From Yahoo news:
U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, with some saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s. [emphasis mine]
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They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of "racial profiling," or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for [...]
Megan McArdle (Jane Galt) refers (via Crooked Timber via WaPo) to a recent paper by Vanderbilt economist Joni Hersch which purports to show that there exists a correlation between skin color and economic prosperity for recently arrived immigrants to the United States (link to pdf).
Bypassing a discussion over the findings of the study itself, interesting [...]
However, quite unfortunately lost in this uproar, is the sorry state of legal immigration. Other than a short segment by Chris Farrell on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report, I haven’t heard anybody talk about it - even though the proposed laws addresses this issue as well. The system is so screwed up that anytime I think about it, I feel overwhelmed - first with anger and then with despair. It is difficult to figure out where to start.
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