Mark Krikorian
Mark Krikorian
Mark Krikorian has been the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think-tank in Washington, D.C since 1995. The Center describes itself as an "independent, non-partisan research organization" in Washington, D.C. that examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. Animated by a "pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted," the Center was established in 1985 to provide immigration research. Krikorian is a regular contributor to the conservative...
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Tom was like an Old Testament prophet crying out in the wilderness, and finally people are starting to listen.
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US-Visit is not going to screen out people with terrorist intentions from Western Europe who aren't on our radar screen.
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What's next? Are they going to buy them bus tickets to Chicago? It's clearly a bad thing for Mexico to be encouraging illegal immigration.
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But the point is that we have to make it progressively harder for illegal immigrants to get a job and we have to begin somewhere.
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There clearly seems to be a higher profile for immigration this year nationwide.
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There has never been a public opinion poll that indicates Americans want more immigration. Obviously, if the public were asked ... they'd say no to doubling legal immigration.
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Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.
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There's no question that illegal immigration, that unskilled immigration of all kinds, is a losing proposition.
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These young players coming out of their clubs and high schools want to know they have a chance to get to their national teams (by playing here). We felt we could say that with all certainty before, but now it makes the claim even stronger.
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the right approach because it focuses on enforcement first.
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There were players on the Olympic team like Abby Wambach, Shannon Boxx and Heather Mitts who were not on the national team right out of college,
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I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly the newcomers and returning players have combined on and off the field. I am very happy with the team's attitude and mentality. The kids generally seem to really like each other. That is important. We have the foundation of a pretty good team.
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And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.
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But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A