FAIR’s Bob Dane was interviewed for this NY Time’s story about a recent Long Island study claiming that immigration was a benefit to the local economy. Dane notes that the study fails to account for the negative impact on the African American community and “the costs of illegal immigration, including unpaid taxes, money sent to other countries and drains on public services and health care.”
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At the direction of Governor Paterson, the State of New York is currently reviewing hundreds of pardon applications from criminal aliens who want to avoid deportations based on their criminal acts. Governor Paterson announced in May of this year that he intended to pardon certain criminal aliens in order to prevent the U.S. government from deporting them. To that end, he ordered the creation of a Special Immigration Pardoning Board to review applications.
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