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I am alarmed that serious people like Rob Bluey are touting the arguments of economic neanderthals like Lou Dobbs. Rob, you want some protectionism with that?

There was a very important letter published in the Dallas Morning News about immigration. It was signed by a number of leading Republicans. Let’s look at some text: This is the most far-reaching and thoughtful reform of our immigration system in four decades and one that will significantly enhance American competitiveness. As with any political [...]

Tasty quotes, full release after the jump: In 2006 Governor Romney supported the President’s immigration policy as well as the McCain-Kennedy bill.  He expressed support for an immigration program that places large numbers of illegal residents on the path toward citizenship and said illegal immigrants should have a chance to obtain citizenship. He even went [...]

While I am a supporter of immigration in general and some sort of comprehensive immigration proposal, I am not yet decided on this immigration bill. Earlier, I pointed to a place where business is unhappy with the current bill. Today, the NYT reports one place where these problems are becoming clearer. For example, Microsoft’s head [...]

This time Mitt Romney is misrepresenting Jeb Bush’s record, and his own, as he continues to struggle both the substance and appearance of his pandering flip-flop on immigration. So these days, Mitt Romney is claiming that he has a strong record because he cut a deal but never implemented an agreement to allow state police [...]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had some thoughts on the immigration bill. It is a useful check on the hysteria on the right: “This is a divisive issue” for both parties, said McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. But, he said, “I don’t think there’s a single member of either party next year who is going to [...]

A week into the debate and Romney is already changing his tune. This weekend in South Carolina, Romney said: “If that’s not a form of amnesty, I don’t know what is,” Romney said. “I think we should not call it the ‘Z visa,’ we should call it the ‘A visa’ because it’s amnesty and that’s [...]

Michael Gerson, President Bush’s former speechwriter nails it today in the WaPo. FIrst on the future of the GOP: Given current demographic realities, Republicans cannot rely on their white base alone. If a Republican presidential candidate doesn’t get about 40 percent of the Latino vote nationwide, he or she doesn’t stand much of a chance [...]

Yesterday, Heritage held a conference call about immigration. The theme was the same old same old. But one of the lines that jumped out at me (and Matt Lewis) was that: Jon Kyl thinks he is smarter than Reagan They hit this theme a bunch of different ways. Again, like so many conservatives who neither [...]

Earlier in the week, Heritage released a study claiming that the immigration bill would bankrupt country due to welfare payments to regularized immigrants. Of course, another study from Heritage ("in peer review." I wonder if it will ever get out, given that Heritage is raising money off the restrictionist position) claims dramatic economic benefits. The [...]