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Tag: immigration reform
Winning GOP strategy in 2024: Back to business with immigration reform
by Neil Hare The recent GOP attacks on the business community, including its leading advocacy group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, arguably contributed to a poor showing […]
Biden’s border policies: better but not good enough
Joe Biden has done so many things well — saving Ukraine, confronting China, signing a bipartisan gun control bill. And in a week of right-wing crazytown, he […]
A New Year’s border crisis resolution
by Martin Schram Ever true to its traditions, Official Washington has celebrated its holidays by toasting its successes, and then cruising comfortably into yet another new year. […]
Because of sanctions, GOP has special obligation to Venezuelan migrants
by Matthew Yglesias The idea of tackling the “root causes” of migration and asylum flows is the kind of high-minded notion likely to be dismissed by politicians […]
Grandstanding on the border will never solve the nation’s drug crisis
by Dan Rodricks Forty-eight-year-old Thamar Smith of Hagerstown, Md., pleaded guilty to federal drug charges last week, the latest in a long line of American men who […]
The U.S. shares Mexican border with the world
by Jesse Hardman About 15 years ago I was shadowing a local journalist on Peru’s northern coast who was reporting on a group of 20 Chinese nationals […]
Biden latest president to shun Haitians
by DeWayne Wickham On Sept. 24, at the end of a week that began with widely published images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback herding Haitian […]
Texas situation puts spotlight on immigration
The gut-wrenching images of thousands of migrants, many from Haiti, camped under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, and their treatment by federal agents on horseback […]
You can starve an ideal only so long before you kill it altogether
Those pictures are traumatizing. That’s because they contain so much more than what’s in them, so much more than horse-mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Rio […]