Immigration
Rasmussen: Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters would favor an approach that focuses “exclusively on securing the border and reducing illegal immigration.” Support for the enforcement only approach comes from 84% of Republicans, 55% of Democrats, and 69% of those not affiliated with either major party. Overall, just 21% are opposed to the enforcement-only approach. Victor…
…and can someone with some insight into the Democratc mind explain Sheldon Whitehouse’s voting pattern to me? The Associated Press is reporting that the Senate’s version of a comprehensive immigration reform bill is in trouble because of an amendment passed late last night… A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming…
In the ongoing immigration debate in the Senate, Sen. John Cornyn introduced an amendment banning felons from obtaining Z visas. Our own Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rose up in opposition to Cornyn’s attempt at common sense, as Michelle Malkin reports: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (who?) is blabbering on about the due process rights of illegal aliens. Now…
Oppose “comprehensive” immigration reform and you’re helping bring Hillary Clinton to power argues Wall Street Journal editorial board member Daniel Henninger, writing in last Thursday’s OpinionJournal…The massive migrant flows across the states described earlier–into the private industries of construction, restaurants, agriculture, food-packaging, hotels, health and landscaping–is irrefutably the result of powerful, lava-like free-market economic forces.…
A live audience in Mexico booed Miss USA during the interview portion of last night’s Miss Universe pageant. So there will be no lingering bad feelings between nations, let’s attempt to understand in the best possible light the message the audience was trying to deliver. There will be a temptation to view the message as…
According to CNN, Florida Senator Mel Martinez is trying to reassure Republican voters skeptical about the substance of the comprehensive immigration reform package by telling them it will be good politics for their party…On CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Sunday, [Senator Mel Martinez] said immigration “could be the saving of the Republican Party, frankly.…
Now that the Senate has slowed down the “amnesty” process a bit (phew!), perhaps they will be able to thoughtfully examine the economic impact of allowing massive numbers of low-skilled immigrant workers into this country (whether they’re here illegally or not). This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t allow such workers in, only that we…
Illegal Immigration Bill Timing Delayed: Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status…. Thomas Sowell Newt Gingrich Jonah Goldberg Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin John Fund Michael Barone Wall Street Journal Washington Times
1. If America’s leaders really want to create a political culture where comprehensive immigration reform (aka “mass amnesty”) is received more warmly than it has been so far, they need to prove that they can run the government without steadily diminishing the quality of services accessible by the regular folks who play by the rules…
In a story about how essentially all of the immigration reform bills proposed in the RI General Assembly have stalled, Rep. Richard Singleton (R, Cumberland) gets to the heart of the matter. Most people simply think that giving illegal aliens a pass and rewarding them from not abiding by our laws is simply unfair. One…