Two prominent Florida Republicans are warning their party about losing the support of the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group.

It’s not just low wages that have kept technology manufacturing jobs out of the United States.

A truly bizarre story from Dallas that, quite honestly, raises questions about the entire immigration system: DALLAS – “It’s very frustrating,” Lorene Turner said. She has spent hours on Facebook trying to find her granddaughter, Jakadrien. “Once I get home I am up until 3 or 4 in the morning searching and looking,” Turner said. [...]

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has released a harsh assessment of the practices of the Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriffs Department, which happens to be led by a man who has become something of a darling of the right: PHOENIX — In a harshly worded critique of the country’s best-known sheriff, the [...]

In the Spring of 2010, Arizona passed an immigration bill, that among other things, gave police in the state the duty to check on the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the United States illegally. The bill sparked controversy nationwide, as well as a negative reaction from the Hispanic groups, and even Republican [...]

First, it was a German national working for Mercedes Benz was arrested under Alabama’s new immigration law, and now a Honda exec from Japan. Via the London Guardian:  Alabama red-faced as second foreign car boss held under immigration law A judge has acted to put a Japanese employee of Honda Motor Company out of his [...]

Over at ImmigrationProf blog, Kevin Johnson notes the following from the DOJ’s press release concerning the filing: the law’s mandates on law enforcement could lead to harassment and detention of foreign visitors and legal immigrants who are in the process of having their immigration status reviewed in federal proceedings and whom the federal government has [...]

In an obvious, and I must say well-played effort to push back against the criticism he’s getting over his immigration comments last night, the Newt Gingrich campaign is sending around this video of Mitt Romney in December 2007 where he appears to endorse the idea of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants: The Romney [...]

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

Via the AP:  Mercedes plant manager arrested over Ala. immigration law Police say a German executive with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested under Alabama’s strict new law targeting illegal immigrants. Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson tells The Associated Press an officer stopped a rental vehicle for not having a tag on Wednesday. Anderson says [...]

After all, securing the border is easy and the forces driving cross-border illicit activities can be curtailed with enough force and security.

Russell Pearce, the man behind Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 law which purported to empower the state with numerous powers to enforce Federal immigration laws, was defeated yesterday in a recall election: The Senate President of Arizona and author of the state’s hard-line laws against illegal immigration lost a recall election seen as a bellwether on [...]

“Turns out American who have chosen a life of crime don’t have quite the same work ethic as Guatemalans who walked through 500 miles of desert to feed their children”-Stephen Colbert on the failure of programs to use convicts to pick produce in Georgia and Alabama in the wake of harsh immigration laws. Who knew? [...]

Mitt Romney’s health care plan subsidized health care for illegal immigrants.

Like his tax plan, Herman Cain’s immigration plan is not serious.

A Federal Appeals Court has blocked some of the most controversial provisions of Alabama’s immigration law: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state and the United States Justice Department continued to [...]

Via Politico:  Ala.: Inmates can replace Hispanic farmhands.

Rick Perry has serious problems with what people think about his immigration position.

Another case of the law of unintended consequences.

It turns out there are some jobs immigrants will do, but Americans won’t

“Alabama needs insurance reform and better education and better jobs and oh, I don’t know, a hundred other things before we need a tough new immigration law that stresses out farmers, law enforcement, school officials, people in line at the DMV and everyone with a tan.”—J.D. Crowe, the Mobile Press-Register. Seriously, of the problems this [...]

Alabama immigration law causing parents to withdraw children from schools.

He suggested the possibility of sending troops to Mexico to fight drug cartels.

Another entry in the ongoing follies of US border and immigration policy.

Via the NYT:  Alabama Wins in Ruling on Its Immigration Law The decision, by Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of Federal District Court in Birmingham, makes it much more likely that the fate of the recent flurry of state laws against illegal immigration will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. It also means that Alabama [...]

Rick Perry’s immigration positions aren’t at all unreasonable, and that presents a problem for him inside the Republican Party.

Based on the numbers, Barack Obama is an immigration hawk.

Via the AP:  Farmers say Ala immigration law could cost crops Farmers in one of Alabama’s leading agricultural areas asked legislators Monday to make emergency changes to the state’s tough new law against illegal immigration, saying millions of dollars of crops are at risk in coming weeks because of a sudden lack of hands for [...]

Following up on the clip from a 1980 Reagan/Bush debate that Alex Knapp posted last night, here’s more of Ronald Reagan on immigration from the second 1984 Presidential Debate with Walter Mondale: Two years later, Congress passed and Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which included a provision that granted amnesty to any [...]

The 1980 debate between Reagan and Bush compared to the GOP primary debates in 2011 is flabbergasting.

Rick Perry’s position on immigration-related issues could be a problem for the same conservatives who have been getting behind him.

Greg Weeks notes: The Obama administration has enforced immigration laws more than any past administration, Republican or Democratic.  You may think that to be positive or negative, but it is empirically true.  It is therefore unfortunate that the myth of non-enforcement persists, and that this myth becomes an unsubstantiated rationale for congressional refusal to pursue [...]

Mirroring what Federal Judges in Arizona and Georgia have done, a Federal Judge in Alabama has issued a stay on Alabama’s new immigration law, which may have decried as draconian: Alabama’s tough new immigration law was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge on Monday. Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation crackdown had originally been set to take [...]

Meet your new Republican frontrunner.

Many of the clergy in Alabama are not happy with the state’s new immigration law.

Under new policies, deportation efforts will be concentrated on people who pose a threat to society. It’s a sensible policy, so of course it’s being denounced.

Well, you knew this was coming (via WSFA):  Fed. government files suit to stop Ala. immigration law.

“[W]e have turned good workers into criminals and turned criminals into bad workers, losing on both ends of the deal.”—Alex Tabarrok.

This would be why people from Minnesota shouldn’t try to get all ethnic:

Illegal immigration from Mexico is down substantially, and it has nothing to do with all those anti-immigration laws.

During the same This Week appearance that included the fascinating discussion on the Constitution that James Joyner wrote about earlier, George Will also spoke some common sense on the issue of immigration, and GOP intransigence over the issue: “To deport them would require not just police measures we would never tolerate. The majority have been [...]

Just as Georgia’s new immigration law caused a crisis in the farm industry as migrant workers fled the state, a similar statute in Alabama is having a similar impact in Alabama: When Tuscaloosa, Alabama, begins rebuilding more than 7,200 homes and businesses leveled by an April 27 tornado, it may find itself missing a workforce [...]

Via the AP: Judge blocks parts of Ga. immigration law A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked parts of Georgia’s strict new law targeting illegal immigration from taking effect, including a provision that authorizes police to check the immigration status of suspects without proper identification and to detain illegal immigrants. Georgia’s became the latest in [...]

A new Georgia immigration law is causing serious problems for Georgia’s farmers.

In addition to Alabama, we can also have Georgia on ours minds on the ongoing immigration debate.

AL takes AZ’s approach and goes a few steps beyond.

From learnliberty.org, Ben Powell, professor of economics at Suffolk University:   h/t:  Mike Munger

Canada is much friendlier than the United States with regard to immigration.

First, if you understood the headline, then you, too, are a political junkie. Second, the link (via CNN):  Arizona takes controversial immigration law to Supreme Court. Last month, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Justice Department and against Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last year. Brewer [...]

The state of Arizona is seeking donations for construction of the border fence.