Herman Cain has talked about an electrified fence. Michele Bachmann prefers a "double- walled" model to keep out "anchor babies." And everyone but Texas Governor Rick Perry agrees that young illegal immigrants who have grown up in the U.S. shouldn't have the same access to higher education as the...
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At a press conference today on Capitol Hill, Alabama leaders and national civil rights and legal groups denounced Alabama's new draconian racial profiling law, and called on Congress and the Administration to help put an end to the crisis unfolding in the state.
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At a press conference today on Capitol Hill, Alabama leaders and national civil rights and legal groups denounced Alabama's new draconian racial profiling law, and called on Congress and the Administration to help put an end to the crisis unfolding in the state.
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As Alabama continues to enforce the harshest immigration law in the land, faith, civil rights, and Hispanic group leaders came to Capitol Hill today to ask lawmakers to put an end to the "man-made humanitarian crisis" unfolding in the state.
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Powerful editorial in today's NY Times about the impact of HB 56 on people across Alabama. The new harsh law is impacting everyone, not just its intended target of immigrants. It's exactly what the proponents wanted.
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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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Last weekend in Tennessee, Herman Cain boasted that as President, he'd build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border "20-feet high, with barbed wire, and electrified." The crowd applauded, and in an interview a day later, Cain shrugged the whole thing off as "a joke." He might come to regret...
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Rick Perry's most pointed attack against Mitt Romney in Tuesday night's debate concerned an immigration matter that came to light when Mr. Romney was campaigning for president four years ago.
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A leading House Democrat is taking GOP presidential contender Herman Cain to task for suggesting an electric border fence would be the country's best defense against illegal immigrants. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) accused Cain on Tuesday of "spewing hate" and inciting violence without offering any real solution to the...
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In 2012, President Obama will run at the top of the Democratic ticket, so for the time being, the Republicans are alone in showing the nation their pathologies in a series of strange televised encounters that we agree to call debates. Tuesday night's installment had Anderson Cooper guest starring...
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