After weeks of work, our NumbersUSA team is ready to show you our evaluations of the 20 politicians who Real Clear Politics show are polling at 1% or higher for the 2016 Presidential Election.
In the stampede of media advice to Republicans to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” (supposedly to win more Hispanic votes in 2016), hardly any dust has been kicked up by discussing whether more immigration would be good for Hispanic Americans themselves.
If Republicans want more Hispanic votes, they might consider pushing policies that actually help Hispanic voters get back to work and increase their incomes.
Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) would do the opposite because all CIR proposals are about increasing the number of citizens of other countries who are allowed to jump into the job-application lines to compete with the 20 million Americans who want a full-time job but can't find one.
Media Matters for America (MMA) describes itself as a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
But is anybody out there paying attention to MMA's own brand of misinformation?
Before getting all giddy over being "green" today, those who think they understand what's really at stake on this 41st Earth Day should watch this 9-minute video that demonstrates where this nation is headed because of a stupid and irresponsible immigration policy that benefits only the few at the expense of the rest of us. Read more about Do Earth Day enthusiasts really get it?
Analyzing The Votes In Our Defeating the DREAM Act Amnesty in Senate Today
By Roy Beck, Saturday, December 18, 2010, 12:39 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA
Our victory was closer than it looked.
I told our Web Editor Chris Chmielenski after the vote this morning that my body felt like it does when I just missed a terrible car accident in which nothing bad happened at all but I can clearly see how close I came to being killed.
Yes, the PRO-amnesty folks were 5 votes short of the 60 needed. But I can pick several NO votes that could've gone the other way. And if any two had done so -- especially if they had done so a couple of weeks ago -- at least three other votes would have gone with them and we would have lost.
Fifteen years after she testified as the chair of President Clinton's immigration reform commission, Barbara Jordan's recommendations for a credible immigration policy will finally get the serious consideration they deserve.
