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November 02, 2007
James Carville: "This Is A Real Wedge Issue That Democrats Need To Get Right" "The centrality of illegal immigration to the current discontent about the "Attention, Republican candidates. This is opportunity knocking," says National Review's Jim Geraghty. States Increase Crackdown on Illegal Immigration "Minor traffic violations do not usually warrant a press release from a Investor Visa Program Going Strong "An obscure immigration program is pumping millions of dollars from "In Seattle, critics have complained that revitalization of an area south of downtown has raised rents for industrial tenants. But the program hasn't drawn notable criticism from immigration-restrictionist groups. 'If jobs are being created in exchange for visas through a process you can verify, I don't think we can object to it,' says Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which calls for a clampdown on both legal and illegal immigration. But he suggests that the program should 'remain small in scope.'" |
direction of the country may be taking us back again to a welfare moment. Just as many workers with moderate incomes, uncertain employment and health insurance could not understand why they were being taxed to subsidize the long-term idleness of those on welfare, many Americans are just perplexed that this country has lost control of the borders and winks at illegal employment, taxing the resources of local schools and hospitals and much more. Many of the voter responses to welfare were racist to be sure, as now with the response to illegal immigration, but many are not," says a strategy memo from James Carville and other Democratic consultants. 
governor. But when state police stopped a van on a Missouri road for 'following too closely' and found it was carrying 10 presumed illegal immigrants, Gov. Matt Blunt was quick to tout the incident as part of a new state program to hunt down undocumented aliens," Reuters reports. "Missouri's efforts are among several now being seen around the nation as state and local officials race to make their territory as unappealing as possible for the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented individuals. The campaign has drawn the ire of religious organizations, civil rights groups and some employers, who argue the actions are unfairly harassing and intimidating both illegal and legal immigrants."
foreign investors into dilapidated inner cities and employment-starved rural areas across the U.S. These investors aren't focused on financial returns, however: They're in it to get green cards . . . The program, administered by U.S. Immigration & Citizenship Services, essentially encourages wealthy foreigners to buy their way into the U.S. Put in place in the early 1990s, it is widely regarded as a response to efforts by Canada and Australia in the late 1980s to attract investors keen to immigrate. But the U.S. program is considered the most stringent because it requires proof that the investment has produced new jobs before permanent residency is granted," the Wall Street Journal reports.