Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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Hillary Clinton picks National Council of La Raza's Raul Yzaguirre to co-chair - 4/12/2007

... on him. Related: Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform ready to push amnesty The NCLR endorsed the Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 (Barack Obama) Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007

Bush drones on in Yuma, promotes "comprehensive immigration reform" - 4/09/2007

No fence pics yet. Developing... UPDATE: ICBITN ("I Can't Believe I Took Notes"). As expected, this was Immigration Speech #5, with the 5-D variant. There is absolutely nothing in what he said that was either a) new, or b) answered his critics.

Bush border buggy back Monday in Yuma (fence photo op) - 4/08/2007

... - yet again - push for "comprehensive immigration reform", aka a massive amnesty. He'll be joined by Arizona governor Janet Napolitano but Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva (a former member of MEChA) - despite being invited - won't be there. Prediction: Bush will give Speech #5, with either Variant 5-B or 5-D. While he'll have a hard time finding as engaging a pr...

Los Angeles: thousands march for illegal immigration, literally demanding "amnesty" - 4/08/2007

Peter Prengaman of the Associated Press offers this about a rally which thousands of illegal immigration supporters held in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 7. According to one audio recording I heard, someone led the crowd in a chant of "What do we want?

Sojourners/Jim Wallis promoting massive amnesty to Congress - 4/07/2007

... involved with the Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Reverend Stephen P. Bouman: globalist, illegal immigration supporter - 4/02/2007

... congressional staff March 22 to enact comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 that is "humane and for the common good." ...Key components that the bishops believe help to fulfill these principles include: elimination of the family visa backlogs; fair and humane enforcement provisions and the elimination of the unnecessary detention of families and children; earned legalization of th...

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

... held in Dallas to support "comprehensive immigration reform", aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens. Last year's event (the one where George P.

Will Dick Durbin block immigration "reform" (aka a massive amnesty)? - 3/27/2007

Could Senator Dick Durbin - an illegal immigration supporting hack who refered to himself and illegal aliens as "we" as in "we can win" - block immigration "reform" by trying to push for business-unfriendly H-1B related worker protections? From this: ...Durbin is considering the tougher standards for companies that want to bring temporary foreign workers into the coun...

Wed. and Thu. are "National Call-in Days for Immigration Reform" - 3/27/2007

The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform - which includes one group linked to the Mexican government and another with an alleged link - informs us that Thursday and Friday are their "National Call-in Days for Immigration Reform" (cirnow.org/file/754.pdf).

STRIVE Act: MALDEF, Juan Hernandez, ANLA support; Chertoff kinda - 3/24/2007

Without refering to Flake-Gutierrez specifically, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff reiterated his support for "guest" worker scheme: "[The new laws should] bring them out, register them ... and make sure as a condition that they pay their debt to society for having broken the law... What I'm talking about is a common sense policy... We have to be tough. We have to be humane.

STRIVE Act: not everyone happy with "touchback" (even for just one day) - 3/24/2007

The Gutierrez-Flake amnesty scheme contains a "touchback" provision. Current illegal aliens who pass a screening and meet other requirements would be given a legal worker permit immediately. Then: Illegal immigrants would within the next six years have to leave the United States for either Mexico or Canada, go to a processing center and re-enter the U.S. legally.

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

... 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.

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley's "Save The Sweatshops" movement - 3/16/2007

The archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, offers "A more humane immigration policy" about the New Bedford immigration raids, you know, the ones at the factory just about everyone admits was a sweatshop.

GOP Senators plotting immigration "reform" in private meetings - 3/15/2007

... discuss how to come up with a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill. Others in the meetings include Michael Chertoff of the DHS and Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez.

Perp walk: churches to shelter illegal aliens facing deportation - 3/14/2007

... to unite evangelicals behind comprehensive immigration reform, according to a pastor organizing the effort. Rev. Alexia Salvatierra [an ordained Lutheran minister], executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), said Monday that Christians will fight to prevent families from being divided when illegal immigrant parents are deported, leaving behind children who are l...

Bush now Quisling: pledges immigration "reform" to Mexicans, Mexican government - 3/13/2007

President Bush has crossed the line from being a borderline-Quisling to a full blown Quisling on his Latin America trip's stop in Mexico. Here are his remarks [1] from earlier today in Mexico: PRESIDENT BUSH: Buenos dA

Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform ready to push amnesty - 3/13/2007

The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform said today that they're going to push even harder for a massive amnesty for illegal aliens: "This campaign is unprecedented in the pro-immigration community," said Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza, in a statement.

Sen. Patrick Leahy begins comprehensive immigration "reform" hearings - 2/28/2007

... to set the stage for work on comprehensive immigration reform, featuring Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Harry Reid wins LULAC National Legislative Award - 2/28/2007

... Nevada town?), promoting "comprehensive immigration reform", quoting

Larry Kudlow admits he was ignorant about immigration - 2/27/2007

Larry Kudlow - former Ronald Reagan economic advisor, current CNBC host and guest on Hugh Hewitt's show - has been a minor-league supporter of the Bush/Fox/Democrats immigration scheme.

"The Kennedy Amnesty Reign of Terror Begins This Next Week" - 2/25/2007

... start the ball rolling on "comprehensive immigration reform" (aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens). Please sign up at NumbersUSA to receive their action alerts; one such is here, which goes into who needs to be contacted and whether they're leaning for or against amnesty.

Mexico to push even harder for a massive illegal alien amnesty - 2/21/2007

Looks like Mexico is going to help us determine who's on their side, and who's on ours: Mexico plans to begin an aggressive lobbying effort in the United States to secure an immigration reform agreement, the country's new ambassador in Washington said Tuesday. Mexican consulates in the United States will talk with state and federal lawmakers, business chambers, civic organizatio...

NoCal far-lefties show why immigration "reform" would fail miserably - 2/19/2007

... Kennedy, said that his "comprehensive immigration reform" proposal offered "[d]oubled Interior Enforcement" and "authorizes state and local law enforcement officers to investigate, apprehend, arrest, detain or transfer to aliens to federal custody" and had "[a]dditional Worksite Enforcement" (preview.tinyurl.com/2vdhsd). Unless someone lives in a magical pl...

Michael Chertoff promotes illegal immigration in Mexico - 2/16/2007

... promoted illegal immigration: Comprehensive immigration reform, he said, would allow U.S. law enforcement to "focus more on the people that we don't want in the country under any circumstances, namely the criminals and the dangerous folks." "Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to someplace to be returned, he'...

Alfonso Aguilar/U.S. Office of Citizenship promotes "guest" workers (LULAC, NALEO connection) - 2/13/2007

The "U.S. Office of Citizenship" was created a few years ago and is part of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The first and current head of the Office, Alfonso Aguilar, was appointed by president Bush in 2003. His biography reveals that he's a member of two highly questionable groups. (Go to uscis.gov and search, or enter this: preview.tinyurl.com/2948hx) The first g...

Amber Tafoya, Catholic Charities, and Colorado Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - 2/12/2007

Amber Tafoya is an immigration lawyer who works for the "Center for Immigrant and Community Integration Legal Services Office" of the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo (Colorado), and on Saturday she conducted an "Immigration Law & Immigrant Rights" conference for the Colorado Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (link), which is a non-profit organiz...

Bush '08 budget only covers half of border fence - 2/05/2007

I think we could have seen this coming from 700 miles away: President Bush's new budget would pay for only about half of the 700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border fence he and Congress four months ago promised to build. With Mr. Bush trying to prove to Republicans he is serious about immigration law enforcement, his budget makes good on his promise to fund 3,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents, p...

Pomona mayor, activists, Monica Rodriguez, worried about ICE doing their job - 2/04/2007

From Monica Rodriguez of the SB Sun: The recent roundup of 338 illegal immigrants across Southern California targeted those who had ignored deportation orders, criminals, fugitives and others. But out of those arrests, about half - 159 - involved random people who officials came across and found to be in the country illegally but without any other criminal record, said Virginia Kice, spokeswom...

Enrique Morones, Nativo Lopez on "Migrant March II" - 2/02/2007

From this: Dozens of immigrant-rights advocates will depart today from San Diego to drum up support for immigration reform. Called Migrant March II [aka "Second National March for Immigrant Rights"], the caravan of mostly Latino leaders will drive to Brownsville, Texas, and back, meeting along the way with community leaders and residents in cities along the border, organizers said. ...

Lobbying for immigration "reform" - 1/29/2007

Mike Madden of Gannett News has a brief round-up of the money that was spent lobbying for and against immigration "reform" in 2005 and the first part of 2006 here. According to a Gannett study, $3.3 million was spent in that period, and most of that was the pro side. They also mention the Center for Responsive Politics.

Dirty Harry Reid: desert land deal lubricates legislation? - 1/28/2007

Surprisingly, the Los Angeles Times continues its multi-year effort to uncover "Dirty" Harry Reid scandals. The latest comes in "A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid?" by Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger: ...In 2002, Reid (D-Nev.) paid $10,000 to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Las Vegas lubricants distributor and his friend for 50 years.

American Nursery and Landscape Association: green thumbs up for Bush immigration plan - 1/28/2007

The American Nursery and Landscape Association joins the other groups issuing press communiques relating to Bush's SOTU speech, in which he (for the umpteenth time) promoted a "guest" worker plan and amnesty for illegal aliens.

Spanish-language Democrat response to SOTU (Xavier Becerra) - 1/26/2007

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) gave the Spanish-language Democrat response to the State of the Union. He spent a few paragraphs on immigration and said the standard things. About the only thing different from what Bush said is that he went even further with the smears. Whereas Bush just said "without animosity and without amnesty", Becerra included the following: On immigration, after ye...

AVWatch: does Villaraigosa really support immigration "reform" or just open borders? - 1/25/2007

... Change, many advocates of "comprehensive immigration reform" don't seem to be completely on the up-and-up. No big surprise there. Specifically, many of those who claim to support "reform" also speak out against those rare immigration raids that the Bush administration conducts.

Deepak Bhargava/Center for Community Change on SOTU/immigration - 1/24/2007

Speaking apparently on behalf of all "immigrant communities" in the U.S., Deepak Bhargava, the Executive Director of the far-left Center for Community Change, responds thusly to the immigration section of Bush's SOTU: In 2006, Congress used 'immigration' to drag our nation through one of the most racially divisive political campaigns in recent memory and the Bush Administr...

Pro-illegal immigration loons descend on Farmers Branch - 1/24/2007

Farmers Branch, Texas is trying to pass a Hazleton-style ordinance designed to reduce the numbers of illegal aliens in the town.

Senators on Swift raid; "designed to fail"; Chertoff "not in the business of doing amnesty" - 1/23/2007

[See the first update] Reading about yesterday's Senate meeting where they discussed the recent immigration raids at Swift and Company locations in various states left me feeling like I was having an intense spell of vertigo inside a House of Mirrors.

Bush State of the Union Address 2007 - 1/22/2007

[UPDATE: Live-blogging here; additional note here.] On Tuesday, this site will be discussing Bush's State of the Union Address.

Swift hearing: Chertoff, Allard, Hatch, Klobuchar, Coleman, Harkin, Grassley - 1/20/2007

A bipartisan group of Senators will be holding a hearing on Monday to discuss the Swift & Company immigration raids. Wayne Allard leads the confab, with help from: Orrin Hatch, Norm Coleman, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Harkin, Charles Grassley, and

SEIU wants a massive illegal alien amnesty for all - 1/18/2007

... announced its "agenda for comprehensive immigration reform" by sending a "detailed letter" to Teddy Kennedy, which, of course, is preaching to the choir: The letter identified core reform principles to which SEIU is committed, including legalization, a new worker program, labor and civil rights law enforcement, family backlog reduction, and border security.

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