Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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Barack Obama supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens, misleads about incentives - 11/15/2007

... I am going to be fighting for comprehensive immigration reform"; the "but" part generated peals of laughter from the audience). In addition to his chances being

Eliot Spitzer drops driver's licenses for illegal aliens (Hillary updates position) - 11/13/2007

Presumably not wanting to join Hillary's List, New York governor Eliot Spitzer will announce tomorrow that he's shelving his unpopular plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens (link): The governor's office signaled to New York lawma

Hillary Clinton opposes mass deportations, promotes illegal immigration (AP malfeasance) - 11/07/2007

I've been unable to find out which Associated Press "reporter" wrote this: Sen.

Dianne Feinstein drops AgJobs amnesty, doesn't have the votes - 11/06/2007

... the defeat of the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform, it became clear that our support could not sustain these competing forces... [because of this] we will continue to see labor shortages far into the future. Fruit will rot. Crops will go unharvested.

Hillary Clinton now supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens - 10/31/2007

Adam Nagourney of the New York Times offers this: Hillary Rodham Clinton offered support today for Gov.

Hillary Clinton: soft on driver's licenses for illegal aliens (Obama supports it) - 10/30/2007

I'll replace the following with a transcript when it's available, but from tonight's Democratic debate: [Hillary Clinton says:] [Eliot Spitzer] is trying to make up for the failure of the Bush Administration to address illegal immigration. He's filling a vaccuum...

From the Back of the Pack to David Brooks' Heart (promotes Mike Huckabee) - 10/19/2007

... attempt to push through "comprehensive immigration reform".

Michael Chertoff/DHS "fisks" NYT/WaPo pro-illegal immigration editorials - 10/07/2007

From our "what universe is this again?" file comes this entry (dhs.gov/journal/leadership/2007/10/its-law.html) from the Department of Homeland Security "Leadership Journal", aka DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's blog: Two editorials in today's Washington Post and New York Times offer a good illustration of the kind of obstacles our Department faces in dealing with th...

Obama immigration interview: he'd make situation far worse (Kevin Johnson/UC Davis) - 9/25/2007

Professors Kevin Johnson (lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration), Jennifer Chacon, and Bill Hing of UC Davis have scored a true coup for the blogosphere: an interview about immigration with Barack Obama! Of course, it probably helped that all three of them "have served as members of an Immigration Policy Group for the Obama campaign". Another help was that the questions are complete puff...

Amnesty comes back on Monday, and what you can do about it - 9/16/2007

... this: President Bush's comprehensive immigration reform, defeated in June, will make a second appearance this week when the Senate takes up various pro-amnesty amendments submitted to the Department of Defense funding bill, H.R.

Pandering prescribed: Bush admin hack learns Univision, Spanish media biased against GOP - 9/13/2007

Leslie Sanchez ("director of the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education from 2001-2003") reads Univision's site and finds out that they're biased against the GOP, despite all the pandering that the Republicans have done. While she doesn't indicate anything beyond outreaching to the Spanish media, one can assume that she wants the GOP to try to out-pander the Democrat...

Democratic Spanish-language Univision debate September 9 transcript - 9/09/2007

The transcript contains some real valuable nuggets. Here's John Edwards: Just a few months ago, I was in Canton, Mississippi, as part of a poverty tour, and I met with poultry workers who worked in a poultry plant in Canton, Mississippi. And one of them was a man named Daniel who had been badly hurt on the job. And because of his injuries, he wasn't able to work.

Democratic debate September 9 (Quebec) - 9/09/2007

[UPDATE: Nuggets from the transcript.] The Democratic candidates for president are currently pandering debating on Quebec TV Univision. The first immigration question I've seen was a question from crack "reporter" Maria Elana Salinas. She wanted to know whether the candidates support a "wall" (muro) on the border with Mexico, but not with Canada. The answer, of course, is ...

Felipe Calderon protests "persecution and abusive treatment of undocumented Mexican workers" - 9/02/2007

Reuters offers the falsely-titled "Mexico's Calderon protests U.S. crackdown on immigrants". While to a certain extent his protest may just be for domestic consumption (per Reuters it was followed by "raucous applause"), based on past statements from other Mexican leaders it amply illustrates how they think: "I want to express again an energetic protest at the unilat...

Immigration "reform" will be perceived as amnesty - 8/25/2007

... politicians play is to claim that "comprehensive immigration reform" is not amnesty.

Elvira Arellano arrested by "La Migra"! - 8/19/2007

Convicted criminal Elvira Arellano has been arrested by ICE in downtown Los Angeles.

NYT editorial: supports illegal activity; acknowledges attrition; "pest control" - 8/09/2007

As soon as I hear the words "New York Times editorial" I, like no doubt most others, think "wrong". The latest is on display in "The Misery Strategy". Notably, the NYT has finally acknowledged attrition - enforcing our laws in order to encourage illegal aliens to go home - as a strategy. This contrasts with their prior attempts to present a false choice between mass d...

Carlos Gutierrez, Larry Craig get plaques from American Nursery and Landscape Association - 7/30/2007

From this: Attendees at the 2007 [American Nursery and Landscape Association] Legislative Conference visited approximately 250 House and Senate offices representing 40 states. Attendees visited Capitol Hill to lobby Congress for a solution to the labor and immigration crisis and to support specialty crop provisions in the 2007 Farm Bill reauthorization.

Progressives: urge Clinton, Obama, Richardson, Edwards to support Elvira Arellano's "campaign of resistance" - 7/02/2007

Dear fellow progressives: Elvira Arellano - the undocumented person from Mexico currently seeking sanctuary in The Right Rev. Walter "Slim" Coleman's church in Chicago to avoid being deported and separated from her U.S.-born son - has issued a call to a "campaign of resistance". I urge all fellow progressives to not only heed the call, but to encourage the Democratic ca...

Howard Dean supports failed Senate bill, blames Bush - 6/28/2007

Trotting out his stock lines, Howard Dean says: "Today's immigration vote is a reminder of why the American people voted Republicans out in 2006 and why they'll vote against them in 2008. After using the immigration issue to inflame people with divisive rhetoric, the Republican Party, led by President Bush, had neither the capital nor the political will to work with Democrats on a ...

America empty boxed: Kennedy immigration press conference - 6/18/2007

An old scam is to sell someone something and then to send them a box full of bricks or even an empty box. Along those lines, Ron Brynaert of RawStory finally has a story with which I don't disagree: Lawmakers were pointing to "empty boxes" at a press conference last Thursday, a Capitol Hill newspaper reports. "At a pro-immigration rally Thursday, a group of politicians incl...

Latino, Irish Catholics in illegal immigration march (Archdiocese of San Francisco, Irish government) - 6/10/2007

It's not just the Mexican government that meddles in our internal politics in order to support illegal immigration.

Letter: last 100 conservatives who support Senate amnesty bill must band together! - 6/05/2007

A group of about 30 conservatives have sent an open letter to the rest demanding that they band together and support the Bush/Kennedy/Kyl massive illegal alien amnesty bill. The letter itself is full of half-truths, such as their claim that "it will make sure that the law is enforced first, before any other provisions of the legislation take effect". Actually, the semi-legalization would...

Ezra Klein, useful idiot - 5/31/2007

... cirnow.org, the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. I'm not going to hold someone responsible for the ads on their site...

Janet Napolitano endorses Senate immigration bill; "silent amnesty" - 5/27/2007

Note that she's using the same term as Michael Chertoff; who used it first isn't known: Saying the only current alternative is allowing a status quo of "silent amnesty," Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday [5/23/07] tentatively endorsed a U.S.

Dick Morris: "Republicans should back immigration compromise" - 5/23/2007

In case you were wondering why I erupted into peals of laughter moments ago, your answer is here. Of course, then I wondered, "Is he still working for the Democrats, or Mexico?" The Republican Party would be self-destructive (not for the first time, either) if they did not let the immigration compromise negotiated by Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) pass and bec...

Samuel G. Freedman helps show how New York Times would scuttle "reform" - 5/23/2007

Samuel G.

NYT editorial: Senate bill bad; "Know-Nothings" hate illegal aliens - 5/20/2007

The New York Times offers the editorial "The Immigration Deal". Summary: they're going even further around the bend. They divide provisions of the bill into "good", "bad", and "awful", with the "guest" worker provisions in the latter camp. If the bad parts aren't removed, they say that no bill is better than the current one. And: It is pa...

LULAC, Raza radicals: Senate bill "unworkable", "this is our land!", "border crossed us" - 5/20/2007

A couple days ago, Mickey Kaus suggested one way to scuttle the Senate's amnesty bill: get radicals to support an even worse version, and perhaps even utter "reconquista" style statements. It looks like he's got his wish. From this: [Jaime P.

John Edwards is going to help stop amnesty - 5/18/2007

Imagine what would happen if an amnesty supporter were forced to endure an hour-long, nationally-televised interview just about immigration matters where they were asked a series of tough questions about amnesty and forced to defend what they support. As long as the questions were tough enough, and they were asked follow-up after follow-up, their lies and misleading statements would be revealed.

Corrupt crypto-Dem Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses "comprehensive immigration reform" - 5/16/2007

... McConnell urging them to pass "comprehensive immigration reform": ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2007,0517-schwarzenegger.pdf It's the usual swill: the system is broken, we need a "guest" worker program, we need border security, we need to deal "realistically" with current illegal aliens, etc. The swill is of the southwest-governor-variant, demanding that the Feds pay ...

1994: Rudy Giuliani explicitly welcomed illegal aliens to New York City - 5/15/2007

... Giuliani are backing off from "comprehensive immigration reform", aka amnesty. However, it does contain this: [Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum] remembers watching in

100+ Hispanic groups send letter supporting illegal immigration, opposing raids - 5/08/2007

... again a year or two after "comprehensive immigration reform" passes. There's no assurance that these groups wouldn't send a similar letter in order to weaken future, "reform"-mandated enforcement, and that's one of the ways that the current amnesty would become like past amnesties. We, the undersigned Latino organizations, write to express our outrage and deep c...

Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform - 5/07/2007

Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform is a new group headed up by Jim Wallis, and they're wrong. In order to promote legalization for all as well as a "guest" worker program, they'll be conducting an ad campaign, letter writing effort, and most likely advocating from the pulpit. First, they're selectively quoting the Bible; see the links here. Second, what they s...

Democrats debate features largely worthless immigration question - 4/26/2007

In case you were wondering just how corrupt the MSM is, the following appears to be the only question at tonight's Democratic presidential debate that involved immigration matters. While the "defy" part is certainly a bit piquant, and it's certainly good to get the news that Hillary Clinton supports amnesty out there and from her own lips, the information the question would obt...

George W. Bush, Raul Grijalva support "comprehensive immigration reform" together - 4/26/2007

Yesterday, Bush met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, including former MEChA member Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who says: "As much as I malign the president, I thought he was receptive... He was engaged in the conversation, asked questions and continued to make a commitment to comprehensive reform... ...We support [the Flake-Gutierrez STRIVE Act] very strongly, and we support ...

Latest "compromise" amnesty bill scam from Dems, GOP (late Apr. 2007) - 4/23/2007

... attempt at coming up with a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill (aka amnesty) is sold to us by Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the AP. An intense round of closed-door talks among Cabinet officials and Senate Republicans and Democrats has reached a critical bargaining stage, congressional officials and lobbyists said. Senior lawmakers from opposite sides of the spectrum a

Dr. Richard Land plays Bush-style word games with "amnesty" - 4/19/2007

... support of some vague form of "comprehensive immigration reform". Now, he feels the need to clarify his remarks.

Talk radio hosts, listeners head to DC to oppose amnesty - 4/16/2007

... capital next week to lobby against comprehensive immigration reform measures that would offer what critics views as "amnesty" to illegal immigrants. The conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and San Diego radio talk show host Roger Hedgecock are sponsoring a marathon of talk radio and Capitol Hill lobbying, dubbed "Hold Their

Goal: tie U.S. Attorneys firings to immigration (Dems hoist on own petard) - 4/16/2007

I can't do everything, and I've completely failed to try to tie in the firings of several U.S. Attorneys to immigration matters. For instance, here's Phyllis Schlafly tying the firings into the Ramos/Compean case, suggesting the Bush should fire U.S.

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