John J. Miller

When Gov. Lawton Chiles of Florida announced his plans earlier this year to sue the federal government for the cost of illegal immigrants to his state, he nearly made a huge mistake. He almost tried to sue for the cost of all immigrants, legal and illegal. Chiles apparently thought that the burden . . . . Continue Reading »

To talk about immigrants is to talk about cities. About 1.1 million new immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year, both legally and illegally, and virtually all of them settle in or near a major metropolis. Without this annual infusion, many of these places would seem almost uninhabitable. From their . . . . Continue Reading »

The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21 City on the Edge: the transformation of miami by alejandro portes and alex stepick university of california press, 281 pages, $25 As the Fidel Castro deathwatch reaches its thirty-fifth anniversary, the . . . . Continue Reading »