Immigration Opinions, 5/17/20
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1. "Now Is Not the Time to Increase Immigrant Labor, Steven A. Camarota
2. "CIS Immigration Blog Posts," Andrew Arthur, David North, John Miano, Jason Richwine, and Todd Bensman
3. "Biden Immigration Flip-Flops – Let's Separate Facts From His Campaign's Fictions," Tom Homan
4. "Consequences, Not Green Cards, for Young Illegal Immigrants," Lora Ries
5. "DHS Gives New York the Red Light for State’s Green Light Law," Lora Ries
6. "Most Wanted Illegal Alien Convicted of Sex With a Minor, Battery Freed Six Times," Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, May 11
7. "The Coronavirus Pandemic Is a Many-Headed Hydra—And Immigration Is One of Them," Pedro Gonzalez
8. "A Farrago of Democrat Delusions Will Bury Them in 2020," Conrad Black
9. "Immigration Levels Were Hurting U.S. Workers Before COVID-19, Now What?," Eric Ruark
10. "SCOTUS: 9th Circuit Can’t Twist Law to De-Criminalize Aiding and Abetting Illegals," Matt O'Brien
11. "Illegal Aliens Receive Funds, Legal Residents Suffer," Shari Rendall
12. "Interactive Blog: Rate This Newscast on the Fate of DACA," Dave Ray
13. "From Its Ivory Tower, Cato Throws More Fuel on the COVID Fire," Bob Dane
14. "COVID Phase 4: Raising the Investment in Illegal Aliens," Bob Dane
15. "UN’s Push to End All Immigration Detention Is Not So Unbelievable," Jennifer G. Hickey
16. "NILC’s 'Immigrants Are Essential' Campaign Misleads and Trivializes Americans," Pawel Styrna
17. "Baker’s Lax Stance on Illegal Immigrants Is Shear Ignorance," Howie Carr
18. "Guatemala Doesn’t Want Deportees With WuFlu ... But Exports 'Guest Workers' Who Might Catch It. And the U.S. State Department Is Helping!," Allan Wall
19. "Kritarch Royce Lamberth Strikes Again, 'Banning' US Marshalls From Arresting Illegals," Federale
20. "Jailbreak: ICE SVU Saboteurs Surrender to Illegal Aliens and Kritarch," Federale
21. "How Travel Bans Failed to Stop the Spread of COVID-19," David J. Bier
22. "Migration Reciprocity with Other Nations Is a Path Toward Expanding Legal Immigration," Alex Nowrasteh
23. "Plans for Additional Restrictions on Immigration," The National Law Review
24. "Immigration Courts Need Independence From the Justice Department," Lauren Reiff
25. "Immigrants Were Largely Overlooked in the US’s Coronavirus Response. The Latest Relief Bill Aims to Fix That.," Nicole Narea
26. "Trump is Continuing Deportations During the Pandemic. It’s Causing the Coronavirus to Spread.," Nicole Narea
27. "Effects of Coronavirus on Undocumented Immigrants," Suzanne Driscoll
28. "The Rocky Road to a Mobile World after COVID-19," Meghan Benton
29. "Trump's Latest Decision on Immigration Is Bad for America," Elsa Kania and Megan Lamberth
30. "They Lost Their Jobs. Now They May Have to Leave the U.S.," Miriam Jordan
31. "If the Supreme Court Terminates DACA, President Trump Can Still Fix It," Jorge Loweree
32. "Essential Workers Are at the Heart of a Diversifying Working-Class America," Wendy Feliz
33. "Government Takes Surprising Position to Preserve H-4 Work Permits – For Now," Leslie Dellon
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Now Is Not the Time to Increase Immigrant Labor
It makes no sense to continue to bring in so many foreign workers.
By Steven A. Camarota
National Review Online, May 12, 2020
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/now-is-not-the-time-to-increase-immigrant-labor/
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CIS Immigration Blog Posts
By Andrew R. Arthur
Amnesty Provision in Democrats' Wuhan Coronavirus Bill
Section 191203: 'The Alien Murderer, Rapist, Child Sex Offender, Trafficker, and Abuser Deferred Action and Full-Employment Act'
May 15, 2020
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Amnesty-Provision-Democrats-Wuhan-Coronavirus-Bill
Which Is Safer, ICE Detention or Rockland County, N.Y.?
When it comes to the Wuhan Coronavirus, you'd be surprised
May 15, 2020
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Which-Safer-ICE-Detention-or-Rockland-County-NY
D.C. District Court Says Marshals Service Lacks Authority to Comply with an ICE Detainer
Sets up higher court showdown on ICE's detainer authority
May 14, 2020
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https://cis.org/Arthur/DC-District-Court-Says-Marshals-Service-Lacks-Authority-Comply-ICE-Detainer
CBP Southwest Border Cases Plummet
Why ICE detention rates are so low and social distancing is easier for detainees
May 14, 2020
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https://cis.org/Arthur/CBP-Southwest-Border-Cases-Plummet
With the Summer Heating Up, CBP Augments Program to Save Migrants in Distress
When 911 alone just won't do
May 9, 2020
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Summer-Heating-CBP-Augments-Program-Save-Migrants-Distress
By David North
Is There Such a Thing as a Visa Mill Emeritus?
May 15, 2020
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https://cis.org/North/There-Such-Thing-Visa-Mill-Emeritus
How Employers Manipulate H-1B Wages, and the Room for More Reform
May 13, 2020
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https://cis.org/North/How-Employers-Manipulate-H1B-Wages-and-Room-More-Reform
By John Miano
Media Vastly Overstates Role of DACA in Healthcare
May 12, 2020
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https://cis.org/Miano/Media-Vastly-Overstates-Role-DACA-Healthcare
Supreme Court Decision on DACA Expected Soon
Amicus briefs make a much better legal case than the parties' briefs
May 12, 2020
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https://cis.org/Miano/Supreme-Court-Decision-DACA-Expected-Soon
By Jason Richwine
The National Academies Did Not Say that Young, Low-Skill Immigrants Are a Fiscal Benefit
May 13, 2020
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https://cis.org/Richwine/National-Academies-Did-Not-Say-Young-LowSkill-Immigrants-Are-Fiscal-Benefit
By Todd Bensman
Europe's Most-Wanted Jihadist Crossed into EU Disguised as an Asylum-Seeker
A successful tactic the Europeans just can't beat. Are American homeland security leaders paying attention?
May 12, 2020
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https://cis.org/Miano/Media-Vastly-Overstates-Role-DACA-Healthcare
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Biden Immigration Flip-Flops – Let's Separate Facts From His Campaign's Fictions
By Tom Homan
Fox News, May 13, 2020
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-immigration-flipflops-fiction-campaign-tom-homan
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Consequences, Not Green Cards, for Young Illegal Immigrants
By Lora Ries
Heritage Foundation, May 12, 2020
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https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/consequences-not-green-cards-young-illegal-immigrants
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DHS Gives New York the Red Light for State’s Green Light Law
By Lora Ries
Heritage Foundation, May 7, 2020
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https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/commentary/dhs-gives-new-york-the-red-light-states-green-light-law
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Most Wanted Illegal Alien Convicted of Sex With a Minor, Battery Freed Six Times
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, May 11, 2020
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https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/most-wanted-illegal-alien-convicted-of-sex-with-a-minor-battery-freed-6-times/
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is a Many-Headed Hydra—And Immigration Is One of Them
By Pedro Gonzalez
American Greatness, May 10, 2020
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https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/10/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-a-many-headed-hydra-and-immigration-is-one-of-them/
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Farrago of Democrat Delusions Will Bury Them in 2020
Comparative peace will come after the election; political corpses can’t fight on after the voters have buried them.
By Conrad Black
American Greatness, May 14, 2020
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https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/14/a-farrago-of-democrat-delusions-will-bury-them-in-2020/
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Immigration Levels Were Hurting U.S. Workers Before COVID-19, Now What?
By Eric Ruark
NumbersUSA.com, May 15 2020
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https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/immigration-levels-were-hurting-us-workers-covid-19-now-what
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SCOTUS: 9th Circuit Can’t Twist Law to De-Criminalize Aiding and Abetting Illegals
By Matt O'Brien
ImmigrationReform.com, May 15, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/15/supreme-court-ruling-aiding-illegal-aliens-immigrationreform-com/
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Illegal Aliens Receive Funds, Legal Residents Suffer
By Shari Rendall
ImmigrationReform.com, May 13, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/13/illegal-aliens-receive-funds-legal-residents-suffer/
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Interactive Blog: Rate This Newscast on the Fate of DACA
By Dave Ray
ImmigrationReform.com, May 13, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/13/interactive-blog-newscast-daca/
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From Its Ivory Tower, Cato Throws More Fuel on the COVID Fire
By Bob Dane
ImmigrationReform.com, May 14, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/14/cato-mass-immigration-unemployed-immigrationreform-com/
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COVID Phase 4: Raising the Investment in Illegal Aliens
By Bob Dane
ImmigrationReform.com, May 12, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/12/democrats-covid-relief-funds-illegals-immigrationreform-com/
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UN’s Push to End All Immigration Detention Is Not So Unbelievable
By Jennifer G. Hickey
ImmigrationReform.com, May 12, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/12/un-end-immigration-detention-absurd/
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NILC’s “Immigrants Are Essential” Campaign Misleads and Trivializes Americans
By Pawel Styrna
ImmigrationReform.com, May 9, 2020
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/05/09/mass-immigration-advocacy-workers-immigrationreform-com/
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Baker’s Lax Stance on Illegal Immigrants Is Shear Ignorance
By Howie Carr
The Boston Herald, May 17, 2020
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/17/bakers-lax-stance-on-illegal-immigrants-is-shear-ignorance/
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Guatemala Doesn’t Want Deportees With WuFlu ... But Exports “Guest Workers” Who Might Catch It. And the U.S. State Department Is Helping!
By Allan Wall
VDare.com, May 10, 2020
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https://vdare.com/articles/said-in-spanish-guatemala-doesn-t-want-deportees-with-wuflu-but-exports-guest-workers-who-might-catch-it-and-the-u-s-state-department-is-helping
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Kritarch Royce Lamberth Strikes Again, "Banning" US Marshalls From Arresting Illegals
By Federale
VDare.com blog, May 16, 2020
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https://vdare.com/posts/kritarch-royce-lamberth-strikes-again-banning-us-marshalls-from-arresting-illegals
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Jailbreak: ICE SVU Saboteurs Surrender to Illegal Aliens and Kritarch
By Federale
VDare.com blog, May 11, 2020
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https://vdare.com/posts/jailbreak-ice-svu-saboteurs-surrender-to-illegal-aliens-and-kritarch
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How Travel Bans Failed to Stop the Spread of COVID-19
By David J. Bier
Washington Examiner, May 14, 2020
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-trump-travel-bans-failed-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19
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Migration Reciprocity with Other Nations Is a Path Toward Expanding Legal Immigration
By Alex Nowrasteh
CATO at Liberty blog, May 15, 2020
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https://www.cato.org/blog/migration-reciprocity-other-nations-path-toward-expanding-legal-immigration
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Plans for Additional Restrictions on Immigration
The National Law Review, May 13, 2020
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https://www.natlawreview.com/article/plans-additional-restrictions-immigration
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Immigration Courts Need Independence From the Justice Department
By Lauren Reiff
BloombergLaw.com, May 15, 2020
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/insight-immigration-courts-need-independence-from-the-justice-department-7
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Immigrants Were Largely Overlooked in the US’s Coronavirus Response. The Latest Relief Bill Aims to Fix That.
Here are five ways the Heroes Act would help immigrants impacted by the pandemic.
By Nicole Narea
VOX.com, May 15, 2020
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https://www.vox.com/2020/5/15/21257361/heroes-act-coronavirus-bill-immigrants
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Trump is Continuing Deportations During the Pandemic. It’s Causing the Coronavirus to Spread.
Immigration court hearings and asylum-claims processing have been put on hold. But not deportations.
By Nicole Narea
VOX.com, May 15, 2020
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https://www.vox.com/2020/5/12/21250540/coronavirus-immigration-limits-trump-deportations-guatemala-honduras
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Effects of Coronavirus on Undocumented Immigrants
By Suzanne Driscoll
Jurist, May 12, 2020
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https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/05/suzanne-driscoll-undocumented-immigrants/
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The Rocky Road to a Mobile World after COVID-19
By Meghan Benton
Migration Policy Institute, May 2020
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/rocky-road-mobile-world-after-covid-19
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Trump's Latest Decision on Immigration Is Bad for America
Imposing immigration restrictions during the coronavirus crisis has a negative impact on America’s values, recovery, and national competitiveness.
By Elsa Kania and Megan Lamberth
The National Interest Online, May 12, 2020
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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump%E2%80%99s-latest-decision-immigration-bad-america-153456
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They Lost Their Jobs. Now They May Have to Leave the U.S.
The Trump administration is unlikely to allow laid-off holders of H-1B and other work visas to extend their stay in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By Miriam Jordan
The New York Times, May 12, 2020
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/foreign-workers-visas-immigrants.html
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If the Supreme Court Terminates DACA, President Trump Can Still Fix It
By Jorge Loweree
ImmigrationImpact.com, May 14, 2020
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https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/05/14/if-supreme-court-ends-daca/#.XsCL88-WybY
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Essential Workers Are at the Heart of a Diversifying Working-Class America
By Wendy Feliz
ImmigrationImpact.com, May 14, 2020
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https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/05/15/essential-workers-diverse-america/#.XsCMUc-WybY
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Government Takes Surprising Position to Preserve H-4 Work Permits – For Now
By Leslie Dellon
ImmigrationImpact.com, May 13, 2020
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https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/05/13/h1b-worker-spouse-h4-lawsuit/#.XsCMo8-WybY
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