Donald Trump’s Arguments About Immigrants And Crime Are Based On Lies
Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.
Contrary to what Donald Trump claims, immigrants are less likely to commit crime than others.
A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.
The highest court in New York state has ruled that an undocumented immigrant brought to the U.S. as a child can be admitted to practice law.
Yet another poll shows that most Americans support a path to citizenship, and that a majority of Republican agree with them.
The President’s plan to give deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants has hit another legal snag.
In a move that is clearly designed to have an impact in the General Election, Hillary Clinton came out in support of broad immigration reform in Nevada yesterday.
The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are talking about fundamentally changing what it means to be an American, and it’s a bad idea.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now appealing to the worst aspects of economic populism on the right.
The confirmation of a new Attorney General has been held up nearly six months for what amounts to no legitimate reason.
Just as his political star is rising among conservatives, Scott Walker is walking back his previous support for immigration reform.
Polling indicates that the American public opposes the GOP position on DHS funding, but that’s unlikely to change many minds on Capitol Hill.
With three days to go, there are signs the GOP is ready to give up on its showdown over DHS funding.
A Federal Judge has issued a temporary halt to the Obama Administration’s deferred deportation program, but appeals can be expected.
Get ready for another pointless House lawsuit against the President.
Even with a House and Senate majority, the GOP is unlikely to get what it wants in its current immigration battle with the President.
The terror attack in Paris seems likely to undercut GOP efforts to use the DHS budget to attack the President’s immigration policies.
A Federal Judge has dismissed the first lawsuit filed against President Obama’s immigration “executive action.”
A Federal Judge has issued a ruling that sort of says that President Obama’s Immigration action is unconstitutional. Except it’s poorly reasoned, and apparently not legally binding on anyone.
Judging by recent polling, the President’s executive action has hardened GOP opposition to immigration reform, making progress on the issue going forward much less likely.
It looks like Congress has averted a budget fight for the second straight year.
The House approved a bill to protest the President’s executive action on immigration that will go nowhere. The question is whether it will placate the right.
Texas has joined with 16 other states in a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the President’s executive action on immigration. At first glance, it doesn’t appear to have much legal merit.
It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.
Some on the right are suggesting that Congress retaliate against the President’s executive action on immigration by refusing to invite him to give the State Of The Union Address.
A new poll shows that a majority of Americans support the President’s changes to deportation policy, but don’t like that he acted unilaterally.
Some points on the immigration debate that need constant (it seems) reinforcement.
The fact that Republicans lack anything approaching a coherent immigration plan makes it hard to take their criticism of the President seriously.
Top Republicans worry that their party’s response to the President’s executive action will alienate Latinos. However, there’s little they can do about that.
On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.
The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.
On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.
In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.
A new poll provides some interesting context to the political context to the President’s expected executive action on immigration.
If the President now believes he can act unilaterally on immigration reform, why did he spend the last five years saying that he couldn’t?
A new poll shows that Americans would prefer President Obama to wait to act on immigration until after the new Congress has had a chance to act on the issue.
Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.
The White House is now leaking out details of what seems like an inevitable decision by the President. How it plays out politically, though, is the big question.
The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.
President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,
Despite the conciliatory language after Tuesday, it’s unlikely that much will change in Washington in the next two years.
Dana Milbank (“Obama’s big immigration mistake”) thinks so.
Rebranding alone isn’t going to fix what’s causing the GOP to lose ground among a whole host of demographic groups.