I don’t much care for the term ‘anchor baby’. I find it offensive and pejorative. It means a child born in the United States to a couple who are not U.S. citizens who receives U.S. citizenship as a birthright. Many in the immigration scaremonger faction consider ‘anchor babies’ to be a problem that we need … Read more
It is disheartening that all the energy around immigration reform seems to have been sucked up by the deceptive STRIVE Act. Those who should be leading the fight for humane solutions to our immigration problems with Mexico, such as Senator John McCain, and Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabby Giffords are lining up behind Rep. Jeff … Read more
A bit of video is stirring up a little controversy on YouTube. A dash cam video of a Border Patrol stop of a vehicle carrying a whole lot of, presumably, undocumented immigrants is set to the Benny Hill theme song. Of course, mocking such a serious issue in this way has a lot of panties … Read more
I’ve long argued that the main point of Protect Arizona Now! (aka Prop 200) is really not to prevent voter fraud (as there really is no such thing as individual vote fraud anymore – much easier and effective to just reprogram the tabulators), but to suppress the electoral participation of legally eligible minority voters. Well, … Read more
There is a moral sickness at work here: "Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers. The Department of Corrections hopes to launch … Read more