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October 25, 2005
81 members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush demanding that immigration laws be enforced before any "guest worker" program is even brought up. As frustration builds in the Republican party over this issue, more and more members of ...
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A few days ago I covered the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lies where he said they'll end the practice of "catch and release" and seemed to imply that it would happen within a year. Congressman Tom Tancredo ...
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October 21, 2005
The Senate Judiciary committee approved of a Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) plan to sell high tech work visa's and green cards to big businesses. The deal includes going back to 1991 and counting up all ...
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October 20, 2005
Let's just take a look at what Michael Chertoff, the head of DHS, means when he says "Our goal is to return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions". First of all let me print what he really should have said ...
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October 15, 2005
Joseph Turner, founder of Save Our State a grassroots organization against illegal aliens (see the Save Our State archives on Diggers Realm for protests we've covered), has filed a ballot measure in San Bernardino that really targets the base of ...
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October 12, 2005
Here's a press release I received from the host of Subject2Discussion, Shaun OMac. Shaun has been trying to get me to do the program for a few months and with my recent move we haven't been able to hook ...
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October 11, 2005
Blogger A.E. Smith headed to the border to investigate the truth of living there. He has lots of great pictures and interviews with locals in the area. Here's an excerpt: Borderlands, USA A hazy New Mexico sun shines through the ...
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October 05, 2005
(Rio Grande Valley) The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has launched a campaign to stem the flow of illegal aliens into and through South Texas. As a result, the Mexican Consulate in Brownsville sent a warning."The [Mexican] consulate will be alert ...
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October 04, 2005
When Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) declared a state of emergency In August for New Mexico over illegal immigration it was assumed that he would be ensuring the earmarked $1 million in funds to border counties would be used to shore ...
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October 03, 2005
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) is under investigation with over 2,500 misconduct charges being filed against employees of the agency. In addition another 50 are being added to the list weekly. Included in the charges are bribery, giving "green ...
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Cronyism, the first word that comes to mind when mentioning Julie Myers. Here's the latest news on her nomination. The nomination of Julie Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has been put on hold by ...
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A massive joint venture in California between the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Narcotics and SWAT Divisions, the Barstow Police Department, the San Bernardino Police Department SWAT Unit, ICE, Border Patrol, County Probation, the Redlands Police Department and San Bernardino ...
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A group of Colorado lawmakers is set to take a fact-finding mission to Arizona this week to discover the true costs of illegal immigration. I suppose they chose to pick a state that has been devastated by the costs imposed ...
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Rep. J.D. Hayworth, (R-AZ) introduced his tough immigration bill to Congress on Sep 29, 2005. The Enforcement First Immigration Act of 2005 includes adding 10,000 border patrol agents, increased customs officers at ports of entry and an increase in detention ...
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Another medical center is facing the crunch of being legally bound to treat illegal aliens, but never being paid for doing so. The board of directors at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center have applied for federal reimbursement. The center spends about ...
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October 02, 2005
Mark Edwards, founder of the Wake Up America Foundation, will be appearing on the Subject2Discussion webcast on Wednesday, October 5,2005 at 7 pm PT (10PM ET). Mark's foundation focuses on illegal immigration and the struggle to get the federal government ...
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September 30, 2005
Josue Oswaldo Ramirez-Mejia, 27, an illegal alien from Guatemala who was denied entry into the US, was found posing as an 18-year-old enrolled at J.W. Mitchell High School in Florida. He was arrested and being held on $5,000 bail after ...
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A new study from Pew shows that from 2000 to 2004 there was more illegal immigration than legal immigration. Time to close the border until we can get this at a maintainable level. What is the current message we are ...
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Well, here's a surprise. Juan Robles Gutiérrez, 37, the driver of the bus that burned during hurricane Rita, killing 23, has been found to be an illegal alien who was living in a trailer on Global Limo Inc.'s property. It ...
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The U.S. Census bureau released a report in August showing that the poverty rate rose from 12.5% in 2003 to 12.7% in 2004. The poverty rate is set at about $19,300 for a family of four. On the surface it ...
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Savita Singh-Murray, 39, a Canadian mother of three and grocery store cashier, was caught on June 22, 2005 trying to smuggle 3 illegal aliens across the Canadian border into the United States. She seemed to pull out all the stops ...
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The Predator B, unmanned drone, has been deployed along the Arizona/Mexico border to help in the fight against illegal immigration. While I see this as great for an experiment, I think at $14 million a pop there are better solutions ...
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September 24, 2005
Republican Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona, a front-line state in the fight against illegal immigration, has called for deployment of military technology all along the nearly 2000 mile southern border. The technology consists of intelligence laden Aerostat balloons that have ...
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September 22, 2005
Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado has introduced H.R. 3700, Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act. This act looks to reduce immigration levels to a manageable figure and to eliminate the "number out of the hat" system ...
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A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 63% see the current immigration laws as a threat to national security. While that's nearly 2/3's of people, I'm a little disappointed. Obviously we are not doing a good enough job educating the ...
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September 21, 2005
Bloggers across the Blogosphere -- left, right and center -- are teeing off on the Bush administration's nomination of Julie Myers to be the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As I reported on Sep 18 Senator ...
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September 19, 2005
On September 5, 2005 The New York Times ran with a statement by Mexican President Vicente Fox that the US shares the blame for the border problem with Mexico. In that article Fox was quoted as saying: "The reconstruction of ...
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September 18, 2005
Ohio Senator George Voinovich, a Republican, questioned Julie Myers qualifications to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. Myers, an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said her experience "will serve me well.". Her vast experience ...
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Three Illegal aliens were detained by ICE agents as they attempted to enter the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station in Nebraska. The three were working with an independent contractor and presented false identification documents. If an illegal alien can get in, ...
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This really worries me because you know that this guy isn't the only illegal alien doing this sort of thing:A university student from Egypt was ordered held without bond after prosecutors said they found a pilot's uniform, chart of Memphis ...
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September 15, 2005
Going after the true source of supporting illegal immigration, Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth is putting together a tough immigration bill that would go after the businesses that hire them. In addition he would have prisoners who are illegal aliens deported ...
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Environmentalists have been trying to block the completion of the Otay-Mesa border fence along the Tijuana border for years. Chertoff has now signed an environmental waiver in order to complete the fence. I applaud this action and hope Chertoff starts ...
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September 09, 2005
Well this is great news. Police in Houston set up a sting where they posed as contractors looking for workers and busted 30 illegal aliens. Now if we could just get our immediate deportation laws in order. Of course every ...
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Democrat Gil Cedillo has once again pushed this bill. I've lost count of how many times he's put it up. About 70% of California voters are against illegal alien drivers licenses, but it keeps being brought up by Gil ...
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September 07, 2005
Reader Bill L. sends this great email that encompasses everything wrong with our current immigration policy. He doesn't pull any punches and it just goes to show you that citizens are mad as hell and just aren't going to take ...
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September 01, 2005
EdWonk over at The Education Wonks reports that his first day of school shows his class sizes packed to the gills at 35 students per class. While he goes on to cover the salary cuts, lack of teachers and other ...
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Pat Buchanan in an editorial calls for a Republican to file an impeachment bill against President Bush for his lack of action against illegal aliens. If this is what's needed to defend our border so be it. WND A president ...
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August 31, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, announced his candidacy for the the 48th district in Orange County California last week. As I covered in my entry on the story the Secretary of State Bruce McPherson denied Gilchrist the right ...
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August 27, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, has thrown his hat into the ring as an "American Independent" for the seat in Orange County being vacated by Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) who accepted the job as SEC Chairman. Gilchrist ...
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July 06, 2005
Since Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is customarily timid on issues regarding illegal aliens, her latest initiative to have law enforcers target the makers and distributors of fake identification is viewed as a bald political ploy leading up to next week's ...
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June 30, 2005
(Brownsville, Texas) A 25-year-old Mexican woman, Angela Camacho, pleaded guilty today to three counts of capital murder and received three life prison sentences, to run concurrently. From the Houston Chronicle: Camacho and 24-year-old John Allen Rubio, her common-law husband, were ...
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June 22, 2005
SaveOurState.org is returning to Baldwin Park this weekend (June 25) to hold a second rally where they were attacked by Mexican reconquistas and supporters of illegal aliens on May 14th, 2005 (pics and video here). One female protester with ...
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June 17, 2005
(Brownsville, Texas) About 40 illegal aliens from Cuba showed up at the Gateway International Bridge and told U.S. Customs agents that they had tuberculosis, but changed their story several times. They were detained and are being tested at two different ...
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SaveOurState.org is once again holding a protest rally against Home Depot for their support of illegal aliens and the day labor centers that support them. From Save Our State WHERE: Home Depot 500 S. Marengo Alhambra, CA 91803 WHEN: Saturday, ...
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June 08, 2005
The latest report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that the recent push to give illegal aliens in-state tuition could cost taxpayers as much as $756 million per year to make up the difference between normal and ...
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The latest estimated costs of educating the children of illegal aliens is out and it is set at an astounding $28.6 billion per year to the taxpayers of the United States. The report Breaking the Piggy Bank: How Illegal Immigration ...
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Opponents of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are whining that he hasn't met President Vicente Fox yet. While Arnolds staff says it is due to scheduling issues obviously there is absolutely nothing to gain for Arnold by meeting with the President of ...
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June 07, 2005
Associated Press:BOSTON -- On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. ...
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(Brownsville, Texas) From The Brownsville Herald:A Mexican woman was deported after she pleaded guilty to having sex with the 15-year-old son of a friend. According to police, Rosa Amelia Lara, 27, and her children came from Mexico to live with ...
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June 05, 2005
Raul Garcia-Gomez, the illegal alien who ambushed and killed Denver Police Detective Donnie Young, was captured last night in Mexico. He will more than likely not get his just reward because Mexico will not extradite someone who faces the death ...
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June 03, 2005
Having vetoed nearly 60 bills in her term, including some key bills to cut benefits and the flow of illegal aliens into the state, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is facing a political backlash that could cost her re-election in 2006. ...
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May 27, 2005
A conference called "Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration" that is to be held this Saturday and Sunday in Las Vegas has irked the local illegal alien community and proponents of open borders. The conference is to feature Congressman Tom ...
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May 25, 2005
US-VISIT, a program that tracks visitors to the US through biometrics(i.e. fingerprint scans), was awarded to a company based out of the Bahamas called Accenture. Michael Cutler over at The Counterterrorism Blog questions whether this thing will ever come to ...
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The California Border Police initiative may be facing a few hurdles. It's a shame that states may have no rights in regards to protecting themselves from a foreign country when the Federal government doesn't seem to be doing enough. Yet ...
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May 24, 2005
After the success of the Minuteman Project a new report shows that 36,000 troops or patrollers would effectively seal the southern border and stop the flow of illegal aliens. The report also slams the leadership of the Border Patrol as ...
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New Ipswich Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain refuses to bow to open borders proponents even after they staged a protest in front of the police station. Chamberlain arrested illegal alien Jorge Mora Ramirez, 21, in mid-April after ICE refused to ...
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The proposals would have given authority to local law enforcement to enforce immigration law and would have denied in-state tuition and child care for illegal aliens. On the other hand she signed a bill that bars local taxpayer funds from ...
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May 17, 2005
A peaceful protest rally against a taxpayer funded monument declaring that California would once again be part of Mexico one day descended into chaos as 500 counter protesters showed up hurling racial slurs and openly stating that they would ...
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May 16, 2005
A few days ago Mexican President Vicente Fox said illegal aliens were "doing jobs that not even blacks want to do" and I reported about it here. Fox has repeatedly refused to apologize for his comments. On Saturday Jesse Jackson ...
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May 14, 2005
Vicente Fox has a way with words. In a meeting with Texas business people in Mexico he said illegal aliens are doing the jobs that even blacks in the US won't do. Now along with all the comments that Americans ...
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May 13, 2005
I covered the monument with the ridiculous statements on it on may 8th in my entry "SaveOurState Demands Removal Of Seditious Monument". Now SaveOurState is going to hold a protest rally at the park tomorrow May 14, 2005 from 12-2pm. ...
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Senators Kennedy and McCain have introduced a bill they have entitled "2005 Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act". Sounds like it would really tackle immigration reform and secure America right? Wrong. It includes a general amnesty that would legalize over ...
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The Minuteman Project is planning a patrol along the Texas border, potentially in October. The logistics will be more complex due to so much private land owned along the border and the dangerous drug cartels in the region. Houston Chronicle ...
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May 12, 2005
15,000 people have volunteered to give up their free time to patrol our borders and report not only illegal aliens, but potential terrorists to the proper government authorities. Why anyone would be against a group doing this voluntarily and with ...
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In a sign that some Representatives still have a brain, Connecticut's House of Representatives voted down a proposal to provide in-state tuition to citizens of another country who snuck into the United States and have no legal residence anywhere in ...
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May 11, 2005
The Senate voted 100-0 to approve HR 1268, also known as the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005", last night at 5:50PM. Attached to this legislation was the Real ID Act ...
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That's right, you and I -- the US taxpayer -- paid out nearly $6 billion to incarcerate aliens who have broken the law. Don't you just love our tax dollars at work? WND The report by the General Accounting Office ...
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The Arizona Senate passed two major immigration reform bills Monday. Lucky for Arizona residents, Democratic Senators also attached major sanctions against businesses who employ illegal aliens. The business lobby wasn't happy. I can understand the business' point of view that ...
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Hispanic groups show once again their ridiculousness by calling for all Hispanics to stay home from work and not to spend money in a three day "boycott". This was tried in California and actually pointed out the lack of impact ...
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May 10, 2005
I have no idea why this is such an issue. English is the unofficial language of America and it should be its official language. The burden should be on the individual to get their own translation if they refuse to ...
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Some Governors and state representatives are saying that they may ignore the Real ID Act, which sets federal standard and requires more verification for issuance of driver's licenses, if it is enacted. Using fear tactics that people will have to ...
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Arizona Republic: WASHINGTON - Starting today, hospitals and doctors in Arizona and other states can charge the federal government for the costs of providing emergency care to undocumented immigrants. Arizona hospitals could receive up to $45 million a year for ...
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May 08, 2005
SaveOurState.org is calling for the removal of a monument in the city of Baldwin Park, CA at the Metrolink Rail Station by July 1, 2005. Why are they calling for it's removal? Well see the pictures below. I think any ...
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Illegal aliens gathered to protest the Real ID Act which was passed by the House and is heading to the Senate this week attached to the wartime supplemental spending bill. The act requires proof of citizenship or legality to be ...
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You just have to love this story. Rusty over at The Jawa Report gets some strange emails. In between the gay search engines and the constant marriage proposals, sometimes he gets one from a real terrorist who is illegally in ...
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May 06, 2005
The House passed HR 1268, the supplemental spending bill I mentioned yesterday that includes a lot of immigration reforms including the Real ID Act and increased funding for the border patrol, by a vote of 368-58. You can see how ...
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May 05, 2005
Houston Chronicle: Immigration authorities are investigating whether 20 people found in a southwest Houston motel room today were being held against their will by smugglers demanding money. The U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement took 22 people into custody ...
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I received an email from Roy Beck of Numbersusa detailing the immigration reforms that have been attached to the Iraqi Supplemental Spending Bill that goes before the House today and the Senate next week. It should pass in the House ...
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April 30, 2005
(Lukeville, Arizona) Over a year ago, it was reported that Mexican children were crossing the border daily to attend public school at American taxpayer expense. Arizona Superintendent of Education Tom Horne ordered an investigation to be conducted. Yesterday, Horne said ...
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The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has refused to investigate an email sent by a Santa Clara County employee to the Minuteman Project threatening them. The email was sent by Florencio Rodarte from a county computer. Rodarte's employer when informed ...
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April 29, 2005
If you don't want to outsource your jobs to India how about to a ship floating in international waters 3 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, California? A company called SeaCode plans to float a ship in international waters ...
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April 18, 2005
866-347-2423 In the past 6 months the hotline to the national immigration and customs has seen a huge spike. It is in no doubt due to U.S. citizens getting fed up with footing the bill for and dealing with, the ...
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April 12, 2005
KOLD TV in Tucson, Arizona put together "a report" that is so totally slanted against the Minuteman Project that it's as if it was written by MALDEF or La Raza or another open borders proponent group. They should be ashamed ...
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April 11, 2005
So why should anyone care about illegal aliens crossing the border. Well read the story below and see what one American family that just wants a normal life has to go through on a daily basis. CSM The Garner family ...
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Marines at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona -- which is next to the Mexican border -- have been forced to shut down over 500 times since July 2004 due to illegal aliens hopping the border and wandering ...
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Just a couple of illegal alien minors of the Muslim religion who are misunderstood, hard working individuals that just wanted to commit a terrorist attack. New York Times The girls are both in the country illegally, one born in Guinea ...
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This is simply appalling. Three and a half years since 9/11 and there's still people taking flying lessons that shouldn't be here. Of particular note is that he was here illegally, had no form of income, used calling cards to ...
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Wow, it's only taken them forever to require you to have to actually show some sort of requirement to get back into the U.S. When I used to live in Rochester, New York we could go to Niagara Falls and ...
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Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a Democrat, just signed legislation denying services to illegal aliens. The measure is similar to Proposition 200 which was passed by voters November, 2004 in Arizona. I have no idea what argument you could possibly make ...
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April 10, 2005
A new report is out that shows the costs imposed on Texas taxpayers by illegal aliens. The report was released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The current estimates show there are 1.5 million illegal aliens in Texas. ...
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April 08, 2005
I don't find surprising that the delivery guy trapped in the elevator for 3 days was an illegal alien, but what is appalling is this statement that Michelle Malkin pointed out in part of an article When asked at the ...
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There's been a lot of terrorists from Morocco. Chad at In The Bullpen has all the info on this, terrorist attacks made by Moroccans and questions how these Moroccans got so much money to pay these women off. ...
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Bryan Barton, A volunteer for the Minuteman Project, was dismissed over an incident involving a t-shirt. After feeding an illegal alien he spotted 10 miles north of the Mexican Border, Barton is said to have given the illegal $20. While ...
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April 01, 2005
Good luck guys and we wish you all safety. For more on the group see the Diggers Realm Minuteman Project Archive ...
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March 31, 2005
Michelle Malkin has announced a new collaborative blog aptly entitled The Immigration Blog. I bet you can't guess what it's about. Some of the writers that will be contributing there include: Bonnie Eggle Peter Gadiel Chris Kelly Heather Mac Donald ...
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March 29, 2005
On March 11, 2005 I reported on Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, a leader of the vicious Mara Salvatruchas (MS-13) gang who is currently behind bars, issuing orders to attack members of the Minuteman Project while they are patrolling the Mexican border ...
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Logan International Airport, the same airport used by the 9/11 terrorists, has been employing illegal aliens. This is just further proof that nothing has changed since 9/11 and that nobody seems to be taking the issue of security seriously. Granted ...
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Anyone who doesn't see illegal aliens as a problem just has to look at Arizona. AZCentral According to a researcher with the Pew Hispanic Center, a third of Arizona's population growth over the past five years has come from illegal ...
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Just a few days after Mexican President Vicente Fox decried the Minuteman Project as a group of vigilantes hunting down and killing illegal aliens crossing into the United States the U.S. State Department has found that Mexico consistently violates the ...
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Pro illegal alien groups turned out to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day a few days ago at Berkeley. It would have helped if they had actually researched Cesar Chavez. If they would have just done some basic research on the labor ...
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In February I reported on the record $16.6 billion sent back to Mexico from immigrants here in the U.S., a 24% increase from 2003. The latest estimates show that this year those "remittances" as they call them, are expected to ...
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March 28, 2005
SaveOurState.org is planning another rally against Home Depot for its support of illegal aliens and groups like La Raza. Diggers Realm has covered several rally's by SaveOurState in the past, including pictures and reports on the recent protest against Home ...
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March 25, 2005
I know there's a lot of people who don't like Bill O'Reilly, but sometimes it is worth supporting a certain action someone does even if you don't agree with them 100% on everything. O'Reilly has set up a petition to ...
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Congressman Tom Tancredo, the favorite representative of Diggers Realm, has moved up in a poll that World Net Daily is running for the '08 election. It's way too early to predict who is going to be running in '08, ...
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There's nothing like protesting something you don't fully understand. A group of people who are still claiming that the Minuteman Project plans to "hunt down" and "apprehend at gunpoint" illegal aliens along the Arizona-Mexico border throughout April. In fact the ...
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March 23, 2005
While the US and Canada talk about missile defense shields, "mad cow" disease and high tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, all the Mexican President had to argue about were all related to allowing illegal aliens into the United States. Mexican ...
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The wife of former corrupt President of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, was detained and questioned by immigration officials in San Francisco. Luisa Estrada, a Senator in the Philippines, says she was held for questioning for 90 minutes and that most ...
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One of the 27 that were arrested for having counterfeit immigration documents at Greensboro airport on March 8, is facing charges for providing false documents. Jorge Ruiz-Alonso, a Venezuelan, who came to the U.S. in 1993 for a one year ...
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March 20, 2005
Fox News is running a five part series on illegal aliens. For each of the parts I link to below there is a video link on the page so you can watch the report. The first in the series focuses ...
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March 19, 2005
A new bill, HR 698, introduced by Rep. Nathan Deal, R-GA (Congress Grade of A+!) would kill what is known as the "anchor baby". "Anchor babies" are babies born to illegal aliens who cross the border, so that it will ...
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The House "REAL ID Act" sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. that passed by a 261-161 vote in February, has now been attached to the $81.3 Billion war spending bill heading to the Senate. The war-spending bill was approved by ...
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Wal-Mart will settle a suit with the US government over allegations of using illegal aliens to clean its stores. Without admitting wrongdoing, or any of it's members being charged, Wal-Mart will pay $11 million, an amount a spokeswoman for the ...
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March 18, 2005
The President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, told the US it needs to crack down on volunteer groups patrolling the border. After all we know about all the extremist American citizens sniping at Mexican Border Patrol agents. Oh, that's right it's ...
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March 15, 2005
A sweep in six cities across the country has netted 103 arrests of members of the notoriously vicious Mara Salvatrucha gang. Also known as MS-13 the gang is reported to have met with al-Qaeda back in September and members of ...
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Defend Colorado Now is gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that would deny all but emergency services to illegal aliens. They still need 70,000 signatures to get it on the ballot, but supporters say they should be able to get ...
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March 14, 2005
This is just a laughable story really. Some Representatives are shocked that illegal aliens working for a contractor could be admitted to a nuclear power plant. Do these people live under a rock? Michelle Malkin sums up previous incidents nicely. ...
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The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons has a report (PDF Format) in their spring issue that points out the detriment of illegal aliens to the health and health care system of Americans. From the report: The influx of illegal ...
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There was a recent discussion in the comments on an article I did a few days ago entitled "Utah Governor Signs "Driving Card" For Illegal Aliens Bill". I have decided to post some of that here and also my take ...
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March 13, 2005
The Save Our State rally against Home Depot yesterday seemed to go off well. They were protesting Home Depot's support and work with La Raza a group that is in support of returning the southwest states to Mexico. They ...
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March 12, 2005
I meant to get around to posting this earlier since today is the protest. Save Our State is having a massive protest against Home Depot today. The protest will be March 12 from 8AM-11AM at: Home Depot 11884 Foothill Blvd ...
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The Governor of Utah has signed a new bill that would give illegal aliens a "driving card". I covered the protest against the card by open borders proponents in my Feb 18 entry "Hispanic Groups Oppose "Driving Card" In Utah". ...
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The Democrats continue their stepping up as immigration as an issue. I'll tell you right now if the Democrats take this issue seriously to the forefront and are really going to do something about it I will be voting for ...
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March 11, 2005
The ACLU is planning to send "observers" to keep tabs on the 750 volunteers of the "Minuteman Project" which is a group who are going to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border and report crossings of illegal aliens to the border patrol. ...
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Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, leader of the vicious Mara Salvatrucha (also known as MS-13), a Latin American gang initially founded in Los Angeles, has reportedly issued orders to attack the "Minuteman Project" volunteers who are planning to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border ...
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March 10, 2005
The ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) arrested 27 individual from several different countries at the Piedmont/Triad International Airport in North Carolina for having counterfeit immigration documents. The Dispatch The suspects, whose home countries include Sudan, Chile, Peru, Zimbabwe, the Philippines, ...
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A recent poll shows that over 66% of likely voters in Florida oppose a guest worker program and 75% oppose licenses for illegal aliens. Of the respondents 15% were Hispanic, which just confirms that Hispanic voters are not won over ...
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March 09, 2005
MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a well known open borders proponent has filed a lawsuit against Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever for an incident that occurred March 7, 2004. The suit alleges that the sheriff did ...
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An illegal alien won a $4 million lawsuit against a New York construction company after a 30 foot fall off of scaffolding. Rob at Say Anything has an interesting point on this. We do not allow burglars to sue property ...
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March 06, 2005
The Minuteman Project is a group of civilians that have grouped together and plan to watch the Arizona-Mexico border in April. I covered them back in January if you want to read more details on their efforts. Now Mexico has ...
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March 02, 2005
Teachers in the Berkeley school district are refusing to give written homework because they are complaining they have to correct it on their own time. Now I understand what they are saying, everyone wants to get paid for the work ...
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February 18, 2005
The main argument for driver's licenses for illegal aliens by open borders groups like MALDEF and La Raza are so that our roads will be safer. They deny that they would be used for opening bank accounts, booking airline tickets, ...
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February 17, 2005
The bill could allow state troopers to enforce immigration laws without having to go through a federal agent. We all know how often they're able to call federal agents to a roadside stop. The current thought of federal agents alone ...
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February 15, 2005
I received an interesting email from a reader yesterday and have decided to publish it in full as it is very thought provoking on the immigration issue. Down Mexico Way Try crossing our southern border; try going the other way, ...
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February 11, 2005
The House of Representatives passed the "Real ID Act" by a vote of 261-161. The bill includes requiring states to require that they only issue drivers licenses to U.S. Citizens and those in the country legally. It also includes greater ...
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February 10, 2005
President Bush proposed eliminating federal funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. This program is to reimburse states for their imprisonment of illegal aliens. This is a ridiculous proposal because states are forced by the federal government to house ...
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A growing list of states are introducing legislation that will restrict illegal aliens from receiving services, Colorado is the latest. In a rush signing Rep. Dave Schultheis got 21 members of the Republican party to sign onto House Bill 1271 ...
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With Mexico threatening to go to the international courts to stop a state approved law the open borders, pro illegal alien and racially motivated groups are planning to keep on trying to get Proposition 200 overturned any way they can. ...
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February 07, 2005
I covered the Otay Mesa border fence Feb. 2 telling the story of environmentalists trying to block the finishing of the fence claiming it will damage the areas environment (as if illegal aliens don't, see images in my report above). ...
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In Mark Tapscotts latest column at Townhall.com, he delves into the catching and releasing of known murderers, rapists and child molesters back into society. By law, illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes — rape, murder, child molestation — are to ...
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Two Iraqi's and their smuggler were detained in Mexico for being illegal aliens. The Iraqi's were flying into Mexico so that they could be smuggled across by their smuggler -- who was also detained. NBC Two Iraqis have been charged ...
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February 06, 2005
Virtually all of a record $16.6 billion dollars sent back to Mexico were from workers in the US. The amount is a 24% increase over last year, according to the Bank of Mexico, and is the second highest industry in ...
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After the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, Dutch declaring war on Muslim terrorism and calls for a 5 year total halt on immigration, there is now legislation heading through requiring new immigrants to take an examination on Dutch culture and ...
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On January 29, 2005 I reported in my entry "California Councilwoman Resigns After Discovery She Is Not A US Citizen" that Zoila Meyer was resigning her council seat upon being informed that the district attorney's public integrity unit had discovered ...
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February 03, 2005
This is just out of control and the Mexican government better do something. I don't think the American people are going to put up with this much longer. They may sit idly by with the war on drugs and this ...
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February 02, 2005
From The First Rally January 15, 2005 A second rally for Immigration Reform will be held in Redondo Beach on Saturday, February 19, 2005. This will be the second rally at the Civic Center, the first rally -- which was ...
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Virginia Foxx, a first term Congresswoman from North Carolina, has joined the fight against illegal aliens getting drivers licenses. Lincoln Tribune We have a serious problem here in North Carolina – a problem that can have serious ramifications on our ...
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A group of neighbors in Jupiter, Florida organized a group called Jupiter Neighbors Against Illegal Labor and held a 50 person rally outside of their annual festival. The growing discontent with illegal labor and illegal aliens in communities throughout the ...
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Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth in an editorial to the Arizona Republic took them to task on their backing of the President's guest-worker proposal. He ripped apart the President ridiculous guest-worker proposal and then finishes with real solutions to the problem. ...
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Rush Limbaugh came out against the President's amnesty guest worker program on Friday calling it such a divisive issue that it could destroy the chances for the President to get his second term agenda passed. Wall Street Journal On Friday ...
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The intelligence reform bill passed last year authorized 10,000 new border patrol agents over the next 5 years nearly doubling the number of agents patrolling our borders. The bill did not include funding for the new agents and it looks ...
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Environmentalists are claiming that completion of the Otay Mesa border fence, along the Tijuana border, could threaten endangered species such as the San Diego fairy shrimp, California gnatcatcher and the light-footed clapper rail. Environmentalists are up in arms over a ...
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It is going to be down to the wire on whether a ballot measure in California denying illegal aliens driver's licenses gathers the required signatures to appear on the next ballot. 600,000 signatures of California registered voters must be turned ...
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger once again has reiterated that he will not sign a bill allowing illegal aliens to be allowed to get drivers licenses. The legislation which keeps being put forth by one man, Sen. Gil "one bill" Cedillo, ...
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In an effort to reduce the number of illegal aliens in the state of Arkansas, Republican State Representative Michael Lamoureux has put forth legislation that would allow local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. Those Law Enforcement Agents would ...
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February 01, 2005
Judge Barry Tatum, a family court judge in Wilson County, Tennessee, has been ordering foreign-born mothers to learn English for the benefit of their children. It has raised the ire of the ACLU and civil rights attorney Jerry Gonzalez, who ...
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The Border Patrol Union has made a press release bashing Bush's proposed immigration reforms. They mention the declining border patrol agent morale due to lack of support and that the Bush policy is inherently flawed. Border Patrol Union Press Release ...
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A three judge-panel ruled that immigration status can be factored into a criminals sentencing. It makes sense to me. Being here illegally is a crime -- no matter what some ignorant people would have you believe -- and shows prior ...
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A jacket with a patch depicting a plane flying towards a skyscraper with the words "Midnight Mission" and an arabic patch was found along the Texas-Mexico border back in December. Just more evidence of OTM's (Other Than Mexicans) crossing ...
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The US Supreme court is taking a harsher stance on immigrants here committing criminal acts and then playing the refugee card because of the state of their home countries. From The Counterterrorism Blog we have this excerpt on a Somali ...
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January 29, 2005
An outrageous plot by a drug cartel in Mexico to kidnap and murder FBI agents along the Texas-Mexico border was exposed and brought out in a bulletin released by the FBI on Friday. This is just on more example of ...
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Under penalty of perjury newly elected Councilwoman Zoila Meyer filled out her candidacy papers last August marking that she was a US citizen. She won the 4 year council seat by 75 votes. She shocked her council members by resigning ...
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By a vote of 3-2 the LA county Board of Supervisors approved a plan to train LA County Jail clerks to screen inmates and turn illegal aliens over to immigration officials. This is the first time a California jail has ...
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Two DMV employees in Colorado have been charged with selling drivers licenses to illegal aliens. A third is still under investigation for providing fraudulent commercial drivers licenses to truck drivers. Rocky Mountain News This week's charges that two Division of ...
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January 28, 2005
There are an estimated 600,000 foreigners in the U.S. awaiting their green cards. While illegal aliens continue to stream across our southern border these people are waiting for years to legally reside in the U.S., but are stuck in a ...
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Arkansas is putting through legislation asking for verified identification for voting and denying taxpayer funded benefits and services to those illegally in our country. Sounds reasonable to me and Arizona put the same thing in place with Proposition 200 which ...
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January 27, 2005
A retired businessman has put together a 30-day campaign by 240 volunteers to patrol the Arizona-Mexico by air and land starting in April. Washington Times James Gilchrist, a combat-wounded U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran, said the "Minuteman Project" will field ...
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Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT), a crusader of the White House's immigration reform policy, has been dumped from the immigration subcommittee. This is a good thing for those of us who oppose President Bush's amnesty guest worker program. Project USA For ...
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So now international courts are supposed to be able to control whether illegal foreigners in our country should be able to vote or receive the benefits and services of our taxes. The audacity of a foreign government stepping in to ...
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Federal agents seized assets of Phoenix, Arizona based Shaboom Oil Company. The company is alleged to have been funded by proceeds from a marijuana smuggling operations by Paul Hindelang a smuggler convicted in 1981 of moving 500,000 pounds of marijuana ...
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The program of unmanned drones that patrol the Arizona-Mexico has been suspended by the federal government so they can "evaluate its effectiveness". Since their deployment last summer the Hermes class ummanned drones have apprehended 965 illegal aliens and confiscated 843 ...
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Arizona's Proposition 200 provision requiring a valid proof of citizenship in order to vote went into effect on Tuesday making it the first state (of many we hope) to implement such a requirement. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Arizona has become the first ...
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A bunch of Hollywood people have come out telling the rest of us just to suck it up and give illegal aliens drivers licenses. Their ad is ridiculous and shows a nice nanny, pushing a stroller. Click here to see ...
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The Young Conservatives of Texas at North Texas University drew fire from about 30 Angry proponents of illegal aliens, who were mostly Hispanic. Wednesday they set up a game called "Capture the Illegal Immigrant" to show their opposition to President ...
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Congressman James Sensenbrenner(R-WI) introduced legislation Wednesday that would deny illegal aliens drivers licenses, complete the fence along the border between California and Mexico and tighten requirements for requesting asylum so that it couldn't be abused. Los Angeles Times "We have ...
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These are some of the latest stories breaking regarding immigration reform, solutions to the problem, active immigration reforms and outrages from across the nation. * * * Arkansas is the latest state planning to introduce a bill to deny benefits ...
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I received an email regarding a class a member of SaveOurState.org had to attend on hate crimes. To his amazement they lumped SaveOurState.org, a group in California that wants immigration reform implemented, as a hate crimes extremist group. I covered ...
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There is only two weeks left to sign the petition to get a California measure on the ballot restricting illegal alien services and drivers licenses. If you haven't signed the petition yet and are in California I urge you to ...
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January 25, 2005
Here's a big surprise for everyone who has been following the immigration reforms passing through congress in the last year. James Sensenbrenner basically bowed down during the vote on the homeland security bill with a promise that it would be ...
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January 24, 2005
In a New York Times article on a report on immigration there is some note on the changing face of New York City with 6 in 10 births having one parent that is foreign-born. Now in and of itself this ...
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It is a joyous day indeed! Break out the party hats and cake! Recently we have seen Gary DeFilippo the DMV Commissioner for Connecticut resign, Tom Ridge, DHS Secretary resign and now we have the ridiculous Asa Hutchinson who was ...
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January 21, 2005
Two former Venezuelan National Guard officers, who are accused of bombing the Spanish Embassy and the Colombian Consulate in Caracas in early 2003, are facing deportation. They both deny the charges of terrorism. The pair have been in Miami's Krome ...
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The latest TNS poll released in the Washington Post shows that 76% of Americans are frustrated and want the government to implement tougher immigration reforms and to keep illegal aliens out. Angus Reid Do you think the United States is ...
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Sure the headline sounds silly, but it's true. There were over 10,000 Americans and British nationals who were in the country illegally according to a report by Australia's Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. I've been to Australia ...
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Lowell Timmers, 54, who threatened to blow up his van and the White House on Jan. 18th did it in protest of his daughters husband being deported for being in the country illegally. Timmers' wife claims that she thought her ...
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The FBI has added 10 names to the watchlist in the Boston dirty bomb threat that broke Jan. 20, 2005. In addition a tunnel in Imperial County California is attempting to be located by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The ...
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January 20, 2005
Before anyone jumps the gun and starts crying Nazi let's take a look at what Germany has been doing with Jewish immigration. In 1990 the Jewish population number 30,000 and was mostly aged, so Helmet Kohl threw open the doors ...
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Liberal and pro-government services groups are already setting the scene for 2010 with a recent report by University of California at Davis professor Philip Martin. In the report Martin finds that the declining birth rate in Mexico will provide less ...
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During a drug stake out police ended up raiding a home that contained 16 illegal aliens that neighbors said had been living there for 3 months. The neighbor also said activity in the house had increased recently. K-9 sweeps ultimately ...
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In the last meeting of DHS Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexico's Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, little was done other than demanding the give illegal aliens benefits, not to punish them and to, in general, give illegals free reign at the ...
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Illegal aliens were allowed to vote in Harris County because of a voter registration based on the "honor system" that pretty much lets anyone who marks a box vote with no actual checks made to the authenticity. Houston Chronicle At ...
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Fingerprint scanners deployed along our borders haven't caught any terrorists yet, but the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) has managed to catch 33,000 criminals -- including over 100 murderers and 200 sex offenders -- since it went live ...
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I have reported on several occasions about the Connecticut DMV, a corrupt bureaucracy which has fraud running rampant throughout it. It is well known in the illegal alien, drug runner and identity theft communities as the best and easiest place ...
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An illegal alien from El Salvador, Jorge A. Rivera-Aleman, 37, has been charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl when she returned home from school. Police have arrested him and are doing DNA testing that they suspect will tie ...
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The FBI is on the lookout for 4 chinese nationals -- identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin -- and two Iraqi men who are thought to have access to a dirty bomb that ...
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January 19, 2005
Identity theft, fraudulent drivers licenses, illegal aliens and terrorism, all things that are being helped along by fraud rings at DMV's around the country. Some of the 9/11 hijackers had fraudulent drivers licenses and they are a sought after quest ...
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President Bush has announced three Arizona lawmakers to come up with details for the immigration reform plan he wants to put before Congress. The three, Republican Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain and Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe, were selected to ...
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The Presidents nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, is a friend of illegal aliens and businesses that employ them. While Governor of Nebraska Johanns was an obstructionist to Operation Vanguard, a large-scale sweep in 1998 and 1999 by the ...
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January 17, 2005
In the latest Gallup poll 62% of respondents are dissatisfied with the current level of immigration in the country. Out of the remaining respondents, 30% said they were satisfied and only 4% said they were very satisfied with the levels ...
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January 16, 2005
These are some of the latest stories breaking regarding immigration reform, solutions to the problem, active immigration reforms and outrages from across the nation. * * * A recent article in Barron's claims that the underground economy which includes millions ...
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Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo declared on Wednesday that he would lead a revolt of 180 Republican Caucus members against President Bush's immigration reform proposals. Reuters "Why is this so important to the president?" Tancredo said. "Is it just the ...
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A recent Rand report that concluded the reasons why California schools lag behind is that parents at home cannot speak English which is "hampering communication between schools and parents" offers up only one solution. Spend more money. The Eureka Reporter ...
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Congressman David Dreier is promoting a new bill he announced this week that would introduce a new "fraud proof" Social Security card and heavy fines and jail time for employers who willingly hire illegal aliens. Dreier announced the The Illegal ...
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The Iowa Supreme Court is hearing a case brought forth arguing that it is an illegal aliens constitutional right to have a drivers license if they pass the required tests. How they figure a non-citizen has any constitutional rights is ...
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A rally held in Redondo Beach at the Civic Center on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005 was a success and it's organizers, SaveOurState.org, reported a large increase in supporter turnout. The protest and rally started at 8AM in a popular ...
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January 15, 2005
Just a reminder for those of you in Southern California that there is a rally for immigration enforcement in Redondo Beach today (Saturday, January 15th, 2005) from 10AM-2PM. Here is the location: Redondo Beach Civic Center 415 Diamond Street Corner ...
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Canyon County Officials have called on the Governor of Idaho, Dirk Kempthorne, to declare a state of emergency in the area because of the influx of illegal aliens. KTVB The idea comes from Canyon County Commission Robert Vasquez, who has ...
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January 11, 2005
In December the Mexican government officially released a comic book that sanctions illegal aliens crossing our southern border. They claim it is to help migrant worker with the title The Guide for the Mexican Migrant, but upon viewing the ...
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I have reported in the past about California Emergency Rooms closing due to illegal aliens, now New Jersey hospitals are facing the same fate. New Jersey Times New Jersey's escalating population of illegal immigrants is placing an ever-growing burden on ...
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There will be a rally at the Redondo Beach Civic Center on Saturday January 15, 2005 from 10AM-2PM in support of enforcing our immigration laws. The rally is being organized by SaveOurState.org and SaveOurLicense.com. The rally is being put forth ...
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January 04, 2005
My congressman Robert Matsui died over this past weekend. The Sacramento Bee ran with the headline "A Good And Decent Man". I didn't feel that about him. He was arguably the worst of the worst when it comes to ...
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December 30, 2004
These are some of the latest stories breaking regarding immigration reform, solutions to the problem, active immigration reforms and outrages from across the nation. * * * President Bush continues to piss off those of us -- and the majority ...
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December 29, 2004
I had meant to report on this earlier and a recent entry by La Shawn Barber reminded me to do so. La Shawn has a great entry on it and I urge you to read it at the link above. ...
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December 20, 2004
Congressman Darrell Issa, well known for his funding of the California recall election, may be willing to fund a ballot measure restricting services to illegal aliens. He is waiting to see if he has enough support and has not made ...
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December 17, 2004
These are some of the latest stories breaking regarding immigration reform, solutions to the problem and active immigration reforms from across the nation. * * * Michael Williams at Master of None follows the money trail. Whenever something shady is ...
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Congress has passed legislation to nearly double the size of the Border Patrol, but there is no allocated money in the legislation to implement the measures. Once again Congress fails us. World Net Daily The U.S. Congress has quietly approved ...
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California has started a new program for illegal aliens and legal immigrants convicted of a felony. It is basically an official catch and release program where the known lawbreaker is let back into society with an ankle bracelet on rather ...
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December 14, 2004
Congressman Tom Tancredo -- an outspoken immigration reform advocate and my personal hero -- has some questions for President Bush on his immigration reform policies. Frontpage Magazine 1. The president says his plan does not offer amnesty to lawbreakers, ...
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This is just absolutely the stupidest thing I think I've ever heard. In order to show their hatred at the fact they didn't get drivers licenses, illegal aliens are going to boycott gas stations in Southern California. The fact that ...
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Wow, did I actually say that? Has your lovely Digger lost his mind? Well not entirely but I may have for one day liked Hillary Clinton. It's the end of the world I tell ya'. Why would I ever like ...
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December 13, 2004
I have mentioned before that al-Qaeda is working with south american gangs. Now they have discovered an Muslim illegal alien crossing the border with a group of Mexicans and al-Qaeda related gang members. For more on the ties between this ...
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December 11, 2004
I'm not sure if Bernard Kerik knew his housekeeper was an illegal alien or not, but as the Police Commissioner of New York City you figure he'd do his homework. I think the man is qualified for the position of ...
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December 10, 2004
Conservatives who opposed the recent Intelligence Reform Bill have vowed to fight on and get them implemented in a new bill. LA Daily News (via Prestopundit) Southern California Republicans vowed Wednesday to bar illegal immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses, restrict ...
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Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona has been given the go ahead to sign into law and implement portions of Proposition 200 that was passed by Arizona voters this November despite major opposition. From an earlier entry of mine on Prop ...
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Well here's one way to solve an illegal alien problem. It quickly reduced their illegal alien problem from 7 million to just around an estimated 1 million in a few months. Xinhua A total 18,607 illegal immigrants in Malaysia were ...
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December 09, 2004
Wanna know why I say ugh? Just go read this entry by Michelle Malkin. ...
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December 08, 2004
FAIR has released their latest report on the costs of illegal aliens to taxpayers. The main costs are in education, health care and prison costs for illegal aliens in jail. North County Times California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost ...
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From Our Redondo Beach Vacation. August 2004 [Click For Popup Panorama] Let me set the scene for you. You're on vacation in Redondo Beach, California and are walking around town enjoying your stay. You decide to head down to ...
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December 01, 2004
There's a certain portion of our country that will pull out the race card anytime you even mention enforcing immigration laws. They'll call you a racist and say that deporting illegal aliens is simply because "you just hate brown people". ...
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November 30, 2004
Yeah, he's probably done some good in setting things up at the Department of Homeland Security. That's all fine and good. What about 10-13 million illegal aliens running around our country and the 4000+ that run across our border everyday ...
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November 22, 2004
Geert Wilders, a conservative in the Netherlands, has called for a five year halt to immigration until they can figure out what to do. After the killing of Dutch filmaker Theo van Gogh his party has received more support as ...
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November 19, 2004
After the successful approval of Proposition 200 in Arizona, conservatives in California are looking at putting their own proposition together severing services for illegal aliens. Even with businesses, politicians and churches against the Proposition in Arizona, which requires proof of ...
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November 16, 2004
Parapundit has an excellent entry on Middle Easterners crossing through our southern border into the United States. He goes over the border patrol's silence because of pressure, the official position on the numbers, OTM's (Other Than Mexican's), terrorist threats and ...
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November 15, 2004
Could al-Qaeda terrorists be planning to smuggle WMD's or nuclear weapons through Mexico and into the United States? I say yes. I also think it is entirely possible with the state of our southern borders security and our Presidents lack ...
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November 10, 2004
Angered and frustrated. That's how I feel about President Bush's continued pushing of giving rights to illegal aliens who have broken our laws and used our services costing taxpayers over $10 billion a year Washington Times President Bush yesterday moved ...
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November 08, 2004
Wow, sounds like the Europeans are really having some issues with Muslims over there. Claims of Muslims just sucking up welfare and not contributing to the productivity of the countries. Talk that seems to be spurred on by the recent ...
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November 03, 2004
There were several changes made by the election yesterday that will directly effect future immigration reforms. First and foremost Senator Tom Daschle was defeated. Daschle was a big promoter of amnesty for illegal aliens. Martin Frost in Dallas was defeated. ...
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October 31, 2004
Our friends over at The Education Wonks managed to track down Barbara Boxer, a Democrat and an incumbent Senator out here in California (the other being Diane Feinstein), at a stump speech in town. EdWonk managed to wiggle to the ...
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October 17, 2004
If they only would have been allowed to have drivers licenses, this wouldn't have happened! "Illegal aliens never hurt anybody". Guess who gets to pick up the bill for those injured? CNN A stolen truck filled with suspected illegal immigrants ...
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October 13, 2004
Finally, A question on immigration! President Bush is just horrible on this issue and it is one of the major strikes against him for me. Now he just said he doesn't support amnesty. He doesn't get to the heart of ...
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A Washington Times article has a report on an investigation into 25 Chechen terrorists crossing into the United States through the Mexican Border. For the uninformed the Chechen terrorists are the ones involved in the Beslan School Massacre. U.S. security ...
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October 08, 2004
This is a great victory, yet not a finality, for our country's security and immigration policy. HR.10 is to implement the 9/11 commissions recommendations including Immigration provisions which restrict issuance of Drivers Licenses to illegal aliens, implements quicker deportations and ...
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This story is just hilarious! It seems Mexicans don't like illegal aliens in their country either. Christian Science Monitor Upwards of 1 million Mexicans are successfully crossing into the US each year, leaving behind a dearth of laborers. Increasingly, that ...
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My recent nail biting for legislation is over the H.R. 10 bill heading through congress. It implements a lot of the 9/11 commissions recommendations for stepping up security and is the House version of the Senate bill that was passed ...
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October 07, 2004
A bill that included a portion of the 9/11 commissions recomendations overwhelmingly passed in the Senate. Here's the voting results. It passed with a 96 Yea 2 Nay vote with 2 Senators not voting. Can you guess which two didn't ...
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October 06, 2004
It's a sad day once again for Los Angeles Emergency Rooms as another one closes due to the flood of illegal aliens. ABC It is official the emergency room at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Van Nuys closed its doors ...
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September 28, 2004
With all the chatter going on about al-Qaeda operatives in South America you'd think our officials would be really cracking down on the southern border. They aren't, of course, and there is a new article out in the Washington Times ...
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September 24, 2004
After the recent vetoing of the drivers license for illegal aliens bill in California by Governor Schwarzenegger several other items have popped up. First we have the response from Mexico on the recent veto. A top foreign relations official on ...
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September 23, 2004
Thank God! A ridiculous bill was before the California Governor that would have granted illegal aliens drivers licenses. If you've not seen this before, our leaders here in California actually put forth a bill to give a government approved form ...
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September 16, 2004
The U.S House of Representatives dealt a severe blow to our national security Tuesday afternoon by removing the Culberson Amendment from an $89.9 billion bill funding the Transportation and Treasury Departments. The Culberson Amendment would have forbade the Treasury Department ...
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September 15, 2004
I sent this fax off to Asa Hutchinson, The Homeland Security Undersecretary and "the nations border czar" (of whom I tee'd off on in this entry, see item 3 ). What do we have to do to get someone real ...
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September 13, 2004
In this latest roundup of issues and stories regarding the US border we find numerous items. Al-Qaeda is looking at the southern border as the way in, officials are not doing their jobs, the border czar takes a "sensitive" approach ...
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September 04, 2004
According to the latest study by the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Illegal aliens are costing US taxpayers $10 billion per year in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. The study also finds that an amnesty ...
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September 02, 2004
The U.S. Border Patrol begins using a $10 Million system this week that can tell what is in a trucks payload in 10 minutes using something called Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis. The machine, made by Ancore of Santa Clara, California, ...
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From this Washington Times article on recent internal US enforcement of illegal immigration: The Department of Homeland Security wants to restrict the U.S. Border Patrol's arrest of illegal aliens in the nation's interior, concerned that the recent apprehension of 450 ...
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August 29, 2004
Michelle Malkin brings up a good question in her recent post Was One Of The NYC Bomb Plotters An Illegal Alien?. Amazing how on Michelle is about these things. She's like a rabid bulldog when she notices potential immigration issues. ...
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August 23, 2004
Here's a nice article from the New York Times on the recent announcement by Northridge Hospital Medical Center that they will be closing by December 31. This follows a recent announcement of the closure of the emergency room at Elastar ...
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August 14, 2004
In a previous entry I wrote about a show called "Gana la Verde" (Win the Green). The shows premise has illegal immigrants play a Fear Factor style game of eating worms, jumping between speeding tractor trailers and fighting off vicious ...
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August 12, 2004
in this New York Times article, U.S. to Give Border Patrol Agents the Power to Deport Illegal Aliens (registration required, see bugmenot.com for a list of usernames/passwords), they report on implementation of laws that were passed in 1996 regarding immediate ...
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August 11, 2004
That Pakistani guy, Kamran Shaikh, arrested for taking pictures and video of skyscrapers, public transportation systems and a Texas dam illegally entered the US through Mexico. According to the documents located on The Smoking Gun: Shaikh provided the affiant with ...
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August 04, 2004
I found this article in the LA Times to be rather eye opening as to the blatant nose-thumbing of the Illegal immigrant community in southern California. The contestants on "Gana la Verde" (Win the Green), an unscripted, Spanish-language show that ...
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August 03, 2004
Wow! That's all I can say about this new book by Michelle Malkin. In Defense of InternmentBy Michelle Malkin In her new book In Defense of Internment, Michelle goes against the typical politically correct assumptions that have existed since WWII ...
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July 29, 2004
Forget barbarians at the gates, what seems to be more disturbing is the current trend of catching middle eastern men and women crossing through our "well protected" southern border. Michelle Malkin puts forth this question in a post "What's the ...
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July 21, 2004
Are you as sick of the illegal immigration issue as I am? Do you vote, but don't know what else to do about it? Does writing your congressmen and senators about it seem like a pain in the ass? Do ...
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You know, this lack of enforcement of our immigration laws is one of the subjects that pisses me off about the Bush administration. Last week 10 illegal immigrants were released because US Immigration didn't want them. here's an excerpt on ...
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