Thread: Washington Post Shows Immigration Issue is Fool's Gold

9/04/2011 @ 11:09AM

Washington Post Inadvertently Shows Immigration Issue is Fool's Gold

The Washington Post on Friday published an article with the thesis that illegal immigration could be crucial to the political fortunes of Republican presidential candidates. However, the facts contained in the article illustrate what astute political observers understand – appeals to angry guys complaining about illegal immigration at town hall meetings is political fool’s gold.

The article asserts, “To a sizable chunk of those who will pick the GOP’s presidential nominee, immigration is an urgent issue, even a litmus test.â€

You left this part out it is important to know where the author is coming from.


Stuart Anderson
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Stuart Anderson is Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan public policy research organization focusing on trade, immigration and related issues based in Arlington, Virginia. From August 2001 to January 2003, Stuart served as Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning and Counselor to the Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Before that Stuart spent four and a half years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, first for Senator Spencer Abraham and then as Staff Director of the subcommittee for Senator Sam Brownback. Stuart has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other publications. He is the author of the book Immigration (Greenwood, 2010).
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The National Foundation for American Policy, according to it's website, "is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, education, and other issues of national importance. The organization seeks to expand the debate over the proper role of government on key issues of the day and to engage actively in the media and with the public to ensure its ideas are considered and implemented wherever possible."



Officers
*Stuart Anderson – Executive Director, former policy director of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution,
former director at the Cato Institute.
* Paul Weaver Vice President
*Robert Borens Secretary

Stuart Anderson is a known shill for opening our borders and bringing in foreign guest workers galore.