More BS from the Mainstream Media and Elsewhere
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Linda Valdez
-- Arizona Republic -- February 18, 2006 Get real: "Migrants" (read invaders) aren't our enemies You're being had, America. -- You're being scared about a made-up enemy. -- The big boys in Washington hope you won't notice what's going on. Their useful idiots, the xenophobic anti- immigrant activists, want you to get drunk on a little covert bigotry. After all, the overt kind just isn't acceptable anymore.  |
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Arizona
Republic Editorial -- February 12, 2006 U.S. needs sound policy on guest workers The U.S. House of Representatives scrawled its response to illegal immigration in an angry, punitive bill that passed late last year. A reaction written in rage is not good public policy. -- The Senate is writing its bill now. The challenge is to reject the hothead approach and craft policy that's worthy of a great nation. |
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Cynthia
Tucker, BS Artist -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution - January 29,
2006 Bush should bash the siege against illegals The Statue of Liberty gives the wrong impression. Its fabled inscription - "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" - is a collection of beautiful, empty words, a kind of trick welcome mat. When the tired, poor, etc., have the temerity to show up... |
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Father Clif
Marquis -- Albany (Georgia) Herald -- January 24, 2006 Georgia needs 'immigrant' workers ...Georgia needs a good economy and therefore needs good workers. Georgia absolutely needs the tax revenue from agricultural, commercial and mechanical industries. -- There are no police officers, firefighters, school personnel, health care workers or any other needed public service personnel without healthy industries... |
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San Antonio
Express-News Editorial -- January 23, 2006 Editorial: Threat to immigration reform Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., should ditch his suit for a hard hat and work clothes. -- The congressman, touring the nation to build support for a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, seems ready to tackle the project himself. -- "America is at risk," Tancredo told a group of Republicans... |
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Kenneth
Emmond -- Mexidata.info -- January 23, 2006 "Don't Fence Me Out!" Say Mexicans If all the Mexican and American errors with respect to illegal immigration were laid end to end, they would extend from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Pacific Ocean. -- One of the most preposterous proposals would have the Americans build, or rather extend, a wall along the border as the supreme deterrent to would-be trespassers. [The writer of this tommyrot is a long-time resident of crime-infested Mexico] |
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Tucson Citizen
Editorial -- January 23, 2006 Immigration is not an issue for the states ...We are especially troubled by proposals from Gov. Janet Napolitano to spend $100 million of Arizonans' money on border- related enforcement. And we don't like her plea to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to pay Arizona to station National Guardsmen along the border. |
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John C.
Fortier -- American Enterprise Institute -- January 18, 2006 Border fencing Good fences make good neighbors, or so House Republicans believed when they passed a tough measure to combat illegal immigration. By putting down its marker so strongly in the border-security camp, the House has cast doubt on President Bush's plan for comprehensive immigration reform. |
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A.J. Rodriguez
-- San Antonio Express-News -- January 18, 2006 Immigration reform a bilateral effort The president and members of Congress are facing the complex challenge of reforming our immigration system. -- Although several legislative proposals focusing on enhancing border security, antiterrorism and verification requirements for employers are pending, the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce believes... |
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Rev. Aquiles
Ernesto Martínez -- Gwinnett Daily Post -- January 17,
2006 Witch hunt doesn't solve problems Is illegal immigration really a crime? The Border Protection, Anti- terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 says yes and adds new violators to the gang. If enacted, HR 4437 would make the unlawful presence of millions of immigrants a felony, and any individual or organization assisting persons without documentation would be liable for criminal penalties. |
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New York
Times Editorial -- January 16, 2006 Immigration Vacuum ...At this point, only the House has acted, passing a bill so draconian it sounds like something out of the Know-Nothing anti-Irish movement of 150 years ago. Co-sponsored by Reps James Sensenbrenner and Peter King, both Republicans, it's full of extreme measures - like 700 miles of fences on the Mexican border. |
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Roy E. Hodgson
-- New America Media (Leftist Drool) -- January 14, 2006 Immigration Reform: From 'American Dream' to 'Latino Nightmare' As a child of an immigrant woman turned U.S. citizen and as a Latino, I am keeping a close watch on all this talk about "immigration reform." In the past, politicians used to declare war on crime or drugs to get elected. Now they call for a crackdown on immigrants, and people I know could be in danger. |
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Patrick
Osio Jr. -- San Gabriel Valley Tribune -- January 14, 2006 Proposed law discriminates against unborn ...How can any American, indeed any human being, do such a thing to the yet unborn? Under the guise of "immigration control" but contrary to the 14th Amendment, the Tancredo- founded Congressional group proposes to deny birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrant mothers contending this can be accomplished through Congressional legislation... |
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Joel McNally
-- Capital Times -- Madison -- January 14, 2006 Our own Sensenbrenner fights the alien among us Politicians from states along the Mexican border are so controlled by local fears and racial prejudices they can be downright un-American in proposing vicious, anti-immigrant legislation. But what's Republican Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner's problem? |
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Denton Record-Chronicle
-- January 12, 2006 Perry calls for law enforcement, not fences, to protect border Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that the federal government isn't doing enough to protect border residents. -- He said a U.S. House of Representatives proposal to build a fence along sections of the border was a "silly idea" that wouldn't stop illegal immigrants or drug traffickers. |
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San Francisco
Chronicle Editorial -- January 10, 2006 Border madness In a country as diverse as ours, there will always be some people pushing such crackpot ideas as building a nearly 1,000-mile fence along the U.S.- Mexico border. -- But when those ideas are approved by a majority of members of the House of Representatives, you have to wonder whether the inmates have indeed taken over the asylum... [Also see: Propaganda Watch] |
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Hogai Nassery
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- January 9, 2006 State can't pass law, deny care to noncitizens ...We are not a nation that advocates discrimination based on ethnicity, social status or nation of origin. This doesn't mean we do not engage in it, but we certainly have not codified such prejudices. Americans have grappled with these issues, and despite our checkered past, we are now far ahead of many other industrialized societies in this area. |
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Tina Griego
-- Rocky Mountain News -- January 9, 2006 Let's be sensible about illegal immigration ...Fact: The border must be tightened as a matter of national security. Fact: The federal government must sanction employers who hire illegal immigrants. Fact: These two things alone are no solution. -- Any sensible and humane solution, as I've said before, must include an opportunity for those who are here now, those who have been working steadily... |
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Katherine
Fennelly -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- January 9, 2006 For good reasons, police aren't meant to be immigration agents Gov. Tim Pawlenty's call for creation of a "Minnesota Illegal Immigration Enforcement Team" could undo years of gains in building trust among immigrant communities, police and service providers in Minnesota. -- It is no accident that many police organizations across the United States have come out in opposition... |
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Carlos Luken
-- MexiData.us -- January 9, 2006 Mexico and the U.S. need diplomacy, not fences Mexican and American citizens receive a daily barrage of biased information regarding immigration. And aggravated constituents demand action and results. -- But neither president Vicente Fox of Mexico, nor George W. Bush of the U.S., seem to be making any headway as they apparently react to internal political pressures... |
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Greeley
Tribune -- January 8, 2006 Some employers depend on labor of illegals ..."The toleration of illegal immigration undermines all of our labor," said Vernon Briggs, a Cornell University labor economics professor. -- "It rips at the social fabric. It's a race to the bottom. The one who plays by the rules is penalized. It becomes a system that feeds on itself. It just goes on and on and on." |
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Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Editorial -- January 8, 2006 Posturing won't keep out illegals State legislators returning to the Gold Dome this week will be greeted by a raft of ineffective and mean-spirited proposals aimed at [illegal aliens... criminals] in Georgia. -- The measures, which got nowhere in the 2005 session, have picked up some traction among Republican legislative leaders... |
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Marcela
Sanchez -- Washington Post -- January 6, 2006 That Divisive Anti-Immigrant Fence When the House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act last month, it bowed to the narrowest possible thinking on immigration. The bill, one of the harshest in decades, would fund the building of nearly 700 miles of new high-tech fences... |
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Associated
Press -- January 6, 2006 Congressman says sealed border would hurt cotton industry West Texas cotton ginner Larry Nelson foresees a struggle to find enough workers to process the fluffy fiber if immigration reform leads to shutting the border with Mexico. -- "We couldn't survive without them," Nelson said. -- His sentiment echoed comments made this week at a cotton conference by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar... |
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Riverside
Press-Enterprise -- January 5, 2006 Chertoff touts the Patriot Act and a guest-worker plan U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday in Palm Desert that the Bush administration's proposed guest- worker program would strengthen border security, and he defended the controversial Patriot Act as a way to keep up with terrorists' new high-tech methods. |
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Lisa Koop
(Immigration Lawyer) -- Detroit News -- January 4, 2006 Cruel 'reform' hurts immigrants and robs our community ...To truly welcome all people, we need true immigration reform. We need our representatives to understand that enforcement- only immigration reform, like H.R. 4437, will only drive undocumented people further into the shadows and rob us of the gifts they bring to our communities. |
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Charlotte
Observer -- January 4, 2006 Hispanics a boon to N.C. economy? ...William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC in Raleigh, said bankers are "trying to capitalize on a black market." He also said that calculating costs without distinguishing between legal and illegal immigrants hides "the massive damage being caused by illegal immigrants..." |
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Ruben Navarrette
Jr. -- Victor Valley Daily Press -- January 4, 2006 "Immigrants" get a bum rap ...Suddenly, the Republican strategist is being inundated with angry and insulting e-mails, calls and nasty comments posted on Web logs. Immigration restrictionists are threatening to picket Allyn's office and asking that "patriots" boycott his firm. One zealot wrote Allyn demanding that the consultant "register as a foreign alien agent..." |
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Charlotte
Business Journal -- January 3, 2006 Study: Latinos add $9B to N.C. economy North Carolina's rapidly growing Latino population contributed more than $9 billion to the state's economy in 2004 through its purchases, taxes and labor, according to a study by researchers at UNC Chapel Hill. -- If recent migration trends continue, the economic impact of Latino spending in North Carolina... |
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Newsday
Editorial -- January 3, 2006 Make it a felony to aid illegals? -- Senate should halt "flawed" bill In passing a seriously flawed bill to secure the southern U.S. border against illegal entry, the House of Representatives has shown it is more interested in political posturing and pandering than in proposing effective measures to deal with the thorny issue of [illegal aliens... criminals]. [It's already a felony to aid and abet invaders] |
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Bergen Record
Editorial -- Hackensack -- January 3, 2006 Zealots and xenophobes Judging by the anti-immigration bill that has passed the House of Representatives, many in Congress would seem to want nothing more than for America's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to disappear instantly - and never come back. -- To see how unrealistic such a hard-line stance is, you might rent the 2004 movie, "A Day Without a Mexican..." |
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Aquiles
Ernesto Martinez -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution - January 2,
2006 Fences fuel America's paranoia and distrust ...Fencing even more of the border pays homage to a new dreadful wave. A high-tech fence to protect us from our neighbors won't make us more secure or cure our selfish souls. It will rather fuel distrust, add to an already- existing under- class, turn neighbors into enemies and confine our insecurities to a citadel. |
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Cheryl Distaso
-- The Coloradoan - Fort Collins -- January 2, 2006 Don't buy in to anti-immigrant sentiment ...If we allow the current anti-immigrant sentiment voice to grow, our grandchildren will be looking back at this time of history with the same revulsion that we look back at those who actively drafted, or who silently stood by, while the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted. |
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Bill Ong
Hing -- Chicago Tribune -- January 2, 2006 An If anti-immigrant forces in Congress had their way, illegal immigration would be a crime punishable by death. As the Senate prepares to return from its holiday break, one of the first items on the agenda is dealing with immigration enforcement legislation that was passed by the House just before Christmas... |
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Vail Daily
-- January 2, 2006 Wrestling with "immigation reform" This legislative session, the Colorado congressional delegation are working with the rest of Congress to decide the fate of several bills that typify the extreme range of ideas for dealing with the [illegal aliens... criminals] flowing into the United States every year. All would drastically change the nature of immigration in a country that was founded on it. |
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The Times
-- London -- January 1, 2006 US cannot fence off the challenge of immigration If Republican leaders in Congress have their way, the new year will see a 700-mile security fence, topped with wire, lights and cameras and patrolled by police and troops, begin to push its way along the Mexican border. -- Mexican officials have called it the "Berlin Wall"; others have compared it with the security barrier... |
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Greeley
Tribune -- January 1, 2006 'They go as far north as they can' The flood of Latino migration to Colorado begins as a trickle somewhere in Nicaragua. -- Many tributaries flow into the stream as it moves north: Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, southeastern Mexico, the area around Mexico City, and then come large inputs from heartland states like Guanajuato, Michoacán, Jalisco and Aguascalientes. |
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