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The UN's "Borderless" WorldBy Joseph KleinFrontPageMagazine.com | April 24, 2006 While pro-immigrant rallies get most of the attention from the mainstream press, many law-abiding American citizens are fed up with the reality of tens of thousands of foreign nationals every few weeks continuing to enter this country illegally through our porous borders, added to the more than 11 million illegal aliens who are already here.  Americans are bearing a grossly disproportionate share of the security risks and economic costs associated with such migration, which makes it a national problem for Americans to solve through their elected representatives and through voluntary...

An Insider's View of the Illegal Immigration ThreatBy Bill SteigerwaldFrontPageMagazine.com | April 11, 2006 Spend 30 seconds on the website of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Worse yet, try to get a human being who works for USCIS.gov to answer a phone. You'll soon realize how horribly frustrating, complicated and bureaucratic everything about our government immigration system is. Amazingly, Steve Camarota has not gone bonkers from devoting his career to studying this maddening world of immigration policy. Camarota is director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank devoted exclusively to researching and analyzing the economic,...

An Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for less. Linda Swope, who operates Complete Employment Services Inc. in Mobile, Ala., told The Washington Times last week that the workers -- whom she described as U.S. citizens, residents of Alabama and predominantly black -- had been "urgently requested" by contractors hired to rebuild and clear devastated areas of...

Illegals Squeeze Out U.S. WorkersBy Steven A. CamarotaCIS.org | March 29, 2006 Advocates of legalizing illegal aliens and increasing legal immigration argue that there are no Americans to fill low-wage jobs that require relatively little education. However, data collected by the Census Bureau show that, even prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were almost four million unemployed adult natives (age 18 to 64) with just a high school degree or less, and another 19 million not in the labor force. Perhaps most troubling, the share of these less-educated adult natives in the labor force has declined steadily since 2000. • Looking...

THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND By Michelle Malkin · March 29, 2006 01:15 AM You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks. You should (hat tip: Mika and F/R): 03/28 : Student protest Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo) More: Meanwhile: Mexico Cheers Passage of...

The Second Mexican War By Lawrence Auster FrontPageMagazine.com | February 17, 2006 The Mexican invasion of the United States began decades ago as a spontaneous migration of ordinary Mexicans into the U.S. seeking economic opportunities. It has morphed into a campaign to occupy and gain power over our country—a project encouraged, abetted, and organized by the Mexican state and supported by the leading elements of Mexican society. It is, in other words, war. War does not have to consist of armed conflict. War can consist of any hostile course of action undertaken by one country to weaken, harm, and dominate...

After nearly two decades, it would seem our nation would have learned something about how to deal with its immigration problems. Sadly, it appears we have learned virtually nothing. Judging by the proposed immigration legislation coming from the administration and key Congressional leaders, those making and supporting those legislative initiatives all think they have “the answers” to America’s immigration ills. There are three such primary bills, and they all have various versions of “temporary” or “guest” worker programs combined with varying degrees of law enforcement enhancements both at the border and in the interior. One of these, the Kyl-Cornyn bill...

Illegal Immigration: What Can Be Done? By FrontPage Magazine FrontPageMagazine.com | October 6, 2005 On August 26, 2005, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and the Coalition for Immigration Reform of California co-sponsored a conference on illegal immigration at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Below are the transcripts of speeches given by three of the participants in that conference: Assemblyman Ray Haynes, a Republican who represents Riverside and San Diego County in the California State Assembly; John Eastman, a professor at Chapman University, runs the Center for Constitutional...

President Bush stepped to the plate yesterday to nominate a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He leads a party with 55 votes in the Senate and has just appointed to the Supreme Court a conservative chief justice widely hailed as one of the most qualified nominees in recent memory. The president swung and missed. ... And the president's supporters have other reasons to be unhappy with this choice. The president campaigned on the promise to appoint judges in the mold of "a Scalia or Thomas." To Republicans, this suggested a nominee with well-known, defined views on the importance of...

Crime: The Open Borders Lobby's Dirty Little SecretBy FrontPage MagazineFrontPageMagazine.com | October 4, 2005 On August 26, 2005, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and the Coalition for Immigration Reform of California co-sponsored a conference on illegal immigration at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Below are the transcripts of speeches given by three of the participants in that conference: Heather MacDonald, a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute; Dr. James Edwards, an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute; and Dr. Glynn Custred, a Professor of Anthropology at California State University, the East Bay....

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 2005 Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he's certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush. "Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel Monday at American University in Washington, D.C. "There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president." Those in attendance broke out in applause for that statement. "[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Florida," Carter continued. "And the decision was...

NO MORE CRONYISM: BUSH DHS NOMINEE DOESN'T DESERVE THE JOB By Michelle Malkin   ·   September 20, 2005 06:45 AM **updated** Another disastrous crony appointment in the making This is Julie Myers, President Bush's nominee to head the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security. Her nomination is a joke. A bad joke: (via WaPo) The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts. The...

Wednesday, August 31, 200524 are arrested in meth crackdownFederal and local law enforcement work togetherBy PAUL SHUKOVSKYSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERDrug Enforcement Administration agents and local police in Western Washington have arrested 24 people in the past week as part of a national crackdown on methamphetamine trafficking.The agents and officers seized more than 17 pounds of the highly addictive, illicit drug, known as meth, crank and ice.To highlight the violence that often accompanies meth trafficking, DEA Special Agent in Charge Rodney Benson held aloft a MAC 11 machine gun with a silencer that was seized from drug dealers.Meth "destroys the body, rots...

Politicians Want Gun Buyers Checked, Not Illegal Aliens By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer June 27, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - Dozens of U.S. House members who sponsored the nationwide instant background check system for gun buyers in 1993 or backed the expansion of that system in 2002, have shown no support for a similar database intended to identify illegal aliens trying to find work in the U.S. At least one member who supported the gun control measure is challenging the proposal to crack down on illegal immigrants. "A database this large is likely to contain many errors," said Rep. Sheila...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejected a request by a Hispanic state senator to block plans by Minuteman Project volunteers to begin border patrols in October, saying no elected official has the authority to prevent "law-abiding citizens from traveling to, from or within this state." In response to a resolution authored by State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and signed by 10 others, Mr. Perry said that although he is opposed to civilian volunteers patrolling the Texas border, he would not block their pending vigil, telling the senators that policy changes were needed to deal with the problem. "I fully understand and...

Office of Governor Christine GregoireFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 18, 2005 Contact:  Governor's Communications Office, 360-902-4136 Gov. Gregoire, schools superintendent join president of Mexico in launching online-learning program OLYMPIA – May 17, 2005 – Gov. Christine Gregoire and Terry Bergeson, state superintendent of public instruction, yesterday joined Mexico’s President Vicente Fox and others in launching a web site and online resources that will allow 55,000 Latino students in Washington to take school classes online in Spanish. The curriculum, which will include basic literacy and high-school-level subject matter that can apply toward graduation, has been produced in Spanish by the government...

Setting Terrorists FreeBy Joel MowbrayFrontPageMagazine.com | April 26, 2005 The Department of Homeland Security is releasing drug smugglers and human traffickers, and perhaps even suspected terrorists and violent felons, as a matter of policy — because it doesn’t have the resources to keep them in custody. In a classified memo issued last fall, the DHS laid out “priorities” for handling illegal aliens who’ve been apprehended within the United States. In a bullet-point list, the October 2004 memo — obtained exclusively by this columnist — separates all captured illegals into four categories: “Mandatory,” “High Priority,” “Medium Priority,” and “Lower Priority.”  Only the...

Enforcing our Borders, State by StateBy Mark LandsbaumFrontPageMagazine.com | February 3, 2005 To get a driver’s license or social security card, foreigners must present their visas. Illegal aliens need not apply. To vote, everyone must show proof of citizenship. In addition, more than 201,000 foreigners were deported last year, and another 9,000 were denied entry at airports and the border. Is this more U.S. antagonism to immigrants? Is this racist discrimination? Perhaps it’s another example of American xenophobia? Not quite. It’s how Mexico deals with illegal immigrants. But apparently what’s good for Mexico isn’t good for the United States, at...

Iraq the VoteBy Ann CoulterFrontPageMagazine.com | February 3, 2005 In one of the grandest events in the history of the world, millions of Iraqis risked death on Sunday to vote in a free, democratic election. There were more than 100 attacks on polling stations by the "insurgents" (or "Islamic fascists," as authentic Americans call them). But the Iraqis voted – Shia, Sunnis, women, and an estimated 2,000 dead felons in Washington state. Democrats haven't been this depressed since we captured Saddam Hussein. On "Meet the Press," the Democrats' erstwhile presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, questioned the legitimacy of the election,...

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. Push to alter tuition law for illegal immigrantsBy Lornet TurnbullSeattle Times staff reporter Rep. Fred Jarrett wants to close a loophole through which foreign students here on visas are able to take advantage of a provision in an 18-month-old law meant to provide in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants. But the Mercer Island Republican is concerned that his attempt to fix it through a bill he introduced may inadvertently reopen a contentious and often partisan debate over whether illegal immigrants are entitled to the benefit in the first place. "For...