Archive for the 'Immigration'

Phyllis Schlafly repeats the same xenophobia of earlier generations in her most recent column at the Eagle Forum website. She says that unlike the Jewish, Irish and Italian immigrants of the past, modern immigrants don’t really want to be Americans and be patriotic: Read more

The new study on immigration from the Heritage Foundation, which claims that a bill being debated in Congress to give those here illegally a path to citizenship (one that takes 14 years) will cost over $6 trillion, is being absolutely hammered by left, right and center. Matthew Yglesias explains some of the problems with the study: Read more

The Heritage Foundation has released its much-anticipated new study on the fiscal evils of immigration, which completely contradicts its former position on immigration. ThinkProgress has a list of the contrasting positions between the two studies. Like the new one says: Read more

An email sent from Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum to their followers explains to them what the Bible says about immigration, which is very little. Apparently, you have to be nice to them, but only as an individual, not as a society. Or something. Read more

Here’s another example of the major problems the Republican Party has in trying to reach out to new constituencies while simultaneously holding on to old ones. In addition to gay rights, they have a similar problem on immigration, where they can’t appeal to Hispanic voters and to the right wing at the same time: Read more