New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 5/28/13
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Video
1. CIS Interview with FDNS Architect Don Crocetti on Fraud and National Security
Publication
2. Social Security "Study" of S.744 Impact Consists of 2.5 Pages, No Explanations
Blogs
3. How Many Amnestied Illegals Will There Be in Your State?
4. Irish Report: Senate Bill Would Jeopardize Summer Work Travel Program
5. Ibragim Todashev, Asylum, and S.744
6. Imaginary Immigration Bills
7. Security First or Legalization First?
8. A Mix of Conspiracy and Democracy: The S. 744 Process to Date
9. Hatch Supports Amnesty Despite Clear Utah GOP Opposition
10. President Obama's Trust Deficit
11. Hatch Amendment to S.744: American Spouses Not Equal to Indian Spouses
12. Immigration Reform and the Government Trust Crisis
13. Judiciary Committee Takes Giant Step Backward on H-1B Workers
14. Sen. Feinstein Issues a Confusing Warning about Terrorists at the Mexican Border
15. S. 744 Would Eliminate Modest Existing Benefits for Some Groups of Aliens
16. Sessions Cries Foul, Escalating Battle over Biometrics
-- Mark Krikorian]
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An Interview with FDNS Architect Don Crocetti
Expert Tells of Fraud and National Security Risks in Our Legal Immigration System
CIS Video, May 2013
http://www.cis.org/CISInterviews/Don-Crocetti-USCIS-FDNS
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Social Security "Study" of S.744 Impact Consists of 2.5 Pages, No Explanations
By David North
CIS Backgrounder, May 2013
http://www.cis.org/social-security-s744-study
Excerpt: You probably have read about the Social Security Administration's "study" of "the financial impact on Social Security" of the Gang of Eight's S 744. It was issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA) through the office of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and was written at his request.
The generally unthinking media coverage, typically, carried this tone . . .
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How Many Amnestied Illegals Will There Be in Your State?
By David North
CIS Blog, May 28, 2013
http://www.cis.org/north/how-many-amnestied-illegals-will-there-be-your-state
Excerpt: The proposed legalization of some 10 million illegal aliens has been debated as a national issue, as it should be, but the on-the-ground impact will vary tremendously from place to place within America.
To get estimates of the likely state-by-state distribution of those to be amnestied should S.744 become law I turned to an existing data set that, to my knowledge, has not been used for that purpose.
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Irish Report: Senate Bill Would Jeopardize Summer Work Travel Program
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, May 28, 2013
http://www.cis.org/kammer/irish-report-senate-bill-would-jeopardize-summer-work-travel-program
Excerpt: According to a story in Ireland's largest daily paper, the Senate immigration bill would put the State Department's Summer Work Travel program in jeopardy by imposing a $750 fee on employers or sponsors of the foreign students who come to the United States with J1 visas.
The story in the Irish Independent quotes former U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) - currently a lobbyist and immigration lawyer - warning that unless the bill is changed, it could place in jeopardy the program that last year brought 7,200 Irish students to the United States.
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Ibragim Todashev, Asylum, and S.744
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Blog, May 27, 2013
http://www.cis.org/reasoner/ibragim-todashev-asylum-s744
Excerpt: Ibragim Todashev, a Russian national of Chechen origin and the Islamic religion, was killed last week after an interview with police and FBI turned violent and he allegedly attacked an FBI agent. According to reports, Todashev was being questioned about his part in a drug-related triple homicide in Massachusetts and had just admitted complicity.
The triple homicide was a "cold case", as they say, going back to September 11, 2011 — note the day — until law enforcement authorities began to suspect that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now dead, may have been culpable, causing them to follow up this thread that eventually led to a series of interviews with Todashev, the final one resulting in his death.
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Imaginary Immigration Bills
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, May 24, 2013
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/imaginary-immigration-bills
Excerpt: That Fox News poll from my previous post on security first reminded of the vague and theoretical nature of much of the advocacy for the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill. The poll's 66 percent support for amnesty is touted by supporters of S. 744 as proof of public backing for the bill. But the question describes an imaginary bill that requires payment of back taxes and the mastery of English, elements which do not exist in S. 744. And, in an example of how advocates compound the falsehood, Ralph Reed's tweet crowing about the poll said people expressed their support for a measure that said "illegals must pay fines, back taxes, learn English, get job, & go to back of line", when neither fines nor jobs nor a line are ever mentioned in the question.
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Security First or Legalization First?
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, May 24, 2013
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/security-first-or-legalization-first
Excerpt: Putting aside the fact that the Schumer-Rubio bill requires neither payment of back taxes nor learning English, this result is borne out by many other polls; given how long our political class has allowed this problem to fester, there does indeed seem to be a broad public willingness — or resignation, maybe — to grant amnesty to long-established, non-dope-dealer illegal aliens. The Norquist-Pelosi side of the debate makes much of such findings.
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A Mix of Conspiracy and Democracy: The S. 744 Process to Date
By David North
CIS Blog, May 24, 2013
http://www.cis.org/north/mix-conspiracy-and-democracy-s-744-process-date
Excerpt: The manner in which the Gang of Eight's S.744 reached the floor of the Senate included a mix of both open democracy and behind-the-doors secrecy.
Regardless of the merits of the omnibus immigration bill (which many find wanting) the procedures used to get the bill to, and through, the Senate Judiciary Committee were both interesting and uneven. I have been following the bill for weeks and watched many hours of the Committee's mark-up, during which it considered, at least nominally, hundreds of amendments.
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Hatch Supports Amnesty Despite Clear Utah GOP Opposition
By Ronald W. Mortensen
CIS Blog, May 24, 2013
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/hatch-supports-amnesty-despite-clear-utah-GOP-opposition
Excerpt: The pro-amnesty wing of the Utah Republican Party continues to be rebuffed by thousands of state and county delegates despite incessant attempts to get the party to embrace the Utah Compact's phony amnesty agenda.
In spite of grassroots opposition to amnesty, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch voted for S.744 in the Judiciary Committee, placing the interests of the Salt Lake Chamber (which created the Utah Compact, and threatened him with recall) ahead of the interests of the popularly elected Republican delegates who are largely responsible for returning him to office.
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President Obama's Trust Deficit
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, May 23, 2013
http://www.cis.org/renshon/president-obamas-trust-deficit
Excerpt: With all the good will that greeted Barack Obama's historic election as president, he assumed office at the end of a long period of decline in the public's confidence in its government. And he knew it.
Dan Balz, a reporter for the Washington Post wrote this in 2010:
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Hatch Amendment to S.744: American Spouses Not Equal to Indian Spouses
By David North
CIS Blog, May 23, 2013
http://www.cis.org/north/hatch-amendment-s744-american-spouses-not-equal-indian-spouses
Excerpt: The Senate Judiciary Committee decided that American spouses are not equal to spouses from India; the latter group is to have rights that will be denied to Americans.
Spouses of U.S. temporary workers in India, for instance, cannot work in the Indian economy, but their opposite numbers (Indians married to H-1B workers from that country employed here) would be allowed to work here legally according to language adopted by the committee this week.
As background: Spouses of H-1B (mostly high-tech) workers are not allowed to work in the United States under current law. There are about 750,000 such workers in the United States at any given time, many of them married.
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Immigration Reform and the Government Trust Crisis
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, May 22, 2013
http://www.cis.org/renshon/immigration-reform-and-government-trust-crisis
Excerpt: The process through which the Senate's immigration bill was developed and amendments for it were considered and discarded at a rapid pace is unfolding in the context of a genuine trust crisis in the American civic culture.
Over the past half-century, Americans have become increasingly distrustful and skeptical of their government, especially at the national level.
In 1958 the number of people who said they could trust the government to do what's right all or most of the time stood at 73 percent. By 1997, just 39 percent felt they could trust the government all or some of the time. And in 2013, that number has fallen to just 26 percent.
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Judiciary Committee Takes Giant Step Backward on H-1B Workers
By David North
CIS Blog, May 22, 2013
http://www.cis.org/north/judiciary-committee-takes-giant-step-backward-h-1b-workers
Excerpt: The Senate Judiciary Committee took a giant step backward on Tuesday, adopting a considerably softer set of rules for H-1B workers, thus pleasing the big high-tech firms while hurting American workers.
Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), and others created — off stage — a last-minute compromise on the subject, which passed the committee by a voice vote and led later to a 13-5 vote in the committee on the proposed bill itself (S.744).
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) were the only ones who consistently voted against the multitudinous more-migration measures.
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Sen. Feinstein Issues a Confusing Warning about Terrorists at the Mexican Border
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, May 21, 2013
http://www.cis.org/kammer/sen-feinstein-issues-confusing-warning-about-terrorists-mexican-border
Excerpt: Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday warned about the vulnerability of the U.S.-Mexico border to penetration by Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. But her statement was marred by major ambiguity and several factual inaccuracies.
"There is evidence of actual and potential terrorists entering via the Southwest border, principally members of Hamas and Hezbollah," Feinstein said at a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider immigration reform legislation.
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S. 744 Would Eliminate Modest Existing Benefits for Some Groups of Aliens
By David North
CIS Blog, May 21, 2013
http://www.cis.org/north/s-744-would-eliminate-modest-existing-benefits-some-groups-aliens
Excerpt: One of the ironic glories, or better described, horrors, of S.744, is the vast array of different, usually powerless, populations who are hurt by its provisions.
The powerful, egged on by the greedy, have designed the bill to meet their various wants with little regard for the impact of the provisions on largely silent populations.
Most of these victims are run-of-the-mill U.S. residents, mostly citizens; the people who either will lose jobs, or lose wages because of the arrival of foreign workers through various channels created by the Senate's Gang of Eight. Then, too, there are the taxpayers who will unwittingly be paying more for decades because of the fiscal burdens created by the legalization parts of S.744.
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Sessions Cries Foul, Escalating Battle over Biometrics
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, May 20, 2013
http://www.cis.org/kammer/sessions-cries-foul-escalating-battle-over-biometrics
Excerpt: The battle over biometrics intensified Monday at the Senate Judiciary Committee as Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions angrily said a 2009 DHS study showed it is feasible to use biometrics to confirm the departure of temporary visa holders from U.S. airports.
Sessions said the report, which he first learned about last Friday, "completely rejects" claims by some committee members that a biometric system is not available because of technical problems and affordability issues. He said a system could be in place in a short time and at a reasonable cost.
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