New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 3/25/13
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Publications
1. A Bleak Picture Employment among U.S. Citizens in States Represented by Gang of Eight
2. All the News that Fits Ideologically Skewed Coverage of Immigration at the New York Times
Media
3. "Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values" Testimony of Jan Ting before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Blogs
4. Napolitano’s Frequent Meetings with Amnesty Activists
5. Selective Truth-Telling in this Morning's Washington Post
6. Mormon Church Support for Immigration Reform — Naive or Mean-Spirited?
7. Adventures in Manipulative Polling
8. Gee, the White Horse is Bigger than the Black Horse
9. Vicente Fox Says Mexico Will Not Act to Stop Illegal Immigration
10. Does Immigration Contribute to Delayed Family Formation?
11. #DontStandWithRand
12. Powerful Response to a Harper's Article
13. The GOP Report: "Growth and Opportunity Plan", or Good Old Pandering?
14. Provisions for Sibling Immigrants in English-Speaking Nations
15. Sliver of a Silver Lining?
1.
A Bleak Picture Employment among U.S. Citizens in States Represented by Gang of Eight
By Steven Camarota
CIS Backgrounder, March 2013
http://www.cis.org/bleak-unemployment-picture-in-gang-of-eight-states
Excerpt:Eight U.S. senators, collectively known as the Gang of Eight (Gof8), have outlined an immigration plan that allows illegal immigrants to remain in the country and increases legal immigration in the future.1 One of their chief justifications for allowing illegal immigrants to remain in their jobs, and for increasing immigration, is that the country has a shortage of workers. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the Go8's leaders, has made it clear that he believes there is "a shortage of labor" in the country.2 Moreover, as part the gang's efforts, labor and business leaders are negotiating the details of a new program to bring in more immigrant workers to fill "lesser-skilled" jobs.3
However, both nationally and in the states represented by the Gof8, unemployment and non-work is very high among American citizens, especially less-educated citizens (those with no more than a high school education). The less-educated are the most likely to compete with illegal immigrants.
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All the News that Fits Ideologically Skewed Coverage of Immigration at the New York Times
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Backgrounder, March 2013
http://www.cis.org/all-the-news-that-fits
Excerpt:In June 2011, an article by New York Times reporter Marc Lacey splashed cold water on the claim by Arizona border residents that a huge wildfire there had been started by illegal immigrants or smugglers. “As Arizona fire rages, so does rumor on its origin,” read the headline.1
“The story of how it started [is] so vivid in some accounts that it sounds as if witnesses were peering through the brush as matches were thrown,” wrote Lacey, the Times’s first Arizona-based correspondent. He quoted a U.S. Forest Service official who said that, while the fire was caused by humans, the culprits had not been identified and “everything else is speculation.”
Lacey’s story fit the narrative, advanced frequently in Times editorials, that Arizona had been seized by illegal-immigration hysteria and irrationality.
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"Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values" Testimony of Jan Ting before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
By Jan Ting
CIS Testimony, March 20, 2013
http://www.cis.org/node/4356
Excerpt: Mr. Chairman and Committee Members: Thank you for your invitation to offer testimony on our shared goal of "Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values".
I was privileged to serve as Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1990 to 1993 when it was an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. Since my return to Temple University in 1993, I have studied, taught, lectured, and written about our immigration system, its laws, problems, and challenges.
Both of my parents were immigrants, and many of their friends and neighbors, the parents of the children with whom I grew up, were also immigrants. So I start out with tremendous respect and admiration for immigrants and their enormous and undeniable contributions to America.
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Selective Truth-Telling in this Morning's Washington Post
By David North
CIS Blog, March 22, 2013
http://cis.org/north/selective-truth-telling-mornings-washington-post
Excerpt:Yes, it is true, if you look hard enough there will be a saint or two in the federal prison system. I suspect there will also be a Harvard Law graduate or two. But no news article on the prison population would dream of selecting the imprisoned Harvard grad as the poster child for the population of those jails.
An article in this morning's Washington Post, on the other hand, headlined "Betting the farm — for green cards", picks a highly atypical family that benefits from the immigrant investor (EB-5) program as its poster children.
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Mormon Church Support for Immigration Reform — Naive or Mean-Spirited?
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, March 22, 2013
http://cis.org/mortensen/mormon-church-support-immigration-reform-naive-or-mean-spirited
Excerpt:Comments made by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the LDS (Mormon) Church's First Presidency, coupled with earlier public statements issued by the church on the subject of immigration reform, raise questions about whether Mormon leaders are exceptionally naive or simply mean-spirited and cruel.
Following a meeting with President Obama, Uchtdorf told a Salt Lake Tribune reporter that "President Barack Obama's outline for immigration reform matches the values of the Mormon faith." Later, in an interview with the Deseret News, Uchtdorf said the shared values include compassion, family cohesion, respect for law, and common sense.
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Napolitano’s Frequent Meetings with Amnesty Activists
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, March 25, 2013
http://cis.org/feere/napolitanos-frequent-meetings-amnesty-activists
Excerpt: According to public records detailing the daily meetings of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, she has been quite busy reaching out to amnesty activists over the past few years. While the schedules available online only cover January 2009 to June 2011, and while there is a section missing between August and December 2010, the list is quite revealing. It appears that advocates of high levels of immigration and amnesty have easy access to the White House.
It should be noted that these excerpts do not include the meetings with government officials listed in the original documents. For example, immediately after a meeting with an open-border group in December 2009, Napolitano met with Secretary Ken Salazar and Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), all advocates of mass immigration. While they likely discussed amnesty, the documents do not provide this detail.
But, before starting to look for a new job, just for giggles I decided to see what the actual question said. You have to get to p. 53 of the report to find it, and here are the only options offered to respondents:
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Adventures in Manipulative Polling
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, March 22, 2013
http://cis.org/krikorian/adventures-manipulative-polling
Excerpt: Oh, my. I guess our goose is cooked, the end is near, we’ve reached the tipping point for amnesty.
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Gee, the White Horse is Bigger than the Black Horse
By David North
CIS Blog, March 22, 2013
http://cis.org/north/gee-white-horse-bigger-black-horse
Excerpt:There is a long, painful story in the March 22 New York Times, "Officials Still Seek Ways to Assess Border Security", about how to measure the effectiveness of immigration control, with the notion being that there is a political need to have some indication that we have illegal immigration in hand prior to any amnesty.
The pain (to the Times) is evident because a senior civil servant, Mark Borkowsi, had said that he "had no progress to report on a broad measure of border conditions that the department [DHS] had been working on since 2010."
It all reminded me of one of those 1950s little idiot jokes that have been long since banned because of political correctness.
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Vicente Fox Says Mexico Will Not Act to Stop Illegal Immigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 21, 2013
http://cis.org/kammer/vicente-fox-says-mexico-will-not-act-stop-illegal-immigration
Excerpt:On March 5 this blog reported that a commission of prominent Americans and Mexicans has suggested that Mexico should establish its own border patrol after the United States adopts "comprehensive immigration reform". Once the reform is in place, they said, "Mexico should actively prevent unauthorized northward migration by ensuring that people who leave the country to enter the United States do so at designated crossing points and with the required documents."
The idea of Mexico controlling illegal immigration has long been controversial in Mexico. It received another bad review on Tuesday from former Mexican President Vicente Fox.
In an appearance in Baltimore as part of Stevenson University's 2012-2013 speakers series, Fox voiced his opinion in response to this question: "What can Mexico do to prevent undocumented workers from entering the United States?"
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Does Immigration Contribute to Delayed Family Formation?
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, March 21, 2013
http://cis.org/edwards/does-immigration-contribute-delayed-family-formation
Excerpt:"'Progressives stress the economics, conservatives stress the culture', said [University of Virginia researcher Bradley] Wilcox. 'We say both matter. They both are undercutting the viability of marriage for young adults today.'"
A sobering study titled "Knot Yet" finds that wage decline and a tough jobs outlook combine with growing acceptance of cohabitation and out-of-wedlock births to postpone marriage among younger Americans.
Today, American women delay getting married until they're 27 (the median age) and men until 29. That means the old "first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Johnny with a baby carriage" process starts way later than it historically did. But, as will be seen, immigration is not only not the solution, immigration contributes to the problem.
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#DontStandWithRand
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, March 20, 2013
http://cis.org/krikorian/dontstandwithrand
Excerpt:While this kind of flattery is expected when politicians pander to any kind of group, in this case it’s not true. The latest data show that 65.4 percent of U.S.-born Hispanics over age 16 have a job, and 68.4 percent of Hispanic immigrants (legal and illegal) do, compared with 69.3 percent for the country as a whole. That’s not a difference worth getting excited about one way or the other, but it does show that Hispanics are regular people, not toiling supermen.
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Powerful Response to a Harper's Article
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 20, 2013
http://cis.org/kammer/powerful-response-harpers-article
Excerpt: In January this blog expressed surprise that a Harper's magazine article hostile to Nebraskans who mobilized against illegal immigration had little to say about the ruthless, wage-slashing strategy of Hormel that had driven Americans from the local meat-processing plant in the town of Fremont. The plant, like many others in recent decades, hired a workforce that drew heavily from illegal immigrants.
[Harper's Magazine]
Well, the new issue of Harper's includes a letter from a Jerry Bronk in San Francisco who makes the point more eloquently than I did.
Bronk notes that the article in the liberal Harper's "devotes just one paragraph to the plight of U.S. workers displaced by low-wage foreigners." He goes on to make a key point that so many of my liberal journalist friends seem incapable of understanding because of their belief that illegal immigrants are a victim class.
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The GOP Report: "Growth and Opportunity Plan", or Good Old Pandering?
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Blog, March 19, 2013
http://cis.org/reasoner/gop-report-growth-and-opportunity-plan-or-good-old-pandering
Excerpt: I've been looking at the Republican National Committee's "Growth and Opportunity Project", released with a certain amount of understatement a couple of days ago. It has been alternatively described as a look forward and as a post-mortem of why the Republicans lost the election. My gauge is that it's both: one (the post-mortem) being packaged as the other, since in political circles "optics" and "atmospherics" count for so much, and one can't appear to be so absorbed in resounding defeats as to be unable to move forward.
Still, it's important that the Republicans give some thought to the whys and wherefores, if for no other reason than they need to carefully consider what they need do not to become the political equivalent of the dinosaur, the dodo, and sundry other extinct entities. But that's their burden to carry, since it's their party.
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Provisions for Sibling Immigrants in English-Speaking Nations
By David North
CIS Blog, March 19, 2013
http://cis.org/north/provisions-sibling-immigrants-english-speaking-nations
Excerpt: The United States is very much alone in granting immigration visas to siblings of citizens, as this table shows
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Sliver of a Silver Lining?
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, March 19, 2013
http://cis.org/edwards/sliver-silver-lining
Excerpt: The Senate Gang of Eight has apparently considered one sliver of rationality in its daily dose of planning America's national assisted suicide. The sliver of sanity is curbing chain migration.
Granted, the rest of what's come from the gangsters stinks: one-size-fits-all amnesty for 11 million-plus illegal aliens, overall higher immigration from a massive new "guestworker" program, and zero meaningful enforcement.
The one decent idea under consideration (proving that, like the broken clock that's right twice a day, even amnesty zealots can have a periodic thought that's not destructive and reckless) would eliminate some of the extended family visas in favor of "more high-skilled foreign workers", the Washington Post reported:
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