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AP/Arthur H. Rotstein: some of my best friends are Minutemen - 12/20/2005

The AP offers the biased report "Vigilante Anti-Immigration Group Gaining" about the Minuteman Project. A search shows that that's the original AP title, and not the one from Yahoo.

Urgent action needed: strengthen HR 4437 - 12/15/2005

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) has proposed H.R. 4437, aka the "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005". It contains some strong provisions against illegal immigration and a (probably deliberately) weak provision or two. The last might indicate that this bill is actually a trojan horse designed to make massive illegal immigration legal and hel...

Immigration "news" from the Wall Street Journal - 10/18/2005

As discussed here several times, the editorial side of the WSJ favors open borders, smearing opponents and outright lying as necessary. The news side of the WSJ seems to have a few problems as well. Consider "California Race Highlights Split On Immigration" from Miriam Jordan.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce using front groups? - 10/14/2005

Deborah Senn was a candidate for state attorney-general of Washington. A $1.5 million advertising campaign from a group called the VEC (Voters Education Committee) was launched against her, and now she's suing the organization that was behind VEC: the U.S.

More Morton Kondracke immigration idiocy - 10/09/2005

Like a minor league member of the Open Borders lobby, Morton Kondracke of Roll Call magazine continues to discuss immigration "reform", the latest in "Will Bush Step Up - Or Let Immigration Issue Fester Further?". Just like another minor leaguer, he references Tamar Jacoby in the piece.

$500 million to observe the entire Mexican border with military technology? - 9/23/2005

Sounds like one heck of a deal. From "Renzi wants military technology to track immigrants at border": Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., says state-of-the-art military technology should be employed to help the U.S.

"Study: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws" - 8/30/2005

The CIS has released a new study written by Janice Kephart, former counsel for the 9/11 commission: "Moving Beyond the 9/11 Staff report on Terrorist Travel". From the AP report "Study: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws": Suspected or convicted foreign-born terrorists have routinely exploited federal immigration laws over the last decade to enter or remain in the United S...

The 1986 amnesty failed spectaculary, why repeat the mistake? - 8/30/2005

Georgie Anne Geyer discusses the 1986 amnesty, that was supposed to be the amnesty to end all amnesties. (Also here). ...Pete Nunez, the former U.S. attorney for San Diego and a lifelong fighter for immigration control, told me in a recent talk: "Why are those numbers today so high? Because of the amnesty of 1986!

Big Business Balks at Bush Propaganda Plan - 8/29/2005

President Bush has created the Orwellian-named "Americans for Border and Economic Security" to push for his massive guest worker amnesty scheme.

Look! It's Insty, and he's talking about immigration! - 6/30/2005

Once every month or two, America's favorite blogger turns his attention to the most critical issue facing this nation.

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

... Association and is Chairman of the National Immigration Forum) Jack Kemp Grover Norquist Rick Swartz: And then there's the National Immigration Forum, the umbrella organization for high-immigration political advocacy, which works closely with sympathetic Republicans. But NIF is not like the conventional lobbying coalitions that exist on numerous issues. It was cofounded by the Nati...

McCain, Kennedy introduce Open Borders, Open Wallets bill - 5/12/2005

Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy have introduced the "Open Borders, Open Wallets" bill, informally known as the "2005 Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act". Do I really need to provide details, aren't the involvement of those two senators enough? Anyway, their cohorts are Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ). This is a massive...

"FAIR Responds to Sham Immigration Poll" - 4/08/2005

... immigration advocacy group, the National Immigration Forum, reveals that even reputable polling organizations will conduct push polls to generate revenue in political off-years.

Has the Springfield Republican been radicalized? - 2/27/2005

... immigration": And then there's the National Immigration Forum, the umbrella organization for high-immigration political advocacy, which works closely with sympathetic Republicans. But NIF is not like the conventional lobbying coalitions that exist on numerous issues. It was cofounded by the National Lawyers Guild in the 1980s, back when the Guild was a Soviet front group. The group'...

"Dogmatic Libertarians: Over the edge." - 1/19/2005

I already posted this inside another post, but this May 9, 2002 column deserves its own post: ...Near the end of the NRO article Griswold [of the Cato Institute] insists that he is not for "open borders," but his record suggests otherwise. A story in the Christian Science Monitor (August 30, 2000) by Scott Baldauf is particularly revealing.

The WaPo has finally overloaded my circuits - 1/03/2005

The WaPo offers us "Bush Immigration Plan Meets GOP Opposition", an article that contains several hidden assumptions just ripe for a fisking. However, it's not bad enough that I want to expend the effort. Therefore, a mini fisk: 1. Are you sure you want to use the phrase "[Bush's plans to] liberalize the nation's immigration laws"? Are you sure what he wants is &...

"Mi Casa Es Su Casa? Get Real" - 12/30/2004

... she's also a board member of the National Immigration Forum along with several other fine people from the ACLU, the National Council of the Race, CARECEN of L.A., SEIU, the National Restaurant Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The left and right elites, working together against the rest of us.

Handouts? Go Beyond the Usual [Canards and Suspects] - 8/27/2004

In one or two columns, Steve Lopez of the L.A. Times was starting to make some sense. See April's "Way Too Many People in Paradise". However, with his latest discussion of illegal immigration he's reverted to the usual LAT set of canards and "experts". From "Handouts?

Miami Herald "endorses indentured servitude" - 3/23/2004

... DIRECTOR OF AG LABOR RELATIONS NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM CAMPAIGN FOR LABOR RIGHTS NATIONAL MIGRANT AND SEASONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN GULF HARVESTING, INC. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS (LCCR) MOARK LLC MAFO NORTHEAST FARM CREDIT REGIONAL COUNCIL PAN AMERICAN RECRUITING NORTHWOODS AGRI WOMEN TELAMON CORPORATION Housing Assistance Council AMANECER (AZ) CENTRAL AMER...

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