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Napolitano immigration meeting: you weren't represented (vast # of loose borders groups, Obama/Janet anti-287g) - 8/20/2009

... amnesty. According to Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum (link) Obama stopped by: The President said specifically that when it comes to the local police charged with enforcing federal immigration law under 287(g) agreements that he wants these local law enforcement agencies held accountable. And: Noorani’s other question concerned the 287g program, which gives local law enforcement t...

"Reform Immigration For America": business, labor, CAP, NCLR, CHIRLA begin new push; summit, townhall meeting; John Quigley - 6/01/2009

A new group called "Reform Immigration For America" recently launched in order to push for comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. They're a coalition of business, labor, and far-left/racial power groups; see their slick site here: reformimmigrationforamerica.org. A surprising variety of amnesty hacks this side of raving extremist (or thereabouts) is involved with their organ...

Victor Manuel Ramos/Orlando Sentinel supports illegal aliens taking college discounts from citizens - 5/19/2009

Victor Manuel Ramos of the Orlando Sentinel offers "Immigrants' children might get help from DREAM Act/They were brought here illegally, but it's only home they know" (link). If you trust his reporting in any way, please go take a look at some of the entries in the PIIPP category; for years the MSM has been printing cookie-cutter articles designed to support the DREAM Act, an a...

2006: Grover Norquist supported amnesty with U.S. CofC, far-left ACLU, NCLR, SEIU, NIF, USCCB, AFL-CIO - 4/09/2009

... Christina DeConcini, Policy Director, National Immigration Forum * Angelo Amador, Director of Immigration Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce * J. Kevin Appleby, Director of the Office of Immigration and Refugee Policy, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops * Ana Avendano, Associate General Counsel and Director of Immigrant Worker Programs, AFL-CIO * Eliseo Medina, International Executive Vic...

Dream Act re-introduced: you need to organize local efforts to block it - 3/27/2009

... National Council of La Raza, and the National Immigration Forum.

GAO report raises issues with 287g program (Joe Arpaio) - 3/04/2009

... comments from Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum and Angela Kelley of the Immigration Policy Center are at: lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2009/03/congressional-h.html

Rights Working Group wants immigration enforcement moratorium and much more (ACLU, NCLR, 248 others) - 1/09/2009

The Asian American Justice Center runs the Rights Working Group, a coalition of over 250 leftwing groups, and they have a petition calling on Barack Obama to in effect not do immigration enforcement. They want a "moratorium" while the subject of raids and the like is "studied", but everyone knows what that means. Since there are so many groups, the full roster is here. The main...

Cardinal Mahony, Janet Murguia, Unite Here, Frank Sharry, Ali Noorani pretend immigration "reform" would be good for the economy - 1/08/2009

... union, and Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum joined on a conference call. From their press release (link), here's the "why": The preeminent moral voice supporting just and comprehensive immigration reform joins the President of one of America's leading pro-immigrant unions, the head of the largest Latino civil rights organization, and national pro-reform leaders t...

USCIS Task Force on New Americans releases "Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century" - 12/21/2008

... Policy Institute, someone from the National Immigration Forum, and someone from the Mexican government-linked NALEO. They even consulted with Michelle Waslin when she was with the National Council of La Raza (she's now with the NIF). Here's a 2006 quote from her: "while (a Lamar Alexander report relating to amnesty) doesn't overtly mention assimilation, it is very strong on th...

National Immigration Forum cheers Hilda Solis Labor Secretary pick (America's Voice) - 12/18/2008

... Frank Sharry formerly of the National Immigration Forum (NIF) - saying (link): Not only has Solis been a long-time labor advocate, she has stood firm for immigration policy that makes our nation stronger. She has also been a leader on the issue of immigrant detentions and the ill-conceived Bush administration raids. He then links to a statement from the NIF: Rep. Hilda Solis has been a key lea...

Judy Bachrach/Vanity Fair smears Lou Dobbs - 8/08/2008

... groups anodyne descriptions. The National Immigration Forum is just "a center-left group"; the National Council of La Raza is just "the Hispanic advocacy group"; the Southern Poverty Law Center - a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government - is just "a civil rights organization"; and, Media Matters Action Network is just "a liberal media watchdog". ...

Frank Sharry leaves my questions unanswered, confirms MSM bias (FireDogLake forum) - 5/04/2008

... Frank Sharry - formerly of the National Immigration Forum and now with America's Voice - stopped by FireDogLake earlier today for a chat with their readers: firedoglake.com/2008/05/04/fdl-welcomes-frank-sharry-of-americas-voice While he answered questions from others, he failed to answer a few I posed despite the fact that few others asked him anything and he had over 20 minutes to think up ...

Andres Oppenheimer's five "myths" of the "anti-immigration movement" - 1/14/2008

... says Frank Sharry, head of the National Immigration Forum, which advocates both secure borders and a path to legal residence for many of the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Perhaps there's a reason why there isn't a line for massive numbers of low-skilled workers and/or massive immigration from Mexico, yet AO doesn't go into that. And the "market"...

NYT almost follows the money on Western Union (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ken Salazar) - 11/24/2007

Jason DeParle almost follows the money on Western Union, a company that makes almost a billion dollars per year off legal and illegal immigrants sending money home ("remittances"): link. While it's a much better job than, for instance, Jill Capuzzo of that paper would have done, he doesn't go as far as he could.

Hard a-flip-flop: McCain changes course on immigration "reform" - 8/02/2007

From this: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday backed a scaled-down proposal that imposes strict rules to end illegal immigration but doesn't include a path to citizenship. The move away from a comprehensive measure is an about-face for the Arizona senator, who had been a leading GOP champion of a bill that included a guest worker program and would have legalized many ...

La Raza, MALDEF have "virtual veto power" over immigration bill - 5/16/2007

From the article "Latino Groups Play Key Role on Hill/Virtual Veto Power in Immigration Debate" (link): When Sen. Edward M.

1994: Rudy Giuliani explicitly welcomed illegal aliens to New York City - 5/15/2007

... Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum] remembers watching in

Shocker at CBS: producer fired for plagiarism - 4/10/2007

From this: A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after last night's Katie Couric broadcast was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal and other sources. The complete broadcast was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the segments should have credited to Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, Nancy Pelosi's office, George B...

Reverend Stephen P. Bouman: globalist, illegal immigration supporter - 4/02/2007

From this: Several synod bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) urged their members of Congress and key congressional staff March 22 to enact comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 that is "humane and for the common good." ...Key components that the bishops believe help to fulfill these principles include: elimination of the family visa backlogs; fair and huma...

White House TWP illegal alien amnesty PowerPoint presentation - 3/29/2007

U.S. News has uploaded a PowerPoint presentation the White House has regarding their new illegal alien amnesty scheme in this PDF file. Even by the abysmally low standard of other Bush administration plans, this is idiotic. Most of the provisions in there would not appeal to even the most cravenly corrupt Democrat, so this isn't a good bargaining ploy.

STRIVE Act: not everyone happy with "touchback" (even for just one day) - 3/24/2007

The Gutierrez-Flake amnesty scheme contains a "touchback" provision. Current illegal aliens who pass a screening and meet other requirements would be given a legal worker permit immediately. Then: Illegal immigrants would within the next six years have to leave the United States for either Mexico or Canada, go to a processing center and re-enter the U.S. legally.

Trouble in paradise: AFL-CIO, ACLU, NIF, AFSC not fully happy with Flake-Gutierrez; Teamsters, Democrat Lampson - 3/24/2007

The American Civil Liberties Union - a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government - has a nit with the Flake-Gutierrez amnesty [1]: "Drafting comprehensive immigration reform is no easy task... [praise some provisions] ...Sadly, Title III of the bill attacks privacy by creating a national ID card.

Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) - 3/09/2007

... government) Immigrant Legal Resource Center [2] National Immigration Forum National Immigrant Justice Center Asian American Justice Center Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Legal Momentum American Immigration Lawyers Association Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) [1] See The Hill for an example. Suzanne Gamboa of the AP...

Lobbying for immigration "reform" - 1/29/2007

Mike Madden of Gannett News has a brief round-up of the money that was spent lobbying for and against immigration "reform" in 2005 and the first part of 2006 here. According to a Gannett study, $3.3 million was spent in that period, and most of that was the pro side. They also mention the Center for Responsive Politics.

Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007 - 1/17/2007

From this we learn of yet another coalition in favor of massive immigration, this one calling itself the "Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007". Its members include: * R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president, U.S.

Mexican citizens helping Kennedy, McCain, Flake, Berman set immigration policy - 1/16/2007

In September of last year, the "Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future" - "convened by the Migration Policy Institute in partnership with Manhattan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars" - released their report called "Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter". Two members of the "task force" ...

Tim Gaynor/Reuters: Democrats to save us from "nativists" - 12/26/2006

Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers "Nativists fan flames of U.S. immigration debate". And, it's even worse than the title might indicate.

Tim Gaynor/Reuters: "Democrats' win spurs hope of immigration revamp" - 11/09/2006

Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers this: Sweeping wins for Democrats in U.S. midterm elections have rekindled hopes among Latino activists of achieving a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy that was blocked by Republicans in Congress. Democrats swept Republicans from power in the U.S.

Meme: Graf, Hayworth losses = support for "comprehensive immigration reform" - 11/09/2006

As regular readers know, illegal immigration supporters will go to any depth to promote amnesty and similar schemes. One meme you can expect to hear over the coming months is that the recent losses by Randy Graf and J.D. Hayworth in Arizona mean that voters want "comprehensive immigration reform". The quickest example of how that's wrong is presented by the fact that no less than fo...

Carolyn Lochhead/S.F. Chronicle omits details of NYT poll - 9/23/2006

Carolyn Lochhead, of the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington Bureau, offers "Political tide turning on illegal immigration".

Washington DC illegal immigration march: <5000 show up; Ted Kennedy - 9/08/2006

Senator Edward M. Kennedy ("Teddy", "Ted") was one of the featured speakers at yesterday's illegal immigration rally in Washington D.C.

CSM: Backlash over not passing immigration "reform"? - 9/07/2006

The Christian Science Monitor article "As Congress stalls on immigration, a backlash brews" by Amanda Paulson might have been read as complete propaganda in favor of "comprehensive" reform if it didn't contain a very slight hint that the actual backlash would come if Congress passes any sort of amnesty scheme.

Tamar Jacoby: the Americans can be forced to accept a massive illegal alien amnesty - 7/29/2006

Tamar Jacoby is back with more blather in support of massive immigration, this version being called "Amnesty Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Voters don't like amnesty, but they'll swallow some form of it to fix immigration." No, really, that last part is the real subtitle. She discusses various misleading and/or push polls and concludes that the Americans will accept a massive illeg...

Nathaniel Hoffman, Andrew Becker, Contra Costa Times support illegal immigration - 6/20/2006

Nathaniel Hoffman and Andrew Becker of the Contra Costa Times offer separate articles that support illegal immigration. Hoffman offers "Immigration rights advocates contemplate their next steps". From the headline on down it's completely biased towards supporting illegal immigration and foreign citizens marching in our streets.

Correction: Bush may have lied one fewer time in big speech - 5/22/2006

In my discussion of Bush's big May 15 immigration speech, I took issue with this statement: And temporary workers must return to their home country at the conclusion of their stay. I maintain that those "guests" will never leave, and thus that Bush lied to the country. However, here's Kaus on that statement: Was it a Clintonian weasel (technically accurate in the zen-taut...

Who's responsible for illegal immigration? - 3/28/2006

By sending us millions of their citizens, Mexico has managed to obtain political power inside our country. As shown by the recent marches, that political power can be mobilized - whether in fact by Mexico or just by partisans - into a show of physical force. The U.S.

Floridians: ask John McCain questions he can't answer! - 2/20/2006

From this: [Arizona Sen. John McCain] will be in Miami on Thursday and will promote a business-backed guest worker program and other immigration reforms. The Arizona senator will speak at "town hall" meeting in South Florida sponsored by the New American Opportunity Campaign.

Coalition vows to defeat harsh immigration bill [HR 4437] - 1/20/2006

... Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Forum.

House majority leader: John Boehner or Roy Blunt? - 1/12/2006

I believe Boehner is less of an insider than Blunt, however this is more important: Rep. John A. Boehner's vote last month against a bill cracking down on illegal immigration is sending "tremors" through the House Republican Conference as the Ohio lawmaker pushes his candidacy for House majority leader... ...Mr.

How out of touch is Morton Kondracke? - 1/10/2006

... enforcement". Kondracke goes on to quote the National Immigration Forum and suggest that Bush should work with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And, he plays the "Hispanic Vote" card. But, wait, there's more work for me to do: ...Anti-immigrant campaigns don't win. In Southern California, Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the much-publicized Minutemen Project, a civilian b...

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