I had to double-check the URL when I read this to make sure it wasn’t the Onion or some kind of spoof site. But no, this really is a Pentagon press release calling for Congress to revive something called the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM — how lovely), which would offer [...]
The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.
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Stephen Cox, editor of Liberty, sets out a very good one, with which I’m mostly inclined to agree. Particularly this point:
Poor people, and ethnically self-identified recent immigrants vote overwhelmingly for modern-liberal candidates, [...]
A few days after his column wondering why the media haven't covered the sheer magnitude of new immigration that will take place under the Senate plan ran, the Washington Post publishes a story headlined "Senate Bill Would Add 20 Million Legal Immigrants, Report Says."
The 20 million figure is one of the more conservative estimates that's [...]
Robert Samuelson has another very good immigration column, this time on what the major media didn't deign to cover in the Senate's immigration bill.
he White House's projected increases [as a result of the Senate bill] of legal immigration (20 million) are about twice the level of existing illegal immigrants (estimated between 10 million and 12 [...]
"Milicrats" — short for military bureaucrats — is a term William S. Lind uses in his piece in the new issue of The American Conservative, which prints tomorrow. It's apt, and being a resident of Arlington, Virginia, I live close to the precincts of milicrat central.
We have art here. Here's what kind of art [...]
Doug Bandow has a brief but thought-provoking post about liberty and immigration on the 4Pundits blog. He acknowledges some of the downsides to mass immigration — "the expansion of the welfare state, loss of national acculturating institutions, and danger of terrorism" — but concludes that "nevertheless, America should never close its door to those [...]