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Obama admin preparing USCIS for amnesty (millions of visas, comprehensive immigration reform) - 10/03/2009

Per this, the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is getting ready in case the Obama administration is able to pass comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty: Currently, the citizenship agency can handle applications from about six million immigrants a year, (USCIS head Alejandro Mayorkas) said, including the time-consuming collection of fingerprints and other biometric ...

Alejandro Mayorkas lobbied for commutation for drug dealer (Clinton) - 5/01/2009

... Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - here. For an unknown reason, they aren't trying to completely sugarcoat his past, subheding the article "The former U.S. attorney played a role in a 2001 decision by President Clinton to commute a drug dealer's prison sentence": Mayorkas also was one of several prominent Southern California political figures who played a role in a...

Alejandro Mayorkas nominated for USCIS director - 4/24/2009

... has been nominated to head the USCIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services). Unlike other Barack Obama nominees, he doesn't appear to have a paper trail of extremist statements and actions, although there might be something out there. From his bio at OMelveny and Myers (omm.com/alejandromayorkas): Alejandro Mayorkas is a litigation partner with extensive jury trial experience, having been be...

Thomas Perez to head Citizenship and Immigration Services? (close with Casa de Maryland) - 2/20/2009

... Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is Thomas E. Perez, currently Labor Secretary of Maryland. In April 2007, he "joined students in Annapolis to urge approval of a bill granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants" (link). And from this: Perez, a former Clinton Administration official and currently Maryland’s Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, has h...

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

... 2006, George W Bush tasked the USCIS with creating a Task Force on New Americans to spend a lot of time and effort looking into assimilation of immigrants and related topics. Now, they're released their final report, "Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century" (summary link, PDF available in the sidebar at that page). It's 65 pages, so a full treatment ...

USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez resigns (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) - 3/13/2008

... Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has resigned. At that link he compared immigration "reform" to the civil rights movement. He extended Temporary Protected Status.

Bush admin's new massive guest worker program (H-2A overhaul) - 2/06/2008

The Bush administration wants a massive "guest" worker program, and if they can't get it through legislation they'll do it by revamping a program that already exists, H-2A.

Erica Vieyra/Olentangy H.S. teaches kids ignoring U.S. immigration laws is OK - 12/15/2007

Erica Vieyra is a Spanish teacher at Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio (near Columbus and Cleveland), and one of her classes teaches children that ignoring U.S. immigration laws is acceptable behavior. The goal is to help them build "empathy" for "immigrants", but it's actually pro-illegal immigration propaganda that the school district should put an end to. Th...

Secret Bush plan to deal with Bush/Rove "import Democrats" plan? (citizenship backlog) - 11/21/2007

Mark Kleiman - someone who is shockingly a UCLA professor - writes [1]: The Bush Administration plans to steal hundreds of thousands of votes, most of them Democratic votes, in the 2008 elections by the simple expedient of sitting on new citizenship applications until after the elections. He links to his site, which mostly just links to the WaPo article "Immigrant Paperwork Backs Up At DHS&qu...

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) town hall immigration meeting Sat. Oct 6 2007 - 10/03/2007

Rep. Barbara Lee will be holding two immigration meetings this Saturday. Both will include representatives of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but the other guests appear a bit... "pro-immigration". Details here.

Illegal alien crime victims get U-visas (Mexico-linked Peter Schey, Anna Gorman) - 9/06/2007

Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times informs us that due to a lawsuit brought by the Mexico-linked Peter Schey of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, some illegal aliens who've been victims of violent crimes will get U visas.

Rudy Giuliani names immigration advisory board - 8/13/2007

Rudy Giuliani has named a few people as advisors on immigration matters. Their bios are here: * Robert Bonner, former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection * C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., former Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security * Victor Cerda, former Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the DHS * Michael P...

welcometousa.gov: the U.S. commodified and reduced to a possible convention location - 6/13/2007

Emilio Gonzalez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced welcometousa.gov: The administration launched a new Web site to be a central clearinghouse of federal information that may be useful to immigrants.

GOP talking points on their immigration bill capitulation - 5/16/2007

[UPDATE: See this for how to block the amnesty.] The Senate Republicans have released a set of talking points on the immigration bill that they're getting close to "compromise" on: link. As a sign of just how bad this is, the person who got the talking points was arch BushBot Hugh Hewitt... and he's refusing to talk them!

Orwell Alert: Temporary Protected Status extended 18 more months - 5/02/2007

From our Orwell Alert/'When "Temporary" Means "Permanent"' file comes this: Central Americans who are legally in the U-S because their countries were slammed by natural disasters are getting an 18-month extension. The Department of Homeland Security is allowing the added time for citizens of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador who have Temporary Protected Status. ...

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

... legislation would require the USCIS, when administering the test, to take into account the special circumstances of applicants who face particular challenges because of their age, education, or other similar characteristics... ...[provide] for greater accountability in the system of conducting background checks on naturalization applicants. Many naturalization applicants have experienced lengt...

Alfonso Aguilar/U.S. Office of Citizenship promotes "guest" workers (LULAC, NALEO connection) - 2/13/2007

... highly questionable groups. (Go to uscis.gov and search, or enter this: preview.tinyurl.com/2948hx) The first group is LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens.

USCIS Director compares immigration "reform" to civil rights movement - 2/12/2007

On February 9, Emilio Gonzalez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service spoke to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and said: "Immigration, as we all know, is the hot-button domestic issue of the day...

Washington Post gives good argument against a massive illegal alien amnesty - 1/22/2007

... Stagnation" about the failures of the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) to handle legal immigration properly. After a human-interest-example, they present their only proposals of the piece: Citizenship and Immigration Services needs to cut its wait times by making a rapid transition to electronic forms and better organizing reform efforts.

Immigration "reform" would completely overwhelm USCIS - 1/04/2007

... Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would administer any "guest" worker or immigration "reform" (amnesty) scheme. However: But in recent months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials have determined that the troubled, $2-billion-a-year agency is unable to effectively manage its existing work, much less a flood of new applications. A report re...

Signs of Delusion in New York Times Immigration Editorial - 11/20/2006

The New York Times offers the unsigned editorial "Signs of Hope on Immigration". Not only is it wrong, it's in parts so wrong it's funny. It's of the now-standard "Democrats and Bush can work to pass 'comprehensive immigration reform', but they need to tread lightly" variety. While not explicitly engaging in the other now-standard canard that J. D.

Cynthia Tucker/AJC supports illegal immigration - 11/19/2006

Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution opposes a Hazleton-style ordinance considered for Cherokee County in Georgia in "In bullying illegals, county picks easy fight". First of all, the idea that illegal aliens as a group could be bullied is completely false. They have very powerful allies: corrupt employers, corrupt politicians, the corrupt media, racial power groups, and so...

Bill Winter on immigration - 10/23/2006

Bill Winter is running for Congress against Rep. Tom Tancredo. Like other Democrats, he supports the Senate amnesty, and thus everything said about that horrible bill applies. Moreover, his page on immigration has several questionable or misleading statements: 1. His page twice refers to the "INS", an agency that hasn't existed since March 2003.

"[USCIS] Whistle-blower let go" - 10/03/2006

From this: An immigrant application screener who spoke out earlier this year about his agency's security failures has lost his job, despite a recent decision to extend the contracts of hundreds of other employees like him. Sultan Farakhan, an immigrant benefits application adjudicator, was terminated from employment Friday at the National Benefits Center in Lee's Summit, Mo., one of ...

"Terrorist screening missed 75% of time" - 8/24/2006

... Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers at the National Benefits Center in Lee's Summit, Mo., near Kansas City.

National Restaurant Association wants DHS to finesse 'no-match' letters - 8/17/2006

From a press release: The National Restaurant Association this week sent a letter to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The Senate amnesty: an "Administrative and National Security Nightmare" - 7/28/2006

Yesterday the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims held a hearing entitled "Whether Attempted Implementation of the Senate Immigration Bill Will Result in an Administrative and National Security Nightmare." Clearly they have an agenda, but they're also right. One of those testifying was Michael Cutler, a former INS agent.

Whistleblower: USCIS broken, infiltrated by operatives of hostile foreign countries - 6/14/2006

From this: The U.S. immigration system is so broken that it can't be fixed, a former top security official at the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) told NewsMax in an exclusive interview. "Internal corruption at CIS is so pervasive that hostile foreign governments have penetrated the agency," said Michael J.

"Bush Admin Hiring For Guest Workers Program as if Done Deal" - 6/06/2006

From this: new hiring and job openings at Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) have suddenly ballooned (here and here). The ONLY reason that would happen is to hire new workers to administer the new Guest Workers program (a/k/a ShAmnesty). Says one Homeland Security federal agent: Take a peek at the job listings at the govt. site. It is at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov (from there prompt t...

USCIS director: Senate amnesty timeline is not "practical" - 5/22/2006

You have to wonder what else in the Senate's illegal alien amnesty scheme isn't practical as well: The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that would administer a new guest-worker program and rule on applications from millions of illegal aliens, says the pending Senate bill doesn't give his agency enough time to prepare for that giant task. "Qu...

GAO report shows how "guest" worker schemes would fail miserably - 3/17/2006

... handling fraud cases". The USCIS would be the agency in charge of administering any of the "guest" worker schemes.

Is the Pikes Peak Library District breaking federal law? - 2/07/2006

The Pikes Peak Library District will be allowing the Mexican consulate to give out Matricula Consular cards and other services at its Sand Creek branch on Saturday Feb 11. Knowing that many of those receiving these cards will be illegal aliens, and they will use those cards to stay in the U.S., is that district violating federal law? Let's turn to 8 U.S.C.

The Economist thinks divided loyalties are acceptable - 1/13/2006

The Economist offers a fairly stock article about HR4437 and the fence in the unsigned article "Shots across the border". It contains this highly questionable bit: Perhaps Mr Fox's biggest mistake has been his failure to lobby effectively over migration on Capitol Hill.

Is "undocumented immigrant" a euphemism? - 11/13/2005

Yes, it's just a politically-correct way of saying the legally correct term: "illegal alien". They're "aliens" - people who are citizens of some other country - and they're here illegally. From this: The politically correct term undocumented immigrant started with former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Commissioner Leonel J. Castillo during the C...

Pew: more illegal aliens than legal immigrants during 2000-2004 - 9/29/2005

From this: More immigrants came to the United States illegally from 2000 through 2004 than the number who were granted legal status in those years, according to a study released yesterday that attributed much of the historic shift to visa slowdowns since 2001 and to the nation's strong job market before that. The study by the Pew Hispanic Center said that immigration to the United States ...

Citizenship and Immigration Ombudsman is fmr prez of AILA chapter - 9/21/2005

The Ombudsman of the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services is a former President of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association: ...the AILA is directed by approximately 100 associates who also serve as members of the pro-Communist National Lawyers Guild... AILA has joined with other leftwing groups to denounce, in their entiret...

Has the Springfield Republican been radicalized? - 2/27/2005

You've probably never heard of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican newspaper, but the article "Hispanics get call to political action" from Natalia Munoz seems of interest: ...A far-reaching campaign to stir political action by [Western Mass.] immigrants with and without legal papers was ignited yesterday with a talk by representatives from the Cambridge-based Centro Presente, which ...

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