Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of “comprehensive immigration reform,” seldom fail to mention “church leaders” and “faith groups” as part of their “coalition.” One might think that the complex issues of how many and which aliens should be permitted to immigrate and how we should deter unlawful immigration by the millions who will not qualify comes down to a simple moral question: What would Jesus do? Continue Reading »
Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had spent too much time talking about the concerns of business owners and entrepreneurs and not enough about the concerns of that majority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) business . . . . Continue Reading »
To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low-skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low-skill Americans and low-skill noncitizen . . . . Continue Reading »
Bobby Jindal has written an article on immigration reform. Reihan Salam comes down pretty hard on it . Jindal is against the Gang of Eight plan, but the main difference I see between Jindal and the Gang of Eight is that Jindal wants the process of certifying the border secure to happen before the . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning a young friend made a Facebook offering referring to people he knows caught up in the heroin epidemic. The article is actually about the benefits of the drug, naloxone , in preventing death from overdose. “They said it worked right away,” says Trish. “They said . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism. Living in freedom means living with risk. It means accepting danger. The only way . . . . Continue Reading »
It is hard to imagine that the incident in Boston will not have an effect on the immigration reform debate in America. All speculations about who the bombers could be, Caucasian, Muslim jihadist, American citizen, foreign born, all seem to be true; all of these possibilities assimilate in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The social contract in America is coming undone, and it will be revised and rewritten in the coming years. That’s to be expected. In the city of man, no governing consensus or established regime lasts forever. As James Piereson points out in the June issue of the New Criterion , although . . . . Continue Reading »
Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples. And once again, the United States is confronted with the challenge of absorbing large numbers of newcomers. There are approximately 200 million migrants and refugees worldwide, triple the number estimated by the . . . . Continue Reading »
Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, Victor Davis Hanson offers a report from immigration’s front lines. An unusual but appealing mix of argument and autobiography, Mexifornia provides a . . . . Continue Reading »
