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ACLU loses church/state separation case (Jesus painting in courthouse) - 9/20/2007

... refused to grant a demand by the American Civil Liberties Union to have the painting removed... In response [to the ACLU], the city of Slidell mounted additional portraits of 15 of history's preeminent lawgivers alongside the Jesus p

ACLU, MALDEF, NILC sue over Arizona worker verification law - 9/05/2007

... Educational Fund (MALDEF) joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona, the law firm of Altshuler Berzon and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) in filing a lawsuit in federal court today on behalf of Chicanos Por La Causa and

Judge Maxine Chesney blocks no-match (ACLU, AFL-CIO) - 9/01/2007

... TRO request was, naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union, a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government. As could be expected, the WaPo doesn't consider the possibility that the Bush administration might welcome this: The ruling dealt at least a temporary political setback to President Bush, who announced the workplace initiative Aug. 9 as the centerpiece of a renewed enforce...

Donate to the ACLU! (BTW: plaintiff attys want $2.4 million from Hazleton) - 8/31/2007

Thinking about donating to the ACLU? Attorneys who represented the plaintiffs in the Hazleton immigration case filed court papers this afternoon seeking nearly $2.4 million in attorneys fees and costs. In a 25 page brief, 37 attorneys from seven different law firms and legal organizations say they are entitled to the money to compensate them for the thousands of hours they spent interviewing p...

Thanks, liberals & libertarians: 71% support "foreigners-only" ID card - 8/18/2007

More irony: those "liberals" and "libertarians" who support illegal immigration in the belief that it will lead to more freedom are making things worse, creating a problem that the majority of Americans realize need to be fixed. That leaves an opening for someone with a "fix", such as Rudy Giuliani with his "foreigners-only" ID card.

ACLU has "concerns" about Senate immigration amnesty bill - 5/26/2007

... their press release [1]: The American Civil Liberties Union today [5/25/07] expressed grave concerns about the due process and privacy implications of the Senate immigration bill. The proposed legislation would create a vast federal database to verify the work eligibility of all job applicants in America - including U.S.

Jorge Bustamante/United Nations, MacArthur Park riot, CRLA, Peter Schey, NILC, ACLU... - 5/18/2007

And Teresa Watanabe too! From her report "Human rights expert examines migrant issues in L.A." comes this: In the first broad international scrutiny of U.S. treatment of migrants, a United Nations human rights expert [Jorge A. Bustamante, U.N.

Farmers Branch: 68% vote for anti-illegal immigration ordinance; ACLU, MALDEF file TRO - 5/15/2007

Last week, Farmers Branch (outside Dallas, Texas) passed a city ordinance requiring landlords to check the immigration status of renters.

MacArthur Park immigration riot: "safe spot" for journalists - 5/06/2007

Los Angeles, home of sun-baked people and half-baked ideas, is truly a magical place: While [LAPD Chief William Bratton] met with journalist groups, [Antonio Villaraigosa] was speaking at Cathedral Our Lady of the Angels downtown where Cardinal Roger Mahony was celebrating a Mass of consolation and healing. In other news, Bratton continues throwing his employ

ACLU, LULAC, ACORN, SVREP endorsed Dallas April 1 illegal immigration march - 4/02/2007

On Sunday, April 1, the "Rally for the New American Family" was held in Dallas to support "comprehensive immigration reform", aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens. Last year's event (the one where George P.

Carol Rose/ACLU Massachusetts compares ICE tactics to Slobodan Milosevic, ethnic cleansing - 3/26/2007

The American Civil Liberties Union is indirectly linked to the Mexican government and is a strong supporter of illegal immigration.

Trouble in paradise: AFL-CIO, ACLU, NIF, AFSC not fully happy with Flake-Gutierrez; Teamsters, Democrat Lampson - 3/24/2007

The American Civil Liberties Union - a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government - has a nit with the Flake-Gutierrez amnesty [1]: "Drafting comprehensive immigration reform is no easy task... [praise some provisions] ...Sadly, Title III of the bill attacks privacy by creating a national ID card.

NYT: the ACLU vouches for CAIR - 3/14/2007

Neil MacFarquhar of the NYT offers a two-screener about unnamed sources running down CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). That's the organization whose spokesman said in 1993 that he'd like to see the U.S.

For the ACLU, it's about illegal immigration, not rights (Hazleton trial) - 3/14/2007

The ACLU's suit against Hazleton, Pennsylvania over their Illegal Immigration Relief Act continued today with mayor Lou Barletta taking the stand. The AP claims that the ACLU is suing because they think the proposal is "unconstitutional".

Bob Barr takes Bank of America's side; did the ACLU get to him? - 3/02/2007

Former Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr - also an advisor to the ACLU, a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government - comes out in support of Bank of America's credit card for illegal aliens in "Immigration indigestion" (link). He ends up sounding like Bill Press, and makes the same fundamental error as he did: When word surfaced recently that some banks, such as Bank ...

Charles Rust-Tierney, ACLU of Virginia - 2/23/2007

Charles Rust-Tierney - who served as president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005 - was arrested by ICE today on charges of possessing child pornography. ABC News has a report, and Bill O'Reilly gave it a couple minutes.

Kennedy-McCain illegal alien amnesty nearing completion; business, racial groups - 2/22/2007

From this: Senators and lobbyists are putting the final touches on a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that includes an easier citizenship path for illegal aliens and weaker enforcement provisions than were in the highly criticized legislation that the Senate approved last year. Sen. Edward M.

LULAC, MALDEF, ACLU, business groups fight Texas immigration bills - 2/16/2007

A new, apparently unnamed coalition has been formed in Texas to fight state bills designed to reduce illegal immigration. The coalition is using the standard pretext that immigration is a federal responsibility. Of course, they realize that the feds have abrogated their responsibilities; were the feds to enforce the laws, they would push for more local control.

ACLU immigration forum in Indiana features no debate - 2/09/2007

... professors as well as people from the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. If there's a similar forum in your area, please show up and try to ask one or more of the panelists a tough question.

About one-quarter of L.A. County jail inmates are illegal aliens - 2/08/2007

Nothing like the idiocy of the Los Angeles Times, which offers "Deportation cases soar as L.A.

WFMOJALI: Kyrsten Sinema (Minutemen as "domestic terrorists") - 1/19/2007

Welcome to yet another premiere, this time of the new WFMOJALI feature. Those initials stand for "Working For Mexico, Or Just Acts Like It?" On the one hand I don't think it's that likely that those to be featured are actually being paid by that government. But, on the other hand, it's difficult to tell the difference between their actions and those that an actual Mexican ...

DWRNTC: concentration camps for illegal aliens? - 1/15/2007

Welcome to the premiere edition of "DWRNTC", which stands for "Do We Really Need This Crap?" These posts will highlight completely unnecessary crap to which we would not be subjected if our immigration laws were enforced. First up is the recent spate of articles from far-left racial advocates claiming that the DHS is imprisoning illegal aliens in "concentration camps"...

Pro-illegal immigration ACLU meddling in Butler County, Ohio - 12/15/2006

... immigration. Continuing that trend, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says they're going to act as "watchdogs" over Butler County Sheriff Richard K.

"Declaration of Los Angeles" (city council-approved pro-illegal immigration resolution) - 12/13/2006

The Anti-Defamation League, their Latino-Jewish Roundtable, and several other groups have convinced the Los Angeles City Council to sign the "Declaration of Los Angeles", a far-left resolution that claims to support human rights for "immigrants", but which is little more than a resolution in support of illegal immigration, couched in the expected doublespeak. Next year they...

Commie Fest 2006: Elvira Arellano, Major Owens, ACLU, and more! - 12/02/2006

On December 3, the "19th Annual People's Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet" will be held in a Greek restaurant in Chicago: [It] will feature living wage and peace resolutions sponsor city Alderman Freddrenna Lyle as the keynote speaker, and will honor immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, union activists Bea and Frank Lumpkin, disability rights group ADAPT, the March 10th imm...

Jesse McKinley/NYT's hidden assumptions - 11/13/2006

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.

MALDEF, ACLU, PFAW sue Escondido over illegal immigration ordinance - 11/03/2006

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.

ACLU, PFAW, businesses sue Riverside NJ over immigration law - 10/19/2006

... Foundation, Spear Wilderman, P.C, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and Ragonese Albano & Viola. The ordinance is one of the most restrictive of the recent wave of anti-immigrant legislation passed by local governments across the nation. It attempts to ban immigrants from renting, residing, using property...

AP ignores Peter Schey Mexican government links (Border Human Rights Working Group) - 8/24/2006

... reveals who's in the BHRWG: American Civil Liberties Union of Texas American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona American Friends Service Committee (San Diego, CA) American Friends Service Committee (Tucson, AZ) Binacional Migration Institute (Tucson, AZ) Border Angels / Gente Unida (San Diego, CA...

ACLU, PRLDEF sue Hazleton over immigration law - 8/16/2006

Various far-left forces have sued Hazleton over the immigration law they passed last month.

Hazleton sued by far-left illegal immigration supporters - 7/14/2006

Hazelton PA has passed a local ordinance that tries to prevent illegal immigration flourishing in their city.

"Latino Summit Response to 187" (1995 187flashback) - 7/03/2006

The extended entry has a few reports about 1995's Latino Summit Response to 187 which was discussed in this entry about Fabian Nunez. Paper: Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA) Title: Hispanics call illegal immigration issue racist Author: Skip Morgan Date: January 5, 1994 Section: LOCAL Page: B01 RIVERSIDE A coalition of Hispanic activists vowed yesterday to fight back against what the...

Nathaniel Hoffman, Andrew Becker, Contra Costa Times support illegal immigration - 6/20/2006

Nathaniel Hoffman and Andrew Becker of the Contra Costa Times offer separate articles that support illegal immigration. Hoffman offers "Immigration rights advocates contemplate their next steps". From the headline on down it's completely biased towards supporting illegal immigration and foreign citizens marching in our streets.

Border Patrol Local supports Minuteman Project, bashes Bush - 5/18/2006

... the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush. According to its website, the U.S.

Ex-ACLU attorney: Group 'terrorizing' U.S. - 12/28/2005

... attorney who once worked for the American Civil Liberties Union has slammed the organization for "perverting" federal law by successfully threatening government officials into getting rid of public expressions of religion. Rees Lloyd made the comments in an online podcast hosted by Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., in which the two discuss the congressman's legislation, the Public E...

"Bitter Debate Over 'Birthright Citizenship'" - 12/26/2005

The AP's David Crary says there's a "bitter debate" over the issue, but so far the only people I've heard of on the other side are racial demagogues and the far-left.

Can you trust the Las Vegas Sun? - 7/06/2005

To help you answer that question, take a look at the article "Plates help Aztec descendants become citizens" from Timothy Pratt. It concerns a group called the Citizenship Project led by one Rev. Phil Carolin, which helps immigrants fill out citizenship paperwork and the like.

Is the CPUSA shredding documents? - 6/05/2005

No, it's not the CPUSA, but it's close: "Concerns Arise at A.C.L.U.

Tamar Jacoby on the Kennedy-McCain mass amnesty - 5/14/2005

Tamar Jacoby has issued the following statement: We the undersigned applaud the introduction today of Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act... [etc. etc...] The signatories include: Lee Culpepper (last mentioned here; works for the National Restaurant Association and is Chairman of the National Immigration Forum) Jack Kemp Grover Norquist Rick Swartz: And then there's the ...

"Akron gives fingerprint meal system high grade" - 2/02/2005

From this: A controversial cafeteria system that identifies Akron Public School students from their fingerprints has proved beneficial for the district, school leaders say. More middle-school students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches now are taking advantage of them.

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