Archive for the 'Immigration' Category

DREAMing About Enlisting Illegals

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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  [...]

Why Doesn’t Somebody Fire Mel Martinez?

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

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.
Read on…

A Libertarian Case Against Open Borders

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

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, [...]

Looks Like Robert Samuelson Had an Effect

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

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 [...]

The Immigration Story That Doesn’t Get Covered

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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 [...]

Dispatches From the Planet of the Milicrats

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

"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 [...]

Closed-Door Policy

Friday, May 5th, 2006

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 [...]