Huckabee’s Cuban Retreat

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<p>Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) ruffled some feathers in Miami earlier this month when he <a title="Huckabee calls for hiatus" target="_blank" id="tir7" href="http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/15/mike-huckabee-proposes-visa-hiatus-for-immigrants-from-state-sponsors-of-terrorism/">called for a suspension</a> of immigration from countries listed as sponsors of terrorism by the State Department.&nbsp; That includes Cuba, and More…

It Helps to Speak English to Get a Visa…in Korea

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<p>That&rsquo;s right, South Korea, as in northeast Asia.&nbsp; English teachers are in such high demand there that the Korean Immigration Service (KIS)<a title="Special visa category" target="_blank" href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/01/113_17760.html"> offers</a> a special visa category, E-2, for English-language teachers.</p>

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Drivers License Details

<p>Hillary Clinton came under fire for waffling on whether she supports giving drivers licenses to &quot;illegals.&quot; In all the back and forth, the debate never covered a broader issue: there are more than two categories of people in the United States.</p>

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Immigrants Don’t Stay Immigrants For Long

<p>It&rsquo;s understandable that immigrants are seen as passive, compared to the citizens who make decisions. Immigrants are not heard&mdash;especially not in English&mdash;but are the topic of conversation. They are recent arrivals, interlopers.&nbsp; In a campaign year, they can become a major campaign issue without having a vote or even a More…

Does the GOP Know About This?

<p>Attention Republican candidates: sanctuary cities are popping up right on the borders of the nation’s capital!</p>

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Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) <a target="_blank" title="Romney accuses opponents" id="p6g1" href="../../../view/republican-primary">accuses</a> former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) of &ldquo;sanctuary policies that More…

Is Immigration Losing Traction?

<p>The Miami Herald thinks that the <a target="_blank" title="" immigration="" issue="" fades.="" id="nhdd" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/386584.html">&quot;Immigration issue fades.&quot;</a> &nbsp; It seems the Sunshine State voters are more concerned about the economy.&nbsp; That might be a national trend as well, as Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the one Republican candidate who offers a path More…

On Immigration, Democrats Dance Around the Details

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<p>While the Republican presidential candidates&mdash;with the exception of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) &mdash;outdo each other with promises to vaporize illegal immigrants, the Democratic candidates take a far less dramatic approach to the estimated 12 million immigrants now in the United States More…

GOP Contenders Flee Bush on Immigration

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<p>Immigration was to be the signature issue for George W. Bush in his efforts to create a political realignment. Where others had failed, he would cut the Gordian knot. Bush spoke some Spanish, had part-Mexican nephews, and was friends with Vicente Fox, More…