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December 20, 2005
That state Senator offers the following letter: Leaders of a Hispanic activist group known as Voces de la Frontera believe that in America, it is better to storm the home of an elected official and yell in their windows after dark to intimidate someone rather than to run for office...
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Someone named Kelly Arthur Garrett is apparently an American reporter who lives in Mexico. She offers the titular piece, which starts with this: What a sad commentary on the state of the migration policy debated when asimple call for bilateral cooperation loosens an avalanche of anti-Mexico vitriol from misguided Americans...
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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. (Fox calls it "Minuteman Project Gains Popularity", two AZ sources change it: KVOA, AZ Daily Sun, as do two ND sources:...
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The Financial Times superficially reports that "LA's hidden economy threatens region". That's their take on the Milken Institute report discussed here in "Liberalism" caused Los Angeles' massive underground economy: The findings, which added fuel to an already fierce debate about illegal immigration and revived talk about ways to make California...
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December 19, 2005
America's amigo, like our leader, has now become a parody, offering us the following canard: "[The proposed wall on the Mexican border is] a very bad sign, which does not speak well of a country that is proud of being democratic, proud of being a country of immigrants... The vast...
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December 18, 2005
Michael A. Fletcher and Darryl Fears offer "Analysts: Crackdown Won't Halt Immigration". It includes quotes from a few people saying that enforcement alone won't work and we need a guest worker scheme. The "reporters" seem to be leading the reader to come to that same conclusion. However, in the very...
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December 17, 2005
"MemFromDem" claims to be an immigration lawyer, and in an anti-Lou Dobbs thread it tries to pimp the Kennedy-McCain guest worker scheme. "TahitiNut" takes it to task, complete with some shocking charts that I'll have to incorporate in future posts. And: Suffice it to say that when the 'ownership society'...
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December 15, 2005
From a report that the SacBee misleadingly titles "Immigrant tuition law challenged": Sparked by a former California congressman, a class-action lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court challenging a state law allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public universities. Former U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, a San...
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Your calls are needed immediately: Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has added language to HR 4437 that supports adding a guest worker scheme to the final bill. The "Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005" will be voted on today, so please take a minute and call your...
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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...
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December 13, 2005
The post "Howard Dean to embarass self August 5 2005" discussed how the Democratic Party in Texas' Hidalgo County invited racists to speak at one of their meetings and even make threats against the Minuteman Project. I recently noticed this August 2 post, which says it's an article that appeared...
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Last week, Slate ran a three-parter from Judd Slivka entitled "How the Border Changed Us". It's not exactly pro-illegal immigration, but it's a standard "dude (as in the ranch) visits desert southwest for first time" piece. It concentrates on the trash left behind by crossers and their attempts to get...
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According to the Scripps Howard Texas Poll: Seventy-nine percent say the government is not doing enough to stop illegal immigrants... The finding reflects a 10 point increase from February of 2004 and a 21-point hike from August of 2001. The survey included 1,000 Texas adults, and the poll has an...
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From this: The bishops of Arizona are calling on Catholics to welcome immigrants into their parishes, whether documented or undocumented, and to work to reform the U.S. immigration laws in an effort to facilitate immigration and stem the growing number of migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border... How about working...
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December 12, 2005
As previously discussed, Ed Bradley reported on illegal immigration on last night's 60 Minutes. Taking a bit of a harsher tone than I did comes this annotated transcript....
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Michael S. Teitelbaum (a demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) and Philip L. Martin (professor of labor economics at the University of California at Davis) discuss "guest" worker schemes: ...Decades of experience with such temporary worker programs in high-wage liberal democracies worldwide show that neither the programs nor the...
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An article with a rather strange provenance has appeared in the WaPo, entitled "Who's Trying to Cross Our Southern Border? Everyone". Here's the signature block: Michael Flynn is a freelance writer based in Geneva. He received a grant from the Washington-based Fund for Investigative Journalism to report on transmigration from...
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December 11, 2005
Tonight's 60 Minutes had a segment called "More Migrants Dying To Get In". That link provides a rough transcript of the segment, but there are some not insignificant things they left out, such as Tancredo briefly referencing workplace enforcement and Ed Bradley not following up on that remark. And, Ed...
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Minnesota's Department of Administration recently released a report showing that illegal immigrants to that state cost them $188 million a year. Governor Tim Pawlenty commissioned the study and, while offering no specific legislation at this point, appears to be intending to do something. That caused this: "It's playing to racism,...
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There's a historical backgrounder here. This part stands out: Federal law and regulations establish procedures, administered by the Department of State, by which Americans can voluntarily renounce their citizenship. In addition, federal law lists a variety of acts that shall result in the loss of citizenship if "voluntarily perform[ed] ....
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December 10, 2005
David Goldstein of K-R offers "Undocumented immigration a growing worry". Unfortunately, like other articles it offers the false choice between amnesty lite and amnesty heavy, without acknowledging the revolutionary step of simply enforcing our current laws....
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The N.C. Times' William Finn Bennett offers "Local farmers fret over rising cost of wages". That reporter is usually better than writing articles like this, and he or anyone else who believes anything these farmers say should first read "Jon Vessey, crops rotting in the fields, and pro-illegal immigration propaganda"...
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December 09, 2005
In May 2002 the LAT reported on the phenomonon of "birth tourism": foreigners traveling to the U.S. specifically to have children. Those children would then automatically be declared U.S. citizens and could receive benefits and wouldn't be subjected to the home country's rules. And, once they reach 18, those citizens...
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IBD discusses Tuesday's election featuring Jim Gilchrist: When a one-issue activist from a fringe party holds the Republican candidate to under 45% in GOP territory, it's time to take notice... ...Republicans in the New York-Washington axis may not see it, but there's a deep divide in their party between elites...
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December 08, 2005
Noonan has a column (I guess) opposing massive illegal immigration and chiding our corrupt elites for supporting it: There are people who want to return to the old ways and rescue some of the old attitudes. There are groups that seek to restore border integrity. But they are denigrated by...
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Pat "Pitchfork" Buchanan opines: ...This is a national crisis, an existential crisis. But after five years of ignoring it, and now finally addressing it, what did Bush say in Tucson? I can't defend the border if you won't give me a guest worker program. Said Bush, "(W)e will not be...
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December 06, 2005
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist lost tonight's special election in California's 48th District, but he got 25.1% of the vote and perhaps has put a bit of a scare into at least the GOP. Republican John Campbell won with 44.7% despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on his campaign,...
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From "GOP forms strategy to OK guest workers": Republican leaders will try to pass President Bush's controversial guest-worker proposal without putting it to a direct vote in the House. Observers say the new GOP strategy that begins today is for the House to deal only with the more politically palatable...
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The AP has a roundup of the Bush administrations various failures to enforce the laws in "Illegal hiring fuels problem". While it has some bias, it also has some useful facts and figures concerning raids or lack thereof....
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As previously discussed, Herndon VA is home to a shiny new illegal alien hiring hall. Now comes "U.S. asked to probe labor center": The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is being urged to look into a charge that Herndon officials have violated federal criminal conspiracy laws by...
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December 05, 2005
From this: Thanks to a congressional earmark, an open-borders advocacy group that pushes for driver's licenses, free in-state tuition and healthcare for illegal aliens and bilingual requirements for state agencies and ballots is slated to get $4 million in new taxpayer money to add to the more than $30 million...
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Slightly popular partisan hack BushBot Hugh Hewitt conducted a radio interview with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and discussed the word "illegal immigration". As it turns out, the GOP is declaring war on that word. As regards the actual process of massive illegal immigration, if the GOP had their druthers that...
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December 04, 2005
Despite Howard Dean trying to pretend there's a difference on immigration policy between the leaderships of the GOP and of the Democratic party, what they want - and even how they want it - are very similar. Speaking before a DNC meeting in Phoenix, Dr. Gov. Howard Dean M.D.: Saying...
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December 03, 2005
We already knew that, but just in case you needed more proof, consider this: "If we don't have a temporary worker program, I think it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to ask our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents to stem the tide that is driven by a huge...
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December 02, 2005
This site is officially endorsing Steve Young for Congress in the 48th District on Mars. For the 48th District in California, USA, Earth, this site endorses Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project. Regarding the race on the Red Planet, Steve Young has his own proposal on how to end...
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Nothing says propaganda like the annual whine from growers demanding more serf labor lest their crops rot in the fields. There have been a few recent newspaper articles about it, and the latest is "A drought of farm labor". "We are trying to sound the alarm without being alarmist, but...
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Clarence Page says the latest version of Bush's immigration "reform" scheme is an amnesty. And: ...What's missing is a serious crackdown on the biggest magnet that draws illegal immigrants: jobs. Employers and consumers love cheap labor, as long as it is not competing directly for their jobs. Bush shows no...
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Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the RNC, was spotted yesterday constructing massive strawman arguments at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association. To hear the WaPo tell it: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman urged his party Thursday to oppose rising anti-immigrant sentiments in the debate over border security and illegal...
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December 01, 2005
Let's say you were the Washington Post, and you were seeking a reviewer for the book "The 50% American" by Stanley A. Renshon. While I haven't read the book, it discusses the pernicious threat posed by dual citizenship. Who would you choose to do the review? Well, obviously, if...
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From this: [...Bush's hot air...] It is hard not to be skeptical of this White House when it starts saying it will enforce our immigration laws because it has utterly failed to do so to date. Its de facto immigration policy has been the Clinton administration's... After Hurricane Katrina, Homeland...
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November 29, 2005
Rich Lowry: The late Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called it "boob bait for bubba" — tough-sounding rhetoric designed to placate conservative voters. Moynihan applied the phrase to Bill Clinton's 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know it," which it later became clear that he had no intention of...
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November 28, 2005
For the past four years, president Bush has managed to fool millions of Americans into thinking that he's the "homeland security" president. Figuring "once a sucker, always a sucker", he's now reiterated his push for a "temporary" worker scheme and pledging to get tough on border security. Speaking today, he...
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November 26, 2005
From this: What is most remarkable about sanctuary cities is that they are illegal. In 1996 Congress passed two laws dealing with the subject: the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Under both statutes state and local governments could no...
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J.D. Hayworth writes another letter about an AZ Republic article....
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The NY Sun offers today's "well, duh" article....
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November 25, 2005
From the Tamar Jacoby file comes Fred Barnes with El Grande Old Party?. Summary: Bush should capitulate to corruption and embrace a massive illegal alien amnesty....
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That Arizona representative made the decision a few days ago, and here's a fitting tribute: When someone retires or passes away, we try to say something nice about that person, we downplay his negatives and point out his positives. I would like to do the same for Congressman Jim Kolbe,...
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November 22, 2005
US News has a four-screener called "Border Wars". Despite all the words, they don't delve too deep into the issue, such as the seamy corruption underlying the efforts to keep the cheap labor flowing. And, they take Tamar Jacoby, the AILA, and DHS head Michael Chertoff seriously....
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November 21, 2005
The cronyism of the Bush administration would be comic if it weren't so bad for the country. As previously discussed, Bush nominated Julie Myers to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. She's the niece of Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, she worked for Michael Chertoff when he was...
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This article goes in to the use of loaded language to obscure the immigration "debate", something that you are probably familiar with, but if you aren't check it out. I note, however, the following: George Lakoff, a Democratic political consultant and linguist at UC Berkeley, said anti-immigration groups so far...
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The column "Could riots such as in Paris occur elsewhere?" from Mexico's Ana Maria Salazar says that Mexico could have similar riots to those that occurred in France. But: One important factor, however, has greatly helped reduce the risk of riots and violence in Mexico. There is an "escape valve"...
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November 20, 2005
KFSN ABC-30 out of Fresno tries a little real reporting on the issue of banks giving mortgages to illegal aliens. It's not an in-depth report, but it's more than other sources have done. They report on the experiences of an illegal alien known only as "David". It includes this: But...
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From this: U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men, dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border into Mexico with a...
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From this: ...Since October, when [Weld County CO] District Attorney Ken Buck started seeking support for bringing a federal office to Greeley to expedite and increase deportations of illegal immigrants who've committed crimes in the county, proponents of the move have squared off against detractors. Big-name supporters of a new...
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November 19, 2005
From this press release: America is spending hundreds of times more money on benefits for illegal aliens than it is helping homeless veterans, charged a national veterans' leader. U. S. taxpayers are footing a bill of over $70 Billion annually in benefits for illegal aliens, in education, health care, housing...
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November 18, 2005
This one has an interesting union angle: ...Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said the company would cooperate fully with federal authorities. "We have written contracts with these subcontractors requiring that they follow all applicable local, state and federal employment laws," he said in a statement. At least 120 illegal immigrants, most...
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The MA bill that would let illegal aliens take discounted college educations away from U.S. citizens has been delayed until 2006: "House delays tuition bill vote". In other news, the Boston Globe isn't telling their readers the whole truth about this matter. First, they don't use "illegal aliens", prefering instead...
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November 17, 2005
Mark Krikorian offers "L'Intifada en Los Estados Unidos", which discusses a few points previously made here: 1. The guest/temporary worker schemes will result in millions of people coming here to stay. 2. Those millions - mostly from Mexico - will give that country even more power over us than they...
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From this: The University of Florida finds that immigrant families have been costing that state a net $1,800 per household per year, a financial burden much larger than previously thought. [by David Denslow; article here, snippet here] ...In fact, a recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies found that...
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From 11/12: Contractors working in the Gulf Coast region say they are actively looking for local workers, but some acknowledge they are turning to day-laborer programs, which often include illegal aliens. "We are primarily working through a large number of subcontractors and being proactive in achieving local hiring. And, yes,...
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November 16, 2005
Wednesday's Law & Order from NBC featured an episode about a member of the "Countryman Project" murdering a trucker who smuggled illegal aliens in to the U.S. Details in "'Minuteman'-like murderers convicted on 'Law & Order'". However, as you see in the screengrab from their site, they refer to...
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Sean Hannity interviewed DHS head Michael Chertoff and (perhaps he was being disingenuous) got a little confused: HANNITY: Because you had made a controversial statement, and you seem to be backing off of it now, and it was that people that are here illegally, that they all ought to be...
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A Brazilian-oriented newspaper in Danbury, Connecticut took part in a WTNH-TV investigative report about illegal housing and documentation. Now, other Brazilian-oriented newspapers in that town have turned on them, including one calling them "Traitors". And, there have even been death threats. Details and pictures here: Breno da Mata is the...
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November 15, 2005
Imagine the fun that "good-hearted people" could get up to in such a job: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 105 foreign nationals who officials say were working in the United States without authorization at warehouses in Fife, Washington. The arrested individuals were working at Regal Logistics, which...
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From this: Concerned that the nation's borders are not properly protected against terrorists, illegal aliens and drug smugglers, a Senate committee warned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that if he fails to correct the situation promptly, they will. Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security...
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This guy actually read the bill text. (As previously discussed, various legislators - including those who would appear to be racially-inclined - want to take in-state tuition away from U.S. citizens and give them to illegal aliens. Candidate for governor Tom Reilly supports that scheme.) According to the bill's text,...
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From the editorial by Patrick Osio, editor of HispanicVista.com: ...And, while supposedly guarding the border, it was miraculous how, after the cancellation of the Bracero program, during agricultural high seasons border guards seemed to evaporate, allowing a steady flow of workers in the country. And this, too, spoiled Mexico because...
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November 14, 2005
That question is answered at this page (or this PDF file) from FAIR's staff attorney Michael Hethmon. Back in June, FAIR offered to debate Sen. John McCain, and the PDF discloses that they're still waiting for him to set a date. And, here's the bottom line on their amnesty scheme:...
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In 2001, Lobbyist Jack Abramoff was working for Louisiana's Coushatta Tribe in an apparent attempt to shut down the competition in Texas, which were costing that tribe customers. Ralph Reed worked as a consultant and allegedly tried to shut down two Texas casinos (including that of the Tigua Indians, which...
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November 13, 2005
Have they "gone around the bend?" Will we soon spot former WaPo editorial writers muttering to themselves as they wander around suburban Virginia collecting bits of string from the sidewalk? Let's see if their latest editorial "Minutemen, Go Home" gives us a clue. Well, first of all, there's the title,...
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Howard Dean appeared on Meet the Press earlier today, and explained that the Democratic Party has no plan, as this highly redacted yet accurate snippet shows: ...We have plenty of time to show Americans what our agenda is and we will long before the '06 elections... Right now it's not...
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Yes, it's just a politically-correct way of saying the legally correct term: "illegal alien". They're "aliens" - people who are citizens of some other country - and they're here illegally. From this: The politically correct term undocumented immigrant started with former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Commissioner Leonel J. Castillo...
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November 12, 2005
The Washington Post has an editorial about birthright citizenship entitled "Citizens, All". Let's see if we can spot errors in their "thinking": Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) has a bold idea to stop illegal immigration: Deny automatic citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants. "There is general agreement about the fact...
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November 11, 2005
Dick Morris to president Bush: "Get serious about immigration reform". Unfortunately, the reform he has in mind is the kind with quotes around it. In the hawk category, he supports the idea of a fence, an idea that does have its downside. Perhaps big fences in some areas and DMZ...
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Rarely does the WashTimes bury the lede, but they've done so with "Illegals require health services". A study sponsored by the University of California and by the National Population Council of the Government of Mexico purports to show that illegal aliens don't use emergency room services more than others, and...
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November 10, 2005
The Wisconsin Assembly recently passed a bill requiring the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) to only give home loans to people with Social Security Numbers. As discussed here in the past, WHEDA has been giving home loans to illegal aliens, and the head of that organization, Antonio Riley,...
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November 09, 2005
From this: About half of Americans say children of illegal aliens should not receive automatic citizenship, and three in five support a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a poll that will boost Republicans looking to make those proposals part of immigration bills. Independent pollster Scott Rasmussen said Americans...
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That's the Jim Belushi TV show, and according to this somewhat confusing report it featured some pro-illegal immigration propaganda on a recent episode....
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There's a copy of an internal Michael Chertoff memo on their latest scheme here. There's nothing really of note in the memo; in fact, their fact sheet contains more details. But, the link has a couple comments from those on the front lines. They, like almost everyone else, can see...
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November 08, 2005
Wrap your mind around this AP report: Officials with the U.S. Department of Labor and Mexico's Foreign Ministry pledged Monday to protect the rights - especially fair pay and safe working conditions - of immigrant workers, whether they are in the United States legally or not. But, I thought the...
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November 06, 2005
The New York Times offers "Migrant Worry" from contributor David Rieff. It reports that the concerns of those... people in those far-off border states have finally spread to the little people in those other states out there beyond Manhattan. It also appears to have been written a couple weeks ago,...
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November 05, 2005
Bentonville: Warrant says Wal-Mart aware of cleaners' status Wal-Mart management knew people who cleaned dozens of their stores in 2003 were illegal aliens, some of whom lived in poor conditions and, in one case, slept in the back of a store, a federal affidavit released Wednesday said. The affidavit was...
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From this: House Republicans are looking closely at ending birthright citizenship and building a barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexico border as they search for solutions to illegal immigration. ...Most lawmakers had avoided the issue, fearing that change would require a constitutional amendment -- the 14th Amendment reads in part: "All...
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November 04, 2005
The titular person contributes to a New Republic page called "The Plank", and he offers "If Ray Nagin bashes immigrants, does he make a sound?" That post links to the NYT article "In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will". And, the post and the NYT article discuss the Nagin remark...
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The WaPo offers a sleazy pro-Kaine editorial in "Scare Tactics in Virginia". PostWatch has already covered what I would have written, so check that out....
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On 10/18, the National Council of La Raza ("National Council of The Race"), the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Asian American Justice Center, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights issued a joint press release concerning remarks made by NO Mayor Ray...
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The Globe continues their sleaze with "Healey tuition remarks draw outrage". See "Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly supports illegal immigration (Massachusetts)" for the backstory. As the last link says, Reilly wants to take discounted college educations away from citizens and give them to illegal aliens. And, he called in to...
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November 03, 2005
This article contains a chart of the number of worksite arrests of illegal aliens per year: 1997: 17,554 1999: 2,849 2000: 953 2001: 735 2003: 445 2004: 159 And, here's the letters sent out warning of a fine over violations for hiring illegal aliens: 1997: 865 1999: 417 2000: 178...
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The former editor of the lunatic libertarian magazine Reason is positively frothing at the mouth as she announces a new study by two economists. The study is "Rethinking the Gains From Immigration: Theory and Evidence From the U.S.", and it's available here. Since it soon gets into mathematical formulas and...
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From this DHS press release on the new "Secure Border Initiative": Since the events of 9/11, President Bush has placed ever-increasing importance on immigration control, including border security, and has devoted significant resources to the stark challenge of illegal migration. Obviously, that's only even slightly true in some strange, KoolAid-besotten...
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November 02, 2005
Slowly and haltingly, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano is slightly somewhat partially to a certain extent opposing massive illegal immigration into her state. The latest: "Governor orders state contractors to ensure hirings are legal". The governor recently ordered state contractors to guarantee their employees aren't illegal immigrants and to let state...
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November 01, 2005
From this: Brigette Brennan feels pretty well educated after more than four years at the University of Kansas - but there's something she can't understand. She doesn't understand why Kansas won't grant her the same in-state tuition status that it happily bestows on illegal immigrants. In other words, why is...
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The AG of Massachusetts, Thomas Reilly, supports illegal aliens taking discounted college educations away from citizens and legal immigrants. Details in "Reilly backs immigrant tuition bill". His argument for this - and his candidacy - appear to be based solely around emotionalism. He intends to sell himself as a Blue...
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October 31, 2005
Two weeks ago I offered "Boston Globe's Yvonne Abraham makes fun of Minuteman Project", which had that reporter repeating anti-Minuteman Project smears from a frequent contributor to the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists website (nefac.net). Needless to say, the reporter did not identify the source's affiliation, despite it taking...
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The editorial "It's not 'amnesty' when the law is a shambles" is signed by a "D.J", but I have no idea who that is since there doesn't appear to be anyone with those initials in either the administration or editorial departments. Be that as it may, they hit all the...
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October 30, 2005
Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta held a rally in Sacramento yesterday in support of his proposed ballot measure to create a California Border Patrol. According to the AP, about 1000 people turned out, 700 on the other side. The protest was "mostly peaceful", and the "underlining issue" was the Minuteman Project....
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Law professor Kris Kobach sued Kansas on behalf of several American students who paid full price for college educations that some illegal aliens were able to get at a discount. A district court judge threw it out, saying those students didn't have standing to sue, and Kobach is appealing. Now,...
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October 29, 2005
What? From this: In a twist of logic so bizarre that it could only be hatched in Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a plan to increase revenues by selling over 368,000 American jobs to foreign workers and their families who will enter the United States and stay permanently. The...
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The WaPo reports on a new ad from Republican Virginia gubanatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore in "Ad Attacks Kaine on Immigrant Issues". Obviously, it should be "illegal immigration issues", but, well, that's just how the WaPo sees things. "Illegal immigration: a growing crisis," the ad's narrator says. "Kaine favors taxpayer-funded job...
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October 28, 2005
If the government of Mexico had to choose, they'd take the immigration "reform" legislation proposed by (U.S.) Senators John McCain and Teddy Kennedy. Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar today said the bipartisan proposal is the one that comes closest to what Mexico wants... Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez discussed such...
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From this: Upset with what they say is the federal government's failure to prosecute illegal immigrants, the entire 19-member California Republican congressional delegation has asked the U.S. attorney general for a meeting to discuss the matter. In an Oct. 20 letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, the Congress members also...
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October 27, 2005
From Richmond postpones immigrant ID program amid confusion: A "misunderstanding" between city officials and a migrant outreach has delayed a controversial plan for the city to offer identification cards to immigrants. "We were under the impression it was for legal residents," City Manager David Evans said Monday. "The Hispanic outreach...
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Our guiding light Insty links to the site walmartfacts.com for some reason or other. Doing a search, our crack team came upon this bit: We have been such a successful retailer because we focus our efforts on running our stores. Like many companies, we entrust our suppliers and contractors to...
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Any time a state or local official says they can't enforce civil immigration violations, send them this: Bowing to pressure earlier this month, The U.S. Department of Justice released a 2002 legal memorandum revealing the department's official position on state and local enforcement of federal immigration law. To the chagrin...
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October 26, 2005
From Froma Harrop: New Orleans offers a quick study of Bush labor policy in action: On Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina strikes, causing widespread destruction. Four days later, President Bush commits $10.1 billion of the taxpayers' money to rebuilding New Orleans. Four days after that, he suspends the Davis-Bacon Act —...
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Shortly after Katrina, Bush lifted the Davis-Bacon Act, a union favorite that provides a prevailing wage for workers on federal contracts. Grover Norquist was one of those pushing for the suspension. Now, our president has reinstated D-B. Around the same time that he suspended that Act, Bush also suspended fines...
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October 25, 2005
Dan Griswold is with the Cato Institute, and he appeared on KFI's John and Ken Show yesterday. You can hear his interview in their audio archives. The interview concerned immigration and Bush's temporary worker plan. In a perfect world, people like Griswold would be considered extremist nuts. Unfortunately, in president...
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From the editorial Hayworth's plan won't fix problem: Real immigration reform or demagoguery? This year, Congress has opened a dialogue on an issue that the American people have long deemed pressing. Finally, our legislators are facing up to the fact that current immigration law is not in tune with the...
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From this: ...The idea was very appealing: [Germany] would import large numbers of Turks, Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Spaniards and Moroccans to cheaply do the jobs that "no German wanted to do." Such impoverished foreigners would be happy as pie with piddly wages (by German standards) and then they would all...
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October 24, 2005
That's the title of this Omaha World-Herald story: "The plan Hagel is expected to introduce Tuesday also will include stronger controls at the border to stem the flow of undocumented workers into the United States." But, it's basically a massive amnesty scheme just like the other ones. Full text of...
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The WashTimes predicts that he's bitten off more than he can chew and, once he loses the Maryland governor's race his career will be finished: "Doug Duncan's end?" Since 1974, no Maryland politician except Sen. Barbara Mikulski has ever lost an election for statewide office and managed to salvage a...
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October 23, 2005
From Richmond to offer ID cards to immigrants: In Richmond, City Manager David Evans said the cards will be used for identification purposes only and should help immigrants more easily perform tasks most citizens take for granted, such as cashing a check or properly identifying themselves to authorities. "I think...
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October 22, 2005
The WaPo's "Little Support for Bush Immigration Plan" has comments about his scheme from Mark Krikorian of CIS as well as from Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, referred to by the WaPo as "liberal". Let's consider this: But sooner or later, under the administration's proposal,...
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October 20, 2005
The column "A city about to change colors" says it was written by San Diego Union-Tribute editorialist Ruben Navarrette Jr., but it reads like it was written by Vicente Fox. I strongly urge you to read the column and use the email addresses below to let those papers that printed...
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From this: Echoing the results of an Arizona Republic Poll published today, the poll by Phoenix-based ThinkAZ said that 64 percent of these voters believe that putting the onus on employers would be "effective." Existing U.S. law requires employers to verify employees' legal status and allows authorities to fine organizations...
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From this: There are two things every American should know about Virginia's governor's race: 1) It's the first sizable political contest to turn, largely, on the issue of illegal immigration. 2) As such, it spotlights the pathetic state of political discourse on the subject. Just to be clear, there's nothing...
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Here are his remarks from Monday. If you removed all the lies, hot air, and just plain ol' BS from these three paragraphs you'd be left with little more than three "the"'s and two "it"'s: As we improve and expand our efforts to secure our borders, we must also recognize...
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Our friends to the south, specifically the Foreign Relations Secretariat, have issued the following statement on the scheme laid out yesterday by DHS head Chertoff: "The Mexican government considers it significant that the Bush administration has a solid and unified position on immigration reform that allows safe, legal and orderly...
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Rocky Mountain News/CBS 4 did a poll of 500 "likely Colorado voters": "Overall, immigration is a good thing.": 61 percent said they "strongly" or "somewhat" agree "Illegal immigrants are a burden on the United States, because of their impact on things like schools, jobs, and health care": 50% "strongly agree"...
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October 18, 2005
Don't believe everything you read about DHS head Michael Chertoff's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. First, from Drudge, come these headlines in red: HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF: EXPEL ALL ILLEGALS... 'Our goal is to return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions'... Those headlines and the first two paragraphs of...
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From this: Illegal immigration is increasing rapidly from countries other than Mexico, federal officials are telling Congress. And the ease with which these foreign nationals can stay in the United States is fueling terrorism concerns. Testimony at a recent congressional hearing and a report to House members said the lack...
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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. It reports on Jim Gilchrist...
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Here's yet another long article on "Other Than Mexicans", including this: More than 47,600 illegal border crossers from "countries other than Mexico," so called OTMs, have been caught in South Texas this year. But 42,000, or more than 88 percent, have been promptly released and most have simply melted into...
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October 17, 2005
Do the "free" trade, "free" enterprise types - those libertarians and conservaties who advocate generally open borders - have any kind of an argument? Have they thought things through? Are they, in a word, serious? If the guest editorial "Nativism and the immigration issue" is any guide, the answer to...
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That reporter offers a hit piece entitled "Volunteers get cold reception in Vermont". The overall attempt of the article seems to be to mock the MMP and make them look like fools. However, as we'll see later, the joke appears to be on the Globe. From the article: It's hard...
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USA Today offers a very strange column from Raul A. Reyes entitled Katrina's next expose: Immigration woes. Reyes is "an attorney in New York and a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors", and his article reads like a hasty, amalgamated summary of recent pro-illegal immigration essays from other professional...
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October 16, 2005
I have my doubts after reading Many migrants flocking to Gulf Coast are exploited, advocates say from William E. Gibson and Ihosvani Rodriguez. It starts with twelve paragraphs describing various abuses those "migrants" (for you who prefer the truth, they're illegal aliens) are enduring, followed by this transition: Despite these...
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MySA says that Bush's Guest worker plan being shelved. I'm a bit skeptical. First, DHS head Michael Chertoff and Labor's Elaine Chao will be testifying about something as described in "Bush immigration "reform" to be unveiled Tuesday October 18, 2005?" And, we can see Bush's defacto plan currently underway in...
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Like me, there's a 99.9994% chance that you had never heard of the "Tennessee Small Business Development Center" before. However, it provides another small example of the degree to which the government of Mexico has been able to infiltrate their way into our country. That Center is: "partially funded by...
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October 13, 2005
From this: ...Saying he is tired of waiting for the federal government to do its job, Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled what he called a comprehensive blueprint for border security, which includes the use of the Texas National Guard for training and for deployment in emergencies... The governor said the...
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From this: U.S. Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., presided at a House hearing last week entitled "Birthright Citizenship, Dual Citizenship and the Meaning of Sovereignty." It's unfortunate that this important subject received little media coverage. The statistics are shocking. At least 383,000 babies are born in the United States every year...
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The site WeNeedAFence.com has a petition urging the creation of a 2000 mile fence along the Mexican border. They envision more of a barrier zone, consisting of two chain link fences and an interior road for patrol vehicles. Cameras and similar devices would monitor intrusions. One or two hundred entry...
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October 12, 2005
Here's more on the 1986 amnesty scheme and how the current amnesty schemes will end up doing the same things. A snippet: It is clear the 1986 immigration "reform" legislation was an abject failure. It did not stem the flow of illegal aliens, since we now have many more times...
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From this: Neighborhood opposition has derailed plans for a day-labor center in Gaithersburg that city and Montgomery County officials agreed this year to create... Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney A. Katz said yesterday that the city will consider alternatives but declined to say that he remains committed to such a facility in...
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As previously discussed, president Bush lifted the Davis-Bacon Act early last month. This was done supposedly in order to speed Katrina rebuilding efforts. Now, Glenn "Insty" Reynolds links to this Mickey Kaus post that has an email from "a seemingly well-informed source deep within the federal bureaucracy". The source says...
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October 11, 2005
From 10/10's transcript: There is new evidence tonight that good-paying New Orleans construction jobs which should, of course, be going to out-of-work Gulf Coast residents are being filled by foreign workers. With most of New Orleans still abandoned, contractors are in a desperate need for workers, even if those workers...
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Earlier tonight, I attended the appearance at the Los Angeles Public Library of immigration "reform" maven Tamar Jacoby. I managed to ask a stumper of a question; more on that after an overview of her remarks. What she said was basically a live performance of one of her columns. My...
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I'm making a prediction that in 2006, Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) will lose - and lose big - if fellow Republican John D. Jacob runs against him. As previously discussed, last year Cannon faced off against Matt Throckmorton. Cannon won in the primary 58 to 42. He also spent a...
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Remember Randall Robinson's wild allegation? Well, he's got competition from Tisha R. Tallman, the "southeast regional counsel with the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund". She comments on the recent robbery-murders of illegal aliens in the guest editorial "Stop anti-immigrant violence". As I predicted, an "immigrants rights" group has...
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Harvard professor Samuel Huntington spoke at Texas A&M yesterday as part of their Distinguished Lecture Series. Two hundred or so protesters were outside telling him to go home. ...But the current wave of immigration, which has been going on since 1965 and has been dominated by Mexican immigrants, has...
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There's a long speech with a lot of facts and figures here....
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October 10, 2005
I'm left with that distinct impression after reading the scandalous article "Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers". Perhaps the black community should ask that paper to clarify its stance, especially after publishing an editorial from Gregory Rodriguez which supported illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs from Americans....
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NEWARK, N.J. -- A federal judge has allowed a group of illegal immigrant janitors to proceed with a lawsuit seeking overtime pay from discount retailer Wal-Mart. U.S. District Judge Joseph Greenaway on Friday threw out a motion from Wal-Mart lawyers to dismiss the collective action suit filed by the janitors,...
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According to this, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will appear on that date at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, and they might unveil president Bush's plan to drive his popularity under 30%, otherwise known as his immigration "reform" plan....
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October 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. Not only that,...
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October 08, 2005
The mayor of Tifton, GA is flying the Mexican flag over his (American) city to honor the six illegal aliens who were killed in robberies recently. Seven people called WTIF radio station Thursday, saying the gesture was inappropriate and that the Mexican and U.S. flags should not fly together. "I...
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Remember the Linda Chavez column where she supported illegal aliens taking Katrina rebuilding jobs? A letter to the editor of the Daily Republic in Northern California responds to her article: [Chavez] speculated that the reason we don't see sob stories about the 200,000 Hispanics from New Orleans is that they...
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October 07, 2005
From GovExec: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved, on a 7-2 vote, President Bush's nomination of Julie Myers to lead the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. The Senate Judiciary Committee now has 30 days to vote on the nominee... As Reuters' report says here: Her...
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October 04, 2005
There's a transcript of a discussing by Heather MacDonald and others here. From her talk: [... discussing the Washington Post editorial from August 10th "The Reality of Gangs"...] Even as the Post called for more social spending, it completely ignored the most salient feature of Mara Salvatrucha, which is the...
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Mayor John DeStefano of New Haven CT wants to give the illegal immigrants living in his city an ID card of the city's own design: "Let's be real about why this is happening first of all," said the mayor, who is also a gubernatorial candidate, during a bilingual press conference...
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October 03, 2005
"Dumping Ground" is a long article on "Other Than Mexicans", aka OTMs. Since there are no detention spaces to hold them, they're given a notice to appear and dropped off at the bus station. And, needless to say, they're never heard from again. It contains this: Such a situation has...
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From this: President Bush's nominee to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn the ire of several ICE supervisors and agents who say she is "unqualified" because she has never held a law-enforcement management position. The nomination of Julie L. Myers "just doesn't pass the smell test and is...
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October 02, 2005
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist offers "Don't blame illegals; blast their bosses", which shall be mini-fisked as follows: In every time, and in every place, there are demagogues who ride to power by whipping up the fears and resentments of an anxious populace. Believe or don't, she's referring to Tom Tancredo....
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The Reuters article "Border activist a wild card in Calif. election" discusses the race in California's 48th District. Said "wild card" is Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, who's facing off against "moderate Republican" and state Assemblywoman Marilyn Brewer and the front-runner, former Republican state Sen. John Campbell. The dynamics of...
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Here's the second paragraph of the AP article "Civilian patrols branch out, though poll finds opposition" from Elliot Spagat: Many of the hundreds who make up the self-appointed civilian patrols monitoring the border to deter smuggling of people and drugs are unemployed or underemployed ex-military men who have long resented...
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October 01, 2005
Illegal aliens in Georgia were the targets of a burglary spree, including five murders: "Police: Killers target immigrants". The killers reportedly spoke English, although if there is any clue to their race that hasn't been provided. Let's examine this paragraph and use that as a clue to what might happen...
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September 30, 2005
This long article discusses the declining status of blacks as America's chief minority, focusing on Katrina and mentioning 'La Nueva Orleans' from Gregory Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times. Note that Teddy Kennedy was responsible for that 1965 legislation....
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I'm left with the distinct impression that the New York Times is a Mexican newspaper after reading "Way North of the Border" by Eduardo Porter and Elisabeth Malkin. Here's the paragraph on which they construct the rest of their story: The location of Mexico's latest American consulate [in St. Paul]...
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September 29, 2005
The Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control did a bit of a study and determined that most employees of McDonalds in America's drive-throughest state are Hispanic. The study is available at their website in a PDF file, and it's not exactly an academic study, although it appears they visited all or...
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From this: More immigrants came to the United States illegally from 2000 through 2004 than the number who were granted legal status in those years, according to a study released yesterday that attributed much of the historic shift to visa slowdowns since 2001 and to the nation's strong job market...
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For future reference: Pacific News Service....
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September 28, 2005
Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), along with Adam Schiff (D-CA), is the author of the "Justice for Peace Officers Act" that seeks to do something about cop killers who've fled to Mexico. Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says that newly-modified bill ends up helping those suspects: ...On Tuesday, Cooley...
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Martin Sandoval is a state Senator from Illinois. He's also running for a seat on Mexico's "Institute for Mexicans Abroad" advisory council: Sandoval would be the first elected official in the U.S. to serve on the advisory council. That raises the peculiar prospect of the Cicero Democrat offering policy advice...
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September 27, 2005
Jennifer Delson and Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times cover the latest on Mexico's Matricula Consular cards (aka "IDs for illegals") in "Mexico's ID Makes Major Gains in U.S.". They report that other countries are getting into the act, including Colombia, Argentina, El Salvador and Honduras. They don't offer...
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Vermont's Burlington Free Press discusses the plans of the Minuteman Project to patrol that state's border with Canada in "Just a minute, Minutemen; Vermont says 'No thanks'". It's a downright nasty editorial, ayup. Nasty like sour maple syrup, Cyris. In fact, it reads more like something one of those people...
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September 26, 2005
"Nearly" one thousand people - many or most of them illegal aliens from Mexico and other countries - marched through Aurora IL demanding that House Speaker Dennis Hastert support the Kennedy-McCain massive amnesty scheme. The march was organized by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. See the link...
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Los Angeles Times contributing editor Gregory Rodriguez offers "La Nueva Orleans". That discusses how illegal aliens from Mexico and other countries will help rebuild New Orleans. He says that they will then settle there, displacing the original population of blacks and whites. Of course, if we were talking about whites...
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September 25, 2005
Robert J. Samuelson offers "Discovering Poverty (Again)": ...Given these trends, the overall poverty rate should be drifting down. It isn't. The main reason, as I've written before, is immigration. We have uncontrolled entry of poor, unskilled workers across our southern border. Although many succeed, many don't, and many poor Latino...
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September 24, 2005
Details here: Pointing to the current huge resident population of illegal aliens and the estimated 500,000 new illegal aliens that enter the country each year, the Legion finds a clear threat to the fabric of American society. The resolution also recognizes the increasing public frustration with the "federal government’s failure...
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"Minuteman border patrol raises opposition in Texas" has a roundup of the open borders types that oppose the Minuteman Project. Those include Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen and 10 other state senators as well as U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat. Plus: In Brownsville, the Cameron County Commissioners Court unanimously...
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"OTMs" are "other-than-Mexicans": illegal aliens who are from Honduras, Brazil, Yemen, Communist China, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other fun countries. "DHS lets go 'other' illegals" gives us this fun statistic: Nearly 70 percent, or 68,000, of the more than 98,000 OTMs detained so far this year were released almost immediately...
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September 23, 2005
From the Palm Beach Post: JUPITER — Town and church officials are on the verge of negotiating a deal that would establish the first day-labor hiring center for immigrant workers in Palm Beach County. The town council's approval on Tuesday of two proposed neighborhoods in Abacoa — Windsor Park and...
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From "Homeland security action against illegals lacking": The agency charged with interior immigration enforcement all but ignores going after illegal aliens in the workplace, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released yesterday. The GAO found that an antiquated system for businesses to verify employees' right to work has...
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Despite the media's countless attempts to smear them - and despite Our Leader calling them "vigilantes" - 54% of Americans support the Minuteman Project, a Rasmussen poll reports. Only 22% have an unfavorable view of them. A little under half support the government encouraging volunteers to patrol the entire Mexican...
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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. Border Patrol peer into Mexico to locate and track the movements of immigrants, smugglers and potential terrorists before...
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September 22, 2005
The best and brightest minds of the left have contributed their wisdom to the DU threads "East Coast cold to Minuteman Project" and "Minutemen planning national action at U.S. borders". You might be tempted to think that some of those posting the childish remarks are COINTELPRO-style operatives designed to assist...
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September 21, 2005
Oddly enough, Reuters has placed the news that the bishop of Mexico's Aguascalientes accepted donations from drug runners in their Oddly Enough category. The bishop says: "You don't have to burn the money just because it's bad. It's better to transform it ... I've known of cases (where) it's been...
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Linda Chavez offers "Hispanics and Hurricane Katrina". She was watching TV and looking for others of her race: ...Most are immigrants -- often illegal -- from Honduras and Mexico. Then, just when I thought they were nowhere to be found, I spotted a few Hispanic men in the television footage...
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The Ombudsman of the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services is a former President of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association: ...the AILA is directed by approximately 100 associates who also serve as members of the pro-Communist National Lawyers Guild... AILA has joined with...
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September 20, 2005
From "Group Wants Special Status for Illegals Affected by Katrina": Illegal immigrants affected by Hurricane Katrina should have "protected humanitarian status," representatives of Latin American and Caribbean communities said Tuesday in an appeal to the White House. The groups said the protection is needed because immigrants fearing deportation, including some...
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National Council of La Raza has made quite an interesting admission. This shouldn't be shocking, but it does tell you where they're coming from: "If federal authorities are using [Katrina] as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for us in how do we advise our constituents," Cecilia Munoz,...
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As previously discussed, Bush has selected someone with little or no immigration experience to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Her name is Julie Myers, and she's never managed a large bureacracy. On the other hand, Myers is not, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the former...
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If, in the past, you've just laughed at Geraldo Rivera, now's the time to send an email to Fox News suggesting they find someone else: Geraldo Rivera, senior correspondent for Fox News, told a group of Hispanic journalists vigilantes had created "hysteria along the borders" and advised his colleagues not...
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Kristen Gelinau of the AP offers "Sierra Club member calls for director's resignation over immigration debate". The Sierra Club's executive director, Carl Pope, was speaking in Richmond VA. Outside, two protestors were calling for his resignation because of his immigration stance: James McDonald, a 60-year-old Springfield attorney, said Carl Pope...
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September 19, 2005
From "Border watchers attacked during training session": A group called Gente Unita confronted volunteer border watchers in San Diego yesterday with obscenities, shoving and U.S. flag desecration, causing Friends of the Border to abandon a planned deployment and an apology by the group's leader for not having police protection for...
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Last week, George Bush's amigo Vicente Fox offered to help us out with the Katrina rebuilding, specifically saying that "if there is anything Mexicans are good at, it is construction." Of course, as readers of this blog know, that would translate into millions or billions of remittances for Mexico: the...
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September 17, 2005
No, not the century before last, this century, in relation to Katrina relief. A report is here, disclaimers apply: ...The Officer said he has friends and family throughout the United States and has traveled here extensively. He admitted his children will be attending the last two years of high school...
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Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) wants to know. And, I'm sure that both he and I mean "qualified" in the normal sense, not in the Bush administration sense. Julie Myers was nominated by President Bush to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that is charged with hunting down money...
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September 16, 2005
Jessie Mangaliman of Knight Ridder offers us "Immigrants, leaders rally to decry Minutemen" which could have been written by the "immigrants" themselves. He basically just repeats their claims without any analysis. Then, as with other articles, he turns to the object of those groups' hate for their denial of the...
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From "Border friends, foes to face off": ...Friends of the Border Patrol, organized by Andy Ramirez, 37, of Chino, begins its monitoring today with an estimated 130 volunteers, he said... Jesse Diaz Jr., 41, of Ontario, is an organizer of La Tierra es de Todos, a coalition of groups formed...
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On Wednesday, Karl Rove discussed Bush's scheme to bring in millions of kind-hearted folks with select (U.S.) representatives: The White House is preparing to unveil an immigration-reform plan that would allow millions of undocumented residents to remain in the United States as guest workers, two Arizona congressmen said... [...our "guests"...
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September 15, 2005
State Rep. Bill Morrow held an anti-illegal immigration forum in Carlsbad a while back, and first the city tried to cancel it. They rescinded that after being threatened with a suit; at issue is whether a "heckler's veto" is able to block First Amendment rights. The event when through as...
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On Tuesday, Virginia gubanatorial candidates Jerry W. Kilgore and Timothy M. Kaine debated with Tim Russert as moderator. One of the main topics was illegal immigration. They both pledged to crack down on businesses that knowingly hired illegal aliens, but somehow I trust Kilgore's pledge quite a bit more. Kaine...
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FAIR has a new report entitled Code Orange: Diminishing the Terrorist Threat to America. The WashTimes offers an overview in "Watchdog says borders still unsecured"....
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ATLANTA - There will be no welcome mat in Georgia next year for illegal immigrants if Republicans in the Georgia Senate have their way. A bill they are backing as a top priority would block taxpayer-funded benefits for individuals who are not citizens... "We cannot afford to take care of...
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September 14, 2005
From this: The Bush administration said Wednesday it will fortify the westernmost stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border over the objections of environmentalists and California regulators, who feared the project would harm a refuge for endangered birds. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff signed an environmental waiver Tuesday night that expedites the...
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The article "Chandler deters day laborers" starts out with the good news that city workers have been posting "No Stopping" and "No Parking" signs on streets in Chandler AZ where day laborers congregate looking for work. "Specially-assigned" police even gave out warnings to potential employers. Then, it goes downhill fast:...
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Mark Krikorian discusses the "reality" of those who are pushing for immigration "reform": The Senate is again considering various proposals to address our massive illegal-alien problem, and the competing bills have one thing in common: They claim to offer "realistic" solutions to the supposedly unrealistic desire to enforce the law....
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September 13, 2005
From this (also here): U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents said apprehensions of illegal immigrants have been on a decline in the El Centro Sector compared to last year due to an increase in Border Patrol specialty units. [A spokesman said...] fiscal 2004 apprehensions were at 72,000 by...
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Isn't it wonderful in Bush's America? From "Undocumented aliens rebuilding Biloxi, say they deserve visas": As Biloxi rises from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, it is doing much of it on the backs of undocumented foreign workers. Some are starting to suggest that their contributions are worth at least a...
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Phyllis Schlafly: Katrina has displaced hundreds of thousands of Americans who now need food, housing, and cash. Relief for those necessities will have to be temporary and it will be many months before they can return to New Orleans, if ever, so what they need most of all is jobs....
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The L.A. Times article "State Helps Domestic Workers Who Are Fighting for Fair Pay" describes how: [Domestic workers] and their advocates are confronting employers, forming collectives and pushing for legislation to guarantee more rights. They also are filing wage claims with the labor commissioner's office, part of the state Department...
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WaPo conducted a poll of registered voters in Virginia, and the results are discussed in "Immigration's Impact Is On the Minds Of Va. Voters". I'd like to find the complete set of questions and results, but I've been so far unable to do so. However, from the graphic here: Question:...
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September 12, 2005
Recent actions by our American president will make it easier for illegal aliens to take Katrina rebuilding jobs. Now, in our America, those jobs should go to American citizens, with those affected by the hurricane at the front of the list. That's just proper public policy. But, of course, in...
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September 09, 2005
From the AP propaganda piece "Illegal immigrants afraid to get storm aid": Rumors of deportations are rife, although U.S. officials have suspended for 45 days a requirement that employers check workers' identification. [Vicente] Fox also said the United States has promised not to send people home in the immediate aftermath,...
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September 07, 2005
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa The Midwest seems an unlikely hideout for Osama bin Laden's hired hands. But an ongoing federal crackdown shows an increasing presence of a violent gang with suspected links to al-Qaida. The gang, M-S-13, was founded in El Salvador and is known for smuggling drugs and immigrants into the...
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Nativo Lopez is California's Mexican-"American" alternative to Al Sharpton (who, bad as he is, is at least an American). Lopez gets featured in the Weekly Standard: Here's a suggestion for [the Mexico-traveling Fabian Nunez]: In order to bridge California's illegal-immigration divide, [Nunez] should start on the northern side of the...
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No, it's not a parody. With all the possible coverage of Katrina, the New York Times actually wrote an article on the plight of "undocumented" immigrants in the disaster zone. From Ian Urbina's "Foreign Workers Are Caught in a Double Trap" (abbreviated version here): BILOXI, Miss., Sept. 5 - Like...
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September 06, 2005
From WaPo's "Gang Attacks, County Troubles Cloud Duncan's Introduction to Md. Voters": It wasn't the kind of summer Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan had in mind when he set out to introduce himself to the rest of Maryland as their best hope for governor. Duncan's strategy to defeat Baltimore...
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The previous post discussed the article "Migrant tuition break blasted", which also contains this shocking statement: ...The Homeland Security Department said it received the complaint about Texas from the Washington Legal Foundation and was reviewing it. But a department official, who requested anonymity, went further, noting that the department may...
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The article "Migrant tuition break blasted" discusses the Texas law that gives illegal aliens who (illegally) reside in Texas a discount on college tuition. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens who live in another state but who want to attend college in TX are forced to pay the higher rate: ...A complaint filed...
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Indiana's Bank Calumet gives home loans to illegal aliens. On Saturday, about 15 Americans protested outside one of their branches: Organized by the Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, the protest drew honks and shouts of encouragement as well as jibes and insults from people driving past... [The leader...
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September 02, 2005
The numbers are crunched over here. ...This implies that more than half of the decline in native income last year was due to immigration. These are averages. Among natives without a high school education, the impact will be larger. Similarly, the negative effect of immigrants on black workers will be...
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Unfortunately, it appears that the Catholic Charities USA has no respect for our laws, prefering instead a world where anyone who's having troubles in their own country can come here. Once here, they should be allowed to obtain all the rights of citizens. In other words, a continual amnesty for...
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Six residents of Herndon, VA have sued that town over its plans to build an illegal alien hiring hall. Judicial Watch is representing them in the suit. Herndon officials have acknowledged that the center would likely provide help to day laborers who are in the country illegally, but said they...
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August 31, 2005
The following comment came in to this thread about Orrin Hatch's anti-American DREAM Act recently. It was posted from a small college in California's Central Valley. It was all uppercase, which I've converted to lowercase: No one should beg for anything or even beg those racism people like those who...
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According to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): Illegal immigration threatens the United States' reputation as the "nation of laws"... "We have rampant lawlessness within our borders because our immigration system is simply broken... It's harmful to our reputation and harmful to the immigrants operating outside the protection of the law." He's...
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August 30, 2005
Ray Borane is the mayor of Douglas, AZ, which sits almost right on the border with Mexico. The town has 15,000 residents, 90% of whom are "Latino". From the LAT article "In a State of Emergency, City's Relaxed": But on the front lines in Douglas, senior government leaders, federal agents...
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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...
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Mexico is considering reinstating visa requirements that might help keep out Brazilians who intend to cross into the U.S., Bloomberg reports. On a cynical note, this is probably not for humanitarian reasons or related to cooperation with the U.S. It is probably at least partly because when illegal Brazilians send...
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The DMN joins the long line of papers and pundits who've taken the opportunity lately to push for immigration "reform". As I pointed out here, all of these editorials seem to follow the same pattern and offer the same advice. The DMN is no different in "Feeling the Heat: Citizens...
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August 29, 2005
The Boston Globe's labor reporter offers "Job hurdles grow larger for black men": ...In 2004, fewer than 39 percent of black men between the ages of 16 and 24 had a job. The comparable national numbers for Hispanics and whites were 60 percent and 59 percent. All three groups lost...
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President Bush has created the Orwellian-named "Americans for Border and Economic Security" to push for his massive guest worker amnesty scheme. Now, Bloomberg reports, Big Business is balking at the plan: ..."There is a reluctance to sign up for something that might turn out not to be the type of...
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Arkansas' "compassionate conservative" governor, Republican Mike Huckabee, paid a visit to New Hampshire over the weekend. The details are in "Arkansas governor talks politics, immigrants at GOP gathering". In the original version, the following two paragraphs have several paragraphs between them. But, when excerpted they are quite striking: "Politics does...
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The Santa Cruz Sentinel article "ID card gives immigrants more opportunity" describes a visit of the Mexican consul to Watsonville, CA to pass out Matricula Consular cards, aka "IDs for illegals." Those ID cards are only of use to illegal aliens, and the Mexican government travels between their outposts in...
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August 28, 2005
The article "Tests illegals can't pass" is yet another article promoting Orrin Hatch's anti-American DREAM Act. That Act would give discounted college educations to illegal aliens. Out-of-state U.S. citizens would continued being forced to pay the full price. Of course, under no circumstances should a citizen of another country be...
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The AP offers a helpful "summary box" of the "debate" so far. It consists of just three short bullet points: MAKING A MOVE: President Bush is considering allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas. Those who arrived later would be deported....
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The headline tells you most all you need to know, but there are a few ironic twists. "Human cannonball to be fired across U.S.-Mexico border" informs us that David Smith Sr. is going to perform the stunt from Tijuana over to Border Field State Park in San Diego. This might...
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As previously discussed, Carlsbad CA wants to charge state Sen. Bill Morrow for the costs that city incurred providing security at the illegal immigration forum held there earlier this month. Now, the SDUT weighs in with "The price of speech", saying that the cities affected should pay for it: ...So,...
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August 27, 2005
Because of increased border protection in some areas, the prices to be smuggled into the U.S. have risen and muy malo groups have gotten involved rather than the previous "mom and pop" groups. This has caused some illegal aliens who had previously returned home occasionally to not only stay in...
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While there have been cases where "liberals" have actually done more good than harm, in many cases it's the opposite. A case in point is those groups that provide water stations in the desert for "migrants". From "Arizona residents grow weary of dealing with illegal immigration": ...children's book author Byrd...
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The following religious leaders will be in Nogales on Monday, August 29 to push for immigration "reform": - Dr. David Elcott, U.S. Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee; - Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches; - Elder Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator of the...
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From a U.S. English press release: Late Thursday night, a 5-4 vote of the Dallas school board made this Texas county the first in the nation to require administrators to learn Spanish or lose their jobs... "The Dallas school board's extreme approach sends the unmistakable message that English is optional...
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Cleaning and Maintenance Management Magazine - which I consult on a daily basis to learn what's going on in that high-tech field - has an article entitled "Immigrant janitors file suit". (At post time, the ad to the left is promoting "Minuteman" products, which is apparently unrelated to the Project...
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The following is a completely uncorroborated rumor: August 27, 2005 - 12:05 pm PDT -- According to knowledgeable sources, following an internal investigation, Lee Morgan, the Border Patrol's head guy for policing corruption at the Douglas, Arizona, Border Patrol station, has been relieved of duty, and his badge, gun and...
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This biased AP report deserves a fisking, but for now let's just concentrate on this bit of news: Struggling to pacify his party's warring wings, President Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas. People smuggled in after...
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From this: Conservative House Republicans tend to favor [the "tougher" Cornyn-Kyl mass amnesty.] McCain mocks it. "Turn yourself in so we can send you back to Mexico," said McCain, throwing his head back in laughter during an interview at his Arizona office last week. "It's not going to happen." ..."Just...
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Here are two articles on a two-hour public event at which AZ Sen. John McCain took questions from his constituents: "McCain hears critics of immigration bill" and "McCain calms GOP critics at MCC". While both report that many there were critical of McCain himself as well as his amnesty schemes,...
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Fox News reports on Antonio Riley of the WHEDA ("Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority") and his scheme to give home loans to illegal aliens: ...[Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman] said he wants essentially to eliminate the I-TIN mortgages and has proposed that Social Security numbers be required for state...
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August 26, 2005
The person asking that question is... "Pitchfork" Pat Buchanan, and the question is printed in Human Events: ...A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City. Nor would Ike, who...
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In a perfect world the Democrats would have a brain and would oppose illegal immigration. While it seems highly unlikely, if they do decide to join the American side of things, let me suggest a very potent talking point: the GOP is corrupt. Examples of that corruption can be seen...
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Multnomah County in Oregon - home to Portland - funded a "needs and assets assessment of the Hispanic community of Multnomah County". Click the link to read a fisk of the document, such as of this putrid slice: Solidarity is what has enabled Latinos to make remarkable political gains as...
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As we know, Arizona's John McCain co-sponsors an amnesty scheme with Teddy Kennedy. This plan will encourage millions of Mexican illegal aliens to stay in the U.S. And, it will encourage millions more to come in expectation of being a part of their amnesty (or a future "final amnesty.") What...
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Keep an eye constantly peeled for offers of immigration "reform" from our leaders. The latest is House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who visited Tucson to support open borders proponent Jim Kolbe: "We're going to address immigration... The biggest problem is having a comprehensive bill. We have to have a lot...
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August 25, 2005
From "Poll: Most Want Immigration Curbed": ...Sixty-three percent say immigrants who are in the country illegally should not be able to apply for a permit that allows them to stay and work. ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO APPLY FOR U.S. WORK PERMITS? Yes 32% No 63% Opposition to work permits crosses...
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Let's take a look at the report "Arizona Border Dispute" from Bryan Sanders of the "CBS News Political Unit." At first glance it might look like just a standard rundown of the two main massive amnesty schemes: Kennedy/McCain and Cornyn/Kyl. But, there at the start of the fourth paragraph, sticking...
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Mary Sanchez of Knight-Ridder offers us "The cost of mass deportation". As in "David Brooks or Tokyo Rose?" I invite you to read her editorial with the proper inflection. Sanchez informs us that more than 10 million people have illegally settled in our country and we have no chance of...
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August 24, 2005
Tom Knott has a plan to deal with Montgomery County MD's Executive, Douglas Duncan. After a four-day (taxpayer sponsored) trip to El Salvador, Duncan came back convinced that that county needs to be an "open and welcoming community", including of illegal aliens. Knott suggests that all illegal aliens - from...
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From "Trash woes piling up": Splayed in the desert just south of I-10 along Rita Road is an unruly collection of backpacks, flannel shirts, coats, water bottles, soft-drink cans, pill packages, toothbrushes and toilet paper rolls. Shredded black plastic trash bags are stripped across ocotillo and creosote bushes... "Look how...
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August 23, 2005
Someone named "Humberto Caspa" predicts a "poisonous election" in Orange County CA's 48th District Congressional election in 2006. And, for an unknown reason, a little-known newspaper called the Daily Pilot has printed his ramblings. In that district the head of the Minuteman Project, Jim Gilchrist, will be squaring off against...
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Lowry discusses the (faux) conversions to border hawks by New Mexico's Bill Richarson and Arizona's Janet Napolitano in "Border Politics: Dems on immigration". He gets this bit right: ...Richardson defends New Mexico's extended hand to illegals on grounds that the state is "immigrant friendly" and has to be "practical." What's...
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FAIR is considering suing the city of Jupiter, FL over their plans to build an illegal alien hiring hall. In "Jupiter ready to fight FAIR lawsuit over labor center", their Town Manager Andy Lukasik says to bring it: "If they want to test it at the court level, so be...
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The editorial Immigrants' "Trauma" Doesn't Change The Law from Bob Caudle says what needs to be said. The only surprise is that it's coming from inside what might be the most corrupt state in the union rather than from someone in another state: ...This stuff about amnesty from President Bush...
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The L.A. Times reports in "Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border" on native-born "Latinos" and (legal?) immigrants who go to Mexico for medical needs. About 160,000 California workers — farm laborers as well as working-class Latinos employed at hotels, casinos, restaurants and local governments in San Diego and Imperial...
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August 22, 2005
Is it because they're "liberals", or something else entirely? I'll leave it to you to speculate. However, their editorial "OK guest-worker plan" barely tries to make sense, being instead just one canard after the other: Fed up with federal inaction to stem illegal immigration and other crime along their states'...
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The "immigrant advocate" who proposed a July 4th boycott in Arizona is now planning a concert to raise funds for TV commercials supporting "immigration reform". Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to have gone over too well in at least one report. From Immigrant advocate plans concerts, faces criticism: An advocate...
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August 21, 2005
Wellington Webb is the former mayor of Denver. He also started that city's illegal alien sanctuary policy that was in the news recently. A list of articles on that is here. A small, bilingual newspaper recently published a letter from him entitled "Webb urges unity among minorities": ...In order to...
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There's a rundown of some of its provisions in "Amnesty Bill Opens Border"....
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Ben Kelly and Ben Baeder work for the San Gabriel Valley [CA] Tribune, which offers us "Bank's business plan spurs local protest". That article discusses a protest of Wells Fargo's acceptance of the Matricula Consular card (aka "IDs for illegals") on Saturday. Jessica Langdon works for the Times Record News...
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August 19, 2005
Mark Krikorian paints a bleak picture in "Liberal Two-Step: Dems pay lip service only on border control"