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(Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)On the Fence
President Bush is trying to bring immigration reform back on the agenda. What will reform mean for border enforcement and for the millions of illegal immigrants already here? Plus, the new New York City Council Education Committee chairman Robert Jackson on cell phones in the classroom and No Child Left Behind, students commence protesting John McCain and listeners call in on cell phones ... in schools.
Crossing Over
Bay Buchanan, Chairman, Team America PAC
- on why America needs a strong border defense program
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Frank Sherry, Executive Director, National Immigration Forum
- on why you can't enforce the border until you fix immigration
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Jennifer Allen, Director, Border Action Network
- on why we should be focusing on a path to citizenship, not militarizing the border
» Team America
» National Immigration Forum
» Border Action Network
School of Thought
Robert Jackson, City Council Member (D-7), chair of the education committee
- describes his agenda as the new chair of the education committee and why he thinks kids should be allowed use cell phones in school
» Robert Jackson's Council website
Is McCain Able?
Brittany Charlton, The New School University Student Senate vice chairman
- explains planned protest against Sen. McCain's commencement address
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Jan Clausen, poet, creative writing teacher at Eugene Lang College, New School University
- on her petition campaign to protest John McCain's commencement address
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Jonathan Chait, senior editor, The New Republic and columnist at the Los Angeles Times
- on John McCain's place on the political spectrum
» The New School Commencement 2006 Petition website
» Jonathan Chait's recent articles inThe New Republic
» Jonathan Chait on John McCain in the Los Angeles Times
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