Posts filed under “Immigration”
Brewer’s Bruised Feelings
Jan Brewer is really, really upset at some of the criticism she has received since she cheerfully signed Arizona’s draconian anti-immigrant law for personal political gain: “The Nazi comments . . . they are awful,” she said, her voice dropping. “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him [...]
The Republican Notion Of Bipartisanship
Ron Brownstein had a story in the National Journal over the weekend, pointing out exactly how much the Republican Party’s position on immigration has moved since the good old days of 2006, when lawmakers from both parties actually worked together constructively even on the thorniest of issues, and obstructionism manifested itself not in the Senate [...]
Rebroadcasting Wild Exaggerations
Last week, I wrote about ThinkProgress‘s wild exaggeration about the number of states contemplating anti-immigrant legislation in the wake of the draconian new Arizona law. This morning, TPMMuckraker picks up the story — with “a major hat tip to ThinkProgress” — and rebroadcasts it, with an update. ThinkProgress‘s seven states are now up to ten. [...]
The Cowardice Of His Convictions
Speaking of the Republican Party’s “new generation of young and energetic leaders”, here’s Eric Cantor boldly displaying the cowardice of his convictions when asked about Arizona’s draconian new immigration law: Top Line hosts Rick Klein and David Chalian asked Cantor where he stood on the law four times, but the Virginia Republican refused to go [...]
Monkey See, Monkey Do, Take Two
So now Texas is messing with Arizona-style immigration “reform”: A Republican Texas lawmaker plans to introduce a tough immigration measure similar to the new law in Arizona, a move state Democrats say would be a mistake. Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball said she will push for the law in the January legislative session, according to [...]
The Catch-And-Release Approach To Illegal Immigration
Nothing like a Republican primary to bring out the creative spirit in candidates. Pat Bertroche, a psychiatrist who is running in a Congressional primary in Iowa, was inspired to propose a catch-and-release policy for illegal immigrants. The Cedar Rapids Gazette tells all: “I think we should catch ‘em, we should document ‘em, make sure we [...]
The Guthberg Test For Galloping Stupidity
Brian Bilbray is a Republican congressman. Not even from Arizona, mind you, but from California. But he just couldn’t resist defending Arizona’s new racial profiling law, the one that inspired John McCain to babble about “the drivers of cars with illegals in it (sic) that (sic) are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway.” (Bilbray’s eagerness [...]
Proof Of The Pudding
You probably did not know this, because the mainstream media doesn’t believe in telling us the truth about such things, but our freeways are full of cars with illegal immigrants in them, and the drivers of these cars (who are apparently not illegal immigrants themselves) are intentionally causing accidents. Okay, maybe I exaggerated. Our freeways [...]
Be Careful What You Brag About
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force, is one of the leaders of the charge for comprehensive immigration reform. House Democrats hope to send a bill to President Obama next spring. Here’s Luis Gutierrez, bragging about the proposed bill: Our bill will be to immigration reform what the public option [...]
A Nation Of Laws (And Justice For All)
In the time of Bush, what does it take to save a man from being royally f*cked by the all-knowing, all-wise federal government? Judging by the story of Thomas Warziniack, it takes something suspiciously like divine intervention. You can be born and brought up in the United States, with papers and everything, even a birth [...]