Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

A report released by the Brookings Institution in September asserts that the media’s framing of the immigration debate is to blame for the failure of comprehensive immigration reform in 2006 and 2007. The media’s narrative about immigration is one of “illegality, crisis, controversy and government failure,” the report states, and this narrative is open to [...]

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(American Apparel advertisement.)
Businesses have a common interest with immigrants, who often supply cheap labor with little complaint. This alliance has drawn the ire of anti-immigration groups in the past, and it is currently a cause of controversy in Arizona. That’s why individual companies are reluctant to publicly declare their support for more generous immigration laws, [...]

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