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The 28-page section of the 9/11 report detailing Saudi involvement in the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks have finally been released (albeit with substantial portions still redacted), and it is now clear why one President who held hands with the Saudi King and another who bowed to him worked so hard all these years to keep these pages secret: they confirm that the 9/11 jihad murderers received significant help from people at the highest levels of the Saudi government. The report states that Omar al-Bayoumi, who “may be a Saudi intelligence officer,” gave “substantial assistance to hijackers Khalid al-Mindhar and...

In March 2005 at their summit meeting in Waco, Tex., President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin issued a joint statement announced the creation of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The creation of this new agreement was never submitted to Congress for debate and decision. Instead, the U.S. Department of Commerce merely created a new division under the same title to implement working groups to advance a North American Union working agenda in a wide range of areas, including: manufactured goods, movement of goods, energy, environment, e-commerce, financial services, business facilitation, food and agriculture, transportation,...

Before heading to Congress, Republican J.D. Hayworth of Arizona was a sportscaster with a signature home-run call: "It's vapor!" Now the conservative Hayworth, 47, is making a similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package. In the book, due out January 16 from conservative publisher Regnery, Hayworth calls for deploying active-duty troops to the border and considering a...

It's time to recognize that America's war on terror is being fought in places other than Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, our most critical theater of war is being fought at the US-Mexico border. Our enemies are unlawful migrants who willfully violate our borders and thumb their noses at U.S. immigration laws. For the most part, they are third-world miscreants who, once in America, are bankrupting our health care and education systems. Illegal immigrants avail themselves of health care with no ability or desire to pay for services received. Although their unpaid bills are forcing scores of hospitals here to...

...HANNITY: Because you had made a controversial statement, and you seem to be backing off of it now, and it was that people that are here illegally, that they all ought to be sent back. I'm paraphrasing. And it seems like now you've sort of backed off that position a little bit, because there are million that we estimate that are in this country illegally. Why wouldn't we send them back? CHERTOFF: ...I also recognize we've got, according to some estimates, 10 to 11 million illegals already in this country working. And the cost of identifying all of those people...

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) let slip a bombshell disclosure at a news conference today to announce a bill targeting states that allow illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. During the Q&A with reporters, Myrick gave as a reason for proposing the bill the recent capture of three al Qaeda terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border. A check of Google News turned up no references to this incident, yet Myrick stated this was a 'given fact.' No reporter asked her about this revelation, but it was noted at the end of a Charlotte Observer article by Tim Funk. Two Representatives from North...

Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion and against domestic Violence." TOMBSTONE, AZ (October 18, 2005) – Chris Simcox, president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”), today urged Congress and the Bush administration to follow their Constitutional oaths to protect the country from foreign invasion and assault by securing our porous borders immediately. Simcox issued the following statement on the occasion of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration today: “For four long...

The results of the recent special election in California's 48th Congressional District are a sober wakeup call to economic conservatives who believe in the free movement of goods, capital and labor. Self-appointed, vigilante immigration restrictionist Jim Gilchrist received a sizable 14.4 percent of the vote for Congress on a single-issue, immigrant bashing platform. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, who endorsed Gilchrist, is trying, with some success, to raise immigrant-bashing to a top-tier issue in the 2008 elections. Anti-immigration sentiment is one symptom of a larger neo-Mercantilist disease that is also threatening the globalization of trade and capital flows. Unless true free-market...

The number of new illegal immigrants to the United States surpassed the number of authorized immigrants from 1999 through at least last year, according to a study based on government statistics that was released today by the Pew Hispanic Center. The study said that immigration to the United States-- legal and illegal, from all regions of the world-- rose during the 1990s, peaked in 2000 and declined substantially since 2001 as the national economy slowed. The number of new arrivals rose in 2004, as economic conditions improved, the study said. Although, the arrival of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants declined...

Sept. 20, 2005, 10:09PM Bush to press lawmakers for guest-worker program Plan would not require illegal immigrants to leave while they await legal statusBy SAMANTHA LEVINECopyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - A Bush administration reform plan reportedly would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States using guest worker visas for up to six years. The White House approach departs from a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn to require illegal workers to leave the country before they could achieve legal status as guest workers.Highlights of the administration plan were reported in the Arizona Daily Star and The...

Pat Buchanan, former communications director to President Ronald Reagan, former presidential candidate and WND commentator, has come to the conclusion that a courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment of President Bush. I reluctantly agree – and for the same reasons. President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country. He has not only failed, he has intentionally neglected this sworn duty, instead claiming he prefers to promote a vague immigration "reform" plan that involved a "guest worker" program that has served as an encouragement...

Two Democratic Governors, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, have declared a state of emergency and asked for federal help to deal with the costs of the violence and property damage caused by illegal aliens coming over their southern borders. If President Bush lets these partisan Democrats get to the right of him on the immigration issue, all Republicans will suffer in the next election. Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Esq. is a national authority on the diseases brought into our country by illegal aliens, who of course are not given health examinations required of all legal immigrants....

The Border: The dirty little secret — but really, it's no secret at all — is that the government of Vicente Fox in Mexico not only winks at illegal immigration to the U.S. but actively encourages it. When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency in four border counties of his state last week, he asked the Mexican government to raze the abandoned town of Las Chepas, just across the border from the U.S. town of Columbus. Las Chepas is a gathering place for illegal aliens and drug smugglers as they are preparing to cross the border....

The White House is planning a new push to change the nation’s immigration laws, looking in part for businesses to lobby Congress to pass measures that give more foreign-born workers legal status while also toughening lax enforcement. But the conflicting interests of President Bush’s big-business supporters, who believe the economy needs more workers, and Republican Party conservatives - many of whom have made a top priority of clamping down on illegal immigration in the name of national security - threaten the prospects for a quick deal. The White House and its allies are looking to businesses for help in selling...

Immigration reform seen as a tough sell for Bush Web Posted: 08/08/2005 12:00 AM CDT Gary MartinExpress-News Washington Bureau CRAWFORD — Despite the momentum from recent legislative victories, President Bush faces an uphill battle in his push to move immigration reform and a guest-worker provision through Congress when lawmakers return this fall, political experts say. Republican opposition in the House to a temporary-worker program is mounting, forcing the president and GOP proponents to shift their focus to less controversial measures like border enforcement. But the president signaled this past week he is not backing off his call for a guest-worker...

WND INVASION USA Bush epiphany: People sneaking in President calls for securing border, but still wants guest-worker plan Posted: August 4, 2005 2:39 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush speaks to the American Legislative Exchange Council next to its Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award President Bush admits "people are sneaking in" to the U.S., but maintains the solution is to create a guest-worker program for foreigners looking to do the jobs Americans won't do. "We've got to do something about our immigration laws," Bush said to applause yesterday to an audience of state legislators in Grapevine, Texas. "Our obligation is...

It was much quieter at Campo this weekend. It seems the incident involving an aide to Senator Bill Morrow's last weekend spurred the San Diego sheriff into action and they were out in force. Despite hreats, a local LA gang did not appear . There was reportedly one shooting, durring a drug exchange at a border fence. Senator Bill Morrow talks to KFI. Minutemen Senator and Jim Gilchrist, founder of MMP. VFW Hall, still serving their country. Camp California Lupe Moreno relates events that day at the Laguna Beach Rally Border Wall Ends Huge house on the Mexico side reportedly...

Since there are about 5,000 members of the murderous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in the Washington area, it's hard to get too excited about the apprehension of 11 in the past few weeks. Still, the announcement Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,000 gang members nationwide so far this year is good news. Originally intended to dismantle only the MS-13 gang, ICE's anti-gang initiative, Operation Community Shield, extended its mission in May to track more than 80 violent street gangs in 30 states. Almost all of these gangs consist of illegal aliens from Central...

According to explosive documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, at a time when the United States faces an illegal immigration crisis and a war on terrorism, Bush administration officials directed Border Patrol agents to mislead the American people by withholding information about a marked increase in illegal immigration caused by President Bush's immigration agenda. "Do not talk about amnesty, increase in apprehensions, or give comparisons of past immigration reform proposals." "Do not provide statistics on apprehension spikes or past amnesty data." This is what Border Patrol agents were told in a remarkable January 2004 memo obtained by Judicial Watch in May...

Bush Lobbies Republicans on CAFTA Bill By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 55 minutes ago In a rare piece of lobbying on Capitol Hill, President Bush appealed personally to fellow Republicans Wednesday to close ranks behind a free trade agreement with Central America that faces a very close floor vote. The House was beginning debate on the Central American Free Trade Agreement later in the day, with a vote coming as early as Wednesday night. With Democrats strongly against it, passage depends on keeping Republican defections to a minimum. The president reminded Republicans that while some might oppose CAFTA for...