Immigration
A couple of points for commentators and advocates who are happily parroting the lies of the msm (Heather MacDonald at City Journal sets the record straight) to vilify the new Arizona law and, purportedly, to demand reform of our federal laws. 1.) The Arizona law was carefully written to mirror federal immigration law, which had…
In her Providence Journal column, yesterday, Froma Harrop inadvertently illustrated the problem that America has resolving the illegal immigration problem. Regarding Arizona’s new immigration law: Stopping brown people in the street is not the way to address the problem. The great majority of illegal immigrants come for work. Though they shouldn’t be here, these are…
Amity Shlaes’ Saturday op-ed on immigration gives the impression of suggesting something controversial regarding a way in which immigration could help to save Social Security, but when the reader gets to the following, it turns out to be something not very controversial at all: Here’s where demography morphs from enemy to friend. Suppose we adopt…
… and all the more troubling because, as the Arizona law is a carbon copy of federal law, they reflect his views on the issue of illegal immigration. The first is the basis of his objection. Our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. ……
It appears that immigration reform, more honestly known as amnesty (which would be the eighth in recent history, one of the bases for the heavy scepticism of claims that “We’re just allowing these 12-20 million and no more!”) has hit a roadblock, at least this legislative year. From Josh Gerstein at Politico. A pair of…
In reading Karen Lee Ziner’s summary of a report about immigrants’ financial remittances to their home countries, it’s tempting to muse about the use of public universities to generate content for political think tanks: The report, “Many Happy Returns: Remittances and their Impact,” by political science professor Kristin Johnson, was released Tuesday by the Immigration…
So, from this report, the situation appears to be as follows: A bookstore/cafe serving Yale in New Haven is happy to hire immigrants and makes a point of helping them to learn English — a sure social and economic advantage. However, when owner Charles Negaro made it company policy that English should be spoken in…
Whenever the issue of immigration comes up with some reference to religious groups, especially where Roman Catholic clergy are involved, somebody inevitably calls in to talk radio to declare that it’s really just a scheme to increase the number of church-going Hispanics. The claim is more cynical than is merited, but to the extent that…
As frequently as right-wingers have to insist that they aren’t opposed to immigration, per se, we have to begin making a better effort to tie our views on the discrete issue to our broader understanding of culture and economics. Reuven Brenner puts it well: The histories of Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and West Germany…
In today’s Providence Journal, Deloris Issler of Cranston enumerates the ways that Congressman Patrick Kennedy poorly serves his district and the state with his views on illegal immigration and opposition to e-verify. To this, I would only add, without snideness or rancor, that the Congressman does not enhance his image in the area of intelligence…