS notes that the bill 'does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens — whether legally or illegally present,' from participating.
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http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337474713517269
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Illegals and Health Insurance — Not So Simple ...
By Victor Davis Hanson
The Corner at National Review Online, September 11, 2009
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The presumption is that poverty precludes purchase of a plan. But $50 billion in remittances go to Latin America and Mexico, at least at the peak in 2007. In my hometown, cell phones and nice cars are evident at the emergency-room environs, as I can attest from a few visits for a broken arm among other things.
In other words, the choice not to buy hospitalization insurance in many cases is one of discretionary spending: Someone decides to buy a cell phone, or send $400 a month back to Mexico rather than buy into something like a catastrophic plan from Kaiser for $300 a month, because 1) he is young and relatively healthy; 2) there is usually a federal or rural state health clinic around that gives free routine care (many here in the central valley), or an emergency room that offers free emergency and catastrophic care; 3) a decision is made to save money from buying such insurance in order to divert it to relatives in Mexico on the expectation that others in the United States (many of them lower-middle class taxpayers) will make up the difference and subsidize free health care for illegal aliens if the need arises.
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmMxNzUyYjE4YTAwODBmMDI3NzU2ZDkzNjNjOWVmYmU=
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Illegal-Alien Census Boycott? Bring It On!
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
The Corner at National Review Online, September 8, 2009
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I sure hope the boycotters are successful. This would result in two positive outcomes. First, states like California that have more congressional representatives than they should would lose those seats. Apportionment is based on the entire population counted by the census, not just citizens and lawful, permanent residents. It is fundamentally unfair that states get more votes in the House of Representatives based on the number of illegal aliens they harbor, rather than the number of U.S. citizens and legal residents who pay the full measure of taxes and have the proper allegiance to our system of government. California alone has six more congressional seats than it deserves because of its huge population of illegal aliens. States like Ohio and Pennsylvania are short seats because of this type of apportionment.
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTY1OWUwNDUzZmI5N2M0ODJjMmQ2NDBlNDY3YmM5MmQ=
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U.S. Won't Secure a Single Additional Mile of Border in 2010
By Terry Jeffrey
Townhall.com, September 9, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department's annual performance report.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/TerryJeffrey/2009/09/09/us_wont_secure_a_single_additional_mile_of_border_in_2010
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Obama Won’t Give Federal Insurance Benefits to Illegal Aliens, He’ll Make Them Legal First
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS News, September 10, 2009
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It is true that both the House and Senate health care bills as they are now drafted would make illegal aliens ineligible for federally funded health care. But President Obama has stated as recently as last month at a press conference in Mexico that he will seek “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation that will put illegal aliens on a “pathway to citizenship.”
Viewed in combination, the president’s health care and immigration reform plans would in fact let people who are illegal immigrants in the United States today receive federally funded health care benefits when the plan comes on line. In his speech last night, the president said that the health insurance exchanges where people would buy federally subsidized insurance would not begin operating until four years from now. If Obama follows through on his agenda as planned, immigration reform will be enacted in the intervening time.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/53814
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Immigration and 9/11 – What Lessons Have We Learned?
By Michael Cutler
FamilySecurityMatters.org, September 11, 2009
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Undoubtedly some of our nation's security vulnerabilities have been addressed by our government. However, where immigration is concerned, virtually all that our government has done is to provide the illusion of addressing the critical issue of our nation's porous borders and an immigration system that lacks even a modicum of integrity.
Today there are millions of illegal aliens living and working in our country. Estimates range between 10 to 20 million. On September 11, 2001 19 terrorists obliterated the lives of some 3,000 innocent victims and to this day, more victims remain ill and are dying from illnesses attributable to the toxins they were exposed to on that horrible day eight years ago.
The identities of many of those millions of illegal aliens are unknown and unknowable. Yet there are politicians who are calling for providing these millions of illegal aliens with lawful immigration status and a pathway to United States citizenship even though our officials at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) the government agency under the auspices of the DHS (Department of Homeland
Security) are utterly unable to cope with the avalanche of applications that beleaguered agency processes each and every day. They would have no way of determining the true identities of the alien applicants who would undoubtedly flood that agency with many millions of applications for amnesty.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4245/pub_detail.asp
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Illegal Immigration Continues. Environment Suffers For It
By Carl Braun
The Examiner (San Diego), September 8, 2009
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Considering Border Patrol arrests approximately 1 in 3 or 4 of those who cross, a number that is thankfully increasing, this means that approximately 1 million make the trek north each year carrying 8 million pounds of trash. With twelve to twenty million illegal aliens estimated in the United States, it is possible if not likely, that there is 96 million to 160 million pounds (48,000 tons to 80,000 tons) of trash accumulating and decomposing (or not) in the environmentally sensitive areas along the border and beyond. I have personally seen load-out areas in Arizona that looked like a 747 crash site with thousands of backpacks, clothes, dirty diapers and such going on for a mile or more. Sadly there are dozens more like them.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-17495-San-Diego-Immigration-Policy-Examiner~y2009m9d8-Illegal-Immigration-continues-Environment-loses
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Where Does Napolitano Stand on Illegal Immigration? Just Look at Her Record
By Carl Braun
The Examiner (San Diego), September 11, 2009
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For Secretary Napolitano, her record in Arizona is very revealing. Let’s take a look at her position on illegal alien drivers licenses for example. Arizona introduced a law that would make it more difficult for illegal aliens to obtain them. Napolitano exercised her veto as Governor and sent the bill to the trash bin.
Arizona, again leading the nation at the time on restrictive measures for illegal aliens, introduced a bill that would prevent them from receiving non-emergency public benefits. Governor Napolitano, her veto pen in hand, put an end to such fiscal silliness.
Arizona tried to increase sanctions on crimes related to illegal entry. Vetoed by the Governor.
They tried to prevent illegal aliens from voting. Vetoed.
Arizona made a gallant attempt at preventing illegal aliens from being eligible for in-state college tuition, financial aid, or scholarships but facing a veto by Governor Napolitano they backed off choosing instead to pick a battle they might win.
And win they did. Arizona successfully passed an employment law, aimed at restricting the hiring of illegal aliens, only after Governor Napolitano had vetoed its first attempt. When realizing the veto wasn't going to carry the day this time, she jumped on-board and did the 'I'm tough as nails thing' again stating: 'The bill is a death sentence for business.' I wonder what she meant by that?
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http://www.examiner.com/x-17495-San-Diego-Immigration-Policy-Examiner~y2009m9d11-Where-does-Napolitano-stand-on-illegal-immigration-Just-look-at-her-record
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Unemployment Hits a 26-Year High—Time for An Immigration Moratorium!
By Edwin S. Rubenstein
VDare.com, September 4, 2009
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VDAWDI rose dramatically from January 2001 to late 2007, when it reached 124.1. Then it stalled and finally began to decline when employment collapsed in late 2008. But it is still some 20 percent above 2001’s levels—that is, immigrant displacement of American workers has not been reversed.
With legal immigration unabated, an increasing share of America’s unemployed are either foreign-born or natives who have been displaced by foreign-born workers.
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http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/090904_nd.htm
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Half A Loaf On Labor Day 2009: With Jobs Down, Illegals Are Leaving
By Joe Guzzardi
VDare.com, September 5, 2009
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The CIS conclusions validate what we at VDARE.COM have been saying all along: if the U.S. eliminates the job pull factor and at the same time vigorously applies interior enforcement efforts, then a large part of the illegal alien invasion ends.
We have also insisted that amnesty—even the hint of it—generates more illegal immigration.
Unfortunately, much of the alien job loss has not been related to enforcement but the severe economic recession.
But when good times return, the same results (blocking aliens from the job market) can be achieved by implementing E-Verify as well as imposing serious fines that include lengthy jail sentences and hefty fines for employers who continue to break federal immigration laws.
By returning home, illegal immigrants shatter another long-standing myth.
For years, immigration enthusiasts have argued that, once aliens arrive in America, they immediately put down roots that within short time anchor them to the U.S. and make it impossible for them to leave.
Furthermore, the immigration enthusiasts insist that, when aliens are forced to return home either voluntarily because of job loss or involuntarily by deportation, cruel and unusual punishment is inflicted upon them.
I counter that going home is the best thing that can happen to them.
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http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/090905_labor_day.htm
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Message On Labor Day: Working America Needs An Immigration Moratorium
By James Fulford
VDare.com, September 6, 2009
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I suspect the average man on the street would say that the US needs fewer Mexicans and Guatemalans, and more Swedish girls in bikinis. (I did a post once about the difficulty of keeping out the New Swedish Bikini Team, who were 'trained in hang-gliding, jet-ski wave jumping and skydiving, and scubadiving.') It's possible that even Mexicans and Guatemalans on the American street would be in favor of that, since blondes who walk by Hispanics in the street report a lot of unwelcome attention.
But that's the kind of thing that starts fights. I don't expect Hispanics to admit that the US already has too many Mexicans, or the Black Caucus to agree that the US does not need any more African immigrants. What I'm talking about, in the middle of this huge financial crisis, is the 'citizenist' position that the US doesn't need any more immigrants PERIOD. It's already got more than it needs, and they're costing it money every day.
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http://www.vdare.com/fulford/090906_fulford_file.htm
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Imprisoned Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported
By Ed Koch
Newsmax.com, August 31, 2009
I have a proposal which I hope the Obama administration will consider and implement.
Immediately, or as soon as possible, the United States should deport all illegal aliens who are in federal and state prisons, and in our municipal jails, to their countries of origin. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the number of illegal aliens incarcerated in the United States.
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http://www.newsmax.com/koch/illegal_aliens_obama/2009/08/31/254612.html
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Health Care, Taxation, Free Speech, and Illegal Immigration Debates Entwine
MichNews.com, September 9, 2009
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New polling information could become a political death blow to Obama's plans to radically overhaul America's Health Care and Immigration Laws!
Rasmussen Reports has released polling data showing that 83% of Americans oppose illegal immigrants or illegal aliens receiving any 'government health care subsidies'. Opposition crossed all racial, gender, and political party lines. Only 12% of those surveyed support health care subsidies for illegals.
This new fusion of the Health Care and Illegal Immigration debates combined with new polling data showing a super majority of Americans oppose the Obama plans for Health Care and Immigration Reform bodes ill for the Obama administration.
'As Americans we want our borders secured and our existing immigration laws enforced and we don't want any taxpayer resources going to illegal aliens,' said William Gheen of ALIPAC. 'This Health Care Reform bill will benefit illegal aliens directly or indirectly, if Senator Schumer and Obama change our laws to accommodate and legalize 15 million illegals with their Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty, which Schumer said he will submit next week!'
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http://www.michnews.com/Newswire/nw90909.shtml
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Goldwater vs. Goldwater vs. Sheriff Joe Arpaio
By Peter B. Gemma
VDARE.com, September 8, 2009
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The Goldwater Institute recently issued a report [Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office, by Clint Bolick, PDF] saying Sheriff Arpaio’s department “has diverted resources away from basic law-enforcement functions to highly publicized immigration sweeps, which are ineffective in policing illegal immigration”. The report goes on to claim that the Maricopa Sheriff’s department’s “effectiveness has been compromised for the past several years by misplaced priorities”.
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http://www.vdare.com/misc/090908_gemma.htm
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For MSM, 9/11 Is about Anti-Muslim Backlash and Islamic Victimhood
By Brenda Walker
VDare.com Blog, September 11, 2009
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Muslim writer Shaila Abdullah mouths the message that the press promotes: “Muslims are a victim of the 9/11 tragedy as much as anyone else because our religion was hijacked that day.” [Austin author attempts to convey essence of Islam, post 9/11]
What a disgusting comment from an immigrant living a safe middle-class life in America. She is typical in that she wants all the benefits of this country and none of the responsibility for the flavor of diversity she espouses. The Koran and other Muslim books have plenty of admonitions to slaughter the infidel, which Muslims acted upon during 9/11. But she wants her religion to be regarded as the “religion of peace” — which it most certainly is not. The website TheReligionOfPeace.com has kept a detailed list and running count of Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 — now reaching over 14,000.
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http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/09/11/for-msm-911-is-about-anti-muslim-backlash-and-islamic-victimhood/
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Welcome To Harvest Season—Mexifornia Style!
By Brenda Walker
VDare.com, September 10, 2009
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The cartels have become more entrenched in public lands because the situation is a piece of cake for them. In some respects it is easier for them to grow vast quantities of marijuana on America's public lands (where 80 percent of seized pot has been found) than to raise the stuff in Mexico and smuggle it across the border, although they obviously do both. Set-up is relatively inexpensive. The cartel bosses just employ a few of their countrymen to rip out the native plants (which the parks are supposed to preserve) and install the plumbing to pipe in water and poisonous chemicals required to grow quality bud in what's usually a challenging growing environment.
The Mexicans' thoroughly toxic contamination of land and water means that many sites will not go back to their natural state for many years, if ever. And there’s a danger beyond gunfire and poison: fire. The La Brea fire that destroyed 90,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest was started on August 8 by a campfire of marijuana growers, according to local authorities. The Mexicans were tending 30,000 plants and escaped.
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http://www.vdare.com/walker/090910_mexifornia_style.htm
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Unlicensed Illegal Alien Driver Killed Two, Gets Eight Years
By Brenda Walker
VDare.com, September 9, 2009
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The killer of two believes she did nothing wrong. When the government allows illegal aliens to commit serial crimes with no punishment (unlicensed driving, in this case), they become intoxicated with the idea that their illegal behavior is actually their right.
Drunk and unlicensed driving are considered minor crimes by the legal system, a notion encouraged by the illegal alien boosters like La Raza that fight to keep even dangerous criminal aliens in this country by working against law enforcement strategies that work, like 287(g).
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http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/09/09/unlicensed-illegal-alien-driver-killed-two-gets-eight-years/
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New Jersey Attorney General Forgets Victims of Newark Triple Execution Murders
By Brenda Walker
VDare.com, September 7, 2009
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It’s been just over two years since four promising Newark college students were shot execution style on a neighborhood schoolyard by a gang of mostly illegal aliens, some with previous arrests for violent crimes. Three of the students died and one survived after being left for dead. Both girls were brutally slashed in the face with a machete.
One of the accused, illegal alien Rodolfo Godinez, had been previously arrested over a bar fight where he critically wounded a man by stabbing him in the back. Did authorities keep this obviously dangerous man behind bars? No, they released him. Peruvian illegal alien Jose Carranza had been arrested for raping a five-year-old girl, but he was let go also.
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Law enforcement’s failure to punish and deport at least two obviously dangerous men who apparently went on to commit the horrific triple murders shows that a more systematic approach to removing illegal alien criminals is needed in New Jersey, which the wider implementation of 287(g) would provide. The AG’s idea of ending it is upside down.
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http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/09/07/new-jersey-attorney-general-forgets-victims-of-newark-triple-execution-murders/
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Multiculturalism: Europeans' Guillotined From Their Cultures
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com, September 10, 2009
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The same separation occurs in France. A French reader, Brigitte, said. “I believe the unfettered immigration into the USA is but one aspect of the 'divide and conquer' rule of imperialism. As long as immigrants from all over the world are permitted to remain in the US, the 'living space' (Lebensraum of the Nazis) they occupy--is denied English-speaking U.S. citizens.
“The multiculturalism that is being promoted creates resentment in the Anglo-Americans, which they dare not voice because it's not politically correct to do so. It exists nevertheless and is building pressure and could one day find expression in brutality, perhaps mass slaughter, towards all aliens.
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http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty499.htm
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Multiculturalism: Crime Against Humanity
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com, September 7, 2009
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In Boulder, Colorado, where I formerly taught school—rich, white, liberal mothers, driving $50,000 SUVs, sported bumper stickers that read, “Celebrate Diversity.” However, they drove their kids to all white schools away from legal immigrant enclaves that overwhelmed area schools. The immigrant children represented dozens of countries and languages. Classrooms fell into educational chaos.
In Denver, Colorado, over 85 languages created educational failure and kids from dozens of countries created a 67 percent dropout/flunkout rates among students. (Rocky Mountain News, May 14, 2005, “What Happened?”) Rich parents drive their kids to outlying schools to ensure a positive educational experience.
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http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty498.htm
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A Bad Sign - Illegal Immigrants Are Leaving
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe, September 6, 2009
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For some time now, news reports have been calling attention to the flow of immigrants back to their homelands. Recent headlines tell the story: “Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider US’’ (CNN); “More Mexican immigrants returning home’’ (Orange County Register); “Fewer Cubans make crossing to Fla.; economy cited’’ (Associated Press); “Job losses push immigrants out’’ (Chattanooga Times Free Press).
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors sharp immigration restrictions, the population of illegal aliens in the United States declined by almost 14 percent, or 1.7 million people, between the summer of 2007 and the spring of 2009. Analyzing Census Bureau data, researchers Steven Camarota and Karen Jensenius calculate that the number of immigrants entering the country illegally has fallen by one-third, while the number returning home has more than doubled. “Both increased immigration enforcement and the recession seem to explain this decline,’’ they write.
Certainly enforcement is up. The Obama administration, like the Bush administration in its second term, has made a point of tightening the border and punishing employers who hire illegals. “The share of the US border that has a fence has increased significantly in the last three years and the number of Border Patrol agents has more than doubled,’’ the CIS report notes. Removal and deportation of unlawful aliens “has increased dramatically,’’ as federal agents have repeatedly raided workplaces where immigrants are employed.
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/09/06/a_bad_sign___illegal_immigrants_are_leaving/
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Health Fight Arouses Immigration Battle
By Gebe Martinez
The Politico, September 9, 2009
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One priority that has become entangled in the messy health care discussion is immigration, a reliable lightning rod for conservatives who habitually try to confuse any issue by playing to xenophobes’ fears.
In recent town hall meetings and media interviews, conservative Republicans falsely claimed illegal immigrants would get free health insurance under the president’s plan. Though blatantly untrue, the statement has taken on a life of its own and compounded headaches for some Democrats who are wavering on Obama’s health care proposal.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26933.html
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Who's a Liar? In Search of the Million Dollar Illegal Immigrant to End All Health Care Reform
By Esther J. Cepeda
Huffington Post, September 9, 2009
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How to keep illegal aliens to foxtrot through loopholes, however, is a sticky matter. In 2005, a law was passed requiring all applicants to Medicaid to verify their citizenship status, and some have floated the idea of using those same guidelines for any new program. But, ouch, this country doesn't have a feasible and comprehensive system for keeping track of who's who here - probably a relic from olden days when the citizens of this country weren't quite so eager to ensure that the non-citizens among us were run out of the country on a rail.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-j-cepeda/whos-a-liar-in-search-of_b_281560.html
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Labor Day Motto: Moratorium Now! More Evidence From Canada
By Peter Brimelow
VDare.com Blog, September 5, 2009
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Immigration into Canada is among the highest in the world. The Canadian government’s own statistical service has documented its negative impact on incomes there (and in the U.S.) But it continues, and criticism of it has been made virtually illegal. What can explain this extraordinary situation?
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http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/09/05/labor-day-motto-moratorium-now-more-evidence-from-canada/
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International Migration
By Sir Andrew Green
The Economist, September 2009
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The benefits of international migration have been heavily oversold in recent years, especially in relation to the high and continuing levels of migration to Europe.
It is not always appreciated that the demographic structure of the major European countries is hugely varied. Germany and Italy, with fertility rates of around 1.3, would suffer a roughly 25% drop in population by mid-century in the absence of net immigration. By contrast, the UK and France are now close to the replacement rate of 2.1 and have no need of immigration to sustain their populations for many decades. On the contrary, continuation of immigration at recent levels is the main reason for a projected increase in the UK population by 17m from its 2006 base of some 60m—not the best of prospects for an already crowded island.
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http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/379
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