What a difference five years makes. Last week, Mitt Romney accused Newt Gingrich of proposing "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, but in 2006, Romney endorsed an immigration policy almost identical to the one Gingrich backs now, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
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Newt Gingrich has shocked the political world in the past month by shooting to the top of the polls only weeks before the first votes are cast in the Republican presidential primary, so maybe it should come as no surprise that he shocked everyone again with his comments on...
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U.S. Justice Department officials said Monday that they have gotten more than 1,000 calls or emails reporting problems immigrants are having living under Alabama's immigration law.
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Former New Hampshire GOP Chairman Fergus Cullen draws out the difference between the two early primary states, in a column warning Rick Perry in strong terms against campaigning with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Occupy Birmingham is moving north to Gadsden for a few hours Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law and Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies. Erick Forsyth, a volunteer with Occupy Birmingham, said Gadsden was chosen for the demonstration because of ICE's connection with the Etowah County Detention Center.
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HOW CAN Alabama save face on immigration, now that we are practically the laughingstock of the nation? There's only one way: Repeal the law. Not because other states and The New York Times say we should. But because, by wading into this controversial national issue, Alabama has become mired...
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The 62-year-old Wheaton barber had earned a law degree in his native Thailand and waited eight years for a visa so he could move to the United States and begin a new life. When he heard this year about the Maryland Dream Act, which would grant in-state college tuition...
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Over the past couple weeks, immigration has become one of the most contentious issues in the GOP presidential contest. Mitt Romney has tried to portray himself as the hardest of the hard core anti-immigrant voices in the race. He has become the leading voice for mass deportation. Romney's campaign...
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Earlier this fall, we wrote about the hoops that the 2012 GOP presidential candidates were jumping through to earn the endorsement of notoriously anti-immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now, in what the Atlantic calls "one of the many mind-bending absurdities of the 2012 race," Arpaio has chosen a...
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Mitt Romney has officially staked out the most extreme immigration position possible: the removal of every undocumented immigrant in the nation.
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