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BAMN: By Any Means Necessary
By Kevin Mooney, Capital Research CenterOrganization Trends, 08/02/2010
The radical group called By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, believes racial profiling is wrong but racial quotas in hiring and college admissions are right. A contradiction? BAMN doesn’t care. It goes to court and into the streets to cause trouble and provoke political upheaval.
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Immigrants and Crime: Perception vs. Reality
By Stuart Anderson, Cato InstituteAnalysis, 07/01/2010
Recent events in Arizona show how quickly concerns about possible crimes committed by immigrants can dominate the immigration policy debate. The murder of an Arizona rancher in March became the catalyst for the state legislature passing a controversial bill to grant police officers wider latitude to check the immigration status of individuals they encounter. But do the facts show immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than natives?
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A State Transformed: Immigration and the New California
By Steven A. Camarota, Karen Jensenius, Center for Immigration StudiesResearch Brief, 06/24/2010
Historically, California was not a state with disproportionately large unskilled and low-income populations. Relatively to other states it had one of the more educated labor forces in terms of the share of workers who had completed high school. But today, as a result of immigration, it is the state with the largest share of its labor force that has not completed high school. While some employers argue that a continuing stream of unskilled immigrant workers is desirable, such a policy has consequences. The low level of educational attainment in the state is likely to create challenges in California for the foreseeable future. However, our research and that of the Department of Homeland Security indicate that about three-fourths of California’s immigrants are in the country legally. Without legislation that addresses both legal and illegal immigration, large numbers of less-educated immigrants will continue to settle in the Golden State, adding further to an already large unskilled work force.
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A Drought of Reason and Investigation: An Examination and Critique of the Center for Immigration Studies’ “A Drought of Summer Jobs”
By Alex Nowrasteh, Competitive Enterprise InstituteWebMemo, 06/17/2010
The Center for Immigration Studies produces a wide body of work intended to convince policy makers and the American public of the necessity of curtailing immigration, both legal and illegal. Their reports criticize immigration along cultural, economic, and political lines. On the economic front, their recent report, “A Drought of Summer Jobs: Immigration and the Long-Term Decline in Employment Among U.S.-Born Teenagers,” concludes that low-skilled immigrants force native-born teenagers out of the labor market. This claim is not supported by the facts. Fundamentally, the report is plagued by sloppy research, data misrepresentations, and a poor grasp of the scholarly literature on immigration and its effects on the labor market.
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Beside the Golden Door : U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization
By Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, American Enterprise InstituteBook, 06/09/2010
A selective immigration policy focused on high-skilled, high-demand workers will allow the United States to compete in an increasingly global economy while protecting the interests of American citizens and benefitting taxpayers.
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Border Security: The Heritage Foundation Recommendations
By The Heritage Foundation, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 06/03/2010
The United States was established on principles that support the welcoming of new residents to its shores to learn and embrace American civic culture and political institutions through the processes of immigration and naturalization. Over the past several decades, however, immigration policy has become skewed, falsely presented as an uncompromising decision between unfettered immigration and none at all. Recently, the Obama Administration has begun to call for granting amnesty to the some 10.8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. as part of a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The Heritage Foundation instead proposes a phased approach to immigration reform centered on border security, interior enforcement, and legal immigration processes. This paper offers a comprehensive review of The Heritage Foundation’s most recent work on the border security component of immigration reform.
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White House Must Stop Playing Politics with Immigration and Arizona Law
By James Carafano, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 05/26/2010
The administration has used the public controversy over the Arizona law to push for granting amnesty to millions unlawfully in the United States. This approach to solving the problem has been tried before and found completely wanting. In 1986, for example, the U.S. granted amnesty and the unlawful population exploded, as did associated costs. When a nation fails to enforce its existing immigration law, it creates a powerful incentive to break the law. A better approach to border and immigration reform—one that will keep the nation free, safe, prosperous, and sovereign—includes: responsible border security; enforcement of immigration and workplace laws; workable temporary worker programs that get America’s employers the employees they need to expand the economy and create jobs; and working with Mexico to address that country’s desperate need for security and civil society and economic reforms.
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SBInet: Homeland Security Should Not Abandon Border Security Technology
By Jena Baker McNeill , The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 05/20/2010
Securing America’s southern border is more important than ever. Yet the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing to drop key border security technologies that it has been developing since 2005. This is a decision that makes no sense. Given some of the problems that have occurred with SBInet—a program to deploy cameras, sensors, and radar technology at the southwest border—a review could help improve the program. Abandoning SBInet altogether, however, would be a complete waste of resources.
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Time to Decouple Visa Waiver Program from Biometric Exit
By Jena Baker McNeill, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 04/19/2010
Currently, the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which affords foreign travelers from member nations the ability to travel to the United States without a visa, remains at a relative standstill in terms of adding new countries to its membership roster. In fact, besides the admission of Greece last month, no new countries have been permitted entrance into the program since 2008. While Congress and DHS may see deployment of biometric exit as a necessary step toward understanding the number of visa overstays inside the U.S., the expansion of VWP should not be inhibited by the failure to produce a biometric system. Congress should remove this hurdle by decoupling VWP from the exit requirement and paving the way for the admission of new member countries.
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High Court’s Kucana Ruling Will Further Burden Immigration System
By Benjamin Haskins, Washington Legal FoundationLegal Opinion Letter, 03/31/2010
Immigrants adjudged illegal should not be able to conduct multiple assaults upon their removal order. And while the Court’s statutory analysis of the IIRIRA is certainly tenable, its justifications for judicial review do not fully extend to multiple motions to reopen. Judicial review generally “concerns only the question whether the alien’s claims have been accorded a reasonable hearing,” but, at a point, aliens like Kucana are being accorded so much procedure that it is only amounting to delay. Aliens may always seek review based on “constitutional claims or questions of law,” but allowing abuse-of-discretion challenges to cases long since closed cuts against judicial efficiency and the finality of judgments long prized in our judicial system. Congress has intentionally provided considerable opportunities for immigrants to receive a fair hearing and review, but Kucana shows that further legislative action may be necessary to prevent fair procedure from also being a means of abuse.
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