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125 years old, still young and still hot. I love her. I love where she stands, I love her crown of radiant wisdom and her torch and her book of laws, I love Miss Lazarus’ poem, I love that she’s an excellent sculpture on her own terms. I love that you can buy bronze paperweights [...]
Archive for the ‘Immigration’ Category
October 30th, 2011
Category: Built Environment, Human rights, Immigration, Personal moment, public health, Unions and organizing
October 16th, 2011
Category: Immigration, Watching Conservatives
There’s a difference between *making* a joke and *being* a joke.
July 2nd, 2011
Category: Europe, Immigration
My initial post saying that EU governments are far less left-wing than many Americans believe, drew with a few exceptions sceptical comments here at RBC and at Washington Monthly. If you are in the camp that sees Europe as the backyard of the hard left, take a gander at Erik Voeten’s description of politics in [...]
March 27th, 2011
Denying Medicaid-funded prenatal care to undocumented immigrants.
November 22nd, 2010
…for the Democrats.
July 18th, 2010
Category: Immigration
… and count his votes. Why white evangelical leaders are pushing comprehensive immigration reform.
May 13th, 2010
To right-wingers who say that the Arizona immigration law is necessary to protect “respect for the rule of law,” there is a simple two word answer: John Yoo.
April 30th, 2010
Category: Immigration
It appears that civil libertarians and wingnuts have united in opposition to the new Democratic immigration bill, with some progressives borrowing wingnut language: Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip [...]
April 28th, 2010
Category: Immigration, Watching Conservatives
The Arizona law creates a right of private action, with attorney-fee awards, against “any agency or official” who isn’t maximally mean to people who look as if they might be illegal immigrants. Why doesn’t this bother the “tort reform” crowd?
April 27th, 2010
Category: Immigration, Watching Conservatives
Any Arizona cop can now demand “your papers” from anyone with a suspiciously brown skin or suspiciously Latino accent. But the libertarians and tea-partiers don’t seem to have much of a problem with this huge extension of the power of the state over the individual. Steve Benen has it right: “It’s almost as if the right-wing crowd is only offended by government abuses when they’re imaginary.”