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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 27, 2025

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GOP Of Two Minds, At Least, On Immigration

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BY FROMA HARROP On immigration, the Republican Party is trapped in two trains of thought, each speeding along the wrong track. At the Tea Party end, there’s absolute resistance to normalizing the status of illegal immigrants. On the cheap-labor side, there’s this big push to admit as many unskilled immigrants as possible. The first view, that putting millions of illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship rewards lawbreakers, is unhelpful. It is true that they […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.