Another good piece on the worthlessness of the border fence. The fence itself just forces people desperate to cross into more dangerous and life-threatening situations. Undocumented immigration has declined the past few years since jobs in the U.S. have dried up and since Obama increased...
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I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase "Keep America American" from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1..
And it's far from clear to what's going to happen. Thomas, ordinarily the staunchest states' "rights" justice, is different in preemption. And elite Republicans don't have monolithic views on immigration.
I had wondered what Alabama would do after a police officer arrested a German auto executive under its draconian new immigration law. Now we know. Faced with backlash over the detainment of two foreign auto employees, two architects of Alabama’s tough immigration law say they...
Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
It's pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that's America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns are literally dying. Latinos are bringing them back to life. The Times piece only references...
I don't often talk about individual historians because most of you won't care, but it's worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to.
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I'd recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration,.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He...
I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn't have time. So even though the news is.
The border fence is such a disaster. Here's yet another example: Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and.