Morning reading: Alex Zucker's Brooklyn-based Stickfinger blog offers good coverage of U.S. immigration issues, summarizing two articles from the NY Times and the Economist on America's increasingly unwelcoming stance toward refugees. This is bad news for the U.S. (in my humble opinion) and awkward for the Republicans, because they're still having trouble deciding if they're the pro- or anti-immigration party.

UPDATE: Actually, in terms of actual policy, this may or may not have anything to do with the U.S. approach to immigration. Click on comments...