Posts Tagged ‘ Center for Immigration Studies ’

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 Links

Some good discussions about the DREAM Act have occurred lately, most of which I’ll try to hit in this post.
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“The High Costs Of The Dream Act”

One of the chief reasons that the supporters of open borders have been thwarted in their relentless quest to enact their philosophy over the past five years is this man.
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More on Chandra Levy’s Murder

More on Chandra Levy’s Murder

The fallout from the conviction of illegal alien Ingmar Guandique for the murder of Chandra Levy might not be known for a long time. However, there are already some intelligent immigration analysts who have drawn some powerful conclusions about what should be done to prevent such a senseless tragedy from occurring in the future.
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Enforcement In Action

Enforcement In Action

Yet more empirical evidence that allowing local enforcement officials to pursue suspected illegal aliens enhances the safety of Americans comes to us from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this case, Prince William County, which has had a law compelling police officers to verify the immigration status of criminal suspects once in custody for the...
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Justice for Chandra?

Justice for Chandra?

I don’t know if you can describe this result as just, especially since Ms. Levy is lying in a tomb, separated permanently from everyone she’s ever loved. On the other hand, her murderer-like most illegal aliens living in this country-will now be enjoying a standard of living that he could never have hoped to...
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Latinos and Immigration

Latinos and Immigration

One of the interesting things about conventional wisdom is that very often it turns out to be based upon assumptions that are false. A case in point being the widespread misconception that all Americans whose family origins lie in Latin America and the Caribbean are reflexively pro-mass immigration and in favor of amnesty, when...
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The Irish Voice

The Irish Voice

I suppose I should preface this post by stating that this commentary shouldn’t be taken as an indictment of any of my Irish relatives, who-needless to say-have much more liberal views of American immigration policy than yours truly. Should they be reading this website, which I doubt they are, I hereby declare that my...
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Losing My Religion

Losing My Religion

One of the biggest misconceptions in the debate over our nation’s immigration policy is the notion that in order to be a good Christian or a decent Jew you need to support a policy of open borders in perpetuity.
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Doing Jobs Former Secretaries of State Won’t Do

Doing Jobs Former Secretaries of State Won’t Do

Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press yesterday, and in doing so reaffirmed the low opinion much of the public has of his expertise on domestic policy matters, particularly with respect to immigration issues. His appearance yesterday focused largely on the merits of the DREAM Act, whose passage he wholeheartedly endorses.
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