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
Rise up, Louisiana!
Many Louisianans remain sore over a recent column suggesting, half in jest, that the state become a U.S. protectorate. I was accusing state officials, and by extension the electorate, of groveling before oil money — at the cost of despoiling their natural paradise.
Seeing local fishermen, having been ruined by the BP well disaster, also demand more deepwater drilling has become a rather depressing element of the reportage from the Gulf. 
But now we read of a churchwoman, Patty Whitney of Terrebonne Parish, talking back at the despotism of oil. So deep is the intimidation that friends call her brave for questioning the oil culture at public forums.
Whitney said that one of her brothers argued (as have countless readers), “America needs oil.”
And she responds:
Then let them drill. Let them drill in Yellowstone Park, in the Grand Canyon, in Puget Sound, off Martha’s Vineyard. Let them mess up their own places instead of just drilling in my beautiful Louisiana.
Boy, does she ever have it right.
And a note to all my Pelican State correspondents who take credit for heating my house in winter: I’d rather have their shrimp than their oil.
Tags: Arizona, energy, environment, Louisiana, Massachusetts, oil, Washington state, Wyoming
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
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
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
