Immigration
Posted at 11:07am on Jul. 11, 2008 What McCain should say before "La Raza": A Generous and Pro-American Immigration Policy
By A Texan
Friends,
Politically, McCain is in an apparently difficult position on the issue of immigration reform. Having supported a purportedly "comprehensive" program, a program opposed by the majority of the American people and by the vast majority of the coalition on which his election will depend--he has switched positions to one somewhat less repugnant to that coalition.
At the same time, it is at least plausible to say that a winning coalition for McCain would depend upon his rejecting a "comprehensive" reform that encompasses only border security, attrition, and deportation. In one relevant particular, such an approach could cost us a large chunk of the 40% or so of the Hispanic vote that Bush won in 2004, and could reduce us to 20% or less (a la 1996). In addition, it would also be a deterrent to other groups composed largely of first and second-generation Americans.
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Posted at 11:08am on Jul. 10, 2008 "The Family That Planted Corn In The Front Yard Of Their $500,000 Home Is Gone"
By Bill Dupray
It has been one year since Prince William County, Virginia began its crackdown on illegals. Many have fled to Maryland, a very Blue sanctuary state. Though Marylanders don't like it, their lawmakers refuse to respond to the problem. The self-deportation by Hispanics from the "Devil's County," or as they call it in Spanish, Condado del Diablo, was noted back in March by the Washington Post in a series of stories.
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Posted at 10:16pm on Jul. 9, 2008 No "Honor" In Father Killing Daughter
By ICRJCalvin
Chaudhry Rashad was so outraged at his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, and her plans for divorce that he strangled the 25-year-old woman. This "honor killing" took place over the weekend in Clayton County, Georgia. Rashad told police that he killed his daughter as a matter of honor, because he felt her plans for divorce would have disgraced the family.
The victim had been forced into an arranged marriage and had not seen her husband for months. One local Muslim leader said the father murdered the daughter because he was depressed - but, according to the United Nations Population Fund, at least 5,000 women are victims of "honor murders" each year.
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Posted at 11:28am on Jul. 4, 2008 Religious Affairs Adviser Says, "Deport Jesus!"
By gclaghorn
Apparently appealing to the large mass of his supporters that
are “Jesus Freaks”, Obama has hired a religion and politics teacher
from Wesley Theological Seminary to be his new Senior Adviser of
Religious Affairs. His plan would have gone off without a hitch —
if he hadn’t hired a man who holds himself to atheist ideals.
I would like to note that, by my definition, an atheist is
someone who casts God aside as a myth, sometimes calling religion a
carefully devised ruse designed by ancient governments, but calls
anyone who presents scientific evidence against global warming a
conspiracy theorist. Now would be an appropriate place for the
quintessential “pot and kettle” idiom, but the presence of the word
“black” in that saying could make my use of it a hate crime.
Whereas, when Alan Colmes uses that idiom, he is labeled as a
patriot — yes, I mean the Alan Colmes who regrets that the Star
Spangled Banner is our national anthem. His biggest problem with
the song is that pesky little line which describes America as “the
land of the free and the home of the brave”.
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Posted at 5:30pm on Jun. 30, 2008 "They're God's Children."--John McCain
By Flagstaff
John McCain made a statement today, again trying to formulate a coherent position on the illegal immigration problem. It still doesn't wash.
He is still looking at it in terms of "they're God's children," instead of "a tidal wave of illegal immigration from a single third-world country will wreck our economy while it devastates our society and culture."
Mr. McCain needs to look at the economic side of the equation in addition to its human welfare and even its law-enforcement and ethical aspects.
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Posted at 1:57pm on Jun. 22, 2008 McCain Promises Hispanics He'll Revive 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' Measures
By Warner Todd Huston
Last year, the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (Senate bill 1348) went down to a resounding defeat thanks to the vigilance of talk-radio and the blogs. John McCain was a leading voice in favor of passage in the Senate.
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Posted at 3:04pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Bush Orders 200,000 Federal Contractors to Verify Immigration Status
By Bill Dupray
From the New York Times.
President Bush has ordered federal contractors to participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s electronic system for verifying the immigration status of their workers, greatly expanding the reach of the administration’s crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants.
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Posted at 12:00pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Federal Jobs Illegal Immigrants Can’t Do
The President Gets It. Better Late Than Never
By Mark I
President Bush modified an Executive Order from the Clinton Administration yesterday to effectively bar illegal immigrants from working jobs on the Federal dole. All Federal contractors will now have to register for the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program and check the status of all their workers and subcontractors’ workers before starting work on Federal contracts.
The E-Verify program is the bane of civil liberties and open borders groups because it uses the Social Security Administration’s database to actually cross check the often times fraudulent or stolen numbers provided by illegal immigrants on their employment applications. A Federal Court in San Francisco, natch, blocked part of Homeland Security’s program in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the San Francisco Labor Council, and the strange political bedfellows of the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That ruling, issued by Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer’s brother Judge Charles Breyer, has prevented the Social Security Administration from sending out over 140,000 “no match” letters to employers. The letters would have required employers to take steps to verify their employees’ identities within 90 days or else fire the workers.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said at the time that the ruling did not amount to a “holiday from law enforcement,” and that the Administration would do, “as much administratively as we can, within the boundaries of existing law,” to continue to crackdown on illegal immigration. The president rightfully took a lot of criticism from the right for his backing of the Senate’s disastrous “comprehensive” immigration bill, and many have been skeptical of the Administration’s stepped up enforcement of illegal immigration laws in the wake of that compromise’s failure in Congress. Sen. McCain, too, a champion of the Senate bill, professes to have seen the light on illegal immigration and now calls for securing the border before taking up any immigration bill. Yesterday’s move to secure federally contracted jobs for American workers is evidence that the Administration does get it, and is another huge victory for opponents of the comprehensive approach to immigration reform. Sen. McCain can show that he gets it too by pledging not to alter or rescind the order if elected.
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Posted at 7:39pm on Jun. 4, 2008 U.S. cedes border security -terrorists and criminals welcome to tred on us!
By Chris Simcox
By Chris Simcox
President and Founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
www.minutemanhq.com
With the news of the National Guard guardsmen being pulled from their border protection role in Operation Jumpstart , President Bush and Congress have sent a resoundingly defeatist acknowledgement to the people of the United States and to the rest of the world, "We will not secure our borders."
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Posted at 4:57pm on May 24, 2008 The ICE Hammer Falls
By patriotroom
Looks like lame ducks can learn to hunt after all, and their preferred prey are illegals and their American employers.
On May 12, 2008, ICE raided Agriprocessors, Inc. in Waterloo, Iowa, and detained 389 workers. Then the prosecutors took off the kid gloves. The judge sentenced 270 illegal immigrants to five months in prison for working under false documentation. Most of the illegals agreed to deportation after serving their sentences.
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Posted at 3:38pm on May 23, 2008 Obama: Limbaugh and Dobbs Responsible for Hate Crimes Against Hispanics
By patriotroom
Obama was campaigning (pandering) in Florida today trying to woo Hispanic voters over from the McAmnesty camp:
Obama sharpened his rhetoric against some of the most vocal voices
against immigrant workers and migrant worker programs.“A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia.
There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last
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Posted at 8:46pm on May 15, 2008 And Now a Word for Folks Who Use the Word "McAmnesty" On a Regular Basis.
By Leon H Wolf
You know the guy who's likely to win the Democratic Presidential Nomination? He's planning some action on immigration if he wins the election. You know what he's planning to do? If you guessed "build a really big wall and deport lots of people," you're so, so very close to being correct:
Barack Obama is easily winning the African American vote, but to woo Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also a huge issue for the general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in states such as California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former Gov. Gray Davis.
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"Barack Obama has not backed down" on driver's licenses for undocumented people, said Federico Peña, a former Clinton administration Cabinet member and Denver mayor now supporting Obama. "I think when the Latino community hears Barack's position on such an important and controversial issue, they'll understand that his heart and his intellect is with Latino community."
You know, I understand that McCain is not acceptable to you on this issue. I get that. But the decision to not vote does not occur in a vacuum - if McCain does not win, someone else will. And he's got plans you're probably not going to like.
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Posted at 7:24pm on May 15, 2008 SENATE TRIES TO SNEAK IMMIGRATION REFORMS THROUGH
By RS Insider
It looks like the Democrats and amnesty-loving Republicans slipped the AG Jobs bill into the Senate emergency supplemental appropriations bill during committee markup today. This bill relates to giving amnesty to illegal aliens who work as migrant workers.
Early intelligence reports that it probably has provisions similar to the last AG Jobs bill that was considered – including amnesty provisions. It was supposedly a Feinstein/ Craig amendment and was accepted with a vote of 17 – 12.
If Harry Reid offers this version of the supplemental as a substitute to the House version, he will block out all other senators from any opportunity to strip this Ag Jobs provision, which will ultimately keep potential amnesty provisions in the war funding bill.
Your Senator's number is (202) 224-3121.
[UPDATE:] A source tells me that the GOP leadership is scrambling to stop this and that this was not done with the GOP leadership's blessing. The House GOP leadership is preparing to fight too.
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Posted at 1:23am on May 14, 2008 Border Fence Ruins Mother's Day for Mexican Families
By Warner Todd Huston
If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother's Day story, you don't have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the WaPo gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border fence between Mexico and the United States keeps Mothers from being with their children. Yes those mean Americans and their insistence on border security hurts Mommies. To that all I can say is, Oh brother!
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Posted at 12:33pm on May 13, 2008 Hazleton, PA Needs a Straight Talk Whistle Stop
By Uma Richie
Closing his April 15 economy speech, John McCain said:
“As I have always done, I will make my case to every American who will listen. I will not confine myself to the comfort of speaking only to those who agree with me. I will make my case to all the people. I will listen to those who disagree. I will try to persuade them. I will debate. And I will learn from them.”
If McCain is sincere, he should take the Straight Talk Express to Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
Hazleton, a small city whose fortunes rose and fell with the anthracite coal industry, is the kind of place the Barak Obama displayed disdain for and ignorance of in his Bittergate comments. Over the past few years Hazleton has gained national attention in the illegal immigration debate. The town is appealing its loss to the ACLU in lawsuits regarding municipal enforcement of federal anti-illegal immigration legislation. Local opinion would probably position against McCain’s amnesty plan.
During the April primary election campaign Hazleton’s mayor Republican Lou Barletta, who is challenging 12-term House incumbent Paul Kanjorski (PA-11), invited Senators Clinton, McCain, and Obama to visit. As the Hazleton Standard Speaker laments, none accepted.
Incidentally, the paper endorsed Senator Rick Santorum in his unsuccessful 2006 reelection bid against Bob Casey, Jr. for the simple reason that Santorum was the only candidate who had the guts to set foot in the town. (I am sorry, this editorial is no longer available on line.)
Hazleton is in many ways representative of small town America. Its difficulties are complex and can’t be smoothed over with a drive-by speech in front of a limping factory. It is tired of being ignored in favor of big city politics only to be hauled into court when it tries to solve its own problems within the context of the law.
All in all, a whistle stop in Hazleton would show that John McCain is a leader who cares about fly-over country, who is willing to listen to both sides of a debate, and who has the courage to venture into uncertain territory.
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