U.S. Electoral Politics: April 2008 Archives

The widescale ICE raids in several states on Wednesday surfaced briefly in the news, only to be subsumed by discussion of the presidential primary debate, recession, and the papal visit. 

The coverage these raids have gotten is problematic, to say the least, especially when you consider that the raids are implicated in each of these other three stories.

In a recent op-ed in the Charlotte Observer (via Immigration Prof Blog), presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed the issue of immigration reform.  He is known to be supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here in the U.S.  Overall, I think he is the candidate with the best proposed policies on immigration, for the reasons I outlined here.  

But in reading his op-ed this week, I noticed a troubling development.

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