Immigration Reform

Advocates on both sides of the US immigration debate have been pretty busy the past few weeks as, not one but, two separate pushes for immigration reform have been made in Congress. The cynical among us will point out that although neither measure had a snowball's chance of passing in the current economic and political [...]

Senator John McCain and Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona have introduced a new immigration reform bill, the Border Security Enforcement Act of 2010. This latest attempt at immigration reform, focused on the Arizona border, includes the following provisions: Immigration Reform for Physical Border Protection in Tuscon, AZ & Yuma, AZ Allows the Governor of Arizona, [...]

Today Arlen Spector, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania, announced that he will be come a Democrat. While the move has been celebrated as a liberal victory and the end of the Republican filibuster, at least one blogger raises the alarm on the immigration front. Dana Goldstein, blogging on prospect.org, cautions that Spector's move could actually [...]