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