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Latest Articles: Immigration
Reid calls language proposal racist
Post Date: 2006-05-20 03:56:34 by Horse
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language "racist" on the Senate floor yesterday.
"This amendment is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish," the Democrat said during the already tense debate over immigration reform.
Moments later, the Senate approved the measure on a 63-34 vote. Virtually all Republicans were joined by 11 Democrats to approve the largely symbolic amendment. Immediately following that vote, the Senate approved a second amendment, declaring on a 58-39 vote that English is the "common and unifying language."
Such proposals enjoy overwhelming support among American voters.
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Mexico Calls for Investigation into Border Shooting
Post Date: 2006-05-19 23:01:58 by Zipporah
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SAN DIEGO — The Mexican government called for an investigation Friday into a shooting by two federal agents that left one person dead at the world's busiest border crossing. A union representing the Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting defended the officer's conduct.
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon after U.S. agents surrounded a sport utility vehicle that was under surveillance on suspicion of immigrant smuggling, police said.
The driver refused to get out, and when agents smashed the vehicle's window with a baton, he accelerated in the direction of five U.S. agents blocking his path and "nearly pinned an agent standing next to the vehicle," said ...
White House In Disarray: Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language
Post Date: 2006-05-19 21:57:30 by Zipporah
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White House In Disarray: Contradicting Snow, Gonzales Says Bush Opposes Making English The National Language Today Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that President Bush “has never supported making English the national language.” But earlier this morning, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Bush supported efforts in the Senate to do just that: As you know, there were actually a couple of amendments that came up yesterday, an Inhofe amendment and also a Salazar amendment. And what has come out of that is a description of English as the national language. And I think — and we have supported both of these. … And I think both of these amendments are consistent ...
MOTHERS AGAINST ILLEGAL ALIENS
Post Date: 2006-05-19 20:37:25 by Zipporah
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Organizers say they hope to have 1 million new citizens and voters by November elections.By Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer May 10, 2006 Aiming to transform street passions into political power, organizers of recent immigrant rights marches Tuesday announced a national campaign to produce 1 million new citizens and voters by the November mid-term elections. The drive will “channel the unprecedented momentum of our previous marches into a targeted mass campaign for civic action,” Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala said at a news conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Flanked by immigrant mothers holding white Mother’s Day ...
Immigrant smugglers avoid prosecution
Post Date: 2006-05-19 18:25:56 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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SAN DIEGO -- The vast majority of people caught smuggling immigrants across the border near San Diego are never prosecuted for the offense, demoralizing the agents making the arrests, according to an internal Border Patrol document obtained by The Associated Press. "It is very difficult to keep agents' morale up when the laws they were told to uphold are being watered-down or not prosecuted," the report says. The report offers a stark assessment of the situation at a Border Patrol station responsible for guarding 13 miles of mountainous border east of the city. Federal officials say it reflects a reality along the entire 2,000-mile border: Judges and federal attorneys are so ...
Is Racism Fueling the Immigration Debate?
Post Date: 2006-05-19 17:59:49 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Many Democrats say it is. But some respectable scholars say ethnicity should be considered in deciding who gets to be American On May 10, the Washington Post ran a front-page story on a new census report that said 45% of the nation's children under the age of five are racial or ethnic minorities, and that the percentage is increasing primarily because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly. If you read those facts carefully, you'd probably find them interesting, but not necessarily sufficient to draw any sweeping conclusions about the demographic and cultural future of the country. If, however, you wanted to make a point about the dangers of illegal immigration, you might interpret ...
SENATE BILL WOULD PERPETUATE IMMIGRATION DISASTERS OF THE PAST
Post Date: 2006-05-19 16:59:41 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON -- For those few of us who have championed rational immigration control policies over the last 30 years, there have been constant and insensate challenges to what seemed the most central of nation-state business: controlling the borders and carefully choosing new immigrant populations. Thirty years ago, when I started writing in this column about border control, self-righteous professional Third World-sympathizers such as Sen. Teddy Kennedy had already arrogantly pushed through the 1965 immigration reform act, which switched traditional immigrant preferences from the ethnic groups already in America to the impoverished and uneducated Third World, especially Mexico. Most of us ...
Illegals granted Social Security
Post Date: 2006-05-19 11:20:18 by Jethro Tull
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Illegals granted Social Security By Charles Hurt THE WASHINGTON TIMES May 19, 2006 The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents. "There was a felony they were committing, and now they can't be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me," said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who offered the amendment yesterday to strip out those provisions of the immigration reform bill. "It just boggles the mind how people could be against this amendment." The Ensign amendment was defeated ...
The Border Is Already Militarized—On The Mexican Side!
Post Date: 2006-05-19 09:26:30 by Zipporah
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The Border Is Already Militarized—On The Mexican Side! So much for gratitude! On May 15th, President Bush delivered a lame and belated flim-flam speech, to bamboozle Americans into thinking he cares about controlling the border. But even this was too offensive here in Mexico, where they are complaining about the militarization of the border—even though the Mexicans have militarized their own border. The posturing began even before Bush gave his speech. On May 14th, Bush’s amigo, Mexican president Vicente Fox, called Jorge on the phone to express his concern. And Bush reassured Fox that the border wasn’t being militarized…he was only thinking of ...
Immigration: At The Tipping Point
Post Date: 2006-05-18 22:02:30 by RickyJ
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Political commentators -- both right and left -- who think the outrage over the immigration crisis is a conservative fringe phenomenon are sorely out of touch. That may have been true some time ago, but the sleeping giant of American goodwill and apathy has finally been jolted out of her sleep. It's hard to deny that the catalyzing events were the audacious protests of illegals throughout the country, waving Mexican flags, disrespecting the American flag and demanding, sometimes in Spanish, their "civil rights." Perhaps Sen. Ted Kennedy's pathetic pandering to this burgeoning new constituency contributed to the national wake-up call as well. I recognize that certain ...
Senate Rewards Illegal Workers with Social Security Benefits
Post Date: 2006-05-18 20:55:08 by Brian S
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Illegal aliens who become official citizens of the U.S.A. (something that would happen next week if the president and most of the Senate could have it their way), will be rewarded for their longevity as criminals in the workplace. The Senate shot down an amendment (S. 3985) offered by Sen. John Ensign (R.-Nev.) today that would have made it illegal for immigrants to count their years as illegal workers toward the 10-year U.S. work requirement necessary to receive Social Security benefits. So much for justice -- the bill was defeated 50-49 (Jay Rockefeller (D.-W.V) didn't vote) which means that illegals will be rewarded for their misconduct and placed ahead of those trying to enter and ...
Stolen identity was sex offender, agent says
Post Date: 2006-05-18 17:13:19 by Zipporah
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Midstate briefs: Stolen identity was sex offender, agent says MURFREESBOROFederal agents say an immigrant charged with identity theft is accused of trying to pass himself off as someone else with legal problems — a convicted sex offender.Alejandro Borbonio-Fernandez, 41, was arrested April 27 after he started working in Murfreesboro under the identity of a man who was deported after failing to sign up for the sex offender registry, according to Anthony Langeland, a senior special agent with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Langeland testified in Rutherford County General Sessions Court Monday that Borbonio-Fernandez stole the deported man's Social ...
Border Patrol: National Guard would have little effect
Post Date: 2006-05-18 09:09:08 by Zipporah
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Border Patrol: National Guard would have little effect May 16,2006 Monitor Staff Writer McALLEN — Border Patrol officials say they wouldn’t turn down the help of the 6,000 National Guardsmen that President Bush plans to deploy to the nation’s southern border, but said their assistance wouldn’t be of great help either. "We wouldn’t turn it down," said T.J. Bonner, National Border Patrol Council president. "But it’s of marginal value. It’s being touted as something that could free up all these Border Patrol agents." There are already a couple of hundred agents helping the Border Patrol by serving in support roles, but there ...
Seeking to Control Borders, Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors
Post Date: 2006-05-18 01:43:54 by robin
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WASHINGTON, May 17 — The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar federal contract to build what the administration calls a "virtual fence" along the nation's land borders. Using some of the same high-priced, high-tech tools these companies have already put to work in Iraq and Afghanistan — like unmanned aerial vehicles, ground ...
Bush Looks To Defense Contractors To Solve Immigration Woes
Post Date: 2006-05-17 22:27:06 by Brian S
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Bush looks to defense contractors to solve immigration woes 05/17/2006 @ 8:39 pm Filed by RAW STORY The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors, the NEW YORK TIMES reports on Thursday front pages. Excerpts: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, three of the largest military contractors, are among the companies that said they would submit bids within two weeks for a multibillion-dollar federal contract to build a "virtual fence" along the nation's borders. Using some of the same high-priced, high-tech ...
Senate Votes to Bar Immigrant Felons, Build Fencing (Update2)
Post Date: 2006-05-17 22:12:09 by Zipporah
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May 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate today agreed to exclude as many as 500,000 criminal aliens from a plan that would give undocumented immigrants legal status in the U.S., while approving the construction of 350 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The proposals are amendments to an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy that would also strengthen border security and create a new guest-worker program. The Senate voted 99-0 to accept an amendment by Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and Jon Kyl of Arizona to bar felons, repeat offenders and other criminal aliens from gaining legal status under a provision to give many of the 11 million immigrants illegally in the U.S. a path to ...
Mexico Dismissive of U.S. Border Plan
Post Date: 2006-05-17 22:09:26 by Zipporah
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Wed May 17, 5:11 PM ET Mexicans dismiss U.S. plans to send National Guard troops to the border as a futile effort that will only fuel the booming drug- and migrant-smuggling industry. And with heavily armed Mexican soldiers in this violent border city, some worry the U.S. troop buildup could spark confrontations in an area where it is often difficult to tell where Mexico ends and the United States begins. Gilberto Areola, who lives about 20 feet from the border in the Mexican city of Nogales, near Arizona, said he will feel uneasy with soldiers patrolling the other side. "It makes me a little scared," said Areola, 54, looking at the walled border as he stood in his doorway. ...
Alberto's " unclear" about how his grandparents got here
Post Date: 2006-05-17 18:37:59 by Zipporah
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Alberto's " unclear" about how his grandparents got here I mean, family is family. We know how many of the Republican House members view illegal immigration, but when Alberto says that he's unclear how his grandparents got here-that's a pretty remarkable statement. I know most everything about mine. Video-WMP video-QT transcript BLITZER: Give us your -- tell our viewers who aren't familiar your personal story, how you got to where you are, your grandparents, your parents. They struggled, they came here. I don't know if they came here legally or illegally, but give us the story. GONZALES: Well, three of my grandparents were born in Mexico. They came to Texas. My parents -- ...
Senate Approves 370 Mile Triple-Layer Border Fence
Post Date: 2006-05-17 16:08:04 by Mind_Virus
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May 17, 2006 12:02 pm US/Pacific Senate Approves 370 Mile Triple-Layer Border Fence (AP) WASHINGTON The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally. Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure. The prospects were less favorable for their attempt to strip out portions of the legislation ...
What Was I Thinking?
Post Date: 2006-05-17 09:00:02 by eyeswideoopen
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Commentary on illegal immigration. Speakers on - http://www.idahoeagleforum.com/Commentary/stand_up2.htm
DEAF MEXICANS FORCED INTO SERVITUDE IN NYC; RELATED RING MAY BE AT WORK IN LOS ANGELES.
Post Date: 2006-05-17 08:35:03 by Jethro Tull
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DEAF MEXICANS FORCED INTO SERVITUDE IN NYC; RELATED RING MAY BE AT WORK IN LOS ANGELES. Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) 7/22/1997 Byline: Joe Sexton The New York Times Federal prosecutors offered a grimly detailed account Monday of how a band of illegal Mexican immigrants had smuggled deaf Mexicans into New York City for nearly a decade, charging that the smugglers ran an efficient, organized criminal enterprise complete with assigned roles as recruiters, money collectors and enforcers. At the same time, federal immigration officials and officials of deafness groups were investigating the possibility that related rings are operating in other cities, particularly Los Angeles, where ...
Mexicans Open Fire On Americans in NC
Post Date: 2006-05-17 06:51:34 by nc_girl_speaks_up
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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060516/NEWS01/60515054&SearchID=73244824519353 by Clarke Morrison, CMORRISON@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM published May 16, 2006 12:15 am Reader Feedback: Read 13 comments | Comment on this article | Register here ASHEVILLE — Police don’t know whether a confrontation between whites and Hispanics at a West Asheville restaurant over the weekend that culminated in a shot being fired was sparked by the national debate over immigration. No arrests were made in the 3 a.m. Saturday incident at the Waffle House on Smoky Park Highway, and the investigation is continuing, said Capt. Sarah Benson of the Asheville Police Department. ...
Senate Rejects Bill That Required Border Security to Be Handled Before Other Immigration Issues
Post Date: 2006-05-16 21:39:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Buoyed by President Bush, supporters of immigration legislation established command in the Senate on Tuesday, brushing aside potentially crippling challenges to a bill that blends tougher border enforcement with a path to citizenship for millions in the United States illegally. "It was a good way to start," said Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo. as a shifting bipartisan coalition held firm against attacks from the left and the right. On a vote of 55-40 that crossed party lines, the Senate rejected an appeal from Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., to require the border be secured before other immigration law changes could take place. Anything less would mean "a wink and a ...
Bush Immigration Speech: Half Disappointed, Half impressed
Post Date: 2006-05-16 16:50:18 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Nation also split whether Bush plan will solve immigration problem; Bush approval - 32% President Bush’s speech to the nation on immigration reform Monday night drew mixed reviews, but left a plurality of likely voters across the nation skeptical that the illegal immigration problem would be solved by Washington, an overnight Zogby Interactive poll shows. This as the President’s overall job approval numbers fall to 32%, according to a separate Zogby International survey conducted via telephone before the immigration speech Monday. Overall, 47% said they liked the Monday speech, while 47% said they were disappointed. About seven in 10 Republicans said they generally liked the ...
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