New York City recently made it legal for non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.  This will include legal immigrants on green cards/vis...

The United States is one of the few nations in the Western developed world to still offer birthright citizenship in which anyone who is...

At the time of this writing it is day 21 of the government shutdown. On Friday January 11, thousands of Federal workers missed their first...

TIJUANA, Mexico — A peaceful march by Central American migrants waiting at the southwestern United States border veered out of control...

Although the United States is not officially a nation based primarily on lineage and blood and soil, Germany is. There are apparently more...

Even before the Trump directed zero tolerance illegal immigration policy in which every person who unlawfully entered the United States wo...

As I long suspected and as this blog's legal expert predicted  :"   However, as it stands, the courts have basically taken the po...

One of the hot button topics across what is referred to as the "West" is immigration, particularly illegal immigration and ref...

The British Indian novelist and essayist Rana Dasgupta recently wrote a very long earnest piece about the alleged demise of the nation-sta...

Politics is not a field where predictions are easy to make. We learned that from the 2016 election. People are complex. They want differen...

As you probably know if you've read any prior posts here I don't have a tremendous amount of sympathy for resident adult non-citiz...

What is a peer? Well according to the dictionary a peer is a person who belongs to the same age group or social group as someone else.  A ...

That's What's UP - The Urban Politico Radio Hour Join us Sunday, April 21st 5pm (ET) as we talk about the Politics of the United St...

Riot victim explains what happened I've been really busy with other things over the past month so I am just now getting around to writin...

The Obama Administration intends to grant work permits to illegal immigrants. This is great news for the people so impacted ( i.e. illegal i...

In news that is sure to please some supporters of "immigration reform", the Obama Administration announced that it was suspending ...

Humberto Leal Garcia Texas has given us a lot of good things:   Albert Collins . James Lee Burke .  Freddie King.   ZZ Top . Cornell Dupree....