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<title><![CDATA[Edward Schumacher-Matos - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16556.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Edward Schumacher-Matos]]></description><category domain="16556">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Citizens All, or Not at All]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/14/citizens_all_or_not_at_all_108542.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Is citizenship losing its meaning? In a world of relentless migration, dual nationalities and cultural inclusiveness, is the emotional attachment to the nation and to fellow Americans slowly withering? These fundamental questions underlie the debate over birthright citizenship,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Birthright Distraction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/07/the_birthright_distraction_108458.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- There is nothing sacred about American birthright citizenship. But there also is no pressing fundamental reason to change more than a century of constitutional law.
The Republican-led rebellion rising out of state legislatures to redefine the 14th Amendment and end guaranteed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Politics Trumps Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/31/when_politics_trumps_reality_108395.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CARTAGENA, Colombia -- President Obama should lead a delegation of American union and human rights leaders to this Caribbean resort, not to marvel at the stunning colonial fortresses but to wander into the poor barrios of dirt-floor houses and inventive names such as one called Boston....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Numbers May Not Tip For GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/24/numbers_may_not_tip_for_gop_108343.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Some Republicans are crowing over the 2010 census, but any red state gains they make will depend on two big ifs: The party undergoes a virtual religious conversion and supports immigrants, or it gerrymanders like mad. Most news reports this week on the new population figures...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hutchison's DREAM Dance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/17/hutchisons_dream_dance_108280.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has been tying herself in knots over the pending Dream Act. The Texan reflects the predicament of many of her Republican colleagues from states with large Hispanic populations.
Dream Act supporters have honed in on Hutchison and a handful of other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Playing Nice to Hispanics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/10/playing_nice_to_hispanics_108207.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Newt Gingrich is learning Spanish. Bless his heart.
This is the same person who three years ago called Spanish "the language of living in a ghetto." He quickly apologized and last week hosted his own forum on Latino issues. The only profile in semi-courage among the Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Oz on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/03/in_oz_on_immigration_108136.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- I don't know Lamar Smith, but feel like I do. The Texas Republican, who is likely to chair the new House Judiciary Committee, writes often to disagree with my columns. I respect Smith for his consistency, especially on immigration. If all congressmen voted their conscience, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Swallow the Pride, Mexico]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/26/swallow_the_pride_mexico_108070.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- National pride is a good thing -- until the water reaches your chin and your nation is still sinking. Mexico is not in that deep yet, but parts of the country are. Seven criminal cartels effectively control most cities and the drug trafficking lanes near the United States...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give Immigrants their Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/19/give_immigrants_their_dream_108005.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Latinos are fed up with congressional delays over comprehensive immigration reform. The time has come for President Obama and the Democrats to man up in the lame-duck session and at least fight to pass the Dream Act.
Otherwise, the Democrats risk Latino withdrawal, rebellion --...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Indonesian Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/12/obamas_indonesian_moment_107932.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Barack Obama this week gave one of the most powerful and convincing speeches of his presidency, rising above the morass of policy minutiae to connect with people's emotions.
Too bad he gave the speech in Indonesia.
Obama spoke on religious and ethnic tolerance in the world's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Letter From An Immigrant]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/05/letter_from_an_immigrant_107851.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Dear Rep. John Boehner:
Please accept congratulations from an immigrant on your victory this week. I think I speak on behalf of all immigrants when I say I was moved by your tears Tuesday night as you realized that a barkeeper's son will likely become speaker of the House.
It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sense of Secure Communities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/29/the_sense_of_secure_communities_107766.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- If you support immigration, you have to ask yourself this question: What kind of enforcement system would you want if we were starting from zero and there were no unauthorized immigrants in the country? Would it be reasonable to deport anyone new who came into the country and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Showdown No One Needs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/22/a_showdown_no_one_needs_107680.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Another federal-state showdown is brewing, but this one has nothing to do with immigrants. It has to do with pot. Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Governor Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Missing the Obvious]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/15/missing_the_obvious_107583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- In the upcoming California referendum on legalizing marijuana for recreational use, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske have something in common. Both are missing the forest for the weed. According to recent polls, Californians are on the verge...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If the Latino Vote Stays Home]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/08/if_the_latino_vote_stays_home_107485.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- At least one key group -- Hispanics -- will likely vote heavily Democrat in November. But the party will have only itself to blame if not that many Hispanics turn out. Two authoritative polls released this week show that the Hispanic vote may hit historical high marks for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Republican For Hispanic Votes?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/01/too_republican_for_hispanic_votes_107392.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Many Hispanic voters -- potentially most -- deeply want a Republican Party that vies for their support on historical Republican principles of entrepreneurialism, social conservatism and prudence. But many of the Hispanic Republicans running this year for gubernatorial or U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Misplaced Furor Over Sixth-Grade School Trip]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/24/misplaced_furor_over_sixth_grade_school_trip_107295.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The absurd fear about Muslims in America has come to this:A sixth-grade class from a public school in the affluent Boston suburb of Wellesley took a field trip last May to a Boston mosque as part of its course "Enduring Beliefs and the World Today." The class had already...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuba on the Brink]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/17/cuba_on_the_brink_107202.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Is this the beginning of the end for the Castro brothers in Cuba, and if so, what should Washington do?
The announcement Monday that, over the next six months, Cuba will fire more than 500,000 workers -- or fully 10 percent of the workforce in a country of 11 million people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calculating Immigration's Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/10/calculating_immigrations_costs_107099.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- In 1909, at the height of the last great immigration wave, when immigrants reached a peak of almost 15 percent of the U.S. population, they made up about half of all public welfare recipients.   They were two-thirds in Chicago.
In the country's 30 largest cities, meanwhile,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Patch in Our Safety Net]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/03/the_patch_in_our_safety_net_106997.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The contributions by unauthorized immigrants to Social Security -- essentially, to the retirement income of everyday Americans -- are much larger than previously known, raising questions about the efforts in many states and among Republicans in Congress to force these workers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Base Pact on the Rocks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/27/a_base_pact_on_the_rocks_106912.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CARTAGENA, Colombia -- In the hemispheric fight against drugs and terrorism, the best thing Barack Obama and Colombia's newly inaugurated Juan Manuel Santos can do next is back out of a year-old military agreement between the two countries.
This might raise some knee-jerk hawkish...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History's Long Reach]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/20/historys_long_reach_106831.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- We grow older. History weighs on us. National history ... and personal.
In 1834 in the Charlestown section of Boston, site of the Battle of Bunker Hill and a memorial to the Revolutionary War patriots who died there, sat a Roman Catholic convent and school run by Ursuline nuns...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Enforcement First' Has Already Happened]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/13/enforcement_first_has_already_happened_106736.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- We were eight Mexican peasants, one smuggler and me -- desperately stretched out in dirt furrows in the night. The Border Patrol helicopter with its huge searchlight kept coming closer. It stopped, hovered and turned the other way. "Madre," whispered Pablo, who at 17 was the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finding An Inner-Thatcher on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/06/finding_an_inner-thatcher_on_immigration_106642.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- Memo to the president and congressional Democrats: Why are you writing off the midterm elections? Republicans across the country -- Massachusetts to California, Virginia to Texas --  are using Arizona and illegal immigration as an electoral battle cry and have cowed you into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Try the McCain Border Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/30/try_the_mccain_border_plan_106541.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The court victory that the Obama administration won this week in Arizona will not make the ugly national tension over illegal immigration go away. The president needs to take this brief respite, step back from the Washington logjam and remember what he and every president going...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Victims of Our Inaction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/23/victims_of_our_inaction_106437.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- The article was largely buried in most newspapers, if run at all. So many bodies of unauthorized migrants were being found in the Arizona desert in July, The Associated Press reported, that the Pima County Medical Examiner was stacking them like boxes of fish in a refrigerated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Face of Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/16/the_face_of_immigration_106343.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- How do you sell success when its human face is one of innocent people being punished? The Obama administration is doing a miserable job of selling its successes in immigration enforcement to the American people, and a central reason why is because it can't answer that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Words, No Action on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/02/all_words_no_action_on_immigration_106172.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- President Obama said all the right things in his speech on reforming immigration Thursday except one: that he was going to do anything.He didn't announce a new government comprehensive reform bill. He didn't pledge action on the limited bills already in Congress that cover...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Appeal of an AgJobs Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/02/the_appeal_of_an_agjobs_bill_106174.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- If you're concerned that unauthorized immigrants are taking work from Americans, here is a union offer on behalf of immigrant farmworkers: "Take our jobs. Please!"
The United Farm Workers of America will connect jobless Americans with farm employers in a campaign that began...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anchor Babies' and Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/25/anchor_babies_and_reality_106100.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Schumacher-Matos</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- They are called "anchor babies" -- the children born in the United States of illegal immigrant parents -- and pressure is growing to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment so as to deny them automatic citizenship. Ninety-one members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors...]]></description>
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