Editorials
Every citizen of America has the right to vote, but no citizen has the right to vote twice in the same election. Those obvious truths should be easy enough to implement in our election law, but in politics nothing is ever easy.
Americans have a long and proud tradition of extending aid to their fellow citizens in times of need. When our friends, our families and our communities need help we have provided it, as individuals and as members of religious and civic organizations. And, as taxpayers, through our government.
WASHINGTON — Three Michigan members of Congress are pushing a measure that could help generate more funding for harbor dredging in the state and across the Great Lakes.
While focusing much of her attention over the past two years to border security, U.S. Rep. Candice Miller this week turned to the immigration issue of borderless security.
At a session of her House subcommittee, Miller explored ways to deal with the 40 percent of illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States by overstaying their visas, not penetrating the borders.
WASHINGTON – While the Senate immigration bill devotes hundreds of pages to immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally over the Southwest border, it pays little attention to another but equally persistent problem: those who enter legally but never leave. In Washington and in the immigration business they're known as visa overstays.