15 May 2010

Coming Soon: AG vs. AZ?


Appearing on the Sunday news program, NBC's Meet the Press, Attorney General Eric Holder said the federal government may sue to challenge a new Arizona law that requires state and local police to question people about their immigration status whenever they have a "reasonable suspicion"...

13 May 2010

Former INS Official Debunks Immigration Myths


There has been no shortage of rhetorical excess in the national debate on immigration reform, and in recent months, spurious claims and tendentious spin-mongering have come to seem like just another part of the process, par for the course. So much of the debate has...

06 May 2010

The Arizona Immigration Law: The Backlash Continues

First off, there were the demonstrations. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in cities across the country, protesting Arizona's new immigration law and demanding that Congress make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority. (See Protesters Nationwide Call for Immigration Overhaul, by Teresa...

19 Apr 2010

What Kind of CIR Might the GOP Support?

As we have noted in earlier postings, GOP support for comprehensive immigration reform has waned to the point that Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and John Kyl (R-AZ) have made clear that they do not intend to support CIR in the near future. Anti-immigrant anger is...