One of the arguments for amnesty for illegal immigration is that we can’t afford to incarcerate and deport all of those who are here illegally. The Washington Post reports that Hispanics have been leaving Prince William County, Virginia, after immigration detail was stepped up on March 1.
Board Chairman Corey A. Stewart said this week [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports on its Washington Wire that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced the questions to the new naturalization test. Applicants will answer 10 questions randomly selected from a bank of 100 (PDF). The test goes into effect October 1, 2008.
Most of the questions are fairly simple. I don’t [...]
The American people dodged a trillion-dollar bullet as the comprehensive immigration bill was defeated 46-53 today.
Roll Call No. 235 shows Ohio Senators Brown and Voinovich doing a 180° from their previous votes, as well as Senator Brownback. I guess you could say they were for amnesty before they were against it.
I just read Lawrence’s [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got his cloture vote to end discussion on the immigration bill that was defeated and resurrected. Among the 64 Yea votes was Senator Voinovich, as well as presidential candidates Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Brownback. That’s some company the supposedly conservative Brownback is keeping.
BusinessWeek has an article from Spiegel Online with an interesting case study of government intervention. Up to 15% of asparagus may be left to rot in the fields because Germany has restricted the flow of workers from Poland and Romania.
“We are missing up to a third of our seasonal laborers,” Dietrich Paul, president of the [...]
Just as the House of Representatives seems incapable of understanding human incentives with respect to competition, the Senate does little to address incentives in illegal immigration.
There are several facets I’d like to address.
The sheltering of illegal immigrants by churches, be they Roman Catholic, Methodist, or otherwise, flies in the face of the authority given to [...]
Illegal immigration is too big a drain for even the UK to handle. Reuters reports that Home Secretary John Reid, a member of the liberal Labor Party, is seeking to deny illegals access to work, benefits, and services.
Measures include a watch list of illegal immigrants to alert government agencies if someone applies for [...]
Fox News reports that a bipartisan bill would give $500 to each child born in California, which they can use to either build a nest egg for college, a down payment for a home, or a retirement account.
Under the bill, every child born in California after Jan. 1, 2008, would receive the money, regardless of [...]
