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...
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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.
The photographer Matt Black has a gallery up at Guernica featuring his photos of the Mixteca, an indigenous region of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. I'd place an example or two up here but copying the photos is seemingly not allowed. Black says this about his...
Last year, the Third Circuit held that a local anti-illegal immigration notice in Hazelton, Pennsylvania was unconstitutional. Today, that decision was vacated by the Supreme Court and remanded "for further.
When I first saw this, I briefly thought that I had wandered into the Onion by mistake. Kansas state rep Virgil Peck (R, of course) suggested that the "immigration problem".
It's always nice to see conservative anti-immigration rhetoric boil down to the question of brown people speaking funny languages: I’m at a hearing of the immigration subcommittee, and the pseudo-congressman from Puerto Rico is going on about how “we” are a nation of immigrants. “We”?...
Huh. I guess I always suspected that Tony La Russa was evil: St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa on Tuesday said he's a "supporter" of Arizona's immigration law and.
After David Freddoso raised the alarm earlier today about "new" cases of leprosy in Arkansas, Mark Krikorian quickly lept in to tease out the proper lesson and offer a meaningless.