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A rizona needs to leave the Land of Old Ideas about illegal immigration, Mexico and Central America.Congress should take a hike to reality, too.Old battle lines continue to define — and doom — efforts to reform outdated immigration policies. They also hurt Arizona’s economic competitiveness.But things are changing. You can glimpse a shifting landscape in a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project. It tracks remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin American countries since 2000.After steadily moving upward, the amount of money sent home by immigrants working in the United States began dropping in 2007 when the Great...

In the immigration reform debate, evangelicals have become a political prize claimed by restrictionists and reformers alike. Both sides have a case to make.Of the major American religious groups, white evangelicals are the most skeptical about immigration. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project, more than 60 percent believe that the growing number of immigrants “threatens traditional American customs and values” and more than half view immigrants as an economic burden rather than contributors.via Michael Gerson: A Christian split on immigration – The Washington...