Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f3NK3Eg09945; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:03:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <B709F46D.63F%azbecker@mindspring.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Aliza Becker <azbecker@mindspring.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5858] Re: FW: Immigration Policy Update: 2 new X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 4331 Lines: 119 Many of us teaching ESL like to use content relevant to learner's lives in the classroom. Immigration and discrimination issues are of great concern to many of our students. Also, many of us care deeply about our students and want to be allies to them on larger policy issues. Aliza on 4/23/01 1:34 PM, Richard King at tenno1@worldnet.att.net wrote: > What connection to ESL does this have? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aliza Becker" <azbecker@mindspring.com> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:06 AM > Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5849] FW: Immigration Policy Update: 2 new reports of > interest > > >> >> ------ Forwarded Message >> From: "Maurice Belanger" <Mbelanger@immigrationforum.org> >> Reply-To: <Mbelanger@immigrationforum.org> >> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:02:36 -0400 >> To: <mauriceb@erols.com> >> Subject: Immigration Policy Update: 2 new reports of interest >> >> >> >> National Immigration Forum >> >> Date: April 20, 2001 >> >> To: Forum Associate E-mail List >> >> From: Maurice Belanger >> >> Re: Two New Reports of Interest >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> >> [my apologies if you are receiving this twice: we had a momentary problem >> with our e-mail] >> >> >> IMMIGRANTS AND HEALTH CARE - New Report Finds Recent Immigrants have >> Little Impact on the Uninsured Population >> >> The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released a new report > on >> April 20, 2001: "Is Immigration Responsible for the Growth in the Number > of >> Uninsured?" >> >> In the report, the health insurance rates of immigrants who had been in > the >> U.S. for less than four years in 1994 and 1998 were compared. Researchers >> found that the number of uninsured among recent immigrants was 100,000 > LESS >> in 1998 than in 1994. >> >> The report, along with additional publications on immigrants and health >> care, can be found on the website of the Kaiser Family Foundation at: >> http://www.kff.org/content/2001/2241/ >> >> >> ANTI-IMMIGRANT GROUPS - Southern Policy Law Center Focuses on >> Anti-Immigration Movement >> >> The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is best known for its monitoring of >> and litigation against hate groups. The Spring 2001 issue of their >> quarterly magazine INTELLIGENCE REPORT focuses the anti-immigration >> movement. The article, "Blood on the Border" reports on the ties between >> white supremacist groups, such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, > and >> anti-immigrant groups, such as the American Immigration Control Foundation >> (AICF). (The AICF recently gained some press attention for an > inflammatory >> direct mail appeal it sent out in some areas of the country.) >> >> Four anti-immigrant groups discussed in the report are designated by SPLC > as >> "hate groups." They are: the American Immigration Control Foundation, > the >> National Organization for European American Rights (founded by former Klu >> Klux Klansman David Duke), the Social Contract Press, and Voices of > Citizens >> Together. Other anti-immigrant groups--who try to appear more >> "mainstream"--are featured in this report as well, including the > Federation >> for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), NumbersUSA, V-DARE (a website >> associated with Peter Brimelow, author of "Alien Nation"), and other >> organizations. The hate groups and the more "mainstream" organizations >> share many ties. For example, Roy Beck, who directs NumbersUSA, is also > the >> Washington Editor of the Social Contract (from the Social Contract Press), >> and is also co-author of the latest report from the restrictionist think >> tank Center for Immigration Studies. (The report castigates mainstream >> environmental organizations for not focusing on U.S. population >> stabilization (and immigration control).) >> >> The complete story can be found on the website of the Southern Poverty Law >> Center at: http://www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-index.html >> >> >> >> ============================== >> Maurice Belanger >> Senior Policy Associate >> National Immigration Forum >> >> E-Mail: mbelanger@immigrationforum.org >> >> Web: http://www.immigrationforum.org >> >> >> ------ End of Forwarded Message >> >
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