Nov 29, 2011
HOW CAN Alabama save face on immigration, now that we are practically the laughingstock of the nation? There's only one way: Repeal the law. Not because other states and The New York Times say we should. But because, by wading into this controversial national issue, Alabama has become mired...
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The 62-year-old Wheaton barber had earned a law degree in his native Thailand and waited eight years for a visa so he could move to the United States and begin a new life. When he heard this year about the Maryland Dream Act, which would grant in-state college tuition...
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Over the past couple weeks, immigration has become one of the most contentious issues in the GOP presidential contest. Mitt Romney has tried to portray himself as the hardest of the hard core anti-immigrant voices in the race. He has become the leading voice for mass deportation. Romney's campaign...
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Earlier this fall, we wrote about the hoops that the 2012 GOP presidential candidates were jumping through to earn the endorsement of notoriously anti-immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now, in what the Atlantic calls "one of the many mind-bending absurdities of the 2012 race," Arpaio has chosen a...
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Mitt Romney has officially staked out the most extreme immigration position possible: the removal of every undocumented immigrant in the nation.
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In the recent dustup over Newt Gingrich's limited but sensible recognition of the simple fact that America will not and should not move to expel 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have lived and worked here for well over a decade, Mitt Romney's current position on immigration reform...
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In the recent dustup over Newt Gingrich's limited but sensible recognition of the simple fact that America will not and should not move to expel 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have lived and worked here for well over a decade, Mitt Romney's current position on immigration reform...
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who charged Republican presidential primary rival Newt Gingrich with proposing "amnesty" for certain illegal immigrants, took a nearly identical position in a 2006 Bloomberg interview, saying some foreigners who entered the U.S. illegally should be allowed to remain and gain legal status.
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Is the border between the United States and Mexico, as some claim, a war zone that calls out for heavy-duty military hardware? Or is it simply, as others insist, a gateway between two countries that are friends and neighbors?
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Under fire for his stance on immigration policy, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is receiving some support from an unlikely source. In an interview with Newsmax, former President Bill Clinton said Gingrich's support for allowing illegal immigrant families without criminal records to stay in the U.S. could boost his...
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