Center for Immigration Studies:Attrition through Enforcement
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Center for Immigration Studies: Attrition through Enforcement -- The Only Successful Approach to the Illegal Immigration Crisis
5/19/2005 3:06:00 PM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: John Keeley of the Center for Immigration Studies, 202-466-8185 or jmk@cis.org
News Advisory:
Last week, the McCain/Kennedy amnesty plan was unveiled, a bipartisan effort backed by a coalition of business, labor, and ethnic organizations. Like other immigration proposals, including President Bush's, it is based on a false assumption: Since the federal government can't quickly deport 10 million illegal aliens, the only alternative is legalization, says the Center for Immigration Studies.
According to the CIS, there is a third way, and the only approach that can actually work: Shrink the illegal population through consistent, across-the-board enforcement of the immigration law, reducing the settlement of new illegals and increasing the number of illegals currently here who give up and deport themselves. Such a strategy is implicit in the comments of many opponents of amnesty, but has never been formally articulated.
To outline how such an attrition strategy might work, the Center for Immigration Studies will convene an expert panel, including:
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
Gregory Bednarz, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, INS Investigations (retired)
Roy Beck, Executive Director of NumbersUSA
The panel will convene at 9:30 a.m. in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, on Tuesday, May 24. For more information, contact John Keeley of CIS at (202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org.
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