Tag: immigration reform
The Immigration Issue Is a Potential Nightmare for GOP
We are really balanced here on a little precipice and if this, pardon the pun, goes south, we could be in very serious trouble. If [the legislation] stalls or is killed off by conservatives, we could take the Hispanic community and turn them into the African-American community, where we get four percent on a good day… We could be a lost party for generations.
— GOP media strategist Paul Wilson.
King: Boston Bombing Should Slow Immigration Reform
Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa. If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture. … We need to take a look at the visa-waiver program and wonder what we’re doing. If we can’t background check people that are coming from Saudi Arabia, how do we think we are going to background check the 11 to 20 million people that are here from who knows where.
— Rep. Steve King (R-IA), telling National Review that Congress “should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday’s bombing in Boston, where three people were killed.”
Most Americans Favor Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Stay
71%
Of Americans say there should be a way for people in the United States illegally to remain in this country if they meet certain requirements, while 27% say they should not be allowed to stay legally, a new Pew Research survey finds.
Most Religious Americans Support Path to Citizenship
70%-plus
Of Hispanic Catholics, Hispanics Protestants and black Protestants support a pathway to citizenship. Additionally, more than half of all Jewish Americans (67%), Mormons (63%), white Catholics (62%), white mainline Protestants (61%) and white evangelical Protestants (56%) supported the inclusive immigration policy, according to a new Public Religion Research Institute survey.
GOP’s Immigration Solution
President Obama yesterday addressed all the haters
And the jingoists and immigration debaters.
He took the Republicans to task,
And predicted they’ll ask
To surround the nation with a moat full of gators.
Verbatim
That was an error, if I said that.
— Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), disowning her June 27 claim on Phoenix television station KPNX that, “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.” Brewer used the graphic and false assertion to bolster her position that Arizona should usurp federal powers and make its own laws concerning immigration policy and enforcement.
Will Latino Republicans Defend Hateful Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law?
Arizona’s dreadful new anti-immigrant law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer within hours of Pres. Obama denouncing it, isn’t the slam-dunk wedge issue Republicans might have hoped for. Sure, chronically aggrieved Tea Party types who take in too much Lou Dobbs are thrilled. Guilty until proven innocent pretty much sums up how the law will work for most members of the brown community.
