A series of media outlets reported yesterday that a key phrase embedded in Mitt Romney's stump speech and campaign advertisements, "Keep America American," turns out to be a slogan the Ku Klux Klan used in the 1920s to protest the arrival of Irish immigrants. Separate from the specific... Continue »
Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind... Continue »
Today's launch of the Iowa Compact charts a sensible course on immigration policy – a welcome contrast to the "papers, please" crackdowns passed in Arizona and Alabama, and the rhetoric dominating this issue among GOP 2012 presidential contenders. According to a raft of new polling, the sentiment behind... Continue »
The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund: "We fully expect the Supreme Court to uphold the U.S. Constitution and long-standing court rulings which have held that immigration... Continue »
The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice Education Fund: "We fully expect the Supreme Court to uphold the U.S. Constitution and long-standing court rulings which have held that immigration... Continue »
At Saturday night's Republican presidential debate, most of the candidates continued to demonstrate how out of step they are with the public's wishes on immigration. As new Fox News polling makes clear, Mitt Romney and other candidates espousing mass deportation positions appeal to a very narrow sliver of... Continue »
Frank Sharry: "While Newt's candidacy may still go off the rails, it won't be because of his immigration position. In fact, his numbers seem to keep going up." Continue »
We know we sound like a broken record, but three new polls demonstrate, again, that the Republican presidential contenders are mostly far afield of where the public is on immigration. In contrast to the mass deportation approach advocated by many in the Republican field and by many GOPers in... Continue »
Despite many pundits and commentators saying that Newt Gingrich would face a primary campaign backlash over his immigration comments, several new polls show that likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa are less uniformly hard-line and less animated by the issue of illegal immigration than conventional wisdom would suggest – just... Continue »
The issue of immigration continues to be definitional for the Republican presidential contest. Just this weekend: On CNN's "Face the Nation" Sunday, 2008 presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) offered this advice to the Republican field: "The Republican Party has to discuss in as humane a way as... Continue »