L.A. Newspaper Group has an immigration blog
Fulfilling his quota of discussing vitally important matters once every month or two, Insty informs us about a new blog covering immigration matters: Beyond Borders.
Scroll down to the bottom or peel back the URL and what do we find?
A Special Report on Immigration by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and The [San Bernardino] Sun
Those papers have published some good articles and some bad as well. The blogger doing this is one Conor Friedersdorf, who appears to have worked for that newspaper group and contributes to Claremont's Local Liberty blog. He also has a low-traffic blog of his own entitled Unconventional Wisdom.
Unfortunately, the new blog seems a bit credulous, but perhaps that's an attempt to be fair or provoke comments, such as with this post that takes Tamar Jacoby seriously. At post time there are no comments that I could find.
UPDATE: There are a few comments now, but I note that like other sites they appear to be using the idiotic nofollow tag on links in comments.
Comments
Raj (not verified)
Tue, 02/21/2006 - 06:45
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I would like to request you to profile the issue of Green Card holders who cannot be united with their spouses
Did you know that American Legal Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) cannot be united with their spouses?
The issue is simple: Legal Permanent Residents who have opted to get married to foreigners are unable to be united with their spouses and young families. The foreign spouse of a US Green Card holder must wait
for approval of an 'immigrant visa' from the State Department before entering the US. Due to a backlog in processing, such visas can take a upwards of five years to be approved. In the interim, the spouse cannot enter the US on any other visas, or as visitors. LPRs are in a uniquely
disadvantaged situation:
* Visitors and non-immigrants coming to the US on temporary visas for work, business or studies (including on H1, L1, B, and F1 visas) can
sponsor their dependant spouses to travel along with them.
* American Citizens can sponsor their spouses to come to the US in non-immigrant status and then convert to an immigrant status under the Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act (the "LIFE Act")
HR1823 and HR4448 are currently in the US congress remain unnoticed by most lawmakers. Check out more about the issues at
http://unitefamilies.org
http://www.garamchai.com/Issues.htm
or the blog: http://unite.rediffblogs.com
Conor Friedersdorf (not verified)
Fri, 08/05/2005 - 13:38
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Thanks for noting the existence of the new blog I'm writing. It certainly aspires to handle topics fairly and to provoke comments - our public debate sorely needs more places where people with different ideologies can have it out over immigration. After all, if everyone engages only those they already agree with on the topic there is no chance that those who have wrongheaded views will see the error of their ways.
There is good reason for people who share the same ideology on a given policy topic to talk amongst themselves. There is also good reason for them to reach out to the undecided and the other side at times. Now there is a place to do that.
Of course, while a range of opinions will be incorporated into the debate on the Beyond Borders Blog I'll also make powerful arguments for some of my own ideas. Check out, for example, my post about the best and worst features of American immigration policy. If you think I'm mistaken in my conclusions I'm happy to post a well-reasoned challenge to the site.