Immigration Opinions, 6/28/19
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1. "The Border as an ‘Attractive Nuisance’," Mark Krikorian
2. "CIS Immigration Blog Posts," Dan Cadman, Andrew R. Arthur, Peter Nuñez, David North, Todd Bensman, Jerry Kammer, Matthew Sussis, and Jason Peña
3. "Acting DHS Chief McAleenan's Refusal to Do His Job Puts Law Enforcement and Americans at Risk," Brandon Judd
4. "What a Border Crisis Looks Like," Rich Lowry
5. "The 2020 Democratic Candidates and Their Redefinition of American Citizenship," Jim Geraghty
6. "A Scathing Denunciation of Some Administration’s Immigration Enforcement," Jim Geraghty
7. "The 2020 Democrats and Open Borders," John McCormack
8. "What Now, For Those Who Denied a 'Crisis' at the Border?," Byron York
9. "Surprise! That 'Cheap' Immigrant Labor Costs Us a Lot," Ann Coulter
10. "Immigration Policy: Bordering on Madness," Kevin D. Williamson
11. "Trump Blinks on Immigration, Failing His Supporters One More Time, "Eddie Scarry
12. "Border Crisis Belongs to Congress," The Boston Herald
13. "Democrats Refuse to Say What America Should Do About Border Crisis," Karol Markowicz
14. "Meltdown: AOC's Fact-Challenged Explosion Over Pelosi's Cave on Border Crisis Bill," Guy Benson
15. "Delusional Nancy Made a Really Dumb Statement About Immigration Practices," Beth Baumann
16. "WATCH: CNN's Cuomo, Rye Get Put in Their Place While Defending AOC's 'Concentration Camps' Claim, "Beth Baumann
17. "Holocaust Museum Condemns Comparisons of Border Security to Concentration Camps," Tristan Justice
18. "Sedition: When Will Ocasio-Cortez Be Criminally Charged for Inciting Americans to Shelter Illegal Aliens?," J.D. Heyes
19. "Trump’s Border Strategy Is Working Out Exactly as I Told You," Rush Limbaugh
20. "Democrat Crocodile Tears for Illegal Alien Children," Sheriff David Clarke
21. "Kushner Immigration Plan Won't Help America's Middle Class," James Bowen
22. "Obama Judge Invents Sanctuary Courthouses," Matthew Vadum
23. "SCOTUS Loses Its Census over Citizenship," Daniel John Sobieski
24. "A Bad Night for the Unborn and Legal Immigration," Silvio Canto, Jr.
25. "Minnesota’s 'Nice' Culture Is Now a Sanctuary For Transnational Gangs and Drugs," Daniel Horowitz
26. "A Closer Look at the Democrats’ Immigration Stances," Dan Stein
27. "Debate Shows Health of Democratic Party’s Open Borders Wing," Jennifer G. Hickey
28. "Cato Change-Up: Now E-Verify Isn’t Tough Enough," Bob Dane
29. "Is the Border Crisis President Trump’s Fault?," Preston Huennekens
30. "This Map Shows the Most Commonly Spoken Language in Every US State, Excluding English and Spanish," Andy Kiersz and Ivan De Luce
31. "LA Officials Advise Illegal Immigrants on How to Thwart ICE," Jazz Shaw
32. "Video: Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t See 'the point' in Enforcing Immigration Law," Jazz Shaw
33. "Pelosi’s Border Bill Should be Dead on Arrival," Jazz Shaw
34. "Holocaust Museum Rejects Analogies to the Southern Border (Update: AOC Claims She Didn’t Mean Nazi Camps)," John Sexton
35. "Democrats Are Getting Destroyed in the Immigration Debate On Twitter," David Uberti
36. "An OK Month for American Worker Displacement, A Great Year For Immigrants — and Illegal Border Crossings at 7-Year High," Edwin S. Rubenstein
37. "The Overdose Crisis Is an Immigration Crisis — Time to Bomb Mexico, Not Middle East?," Hubert Collins
38. "Why Trump's Deal With Mexico Is Doomed:," Nolan Rappaport
39. "Americans Are Worried About Immigration. Is Congress?," The Chicago Tribune
40. "No, They’re Not Concentration Camps: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Got Wrong," Richard Cohen
41. "Our Latin America Policies Are Morally Bankrupt. Mine Reflect American Values," Joe Biden
42. "Trump Is Doing All the Wrong Things on Immigration," Jeffrey Miron and Laura Nicolae
43. "Democratic Debate Ignores Illegal Immigration’s Cause: No Visas," David Bier
44. "Deportation Threats Don’t Fix Immigration," The Seattle Times
45. "Elizabeth Warren Has Endorsed the Most Radical Immigration Idea in the 2020 Primary," Dara Lind
46. "Federal Court Tells ICE to Stop Arrests in Massachusetts Courthouses," Andrew Patterson
47. "Shuffling Kids Between Border Facilities Won’t Solve the Immigration Crisis," Angelina Chapin
48. "Julián Castro’s Plan for Fixing Our Immigration System Is as Radical as it Is Excellent," Bea Bischoff
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The Border as an ‘Attractive Nuisance’
By Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, June 27, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-border-as-an-attractive-nuisance/
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CIS Immigration Blog Posts
By Dan Cadman
Why Did Acting CBP Commissioner Sanders Resign Instead of His Boss?
June 27, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/Why-Did-Acting-CBP-Commissioner-Sanders-Resign-Instead-His-Boss
Mayor Pete's Bright New Idea: Federal Illegal-Alien Resident Cards
June 25, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/Mayor-Petes-Bright-New-Idea-Federal-IllegalAlien-Resident-Cards
The Conundrum of Suppressing Evidence in Removal Proceedings
June 24, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/Conundrum-Suppressing-Evidence-Removal-Proceedings
By Andrew R. Arthur
If You Read Through the Spin, WaPo Offers Facts on the Migrant Child Crisis
If Bill Ong Hing says it, it must be true
June 28, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/If-You-Read-Through-Spin-WaPo-Offers-Facts-Migrant-Child-Crisis
The Story Behind the Picture of the Drowned Father and Daughter
"They hoped to be there a few years and save up for [a] house."
June 28, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Story-Behind-Picture-Drowned-Father-and-Daughter
If You Are Just Now Angry About UAC Detention, You Haven't Been Paying Attention
June 26, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/If-You-Are-Just-Now-Angry-About-UAC-Detention-You-Havent-Been-Paying-Attention
Judge Talwani Blocks Immigration Enforcement in Massachusetts Courthouses
June 24, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Judge-Talwani-Blocks-Immigration-Enforcement-Massachusetts-Courthouses
By Peter Nunez
How U.S. Is Encouraging Illegal Immigration
June 27, 2019
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https://cis.org/Nunez/Commentary-How-US-encouraging-illegal-immigration
By David North
The Foreign Farmworker (H-2A) Program Should Be Used to Ease the Pressures at Our Southern Border
Part 2 of 6: Selection of workers
June 24, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Foreign-Farmworker-H2A-Program-Should-Be-Used-Ease-Pressures-Our-Southern-Border-0
The Foreign Farmworker (H-2A) Program Should be Used to Ease the Pressures on Our Southern Border
Part 3 of 6: Payment of workers
June 25, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Foreign-Farmworker-H2A-Program-Should-be-Used-Ease-Pressures-Our-Southern-Border-1
The Foreign Farmworker (H-2A) Program Should be Used to Ease the Pressures on our Southern Border
Part 4 of 6: Introducing U.S. prisoners as an alternative to foreign workers
June 28, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Foreign-Farmworker-H2A-Program-Should-be-Used-Ease-Pressures-our-Southern-Border-2
By Todd Bensman
Assessing the Report about Four ISIS Terrorist Suspects Caught in Nicaragua
Report is based on a single source of unknown credibility
June 26, 2019
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https://cis.org/Bensman/Assessing-Report-about-Four-ISIS-Terrorist-Suspects-Caught-Nicaragua
By Jerry Kammer
Asylum Policy: A Case Study in the Liberal-Conservative Divide
June 28, 2019
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https://cis.org/Kammer/Asylum-Policy-Case-Study-LiberalConservative-Divide
David Martin Saw the Asylum Crisis Taking Shape in the Early 1980s
June 24, 2019
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https://cis.org/Kammer/David-Martin-Saw-Asylum-Crisis-Taking-Shape-Early-1980s
By Matthew Sussis
Photograph of Dead Migrant Family Spurs Right Outrage, Wrong Solutions
June 27, 2019
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https://cis.org/Sussis/Photograph-Dead-Migrant-Family-Spurs-Right-Outrage-Wrong-Solutions
By Jason Peña
Nicaraguan Ex-Consul Arrested in Mexico for Alien Smuggling
June 25, 2019
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https://cis.org/Pena/Nicaraguan-ExConsul-Arrested-Mexico-Alien-Smuggling
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Acting DHS Chief McAleenan's Refusal to Do His Job Puts Law Enforcement and Americans at Risk
By Brandon Judd
Fox News, June 25, 2019
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/brandon-judd-dhs-kevin-mcaleenan-ice-anti-trump
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What a Border Crisis Looks Like
By Rich Lowry
National Review Online, June 25, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/border-crisis-immigration-debate/
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The 2020 Democratic Candidates and Their Redefinition of American Citizenship
By Jim Geraghty
The Morning Jolt at National Review Online, June 25, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/2020-democratic-candidates-and-their-redefinition-of-american-citizenship/
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A Scathing Denunciation of Some Administration’s Immigration Enforcement
By Jim Geraghty
The Corner at National Review Online, June 24, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/scathing-denunciation-of-obama-administrations-immigration-enforcement/
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The 2020 Democrats and Open Borders
If you combine the policy of decriminalizing illegal entry with general opposition to deportation, how does that amount to anything besides “open borders”?
By John McCormack
National Review Online, June 28, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-2020-democrats-and-open-borders/
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What Now, For Those Who Denied a 'Crisis' at the Border?
By Byron York
Townhall.com, June 26, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2019/06/26/what-now-for-those-who-denied-a-crisis-at-the-border-n2548970
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Surprise! That 'Cheap' Immigrant Labor Costs Us a Lot
By Ann Coulter
TheHill.com, June 23, 2019
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https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/449887-ann-coulter-surprise-that-cheap-immigrant-labor-costs-us-a-lot
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Immigration Policy: Bordering on Madness
By Kevin D. Williamson
National Review Online, June 25, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/immigration-policy-bordering-on-madness/
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Trump Blinks on Immigration, Failing His Supporters One More Time
By Eddie Scarry
Washington Examiner, June 24, 2019
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-blinks-on-immigration-failing-his-supporters-one-more-time
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Border Crisis Belongs to Congress
Legislation needed at once
The Boston Herald, June 25, 2019
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/06/25/border-crisis-belongs-to-congress/
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Democrats Refuse to Say What America Should Do About Border Crisis
By Karol Markowicz
The New York Post, June 23, 2019
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https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/democrats-refuse-to-say-what-america-should-do-about-border-crisis/
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Meltdown: AOC's Fact-Challenged Explosion Over Pelosi's Cave on Border Crisis Bill
By Guy Benson
Townhall.com, June 28, 2019
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/06/28/meltdown-aocs-factchallenged-explosion-over-pelosis-cave-on-border-crisis-bill-n2549147
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Delusional Nancy Made a Really Dumb Statement About Immigration Practices
By Beth Baumann
Townhall.com, June 24, 2019
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/06/24/um-what-pelosi-wants-to-know-whats-the-point-of-immigration-enforcement-n2548878
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WATCH: CNN's Cuomo, Rye Get Put in Their Place While Defending AOC's 'Concentration Camps' Claim
By Beth Baumann
Townhall.com June 19, 2019
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/06/19/watch-cnns-chris-cuomo-angela-rye-gang-up-on-steve-cortes-over-aocs-concentration-camps-claim-n2548618
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Holocaust Museum Condemns Comparisons of Border Security to Concentration Camps
By Tristan Justice
The Federalist, June 24, 2019
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/24/holocaust-museum-condemns-concentration-camp-comparisons/
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Sedition: When Will Ocasio-Cortez Be Criminally Charged for Inciting Americans to Shelter Illegal Aliens?
By J.D. Heyes
The National Sentinel, June 24, 2019
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https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/24/sedition-when-will-ocasio-cortez-be-criminally-charged-for-inciting-americans-to-shelter-illegal-aliens/
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Trump’s Border Strategy Is Working Out Exactly as I Told You
RushLimbaugh.com, June 25, 2019
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https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/06/25/trumps-border-strategy-is-working-out-exactly-as-i-told-you-it-would/
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Democrat Crocodile Tears for Illegal Alien Children
By Sheriff David Clarke
Townhall.com, June 26, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke/2019/06/26/democrat-crocodile-tears-for-illegal-alien-children-n2549044
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Kushner Immigration Plan Won't Help America's Middle Class
By James Bowen
Townhall.com, June 27, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/jamesbowen/2019/06/27/kushner-immigration-plan-wont-help-americas-middle-class-n2549083
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Obama Judge Invents Sanctuary Courthouses
Activist judge declares all Massachusetts courthouses ICE-free zones.
By Matthew Vadum
FrontPageMag.com, June 26, 2019
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274129/obama-judge-invents-sanctuary-courthouses-matthew-vadum
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SCOTUS Loses Its Census over Citizenship
By Daniel John Sobieski
American Thinker, June 28, 2019
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/scotus_loses_its_census_over_citizenship.html
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A Bad Night for the Unborn and Legal Immigration
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
American Thinker Blog, June 28, 2019
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/a_bad_night_for_the_unborn_and_legal_immigration.html#ixzz5sAdn63qh
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Minnesota’s 'Nice' Culture Is Now a Sanctuary For Transnational Gangs and Drugs
By Daniel Horowitz
Conservative Review, June 28, 2019
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https://www.conservativereview.com/news/minnesotas-nice-culture-now-sanctuary-transnational-gangs-drugs/
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A Closer Look at the Democrats’ Immigration Stances
By Dan Stein
ImmigrationReform.com, June 26, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/06/26/a-closer-look-at-the-democrats-immigration-stances-immigrationreform-com/
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Debate Shows Health of Democratic Party’s Open Borders Wing
By Jennifer G. Hickey
ImmigrationReform.com, June 28, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/06/28/debate-shows-health-of-democratic-partys-open-borders-wing-immigrationreform-com/
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Cato Change-Up: Now E-Verify Isn’t Tough Enough
By Bob Dane
ImmigrationReform.com, June 27, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/06/27/cato-change-up-now-e-verify-isnt-tough-enough-immigrationreform-com/
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Is the Border Crisis President Trump’s Fault?
By Preston Huennekens
ImmigrationReform.com, June 26, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/06/26/is-the-border-crisis-president-trumps-fault-immigrationreform-com/
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This Map Shows the Most Commonly Spoken Language in Every US State, Excluding English and Spanish
By Andy Kiersz and Ivan De Luce
Business Insider, June 2019
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https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-most-common-language-in-every-state-map-2019-6
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LA Officials Advise Illegal Immigrants on How to Thwart ICE
By Jazz Shaw
HotAir.com, June 26, 2019
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https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/26/la-officials-advise-illegal-immigrants-thwart-ice/
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Video: Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t See “the Point” in Enforcing Immigration Law
By Jazz Shaw
HotAir.com, June 25, 2019
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https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/25/video-nancy-pelosi-doesnt-see-point-enforcing-immigration-law/
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Pelosi’s Border Bill Should be Dead on Arrival
By Jazz Shaw
HotAir.com, June 24, 2019
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https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/24/pelosis-border-bill-dead-arrival/
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Holocaust Museum Rejects Analogies to the Southern Border (Update: AOC Claims She Didn’t Mean Nazi Camps)
By John Sexton
HotAir.com, June 24, 2019
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https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/24/holocaust-museum-reject-analogies-holocaust-situation-southern-border/
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Democrats Are Getting Destroyed in the Immigration Debate On Twitter
By David Uberti
Vice.com, June 26, 2019
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https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgjax/democrats-are-getting-destroyed-in-the-immigration-debate-on-twitter
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An OK Month for American Worker Displacement, A Great Year For Immigrants — and Illegal Border Crossings at 7-Year High
By Edwin S. Rubenstein
VDare.com, June 26, 2019
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https://vdare.com/articles/national-data-an-ok-month-for-american-worker-displacement-a-great-year-for-immigrants-and-illegal-border-crossings-at-7-year-high
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The Overdose Crisis Is an Immigration Crisis — Time to Bomb Mexico, Not Middle East?
By Hubert Collins
VDare.com, June 27, 2019
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https://vdare.com/articles/the-overdose-crisis-is-an-immigration-crisis-time-to-bomb-mexico-not-middle-east
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Why Trump's Deal With Mexico Is Doomed:
By Nolan Rappaport
TheHill.com, June 23, 2019
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https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/449853-why-trumps-deal-with-mexico-is-doomed-jungles-judges-and-democrats
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Americans Are Worried About Immigration. Is Congress?
The Chicago Tribune, June 24, 2019
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-immigration-trump-ice-raids-chicago-20190624-g64kjl2agrbf7f6sfodrisnebe-story.html
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No, They’re Not Concentration Camps: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Got Wrong
By Richard Cohen
The New York Daily News, June 24, 2019
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https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-no-theyre-not-concentration-camps-20190625-r26dj2d56rfuzgld35sn2emr3e-story.html
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Our Latin America Policies Are Morally Bankrupt. Mine Reflect American Values
By Joe Biden
The Miami Herald, June 24, 2019
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https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article231878448.html
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Trump Is Doing All the Wrong Things on Immigration
By Jeffrey Miron and Laura Nicolae
CNN.com, June 26, 2019
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https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/trump-doing-all-wrong-things-immigration
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Democratic Debate Ignores Illegal Immigration’s Cause: No Visas
By David Bier
CATO at Liberty Blog, June 27, 2019
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https://www.cato.org/blog/democratic-debate-ignores-illegal-migrations-cause-no-visas
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Deportation Threats Don’t Fix Immigration
The Seattle Times, June 24, 2019
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https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/deportation-threats-dont-fix-immigration/
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Elizabeth Warren Has Endorsed the Most Radical Immigration Idea in the 2020 Primary
Warren is on board with a proposal, first floated by Julián Castro, to decriminalize crossing the border without papers.
By Dara Lind
Vox.com, June 26, 2019
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https://www.vox.com/2019/6/26/18759986/elizabeth-warren-immigration-campaign-2020
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Federal Court Tells ICE to Stop Arrests in Massachusetts Courthouses
By Andrew Patterson
ImmigrationImpact.com, June 27, 2019
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http://immigrationimpact.com/2019/06/27/ice-stop-arrests-in-courthouses/
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Shuffling Kids Between Border Facilities Won’t Solve the Immigration Crisis
Every Border Patrol facility has horrific conditions, and the government is doing nothing to fix them.
By Angelina Chapin
Huffington Post, June 26, 2019
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shuffling-children-border-facilities-immigration_n_5d12a216e4b04f059e4b4575
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Julián Castro’s Plan for Fixing Our Immigration System Is as Radical as it Is Excellent
By Bea Bischoff
Slate.com, June 27, 2019
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/julian-castro-democratic-debate-radical-immigration-plan.html
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