GOP Rep: We Can Catch Grasshoppers, Why Not Undocumented Immigrants?

Media Matter catches Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on the House floor last night comparing the capture of undocumented aliens to that of exotic grasshoppers.

Now it seems to me that if we are so advanced with technology and manpower and competence that we can capture illegal grasshoppers from

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Senate Dems Drop Coverage of Legal Immigrants from SCHIP Plan, Will Try to Add Later

This is a little bit inside baseball, but it lends a glimpse at the relationship between politics and policy in Washington.

Democrats, as they push to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, hope to include coverage for legal immigrants, who currently must wait five years More…