No, ex hypothesi they *do* care. Much more than the millions of American citizens who don’t bother to vote at all. Read more
also, having an irrevocable right of re-entry into the USA. Which is a big deal. Read more
How about everyone in the world votes in every election *where they live*? Read more
legal immigrants didn’t arrive illegally, they arrived legally. Are you agreeing that legal noncitizen immigrants (green card holders, for instance) should be able to vote? Read more
but the overwhelming majority of immigrants *do* take steps to follow the laws properly. Statistically, they’re more law-abiding than US citizens. Read more
The thing that worries me about this story is that the vast majority of those 1,378 people were US citizens. ICE seems to be doing its best to conflate “immigrants” and “gang members” in the public mind. Read more
Your organization is called Define American, so I have a question about how you define American, specifically as it relates to the millions of immigrants who are here legally but who for whatever reason have not become naturalized. (That was my situation, for about 20 years.) They are a very important part of the… Read more
Oh I never said there wouldn’t be room for philanthropy in a hundred years’ time. I just said that the philanthropic resources being put into that space, a century from now, are going to be huge. The Ford Foundation has been shrinking as a percentage of all philanthropies ever since its inception, and it will continue… Read more
exactly. I’m not sure what exactly “fiduciary” is supposed to mean, in this context, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the same thing that it means in the normal world. Read more
yes, from my conversation with Briggs there is some kind of “graduation” process for the successful parts of the PRI portfolio. But that just means assets moving in the wrong direction, from the charitable arm to the non-charitable arm. Read more
this is blogging. Read more
if you’re an undocumented immigrant and you marry a US citizen, that in no way gets you any kind of automatic green card. The green card is the tough bit. Once you’ve got the green card, naturalization is easy. Read more
Marrying a documented immigrant — one who is here legally on some kind of nonimmigrant visa like a J or an H — is a great idea. Marrying an undocumented immigrant, on the other hand, is much harder, because that doesn’t make them documented, and their path to citizenship is much harder. After all, ICE is arresting… Read more
I have so much sympathy for Channing Tatum's shirt maker. Read more