Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

In a front page column in the New York Times last week, Adam Liptak outlined a brewing legal battle against Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff’s use of sweeping new powers to expedite the construction of barriers along America’s southwestern borders.
But a legal challenge to the use of those powers is being heard at the […]

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During the State of the Union address last week, Pres. Bush’s mention of immigration came largely in the context of border security and illegal entry, his remarks segueing directly into warnings against the threat of terrorism
That’s certainly one way to look at the politics of immigration in this country, as a question of illegals, domestic […]

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