Trump's Immigration 'Softening' Leaves a Mushy Mess
The candidate can't seem to choose between mass deportation and a path to legalization.
The candidate can't seem to choose between mass deportation and a path to legalization.
He's gone from calling for mass deportations to letting illegals pay taxes and stay. That's a start toward a better policy.
Richard Nixon pulled about one-third of black voters in 1960. Donald Trump is courting 0 percent. And that may not even be Republican's biggest problem.
He is trying to win over moderate whites, not Hispanic voters.
After the Justice Department announced it will stop contracting with private prisons, advocacy groups are already pressuring Homeland Security to follow suit.
The chief peddler of hate wants to stop hate
But he doesn't want to engage in nation-building!
Take the Trump-American-Values Immigration Quiz!
There are 48 foreign-born athletes on Team USA in the Summer Olympics, including one that already won a medal.
Without new arrivals to this country, the state would be poorer and less populated.
Instead of partisan schadenfreude, can we have a serious debate about policy for a change?
Watch Nick Gillespie, Jeffrey Tucker, and Matt Welch get booed and heckled for criticizing Trump at FreedomFest
Clinton, Trump, and Obama are all bad on deportation
"I'm talking territory instead of Muslim," he says, but adds that the Constitution "doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide."
The Texas senator tells Republicans freedom is just another word for blocking immigration, restricting trade, and banning gay marriage.
Trump's entry ban and Gingrich's loyalty test unfairly and foolishly conflate Islam with terrorism.
On immigration, surveillance, torture, and press freedom, Trump's ideas are not just bad-they're unconstitutional.
Both parties have prefered to play identity politics rather than fix the problem
How the U.K. can escape E.U. regulations and protectionism.
Both parties have played partisan politics with immigration for 10 years
Now he's the presumptive Republican nominee who's carved out a place in American history, win or lose
Your favorite libertarian podcast tackles the nation's deadliest mass shooting
Says he wants a safe society that's tolerant and open and also railed against Muslim immigration.
Matt Welch talks terrorism and the political instinct to control & clench on tonight's Kennedy
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee exaggerates both the number of immigrants and the number who pose a domestic threat.
Says he agrees with Trump on fighting drug cartels and deporting felons
East meets South in Orange County, California.
National Review is the sole link to respectability for neo-Malthusian, ultra-restrictionist outfits that enviros are shunning.
Donald Trump and other conservatives' deportation fantasies are awful. President Obama's actual record is even worse.
What I told The Real News about The Donald and the libertarian alternative.
Thanks Donald Trump for making it clear that we need such a new law
79-year-old senator wants you to know he feels very bad about the presidential candidate he made possible, yet still won't join Neocons 4 Hillary because he has to win another re-election
Immigration makes the strangest bed fellows
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee flip-flops on promise to ban all Muslims, London Mayor Sadiq Khan says he's not interested in being an "exception."
If he loses, he'll only have himself to blame.
The immigration policies favored by Trump and Cruz will alienate people Republicans need to win.
Militarizing the border unintentionally fueled the growth of undocumented immigration
The practice has been called "entrapment" and "a form of legal harassment and coercion."
Two libertarian scholars go toe-to-toe on Obama's immigration executive order
Is the president enforcing laws not as Congress wrote them, but as he wishes them to have been written?
Obama's action is good policy, bad law, and terrible precedent.
The immigration laws whose enforcement the president is restricting are themselves unconstitutional.
The presidential wannabe's scheme will likely draw more illegal immigrants and fuel illegal evasion of capital controls.
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in the backdrop of a deeply divided country
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