Teh Great Wall-Off Mexico
They say insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Given the way large-scale fortifications invariably fail, you'd think that John McCain wouldn't...
View ArticleArizona "Papers, please" law comes to Michigan
As predicted, the odious "Papers, please" law recently passed in Arizona is spreading like cancer throughout the country. In a couple of weeks, it hits Michigan.A Michigan lawmaker said she believes...
View Article"Mastering AZ Bill AB1070" : A hands-on course for United States Senators
President Obama joked in the recent Whitehouse Correspondent Dinner: "Unfortunately John McCain couldn't make it. Recently he claimed that he had never identified himself as a Maverick. And we all know...
View ArticleThe Next Republican Party
Can the Republican Party reinvent itself and remain a relevant political force?I don't think reinventing the Republican Party is a solution. The Republicans have to take responsibility for the mess...
View ArticleA Message for Advocates of Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Free the DREAM Act
Representative Luis Gutierrez has managed to incense immigrant youth again with his latest attempt to get the Obama Administration to show leadership on immigration issues.In the New York Times, the...
View ArticleBorn in the U.S.A.
Okay, Republicans, let's repeal or modify the 14th amendment so being born in the U.S. of A. makes you a citizen if, and only if your parents are legal. Now how do we handle a baby born to one legal...
View ArticleWhy Don't We Call It Ethnic Cleansing?
That is, after all, what it is. I mean the anti-immigrant movement regarding Hispanics. From Arizona's illegal immigrant law, to the call to rescind the 14th Ammendment? -- Not to mention to the...
View ArticleSome 'illegals' have been in the Americas longer than most of us.
Any “illegal” immigrant who has a percent of “Native American” blood is more of a citizen than most of us.
View ArticleHow would Meg Whitman govern? w/poll
The Whitman maid Nicky Daiz' illegal alien disclosure came at the worst time. The facts are in, almost all of them are not contested by the Whitman campaign, and there are several things we are...
View ArticleI've met Sheriff Dupnik, He's the Real Deal
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has always been a smart, tough, and fair law enforcement official. I met Sheriff Dupnik in 2007 while making my film The Wall. We spoke for several hours about border policy...
View ArticleProposed Texas Abortion Bill Fuels Immigration Controversy
From The Desperate BloggerA bill recently introduced in the Texas state legislature would impose stiff fines and jail sentences on any medical professional who performs or facilitates the performance...
View ArticleDoes Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Have a Heart After All???
We've spent the last several years reading heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story about the immoral, unethical, often illegal, activities of the big banks in their heartless pursuit of...
View ArticleA Roadmap to Citizenship, and A Roadmap to Homeownership
Is anyone replacing entire lower skilled workcrews in your area with with minimum wage employees? I mean, you know its happening even if you have yet to run across it. But here's what you definitely...
View ArticleALEC's Immigration Legislation...no need for it unless you live in the U.S....
With the furor over immigration and entry into the U.S. by those avoiding the legal path, RepubliCons pushed for SB 1070 in AZ. in 2010 and in more than 30 states since then. They have had mixed...
View Articleupdated: prison companies profiting from the crackdown on immigration -- an...
On September 28, as part of its series on immigration detention, the New York Times addressed the scandal of seemingly uncontrollable immigrant abuse by the multinational prison industry in an article...
View ArticleAliens can help us fund Social Security and
we can bring them out of the shadow economy and into the real economy. We could give them the carrot of being able to join our Social Security if they pay into it for a certain number of years AND...
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Can This News Be Real?
Knowing the Daily Kos community is the best when it comes to especially political commentary. . .and something I'd rather not contribute to (therefore showing my ignorance on such subject matter. ....
View ArticleThe Republican Nightmare is the Democrats' Dream Act!
Ever since Donald Trump accused the President of being "Soft on Immigration" because he was secretly an immigrant himself...his fellow Republicans have wanted to get rid of the President's "Dream Act"...
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Republican Congressman Tweets ‘Illegal Aliens Have Just Invaded My DC Office’
ThinkProgress reports:One week after House Republicans passed an amendment that effectively deports DREAMers, undocumented high school students held a peaceful protest in Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA)...
View ArticleCBO Report on Immigration: Impact on Jobs, Labor Force
Senate bill S. 744 is the proposed immigration bill named “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act”. Based on an assessment by a new report from the Congressional...
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