National Immigration Forum

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Cato immigration conference April 26, 2012: let's discredit them (CFR, Lofgren, Jacoby, Federal Reserve, NIF, NFAP) - 03/22/12

... Foreign Relations * Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum * Stuart Anderson, National Foundation for American Policy * Bryan Caplan, George Mason University * Ilya Shapiro, Sallie James, Dan Ikenson, and Jim Harper of Cato * Alex Nowrasteh, Competitive Enterprise Institute * Barry Chiswick, George Washington University * Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College WHAT TO DO: You can sign up at cato...

Dozens of pro-illegal immigration groups were invited to Obama's mini-amnesty rollout and you weren't - 08/25/11

... Fisshea, Don Lyster, Tyler Moran * National Immigration Forum: Ali Noorani * Center for Community Change: Gabe Gonzalez, Kate Kahan * Migration Policy Institute: Doris Meissner * Vestar Capital Partners: Federico Pena * Raben Group: Jeanne Butterfield * New Democratic Network: Simon Rosenberg, Kristian Ramos, Alicia Menendez COMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA * Laura Burton Capps (former Clinton staffer who...

Big Business wants more skilled immigration; Alejandro Mayorkas does their bidding as fast as he can (USCIS, U.S. Chamber, NFAP, AILA, Jacoby, USCCB) - 08/18/11

... Immigration Lawyers Association National Immigration Forum US Conference of Catholic Bishops Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society American Council on International Personnel Immigration Voice Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy LLC (Fragomen Del Rey, law firm) Chris Gafner and Stephen Yale Loehr (attorneys) [3] From huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/skilled-worker-visa-reform-business-white-house_n_929944....

DHS makes Secure Communities nationwide, no opt-out (so far). Lofgren, ACLU, NAKASEC, FIRM, CHIRLA, ICIRR, MIRA, Frank Sharry, NIF outraged. - 08/08/11

... professionals. UPDATE 2: The National Immigration Forum is also outraged immigrationforum.org/press/release-display/ice-announces-it-will-impose-secure-communities-on-state-and-local-governme We are deeply disturbed by today’s announcement in the wake of the recent actions by states and other jurisdictions to withdraw from the program. This unilateral decision contradicts the initially-stated...

DHS revises Secure Communities to enable illegal immigration (John Morton, ACLU, CHIRLA, NDLON, NIF, AILA, NYT, Ammiano) - 06/20/11

... termination of the program." * The National Immigration Forum offers a press release entitled "Enforcement Changes Welcome, but Secure Communities Must Be Halted" immigrationforum.org/press/release-display/ enforcement-changes-welcome-but-secure-communities-must-be-halted * San Francisco Police Commissioner Angela Chan (also a staff attorney at Asian Law Caucus), said the reason ICE and the FBI...

Group circulates list of 1300 supposed illegal aliens in Utah, a problematic, counter-productive waste of time - 07/13/10

... National Council of La Raza and the National Immigration Forum. This site tries to discredit the last two groups; those who leaked the list helped them. Some of the fault of this lies with various political leaders; instead of promoting plans like question authority, they promote ineffective or low-wattage activities. 7/31/10 UPDATE: "The List" continues to help far-left supporters of illegal...

NumbersUSA harassed at immigration march by far-left, open borders fascists - 03/22/10

... who's a policy associate at the National Immigration Forum, a considered-mainstream group (http://www.immigrationforum.org/about/staff). While some of the things she says might cause a finder of fact to assume the bodyguard is in the wrong, other things cast a great deal of doubt on her statements. Namely, Nill says: "Graber explains that she and four other mimes followed Beck and his crew...

Reform Immigration for America doesn't support LGBT immigration equality - 02/28/10

If "immigration equality" - the ability for same-sex (gay or lesbian) couples to have the same immigration privileges as straight couples - is important to you, then the article at this link about the Reform Immigration for America group not supporting "immigration equality" should be your first and last stop for the day. They aren't on your side. Please go read it now, and for the rest of you...

Immigration Reform Advocates Receive JBL Awards From Tides - 09/01/09

Napolitano immigration meeting: you weren't represented (vast # of loose borders groups, Obama/Janet anti-287g) - 08/20/09

... 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...

"Reform Immigration For America": business, labor, CAP, NCLR, CHIRLA begin new push; summit, townhall meeting; John Quigley - 06/01/09

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 organization; see [...

Victor Manuel Ramos/Orlando Sentinel supports illegal aliens taking college discounts from citizens - 05/19/09

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 anti-American bill...

2006: Grover Norquist supported amnesty with U.S. CofC, far-left ACLU, NCLR, SEIU, NIF, USCCB, AFL-CIO - 04/09/09

... 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...

Dream Act re-introduced: you need to organize local efforts to block it - 03/27/09

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

GAO report raises issues with 287g program (Joe Arpaio) - 03/04/09

... 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) - 01/09/09

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 groups are listed...

Cardinal Mahony, Janet Murguia, Unite Here, Frank Sharry, Ali Noorani pretend immigration "reform" would be good for the economy - 01/08/09

... 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 to discuss the...

USCIS Task Force on New Americans releases "Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century" - 12/21/08

... 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 the patriotism and...

National Immigration Forum cheers Hilda Solis Labor Secretary pick (America's Voice) - 12/18/08

... 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...

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

... 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". 4. She consistently misspells "Frank...

Frank Sharry leaves my questions unanswered, confirms MSM bias (FireDogLake forum) - 05/04/08

... 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 a...

Andres Oppenheimer's five "myths" of the "anti-immigration movement" - 01/14/08

... 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" demands are based on a...

NYT almost follows the money on Western Union (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ken Salazar) - 11/24/07

... Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, which has received $40,000 from Western Union in the past three years. "When it got hot, they stayed with it." And, more sleaze practically drips from the page: Many of his customers are in the country illegally. [Michael Lee, 35, who owns an electronics store called World Top Communications in New York’s Chinatown], who was once an...

Hard a-flip-flop: McCain changes course on immigration "reform" - 08/02/07

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 of...

La Raza, MALDEF have "virtual veto power" over immigration bill - 05/16/07

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 - 05/15/07

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

Shocker at CBS: producer fired for plagiarism - 04/10/07

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 Bush's office,...

Reverend Stephen P. Bouman: globalist, illegal immigration supporter - 04/02/07

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 humane...

White House TWP illegal alien amnesty PowerPoint presentation - 03/29/07

... director of the advocacy group National Immigration Forum... "President Bush said family values don't stop at the Rio Grande. Evidently they do," said Kevin Appleby, director of Migration and Refugee Policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops... Family unification, said [Teddy Kennedy], "has been an essential aspect of immigration policy since the history of this country" and...

Looking back, moving ahead - 03/24/07

STRIVE Act: not everyone happy with "touchback" (even for just one day) - 03/24/07

... said Frank Sharry, leader of the National Immigration Forum... ..."I think it's unrealistic, though, to expect these people to leave," said Ana Maria Patina, a lawyer and Hispanic activist in Santa Ana. Patina was skeptical that the government could create a program that would let illegal immigrants leave the country and return quickly. And Amin David, leader of Los Amigos of Orange County...

Trouble in paradise: AFL-CIO, ACLU, NIF, AFSC not fully happy with Flake-Gutierrez; Teamsters, Democrat Lampson - 03/24/07

... said Frank Sharry, leader of the National Immigration Forum. And [3]: [The STRIVE Act] fails to protect the fundamental human rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in this country, according to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker social justice organization... [it] offers little to address the root causes of undocumented migration and contains several troubling...

We Are America debates in Chicago - 03/18/07

Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) - 03/09/07

... 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...