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By Joe Guzzardi On refugee issues, two recent successes are encouraging, and may lead to a sensible approach to how America should resettle migrants. This week the United States, at President Donald Trump’s insistence and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s support, withdrew from the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration (GCM). In his statement, Tillerson said […]
For U.S. Border Patrol Agent Rogelio Martinez’s family and friends, Thanksgiving Day was somber. Martinez and his partner were brutally beaten in Texas’ Big Bend sector. A 36-year-old father, Martinez died from head injuries sustained while being battered with rocks; his partner survived but is reported to be having trouble remembering. Illegal immigrants, possibly trafficking […]
The deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) immigration brouhaha is about to hit its peak. Congressional Democrats and some Republicans are willing – eager, in fact – to shut down the federal government if 750,000 illegal immigrants don’t get an amnesty that will grant them lifetime work authorization, Social Security numbers and other affirmative benefits. […]
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The following leaks are included towards the end: Leaked Podesta email discussing price fixing AIDS drugs for their benefit. | WIKILEAKS | DEC 12, 2011 Clinton Foundation Briefing: Africa 2012 | WIKILEAKS (pg. 9 of attachment) CHAI UPDATE – February 2013 | WIKILEAKS (attachment) For over a year, the American Ambassador in Kenya requested […]
Dan Cadman | CIS Last week, my colleague David North wrote a blog post about problems within the EB-5 investor program, including rampant fraud. This particular post discussed, among other things, a member of the private immigration bar’s advice to potential investors to always tell the same story about the source of their funding, lest […]
Jon Feere | CIS Presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently got tripped up on use of the phrase “anchor babies” and explained to media the following: “What I was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there’s organized efforts — and frankly it’s more related to Asian people coming into our country, […]
Dan Cadman |CIS Within a span of days, National Review Online has published two interesting pieces on birthright citizenship with diametrically opposing views, though each speaks to the centrality of the 14th Amendment in framing the current debate. It is the first sentence in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment that is at issue: “All […]
Dan Cadman | CIS A senior federal judge in the Eastern District of New York (which encompasses New York City) has laid out the basis by which “judicial recommendations against deportation” (JRADs) will be issued. He did so via an opinion and order in a criminal case for which he was presiding judge. Everything about […]
Jerry Kammer | Center for Immigration Studies Part four of four. Read Part 1: The Immigration Language Wars. Read Part 2: A Linguistic Bridge over Troubled Waters. Read Part 3: The Backstory of the Vocabulary War. In this final installment, we’ll look at the use of “invasion” to describe the illegal influx across the southern […]
Kausha Luna, |Center for Immigration Studies Last year, the Obama administration reached a settlement that allows certain former illegal immigrants to return to the U.S. An agency in Mexico announced a campaign over the weekend to ensure that as many people as possible take advantage of it.In 2013 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and […]
Steven A. Camarota | Center for Immigration Studies Time to retire a faulty talking point Skilled immigrants with skill-based visas certainly bring some economic benefits, but one cost is the increased wage and employment competition faced by natives with similar skills. This is a not a trivial concern given that most “high-skill” H-1B immigrants are […]