Over the last six months, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), along with other members of the House Judiciary Committee, have engaged in an all-out effort to turn back the clock on our immigration laws through a series of bills that may tackle one issue at a time, but equal a...
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Professor Ian Goldin and Geoffrey Cameron argue in their recent book, "Exceptional People: How Immigration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future", that in a more interconnected world than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase.
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Americans who wonder why so many illegal immigrants sneak across the border rather than filing the paperwork necessary to immigrate the legal way probably don't understand how difficult and lengthy a process legal immigration can be, said Oklahoma City immigration attorneys T. Douglas Stump and Michael Brooks-Jimenez.
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Most parts of Alabama's immigration law won't take effect until Sept. 1 at the earliest, yet many people already are reacting to it.Some unauthorized immigrants have moved from Alabama. Alabama's new immigration law targets unauthorized immigrants, those who don't have federal alien registration or other proof of legal...
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Secure Communities, the federal program created to target and deport immigrants identified as dangerous felons, ended up leaving many individuals and communities feeling far from secure. Since its inception in 2008, thousands of illegal immigrants who had no criminal record, or had misdemeanor convictions, were deported.
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The picture painted of America's southwestern border with Mexico is a bloody one, in which the drug violence decimating northern Mexico has spilled onto U.S. soil and turned the region into a war zone. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has warned of human skulls rolling through her state's deserts. Rep....
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California— breadbasket to the world, the eighth largest economy, home to Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, may soon face an economic free fall and agricultural collapse because of legislation sponsored by California Republicans in Congress.
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House Democrats on Thursday denounced an immigration bill authored by Rep. Lamar Smith as "petty partisan politics" and accused the San Antonio Republican of being a hypocrite for introducing the measure to spur deportations.
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I recently argued that an increased deficit among the white working class could sink Obama's re-election chances. That's particularly the case if Obama is already weakened by relatively poor support from his base. Right now, that looks like a distinct possibility.
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When it comes to the so-called E-Verify program, the "E" must stand for "Error." E-Verify is a voluntary federal program that allows employers to verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees. It relies on error-prone databases and fails to flag unauthorized workers 54 percent of the time.
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