Immigration Opinions, 12/6/19
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1. "Walls Can Work, But Not on Their Own," Mark Krikorian
2. "A Nobel Prize Winner Who Is Out of Touch with Reality," Jason Richwine
3. "CIS Immigration Blog Posts," Dan Cadman, Andrew R. Arthur, David North, Todd Bensman, and Jason Peña
4. "Citizen Revolt: Resist Refugee Resettlement Dumps," Michelle Malkin
5. "Virtue Signaling: The Last Refuge of Virginia’s Governor Northam," Pawel Styrna
6. "House Education Committee Earns a Failing Grade for Politicized Hearing," Jennifer G. Hickey
7. "ICE Fake University Reactions Expose Some 'Grade A' Hypocrites," Jennifer G. Hickey
8. "Huffpost Writer Decries Trump Dismantling Permissive Asylum Policy," Jack Martin
9. "Democrats to America: Be Grateful for Your Dispossession," Matthew Boose
10. "Activist Judge Negates One of the Oldest Rules of U.S. Immigration Law," Kris Kobach
11. "Get Immigration Terms Straight: For Starters, So-Called Dreamers Are Aliens, and They’re Not Undocumented," Lew Jan Olowski
12. "Visa Overstays Aren't the Biggest Problem with Illegal Immigration — the Southern Border Is," Eddie Scarry
13. "Clinton Colluder Protects Cartels," Lloyd Billingsley
14. "The Most Important Issues For Conservatives, and Why None of Them May Matter in the End," Scott Morefield
15. "I Toured an Immigration Detention Facility. Here’s What I Saw.," Terry Schilling
16. "Border Dilemmas Are the Same for Trump or Obama," Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
17. "The Washington Post's Double Standard on Immigration and Guns," Ryan McMaken
18. "Buttigieg Agrees That Illegal Aliens Are 'Reclaiming Stolen Land'," Jazz Shaw
19. "Don’t Buy the Elise Stefanik Hype — She’s an Immigration Booster (and a Buttigieg Buddy)," Washington Watcher II
20. "How Climate Change Influences Immigration to the United States," Deborah Jian Lee
21. "Here's Why the Rejection Rate for Asylum Seekers Has Exploded in America's Largest Immigration Court in NYC," Paul Moses and Tim Healy
22. "The Overlooked Undocumented Immigrants: From India, China, Brazil," Miriam Jordan
23. "Abolish Immigration Prisons," César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
24. "E-Verify for Florida Is Just More Immigration Politics," Randy Schultz
25. "Trump Has Built a Wall of Bureaucracy to Keep Out the Very Immigrants He Says He Wants," Sinduja Rangarajan
26. "McKinsey’s Complicity in Immigration Cruelty," David Dayen
27. "Martin O'Malley Says Not Standing Up to Trump Officials on Immigration Is 'Irresponsible'," Matthew Rozsa
28. "Immigration Courts Further Limit Legal Help Available to People Facing Deportation," Kristin Macleod-Ball
29. "Migrants in France Are Paying the Price for Macron’s Hard Line on Immigration," Karina Piser
30. "Why Europe’s Immigration Policies Are Not Converging," Erica Consterdine and James Hampshire
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Walls Can Work, But Not on Their Own
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, December 6, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/walls-can-work-but-not-on-their-own/
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A Nobel Prize Winner Who Is Out of Touch with Reality
By Jason Richwine
The Corner at National Review Online, December 4, 2019
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-nobel-prize-winner-who-is-out-of-touch-with-reality/
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CIS Immigration Blog Posts
By Dan Cadman
Is Encouraging or Inducing the Illegal Entry of Aliens 'Constitutionally Protected Speech'?
December 5, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/Encouraging-or-Inducing-Illegal-Entry-Aliens-Constitutionally-Protected-Speech
Are We as a Nation Invested in a Principled Stand Against Terror or Not?
Delaying an Irish terrorist's deportation was a mistake
December 5, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/Are-We-Nation-Invested-Principled-Stand-Against-Terror-or-Not
ICE's Fake University: A Sting, not Entrapment
But ongoing, unglamorous work to address foreign student violators still isn't happening
December 3, 2019
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https://cis.org/Cadman/ICEs-Fake-University-Sting-not-Entrapment
By Andrew R. Arthur
O'Malley v. Cuccinelli on 'Kids in Cages'
Blather or blarney? Why not both!
December 5, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/OMalley-v-Cuccinelli-Kids-Cages
What Does TRAC's New 'Non-Criminal' Detention Data Mean?
Confusing report leaves out key information
December 3, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/What-Does-TRACs-New-NonCriminal-Detention-Data-Mean
Another Sanctuary City with Its Priorities Way Out of Whack
The 'Philadelphia Story' meets 'The Omen'
December 2, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Another-Sanctuary-City-Its-Priorities-Way-Out-Whack
Safe Third Country or Baltimore?
You'd be surprised — the facts are the facts
December 2, 2019
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https://cis.org/Arthur/Safe-Third-Country-or-Baltimore
By David North
Nibble, Nibble: House Votes to Extend E Visas to Portuguese Business People
December 6, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Nibble-Nibble-House-Votes-Extend-E-Visas-Portuguese-Business-People
Law360 Joins the Silence on Employer Subsidies in the OPT Program
December 3, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Law360-Joins-Silence-Employer-Subsidies-OPT-Program
Report Shows that Our Government Uses More than 2,000 H-1B Workers
December 2, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Report-Shows-Our-Government-Uses-More-2000-H1B-Workers
Three Non-DHS Entities Find a Massive OPT Fraud
December 2, 2019
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https://cis.org/North/Three-NonDHS-Entities-Find-Massive-OPT-Fraud
By Todd Bensman
Texas Rio Grande Wall Project by Crowdfunded Nonprofit Builder Runs Aground on Litigation
December 6, 2019
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https://cis.org/Bensman/Texas-Rio-Grande-Wall-Project-Crowdfunded-Nonprofit-Builder-Runs-Aground-Litigation
The Tunnels Under Hungary's Fence Are Inconsequential
A few dozen get through, versus hundreds of thousands before
December 4, 2019
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https://cis.org/Bensman/Tunnels-Under-Hungarys-Fence-Are-Inconsequential
By Jason Peña
New Bolivian Government Deports Hundreds of Cubans and Venezuelans
December 5, 2019
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https://cis.org/Pena/New-Bolivian-Government-Deports-Hundreds-Cubans-and-Venezuelans
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Citizen Revolt: Resist Refugee Resettlement Dumps
By Michelle Malkin
Townhall.com, December 5, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/12/05/citizen-revolt-resist-refugee-resettlement-dumps-n2557494
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Virtue Signaling: The Last Refuge of Virginia’s Governor Northam
By Pawel Styrna
ImmigrationReform.com, December 4, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/12/04/refugee-resettlement-virginia-immigrationreform-com/
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House Education Committee Earns a Failing Grade for Politicized Hearing
By Jennifer G. Hickey
ImmigrationReform.com, December 6, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/12/06/education-illegal-immigrants-congress-immigrationreform-com/
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ICE Fake University Reactions Expose Some “Grade A” Hypocrites
By Jennifer G. Hickey
ImmigrationReform.com, December 3, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/12/03/media-ice-visa-fraud-immigrationreform-com/
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Huffpost Writer Decries Trump Dismantling Permissive Asylum Policy
By Jack Martin
ImmigrationReform.com, November 26, 2019
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https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/11/26/asylum-policy-media-bias-immigrationreform-com/
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Democrats to America: Be Grateful for Your Dispossession
By Matthew Boose
American Greatness, December 5, 2019
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https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/05/democrats-to-america-be-grateful-for-your-dispossession/
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Activist Judge Negates One of the Oldest Rules of U.S. Immigration Law
By Kris Kobach
Breitbart.com News, November 30, 2019
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/30/kobach-activist-judge-negates-one-of-the-oldest-rules-of-u-s-immigration-law/
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Get Immigration Terms Straight: For Starters, So-Called Dreamers Are Aliens, and They’re Not Undocumented
By Lew Jan Olowski
New York Daily News, December 2, 2019
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https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-get-immigration-terms-straight-20191202-a5hyq4sutjcgzbpzr2ydn76joe-story.html
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Visa Overstays Aren't the Biggest Problem with Illegal Immigration — the Southern Border Is
By Eddie Scarry
Washington Examiner, December 2, 2019
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/visa-overstays-arent-the-biggest-problem-with-illegal-immigration-the-southern-border-is
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Clinton Colluder Protects Cartels
Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard opposes terrorist designation for murderous cartels.
By Lloyd Billingsley
FrontPageMag.com, December 2, 2019
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/clinton-colluder-protects-cartels-lloyd-billingsley/
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The Most Important Issues For Conservatives, and Why None of Them May Matter in the End
In other words - if we lose the immigration battle, we lose the war, for good.
By Scott Morefield
Townhall.com, December 2, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2019/12/02/the-most-important-issues-for-conservatives-and-why-none-of-them-may-matter-in-the-end-n2557305
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I Toured an Immigration Detention Facility. Here’s What I Saw.
By Terry Schilling
Townhall.com, December 4, 2019
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https://townhall.com/columnists/terryschilling/2019/12/04/i-toured-an-immigration-detention-facility-heres-what-i-saw-n2557464
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Border Dilemmas Are the Same for Trump or Obama
Two global news agencies withdraw a story when they realize it scandalized the wrong president.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
The Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2019
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/border-dilemmas-are-the-same-for-trump-or-obama-11575063189
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The Washington Post's Double Standard on Immigration and Guns
By Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute, December 3, 2019
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https://mises.org/wire/washington-posts-double-standard-immigration-and-guns
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Buttigieg Agrees That Illegal Aliens Are “Reclaiming Stolen Land”
By Jazz Shaw
HotAir.com, December 2, 2019
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https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/12/02/buttigieg-agrees-illegal-aliens-reclaiming-stolen-land/
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Don’t Buy the Elise Stefanik Hype — She’s an Immigration Booster (and a Buttigieg Buddy)
By Washington Watcher II
VDare.com, December 3, 2019
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https://vdare.com/articles/don-t-buy-the-elise-stefanik-hype-she-s-an-immigration-booster-and-a-buttigieg-buddy
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How Climate Change Influences Immigration to the United States
Protracted drought and crop failures are part of why people in Central America are fleeing their homes.
By Deborah Jian Lee
Yale Climate Connections, December 4, 2019
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https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/12/how-climate-change-influences-immigration-to-the-united-states/
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Here's Why the Rejection Rate for Asylum Seekers Has Exploded in America's Largest Immigration Court in NYC
“It’s basically like the same problem with putting quotas on police officers for tickets.”
By Paul Moses and Tim Healy
The Daily Beast, December 2, 2019
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-the-rejection-rate-for-asylum-seekers-has-exploded-in-americas-largest-immigration-court-in-nyc
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The Overlooked Undocumented Immigrants: From India, China, Brazil
President Trump has focused on blocking unauthorized crossings on the Southern border. But nearly half of those who are in the country unlawfully actually entered with permission.
By Miriam Jordan
The New York Times, December 3, 2019
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/us/undocumented-visa-overstays.html
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Abolish Immigration Prisons
We should shut down these institutions, end the suffering they cause and redirect the money.
By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
The New York Times, December 2, 2019
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/immigration-detention-prison.html
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E-Verify for Florida Is Just More Immigration Politics
By Randy Schultz
The South Florida Sun Sentinel, December 3, 2019
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-schultz-e-verify-florida-immigration-20191203-5arqilgesbff7km64j57oqgzr4-story.html
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Trump Has Built a Wall of Bureaucracy to Keep Out the Very Immigrants He Says He Wants
By Sinduja Rangarajan
Mother Jones, December 2, 2019
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-restrictions/
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McKinsey’s Complicity in Immigration Cruelty
By David Dayen
American Prospect blog, December 4, 2019
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https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/mckinseys-complicity-in-immigration-cruelty/
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Martin O'Malley Says Not Standing Up to Trump Officials on Iimmigration Is "Irresponsible"
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley had a heated debate with Trump's acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
By Matthew Rozsa
Salon.com, December 1, 2019
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https://www.salon.com/2019/12/01/exclusive-martin-omalley-advises-americans-against-silence-toward-trump-immigration-officials/
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Immigration Courts Further Limit Legal Help Available to People Facing Deportation
By Kristin Macleod-Ball
ImmigrationImpact.com, December 3, 2019
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http://immigrationimpact.com/2019/12/03/immigration-courts-limit-friend-of-the-court/#.XerMwW5Fyyc
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Migrants in France Are Paying the Price for Macron’s Hard Line on Immigration
By Karina Piser
World Politics Review, December 5, 2019
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https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28390/in-macron-s-france-immigration-policy-is-getting-more-restrictive
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Why Europe’s Immigration Policies Are Not Converging
By Erica Consterdine and James Hampshire
The London School of Economics blog, December 3, 2019
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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2019/12/03/why-europes-immigration-policies-are-not-converging/
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