Immigration
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…
Perhaps you’ve come across this already, but information divulged by a former senior adviser to the British government is worth considering, here across the pond: The [reports from the Performance and Innovation Unit, Tony Blair’s Cabinet Office think-tank] were legendarily tedious within Whitehall but their big immigration report was surrounded by an unusual air of…
I’m on the Brown University Campus, where a panel of Rhode Island all-stars is preparing for a panel discussion on the issue of immigration. Panelists include RI State Senator Juan Pichardo, Judge Roberto Gonzalez, former U.S. Attorney Robert Corrente, Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian, RI State Representative David Segal, and Reverend Donald Anderson. Moderator will be…
Upon death, I expect to confront, in some fashion, my countless errors of thought and of faith and to regret the actions to which they led me. On some issue, perhaps a habit, many of us will find it difficult to resist the urge to defend long-held beliefs even in the face of divine correction.…
Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse appeared on this week’s Newsmakers program on WPRI-TV (CBS 12), offering substantive answers to some very good questions on healthcare reform asked by panelists Tim White, Arlene Violet and Ian Donnis. On at least one issue, however, the issue of how illegal immigrants are being addressed in the proposals…