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Stillmore: The Crider/SPLC/MSM plantation - 12/12/2006

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.

Is Michele Marcucci/Oakland Tribune biased? - 12/05/2006

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 does not. Instead, while she reports on two supposed "nonwhite" groups actually being initiated by - gasp! - ...

Jared Polis, Colorado Springs awarded by Mexican government (Ohtli award) - 12/02/2006

... Columnist: ...The award is the highest Mexican government award outside of Mexico. The Ohtli - Nahuatl for "path" - award is given to someone who has contributed to the betterment of the Mexican community and has helped Mexicans abroad. "This was a tough year for us because of the race issues and immigration issues, so we look for a person who advocates for the Mexican communit...

Stillmore: Crider Poultry employing homeless, felons instead of illegal aliens - 11/27/2006

In September, ICE raided the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia, which resulted in hundreds of illegal aliens leaving the city.

Randal Archibold/NYT: illegal immigration-supporting groups are right, "vigilantes" are wrong - 11/24/2006

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 the self-appointed border watchers, Mr.

Maricopa County sued over anti-smuggling law; Mexico links - 11/22/2006

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 into the country.

What Steve Kroft/60 Minutes forgot to ask (Hazleton immigration ordinance) - 11/19/2006

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 mayor Lou Barletta a racist, and Kroft lingered over the word "racist", he forgot to mention th...

Are you a "Bush Conservative"? - 11/17/2006

"Bush Conservative" is the new, not-nearly-as-pejorative name for what is refered to in the literature as "Bushbotism".

Academic McCarthyism from the SPLC? - 11/15/2006

Say it ain't so! However, consider the case of Kevin MacDonald, a Professor of Psychology at California State Universitya

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 claims U.S. violating human rights obligations (OAS) - 11/02/2006

... 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 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (part of the Organization of American States): ...to find the United States in violation of its universa...

Mexico's U.N. ambassador promotes North American Union - 11/01/2006

From this: U.S.-Mexico relations could remain paralyzed unless leaders of the two nations and Canada formalize a North American partnership a

Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone's misleading, pro-illegal immigration propaganda - 10/29/2006

Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone offers his list of the 10 worst Congressmen. As you might expect from that publication, it's biased (9 of 10 are Republicans) and their complaints consist mainly of lightweight analysis and smears. Let's take a look at their entry on Rep. Tom Tancredo.

John DeStefano linked to Mexico collaborators (CT governor race) - 10/27/2006

... which is collaborating with the Mexican government.

"Food Stamps in Four Hours" (Mexican consul+USDA) - 10/14/2006

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 immigrants in Orange County over the last several weeks to contact...

Democrats Sam Zamarripa, Pedro Marin at march organized by former Mexican consul - 10/09/2006

... the Democratic Party and the Mexican government or institutions. According to the report "Latinos call for legalization": State Sen.

Fence bill has huge, Bush- and Mexico-friendly holes - 10/06/2006

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 to distribute the money to a combination of projects, not just the ...

Jorge Castaneda, Fifth Columnists, and the Los Angeles Times - 10/05/2006

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 whether Mexico had a "Fifth Column" inside the U.S.

Not-so-FreeRepublic.com, Part 2 - 9/28/2006

These Free Republic threads have at least two things in common: freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709042/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709051/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709076/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709036/posts The first commonality is that they're all in FR's "f-chat" section, which, as it sounds, is for "chatty" things rather than the s...

Source: Patt Morrison's hat still too tight - 9/21/2006

The L.A. Times lifestyle columnist and infamous hat-wearer offers "Border Fence Is Borderline Insanity". In brief, she thinks it's just a stunt and won't be built anyway because it won't be funded.

Secret NAU meeting in Canada - 9/20/2006

From this: ...from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, [Canadian] Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and [Canadian] Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with U.S.

Raul Grijalva pics most boring video ever - 9/18/2006

On August 19, 2006, former MEChA member and U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva spoke to a meeting of the Progressive Democrats of America and discussed immigration "reform" and the "progressive" movement. It appears to have been shot not just in a bar in West Phoenix, but next to the restrooms. And, there's a clear shot of the Jack Daniels logo through out.

Beachhead: Houston Chronicle fully supports Mexican agenda, illegal immigration - 9/11/2006

The Houston Chronicle unsigned editorial "Beachhead" is so shocking in its outright support for illegal immigration and Mexico's agenda it's almost unbelievable: FOUR years ago, Mexico closed its New Orleans consulate a

Peter Prengaman/AP ignores Peter Schey Mexican government links - 9/10/2006

... that's collaborating with the Mexican government on a website. Schey is also representing some illegal aliens who were arrested under a new Arizona law, and there is some kind of involvement of the Mexican consul in the case.

Washington DC illegal immigration march: <5000 show up; Ted Kennedy - 9/08/2006

Senator Edward M. Kennedy ("Teddy", "Ted") was one of the featured speakers at yesterday's illegal immigration rally in Washington D.C.

U.S. documents on Mexican government incursions - 9/07/2006

Judicial Watch's FOIA request has uncovered 226 border incursions by Mexico's miltary between 1996 and 2005. For instance: MEXICAN MILITARY ENCOUNTER (ARMED/THREATENING) RIO GRANDE VALLEY/BROWNSVILLE - "As the boat proceeded to go down river towards the scene, the [Border Patrol] Agent on board advised via radio that several Mexican soldiers were pointing their rifles in his directi...

Immigration march organizers have foreign links - 9/01/2006

Many of those who attended the recent immigration marches are foreign citizens who are here illegally. But, it doesn't stop there. For instance, one rally organizer is a former Mexican consul general and another is an official with a Mexican political party. Not surprisingly, the MSM has barely mentioned such links.

Farmers Branch: will Hector Flores violate fair housing laws? - 8/28/2006

Farmers Branch is a Dallas suburb that's been considering enacting a Hazelton-style ordinance designed to reduce the number of illegal immigrants moving to their city. Needless to say, various local groups including "Hector Flores, immediate past national president of the League of Latin American Citizens" are playing not just the race card but going further, saying that "th...

Help David Garbe, the Suburban Chicago News provide America-friendly coverage - 8/25/2006

David Garbe is a reporter for the Suburban Chicago News (owned by the Chicago Sun-Times group) and he offers the latest in a very long line of similar reports on the mobile Mexican consulate coming to small towns to pass out their ID cards to their citizens, most of whom are here illegally: "Hundreds line up at mobile Mexican consulate".

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

... who's collaborating with the Mexican government on a website. He's also representing some illegal aliens who were arrested under a new Arizona law, and there is some kind of involvement of the Mexican consul. And, an "opposition research" paper he wrote appears on a Mexican government website. And, this is at least the second time that the AP has failed to note these connec...

Steve Laffey, Lincoln Chafee, Matricula Consular cards, the NRSC, and idiots - 8/23/2006

Steve Laffey is the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island and he's trying to defeat fellow Republican Lincoln Chafee in the Senatorial primary. Apparently the National Republican Senatorial Committee supports the RINO Chafee, believing that only he can defeat the Democratic challenger.

Pat Buchanan: 'State of Emergency' (a reply to his critics) - 8/20/2006

Dear ____________: What an interesting discussion of

Immigration piffle from The Nation - 8/10/2006

The far-left rag's latest issue is all about the "New Nativism". It goes downhill from there. For instance, let's look at just one article entitled "Nightly Nativism" about Lou Dobbs: Dobbs elaborated in his online column: "It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by...

Ruben Navarrette, disingenuous race-baiter - 8/10/2006

The San Diego Union-Tribune's Ruben Navarrette Jr. offers a disingenuous, race-baiting hit piece on U.S. Rep.

Democrat Raul Grijalva + Mexican government-linked Derechos Humanos at forum - 8/04/2006

... is not only working with the Mexican government, their head is also on the payroll of Pima County (Tucson). The meeting is scheduled for August 17, but there's no word on where it will be held. This is yet another link between the Democratic Party and the government of Mexico.

El Cucuy es Raza! (Bustamante, Cedillo, NCLR, voting) - 8/02/2006

Popular Spanish-language radio host El Cucuy (real name: Renan Almendarez Coello) is on a 10 city bus tour trying to register members of his audience as voters. He kicked off the campaign in San Jose (California) on Monday, and joining him on his fun bus were Lt. Gov.

September 4 illegal immigration march - 8/01/2006

... organizers of the march and the Mexican government are swept under the rug by the AP, Reuters, LAT, NYT, and WaPo. Anyone willing to take that bet? Anyone?

Dan Weintraub is wrong on illegal immigration - 7/26/2006

The SacBee's "CalInsider" is wrong about illegal immigration in so very many ways: My take is that illegal immigration, in and of itself, is a victimless crime. If people come here to work, which most illegal immigrantsdo, they are going to engage in a voluntary exchange of their labor for someone else's money. They are not stealing, and, as a group, they are helping our econom...

"Mexican Government Running US Immigration Policy" - 7/13/2006

Here's part 3 of the interview with a former Border Patrol supervisor.

No More Deaths, Derechos Humanos working with Mexican government - 7/12/2006

... of hospitality" with the Mexican government that will let those groups assist potential illegal aliens inside Mexico. They will be providing them with "food, water, footwear and basic medical care", which will serve to encourage many to try to cross the border. And, needless to say, some of those will die trying. Of course, if they were truly humanitarian they would try to assist t...

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