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Center for Immigration Studies

'The Immigrants Are Coming, The Immigrants Are Coming!' -- Nativism Driving Immigration Reform Debate?

Axel W. Caballero | Posted 04.27.2013 | Latino Voices
Read More: Racism, Immigration Reform, Immigrants, Nativism, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Hate Groups, Center for Immigration Studies, Immigration Debate, Latino Voices News
Axel W. Caballero

Who cares about the details? If you call it "reform" then "reform" it will be. After all, the main goal is not really to reform the system and strengthen the rights of 11 million people.

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Immigration Hardliner's Outrageous Tweet

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.23.2013 | Latino Voices
Read More: Immigration Hardliner, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Robert Stacy McCain, American Spectator, Mark Krikorian, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Mexican Weather Girl Tweet, Mexican Weather Girls, Undocumented Immigrant, Center for Immigration Studies, Latino Voices News

One immigration hardliner has found a group of people he’s not opposed to allowing into the country: beautiful Mexican weather reporters. Robert...

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Elise Foley

Key Republican Predicts 'Hard Time' With Citizenship In Immigration Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
Read More: Immigration Reform, Video, Lamar Smith Immigration, Lamar Smith Immigration Reform, Lamar Smith, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Obama Immigration, Immigration, Center for Immigration Studies, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration pushes forward on immigration reform, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) made clear on Monday that many members of h...

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Cristina Costantini

Does Immigration Fuel Crime? Without Statistical Consensus, Rhetoric And Fear Reign In Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 11.15.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: Immigration Reform, Video, Criminal-Immigrants, Violent-Crime-Immigration, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants Cis, Center for Immigration Studies, Crime Statistics Undocumented Immigrants, Ruben Rumbaut, Statistical Consensus, Latino Voices News

The border town of El Paso, Texas is considered to be the safest big city in the country, according to some estimates. With a sizable undocumented...

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Elise Foley

GOP Candidates Mainly Quiet On Undocumented Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011 | Politics
Read More: Fair, Ron Paul, Illegal Immigration, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Numbers USA, Undocumented Immigration, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Cis, Obama Deportation Policy, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Center for Immigration Studies, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Latino-Politics, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Ahead of the Wednesday night GOP presidential debate, groups that work against undocumented immigration are voicing concern that the can...

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Blueprints that Threaten the Heart, Soul and Security of Our Nation

Marielena Hincapié | Posted 06.09.2011 | Politics
Read More: Welfare, Hunger, Poverty, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget, Living Wage, Immigration, Center for Immigration Studies, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Medicare, Politics News
Marielena Hincapié

Both the Ryan and CIS proposals use faulty logic, fuzzy math and a mean spirit to advance radical policy agendas. These two plans contend that government spending on human resources is wasteful.

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Colorado GOP Immigration Meeting Featured Radical Right Groups With White Supremacist Ties

The Colorado Independent | Scot Kersgaard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Colorado Immigration, Colorado GOP, Republican Study Committee of Colorado, Center for Immigration Studies, Immigration Meeting, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Denver News

Republican legislators Monday hosted an informational meeting to discuss immigration in Colorado, but the Colorado Independent has learned two of the ...

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Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Clarissa Martinez De Castro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Hate Crimes, Congress, American People, Washington Times, Separation of Families, Solutions, President Obama, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Poll, Immigration, Dream, Murders, Wall Street Journal, Haiti, Moral Obligation, Immigration Reform, Demonization, Values, Exploitation, Desperate, Nclr, Faith Community, American Principles Project, Advocates, Washington Post, Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Blame Game, American Workers, Immigrant Families, Home News
Clarissa Martinez De Castro

As if blaming immigrants for global warming, the financial crisis, and every other ill that is currently affecting our society wasn't enough, Mark Kri...

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A Message to Those Hating on Haiti: Consider Yourself Hugged

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: US Haitian Disaster Response, Haitian Immigration Anger, Anti-Haitian Immigration, Hating Haitians, Center for Immigration Studies, Haitian Disaster Aid, Haiti Relief, Haiti Temporary Protected Status, Haiti Tps, Immigration, Hate Speech, Haiti-Immigration, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

The Center for Immigration Studies has put out a "Fact Sheet on Haitian Immigrants." What, not enough Haitians just plain dead enough for ya, you have to whine that they might be coming here?

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Speaking for God and for America's Top Cops - the Center for Immigration Studies

Adam Luna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Law Enforcement, James R. Edwards, America's Voice, William Bratton, Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Religion, Nativist, Mark Krikorian, Immigrant, Center for Immigration Studies, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Anti-Immigrant, Bratton, Krikorian, Cis, Politics News
Adam Luna

America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.

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There They Go Again: Tom Tancredo, Mark Krikorian and the Politics of Hate and Fear

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Immigration Reform, Latina, Nclr, Mark Krikorian, Immigration, Supreme Court Justice Nominee, Center for Immigration Studies, Civil Rights, Hispanic, Republican Congressman, Tom Tancredo, Politics News
Janet Murguía

The politics of hate and fear are not new to our country. We've seen them before. We know what they look like. Right now, they look a lot like Tom Tancredo and Mark Krikorian.

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Voodoo Science Blames Climate Change on Immigrants

Angela Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Population, Co2 Emissions, La Prensa Hispana, Latin America, Environment, Immigration, Climate Change, Emissions, Immigration Debate, Global Warming, Center for Immigration Studies, Green News
Angela Kelley

According to an anti-immigrant group's new junk-science report, immigrants would ultimately produce less CO2 if they just remained in their "less-consuming, less-industrialized, and less CO2 emitting" home countries.

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