Mark Krikorian
Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies. — Author, "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal" — Either hawk of hawks or dove of doves
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Cartel Members Claim Asylum After Fleeing Gun Battle
Given the low standard, the regrettable thing is that those cartel members likely were found to have a credible fear of persecution and/or torture.
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Mark Krikorian
.@CIS_org: Cartel Members Claim Asylum After Fleeing Gun Battle; From the ridiculous to the more ridiculous
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France could introduce immigration quotas, says interior minister
France’s interior minister has raised the possibility of introducing immigration quotas after President Emmanuel Macron said migration would be a central issue in the next presidential election.
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Mark Krikorian
France could introduce immigration quotas, says interior minister telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/1… NOW they're waking up to the immigration issue? Modest reforms early on could've avoided a lot of political tumult.
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U.S. sending more asylum seekers back to Mexico via Texas border...
The U.S. government on Thursday began ramping up the pace of returns of asylum s...
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Mark Krikorian
"The U.S. government on Thursday began ramping up the pace of returns of asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out their U.S. court hearings by sending around 200 migrants back through the El Paso, Texas, port of entry" reut.rs/2KiU0BZ More, please.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign bill banning ‘sanctuary cities’ on Friday
Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign legislation Friday to ban so-called sanctuary cities in Florida, a proposal that was one of the most controversial issues of the 2019 legislative session and a top priority of the governor.A DeSantis spokeswoman confirmed...
Christians in Egypt Attacked by Civilians Twice in One Week
Police often act more as bystanders than individuals tasked with protecting Egyptian citizens, especially Copts.
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Mark Krikorian
Christians in Egypt Attacked by Civilians Twice in One Week nationalreview.com/corner/christi… Breaking news from every day in the last 1,400 years.
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Billionaire Kochs to Financially Back Dems Pushing Amnesty, Free Trade
The Koch brothers’ network of donor-class organizations is readying to financially support Democrats, so long as they promise to back amnesty.
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Mark Krikorian
No surprise here. Whatever happens with Trump, US politics will continue to see a globalization-driven realignment, with the new divide being between patriots & post-Americans. The Koch crowd, despite its many sensible views, is at its core post-American.
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DHS Secretary: 90 Percent of Recent Asylum-Seekers Skipped Their Hearings
Kevin McAleenan testified Tuesday that 90 percent of recent asylum-seekers tracked skipped the hearings in which their cases were to be adjudicated.
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Mark Krikorian
DHS Secretary: 90 Percent of Recent Asylum-Seekers Skipped Their Hearings nationalreview.com/news/dhs-secre… Unexpectedly.
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Trump Is Vulnerable to Biden on Immigration
And the president seems to know it.
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Mark Krikorian
"Trump made securing the border his signature promise and beat the Republican field with it. Joe Biden is in a strong position right now to argue that Trump has simply welched on the deal he made with voters."
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Obama staffers deleted speeches about the immigration crisis hours before Trump’s inauguration
Hundreds of speeches and testimonies dating back to 2004 were reportedly removed from the agency’s website at the tail end of Obama’s presidency.
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Mark Krikorian
Obama staffers deleted speeches about the immigration crisis hours before Trump’s inauguration
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Panel Transcript: Immigration and Less-Educated American Workers View Edit Revisions Track
Panel Summary
The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion focusing on low-skill Americans dropping out of the labor force, and the role mass immigration may play in the trend.
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Report: Immigrants...
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Mark Krikorian
@Freesmith @NickHanauer Murray announced at a @CIS_org panel that he'd changed his mind on immigration
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Vox: Trump Administration Not Doing Enough to Help Giant, Global Tech Companies Underpay Workers
Vox has a new article freaking out that the US government isn't doing enough to make sure tech companies get cheap labor from abroad to cod...
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Mark Krikorian
"The reality is that the mythic tech workers from overseas are not generally unique tech geniuses with no American tech equivalents but rather coders doing rather routine work for cheaper than native workers would."
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Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
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Mark Krikorian
Seems like the word "immigration" should have appeared somewhere in this piece on growing inequality by @NickHanauer
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Notes on The Mexican Military's Mission to the Guatemala-Mexico Border
Soon, some 6,000 Mexican government troops will be on their way to fortify its 541-mile southern border with Guatemala against further mass economic migration surging through toward the American one. Their deployment is part of a negotiated...
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Mark Krikorian
6,000 Mexican troops on its border with Guatemala may not do enough to stem the flow of illegal aliens.
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Georgia professor’s immigration comments cause stir on social media
Lawmaker among those concerned about professor's anti-illegal immigration comments
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Mark Krikorian
Georgia professor -- a naturalized citizen from China -- gets in hot water for saying "If you are going to to reward illegal immigrants, there will be more illegal immigrants."
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Mexico Is an Asylum Free-Rider
It embraces an expansive definition of asylum, then passes the buck by waving asylum-seekers northward.
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Mark Krikorian
Mexico Is an Asylum Free-Rider nationalreview.com/2019/06/mexico… It embraces an expansive definition of asylum, then passes the buck by waving asylum-seekers northward.
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Lend-Lease - Wikipedia
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Mark Krikorian
@DanielJHannan @benshapiro Also, when Stalin finally (involuntarily) switched sides, he avoided defeat only because we sent him an almost unbelievable amount of material & military aid, incl. a majority of US output of ordnance & aviation fuel
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Remittances Key to Central American Economies
There are strong incentives for the countries in Central America to encourage their citizens to migrate, work, and send remittances home. It is incumbent on the Trump administration, both through diplomatic efforts and through threats of sanctions,...
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Mark Krikorian
"there are strong incentives for the countries in Central America to encourage their citizens to migrate, work, and send remittances home. It is incumbent on the Trump administration...to counter those incentives"
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Border Patrol Agents Apprehend Group of 37 from Africa | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
EAGLE PASS, Texas
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Mark Krikorian
"Groups of family units from around the world are traveling thousands of miles just enter the United States illegally to exploit our immigration laws."
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U.S. is using unreliable dental exams to hold teen migrants in adult detention
The U.S. government use of dental exams to help determine the age of migrants has drawn criticism from immigrant rights advocates and triggered court battles.
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Mark Krikorian
"An influx of Bangladeshi migrants claiming to be minors has contributed to the govt’s recent use of dental exams." latimes.com/local/lanow/la… As the legal loopholes that Schumer & Pelosi refuse to plug become more widely known, people from more & more countries will take advantage.
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