Archive for the 'Immigration' Category

In English or Espanol, It’s no Problemo

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Immigration

No, I do not intend to start using Spanish in the titles of all my posts, but I wanted to make an additional comment in regards to my early post about English as our national language.
A blog called Right on the Right, quoted my passage about all the Spanish I see here in San Antonio [...]

May 21st, 2006 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Simplifying Immigration: The Orange Card?

By amba | Related entries in Discuss, Immigration, Legislation

As the immigration bill, Hagel-Martinez S. 2611, works its way slowly through the Senate, numerous amendments fasten onto it like barnacles and pilotfish, then are put to a vote and either firmly secured to the bill or sheared off. This Thursday list of some of those amendments and their fates, posted at the unabashedly [...]

May 20th, 2006 | Permalink| 19 Comments »

Se Habla Ingles?

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Immigration

Should English be our national language? Yesterday, the Senate voted yes. Of course, they also voted that English is our nation’s “common and unifying language,� a different phrasing meant to be less restrictive than simply calling English our “national language.�
As usual with the Senate, rhetoric trumps practicality as both statements could now become law without [...]

May 19th, 2006 | Permalink| 23 Comments »

Immigration Debate

By Callimachus | Related entries in Immigration, The World

They speak a different language and their roots are in an alien culture. Yet still they come north.
North is where the jobs are. Menial jobs, but jobs that pay well, compared to what they might make at home. And even though some of the local laborers grumble that the immigrants are driving down their wages, [...]

April 17th, 2006 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Outrageous Distortion

By amba | Related entries in General Politics, Immigration, Partisan Hacks

You know I’m no fan of the Democraps, but the Repuglicans have crossed some irrevocable line in my mind with this particularly despicable piece of political smear and lying. Ronald Brownstein in the L.A. Times:
[In a] joint statement House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) issued last week [...]

April 16th, 2006 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Waving the Red, White and Blue

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Immigration

Phil Boas of the Arizona Republic notes that the immigrant rallies have switched from waving the Mexican flag to waving the American flag. He sees this as a very positive development.
I believe mainstream America tolerates its law-breaking migrants namely because it identifies with them. Many of us would break the same laws to leave the [...]

April 11th, 2006 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Mexicans Do Not Threaten Our Culture

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Immigration

All across the country, pro-immigrant rallies continue and many are drawing unprecedented crowds. Clearly a lot of people are concerned that America is moving in the wrong direction on immigration. But is this a movement spurred solely by the desire to preserve a porous border while guaranteeing that America’s low-wage jobs and public assistance [...]

April 10th, 2006 | Permalink| 39 Comments »

Gee, We Might Want To Use That Filibuster Thing

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Immigration

Senate GOPers are set to filibuster the House’s immigration plan because Dems won’t allow amendments to the bill.
From Wash Times:
Senate Republicans will filibuster their own immigration bill today in the face of steadfast refusal by Democrats to allow amendments to the bill that many conservatives view as granting amnesty to illegal aliens.
As an alternative, Majority [...]

April 6th, 2006 | Permalink| 3 Comments »