Category: Other Immigration

CIS: US Illegal immigrant population declining, but legal still on the rise

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The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has a new report out yesterday that indicates that illegal immigrant numbers in the US are down this year most likely due to enhanced enforcement of immigration laws and the declining economy.   Yet, they note that legal immigration numbers continue to rise.

Here is the opening paragraph of the report (A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population):

Monthly Census Bureau data show that the number of less-educated young Hispanic immigrants in the country has declined significantly. The evidence indicates that the illegal population declined after July 2007 and then rebounded somewhat in the summer of 2008 before resuming its decline in the fall of 2008 and into the first quarter of 2009. Both increased immigration enforcement and the recession seem to explain this decline. There is evidence that the decline was caused by both fewer illegal immigrants coming and an increase in the number returning home. However, this pattern does not apply to the legal immigrant population, which has not fallen significantly.

And here is what they say about the increasing number of legal immigrants.   I can tell you from the standpoint of refugee numbers coming into the US, that there has been no let-up due to the lack of jobs for refugees—-the State Department is keeping the spigot wide open and I guess they assume the refugees will just need more welfare.

In contrast to the likely illegal immigrant population, the top line in Figure 1 for the likely legal immigrant population does not show a decline. It shows a continual and relatively steady increase in size until the last few months, when the population fell slightly. Between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 the population of likely legal adult immigrants grew 2.9 percent and over the same period in 2008 and 2009 it grew almost 1 percent. Whatever factors affect the likely illegal population, they do not seem to be impacting legal immigrants in the same way. While the economic downturn must have some impact on legal immigrants, there is no indication that their numbers have fallen in the way that that those for illegal immigrants have declined. Since only illegal immigrants face enforcement, this tends to support the idea that enforcement accounts for some share of the decline in illegal immigration.

As I have said before this idea of flooding the welfare system with angry poor people is the strategy first outlined by Saul Alinsky and then Cloward and Piven at Columbia University and carried on by Obama and his friends like Wade Rathke at the SEIU.  One must create chaos to bring about change in our form of government.  They must have the immigrants to do that!   I predict as illegal immigration declines, legal immigration will be stepped up.  And, I also predict, the Obama Administration will lighten up on enforcement (they already are!).

So for all of you having anxiety attacks over why they don’t follow common sense and slow all immigration until there are an adequate number of jobs for the newcomers, they don’t want to!  The agitators must agitate! 

There is an extra added bonus!  The big business supporters of the Obama Administration get to keep labor costs low—-a win-win for Obama!

To new readers:  We have 66 previous posts in our “community destabilization” category if you would like to better understand community organizers!

SPLC urging CNN to fire Lou Dobbs over Obama Birth Certificate issue

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To readers arriving here and wondering where the refugee posts are, I promise I will shortly post some refugee stories from my ever-growing queue.  It’s just that there are so many intriguing other things going on, I can’t resist mentioning them.   And, since we have mentioned the Southern Poverty Law Center (here and here) before and we have mentioned the Obama birth certificate issue here, I figured this story was not too far off topic, especially since it demonstrates Alinsky’s rule # 13* as well (Please read the Rule 13 post before proceeding!).

Screaming racism (ho hum!), the radical Leftwing SPLC has mounted a campaign to urge CNN to fire Dobbs (outspoken critic of illegal immigration) who apparently has reported on the Obama Birth Certificate controversy—you know the one that appears to be growing the longer Obama refuses to release his real original birth certificate supposedly under lock and key in Hawaii. Check out what this Delaware Congressman heard at a townhall meeting recently.

Here is what Richard Cohen, President of the SPLC is asking his followers:

July 24, 2009

Dear Friend,

Lou Dobbs is at it again.

We’ve told you about how the CNN host has used his platform to spread hateful propaganda that demonizes Latinos.

Now, Dobbs is supporting the bizarre claims of so-called “birthers” who insist that President Obama isn’t really a citizen of the United States and that his presidency, therefore, is not legitimate.

The truth about Obama’s birth in Hawaii is not in dispute. It has been verified by many reputable journalists, including CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who called the claims “a joke,” and even a reporter on Dobbs’ own show. Yet Dobbs continues to fan the flames.

It’s important to note that this conspiracy theory was concocted by an anti-Semite and circulated by racist extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president. Among those who helped disseminate the lie was the neo-Nazi who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in June.

Respectable news organizations should not be peddling propaganda that supports the agenda of radical extremists who are only interested in stirring up hate and fomenting violence. But Dobbs continues to do just that. And it’s irresponsible for CNN to let him continue trading in falsehoods.

Enough is enough. Today, I’ve written to the president of CNN urging that Dobbs be removed from the air.

I encourage you to contact CNN yourself. If enough of us speak up, the network will listen.

Thank you for standing strong against hate.
Sincerely,

J. Richard Cohen
President, Southern Poverty Law Center

*All of our research on Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is posted in our ‘Community destabilization’ category.   Note that in both my links to the SPLC, it was rule #13 that SPLC is using to isolate individuals who oppose them.   And, in Dobbs case, although I never saw any of his news on the birth certificate issue they are simply seeking to silence any media commentators they don’t like.

P.S. You might want to follow Mr. Cohen’s lead (link above) and write to the president of CNN yourself, or use the other link Cohen has supplied, or do both!

Comment worth noting: FAIR is looking for help stopping government health care for illegal aliens

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This comment was posted at an old post (here) by reader Toni Hagen and would likely not be seen by most readers so I’m posting it below.  Although we primarily report on legal immigration  reform issues, we also bring you the occasional illegal alien news.  This plea for help is timely since all the talk these days is of health care reform and how much it will cost.  I just went to FAIR’s website and this is on the site but there is more.

Help FAIR [Federation for American Immigration Reform] Stop Congress from giving YOUR Tax Dollars to Illegal Aliens!

Last week, Democratic Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled their 1,018 page health care reform bill, entitled the “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ (H.R. 3200). While Congressional Leaders have repeatedly claimed that this Obama-backed health care bill will not cover illegal aliens, FAIR’s analysis has shown that the legislation actually contains several loopholes that would give taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens and give illegal aliens handouts – in the form of so-called “affordability credits” to pay for health insurance!

While the House Ways & Means Committee was considering this bill last Thursday, July 16, Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) attempted to close these loopholes. Heller offered an amendment that would have done two important things:

First, the Heller Amendment would have required that any participant in the “public” plan created under the bill must prove they are not an illegal alien by demonstrating eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. This part of the Heller Amendment would have ensured that American taxpayers wouldn’t be forced to foot the bill to enroll illegal aliens in the government-run, taxpayer-subsidized “public” plan created under the health care bill!

Second, the amendment would have required each recipient of the “affordability credit” created under the bill to also have their eligibility verified by the IEVS and SAVE systems. This part of the Heller Amendment would have ensured that illegal aliens who buy private insurance could not receive taxpayer-funded handouts to help offset (or, perhaps, completely pay for) the cost of their insurance premiums.
Incredibly, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on a party-line basis to reject the Heller Amendment! This astonishing vote directly contradicts the will of the American people, 80% of whom oppose covering illegal aliens under this health care bill. (Rasmussen Reports). Many lawmakers apparently don’t seem to care about the views of the people they were elected to serve.

The health care bill is now moving to the House Energy and Commerce Committee for further consideration. That committee twice postponed consideration of the bill this week because moderate Democrats are concerned about some of the provisions – and cost – of the bill. That gives us a chance to get the Energy and Commerce Committee to fix what the Ways & Means Committee would not. This may be our last chance to ensure that the House bill doesn’t provide taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens! We can make a difference before this bill moves to the floor for consideration by the entire U.S. House of Representatives.

Here’s what you can do:
1.) The following is a list of all of the 26 Democrats on the House Ways & Means Committee who voted against the Heller Amendment. If the name of your Representative is on this list, or there is one from your state, be sure to call them! If there are no members from your state, call two or three that are closest to your state geographically and tell them:

You don’t support taxpayer-funded health care benefits for illegal aliens.
You are very upset at how they voted on the Heller Amendment.
You expect Congress to include meaningful verification procedures before people can access taxpayer-funded health care benefits.

A WORD OF WARNING: the offices you call may try to tell you that SECTION 246 of the bill will prevent illegal aliens from getting benefits. DO NOT BELIEVE IT!! That section is meaningless because the bill doesn’t contain any means to enforce that provision. The Heller Amendment would have put the necessary enforcement tools in place to prevent this giveaway to illegal aliens, but the following members opposed putting those tools in place!

Charlie Rangel (D-New York) 202-225-4365
Xavier Becerra (D-California) 202-225-6235
Shelley Berkley (D-Nevada) 202-225-5965
Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) 202-225-4811
Joseph Crowley (D-New York) 202-225-3965
Artur Davis (D-Alabama) 202-225-2665
Danny Davis (D-Illinois) 202-225-5006
Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) 202-225-4865
Bob Etheridge (D-North Carolina) 202-225-4531
Brian Higgins (D-New York) 202-225-3306
Ron Kind (D-Wisconsin) 202-225-5506
John Larson (D-Connecticut) 202-225-2265
Sander Levin (D-Michigan) 202-225-4961
John Lewis (D-Georgia) 202-225-3801
Jim McDermott (D-Washington) 202-225-3106
Kendrick Meek (D-Florida) 202-225-4506
Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts) 202-225-5601
Bill Pascrell (D-New Jersey) 202-225-5751
Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) 202-225-2611
Linda Sanchez (D-California) 202-225-6676
Allyson Schwartz (D-Pennsylvania) 202-225-6111
Pete Stark (D-California) 202-225-5065
John Tanner (D-Tennessee) 202-225-4714
Mike Thompson (D-California) 202-225-3311
Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) 202-225-5341
John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) 202-225-5401

Another immigrant scam—Romanians this time!

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I’m telling you, I really should do a blog just on immigrant scams—-there are so many and they are so varied in their creativity, the topic would make for a great blog.  This one comes from our neighboring county, Frederick Co. Maryland, although the scammers were nabbed in Oklahoma. I know, off topic, but too good to resist posting.

Two men of Romanian descent [gypsies?  here in America?] have been charged with stealing money by tampering with an ATM operated by PNC Bank on Thomas Johnson Drive, according to Frederick police.

The men, Mihai Ittu, 40, and Stefan Iancu, 31, are believed to be part of a theft ring in several states across the country that stole more than $40,000, said Lt. Shawn Martyak, commander of the department’s Criminal Investigation Division. The other states involved are California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oklahoma.

[….]

Ittu and Iancu were arrested somewhere around Oklahoma City late last week, Martyak said. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities contacted Detective William Forder in Frederick.

Here is how they stole peoples’ account information:

He said thieves stole money with a skimming device and camera. The skimmer caught the magnetic strip on the card itself. A small video camera placed around the ATM linked the PIN number to a magnetic strip.

Their immigration status is unknown, but check this out, they will beg to be deported back to Romania where the stolen money will be waiting!

ICE will determine Ittu’s and Iancu’s immigration status.

Although Martyak did not know whether the suspects are in the U.S. illegally, some Romanians are entering the country illegally and wiring stolen money back home, he said.

“If they get caught, they beg to be deported so they go back to Romania and have all their money there,” Martyak said. “It’s not terrorist in the sense of al-Qaida, but it certainly catches your eye when people get hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars. What are they doing with this money?”

Note to the race baiters at America’s Voice and their media lackeys at Immigration Daily, these are white Europeans local police are detaining and ICE is questioning—not “brown-skinned” illegals.

See our “crimes” category, here, for more immigrant scams.

Immigration Daily shows its true colors

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Although I disagree with most of what they write in opinion pieces, I had the impression that Immigration Daily (ILW) was a publication for professional pro-open borders lawyers and such for straight news and information about their issues.  But, whew, when I saw this editorial just now I realize they are just one more leftist rag inflaming racial tensions, and it seems inflaming racial tensions is the only arrow in their quiver.  Look at this plea for signatures on a petition for America’s Voice.

Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, says that he believes in the Rule of the Law, and that that is his reason for hounding the undocumented, whose presence in the US offends the law, in his view. He believes that the 287(g) agreement that his law enforcement agency currently has with ICE permits him to use any excuse to stop anyone and demand that they prove that their presence here is authorized under our laws.

Of course, all this is pure poppycock. Mr. Arpaio’s real problem is no doubt the fact that those whom his deputies stop have brown skin. We do not believe that Mr. Arpaio’s people believe in harassing the undocumented from Europe. As many pro-immigrant bodies have long claimed, Mr. Arpaio does not believe in the Rule of the Law, rather he believes in the Rule of the Law only when it is convenient to him.

Besides the fact that very few European illegal immigrants would enter the US from Mexico, how the hell do you know if Arpaio’s deputies wouldn’t stop them as well?  What!  You truly believe that Arpaio’s guys ask someone who is breaking the law if they are perhaps illegal Albanians, and then say,”Oh go on your way, you are a white guy! ”  You people are nuts!  Where are your facts?

Here is what Dan Stein, writing at the Federation for American Immigration Reform website, had to say about America’s Voice last month. 

America’s Voice Struggles to Find a Voice

By Dan Stein, President of FAIR

America’s Voice, one of Washington’s newest “instant” organizations created by a handful of big foundations virtually overnight, is helmed by the legendary Frank Sharry – widely regarded as one of the most unsuccessful legislative prognosticators in the nation’s Capitol. Judging from its website traffic report, America’s Voice must be pretty soft. No one is listening.

Sharry created America’s Voice after he again miscalculated in a failed strategy to pass the mass amnesty bill in 2007. Now, Sharry and his allies have decided it is time to jettison their corporate allies who’d proven impossible to work with because of on-going disagreements over guest worker programs.

Under Sharry’s leadership, America’s Voice is basically a well-funded far-left smear blog designed to look like a clever “hit machine.” Working closely with the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, Sharry’s group has been trying to smear America’s true immigration reformers on a daily basis.

Problem is, no one seems to be listening. Internet traffic surveys suggest America’s Voice isn’t generating much interest from the general public. It struggles to attract less than 10,000 unique users a month, and most of those are probably professional people on the same big foundation dole that Sharry rides. Just proves that all the money in the world won’t help if your ideas are bankrupt.

I guess that petition Immigration Daily is promoting is an attempt to drum up some traffic for a sluggish America’s Voice!