By Andrew L. Jaffee

Those of us who support legal immigration won a small victory today, but the battle is just beginning. “A fragile bipartisan compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants suffered a setback Thursday when it failed a test vote in the Senate, leaving its prospects uncertain…” But “the measure…got a reprieve when Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would give it more time before yanking the bill and moving on to other matters.” This “compromise” is President Bush’s pet, and would open the floodgates to illegal immigration. The President is really looking to ensure a cheap supply of labor, even tough he cloaks his aims in other language (sophistry). His plan is basically an amnesty that rewards people who have illegally entered the U.S. What we really need is legal and sustainable immigration, not an illegal tidal wave.

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Newest Data Shows Latin American Immigrants Make Heavy Use of Welfare

By Mark Krikorian

WASHINGTON (June 6, 2007) — As they debate legalization for illegal immigrants, Senators would do well to keep in mind the most recent data on welfare use by the people in question. According to the Department of Homeland Security, nearly 60% of illegal aliens are from Mexico and 80% of the total are from Latin America as a whole. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2006 Census Bureau data, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, shows use of welfare by households headed by Mexican and Latin American immigrants is more than double that of native households. Among the findings:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Despite evidence to the contrary, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton fed his own officers to the dogs at a press conference held yesterday. Obviously, his career advancement comes before officer safety. Bratton stated that a “‘command and control breakdown’ and poor officer communication fueled violence” between police officers and demonstrators at a May 1 immigration rally in MacArthur Park. Members of the press were caught in the middle. But the LAPD’s own “transmissions, video footage and dozens of interviews from command staff” show that some of the demonstrators violently attacked police, according to a report aired on NPR yesterday (re: an “aggressive group of rock throwing demonstrators”). Jack Dunphy of the National Review has “spoken with people who were directly involved and [has] pieced together what [he is] confident is an accurate if incomplete description of the events:”

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New Report Corrects Misconceptions About High-Tech Visa

By Mark Krikorian *

WASHINGTON (May 2007) — There is much discussion of reorienting the legal immigration flow toward “highly skilled” workers, the kind of workers admitted by the H-1B visa program. That visa, which is theoretically temporary but often serves as a stepping-stone to permanent residency, is widely used by high-tech employers and is the frequent subject of debate as available slots are snapped up within hours and lawmakers call for higher limits.

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by Steven A. Camarota*

The argument is often made that immigrants have a stronger commitment to traditional family values than do native-born Americans. However, birth records show that about one-third of births to both groups are now to unmarried parents. Moreover, unmarried immigrants are significantly more likely than unmarried natives to give birth. Illegitimacy may be especially problematic for children of immigrants because they need strong families to adjust to life in America.

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By Mark Krikorian*

Editor’s note: This article is insightful, given today’s “Amnesty Now” protests (demands) in LA.

When the Democrats won in November, there was a sense that an illegal-alien amnesty and huge increases in future immigration were inevitable. Even Rep. Tom Tancredo, the uber-hawk on immigration, was taken in: “We will fight it, we will lose,” he told the Washington Times. “It will go to the Senate, it will pass. The president will sign it. And it will happen quickly because that’s one thing they know they can pass.”

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By Bill West*

A few days ago, a rickety wooden sailboat overloaded with some 100 illegal Haitians penetrated our nation’s coastal defenses in south Florida. The Haitians made landfall just north of Miami near a fire station along the beach and, thanks to observant citizens, authorities did manage to capture what were by then compliant but dehydrated and voyage weary wannabe refugees, one of whom unfortunately died in the effort to reach American shores. This is yet another sad chapter in the ongoing sad saga of the poor and porous border security we have in the United States. If 100+ hapless Haitian refugees on a decrepit wooden sailboat can evade detection by the best efforts of the US military and law enforcement to secure our borders from such intrusion, can we truly expect that a sophisticated and well funded terrorist organization, or hostile foreign intelligence service, will have any trouble penetrating those border defenses?

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

French President Jacques Chirac, friend of Saddam Hussein, who presided over the oil-for-food debacle, who put his own popularity and French “pride” over dozens of national and international issues which deserved serious consideration — I don’t trust anything he does or says. I do believe that France’s interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, is the best hope to tackle France’s immigration, economic, and social problems. So what the heck is Chirac doing endorsing Sarkozy’s bid to be the next president of the republic?

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Mark Steyn predicts that Europe is finished vis-à-vis its burgeoning immigrant — especially Muslim — population, but there have been signs that the continent hasn’t gone over the cliff… yet. Earlier this year, an opinion poll of Brits found that a, “Huge majority say civil liberty curbs a ‘price worth paying’ to fight terror.” Germany’s interior minister made some refreshingly honest points about requiring Muslims to leave the Stone Age if they are to find homes in Europe. “The Netherlands, which has cut immigration in half since 2001, is deporting 26,000 rejected asylum seekers and keeping new arrivals in detention camps.” Which leads me to the point of this article:

So vast has the number of deportees from Europe become, that two enterprising businessmen have hatched an extraordinary plan - a new airline exclusively for failed asylum seekers.

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by Daniel Pipes*

Europe’s long-term relations with its burgeoning Muslim minority, the continent’s most critical issue, will follow one of three paths: harmonious integration, the expulsion of Muslims, or an Islamic takeover. Which of these scenarios will most likely play out?

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by Mark Krikorian*

President Bush’s “comprehensive” amnesty-guestworker extravaganza, that Sen. Kennedy may introduce as early as next week, is not going to become law this year. It may well be approved in some form by the Senate, though even that is not a sure thing.

But it will stumble again in the House of Representatives, just as it did last year, and for the same reason—the public hates it.

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Inter-climatic Immigration, Global Warming & Greenhouse Gases

By Dick Field

A few commentators have expressed grave concern that the continued importation of millions of immigrants to Canada, the UK, the USA and northern Europe contributes to an ever increasing urban sprawl and the consequent destruction of vital agricultural lands. Even Canada’s huge land mass cannot support the density of human occupation that its size would lead one to believe. Most of Canada’s land mass is virtually uninhabitable. Compatible cultural integration is also becoming a cause of concern.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

“Oh, Canada!” Or should I do my impersonation of René Lévesque singing, “Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours?” The town of Herouxville, Quebec has taken a stand against the “multi-cultural” crap of giving special dispensations to Islamists. Merci beaucoup! Désirent ardemment Herouxville de phase! You think it would be common sense for any human community to agree that throwing acid on your wife is a bad thing, but not much in Sharia makes sense. The blind fools who push extremist, dogmatic multi-culturalism on us would allow anything, as long as it doesn’t offend anyone. [Freudian interpretation: These fools subconsciously believe that they’ll be spared Islamist throat-slitting by placating Muslims.] Here’s the skinny from Reuters:

Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.

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By Center for Immigration Studies

SAN DIEGO (January 2007) — Discussion of U.S.-Mexico relations seldom acknowledges the longstanding and systemic conditions that foster the illegal out migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals each year. Neither Washington politicians nor the State Department want to publicly address the decades-long instability in Mexico for which no Mexican politicians are ever held accountable. Can any significant policy discussion of America’s border crisis with Mexico continue to ignore the basic conditions of America’s neighbor to the south?

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by Bill Levinson

The Canadian Free Press reports that armed Mexican drug dealers attacked unarmed U.S. National Guard troops on the United States’ side of the border. This is commonly known as an act of war, and it should be treated as such. If anyone thinks otherwise, recall General Pershing’s invasion of Mexico in 1916 as a result of Pancho Villa’s incursions into the United States.

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