The Status of Immigration and the GOP

[caption id="attachment_2982" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) whose conservative stances and Latino constituency help highlight the dilemma faced by the GOP[/caption] “He’s naïve making that statement” said Sen. Grassley (R-IA) of Sen. Rubio (R-FL), showing the tip of the dissention iceberg within the GOP.  This is not the only bit of friendly fire we have seen from the leadership on the R ...

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Immigration and the GOP Today

[caption id="attachment_3199" align="alignleft" width="300"] Obama being introduced by a DREAMer, one of several he referenced in his speech[/caption] After easily clearing the initial hurdle of passing through the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Gang of 8 bill broke through the filibuster with a whopping 82 votes.  To put that in perspective, many were saying only a week ago that the bill would not pick up ...

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Profiles in Immigration: Marco Rubio, Revisited

[caption id="attachment_3188" align="alignleft" width="300"] Marco Rubio hard at thought[/caption] While Marco Rubio has unquestionably given the Gang of 8 bill the most credibility from a conservative angle, providing critical political inertia to the bill as it went through the Senate Judiciary Committee, he has since been less enthusiastic.  As demonstrations are put up left and right, Sen. Sessions (R-A ...

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Marijuana and Immigration Law

Although seemingly unrelated, there is a very strong overlap of values between the immigration and marijuana movements. Of course there would be some demographic concordance, but there is much more: the history of marijuana law, as well as much of 1930s immigration law that we still use today, was rooted in marketing campaigns that painted Mexican immigrants as violent drug users trying to steal jobs. While ...

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