Arizona Capitol Times -- Phoenix    sc Pearce spars with Dem senators as lone Republican in SB1070 hearing    Sitting as the lone proponent of Senate Bill 1070, former Arizona lawmaker Russell Pearce today defended his landmark legislation against U.S. senators and a table of fellow witnesses all allied against the illegal immigration bill. -- At the nearly two-hour hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, Pearce sparred with U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Richard Durbin...

Ted Nugent -- Washington Times     War on poverty is over - we lost    Here's a painful yet inescapable statement of the obvious to people with common sense and a lick of reality: Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions. That's the root cause of poverty. -- Now, with the Obama money-burning orgy in full swing, America herself is financially poor because, according to the Cato Institute, American taxpayers have been conned into spending $15 trillion since 1965...

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson    GOP bill would put border parks, forests under DHS  House Republicans are backing legislation in Congress to give the Department of Homeland Security control of more than 50 national parks and forests within 100 miles of the U.S. borders. --The legislation involves a sweep of land along the frontier with Canada and Mexico, but exempts state land, private property and federal holdings used for mining, livestock grazing and timber harvesting...

Dustin Inman Society -- Marietta, Georgia Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal / Co-Governor Chris Riley: Get illegal aliens out of Georgia's university system! Click Here to Help

Christian Science Monitor     SB1070: Meddling Mexicans get involved in Supreme Court case  Arizona's tough immigration enforcement law threatens to do more than make life unbearably difficult for illegal [aliens]. It also threatens to sour US foreign relations with Mexico and other Latin American nations. -- That's the message in a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in advance of Wednesday's oral argument at the US Supreme Court over Arizona's controversial law known as SB 1070...

Dallas Observer    Illegals sue ICE over its use of ankle monitors in the Dallas office  A group of [illegal aliens] is asking a federal judge to declare unconstitutional the use of GPS ankle monitors to track [illegal aliens] who pose no threat to society. -- The suit, filed by Arturo Rodriguez of the Isenberg Center for Immigration Equality, targets the ICE Dallas field office and BI Inc., a Homeland Security contractor and purveyor of ankle monitors...

POLL Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Do You Support Arizona's SB-1070?

London Daily Mail     Is there a drone in your neighborhood?    There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. -- The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states. -- Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams...

Burlington (NC) Times-News     Secure Communities program working in Alamance County   All 100 counties in North Carolina have the federal Secure Communities program available for use to help identify illegal [aliens] who have been arrested. -- According to the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Southern Region Communications Director Vincent Picard, the Secure Communities program was implemented in September 2010 in Alamance County and has led to the removal of...

U.S. Rep. Steve King    Rep. Steve King and Sen. Russell Pearce to hold press conference   Congressman Steve King, Vice-Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, has fought for an immigration policy that will assist in the economic, social and cultural well-being of the United States for years. King knows that enforcement begins with common sense border protection but doesn't end there. That's why he's introduced the New IDEA Act, a bill that would protect American jobs for American workers...

Fox News Latino    Romney passes on Rubio's DREAM Act scheme... for now    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney refused to endorse Florida Senator and prospective running-mate Marco Rubio's DREAM Act GOP alternative proposal that would allow young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States to work or study. Though Romney passed on supporting the proposed measure, he added that there were provisions to "commend" in it and that his campaign would "study the issue."

PollingReport.com     Arizona's immigration law popular   Quinnipiac University poll asks registered voters whether they approve of Arizona's strict immigration law, which is being challenged in the Supreme Court: 68% approve, 27% disapprove, 5% unsure...

London Guardian     Another TSA nightmare                 Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong. -- And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner    Virginia governor faces critical test in Voter ID bill decision    Last week, the Republican-controlled General Assembly rejected Gov. McDonnell’s amendments to the Voter ID bill (HB9/SB1), setting the stage for a possible showdown between the Republican governor and his own party. -- On February 27, Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling broke a 20-20 tie in the Virginia Senate on a voter ID bill, not surprisingly all 20 votes against the measure were cast by Democrats...

Rick Oltman of The Immigration Tea Party -- The Examiner    Dems vow to kill AZ immigration law?... GO FOR IT   April 25th the U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over parts of the Arizona immigration law SB1070. Only 4 parts, not the whole law. The 9th Circuit Court upheld the district court's injunction on only 4 sections out of 20 pages of law. -- So, while the pro-amnesty crowd wants to make a big deal about it, most of the law was left intact... [More from Rick Oltman]

Agence France-Presse     Romney, Rubio mum on vice presidential prospects    Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney dodged mounting speculation Monday about a potential running mate, even with Senator Marco Rubio, the man now in the VP spotlight, standing right beside him. -- Rubio is the latest among potential vice presidential picks to hit the campaign trail with Romney, but the first since the frontrunner's main rival Rick Santorum bowed out of the Republican race two weeks ago...