When Alabama's sweeping new immigration law went into effect last month, Birmingham business owner Steve Dubrinsky realized he had a serious problem. Dubrinsky runs Max's Delicatessen, a classic Jewish deli, in the city's Inverness neighborhood.
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Potato farmer Keith Smith saw most of his immigrant workers leave after Alabama's tough immigration law took effect, so he hired Americans. It hasn't worked out: Most show up late, work slower than seasoned farm hands and are ready to call it a day after lunch or by midafternoon....
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Senator Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star, confronted questions on Thursday that he had embellished his family history and misrepresented the year his parents first left Cuba for the United States.
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Herman Cain has talked about an electrified fence. Michele Bachmann prefers a "double- walled" model to keep out "anchor babies." And everyone but Texas Governor Rick Perry agrees that young illegal immigrants who have grown up in the U.S. shouldn't have the same access to higher education as the...
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Republicans have an opening to steal some of the Latino vote, given that President Obama's approval rating among them has hit a new low, but the candidates will have a hard time winning them if they keep throwing red meat to their anti-immigration base.
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Oct 20, 2011
Today, Republican candidates are competing over who can talk the toughest about illegal immigration — who will erect the most impenetrable border defense; who will turn off "magnets" like college tuition benefits.
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Last week, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain vowed that, if he was elected president, he would build a 20-foot-high electrified fence on the border with Mexico with a sign alongside it that would read: "Crossing the border illegally has a price; it will kill you."
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Neither Rick Perry nor Mitt Romney can claim conservative purity on illegal immigration — and now both must deal with it. Illegal immigration has emerged as a defining issue with remarkable staying power in a GOP presidential race that was expected to be primarily focused on the nation's struggling...
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In the debate over immigration among the Republican presidential candidates, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota signed a pledge last week to build double-fencing the entire length of the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
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The Obama administration soon will begin its systematic review of the approximately 300,000 pending deportation cases, separating "high priority" cases involving criminals it wants to deport from "low priority" cases it will drop, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress Wednesday.
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