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Wednesday, February 9, 2005 |
Senate Drags Feet
over Mexican Invasion
Showdown Looms Over HR
418 - REAL ID Act of 2005
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Senate Majority Leader
Frist
Dancing to Bush's Tune |
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
-- CNN -- February 8
Bill Frist: ..
I assume sometime over the course of the next several months
we will be dealing with some element of immigration, but no commitments
have been made.
Ed Henry: (CNN )So Senator Frist is not clearly saying
that he is even going to bring up James Sensenbrenner's proposal
this year, even if they pass the House. Another roadblock is
that even if they do get taken up in the Senate, House leaders
are talking about adding the Sensenbrenner bill-merging it with
the Iraq war funding bill that will be coming up soon-a must-past
legislation that they think will make it easier, make it faster
to the President's desk for his signature, but Senate leaders
said they would like to keep the Iraq funding bill clean.
  Watch
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Snake
Oil Jorge |
Knight Ridder
- Tribune
'Open
Borders' Bush said to support H.R. 418
The Bush administration Wednesday gave
a boost to a Republican- backed bill on the House floor this
week that includes barring illegal immigrants ['good hearted
people', according to Jorge] from using driver's licenses to
board airplanes or enter federal facilities. -- "The
administration strongly supports House passage of HR 418 to strengthen
the ability of the United States to protect against terrorist
entry into and activities within the United States..." |
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Press Release
Lefty
whackos in uproar over Real ID Act (H.R. 418)
In one of its first major actions this
session, the House of Representatives is debating today anti-immigrant
legislation [the bill only affects illegals... criminals] introduced
by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
The American Civil Liberties Union renewed its opposition to
the measure, H.R. 418 - the REAL ID Act -- joining a diverse
coalition of privacy, immigrants' rights... |
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KVOA-TV
-- Tucson
Bush
budget scraps 98% of new border agents
Less than two months ago, President Bush
signed a law to add 10,000 new Border Patrol agents along the
U.S.-Mexico border. -- But, as you first saw on Eyewitness News
4, that law has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal
budget proposal that provides funding for only 210. |
'The Boot' |
Omaha World-Herald
Israeli
nuisances get the heave-ho
Federal authorities have deported an
Israeli man and his employees after busting a scheme in which
officials said he staffed Nebraska shopping mall kiosks with
illegal "tourist" workers. -- Ohad Cohen also forfeited
$35,325 that was in a backpack he threw off while being chased
by immigration agents. |
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Albuquerque
Journal
Immigrant
Bill Squeaks Through Senate
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Illegal immigrants
in many communities are afraid to go the police for fear of being
deported, say supporters of legislation aimed at turning that
around [They need to be deported... no problem there].
-- "If we have people living next door to us who can't go
to the police, it puts all of us in danger," said Diane
Wood, a lobbyist for the ACLU. [Not if they've been deported.] |
Cheap
Veggies |
S. J. Miller
-- Federal Observer -- Goodyear, Arizona
The
Ridiculous "Cheap Veggies" Argument
...Once again, propaganda like this tries
to convince us that we're the problem rather than the lawbreakers
(both illegal aliens and employers). You eat the food harvested
by illegal labor, they remind you, so you're responsible for
the illegal aliens that farmers hire to pick the food that goes
on your table... [Also
see this item from Glenn Spencer] |
Commander
of
Malfeasance |
San Francisco
Chronicle
Bush
budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents
The law signed by President Bush less
than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents
along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of
Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.
-- Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering
in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act... |
MS13 Gang |
Miami Herald
Feared
Latin gang hits region (Some of Bush's 'good hearted folks')
Juan Celeya and Dennis Pineda, arrested
on murder charges last month in the Allapattah area of Miami,
sported something rarely seen in the region: Tattoos snaked around
their arms and body with the letters "MS.'' -- Authorities
say the Honduran pair belong to Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13... |
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KOB-TV --
Albuquerque
Border
agents seize marijuana
Las Cruces, N.M. (AP) -- Hundreds of bundles
of marijuana have been seized by US Customs and Border Protection
agents in southern New Mexico during the past week. -- The first
bust happened last Tuesday near Alamogordo when agents found
881 bundles of marijuana in a shipment of sodium bentonite, a
natural, nontoxic sealant... |
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Gary Andres
-- National Review
H.R.
418 -- A real step for immigration reform
Anyone remotely interested in comprehensive
immigration reform should watch the action in Congress this week
about drivers' licenses and terrorists. On Wednesday, the House
of Representatives begins floor consideration of the Real ID
Act (H.R. 418), legislation drafted by House Judiciary Chairman
F. James Sensenbrenner... |
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Federation
for American Immigration Reform
REAL
ID Act: Fax/Calling Blitz Needed Now!
The House of Representatives is scheduled
to take up Rep. Sensenbrenner's REAL ID Act (H.R. 418) TODAY,
with a vote likely THURSDAY, FEB.10. -- Help get this vital homeland
security/immigration reform legislation passed in its entirety
by calling and faxing your legislators now through next Thursday... |
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El Universal
-- Mexico City
Mexico
violates migrants' rights, Soberanes says
The nation's human rights ombudsman said
Tuesday that Mexico is guilty of abuses toward undocumented migrants
bound for the United States, contradicting the recent positive
appraisal by a U.N. official. -- "Examinations of immigration
facilities reveal that some of those installations display anomalies
that are so serious they constitute an open assault on the dignity
and fundamental human rights of the people held there..." |
El Consul |
The Monitor
-- McAllen
Lying
Mexicans claim their 'Mickey Mouse' IDs are secure
McAllen, Texas -- Mexican Consulate officials
affirm that the matricula consular card is secure and hard to
counterfeit, despite claims from a California official who questioned
its validity. -- Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich
said Monday he was concerned people could use the identification
cards for criminal or terrorist purposes, The Associated Press
reports. |
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Arizona
Daily Star
Notorious
drug lord will be free next year
As drug cartels all across northern Mexico
are waging war on police and innocent civilians, the biggest
drug baron Tucson ever knew is getting ready to be released from
prison. -- Jaime Javier Figueroa Soto, described as "the
last of the great drug lords" by a former Santa Cruz County
Metro Task Force commander, is scheduled to be released back
to Mexico in March 2006... |
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Tucson Citizen
Paper
decries Bush for stiffing states on jail costs
Yes, drastic steps must be taken if the
burgeoning federal budget is to be brought under control. --
But the $2.6 trillion budget proposed this week by President
Bush shirks a major responsibility of the federal government
- the responsibility to control the border. -- Instead of cutting
costs, Bush has proposed that the costs be shifted - to the states... |
DeLay |
Washington
Times
DeLay
supports guest workers, but with caveats
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said
yesterday he favors passing a U.S. guest-worker program only
if it requires illegal immigrants to return to their home country
before applying for temporary work visas. -- "What I understand
as a guest-worker program is one where you apply for the guest-worker
program in your country of origin, and you have a job when you
apply," said Mr. DeLay... |
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Washington
Times
Lawmakers
oppose Bush's shenanigans with Mexicans
The two hot-button issues that President
Bush wants to tackle this year - Social Security and immigration
- are about to collide. -- Two members of Congress will try to
block an agreement that the Bush administration signed with Mexico
that would allow Mexicans who have worked in the United States,
including some illegal immigrants, to receive Social Security
payments. |
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Reuters
Danes
Re-Elect Immigration Hardliner Rasmussen
Denmark's center-right Prime Minister
Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second term on Tuesday on the back
of a popular crackdown on asylum-seekers and cuts in sky-high
taxes, final results showed. -- Rasmussen's Liberal- Conservative
coalition and their allies, who came to power in 2001, won 54
percent of the four million votes... |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
U.S.
sailor stabbed in crime-bloated rat trap next door
Tijuana,
B.C., Mex. -- A U.S. sailor stabbed at a Mexican nightclub
over the weekend was released from a San Diego hospital yesterday,
family members said. -- Juan Sevilla... was wounded in the kidney
and liver, said his mother, Maricell Sevilla, who filed a report
with Baja California state authorities Sunday. |
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Washington
Times
Minuteman
Project targets border staffing
The number of volunteers preparing to
form a monthlong blockade on part of the Arizona-Mexico border
in protest of the Bush administration's failure to increase Border
Patrol manpower has doubled to more than 400, a protest organizer
said yesterday. -- Noting that President Bush this week proposed
in his 2006 budget the hiring of only 210 new Border Patrol agents...
[See: Minuteman Project
and 'What Homeland
Security?'] |
Karl
Rove |
OfficialWire.com
Puppeteer
gets his payback
If there is one trait that George W.
Bush has demonstrated over and over again during the four years,
since seizing the Presidency under a cloud of fraud and deceit,
it is that he is 'a man of his word'. The fact that 'our
your president' only keeps his word when threatening to illegally
invade sovereign nations or in returning favors to those responsible
for getting him into power, does not seem to bother Bush or his
supporters. |
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KOLD-TV
-- Tucson
Mexican
coyote gets 9 years in the slammer
Phoenix -- A Mexican National has been
sentenced to nine years in federal prison for taking illegal
immigrants hostage. -- Fernando Gonzales Barrera, of Morelia,
and two others were arrested in August 2002 after authorities
found them holding 57 illegal
immigrants [criminals] hostage in a Phoenix home. |
Mark
Andrew
Dwyer |
Presidential
Doublespeak
In his famous novel "1984"
that he wrote 1949 in Britain, George Orwell presented his apocalyptic
vision of once free Western society enslaved by its tyrannic
government. One of the tools of oppression that Orwell made a
central theme of his book was what he called "Newspeak"
- a new language imposed by the ruling elite on their subjects
in which politically incorrect statements became obviously illogical... |
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