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The Resistance
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Courage vs. Capitulation
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New York Times -- August 6
Surge
in Immigration Laws Around U.S.
State legislatures, grappling
with the failure of the federal government to overhaul the immigration
laws, considered 1,404 immigration measures this year and enacted
170 of them, an unprecedented surge in state-level lawmaking
on the issue, according to a report by the National Conference
of State Legislatures.
Spurred by rising resentment in the country
over illegal immigration and by the collapse of a broad immigration
bill in the Senate in June, state legislators nationwide adopted
measures to curb employment of unauthorized immigrants and to
make it more difficult for them to obtain state identification
documents like driver's licenses. |
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Associated
Press
Giuliani
says New York wasn't invader sanctuary city
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani
was in Clear Lake today, rejecting claims that New York City
offered sanctuary to illegal [aliens...
criminals]. -- Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, said
GOP rival Mitt Romney was wrong last week when he characterized
New York as a city that failed to enforce immigration laws. |
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Barbara
Anderson -- WebCommentary.com
NAU
to get firmed up in secrecy at meeting in Canada
American citizens have learned of some
secretive groups in the country which are given great autonomy.
Some are authorized by our government, but have little oversight,
and some have not been authorized by our government, but seize
authority just because they can... |
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Fighting
Immigration Anarchy - by Daniel Sheehy |
"This book is not
just informative but inspiring. Readers will want to join up."
Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation and editor of VDare.com
|  Review |
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Boehner |
U. S. Rep.
John Boehner -- Townhall.com
Enough
is enough
Seven months have passed since I handed
the gavel to Nancy Pelosi, formally returning control of the
House to Democrats for the first time in 12 years. In my remarks
to the House that day, I offered a bit of advice to the members
of the incoming majority. I told them: "A congressional
majority is simply a means to an end..." |
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American
Border Patrol
Photo
of the Day
Star and five of her six pups cool off
after run on American Border Patrol's border ranch. (Note: ABP's
Border Hawk M had to go back into the shop for corrective maintenance.
Aerial surveys should resume next week.) |
Reconquistas |
The Examiner
Anti-illegal
immigration groups say 'racist' charges unfair
Brad Botwin, founder of the anti-illegal
immigration group Help Save Maryland, says he has been called
a Nazi, a racist and a member of a hate group when he's organizing
protests of day labor centers in Montgomery County. -- Botwin
says he's frustrated that his efforts to get Montgomery County
government leaders... |
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Free Lance-Star
-- Fredricksburg, Virginia
Acting
on immigration
Illegal immigration is one of the nation's
most pressing worries. But that wasn't enough to reconcile the
enablers and the border warriors in the recent immigration slugfest
on Capitol Hill. -- Torn between those who favor giving people
who knowingly broke our laws the precious reward of U.S. citizenship,
and those who sensibly say... |
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Denver Post
Immigration
laws stymied
Bureaucratic bungling, legislative inaction
and a lack of funding have hampered Colorado's efforts to enforce
the state's immigration laws. -- In July 2006, Republican Gov.
Bill Owens hauled the legislature into a special session to seek
ways to prevent state tax dollars from aiding illegal immigrants... |
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Times Leader
-- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Sending
a unified message
Nanticoke, Pa. -- Frank Scavo wanted
the 200 or so people at Sunday's Voice of the People USA rally
in Nanticoke to make their feelings known to federal legislators,
so he dialed Sen. Arlen Specter's number. -- Scavo explained
in the voice recording that he had a message from the people,
and he faced his cell phone at the audience... |
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Washington
Times
Clerk
blames firing on illegals debate
Denver -- Not only did Bruno Kirchenwitz's
U.S. Border Patrol baseball cap help get him fired, it almost
got him shot. -- Mr. Kirchenwitz was dismissed from his part-time
job at 7-Eleven in Basalt after he was threatened by two Hispanic
men who are suspected of later pumping five bullets into the
store. |
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Bradenton
Herald
Leaders
urge fed action on illegals
With the inaction on Capitol Hill this
summer in the nation's dilemma over illegal immigration, many
reform advocates and opponents are looking locally for a solution.
-- A high-profile case that has become the forefront of that
movement is that of Hazleton, Pa., where city officials last
year passed a measure to fine businesses... |
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The Express-Times
-- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Diverse
doesn't mean illegal
Hackettstown, Pa. -- Mayor Michael Lavery
says 80 percent of the complaints he receives are about one thing:
Suspected illegal immigrants. -- As the town's Hispanic population
has grown in recent years so has concern among some residents
about Hispanics' legal status. -- At a recent town council meeting,
Councilwoman Nancy Brown mentioned... |
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9/11 Families
for a Secure America
9/11
FSA members speak in support of 287 (g)
On July 28, a New Jersey immigration
reform group, the Pro America Society led by Robb Pearson, held
a rally in support of Mayor Donald Cresitello. The mayor has
applied to the federal government to permit the Morristown Police
Department to enforce federal immigration law. (This is known
as 287g authority.) |
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Greenville
(South Carolina) News
Councilwoman
plans personal war on illegal immigration
Clemson City Councilwoman Margaret Thompson's
proposed law to curb illegal immigration has been put on hold,
but the retired Pickens County deputy will take matters into
her own hands. -- "As any good citizen would do, I will
start reporting to Homeland Security," Thompson said. |
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El Paso
Times
Debate
looms over border fence
Austin -- Used underwear. Temporary cell
phone. A lady's blouse. Sweatpants. Plastic baggie used for marijuana.
-- For Mark Grijalva these items, the trappings of illegal border
crossings left behind among the rows of cotton he tends in San
Elizario and Tornillo, are a sometimes costly nuisance and even
portend danger... |
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WBAY --
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Brown
County committee considers immigration ordinance
The Brown County Executive Committee
is expected to review a proposed immigration ordinance and pass
its recommendation to the full county board. -- The ordinance
is similar to one passed by the City of Green Bay. This one would
let the county board revoke licenses of businesses countywide
which hire illegal [aliens...
criminals]. |
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Associated
Press
U.N.
worker charged in immigration scam
New York -- A United Nations employee
was arrested Monday on charges that he and two others used U.N.
stationery in a visa fraud scheme, prosecutors said. -- Vyacheslav
Manokhin, a U.N. employee based in Manhattan, was accused of
helping numerous non-U.S. citizens enter the country illegally... |
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Fayetteville
(North Carolina) Observer
County
may check for law-breaking invaders
Cumberland County deputies may soon start
checking for illegal immigrants in the Cumberland County Jail.
-- Sheriff Moose Butler wants to join other North Carolina sheriffs
in an effort to identify foreign- born nationals who break the
law. -- Butler has applied to participate in a federally funded
program know as... |
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Geoff Oldfather
-- Scripps Treasure Coast Publishing -- Stuart, Florida
English-speaker
says landlord's message is clear
Tom McKenna is a longtime Stuart businessman
who speaks only English. -- He says that's why he's being kicked
out of the storefront on South Dixie Highway where he has run
Seacoast Water Care for seven years. -- "I don't know how
else to put it," said McKenna... |
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Arizona
Republic
Court
hearing starts for patrol agent charged in fatal shooting
Bisbee, Ariz. -- After nearly a two-month
delay, a judge will hear prosecutors seek a murder trial for
a Border Patrol agent in the fatal shooting of an [illegal] Mexican
[alien]. -- Agent Nicholas Corbett is accused of killing Francisco
Javier Dominguez Rivera of Puebla, Mexico, on Jan. 12 about a
mile north of the Mexican border near Naco... |
Pest Nest |
Portland
(Oregon) Tribune
Potter
on notice over day labor issue
The conservative legal watchdog group
Judicial Watch has put Mayor Tom Potter on notice for the city's
plans to spend $200,000 on a centralized hiring site for day
laborers. -- Thomas Fitton, the group's president, faxed a letter
to Potter on Thursday, two days after the Portland Tribune published
a piece surveying Judicial Watch's lawsuits... |
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Los Angeles
Daily News
Latino
gang makes blacks its target in Canoga Park
Nickson Gilles came to Southern California
last summer with dreams of carrying a football to stardom - first
as a Pierce College running back, then maybe at USC or even the
NFL. -- Instead, he was carried out on a stretcher, his dream
shattered by a shotgun blast that police say was leveled at him
by an alleged member.... |
Day Laborer Pests |
North County
Times -- Escondido, Calif.
Day-labor
sites raise legal questions anew
Groups protesting unchecked immigration
have recently focused their efforts on day-labor sites around
North County, averring that employers who hire the workers are
breaking federal laws. -- But immigration authorities and immigrant
rights advocates say the law is not that clear. -- "Some
of them are (breaking the law)..." |
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