The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that the Obama administration is challenging in court, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.
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This October 26th marks the fifth anniversary of President George W. Bush's signing the law to build a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border. Five years later the "border security first" approach has gotten us nowhere. Yet, it's still the number one response from GOP Presidential candidates when asked...
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Oct 20, 2011
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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Oct 18, 2011
After first apologizing for suggesting an electric fence along the border, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told reporters here Monday that he still thinks it's a good idea for controlling illegal immigration. "I'm not walking away from that," he said.
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Presidential candidate Herman Cain is catching heat from Hispanic advocacy groups for suggesting the U.S. construct an "electrified" border fence to keep out illegal immigrants. Though Cain said afterward he was just kidding, the group America's Voice put out a statement Monday calling it "no laughing matter."
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Two days after she focused on immigration in her campaign stop in Iowa, Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is scheduled to be in Arizona Monday to discuss the U.S.-Mexico border.
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A new poll shows that Latino voters don't know who the Republican 2012 presidential candidates are, but they don't like what they're hearing. This weekend, former Godfather Pizza CEO and newest GOP "front-runner" Herman Cain called for an electrified border fence capable of killing people, coupled with "real...
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At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country's border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
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In GOP primary politics, the U.S.-Mexico border fence is an immigration litmus test, but an apparently unhelpful one. Experts close to the issue agree that the fence may be a nice symbolic sound bite for candidates to show border security bona fides, but it does little to address the...
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Oct 13, 2011
For your viewing pleasure this morning, we're forwarding around last night's episode of South Park, "The Last of the Meheecans." Hilarious and relevant, it's also a sign of how thoroughly the immigration debate has permeated pop culture and the American consciousness.
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