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Live-blogging Bush's immigration speech - 05/15/06

Is he insane? This is the same speech he's delivered countless times. Does he expect a different result? Is he intentionally trying to drive his popularity down to 20%? For decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders... First, the United States must secure its borders. This is a basic responsibility of a sovereign Nation. Bush has had over five years to secure the border, and it's been well within his ability all that time. It's a matter of will and nothing more.

Fareed Zakaria's wonderful, heartwarming, misleading essay on immigration - 04/03/06

The TV pundit offers a wonderful, heartwarming, and misleading essay in "To Become an American". 1. He downplays the issue of illegal immigration, and might give the uninformed reader the mistaken idea that there's little difference between the legal and illegal variety. 2. By doing the first, he might give uninformed readers the mistaken idea that the question is about whether to allow immigration in general. 3.

Illegal aliens march in Chicago, get support from Blago, Gutierrez, local media - 03/10/06

Up to a few hundred thousand illegal aliens and their supporters marched for immigration "reform" in Chicago earlier today. Among those supporters are the local news media and politicians. The news media took the opportunity to send out their ethnically-biased reporters who offer some rather non-journalistic propaganda.

Tamar Jacoby and Grover Norquist don't speak for 75% of Americans - 12/22/05

Tamar Jacoby and Grover Norquist offer "Hard-liners don't speak for GOP". As anyone who's familiar with them might be able to predict, it's like entering bizarro world, in which those who want to reduce illegal immigration are "hard-liners".

"Immigration's not-so-hidden costs hurt American workers" - 05/19/05

Liberal Clarence Page informs us: "We are a nation of immigrants," Kennedy said in announcing the new bill. "And we always will be, and our laws must be true to that proud heritage." I agree with that. But I also know that the nation can have too much of a good thing, especially those who have entered the workforce illegally. Controlled and orderly immigration is enriching for our country.

Is the Illinois GOP making sense? - 08/03/04

The Illinois GOP is continuing their fervent search for a competitor to Barack Obama. At post time, they have not yet considered my suggestion that they consider Chitown institution Bozo, but give them time. Meanwhile, the latest desperate plan from the Illinois GOP is to convince one-time presidential candidate and two-time senatorial candidate Alan Keyes to move from Maryland to Illinois and run against Barack Obama: "GOP wooing Keyes to take on Obama". Not a bad plan, but wouldn't the second place finisher in the primary be a more natural choice? He does, after all, already live in...

Templates, patterns, and selling massive illegal immigration - 07/05/04

You read enough newspaper reports about immigration, and you start noticing certain patterns. For instance, I've read several articles that have all or most of the following characteristics: They're all designed to make massive illegal immigration acceptable. They're all based on one or two sympathetic illegal aliens. Those aliens are only identified by first name, because the illegal aliens state in the article that they're afraid of being deported. The very first sentence of the article mentions the name of the illegal alien and includes some reference to t

A "Conservative" Statement of Principles on Immigration - 02/09/04

A statement/open letter/mess of lies entitled "A Conservative Statement of Principles on Immigration" appeared in Friday's Wall Street Journal (more about the WSJ here and here). The WSJ is subscription-only, but a copy is available here: [America is a nation of immigrants, heart-warming platitudes, etc. etc...] Conservatives believe in legal immigration.[related folderol deleted] Conservatives oppose illegal immigration. We believe there is a right way and a wrong way to immigrate to the United States. However, as conservatives we believe that our laws must reflect reality and common sense...

The Letter to Bush and Hastert Warning about the President's Immigration Plan - 01/28/04

From this: Conservative Congressman Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.) recently joined 22 fellow GOP Congressmen in a letter to the President and House Speakder Dennis Hastert detailing the public's negative reaction to the White House's immigration proposal... Below is a copy of the original letter as sent by Rep. Tancredo's office: --------------- Dear Mr. Speaker: We have serious concerns regarding the immigration policy President Bush announced earlier this month. We collectively agree that the United States has a severe and undeniable immigration problem; however, the proposal articulated...

"Bush plan may help drive for immigrant licenses" - 01/16/04

From the San Jose Mercury News: Proposed legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in California may have received an unexpected political boost this week when President Bush announced a sweeping plan for immigration reform. In the Bay Area and across the state, supporters of the driver's license effort believe that the president's plan will help their campaign to get a new bill introduced in California. What about those who don't support

Bush admits: "I was wrong about amnesty." - 01/10/04

In a shock admission just released by the White House, President Bush announced that he had changed his mind completely on his recent proposal that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. "After much deliberation, I've decided to change my mind about my recent proposal," Bush stated. "I realize that the United States is a country of laws, and I refuse to support and encourage law-breaking. Furthermore, any form of amnesty will act to the detriment of the millions of people around the world who have been patiently waiting for legal immigration for many years.

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