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New book: Inside story of foundations & media sabotage of immigration enforcement since 1986

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  by  Roy Beck

If it has seemed for 30 years that powerful forces have intentionally prevented the rule of law in an orderly immigration system, LOSING CONTROL is a new book that tells you how it was done.

I know a lot of this story. I've worked on the issue full-time since 1991, and was a reporter covering it before that. But I learned a lot of new details from this book, enough that they kept me from skimming and kept me reading every word for each new revelation.

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Fragmented wildlands threaten our resilience

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  by  Jeremy Beck
Immigration-driven population growth is devouring natural habitat in the United States, threatening wildlife and biodiversity. This raises ethical questions about our responsibility towards our non-human neighbors and surroundings, but we also have a naked self-interest in arresting immigration-driven population growth in order for wildlife and biodiversity to thrive. Writing in The New York Times Magazine Ferris Jabr says we have altered the natural world to a point where zoonotic diseases can spread to humans more efficiently than ever.

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True Reformer defeats incumbent GOP guest worker champion

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  by  Roy Beck

Bob Good -- who filled out NumbersUSA's candidate survey and promised to be a True Reformer on 12 top immigration goals -- has unseated incumbent Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman at the Party's primary convention.

A key issue in Rep. Riggleman's defeat was the charge that he was a close ally of business lobbies in their desire for more foreign workers.

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Cheap Labor Lobbyists: 40 Million in U.S. Out of Work Proof of 'Worker Shortage'

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  by  Eric Ruark
There are 40 million in the U.S. out of work, and many businesses that are beginning to re-open are operating below the capacity they were before the coronavirus shutdown. What does this signal for immigration expansionists? The urgent need for more foreign workers.

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Did They Die For Open Borders? Memorial Day raises questions about U.S. government's commitment to national community

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  by  Roy Beck

Did all those who died in foreign lands this last year, as well as in America near our own borders, accept the possibility of the supreme sacrifice for just some vague concept of a country?

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What is amnesty?

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  by  Grant Newman

Amnesty has become a politically-charged term over the years, which has resulted in Members of Congress, activists, reporters, etc., jumping through hoops to try and prevent the term from sticking to their bill of choice. Let's break down the definition . . .

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Immigration Levels Were Hurting U.S. Workers Before COVID-19, Now What?

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  by  Eric Ruark
The Center for Immigration Studies released a report this week based on data from the federal government's Current Population Survey. This survey gives detailed information about the nation's unemployed. No surprise it shows U.S.-born and immigrant workers both lost jobs in large numbers. And highlights that the last thing the U.S. needs is more foreign workers.

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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature

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  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth, and will continue to account for almost all population growth over the next forty years. We need to think about the effects of growth when we formulate immigration policy. One of the effects is continuing sprawl, and the loss of habitat for wildlife.

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Are doctors and nurses 'Jobs Americans Won't Do'? A bipartisan group of Senators would have you believe so

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  by  Chris Chmielenski

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have introduced legislation that would give 40,000 green cards to foreign doctors and nurses, claiming we have a shortage of healthcare providers. But is the "shortage" due to a lack of Americans willing to enter the field, or is it more due more systemic issues?

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