New Yorker: on Immigration


Richard Ojeda: Taking benefits from illegal immigrants sounds good

When you hear about illegal aliens getting benefits and you have people here starving to death and can't get nothing, it's just a slap in the face. When you start talking about bringing in refugees and when they get here they get medical and dental and they get set up with some funds--what do we get? So when people hear Donald Trump saying we're going to take benefits away from people who come here illegally and give them to people who work, that sounds pretty good.
Source: New Yorker magazine on 2020 West Virginia Senate race Oct 3, 2016

Sally Yates: Muslim travel ban violates religious freedom

[When the Trump administration imposed the travel ban from Muslim countries] Yates thought that two arguments against the order were particularly strong. Because it gave preferential treatment to Syrian Christians, it arguably violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. And, because the ban denied entry both to visa holders and to legal residents, there seemed to be serious due-process questions.

Yates gathered a dozen Trump staff; she recalled saying, "I'm troubled about this from a constitutional standpoint--but what's the defense to this?" She wasn't impressed by the argument, made by some officials, that the order had nothing to do with religion.

[She concluded that BOJ must], "go into court on something as fundamental as religious freedom. This is a defining, founding principle of our country: religious freedom. How can the Department of Justice go in and defend something that so significantly undermines that, when we're not convinced it's true?"

Source: Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker on 2020 Veepstakes May 29, 2017

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2016 Presidential contenders on Immigration:
  Republicans:
Gov.Jeb Bush(FL)
Dr.Ben Carson(MD)
Gov.Chris Christie(NJ)
Sen.Ted Cruz(TX)
Carly Fiorina(CA)
Gov.Jim Gilmore(VA)
Sen.Lindsey Graham(SC)
Gov.Mike Huckabee(AR)
Gov.Bobby Jindal(LA)
Gov.John Kasich(OH)
Gov.Sarah Palin(AK)
Gov.George Pataki(NY)
Sen.Rand Paul(KY)
Gov.Rick Perry(TX)
Sen.Rob Portman(OH)
Sen.Marco Rubio(FL)
Sen.Rick Santorum(PA)
Donald Trump(NY)
Gov.Scott Walker(WI) 		Democrats:
Gov.Lincoln Chafee(RI)
Secy.Hillary Clinton(NY)
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)
Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

2016 Third Party Candidates:
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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