The Democratic National Committee has produced a post-debate video suggesting Newt Gingrich, and not Mitt Romney, is being "honest" on immigration: The theme - that Romney is not a Republican with whom Latino voters should feel comfortable - is not a new one for the DNC.
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One of the headlines from last night's GOP presidential debate, which focused on foreign policy, actually has more to do with domestic policy: Whether Newt Gingrich, the latest anti-Romney frontrunner, kinda-sorta endorsed amnesty for illegal immigrants who have been in our country for a long time.
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Newt Gingrich was having what seemed to be a pretty strong debate on Tuesday night before being asked a question about immigration policy. He suggested that illegal immigrants should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and that some who have been in the United States for a long time...
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About 2,200 people filled the sanctuary at 16th Street Baptist Church and overflowed outside to protest Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. The rally, part of the One Family One Alabama national movement to overturn the law, featured nearly two dozen speakers. Speeches were translated into Spanish or...
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Birmingham Mayor William Bell told Democratic members of Congress holding a hearing on Alabama's new Immigration law that the legislation smacks of apartheid and Jim Crow laws. Bell told the lawmakers at an ad hoc hearing on Monday that the law passed this year by Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature places...
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A group of congressional Democrats gathered in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday to show support for a growing movement against the state's immigration law, aiming to "rush its demise," according to Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
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Imagine you are the chief executive of an international company looking to expand to the United States. You like states like Alabama, especially, because of their right-to-work laws, available sites for new industry and, most of all, the tax and other incentives they offer.
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As Mercedes-Benz executive Detlev Hager negotiated the streets of Tuscaloosa last week, he drove right into the controversy over Alabama's tough new immigration law. The rental car he was driving, lacking a tag, caught the attention of a local policeman, who stopped Hager on Wednesday. When the officer asked...
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Perhaps it can be argued that the arrest of a Mercedes-Benz manager in Tuscaloosa under the state's harsh immigration law is an unintended consequence, but certainly this sort of thing was foreseen.
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Nov 18, 2011
When Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Nov. 8 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on a dangerous federal gunrunning scheme called Operation Fast and Furious, he vowed to continue filing federal lawsuits against any state that passed its own immigration laws.
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