Tag: Tom Cotton

Trump announced he was rescinding DACA with a six-month delay for Congress to act. Could some concessions be made to those want a legislative fix without the increases in illegal immigration seen after past amnesties since 1986? It's the stuff that DREAMs are made of. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

To fix DACA, remember how the DREAM Act died

W. James Antle III · September 7, 2017 4:01 am

Trump is on strong legal ground. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Michael Barone: Can Trump and Democrats make a deal on immigration?

Michael Barone · September 7, 2017 4:01 am

At least to Trump, DACA's value is its use as a bargaining chip, a value that's gone if he eliminates DACA by executive order on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Shades of Obamacare fight in Trump’s DACA gambit

W. James Antle III · September 6, 2017 1:00 pm

Many Republican lawmakers who welcomed Trump's decision to punt to Congress on DACA simultaneously admitted that they are likely to struggle with devising a solution to the problem. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Mixed reaction to DACA spells trouble for Republican action on immigration

Al Weaver, Gabby Morrongiello · September 6, 2017 4:01 am

By keeping the terms of DACA in place as policy for the next six months, the Trump administration has deliberately set the stage for a legislative deal that can finally give DACA recipients the certainty about their situation and their future that they deserve. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)

Will Democrats deal on DACA? Dream on

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2017 11:02 pm

Cotton said it is the legislative branch's responsibility to deal with the situation instead of the executive branch, but Congress should not extend the DACA program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tom Cotton to oppose clean DACA extension after Trump calls for legislative fix

Al Weaver · September 5, 2017 5:43 pm

Now it's up to Republicans to clean up that mess. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Tom Cotton, top Senate immigration hawk, supports legalization in DACA deal

Byron York · September 4, 2017 6:00 am

The Merit System

Candice Malcolm · September 1, 2017 7:00 am

There is a case to be made that at present, admitting immigrants in lower numbers but with higher skills would benefit many black and Latino American workers. That case can be made by an immigration-reform movement that looks like Barbara Jordan. (AP Photo)

Trump should want Barbara Jordan’s immigration debate, not Joe Arpaio’s

W. James Antle III · August 31, 2017 4:01 am

The government should not be involved in every aspect of property ownership. Years ago, we collectively made a decision that home-ownership was a national priority and so buyers are given assistance with loans in the form of federally-backed mortgages. Residential PACE, however, goes much further, because it puts local, state, and if PACE companies got their way, federal, taxpayers potentially on the hook for a homeowner's new windows. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Beltway Confidential

Fast-growing green energy ‘scam’ puts taxpayers and homeowners at risk

Paul Blair · August 25, 2017 7:42 pm

No sooner had President Trump embraced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., than the predictable eruption of false and deceptive claims spewed forth from every direction. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Finance and Economy

Six bogus arguments against Trump’s immigration reform bill

Dan Stein · August 18, 2017 4:01 am

Harvard economist George Borjas is immigration critics' favorite intellectual. His work is regularly cited by the White House, top Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits to justify policies that would keep more people out of the country. Without his work, they would be hard-pressed to find any academic or scholar making the same arguments. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

The Cuban-born Harvard economist who immigration critics love

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2017 4:01 am