Immigration Reform
Republican "Generosity": We Won't Deport Dreamers if You Give Us Money to Build Trump's Wall
Now that Trump has forced Republicans to deal with immigration reform, a topic they like to campaign on but not actually do anything about, the more Trumpish (read as: racist) among them see an opening to force the Democrats to fund Trump's wall of pure racism: Meanwhile, some ...read more
Republicans Want To Make America White Again By Cutting Legal Immigration In Half
On Tuesday, Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue decided that targeting undocumented immigrants just wasn't going to cut it and introduced a bill to hurt the immigrants who are doing things "the right way." The Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act (RAISE ...read more
Nancy Pelosi's Re-election Shows A Party Getting Ready For War
There's been a lot of hand-wringing over Nancy Pelosi's victory over challenger Tim Ryan. The consensus of those opposed to her is that the Democrats need to change and something something something White People. Mr. Ryan argues that his party can only rebuild if it ...read more
Anti-Immigrant Congressman Threatens To 'Drop' Anti-Immigrant Protester
As the so-called "amnesty" provision of President Obama's executive action on immigration reform remains stalled in federal court, the political battle has taken to the streets. The twist here is that it's not DREAMers chasing Rand Paul out of Steve King's lunch table, or ...read more
Why The President's Excuse For Delaying Immigration Action Isn't Complete Crap
President Obama announced, this weekend, that he will be delaying his promised executive actions on immigration until after the midterms, and needless to say, many of us were not amused. After a few days of letting the apoplexy subside, and listening to folks at the White House ...read more
This Conservative Just Said the Worst Thing About Immigration So Far
If you thought you've already heard the worst thing you can hear from a conservative in the national immigration debate, you're about to feel really silly. That's because Rich Lowry of the National Review just dialed it up to, well, does it go higher than 11? Because it seems ...read more
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President Obama Perfectly Zings Republicans While Responding To Fox News
At Friday's surprise presidential press conference, Fox News tried to inject a little "blame Obama" into the Republicans' embarrassing failure to pass even its own watered-down bill to deal with the border crisis, but President Obama had other ideas. Fox News' Wendell Goler ...read more
Dear Congressman Steve King: WTF Is a "Rape Path"?
Iowa Republicans are in the news for all the wrong reasons right now. That would include Republican Rep. Steve King, who on CNN's New Day on Wednesday said something so bizarre, it's literally unbelievable that host Chris Cuomo didn't ask him just what the hell it was that he ...read more
Despicable Fox News Lies Thwart Plan To House Immigrant Children
Last night, viewers of Comedy Central's The Colbert Reportwere treated to the tale of Fox News' hysterical hyping of a plan to house unaccompanied child migrants from Central America at a Texas motel that was to be converted to a shelter. Colbert focused on the gap between Fox ...read more
ABC News Reporter Asks a Very Strange Question About Immigration and Jose Antonio Vargas
The current immigration crisis has resulted in many a sad, strange spectacle, but ABC News White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl's question at Wednesday's daily briefing was mainly just strange. Shaking up his current events dice in a Yahtzee! cup, Karl decided to ask White ...read more
Law-Breaking Immigrant Dinesh D'Souza Rails Against Law-Breaking Immigrants
Dinesh D'Souza is many things, but for our purposes here it suffices to say that he's an immigrant and a lawbreaker. Which is why it's deliciously ironic that Fox News would give him a platform on The Kelly File two months before his sentencing for campaign finance fraud to ...read more
What's the Difference Between the Death Star and the Immigration Bill Blocked By the GOP?
The Republicans' Gran Torino-esque obsession with keeping teh illegalz off our lawn has taken center stage in the current immigration crisis, which actually has nothing to do with border security. But if you're having trouble coming around to the idea that the GOP's stance on ...read more
CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Just Dropped a Reality Bomb On Immigrant-Haters
The debate over the current crisis involving unaccompanied children crossing the border has been covered with the usual conflict-driven noise, but the voices dominating the mainstream media have been hateful anti-immigrant protesters, and people trying to appease them, or pass ...read more
There's Nothing Wrong With the Term "Illegal Immigrant"
Unfortunately, you can probably set your watches and begin the countdown to the cries of "white privilege" showing up in the comment section or getting aimed at me on Twitter, but here goes nothing: There isn't a thing wrong grammatically or journalistically with the term ...read more
Obama Promises to Introduce His Own Immigration Bill if Congress Doesn’t Move
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Yahoo! News: President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast. "If ...read more