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FAIR Releasing Major Study on Illegal Immigration Costs in Iowa Dec 27th & 28th

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December 26, 2007 12:24 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated December 26, 2007 12:40 PM

 FAIR Releasing Major Study on Illegal Immigration Costs in Iowa

Wednesday December 26, 8:00 am ET  
Previous State and Private Studies Over-Estimated Tax Receipts and Under-Estimated Costs
 
 DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- All across Iowa, as ordinary citizens meet face-to-face with the people who are vying for the nation's highest political office, the issue of illegal immigration is raised again and again. Polls indicate that illegal immigration is one of the key concerns on the minds of citizens, and that there is overwhelming public support for sensible enforcement of immigration laws.
 The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) will introduce its timely cost study to the Iowa media at a news conference in Des Moines, in conjunction with the Iowa 2007 Talk Radio Row -- a two day event at which 22 of the nation's leading talk radio hosts will be broadcasting continuously from Des Moines and focusing on immigration. 
 
What:     Release of The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Iowans, a new         
report detailing the growing burdens associated with illegal             
immigration in Iowa.   

When:     Thursday December 27, 2007 at 11:30 AM CST.   
Where:    Des Moines Marriott Downtown, 700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA.  Second Floor/Salon F.   
Who:  Julie Kirchner, Executive Director of FAIR (and an Iowa native)             
Jack Martin, Special Projects Director of FAIR, an author of the study
Iowa Congressman Steve King (R-IA)

Jan Mickelson, Talk Host WHO-AM Des Moines, IA   
Contact:  Ira Mehlman at 213-700-0407 or Bob Dane at 703-850-2435.

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December 26, 2007 12:29 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Sorry guys - tried to fix it but it didn't help.

Anyway - FAIR is doing another Radio Show (like they did in Washington DC last spring when we were fighting the Amnesty Bill).

If you are in Iowa or have friends or family in Iowa please encourage them to listen to:

 Iowa 2007 Talk Radio Row -- a two day event at which 22 of the nation's leading talk radio hosts will be broadcasting continuously from Des Moines and focusing on immigration.
December 26, 2007 01:28 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:57 AM CST
Immigrant-rights groups say upcoming Des Moines radio event encourages bigotry
DES MOINES (AP) --- Immigrant-rights groups are criticizing the organizers of an upcoming radio event that will promote a crackdown on illegal immigration.

The groups accuse the Federation for American Immigration Reform of endorsing bigotry and racism. FAIR is sponsoring a broadcast marathon for Thursday and Friday in a downtown Des Moines hotel. The event is expected to attract 22 radio talk show hosts from across the country to discuss immigration.

"We don't agree with their views that are demonizing immigrants, and we don't appreciate their coming to Iowa telling us what we should think about immigrants," said Alicia Claypool, chairwoman of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission.

Dan Stein, president of FAIR, said his group is being demonized. "They're trying to discredit an entire side of the debate," Stein said.

FAIR held a similar radio event last spring in Washington that it claims influenced the U.S. Senate's defeat of a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

FAIR placed an advertisement last week in The Des Moines Register taking note of the defeated legislation and promoting the upcoming marathon. "Earlier this year, talk radio shook things up in Washington and helped stop an amnesty for illegal aliens," the ad stated.

Critics have said FAIR's hard anti-immigrant line has discouraged a fair debate. They note that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization, recently added FAIR to its list of hate groups operating in the United States.

Stein said the law center's report contains "serious fabrications. ... It's absolutely defamatory."

FAIR's Web site -- www.fairus.org -- says the group advocates for improved border security, an end to illegal immigration, and immigration levels "consistent with more traditional rates of about 300,000 a year."

The Center for New Community, a Chicago-based immigrant rights advocacy group, disagrees with FAIR's purpose and encourages the hotel to cancel the event. The Rev. David Ostendorf, the center's executive director, said hotels and other places "have no obligation to provide a platform for hate speech."

Stein accused critics of the planned broadcasts of trying to obstruct free speech "and people's right to be heard on public policy issues."
December 26, 2007 03:25 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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February 16, 2007

The use of classic leftist “arguments” when they dissagree.

They are so logically and legally vapid in their points of view that they must attack their opponent and try to shut them up instead of creating a dialogue.

CJBL said: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:57 AM CST
Immigrant-rights groups say upcoming Des Moines radio event encourages bigotry


"We don't agree with their views that are demonizing immigrants, and we don't appreciate their coming to Iowa telling us what we should think about immigrants," said Alicia Claypool, chairwoman of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission.


Critics have said FAIR's hard anti-immigrant line has discouraged a fair debate. They note that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization, recently added FAIR to its list of hate groups operating in the United States.


The Center for New Community, a Chicago-based immigrant rights advocacy group, disagrees with FAIR's purpose and encourages the hotel to cancel the event. The Rev. David Ostendorf, the center's executive director, said hotels and other places "have no obligation to
provide a platform for hate speech."
December 26, 2007 04:04 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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they love to leave out the word "illegal"
December 26, 2007 05:03 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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hrm14;  My thoughts exactly.  These groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center NEVER call these people what they really are.  That is ILLEGAL ALIENS.  They are not immigrants and I will never refer to them as such.  These groups think that if they refer to them as such long enough that it will stick.  Well it won't!  We American citizens aren't stupid and we know legal from illegal.  And these people are ILLEGAL.

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