Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Tripping Up Hillary Illegal alien issue may decide presidential race Comment: Hillary is committed to amnesty for illegal aliens, reflecting her mentor, Saul Alinsky, and the belief in the goals of the Industrial Areas Foundation. Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- November 5     Hank Sheinkoff, Democratic Strategist: Whatever the governor of New York State does becomes national news. Eliot Spitzer says, let's give licenses to illegal immigrants. That becomes a controversial issue. Some democrats have been called on the table, how do you feel about what Governor Spitzer had to say? They're going to have to answer the question.     Tucker: Which is where presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton found herself Sunday night in Iowa making herself very clear.     Hillary: Therefore, I broadly support what governors like Eliot Spitzer are trying to do.     Tucker: The pundits are all ears. ... And they are all anxiously awaiting the next poll out in Iowa, to see how voters are going to react to Senator Clinton's position, Lou, which is not very clear. [...]     It is very interesting what Governor Spitzer has done, Lou. He has pushed immigration into the forefront of this debate and it is now being talked about.  Watch Hillary / Amnesty / Border / Crackdown Transcript Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

NY1-TV -- New York Mayor says city might block Spitzer's insanity The mayor could deal a potentially serious blow to Governor Eliot Spitzer's controversial plan to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg already has been publicly skeptical of the plan and now he says his administration might not accept the special license as identification for city services...

Voice of America Mattel recalls toys from Mexico over safety concerns The U.S.-based toy giant, Mattel, has recalled about 155,000 of its toys in the United States because they contain small parts that pose a risk of choking for children. -- A statement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday the recall involves a play kitchen learning toy made in Mexico...

Lou Barletta

Associated Press Barletta favored to win third term Hazleton, Pa. -- Mayor Lou Barletta, a Republican who gained national prominence by targeting illegal [aliens.. criminals] living in this small city, was heavily favored to win election Tuesday to a third term. -- He was opposed by a Libertarian candidate, John Medashefski, a coffee shop owner who argued the city should drop its effort...

Associated Press Former cop sentenced for hiring invaders as armed guards A former Houston police officer has been sentenced to just more than three years in prison for hiring illegal [aliens.. criminals] as guards and then arming them. -- David Rodriguez was sentenced Monday to 37 months and fined $1,000 for violating the federal Gun Control Act. He pleaded guilty last year.

James P. Pinkerton -- Newsday -- New York Hillary gives Republicans license to attack The Democratic presidential front-runner is charging ahead, blowing past weak opposition. A lagging Democratic rival raises a critical issue in a candidates' debate, but does so in a halfhearted manner that gets little traction among Democrats. So the front-runner stays out front, as the others falter and fall out...

Walter Moore

MooreIsBetter.com Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... [Watch this video released on Nov. 4, 2007]

Krikorian

Mark Krikorian -- National Review Farmworker Farce -- The shortage simply doesn't exist The Senate this week will debate a $238 billion farm bill, and there was the prospect that yet another amnesty for illegal aliens, this one for farm workers and their families, would be attached to it. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) was considering introducing the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007...

Californians for Population Stabilization HR 3531 would deny funds to sanctuary cities! At long last, the federal government is demonstrating some tepid increase in attempts to provide interior enforcement of our immigration laws. Yet, even these mild efforts are hamstrung by local cities that declare themselves sanctuaries from immigration enforcement... [See Bill Text]

Tedisco

Albany (New York) Times-Union Spats with Spitzer lift Tedisco Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco is becoming high profile statewide, thanks mainly to his collisions with Gov. Eliot Spitzer. -- Schenectady County Legislator Bob Farley said Tedisco's popularity growth became evident at a Capitol rally over the illegal alien license flap.

Dr. Paul

Hal Taylor -- National Ledger Ron Paul cracks $3M in one day, melts down server He is Ron Paul. He's not a huge fan of paper money but he is willing to take it from supporters that are cranking out a one day fundraising drive that at this writing is kicking up just north of $2.5 million.  (I've rounded up to three million and am guessing just a little bit more).  His supporters are calling it a money bomb.

Eagle Forum Tell your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!! Just this week, the United States Supreme Court gave us an important look into what kind of global power grabs we face if the Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). On October 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Jose Medellin, an illegal alien rapist-murderer now on death row in Texas... [Watch this video from the Heritage Foundation]

San Francisco Chronicle Latin American scourge turning up in U.S. "immigrants" A Los Angeles County hospital has opened the first clinic in the country devoted to studying and treating Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic illness that has long been the leading cause of heart failure in Latin America and is now being seen in immigrant communities in the United States...

Christian Science Monitor Editorial Illegal immigration on the stump Hurrah for elections. They often clarify the preferred action on an issue. Take the question of what to do with millions of illegal aliens in the US. Last spring, Congress was gridlocked over it. Now the question is on the campaign stump for the 2008 election. Just ask Hillary Clinton.

White Plains Journal-News Locals upset by presence of illegal alien fiend John Murphy was relaxing in his home in the Purdys section of town Sunday night when some of his neighbors knocked on his door. -- They were there to tell him that a convicted sex offender, who state police said failed to register his address with local authorities, was living in the neighborhood.

Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) Times-Leader Lying Mexican Reconquista met by protesters Those who attended former Mexican President Vicente Fox's speech at the F.M. Kirby Center on Monday got an earful before they even entered the theater. -- About 75 to 100 protesters were gathered on Public Square holding American flags and signs protesting Fox and illegal immigration, and chanting slogans such as "Fox, go home!" and "Legals, yes; illegals, no!"

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson Tucson students toss tantrum over deportations About 100 students from Catalina High Magnet School were gathered in front of Tucson Police Department headquarters Monday protesting the he deportation of a student and his family last week. -- Meanwhile Tucson Unified School District officials have requested a meeting with police to talk about the incident and the department's procedures.

Froma Harrop -- National Ledger Dems must get serious about invaders Hillary Clinton -- and the other Democrats running for president -- couldn't possibly have assumed that they would forever skate around the issue of illegal immigration. That notion came to an end in the most recent debate, when the New York senator badly slipped over a question about her state's controversial plan...

KMSB-TV -- Tucson Suspected smuggler opens fire on border agents Five people may face criminal charges after shots were fired at Border Patrol agents during an immigration stop on the evening of November 4. -- The driver of a truck, suspected of being involved in illegal [alien... criminal] smuggling, sped away from agents as he was traveling on State Route 286 near milepost 7...

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson  Poll on Page Family deported after boy's arrest at school A Catalina High Magnet School student and his family were deported after school officials found marijuana in his backpack and called Tucson police, who notified the Border Patrol after learning the family was here illegally. -- The incident caused concern among [illegal alien.. criminal] rights advocates, but Tucson police officials say...

Slick Willie

Associated Press Clinton defends wife on licenses Las Vegas -- Former President Clinton on Monday compared Republican criticism of his wife's position on driver's license for illegal [aliens... criminals] to the ads that helped sink John Kerry's White House hopes in 2004. -- 'I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate we were about to get into cutesy land again...'

Charlotte News & Observer Wake jail to look for illegal aliens Wake Sheriff Donnie Harrison will get a dozen new officers to check the immigration status of those booked into the county jail and coordinate with federal authorities to deport those here illegally. -- The Wake commissioners voted 7-0 Monday to grant the sheriff the new full-time positions. The operation is expected to cost the county...

Center for Immigration Studies Farm Labor Shortages: How real? What response? For several years stories in the media have reported a farm labor shortage. This study examines this question and finds little evidence to support this conclusion. First, fruit and vegetable production is actually rising. Second, wages for farm workers have not risen dramatically. Third, household expenditure on fresh fruits and vegetables has...

Arpaio

KTAR -- Phoenix Arpaio: Immigration policies working The number of illegal [aliens... criminals] detained in the United States has jumped in the past year, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is claiming part of the credit. -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 30,000 illegal [aliens] have been detained this year, compared with just under 20,000 last year.

Washington Times Poll finds 77% oppose licenses for invaders Voters oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five- to- one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds. -- As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line on benefits for illegal aliens, including opposing driver's licenses and such taxpayer-funded benefits...

Highland Radio -- County Donegal, Ireland Mc Ginley seeks compromise Irish illegals in U. S. Donegal South West Deputy Dinny McGinley says the campaign for legalising the undocumented in the United States will go no further until the 2008 american Presidential election is over. -- Deputy McGinley was commenting as the 'Family and Friends of the Undocumented Irish in the US' held a rally outside the Dail...

Charles Brinkman -- Reno Gazette-Journal Tough stance only solution to fix invader problem The United States has allowed itself to fall into a quagmire -- millions upon millions of illegal aliens have wormed themselves into our social structure, with ill effects for both the public and the individual. The administration and Congress and the public all recognize the need for change in that situation.

Andres Oppenheimer -- Miami Herald Pressure on invaders could erupt in 'Latino intifada' The rapid escalation of U.S. anti-immigration hysteria - fueled by ratings- hungry cable- television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls - is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Latino intifada with the potential to rock this nation in the not- so- distant future.

Traverse City (Michigan) Record-Eagle Two plead guilty in resort case Two men who led a company that provided illegal alien workers to the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa among a host of national clients entered guilty pleas in federal court in Grand Rapids. -- Richard M. Rosenbaum and Edward S. Cunningham pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the federal government and harboring illegal aliens...