Outside the Beltway

According to a new poll, 87% of border residents feel safe.

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

The Republican campaign against birthright citizenship doesn’t seem to be gaining the kind of support they expected.

Wherein only one of the various consequences of altering the current status of birthright citizenship is considered: more paperwork for us all.

Is the GOP really serious about changing the citizenship rules in the 14th Amendment ? Not likely.

While it is true, as Jacob Sullum puts it, On Drug Policy, Mexico’s President Has a Bigger Vocabulary Than Ours, it is also true as the headline at Gancho puts it he has Problems with the Legalization Debate (specifically in terms of popular opinion in Mexico).

Despite assertions that the violence in Mexico is spilling over the border, we find a rather stark comparison of two key border cities.

A fatal car crash on a country road in Northern Virginia has become part of the national debate on over illegal immigration.

Not surprisingly, there is a great deal of disparity in terms of development on the two sides of the US-Mexican border.

Senate Republicans want to rethink the 14th Amendment’s automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

The link between immigration and crime rates that many immigration opponents point to simply does not exist

U.S. passports still aren’t perfect.

Immigration “moderate” Lindsey Graham is suddenly sounding not so moderate.

The Obama administration is refusing to enforce border security, right?

Yes, a lot of people are dying on the Arizona border, but the cause is not the drug war. Rather, it is simple fact that crossing the desert on foot is a dangerous proposition. (And this is not a new phenomenon).

Less than 24 hours before it was set to take effect, a Federal Judge has put a hold on most of the key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law.

Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.

Has the Los Zetas drug cartel seized ranches in Laredo, Texas? Not so much.

More decapitation talk.

The Iroquois lacrosse team has been caught in a classic Catch-22. The U.S. government won’t recognize their passports and they won’t use U.S. passports as a matter of principle.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.

Not only is Hezbollah taking up with the cartels, they appear to have a massive new geography-bending technology. As such, we are all doomed.

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Federal Government retains the option of suing Arizona a second time if the state’s new immigration law is enforced in a discriminatory manner.

American cops increasingly think they can harass innocents in the name of keeping us safe.

Let’s revisit the question of crime levels in Arizona.

Arizona has been experiencing a massive increase in violent crime of late, right?

The legal battle over immigration began today as the Obama Administration filed suit against Arizona over its new immigration law.

Senator Jon Kyl is distancing himself from earlier comments that he made accusing the President of holding border security “hostage.”