Tag: Immigration Reform

The three sentences written by the Republican National Committee on immigration reform that will haunt Republicans in the 2016 presidential election and maybe even in the 2014 midterms.

The candidates have blasted each other as hypocritical, untrustworthy agents of reform. It's a charge that may be particularly damning for congressional candidates this year.

California Rep. Kevin McCarthy rose as the likely successor to Cantor after Texas hardliners Pete Sessions and Jeb Hensarling bowed out.

From Florida comes a peek at the kind of wriggling strategery we can expect from the Republican Party on immigration reform over the next, what, decade or so? Dreamers there won a comically hedging boost this week. Meantime, in Texas...

“I think we’re gonna prioritize the right thing over the friendly thing and we’re gonna stay here. We’ve been waiting over a year. We want an answer from the congressman."

In a district that's home to 20 percent Hispanic residents, yesterday's move underlines what will likely be the pivotal issue in the congressional race.

The conservative Colorado Springs Gazette wrote recently that a Tancredo general election candidacy would doom Republican candidates all down the ticket. Yet "the Tanc" charges on. That's what he does. And that's why his supporters love him.

At what was billed a "pro-Israel" breakfast, sponsored by former Sen. Bill Armstrong and former Gov. Bill Owens, Cantor decried what he called the Obama administration's inaction on Syria.

The big question in Republican circles is what exactly Jeb Bush was trying to accomplish with his "act of love" speech the other day.

Alex Nowrahsteh of the libertarian CATO Institute says immigration reform of the infamous 3/10-year bar may be passable, and arch-restrictionist Mark Krikorian says it's not amnesty.