At present, the Republican presidential campaigns opposing Newt Gingrich must look at the unlikely front-runner as something of a piñata: a big, fat target ready to explode, showering votes on his rivals, once it is decided which angle offers the most decisive blow.
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On a press call today, experts in Latino politics and public opinion discussed the recent back and forth over immigration in the Republican presidential primary contest and helped to put the debate over immigration into its proper policy and political context.
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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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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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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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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who charged Republican presidential primary rival Newt Gingrich with proposing "amnesty" for certain illegal immigrants, took a nearly identical position in a 2006 Bloomberg interview, saying some foreigners who entered the U.S. illegally should be allowed to remain and gain legal status.
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Is the border between the United States and Mexico, as some claim, a war zone that calls out for heavy-duty military hardware? Or is it simply, as others insist, a gateway between two countries that are friends and neighbors?
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Under fire for his stance on immigration policy, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is receiving some support from an unlikely source. In an interview with Newsmax, former President Bill Clinton said Gingrich's support for allowing illegal immigrant families without criminal records to stay in the U.S. could boost his...
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