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Article: I’m a "Liberal" Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted. Hmmmmmmm By Kevin Johnson

January 21, 2020

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<p><span style=”font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 11pt;”><a href=”https://cis.org/Kammer”><strong>Jerry Kammer,&nbsp; senior research fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies</strong></a>, has an <a href=”</p>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/immigration-democrats.html”><strong>op/ed in the New York Times</strong></a> today entitled “<strong>I’m a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted</strong>.”&nbsp; Judge the immigration views of Mr. Kammer for what they are.&nbsp; But also be aware that the Center for Immigration Studies has been characterized as a “hate group” by the <a href=”https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-immigration-studies”><strong>Southern Poverty Law Center</strong></a>;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 11pt;”><span style=”text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; line-height: 2; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>”While [Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)] . . . has been on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) radar for years, what precipitated listing CIS as an anti-immigrant hate group for 2016 was its </span><a href=”https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/23/more-occasional-crank-2012-times-center-immigration-studies-circulated-white-nationalist” style=”background: none; transition: 0.3s; text-align: left; color: #9c3022; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;”>repeated circulation of white nationalist and antisemitic writers</a><span style=”text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; line-height: 2; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”> in its weekly newsletter and the commissioning of a policy analyst who had previously been pushed out of the conservative Heritage Foundation for his embrace of racist pseudoscience. These developments, its historical associations, and its record of </span><a href=”https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/02/center-immigration-studies-debunked” style=”background: none; transition: 0.3s; text-align: left; color: #9c3022; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;”>publishing reports that hype the criminality of immigrants</a><span style=”text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; line-height: 2; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>, are why CIS is labeled an anti-immigrant </span><a href=”https://www.splcenter.org/20171004/frequently-asked-questions-about-hate-groups#hate group” style=”background: none; transition: 0.3s; text-align: left; color: #9c3022; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;”>hate group</a><span style=”text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; line-height: 2; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/2 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”><a href=”https://cis.org/Immigration-and-SPLC”>Kammer has claimed that the labeling of the Center for Immigration Studies</a> was a “smear” (see the video above) and that the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a “propaganda arm” of the <a href=”https://www.unidosus.org/”><strong>National Council for La Raza</strong></a>.</span></p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/2 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>I understand that the New York Times wants to present a diversity of views on immigration.&nbsp; But a national platform for the Center for Immigration Studies, a strident advocacy group that presses racial theme to the extent that it has been classified as a “hate group”?</span></p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/2 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>KJ</span></p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/2 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>UPDATE (Jan. 18, 6 a.m. PST):&nbsp; <a href=”https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/times-op-ed-white-nationalist-center-for-immigration-studies.html”><strong>Ben Mathis-Lilley on Slate</strong></a> (“</span>Times Taps White Nationalist Organization for Thought-Provoking Perspective on Immigration”) analyzes Jerry Kammer’s well-worn arguments for restricting immigration.&nbsp; His conclusion:</p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/1.5 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>”The New York Times opinion section under editor James Bennet ostensibly aims to challenge the paper’s predominately liberal readers by presenting them with thoughtful critiques of their worldview. . . . The essay `<a href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/immigration-democrats.html” style=”border-color: #ff0e50; transition: 0.12s; text-align: left; color: inherit; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;”>I’m a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted,'</a> published in the Times Thursday, may represent the nadir of this approach. . . . The familiarity of the article’s arguments is matched by the familiarity with its flaws.”</span></p>
<p><span style=”font: 400 11pt/1.5 georgia,palatino; text-align: left; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;”>KJ</span></p>
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<a href=”https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/johnson/” target=”_blank”><b>Kevin Johnson</b></a> is Dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson became Dean in 2008. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award.Dean Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and civil rights. Published in 1999, his book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Dean Johnson’s latest book, Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border (2011), received the Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards – Best Reference Book. Dean Johnson blogs at ImmigrationProf, and is a regular contributor on immigration on SCOTUSblog. A regular participant in national and international conferences, Dean Johnson has also held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools and is the recipient of an array of honors and awards. He is quoted regularly by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other national and international news outlets. </p>

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