Latest Center for Immigration Studies Publications
Here’s the latest from the Center for Immigration Studies, which publishes restrictionist research (and is proud of it)!
‘The Impact of Non-Citizens on Congressional Apportionment’
Statement of Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies
Testimony prepared for the House Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census December 6, 2005 http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/sactestimony120605.html
EXCERPT: . . . This hearing is going to discuss one of the most often overlooked, but nonetheless important, effects they have: on political representation. If you take nothing else away from my testimony, it should be that allowing in people, even as guest workers or just tolerating illegal immigration, has broad-ranging effects. These effects include such things as the redistribution of House seats. For example, if we take the 11 million illegals already here and grant them temporary status, the Census in 2010 will still count them, and seats will still be apportioned to states based on their presence. On the other hand, if we enforce the law and make most illegals go home, this too will have apportionment consequences in 2010. In our discussion of immigration, therefore, we should not compartmentalize its various impacts; instead, we must recognize the broad implications of immigration on virtually every aspect of American life, including apportionment. . . .
‘The Impact of Immigration on the American Workforce’ Statement of Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies Testimony prepared for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce November 16, 2005 http:///www.cis.org/articles/2005/sactestimony111605.html
EXCERPT: . . . As in the past, immigration has sparked an intense debate over the costs and benefits of allowing in such a large number of people. One of the central aspects of the immigration debate is its impact on the American economy. While the number of immigrants is very large, as I will try to explain in this paper the impact on the overall economy is actually very small, or ‘minuscule’ in the words of the nation’s top immigration economist. And these effects are even smaller when one focuses only on illegal aliens, who comprise one-fourth to one-third of all immigrants. While the impact on the economy as a whole may be tiny, the effect on some Americans, particular workers at the bottom of labor market may be quite large. These workers are especially vulnerable to immigrant competition because wages for these jobs are already low and immigrants are heavily concentrated in less-skilled and lower-paying jobs. In this paper I will try to explain some of the ways immigration impacts natives and the economy as a whole. . . .
‘Dual Allegiance: A Challenge to Immigration Reform and Patriotic Assimilation’ by John Fonte
Foreword by Newt Gingrich, formerly of the U.S. House of Representatives (recall the contract on America). Introduction by Thomas L. Bock, National Commander of the American Legion, and Dr. Herbert I. London, President of the Hudson Institute Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, November 2005 http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1205.html
EXCERPT: . . . Dual Allegiance is incompatible with the moral and philosophical basis of American constitutional democracy for two major reasons. First, dual allegiance challenges our core foundation as a civic nation (built on political loyalty) by promoting a racial and ethnic basis for allegiance and by subverting our ‘nation of (assimilated) immigrants’ ethic. Second, dual allegiance violates a vital principle of American democracy: equality of citizenship. . . .
‘Dual Allegiance and the Politics of Immigration Reform’ Panel discussion transcript Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. November 30, 2005 http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1205transcript.html
PANELISTS:
John Fonte, Hudson Institute
Michael Barone, U.S. News and World Report
David Keene, American Conservative Union
Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies
Moderator: John O’ Sullivan, Hudson Institute
L’Intifada en Los Estados Unidos by Mark Krikorian National Review Online, November 17, 2005
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/mskoped111705.html
EXCERPT: . . . As Muslim insurgents burn France’s suburban Occupied Territories, Americans can be forgiven for thinking ‘Thank God we have Mexicans and not Arabs.’ Mexicans are Christian and politically passive, and large numbers of them and their children have assimilated thoroughly into the American people. Niall Ferguson made just this point in the Los Angeles Times.
But American supporters of mass immigration might want to postpone the self-congratulation. While it’s true that in this area, as in so many others, America’s problems are less acute than other nations’, the proposals before Congress to massively increase the importation of foreign workers could create two, three, many Clichys-sous-Bois in our future. . . .
‘The French Riots and U.S. Immigration Policy’ Panel discussion transcript Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. November 14, 2005
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/frenchriotstranscript.html
PANELISTS:
Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy
Steven Steinlight, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies
Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies
Punish Employers Who Hire Illegals
by Mark Krikorian
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 2005
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/mskoped120405.html
EXCERPT: . . . Elsewhere in his speech Monday, the President made his views clear: ‘We will not be able to effectively enforce our immigration laws until we create a temporary-worker program.’ The President’s refusal to undertake even those enforcement measures which cost nothing and require no new laws or complex computer systems is powerful evidence that the President’s tough talk on enforcement is simply a smoke screen to camouflage the President’s amnesty program. A genuine commitment to enforcing immigration law — demonstrated not with words but with deeds — is the most important immigration policy change that America needs.
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