Saturday, December 22, 2007

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What Is He Saying? Romney Leaves Door Open? Presidential candidate Mitt Romney "If they have been approved for citizenship or for permanent residency, that would be another matter..." -- Our view: This could leave the door open for amnesty. Meet the Press -- NBC -- December 16 Romney: Those people who have come here illegally, and are in this country - the twelve million or so - that are here illegally, should be able to sign up for permanent residency, or citizenship, but they should not be given a special pathway, a special guarantee that all of them get to stay here, for the rest of their lives, merely by virtue of coming here illegally. And that, I think, is the great flaw in the final bill that came forward in the Senate. Tim Russert: They shouldn't have to go home? Romney: Whether they have to go home - they should go home eventually - there is a set - in my view they should have a set period - during which period they sign up for application for permanent residency, or for uhhh - citizenship, but there's a set period whereupon they return home, but if they have been approved for citizenship or for permanent residency, why that would be another matter, but for the great majority, they will be going home.  Watch Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

Arizona Republic Yuma group suing farm labor contractor for hiring foreigners A farm labor contractor is being sued for allegedly hiring foreign workers under a special visa program and bypassing its existing pool of U.S. farmworkers. -- The suit filed in federal court Phoenix this week accuses the contractor and its client of abusing a special visa system designed to help farmers bring in foreign workers...

Byron Slater -- Washington Times Justice for Ramos and Compean ...At worst, these Border Patrol agents should have been given a few days off for failing to file a report of a discharge of their weapons. Instead, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton misapplied a federal statute that was supposed to deter lawbreakers from using a gun in the commission of a crime, which clearly does not apply in this case because...

George Allen -- Washington Times Throw out LOST We must protect US sovereignty. We must not blissfully give control of 2/3 of the earth's surface to an unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative, burdensome, taxing, regulating and adjudicating global bureaucracy. I am referencing the negotiations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

We Get E-Mail BP Chief fed up with attacks on agents by Mexicans "The deliberate, unmitigated violence against my agents is going to stop."  With these few words, I directed my command staff to find a way to make this directive become reality and to establish a new way of doing business. Today, we stand resolute and committed to this objective...

Marc Rotterman -- Washington Times New third rail of politics Immigration is the new "third rail" of U.S. politics. I know, because I remember the old third rail. The old third rail, of course, was Social Security. Touch it, and die politically. -- Back in the 1980s the Republican Party would routinely come up with plans in Congress to "reform" Social Security. Like clockwork - when the next...

Bush Bimbo

Los Angeles Times New "ICE Princess" discusses raids, goals In the contentious arena of immigration enforcement, Julie L. Myers sits in one of the hot seats. Myers is the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency responsible for finding and deporting illegal [aliens... criminals]. When appointed by President Bush in 2005, Myers was criticized for her relative youth...

The Monitor -- McAllen, Texas Suspected drug smuggler drives truck into Rio Grande U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,300 pounds of marijuana Friday in Anzalduas Park after a drug smuggler drove a truck into the Rio Grande and escaped in a raft, an agency official said. -- About 7:30 a.m., agents on patrol near the small river town of Granjeno were dispatched to check on a pair of suspicious vehicles at the park...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tariff's end riles Mexican farmers Farmers and activists here are planning a series of protests as NAFTA enters its final stage on New Year's Day, when the last tariffs and quotas on corn, beans, milk and sugar melt away. -- Opponents of the free trade agreement warn that the final lifting of trade barriers could spark even more migration from Mexico's devastated countryside...

Michelle Malkin  Mike Huckabee: The anti-Limbaugh candidate Yes, the Huckabee campaign "hucked up" again. Time for another NYPost cover! -- I was in the car listening to Rush Limbaugh responding to the Mike Huckabee campaign's attack on him. What an unbelievably knuckle-headed move by Huckabee's minions. Casting Limbaugh as part of the Beltway-Manhattan elite?

Associated Press Experts: New law driving out invaders Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states. -- For months, immigrants have taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the state's new employer- sanctions law, which takes effect Jan. 1.

Bush to U. S.

WorldNetDaily.com Bush chicanery predicted after Mexican truck funds cut Congress has passed a bill that cuts funding for the controversial Mexican truck program, but lawmakers expect the Bush administration to keep the foreign vehicles rolling on American roads amid safety and security concerns. -- Joe Kasper, spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., told WND that...

Brownsville Herald City employee charged with invader smuggling Jose Luis Espericueta, facilities supervisor for the Brownsville Urban System, was arrested Dec. 14 at the U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint in Falfurrias on charges of transporting undocumented immigrants. -- Espericueta was charged with one count of bringing in and harboring aliens, according to federal court documents.

Ramos & Compean

WorldNetDaily.com Ramos, Compean pardons? 'No,' 'No,' says Bush spokeshole The White House apparently is so reluctant to discuss the issue of pardons or commutations for convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean that a spokesman doesn't even want to allow questions about the issue to be finished. -- The circumstances arose during a White House press gaggle with spokesman Tony Fratto...

Provo (Utah) Daily Herald Accused alien smuggler nabbed in Orem An Orem man is accused of charging people thousands of dollars to bring them illegally into the United States, via a coyote, and having them live in his and family members' homes. Jose Hernan Moreno-Sevilla is charged with bringing in and harboring illegal aliens. Another Orem man, Alejandro M. Meza, is charged with...

Waah! Waah!

WOAI -- San Antonio Fence construction to begin amid public outcry in Texas It's been a year of protests, outcry, and worry for Texans opposed to a federal plan to build more than 80 miles of steel border fencing along the Rio Grande. -- In meeting after meeting, city leaders and residents from Brownsville to El Paso have begged the federal government to reconsider plans to build the 26 proposed sections of 15-foot-high...

H. Millard Governor muscles need to show some gonads ...When he was running against Davis, Arnold said he was going to fix California's fiscal crisis and other  problems. -- I knew that by saying that, he had painted himself into a corner and that to get out of it he'd have to take on illegal immigration or he'd fail.  No matter how you slice or dice it, illegals are bleeding California dry...

Arnie

Los Angeles Times 30,000 California criminals on the loose? Most of the austerity measures for this fiscal year would require legislative approval. The governor previously told agency heads to draft plans for 10% reductions across the board in state spending for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Prison officials came up with the proposal to decrease the inmate population by up to 30,000 in response to the directive...

National Review Editorial Stalled at the border Republicans have an opportunity on immigration, if only they will seize it. The Democrats are positioning themselves to the left of public opinion. Howard Dean denounces Republicans for using "outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'" Hillary Clinton ties herself in knots for days over granting drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants.