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Benedict
Arnold |
Associated
Press
Governor
meets with leader of hostile nation
Mexico City -- Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt
met with Mexican President Vicente Fox in his presidential residence
on Monday to discuss trade and other issues, including immigration.
-- Fox "brought up the issue (of immigration)," said
Blunt, who is on a three- day visit to Mexico - his first international
trade trip as governor... |
Government
Malfeasance |
The Pantagraph
-- Bloomington, Illinois -- Editorial
Uniform
controversy deserves label of made in Congress
What could be more ironic than having
U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing uniforms
made in Mexico? Maybe having U.S. soldiers wearing berets
made in communist China. -- But the latter was averted in 2001
and now two border state congressmen want to end the other practice... |
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KLTV --
Tyler
Nashville
considers banning roach-coaches
Nashville -- Leaders of Nashville, Tennessee,
are considering a measure to ban all taco trucks and other mobile
food wagons because of health concerns. -- The proposal is scheduled
for debate tomorrow at the Metropolitan Council meeting. -- Critics
say the proposed ban has more to do with cultural differences... |
Sensenbrenner |
Press Release
Statement
on immigration reform legislation
House Judiciary Committee Chairman F.
James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) issued the following statement
today regarding immigration reform legislation: "Tomorrow,
I expect to introduce legislation to address some of the problems
of our immigration system. Quite clearly, this system is broken
and must be fixed..." |
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Tuscaloosa
News
Stumblebums
recall 60,000 'green cards' with errors
Federal immigration officials are recalling
60,000 permanent residency cards because of errors, creating
worry among immigrants who need the documents to work, get a
driver's license and apply for credit. -- The problems stem from
a computer error that resulted in "green cards" with
incorrect "since dates," said Chris Bentley... |
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CBS4 --
Denver
Police
Not Set Up To Arrest Illegal Immigrants
Longmont, Colo. -- These days, with discussion
about immigration and integration making local, state and national
headlines, one question keeps coming up: If so many people are
breaking immigration laws, why don't police officers arrest them?
-- The answer is a simple combination of two factors... |
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Lowell Sun
Foreign lawbreakers
fret getting the boot
It started on that bare apartment floor.
They slept there, the family of four. Launched a new life from
that Lowell floor. Found America there. -- The Brazilian children
had an old mattress six months later, rising up from that foreign
floor. Progress. Two years after that, the parents spent wages
earned cleaning homes and delivering pizzas... |
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Associated
Press
CAFTA
blamed for layoffs at U. S. textile plant
Edenton, N.C. -- More than 200 employees
will lose their jobs at an Edenton manufacturing plant when the
company moves most of its operations to Central America in the
coming year. -- Edenton Town Manager Anne- Marie Knighton said
the decision by George C. Moore Co. is the result of the recently
adopted CAFTA. |
Bush Country |
Arizona
Daily Sun
Illegal
hiring fuels problem
Phoenix -- Politicians setting out to
repair America's immigration system in the coming year will face
a problem that's viewed as being a low priority for the government
yet is blamed for encouraging border crossings: employers who
break the law by hiring [illegal
aliens... criminals]. |
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San Francisco
Chronicle
On
the border
Jacumba, Calif. -- Smack up against the
steel- plate border fence, a crew calling itself the California
Minutemen huddled around its makeshift sandbag bunker to plan
the night's strategy for stopping illegal immigrants. -- The
eight men and one woman, led by former Marine and retired postal
worker Jim Chase, strapped on binoculars and side arms... |
Hickenlooper |
Colorado
Alliance for Immigration Reform
Burritos
with Loopy
On December 2, 2005, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser burrito breakfast for
El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores - Denver's hiring
hall for illegal aliens. The event was to promote and fundraiser
for El Centro's new Capital Campaign... |
Invasion |
Isabel P.
Ball -- American Chronicle
Closing
the borders tightly is the need of the hour
The word illegal immigration has become
like a ringtone to me connected to a memory, before 9/11, significant,
unpleasant, and bitter. It was a moment where I was being made
a hostage by a local extremist, a professor, and my mentor for
a teaching job with the South Western College... |
Idiot
Alert! |
Associated
Press
Indiana
governor backs Bush's disastrous scheme
Merrillville, Indiana -- President Bush's
proposal for a guest-worker program as a way of addressing illegal
immigration is gaining support from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels,
as well as from organizations to help the growing [illegal
alien... criminal] population. -- "These people are
here and are prepared to work hard," Daniels told the Post-
Tribune.. |
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Stockton
Record
Latino
activists, GOP challenge Bush's amnesty scheme
Stockton, Calif. -- Days after President
Bush outlined a new version of a guest-worker program, some Latino
activists in San Joaquin County say the proposal is unrealistic
and an attempt to attract Latino voters without offering real
solutions to the immigration problem. -- Last Monday, in a speech
at a Tucson, Ariz., Air Force base... |
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Barbara
Simpson -- WorldNetDaily.com
Getting
tough on illegals? Hah!
I've often said of government officials
concerning illegal immigration: "They just don't get it."
-- I need to change that. I don't get it. I've had it up to here
trying to figure out what's so difficult about assessing the
magnitude of the problem. -- Those officials from the president
on down for a variety of reasons, won't acknowledge... |
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Washington
Times
Vietnam
vet holds vigil on border
..."If we really want to secure
this border, we can do it. It's as simple as that," said
Mr. Craig, sitting atop a 4,500-foot "commanding view"
of the region frequented by smugglers bringing marijuana, cocaine
and heroin to willing buyers in the United States, and also bringing
illegal aliens. |
Both
Stink |
MSNBC
Voter disaffection
an opening for third party?
At a time when opinion polls indicate
that Americans hold both major political parties in low esteem,
can a third party move into the breach? -- In the recent NBC
News/ Wall Street Journal poll, when respondents were asked whether
the Democrats in Congress have "the same priorities for
the country as you do," only 26 percent said yes. |
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Muskogee
Phoenix -- Muskogee, Oklahoma
Businesses
must account for hiring invaders
President Bush's recent proposal to deal
with [illegal aliens...
criminals] does not go far enough to stop the worst offenders
who unduly encourage illegal immigration - American employers.
-- Bush took a trip last week to the Southwest, promoting his
immigration plan and Congress will address the issue early next
year. |
¡Viva México! |
El Universal
-- Mexico City
Column:
Meddling Mexicans miffed again
Diehard optimists still hoping for a
forward-looking binational migration accord based on mutual respect
and regional cooperation got hit with a cruel dose of reality
last week. As a flood of xenophobia- tinged border security and
[illegal alien... criminal]-
crackdown bills work their way through both houses of the U.S.
Congress... |
Gilchrist for
Congress |
USA Today
GOP
watching Calif. 'Minuteman' election
Irvine, Calif. -- Conservatives who see
illegal immigration as the next powerful political issue are
getting an early test run barely 100 miles from the Mexican border.
-- Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project of armed
citizen border patrols that began last fall, has transformed
a special congressional election with his call to put U.S. troops
along the Mexican border... |
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Note: State Sen. John Campbell (RINO) failed to show
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