Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’

Birthright Citizenship: Setting The Record Straight

Birthright Citizenship: Setting The Record Straight

What it means in the US, what other nations make of it, why it has no place in the country today. With a full complement of attentive listeners at the Penn Club’s elegant Tarnopol Room in midtown Manhattan, this month’s presentation by the Center for Immigration Studies offered analyses, figures and insights of legal policy...
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Creating and Saving American Jobs

Creating and Saving American Jobs

One of the biggest debates relating to immigration enforcement that has erupted since the beginning of the Obama administration’s halfhearted attempts at interior enforcement is over what is the best method to target employers who have either knowingly or unwittingly employed illegal aliens as part of their workforce.
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Collusion?

Collusion?

One of the consistent themes of the Obama administration’s immigration policy has been an hostility to states and cities that attempt to deter illegal aliens from residing in or moving to these areas through legislative means. Nothing illustrates this determination to thwart local authorities more than the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the state...
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The State of the State of the Union

The State of the State of the Union

Talking Points Memo has a great story exploring  the likely Republican reponse to President Obama’s proposed immigration reforms, most of which seem to have been contained in a brief, one paragraph-long sound bite he delivered during last night’s State of the Union.
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Numbers USA Is Live-Blogging The State of the Union

Follow Roy Beck’s astute observations here.
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Immigration Judges

Immigration Judges

We have some new ones, courtesy of some recent appointments by President Obama. The Executive Office of Immigration Review-and for those of you who aren’t aware of just what this agency does, you can peruse a brief description on the Department of Justice’s website which explains its functions-now has an acting director named Juan P....
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Year In Review

Year In Review

As we mark the end of the old year and the beginning of something new, it’s wise to take a step back and assess the accomplishments and setbacks of our movement. 2010 was probably the most significant year in terms of advancing the debate over immigration enforcement within the body politic of this country...
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Cooperation

Cooperation

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo, we have a story about the potential for finding common ground on immigration enforcement in the coming year.Although skeptical that President Obama, let alone his ostensible allies on Capitol Hill, will pivot away from a full-throated legalization push,
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Dream Act Post Mortem

Dream Act Post Mortem

There is a very incisive analysis of the potential political repercussions of the Dream Act’s recent legislative defeat published by the Pundit League, which I suggest you check out for yourselves.
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Wishing and DREAMing

Wishing and DREAMing

Despite the recently thwarted drive for amnesty, in the form of the DREAM Act, those who want to throw open the gates of this country to one and all continue to scheme and plot, as this meeting between President Obama and the Hispanic Caucus demonstrates.
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