Mark Krikorian
Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies, [email protected] "the leading theorist of immigration restriction in America" -- John Podhoretz
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Members of Congress Ask DHS about Covid Patients from Mexico
CIS.org 29h 1 tweets
National old-media outlets had reported that large influxes of severely ill patients who caught Covid-19 in Mexico were clogging California and Arizona hospitals. But as Covid cases have spiked in those states, and in Texas, and the blame was placed...
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Mark Krikorian 3 Members of Congress (, , ) Ask DHS about Covid Patients from Mexico; Statistics needed to gauge impact on border states 29h
Democrats to take up immigration as first issue if successful in 2020
New York Post 32h 1 tweets
Democrats have multiple issues on their agenda for 2020, but it appears immigration will be up first should they win in November. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader…
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Mark Krikorian Democrats to take up immigration as first issue if successful in 2020 32h
Who Runs the White House? - American Greatness
American Greatness - American Greatness 37h 1 tweets
t is a grand thing to rise in the world,” said Anthony Trollope, an English novelist of the Victorian era. “The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.” But sometimes ambition is the mother of monsters. A recent article in The Hill cited...
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Mark Krikorian "The escalated feud with Sessions marks yet another win for Kushner." TFW you think you're being a tough, no-nonsense Trump backer by opposing Sessions, only to learn that you're really just a dupe of Jared Kushner. 37h
Tyson Turns to Robot Butchers, Spurred by Coronavirus Outbreaks
Jacob Bunge - WSJ 5d 8 tweets
The pandemic is speeding meatpackers’ shift from human meat cutters to automated ones, but machines can’t yet match people’s ability. While meat processing overall has grown safer in recent years, it remains one of the more hazardous jobs in the...
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Mark Krikorian "labor challenges continue to force some meat processors to focus on high-volume, less-processed cuts, meaning fewer boneless products in supermarket meat cases" So the disaster that would be caused by less immigration would be ... fewer boneless products? 4d
Texas A&M Police: Racist notes on student’s windshield were put there by the alleged victim himself
The Washington Times 4d 2 tweets
Police investigating racist messages left on a Texas A&M student’s car in June say all available evidence points to it being a hoax perpetrated by the supposed victim. But because the alleged hoaxer’s call to the police did not actually “report a...
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Mark Krikorian Hate hoax du jour: "Texas A&M Police: Racist notes on student’s windshield were put there by the alleged victim himself" 4d
Open Letter Against the Student Ban
Google Docs 7d 4 tweets
We, faculty at institutions across the United States, condemn the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decision, announced Monday July 6th, that stipulates that International Students with F-1 and M-1 visas, “attending schools operating...
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Mark Krikorian 31K professors at "American" universities write that "We as educators reject the artificial distinction between foreign and domestic students, which undermines the pursuit of both knowledge and justice." 4d
Trump 2016 Adviser Bannon Praises Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Plan: ‘I Tip My Hat to Them’ | National Review
National Review 5d 1 tweets
Steve Bannon warned that former vice president Joe Biden’s new economic plan, which proposes a massive cash injection to “buy American,” is “very smart.”
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Mark Krikorian Trump 2016 Adviser Bannon Praises Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Plan: ‘I Tip My Hat to Them’ Notice that "Hire American" is not part of Biden's plan. 5d
Immigration Newsmaker: Jerry Kammer Discusses His New Book, "Losing Control", with The Atlantic's David Frum
CIS.org 12d 4 tweets
The Center for Immigration Studies will stream an Immigration Newsmaker conversation on July 8 with author of "Losing Control", Jerry Kammer and David Frum.
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Mark Krikorian Listen to David Frum's discussion with Jerry Kammer, author of the new immigration book "Losing Control" 5d
Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: Table of Contents
CIS.org 7d 1 tweets
Related Publications: Panel Transcript, Panel Video Download a pdf of "Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange" The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report, “Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: The $100 Million Work Travel Industry”, is based on five...
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Mark Krikorian @2scottsherrill Some of the programs under the J-1 visa umbrella are for genuine cultural exchange programs, but the suspended ones really are just work visas masquerading as "cultural exchange" 7d
Colin Kaepernick said it himself: His kneeling was meant to disrespect our nation itself
Washington Examiner 7d 2 tweets
Ex-quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted an Independence Day message reminding us that he always was a radical leftist, America-hating agitator. His national anthem stunt always was about deliberately dishonoring flag and country.
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Mark Krikorian Colin Kaepernick said it himself: His kneeling was meant to disrespect our nation itself . . . which everyone knew all along. 7d
There are more than 1 million international students in the US. Here's where they're from
CNN 7d 1 tweets
International students in the United States could be made to leave the country if their universities decide to only offer online courses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Monday night.
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Mark Krikorian The foreign student program is out of control, both in numbers & oversight. We need an overall numerical cap, a cap on the % of any school's student body, and *way* more intensive oversight, funded by fees paid by the schools. And an end to "dual intent". 7d
'Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist?
the Guardian 8d 18 tweets
Toxic masculinity is built into the fabric of our urban spaces, writes Leslie Kern, author of new book Feminist City. And the results aren’t just divisive – they can be lethal
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Mark Krikorian 'Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky' – do cities have to be so sexist? Ha ha! Hilarious piece by new writer ! Oh, wait . . . 8d
The Fall of Jeff Sessions, and What Came After
Nytimes.com 15d 21 tweets
The former attorney general is fighting for his political life in Alabama’s Senate race, in the shadow of a president who still despises him.
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Mark Krikorian "Trump’s son-in-law despised Sessions, who came to be the chief opponent of Kushner’s vision for criminal-justice reform, and at least once referred to him to colleagues as a racist." Send Jared a message --- by sending Sessions back to the Senate. 8d
Economic Resilience and Global Trade Are Not Mutually Exclusive | The American Conservative
The American Conservative 26d 4 tweets
The choice between industrial policy and participation in multilateral institutions is a false one.
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Mark Krikorian "Efforts at nurturing domestic industrial capacity are not incompatible with continued participation in global networks of trade." 8d
Trump expected to refile paperwork to end DACA this week
TheHill 8d 2 tweets
President Trump is expected to refile paperwork this week to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that offers protections for thousands of young immigrants, according to multiple people familiar with the
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Mark Krikorian Trump expected to refile paperwork to end DACA this week 8d
Biden Proves Healthy Cognition By Flawlessly Reciting All The Sounds Animals Can Make
The Babylon Bee - The Babylon Bee 10d 2 tweets
WILMINGTON, DE—With citizens and media figures questioning Joe Biden's mental fitness to become president, Biden took to the internet yesterday to shut down the naysayers once and for all. On a live video from his basement, Biden held up a...
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Mark Krikorian Biden Proves Healthy Cognition By Flawlessly Reciting All The Sounds Animals Can Make via 8d
The Texas Covid Crisis
CIS.org 9d 1 tweets
The refusal to acknowledge that some percentage of the Texas Covid-19 hospitalizations, likely a significant one, comes from an ongoing influx of seriously ill patients who caught the virus in Covid-exploding Mexico and are legally and illegally...
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Mark Krikorian The Texas Covid Crisis; Revamp Trump's emergency border closure and pull data for policy-making — right now Refusing even to try to figure out what share of Texas Covid cases are from Mexico can lead to bad policy decisions. 9d
Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Rochester speech
D&C Digital - Democrat and Chronicle 9d 17 tweets
On the same weekend in which Frederick Douglass years ago delivered one of his most historic speeches, a statue of Douglass was toppled from its base.
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Mark Krikorian Further evidence, if any were needed, that the current civil disorders have nothing to do with George Floyd, police brutality, etc. -- it is simply a wave of sedition by enemies of America. And any who excuse it are Copperheads. 9d
A Trump-Backed Senate Candidate’s Hedge Fund Disaster
Danny Hakim - Nytimes.com 9d 6 tweets
Tommy Tuberville, the football coach and leading Republican vying to take on Senator Doug Jones in Alabama, had a tumultuous foray into finance.
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Mark Krikorian A Trump-Backed Senate Candidate’s Hedge Fund Disaster "The New York Times asked the Tuberville campaign to release the plaintiffs from the settlement’s confidentiality agreement, but it did not agree to do so." 9d
As COVID-19 explodes in Arizona, Sonora to close border to nonessential travel
Arizona Daily Star 11d 3 tweets
The closure aims to stop tourists from spreading the the coronavirus in the already stressed Mexican state, Sonora Gov. Claudia Pavlovich.
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Mark Krikorian As COVID-19 explodes in Arizona, Sonora to close border to nonessential travel It'll kill Mexico's beach business on the Sea of Cortez, but they have to do what they think best for their people (something American pols might want to try some time). 11d