Sep 16, 2011
In both of this month's Republican presidential debates, Rep. Michele Bachmann hailed what she evidently believes was the golden age of American immigration — the period before the mid-1960s when, she said, "immigration law worked beautifully."
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Maryland's Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley has seldom had kind words for Republicans, but he offered praise Thursday for Texas Gov. Rick Perry's immigration policies, praising him for standing up to "thinly-veiled racism" within the GOP ranks.
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Sep 15, 2011
The Republican Party is characterized by—according to its platform—rejecting excessive government regulation and defending unrestricted freedom for businesses. However, when it comes to the immigration issue, many Republicans become the most loyal defenders of government intervention and bureaucratic regulation.
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E-Verify, the top priority of Rep. Lamar Smith and the House Republican Caucus, would cause the loss of 800,000 American jobs and burden small businesses. That's bad enough. But, there's another problem: E-Verify doesn�t work. The system fails over half the time.
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Despite all the problems with E-Verify, Rep. Lamar Smith is charging forward with his mandatory bill -- and adding a cheap guest worker plan to the mix in a blatant attempt to buy off the industry. Instead of putting American workers first, Smith's plan promotes a race to the...
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In June of 2009, Sen. Charles Schumer took the stage in front of a capacity crowd at the Georgetown Law Center. The event was billed as "Immigration: A New Era," and Schumer, who chairs the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, was on campus to unveil his seven...
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In last night's Republican presidential debate, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) continued his hard right tack on immigration, trying to portray himself as the true immigration hard liner in comparison to fellow GOP top contender, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX).
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The Republican presidential candidates aggressively confronted Gov. Rick Perry at a debate here Monday night, and pressed him to explain his views on Social Security and his decade-long record in Texas, including an effort to require the vaccination of schoolgirls and granting children of illegal immigrants a college tuition...
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Missed Monday night's one-hour, 52-minute clash of the GOP presidential candidates? Here's a quick rundown: the most important development in the debate was the emergence of attacks on Texas Gov. Rick Perry from the right led by Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Sen. Rick Santorum.
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Like many Latin American immigrants watching the Sept. 7 televised debate among Republican hopefuls, I drew a clear-cut conclusion after the show — these guys don't like us. With the possible exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, they seemed to be competing among each other to see who...
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