immigration reform

7:39 AM, May 7, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

David Frum writes at the Daily Beast about why the elite consensus on immigration reform is wrong:

Nothing unifies the American elite like immigration. From Barack Obama to Paul Ryan, from the editorial board of The New York Times to that of The Wall Street Journal, from the offices of Facebook to those of Goldman Sachs, everybody who counts more or less agrees.

Yes, there are differences of detail: Democrats want a quick pathway to citizenship (so that formerly illegal residents can become voters faster); Republicans want a slower one. But compared to any other major issue before the country, the differences seem vanishingly small.

Unfortunately, the broad elite agreement in favor of something like the Senate’s Gang of Eight deal says less about the merits of the deal than about the widening gap between American political and economic elites and the country they govern.

Read the whole thing here.

2:23 PM, May 4, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Mickey Kaus has some more tough criticism for the immigration reform bill and one of its chief engineers, Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio:

Immigration and the rule of law.

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32 • By PETER SKERRY

With an immigration bill finally on the table, Republicans would do well to stop and ponder how they have arrived at this juncture. Since the November election they have been preoccupied with how to approach Hispanics on this critical issue.

Hosted by Michael Graham.

12:16 PM, Apr 26, 2013 • By TWS PODCAST

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with William Kristol on the the Boston bombing, Obama's disappearing "red line" in Syria, and immigration reform.

12:16 PM, Apr 25, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

President Barack Obama used a part of his speech at the George W. Bush Libary opening today to push immigration reform:

Hosted by Michael Graham

11:58 AM, Apr 12, 2013 • By TWS PODCAST

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with William Kristol on immigration reform, gun control, and a review of this week in Washington.

Immigrant children at Ellis Island, 1908

The business of immigration is more than business.

Apr 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29 • By PETER SKERRY

Immigration Wars has gotten a lot of attention because of its proposal to offer undocumented immigrants permanent legal resident status in lieu of citizenship—and because of Jeb Bush’s subsequent walking it back and expressing a willingness to support some kind of a path to citizenship for illegals. Just as noteworthy is the book’s critique of the bedrock of our immigration policy—family reunification—and its proposal to eliminate preferential visas for immigrant parents of U.S.

For almost everything.

11:14 AM, Apr 3, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer was asked Wednesday morning to decribe what he considers President Obama’s "precepts" for getting things done in Washington. “There’s almost no characteristic more important than discipline,” Pfeiffer responded.