WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of buildup, Hillary Rodham Clinton finally takes center stage as the star witness in the Republican-led investigation into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for president, testifies from a position of political strength as her potential rival for the nomination, Vice President Joe Biden, announced Wednesday that he will not jump into the presidential race and she rides the momentum of a solid debate performance.
It's been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965 into law. In that time, the law has accomplished two things: First, it ended the offensive and discriminatory national origins quota system, as intended. Second, it has radically transformed America and will change the country even more radically over the next half century, an outcome that was not intended.
Since President Johnson put pen to paper at the foot of the Statue of Liberty on Oct. 3, 1965, the law has resulted in the arrival of 59 million immigrants. The foreign born population of the country has grown to 45 million and our population has exploded to about 324 million people – 72 million more than it would have been if not for the 1965 Act. In the process, the social, cultural and demographic composition of the country has also been dramatically altered in a way that is rapidly making the country unrecognizable to the people who wrote the law.
