Category Archives: Immigration

Menendez: We Don’t Have 60 Votes

Posted on May 25, 2013 at 3:00 pm by JM Ashby

If Senator Menendez is correct, my prediction of imminent passage of immigration reform in the Senate may have been slightly premature. From The Hill Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Friday that the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill doesn’t have enough … Continue reading →
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Breakup

Posted on May 17, 2013 at 8:00 pm by JM Ashby

Artist – Jeff Parker In other news, anti-immigration reform opponents are now apparently using homophobic slurs to smear Senator Macro Rubio. Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, argued that Rubio is critical to building Republican … Continue reading →
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Hispanics Surpass Whites In College Enrollment

Posted on May 12, 2013 at 1:35 pm by Mr. Brink

What a week for Jim DeMint and The Heritage Foundation. May 6th, Jason Richwine and Robert Rector released their anti-immigration reform paper suggesting that the costs of their overt racism will run us about, oh, say, $6.3 trillion! give or take a … Continue reading →
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Immigration Reform Could Take a Very, Very Long Time

Posted on May 8, 2013 at 6:30 pm by JM Ashby

Furthering the notion that immigration reform is going to take a very long time to pass — over 300 amendments have been proposed to augment the Senate immigration reform bill, and many of these amendments are ghastly. Here’s a few … Continue reading →
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SPLC on Jason Richwine and White Nationalism

Posted on May 8, 2013 at 5:00 pm by JM Ashby

Thanks to commenter “i_a_c” for pointing this out. The Southern Poverty Law Center reported on the comments of Jason Richwine, the racist co-author of the Heritage Foundation’s immigration report, in 2008 and found that they were very well received by … Continue reading →
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Posted in Immigration, Racism | Tagged | 8 Comments

Nope. Not Racist At All.

Posted on May 8, 2013 at 3:00 pm by JM Ashby

Surprise! The co-author of the fantastical Heritage Foundation report that estimated immigration reform would cost taxpayers over $6 trillion dollars has questionable views on race as it relates to intelligence. Richwine’s dissertation asserts that there are deep-set differentials in intelligence … Continue reading →
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Jim DeMint’s Very Serious Immigration Report

Posted on May 6, 2013 at 3:30 pm by JM Ashby

Jim DeMint has released the report on the costs of immigration reform that we mentioned briefly last night and it’s a whopper. Legalizing the current population of illegal immigrants would cost American taxpayers a minimum of $6.3 trillion over the … Continue reading →
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You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out

Posted on May 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm by JM Ashby

Artist – Randall Enos If this report from the New York Times is correct, the bromance between Jim DeMint and Senator Macro Rubio may be at an end. DeMint is turning the scaremongering up to 11 on immigration reform and … Continue reading →
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The GOP’s Problem

Posted on May 2, 2013 at 8:00 pm by JM Ashby

Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced today that West Virginia will expand Medicaid under Obamacare. Also — the American auto industry had its best performance in 20 years during the first quarter of the … Continue reading →
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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on May 2, 2013 at 2:00 pm by JM Ashby

Then: Now: I believe comprehensive immigration reform will eventually pass the Senate without the unconditional support of Marco Rubio who is triangulating for 2016, but I have zero confidence that it will pass the House. House Republicans have already announced … Continue reading →
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