Politics

Tip: Leaders don’t matter much.

Jason posted a link to an earlier piece of his, The Tragedy Of Barack Obama the same day the Freakonomics podcast asks “It’s Election Day: Can You Really Blame the President?”

Most children of unauthorized immigrants are U.S. citizens

This poses an interesting dilemma for people who want to deport unauthorized immigrants to their home countries. Do you break up the families? What happens when they grow up and they can vote? I know in my family, we don’t forget the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the early-mid 90s that spurred us to become citizens. Pew …

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Stopping Immigrants more important than the Environment, Diplomacy

From The Price Tag for Immigration Enforcement, the crackdown on immigrants is only going to get more expensive next year. The Department of Homeland Security is asking for a 19% increase for “immigratin enforcement and border control for 2009”. Just this year, the budgets for Customs and Border Protection (CBP)and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …

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