The real immigration story
The drama in Arizona belies the real action on the immigration front. The Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal aliens and going after employers of them with unprecedented vigor. This is
Tags: Arizona, immigration, Latinos, Obama
Obama, fix immigration, not Arizona
The tough Arizona immigration law reflects public frustration with illegal immigration. Going after Arizona may play well among some Hispanic voters, but it is a dangerous political strategy.
OBAMA SHOULD LEAVE ARIZONA ALONE
Tags: Arizona, immigration, Latinos, Obama, politics
Hear me in Jacksonville….
To my comrades in Florida and everyone else, hear me at 3:45 pm EST on the Brother Stan Labor Show. Subject: immigration reform.
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Tags: Arizona, Democrats, immigration, Republicans, Washington
Burqas don’t belong on our streets
My new column addresses the libertarian argument against banning burqas in the West. Steve Chapman’s column didn’t make a sale with me, but it did offer good points against which to parry.
Canada gets immigration right
My new column goes into how Canada minimizes illegal immigration despite having a mostly unguarded border with the United States.
TO FIX IMMIGRATION, LOOK NORTH
Tags: Canada, immigration, Mexico, politics
Arizona goes Latino
As goes Texas, so goes Arizona.
Andrew Samwick posts a smart item about changing demographics in Arizona, which no doubt provided some of the motive for that state’s strict new immigration law.
A minority-majority state since 2003, Texas will probably be first to see the Latino giant flex its muscles, as I wrote in a recent column.
Tags: Arizona, immigration, Latinos, Texas
Illegal immigration at the northern border
The NYT had a very interesting piece about Haitian immigrants illegally crossing into Vermont from Canada. Illegal entrants from Canada is a relatively new phenomenon in Vermont, whose country road border crossings are often marked by only a stone.
The most interesting line was this:
“People thought that the United States were going to receive all the Haitians,” said Jean Ernest Pierre, president of CPAM Radio Union, a Haitian station in Montreal. “And as they saw that they had no chance to become Canadian permanent residents and because some of them received negative decisions, some people decided to return to the United States.”
While welcoming to legal immigrants, Canada does not tolerate the undocumented kind. What Americans must recognize is that they can have a large immigration program while ending illegal immigration.
This blog will discuss Canada’s approach in the days to come.
Who are you calling racist?
A column in the New York Times inspired me to write my own. Charles Blow comes much too close to saying that the Tea Party’s racist image (in whose mind?) reflects reality.
Nuance, please, nuance. I hope I’ve provided it.
The Week on possible Latino revenge over Arizona law
The Week magazine has an interesting piece on whether the new Arizona immigration law will prompt Latinos to seek revenge on the GOP. It cites a number of writings on the matter, mine included.
Tags: Arizona, immigration, Latinos
The NYT immigration agenda
David Paul Kuhn well captures my long-running frustration in trying to work around The New York Times’s agenda when the subject is immigration. He shows how the paper lumps together legal and undocumented immigrants to underplay the damage caused by illegal immigration. In this case, the piece slyly implies that illegal immigrants do not depress the wages of America’s low-skilled workers.
The game, also blatantly played in countless editorials, is to portray the controversy as being pro-immigrant versus anti-immigrant —rather than over the true source of public anger, which is illegal immigration. As Kuhn points out, legal immigration enjoys widespread support.
The Times did it again today. Try to decipher this passage in Study Finds Young Hispanics Face Obstacles to Integration:
More than one in five American children are Latino. While 92 percent of them are citizens, 58 percent live with one or more foreign-born parents.
Readers are no doubt scratching their heads, wondering what percentage of those foreign-born parents are in the country illegally. If immigration status weren’t germane, there would be no purpose in the “while” clause, noting that the great majority of Latino children are citizens.
