The turn to make immigration the "New Willie Horton" campaign follows the tried and true logic of Republican race baiters.
Stan Goff | Posted 10.31.2007 | Home
Yeah, I watched the first hour of it... then I had to go night-night. Notes: Clinton was dog-piled as everyone knew she would be. The attack... fli...
Paul Helmke | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics
When my sister was in high school in Fort Wayne, Indiana, her Government teacher once asked the class to name the State Senators from our area. My si...
Randy Paul | Posted 10.31.2007 | Home
Living in what may be the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the world has given me an interesting perspective with which to view the immigration debate raging in America.
R.A. Robinson | Posted 10.25.2007 | Home
Will the Republicans make immigration the gay marriage of the 2008 electoral contests?
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
A maverick no more? Senator John McCain skipped out on a vote this afternoon on a bill that creates a path to legal residency for college students ...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that he's going to waive the Endangered Species Act and Toxic Waste Disposal Act among other acts to plough ahead with building a wall along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
If you want a common-sense approach that follows the lead of eight other states and would make New York's people and streets safer, go with the Governor, not Lou Dobbs.
John Seery | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Huckabee's twisted logic says that immigrant workers are filling a labor shortage caused, in large measure, by abortion.
David Sirota | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Leo Hindery calls it "nonpartisan" - I call it buypartisan. Whatever you want to call it, it is fueled by the very corruption we are seeing on trade, taxes and now on immigration.
Bob Burnett | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Conservative demagogues suggest our economic woes are the fault of "those people;" only this time it's not "colored people," the Irish, or Jews, it's illegal aliens.
Tim Berry | Posted 10.17.2007 | Business
All efforts to regulate immigration aren't racist, but some people are using the discussion to disguise prejudice in code.
Joel Barkin | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
Earlier this month NY Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that he would be issuing driver licenses to undocumented immigrants. Not only is this good politics, it is also good policy.
New York Times' City Room Blog | Jennifer 8 Lee | Posted 10.12.2007 | Home
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says the most popular name for boys last year was Michael, according to its 2006 baby name d...
Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
My brother's green card came through just last year after 10 years of waiting. He moved to the U.S. from Iran two weeks ago, after having waited a third of his life for a better life.
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 10.11.2007 | Home
The number of bodies recovered on the Arizona-Mexico border over the past year has hit a new high, according to reports released Thursday by human rig...
Marisa Treviño | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
Why does there exist a fanaticism against the immigration issue, not outside the halls of Congress but within its very corridors?
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 10.11.2007 | Home
Bush's latest immigration measure hits a wall of a different type. A coalition of Big Labor and Big Business forces a Federal court to block the White House's latest crackdown on undocumented workers.
Pachacutec | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
As the race baiting destroyer of the California Republican Party (and Giuliani endorser) Pete Wilson should now know, this is all suicide for the GOP nationally.
Ben Fractenberg | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
Note to all xenophobes: If you are going to wear a shirt demanding everyone in America know English, you probably should learn how to speak the language properly yourself.
Dan Kowalski | Posted 10.07.2007 | Home
At a recent debate, the Democratic contenders were asked if they would "allow sanctuary cities to exist." The problem is the unspoken assumption that everyone knows what a "sanctuary city" is.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
Maybe we'll wind up counting illegal immigrants as the framers of the Constitution may have intended: as three-fifths of a person.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.01.2007 | Home
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border, saying it's actually better fo...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
Neil Cavuto and several of his guests yesterday provided a stark reminder of the unparalleled capacity authoritarians have to live comfortably with complete contradiction.
The Wall Street Journal | Miriam Jordan | Posted 09.30.2007 | Business
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Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics