restrictionists

The immigration restrictionist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) said it’s flooding Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and planning another round of Tea Parties, to motivate what they hope will be a huge backlash against any attempt to legalize any undocumented immigrants in the United States. The group is gearing up to fight comprehensive immigration [...]

The changing demographics of the United States suggest that there would be a lot of support for comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization of undocumented immigrants who pay a fine and pay their taxes. But both parties have failed to present a comprehensive immigration bill so far and risk losing the support of a key [...]

As the heat gets turned up on the health care reform debate, anti-immigrant activists are using the issue to whip up fear and anger toward immigrants, portraying them as a costly and burdensome drain on any taxpayer-supported U.S. health care system.

A comprehensive immigration reform bill might be drafted by the end of this year, but President Obama said in Mexico today that he would not expect anything to pass until 2010, according to The Hill.
Immigration reform has never been at the top of the president’s agenda, although he’s said he supports it, but today he [...]

This news may disappoint restrictionist groups and CNN’s Lou Dobbs, but the Pew Hispanic Center reports today that despite the poor economy, Mexican immigrants aren’t leaving the United States to return home to Mexico in any significant numbers.

Whether it’s a struggling economy or the threat of a pandemic, immigration reform is debated in the context of problems at hand.

It was just a matter of time, but right-wing bloggers, restrictionist immigration groups and now even some politicians are blaming illegal immigrants and the government’s failure to keep them out for the swine flu pandemic.
Michelle Malkin writes, “hey maybe we’ll finally get serious about borders now,” adding that she’s “blogged for years about the spread [...]

In a recession, can President Obama make the case for immigration?