By Jeremy Beck
Liberal and conservative pundits agree: the executive actions President Obama announced last week will encourage more illegal immigration. The President is granting work permits to millions in the country illegally and discouraging enforcement against future unlawful aliens who make it into the interior of the country (either by overstaying a visa or successfully eluding capture … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The New York Times editorial “Mr. Obama’s Moment on Immigration,” garnered 458 comments, 322 of which made the “Readers’ Picks” list. Of those 322, I counted 25 that supported the editorial’s pro-executive-action stance. Of the 25 comments in favor of executive action, 21 were recommended ten times or less. None of the 25 received more … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
In his new Center for Immigration Studies backgrounder, “Sulzberger’s Voice,” former Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Jerry Kammer details how the New York Times editorial page became a destructive voice in the immigration debate by taking an intolerant view of – and casting aspersions on – those who disagree with their policy preferences. Kammer has also written backgrounders … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The Washington Post’s February 16 story, “Prince William’s struggle offers mixed lessons for immigration reform,” included a sentence remarkable not only for its incendiary tone but also for the fact that neither the reporters who filed the story nor their editors thought to revise their inflammatory language. “Prince William has changed dramatically since 2007,” the reporters stated, … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The Obama administration spends more money on immigration enforcement than all other enforcement agencies combined, according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute. The report has gotten a lot of media attention this week. * (Update: Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration noted in the National Review that the MPI authors acknowledged that they reached … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
A recent story in the New York Times, “Deportations Continue Despite U.S. Review of Backlog,” reported that DHS officials expect to suspend the deportation orders of at least 20,600 people by the end of 2012. In one striking sentence, the story depicts a president caught between his obligation to enforce the law and his desire … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Has anyone in Alabama read HB 56? The answer is surely “yes,” but none of them appear to have been involved in the story “Hundreds from across state protest immigration law,” published May 28 in the Montgomery Advertiser, which describes people protesting Alabama’s immigration law as wanting “others to understand their frustrations, concerns, and in … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Put three of this month’s big immigration stories together, add a critical statistic missing from all of them and you get a powerful argument for passing the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885). First big story: net immigration (legal and illegal) from Mexico to the U.S. has dropped to zero (“For first time … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The New York Times’ April 23 story, “Justices to Rule on Role of the States in Immigration,” was frightening, but dishonest. The anti-enforcement wing of the agricultural lobby must have been pleased with the Times piece which portrayed farmers as the hapless victims of state enforcement laws run amok (the photo for the story online … Continued
