The news that the leading anti-immigrant architect in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), has endorsed Mitt Romney for President raises persistent questions about Gov. Romney's political and policy acumen.
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Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona heads to Alabama today to be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Federation of Republican Women dinner in Huntsville and, presumably, to reiterate her recent support for Alabama and Arizona's anti-immigration laws.
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Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona heads to Alabama on October 28th to be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Federation of Republican Women dinner in Huntsville and, presumably, to reiterate her recent support for Alabama and Arizona's anti-immigration laws.
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Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona heads to Alabama on October 28th to be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Federation of Republican Women dinner in Huntsville and, presumably, to reiterate her recent support for Alabama and Arizona's anti-immigration laws.
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Memo to the Alabama state legislature: if they're going to be so zealously anti-immigrant that they pass a law which spawns a civil rights and humanitarian crisis, the least they might do is make sure it's constitutional.
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Gov. Robert Bentley could have brought more decency and reason into the debate over Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law. Instead, when HB56 passed the Republican-controlled Legislature in June, he was a strong supporter, proud of the law's unprecedented reach.
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The "nation's toughest immigration law" was a politically popular choice as it made its way through the Alabama Legislature this year. HB56 passed by wide margins in the Senate and House, and its passage was hailed as a great event for the state. It may yet turn out that...
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Regardless of the side upon which we fall in the issue of illegal immigration in Alabama, we as a state -- and nation -- have failed miserably to address the issue of the problem far too long.
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David Frum is an immigration restrictionist who argues that the U.S. is hurt by permitting so many unskilled workers to come here. But he doesn't think that the conservative rank-and-file understands the politics of the issue.
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This is what happens when the Legislature and governor support a law that appeals more to ugly emotion than to simple logic. To really get to most of Alabama's small undocumented worker/immigrant problem, the Legislature could have simply adopted E-Verify, the federal database that verifies immigrant status.
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