So many excellent journalists give non-credible anti-immigrant groups an uncritical platform for saying up is down.

Here's @JessicaV_CIS claiming the Trump admin wants to *protect* children by letting them languish in detention.

I have an idea...
1/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention
500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention

New data shows huge numbers of children detained at the border, peaking in 2019.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention
Whenever a journalist feels compelled to quote @CIS_org as an opposing viewpoint, then at the very least, readers should get more context than "a think tank that promotes greater restrictions on immigration."

Here are some factual alternatives...

2/
"CIS, a self-described research organization whose studies have been credibly debunked."

3/ https://www.niskanencenter.org/birth-tourism-revisited/
A Look at CIS's Revised Birth Tourism Estimate - Niskanen Center

Using the new CDC data with CIS's method leaves us with an estimate of the number of birth tourists that is not statistically different from zero. The new rules on pregnant women appear less justif...

https://www.niskanencenter.org/birth-tourism-revisited/
More accurate still:

"CIS, a self-described research organization whose studies have been credibly debunked, repeatedly."

4/ https://www.cato.org/blog/center-immigration-studies-overstates-immigrant-non-citizen-native-welfare-use
Center for Immigration Studies Overstates Immigrant, Non-Citizen, and Native Welfare Use

There are a few issues with the CIS report and an unsound methodological choice that they made that results in inflating the welfare use rates for immigrants and natives.

https://www.cato.org/blog/center-immigration-studies-overstates-immigrant-non-citizen-native-welfare-use
"CIS, an organization bankrolled by the same anti-immigrant ideologue who funded the U.S. publication of 'The Camp of the Saints,' a racist French novel admiringly cited by Stephen Miller & Steve Bannon."
5/ https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2019/06/24/colcom-foundation-cordelia-scaife-may-population-environment-immigration-pittsburgh/stories/201906230016
Links between population and the environment were pivotal to philosophy of Colcom founder Scaife May

In 1963 Cordelia Scaife May signed on to a letter to the president, urging  “a greatly accelerated program for limiting world population.”

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2019/06/24/colcom-foundation-cordelia-scaife-may-population-environment-immigration-pittsburgh/stories/201906230016
"CIS, whose leader @MarkSKrikorian said Haiti has 'a stunted, dysfunctional culture caused by an interrupted process of colonial development' by 'the more-advanced civilization of the colonizers.'"
6/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-do-about-haiti-mark-krikorian/
What to Do About Haiti?

Derb and Jonah’s discussion on why Haiti is a basket case misses the point, I think. The question is not “Why isn’t Haiti like Denmark?” It’s “Why isn’t Haiti like Jamaica or Barbados?” Those place…

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-do-about-haiti-mark-krikorian/
"CIS, which dismissed opposition to Trump's family separations policy as a 'wave of hysteria' & said the alternative was 'the use of children as human shields against immigration enforcement' & 'get-out-of-jail-free cards for border infiltrators.'"
7/ https://cis.org/Krikorian/We-will-not-apologize-doing-our-job
'We will not apologize for doing our job' | @CIS_org

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has been accused of being somewhat soft on her boss's signature issue, not entirely without justification. But she is standing firm, so far, against the...

https://cis.org/Krikorian/We-will-not-apologize-doing-our-job
"CIS, an organization that opposes DACA by stirring up fears of alleged 'Dreamer gang-bangers' and 'Dreamer sexual predators.'"

8/ https://cis.org/Mortensen/DACA-Granting-Amnesty-Dreamers-Committing-Crimes-While-Abandoning-Their-Victims
DACA: Granting Amnesty to Dreamers Committing Crimes While Abandoning Their Victims | @CIS_org

The Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides amnesty from serious job-related felonies and other crimes committed by DACA-eligible illegal aliens (often...

https://cis.org/Mortensen/DACA-Granting-Amnesty-Dreamers-Committing-Crimes-While-Abandoning-Their-Victims
I'm sure there are any number of other factual descriptors that would give readers due notice that they are not reading a quote from a reputable research organization.

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