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USA Today: "Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers" (CIS study) - 9/15/2009

... Gomez of USA Today discusses a Center for Immigration Studies report (link) discussing the aftermath of high-profile immigration raids. According to (Carol Swain of Vanderbilt University): "Whenever there's an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do those jobs that Americans will supposedly not do," said Swain, who teaches law and political...

Tea Parties for July 4th: locations, live coverage for Independence Day - 7/03/2009

... they've got Michael Cutler from the Center for Immigration Studies, despite the fact that many loony libertarians think there shouldn't be a border at all. Speaking of which, former Bob Barr running mate Wayne Allyn Root will be there, perhaps to try to sell the crowd used cars. UPDATE 2: I enjoy parts of the last photo here, although I'm too much of a gentleman to try to figure ou...

25% fewer Mexicans entered U.S. due to economy last year; NYT admits to jobs magnet - 5/15/2009

... brings on Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies to say that enforcement works: "The latest evidence suggests that you can reverse the flow... It is not set in stone, so with some mix of enforcement and the economy, fewer will come and more will go home." Wayne Cornelius of the University of California, San Diego says, "[Mexicans are] not forgoing migration forever.....

America's Voice offers very lightweight hit piece on Jeff Sessions - 5/07/2009

... warmed-over smears about FAIR and the Center for Immigration Studies, including this: FAIR, which regularly praised Sessions, has been designated an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. That might make some members of Congress think twice about developing a relationship with the group, but clearly not Jeff Sessions. As detailed at the last link, the SPLC is not in any wa...

Obama home mortgage bailout open to illegal aliens - 2/25/2009

... Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies) said, "and in most cases mortgage lenders will accept a taxpayer ID or a Matricula Consular card issued by a Mexican Consulate office as identification to illegal immigrants from Mexico." Chad Buchanan, a manager at SaveMyHomeUSA - a group cooperating with the Obama administration that assists homeowners facing forec...

"Latino Voting in the 2008 Election: Part of a Broader Electoral Movement" - 1/28/2009

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report on the so-called Hispanic vote in the 2008 elections (link). A few key points: * The drop in support among Latinos for Republicans between 2004 and 2008 was part of a broad-based electoral movement away from the GOP, and was hardly specific to that demographic group. McCain received only 57 percent of the white male vote, compared with 6...

"Immigration issue yanked off GOP agenda" - 8/31/2004

... John Kelley, a spokesman for the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-partisan think tank on immigration issues. "Is any single speaker going to mention the "I" word? I don't think so." ...In unveiling his proposal on Jan. 7 to kick off the election year, Bush gave no details and urged Congress to come up with specific legislation. The White House has since done little t...

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