I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase "Keep America American" from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1. As is not infrequent for MSNBC's liberal shows, this claim was sensationalist, particularly how it...
immigration
And it's far from clear to what's going to happen. Thomas, ordinarily the staunchest states' "rights" justice, is different in preemption. And elite Republicans don't have monolithic views on immigration.
I had wondered what Alabama would do after a police officer arrested a German auto executive under its draconian new immigration law. Now we know. Faced with backlash over the.
Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
It's pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that's America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns.
I don't often talk about individual historians because most of you won't care, but it's worth noting the death of Oscar Handlin, a historian who did more than anyone to create the field of immigration history and who used his expertise and authority to help...
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I'd recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration,.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real.
I meant to comment on this a couple of days ago, before I went away on a brief vacation, but I didn't have time. So even though the news is a few days old now, I really want to commend President Obama for changing how...
The border fence is such a disaster. Here's yet another example: Flooding caused by a border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and.
Neil Genzlinger has a thought provoking piece on the dark side of Ellis Island and American immigration, which he rightfully says is underplayed at the museum: But there’s another side.