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July 2025

July 04, 2025

Actually, Card. Cupich is hurting, not helping, immigrants

This is the message that Cardinal Cupich plays on repeat: immigrants have done nothing wrong;...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

The Senate DACA bill: not a compromise

By which I mean this: Three Republican and three Democratic Senators have been working on...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

What about Bannon and the Bishops?

The U.S. Catholic bishops are, unsurprisingly, angry at the Trump administration's plan to cancel the...

September 08, 2017

“Enhanced border security” is an unserious DACA compromise

I raised the issue the other day, of what an appropriate compromise would be, that...

September 07, 2017

Why we can’t solve illegal immigration; plus, a reader poll

Why can't we solve the issue of illegal immigration? First, genuine policy disagreements. There are...

September 06, 2017

Why “Dream”-ing isn’t enough

I have just a few minutes before I have to start work, but I want...

September 04, 2017

A DREAM Act do-over?

Let's review DREAM Act history, shall we? (And, by the way, I reject the terminology...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Working backwards on immigration, and a Cupich gripe

Today Cardinal Cupich had a piece in the op-ed section in the Chicago Tribune, titled...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

5 illegal immigration thoughts in advance of Trump’s Big Speech

Two big events today with respect to Trump and immigration: he's scheduled to meet the...

August 24, 2016

On amnesty: how many years?

So Trump has, unsurprisingly, softened his immigration talk until its about the consistency of the...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Rubio needs a converstion story

So, look, I know you're all getting tired of my blog posts on Rubio, but...

February 18, 2016

The Pope visited the Mexico/US border and . . . (with bonus comments on the plane presser)

As you likely know, the Pope held a mass in Juarez, Mexico, not far from...

February 18, 2016

Marco needs a Beer Summit

That is, with bloggers like Mickey Kaus and Ace at Ace of Spades HQ, and...

February 09, 2016

Chicago officials enact amnesty!

Library officials, that is. As announced by the Chicago Tribune (paywall) and eNews Park Forest...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Say it ain’t so, Rubio!

Back in September, I made the prediction that, when voters lose their infatuation with Trump,...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

How to make immediate legalization work

Give workers standing to sue, similar to the way disabled individuals can collect cash from...

November 03, 2015

Really, Rubio? (more on immigration)

When I wrote my post the other day suggesting that Rubio give a Big Policy...

November 01, 2015

Holding Rubio to his promises

That's the trouble, isn't it? Marco Rubio wants amnesty. There's no mistaking this. He also...

November 19, 2014

Archbishop Cupich is pro-illegal-immigrant-legalization. Does it do any harm?

Earlier today, I blogged on the two homilies given by the new archbishop in Chicago,...