Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
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Bashing Hispanics is Dumb Politics
Posted on August 26, 2015
Bashing Hispanics is dumb politics. It’s dumb politics because when you bash Hispanics, you bash all immigrants. And when you bash all immigrants you seal your fate politically. Donald Trump...
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Donald Trump and a Conversation on Immigration
Posted on July 9, 2015
Donald Trump has gotten a lot of political mileage by bashing Mexican immigrants, calling the lot of them rapists. His comments have sparked a backlash against his business interests. The...
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Congress Grapples With Globalization
Posted on May 13, 2015
Democrats rejected President Obama’s top domestic initiative yesterday on a procedural vote, and it’s not quite clear when it will be coming back to the Senate floor. Maybe it will. Maybe...
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Lessons From Ireland
Posted on March 17, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Ireland is on the mind of official Washington today. From the White House, where the president receives shamrocks from the Irish prime minister, to...
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Why GOP Should Listen to Carlos Curbelo on Immigration
Posted on January 21, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) I’m with Carlos Curbelo. He gave the Spanish language version of the Republican response and in it he said, “We should work...
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