Representative Steve King joined a CPAC panel discussing the pitfalls of an open society.
Immigration
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Outsiders Everywhere
America’s obsession with the meritocracy makes social mobility harder than ever.
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Honk If You Support Immigrants
Community groups launch billboard ad campaigns that urge compassion for the undocumented.
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The Arpaio Effect
How will the DOJ’s investigation of the rogue Arizona sheriff affect the presidential election?
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Showdown at the Docks
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement’s three-month anniversary by taking the fight to major ports.
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DRAFT 21st century slaves
Most of the news media attention to modern-day trafficking and slavery has been on sex trafficking: international sex slavery and tourism, which Nicholas Kristof has so diligently covered; sex trafficking into the U.S., in which women who hoped to work here legitimately were, instead, kept under armed guard and sold in massage parlors, strip clubs, […]
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Will Latinos Help Re-Elect Obama?
In the past, Democrats could bank on being the lesser of two evils—but not anymore.
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Manu Chao Performs Outside Sherriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City
The artist performed “Clandestino” for undocumented immigrants held at the notorious jail.
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Rick Perry’s Last-Ditch Anti-Immigration Pitch
His policies and endorsements are that of an extreme conservative, but Republican voters just don’t buy it.
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What Gingrich and Dubya Have in Common
With his outreach to Latino voters, Newt Gingrich takes a page from George W. Bush.