It appears that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency is about to make it more difficult for legal immigrants to become citizens:

The proposals being drafted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, could nearly double application fees, toughen the required English ( Read more... )

Virginians can console themselves after Senator Allen's macaca remarks that he's not the only Republican Senator running for reelection with a penchant for foot-in-mouth disease. El WaPo reports on the many follies of Montana Senator Conrad Burns:In a moment of unusual candor for a veteran senator fighting for his political life, Conrad Burns (R- ( Read more... )

WaPo is reporting the debutof a Spanish Translation of the Star-Spangled Banner, produced and sung by a number of Latin pop stars.

[Edit 13:21 EDT--The President has demanded that the anthem be sung in English.]

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The immigration debate continues to swirl around Washington. In the Senate, the debate seems to have stalled on what sort of "guest worker" program they are prepared to implement as a result of the McCain-Kennedy language.

For those of you not familiar with the debate, the bill [S. 1033] sponsored by Senators McCain (AZ) and Kennedy (MA) would ( Read more... )

I posted the text of my letter to my congressman (Tom Davis, R- VA 11Th) in an earlier entry . I received the following reply: [N.B. Relevant hyperlinks in the letter are inserted by me for clarity's sake]

( Tom Davis' response on H.R. 4437 )

A boy has been stabbed in the third day of student-led immigration rights protests here in NoVA ( Read more... )

Mark Fisher's most recent column talks about how the unlikely success of Mason's basketball team has had a pleasant side-effect: it has brought together the diverse and disparate student body.

My particular favorite passage:

The Patriots' game against Connecticut brought together Pakistanis and other Muslims from countries that don't share a ( Read more... )

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