Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley) advocate the mandatory use of E-Verify to preserve jobs for Americans and crack down on illegal immigration. As a supporter of comprehensive reform, I read their Op-Ed article with great interest and was disheartened by their faulty reasoning.
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Commercials are the product of imagination, fanciful thoughts, or, in some cases, outright absurdities. We all know that geckos can't talk, ducks can't alert us of danger at every turn, and that toddlers aren't fully conversant in the complexities of trading stock.
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The state of Alabama enacted the country's toughest anti-immigrant law this week. Even in the 21st century, this southern state apparently remains faithful to its controversial history of discrimination, in which someone's appearance and the color of their skin are enough reason for them to become suspects in the...
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Jun 9, 2011
Latino voters have very real and concrete concerns about the absence of an immigration policy that addresses our times. A majority of Latinos personally know someone who is undocumented and a quarter of Latino voters say they have direct knowledge of someone who has been deported or is undergoing...
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Dec 16, 2010
If the focus is on the young people themselves, the case for the Dream Act is impenetrable. They have been brought up in this country...the evidence is unequivocal: those with two years of college or military training pay their own way in life.
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Speaking on the Senate floor in 2007 about a virtually identical bill, she said: "This is such an important piece of legislation, and I do think this is isolated from the entire immigration issue because there . . . are young people who have been brought to this country...
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Dec 15, 2010
In its FY10-12 Strategic Plan, the Department of Defense identified the DREAM Act as a smart way to expand the pool of potential candidates because it lets high achieving young people enlist.
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Are we really that sort of country? Are we really a nation so narrow-minded and nativist that we would deny citizenship to bright and talented young adults with the brains to become surgeons, engineers or astronauts? Are we so grimly determined to punish illegal border-crossings that we would deport...
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If morality does not move the Senate, then sheer economic self-interest should. The more our talented students are forced into the dark in fear of being deported, the greater the loss in potential tax revenue. In some of them we might just have the next Einstein, the next Bill...
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Sen. John Cornyn expresses sympathy for students who would be affected by the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, and yet he doesn't think he can help them just yet... wrote..."the time is always ripe to do what's right."
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