Saturday, December 3, 2005

Dodging the Issue Gergen Refuses to Discuss Immigration Gergen, an insider's insider, dodged the issue of immigration on Lou Dobbs Tonight. Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 2 Kitty Pilgrim: Joining me now is a presidential advisor to four presidents, David Gergen...We saw a major initiative from President Bush this week, or at least a major speech. How much initiative was there? How much is a re-package? What's your assessment of President Bush taking up the issue of immigration? Gergen: Well, on the war itself, the deaths today of the ten Marines, plus fourteen others being wounded, plus others deaths in Iraq, I think it wiped out any possible gains the president had from his speech. (Goes on to talk about everything but immigration.) Video below includes border violence segment. Watch Transcript Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

The Terry Anderson Show 9 PM Pacific Sunday

Kurt Williamsen -- The New American All Work, No Pay, Makes George's Day After Hurricane Katrina rained destruction on residents of the Gulf Coast, President Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act for the area. The act requires employers to pay local prevailing wages for labor used to complete government contracts. He also waived the requirement that mandated that government contract laborers must show...

Daniel's Right Blog Photos from Woodburn, Oregon protest today [Note: Buzzard flag-waving characters run amok] ...I'm not sure I understand what their point is. I'm not an immigrant. I was born here. The term "illegal alien" refers to someone who has broken the law. It isn't the persons existence that is illegal, it's there presence in America. -- Illegal alien is a label just like drug dealer is a label...

St. George (Utah) Spectrum Editorial Cities face big troubles with invading hordes The City Council is discussing some ways that it can do its part to alleviate the problem. Among the potential actions is to deny city contracts to companies that contribute to the problem by hiring illegal immigrants, which is an illegal act in itself. -- That's fair because, the problem, after all, is really created when companies pay illegal immigrants at a scale that is equal to or below minimum wage...

James Pinkerton -- Cincinnati Post Wall will protect U.S. and Mexico President Bush is determined to stay the course in Iraq, but he is willing to change course on U.S. border security. -- Sometimes flexibility is both rewarded and required. -- The president has long been reluctant to address border security. That reluctance has been found in both parties...

Reuters Illegal immigration big issue in Calif. election A California congressional election featuring the dark-horse candidacy of border-control activist Jim Gilchrist has thrust the issue of illegal immigration to the political forefront. -- Gilchrist became a lightning rod in the immigration debate by founding the local Minutemen volunteer border patrol...

Beacon News -- Aurora, Illinois Yorkville Legion denies Minutemen Yorkville, Ill. -- A group dedicated to enforcing immigration laws will not meet in Yorkville next week. -- The Illinois chapter of the Minutemen, an organization founded in 2004 to help curtail illegal immigration into the United States, planned to hold its third Fox Valley area organizational meeting Wednesday...

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com More Immigrants, More $chool Con$truction ($$), More Sprawl Two weeks ago, I wrote about the endless number of school construction bond issues presented to the beleaguered taxpayer to finance more and more schools. -- Year after year, public school construction squeezes tens of millions of dollars out of the increasingly hard- pressed wage earners' pocket books...

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Poll Info

The Raw Story Poll: Bush approval rating on immigration a pathetic 27% President Bush's counter-offensive against his critics shows little sign of reversing his flagging job approval ratings. His rating on the new TIME Poll -- 41% approve - 53% disapprove -- is little changed from September following Hurricane Katrina (42%-52%). -- The public is split on whether Bush can recover lost ground with half (46%) saying he is likely to recover...

Yeh Ling-Ling

American Daily About Bush's rehashed amnesty scheme.... ...Americans concerned about our national unity should heed the following: Last December, the Mexican government published a guide advising illegal Mexican nationals on how to cross the U.S. border safely. In 2001, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, then-border czar of Mexico, reportedly told would- be illegal Mexican migrants: "If the border patrol agent finds you, try again."

San Bernardino County Sun Gang sweep corrals 50 Colton, Calif. -- More than 100 officers from agencies around the county saturated the streets here Friday night in a "zero tolerance" gang sweep and made at least 50 arrests. -- Teams of law enforcement officials swooped down on the city, targeting known and suspected gang members who have plagued the Colton area with crime, officers said.

Beverly Hills cop, who lives in Newport Beach, tells Costa Mesa citizens what they should do about illegal immigration? Huh? Oh, lordy, lordy, do as I say, not as I do! -- Costa Mesa is a medium sized burg down on the OC Coast of California. It's right next to Newport Beach which is THE OC you see on the TV show. You can even see some of that same Pacific Ocean from parts of Costa Mesa that you see on The OC.

Tom Tancredo

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fix immigration on outside, inside We all watched President Bush's speech in Tucson last Monday with high hopes. Much of his rhetoric was on target. But when he says border security must go hand in hand with comprehensive immigration reform, he has it exactly backward. His proposal includes an amnesty for the 10 million to 15 million illegal aliens...

Paul Craig Roberts

VDare.com Don't Confuse the Jobs Hype with the Facts The November payrolls job report was announced Friday with the usual misleading hype. Spinmeisters made the most out of the 215,000 jobs. Looking beyond the glitter at the real facts, this is what we see. 21,000 of those jobs were government jobs supported by taxpayers. There were only 194,000 new jobs...

VDare.com Job Numbers: Good for immigrants; Bad for the Rest of Us U.S. job market sprang back last month from a hurricane- induced slowdown as nonfarm employers added 215,000 workers, according to the government's report on business payrolls. -- But another report-the one based on a survey of households-reported a 52,000 job decline from October. More important, from our perspective, is the composition of that decline...

Pest Nest

Washington Times U.S. asked to probe day-laborer pest hangout The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is being urged to look into a charge that Herndon officials have violated federal criminal conspiracy laws by creating a day-labor center that helps [illegal aliens... criminals]. -- U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty has received from Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican...

Gilchrist for Congress

Gilchrist for Congress The National Border Patrol Council Endorses Gilchrist Lake Forest, Calif. -- The National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents 10,000 front-line U.S. Border Patrol employees, today announced its endorsement of Jim Gilchrist for Congress in the 48th Congressional District. -- In a letter to Gilchrist, dated December 2, T.J. Bonner, President of the National Border Patrol Council stated...

Poll Info

Associated Press Bush badgers Congress on his disastrous amnesty scheme President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to embrace his plan for a guest worker plan for foreigners [illegal aliens... criminals] while talking tough about illegal immigration and a need for secure U.S. borders. -- "Those who enter the country illegally break the law," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address...

Peter Brimelow

VDare.com Brimelow vs. Chavez, Guest Workers vs Birthright Citizenship Readers have asked me what I think of this passage from Linda Chavez's November 30 column shilling for the latest Bush amnesty betrayal: In the early 1990s I had a conversation with Peter Brimelow, author of "Alien Nation" and one of the staunchest immigration critics. "You know, Linda," he said, in his charming British accent...

Alito

Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century Ethnic hustlers in a dither over new Alito info Documents released this week by the Justice Department from 1986 show Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, as then Deputy Assistant Attorney General under the Reagan Administration, arguing strongly against constitutional protections being afforded to [illegal aliens... criminals] and foreign nationals residing in the U.S.

BS Alert!

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editorial Atlanta bird- cage liner says border barriers won't work The tough talk in Washington about better fences along the Mexican border and more border patrol agents is just more political rhetoric. -- A more meaningful approach might be to recognize the supply of cheap labor in this country that illegal immigrants provide and bring them out into the open. [Also see: Propaganda Watch]

Associated Press Meddling Mexican's visit to Utah draws protest Salt Lake City -- Mexico's ambassador to the United States pressed for a political solution for the U.S. immigration problem in a visit Friday with Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. --- Jerry Owens, of Midway, Utah, said the United States needs to build a fence along the Mexican border...

Arizona Daily Star Agent who harbored invader gets off easy A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced in Tucson on Thursday to two years of federal probation for harboring an illegal entrant for four years. Pablo Sergio Berry of Douglas also resigned his position with the Border Patrol, where he was assigned as an agent in Naco, after pleading guilty...

Associated Press Underground economy grows as invasion goes unchecked ...Illegal immigrants may number as high as 20 million, and they are gaining a larger share of the job market, according to Bear Stearns in New York. -- More and more, they are spreading beyond traditional immigrant states like California and Texas. They are spreading through the West and South, where there is tremendous growth...

Poll Info

The White House Bush babbles of 'required' guest worker (amnesty) scheme again ..."Finally, comprehensive immigration reform requires us to create a new temporary worker program that relieves pressure on the border, but rejects amnesty..." [a bald- faced lie... See: Giving legal status to illegal aliens through employment authorization and a renewable non-deportation pass is most certainly an amnesty.]

Huntsville Times Since the worthless Feds won't do their jobs..... Lieutenant governor candidate Morris "Mo" Brooks is pushing a bill that would make it a crime for employers to hire illegal aliens. It also provides financial incentives for whistle-blowers to turn in violators. -- Brooks calls it the "See Ya Act," playing off its acronym, SEIAA [Stop Employment of Illegal Aliens Act].

State of Georgia Stricter documentation requirement for Medicaid announced Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that he has instructed the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR) which administers Medicaid enrollment for the Georgia Department of Community Health to institute a new income verification requirement for applicants to the program. Starting January 1, 2006...[Related Story]

Chavez

Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D. -- Wake Up America Foundation Pro-invasion shills true to their Hispanic 'roots' What does Linda Chavez, the conservative's, Hispanic 'media darling,' have in common with Fox News' Geraldo 'bleeding heart' liberal- left Rivera? If you said that they are both Hispanics, you would be close. However, there is more to the pair of them than 'meets the eye.' What follows highlights just how similar they are...

What Homeland Security?

United Press International Feds probe SAM fired at airliner report FBI agents and Homeland Security officials have been investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport. -- Sources told ABC News in Los Angeles that the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX.

KRIS-TV -- Corpus Christi Foreign invader sues Border Patrol Brownsville -- A Honduran man who claims U.S. Border Patrol agents nearly beat him to death and cost him his ability to work as a laborer has filed a lawsuit in federal court. -- The Border Patrol has denied the claims made by Santos Roque Ramirez Carias, who swam across the Rio Grande near El Calaboz, about 15 miles northwest of Brownsville...