Feb 3, 2012
IN AN article I wrote last week on Alabama's immigration law, I referred to Samuel Addy, an economist at the University of Alabama who was trying to determine the overall costs of the law. Mr Addy has just released his cost-benefit analysis, and it makes for compelling—and, at nine...
Continue
»
Duck if you're headed into the state of Kansas. Mixed signals are flying fast. On the subject of undocumented immigrants, officials are all over the place. The secretary of agriculture wants to put them to work. The secretary of state wants to deport them. The governor vows to eradicate...
Continue
»
In an op-ed today in the New York Times, Antonio Alarcon, a 17 year old DREAMer, describes living life without his parents who "self-deported" to Mexico. As he explains, "self-deportation" is a term that Mitt Romney made popular in a Florida GOP debate.
Continue
»
"This American Life," the New York Times Lede blog and the Rachel Maddow show this week both put out pretty amusing historical pieces on the concept of self-deportation and its origins as a hysterical, satirical joke.
Continue
»
Ever since Mitt Romney issued his support for "self-deportation," a policy also known as "attrition through enforcement," voices from around the country have responded by highlighting just how unworkable and extreme a policy like this would be.
Continue
»
Mitt Romney took a hard line on illegal immigration, was labeled anti-immigrant and had a national network of Hispanic Republicans come out against him, yet he won Florida's primary by carrying more than half of Hispanics who voted - better than he did among whites.
Continue
»
Displaying his willingness to say what audiences don't always want to hear, Rep. Ron Paul on Wednesday told a largely Hispanic crowd that he opposes the DREAM Act legislation aimed at helping children of illegal immigrants.
Continue
»
The dining hall workers had been at Pomona College for years, some even decades. For a few, it was the only job they had held since moving to the United States. Then late last year, administrators at the college delivered letters to dozens of the longtime employees asking them...
Continue
»
ONE of my happiest childhood memories is of my parents at my First Communion. But that's because most of my memories from that time are of their being absent. They weren't there for my elementary school graduation, or for parent-teacher conferences.
Continue
»
An unusual thing happened on the way to Mitt Romney's comfortable win in Tuesday's GOP primary election. Immigration, not a key topic for Hispanics in Florida, forced two top Republican leaders in the state to plead for a more moderate stance on the issue or face the possibility that...
Continue
»
