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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
Strong Words
Trust But Verify

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Los Angeles
Times
L.
A. claims to be cracking down on illegal ID mills
Social Security cards run about $20,
green cards about $70 and a California driver's license between
$60 and $250. -- The price jumps up for higher- quality documents,
such as IDs with magnetic strips containing real information
- often from victims of identity theft... |
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Rocky Mountain
News
Bush's
remarks at Musgrave soiree in Denver
..."I look forward to working with
[Marilyn Musgrave, shown at left] on a rational immigration policy.
The United States of America will secure our border. I just signed
an appropriations bill which expands the number of Border Patrol
agents, which is good. But you can't do that, enforce this border
only with agents, you need technology like drones and infrared
and cameras..." |

¡México! |
San Diego
Union-Tribune
Fox
stooge spouts off over latest Bush flimflam
..."The viability of any possible
reform for temporary workers would depend, fundamentally, on
the possibility of constructing alternatives for the regularization
of those [illegal aliens...
criminals] already living in the United States, as well as
those who might go there in the future for employment,"
said Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox. |

What Homeland
Security? |
Frank J.
Gaffney Jr. -- Washington Times
To
secure the U.S.
President Bush is a man on a mission
this week. He seeks to reinvigorate his leadership and rehabilitate
his public standing by addressing an issue of enormous import
to the country and of no less concern to its citizens: the insecurity
of our borders and our dysfunctional immigration policies. |

Fox Watch |
Associated
Press
Fox
says he believes U.S. will approve immigration reforms
President Vicente Fox expressed renewed
hope Tuesday that Mexico will secure an immigration accord with
the United States before he leaves office next year. -- "There
are initiatives in (the U.S.) Congress that provide solutions
to the problem of migration, so we'll keep on having an optimistic,
positive ... attitude," said Fox... |
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Washington
Times
Duncan
says state obliged to provide services to illegals
Enforcing immigration laws is the federal
government's job, gubernatorial candidate Douglas M. Duncan [the
clown shown at left] said yesterday, adding that the state is
"legally required" to provide basic services such as
education and health care to illegal aliens. -- "It's up
to the White House and Congress to protect our borders,"
said the Montgomery County executive... |

Poll Info |
Cybercast
News Service
Bush's
Immigration Plan Called 'Massive Amnesty'
Depending on the political viewpoint,
President Bush has either "re-emerged as a leader"
with his immigration reform proposal or is offering "massive
amnesty" to illegal aliens who have no intention of honoring
the conditions contained in the president's plan. -- On Monday,
Bush ventured to the Davis- Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson,
Ariz.... |
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NBC10 --
Philadelphia
Invader
nabbed in death of Bucks County boy
A man is now under arrest in connection
with the hit and run that killed a 14- year- old boy in Bucks
County. -- Police said Carlos Reyes is an illegal alien. -- The
accident happened on Sunday night on Street Road at Kingston
Way in Bensalem. -- Reyes entered district court Monday night
in Bristol borough. |
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Fox News
Debate
over invaders heating up
..."You can put some lipstick on
the pig, but it's still a pig. ... Nobody's going to go home,
he knows it, everybody knows it. It is an amnesty... concentrate
on the enforcement, Mr. President. Concentrate on the enforcement
or it won't get anywhere in Congress," U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo
told FOX News. |
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The Oklahoman
Group
opposed to the invasion establishes city chapter
A group opposed to illegal immigration
organized in Tulsa two years ago has extended its reach into
Oklahoma City, first with billboards and now with a formal chapter.
-- Leaders of Immigration Reform for Oklahoma Now, which goes
by the acronym "IRON," said they need a presence in
the state's largest city. |

Poll Info |
Riverside
Press-Enterprise
Bush
scheme stirs discontent on both sides
Californians on both sides of the immigration
debate decried President Bush's speech Monday as insufficient
and called for a more comprehensive plan to deal with illegal
immigrants and border security. -- Bush outlined a guest-worker
program that would allow migrants to work in the United States
in three-year stretches... |
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VDare.com
Bush
Amnesty May Be Much Bigger Than Advertised
The 2000 Census said 8.7 million. The
Pew Hispanic Center, analyzing data from the Census Bureau's
March 2004 population survey, bumped the total up to 10.3 million,
adding that it was increasing by about 485,000 persons each year.
Homeland Security has put the figure as high as 12 million... |

Tucker
Carlson |
MSNBC
Bush not
serious about immigration
President Bush announced a new immigration
program on Monday, and was immediately accused of playing politics.
The president, his opponents said, isn't more concerned about
immigration reform than he used to be. He's just weaker politically.
And there's no quicker way to win back the affection of the disaffected
Right than to snarl about illegal aliens. |

Tom Tancredo |
Rocky Mountain
News
Tancredo
finds parts of speech hard to swallow
President Bush's speech on immigration
policy Monday was described as a less- than- appetizing sandwich
by hard-line reformer Rep. Tom Tancredo. -- Tancredo, R-Littleton,
said the "meat" of Bush's talk was about tougher enforcement
against illegal immigrants and those who hire them. |

Onslaught |
Media General
News Service
Invasion
swamping Southern schools
...Like many towns throughout the South, Occoquan,
a distant Washington, D.C. suburb, is an immigrant magnet. --
Most of these immigrants are from Mexico and Central America.
The Hispanic population is growing faster in parts of the South
than anywhere else in the United States, according to a recent
report from the Pew Hispanic Center... |

Huntsman |
Deseret
News -- Salt Lake City
Huntsman
preparing immigrant proposals
Immigration reform was spotlighted Monday
by President Bush, just as Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. [the sellout
shown at left] works on his own plan to deal with [illegal
aliens... criminals] - and readies for a controversial visit
this week by the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. |
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Rich Lowry
-- National Review
Bush's
Bait: The president on immigration
The late Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan called it "boob bait for bubba" - tough-sounding
rhetoric designed to placate conservative voters. Moynihan applied
the phrase to Bill Clinton's 1992 pledge to "end welfare
as we know it," which it later became clear that he had
no intention of following through... |

It's Not
Amnesty! |
Tucson Citizen
Bush
Amnesty Scam: CongressMechista disappointed
...Rep. Raúl Grijalva. D-Ariz.,
called Bush's speech a disappointment for its lack of hard details
on a temporary worker program and workplace enforcement. -- "We
had hoped that he was going to expend some political capital
today and show some leadership," he said. [He has no 'political
capital'.] |
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American
Border Patrol
Volunteer
pilots sought for border surveillance missions
American Border Patrol is seeking volunteer pilots
for its Border Hawk M, a Cessna TU-206, equipped with a TSIO
520 M 310 hp engine (300 hrs since factory remanufacture), STOL,
and extended range tanks. Operations based at Bisbee Municipal
Airport, Bisbee Arizona. Night and day flights with cargo doors
removed... |
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Daily Review
-- Hayward
Former
DMV worker pleads guilty
A former state Department of Motor Vehicles
worker pleaded guilty Monday to helping people, including [illegal aliens... criminals],
get bogus driver's licenses and state identification cards in
return for cash bribes. -- Frances Aliganga entered guilty pleas
to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud... |
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Brunswick
(Georgia) News
Push
starting against invaders
Right now, a child born in the United States
is automatically, by law, considered an American citizen, even
if the parents are not. -- That would change under the Citizenship
Reform Act, a law ardently supported and co-authored by U.S.
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1. No longer would citizenship be automatic
under the proposed act. |

Snake Oil |
Denver Post
Colorado
observers skeptical of Bush scheme
...Jan Herron, a backer of a proposed ballot
initiative that would cut off services to illegal immigrants
in Colorado, was less encouraged. -- "I totally disagree
with the president," Herron said. "I'm a Republican,
and I don't like what he's doing. I think the majority of the
party doesn't like what he's doing, and I think the Republican
Party is in big trouble." |

Poll Numbers |
Bloomberg
Bush
claims Orwellian scheme would stop invasion
U.S. President George W. Bush said the
creation of a new visa program to let aliens take jobs in the
U.S. that Americans do not want is a necessary step in addressing
the problem of illegal immigration. -- "Together with Congress
we are going to create a temporary worker program that is going
to take pressure off the borders, bring workers out of the shadows...'' |

Paul
Craig
Roberts |
VDare.com
The
Problem of Virtual Immigration
One must marvel at the campaign that
a handful of neoconservatives were able to create around September
11. They were able to commit vast resources to a war based on
falsified intelligence and to set aside in the interest of executive
power the essential civil liberties that define America as a
nation... |
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