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Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
November 22nd, 2010
July 18th, 2010
Category: Immigration
… and count his votes. Why white evangelical leaders are pushing comprehensive immigration reform.
May 13th, 2010
To right-wingers who say that the Arizona immigration law is necessary to protect “respect for the rule of law,” there is a simple two word answer: John Yoo.
April 30th, 2010
Category: Immigration
It appears that civil libertarians and wingnuts have united in opposition to the new Democratic immigration bill, with some progressives borrowing wingnut language: Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip [...]
April 28th, 2010
Category: Immigration, Watching Conservatives
The Arizona law creates a right of private action, with attorney-fee awards, against “any agency or official” who isn’t maximally mean to people who look as if they might be illegal immigrants. Why doesn’t this bother the “tort reform” crowd?
April 27th, 2010
Category: Immigration, Watching Conservatives
Any Arizona cop can now demand “your papers” from anyone with a suspiciously brown skin or suspiciously Latino accent. But the libertarians and tea-partiers don’t seem to have much of a problem with this huge extension of the power of the state over the individual. Steve Benen has it right: “It’s almost as if the right-wing crowd is only offended by government abuses when they’re imaginary.”
June 10th, 2009
Category: Human rights, Immigration
Palau has agreed to take in the Uighurs — and has demonstrated just about every other nation’s hypocrisy and cowardice.
March 2nd, 2009
The United States can demonstrate its humanitarian bona fides and give a kick start to Israeli-Palestinian peace by accepting thousands of Palestinian refugees to this country. And it doesn’t need Congressional approval to do so.
November 20th, 2008
President-elect Obama has tapped Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to become the new Secretary of Homeland Security. It seems to be a good choice: Napolitano is smart, politically experienced, and apparently did a wonderful job both as US Attorney in Arizona and as that state’s Attorney General. But her background might also raise questions–not about her [...]
September 18th, 2008
Jake Tapper argues that Obama’s Spanish-language radio ad linking John McCain to Rush Limbaugh is a distortion. He’s got a kernel of a point, but that point itself is distorted. Tapper really goes into wingnut territory when he tries to exonerate Limbaugh from the charge of crude anti-Latino prejudice. His stronger argument is that Limbaugh [...]
