When Trump’s cruel treatment of immigration backfires—and it will—liberals need a more humane alternative. Here’s one: tough restraints on companies that hire undocumented migrants combined with generous opportunities for those migrants to become legal.
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Trump Won’t Tell You How He Takes Aim at Legal Immigration
Trump failed once to implement his mass deportation plans for illegal migrants and did more as president to curtail legal immigration. By contrast, with a cooperative Congress, Harris can quickly pass the bipartisan border security bill.
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Kamala Harris Is Good at This
Kamala Harris Is Good at This. The vice president laid out her plans for the future while Donald Trump was caught in a tangle of grievances about the past.
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Fear of Immigrants Has Broken the Republican Party
in the past several days, we can see how the GOP’s obsession with immigration has damaged its ability to function.
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It’s Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here
Not since the meek accountant in the back of the courtroom leapt up and screamed, “Stop, Perry Mason! I did it! I killed him, and I’m GLAD!” has a suspect been quite so eager to confess his crimes as Donald J. Trump. When he proposed a Muslim ban in 2016 and then actually declared one […]
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Republicans Hold a Great Hand on Immigration—and They’re Blowing It
For years, Republicans have been battering President Joe Biden over immigration and accusing him of caring about Ukraine’s territorial integrity more than America’s. The strategy has worked. In a recent ABC News-Washington Post poll, Biden scored a scant 18 percent approval on his handling of immigration—the lowest rating for any president in 20 years of […]
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Why Mitch McConnell Just Might Want to See Biden Reelected
It’s not as crazy as it sounds. The Kentuckian hates Trump, supports Ukraine, and might get much of what he wants in Joe’s second term.
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Biden’s Asylum Restrictions Run into a Roadblock
The administration’s effort to curtail the flow of refugees from Central and South America is being challenged in the courts. It’s not the first time a president has been in this situation.
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Ruben Gallego and His Intriguing Bid For the U.S. Senate
In purple Arizona, the Democratic congressman is seeking to replace Kyrsten Sinema next year and he’s offering a model for Democrats nationally.
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Why Ron DeSantis is Talking About an Immigrant “Invasion”
The Florida governor is promoting a crank and dangerous theory about states having their own border control policies.
