Immigration News Archives Digest
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January 13, 2007
I've been told that one of the big blogging stories of 2006 was all the hacks, er, bloggers who were hired by campaigns. Well, guess what! This blog has just been hired by a politician you've probably heard of, and you'd never guess I'd be working for her, but I...
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But, you already knew that. Further evidence comes from his pledge to oppose state Rep. Glenn Donnelson's attempt to repeal Utah's law giving illegal aliens discounted college educations: "I'm going to fight it," said Huntsman, who added that he would "very seriously consider vetoing" a repeal. Oddly similar: Texas Gov....
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January 12, 2007
Something called the "Pro-Family Law Center" is helping the Minuteman Project sue Compton over that fine, peaceful city's refusal of a MMP attempt to use a room at Compton Community College before the election to hold a "Town Hall Meeting": The purported reason for the denial was that Compton Community...
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Massachusetts' new governor, Deval Patrick, has shown himself to be a true Democrat by rescinding an agreement arranged by Mitt Romney with the feds that allowed state troopers to arrest illegal aliens. His alternate plan is to allow officials at two state prisons to determine the immigration status of prisoners...
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Texas governor Rick Perry is closely following the George Bush playbook as he came out against attempts to prevent illegal aliens from taking Texas college tuition discounts from U.S. citizens. Some in Texas want to repeal the law he signed six years ago, and he's pledged to oppose their efforts....
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Via this Dan Stein says: Representatives of the Essential Workers [Immigration] Coalition (see their member roster) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have asserted that they have successfully sabotaged implementation of a proposed DHS regulation which would require employers who receive 'no-match' letters from the Social Security Administration to correct...
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January 11, 2007
Farmers Branch is one of those cities trying to enact a Hazleton-style anti-illegal immigration ordinance. And, of course, they've been legally assailed by those on the other side. Earlier today State District Judge Bruce Priddy agreed with two FB residents and blocked the ordinance for 14 days. The identity of...
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Is part of the mandate of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation - funded by the federal agency the Legal Services Corporation - to help day laborers make signs? This slightly incoherent article briefly discusses a counter-protest of "Minutemen supporters" by about a dozen day laborers, and: The laborers said...
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Two horrific tastes that belong together join in this campaign video from last year....
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From this: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales toured the World Trade Bridge on Wednesday, announcing a new effort to fight drug traffickers on the border. "We're concerned about violence in Mexico spilling into the U.S.," Gonzales said... ...He was scheduled to meet with his Mexican counterpart later Wednesday. Gonzales said...
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WHAM 13 can now reveal that: Upstate New York dairy farmers are heading to Mexico to better understand what drives their workers thousands of miles to find jobs in our neighborhood. Willow Bend Farm in Clifton Springs started 50 years ago with just one employee and a few cows. As...
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As previously discussed, yesterday various amnesty supporters in the House and Senate reintroduced the AgJobs bill that would give amnesty to up to 1.5 million illegal alien farmworkers. In addition to the names previously mentioned: Last year's chairman of the House immigration subcommittee, Indiana Republican John Hostetler, staunchly opposed guest-worker...
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From the AP: A prosecutor plans to ask state and federal lawmakers to investigate why National Guard members backed off from armed men who were near them at the Mexican border. Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said he was troubled by the retreat and questioned whether the rules the National...
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From this Lou Dobbs transcript: CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Texas congressman Ted Poe led a group of lawmakers demanding the Justice Department not oppose a request that former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos remain out of prison while their convictions for shooting an illegal alien Mexican...
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January 10, 2007
This post has an update to the story linked here: Also, this morning, there is finally official acknowledgment of my article. Joe Westmoreland, a congressional liaison for Customs and Border Protection, issued a statement this morning confirming that the Mexican paramilitary force was in uniform, and wearing ballistic vests, helmets,...
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From this: After a federal study revealed that a look at 100 illegal immigrants previously arrested and released for breaking state or local law had on an average been arrested six times, the president of the Dallas chapter of the League of United Latin Amercian Citizens (LULAC) made a controversial...
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The Pew Research Center has held a poll of "Generation Next", those 18 to 25 years old. Let's take a look at their only immigration-related question. Respondents were given a choice between: A. Immigrants today strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents B. Immigrants today are a...
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January 09, 2007
Garance Burke of the AP swallows grower propaganda till, tractor, and plow in "California farmers gear up to champion new guest worker bill". She also reveals that CA Senator Dianne Feinstein and Idaho Senator Larry Craig will be introducing a new farmworker amnesty scheme tomorrow. It appears to be a...
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The League of United Latin American Citizens, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the Hispanic Federation, and America Votes are starting an astroturf campaign to push the Dems into support immigration "reform", aka amnesty. America Votes (take a deep breath) has direct or indirect links to - among many others...
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January 08, 2007
Arnold Schwarzenegger - California's Bush-resembling, Mexico-pandering, Rove/Kennedy/Mexico-linked governor - has announced some of the details of his universal healthcare plan, and it includes healthcare for all residents regardless of immigration status. Thus, these questions that need to be asked and answered, but which will not be. I strongly urge everyone...
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I'm not entirely sure of this report, but: The incursion into U.S. territory last week by "Mexican gunmen" was not a chance confrontation between the Arizona National Guard and untrained illegal immigrants, but a deliberate "perimeter probe" by an infantry-trained, uniformed Mexican force, officials say. Euphoric Reality has learned in...
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Esther J. Cepeda of the Sun-Times offers "Illegal to serve?" ...recruiters in Chicago and other cities across the United States are turning away potential applicants who are illegal immigrants -- despite a special wartime provision President Bush signed into law after Sept. 11 allowing them to serve... ...On July 3,...
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The article "Nearly half of robbery victims in Durham [North Carolina] are Hispanic" says that others say that Hispanics are a lucrative, vulnerable and growing target for armed robbers. Of course, they aren't really refering to "Hispanics" in general, but to illegal aliens, many of whom don't have bank accounts...
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January 07, 2007
Mark it on your calendars, because illegal aliens and their supporters will supposedly be holding yet another mass walkout/boycott/march on May 1 of this year. And, there's supposedly going to be a planning meeting on February 3 and 4 at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles. The specific target...
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I left the following comment on the SacBee story "Health care plan facing opposition" by Aurelio Rojas. I believe I've waited long enough and I can safely say that it was not approved. (In the original comment, both links were tinyurl links in non-HTML format). In November, the author of...
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The article "Congressional leaders predict immigration law" quotes House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer describing last week's meeting between Bush and Dem leaders on today's "Fox News Sunday": "He (Bush) smiled and he said, 'You know, I think I'm going to have a lot easier time dealing with you on immigration...
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Toys"R"Us has recently shown their lack of respect for both U.S. law and their own rules, and I suggest boycotting them. Their Babies"R"Us subsidiary recently held a "First Baby of 2007" contest, with the winner receiving $25,000. There were three possibilities, and the winner of the tie-breaker drawing turned out...
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January 06, 2007
The Catholic Charities office in Avon, Colorado (located in Eagle County, home of Vail) won't be getting their usual allotment of $25,000 from that county because they don't ask about their clients' immigration status as the newly-passed Proposition 300 appears to require. That determination was done by Colorado Attorney General...
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I can't believe I'm posting on such a trivial matter, but: Nina Bernstein of the New York Times is in a slightly more reportarial mood with "First-Baby Sweepstakes Fuels Immigration Debate". It seems that Toys R Us - specifically their Babies R Us subsidiary - sponsors a "1st Baby of...
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January 05, 2007
The new group "Families First in Immigration" appears to be a pro-amnesty coalition of conservative evangelicals. They've already sent a letter to Bush and Pelosi supporting their views, but that apparently won't be released until Monday. Apparently they're seeking a "third way" on immigration "reform", but one wonders exactly how...
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The AP's Istra Pacheco has more on Mexico's plan to give rescue beacons to "migrants". The article provides just a little more than that previously covered, but it has an extra helping of AP bias and reflects their inability to dig for the truth. We're informed that two "state government...
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From our "who gives a flying fsck what some washed-up Hollywood freak thinks but let's keep this around for anyone who's considering giving him any money" category comes this: Sylvester Stallone defended boxing, praised the hard work of Mexicans and dished out some jabs against U.S. plans to build a...
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January 04, 2007
Stephen Franklin and Darnell Little of the Chicago Tribune offer this: Fanning out from the mammoth ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, 16,000 drivers, nearly all of them Latino, crisscross Southern California's congested highways, carrying freight that will make its way to every part of the country. But a...
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Surprisingly, at least three sources are now discussing the details of the U.S.-Mexico Social Security Totalization Agreement. After a 3.5 year FOIA battle, the TREA Senior Citizens League recently obtained a copy of that agreement, and their suit continues as they seek more documentation. Michelle Mittelstadt has a rundown with...
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would administer any "guest" worker or immigration "reform" (amnesty) scheme. However: But in recent months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials have determined that the troubled, $2-billion-a-year agency is unable to effectively manage its existing work, much less a flood of new...
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January 03, 2007
For future reference, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke - stars of the Fox News Channel's "Beltway Boys" - said this on their year-end wrap-up: Kondracke: "Our 'Dumbest Move' award of the year is Republicans trashing immigrants. And this - this has disastrous consequences for the, in the election. The Hispanic...
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was deeply involved in last year's illegal immigration marches. However, their president Andy Stern only goes as far as supporting the Senate amnesty schemes which include "guest" worker plots. Other SEIU members go even further, opposing "guest" workers and demanding legalization for all illegal...
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Harvard economists Michael Kremer and Stanley Watt have released a study claiming that importing a certain amount of cheap labor - such as nannies - does wonderful good for an economy. James G. Forsyth of Foreign Policy explains: Kremer explains his findings by pointing out that domestic workers can increase...
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Oh, please say it's just a miscommunication and Iowa governor and illegal immigration supporter Tom Vilsack didn't lie about the Swift immigration raids, which were held on December 12. A week later, Vilsack and Iowa National Guard Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis sent a strongly-worded letter to DHS head Michael Chertoff...
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January 02, 2007
Supposedly tens of thousands of Iraqis leave their country each month to avoid the general violence. Some of them have worked with the U.S. and fear for their lives. Our refugee planning - like almost all other Bush administration "planning" - failed to take this into account, and until recently...
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Patterico offers his Los Angeles Times Year in Review post. Here's some more bias from that paper specifically relating to immigration matters: Dec: Danced around the status of a cop shooter. Backs Bill Richardson's opposition to border fence. Elizabeth Mehren said that Mitt Romney directly employed illegal aliens, when they...
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January 01, 2007
"Totalization Agreements" allow foreign workers in the U.S. to qualify for Social Security benefits, and we have them with developed countries such as the UK. Around 2000 people are covered under the agreement with that country. However, in June 2004, the Social Security Administration signed an agreement with Mexico, which...
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December 31, 2006
Illegal aliens and a smaller number of legal immigrants send more than $20 billion back to Mexico each year. That partly helps explain why that country has passed out a comic book to prospective illegal aliens showing them how to cross the desert. They also considered passing out maps (with...
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Mike Madden of Gannett News/USA Today offers "Advocates hope new Congress will act on immigration reform", the latest in a long line of similar articles (Tim Gaynor/Reuters: "Democrats' win spurs hope of immigration revamp", the NYT editorial "Signs of Hope on Immigration", Boston Herald wants to "resolve immigration reform", etc.)...
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December 30, 2006
President Bush recently issued his year-end pardons, and those receiving good news included (via this and this): -Marie Georgette Ginette Briere of Gatineau, Quebec, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. -George Thomas Harley of Albuquerque, N.M, aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine. -Eric William Olson of Ojai, CA,...
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December 29, 2006
Sanctimonious illegal immigration supporter Mike Huckabee - current governor of Arkansas says: "I think I would appeal to true conservatives for whom conservatism doesn't mean they're angry at everybody... My brand of conservatism is not an angry, hostile brand. It's one that says 'conservative' means we want to conserve the...
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In an interview with KCBS radio that probably had little journalistic content whatsoever, Democratic Congressperson Zoe Lofgren of San Jose expressed the hope that immigration "reform" could be passed. She'll be the new head of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, and she was also mentioned as an...
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Back on the 18th, Rep. Jose Serrano (D-South Bronx) enlightened the Congressional Progressive Caucus - of which he's a proud part - with his thoughts in "Serrano Denounces Immigration Raids". It isn't worth a full treatment, but let's take a look at a few points from his cri de coeur...
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December 28, 2006
Last week, two Long Beach (CA) police officers were shot by long-term criminal Oscar Gallegos and they remain in stable but critical condition. Yesterday Gallegos was shot and killed in a gun battle with Santa Ana cops. According to KFI's Eric Leonard, Gallegos was an illegal alien. At post time,...
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Could the recent immigration raids at Swift and Company lead to a full-blown collapse of the Pig, Pork, and Swine Industry? Or, will those raids simply send the message that The Industry should deal with doing business within the law? I favor the second choice, but the Associated Press appears...
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg stuns once again with his outright support for illegal immigration. The end of "44 Million Tourists and Counting" - putatively about tourists coming to New York City - contains this: The mayor said that a crackdown on illegal immigration was discouraging law-abiding visitors to the city. "Current...
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The long article "Border patrol says Bush plan is working" says that Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal aliens are down 11% over last year in Arizona and 8% along the entire border. The article says that might be due to the National Guard troops stationed at the border, but it...
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Gould Construction is the Colorado construction company featured in Tom Brokaw's pro-illegal immigration propaganda piece from NBC. After that show aired, they claim to have received 600 phone calls from job applicants, as well as a quantity of "hate mail". While I certainly wouldn't mind seeing them coming under some...
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December 27, 2006
Nick Miroff of the Washington Post offers "Immigrants' Jobs Vanish With Housing Slowdown", about the situation in the DC/Maryland/NoVa suburbs area. Seems some illegal aliens can't find jobs in construction and are leaving mostly for other states, but some are even - gasp - returning to the countries of which...
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December 26, 2006
Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers "Nativists fan flames of U.S. immigration debate". And, it's even worse than the title might indicate. (Via this). ...The founder of the Emigration Party of Nevada is among a growing number of nativists from across the United States that have been stepping up direct action...
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Tonight, Tom Brokaw is hosting "In the Shadow of the American Dream" on NBC. As a preview, he offers "Indisputable points in the immigration debate" (also here). The pro-illegal immigration points could be disputed, such as this: In many parts of the country immigrants are doing the work Americans no...
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Rachel Swarns of the New York Times offers "Bipartisan Effort to Draft Immigration Bill", about various Congressmen thinking they can pass immigration "reform" early next year. Most of this was already covered in the article linked to in McCain, Kennedy, Gutierrez, Flake collaborating on immigration "reform". Unbelievably, they want to...
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December 24, 2006
Our old favorite Nina Bernstein of the New York Times offers "Immigrants Go From Farms to Jails, and a Climate of Fear Settles In". She spends two screens painting a picture of upstate New York dairy farmers and their illegal alien employees living in a state of fear. The poor...
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The WSJ comments on the recent Swift & Co. immigration raids in "Not Very Swift". As could be expected, they oppose the raids. Let's look at a couple of their statements to see where their priorities lie. Immigration restrictionists would have us believe that harassing businesses like Swift, the world's...
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December 23, 2006
The NYT reports ("Columbia Charges Students With Violating Protest Rules") that the students involved in the fracas at that university where students and others rushed the stage where Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project was speaking and unfurled banners will face unspecified punishment. The possibilities include "disciplinary warning, censure, suspension...
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Ramos and Compean are two Border Patrol agents who appear to have been railroaded by our own government, perhaps to send a message to other BP agents that they shouldn't really enforce the law or perhaps to send a message to Mexico that president Bush isn't really serious about enforcing...
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December 22, 2006
Max Sawicky (of MaxSpeak) recently posted this entry which purports to smash several of the myths surrounding immigration. Unfortunately, he lumps all forms of immigration under the same banner, and he also only discusses financial-related issues. Thus, he doesn't really answer some of the even more perilous aspects of massive...
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At a news conference in San Antonio yesterday, illegal immigration supporters called for a halt to deportations until "comprehensive immigration reform" was passed. Michelle Roberts of the AP - or her editors - appears to have forgot to include a few juicy quotes and omitted one quote source entirely. Jim...
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Massachusetts governor-elect Deval Patrick is pledging to rescind Mitt Romney's order that would allow Mass state police to include the possibility that a suspect in another crime was an illegal alien in their investigations. This order would not allow police to detain people just suspected of being illegal aliens or...
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From our "pickpockets call for moratorium on laws against pickpocketing" file comes a trio of - possibly loosely coordinated - stories about illegal aliens or supporters of illegal immigration calling for a moratorium on raids and deportations until such time as "comprehensive immigration reform" is passed. First up is the...
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December 21, 2006
Bryan Caplan - along with TCS/Insty fave Arnold Kling - is one of the contributors to "EconLog", a libertarian/"free" market-oriented site that, like other libertarians, can't seem to understand how massive illegal immigration violates the supposed libertarian support for national defense and their supposed opposition to subsidies. In his latest...
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December 20, 2006
Some wacky illegal immigration supporter has started the satire site nosantaforhazleton.com: The people of Hazleton, PA are proud to announce a citizen-organized public awareness campaign called "No Santa for Hazleton." The campaign will use Santa Claus' status as America's most-loved illegal worker to demonstrate Hazleton's new "zero tolerance" policy toward...
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From this: A spokesman for Swift & Co. says a lawsuit filed recently by eighteen former Swift & Co. employees is "completely without merit." The $23-million lawsuit alleges that the meat packing company conspired to manipulate and depress the labor market and wages by hiring illegal immigrants. The lawsuit, filed...
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New Haven, Connecticut mayor John DeStefano is linked to collaborators with the Mexican government. Thus, it shouldn't come as a surprise that earlier today he received a "giant Christmas card and a call for immigrants' rights" (link): New Haven based "Unidad Latina en Accion" made a special Christmas delivery to...
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December 19, 2006
Various news sources have been working overtime to spin the recent Swift & Company immigration raids as a case of the evil ICE (called in at least one article "INS") oppressing poor undocumented workers. The motivations for this may vary and may include: those illegal aliens make money for persons...
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December 15, 2006
To the best of my knowledge, every single immigration-related matter that the ACLU has been involved in does not involve support for our laws but rather supports massive illegal immigration. Continuing that trend, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says they're going to act as "watchdogs" over Butler County...
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To my liberal readers: You catch more flies, etc. But, then again, sometimes you have to just come right and say uncomfortable things: many liberals are useful idiots when it comes to immigration matters. To help said afflicted persons recover, I suggest reading the report "Immigration phenomenon, not problem, Mexico...
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Greeley, Colorado is home to Swift and Company, which was recently raided by ICE. Now, according to this article by Joanna Larez, the "Greeley Human Relations Commission" has given $2,000 to the "Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church fund for families hurt by the raid." They would have given more,...
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December 14, 2006
Roxana Hegeman of the Associated Press offers "Immigration raids may affect meat prices". Per her, the only way to keep prices low is to allow companies to flagrantly violate the law: When hordes of police and immigration officials stormed meatpacking plants in six states this week, the illegal workers arrested...
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The usual sources are complaining about the recent Swift & Co raid breaking up mixed-status families (illegal aliens parents, U.S. citizen children). My brief glance at their statements failed to find anyone calling those parents to task for their extreme irresponsibility. Those illegal aliens weren't kidnapped and brought to the...
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December 13, 2006
Surprisingly, MSNBC offers this: Theresa Sanchez was expecting a $5,400 tax refund when she opened a letter from the IRS in January 2003. Instead, she got a bill demanding payment of taxes on $120,000 in undeclared wages. Someone using her name and Social Security number had earned the money through...
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The PBS NewsHour is no longer an accurate source of information on immigration but is now simply a Soviet-style propaganda source. The latest example is the Gwen Ifill "report" on the Swift packing raid, which featured two sequential guests. The first was Mark Lauritsen of the United Food and Commercial...
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In November 2005, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich - a very strong supporter of illegal immigration - created the "New Americans Immigrant Policy Council" (press release link) to come up with ways to deal with immigrants in his state. The report from the NAIPC has been released, as has a report...
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Yesterday ICE conducted the latest in a series of what are most likely show immigration raids, this time of Swift & Co.'s meatpacking plants in various cities. A roundup is here. "Liberals"/illegal immigration supporters weigh in with more links here and here. The last link even has a stern condemnation...
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December 12, 2006
D.A. King of the Dustin Inman Society has been a strong campaigner in opposition to illegal immigration, especially in Georgia. That state is rife with questionable persons such as Pedro Marin, Sam Zamarripa, and Teodoro Maus. Now, he's asking for donations so he can continue the fight against those anti-American...
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Dahleen Glanton of the Chicago Tribune offers no less than four (and maybe more) articles about September's ICE raid of the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia. The raid resulted in hundreds of illegal aliens leaving the city, and that resulted in pro-illegal immigration propaganda from Russ Bynum of the...
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December 11, 2006
Anne Taylor Fleming is an author and regular essayist for PBS' NewsHour. Tonight's essay discussed the growing gap between the rich and the super rich on one hand, and the large number of non-rich persons on the other. It's not that notable for its content, only that which she keeps...
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December 10, 2006
From the AFP: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a former UN ambassador, was named as the Organization of American States' special envoy on migration in an effort to improve US-Latin American dialogue. ..."The migration issue is key to improving relations (between Latin America and the United States," Richardson, 59, said...
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December 09, 2006
From this: ...Republican Gov. Rick Perry earned applause from the crowd [at a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition] when he said strategic fencing along the border makes sense but the idea of a complete wall or fence is "preposterous." Instead, he wants the federal government to establish a guest-worker...
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Jerry Kammer of the Copley News Service offers "Immigrant legislation strategy is plotted" which, while it has its problems, is surpring in that it's not completely biased towards "reform": Two of the most liberal members of Congress met with two of their most conservative colleagues this week to revive immigration...
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December 08, 2006
The Los Angeles Times offers the unsigned editorial (perhaps written by Andres Martinez) "Off the fence", which discusses New Mexico governor Bill Richardson's immigration speech. They call it "thoughtful" and a "rebuke to Republican immigrant bashers". Obviously, that's muddled thinking, but that's what you expect from the LAT. BR's speech...
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December 06, 2006
The "Immigration Watchdog" appeared on Hannity & Colmes tonight to discuss reconquista matters. He needs to learn to filibuster a bit better, because liberal lightweight Alan Colmes was able to keep interrupting him and at the end mocked him over his mention of the North American Union. At the appropriate...
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New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Bill Richardson continues his outreach to the 5% or so of U.S. citizens who support illegal immigration with his thoughts that the recently passed border fence "gets in the way" of U.S.-Mexico relations, and: "The fence is very unpopular on the border in...
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is encouraging and profiting from illegal immigration by tapping into the remittances market (money sent from workers in the U.S. back to their home countries). A significant portion of the money sent to Mexico was earned by illegal aliens who were involved with the illegal activity...
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The possibility mounts that Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is a cruel practical joke, as we're informed that: ...the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism by the way it handles the influx of Hispanics. Huckabee, a Republican who is considering a run for president in...
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December 05, 2006
The day after Christmas, NBC News will offer an hour-long show entitled "Tom Brokaw Reports: In the Shadow of the American Dream". (Expect to hear the word "illlllegal" repeatedly.) It will probably be mostly biased, offering heartwarming anecdotes in the place of disclosing facts, but we shall see: The hour-long...
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Michele R. Marcucci is a staff writer for the ANG Newspapers Group who appears to be based out of the Oakland Tribune. She offers the long article "Immigration group may not be what they seem". It would be good journalism if she covered all sides of the issue, which she...
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December 04, 2006
The article "Congress open to passing bill on immigration" doesn't exactly live up to its ominous headline, offering only a few quotes, including this from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT): "Years of dawdling have worsened our border security and made it harder to fix this broken system... We should not let...
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From this: How do you turn a noble undocumented worker into a sinister, conniving illegal immigrant? You do it by hiring him to cut the lawn at Gov. Mitt Romney's house, or at least that's how the bow-tied bumkissers at The Boston Globe pulled it off. The phrase that is...
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December 03, 2006
Alexei Barrionuevo of the New York Times offers "Imports Spurring Push to Subsidize Produce": For decades, the fiercely independent fruit and vegetable growers of California, Florida and other states have been the only farmers in America who shunned federal subsidies, delivering produce to the tables of millions of Americans on...
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The Boston version of the National Enquirer informs us that it wasn't just Mitt Romney that contracted with "Community Lawn Service with a Heart", the landscaping service that apparently employed illegal aliens. It was also the city of Chelsea as well as the Massachusetts Port Authority. (A question: why didn't...
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[...shakes head, wonders whether William Randolph Hearst is still around...] Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times offers "Workers a thorny issue for Romney": Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2008 GOP presidential aspirant and an outspoken critic of illegal immigration, apparently employed undocumented landscape workers at his home near Boston....
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December 02, 2006
Jared Polis is a dotcom multimillionaire who serves as Vice-Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education. He's also donated large sums of cash to "liberal" causes and candidates. Last year, that Board produced Colorado's guide for illegal aliens, and Polis is also involved with ProgressNow. On November 20, Polis'...
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Brooklyn criminal (early night) court judge John H. Wilson is the author of an allegory about illegal immigration and/or massive immigration entitled "Hot House Flowers". It's 24-pages, self-published, and only available from Amazon. This site isn't exactly a big fan of the book's overview, which is indeed a little...
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December 01, 2006
This site reprints an action alert from FAIR: During the last year, Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were criminally prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to serve years in prison for doing their job - protecting America from drug and illegal alien smugglers at our southern border. Those...
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Rep. Tom Tancredo tried to give a speech yesterday at Michigan State University's law school. Leftie protesters apparently pulled the fire alarm twice, and also attacked organizers: "One was spit on, one was kicked, and one was punched," Tancredo said in an e-mail. "Tires were also slashed." The protesters reportedly...
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Those who read all three screens of "Illegal immigrants toiled for governor" should constantly ask themselves, "cui bono?" Three Boston Globe "reporters" (Jonathan Saltzman, Maria Cramer, Connie Paige) spent months investigating the article that can now disclose that the gardening service that tended Mitt Romney's law may have employed illegal...
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November 29, 2006
Farmers Branch, Texas is one of those cities that passed Hazleton-style ordinances to try to reduce illegal aliens moving to the town. Now, in a rare move of sanity, the Dallas Morning News has published a column from radio host Mark Davis support that city and City Council member Tim...
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The article "Irked Mexicans open alternate consulate" about supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ("AMLO") from Mexico's PRD Party opening a symbolic alternate consulate in Chicago buries the news that Mexican political parties were involved in the Chicago marches in support of illegal immigration. The article mentions that one of...
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November 28, 2006
Elizabeth Aguilera of the Denver Post offers "Dems won over Latino voters, study says": Latino voters leaned heavily Democratic in the recent midterm elections, indicating the heated debate over immigration reform may have cost Republicans support in some key races, an analysis released Monday indicates... ...Some, however, questioned whether the...
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For forgotten reasons, this site isn't exactly a cheerleader for Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), but his latest statements seem to go a bit beyond the usual "pretend to talk kinda tough but actually promise nothing" blather: "Mexico is a country that is an erstwhile democracy where they have the greatest...
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Paul Campos is a University of Colorado law professor who offers "The workers often press '2'". A prolific hack, he's been writing a weekly column for the RMN since 1999. He's also the author of - hold on to your Oprah - "The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight...
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November 27, 2006
That's what the article "Bush seeks unity on immigration" by Rick Klein says, but it offers little that isn't already known: The White House is reaching out to leading congressional Democrats on the issue of overhauling immigration, hoping to build a bipartisan coalition to support a "guest worker" program and...
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In September, ICE raided the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia, which resulted in hundreds of illegal aliens leaving the city. That resulted in pro-illegal immigration propaganda from Russ Bynum of the AP, Reason Magazine, and Patrik Jonsson of the CSM, as well as a lawsuit from the Southern Poverty...
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November 24, 2006
John Quinones of ABC Nightly News offers "Pear Crop Rots as Field Hands Kept from Crossing Border", a brazen pro-cheap labor slab of propaganda that reports on what growers say without offering even the slightest bit of contradictory information. It is so biased it could have been - and might...
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Dr. Bob Darcy is a political science professor at Oklahoma State University, and he wants to give voting rights to all residents of that state, regardless of their citizenship status. The article consists mostly of his "thoughts" which you've probably heard before: ..."From the late 1800s to the early 1900s...
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Randal Archibold of the New York Times offers "A Border Watcher Finds Himself Under Scrutiny", about Arizona rancher Roger Barnett: ...But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of...
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November 22, 2006
Casa de Maryland is a government-funded organization that strongly supports illegal immigration and that's been involved in organizing immigration marches. Earlier this year, Gustavo Torres, their executive director, threatened to picket not just the residences of Minuteman Project members, but the schools of their children. So, while there's certainly no...
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Just for fun, let's check in with those who are just slightly to the left of the New York Times: A multinational crowd packed the Boston Workers World office on Nov. 18 for a meeting on the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty and human rights. This important meeting was held at...
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A potential class action lawsuit has been filed by various groups against Maricopa County, Arizona (home of Phoenix) concerning a state law designed to stop human smuggling. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been using that law to arrest and charge illegal aliens with smuggling themselves...
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November 21, 2006
Yes, misleading and/or incomplete polls do show support for "comprehensive immigration reform". The latest such poll is crowed about by Reuters, which is your first clue that there's something wrong: Most Americans believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to become guest workers and eventually U.S. citizens, but Congress should do...
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On 11/15/06, CBS Evening News broadcast "Will New Congress Pass Immigration Reform?" by Bill Whitaker. The script and video of the report are here, and my response is here....
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November 20, 2006
Darryl Fears of the Washington Post offers "Republicans Lost Ground With Latinos In Midterms". As might be expected, it's so full of misleading statements, superficial analysis, hidden agendas, and hidden assumptions that a full treatment would be novel-length: ...Latinos [gave] the GOP only 30 percent of their vote as strident...
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The New York Times offers the unsigned editorial "Signs of Hope on Immigration". Not only is it wrong, it's in parts so wrong it's funny. It's of the now-standard "Democrats and Bush can work to pass 'comprehensive immigration reform', but they need to tread lightly" variety. While not explicitly engaging...
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As previously discussed, massive immigration supporting hacks like Fred Barnes, Linda Chavez, Tamar Jacoby, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Arlen Specter, and Michael Barone among others have tried to claim that some GOP losses were due to opposition to an illegal alien amnesty. How this is wrong was discussed...
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November 19, 2006
Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes offered a slightly fair report on Hazleton, Pennsylvania's new ordinance concerning illegal aliens renting and being employed in the city. Here's a partial list of some of the things he forgot to do: 1. At the end, when Kroft said that some people had called...
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Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution opposes a Hazleton-style ordinance considered for Cherokee County in Georgia in "In bullying illegals, county picks easy fight". First of all, the idea that illegal aliens as a group could be bullied is completely false. They have very powerful allies: corrupt employers, corrupt...
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November 18, 2006
Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard - as well as other cheap-labor supporters - have tried mightily to spread the myth that one of the reasons some GOP candidates lost is because of their stance against illegal immigration. Now comes Weekly Standard reporter Duncan Currie with what...
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Gerardo Sandoval is a San Francisco Supervisor, and he offers "Democrats must push immigration reform". Everything about it is wrong or just plain loony, so a full treatment isn't possible. He starts with supporting a caste system: For the 44 million Latinos living in the United States, and for those...
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Scott Stroud is the politics/government editor for the San Antonio Express-News, and he offers "Latino backlash against GOP immigration policy a gift to Demos". Discussing Texas House Bills 28 and 29, he says: So if we make it harder to live and work in America and to send cash back...
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November 17, 2006
Yesterday Roll Call offered the subscriber-only "Specter to Take Another Stab at Immigration Bill Before Year Ends", which is excerpted here: After meeting privately with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) earlier this week, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said Thursday he is moving forward with plans...
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National Review offers "The Legend of Arizona", a response to the mythmakers who've tried to claim that the recent losses of Randy Graf, J.D. Hayworth, and others were because of their pro-enforcement positions. They list our favorites such as: Fred Barnes, Linda Chavez (first link), Tamar Jacoby, and the Wall...
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The Boston Herald offers a canard-laden editorial called "Time to resolve immigration reform". Like others, they cautiously think this is a good opportunity for the Democrats and Bush to find common ground: But many Democratic leaders do share with the Bush administration a vision for a temporary guest worker program...
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November 16, 2006
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson seems to have misread the political mood a bit. He's throwing his weight behind Elvira Arellano, the illegal alien who twice entered the U.S. illegally, who was caught using a fake SSN in a job at an airport, and who's holed up in a Chicago...
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Republicans! Want to fight the Minimum Wage increases that both Nancy Pelosi and Teddy Kennedy favor? Point out to Democrats that their quasi-open borders policies have driven down wages for low-wage workers, and that the best way to naturally raise the minimum wage is to reduce illegal immigration by low-wage...
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November 15, 2006
Juan Jose Gutierrez is the director of Latino Movement USA, and NBC News featured him as a spokesman for the Hispanic community last month. A week before then, he was a featured speaker at a public forum sponsored by the "Party for Socialism and Liberation". The flyer for that...
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One of the leading MSM themes is to falsely accuse those who support our immigration laws of being bad people, mean-spirited, meanies, and the like. Unfortunately, some corrupt Republicans join in that bashing. In effect, those GOP members are crossing over to the other side and they're doing the MSM's...
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Like some other newspapers, the Sacramento Bee allows readers to leave comments on their stories, and on Saturday I left two comments on the story "Dash of salesmanship: In Mexico, governor blasts border fence plan" (discussed here; article here). Neither comment has shown up, and I'm going to assume neither...
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November 14, 2006
On tonight's ABC Nightly News, anchor Charlie Gibson turned a few minutes of the broadcast into little more than an advertisement in support of illegal immigration. He first discussed the recent Hazleton-style ordinance that was passed in Farmers Branch, Texas. Then, in a peppy contrast, he informed his viewer that...
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Saul Arellano is the seven-year-old son of Elvira Arellano, who's currently holed up in a hole-in-the-wall Chicago church in defiance of a court order to appear to be deported. Saul was recently taken to Mexico and appeared before their Chamber of Deputies (House) asking them to lend their support to...
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November 13, 2006
She's back! Our favorite amnestibot, Tamar Jacoby, offers "A Wedge Too Far: The immigration issue didn't work." It's a continuation of the long line of articles previously discussed here. A sample: ...Immigration was the dog that didn't bark. It did not prove an effective wedge issue. And as far as...
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Florida Senator Mel Martinez will be the new head of the Republican National Committee ("RNC"), sources say. He'll be continuing as a Senator, with the day-to-day operations handled by someone else. Martinez is the co-sponsor of the Senate amnesty bill (2611), also called the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006"...
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Jesse McKinley of the New York Times offers "Immigrant Protection Rules Draw Fire" about sanctuary cities. It's certainly not as bad as it could be, but it labels those opposed to those policies as "hard-liners", "conservatives", and the like. The supporters - who McKinley and/or his editor presumably consider to...
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DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke to the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News, and admitted that he isn't doing his job: "We are going to go after systematic, willful violators with heavy criminal cases, where people face real jail time, losing businesses, paying millions and millions of dollars in...
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An email here from Roy Beck of Numbers USA discusses the pro-amnesty forces incorrectly trying to spin the election results as a victory for their side. For instance: Loss of Election by Republicans Based on Their Immigration-Reduction Grade of This Congress * 9.6% with an A grade lost * 25.0%...
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November 12, 2006
Over the weekend, Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke - hosts of Fox News' Beltway Boys show - gave the video version of their claim that the election results mean that voters want "comprehensive immigration reform". Here's a summary, and here's another one: Barnes just touted himself while grasping his chest...
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November 11, 2006
From this: Mayors from Mexican and U.S. border cities signed a document Friday denouncing U.S. plans to build new border fences. In the document, the mayors of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Ciudad Acuna and Piedras Negras, both in the Mexican state of Coahuila, declare the U.S.-Mexico border an area for...
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One of the clearest arguments against "comprehensive immigration reform" (aka a massive amnesty) is that the new laws would be enforced in the same manner as the current laws: only when necessary and unwillingly so. This amnesty will fail in the same ways as the 1986 amnesty, and the same...
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From this: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, who is in line to become Speaker of the House, is hopeful a bipartisan agreement on comprehensive immigration overhaul will be reached by the new Democratic-controlled Congress, said her spokeswoman Jennifer Crider. "She raised the issue with the president when she met...
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November 10, 2006
The possibility that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is simply a Bush/Big Business puppet asked to go to Mexico to try to drum up support for a massive illegal alien amnesty increases with his latest outbursts. He had a "private" meeting with Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon. Then, his helpers played a...
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Randal Archibold - frequent co-conspirator with Rachel Swarns on New York Times articles about immigration - offers "Democratic Victory Raises Spirits of Those Favoring Citizenship for Illegal Aliens". If their search function works correctly, this is the only NYT article this year using "illegal aliens" in the title; in 2005...
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In addition to various other things, Sully is wrong on immigration, saying this: And we may get a sensible compromise on immigration. That "compromise" - otherwise known as "comprehensive" "reform" - would vastly increase legal immigration and would lead to millions of new illegal aliens coming here in expectation of...
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This is an entrant for the Meme: Graf, Hayworth losses = support for "comprehensive immigration reform" post, but, because it contains some more in-depth analysis in addition to the meme it's in its own post....
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November 09, 2006
From this: About half the Hispanics who voted Tuesday in Arizona supported a successful ballot proposal that makes English the state's official language, according to an exit poll by The Associated Press. While whites and blacks favored it overwhelmingly, Hispanics and other racial groups were divided over Proposition 103, which...
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Arizona Rep. J.D. Hayworth has not yet conceded in his apparent loss to Democrat Harry Mitchell. In fact, there are about 250,000 ballots still to be counted in Maricopa County; only part of that number would be in the 5th District. This is the current total: Mitchell: 73,762/51% Hayworth: 67,830/46%...
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Our allegedly American president welcome Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon to the White House just two days after the midterm election, and promoted "comprehensive" reform: PRESIDENT BUSH: ...I have made it very clear to the President-elect that Mexico is a priority of this administration... I know a fair amount about Mexico;...
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Mexico president-elect Felipe Calderon met with reporters and editors from the Washington Post yesterday. No word is given on whether he gave them talking points, and the article contents don't entirely live up to the headline. The only thing that comes close is the first paragraph: Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon...
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Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers this: Sweeping wins for Democrats in U.S. midterm elections have rekindled hopes among Latino activists of achieving a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy that was blocked by Republicans in Congress. Democrats swept Republicans from power in the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday's elections, and...
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As regular readers know, illegal immigration supporters will go to any depth to promote amnesty and similar schemes. One meme you can expect to hear over the coming months is that the recent losses by Randy Graf and J.D. Hayworth in Arizona mean that voters want "comprehensive immigration reform". The...
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America's best friends have spoken: Gains by Democrats in the US congressional elections may help promote more liberal immigration policies sought by Mexico, President Vicente Fox's spokesman has said. ...[The border fence] angered Mexico, which has more faith in the Democrats on immigration. In midterm elections on Tuesday, Democrats won...
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As could be expected, the Wall Street Journal keeps on pushing for open borders (full article for subscribers only): The Republican Party's dream of attracting the nation's growing number of Hispanic voters as part of its effort to dominate U.S. politics suffered a serious setback this week. The election results...
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Michelle Mittelstadt of the Houston Chronicle offers a slice of wishful thinking that the new Democratic Congress will lead to "sweeping immigration changes": ..."I do see a light at the end of the tunnel," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston, the top Democrat on the House immigration subcommittee, said Wednesday....
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November 08, 2006
Perhaps the overnights from Tony Snow's statement that the Democrats' win would enable "comprehensive immigration reform" came in and weren't favorable. Announcing Donald Rumsfeld's resignation/"resignation" earlier today, this is what our lame duck president had to say (whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108-2.html): Q Thank you, Mr. President. On immigration, many Democrats had more positive...
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Via this comes this MSNBC clip of a Bubba sighting: Andrea Mitchell: [Bill Clinton] headlined a party last night for Ben Cardin... and he ridiculed what Republicans have been saying about Democrats... Bill Clinton: ...you have to vote for us because our opponents are no good... and because they'll tax...
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Via this comes this Wired story about a computer virus that shut down the US-VISIT computer system used by the Customs and Border Protection agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There was apparently some form of cover-up involved, and it took Wired a year's worth of FOIA requests...
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November 07, 2006
KLo offers this reader account: "FoxNews reporting from the White House: White House spokesman Tony Snow reacted to the change in House control by allowing they're disappointed, but that it presents some intriguing opportunities, such as passing comprehensive immigration reform which failed in the previous Republican House."...
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FoxNews just had a segment with Fred Barnes discussing Randy Graf's loss to Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, and he discussed how Graf was a member of the Minuteman Project and how (of course) this loss indicates voter support for "comprehensive immigration reform". The only problem was he looked like he...
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November 06, 2006
When we last discussed Fareed Zakaria, he was wrong about immigration, and he's wrong again. It's a standard "deep inside the Beltway and willing to buy misleading polls from interested parties" screed: ...Despite the efforts of populist and nativist politicians and pundits to whip up hysteria about a looming catastrophe,...
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November 05, 2006
In the past, on a few of the occasions when the PBS NewsHour has covered immigration matters they've invited on those who were legitimately on different sides of the issue. In the past several months, however, their idea of "debate" has switched to featuring people who are on the same...
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November 04, 2006
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey delivered the Democratic Hispanic Radio Address today, and here's part of what he said: Good morning. This is Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey. This coming Tuesday, November 7, Latinos can make the difference in elections across the country. We have the ability to...
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November 03, 2006
Escondido, California (near San Diego) is one of the cities that have passed "Hazleton-style" ordinances, and that's resulted in a predictable legal challenge from various far-left, illegal immigration-supporting non-profit organizations. In this case it's a "coalition" including: ...the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Fair Housing Council of San Diego,...
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From this: A coalition of immigrant-rights groups gathered on the steps of the [Denver] state Capitol on Thursday to protest negative immigration messages in the campaign season. "The elections have been demonizing illegal immigrants. We need a change in the way we handle the immigration issues in the state," said...
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There are several pro-borders candidates - all that I know of Republicans - up for election on Tuesday, and I encourage everyone to do everything they can to see that they win. Those candidates include Randy Graf, J.D. Hayworth, and Russell Pearce in Arizona, John Hostettler in Indiana, Peter King...
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November 02, 2006
Illegal immigration supporting Representative Chris Cannon (R-UT) - as detailed here dozens of times - is a real piece of work. And, while it's seemed that way in the past, he might finally be on the way out. As described here, the only endorsements he's gotten are from George Bush,...
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Democrat Gabrielle Giffords is running for Congress against Randy Graf in Arizona, and I called her office a few times trying to find out exactly which of the various immigration plans she supports or where her support differs from those plans. All I managed to get out of one of...
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As detailed here many times, Wells Fargo bank has been a strong supporter of illegal immigration by letting illegal aliens open accounts. The site Embargo Wells Fargo has a handy round up of links about their activities....
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The American Civil Liberties Association - which has at least one indirect link to the Mexican government - together with the National Employment Law Project and the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law [1] (run by Sarah Paoletti [2]) have filed [3] a petition with...
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November 01, 2006
In September, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began sweeps in Stillmore, Georgia relating to illegal hiring at the Crider poultry plant in that town. Now, the SPLC is suing over those raids. On a perhaps related note, the Southern Poverty Law Center has at least one indirect link...
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October 31, 2006
This site reprints a press release from the Michigan Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement. On May 18, 2006 Senator Debbie Stabenow cast the deciding vote to kill an amendment, No. 3985, to the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill S.2611. That amendment would have prevented illegal aliens from collecting Social Security benefits...
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This page has a round-up with links to the ordinances, complaint, etc. UPDATE: That was quick. A federal judge (James Munley of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and a Dem) has issued a temporary restraining order forbidding Hazelton from enforcing their new laws. It extends...
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October 30, 2006
The New York Times offers an editorial called "The Fence Campaign". Let's take a quick look at just three misleading statements that the NYT makes: A. Whatever they want to call it, the Senate bill would be perceived as an amnesty by millions of prospective illegal aliens around the world,...
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This site has part of a FAIR newsletter containing this: Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) used back-room negotiations to slip language into the Department of Defense Authorization bill, signed into law on October 18, 2006, that potentially doubles the H-2B visa cap for unskilled workers. This language added to the defense...
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Democrat Dave Mejias (daveforamerica.com) is running against Republican incumbent Rep. Peter King in New York's CD-3. The unattributed (not even a free email) site mejiaswatch.blogspot.com points out that back on April 30, 2006 he stood in solidarity with the foreign citizens who marched through our streets demanding rights to which...
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October 29, 2006
Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times offers "Latino and black voters reassessing ties to GOP". As with another article he wrote, it contains conventional "wisdom" in support of illegal immigration. While he's to be commended for bringing George Bush's Aztlan video to our attention, the non-corrupt wing of the...
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Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has a long article entitled "Importing Poverty". Here's just one paragraph, read the rest for much, much more: [...] ...the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over...
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The latest on the case of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean - who appear to have been railroaded by our government - includes the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Ralph Basham, refusing to "criticize [their] prosecution" (link). Regarding the letter that twelve House members sent asking for an...
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October 28, 2006
The sometimes-credible Weekly Standard offers "Tangled Webb", discussing how Democratic senatorial candidate Jim Webb (running against incumbent Republican George Allen) is a bit more conservative than one might think from the "D" beside his name. It ends with this: ...Webb's right-wing populism and the liberalism of today's Democratic party make...
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October 27, 2006
The Houston Chronicle's James Pinkerton offers "Border barrier could put chill in Valley ecotourism, wildlife". It features the thoughts of just four people predicting disaster for the fence itself, the region, wildlife, and various other calamities. Farmer Fred Schuster says the fence will wash away in the rains. Oliver Bernstein...
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New Haven mayor and Democrat John DeStefano [1] is running for governor of Connecticut against Republican incumbent M. Jodi Rell. DeStefano has several links to a New Haven group called "JUNTA for Progressive Action" [2], a group which is collaborating with the Mexican government. [3] That group also has links...
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Pennsylvania Senatorial candidate Bob Casey is trying to unseat Rick Santorum and is issuing highly misleading statements as part of his attempt. One of those is the claim that he doesn't want to give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens. If you parse that statement in the legally-correct, Clintonian way...
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From this: Both proponents and opponents of 700 miles of fences along the U.S.-Mexico border question whether the Bush administration can deliver the barriers -- whose exact location, price tag and construction start date remain unknown. The Secure Fence Act, signed yesterday by President Bush, does not require the government...
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October 26, 2006
Tonight's NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams featured a report on the border fence bill being signed. For the thoughts of the Hispanic community, they turned to... Juan Jose Gutierrez. You know, the guy who organized a 1996 march that was led by the Mexican Army's band. In 1994, he...
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Our president George Bush has signed the "Secure Fence Act", which might result in 700 miles worth of fencing on the Mexican border. A White House fact sheet is at whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061026-1.html In case it wasn't clear already, that "fact sheet" shows that the fence is just an excuse to get...
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From our who cares department: Mexico, supported by 27 other nations, made a declaration at the Organization of American States slamming U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fence on its southern border. The declaration, read aloud Wednesday at the OAS headquarters in Washington, said the barriers would...
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October 25, 2006
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's office has sent a letter to the 14,000 people who had been sent the Tan Nguyen letter. It's good that he's clearing things up. It's not so good that he's carrying the water - in an official state document under the California state seal...
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October 24, 2006
Michael Bloomberg has yet again let his outright support for illegal immigration interfere with his job of protecting New Yorkers. Via this we find this: The city's plan to stop asking prospective taxi drivers to provide proof that they are legal residents will not endanger the security of New Yorkers,...
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Jennifer Talhelm, Arthur Rotstein, and Terry Tang (reporting from... Scottsdale) of the AP offer a superficial, misleading, pro-Democratic Party article called "GOP Shuns Immigration Hardliner in Ariz." The headline is the first part that's wrong in that Graf is opposed to the illegal variety of immigration and wanting to enforce...
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"The Regular Guys Show" - previously featured on WKLS-FM in Atlanta Georgia ("96Rock") and consisting of Eric Von Haessler and Larry Wachs - has been taken off the air and the hosts fired after two Hispanic hosts of a sister station show filed a lawsuit. The animosity between the two...
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Around two hundred members of an apparently new organization called the "National Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" have issued a position paper calling for: * securing the border and tight screening of those permitted to enter; * opposition to any legislation that would allow aliens to remain in the...
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On Monday, Les Kinsolving asked Whitehouse spokesman Tony Snow about the case of the two Border Patrol agents who appear to have been railroaded by our own government. He specifically asked whether Bush would give them a pardon. Here's Snow's response: "That's an unanswerable question, Les. The president is the...
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October 23, 2006
Yvonne Wingett of the Arizona Republic offers the titular article, which contains the seeds of its own evisceration. Let's see how she uses language to try to sway the voters in an open borders direction: ...The tipping point came last month, when Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, suggested that "Operation Wetback,"...
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Bill Winter is running for Congress against Rep. Tom Tancredo. Like other Democrats, he supports the Senate amnesty, and thus everything said about that horrible bill applies. Moreover, his page on immigration has several questionable or misleading statements: 1. His page twice refers to the "INS", an agency that hasn't...
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October 21, 2006
I'm sure you all remember this classic: That flyer - showing Texas and Mexico rejoined - was supposedly passed out at the April 9, 2006 illegal immigration march in Dallas. At the time, I wondered whether it was a real poster or a fake. Now, someone has sent an email...
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October 20, 2006
The Tucson Citizen has endorsed U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva in his reelection bid for Arizona's Congressional District 7. He's running against Ron Drake (Republican) and Joe Cobb (Libertarian). Grijalva is not just a former MEChA member, he's proud of his membership in that group. MEChA wants to "liberate" "Aztlan" (the...
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October 19, 2006
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ("ICIRR") is "sponsoring" a class action lawsuit against Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard over that state's program that tries to stop human smuggling by seizing Western Union wire transfers that meet certain criteria. ICIRR is "sponsoring" three nobody plaintiffs - at least...
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The two Border Patrol agents who appear to have been railroaded by our own government have been sentenced to 10+ years each. Before the sentencing, they filed a last minute motion: ...Mary Stillinger, the lawyer for Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos, filed a motion Tuesday to have the verdict set...
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From their press release: Western Growers, one of California's largest and most prominent agricultural trade associations, today announced its endorsement of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for reelection to the United States Senate. "Senator Feinstein has represented California with great integrity, honor and skill," said Tom Nassif, President and CEO of...
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Riverside, New Jersey is one of the cities that have adopted "Hazleton-style" ordinances, and like other cities they're being sued by far-left, pro-illegal immigration organizations such as the ACLU. While this does cost those cities money, and the far-left foundations that support those far-left organizations have very deep pockets, at...
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October 18, 2006
This is Part Three of the story of Hispanics in Orange County having received a supposed voter suppression letter, the "WTF Edition". Looking at the limited amount of evidence available and the attempts by Democrats and illegal immigration supporters to take advantage of it, it seemed very unlikely that the...
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From this: [Massachusetts gubanatorial candidate] Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey opened a fresh wave of attacks on [fellow candidate] Deval Patrick over the issue of illegal immigration yesterday, launching a TV ad and appearing at a pier in Charlestown to call for illegal immigrants to be denied driver's licenses. Healey said...
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The Minuteman PAC is airing ads in Arizona in support of Randy Graf and in opposition to Gabrielle Giffords. A lawyer from her campaign has sent a letter to the station running the ads trying to get them pulled. He appears to only have problems with one statement from the...
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October 17, 2006
[UPDATE in Hispanic voter suppression letter: from a Republican???] This is a follow-up to the story of Hispanics in Orange County having received a supposed voter suppression letter. In this post I'm going to: present evidence that the letter was sent by an illegal immigration supporter... discuss how Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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Several Orange County CA Hispanics have received a letter (written in Spanish) telling them in part: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time..." The AP...
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October 16, 2006
In 2004, the Bush reelection campaign mailed out a video to Latinos, and the article "Bush's Immigration Message Undermines His Message on Terrorism" informs us that you can see it here. This is the video that was discussed in "Bush uncovered: he doesn't know what country he runs", and...
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Andrew M. Sum (director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University) and Paul E. Harrington (their associate director) offer "Two kinds of immigration": ...The overall effects of new immigrant inflows from 2000 to 2005 on American labor markets are unprecedented. Between 2000 and 2005, the total number...
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Countless cheap labor pimps have told us that today's immigration is just like yesterday's (a recent example), a statement that's demonstrably false. The latest example of how false that is is provided by "Some Latinos promote dual Mexican-American citizenship" from Lennox Samuels of the DMN: ...As President Bush and others...
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On Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Investigations will release a report on border security with highly troubling conclusions. The only information I can find on it is in this video report, which says that 100 737's worth (I guess that would be around 15,000) illegal aliens...
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October 15, 2006
Diana Furchtgott-Roth - "a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. From 2003 to 2005 she was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor" who appears to be a cheap labor pimp along the lines of Tamar Jacoby - offers an attempted...
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October 14, 2006
From the LAT: Though it goes against the conventional wisdom of anti-illegal immigration supporters, those who enroll the poor in the federal food stamp program say they've struggled for years to get immigrant Latino families signed up. Now a Spanish-language news report and television ad campaign have spurred thousands of...
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October 12, 2006
President Bush's latest open borders blather is even more incoherent than usual. If not for the use of words like "truncated", "abutting", and "leverage", I might think he was retarded. Maybe it's not so much something like that as a combination of the fact that he can't think up any...
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Yesterday Lou Dobbs covered (alternate) the story of the U.S. Federal Bank trying to profit from indirect illegal activity by making it easier for illegal aliens to send remittances back to Mexico: The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, which runs the Directo a Mexico program, says immigration laws are not its...
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The Reason Magazine cartoonist offers a fine slab of pro-open borders propaganda in the cartoon ending here. Let's take a look at a few of his points and see what he doesn't know or isn't telling his readers. (I'm fisking a cartoon?) The cartoon ends with a plea to literally...
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The city of Pahrump Nevada - former home to Art Bell - is considering a "Hazleton-style" ordinance, but with the additional twist of trying to block banks from doing business with illegal aliens. In response, Timothy Pratt of the Las Vegas Sun offers a slab of pro-bank propaganda in "Bank...
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October 11, 2006
There's a lot of money to be made off illegal activity, and the U.S. Federal Reserve (FAQ) is trying to get a piece of the pie. The subscriber-only WSJ article "U.S. Banks Woo Migrants, Legal Or Otherwise" has this preview: As U.S. leaders craft policies to curb illegal immigration from...
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October 10, 2006
The New York Times has an interesting piece in their Science section on jaguars returning ("Gone for Decades, Jaguars Steal Back to the Southwest"). It's similar to a 2005 Smithsonian article ("Return of the Jaguar?"). However, as with, oh just as an example, Communist regimes, contemporary threads designed to enlighten...
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October 09, 2006
Yet another illegal immigration march was held on Saturday. This was in Atlanta and only an estimated 2000 people showed up. One of the organizers of the march was a former Mexican consul general. Two local Democratic Party elected officials led the march. This is yet another link between the...
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October 08, 2006
Senator John McCain has given the Arizona Daily Star a statement, saying in part: "Randy Graf's record as a state representative has demonstrated his commitment to the values important to the people of Arizona... His voting record on issues such as supporting our military, reducing taxes and reining in election...
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October 06, 2006
Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger issued yet another "controversial" statement, this one about Mexican immigrants assimilating. I had two initial thoughts: a) I'm not carrying Arnold's water anymore, and b) few could quibble with his pro-American comments that are similar to ones stated by leading academics. Needless to say, the Democratic Party...
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The recently-passed fence bill has loopholes that give the Bush administration discretion over how to spend the money and whether to spend it constructing a real fence, a "virtual" fence, or on something else entirely: ...shortly before recessing late last Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway...
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October 05, 2006
Here's a quick look at two SDUT stories. From October 1 2006's "National City named sanctuary city": Mayor Nick Inzunza declared National City an immigrant sanctuary in a proclamation he presented to immigrants rights activists during dueling rallies that brought about 400 people to City Hall yesterday. Democratic Party-linked Enrique...
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Here are just some: * 10/4/06, downtown Denver: a group of Colorado Minutemen were videotaping day laborers when a group of the laborers got angry and one or more of them appear to have assaulted one or more of the cameramen. One of those involved is currently out on bond...
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Yesterday former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda spoke as part of the Los Angeles Public Library-associated Zocalo program. I attended (after first going to the library where I thought it would be and then rushing over to the Music Center where it actually was) and was able to ask him...
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October 04, 2006
As previously discussed, several American workers are suing Mohawk Carpet under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), claiming that that major carpet manufacturer conspired to replace them with illegal aliens. The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in the plaintiff's favor regarding a technical matter, so...
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From this: Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and key liaison to the White House on immigration, said Tuesday that 700 miles of fencing approved by Congress will probably not be built because of a lack of money and other practical considerations. "It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing...
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Expect "logic" like the title to be one of the next major arguments that supporters of massive illegal immigration will use. The barely coherent story "Patrolman's union wants change to HPD's illegal immigrant policy" has this at the end: "We believe [Houston's new policy about working with ICE] will make...
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October 03, 2006
As previously discussed, Saul Arellano - seven-year-old son of holed-up-in-a-Chicago-church after ordered to appear to be deported Elvira Arellano - flew to Washington to try to speak to president Bush. He was assisted by the group Centro Sin Fronteras as well as a supposed American representative, Luis Gutierrez. Thankfully -...
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Stephen Glassman, chairperson (he doesn't like "chairman") of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, claims that his organization - a state agency - is one of the parties suing Hazleton over their IIRA (Illegal Immigration Relief Act). (A previous version of the suit didn't have them on board.) The article "Panel...
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Actually, I like their title better: "Cocaine found on touring clown bus" HIDALGO - Clowns are not usually a party to large drug investigations. But on Sunday, customs inspectors at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge found more than 500 pounds of cocaine on a private tour bus in which a Latin...
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Back in April, Rabbi Lerner of Tikkun linked to an excerpt of this article by David Podvin. Send it to all your "progressive" friends and see if anything in there resonates with them....
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The Washington Post offers "Border Fence Called Impractical", a slight rewrite of the Tim Gaynor/Reuters article previously eviscerated. Visitors from the WaPo are encouraged to use the search function on each page to search for past instances of the WaPo supporting illegal immigration....
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In Cook County Illinois (home of Chicago), Commissioner Roberto Maldonado's attempt to declare the county an illegal alien sanctuary has passed a subcommittee 3-2 and now goes to the full Board. Its chance of passage is unknown. Those on the American side were Tony Peraica (R) and Jerry Butler (D)....
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From this: An immigrant application screener who spoke out earlier this year about his agency's security failures has lost his job, despite a recent decision to extend the contracts of hundreds of other employees like him. Sultan Farakhan, an immigrant benefits application adjudicator, was terminated from employment Friday at the...
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Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor offers "Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and hardens views", which is so highly similar to the story discussed in "Russ Bynum/AP promotes illegal immigration (Stillmore, Georgia)" that I barely need to add anything more: almost everything said about that slab of pro-illegal...
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Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers "Experts see U.S. border fence plan as impractical". Three such "experts" are quoted, only two of them being named. The first is "veteran agent Lee Morgan". First, let's take a look at what he told Tamar Jacoby in early 2005: [BP Agent Lee Morgan] criticizes...
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October 02, 2006
One of the major problems with the recent border fence bill is that supporters of "comprehensive" reform will hide behind the fence in order to push through their "reform". They'll say something like, "now that you've got your fence, give us our amnesty". Or, for instance, they'll say something like,...
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October 01, 2006
Far-left illegal immigration supporters frequently demonize president Bush apparently without being able to get it through their heads that he's on their side; whether there'd be a border at all if he could get away with it is not known. While he's supported illegal immigration in the past, and while...
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David Streitfeld of the Los Angeles Times' business section offers a five-screener called "Illegal -- but Essential". It informs us that illegal labor is a "pillar of California's economic strength" and takes other steps to promote illegal immigration. While it does contain two anecdotes about workers who've been affected, and...
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September 30, 2006
The Democrats have various plans for different races: "A New Direction for __African-American____ Families", "A New Direction for ____Asian-Pacific Islander-American__ Families", "A New Direction for ___European-American__ Families", er, scratch the last one. Their latest race-based plan is called "Compromiso Democrata con el Pueblo Latino: A New Direction for Latino Families"....
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If you're in the Orlando Florida area, you might want to visit the University of Central Florida on October 9 for a "symposium" on illegal immigration. While a few of those speaking might be opposed to amnesty, most are cheap labor cheerleaders. It's free, but it's not known whether there...
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September 29, 2006
The Senate has passed the border fence bill and it now goes to Bush for his possible signing. The bill includes an initial round of funding in the amount of $1.2 billion. While most Senators voted for it, worthies such as Dick Durbin (D-IL/MX) were opposed. In related news, the...
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As I've pointed out in the past, one of the best ways to make sure immigration laws are enforced is to start bringing civil suits against corrupt corporations that hire illegal aliens. Another tack is being taken in a suit filed against the U.S. government by a relative of someone...
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The sleazy Arizona Democratic Party is up to its old tricks again, this time trying to smear Rep. Russell Pearce (R-AZ) over his reference to Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" on a radio program. From their press release titled Pearce Resurrects "Operation Wetback" and subtitled Russell Pearce Longs for Pre-Civil Rights Era...
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September 28, 2006
From this: An attorney [Kris Kobach] for a group of students at Kansas colleges asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive their lawsuit challenging a 2004 state law granting in-state tuition to some illegal immigrants. A trial judge in Kansas had dismissed the lawsuit, saying the students did not...
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Later today, "American" politician Gil Cedillo (CA state senate) and CA Assemblywoman Judy Chu are going to risk arrest by leading "immigrants" in a civil disobedience "action" near LAX. Those involved include the union "UNITE HERE" and the We Are America Alliance. An article discussing the event also includes this:...
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September 27, 2006
The latest in a long line of Democratic Party smears is an anti-Randy Graf site at tooextremeforaz.org (that page is actually a frame coming from www.azdem.org/tooextremeforaz). At the bottom, it says it's paid for by the Arizona Democratic Party, but considering the pro-illegal immigration contents it could have been paid...
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From Sara Carter: Congressional members interviewed by the newspaper said they were unaware until recently that Border Patrol agents were required to file Significant Incident Reports - normally used for shootings and other serious border incidents - when congressional members made unannounced visits in the summer along the U.S.-Mexico border....
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From this: Religious leaders Tuesday scolded lawmakers who oppose a broad immigration policy overhaul and urged them at a Capitol Hill news conference to put people over politics. As pointed out here many times, their policies will make the situation far worse. A much better suggestion is that they think...
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September 26, 2006
On Monday the contenders for governor of Massachusetts "debated" in Boston, and the immigration-related parts of the transcript start here and go on for four more screens. It features the two leading candidates (Republican Kerry Healey and Democrat Deval Patrick) and two with little chance of winning ("Green-Rainbow" Grace Ross...
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It's "they can't be serious" time as the New York Times offers the editorial "Immigration Reform, in Pieces". They're disappointed in Bush's failure to push through the "comprehensive" immigration "reform" he proposed, and they express their hope that a real leader on the subject will step forward. There's too much...
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September 25, 2006
James Pinkerton of the Houston Chronicle offers a suprisingly even-handed article: First it was a trickle, now it's a flood. Rising numbers of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are streaming into Texas to give birth, straining hospitals and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, health officials say....
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September 24, 2006
More bad news for the wire transfer company that makes part of their money off illegal aliens sending illegally-obtained money back to their home countries. From "Western Union transfers to Mexico being seized": Western Union Co. said the state of Arizona, trying to track down smugglers of drugs and illegal...
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September 23, 2006
Carolyn Lochhead, of the San Francisco Chronicle's Washington Bureau, offers "Political tide turning on illegal immigration". (As shown in the screengrab, their main news page gave it a just slightly longer title.) At least for now, House Republican leaders have succeeded in their take-no-prisoners approach to immigration despite nationwide...
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On Thursday, Rachel Swarns of the New York Times spoke about immigration in a lecture at Brigham Young University. Here's one of her quotes: "Almost everyone agrees that the current system isn't working, but whether or not we as a nation are going to come to some solution with how...
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On Wednesday, Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) released a press release with the following: The ability of state and local police to fight criminal illegal aliens will be undermined by legal intimidation if a mass lobbying campaign by the radical National Council of La Raza (NCLR) succeeds in blocking passage of...
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September 22, 2006
The AP article "Barnett, Sebelius spar over immigration; bishops weigh in" seamlessly blends a discussion of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius' seeming Janet Napolitano-style disinterest in sending National Guard troops to the Mexican border with an attempt by religious leaders to silence and smear opponents of illegal immigration. Jim Barnett is...
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George Borjas of Harvard and others have a new paper discussing the titular subject. From the abstract: The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines...
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September 21, 2006
From this press release: A new study, authored by economists at Northeastern University and published by the Center for Immigration Studies, finds that young native-born workers are being displaced in the labor market by immigrants. Although one recent report by a Washington think tank found no relationship between immigration and...
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Via this comes this article subtitled "Scripture provides more than easy slogans and soft platitudes about welcoming foreigners." It ends with this: Every Maria [subject of a PIIPP in a Christianity Today editorial] who gains a "better life" hurts our Patricias [low-wage U.S. citizen from an L.A. Times Magazine article],...
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Curious: The Independent Task Force on Immigration argues that America's immigration system is dysfunctional to the growing detriment of the nation. Task force co-chairman Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic U.S. congressman from Indiana ["who also served as vice chairman of the U.S. 9/11 Commission"], says the United States cannot afford...
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The L.A. Times lifestyle columnist and infamous hat-wearer offers "Border Fence Is Borderline Insanity". In brief, she thinks it's just a stunt and won't be built anyway because it won't be funded. Despite that, she warns of an environmental tragedy: ...the Secure Fence Act will bulldoze through nearly 40 years...
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September 20, 2006
The Board of Supervisors in Pima County, Arizona (home of Tucson) yesterday voted to continue providing water stations in the desert designed for use by illegal aliens: ...The Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 Tuesday to give $25,000 from the contingency fund to Humane Borders, which maintains 80 water...
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Via this comes the Seattle Times article "Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices": More than 7 million illegal immigrants work in the United States. They build houses, pick crops, slaughter cattle, stitch clothes, mow lawns, clean hotel rooms, cook restaurant meals and wash the dishes that come...
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The Clinton-linked Center for American Progress has issued a desperate cry for help: "Don't Abandon Comprehensive Immigration Reform". Initially, you might be confused. Did the GOP write this? Or, did they write it for use by the GOP? Or, are the GOP and Democrat positions on immigration so similar that...
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Consider the article "Mass deportations get thumbs down": Rep. Tom Tancredo is not terribly impressed by a new Rocky Mountain News/ CBS 4 poll, conducted Sept. 10-12, that seems to show most Colorado voters disagreeing with his hardline immigration prescription. More than four times as many voters polled said they'd...
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Boeing has apparently been selected as the contractor for a small, initial part of the proposed "virtual" fence on the southern border. This is not to be confused with the plan currently being voted on in Congress. Boeing will get $80 million for the first phase of the "Secure Border...
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From this: Deval L. Patrick, who rose from poverty on the south side of Chicago to corporate boardrooms and a top post in the Clinton administration, won the Democratic Party primary for governor tonight, becoming the first African-American to win a major party's nomination for the top job in the...
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September 19, 2006
If you're in the Pittsburgh area, the Vatican's representative to the U.N. will be speaking at Duquesne University on Thursday Sep. 21. You need to register, details here. If you get to ask a question, ask him to indicate whether the Holy See supports illegal immigration to the U.S. and/or...
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America's second-most anti-American governor, Mike Huckabee, recently spoke before a meeting of the Lexington County [South Carolina] GOP: ...When people say illegal immigrants take jobs from Americans, Huckabee said he asks them to name someone "who cannot get a job because a Mexican illegally here has taken the job they...
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As previously noted, the AP has at least twice mentioned Georgia illegal immigration advocate Teodoro Maus without disclosing that he's a former Mexican consul general. However, the recent report "Advocates plan rally to call for immigration reform" - which has as its byline "by The Associated Press", has this: ATLANTA...
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Last week, Georgia governor Sonny Perdue said the following: "It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued ID on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday and cast a vote on Tuesday." You're probably thinking that few could raise objections...
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September 18, 2006
Horribly sad news as we learn that Western Union - which has stopped sending telegrams in order to concentrate on money transfers, a large part of which is of money earned illegally - says that it will only have single-digit income growth for 2006 and 2007. Analysts had predicted double-digit...
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What a coincidence. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal offered "As U.S. Debates Guest Workers, They Are Here Now". It's subscriber-only and the blurb provided has little beyond telling us that "Companies Featured in This Article: VeraSun Energy, Xcel Energy". Today, the Los Angeles Times offers "Immigration Reform Efforts Reinvigorate Support...
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Sharon McNarry of the Press-Enterprise offers "Professor is man of many battles", a profile of UC Riverside's Armando Navarro. Among other gems, it contains this: Navarro wants every person of Mexican descent in the United States, whether native-born, a legal immigrant or undocumented -- to demand equal rights, and to...
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There are some quotes dealing with immigration here, such as these: According to their writings, America's founding fathers were skeptical of massive immigration. Thomas Jefferson was concerned that, "they will bring with them the principles of government they leave." Alexander Hamilton speculated that, "The safety of the Republic depends essentially...
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From this: A court hearing is scheduled this coming week for arguments in what could be one of the biggest decisions ever in the United States' battle over the integrity of its borders. ...The legal action seeks "to force the Los Angeles Police Department to drop its politically-correct 'sanctuary' policy...
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September 16, 2006
Robert Greenstein and James Horney of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities offer "Overstating Border Reform's Price". It's strikingly similar to the Palm Beach Post editorial "Real immigration reform also comes at good price" of a couple weeks ago. (Usually you'd expect the PBP to follow the lead of...
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Haya El Nasser of USA Today offers "Immigrants turn Utah into mini-melting pot": ...Immigration is changing the complexion of communities across the USA. As it sweeps through Utah, traditionally one of the least diverse and most conservative states in the nation, its impact is particularly dramatic. About 98% white until...
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Los Angeles' Democratic mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently "declared war" on KFI's John & Ken at a gala held by the National Hispanic Media Coalition. Here's some background on that group. The NHMC - together with MALDEF and many other far-left groups - is a member of the Los Angeles County...
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Los Angeles' Democratic mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a true statesmanly move, has sharply criticized KFI hosts John & Ken for their opposition to illegal immigration. He made the remarks at yesterday's National Hispanic Media Coalition "Impact Awards" luncheon. KTLA showed the tape of his tantrum to John & Ken, and...
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September 15, 2006
Russ Bynum of the Associated Press offers "Immigration raid cripples Ga. town". It describes immigration raids that took place in Stillmore, Georgia and it does so in such a highly biased and emotional fashion that it should be considered little more than pro-illegal immigration proganda: Trailer parks lie abandoned. The...
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The inspector general of the federal Legal Services Corporation has issued a report highly critical of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), which is funded by LSC. He: found "substantial evidence the CRLA has violated federal law" by soliciting clients, working a fee-generating case, requesting attorney fees and associating with political...
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The authors of the failed 1986 illegal alien amnesty, former Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli (D-KY) and former Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-WY), offer "Enacting Immigration Reform, Again". Their article is little more than a bad and pathetic joke: Since illegal immigration continues nearly unabated today, legitimate questions can be raised...
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Chris Taylor is a senior editor at Business 2.0 Magazine, and he offers a paean to corruption and transnational greed in "Cashing in on immigration". Think of it as the breezier, even more masturbatory version of Business Week's "Embracing Illegals" or The Economist's "More Mexicans, Please" (link): Faced with far...
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September 14, 2006
Our old friend Tyche Hendricks offers "Church leaders speak out against immigration sweeps/Arrests, deportations in Santa Cruz area part of national drive": The religious leaders who spoke out Wednesday acknowledged that the government has a right to enforce immigration law. But they said enforcement can tear apart families in which...
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As a special treat for my libertarian reader, I present: "The Fallacy of Open Immigration"....
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Yesterday Randy Graf beat Steve Huffman in Arizona's 8th district. Retiring U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe refuses to give Graf his endorsement. Says he: "I congratulate Mr. Graf on his victory in the Republican primary. However, there are such profound and fundamental differences between his views and mine on several key...
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Reuters tells the Americans they can relax: U.S. citizens concerned that Latino immigrants will have them singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish can rest easy, according to an academic study published on Wednesday. A report in the Population and Development Review found that far from threatening the dominance of English,...
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September 13, 2006
The House Democrats have created a 25-page agenda document called "A New Direction for America" that represents a consensus of their thinking. However, it excludes any mention of immigration or the "reform" thereof. Presumably that's because they're afraid to come right out and admit that almost every Democratic leader fully...
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From this: House Republicans said Tuesday that they're preparing a package of tough border security initiatives that they hope will satisfy constituent demands for a crackdown on illegal immigration before they face voters in the Nov. 7 midterm elections. The initiatives, which are expected to include more Border Patrol agents...
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From the AP: Three members of the Texas National Guard were being held Tuesday in the Maverick County Jail [Eagle Pass, TX] after being accused of firing shots in a residential area while drinking alcohol, a sheriff's official said. It sounds like they might be yahoos, but then again, such...
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September 12, 2006
Send the one here to your friends: Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country...
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This site has highlighted a long series of articles revolving around the topic of "crops rotting in the fields unless we get more cheap labor." Most of those articles - even one appearing in al Guardian - are simply propaganda, with the "reporters" simply transcribing the hyperbolic remarks of farmers...
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September 11, 2006
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) and friends will be holding a "rally" on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and demanding "comprehensive" immigration "reform". From their press release: A group of lawmakers, business leaders and agriculture producers will gather on Capitol Hill to demand Border Security be paired with Immigration Reform. Border security...
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The Houston Chronicle unsigned editorial "Beachhead" is so shocking in its outright support for illegal immigration and Mexico's agenda it's almost unbelievable: FOUR years ago, Mexico closed its New Orleans consulate — essentially, for lack of interest. The Mexican government was pinching pennies, and closing the mission signaled a new...
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An organization with which I'm not familiar has issued this press release: Americas Watchdog, an advocacy organization focused on corporate responsibility and fair play has just released the results of a two year investigation into national and or regional US homebuilders hiring undocumented construction workers and or not paying federal...
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September 10, 2006
Rachel Swarns and Randal Archibold of the New York Times offer "Immigration Movement Struggles to Regain Momentum Built in Spring Marches". Let's compare some of the things that they say with the truth: Swarns/Archibold The truth "Immigration Movement Struggles to Regain Momentum Built in Spring Marches" 'Dear "immigrant" rights movement:...
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The April 4, 2006 editorial "An image problem" discusses an NCLR email that shows what they really think about that whole "assimilation" and "patriotism" issue: Today in the letters section, the National Council of La Raza, which declares itself the "largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the...
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Peter Schey is the head of Los Angeles' Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, a group that's collaborating with the Mexican government on a website. Schey is also representing some illegal aliens who were arrested under a new Arizona law, and there is some kind of involvement of the...
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September 09, 2006
Via this we learn that Cook County Commissioner Roberto Maldonado wants to make the county a sanctuary for illegal aliens ("County measure would shield illegal immigrants"). Chicago, Illinois is located there and it's already a sanctuary city. [Maldonado], the measure's sponsor, said he wants to prevent the county from joining...
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September 08, 2006
Evan Lehmann of the Lowell Sun offers "Mass. immigrants join 200,000 in massive march to White House": Hundreds of Massachusetts immigrants undertook an all-night bus trip to Washington to participate in a massive rally yesterday with a united message to Congress and the president: Hurry up! About 350 Bay State...
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News 8 Austin reports on a new tack taken by illegal immigration activists; this tack is as much based in logic as the current tack: More than 200 immigrant rights activists gathered at the Texas Capitol Thursday for a different kind of rally. Instead of protesting immigration laws, they honored...
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Former senior special agent of the INS Michael Cutler testified before Congress recently regarding the titular question: ...If, for argument sake, we figure on a number of 15 million illegal aliens, or ten times the number that had been estimated prior to the amnesty of 1986, and if the same...
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Or: the curious incident of the pimps in the daytime. The usual pimps (1,2,3,4,5) are strangely silent on the latest push by illegal aliens to make a show of force and march in our streets demanding rights to which they aren't entitled. Sure, Fatboy was at the Washington DC march,...
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Mexico's newly-elected president Felipe Calderon spoke to foreign reporters and one report is here. If you look back, you'll probably find that what he said is very similar or identical to past statements made by Vicente Fox: [Calderon] said Thursday that Mexico must stem illegal emigration through aggressive anti-poverty programs...
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy ("Teddy", "Ted") was one of the featured speakers at yesterday's illegal immigration rally in Washington D.C. It was supposed to be a big deal, with up to 500,000 people expected. Instead, according to the WaPo, less than 5,000 people showed up. The Senator's remarks, as...
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September 07, 2006
The Christian Science Monitor article "As Congress stalls on immigration, a backlash brews" by Amanda Paulson might have been read as complete propaganda in favor of "comprehensive" reform if it didn't contain a very slight hint that the actual backlash would come if Congress passes any sort of amnesty scheme....
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Judicial Watch's FOIA request has uncovered 226 border incursions by Mexico's miltary between 1996 and 2005. For instance: MEXICAN MILITARY ENCOUNTER (ARMED/THREATENING) RIO GRANDE VALLEY/BROWNSVILLE - "As the boat proceeded to go down river towards the scene, the [Border Patrol] Agent on board advised via radio that several Mexican soldiers...
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September 06, 2006
From this: ...a front-page article in the Dallas Morning News has provided some real numbers for at least one of the nation’s top five metropolitan areas. The story, based on U.S. Census Bureau data from 1999 to 2005 shows the median household income in the Dallas-Fort Worth region fell 10...
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Joe Mathews of the Los Angeles Times has extended the report that was originally called "Labor Day Events Bring Calls for Action". The new version is called "Labor Movement Flexes Its Muscles". As shall become clear, that new title might even be a Patt Morrison-style secret message sent from somewhere...
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Let's see if we can spot their first mistake: Local authorities are asking the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to make Nashville one of only a handful of local governments allowed to identify and detain illegal immigrants who are arrested for alleged criminal activity. In an Aug. 15 letter...
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On Sunday Latinos and others protested in Hazleton against that city's illegal immigration ordinance. In the past, various supporters of illegal immigration have played the Bible card, but a quote from local organizer Dr. Agapito Lopez takes today's cake: "Any law that opposes the law of God is not a...
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September 05, 2006
From this: Immigration protests that drew hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators to the nation's streets last spring promised a potent political legacy a surge of new Hispanic voters. "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote," they proclaimed. But an Associated Press review of voter registration figures from Chicago, Denver, Houston,...
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The NY Sun prints a guest editorial entitled "City, Thank Your Immigrants" from Edward Glaeser ("the Glimp professor of economics at Harvard, director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.") Today the House of Representatives reconvenes after spending the summer...
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September 04, 2006
Here's a new website called www.boycottmillerbeer.com. They promise that they'll shortly have a complaint form of some kind to send emails or similar to Miller; it's apparently from one Leslie Wetzel, who's a member of U.S. Border Watch and TX MM, among other groups. UPDATE: Here's another: millerboycott.com. It's run...
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Joe Mathews of the LAT offers "Labor Day Events Bring Calls for Action", which ends with this: ...But the toughest language of a morning full of events -- the 27th annual Labor Day march and rally took place in Wilmington -- was offered by Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony...
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September 03, 2006
From this: Western Union has reached a $3 million settlement with Arizona financial regulators on charges the money transfer company failed to comply with state reporting laws intended to combat money laundering and illegal immigration. In an agreement with the state Department of Financial Institutions, Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Western Union...
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September 02, 2006
Aside, of course, from it tasting bad that is. It's not just that they, in what looks like a form letter that they're sending out to those who complain, admit to providing "support for a recent immigration convention in Chicago". That support was described here and Miller replied here. What's...
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Manny Aragon is a former New Mexico state Senator (background) who a couple months ago was terminated from his position as president of New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas NM: ...[Board of Regents chairman Javier] Gonzales has said regents are concerned about several issues, including the American Association of...
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September 01, 2006
Many of those who attended the recent immigration marches are foreign citizens who are here illegally. But, it doesn't stop there. For instance, one rally organizer is a former Mexican consul general and another is an official with a Mexican political party. Not surprisingly, the MSM has barely mentioned such...
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August 31, 2006
Illegal immigration supporting Rep. Jim Kolbe is retiring and in the race for his former seat: ...the National Republican Congressional Committee is spending more than $122,000 on television ads for state Rep. Steve Huffman. The primary is Sept. 12... Huffman faces Randy Graf, a conservative former state lawmaker, and Mike...
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The article "Voters back governor, poll shows" from Steve Geissinger of the "Medianews Sacramento Bureau" contains the following: Immigration issues, which concern voters most, also may cost Schwarzenegger with his opposition to driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and dispatching of troops to the Mexican border. Latino voters favored Angelides over...
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August 30, 2006
From this: A year of controversy over the immigration issue has had scant impact on the Hispanic vote, a new Democratic survey has found. Voter loyalties among that group remain frozen where they were last election, with Hispanics tending Democratic about 2-to-1. If anything, Democrats may have a problem turning...
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Suzanne Gamboa of the Associated Press offers "Immigration ads a problem for campaigns": Capturing the immigration debate in political ads this campaign season - without upsetting Hispanics - is proving tricky for the parties and candidates. Heaven forbid that we should discuss such a vital topic in a straightforward way...
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There are already four updates to the post about the SOS protest in Maywood CA that saw a Mexican flag being raised over a U.S. Post Office, and the updates keep coming. The L.A. Daily News' Bridget Johnson offers "Something's wrong with immigration protests" (also here with pictures): ...And if...
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The Palm Beach Post offers an editorial that would be funny if it weren't so utterly pathetic: "Real immigration reform also comes at good price". Like the S.F. Chronical, they call for an "honest" accounting of the costs vs. benefits of giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. And: For...
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California already gives illegal aliens the same in-state tuition discounts that U.S. citizens who are residents of California receive. Now, the state Assembly has passed a bill that goes a step further and gives illegal aliens the same rights to financial aid as citizens. The bill is SB 160 (the...
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August 29, 2006
The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (link) held a "special meeting" in Hazleton to discuss illegal immigration. The guest list was highly biased; so too are the report by Kent Jackson and so too is at least the head of the Commission: ...Since 1991, the commission has opposed English-only laws, Chairman...
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As discussed previously, Ramos and Compean are two Border Patrol agents who appear to have been railroaded by our own federal government. You can read the details on the matter and send an email to George Bush, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff here. Other actions discussed...
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August 28, 2006
Farmers Branch is a Dallas suburb that's been considering enacting a Hazelton-style ordinance designed to reduce the number of illegal immigrants moving to their city. Needless to say, various local groups including "Hector Flores, immediate past national president of the League of Latin American Citizens" are playing not just the...
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Via this comes the Media Research Center's "Election in the Streets". From the summary here: [It] demonstrates that ABC, CBS, and NBC behaved like protester publicists in late March, April, and May, in complete contradiction to public opinion polls showing America had a serious problem with the tide of illegal...
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I have words of advice for the San Francisco Chronical: be careful what you wish for: Last week, the allegedly "nonpartisan" Congressional Budget Office declared that the cost of implementing the immigration-reform plan approved by the U.S. Senate would be a staggering $126 billion over 10 years... ...But the report...
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The Democratic National Committee has issued a press release entitled "Americans Less Safe Because of Bush Administration's Shortsightedness and Failed Leadership Says DNC": ...BORDERS: Millions Wasted On Inadequate Border Security Efforts. Millions of tax dollars have been wasted as a result of failed border security technology initiatives that have been...
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August 27, 2006
On the front page of the August 7 Washington Post, the article "Constructing Lives off the Soccer Field Latino League Team Owners Attract Athletes With Jobs, Housing" by Nick Miroff promoted, among other things, immigrants (whether legal or illegal is not known) being "stabled" (their word) in "cramped, dormitory-style accommodations"...
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Democratic visitors might want to take a look at this article. For instance this bit: ...The other problem with Democrats, liberals and progressives is their willingness to put the welfare of illegal immigrants above the rights and needs of current and future American citizens. I am nauseated by the stupidity...
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August 26, 2006
The Save Our State group held an anti-illegal immigration protest in Maywood, California earlier today. According to various posts in their forums (1,2) there were allegedly a few incidents, including: - An elderly couple being swarmed and having to go into an auto parts store and then be escorted out...
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From this: The estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), released [last] Friday, that the Senate-passed guest worker amnesty bill (S. 2611) would cost the country a net amount of $127 billion over the next ten years is misleading and grossly underestimates the real fiscal impact, contends the Federation from...
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The four border governers (Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Rick Perry of Texas, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, and Bill Richardson of New Mexico) have sent a letter House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urging them to pass "comprehensive" immigration "reform". While Perry says they aren't endorsing either...
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August 25, 2006
Via this comes this: Salvadoran President Tony Saca visited Miami Friday to warn his citizens not to let their temporary residency status run out as they wait for Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Many migrants from El Salvador received the temporary status after a devastating earthquake struck...
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In May, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee spoke to reporters in Washington D.C. Hotline was there: Huckabee, who supports guest worker programs and is not an immigration hard-liner, said he believes opposition to comprehensive immigration reform is 'irrational in many cases.' And he did not discount the causative factor of racism....
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David Garbe is a reporter for the Suburban Chicago News (owned by the Chicago Sun-Times group) and he offers the latest in a very long line of similar reports on the mobile Mexican consulate coming to small towns to pass out their ID cards to their citizens, most of whom...
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Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego, is a quote source I've seen occasionally. In case you see him being presented as in any way impartial or not partisan, could you please send the reporter the following quote he...
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A new site from FAIR has a petition you can sign supporting the two Border Patrol agents who appear to have been railroaded: Justice for the Border Patrol. It contains this interesting quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "It appears that the facts do not add up or justify the length...
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August 24, 2006
Today's Wacky but Thought-Provoking Immigration Quote of the Day is featured in the article "Immigration bill sticker shock". The quote source is John Young, co-chairman of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform: "In my opinion, the fairer question is: How will illegal immigrants impact the costs of healthcare, local education,...
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As predicted, earlier today DHS chief Michael Chertoff joined with Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) to pimp the latter's massive illegal alien amnesty and "guest" worker scheme. You know, the scheme that would allow unlimited immigrants and the one that's supported by the WaPo. It's...
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An AP story about a recent crash fails to note a key affiliation of one of the groups mentioned. If you've never heard of the CHRCL, you might think they're just an ordinary "human rights" group: A border rights coalition asked federal officials Wednesday to suspend Border Patrol high-speed chases...
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Yesterday DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff claimed that nearly all non-Mexican illegal aliens were being returned to their home countries and that "catch-and-release" had been stopped. Under C&R non-Mexicans who were caught were given notices to appear and released into the U.S. Almost all of them, of course, never bothered to...
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August 23, 2006
From the article "Craig shouted down at feisty forum on immigration": A town hall meeting with Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, dissolved into angry shouts and walkouts when Craig began discussing the controversial issue of immigration. "I am sick of listening to these lies," one woman said, interrupting Craig as she...
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Both the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times are leading the charge against Elvira Arellano, the illegal alien who's thumbing her nose at our legal system from inside a storefront church in western Chicago. Previously the CT offered the editorial "Elvira Arellano and the law". Now they offer "Immigration issue indeed...
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Jeanette Rishell is running for Virginia's House of Delegates from the Manassas area. At her site - if you can make it through the Flash maze - you can read her stock "Democrat who claims to want to fine employers but in fact really wants to encourage more illegal immigration"...
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David Weigel of Reason is guest posting at Andrew Sullivan's blog and offers a discussion of Pat Buchanan's latest book that's even dumber than that that Sully would have provided. Can anyone point me to the border towns where democracy has collapsed, supplanted by Latin American-style caudillos? We can come...
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August 22, 2006
One of the major reasons why those who employ illegal aliens are so supportive of "comprehensive" immigration "reform" is probably to avoid legal penalties. Not those coming from various government forces, since most politicians have been corrupted. Rather, penalties obtained by lawyers in civil suits. Howard Foster is one lawyer...
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Around August 11, a few hundred illegal immigration supporters met near Chicago and created the "National Alliance for Immigrant Rights". One of their leaders is an official with Mexico's PRD party, and the article "Immigrant rights activists meet near Chicago" from Workers World has a little bit more on who's...
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From this: The union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents has set up a legal defense fund for two agents convicted earlier this year of wounding a suspected drug smuggler and then trying to cover up the shooting. The National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents nearly all Border Patrol...
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August 21, 2006
[UPDATE: see below] Friday evening, the Congressional Budget Office released their estimate of just how much the Senate's massive illegal alien amnesty would cost us financially: $126 billion over 10 years: Supporters of the legislation cautioned that the CBO's total needs to be put into context. For instance, most of...
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A Q&A session Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) held at a public library in Des Plaines, Illinois is described here. The second attendee asked two questions: First, If someone enters your house uninvited, is it a crime? After some consideration, Rep. Schakowsky granted that that situation might be construed as trespassing....
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August 20, 2006
Dear ____________: What an interesting discussion of Pat Buchanan's latest book 'State of Emergency'! It's unfortunate that you spent [so much] time on [race-baiting|smearing|name-calling] instead of responding to his points. You dismissed Buchanan refering to massive illegal immigration as an "invasion", but you only offered a few warmed-over [platitudes...
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August 19, 2006
I swear Cynthia Tucker must write columns just so bloggers can have an easy fisk. "Immigration - and strange bedfellows" discusses attempts by "right-wing zealots" and "ultraconservatives" to protect American workers, including blacks. According to Tucker, that's quite out of character for groups such as the Minutemen and pundits such...
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August 18, 2006
In the July 18 post Esther J. Cepeda: "May [illegal immigration] marchers mostly U.S. citizens" I discussed the findings of a "study" done by a group calling itself the "Immigrant Mobilization Project" which was supposedly affiliated with the University of Illinois-Chicago. The fact that at the time I couldn't find...
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On July 26, Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies testified before Congress, and his prepared testimony is in "Immigration's Impact on Public Coffers": There is general agreement that the fiscal impact of immigration depends largely on the education level of the immigrants in question. Immigrants with a lot...
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This is a serious story, but I just couldn't resist with the headline. Anyway: Almost 5,000 Rio Grande Valley high school students will begin the new school year at campuses rated "persistently dangerous" by the state education agency. Jimmy Carter High School in the La Joya school district and Todd...
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Hazleton Pennsylvania is being sued by various far-left, pro-illegal immigration groups over their new ordinance. If you'd like to help the pro-American side, you can donate to their legal defense fund at smalltowndefenders.com. And, from this: [Mayor Lou Barletta] plans to meet, perhaps as early as this week, with lawyers...
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August 17, 2006
From this: Republican congressmen said today they would call for an investigation into why two U.S. Border Patrol agents were prosecuted then convicted this year of shooting a drug-smuggling suspect and trying to cover it up. They were in El Paso for a House Judiciary Committee field hearing on immigration,...
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From a press release: The National Restaurant Association this week sent a letter to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The letter urged reconsideration of regulations set forth by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding legal obligations of employers upon receipt...
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Chicago's knockoff of the WAPOLATNYT offers the editorial "Elvira Arellano and the law" about the illegal alien who was ordered to report to DHS to be deported but instead took refuge in a church. It ends with: ...she has benefited from some extraordinary political support, which few illegal immigrants get...
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Yesterday I noted that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee removed their "controversial" video 'Secure' from Youtube. Today, it's gone completely. The previous URL was: dscc.org/news/multimedia/20060813_secure/ Now, the video at that page is called "Want A Different Course?" which should be available at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avPRG8s2haU However, that link doesn't work...
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From this: ..."We cannot and will not enforce immigration law; that’s the federal government's job," [Hazleton mayor Lou Barletta] said. "So, if ICE (the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement) visits a plant and takes out employees as illegal, the city will follow up." In those instances, Barletta said,...
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A first-person account is here: Four Congressmen, Michael McCaul, Ted Poe, Sheila Jackson Lee and Gene Green held a Congressional hearing in Houston today. I drove in last night to be there. Demonstrators from both sides began showing up at 5:00 a.m. 90% of the PRO-Illegal crowd was bussed in...
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August 16, 2006
From their press release: Washington, DC--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--August 16, 2006--As the danger to Americans of all backgrounds, posed by radical Islamic terrorist groups intensifies, individuals and groups purporting to speak on behalf of American Hispanics demonstrated once again that they are prepared to place their open borders agenda above the...
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The TV pundit offers this. Victor Davis Hanson replies here. Here's my reply: I stopped right around where he supported a race-based immigration policy that allows "Indians" to settle anywhere in North America that they wish. What about those who are just part Indian blood? Will one drop do? Will...
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The National Alliance for Immigrant Rights is organizing pro-illegal immigration marches for Labor Day in, among others, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and New York. That's according to one of their spokespersons, Nativo Lopez of the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional. And, as the first link points out, one of the leaders...
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This is slightly surprising: Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have written U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff strongly complaining about a top federal immigration official in Phoenix. Napolitano and Arpaio do not directly name the special agent at the Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency in...
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In 2004, Colorado Republican Bob Beauprez voted to allow banks to accept Mexico's "ID for illegals", the Matricula Consular card. This appears to be a conflict of interest because he founded a bank in the early 90s and, while he wasn't employed by them at the time of the vote,...
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Dan Stein of FAIR writes in the Seattle PI: Gov. Chris Gregoire recently made some headlines by sending the federal government a $50 million bill for the cost of incarcerating criminal illegal immigrants. We wish her and the taxpayers of Washington luck. For all the chance the state of Washington...
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Various far-left forces have sued Hazleton over the immigration law they passed last month. The suit has no less than 235 individual claims, and those filing it include: * Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) * American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) * Wilkes-Barre attorneys Barry Dyller and George...
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The "Return to Reason" coalition is trying to remove the pro-American councilmembers from the board of Costa Mesa, California, including mayor Alan Mansoor: "Things have deteriorated to where people are not mentioning the fine points of our community," said former Police Chief Dave Snowden, who was the city's top law...
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August 15, 2006
From this: The number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years, fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau. And increasingly, immigrants are bypassing the traditional gateway states like California and New York and settling...
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From this: San Diego area government officials complained yesterday that the federal government's failure to curb illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border was sapping local public services while a key House chairman said prospects for action this year on the immigration front did not look good. "San Diego may be...
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A new web-only video ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) tries to "Impugn[ the] GOP Claim That We're Safer". It includes a shot of an illegal alien climbing over a wall with the caption "millions more illegal immigrants". While it's certainly good to see the Democrats slightly waking...
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Kris Kobach: It is no secret that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611), passed by the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006, contains numerous provisions that reward illegal aliens for violating federal immigration law. What is less well known is that the Senate bill also condones the...
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August 14, 2006
On Sunday around 400 people from 25 states met in Chicago to try to organize the disparate groups that assisted in getting illegal aliens and their supporters to march in our streets and demand rights to which they aren't entitled: "Pro-immigration groups seek formal political power" by Oscar Avila and...
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From this: Raymond Herrera, national rally coordinator for The Minuteman Project co-founded by Jim Gilchrist, was attacked at a day labor site in Lake Forest, California over the weekend. While Herrera was exercising his First Amendment right to speak out against illegal immigration, he was run over by an irate...
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If the news that Mike Pence's massive illegal alien amnesty would allow unlimited immigration wasn't enough of a clue to how bad it is, and if this article didn't do the trick, now comes the WaPo to let us know just how bad it is. In "Hope for Immigration Reform?"...
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The credulous article "Experts say border fence would hurt bighorn sheep" offers the thoughts of an organization that building the proposed 370-mile fence on the border would prevent bighorns from migrating to Mexico in order to mate. Unfortunately, the "experts" are from Tucson's "Center for Biological Diversity", a far-left group...
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From this: A conservative, grass-roots organization has gathered nearly 40,000 signatures since Wednesday on a petition to be sent to President Bush on behalf of two Border Patrol agents convicted of violating a drug smuggler's civil rights. Two of the jurors who convicted the agents also are expressing misgivings about...
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August 12, 2006
A new study from the Pew Hispanic Center's Rakesh Kochhar purports to show that the massive immigration over the past 15 years has had little effect on jobs. Needless to say, this gives a glimmer of hope to racial advocates and massive immigration supporters everywhere. But, a closer look shows...
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August 11, 2006
The "Northern Alliance Radio Network" (featuring the hopeless BushBots at PowerLine and their friends) will be interviewing TV pundit Michael Barone tomorrow at 1pm Eastern. The topic of discussion will be the repurposed edition of his book The New Americans ("How the melting pot can work again"). Apparently it's on...
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August 10, 2006
The far-left rag's latest issue is all about the "New Nativism". It goes downhill from there. For instance, let's look at just one article entitled "Nightly Nativism" about Lou Dobbs: Dobbs elaborated in his online column: "It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration...
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The headline reads "Anti-Illegal Immigration Speakers Attacked on Boston Common" but unless I'm missing something what happened doesn't rise to the level of an "attack". However, if you watch the video here you'll see the usual group of far-leftie illegal immigration supporters swarming the cameraman and one of them shoving...
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Drivers along the 5 Freeway through California's Central Valley are treated to signs saying, "Crops grow where water flows" or similar. Based on growers' support for illegal labor, perhaps they should consider throwing signs saying "Farmers hollowed when laws followed" into the mix. From "Farmers say 'enforcement only' immigration will...
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This is the first time I've heard of it, but on July 28 there was a clash between a pro-American group and a group of illegal immigration supporters in Fremont (in the East Bay Area in California). From "Protesters may change their tactics": ...Police also said that coalition members were...
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The San Diego Union-Tribune's Ruben Navarrette Jr. offers a disingenuous, race-baiting hit piece on U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI): ...What concerns Sensenbrenner is that [Pence massive amnesty] "provides unlimited immigration from Mexico and Central America." I asked him if that meant he would like to see a return to the...
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August 09, 2006
On July 18 she testified before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. Her testimony is in this PDF file, and it's a very good overview of the subject. (Via this)...
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Continuing their dialog, Fonte points out yet again just how wrong she is. Previously: Tamar Jacoby's "Immigration Realism"...
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The article "Breaking the silence: Convicted border agent tells his story" has the details on the case of two Border Patrol agents (Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean) who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler: Even more broadly, Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof said, Ramos and Compean had no...
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August 06, 2006
From National Review: Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, both Republicans, are making a last-ditch effort to bridge their party's divide on immigration and pass a bill this year. We agree that the country, and the Republican party, would benefit if a sensible immigration...
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August 04, 2006
Representative Raul Grijalva - an Arizona Democrat and a proud former member of the racial separatist group MEChA - will be appearing at an immigration forum hosted by the groups Derechos Humanos and National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The first group is not only working with the Mexican...
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Unfortunately, president Bush cannot yet be ignored, so: he toured the border in Mission Texas yesterday: President Bush got a firsthand look Thursday at ways the government fights illegal immigration and said that securing the border with Mexico will require more people and modern technology. For Bush's arrival at the...
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August 03, 2006
Yesterday yet another town hall meeting on immigration was held, and this time they let in a whopping 200 people. (I foolishly tried to attend the last one they held; I won't make that same mistake again.) The SDUT devotes most of this story to discussing the thoughts of those...
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Is Sheila Jackson-Lee an "immigration sponge"? Let me explain. A couple of weeks ago came "Jack Kemp, Sheila Jackson Lee aligned on 1986 amnesty talking points". That described how SJL and JK used the almost identical talking point that the problem with the 1986 amnesty wasn't that it wasn't an...
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August 02, 2006
America's favorite amnestibot, Tamar Jacoby, has joined with Cesar V. Conda to pen "Immigration Realism". It's their reply to John Fonte's reply to the WSJ's reply to the original National Review open letter demanding enforcement first. And, as you might assume, Jacoby is wrong. Here's just one way: None of...
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Popular Spanish-language radio host El Cucuy (real name: Renan Almendarez Coello) is on a 10 city bus tour trying to register members of his audience as voters. He kicked off the campaign in San Jose (California) on Monday, and joining him on his fun bus were Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante...
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August 01, 2006
Welcome to the first edition of "Tom Bevan: sarcastic or idiotic?" Bevan runs Real Clear Politics, and says: Yesterday Governor Bill Owens signed a package of new immigration laws which he called the toughest in America. Among the new set of laws is one unbelievably draconian measure that "requires applicants...
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Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez recently pimped "comprehensive" immigration "reform" in Louisville and offered some incompetent immigration advice: Countries such as Germany, Japan and China are facing future population declines, and are using immigration as a way to fill jobs and maintain their economies, he said. The U.S. "can stand out...
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Some say Houston is an illegal alien sanctuary, some deny it. The denials seem to be based on how you define "sanctuary", and the denials seem to be contradicted by the thoughts of the local leaders: ...A group called Protect Our Citizens is gathering signatures for a November ballot referendum...
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Speaking in Santa Fe, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez promoted "comprehensive" immigration "reform", and also said that the Department of Justice will add twenty new federal prosecutors in the border region to handle immigration cases. Five new prosecutors will handle drug-related crimes. And: Gonzales said over the past six years, the...
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Another illegal immigration march is planned for September 4. A list of the organizers and their announcement is here. I am willing to bet $100 that any links between those or other organizers of the march and the Mexican government are swept under the rug by the AP, Reuters, LAT,...
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Here's a Michael Ramirez cartoon from 3/29: This is partially a takeoff on which students at Montebello High School in California did the day before....
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July 30, 2006
The lunatic libertarians at Reason Magazine have a special issue about illegal immigration. If you live in a town with 6000 residents, there's a slight statistical chance that one of those people has read it. One column in the issue is from Tony Snow; whether it was penned before or...
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July 29, 2006
Tamar Jacoby is back with more blather in support of massive immigration, this version being called "Amnesty Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Voters don't like amnesty, but they'll swallow some form of it to fix immigration." No, really, that last part is the real subtitle. She discusses various misleading and/or...
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All the cool kids will no doubt be discussing Monday's ground breaking press conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico where Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez will be speaking regarding "comprehensive" immigration "reform". No doubt underlings are busy copying and pasting bits of his speech from the speech Bush has been giving for...
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In June, 41 prominent conservatives released an open letter calling for "enforcement first". A couple weeks ago, 33 "conservatives" published a reply in the WSJ. Now, here's the response: ...Unfortunately, the letter's principal argument rests on the false premise that the Senate bill strengthens enforcement. According to University of Missouri...
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July 28, 2006
Here's a post just for my "liberal", "conservative", and lunatic libertarian illegal immigration apologist and supporter readers! Please consider this fun quote: "We're in a state [Kentucky] where there's nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It's clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico - everyone thinks like in...
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Everyone knows he's just a lackey saying what he's told to say, but just for completeness' sake, DHS head Michael Chertoff testified before a House committee yesterday: ...Chertoff noted that other alternatives [to the Senate amnesty scheme] - such as jailing 10 percent of illegal immigrants already in the country...
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Yesterday the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims held a hearing entitled "Whether Attempted Implementation of the Senate Immigration Bill Will Result in an Administrative and National Security Nightmare." Clearly they have an agenda, but they're also right. One of those testifying was Michael Cutler,...
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July 27, 2006
Jill Capuzzo of the New York Times offers a ludicrously transparent article in support of illegal immigration: "Town Battling Illegal Immigration Is Emptier Now". Don't you feel sad and all just by reading the headline? It continues. The lesson the NYT wants you to learn is that the best way...
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[7/28/06 UPDATE: Reuters has corrected the article, see below.] Michelle Nichols of Reuters offers a report about yesterday's Minuteman rally and book launch entitled "Immigration protesters scuffle in New York". As predicted, the MSM coverage of this event did not provide any details on the protesters, and it was biased...
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July 26, 2006
The SacBee's "CalInsider" is wrong about illegal immigration in so very many ways: My take is that illegal immigration, in and of itself, is a victimless crime. If people come here to work, which most illegal immigrantsdo, they are going to engage in a voluntary exchange of their labor for...
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From this: The latest proposal in Congress for a "guest"-worker program would allow unlimited immigration of eligible workers during the first three years and allow them and their families to remain here indefinitely. Offered by two Republicans [Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison], the plan is...
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Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project and co-author Jerome Corsi will be at Ground Zero today to premiere their book "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders". As they note, a protest is planned, and the details of that protest are provided here: iacenter.org/archive-2006/minutemen-nyc072606.htm As you can expect, it's the...
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The basics of the law allowing police to be involved in immigration enforcement have been well known, but Judicial Watch has the actual documents: ...According to the documents, the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) "authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into a written agreement to delegate the...
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July 25, 2006
From this: At least 3 hospitals serving many poor and uninsured people south of I-8 are in danger of financial collapse. Few physician specialists will accept such patients. And the county lacks a system to coordinate their care. Those are three of 24 serious weaknesses in San Diego County's broken...
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The former governor has thoughts. Here's my reply: If we raise the minimum wage, that will result in two classes of workers: American citizens lawfully employed at the minimum wage and higher, and illegal aliens illegally employed at the minimum wage and lower. The difference between now and then is...
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This site translates this La Opinion article about an (English-language) interview with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: It was an error to support Proposal 187, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted yesterday during a meeting with the editorial board of La Opinion. The state’s chief executive expressed his positions on immigration, public education,...
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The NYPost reports that (putatively U.S.) Senator John McCain appeared at a New York Yacht Club gala and stated: "What are we going to do with 11 million people? ...You going to send 'em all back? Mayor Bloomberg testified at a hearing last week that the economy of New York...
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July 24, 2006
The Capital Times has printed a nice article from dairy farmer John Rosenow. The article has a title that makes me happy. It's called "We're obliged to know the hopes of our employees from Mexico": My wife, Nettie, and I could not believe what we were seeing. Roberto, our favorite...
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I haven't watched this yet, but it's video from the NCLR convention and it's titled "CORPORATIONS + LA RAZA = OPEN BORDERS?"...
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Heather MacDonald offers this, which is sure to get the usual suspects and various Lysenkoists up in arms: The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking. For years, conservative open-borders advocates have touted Hispanic “family values” as a prime reason to increase immigration. Hispanic immigrants, these conservatives say, will...
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WSJ columnist John Fund offers a heaping load of open borders propaganda in a column appropriately named "Borderline Insanity". The upside to his screed is that many people will realize it for what it is, and that will further reduce his and the WSJ's credibility. He sets out to show...
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July 23, 2006
There's more on the titular subject in From Citizen to Subject — The Rule of Experts and the Rise of Transnational Anti-Democrats and also in "Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People's Will". Previously: Elite vs. popular opinion on massive immigration: an analysis...
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times offers a fine slice of pro-illegal immigration propaganda called "Arkansas Immigration Raid Reaches Beyond Workers". It "reports" on the aftermath of the raid at the Petit Jean Poultry plant in Arkadelphia, Arkansas a year ago. We're informed that "[i]nstead of feeling reassured that...
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July 22, 2006
This site took a trip along Highway S2 in Anza Borrego State Park near San Diego, and spotted several blue drums containing what 1 gallon water jugs. Did the state of California put those out, or did they allow a "human rights" organization to put them on state land?...
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A Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University immigration poll was discussed here in April. The problems with the question they asked was discussed at the link, and the latest version of the poll asks the same questionable question: In your opinion, should undocumented or illegal immigrants...
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July 21, 2006
Al Walentis is the editor of the Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania). And, he's got a blog where he tries his best to act just like a big city supporter of illegal immigration. A sample: the non-partisan Congressional Research Service issued a report yesterday concluding that Hazleton's ordinance creates immigration rules independent...
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Apparently LULAC ("League of United Latin American Citizens") or one of its chapters operates some kind of van or bus service in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Border Patrol agents saw a man acting suspiciously, and he and two friends got on one of the buses. After following the...
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July 20, 2006
The immigration-related proposals of the DMI have been mentioned here in the past, and not in a good way. Now, Andrea Batista Schlesinger of the DMI is questioning Phyllis Schlafly being selected to testify before Congress about immigration. Her post is simply an ad hominem attack, focusing on Schlafly's cultural...
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Rep. Elton Gallegly offers "U.S. banking policies foster immigration lawlessness": While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. While Mexico is...
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The NYT offers the editorial "Hazy Days of Immigration". As you might expect, it's wrong. Just as an example, let's take a look at the final paragraph: Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City said it well, at a Senate hearing: "It's as if we expect border control agents to...
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Jack Kemp offers "Immigration Reform Will Help Keep This Nation Strong". It's the usual song and dance supporting "comprehensive" immigration "reform", and it doesn't merit much of a response. However, let's take a look at this talking point: Some counsel that Congress should start with tougher enforcement and border security...
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One of the organizers of the March 10 illegal immigration march in Chicago is an official with Mexico's PRD Party. Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, and mayor Richard M. Daley all attended and spoke at that rally. This is yet another link between the Democratic Party and...
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July 19, 2006
Today's march was much smaller than the last one, with somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 participants. Pictures are available at: chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/73136/index.php chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/73139/index.php The last page contains this highly revealing bit: One of the most notable shifts in the demonstration, though, was the huge move toward the more conservative visual representations...
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Proceeding from non-worst to worst, here are three stories about illegal immigrants getting public services. First, Julia Preston offers "Texas Hospitals Reflect Debate on Immigration". It tells the tale of two hospitals: one that inquires about immigration status, one that does not. ...In California, hospitals spent at least $1.02 billion...
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Heather MacDonald has a long article just tailor-made for illegal immigration apologists. It's too much to quote, but here's a representative paragraph: This call for "human rights" is a clever one, for it hides its radical status in a rhetorical safe harbor. What, exactly, are the "human rights" that the...
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From this: The latest immigration bill approved by the Senate is "far, far worse" than the 1986 immigration bill that granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens and created the magnet for the millions more who have come here since, a House panel was told at a hearing yesterday. In...
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There's an interview here where he's asked about those questions. However, I was unable to get their video player to work, so I don't know how he responded....
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From this: The [Avon Park, Florida] City Council has fired City Attorney Mike Disler after he publicly criticized Avon Park's controversial illegal immigration ordinance as "poorly drafted" and unconstitutional. The Ledger reported Disler's remarks in a Thursday front-page story regarding how the ordinance might affect Wal-Mart's plans to build a...
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July 18, 2006
Esther J. Cepeda of the Chicago Sun Times offers "UIC study: May marchers mostly U.S. citizens". In addition to promoting the study, it's little more than an advertisement for tomorrow's march. Let's take a look at the study and see if there might be problems with it: University of Illinois...
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Here's a letter that a retired Border Patrol agent sent to Wimpy Bill Frist....
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This is basically a publicity stunt and an attempt to wheedle more goodies from the feds, but nonetheless: Gov. Chris Gregoire sent an invoice of nearly $50 million to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday, saying the federal government needs to reimburse the state for the cost of housing criminal...
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July 17, 2006
A question for strongly partisan Republicans, "small government" (i.e., low tax) Republicans, and those few remaining Bush partisans: what if Bush is completely wrong about immigration? What if his pro-illegal immigration policies serve only to give more power to the Democrats and lead to policies that are against your beliefs?...
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Albert R. Hunt of Bloomberg News (formerly of the WSJ?) offers "Letter from Washington: Unlikely duo may end immigration impasse", and WaPo staff writer Charles Babington offers the similar "GOP Fears Fallout Of Immigration Split". Both offer the conventional-but-incorrect wisdom, and both promote the Senate's illegal alien amnesty scheme. The...
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July 16, 2006
The Denver Post's Karen E. Crummy offered "Legislator: Ga.'s law no panacea" back on June 29. It covered the new illegal immigration law in Georgia, but - as might be expected - it covered a few things up: Unfortunately, Crummy interviewed a single Georgian, State Sen. Sam Zamarripa, who voted...
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From this: So bad is the Senate's version of immigration reform that it has given birth to a whole cottage industry of analysts and journalists dedicated to exposing the bill's more objectionable proposals. Their good work has shattered the premise of open-borders advocates that all they are attempting to do...
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July 15, 2006
AVON PARK (Florida) -- A proposed ordinance outlawing assistance to illegal immigrants, which has brought national attention to this small Highlands County town, could prevent the city from issuing a business license for a proposed Wal-Mart supercenter scheduled to open next year. "I think it can be construed that way,"...
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July 14, 2006
Let's take a look at the thoughts of one of those who opposes Hazelton's new anti-illegal immigration ordinance: "Hazleton will die without immigrants," said Dr. Agapito Lopez, 62, a retired Hazleton ophthalmologist and a member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs... (link; after you read the rest of...
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Hazelton PA has passed a local ordinance that tries to prevent illegal immigration flourishing in their city. Needless to say, this has got the supporters of illegal immigration in an uproar, and now they're being sued by some far-left, illegal immigration supporters such as the ACLU and the Puerto Rican...
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Instapundit conducted an interview with Senator John McCain, and here's my video reply to the segment relating to illegal immigration:...
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July 13, 2006
Here's part 3 of the interview with a former Border Patrol supervisor....
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The Senate illegal alien amnesty scheme, in addition to flooding the U.S. with both legal and illegal immigrants, would also sharply devalue the worth of U.S. citizenship. The latest example: The Senate immigration bill would require that foreign construction laborers here under the guest-worker program be paid well above the...
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From a John Cornyn statement (via this): An amendment to help DHS end "Catch and Release" was just killed by Sen. Reid. He raised a "point of order" against the amendment, preventing a vote on Sen. Cornyn's amendment. From an earlier description of the amendment: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, chairman...
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July 12, 2006
The Arizona "humanitarian" organizations No More Deaths (run by Dr. Robin Hoover) and Derechos Humanos (run by Isabel Garcia) have signed an "agreement of hospitality" with the Mexican government that will let those groups assist potential illegal aliens inside Mexico. They will be providing them with "food, water, footwear and...
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Cook County Commissioner Roberto Maldonado wants the county to hire illegal alien health workers: The idea is clearly illegal, immigration experts agree, but Maldonado said he will introduce the plan Wednesday to highlight the shortage of bilingual health providers at county facilities. This highlights that a large segment of Hispanic...
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July 11, 2006
As can be expected, environmental groups are unable or unwilling to effectively oppose the trashing of the border region due to hordes of illegal aliens: Recently I was at a waist-high border vehicle barrier in a valley northeast of Tecate, Baja California. As far as the eye could see, strewn...
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She offers "Ignoring the easy solution on immigration": Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss - then a congressman - was annoyed at the old Immigration and Naturalization Service for trying to enforce the nation's laws. In 1998, when INS agents rounded up illegal workers at the Vidalia onion fields in southeast Georgia,...
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Heather MacDonald has the background on Mayor Mike Bloomberg and NYC's illegal alien sanctuary law (Executive Order No. 41). Also see: Bloomberg: N.Y. Too Corrupt to Function Without Illegals Previously: Mayor Mike Bloomberg's "Immigrant Muddle" RFID implants for "guest" workers? Bloomberg has an immigration plan for you, Citizen Mayor Bloomberg...
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Alfonso Chardy of Knight Ridder offers the disgusting story "Senate hearing in Miami touts immigrants' contributions": "My dad came here, sometimes worked three jobs, but the jobs were there for him and the opportunities were there for him," Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said as...
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July 10, 2006
From this: More than 430 Guatemalans [many or most illegal aliens] gathered at St. Peter Catholic Church Saturday and Sunday to meet with Guatemalan consulate officers and apply for the ID card. Many also applied for a Guatemalan passport, which some of them said they had no need for when...
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July 09, 2006
The Minuteman Project held a march in Hollywood yesterday, and the counter-protesters clashed with the police and several of them were arrested. Of course, from the AP report on the incident, you might be left wondering what really went on: An officer was injured and several people were arrested during...
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July 08, 2006
The WaPo reports on the difficult journey of a Guatemalan who wants to enter the U.S. illegally ("Meeting Danger Well South of the Border" by N.C. Aizenman). Since the Washington Post has endorsed illegal immigration, isn't their article a bit in bad taste? Shouldn't they try to keep under wraps...
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July 07, 2006
Ralph Reed is apparently making pro-enforcement noises, but his history is quite a bit different....
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From the NY Post: Mayor Bloomberg stood before a U.S. Senate panel studying immigration Wednesday and unloaded testimony larded with contradictions and, to be kind, half-truths. But he did it with passion, so nobody seemed to notice - or care - that he pulled his "facts" from thin air... ...The...
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The Los Angeles Times' David Kelly offers the slightly balanced report "Vision That Inspires Some and Scares Others: Aztlan". This is actually a step up for the Times: instead of simply apologizing militant Chicano attempts to reclaim "their" land away, they offer a somewhat more balanced view. Of course, it's...
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July 05, 2006
The Dems are playing immigration-related radio commercials in Spanish. The speaker is former BP sector chief and Congressman Silvestre Reyes: ...Now, instead of acting to secure our borders and pass immigration reform; Republicans are holding hearings, just so they can keep scapegoating immigrants. They think that's how they'll win elections...
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It was held in the building you see off in the distance. And, that's as close as I got. I tried to attend today's big Immigration Townhall Meeting on immigration at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol station in San Diego. I got there about an hour after it had...
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July 03, 2006
The extended entry has a disturbing article that appeared in the apparently considered-mainstream journal "Black Issues in Higher Education". For future reference. This is especially an interesting article for MEChA/reconquista apologists....
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The extended entry has two miscellaneous articles from 1994. For future reference....
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The extended entry has a few reports about 1995's Latino Summit Response to 187 which was discussed in this entry about Fabian Nunez....
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The extended entry has yet another in this series. For future reference....
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The extended entry contains a 1995 article about Proposition 187, including the "Latino Summit Response". More later....
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For future reference, the extended entry contains a few news articles from 1994 and 1995 concerning California's Proposition. Other articles will follow. Note that Fabian Nunez is currently the Speaker of the California Assembly. While Nativo Lopez is fairly extremist, in the boycott case he was less extremist than Nunez....
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July 01, 2006
This is a bit... strong: The Hagel-Martinez Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 is a swindle wrapped in a deception inside a lie. Although marketed as immigration reform, the bill provides corporate welfare on an unprecedented scale. Hagel-Martinez is a historically significant bait and switch that will diminish the prosperity...
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Nanci Pelosi has ordered the following to be promulgated: The primary obligation of elected officials is to protect the American people and to protect our borders. "Reports that the Bush administration cannot muster even half of the National Guard troops scheduled by the end of this month for deployment at...
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The National Council of La Raza ("National Council of The Race"), a far-left, Ford Foundation-sponsored racial power group, will be holding its annual meeting at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 8-11. Speakers will include former President Bill Clinton, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Los Angeles...
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There are three field hearings scheduled on immigration "reform". Sen. Arlen Specter is holding one on July 5 in Philadelphia, and the House is holding one on the same date in San Diego and then in Laredo on July 7. Times and exact locations here. If you're in the area,...
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Various newspapers have printed an infinite series of propaganda featuring various growers complaining about how their crops are rotting in the fields because of a lack of cheap foreign serf labor. Even Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns recently got into the act. First, the article "Grape growers squeezed" from the San...
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June 30, 2006
The latest in a long line of stories about farmers desperate for cheap foreign labor contains a public admission that should be a bit shocking and - if the Bush administration and most of Congress weren't corrupt - would result in an investigation. Instead, it results in face time. From...
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On June 26, the political hack penned "Base Desires": A recent poll by Tarrance Associates shows how out-of-touch the House leadership is with rank and file Republican voters. Far from appeasing the "base" by their tough position on immigration, they are alienating the very voters upon whom they most depend......
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The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation released a press release touting a poll they commissioned which allegedly shows public support for the Bush/Fox/Kennedy/Reid/ANSWER/ISO/WCW illegal alien amnesty scheme. Now, quite unsurprisingly, the White House is touting the AHLEF/AHLA poll. I spent a little time looking around their site trying to...
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June 29, 2006
From their press release: TREA Senior Citizens League filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in U.S. District Court this morning after numerous refusals over three years by the U.S. Department of State and Social Security Administration to provide a draft of, or virtually any pertinent information regarding, the...
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WASHINGTON - With President Bush's immigration policy surviving fierce criticism in a Utah congressional race, lawmakers on both sides of the debate turned their attention Wednesday to finding a compromise on immigration legislation. Those who oppose Bush's call for immigration reform — which includes a guest worker program and legalization...
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From this: A federal grand jury issued an indictment Wednesday on charges that an Arkansas firm led by the chairwoman of the Benton County Democratic Party and candidate for the state House of Representatives hired undocumented workers. Robbyn Tumey of Rogers, chief executive of Managed Subcontractors International of Rogers, confirmed...
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June 28, 2006
Spanish news agency EFE has apologized for its smear of Arizona gubanatorial candidate Don Goldwater. It said he wanted to hold illegal aliens in "concentration camps". Now they say: EFE Executive Vice President Emillio Sanchez said a freelance writer for the news agency inaccurately described Goldwater's plan. "Upon further reflection,...
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June 26, 2006
On Saturday a group of Americans from the "Citizens for Legal Immigration" held a protest in Morristown (Hamblen County, Tennessee). It ended in a disabled, 61-year-old Vet being arrested. Before that he was allegedly tasered. The charge was that he was trying to bring a flag pole onto Courthouse grounds,...
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Bill Frist: The immigration bill I voted for in the Senate started the United States down the road to a much better immigration system. But it's not finished. He goes on to explain that he mostly supports the Senate's sell-out/massive illegal alien amnesty, but it just needs to be fine-tuned...
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From this, via this: The Programmers Guild, an IT worker interest group, has filed 300 discrimination complaints so far this year against companies alleged to have posted "H-1B visa holders only" ads on job boards. "Abuse of the H-1B program has become so widespread that companies apparently feel free to...
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June 25, 2006
(June 20) TUCSON, Ariz. - Two weeks on the job, the new head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday he does not favor building a huge wall along the Mexican border. "I don't support, I don't believe the administration supports a wall," Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said in...
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The DC Metrorail system is considering adding signs in Spanish to their stations (via this; satire about this here). While the cost is fairly high ($500,000 to $900,000 per station), this is seemingly a minor matter. Until you read that they might add these signs under pressure from "immigration advocates"....
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Illegal alien amnesty backer Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) recently announced that he'll be conducting public hearings on immigration around the country. These are designed to compete against the pro-American hearings to be conducted by various members of the House: ...Specter said his first hearing would be in Philadelphia on July...
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June 23, 2006
Arizona gubanatorial candidate Don Goldwater has received well-deserved condemnation of his calls for "concentration camps" for illegal aliens from such stalwart Americans as John McCain (R-AZ) and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ). However, there's just one problem: Goldwater didn't call for "concentration camps"; that phrase came from the state-run Spanish news agency...
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June 21, 2006
Washington --- The Bush administration acknowledged Monday the wholesale failure of past efforts to enforce immigration laws in the workplace and warned that a major Senate-passed overhaul fails to provide the necessary tools to fix the problem. ...[Stewart Baker, homeland security undersecretary for policy planning] said the administration wants "to...
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This site hasn't paid too much attention to the Utah Republican primary between incumbent Chris Cannon and challenger John Jacob due to a perhaps unwarranted concern that the latter was a bit weak on the topic of illegal immigration. However: On Monday, a day after learning first lady Laura Bush...
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Gil Cedillo is a California state Senator who works tirelessly for his constituents, especially if they're citizens of Mexico who aren't here legally. He's tried several times to give driver's licenses for illegal aliens, including a creative way that would have favored them over everyone else. His latest attempt to...
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June 20, 2006
From author Po Bronson: ...Liberals like me have ignored the way the steady trickle of new Americans has become a massive repopulation program, primarily from Mexico. During the 1970s, 120,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. every year. During the 1980s, it was about 200,000 a year. During the 1990s, it...
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"I Can't Believe They're Scholars": the Independent Institute has managed to get 500 people - many with PhDs - to sign on to their incredibly lame-brained Open Letter on Immigration. At least four of the signatories have blogs that accept comments, and if anyone has time please monitor their coverage...
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Nathaniel Hoffman and Andrew Becker of the Contra Costa Times offer separate articles that support illegal immigration. Hoffman offers "Immigration rights advocates contemplate their next steps". From the headline on down it's completely biased towards supporting illegal immigration and foreign citizens marching in our streets. The groups mentioned include: Catholic...
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June 19, 2006
NRO offers an open letter supporting Enforcement First: The signers include William Bennett, Robert Bork, William F Buckley, Ward Connerly, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, David Keene, John Leo, Herbert London, Rich Lowry, Daniel Pipes, Phyllis Schlafly, and Thomas Sowell among others....
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George F. Will was last heard offering a false choice argument on immigration, supporting the Bush line that we have to either give amnesty to illegal aliens or conduct mass deportations. Now, he's back with "Calculating Immigration Politics": The cost of this, paid in the coin of lost support among...
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June 16, 2006
In Miami, a billboard that used to read "Stop the Invasion. Secure our Borders" has been changed to read "Secure our Hoods. Stop the Invasion of Yuppies. Stop Gentrification." In an article that almost supports the vandalism, WPLG reveals the various thoughts of those who conducted the "public art action":...
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June 15, 2006
The WaPo offers "Crisis Seen in Nation's ER Care", but despite having three pages in which to do so, fails to mention illegal immigration as one of the major contributing factors to the crisis. (Via this)...
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The estimate here says: Based on the outcomes of the last amnesty in 1986, we expect that nearly 10 million illegal aliens will receive amnesty under the Hagel-Martinez bill. That is, they will legalize and eventually apply for permanent residence and be eligible for citizenship. As in 1986, we also...
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June 14, 2006
John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal puffs out his chest and crows "Public Warms to Bush Immigration Stance": By 50%-33%, the survey shows, Americans support the views expressed by President Bush and also by businesses, Hispanics and Democratic leaders: that steps to strengthen border security should be combined with...
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As I have said many times before, all those who promote "guest" worker schemes are lying: our "guests" will never go home. Don't just take my word for it: Jose Luis Vazquez and Elia Garcia know what they're talking about when they predict that new immigrants crossing the border under...
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DENVER - Gov. Bill Owens said Tuesday that he's likely to order the Legislature's return to the Capitol this summer unless the Colorado Supreme Court backs down from its Monday decision barring an anti-illegal-immigration initiative from November's state ballot. Owens supports the proposed ballot measure to prohibit state and local...
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June 13, 2006
He wants to take a "long look" at the Senate's sell-out, which might mean nothing will happen before Congress goes on its summer vacation....
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That court recently blocked Coloradans from voting on an initiative that, aside from administrivia, says this: Except as mandated by federal law, the provision of non-emergency services by the state of Colorado, or any county, city, or other political subdivision thereof, is restricted to citizens of and aliens lawfully present...
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The "U.S. General Population Act", introduced by Rep. John Linder (R-GA), proposes immigration changes that even "liberals" can support. It would make our immigration laws the same as Mexico's....
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June 12, 2006
From this: The Department of Homeland Security allowed a man to enter its headquarters last week using a fake Matricula Consular card as identification, despite federal rules that say the Mexican-issued card is not valid ID at government buildings. Bruce DeCell, a retired New York City police officer, used his...
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This site hasn't waded into the Great Philly Cheesesteak controversy until this: City officials are expected to file a complaint Monday against an English-only ordering policy at Geno's Steaks, one of Philadelphia's best-known cheesesteak joints that has entered the national immigration debate. Situated in a South Philadelphia immigrant neighborhood, Geno's...
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June 09, 2006
From this: The much-criticized claim about "jobs Americans won't do" seems to have left the president's vocabulary. But though opponents of illegal immigration call the jobs claim a myth, the network news media have adopted it as an argument that needed addressing. "The American people are the ones hiring these...
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June 08, 2006
From Rukmini Callimachi of the AP: They are the backbone of post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction: Workers who converge at dawn and wait to be picked up for 14-hour shifts of hauling debris, ripping out drywall and nailing walls. But because many are in the country illegally, immigrant workers rebuilding New Orleans...
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June 07, 2006
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto links to a blogger's completely unscientific observations on the percentages of Boston valedictorians who are immigrants, and in so doing resorts to the name-calling more commonly used elsewhere in that rag. Specifically: Why They Call Nativists 'Know-Nothings'... Maybe the anti-immigrant slogan should be: "Keep...
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Presidente Bush verged even closer to being an outright cheerleader for illegal immigration in a speech at the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha ( whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060607.html ). This site hasn't spent a lot of time analyzing Bush's various blatherings on this issue since they're usually the same and they all have...
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June 06, 2006
A Kossack named "dobie" offers the diary entry "Immigration Policy: Unintended Consequences". His point is that we should support illegal immigration lest the housing market collapse: The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that building an average housing single family unit generates 3.47 jobs, equivalent to 5.9M jobs nation-wide,...
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From this: new hiring and job openings at Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) have suddenly ballooned (here and here). The ONLY reason that would happen is to hire new workers to administer the new Guest Workers program (a/k/a ShAmnesty). Says one Homeland Security federal agent: Take a peek at the...
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The story of U.S. sugar cane farmers importing "guest" workers has some not-unexpected parallels to current attempts to create such a program: By the 1930s, Big Sugar had a labor problem, and so it turned where Big Business often turns: Big Government. The New Deal operated as corporate welfare in...
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June 05, 2006
Dr. Edward Lazear is the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers ( whitehouse.gov/cea/elazearbio.html ). In March 2005 he wrote "Mexican Assimilation in the United States" (PDF file) for the Hoover Institution. (Via this). Here's the abstract: By almost any measure, immigrants from Mexico have performed worse and become assimilated...
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June 02, 2006
Not that the constitution really matters to the Senate, but: The Constitution mandates that all bills regarding the raising of revenue must originate in the House. The Senate, in proposing that illegal aliens pay (only) three years' back taxes as part of a legalization program, may have improperly invaded legislative...
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The National Council of La Raza is considered a mainstream group despite their name literally - and in effect - meaning National Council of The Race. Their spokesmen have been featured on national TV shows and at any one time you can find dozens of news articles offering their viewpoint....
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June 01, 2006
Here's a good introduction to what they say vs. what they really mean. For instance: When they say: These immigrants will pay fines and get punished for breaking the law. What they mean is: Citizenship for sale, cheap. Pay fines of $2,500 and we will give it back to you...
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Many trends that start in the U.S. eventually reach Canada. The latest example is illegal aliens marching in the streets demanding rights to which they aren't entitled. The group "No One is Illegal (Toronto)" demands, among other things, a "National Regularization Program for non-status people" (nooneisillegal.org/about). More on them here....
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May 30, 2006
As a follow-up to their critically acclaimed article "Nation splits 4 ways on illegals", USA Today will soon come out with an article called "Pro-illegal immigration groups split 7 ways". In the original story their "analysis" divided the nation into four groups: "hard-liners", "unconcerned", "ambivalent", and "welcoming". Only "hard-liners" want...
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May 29, 2006
This post and this one featured pictures of Bush's big photo-op on the border, featuring the leader of the free world tooling around in a dune buggy. However funny/sad those pictures might be, they can't match this video. It's a CBS Early Show interview Bill Plante did with Bush during...
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May 28, 2006
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) added a provision to the Senate's immigration bill that says in part: CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT -- Consultations between United States and Mexican authorities at the federal, state, and local levels concerning the construction of additional fencing and related border security structures along the United States-Mexico border shall...
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May 25, 2006
Vicente Fox of Mexico spoke before the Alta California legislature earlier today, and heartily welcomed the U.S. Senate's sellout of this country: "It is a moment that millions of families have been hoping for. This is the moment that millions of people have been working for... Today's historic vote is...
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Sen. Jim DeMint offers Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Amnesty Bill and Sen. Chuck Grassley offers a different list of the Top 10 Flaws with the scheme....
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ATLANTA - Former president Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of President Bush, sees eye-to-eye with him on immigration. Carter on Wednesday called the Republican president's commitment to immigration reform "quite admirable," saying he agrees with Bush's support of a system that would eventually grant citizenship to some illegals......
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Ed Meese offers "An Amnesty by Any Other Name". See also "Terrorist Loophole: Senate Bill Disarms Law Enforcement", "Immigration Reform or Central Planning?", and "Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years" (that estimate has since been reduced to 53 to 60 million...
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There's more on Rep. Mike Pence's "middle ground" "guest" worker scheme here. Under that scheme private companies would administer the program, vet applicants, and so forth. The things Pence forgot to deal with include: * our "guests" would have U.S. citizen children, meaning they would never leave... * the entire...
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May 24, 2006
The 2/20/05 article "New state import: Thai farmworkers" contains the following: [Mordechai Orian, president of the California-based labor contractor Global Horizons] says... the Thais have a lower runaway rate than the others and are more productive. The quote above and much more are discussed in this article about guest workers...
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New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is getting real with "Enforceable, Sustainable, Compassionate". He proposes four steps to immigration "reform". The first is creating a national database so employers would know they're hiring legal workers: "The database must identify all job applicants in America based on documentation that cannot be corrupted--fingerprints...
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This has been confirmed by someone else on the thread, so it seems accurate: James Sensenbrenner just called in to Chris Core's conservative radio talk show [on KMAL] to report that Karl Rove, acting for the president, was actively trying to sabotage the House immigration bill by persuading other congressmen...
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Many of the aspects of the current immigration "reform" proposals are similar to the horribly failed past amnesties, and even some of the players - such as Teddy Kennedy - have been at this same game for decades. There is, however, a major difference between now and then that politicians,...
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Via this press release we're informed that there's a 7 minute video here featuring: Cardinal Roger Mahony and International Broadcaster Stanley Interrante of "Catholic News & Views" who provide their conflicting opinions on proposed legislation and the Cardinal's responsibilities... Provisions of the Catholic Catechism are cited by Interrante to demonstrate...
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This page informs us that at 10am today there will be: a vote on a cloture motion – a motion to end debate on the bill in preparation for passage. If the cloture motion passes, a limited number of germane amendments could still be brought up if agreed upon in...
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Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has introduced a "middle-ground" illegal alien amnesty scheme. It seeks to split the difference between the full-on amnesty in the Senate and the supposed only other choice of mass deportations. (As usual, the other choice of simply enforcing our current laws is not mentioned). As Rep....
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May 23, 2006
There's a campaign to send bricks to various legislators as a symbol of the border wall. It's certainly a good way to get their attention, but I would perhaps prefer that people spend their time and money attempting to discredit those legislators instead. Be that as it may, the...
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The March 10 Committee organized the big Chicago rally in favor of illegal immigration. And, they've revealed what they want: immediate citizenship for anyone who makes it over the border: Leaders with the March 10 Committee convened a meeting Saturday in Chicago of about 150 activists from around the country...
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Vicente Fox of Mexico is starting a whirlwind tour of the U.S. today which will conclude on Friday. The apparent goal of the tour is to help immigration "reform". However, as with the illegal alien marches, he will end up helping the American side. He'll be in Utah for three...
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There's a list of contacts here. This page has updated information on various votes. And, if you want something to talk about, see "Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years". They've since reduced that to "just" 66 million, but the difference would...
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Various dioceses of the Catholic Church are support immigration forums called "Walls or Welcome". One of them is described here. Obviously, the very title of the forum is highly misleading. Having a "wall" (actually one or more fences) is not in opposition to remaining a welcoming country. We can still...
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May 22, 2006
From 2003 comes this long analysis from a former aide to Mexico's National Action Party (PAN). In that capacity he spoke with 80 putatively American legislators, mostly federal: ...In these talks with the congressmen, this author encountered an unexpectedly large amount of sympathy for the proposal to extend amnesty to...
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In the recent past this site has somewhat defended Andrew Sullivan because of his battles with Instapundit and other BushBots. However, given his support for illegal immigration ("Panic builds up behind America's Great Wall", link), that policy will change. He diagnoses a large part of the opposition to illegal immigration...
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From this: If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force. Even as Mexico...
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From this: California's senior senator called for an amendment to the immigration bill now moving through the Senate that would allow undocumented workers the chance to earn a green card after a years-long wait. Speaking on television Sunday, Dianne Feinstein called her “earned legalization program” a comprehensive, realistic program to...
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One point that I haven't made as often as I should is that an illegal alien amnesty would also be an amnesty for those who've employed those workers: Among those who will be cleared of past crimes under the Senate's proposed immigration-reform bill would be the businesses that have employed...
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You have to wonder what else in the Senate's illegal alien amnesty scheme isn't practical as well: The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that would administer a new guest-worker program and rule on applications from millions of illegal aliens, says the pending Senate bill doesn't give...
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In my discussion of Bush's big May 15 immigration speech, I took issue with this statement: And temporary workers must return to their home country at the conclusion of their stay. I maintain that those "guests" will never leave, and thus that Bush lied to the country. However, here's Kaus...
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Earlier today, president Bush spoke at the National Restaurant Association meeting in Chicago. In addition to discussing Iraq, he also apparently - yet again - promoted his "guest" worker scheme. The restaurant industry makes heavy use of "immigrant" workers, the (other) NRA has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to...
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May 19, 2006
There's a chart with a summary of all actions taken so far here....
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From this: More than a ten years ago, the federal government built a fence along the San Diego sector in California. Ed Henry, assistant chief of the Border Patrol for that region, says that the impact was immediate. "Apprehensions here are down a staggering 95 percent, from 100,000 a year...
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From this: ...The report focused on a Border Patrol station responsible for 13 miles of mountainous border east of San Diego. It said that only 6 percent of 289 suspected immigrant smugglers caught there were federally prosecuted for that offense in the fiscal year ending in September 2004. Some were...
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From this: The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents. "There was a felony they were committing, and now they can't be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to...
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There's some number crunching here....
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May 18, 2006
A similar picture is here. [UPDATE: That and the following pics are no longer there; links removed.] A scowling closeup with El Presidente pointing his finger is here. In that shot, his shirt looks vaguely like a guayabera. The following shots have a Border Patrol symbol in the background:...
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There's an even less flattering picture here. [UPDATE: That image no longer exists]...
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There's a live thread here....
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An interview with a former Border Patrol Supervisor is here: Because the U.S. Government is so eager to please foreign interests, particularly Mexican interests, Border patrol managers allow the Mexican Consulates to intrude far beyond the requirements of the treaties. There is no requirement under the treaties that the Consuls...
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From this: The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona, while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush. According to its website, the U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, which covers...
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Just as Harry Reid changed his mind from supporting America's borders into supporting massive illegal immigration, Mel Martinez (R-FL) seems to have done a 180, and much more recently. From October 24, 2004: Our immigration policy should first and foremost ensure the security of our nation and those individuals posing...
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May 17, 2006
This site is circulating an "Open Letter on Immigration": In cooperation with the Independent Institute I am looking for as many signatures as possible from economists and other social scientists. Brad DeLong, Greg Mankiw, Vernon Smith, Tyler Cowen and many others from both the left and the right have already...
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They have reviews of Bush's big speech from George Borjas, Heather MacDonald, John O'Sullivan, and others. Most of them were a bit negative. Just a bit....
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From this: Mexico said Tuesday that it would file lawsuits in U.S. courts if National Guard troops on the border become directly involved in detaining migrants. "If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people ... we...
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Lawrence B. Lindsey - former chief economic adviser to President Bush and a supporter of "reform" - offers this: ...Comprehensive immigration reform promises that people already in the United States illegally can apply for citizenship, but requires them to "go to the back of the line." But a key question...
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The AP offers a video report here that Yahoo or they subtitle with the following: Visit Columbus, New Mexico, where some community leaders fear that blocking immigrant smuggling could put the town out of business. While I didn't watch the video I have a pretty good idea of what it...
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May 16, 2006
Chairman Mehlman has issued an urgent plea: Dear ______, Our immigration system is broken. And we need your help to fix it. In his address to the nation last night, President Bush showed the way to getting real results on this difficult issue. We need your help today to stand...
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They offer the editorial "The right words". Their only quibble is that he wasn't specific enough: The president has given the process some much-needed direction, urgency and even a moral framework. As I briefly described here and in other posts, allowing illegal aliens to come or stay here is actually...
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May 15, 2006
That rag provides "Border Illusions": President Bush's speech from the Oval Office last night was not a blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform. It was a victory for the fear-stricken fringe of the debate. Because, we know that anyone who supports the sovereignty of this nation is simply driven by fear....
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Is he insane? This is the same speech he's delivered countless times. Does he expect a different result? Is he intentionally trying to drive his popularity down to 20%? For decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders... First, the United States must secure its...
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From this: U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today unveiled an impact analysis that shows the Senate immigration bill – should it become law – would permit up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to 66 percent of the...
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At this point in time, the biggest question about his upcoming speech is "why?" Since he's apparently going to say the exact same things he's said before - with one slight addition - why is he bothering to give a speech that will just make even more Americans distrust anything...
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From this: Served over the airways at WBAB Radio in Babylon, critics of a parody that include the words "no green cards, just right" call the song an un-appetizing array of insults and slurs... "I felt insulted," said Reverend Allan Ramirez of the Brookville Reformed Church. "I felt that I...
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May 12, 2006
UPDATE: Comments on the speech here. --- I'll update this post with comments on the speech after Bush delivers it to the Americans. In the meantime, here's a preview: Dear Americans: I would like to speak to you tonight about the immigration crisis. As you know, millions of good-hearted, hard-working...
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The Senate has decided to move forward with its massive illegal alien amnesty. Details here and here. Please contact a Senator or two and let them know what you think. One worthy candidate is Dick Durbin, who had this to say: These [illegal immigration marches] are important, but they have...
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May 11, 2006
Earlier today the House voted to let the Pentagon put troops on the border in certain cases. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), this looks like 'boob bait for Bubba': "The Texas delegation is very concerned about the border and are pushing urgency," said Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, who joined other Texas...
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Lou Dobbs: President Bush continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 million and 20 million illegal aliens, and he insists still that nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable. And the lies keep coming from both political parties. This president...
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The left-wing screed "Undocumented Immigrants Have The Right To Stay Here" is only highlighted here as an example of what might happen if we continue to allow politicians to refuse to enforce our laws: I maintain that undocumented immigrants have the right to stay, and probably the right to citizenship...
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The AP reports that the Senate will spend the next two weeks trying to pass their massive illegal alien amnesty bill. About 99% of the time this site takes issue with the AP's biased reportage, but this is not one of those times: ...Senate Democrats have expressed fears that protections...
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Andrew Thomas, the Maricopa County Attorney (Phoenix), is trying to prosecute a coyote and 48 illegal aliens. However, his attempts have resulted in a legal challenge apparently directed by the government of Mexico: In a letter of protest to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, County Attorney Andrew Thomas today accused...
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One good way to reduce illegal immigration - or at least try to stop an amnesty - would be if Americans would go to appearances by politicians and ask them tough questions. Then, make sure that the question and the answer are publicized. As an example, think what would have...
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May 10, 2006
The Bush administration is giving the Mexican government information on law-abiding domestic border watch groups operating inside the U.S. The claims and denials fall into three general categories: 1. The U.S. government is simply abiding by the letter of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (overview here). 2. The...
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One can only hope. While treason is narrowly defined, if the Bush administration has indeed been giving the Mexican government information on law-abiding U.S. groups operating inside the U.S. that doesn't relate to specific Mexican nationals, they have committed treason in the general if not the Constitutional sense. We should...
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May 09, 2006
A new website "I am a proud American" (iamaproudamerican.com) seeks to counteract stereotypes about Latinos. For instance, they've produced a "short film": In one, a Hispanic man is mowing the lawn of a giant home in an affluent neighborhood. A blonde pulls up in a BMW and asks the man...
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This post has more on the titular subject....
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The Chicago Tribune's "Immigrant bill worries banks" from Becky Yerak informs us that officers of banks that give home loans to illegal aliens are worried about being named as felons if HR4437 passes. As discussed below [1], if a bank knows that someone is here illegally, and then gives them...
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May 08, 2006
According to this, there will be yet another illegal immigration march in Washington DC on May 19, but this will have an interesting twist. They intend to "surround" the White House as part of their rally. While I haven't confirmed that, he says he heard it on Azteca America, a...
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The article "Immigration bills concern some experts" says: Three key elements of the Senate legislation raise particular concern... [1.] A permanent doubling of today's historically high levels of legal immigration, from roughly 1 million a year to 2 million a year. The provision has attracted surprisingly little attention. While that...
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From this (via this): A China Central Television (CCTV) unit is developing an epic, fall-of-Rome-flavored documentary TV series around the theme of America in decline. Unlike the crude state-sponsored videos that glorified the September 11 terrorist attacks as a humiliating strike against an arrogant superpower, the planned multipart production promises...
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The Washington Post prints "U.S. Immigration Debate Is a Road Well Traveled" by staff writer Michael Powell. Apparently he's unfamiliar with logical fallacies, because the whole article is one long example of "Appeal to Tradition" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition). His slice o' propaganda posits that because the U.S. has admitted millions of immigrants...
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May 06, 2006
There was an anti-illegal immigration protest in Santa Clara on Friday, which was counter-protested by "local La Raza representative Quetzaoceloacina" and a dozen of her friends: "We are the indigenous people of this land. This is stolen land... You are the ones who are illegal aliens... They have the audacity...
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Nativo Lopez is one of the organizers of the May 1 illegal immigration marches. He's also with Hermandad Mexicana Nacional and he's the president of the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA). And, he was kicked off the Santa Ana School Board for his views on bilingual education; one parent even said...
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May 05, 2006
An immigration "debate" was scheduled in Chicago yesterday, to feature the local Minuteman Project chapter squaring off against the Blagojevich-linked Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The later group was one of the sponsors of the March 10 rally which was also organized by someone linked to the Mexican...
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The AP's "Cost to Remove 12M Illegal Immigrants Huge" is a bit more balanced than we've come to expect from the AP. (The author is Martha Mendoza, and that appears to be the AP-supplied title). While they start with the Center for American Progress' "study" that features a hugely-inflated cost...
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May 04, 2006
By now you've heard about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's plan to use his posse to round up illegal aliens in the Phoenix area. The Sheriff has already arrested about 120 illegal aliens and charged them with conspiracy to smuggle themselves into the country. What you probably haven't heard about...
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If you saw my long list of May Day supporters, you already know that, but there's even more here from the NYC rally. Groups mentioned - most with photos of their signs - are: Workers World Party International Socialist Organization F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism Stand Together) A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition SDS (Students for...
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The latest Zogby poll should send a very loud, clear message to the Senate that if they support any form of amnesty their parties will be in serious trouble in 2008 if not sooner. Consider just this one point: "2 percent of Americans believe current immigration is too low". That's...
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From this: ...the most important domestic policy challenge in the 21st century is found in the labor market. Alone among industrialized nations, the United States has a massive class of unskilled workers. This unskilled workforce is being buffeted by globalization-enabled labor arbitrage, the automation of blue-collar jobs, and, yes, the...
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May 03, 2006
Tony Blankley: It is almost inconceivable that an argument is taken seriously that we don't have the right to secure our borders and determine who shall enter our country. Not only has such lunacy become respectable, but our mainstream media instantly, instinctively embraces such a position. Every radio headline newscast,...
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From this: On NPR's "All Things Considered," Gloria Ramirez Vargas, a politician in Baja, Calif., rallied her constituents with a similar cry: "Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot...
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Here's part of his challenge: "The brazen support of California Democrats for this walkout amounts to a reckless endorsement of policies that make our nation and our borders less secure... Nancy Pelosi and her Capitol Hill Democrats should explain to the American public whether they support California's Democrat leaders who...
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Here's a gallery from Seattle, two disturbing photos of extremists leading a San Diego march, and a slideshow from the Bay Area here. UPDATE: There are several pics from the L.A. march here, including one from the Los Angeles chapter of the FMLN. That's a former El Salvadoran Marxist guerrilla...
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Byron York does something that the MSM fails to do: follow a link. At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, "We Are America." Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name "New American...
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From this: As the nation braced for another demonstration of illegal alien power today [May 1], the press has been trotting out "fear engulfs the illegal alien community" stories, following the arrests last month of over 1,000 illegal aliens working for IFCO Systems North America. For instance: IMMIGRANTS PANICKED BY...
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May 02, 2006
The mayor (Michael L. O'Reilly) and most of the members of the Herndon (Virginia) town council were voted out of office earlier today. That city is home to a day laborer center and the vote was seen as a leading indicator of the illegal immigration debate, the Washington Post sheepishly...
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From this: Waving a Palestinian flag, a group of Muslims and Arab-Americans on Monday joined thousands of demonstrators in the state capital participating in the national boycott to support immigrant rights. While their presence was welcomed by the predominantly Hispanic crowd, their message received a mixed reaction. ..."No to the...
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There are pictures of the illegal immigration march in Sacramento here, with photos from various other marches here. Here are some videos from Escondido. Don't be fooled: we'll still have Taco Bell. And, there was a mini-riot in Vista near San Diego. From the other side, there are L.A. pictures...
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The best, most long-lasting way to reduce illegal immigration is to reduce the credibility of those leaders who support it. That includes politicians, media sources, and leaders of various lobbying organizations. If very few people believe what they say, they'll be forced to either tell the truth or they'll simply...
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From this: We all awoke to headlines in our nation's most important newspapers reminding us that this is "A Day Without Immigrants." Not illegal immigrants, mind you, but immigrants. USA Today headlined today's demonstrations and boycott "On Immigration's Front Lines." The New York Times headlines its story "With Calls for...
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May 01, 2006
The AP article "1M Immigrants Skip Work for Demonstration" reads like free advertising for the "immigrants" who were marching in our streets. And, MyWay has coupled it with no less than four heartwarming photos of big American flags. Taken together, it's clear where MyWay stands, and I'd suggest choosing another...
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April 30, 2006
Here are pictures from an illegal immigration march in Lynwood (near Compton) earlier today. Note the large number of placards from the Communist front group ANSWER LA. It's not just corporatists who profit or seek to profit off illegal immigration. Many on the far-left apparently see massive illegal immigration as...
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L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez - at that link being snowed by a Mexican consul - offers "For One Migrant, March Is a Luxury". It concerns a housekeeper he met: I met Hernandez, 39, a while back at a birthday party for my nanny's son. She and the nanny grew...
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Did you know there's a growing "Immigrant" Rights Movement? Of course, most Americans will refer to that "movement" as "foreign citizens who are here illegally marching in our streets making a show of force and demanding rights to which they aren't entitled", but many news/propaganda organizations seem to prefer the...
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April 29, 2006
Laura Wides-Munoz of the AP offers "Raid Rumors Fuel Fear Among Immigrants". The article isn't just heavily slanted in favor of illegal immigration. It goes even further and has the subtext that enforcing our immigration laws is not just cruel, but even similar to Nazism. Thousands of illegal immigrants stayed...
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Or: "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan!" Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles' first Latino mayor in the modern era, will skip huge pro-immigration rallies planned for Monday to meet with pro football officials in Dallas, leaving organizers feeling like "a ship without a captain." Oscar Sanchez, an organizer of the Great...
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April 28, 2006
Who supports the May 1 illegal immigration boycott and/or the marches on that day? Let's keep track of them in this post. The Democrats in the California state senate support both the march and the boycott. UPDATES -- 5/2/06: New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber attended and spoke at her...
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I don't have an original link for this, but according to "The menace of multiculturalism": A poll for the Pew Hispanic Center finds that 55 percent of Americans of Mexican descent consider themselves Mexicans first. A similar study of Muslim immigrants in Los Angeles finds that only 10 percent think...
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April 27, 2006
My sentiments exactly: ADL Engages In McCarthyism What else can you their report entitled "Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants: Hispanics Target of Incitement and Violence"? It goes on about Nazi and Klan violence and racist rhetoric – and having set the bait, pull a big switch and tar non-racist,...
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From this: Calling federal immigration raids a "scare tactic" designed to intimidate "the new civil rights movement," the [Chicago] City Council on Wednesday demanded a moratorium on sweeps while Congress debates a new immigration policy. This Sun-Times shows which side it's on in the following two paragraphs: Twenty-six immigrants employed...
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April 26, 2006
Bush recently held a meeting of pro-illegal immigration Senators ("Bush, senators agree on alien citizenship, shut out critics"). According to Mel Martinez (R-FL): "There was a pretty good consensus that what we have put into the Hagel-Martinez proposal here is the right way to go... I think he was very...
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April 25, 2006
Florida governor Jeb Bush supports taking discounted college educations from American citizens and giving them to citizens of other countries who are here illegally. He also supports the associated devaluation of U.S. citizenship. Details on what he wants in "Bush Wants In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants' Kids". Justification for what...
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April 24, 2006
In an interview with the Chicago site "La Raza" (not the NCLR), Senator Dick Durbin refered to the recent pro-illegal immigration marches: These demonstrations are important, but they have to be peaceful and positive and continue reaching out and bringing in more people. As long as the face of this...
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Earlier today president Bush spoke in Irvine and issued his stock spiel about immigration "reform". A transcript is here, including this: But if you catch somebody from Central America coming back, you just can't send them back for a while, so there needs to be a place to detain them....
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From this: Republicans are planning to make end runs around opposition to a border security bill with the expected Senate approval of billions of dollars in immediate spending and with the Bush administration announcing an increase in workplace enforcement. Party leaders hope the moves will satisfy voters concerned about illegal...
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On the 17th came Heather MacDonald's "Postmodern 'Rights' en Los Estados Unidos": With last month's mass demonstrations of illegal aliens, the United States has entered the era of postmodern rights. The protesters looked like conventional rights demonstrators, with their raised fists, chants, and banners. But unlike political protesters of the...
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From this: When you read the local news sections of the Rocky Mountain News or The Denver Post these days, it's sometimes like reading an infomercial for illegal immigration. I analyzed the staff-written news stories about illegal immigration which appeared in the Denver dailies from April 8 through April 15....
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April 23, 2006
The article "How L.A. kept out a million migrants" informs us that a million or so illegal aliens who would have come to Los Angeles actually went elsewhere. This is not because we took the straightforward tack of enforcing our immigration laws. Rather, it's because of: * too few low-wage...
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Steven Hill of the CFR-linked "New America Foundation" offers "Time for a Tex-Mex Marshall Plan". In brief, he proposes ending illegal immigration by ending the U.S.: creating an "American-Mexican union" out of the two previously independent, sovereign countries with borders and things like that. (Fear not, un-Canadian hosers: Canada would...
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From this page from an artisans group in Mexico: Please: Close the United States Border to Illegal Migration. Help us to Keep Our Husbands Home with our Families Dear friends in the United States.... We are Mexican women from villages in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero. Our brothers and...
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April 22, 2006
Those reporters offer "Latino leaders to discuss 'Great American Boycott' in Mexico City" which contains this wildly inaccurate paragraph: In March, as student walkouts and protests spread across the United States, the Mexican government ordered its 46 consulates to stay away from the marches, fearing a backlash among anti-immigrant groups....
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Many Democratic politicians and pundits supported the recent illegal immigration marches, and some Democratic politicians appeared at some of the rallies or even helped organize some of them. And, some other organizers of the rallies have various kinds of links to the government of Mexico. While that's not enough to...
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April 21, 2006
From this: A Democratic National Committee (DNC) radio ad claims Republicans would "criminalize...churches just for giving communion" to illegal aliens. The claim is nonsense. The House bill to which the ad refers [HR4437] doesn't say that. Both the Republican sponsors of the bill and the Bush administration have made clear...
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Supporters of illegal immigration hastily convened a protest in front of DHS's office in Chicago to speak out against yesterday's once-in-a-blue-moon enforcement action. The report from CBS 2's Sylvia Gomez is here, and that from ABC 7's John Garcia is here. The former reported on the big Chicago march of...
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April 20, 2006
Rachel Swarns of the New York Times informs us in "Immigrant Groups Plan Campaign to Bring Legal Changes" that: 1. There's a split among illegal immigration supporters. Some groups continue to support the "Great American Boycott of 2006", while others, including those in the "National Capital Immigration Coalition", oppose the...
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From this: Native Utahn David Timmins makes it clear up front that he has no personal issue with Mexico or the Mexican people. During a well-traveled career as a U.S. foreign service officer, he lived for a time in Mexico and says he enjoyed his posting there immensely. But in...
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April 19, 2006
The allegedly pregnant head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Julie Myers informs us of the following alleged fact: "ICE has no tolerance for corporate officers who harbor illegal aliens for their work force. Today's nationwide enforcement actions show how we will use all our investigative tools to bring these...
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April 18, 2006
Here's a flyer for the upcoming May 1 illegal immigration march and boycott: Yes, it's a fake. But, it's pretty accurate too. Feel free to email the link to the photo or repost it elsewhere. The large size is here....
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The Arizona Daily Star's ombudsman is contrite: "Republicans Hate Latinos" read the headline on Friday's front-page in red, all-capital letters. No attribution. Just stated as fact. That quote has been in the news since labor activist Dolores Huerta used the phrase in an April 3 speech at Tucson High School....
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From this: Americans better start waking up and doing something about the madness that's occurring in our nation's high schools and elementary schools. Youngsters are being subjected to left-wing propaganda, and when teachers and principals are caught, they start two-stepping around the issue. For instance, a Tucson high school student...
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From this: Here's a puzzle: All nonadvocacy surveys of public opinion show only tiny minorities - commonly about 10 to 20 percent - favoring increased legal immigration. Last month's national survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press is typical, reporting only 17 percent in this camp....
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If slavery weren't considered morally abhorrent, would those companies, media sources, and politicians that currently support illegal immigration instead support slavery? Well, probably not. And, frankly, probably the only reason they wouldn't support it is because "A Welfare State With Illegal Immigration Offers Companies a Better Deal Than Slavery"....
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April 17, 2006
If you haven't been to an old-school carnival with the freaks and the fun house mirrors and all lately, take a trip to these two posts to enjoy the same effect: * Bradford Plumer offers "Letting immigrants vote" * "vegankid", writing from somewhere in NC, describes a recent immigration protest:...
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The AP article "U.S. Firms Recruit Cheap Labor in Mexico" doesn't offer extensive coverage of its titular subject, but it does contain one way that various Chinese restaurants were able to make sure that "liberals" and others got cheap food: ...In one case, a single smuggler allegedly earned $900,000 over...
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Anna Gorman offers this article which contains a highly misleading statement: When federal authorities catch illegal immigrants on the job, some U.S. employers have a ready explanation for how they came to be hired: It wasn't us. It was a contractor. ...For now, work site raids and prosecution are infrequent,...
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From this: Cardinal Roger Mahony, an outspoken supporter of congressional proposals to allow illegal immigrants to become citizens, is urging immigrants not to participate in a worker and student boycott planned for May 1. The planned boycott, coming on the heels of massive nationwide protests, calls on students and workers...
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According to a Zogby poll taken between March 31 and April 3, 52% oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, with only 32% favoring it....
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David D. Kirkpatrick offers "Demonstrations on Immigration Harden a Divide": ..."The size and magnitude of the demonstrations had some kind of backfire effect," said John McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who said he was working for 26 House members and seven senators seeking re-election. "The Republicans that are tough on immigration...
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Obviously, no other country (that wants to remain a country and not just a territory) would allow millions of foreign citizens to enter their country illegally and then march through their streets demanding rights to which they aren't entitled. Unfortunately, because of corrupt "liberals" and "conservatives", we are perhaps the...
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The WashTimes offers an overview in "Mexican aliens seek to retake 'stolen' land" that even Kevin Drum could understand: La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole...
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April 16, 2006
The t-shirt above is from Dallas radio personality Greg Knapp, and says: "If I had known all this was going to happen, I would have mowed my own lawn."...
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** Job offered ** Job description: Picking lettuce Rate: $50.00 per hour (must work for one year) Contact: John McCain, Supervisor of Lettuce Operations, U.S. Senate Employer's address: 241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg. United States Senate, Washington DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2235 Fax: (202) 228-2862 Employer's field offices: Phoenix 5353...
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April 14, 2006
According to KFI, a group of activists marched in front of Maxine Waters' office in South L.A. yesterday. The march concerned immigration. But, since they were African-Americans and were opposed to her support for illegal immigration and they claim she's turned her back on her constituents, you probably won't read...
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Anna Johnson of the AP offers "Some Immigration Marchers Pay High Price". Let's see if we can spot errors as early as the first paragraph: Six employees at a seafood restaurant in Houston were fired this week after skipping work to take part in a pro-immigration march. In Detroit, 21...
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April 13, 2006
Gil Cedillo is the author of a series of failed bill designed to give California driver's licenses to illegal aliens: six attempts in the past seven years. Plus, he's also proposed similar bills giving illegal aliens - and only illegal aliens - a pass on towing charges. This year's attempt...
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[See the update below] Think Progress - a site associated with the Clinton-associated Center for American Progress - downplays the organizers of the recent illegal immigration marches in this one sentence post. That links to this brief Ezra Klein post, which links to the AP article "Groups Help Organize Immigration...
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From this: The marchers in the Immigration Rally in Phoenix, Arizona, will get some unexpected information during their protest outside the state capitol on Monday. Along with the many leaflets and flyers promoting one agenda or another, many of them received little cards, introducing them to the concepts of libertarianism,...
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In an interview with a Catholic newspaper Cardinal Roger Mahony as much as admitted that he's been misrepresenting HR 4437: [interviewer:] Giving a sandwich to a hungry man could theoretically be a criminal act. [Mahoney:] Absolutely. Let me just give a couple of examples that are so absurd, people just...
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This blogger says he was at the big Dallas protest for illegal immigration... on the American side: I was part of a pro-USA rally in Dallas on Saturday. It was excellent and really uplifted my belief in this country. I also went as part of a counter protest on Sunday...
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April 12, 2006
John Derbyshire provides this handy-dandy cut-out-and-clip glossary to terms used in the immigration "debate": "legalization" ----- amnesty "guest worker plan" ----- amnesty "temporary worker plan" ----- amnesty "path to citizenship" ----- amnesty "out of the shadows" ----- amnesty "comprehensive reform" ----- amnesty...
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There are other pictures from the L.A. rally here, including one of Antonio Villaraigosa. Here's a flyer from one march. (Swiped and reformatted from the comment here)...
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The SacBee's "Unity's theme at Capitol as more U.S. flags flutter" has more on the propaganda push by illegal immigration supporters and their use of U.S. flags. Obviously, those mainstream sources that support illegal immigration have been highlighting their use of the American flag, and others have been buying it....
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The New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and just about every other newspaper or media outlet that's tried their best to spin foreign nationals marching in our streets and making demands as "immigration marches". I previously linked to Networks Champion...
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April 11, 2006
Believe it or don't, some supporters of illegal immigration are still trying to scare grocery shoppers with fantastic tales of overpriced veggies should illegal immigration ever stop. Shoppers are encouraged to support corruption or be forced to spend $10 for a head of lettuce or be required to fork over...
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Earlier today I posted the following comment on the thread "Immigrants Stand Up Against Right-wing Racism" by Matt Stoller. It was deleted either by Matt Stoller himself or by one of the other administrators there. There's nothing in the comment that would seem to violate their rules. And, of course,...
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April 10, 2006
Like me, a blogger wonders whether the infamous poster is really from the Democratic Party. (Wouldn't they say "vote Democratic"? Or, is the flyer's terminology correct?) I don't think I've ever linked to the BushBots at Powerline before, but they say they'll have footage from today's illegal alien marches...
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From a UPI article: ...Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., also is warning about the danger of too many illegal immigrants. She said the United States can no longer afford to be the ''welfare system'' for Mexico's poor... Unfortunately, the UPI article is from August 26, 1993....
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First, this needs much more attention: Dallas illegal aliens march: George P. Bush was scheduled And, from Neal Boortz: Rights? What rights? Tell me, please, just what rights these demonstrators are marching for today? The right to cross our borders illegally? The right to remain in this country illegally? The...
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Back in 1994, Barbara Boxer wanted to put National Guard troops on the border. From an August 1994 L.A. Times article: Ten months after Sen. Barbara Boxer secured federal funds to deploy National Guard troops to hinder illegal immigration, the program has not been implemented anywhere in the country and...
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The entry "Which Senator tried to scuttle our entire immigration system?" already discussed one hidden feature in the possibly late and not lamented immigration "compromise" bill. That loophole would have stocked our immigration courts with judges drawn from the ranks of immigration lawyers. In other words, the foxes would be...
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There's a very long statement from Harry Reid here. It's from 1993, back when he was even more of a border hawk than Rep. Tom Tancredo. Since that time he claims he realized the error of his ways, which explains his current immigration policy which - oddly enough - meshes...
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April 09, 2006
Hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens are marching in our streets, making a show of force and demanding that we give in to their demands. Normally, you'd expect the president of the United States to be opposed to illegal aliens marching in our streets, but George W Bush is a...
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Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) supports illegal immigration and giving an amnesty to those illegal aliens currently here out of "humanitarian" grounds. Let's take a look at just how much "compassion" there is in his support for illegal immigration. His "compassion" would lead to: - more illegal immigration into the U.S. -...
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Without using the word "corrupt", Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution opines that our national politicians are corrupt: If they really wanted to, your representatives in Washington could dry up illegal immigration almost before you could say, "Tom Tancredo is a tiresome demagogue." All they would have to do...
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April 08, 2006
Martin Wolk is the chief economics correspondent for MSNBC, and he offers "How immigrants might actually boost wages". This site is not qualified to weigh in on the Battle of the Economists: is George Borjas correct in his findings that massive immigration drives down wages for low-wage Americans? However, part...
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April 07, 2006
Lawrence Kudlow - host of CNBC's Kudlow & Company - got a special treat this morning: A half dozen financial journalists met with President Bush this morning in the Oval Office, including yours truly. The president was upbeat on the economy and today's job numbers and emphasized low tax rates...
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And even Insty notices, linking to this by Kaus, which links to a swear-word-ridden rant by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is a "bestselling American author ... named one of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics by Time magazine". In less influential news, the falsely titled story "Immigration Rallies Take On More Civil,...
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A strong charge indeed, but after reading "Hidden Bombs" I think it's highly justified: ...The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders yesterday announced a compromise on an immigration bill - with some details still to be worked out. But details that may continue from the bill passed out of the Judiciary...
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A completely unverified comment here says: John Kerry on IMUS this morning claimed poeple wanted to deport 12 million Americans. If anyone has a tape that would be great. And, KFI-AM Los Angeles played a snippet of Harry Reid saying that hundreds of thousands of Americans had taken to the...
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Has the Senate's plan to sellout this country stalled? Or, will the Senate be able to get it together long enough to complete the sellout? Putting aside party differences, Senate Republicans and Democrats coalesced Thursday around compromise legislation that holds out the hope of citizenship to many of the estimated...
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April 06, 2006
I rarely listen to Rushbo, but a few weeks ago he seemed to be carrying Bush water on Dubai ports deal. Yesterday however, he appears to have verged off the Bush reservation. Here's more from Tuesday's transcript, including this: I mean, if they're afraid to enforce the current laws on...
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When I called the D.C. office of Senator Richard Durbin and expressed my opposition to any amnesty scheme, whether called that or not, the lady who answered the phone uttered the titular phrase. Only after I repeated what she said back to her a couple times and used the phrase...
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The latest scheme from the Senate involves a horrendously complicated series of tiers: illegal aliens here more than five years would be given amnesty, illegal aliens here less than five years but more than two years would need to go to a port of entry to get their amnesty, those...
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Hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens recently marched in our streets, demanding to be given the rights of citizens. The Senate looks to capitulate to their demands, giving them some form of legality. Needless to say, this will set a very dangerous precedent. And, it will give a great deal...
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April 05, 2006
Nowadays, Harry Reid supports illegal immigration, even when he ends up greatly harming American citizens and assisting Bush, connected contractors, and the government of Mexico in the process. (See also this, this, this and this about an Abramoff connection). However, Drudge reminds us that it wasn't always so. A 1993...
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He didn't say that exactly, but Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner, Henry Hyde, and Pete King have sent a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Since the House bill's passage [HR 4437], many have misconstrued the House's good-faith effort to bring human traffickers to justice as a way to criminalize...
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According to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll: Two-thirds (68%) of Americans believe it is possible to reduce illegal immigration while just 20% disagree. The belief that the issue could be addressed adds to the intensity of the debate. A similar number (66%) believe it doesn't make sense to debate new...
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McCain admits he doesn't have enough votes to get his massive amnesty by, so in response they may be trying to sneak a "limited" amnesty by that would "only" cover 7 million illegal aliens or so. The main Senate Switchboard is (202) 224-3121 or (888) 355-3588. You can also send...
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We've seen an awful lot of misleading polls recently, and the one from CNN takes the cake. They received a 47% for, 44% against to this question (about the unnamed HR4437): As you may know, Congress is considering a bill which would build fences along 700 miles of the border...
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April 04, 2006
If illegal aliens who'd been here for several years were granted amnesty, they'd have to present proof that they'd been working and such, right? If this post is correct, then employers might oppose that amnesty for fear of being accused of having employed illegal aliens. While it's good in theory,...
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There's a lot of racism swirling around the immigration "debate", and not always of the kind that's obvious. Certainly, some of those who oppose or support various forms of immigration are indeed racially-motivated. However, one of the more hidden varieties comes from those who think of Mexicans as just those...
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A new poll from San Jose State University's Survey and Policy Research Institute might be taken to show that most Californians support some form of "guest" worker scheme or even citizenship for illegal aliens. The San Jose Mercury crows about this in the article "Poll: Californians sympathetic to immigrants" by...
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April 03, 2006
The TV pundit offers a wonderful, heartwarming, and misleading essay in "To Become an American". 1. He downplays the issue of illegal immigration, and might give the uninformed reader the mistaken idea that there's little difference between the legal and illegal variety. 2. By doing the first, he might give...
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Is Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times correct in his assesment of Lou Dobbs ("Lou Dobbs: bile across the border")? Rather than discussing Rutten's thoughts, here's a handy chart perhaps showing why the LAT would be so upset: Dobbs: reports on backgrounds and affiliations of racial separatist groups and...
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Welcome readers of the Washington Post's "Town's-Eye View of Immigration Debate". There are a few things missing from that report, the most important being that the boycott the WaPo mentions was organized by a former Mexican Consul General. The WaPo's Peter Slevin says: Proponents of more generous accommodations for illegal...
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This blog post discusses two rich people admitting the real reason they support illegal immigration. The first case is Erica Jong: she supports it so women of her class can have domestic help. And, they cover the recent comments of "Mayor Mike" Bloomberg. He supports illegal immigration, and one of...
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Dick Morris offers "Menace in Mexico". If you read it with a proofreader's eye, you'll notice that it has several errors. Unfortunately, his thoughts have even deeper errors. He wants us to pass immigration "reform", aka a "guest" worker scheme. Because if we don't, it will drive the "Mexican electorate"...
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In what might be an attempt to resuscitate their credibility, the NYT offers this article that discusses whether the phrase "they take jobs Americans won't do" is accurate or not. Surprisingly, they show just how false that is. And, they've even got charts. (In case that link stops working, there's...
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The AP breathlessly announces the results of their latest poll: "Poll: Most Open to Letting Immigrants Stay": Overall, 56 percent of Americans favor offering illegal immigrants a shot at some kind of legal status; roughly two-thirds of those ages 18-34 like the idea and an equal share of those with...
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Oddly enough, a series of recent articles make the claim that if the GOP doesn't enact a "guest" worker scheme or take other steps to encourage even more illegal immigration, they run the risk of losing the (mythical) "Hispanic Vote". First up is Ed Gillespie ("chairman of the Republican National...
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April 02, 2006
The titular person is a write for the Toledo Blade, and he offers "Combine Enforcement And a Path to Legalization". In brief, he wants to enforce the border. But, he also wants to legalize those already here. What will happen when our border defenses are ignored by corrupt politicians and...
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March 31, 2006
If a new Time Magazine poll is to believed, around 72 percent of Americans favor a "guest" worker scheme of some kind. Of course, the "is to believed" part is our taking-off-point to mention that the poll question only gave two choices: 1. Allow Illegal Immigrants To Get Temporary Work...
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The WaPo has a profile of Rep. Tom Tancredo in "Tuning In to Anger on Immigration". Reading between the lines, one might think that the WaPo is trying to portray those who oppose illegal immigration as emotionally-driven and fact-challenged: For many frustrated, scared and angry suburbanites and small-town residents, Tancredo...
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From this: House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday suggested the House would be open to a temporary worker program when the House and the Senate later work out their differences. Specter said it was a hopeful sign that lawmakers would accept a comprehensive approach. Could you please call his office...
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March 30, 2006
As if we needed more reminding, "Bush reassures Fox on immigration bill" reminds us that Bush doesn't work for or represent the vast majority of American citizens: CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush reassured Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday he was committed to getting the...
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From this: ...The Los Angeles Times duly reported, "Some Republicans fear that pushing too hard against illegal immigrants could backfire nationally, as with Proposition 187 (the 1994 ballot measure that sought to deny benefits for illegal immigrants that) helped spur record numbers of California Latinos to become U.S. citizens and...
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There's a long article here listing some of the groups involved: unions, Catholic clergy, far-left groups, and even teachers unions. He notes also that the Georgia immigration march was organized by former Mexican General Consul Teodoro Maus. However, he fails to mention that it was apparently your blogger who brought...
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March 29, 2006
Not to get your hopes up, but Tony Blankley offers this: ...according to a National Journal survey of Congress, 73 percent of Republican and 77 percent of Democratic congressmen and senators say they would support guest-worker legislation. I commend to all those presumptuous senators and congressmen the sardonic and wise...
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Interesting idea here. If our leaders won't do their jobs and listen to the American people, perhaps it would be possible to get some of the states to take the lead on the issue....
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In October, Mark Krikorian of CIS testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary about "Comprehensive Immigration Reform II". As their recent actions show, they weren't paying attention: Lobbyists for business will disagree of course, but their claims of doom and gloom are nothing new. Forty years ago, for instance,...
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John Whitesides of Reuters offers a heaping load of pro-illegal immigration propaganda in "Republicans risk Hispanic support in border debate". It's basically an attempt to corrupt the Republican Party: support massive illegal immigration or you won't get votes. That concept is completely false, as poll after poll shows. The piece...
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March 28, 2006
Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upsidedown at Montebello High. More pictures here. The pictures are from this paper,...
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She writes: I am no immigration policy expert. I read Marc Cooper and think he's right. Marc Cooper is right when he writes simple declarative sentences about ice being cold, the desert being hot in the summer, and the like. However, he's usually wrong when he discusses immigration. See my...
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By sending us millions of their citizens, Mexico has managed to obtain political power inside our country. As shown by the recent marches, that political power can be mobilized - whether in fact by Mexico or just by partisans - into a show of physical force. The U.S. is faced...
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March 27, 2006
There are several photos from the March 25 rally here. Especially note this one....
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Paul Krugman writes: In other words, I'm instinctively, emotionally pro-immigration. But a review of serious, nonpartisan research reveals some uncomfortable facts about the economics of modern immigration, and immigration from Mexico in particular. If people like me are going to respond effectively to anti-immigrant demagogues, we have to acknowledge those...
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March 26, 2006
For a change, here's a Democrat who isn't wrong about illegal immigration....
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March 24, 2006
[See the first update for more] Tim Molloy of the AP offers a roundup of the recent protest by illegal aliens who are demanding rights to which they aren't entitled in the falsely-titled "Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide". It contains the following: Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest,...
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Here's a recent comment from president Bush: "Our government must enforce our borders; we've got plans in place to do so... But part of enforcing our borders is to have a guest worker program that encourages people to register their presence and says to them, 'If you're doing a job...
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From this: When it comes to illegal immigration, suddenly liberal Democrats have only one guide to public policy: "What Would Jesus Do?" The target of their Bible-based ire is a border-enforcement bill that recently passed the House and is allegedly the greatest challenge Christianity has faced since the lions in...
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Unfortunately, it looks like Senator Frist's "enforcement-only" immigration bill has a few hidden surprises that would make it almost as bad as the other bills the Senate will consider. Here's the number of legal immigrants allowed under each bill over the next ten years: 20 million under Sen. Frist's bill...
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This is a bit of a shocker. From "Migration of working-age people has devastated many Mexican villages" by Jay Root: Decades ago, before massive waves of young men fled north, Pedro Avila Salamanca helped his father harvest corn and fatten pigs. He learned to write his name in a one-room...
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From this: [Harry] Reid called [HR4437] "punitive, unfair and un-American," and said he believed a bill introduced last year by Senators John McCain, R.-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., provided a better place to start... Reid traveled to San Diego yesterday after meeting with labor and hotel industry representatives in Las...
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Will president Bush be able to sell Americans on his or someone else's "guest" worker scheme? That appears to be the one-two punch they plan: the Senate will come up with something, then Bush will try to sell it to the American public. Of course, there are a few minor...
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March 23, 2006
Earlier today, President Bush called for civility regarding debating the immigration issue: "When we conduct this debate, it must be done in a civil way". For the rest of the day, this site will honor his wish....
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From this: The American Catholic bishops are waging an intense, sophisticated campaign to promote their version of immigration reform, which happens also to be big business's version of immigration reform. The campaign comes complete with brochures, a well-designed website, prayer cards, bracelets, and phony arguments... Much more at the link....
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On Saturday, illegal aliens will be marching in Los Angeles for rights to which they aren't entitled. IOW, foreign citizens who've entered the U.S. illegally or who've remained here illegally are now agitating - and being agitated - inside the U.S. Have we indeed reached a critical mass of foreign...
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If Cardinal Roger Mahoney turns out to be intentionally misreading the provisions of HR4437 relating to providing aid to illegal aliens, doesn't a major part of his argument collapse together with whatever credibility he might still have? Ramesh Ponnuru discussed Mahoney's claims here, and provides one sample provision from HR4437:...
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From this: Border Patrol agents now know who was really involved in a confrontation between Texas Law Enforcement and alleged drug smugglers in Sierra Blanca. "All the evidence they have gathered from the investigation points to the individuals and the equipment that was involved was in fact not government of...
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March 22, 2006
Since there's so many protests by foreign citizens who have entered our country illegally and are now demanding rights to which they aren't entitled, let's try this compact format: report: "Hispanic groups showing support for McCain bill" reporter: Yvonne Wingett where: Phoenix, Arizona # in group: around 60 signs: They...
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The ads that the government of Mexico placed in the NYT, LAT, and WaPo were created by Rob Allyn, whose PR firm is being paid $720,000 to spread Mexican propaganda in the U.S. AFAIK, no reporter has yet asked Allyn whether he is or will register as a Registered Foreign...
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Drudge is linking to the Agence-France Press article "Bush rules out amnesty for undocumented workers": President George W. Bush said he was opposed to amnesty or automatic citizenship for the some 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Amid an intense debate over the issue among US lawmakers, Bush...
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Darryl Fears of the WaPo offers "Immigration Debate Heats Up": Pro-immigrant activists are planning an April 10 protest in 10 cities that could pull tens of thousands of immigrant workers from their jobs. A coalition of groups including the AFL-CIO, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Catholic bishops, the Day...
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Our Leader has discussed immigration twice recently: here and here. Maybe it's just me, but whenever I hear Bush talking about immigration I'm reminded of that scene from the Woody Allen movie Bananas that goes like this: San Marcos realizes it's in need of a new leader, since their current...
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March 21, 2006
You're probably not likely to read about the latest Zogby poll in the usual sources since it tends to cast a great deal of doubt on those who support massive illegal immigration from Mexico. Namely, is it wise to import millions of people who have a low opinion of Americans?...
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Judy Gibbs Robinson of The Oklahoman offers a mostly standard article on banks giving home loans to illegal aliens: "Illegal immigrants use their taxpayer IDs to apply for mortgages". I'm going to let someone else weigh in on this, but it looks to me like it's possible that two sources...
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Could you please send the article "Saturday's Immigrant Rights March: Who kicked the sleeping giant?" to all of your representatives and urge them to read it? It concerns the recent illegal alien rally in Chicago and it's written by Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights,...
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Brian Feagans of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers "Illegals change the homebuilding industry". It covers the story of a house framing contractor who was driven out of work by low bids from his competitors who use illegal labor, something he refuses to do. It can most charitibly be described as a...
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March 20, 2006
The Washington Post featured a chat about immigration with one of their reporters earlier today, and it shows the only type of "debate" that paper is willing to have about immigration. The chat featured Michael Leahy, author of a recent article about the Minuteman Project in Virginia ("Crossing the Line",...
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A full page ad from the government of Mexico appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and the Washington Post on Monday. While they do have a right to take ads even from foreign governments, the choice was particularly apt considering that all three papers support illegal immigration....
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Michael Leahy of the Washington Post is currently engaged in a chat about illegal immigration here. So far, he's answered three puffball/smear questions but hasn't yet answered mine: -- Regarding "Latino activists", isn't it true that Hispanics from different countries of origin have different political viewpoints, and that even from...
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The article "Whether to aid migrants may be question of faith", although generally portraying the San Antonio diocese of the Catholic Church in the best light, does have a little contrary information, like this: Opponents' "criticism of [HR 4437] is a smokescreen for their attitude that they don't really want...
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March 19, 2006
Chris Hawley of the AZ Republic offers the somewhat surprising article "Wire firm a force in debate over immigration". It's surprising because in a rare move for the AZ Republic it comes close to reporting the actual truth. They come close to implying that Western Union and their parent company...
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March 18, 2006
The editor of The American Prospect offers "Bad times for immigrants". It's so chock full of lies and misleading statements that it's difficult to know where to start. First, of course, the title. Those he's discussing are illegal aliens, not "immigrants". Then, this: [HR 4437's] sponsors have the fantastical hope...
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I don't know because the full text of his latest article is not online: "Illegal Detour: Thinking reasonably about immigration". It starts with this: Illegal immigration is not a big problem in America. Okay, let me amend that before pots and pans and worse things come flying at me. America...
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After reading hundreds of newspaper articles about illegal immigration in small towns, I don't think I've read about a town that hasn't yet experienced the "wonders" of "liberalism". In almost all of those stories there are some "liberals"/corrupt local officials/profiteers around who support illegal immigration and the agenda of a...
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As pointed out before, the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform is funded by the government of Ireland and they're lobbying for a massive amnesty for illegal aliens. And, they've not only got quite a propaganda push going, but they've found media sources willing to carry their water. Yesterday we discussed...
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Luis Gutierrez is a Democratic representative from Illinois. He's also a racist and a racial demagogue. Despite being Puerto Rican - and thus born a U.S. citizen - he's a strong supporter of illegal immigration from Mexico, as his appearance at the recent march in support of illegal immigration shows....
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March 17, 2006
Tyche Hendricks of the S.F. Chronicle offers "Irish join battle over illegal immigration. St. Patrick's Day vehicle for activists seeking reform." The article describes the group Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, but doesn't mention that that group is funded by the Irish government. Is there any way to describe this...
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The possibility of a new "guest" worker/amnesty scheme got much closer yesterday as the Senate Judiciary Committee reached a compromise with the help of Arlen Specter. Specter, Cornyn, Kyl, Kennedy, McCain and others are apparently having their staffs iron out the details, and apparently 12 of the 18 members of...
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Last week the WashTimes got ahold of a draft of a GAO report that says that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is barely able to deal with fraud and won't have a fraud-management system in place for four years: "Immigration agency falters in handling fraud cases". The USCIS would...
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March 16, 2006
Marc Cooper is a writer for the L.A. Weekly and The Nation who's also "Senior Fellow for Border Justice at USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism." He's written about immigration several times in the past, including a Minuteman Project hit piece. He's stepped up the production of pro-illegal immigration...
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Rep. Joe Baca Sr. runs the Building Our Leadership Diversity PAC, part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Now, several members of the latter group are disassociating themselves with the former group because of what they consider questionable contributions to Baca's sons and others connected to him. This was probably a...
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Bill Frist might introduce an "enforcement-only" bill in the Senate, which might then overshadow Arlen Specter's - dare I say it - un-American massive amnesty scheme: Judiciary members on both sides, however, cautioned Mr. Frist not to bypass them. "The majority leader is wrong," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat....
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March 14, 2006
It involves social security: Free Inside Every 'Guest Worker' Plan: A Ticking Social Security Time Bomb: ...SSA is an Executive branch agency whose director is appointed by the President. Director Joann Barnhardt is so eager to give U.S. Social Security benefits to Mexicans that she signed the U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement...
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A couple of the comments at this religious blog are of interest: Clearly, the Scriptural message calls for some degree of humane provision for foreigners. And so many of the people you encounter are hard working people trying to get money back to their struggling families in their homelands. But,...
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There's a roundup of some studies here. There have been other studies that showed somewhat different results than the ones discussed, but not being an economist I have no way of definitively saying which side is accurate. However, basing an opposition to illegal immigration on the economic factors alone is...
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March 13, 2006
Several groups are going to be "lawfully and peacefully" protesting against George W Bush's unwillingness to prevent illegal immigration on May 6 in Crawford TX. The website's a little hard on the eyes, so hopefully they'll bring it into this century soon. In any case, it will probably get a...
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Among other things, this article contains this: While attitudes about immigration differ between Central and South Americans, this distinction is not often made in policy discussions. Immigration specialist Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington-based think tank, says the idea of a monolithic Hispanic culture is...
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March 12, 2006
Oregon's governor, Ted Kulongoski, used to support allowing state agencies to attend events sponsored by the local Mexican consulate where they gave out ID cards to illegal aliens (see "Dave Frohnmayer, U of Oregon collaborate with Mexican government" and "Mexican residents gain ID benefits"). Now, he's changed his mind and...
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The latter is a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, and he offers "If churches targeted in immigrant fight, a higher law will prevail", in which he discusses the thoughts of one Rev. Michael DeGerolami: ...Congress has done a lot of stupid things, but it is criminal to criminalize decency...
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When was the last time you heard the phrase "soup kitchen"? Frankly, I hadn't heard that term until recently, and before then I think I might have heard it while watching an Our Gang movie. Yet, the term has made a comeback recently. Several articles opposing HR 4437 have featured...
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The titular person penned "It's time to support a guest-worker program". Normally, I might spend a few minutes pointing out the folly in his editorial. Except, that paper accepts comments and at post time there are 12 good comments and all of them point out just how wrong he is....
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March 11, 2006
A while back, the Albany (Oregon) Democrat-Herald ran an editorial supporting North America, i.e., turning the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into an EU-style superstate. At the time, I wondered whether the editorial had been planted by one of the various global elite forces as a bit of a trial balloon....
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March 10, 2006
Up to a few hundred thousand illegal aliens and their supporters marched for immigration "reform" in Chicago earlier today. Among those supporters are the local news media and politicians. The news media took the opportunity to send out their ethnically-biased reporters who offer some rather non-journalistic propaganda. First up, Rafael...
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A lot of people in the chattering classes are afraid to discuss illegal immigration because of the racial component. However, even the most Victorian "liberal" should feel free to discuss illegal immigration by the Irish, right? On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Teddy Kennedy, and Charles Schumer welcomed a delegation...
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March 09, 2006
They want feedback on immigration matters before 5pm today....
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From this: Mountains of trash, recurring fires, despoiled natural springs, vandalized historic sites and disappearing wildlife are part of the devastating toll that the government's running battle with smugglers and migrants is taking on national parks and wildlife refuges along the U.S. border with Mexico. In southern Arizona, the damage...
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The idea of Hillary Clinton running as the more pro-American candidate seems to have been dashed as she's come out in favor of immigration "reform", i.e., a massive amnesty scheme. She sent a four-page letter to her constituents (which includes illegal aliens) that "steered away from specifics" according to the...
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March 08, 2006
From this: The United States' inability to slow illegal immigration from Mexico is fueling a financial crisis in the 24 counties along the 1,951-mile Southwest border, according to a new study. It says the counties are struggling to fund law enforcement, health programs and other necessities because they are spending...
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A group of illegal aliens and supporters of illegal immigration are planning a large march in Chicago on Friday, March 10: somosunpueblo.com/March%2030/English.htm That page explains that they want to legalize "undocumented immigrants". They also want Illinois to be a "SANCTUARY" for "all immigrants". And, they're calling for a "National GENERAL...
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March 07, 2006
Yet another march by illegal aliens and their supporters, this time in Portland. Joseph B. Frazier of the AP provides coverage biased towards the illegal aliens and those who profit off them here. There were reportedly 4000 participants and they were opposed to not just HR 4437, but to gubanatorial...
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Please take a moment and contact your Senators to tell them what you think of any kind of an amnesty or "guest" worker scheme. And, please tell your friends to do the same and spread the word to blogs and other message forums. Background information in "Illegal immigrants could stay...
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The Chicago Tribune prints a guest column that stands in striking contrast to their usual support for illegal immigration: ...In 1986, we conducted this same debate and the "solution" then was to grant amnesty to about 2.7 million illegal immigrants. Then, amnesty advocates said we need grant it "just this...
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Morton Kondracke appeared on Hugh Hewitt's show on Sunday, and it was a true Bushgasm of Bush-o-mania. They briefly discussed illegal immigration, and as could be expected Kondracke was his clueless best: ...I mean, he's got to come back here and do one of the biggest education jobs that any...
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March 06, 2006
The New York Times has finally discovered what's been evident for about twenty years: there is almost no workplace enforcement of our immigration laws. Despite the snarky introduction I've provided, the article is strangely non-NYT-like: "The Search for Illegal Immigrants Stops at the Workplace" by Eduardo Porter. In fact, it's...
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Former contributor to the lunatic libertarian magazine Reason Matt Welch was recently hired by the L.A. Times to write the occasional editorial. Could "A silly sting" be his very first effort? If so, bravo! (If not, bravo to whoever wrote it!) It's truly a wonderful piece in the classic Tokyo...
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From Dan Stein of FAIR comes this: The Stein Report has learned of an secret briefing for Senate staffers by the Bush administration today. In a move to build support for Bush's guest worker amnesty plan, administration officials talked about how they would actually implement the program. Jaws dropped as...
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March 05, 2006
One employee at a Tyson Foods plant in Shelbyville Arkansas has tested positive for tuberculosis. Another 64 workers are being tested. Tyson denies there's a problem. The incident is "not an outbreak, but there has been one person to test positive," said Sheets. He said there is no risk whatsoever...
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March 04, 2006
Will Michael Chertoff soon be "spending more time with his family"? That's what Human Events says. Neither of the "administration sources" who made or refuted the claim are named. In other Skull News: March 4, 2006 — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday stressed the importance of...
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March 03, 2006
The Cardinal gets taken to task by Ira Mehlman of FAIR: The House legislation that Cardinal Mahony finds so odious, HR4437, will not prevent clergy from administering Communion or feeding people who show up at a soup kitchen. Rather, when religious workers cross the line and actively assist people in...
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From this (nofollowpolicy): "On Wednesday, [Governor Rod] Blagojevich expressed support for Claudette Marie Muhammad, director of community outreach for the Nation of Islam, a black Muslim group led by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan... Muhammad recently invited commission members to attend a Farrakhan speech in which he accused 'Hollywood Jews' of...
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March 02, 2006
Yesterday Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney spoke out in favor of "immigration". Of course, what he meant was illegal immigration, and he wants his priests to violate HR 4437 if it passes. How exactly does one discredit someone like Mahoney? Reporters and politicans can get fired or driven from office,...
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Continuing their slow marcha into the 19th century, Mexican officials have announced a new website that will go online in May. It's located at remesamex.gob.mx, and it's intended for Mexican citizens who are living in the U.S. Can you guess what it's about? If you've been following along, you're right!...
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Yet another pro-illegal immigration protest is planned in Corvallis Oregon. This is sponsored by the Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United (pcun.org). Previously in this long list of illegal aliens agitating inside our country: "Illegal aliens, supporters to protest in Washington"....
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March 01, 2006
Nora Boustany writes "Diplomatic Dispatches" for the Washington Post. Readering her latest column, I have trouble refering to her as a a reporter, prefering instead "transcriptionist" or perhaps "propagandist." Half of the column transcribes the remarks of Mexican ambassador Carlos de Icaza. If you've been following along, you could probably...
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Casa de Maryland is a government-funded organization that strongly supports illegal immigration. And, they recently threatened to follow around not just members of the Minuteman Project but their children as well. Where do they get their money, and what can you do to help shut them down? This thread (see...
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Illegal aliens and their supporters are agitating for more rights inside our country, and thousands will be visiting Washington DC in March. Thousands of pro-immigration advocates will protest next week at the U.S. Capitol against a bill that they fear would result in fines or jail time for operators of...
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Now that there's a title! California's taller, slightly not-as-dumb Senator Dianne Feinstein appears to have a bit of a nuanced position on immigration matters. She opposes the "guest" worker schemes she's seen so far: "I haven't seen a guest-worker program that I would vote for yet," she said. Feinstein believes...
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February 28, 2006
From this: The Western Governors Association on Tuesday called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform including a temporary guest worker program. The group that represents 18 western states passed the policy resolution unanimously while meeting at the National Governors Association annual conference... UPDATE: As you might expect, it's even...
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Buried in this 2/24 article is this: [Senator Dianne Feinstein] said she would co-sponsor a bill that would offer college grants to the undocumented youths who arrived in the United States before age 16 and have been here at least five years. As pointed out before, every discount given to...
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More information on Senator Arlen Specter's massive illegal alien amnesty - and contact information for your Senators - is here. Additional background here. Please take a moment and express your opinion on this anti-American bill....
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The WashTimes offers "Churchmen and coyotes": Few pieces of immigration legislation have been more egregiously distorted than the alien smuggling provisions that were included in H.R. 4437, the immigration reform bill passed by the House of Representatives in September thanks in large part to the diligent efforts of Judiciary Committee...
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February 27, 2006
The City of Orange in Orange County arrested eight day laborers on Friday and turned them over to the Border Patrol. They admitted to being here illegally. Now, we're supposed to believe that this decision is something that has to be defended. The AP offers that view in "Orange city...
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That paper offers the editorial "Crossing the Borders Immigration dilemma: Finding middle ground". It's a long editorial and it's chock full o' canards. This bit tells you all you need to know: President Bush, who was governor of Texas, knows quite a bit about immigration from Mexico. His instincts are...
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Mexico has more consulates in the U.S. than any other country, and since exporting illegal aliens to the U.S. is a growing business they keep building more. The latest will be coming to Little Rock, Arkansas. Jake Beckwith of the Texarkana Gazette offers fawning coverage and transcribes some of the...
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February 26, 2006
As previously discussed, Casa of Maryland is a state-funded group that not only supports illegal immigration, but they're threatening to picket the jobs of Minuteman Project members and even the schools attended by their children. The article "Maryland group helps immigrants get driver's licenses" may even describe illegal behavior on...
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Christopher Goffard of the LAT offers "Costa Mesa's Border Heat Puts a Chill in Its Latinos". First, of course, there's the title's assumption that all Latinos are either illegal aliens or supporters of same. Then, the LAT offers the impression that supporting illegal immigration is a "generous" thing and opposing...
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Fred Barnes ("FB"), the executive editor of The Weekly Standard, shows that he's almost clue-free "Losing Friends and Influence": On immigration, Bush is not a conventional conservative or any other kind of conservative. His instinct is to sympathize with immigrants. Bush believes that whether they come to the United States...
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February 25, 2006
Previously we discussed Senator Pete Domenici's massive amnesty scheme. Now comes word that he must be nuts: ...During World War II Domenici's mother Alda, a legal U.S. citizen, was like many other Italian immigrants arrested during a post-Pearl Harbor checkup. Alda Domenici was released on bond four hours later and...
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The Casa de Maryland is a state-funded group that supports illegal immigration. Gustavo Torres, their executive director, recently said this about the Minuteman Project members who've been monitoring illegal labor hiring halls: "We are going to target [the MMP members] in a specific way... [by taking their own pictures]... Then...
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Senator Arlen "Single Bullet Theory" Specter has introduced a doubleplusgood "temporary" "guest" worker scheme. Not only would the hundreds of thousands of workers be "temporary", they'd also just be "guests". And, it includes a massive amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already here. Senator Arlen Specter is a liar....
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February 24, 2006
The NYT has a story about the debates between unions who want massive immigration and guest worker schemes, and those who do not. It concerns the confab mentioned in "Floridians: ask John McCain questions he can't answer!", but they - of course! - didn't look into all the other groups...
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The LAT prints two letters under the heading "Immigrants taking jobs from unskilled workers": No technologically advanced industrial nation like the United States, which has 27 million functionally illiterate adults, needs to be concerned about a shortage of unskilled workers. And: It's reassuring that a newspaper whose editorials support immigration...
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February 23, 2006
This one was on Long Island and featured on the other side: - Luis Valenzuela, executive director of the Long Island Immigrant Alliance, ("an immigrant advocacy group") - Hempstead Village Deputy Mayor Henry Conyers - Edison Severino of the Manhattan-based Local 78 of the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborers...
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There's a long article about the titular subject here. Other topics covered include MN's Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 3M, Microsoft, and George Bush....
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Russ Bynum of the AP offers today's article about crops rotting in the fields: "Effects of Crackdown on Illegals". It contains several quotes from Georgia farmers claiming that they'd go out of business if they couldn't hire workers. And, while they claim that all of them provide the proper documentation,...
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The Bush administration has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans. They get yet another year in the U.S. Some of them have been here since 1998, others since 2001. Obviously, this is exactly how the various "guest" worker schemes proposed by Bush and others...
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February 22, 2006
Mexico has deployed soldiers to the border. And, this time they're on Mexico's side of the border. Specifically, they're at bridges between Brownsville and Laredo. The Border Patrol wasn't informed of this new move and they only noticed it because much less traffic was coming through. I think this can...
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Dear Archbishop Michael Sheehan of the New Mexico archdiocese: I read that you want us to show "compassion" to "immigrants". In fact, you say: "We don't condone illegal entry, but when someone is here, we try to take care of them." Let me try to put this in a way...
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There's a roundup of various states' activities here....
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Social Compact is a "Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research group that gets funding from financial and real estate companies." More on them below. They recently released a study on Santa Ana, and found out that the residents have more money than previously thought. In fact, it might even be a massive...
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February 21, 2006
This would be funny if it weren't so sad that we have people like this in charge: In preparation for a debate in the Senate next month on immigration policy, Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) has introduced legislation that would grant amnesty to an estimated 12 million people now living...
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A company called Triumph wants to bring a new pork plant to East Moline, IL. From December came "Residents debate over new pork plant in area": "And then you have the air-quality issues, such as dangerous levels of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, as well as dust-borne pathogens," [Karen Hudson, a...
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Normally, one might consider philly.com a "liberal" rag, but apparently they've got someone there who's bucking the trend. From Stu Bykofsky: ...Watching the rally at Independence Mall last week I was struck by the dazzling chutzpah of illegal aliens' demands to be left alone by the government, like a teenager...
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February 20, 2006
From this: [Arizona Sen. John McCain] will be in Miami on Thursday and will promote a business-backed guest worker program and other immigration reforms. The Arizona senator will speak at "town hall" meeting in South Florida sponsored by the New American Opportunity Campaign. That group includes labor unions, business interests,...
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This all sounds so Soviet: U.S. President George W. Bush named Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff as the U.S. point person to work with Mexican officials to clamp down on increasing violence along the U.S.-Mexican border, the White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Scott McClellan made the announcement...
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Dear Dennie: I understand that either late this month or early next, supporters of illegal immigration - including the Center for Community Change - will be conducting a "Diplomas Not Death" vigil outside your office in Batavia, IL. They want you to assist them in passing the DREAM Act, an...
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The Dallas Morning News and their Mexican counterpart polled people in Texas and in Mexico: Mexicans and Texans are divided on whether illegal immigration helps or hurts the U.S. economy: 83% of Mexicans surveyed say it helps the U.S. economy. 56% of Texans say illegal immigration hurts it. 58% of...
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Yet another march for and by illegal aliens is planned for March: [Armando Navarro of the National Alliance for Human Rights] told The Washington Times that 2006 will be a year of "massive mobilizations, activism and political participation to countervail the heinous, racist and nativist crusade" of those who support...
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David Moats is the editorial page editor of Vermont's Rutland Herald, and could I trouble you to ask him whether he's an idiot or whether he's just corrupt? His email address is david.moats *at* rutlandherald.com, and back on February 4 he or a proxy offered an unsigned editorial called "Bienvenidos":...
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February 19, 2006
Is it a good thing to have illegal aliens agitating for extra rights inside your country? Isn't that a dangerous situation? Here are three recent examples: "Hundreds gather in opposition to federal immigration legislation" by Ted Roelofs of the Grand Rapids Press. It's PIIPPish, and it includes this quote from...
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February 18, 2006
Speaking in Tampa yesterday, president Bush offered a fairly standard recitation of his immigration talking points, albeit a bit more incoherent than usual. Let's just look at this one lie-rich paragraph: My attitude is, you recognize it for what it is, and you say, you can do this on a...
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February 17, 2006
Allan Wall discusses this comment from a Vicente Fox spokesman: In some cases it [emigration] has to do with real problems of poverty, and in others it answers to other types of personal interest. Statistics reveal that a very, very high number of the persons who emigrate to the United...
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February 16, 2006
HotelWorkersRising.org is a "progressive" organization featuring losing VP candidate John Edwards and involving the UNITE HERE union. They seek to improve the lot of low-wage earning hotel workers. Today they met with L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat and a former member of the racial separatist organization MEChA. A while...
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February 15, 2006
From this: Employers who hire illegal immigrants to depress wages have something new to fear: Employees who use racketeering laws to take them to court. A law originally conceived to hammer the Mafia – the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute – is now being swung against employers at chicken-plucking...
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Independence Mall in Philadelphia - home of the Liberty Bell and of Independence Hall - was home to quite a spectacle yesterday as 1000 illegal aliens and their supporters marched against HR4437. Some of them were waving large Mexican flags. You can see a few pictures of the protest...
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February 14, 2006
Illegal aliens working in Philly restaurants are being asked to stay home today. The goal is to show the power of Mexican citizens illegally living inside our country and show opposition to HR4437. Let's hope it works. It could even work doubly good if they don't show up, are fired,...
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The National Restaurant Association is a very large trade group for restaurant owners, and they as much as admit that some of their members are employing illegal aliens. And, as "Illegal immigrants: 'Dirty little secret' of restaurant world" makes clear, many restaurants know that they are engaging in illegally activity....
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February 13, 2006
On Saturday, the Mexican government held a "Carousel of Information" at the HEP Building on the campus of the University of Oregon. This was yet another mobile consulate affair where they presumably passed out Matricula Consular ID cards to a presumably largely illegal crowd. Thankfully, the American side protested this,...
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From this: [Colorado] Democrats are wading into traditionally Republican territory - the issue of illegal immigration. House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver, said Democrats are drafting six bills that will be introduced next week. Describing the current immigration system as "broken," Romanoff said he wants a "bipartisan solution" and he expects...
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February 12, 2006
Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa is a tireless supporter of illegal immigration into that state. A letter from activist D.A. King to the Secretary of the GA Senate wonders whether he should recuse himself on certain votes: ...Citing section 1-4.3 of the Rules of the Georgia State Senate dealing with...
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On Saturday, the Pikes Peak Library District allowed the Mexican consulate to use a room at their Sand Creek branch to pass out Matricula Consular ID cards to Mexican citizens, many or most of whom were here illegally. And, those ID cards enable those illegal aliens to live and work...
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February 10, 2006
On Saturday, "latino and immigrant-rights advocates" will meet in Riverside to oppose HR 4437. The confab is organized by Armando Navarro from the National Alliance for Human Rights, and one of the speakers is Mexican Sen. Reymundo Cardenas, representing the state of Zacatecas. Representing the state of California (still apparently...
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WASHINGTON (CP) - The United States will deploy high-tech safety measures at the Canadian border, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who suggested a security wall would only make sense if a lot of people were sneaking into the country from a big city. Chertoff said he has no knowledge...
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RICHMOND, Feb. 9 -- A senator who wanted to prevent all illegal immigrants in Virginia from getting the residents' tuition break at state universities changed his mind and on Thursday proposed the first legal avenue for some to pay the reduced fee. Swayed by immigrant advocates and his own experiences,...
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February 09, 2006
Last year at this time, I posted "Tamar Jacoby, CPAC, immigration, and not yet clued-in bloggers" about the Conservative Political Action Conference. Apparently Tamar couldn't make this year's festivities. However, showing that they haven't learned, there's a new crop of not-yet-clued-in posts. BoiFromTroy offers "Conservative's New Immigration Lexicon". He plays...
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That U.S. Rep. voted for HR4437 and - surprisingly for a Democrat - he makes some sense in "Amnesty won't fix immigration woes": America has a proud heritage as a beacon for the dispossessed and oppressed, who come from around the world for a shot at achieving their dreams. However,...
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Massachusetts state Representative Tim Toomey - a proud Democrat - writes a column to all those who opposed his efforts to give citizens of other countries discounted college educations unavailable to some of his fellow American citizens: "In-state tuition bill opponents misguided": In the weeks since An Act Relative to...
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February 08, 2006
That person apparently writes "Hits & Misses" for that rag, and he offers a "Miss: Hypocrisy Parade": It's unfair for undocumented Mexican immigrants to pay in-state college tuition when law-abiding children from other states have to pay higher prices. So went the argument as Utah's House Education Committee gave the...
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And what better place to read the news than at this most appropriate site? Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who heads the Los Angeles archdiocese, attacked House Resolution 4437 as "a new attack on immigrants [and] a very malicious bill that imposes restrictions and penalties on immigrants [and also] those who offer...
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February 07, 2006
Dallas Independent School District trustee Joe May wants to hire bilingual teachers who are here illegally. And, some other members of the DISD board think it's a good idea, just as long as it's handled delicately. On the one hand, it would be good if they went through with this...
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California State Senator Gil Cedillo - nicknamed "One Bill Gil" because he keeps introducing bills trying to give illegal aliens drivers licenses - has a new trick: giving additional financial aid to illegal alien college students. The following is from 1/30/06 and was written by the California GOP, but since...
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From this: For the third straight year, President Bush has proposed eliminating hundreds of millions of dollars in federal reimbursements to states to help with the cost of jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes. California is the top beneficiary of the program. The reimbursement program is called SCAAP ("State Criminal...
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February 06, 2006
Hello, Democrats! You want to talk about corruption? How about talking about a form of corruption that will actually resonate with most Americans? From "Home-buying program has cash, controversy. Undocumented residents being recruited for loans": ACORN members, advocates on housing issues for low-and moderate-income people and Citibank have quietly recruited...
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The SLT columnist offers this: I have a few questions surrounding HB7. This bill would take a meat ax to a 3-year-old law that allows undocumented immigrants who finish high school here to pay resident tuition for college. Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden, has sponsored this bill since 2004. He...
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February 05, 2006
The Guardian Unlimited (aka "al Guardian") chimes in on the long running series containing dire predictions from growers in which they complain about not having enough cheap foreign serf labor: "US crops left to rot as Mexicans leave the fields for better-paid jobs" by Dan Glaister. If you've been following...
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February 03, 2006
From this: An American law enforcement officer and news crew in Texas have witnessed another armed incursion into the United States by men dressed in Mexican army attire, the second such incident in just two weeks... ...The incursion was witnessed by a KFOX news crew and Hudspeth County deputy, photos...
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February 01, 2006
Proving once again just how much they support illegal immigration, Nikita Stewart of the Washington Post offers "Mix-Up Reveals Va. Day Laborers' Rising Fear". It's like Fahrenheit 451 come to life: When William Lilley, who counts traffic for a living, and his two co-workers pulled into the Woodbridge 7-Eleven parking...
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Virginia's Democratic governor Tim Kaine said the following yesterday: "I don't believe immigration is one of the top issues in Virginia if you ask Virginians... It does matter to a number of people, but compared to jobs, education, health care, transportation, it's pretty far down." Does he actually mean this?...
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January 31, 2006
Virginia governor Tim Kaine responds to Bush's speech here: The failure of the federal government to implement and enforce a rational immigration policy has resulted in a confusing patchwork of state and local efforts. We should welcome those who seek to lawfully join and contribute to our American family. At...
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Zirkle Fruit is an apple producer in eastern Washington, and they recently settled a lawsuit brought by former legal workers. Those workers alleged that Zirkle hired illegal aliens in order to drive down their wages. The settlement amount was $1.3 million. Not exactly a large amount, but the lawyers involved...
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January 30, 2006
The pseudonymous LAPD cop "Jack Dunphy" gives an overview of Los Angeles' sanctuary city policy here: ...Since 1979, when the LAPD enacted Special Order 40, police officers in Los Angeles have been prohibited from taking any action "with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person," and from...
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Discuss....
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MEXICO CITY - The U.S. Border Patrol arrested a Mexican immigration official who was allegedly trying to help a group of undocumented migrants sneak into the United States, the Mexican government said Sunday. Immigration agent Francisco Javier Gutierrez was arrested at a checkpoint near Alamogordo, N.M., about 100 miles north...
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Remember the old joke? Q. Why are there so many trees on the streets of Paris? A. So the German soldiers can march in the shade. Now, in an attempt to do that old chestnut one better, Sara Ines Calderon offers "Border violence likely affecting migrants": A recent wave of...
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January 29, 2006
Knight-Ridder's Dave Montgomery offers a very standard sketch of Rob Allyn, the Dallas PR consultant who's been hired to spread Mexican propaganda in the U.S.: "Mexico hires public relations firm to improve its image in U.S." There is absolutely nothing new about Allyn in this article, but if you aren't...
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January 28, 2006
New York City's mayor says illegal aliens don't cost the state money. Perhaps he'd be willing to put his money where his mouth is: let's do a complete accounting, and give or take from Bloomberg the costs. Of course, there are major non-economic costs, and some of those - like...
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January 27, 2006
Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois is truly a piece of work. His latest attempt to give benefits to illegal aliens is opening a state-sponsored low-interest mortgage loan program to citizens of other countries who are here illegally: "People who are working hard, paying their taxes, are of good moral character...
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The Pacific News Service - naturally - treats this as an acceptable practice, but perhaps some immigration official somewhere will look into this scam: SAN FRANCISCO--A growing number of South Korean parents are paying retired couples in the United States to adopt their children. These Korean parents say teaching their...
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What a heart-warming title to this CSM report. Of course, they don't go into the downsides: billions of dollars is flowing out of the country and being used to prop up corrupt foreign governments and depriving those countries of the citizens and industries they need to improve. And, that encourages...
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January 26, 2006
Keep digging: MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top diplomat suggested Thursday that American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops may have been in the military-style Humvee filmed earlier this week protecting a marijuana shipment on the border. Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez also told a news conference that U.S. soldiers had helped...
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Mexico has apparently decided not to give maps to their citizens showing them the best routes to cross illegally into the U.S., the AP reports. We also learn the DHS head Michael Chertoff condemned the maps. While the Mark Stevenson report contains questionable language ("anti-immigrant groups") it also has what...
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From this: Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the House point man on immigration, yesterday said that a guest-worker program like the one proposed by President Bush is amnesty and that he cannot accept it in a final immigration bill... "It seems to me that if you give these people the...
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FWIW: U.S. and Mexican officials on Tuesday were investigating a bizarre encounter between Texas lawmen and heavily armed intruders who were wearing Mexican military uniforms while evidently escorting a caravan of sport utility vehicles that was smuggling marijuana into the United States. The smugglers, spotted on the U.S. side of...
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January 25, 2006
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are proud to announced that Antonio Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles Mayor and former member of MEChA, will offer the Spanish-language response to Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday Jan 31. The former president of the UCLA chapter of the racial separatist group has...
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This blog has a shocking revelation to announce soon. Well, OK, not that shocking. But, it will make use of this: Can workers from Thailand be imported in enough numbers to harvest the Central Valley orange crop? California Citrus Mutual, an organization of growers, is studying a proposal from a...
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Pro-illegal immigration suppoters frequently claim that lettuce would cost $5 or $10 a head if we reduced illegal immigration. There are many counterarguments to this claim, but in any case under no circumstances would a labor price increase lead to such a drastic total price increase. For instance, a figure...
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That appears to be the bottom line of this article: ...Pope Benedict XVI actually made reference to distinctions between "national and international migration, forced and voluntary migration, legal and illegal migration, [and those] subject also to the scourge of trafficking in human beings." That's illegal - not "undocumented"! The Pope's...
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FAIR offers the press release "As Ford Downsizes Its Workforce, Bush Plans to Downsize Work": The American worker is caught between outsourcing jobs and importing foreign workers, and no one in Washington is standing up for them. As 55,000 Ford workers join 50,000 General Motors workers facing the prospect of...
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From the WSJ: Donnie Gaut, an African-American with 12 years of warehouse experience, applied for a job in 2002 at Farmer John Meats, a large Los Angeles pork processor ["Dodger Dogs", Vin Scully, etc. --LW]. When he was turned down for the position, a job stocking goods that paid $7...
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From this (very similar report here): Wells Fargo is first major California lender to offer home loans to illegal immigrants, 10News reported. "We're not required to ask the immigration status of any of our customers. That is the responsibility of the federal government," Wells Fargo bank representative Jerry Ruiz said....
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January 24, 2006
Pima County (home of Tucson) and Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) are supporters of a plan by the Humane Borders group to pass out maps to Mexicans showing them the best places to illegally cross our border. Story - with several comments - here. HB, headed by Rev. Robin Hoover, is...
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The poll was conducted Jan 20-22, and 62% disapprove. Certainly, among that number are some people who think the borders aren't porous enough, but I'm sure that the great majority of those who disapprove do so because of the porous borders and the lack of workplace enforcement. In December, only...
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January 23, 2006
This page has open borders quotes from various people or groups. Without looking at the link below each quote, can you identify whether it was George Bush, the Democrats, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, or the Communist Party USA who said the quote?...
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Supporters of illegal immigration will be saddened to learn that a bill signed into law last year will prevent the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) from giving home loans to illegal aliens. The article with the news is from the Business Journal of Milwaukee and the author is...
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Our Leader visited Kansas earlier today and was asked some questions, one about immigration. The question was asked in Spanish, and the transcript provides the English version. The slightly coherent question apppeared to deal with discrimination against Hispanics, and included this bit that should have made Bush proud: I come...
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Allen Benson and Leila McDowell-Head are members of a group called "Herndon Embraces All With Respect and Tolerance". They support the Herndon Virginia day laborer hiring hall, and the Washington Post - itself also a supporter of illegal immigration - prints a guest column from them: "Compassion: A Community Value"....
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The University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA have conducted a survey of 2660 day laborers in 20 states and D.C. The NYT provides some of the findings in "Broad Survey of Day Laborers Finds High Level of Injuries and Pay Violations": - 75% were illegal aliens - more than...
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The "American Chamber Mexico" is apparently similar to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: The American Chamber is an independent organization that fosters business ties between Mexico and the United States. Its member companies represent 85 percent of the foreign investment in Mexico. They're also coming out in favor of the...
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The candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio - a Democrat - recently caused the pro-illegal immigration Victorians in his party to have the vapors: U.S. Senate candidate Paul Hackett told a Toledo crowd this week that he'd deport all illegal immigrants if the national budget permitted, stirring another controversy over...
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January 22, 2006
Most definitely you can. Assuming that is, of course, that you want heavily biased yellow reportage such as that featured in "Across the country, many mobilize against illegal immigration". The bottom line of the report seems to be to portray those opposed to illegal immigration as various kinds of bad...
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Antonio "Tony" Garza is our ambassador to Mexico and a close ally of George W Bush. As previously noted ("U.S. Amb. Garza to Mexico: respect our borders and our laws"), either he's playing at being the bad cop, or he's a bit more forthright than our own president. The previous...
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Remember back in October when DHS head Michael Chertoff promised to end the "catch and release" of OTM ("other-than-Mexican") illegal aliens? C'n'R is the process whereby aliens from Brazil and other countries are given a notice to appear and then never show up. See Chertoff promotes "Temporary Worker Program" at...
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January 21, 2006
The Los Angeles Times reports on the Republican National Committee supporting a "guest" worker scheme in Amid Rifts, GOP Backs Guest-Worker Plan by Peter Wallsten: ...Bush aides and senior Republican strategists say that taking a hard-line stance against illegal immigration risks alienating Latino voters, just as California's 1994 campaign for...
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January 20, 2006
Did the new head of ICE, Julie Myers, order the release of 72 day laborers - all or most illegal aliens - who were picked up by immigration agents? That's what Debbie Schlussel says. I also suggest reading the news report, which has been titled "Who ordered arrests of dozens...
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From "Republican Divide Over Immigration Keeps Widening": ...At their winter meeting in Washington, D.C., RNC members approved a pro-Bush plan resolution by Texas committeeman Bill Crocker. That forced the withdrawal of a resolution against the plan proposed by Arizona committeeman Randy Pullen. The Crocker resolution called for a "functional program...
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As previously discussed, the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law is collaborating with the Mexican government on the "Voces Unidas" project. CHRCL "is generously supported by the California Legal Services Trust Fund", causing me to ask whether state-managed money was being used to help an invading foreign power. It...
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From this: Members of the Republican National Committee waded publicly into the immigration policy debate today, a rare acknowledgement that a consequential glob of the Republican base has revolted against President Bush's influence on the party's immigration platform. But the author of a resolution that rejected Bush's preference for a...
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From this: A U.S. coalition of business, labor unions and religious groups launched a campaign on Thursday to defeat a bill backed by Republicans that would turn some 11 million illegal immigrants into felons. The coalition of 24 organizations, many of which rarely agree on politics or economics, denounced the...
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January 19, 2006
A "progressive" think tank called the Drum Major Institute ("DMI") recently released a study on immigration. In the study, they advocate for open borders, although it appears they don't realize exactly what the effects of their study would be. Under their plan, we wouldn't deport illegal aliens. Rather, we'd just...
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On Saturday, the Daily Bulletin offered "Mexican soldiers defy border", which reported that: The Mexican military has crossed into the United States 216 times in the past nine years, according to a Department of Homeland Security document and a map of incursions obtained by the Daily Bulletin. U.S. officials claim...
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January 16, 2006
The NYT offers the editorial "Immigration Vacuum": Immigration is a national problem that too many local governments have mistakenly tried to fix. The problem is mostly concerns illegal immigration. Obviously, there are federal, state, and local laws, and localities are not able to, for instance, suspend federal laws relating to...
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The titular person is the: "Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Mabie-Apallas Public Interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies Univ. of California, Davis, School of Law". He operates the ImmigrationProf blog, and a few days ago I left a comment at his entry "THE 'PAPER CEILING' -- UNDOCUMENTED YOUTHS FACE...
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January 15, 2006
Orange County Register columnist Yvette Cabrera offers "Consul ready to hear, help 'paisanos'". It's all about Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro Amieva. It isn't just a puff piece, it's like a huge helium balloon filled with helium, cotton balls, and marshmallows. ...The cell phone on his hip buzzes constantly....
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The League of United Latin American Citizens opened a web site in December called weareracist.com. Their idea was to fight back against various Minuteman groups that put up pictures of alleged illegal aliens and the contractors who employed them. Now, they've taken it down. They claim it was because they'd...
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Conor Friedersdorf of the Beyond Borders offers this editorial about those who claim that the U.S. southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico. ...Even the worst ideas can endure when they're not directly challenged. At present there are people who earnestly believe the United States owes immigration spots to foreign Latinos to...
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January 14, 2006
I don't know exactly how to interpret a recent newsletter from U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza, especially given his past comments. Since he (of course) has close ties to Our Leader, do his statements reflect the Bush administration's thinking? Is he playing the bad cop in some charade? I...
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Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times is "Wisconsin's Progressive Newspaper." As part of that "progress", columnist Joel McNally has asked one of his five-year-old relatives to write about immigration policy. You can read the results in "Our own Sensenbrenner fights the alien among us". Since the young 'un isn't named, let's call...
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...and no one cares. The article "American Horse Council: Immigration Bill Could Impact Horse Industry" - which is not a joke - presents a stark choice: either we get "comprehensive" immigration "reform", or the "horse industry" might be severly impacted. So, America, what will it be? Will we have...
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I don't know how many times I've seen articles from the "so-called" "liberal" media featuring unopposed quotes from the League of United Latin American Citizens, MALDEF, NCLR, and similar racial power groups. The "reporters" become even more transcriptionists than usual when dealing with these groups, and I don't think I've...
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January 12, 2006
The bill that would have given discounted college educations to illegal aliens in Massachusetts has failed in their House: ...The 57-96 defeat was a blow to the Democratic leadership in the House, which had pushed for the bill. Earlier in the day House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, D-Boston, had sent a...
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I believe Boehner is less of an insider than Blunt, however this is more important: Rep. John A. Boehner's vote last month against a bill cracking down on illegal immigration is sending "tremors" through the House Republican Conference as the Ohio lawmaker pushes his candidacy for House majority leader... ...Mr....
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January 11, 2006
America's president spoke in Louisville KY earlier today, and the transcript is here. That link goes to his immigration-related remarks, and rather than concentrating on all the lies and canards, the easier thing would be to try to find anything in that section that's true. I'm still looking... Can anyone...
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January 10, 2006
MorTON! offers "Bush Must Talk Sense To Republicans On Immigration". He starts with a bad title and goes downhill: the ones who need sense are Bush's handlers and the corrupt elites that favor massive illegal immigration. Believe it or not, Morton wants Bush to co-opt Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush...
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This AP report would be funny if it weren't so likely to be made fact by our "American" president: Diplomats from Mexico and Central America on Monday demanded guest worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the United States, while criticizing a U.S. proposal for tougher border enforcement......
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January 09, 2006
Dr. Hogai Nassery is a physician practicing in Chamblee, Georgia and she offers "State can't pass law, deny care to noncitizens" about that state's Senate Bill 170, which is similar to CA's Prop. 187 and Arizona's Prop. 200. As far as I know, it only deals with illegal aliens and...
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The LAT offers "Rallies Draw Dueling Protesters in Clashes Over Illegal Immigration" and the OCRegister feathers in with "Protests resume in Laguna Beach". There are a large number of pictures from various protests here and here. Please leave a comment if you see anything of particular interest in any of...
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Apparently literary references are too high-brow for the Pioneer Press, otherwise they would have snuck one into the article "Illegal workers create ID crisis: Meatpacking towns say fake identities can create 'ghost' population". It's about all the fake IDs that those "good-hearted" workers use. Of course, that same fake ID...
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The WashTimes punctures the latest "liberal" myth: In an apparent effort to kill any immigration reform bill in the Senate, open-borders advocates have gone to the P.R. playbook and come up with an old standby: trying to scare people into falsely believing that the Bush administration and the evil House...
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Today's "crops might rot in the field if we don't get enough cheap illegal labor" article is offered by Dania Akkad of the Monterey Herald in "Farmworker shortage leaves growers fearing for crops". Previously in this series of propaganda: "More fretful farmers whining for you to pay for their labor"....
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As a whole, the Democratic Party supports illegal immigration. The various chapters of that organization do as well. For the specific case of the Denton County Democratic Party, they attended the "National Day of Protest" against illegal immigration... on the other side: The three dozen people opposing the Minutemen's protest...
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January 08, 2006
From 2002 comes this column about Linda Chavez. The column points out that she's a director of ABM Industries, Inc. (According to her bio, she still is). ABM is a very large janitorial firm. Apparently they are or were very stringent about checking the legal status of their workers, and...
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The AP reports on the "National Day of Protest" against illegal immigration in the Drudge-linked "Few Drawn to Illegal Immigration Protests" by Michael R. Blood. The very first paragraph contains a highly misleading statement: Illegal immigration protests organized across the country Saturday drew small numbers, and some were outnumbered and...
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The DP reports on 1/7's "National Day of Protest" against illegal immigration in "Immigration dispute flares at center". It includes this unbelievable paragraph: The illegal immigrants, said Eric Tavares, have taken jobs away from "real" Americans. Memo to the Denver Post: illegal aliens are not Americans, they are by definition...
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January 07, 2006
The Boston Globe gleefully reports on a new study showing that allowing illegal aliens to get discounted college educations at Massachusetts colleges would generate $5.7 million in new revenue by 2009: Tax lobby sees gain in tuition proposal by Raphael Lewis. The study is from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which...
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January 06, 2006
Mexican senators and representatives are forming a united front to lobby the U.S. Senate to support "comprehensive" immigration "reform". Please write your Senators and tell them you'll be watching how they respond....
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January 04, 2006
In case you had any doubts about HR 4437, this might slightly allay them: Kim Propeack, spokeswoman for CASA of Maryland Inc., said her group's day-laborer centers "and other worker centers would in a large part be forced to shut down" if a bill offered by U.S. Rep. F. James...
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I'm not surprised to learn that San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a friend of Rob Allyn, the Dallas PR consultant who's been hired to spread Mexican propaganda in the U.S. ...Mexican President Vicente Fox tapped my friend, Dallas-based political consultant Rob Allyn, to be Mexico's goodwill ambassador......
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Last month, Costa Mesa, in California's Orange County, passed a resolution allowing their police to help enforce federal immigration laws. The resolution appears to only cover those arrested for other crimes. And, it only passed 3 to 2. Those who voted for it were Mayor Allan Mansoor and council members...
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Please read this segment of a letter to the editor and try to guess the writer's political affiliation: The credibility of the Union-Tribune is less than zero when it does everything possible (in two languages) to discredit and slam Mexico every chance it gets. Once the United States stops exporting...
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January 02, 2006
The Antelope Valley Press (CA) has a commonsense editorial about discounted college educations for illegal aliens here. Backstory in "Class action lawsuit filed against California giving tuition discounts to illegal aliens"....
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December 30, 2005
While reading the article "A first for Santa Cruz County: Mexican bank opens in downtown Watsonville" by Tom Ragan I kept asking myself, "is this an ad? Don't companies normally have to pay to get articles like this rather than, say, real journalism involving exposes and such?" Let's take a...
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From the Denver Post's "Fresh ideas on immigration": ...[Colorado] Gov. Bill Owens... endorsed a plan to authorize private agencies to issue guest-worker visas to foreigners employed in the United States, concepts that will require much more study if they are to overcome skepticism and be considered by Congress. The plan,...
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From this: Hispanic community activists gathered Wednesday in front of the office of U.S. Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) on the Southwest Side to protest his vote for [HR4437]. The group of about two dozen protesters also announced the formation of the Committee for the Progress of the 3rd Congressional District,...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a canard-packed editorial opposing HR 4437 here. Since it's a stock editorial such as the ones offered by the WaPo, discussing it in depth would be superfluous. However, they do include this: Members of organizations that teach English to immigrants or provide social services might be...
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December 29, 2005
The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL) is a "non-profit, public interest legal foundation" located at centerforhumanrights.org. At that site they say: The Center is generously supported by the California Legal Services Trust Fund, the Liberty Hill Foundation, and its many members. Students, lawyers, and other volunteers are...
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They offer "Bad Border Bill" about HR 4437: ...it would do nothing to rationalize U.S. immigration policy. The Bush administration, which has rightly argued for a more sensible approach, disgracefully got behind the bill. Many people speculate that the reason why the Bush administration favors a "sensible" approach is because...
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December 28, 2005
The House "Homeland Security Democrats" have released a report (PDF file) taking the administration to task for their failures to secure the "homeland". Despite having Loretta Sanchez in their group, in the report they sound almost like serious-minded Americans instead of the childish race-baiters we've come to expect such as...
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The League of United Latin American Citizens is complaining about Mexico's choice of Rob Allyn to promote their country. To show you just where their loyalties lie, this is their complaint: Hector Flores, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said he understands that Mr. Allyn goes...
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Simon Romero of the New York Times offers a profile of Rob Allyn, the Dallas political strategist who's been hired by Mexico to burnish their image in the U.S.: "Republican Strategist Is Taking Heat for Taking Mexico as Client". The profile reads like it could have been written by Allyn...
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December 27, 2005
The Arizona Daily Star columnist updates Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, offering a version such as one might find in a comic book printed by the Mexican government. It's full of so many strawmen that you might think you're reading Thomas Hardy instead of Dickens, but since we don't have...
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December 26, 2005
Edward J. Erler from the California State University, San Bernardino and The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy offered this Congressional testimony in 1997. It includes this: Clearly, the author of the citizenship clause intended to count "foreigners," "aliens," and those born to "ambassadors or foreign...
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For an unknown reason, Drudge is linking to the L.A. Times article "Some Border Patrol Agents Take a Chance on Love", which reports on a few BP agents who've dated illegal aliens and gotten into trouble for that practice. Obviously, the LAT only has a finite amount of resources, and...
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The AP's David Crary says there's a "bitter debate" over the issue, but so far the only people I've heard of on the other side are racial demagogues and the far-left. In fact, while the piece is generally fair, they don't provide any quotes from any politicians who oppose attempts...
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December 25, 2005
That paper offers a stock editorial supporting immigration "reform", including the following: ...Business lobbyists and immigrant-rights advocates argue the House failed to lead responsibly when a majority of lawmakers know foreign guest-workers must be part of any reform package... ...And Republicans must set aside traditional alliances with business interests to...
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Last month a Skagit County, Washington paper offered the almost-unbelievable story "Illegal immigrant with tuberculosis fears county will turn him over to immigration". The title alone tells you we're about to enter Upsidedownland, but it gets worse: * The county has had six TB cases this year, up from the...
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December 23, 2005
Rob Allyn heads the Texas company Allyn & Company which will be trying to burnish Mexico's image and thereby support their attempts to send us their unwanted citizens. It shouldn't be any surprise that Allyn has links to Our Leader. In fact, he's described here as a "longtime Bush family...
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See this....
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Surprisingly, the WaPo doesn't sugarcoat the headline to this AP report: Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing. The admission comes as Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary...
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From the "for what it's worth file" comes "Illegal immigration concerns could split both parties": ...Americans, polls show, are upset about the government's inability to control illegal immigration, which now accounts for about 11 million illegal residents inside the U.S. borders. They are particularly unhappy with Bush's handling of the...
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December 22, 2005
Tamar Jacoby and Grover Norquist offer "Hard-liners don't speak for GOP". As anyone who's familiar with them might be able to predict, it's like entering bizarro world, in which those who want to reduce illegal immigration are "hard-liners". Of course, that's the position of three-quarters of Americans, and that percentage...
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December 21, 2005
Raphael Lewis offers a semi-tear jerker called "Aid they won not for them, undocumented students learn": Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey strode onto a Framingham High School stage Monday to give 148 seniors a special holiday gift: a letter from Governor Mitt Romney informing them that they have won four tuition-free...
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The L.A. DailyNews offers "Wall of shame: House immigration bill is all stick, no carrot". What's striking about it is that they offer no new canards, just a recitation of those we've come to know and love. In fact, it could almost have been autogenerated. They support a "comprehensive solution",...
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Florida's Sun-Sentinel provides their entry in this year's Dishonest Reporting competition....
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December 20, 2005
In "A Nation of Widgets: The Wall Street Journal and Open Borders", Mac Johnson discusses yet another Wall Street Journal editorial supporting unfettered immigration. He includes the following: ...Finally, the editorial finished with the most corrupt message I have ever seen in a major newspaper: "Republicans seem intent not merely...
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Mexico is in a snit about HR 4437, the still-pending bill that would build 700 miles of wall along our border, and they intend to take steps to make sure it's not built. While some might laugh at, downplay, or ignore what Mexico plans to do, it represents a significant...
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