From NRO’s The Corner: According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in [...]
From Nevada News and Views: Governor Jim Gibbons yesterday demanded that President Barack Obama and his Administration take immediate steps to enforce federal immigration laws. “Guarding the borders of our great Nation is a federal responsibility that this Administration is ignoring,” Gibbons said, “Federal inaction is compelling states like Arizona to take state action and [...]
Interesting: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Monday that he’d been told that an energy bill would be brought to the Senate floor this year, even possibly before immigration. Lieberman suggested Monday that energy legislation may be on track to move before immigration in the Senate after all following a conversation with Reid on Sunday, reviving [...]
Powerline notes what happened last time we had a President pressing for comprehensive immigration reform: Whenever President Bush talked about immigration, his approval ratings went down. It was like clockwork: liberals never understood that the fatal decline in Bush’s popularity during his second term had at least as much to do with his advocacy of [...]