The fence along the U.S.–Mexico boundary has helped reduce the flow of illegal immigrants, but the human and environmental toll has been enormous.
Immigration
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What’s Wrong With Scalia’s Sovereignty Argument
The Justice seems to have forgotten about the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Who’s Sovereign Now?
Antonin Scalia’s double standard for states’ rights
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Give Them Papers, Please!
The long-term solution to the federal-state standoff over immigration isn’t litigation.
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What the SCOTUS Ruling on SB 1070 Means for Other States
While five other states have passed versions of the law, consider that 31 other states have declined to do so.
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Supreme Court Strikes Most of Arizona Immigration Law, Making Scalia Very Angry
The oral arguments earlier this year on the SB-1070, the infamous Arizona immigration law, made it difficult to read how the Court was going to rule on most of its provisions, although the Court seemed on balance more sympathetic to Arizona’s position. Given how things looked after that, today’s decision in Arizona v. United States […]
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Mitt Romney Pretends Congress Doesn’t Exist
What are the chances President Romney picks a divisive fight with his party’s right wing?
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Lethal Injection and the New Immigration Policy
“Prosecutorial discretion” is nothing new
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What’s Wrong With Politics-Driven Policy?
The Obama administration gets DREAMy.
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Arizona Asks the Court Not to Trust the Feds
In state immigration law, local authorities offer to “help” the federal government by taking over its job.