2003 Immigration News Archives Digest
This is a summary of each post only. The numbers in parenthesis after each entry are the number of comments and number of trackbacks.
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July 27, 2004
From Terence Chea of the AP: Republican Senate candidate Bill Jones railed on Monday against a ballot measure that would grant non-citizens here the right to vote in school board elections, calling it a "slap in the face" to U.S. citizenship and the country's immigration laws. Speaking on the steps...
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During the Clinton administration, the INS became a virtual recruiting drive for the Democratic party, as described here. So, when Hillary Clinton remarked in her speech yesterday that we should secure our borders, I laughed a bit. However, there's always the possibility that if they say it enough, they might...
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I was working on a similar post, but Dan Stein of FAIR says it much better: Ranking right up there with the proverbial "Dog Bites Man" headline, a new opinion poll released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that Latinos in the United States are most concerned about...
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July 25, 2004
From this: U.S. Border Patrol sweeps to round up and deport undocumented immigrants will continue in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, officials said Saturday. A newly formed unit at the Border Patrol's Temecula station has arrested 505 illegal immigrants in Southern California since June 4, including a total of 154...
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July 24, 2004
FirstData is the parent company of Western Union, and they're now a major processor of credit card transactions in addition to their original business of money transfer. As described here, they've also decided to attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, who represents the district in Colorado where their headquarters...
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July 23, 2004
The Feds are giving Arizona hospitals $42 million a year for four years to help reimburse the costs of (free) healthcare for illegal aliens. In the past year, the University Medical Center in Tucson lost ten times that amount providing free healthcare for illegal aliens. The employers of those illegal...
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Bob Herbert of the New York Times finds out: A startling new study shows that all of the growth in the employed population in the United States over the past few years can be attributed to recently arrived immigrants... Those most affected by the influx of new immigrant workers are...
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July 22, 2004
Here's the main findings of a new Gallup poll: only 14% of Americans wanting to see immigration increased; another 33% want it kept at the present level while 49% want it decreased. In a more detailed question: Gallup asked respondents to rate the impact immigrants have on six different aspects...
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The CSMonitor crunches the numbers: More than one-third of all people who ever immigrated to the US have come in the past three decades. Most have been men looking for jobs, legally or illegally, who compete directly with native- born men. George Borjas, a Harvard University economist and expert on...
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Ah, the Arizona Republic outdoes itself yet again. "Anti-migrant initiative backed" is their report on a new poll showing overwhelming support for the Protect Arizona Now initiative. First of all, PAN is not "anti-migrant." It simply attempts to limit illegal immigration. The opponents of the measure will certainly attempt to...
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July 21, 2004
The Washington Times just ran a series of articles that offers an overview of the illegal immigration problem. They concentrate on our problems with enforcement, and they offer a stark contrast to the usual media blather featuring happy smiling serf laborers: Aliens hiding in plain sight Outnumbered in a hunt...
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From this: A Colorado congressman is praising a bill recently introduced in the House that would curb voter fraud by requiring voters to actually prove their citizenship. It is called the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2004 (H.R. 4530). Introduced by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, it is designed to amend...
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The Kansas City Star has an editorial about FAIR's suit to prevent Kansas from making U.S. citizens pay greater college tuition than illegal aliens: Despite the group's acronym, there's nothing "fair" about the attempt by [FAIR] to challenge a new Kansas law regarding college-age children of undocumented immigrants. Misguided and...
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July 20, 2004
Under a new Bush administration program, we're flying deported illegal aliens back into the interior of Mexico rather than a border city. It's costing each of us at least $100 per alien. The only problem is it looks like - in addition to education, health care, housing, and all the...
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From the Las Vegas Sun: Fifteen undocumented Mexican workers filed suit in federal court last week alleging their supervisors at Green Valley Hand Car Wash failed to pay them adequate wages as required by state and federal law. According to the group's lawyer, Jeffrey Fisher, the workers who filed the...
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July 19, 2004
Exhibit #1: The Santa Cruz Sentinel article "U.S. Border Patrol denies stepped-up enforcement": When U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Southern California, they touched off a wave of fear and anger that rippled throughout the state and across the nation. But the agency, bound by a...
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July 18, 2004
Heather MacDonald (author of the much-linked "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave") has a new article entitled "The Immigrant Gang Plague". Too much to excerpt, but it's highly recommended. My most important recommendation, however, would be to somehow force community "leaders" and other apologists to read it. Or, even better, vote out...
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July 16, 2004
The Illinois Leader editorializes: The prospects of a Da Coach for Da Senate made this an interesting week in the soap opera that is Republican electoral politics in Illinois... We know Republican primary runner-up Jim Oberweis met with party officials for his interview earlier this week. We’re sure he’s waiting...
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TOPEKA, Kan., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A law suit will be filed on Monday, July 19 in Federal Court in Topeka, Kansas, charging that a new state law permitting illegal aliens to attend Kansas public universities at in-state tuition rates violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and...
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July 15, 2004
The LAT intones: Federal authorities launched a crackdown this week aimed at breaking up smuggling rings that use Los Angeles International Airport to send illegal immigrants across the United States. In the first coordinated operation to halt human smuggling at the world's fifth-busiest airport, uniformed Border Patrol agents and undercover...
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July 14, 2004
OK, so you read the lies from the L.A. Times about Arizona's PAN initiative. Now, here's "Proposition 200: Cutting Through the Rhetoric and Getting to the Facts About the Protect Arizona Now Initiative": Large-scale illegal immigration is an important issue in Arizona and much of the rest of the nation,...
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No, not the "normal" way such as that allegedly employed by Wal*Mart subcontractors, Tyson Foods, and the like. There are millions to be made by following the laws, rather than trying to break them: YAKIMA, Wash., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of legal immigrants residing in Washington state's apple-producing...
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From the VOA: The Malaysian government says it is planning a massive expulsion of the estimated 1.2 million illegal foreign workers in the country. The country's home minister say about 400,000 volunteer corps members will detain and deport the illegal workers. Officials say they are still working on the logistics...
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Knight-Ridder: 'Modern slavery' growing in U.S., panel told Seattle Times: Washington state a hotbed for human trafficking, report says...
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Despite "storming" out of a meeting: House Speaker Dennis Hastert and several top Republicans, including state house GOP leader Tom Cross, [are] expected to endorse the idea of a Ditka candidacy Wednesday night at the Navy Pier... unknown whether Ditka will attend... Why would the GOP be so interested in...
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July 13, 2004
[This post is originally from 7/10/04; see the next post for an explanation] After its Kerry-Edwards-Stahl kissyfest, 60 Minutes ran a segment called "Boosting For Billions": "Boosting" is organized shoplifting, and if you think it's a petty crime, think again. As Correspondent Steve Kroft first reported in February, approximately $10...
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WND reports on John and Ken's valiant efforts: Border Patrol agents who executed highly popular roundups of illegal aliens in Southern California last month – the first of their kind in recent memory – say they've been told to stop such enforcement action, and the Bush administration official in charge...
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July 12, 2004
The LAT prints a guest commentary from Tamar Jacoby entitled "Anti-Immigrant Fever in Arizona": Call it Proposition 187 redux. Last week, backers of a ballot measure dubbed "Protect Arizona Now" turned in petitions signed by 190,887 residents of that state calling for the initiative to be put to voters in...
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Here's today's scariest, most disturbing story: WASHINGTON – Despite increased anti-terror demands, immigration inspectors guarding the nation's borders are laboring under an internal budget crisis that has forced freezes on overtime pay and new hiring – as well as the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from detention centers. The...
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July 11, 2004
The newest member of the John Edwards community has a question: I'm on the fence, and I hope someone can help me with a few questions. I read a report where John Edwards said that John Kerry will restore corporate responsibility. That sounds good to me, but I'm worried about...
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This is what happens when you refuse to enforce the immigration laws: Sophisticated criminals are smuggling thousands of people from around the world into Washington -- from Canada, through Sea-Tac Airport and through the Port of Seattle. Federal and local officials believe that many of them are victims of human...
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July 10, 2004
From "Kerry promises Hispanics immigration plan": John Kerry promised Hispanics on Saturday that he would send Congress an immigration overhaul plan to make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens. "Today, our immigration system is broken," [courtesy Ted Kennedy and others --LW] [he told] the League of United Latin...
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From the Sierra Vista Herald: SIERRA VISTA -The issues facing Congressional District 8 have changed, and U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe is no longer the man to represent the critical area that includes much of Arizona's border with Mexico, said Randy Graf. As Kolbe's Republican primary opponent, Graf, currently an Arizona...
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July 09, 2004
From immigration lawyer Matt Hayes: On June 30, John Kerry went to Phoenix and spoke before the national conference of the race identity group La Raza. By now most Americans know that “La Raza” is Spanish for “The Race,” and also that the media accept that groups such as La...
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Amidst all the talk about Jack Ryan and Seven-o-Nine and Mike Ditka, the craven stupidity of the Illinois GOP has been obscured. It looks like they'd rather cede the race for Senate to the Democrats than nominate someone who's - horror of all horrors - opposed to illegal immigration: The...
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President Bush hasn't learned: President Bush made a pitch for his proposed temporary worker program before the nation's largest Hispanic rights group on Thursday. Bush, via satellite, addressed the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in San Antonio. Bush proposed allowing legal and illegal immigrants to work in the...
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July 08, 2004
From the Financial Times of London: Asa Hutchinson, under-secretary at the Homeland Security Department, surely has a lot on his mind. Now he has to contend with the fall-out from John and Ken, the hosts of Los Angeles' most popular drive-time talk show, who told listeners to give him a...
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From Knight-Ridder: WASHINGTON - The trafficking of human beings constitutes a "growth industry" in the United States, with more than 15,000 people forced into bondage each year as sex slaves or captive laborers, according to testimony before a Senate panel Wednesday... Previously: a discussion of the controversy surrounding the NYT...
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The 'Protect Arizona Now' initiative seeks to limit illegal immigration by requiring proof of citizenship before voting or receiving some public handouts. They recently turned in more than enough signatures to get on the ballot, and, since 70% of Arizonans support the initiative, it stands a good chance of being...
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July 07, 2004
From the website of KFI (AM-Los Angeles) talk jocks John & Ken: Trey Bohn is the Director of Radio, Office of Media Affairs, for the White House and he wants you to stop e-mailing Asa Hutchinson, Undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Trey wants you to use a generic...
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July 06, 2004
The previous report "The Feds threatened L.A. radio station KFI?" has been partially confirmed. According to today's John & Ken show (KFI-Los Angeles), a press secretary at the White House has contacted Ray Lopez, John & Ken's producer, and asked them to stop giving out Asa Hutchinson's phone number. No...
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From U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly: Illegal immigration, more than any other single factor, is crippling major segments of California's economy, from health care to higher education to jobs. That's why, regardless of the security concerns -- and there are many -- Schwarzenegger should not sign any bill granting driver's licenses...
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June 30, 2004
This is good news and hopefully it won't get shot down by those corrupt, anti-American politicians who hope to profit from illegal alien voters: Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) has introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives that would help curb voting fraud by requiring voters to provide photo...
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Another few weeks, another drop house busted. However, the important things in the AP report are the following: Police investigating a report of a kidnapping found 28 suspected illegal Mexican immigrants who had been held by smugglers at a small hotel... A crowd of mostly Hispanics gathered at two corners...
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John Kerry is not completely insane. At least in the political sense: Democrat John Kerry said he opposes state laws that give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, a position that puts him at odds with the Hispanic activists he is courting in the presidential race. Immigrant advocates have been pushing...
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The Arizona Republic - always an unbiased source with a completely non-liberal slant - headlines their story about Kerry's threat to declare a general amnesty for illegal aliens as "Kerry vows action for migrants". The "action" in question is an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, not "migrants." Could their...
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From the Fort Worth Star Telegram: College shouldn't be difficult for Joaquin, who mastered Advanced Placement classes in a language he learned only four years ago and recently graduated 12th in his high school class. But paying for it will be. The 19-year-old is an undocumented immigrant. He doesn't qualify...
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June 29, 2004
From this: A new man is in charge of border relations for Mexico and he has some radical ideas for change at the border with the United States. Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, a 52-year-old Tijuana businessman, says many improvements are needed at the border to benefit trade, including creating more lanes...
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This news release from Kerry's campaign explains how: The Kerry Campaign today released the following fact sheet on immigration reform: Today at the National Council of La Raza's annual conference, John Kerry will continue to talk about his plans to open the doors of opportunity and expand access to the...
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Imagine, if you will, a group of thirty people. Five groups of six people each will do. Keep that image in your mind: With agents clad in dark riot gear looking on, about 30 activists gathered outsidethe Border Patrol station in Temecula on Monday to protest recent immigration sweeps in...
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June 28, 2004
From Congressman Tom Tancredo's site: Congressman Tom Tancredo (CO-06) today along with 49 Congressmen applauded Border Patrol enforcement in California and urged Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson to resist pressure to halt arrests in the southern California by Democrat members of congress. Fifty Members of Congress including House Majority Leader Tom Delay,...
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Allan Wall wants to know: The Mexican government is engaged in a deliberate strategy to influence American immigration policy, increase the population of Mexicans in the United States, slow their assimilation and retain their loyalty to Mexico. This is no secret conspiracy -- Mexican leaders speak openly of it. It...
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Bobby Eberle of gopusa.com discusses the most recent WSJ smear attempt: ...How can conservatives such as myself stand up and discuss immigration reform in the context of border security when the Wall Street Journal is labeling us as "anti-immigrant?" Not once in the Journal's editorial was the topic of border...
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June 26, 2004
[UPDATE #3 (7/6/04): despite UPDATE #2, this story appears to have been partly confirmed. See the post The White House is complaining about KFI's John & Ken] [See UPDATE #2, which is rather important.] The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly threatened to bar KFI reporters from DHS news conferences....
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June 25, 2004
The Christian Science Monitor comes out against both Bush's and the Democrat's plans: The Latino vote has some chance of tipping the presidential election this year. That's why both Democrats and Republicans are dancing around different ideas about amnesty for illegal aliens. Actually, amnesty isn't a word used too much...
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June 24, 2004
From CEO of DC’s PBS Station Mad About Day Laborers Next to Studio: Earlier this week [August 1, 2003], Sharon Percy Rockefeller, CEO of WETA, the Washington, DC PBS station really located in Arlington County, Virginia, lashed out at the county board for voting to build a pavilion, to house...
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June 23, 2004
PBS's new documentary 'Farmingville' was broadcast on many PBS stations tonight. It covers a Long Island community's reaction to a sudden influx of illegal immigrants. From PBS's synopsis: The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new...
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June 22, 2004
Human Events has an overview of Chris Cannon and today's primary that might send him packing: Congressman Chris Cannon of Utah apparently is in real danger of losing his seat in Congress, and apparently that’s causing him to employ extreme measures. Cannon faces serious GOP primary opposition from former state...
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Mark Krikorian nails the Wall Street Journal's latest desperate smear attempt: The Wall Street Journal editorial page published another of its periodic eructations on immigration last week. This one was essentially a campaign ad for Utah Congressman Chris Cannon, the administration point-man on immigration in the House of Representatives, who...
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June 21, 2004
The L.A. Times reports from the front lines: BISBEE, Ariz. — Besieged by illegal immigrants who jam its emergency room, then disappear without paying, tiny Copper Queen Community Hospital is growing desperate. The 13-bed private facility lost $800,000 caring for migrants last year and $500,000 the year before. At this...
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June 18, 2004
Professor Bainbridge quotes approvingly from the WSJ's latest smear. See the previous post for why he shouldn't....
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The WSJ has an editorial supporting - you guessed it - illegal immigration and the politicians who are paid to support it, contrary to the wishes of the vast majority of their constituents. As you can imagine, it's filled with smears: Mr. Cannon tops the restrictionists' target list because...
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June 16, 2004
From the LAT: Latino community leaders and civil rights groups on Tuesday said they might take legal action to stop a U.S. Border Patrol crackdown on suspected illegal immigrants in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. "The only way to stop this is if the community comes together," said UC Riverside...
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From the LAT: Immigrants are filling nearly three out of every 10 new jobs in the rebounding U.S. economy, a development that may dilute the political dividend to President Bush from an election-year recovery, a study to be released today concludes... No doubt Kerry - whose Campaign co-chairman is a...
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From Michelle Malkin: Do you know how the alleged "shopping-mall" bomber entered our country? He didn't cross the border illegally. He didn't sneak in on a ship. He came through the front door at America's invitation. Nuradin M. Abdi, who was indicted last week for plotting with al-Qaida to blow...
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From the NYT: rustrated that so many companies in New York State pay less than the minimum wage, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced a new strategy yesterday to attack the problem: sue the employment agencies that steer thousands of workers into these low-paying jobs each year. Mr. Spitzer announced lawsuits...
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June 15, 2004
This is pretty brazen. Since the solicitation was made on a radio show and it was taped, it can't be denied. From 'Illegal plea for illegals' cash?': As Rep. Chris Cannon sat by, one of his aides urged any illegal aliens listening to a Spanish-language radio talk show to funnel...
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June 14, 2004
Dan Stein of FAIR has an editorial about Kansas' new law that takes discounted college educations away from U.S. citizens and gives them to citizens of other countries: Empathy for the situation of young people who are caught in this kind of legal limbo is understandable. The problem is that...
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June 13, 2004
From the Times, er, the Trenton Times: His name is Ruben. The 32-year-old father of four grew up in Guatemala but lives in Trenton now. His hope is to someday live the American dream... [100 more lines of sub-Sally Struthers advocacy for illegal aliens deleted] Rather than bog you down...
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June 11, 2004
From immigration lawyer Matt Hayes: In exchange for legal status for the group [the 1986 illegal alien amnesty --LW], Reagan insisted that the magnet attracting illegal aliens to the United States be removed by extinguishing any incentive for U.S. employers to hire illegal aliens. In tandem with the amnesty, Reagan...
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No more Section 8 (subsidized housing) for illegal aliens: The change in policy means that thousands of undocumented immigrants who receive housing assistance will lose their monthly subsidy or face higher rents. The regulation, which has existed since 1995, prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving assistance in public housing developments or...
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The Washington Times reports on the recent arrests of illegal aliens in the interior. (Previous coverage of this here). It contains this interesting bit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, who oversees the Border Patrol, in August overturned an order by the agency's sector chief in...
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A panel of political and business elites - convened by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - has determined that we must declare an amnesty for the 8 million (or so) illegal aliens in the U.S.: 'Panel urges immigration reform, Newcomers are called key to future'. That's nice. Hey, thanks...
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June 10, 2004
The AP reports on the INS/BICE actually doing its job: LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. Border Patrol agents have made more than 150 arrests in a sweep for illegal immigrants through communities far from the Mexican border, a practice authorities say will continue indefinitely. In some cases, agents stopped people...
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June 09, 2004
Story here. Previous coverage of Europe's immigration problems here....
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I believe that Former North Carolina Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Edward L. Powell, Republican candidate for the Fifth Congressional District, is a XRM-SBAH*. In fact, just today he strongly condemned the recent Supreme Court decision that allows Mexican trucks to use the highways of the United States: Powell said, “This...
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June 07, 2004
From this: A lawsuit by former employees of Tyson Foods, Inc. against their employer may go ahead, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. The four former workers are seeking damages as a result of Tyson's use of illegal aliens to depress wages. They sued the company...
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The L.A. Times' Steve Lopez wonders why California's "leaders" aren't planning for the future. He mentions the Public Policy Institute of California as one of the few groups that's paying attention to out of control immigration and growth. They're working on a report on this topic ('Taking on the Future:...
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CNN apparently held a round table on immigration, and here's the transcript: Sesno Reports: Press One for English. Eleanor Holmes Norton serves as one of the Voices of Stupidity, Mark Krikorian serves as one of the Voices of Sanity, and Ted Leonsis, vice chairman, America Online serves as the Voice...
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June 03, 2004
From FAIR: Illegal immigration now costs Arizona taxpayers about $1.3 billion annually, finds a new report, "The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Arizonans," published by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The report shows a nearly nine-fold increase in the costs of illegal immigration during the past decade, and...
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FAIR reports: In a display of unusual candor, Business Week recognized recently the negative impact immigration - coupled with globalization - has in perpetuating an army of permanently poor, hard-working Americans. In its May 31, 2004 cover story "Working... and Poor," the financial magazine states that a flood of immigrants,...
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Of course, there's a little bit of a catch: Craig Nelsen, ProjectUSA director, wants the National Arbitration Forum to create a panel of impartial lawyers to evaluate immigration legislation Cannon supports and decide whether it fits the definition of amnesty... Cannon spokeswoman Meghan Riding called the Project USA proposition a...
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The L.A. Times reports from Calexico, California: Each day, the runners tumble out of holes cut in the 15-foot-high steel fence in front of Noemi Parra's home on the U.S. side of the border. The illegal immigrants race through her front yard, duck under the clothesline and hurdle her neighbors'...
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May 31, 2004
Here's today's history lesson....
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May 25, 2004
The L.A. Times questions Sen. Tom McClintock's math. McClintock wrote the following: This year, nearly 7,500 qualified California residents — who would otherwise be entering California state universities as incoming freshmen — are likely to be turned away for lack of funds. Meanwhile, approximately 7,500 illegal immigrants will receive heavily...
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May 23, 2004
From the NYT: At the bottleneck of human smuggling here in the Sonoran Desert, illegal immigrants are dying in record numbers as they try to cross from Mexico into the United States in the wake of a new Bush administration amnesty proposal that is being perceived by some migrants as...
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May 19, 2004
From this: Immigration is turning into an election battleground among Republicans, with several challengers running primary campaigns against leading congressional supporters of legalizing illegal aliens. Rep. Christopher B. Cannon, Utah Republican and a prominent legalization supporter, failed to win 60 percent of the vote at a Republican nominating convention a...
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May 17, 2004
From FOX: A scattered movement growing across the country would buck decades of conventional wisdom and allow non-citizens the right to vote in local elections, a move that proponents say would give immigrants the ability to directly impact government in their communities. "We’re a stronger society as a whole if...
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May 16, 2004
Here's a history lesson....
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The L.A. Times has a report on millions of illegal aliens poised to enter the U.S. due to talk of amnesty. They obtained internal border patrol documents that, among others, have this to say: "Possible terrorist cell groups may exploit this high influx phenomenon," one agent wrote. "[O]ur immigration system...
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May 14, 2004
From CA Sen. Tom McClintock: This year, nearly 7,500 qualified California residents – who would otherwise be entering California state universities as incoming freshmen – are likely to be turned away for lack of funds. Meanwhile, approximately 7,500 illegal immigrants will receive heavily subsidized university educations at a cost of...
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From the editorial 'ON ICE: Immigration agents right to hunt terrorists, crooks': In recent weeks the Houston office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been falsely accused of conducting mass and indiscriminate raids on places where illegal immigrants live and work. When ICE officials denied conducting any such raids,...
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May 13, 2004
From the AP: A bill passed Wednesday will transform Tennessee from a haven for illegal immigrants seeking driver's licenses to the state with the strictest driver's license policy in the nation, state officials say. The legislation, approved 96-2 in the House after it passed the Senate earlier this week, now...
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May 12, 2004
Here's a community commentary ("Day-laborer issue is about one thing, and it's not 'concern'") from Burbank resident Alfred Aboulsaad. It concerns Home Depot's plans to build a store in Burbank. They'd construct a day laborer center on-site, and pay the city of Burbank $94,000 a year to run it. Note...
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Here's more on mass-immigration-advocate Chris Cannon (R-UT) having to face Matt Throckmorton in the Utah GOP primary. This has national implications because of Cannon's role as Bush's "point man" on immigration matters. Cannon admits that the reason he has to go to the primary is because of his stance...
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May 11, 2004
Illegal alien smugglers appear to have a new tactic. Rather than stashing illegals in drop houses, they're temporarily parking them out in the desert. Of course, that leads to things like not having water for a few days, and even worse things. If we could start doing workplace enforcement again...
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May 10, 2004
Mass illegal immigration advocate and U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) will now have to face challengers in the Utah GOP primary. That's the first time he's had to do that since 1998, and his stance on immigration probably had a great deal to do with it. Cannon is referred to...
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May 07, 2004
From a KC Star report on the 'Latino Civil Rights Summit 2004': Jose Angel Gutierrez, a Dallas lawyer and author, said it best as Friday's luncheon speaker: “We are the future of America. Unlike any prior generation, we now have a critical mass. We're going to Latinize this country...” Gutierrez...
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May 05, 2004
Kerry is apparently not jumping at the chance to endorse Teddy Kennedy's plan to Give Away the Store: see 'Kerry Hesitates as Democrats Promote Immigration Plan'. Perhaps Kerry realizes this would create a huge backlash from his constituents. For instance, consider the following: Separately on Tuesday, a Harvard scholar released...
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May 04, 2004
Let's take a look at the AZ Republic's reprint of the L.A. Times story about the Democratic Mass Illegal Immigration Plan. Bear in mind that both identify the author as Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and are (more or less) the same article. The AZ Republic version is named 'Alternative on migrants: Dems...
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Here's FAIR's response to the Democratic Party's attempt to give away the store: Legislation unveiled today by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) would guarantee legal U.S. residence for virtually every illegal alien living in the U.S. and countless millions additional relatives who would be permitted to...
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May 02, 2004
The Democrats are proposing a new immigration "reform" plan, and - surprise! - the L.A. Times has obtained a pre-release copy. The proposal is authored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.). It would basically allow almost all illegal aliens in the U.S. to become...
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April 30, 2004
Earlier I discussed the town hall meeting in Houston where a BICE (new name for the INS) official assured illegal aliens that the INS was not conducting workplace raids. I.e., a BICE official told illegal aliens that he wasn't doing his job. The meeting got some attention: Now U.S. Rep....
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April 27, 2004
Welcome to Wacky World. The INS called a town hall meeting in Houston to calm the fears of illegal aliens. You see, there's a rumor going around Houston's illegal alien community that the INS is actually doing its job and conducting raids. The INS called the meeting to inform the...
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From the AP: After a four-year decline, illegal immigration from Mexico is spiking as several thousand migrants a day rush across the border in hopes of getting work visas under a program President Bush (news - web sites) proposed. Many also are trying to beat tighter security to come in...
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From this: Virginia lawmakers and the state attorney general yesterday expressed dismay that Arlington County plans to ignore a new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants in the fight against gangs and terrorists. Delegate Robert G. Marshall suggested cutting state funding to Arlington's police force or even shutting...
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The Washington Times has a long, depressing piece on (largely illegal) immigration to Los Angeles: 'Human tsumani'. The Voice of Stupidity is provided by political scientist Raphael Sonenshein, who used to work for Maxine Waters. Is there some way to force "liberals" and liberaltarians to not just read this article,...
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April 26, 2004
From this: The last time anyone undertook a project as massive as the Los Angeles Unified School District's current construction program, gymnast Mary Lou Retton was America's sweetheart... The 10-year, $10 billion project, the biggest school-construction program in the nation, is nothing if not ambitious. The LAUSD plans to build...
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April 23, 2004
The LAPD and the BICE busted a drop house in Watts in which over 110 illegal aliens were held captive. The house is 1100 square feet, and the doors were chained shut while the smugglers demanded more money. 88 of the aliens are now in BICE custody awaiting deportation. The...
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April 21, 2004
From this: Thousands of migrant farm workers are here legally but many are here illegally. It was that portion of the migrant labor population that Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez singled out for special attention today suggesting that the Mexican government should reimburse local taxpayers for their expenses. "My fellow...
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Bleeding heart leftie TalkLeft directs us to yet another demonstration in favor of the anti-American DREAM Act. (Note the URL is at MTV and that the article is basically an advocacy piece. For an earlier demonstration for the DREAM Act, see the post Karl Rove meets his new "voters".) At...
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From the AP report 'Sierra Club chooses establishment candidates in board election': Sierra Club leaders beat back efforts by anti-immigration forces trying to gain control of the nation's largest environmental group, persuading members to defeat the challengers by a landslide in board elections... An increasingly vocal faction of the San...
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April 20, 2004
Stifle your schadenfreude: A high-profile Latina activist upset over a series of deportations involving young, undocumented Phoenix residents was caught Thursday trying to smuggle two of them back into the United States from Mexico in the trunk of her car, officials said. Ana Lizabeth Roman de Harvey, 40, of Phoenix,...
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April 19, 2004
The New York Times has an editorial ('A Citizen's Right') opposing voting for non-citizens. They mention that Mayor Mike Bloomberg is also opposed to it: This page believes that it is in the nation's best interest to encourage people who live here permanently to become citizens and throw in their...
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April 17, 2004
Yesterday I covered the AP story of the Mexican legal immigrant who faces deportation because she was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. I didn't discuss the case itself so much as AP's treatment of it and their treatment of other more important news stories. It includes the following line:...
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April 16, 2004
On March 14, 2004, the L.A. Times ran an editorial that tried its best to counter Samuel Huntington's Foreign Policy essay 'The Hispanic Challenge'. The editorial was entitled: Wrongheaded Assault on a 'Brown Peril' Just so there's no mistake, that was the exact title, punctuated as shown. The editorial starts...
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And here you thought the Bush/Fox Amnesty was just a harmless political ploy that would have no real effect except on the electorate: The number of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southwestern border has jumped 25 percent in the first three months of 2004 compared with last year, and...
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Part 1 of this series discussed the "possible hate crime" the AP reported on back in February. It concerned an illegal alien mother and daughter who were murdered in Fremont, CA. On the slimmest evidence, the AP's Justin Pritchard declared it a possible hate crime and tried to lay the...
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April 15, 2004
From the AP: Consuls from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico say they're uniting forces to improve the quality of life for Hispanic immigrants in California. The consuls announced a plan Wednesday to work with U.S. officials and community groups to provide joint education and legal assistance...
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April 14, 2004
The L.A. Times reports on a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that makes it easier for illegal aliens to sue their employers ("Ruling Aids Illegal Workers"): "Granting employers the right to inquire into workers' immigration status in cases like this would allow them to raise implicitly the threat of...
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April 13, 2004
In the April 4 NYT, historian Niall Ferguson discussed that the formation of "Eurabia" was one possible result of massive Muslim immigration to Europe: The French historian Alain Besancon is one of a number of European intellectuals who detect a significant threat to the continent's traditional Christian culture. The Egyptian-born...
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April 12, 2004
MoveOn.org is holding bake sales across the country in order to raise money for Kerry. There are only a few in general Northeastern L.A. Most are on the Westside, such as this lovely event: MECHA for Kerry and Bustamante (10 baker(s)/helper(s)) Santa Monica Library on Montana Santa Monica, CA WE...
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Check out the quotes in the story "Are the suburban counties inviting terrorists?" An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said jurisdictions that fail to check the immigration status of people receiving tax-funded rent subsidies are opening the door to terrorists. "Those are the vulnerabilities that people have exploited...
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L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez expresses his middle-class dissent about massive immigration: Only those who commute, work for a living or breathe air should have any concerns about the latest news out of paradise. I'm talking about the story informing us that in the last three years, 1 million additional...
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April 07, 2004
Howard Fineman in Newsweek asks the titular question: Can the unshakeable be shaken? Is it already shaking? These are relevant questions as Condi Rice testifies and Iraq turns ugly. Especially since 9/11, a key feature of the political landscape has been George W. Bush's granite-like Republican/conservative base. But fissures are...
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April 06, 2004
From this: A Republican fundraiser learns firsthand that the GOP grassroots resent the president’s amnesty proposal. The telephone rang and an old wealthy conservative friend answered. After the usual pleasantries, I told him I was a co-host for the upcoming Jan. 15 Bush-Cheney event at Atlanta’s World Congress Center and...
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From this: Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) pointed to illegal immigrant apprehension rates by the U.S. Border Patrol for 2004 on Monday as evidence that President George W. Bush's temporary worker policy has not lowered illegal immigration, but has rather increased it dramatically. "I hate to say this to the president,...
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April 05, 2004
The Chicago Tribune's Alfredo Lanier attempts to counter Samuel Huntington's 'The Hispanic Challenge' in the editorial 'Latino migration dividing America'. (use 'anonymous' as the username and password) I'm not going to fisk the whole thing, just a couple things from it. Lanier says this: "there is no evidence whatsoever that...
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April 02, 2004
Samuel Huntington's 'The Hispanic Challenge' describes how current Hispanic immigration presents a unique challenge to America. In the L.A. Times, former Mexican foreign minister and current Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Castaneda tries to counter his argument ('Addition to the Melting Pot Requires a New Recipe Book'): And they lead, in...
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From Mark Krikorian in National Review: The high-immigration Right is on the warpath, trying to delegitimize all conservatives who stand between them and the illegal-alien amnesties they crave. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal ran an outrageous piece � slamming National Review, Fox News, various Republican congressmen, and my...
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March 31, 2004
Malkin discusses the NPA harrassment of Karl Rove in 'A closer look at left-wing thuggery': ...NPA members are funded by the usual suspects -- "progressive" charities such as the Tides Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and the MacArthur, Ford and Rockefeller foundations. But they are also funded by your tax...
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March 30, 2004
From the NY Daily News: Dick Lamm, public policy gadfly and former Democratic governor of Colorado, is being denounced these days as a right-wing extremist, neo-Nazi and racist. His offense is that he is one of three men running for the Sierra Club board of directors on a platform of...
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March 29, 2004
Tasty Manatees has a very informative post about the leaders of the NPA harassment of Karl Rove. It turns out that the two leaders mentioned by the WaPo are school teachers. They may have commandeered students and school buses for their stunt, or they may have done it all legal...
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CNN has a new feature, and it's free! If you send CNN your press release, they'll weave it into a news story, even if they had a reporter there to report on it himself. Such a deal! Of course, there are a few restrictions. First, your press release must be...
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Former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda is running for president of Mexico as an independent. In addition to his many other noteworthy accomplishments, Castaneda uttered the following back in Nov. 2002: [Mexico's foreign minister Jorge] Castaneda said Mexican officials will begin rallying unions, churches, universities and Mexican communities. "What's important...
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March 28, 2004
This is funny, annoying, disturbing, heartening, and shocking all at the same time: Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals...
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The NYT reports on the illegal alien situation in Arizona. As you read the excerpt, consider this astonishing fact: in FY2002, just 13 (thirteen) companies were fined for immigration violations. (source) Now, here's the excerpt: ...In recent months, there has been an eruption of illegal immigration and related violence in...
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March 26, 2004
From the SteinReport: (Washington, D. C. - March 26, 2004) The FAIR Congressional Task Force today issued the following statement regarding comments made by Rep. Christopher Cannon: At a recent hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, Utah Rep. Christopher Cannon tried to indict American immigration reform activists with a...
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From the CS Monitor: From kindergartners to 12th-graders, these children routinely cross the US-Mexico border to attend Arizona schools. Some use fake documents. Others stay with US relatives. All pose as full-time US residents to obtain a better education than they would receive from Mexico's public schools. Now, however, a...
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March 25, 2004
From the older article 'Los Amigos de Bush: The disturbing ties of some of George W. Bush's Latino advisors': Those who say that George W. Bush has scant knowledge of foreign affairs don't understand his family's relationship with Mexico. If one event could be said to make that relationship visible,...
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The book American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips is on my list of things to read. Here's the blurb from Amazon: The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance—nurtured by gauzy...
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Some Florida orange growers are getting smart and using machines rather than foreign serf labor. From the NYT: IMMOKALEE, Fla. — Chugging down a row of trees, the pair of canopy shakers in Paul Meador's orange grove here seem like a cross between a bulldozer and a hairbrush, their hungry...
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The L.A. Times reports on the AgJobs bill: The so-called AgJobs bill, which also would make it easier for growers to import foreign guest workers, has 55 co-sponsors — including Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) — in the 100-member Senate, its authors said Wednesday. Sens. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) and Edward...
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March 24, 2004
No kidding. There's a case before the International Court of Justice entitled Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of America). It concerns Mexican citizens who face the death penalty in the U.S. Judgment will be rendered on March 31. Read the latest press release here, the first...
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This long, sourced, and highly recommended article describes how agents of the Mexican government have infiltrated politics in Utah. They succeeded in defeating a bill that would stop illegal alien driver's licenses. Here's the summary: Working through its consulates in the United States, the Mexican government is waging a war...
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From the John and Ken (KFI radio-Los Angeles) blog: We have contacted all the Republicans in the State Senate and the State Assembly asking one question- how will you be voting on Senator Gil Cedillo’s Illegal Alien Driver License Bill (SB1160)? ...If you DO NOT see your Senator or Assembly...
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There's a new Alamo movie coming out in a couple weeks (official site here). It features Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, and Patrick Wilson. You can buy the novelization of The Alamo here. You can buy the Original Uncut Version of the John Wayne version (1960) here. And,...
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March 23, 2004
RightWingNews links to this column about illegal immigration. It's by Marty Nemko, and it's generally opposed to illegal immigration and the current immigration system. What's extra interesting is that Mr. Nemko is apparently a leftie....
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From the AP: Mexican police have arrested 42 immigration agents and other government employees accused of running a network that smuggled illegal immigrants into the United States, officials said Tuesday. The suspects, arrested in raids last week in 12 of Mexico's 31 states, allegedly smuggled Cubans, Uruguayans, Brazilians, Asians and...
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From the Arizona Republic: Mark Twain said, "A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." It's astonishing how the media have been stampeded into a feeding frenzy by mostly one-sided stories charging that an army of racist, anti-immigrant, animal-loving vegetarians is about...
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That's what the Stein Report says regarding the Miami Herald's editorial supporting the AgJobs bill ('A win-win for growers, farmworkers, America'). That bill would provide an amnesty for half a million illegal aliens. As history shows, amnesties simply lead to more illegal immigration. One amnesty leads to more illegal immigration,...
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March 20, 2004
From the AP, discussing the Scripps Howard Texas Poll: A vast majority of Texans believe illegal immigration from Mexico is a serious problem, but they are split over President Bush's plan to provide undocumented workers with temporary work visas... Eighty-six percent of those surveyed... said illegal immigration is a very...
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March 19, 2004
I put this in the 'Immigration' category, although I think 'WackyHumor' would also work. Story here....
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From Matt Hayes, an immigration lawyer: Most people know that Usama bin Laden's terror group, Al Qaeda (Arabic for "the base"), derives its name from the Mujahideen database that bin Laden developed through the 1980s and 1990s. Using "the base," bin Laden could call on a corps of operatives to...
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March 18, 2004
'Strapped Employers Hope to Expand Visa Program' inform us that high-tech employers are looking for loopholes in the H1-B program. Apparently they're unable to find enough high-tech workers. Meanwhile: One out of every four high-technology jobs in developed countries today may be outsourced to emerging markets like India by 2010,...
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March 16, 2004
This is definitely strange: FOX 11 News has learned that one of the highest ranking Homeland Security officials in Arizona is dead. Thomas DeRouchey, interim director of the ICE office in Phoenix, was found dead. But mystery surrounds his death and both local and federal agencies are saying little. Thomas...
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March 11, 2004
From 'Govt to hold referendum on citizenship rights': The Government has announced plans to hold a referendum to change the citizenship rights of people born in Ireland. At present, anybody born in Ireland is entitled to citizenship under constitutional changes contained in the Good Friday Agreement. However, the Government wants...
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March 09, 2004
[As you read the following, recall that in FY2002, just 13 (thirteen) companies were fined for immigration violations. That's drastically down from prior years.] From Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)'s site: A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Bush Administration to add $850 million in funding to the federal budget...
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March 06, 2004
The Alamo was stormed 168 years ago today. That's a long long time, and George Bush has obviously forgotten all about it: A text of President Bush's joint news conference with Mexican President Vicente Fox on Saturday... BUSH: Hola, que tal? Bienvenidos. Mr. President, Laura and I are pleased to...
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March 04, 2004
Drudge has had a link to the Washington Times piece 'Mexico lobbies for alien amnesty' for a bit now. It goes into how the Mexican government is using so-called American so-called human rights groups and other traitors/dupes to gain influence for Mexico in the U.S. Nothing in there is news...
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Their latest editorial 'Lou Dobbs Takes On the World' has more than a whiff of desperation about it. All they have is ad hominem attacks and attempts to impugn his motives. Along the way, they act as apologists for the liberal media. The WSJ seriously doubts what Lou Dobbs says...
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March 02, 2004
This page from almost four years ago has statements about the AgJobs amnesty proposal. It includes this bit from Sen. Bob Graham: Senator Graham said Congress should pass S. 1814 because nearly half the agriculture workers in the U.S. are here illegally, a situation that causes problems for farmers and...
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March 01, 2004
Here's a handy listing of good and bad immigration bills: 'Proposed Immigration Bills in the 108th Congress'. You can also quickly send free FAXes to your congresscritters from the page. There's another list here. You can look up a bill's status here....
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From the San Diego Union-Tribune: The four candidates seeking the GOP nomination to run for the U.S. Senate [generally agree with Bush except] on one issue – President Bush's plan to allow millions of illegal immigrants to have temporary legal status – the candidates have been willing to openly criticize...
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February 28, 2004
Here's an older story from ZDnet: Details of President Bush's plan to tackle illegal immigration remain fuzzy, but the program could create a new way for technology employers to bring in foreign workers. If so, the stage will be set for another round of debates about the practice of temporarily...
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February 23, 2004
From an LAT guest editorial "Rise of the Off-the-Books Workforce: Native-born workers are being displaced by new immigrants": If you scrutinize the U.S. labor market numbers from the last two years of economic recovery, you're left with what seems to be a paradox. Since the recession's low point, in November...
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February 22, 2004
Unfortunately, we can't call the Bush/Fox Amnesty an "amnesty" anymore (see "The Nativists in the California GOP Must Go"). So, we need to find a new name. Perhaps "The Bush/Fox Massive Illegal Immigration Incentive and Open Borders and Gift to Corrupt Employers Plan" would work. No matter what we call...
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February 21, 2004
From the AJC: MEXICO CITY -- U.S. and Mexican officials agreed Friday to tighten security along their border and devise a plan to repatriate illegal immigrants to their home states in the interior of Mexico rather than deporting them to cities along the border... U.S. agents deport thousands of illegal...
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February 20, 2004
From the Center for Immigration Studies: On January 7, 2004, President Bush announced his outline for a vast guestworker program that would be used to amnesty illegal aliens already in the United States as well as provide for the importation of new foreign workers.1 In the extensive discussion of the...
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February 19, 2004
From Mark Krikorian in Newsday: There has been much well-deserved criticism of President George W. Bush's proposed amnesty and guestworker plan. But its possible effect on America's sovereignty has seldom been mentioned, even though that may be the most harmful in the long term. Although the president's proposal is not...
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February 13, 2004
From California Insider: Sixty percent of non-English speaking children who begin attending California schools after kindergarten never become fluent in English, according to a study released today by the Legislative Analyst. And even for children who begin school here in kindergarten, immigrants from different countries master English at very different...
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February 12, 2004
From "GOP senators, officials back alien proposal": The administration rolled out its top immigration officials and several senior Republican senators yesterday to endorse publicly a guest-worker program offered by President Bush that could give legal status to the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States....
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From the LA Times: Anti-immigration candidates trying to take over the Sierra Club's governing board have filed a lawsuit against the national environmental organization, alleging that its leaders are breaking state law by using club money and resources to oppose them in upcoming board elections. The legal maneuver, immediately denounced...
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February 10, 2004
That's the title of the AZCentral/Arizona Republic version of the AP report I excoriated earlier. As noted, the AP report appears in over 60 newspapers under titles similar to "Police see possible hate crime in California". The AZCentral report is the same as the AP report, except for the headline....
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February 09, 2004
From this: SAN DIEGO — Mexican teenagers have been crossing the border to attend school in America for years as the schools they attend collect more tax dollars for enrolling them... A Fox News crew recently watched while students left Southwest High School for the day and got on...
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From the CS Monitor: ...And today, with President Bush urging Congress to create a new guest-worker program, his tale highlights some of the cautionary lessons that similar programs in the US and Europe hold. Among them, experts say: • Such programs are often set up with the needs of employers...
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A statement/open letter/mess of lies entitled "A Conservative Statement of Principles on Immigration" appeared in Friday's Wall Street Journal (more about the WSJ here and here). The WSJ is subscription-only, but a copy is available here: [America is a nation of immigrants, heart-warming platitudes, etc. etc...] Conservatives believe in legal...
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Part 1 of this series will discuss the article "Police see possible hate crime in California" by Justin Pritchard of AP. It concerns a brutal double murder in Northern California: FREMONT, Calif. - Maria Esperanza Hernandez usually got a ride to her 5 a.m. shift at a nursing home, but...
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February 08, 2004
From the Sierra Vista [AZ] Herald: County Sheriff Larry Dever said members of the Sheriff's Assist Team, a group of volunteers, have begun shadowing school buses in Palominas and Sierra Vista school districts. The main purpose is to add another layer of protection to children from potentially dangerous illegal immigrants,...
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February 06, 2004
From this: ZAPOPAN, Mexico - The Mexican crowd hooted "The Star-Spangled Banner." It booed U.S. goals. It chanted "Osama! Osama! Osama!" as U.S. players left the field with a 2-0 victory. And that was in a game against Canada on Thursday before just 1,500 people... See also 'Anti-Americanism in L.A.'...
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February 01, 2004
From this: A dairy farm owned by the family of U.S. Sen. Bob Graham [D - FL] is being sued by farmworkers who claim they are not being paid minimum wage. Attorney Greg Schell, who represents the workers, said the alleged violations of federal law occurred over the past four...
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January 31, 2004
From an Investor's Business Daily editorial: For those who think that illegal aliens are a good deal because they will work for such low wages, consider this figure — $9 billion. That rather large sum is Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's low-end estimate of how much is spent each year on health...
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January 28, 2004
From Mark Krikorian: Now, I like the Wall Street Journal. But its editorials on immigration always have a whiff of the Soviet about them. Like an apparatchik blaming the collapse of the USSR's agriculture on 75 straight years of bad weather, the Journal's writing on immigration has no connection to...
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This moderately balanced AJC article looks at both sides of the oldspeak/newspeak language wars: is it "illegal aliens" or "undocumented immigrants?" Unfortunately, the author doesn't look at the law. The United States Code - the law of the land - uses the term "illegal aliens." For instance, see "Authorizing State...
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From this: Conservative Congressman Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.) recently joined 22 fellow GOP Congressmen in a letter to the President and House Speakder Dennis Hastert detailing the public's negative reaction to the White House's immigration proposal... Below is a copy of the original letter as sent by Rep. Tancredo's office: ---------------...
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Mark Krikorian writes about a Cato Institute panel on the Bush/Fox Amnesty here. Of particular note are the remarks made by Margaret Spellings, "assistant to the president for domestic policy, and point person for the president's immigration proposal": my director of research, Steven Camarota, briefly mentioned the alternative to the...
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January 27, 2004
From this: HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The offices of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher received dozens of threatening telephone calls Tuesday, including one death threat, after he authored a bill that would limit health care services for immigrants. Information on the threats was turned over to police. "It will be...
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From the AJC: As the United States contemplates a proposal by President Bush to temporarily legalize some foreign workers with the expectation they will eventually return to the land of their birth, the German experience may provide a cautionary tale. More than 40 years after the first Turkish guest workers...
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January 26, 2004
From Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies comes this article: A recent Cato Institute forum revealed the true attitude of many in the White House about immigration-law enforcement. The forum (watch the Real Video file here) featured, among others, Margaret Spellings, assistant to the president for domestic policy,...
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No, but they are definitely part of the Open Borders Conspiracy. Case in point: an editorial entitled "Our Border Brigades The nativist right is wrong." You can leave comments at the page above, and read comments from other users. Here's my reply: Your editorial reads like a left-wing screed, starting...
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From this: A report from a Mexican government agency released today says the number of Mexicans entering the U.S. illegally increased by 66 percent from 1990 to 2002. According to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the study was conducted by the National Population Council, or Conapo. It found the...
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The L.A. Times Magazine has a long article about immigration here. "Wait!" you're thinking, "I don't want to read another Struthersian, lie-filled screed from the liberal hacks at the Times!" You don't have to, because this article actually makes some sense for a change: A human wave is breaking over...
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January 16, 2004
Heather MacDonald succintly shows the errors in Bush's thinking: PRESIDENT Bush's proposal to legalize the country's 10 or so million illegal aliens rests on a fallacy: that immigration enforcement has failed to stem the tide of illegal aliens. Therefore, the argument goes, amnesty is the only solution to the illegal-alien...
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From this: President Bush's immigration initiative has angered conservative Republicans so much that some are refusing to donate to his re-election campaign, according to a Bush fund-raiser in Georgia. Phil Kent, a member of the host committee for a Bush fund-raiser in Atlanta yesterday, said he was told by several...
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From Tony Blankley: President Bush's recent, lamentable proposals on illegal immigrants highlight, yet again, that both the Republican and Democratic Parties heed neither public opinion nor their primary governing responsibility to defend and protect the United States, as it relates to illegal immigration... I might agree with the president's proposals...
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From Fred Barnes: ...Consider how the proposed plan would be seen by a poor but ambitious young man in Mexico. He knows that getting in line for legal immigration would probably never get him to America and that staying in the United States on an illegal basis has its drawbacks....
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January 15, 2004
From Joseph Farah: President Bush's plan to legalize 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens – maybe considerably more – is one of the most irresponsible, dangerous, reckless proposals to come out of Washington in my lifetime. And that's saying a lot... ...It's not strong enough to call Bush's proposal...
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This article is from December 1, 2003, but it's still quite timely given the promises that after this amnesty we'll finally enforce the laws we should have been enforcing all along: When federal agents swept into Wal-Marts across the country and arrested 245 floor cleaners they were reviving an increasingly...
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FAIR has released a rather scathing critique of the Bush/Fox Amnesty. Read it here. For instance: Q. Is this amnesty? A. You bet it is. Any program that allows millions of illegal aliens to receive legal status in this country is an amnesty. The difference between this amnesty and the...
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The results of the recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll are available here. 74% of respondents answered "Should Not" to this question: "Do you think the United States should or should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens of the United States?"...
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From Mark Krikorian's article "Immigration, Saudi Style": ...one question has not been asked during the week the Bush proposal has been debated: What would America's labor market, and society and polity, look like if Bush's plan were actually implemented? Some have suggested that immigration promotes the "Brazilianization" of our economy,...
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White House spinmeisters now assure us that the Bush/Fox Amnesty is not only not an amnesty, it's an economic and Homeland Security issue: President Bush's political strategists, taking note of the unpopularity of his immigration initiative as reflected in public-opinion polls, expressed confidence yesterday that the proposal will gain support...
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January 14, 2004
From Paul Weyrich: ...the President has come up with a policy decision that may cause enough of his coalition to vote for a third party or to stay at home. I believe his re-election is endangered if the race turns out to be close. I am referring to the immigration...
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From the L.A. Times: If Americans have misgivings this week about President Bush's plan to extend workers' rights to illegal immigrants from Mexico, they should look to the future, when many more migrant laborers will no doubt begin flowing across the border. That's because the root cause of illegal immigration...
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From Hal Netkin in the L.A. Daily News: When my Mexican immigrant wife, Ines, and I visited her family in Mexico three years ago, one of my brothers-in-law, Alejandro, and his family thought that because my wife is a naturalized U.S. citizen, that she could petition for their swift legal...
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January 13, 2004
From PrestoPundit: Rich folks with illegal nannies and servants are getting services without paying the true cost of labor -- in other words, illegal immigration is providing a government subsidy for the pampered lifestyles of the well to do. It is doing the same for wealthy firms of all sorts...
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The blog "2Blowhards" has excerpts from several L.A. Times and WSJ articles about illegal immigration's impact on SoCal. The articles generally point out the problems with the immigration policies favored by those two papers. The comments at the post are pretty good, unlike those at, say, Hit & Run....
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From City Journal: Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a...
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From this: More than half of Americans oppose [the Bush/Fox Amnesty] a poll indicates. Just over half, 55 percent, said they oppose the plan, while 42 percent favor it, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Monday. By a 2-1 margin, those in the poll said immigrants hurt the economy...
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From Right Wing News: Myth #1) There's no way to get rid of the 8-12 illegal aliens who are already here so we might as well give them some sort of legal status: What a load of tommyrot that is. Getting rid of the majority of illegal aliens who are...
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January 12, 2004
The highly recommended article "The Mirage of Mexican Guest Workers" from Foreign Affairs magazine (80 Foreign Affairs No. 6, November/December 2001) is required reading for anyone concerned about the Bush/Fox Amnesty. It was written in response to the amnesty Bush had proposed shortly before 9/11, however it's just as timely...
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Professor Stephen M. Bainbridge of UCLA has a Tech Central Station column about the Bush/Fox Amnesty. Due to time constraints, this will just be a brief Fisking: If there are freeloading illegal immigrants sponging off the welfare state, as some of the more extreme voices on the right claim, this...
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Discussing a recent Gallup poll and a 2002 Zogby poll: Most Americans adamantly oppose both increasing the amount of legal immigration to the United States and legalizing those immigrants now here illegally, the two key elements in President Bush's immigration overhaul proposal. On no other foreign policy issue do average...
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From Capitol Hill Blue: The U.S. General Accounting Office released findings Thursday that show the federal agency that oversees immigration applications has a massive backlog and is inadequately funded to meet existing, much less increased demand... It remains unclear how the massive costs of implementation and monitoring will be paid...
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January 11, 2004
I've listed Allen Wall's six reasons below, but reading the whole article is highly recommended: 1. AN AMNESTY ENCOURAGES MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION 2. AN AMNESTY IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO PLAY BY THE RULES 3. IN CASE YOU HADN�T NOTICED, THE INS HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS...
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NoAmnesty.com is a new website sponsored by the National Border Patrol Council: The National Border Patrol Council is the labor organization that represents all 10,000 non-supervisory U.S. Border Patrol employees... On January 7, 2004, President George Bush outlined his proposals for immigration law reform. The National Border Patrol Council finds...
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January 10, 2004
From the Arizona Republic: Ads blaming illegal immigration for higher crime rates began airing this week in the Valley in an effort to sway public opinion before Arizona's Feb. 3 Democratic presidential primary. [MP3 available here --LW] Some Hispanic leaders call the ads racist and are considering some kind of...
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In a shock admission just released by the White House, President Bush announced that he had changed his mind completely on his recent proposal that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. "After much deliberation, I've decided to change my mind about my recent proposal," Bush stated. "I realize...
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January 07, 2004
Michelle Malkin: My 8-week-old son's Social Security card recently arrived in the mail. On the back, there's a stern warning: "Improper use of this card or number by anyone is punishable by fine, imprisonment or both." Welcome to the world of government theft and selective enforcement, my boy. While innocent...
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December 29, 2003
That's what I want to know. Consider this interview: "I don't think there's any question that the principles involved in the Ford Foundation now -- the current president Susan Berresford, her predecessor Franklin Thomas, and the people who -- on the staff who control the giving of the Ford Foundation...
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December 10, 2003
According to "Homeland security chief endorses legalizing undocumented immigrants": Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told a Miami audience Tuesday that the country should legalize millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country. "The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8...
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October 26, 2003
For some reason, a large (for this blog at least) number of comments have recently been posted in this 6-month-old post about the DREAM Act. Go there, and enjoy the fun. On a related note, I recently deleted six comment spams advertising Viagra. And here I thought only the third,...
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Nanci Pelosi (D-San Francisco) is upset by the recent raids on illegal immigrants at Wal*Mart: "We think there might be a better way to go about this because the fact is that it is against the law for the employer to hire these people so there should be more focus...
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August 13, 2003
What do you think of these statements? "By populating the United States with millions of Canadians who are tied economically, politically and linguistically to Canada, we are able to exert enormous influence and pressure on U.S. policy and its dealings with Canada." "By populating the United States with millions of...
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August 03, 2003
The Sunday L.A. Times has an editorial ("Maywood's Mean Money Machine") which purports to be about the attempts of a small L.A. suburb to increase revenues by impounding cars at a traffic checkpoint. However, it soon turns into a pro-illegal-immigration essay. The editorial's author, Frank del Olmo, promises Part Two...
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July 29, 2003
I enjoy the occasional rough and rocky trail. Sometimes I'll ignore the dirt part of a trail and just step from rock to rock as a bit of boulder hopping practice. The picture to the right is of a trail in Arizona, and it looks like it might serve...
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July 17, 2003
From the Arizona Daily Star: Republicans in Arizona's congressional delegation have joined their Democratic colleagues in opposing an initiative aimed at reducing the financial burdens created by illegal immigration... In announcing the initiative earlier this month, supporters claimed illegal entrants are siphoning away tax dollars through welfare programs as government...
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From the article "Unemployed in the U.S.": The Chamber of Commerce crowd and its liberal immigrant-advocate buddies just don't get it. Unemployment has risen to 6.4 percent, the highest unemployment rate in nine years. Businesses cut 30,000 jobs in June alone, mostly in factories. America's manufacturing sector lost 95,000 jobs...
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July 13, 2003
1. The L.A. Times' reader's representative wants to know why I referred to two of their recent articles as pro-illegal-immigration. Please provide me with a short list of reasons. For extra credit, write the whole letter. 2. I'm writing a letter to CA representatives in opposition to SB60, which would...
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July 10, 2003
That's the name-to-fit-an-acronym of the new website victimsvoice.org: Victims Of Immigration Chronicling Experiences (VOICE) is the place on the Internet where Americans who have been harmed by out-of-control U.S. immigration policies can go to have their side of the story told. Most of us realize that too many news stories...
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In a previous post I complained about an LAT article that had a statement from CA State Senator Gil Cedillo in which he stated that illegal aliens could join the U.S. military. The LAT has now printed a "For the record" section in which they state that only legal residents...
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July 09, 2003
Some years ago, California voters passed Proposition 187, which would have ceased public funding to illegal aliens. Governor Gray Davis and a U.S. District Court judge got it overturned. The former chairman of the CA Democratic Party referred to its being passed as the "last gasp of white America in...
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July 08, 2003
Dan Stein of FAIR has an editorial in the Mercury News: ...The most recent effort to assess the cost of immigration in California was made by the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, which estimated that costs associated with immigration added approximately $1,300 a year to the tax liability of...
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July 03, 2003
I linked to the article "California's Racial Iceberg" in the last post, but I think it deserves its own post: ...This piece examines what several very powerful California politicians have revealed in their own words, perhaps divulging where ultimate loyalties reside, using words many would consider incendiary and racist. If...
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VodkaPundit and HereticalIdeas link to a WSJ editorial about immigration, "Let Their People Come." The article, as one might suspect, supports immigration. However, no details are given as to whether that includes legal immigration or illegal immigration, what types and levels thereof, etc. The entire editorial could be replaced with...
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July 02, 2003
Here's a letter to the L.A. Times: VIA EMAIL AND BLOG To: John.Carroll@latimes.com Jim.Newton@latimes.com David.Lauter@latimes.com Jamie.Gold@latimes.com Subject: Illegal aliens can't serve in the U.S. military In two recent pro-illegal-immigration articles, two different elected representatives have erroneously stated or implied that illegal aliens can serve in the U.S. military. That is...
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June 22, 2003
Here's a comparison between past and present immigration into Britain: What is so striking when comparing then and now is the difference in the mentalité of the British state. The Conservative government which passed the 1905 Act did not hesitate to protect British interests. It also had very clear ideas...
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Here's a transcript of a Michele Malkin speech: The voice of New Americans who reject political correctness and the cult of multiculturalism has been sorely missing from the debate on immigration policy. September 11 helped shatter that silence. Over the past year, I've heard from countless readers, first- and second-generation...
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June 18, 2003
Here's a list of Frequently Asked Questions about Immigration and the Law. The next time I see a newspaper using euphemisms for "illegal alien," I'll send them a link to this....
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June 05, 2003
Here's a good introduction to the current state of the illegal immigration problem: Mexico has launched an effort to reclaim [the Southwestern U.S.] and to lay siege to the rest of the nation by encouraging as many Mexicans as possible to come here either legally or illegally; mostly the latter......
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June 04, 2003