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E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version March 31, 2004, 8:36 a.m. Strange BedfellowsLeft and right on immigration. The high-immigration Right is on the warpath, trying to delegitimize all conservatives who stand between them and the illegal-alien amnesties they crave. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal ran an outrageous piece — slamming National Review, Fox News, various Republican congressmen, and my own organization as being part of a restrictionist cabal of baby-killing, white-supremacist, Chi-Com lovers. Of my Center for Immigration Studies, the Journal's Jason Reilly wrote, among other things, that despite the fact...

STEIN REPORT XXXXX Monday, January 27 2003 15:05:04 ET XXXXX WHAT A SURPRISE! IMMIGRATION LAWYERS CLAIM AMERICANS WANT MORE IMMIGRATION In one of the most remarkable examples of political spin to be found anywhere, an immigration lawyers’ web site interprets the results of a new Gallup Poll as an indication that Americans want more, not less immigration.

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF CONTENTION THAT H-1B LEGISLATION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether H-1B Legislation violates the constitutional rights of American workers a) Does the provision which only protects American workers from displacement by nonimmigrants if the employer is deemed “H-1B dependent” deny equal protection to Americans who work for non H-1B dependent employers? b) Does H-1B legislation violate the substantive due process liberty and property of American citizens by permitting employers to displace and replace American workers, and hire nonimmigrants when qualified American workers are available? c) Does H-1B legislation violate equal protection by...

America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a...

Undocumented immigrants in El Paso rang up more than $30 million in unpaid medical bills in 2000 -- the second-highest amount for a border county, after San Diego -- according to a study being released today. The U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, a group of elected officials from 24 border counties in four states, commissioned the study to put pressure on Congress to reimburse border hospitals for providing emergency medical services to undocumented immigrants. "We've said all along that the federal government should pay for this because it's a federal mandate for hospitals to treat everyone regardless of nationality," said Pete...

Richard Gephardt, minority leader of the House of Representatives, has a solution for the problem of illegal immigration.