Wall Street Journal — Last week, New Jersey joined at least 18 states in approving laws or policies allowing undocumented youngsters to pay in-state college tuition, rather than the higher out-of-state rate. Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, said at a bill-signing that the measure would maximize the investment the state has made in undocumented students, […]
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Stop the Tape! The White House and Immigration Reform
[featured-video-plus]http://youtu.be/DyU-XdQyZ7g[/featured-video-plus] The Daily Ledger – The White House and so-called immigration reform. That moment a couple of weeks ago, when the president was heckled in San Francisco. Remember that? What flashed through my brain was that this illegal immigrant, who heckled the president, just blew Obama’s cover. The heckler pleaded with Obama to bypass congress […]
GOP Immigration Plan Details Leaking Out
Dan Stein — “House Republican leaders are within weeks of releasing their principles for immigration reform — a blueprint that will detail positions on everything from border security to legal status,” Politico reports. “The document, which has been kept under wraps until now, will call for beefed-up border security and interior enforcement, a worker verification […]
Ann Coulter: ‘The Country Has Not Voted to Turn Itself Into Mexico’
NEWSMAX TV — Outspoken conservative Ann Coulter says lawmakers’ proposals for amnesty, school tuition and drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants must stop because “the country has not voted to turn itself into Mexico.” “How many times do these Republicans have to try pushing amnesty and in-state tuition and drivers’ licenses then, suddenly, they discover, oops, […]
BBC Documentary, “The Truth about Immigration”
Center for Immigration Studies — In the new BBC documentary “The Truth About Immigration”, journalist Nick Robinson interviews an economist who, during the economic boom years at the start of the millennium, was instrumental in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to adopt an expansive immigration policy. The economist, Jonathan Portes, tells Robinson that the idea […]
BBC: The Truth About Immigration in the UK 2014
[featured-video-plus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHplEJgevqM[/featured-video-plus] Did Britain need immigrants to keep economy growing? BBC political editor Nick Robinson examines the public’s anxieties about immigration and reveals the facts of an issue that has transformed British politics. With Britain braced for a new wave of migrants from eastern Europe, a subject once regarded as toxic is now at the […]