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Monday, December 31, 2007 |
Arizona Experiment
Begins Tomorrow
Enforcement and Economic Theories to be Tested
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Agence France-Presse -- December 30
Arizona
economy bracing for immigration crackdown
Phoenix -- New laws targeting
employers who hire illegal immigrants take effect here on January
1, with experts predicting the move may cost the state's economy
billions of dollars in lost income and taxes.
The new laws are described as the toughest
local anti-illegal immigration legislation in the United States,
and will sanction businesses who knowingly hire undocumented
workers. Glenn Spencer
As
I See It
Tomorrow a great experiment will begin in Arizona.
As with any experiment, one must not tamper with the data. |

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News-Times
-- Danbury, Connecticut
Should
Danbury partner with ICE?
Should the city seek closer ties with
federal immigration authorities? -- That controversial question
will likely be decided Thursday at the Common Council meeting.
-- With the mayor, the police chief and leaders in both major
political parties on the Council supporting the move, a partnership
with ICE appears set for approval. |
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Tucson Citizen
Border
killings jump; gang homicides fall
Borderland homicides more than doubled
in 2007 in unincorporated Pima County as gangs of bandits preyed
on drug smugglers and job-seeking illegal [aliens] alike. --
This year, eight of 26 slayings were related to border-area attacks
on illegal [aliens], sheriff's homicide Sgt. Jesus O. Lopez said.
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Michael
Ackley -- WorldNetDaily.com
I
want a president who...
No longer can we remain in denial. A
presidential election campaign really is under way, and, try
as we might, we cannot avoid, ignore or dismiss it. -- As tomorrow
begins the actual election year, the time seems right for me
to put in my two cents on what I'm looking for in a chief executive.
Here follows a partial list... |

Dr. Paul |
Ron Paul
for President
Ron
Paul unveils new TV ad on immigration
Republican presidential candidate and
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has released a new television advertisement
on the topic of immigration that will run in Iowa and New Hampshire.
-- "This advertisement makes it clear that as president
Dr. Paul would oppose amnesty, secure the border, end birthright
citizenship, end welfare to illegal aliens..." |
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WTNH-TV
-- New Haven, Connecticut
Vandals
deface Vietnam war memorial
Veterans are outraged that a war memorial
in New Haven has been vandalized. -- The Vietnam War Memorial
at Long Wharf was spray painted with the threatening
words "Kill whites
MS 13." -- Seeing this just crushed the veterans
we spoke to. The names on that wall that are covered in
paint... [Related
video] |

Ted Hayes |
Los Angeles
Times
Activist
fails to rally blacks on illegal-immigration issue
The forum seemed tailor-made for Ted
Hayes, the Los Angeles activist for the homeless who has become
one of the nation's most visible African Americans raising a
ruckus about illegal immigration. -- A mostly black crowd had
gathered at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South
Los Angeles... |

Alan Stang |
NewsWithViews.com
Ron
Paul awakens the spirit of America
I am still recovering from the response
to my piece about the possible assassination of Dr. Ron Paul.
In more than forty years of struggle in the battle for America,
I have never seen anything like it. Days after publication, I
am still trying to answer the email. It is coming from everywhere,
in a swelling wave, and I literally mean everywhere... |

Devvy Kidd |
NewsWithViews.com
NAFTA
cementing a North American Union
Millions of Americans are now aware of
the plan for a North American Union (NAU)/Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP). This awareness came via the Internet thanks
to Phyllis Schafly and Dr. Jerome Corsi (video). Lou Dobbs has
given it an extraordinary amount of exposure during his shows
on CNN; the rest of CNN ignores it... |
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NewsHounds.us
Ron
Paul takes on Fox News
Even though he is polling higher than
some of the invited Republican candidates and broke the record
for one-day fundraising two weeks ago, FOX News continues to
marginalize Texas Republican Ron Paul and has not invited him
to participate in an upcoming Republican debate on FOX News Sunday... |
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WTNH-TV
-- New Haven, Connecticut
Man
charged with raping girl smuggled into United States
Milford police say they've charged a
Maryland man with raping a girl who was among a group of illegal
[aliens] he was allegedly transporting across the country. --
Police say Francisco Pascual was being held Sunday on a $1 million
bond on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint...
[More 'family values'] |
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Associated
Press
High
court poised for voter ID case
The dispute over Indiana's voter identification
law that is headed to the Supreme Court next week is as much
a partisan political drama as a legal tussle. -- The mainly Republican
backers of the law, including the Bush administration, say state-produced
photo identification is a prudent measure to cut down on vote
fraud... |
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Potomac
News -- Woodbridge, Virginia
Language
barrier led to strangling [Invader involved]
A fight that left one man dead in September
stemmed from a language barrier, according to court testimony
Thursday. -- In Prince William Circuit Court on Thursday, Christian
Molina pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for strangling
Ronald Dean Hollingsworth to death during a fight... |

Huck |
Times Record
-- Fort Smith, Arkansas
Huckabee
defends record
With a new poll showing him trailing
in Iowa for the first time in a month, Mike Huckabee on Sunday
lashed out at his chief rival Mitt Romney for running what he
called a "dishonest" campaign. -- Huckabee also tried
to fend off criticism of his foreign policy credentials during
an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." |
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State Rep.
John Kavanagh -- Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Illegal
immigration has high cost
With their legal challenges to Arizona's
new Employer Sanction's Law foundering, opponents of penalizing
businesses that knowingly hire illegal [aliens...
criminals] are shifting to phase two of their attack - a
propaganda campaign designed to fool the people into believing
that the law will destroy Arizona's economy. It won't.  |

Pest Nest |
KTAR --
Phoenix
Group
shuts down day labor center
Groups demanding a crackdown on illegal
[aliens... criminals]
gathered before dawn today at a north Phoenix day laborers center,
and shut it down on the eve of the day Arizona's new employers
sanctions law takes effect. -- The center's operator, Salvadore
Reza, told the few days laborers who were there to go home. |
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Associated
Press
Many
businesses unprepared for employer sanctions law
Phoenix -- After surviving two court
challenges, the law punishing Arizona businesses that knowingly
employ illegal workers goes into effect tomorrow. -- But it appears
many businesses are not ready. -- As of Friday, 9,062 employers
in Arizona had signed up for E-Verify... |
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