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GOP Candidates Face Questions on Amnesty During Reagan Debate
The field of GOP Presidential Hopefuls faced questions on how to secure the border and deal with the 11 million illegal aliens who live in the United States during Wednesday's debate held at the Reagan Library. While everyone in the field provided some details to their border security plans, most of the field also danced around the issue of amnesty with only a few providing a strongline opposition to amnesty.
GOP Reagan Library Debate -- my comments on immigration references
I'm watching the debate to see if any of these Republican candidates gives us any hopes on immigration. I'll blog as I hear anything.
Sustainable Immigration (part 2 of 4): The Middle Class
Fully addressing the immigration debate without discussing today's non-traditional immigration numbers and asking whether they are sustainable is impossible. Yet Congress rarely talks about the immigration numbers, partly because the mainstream media does not analyze immigration from a sustainability perspective.
Federal, state agencies promote labor rights at consulate
The federal government's active promotion of labor rights for illegal immigrants irks Roy Beck, executive director of Virginia-based Numbers USA, which favors more stringent immigration laws.
"It just follows the pattern of the labor secretary," Beck said. "In these matters, she's the secretary of illegal labor rather than of legal labor."
Illegal immigration is flash point for Republican White House hopefuls
Polls may not suggest it, and the candidates may not be catering to it, but immigration is an issue that voters won’t let the GOP White House hopefuls escape.
Republican primary voters keep bringing immigration up as the candidates campaign in back yards, opera houses and recreation halls across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. To a sizable chunk of those who will pick the GOP’s presidential nominee, immigration is an urgent issue, even a litmus test.
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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Face Questions About Legal Immigration at SC Forum
Five GOP Presidential Hopefuls faced questions about legal immigration levels during a candidate forum hosted by Sen. Jim DeMint in South Carolina on Monday. Rep. Steve King asked both Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich for their opinions on current legal immigration levels as well as prior comments they made on illegal immigration.
Mad about Pres. Obama's illegal-alien uncle? Pass Lamar Smith's 'E-Verify PLUS' & plug the 'Uncle Omar Loophole'
His liquor store boss (Parimal Patel) says his family has been employing Pres. Obama's illegal-alien uncle for most of the last decade. Patel says Uncle Omar had a good ID and Social Security number, so how could the business have known it was illegal to hire him. Well, we really don't have to put up with those kinds of excuses any more. Under Lamar Smith's H.R. 2164 (as it currently stands), Uncle Omar couldn't have gotten that job or kept it.