Immigration
Who’s Winning: Washington D.C. vs Immigration Sanctuary Cities
In the standoff between “sanctuary cities” and the Trump administration, a memo from the Attorney General this week indicates that so far the cities are winning, hands down. While there are no hard-and-fast rules for what qualifies as a “sanctuary city,” the local...
Don’t Let the Establishment Fool You
It is one of the more commonly used cliches of the political establishment. “We are a nation of immigrants.” Most Americans just buy that bill of goods and never think about what it actually means. After all, they reason, their people came here from somewhere. This is...
Justice Scalia and Congress’s Power to Regulate Immigration
In a recent post, I noted that Justice Scalia has been criticized for departing from originalism in various areas. But the positions that Justice Scalia took in many of these cases – including a prohibition on state affirmative action, limitations on regulatory...
Answering Questions: States vs Feds on Syrian Refugees
With the mainstream media consistently reporting that Governors are planning to block the President’s Syrian refugee resettlement plans, two main camps have emerged in recent days. Unsurprisingly, they’re both missing the most important point. On the one hand, there...