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A new poll out Sunday found a potential new frontrunner in the crowded GOP Pennsylvania Senate primary.A new poll out Sunday found a potential new frontrunner in the crowded GOP Pennsylvania Senate primary, and it’s not the daytime television star or a former Trump official who have been neck and neck throughout the contest. It’s a political commentator running on a MAGA platform without the MAGA president’s endorsement: Kathy Barnette. >According to the survey from the Trafalgar Group, one of the most reliable pollsters of the prior two presidential elections, Barnette is tied with medical TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz,...

CHESTERFIELD — A Chesterfield man was charged Monday after police say a 14-year-old girl's mother stopped him as he was raping the girl at a home. Marco Haro, 50, of the 1600 block of Wishwood Court, was charged with statutory rape, three counts of kidnapping and three counts of armed criminal action.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez should get her own reality TV show. It would be a comedy, of course, with cameras following her around to record a typical day in the life of the face of the Democratic party. Those cameras would record some of the most illogical, incoherent, idiotic, and just plain weird statements from a woman whose worldview has been shaped by socialism. That she's an ignoramus with a primary school understanding of most issues is a bonus. Yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez "grilled" the chairman of Wells Fargo, Timothy Sloan, asking him a series of bizarre questions about "caging migrant children" and...

Sen. Jeff Sessions gave a full-throated defense of Sen. Ted Cruz at an event Friday in Daphne, Alabama. Cruz is facing attacks from Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and others over technical issues regarding amendments to a 2013 immigation reform bill which never passed. "People need to remember this, because this election is going to decide, the crowd who pushed that bill," Sessions said. "Will they be in the White House, and allowed to push their agenda, or will we have somebody else?" ... "In 2013 they spent a billion and a half dollars to promote this legislation, the political consultants,...

When you are here in the USA as an H1B visa holder, your company sponsors you, and you live your life. When your company goes into layoff mode, and H1B visa holders are suddenly without employment and sponsorship, life can quickly turn into a nightmare, with people often being sent back home immediately unless they can get new employment. BAE law group in Seattle is offering a number of free seminars for H1B visa holders that I hope they broadcast on the internet. This is not an issue that is confined to Seattle only, and in my understanding of this...

Striding onto a Seattle-area work site with a white hard hat, Jimmy Matta converses in Spanish with Latino laborers who carry paintbrushes, power drills or spackling tools. How much are you getting paid? How many hours are you working? Matta gives them his business card, promises his help and drives off to the next site. A decade of organizing Latino construction workers is paying off for Matta, 32, who recently became the first Latino organizing director of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters. Born in Idaho to illegal migrant farmworkers, Matta spent much of his early childhood in the...

The U.S. Senate finally appears to understand that American citizens do not want illegal immigrants rewarded for breaking the law, and Nevada Sen. John Ensign is a big reason why. The economic stimulus bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week included a measure that requires tax rebate recipients and dependent children to have valid Social Security numbers. That measure was introduced by Sen. Ensign after he pointed out that the rebate legislation, if not amended, would allow illegal immigrants working under fraudulent taxpayer identification numbers to receive checks. "I am not sure the American taxpayer would like people...

With the war in Iraq politically on the backburner, illegal immigration is heating up as a campaign issue. The public wants action, and the candidates are scrambling to react. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s sure nomination was first questioned when she flubbed an easy debate question about driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Sen. John McCain’s recovery took off when he backed away from his support of immigration reform that did not first ensure the closure of the border. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is no longer for “sanctuary cities” that shield illegal aliens from arrest. Like former Gov. Mike Huckabee, he’s now a...

Don't know how much longer this will last, but on C-SPAN2 Sen. Sessions is ripping apart the Shamnesty bill, and has been doing so for the last 45 minutes. Point by point, line by line, he's decoding the impossible requirements of the bill, some of which are so ridiculous that he's actually been laughing at them. This is refreshing straight talk from a Senator. Prior to Sessions, McCrazy gave a lengthy speech that started out sounding like a critique of the bill. Then (remember this is McCrazy we're talking about), he went on to pout and complain and insist that...

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:30 ET Veterans Day Get this info out to others -- Toughness on immigration did NOT cost candidates their election DEAR FRIENDS, AMERICAN VOTERS DID not TURN AGAINST TOUGHER ENFORCEMENT OR LOWER IMMIGRATION. I have some important new statistics that should give you comfort -- and that you may want to share with a lot of others. Oh, I'm sure you've seen or read discouraging claims from Fred Barnes, Michael Barone, the Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times, Tamar Jacoby or dozens of ivory tower newspaper editorial writers since the...

National City was the scene of a fight over illegal immigration Saturday. Critics of mayor Nick Inzunza are upset with what they see as a plan to declare National City a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Saturday, local minuteman clashed with Inzunza's supporters. On one side of the street there was a minuteman rally. On the other side were migrant suporters. In the middle were 130 officers who were called in to keep the peace, and law enforcement needed every one of them.

From :  Senator Elizabeth Dole <news@gopsenators.com> Sent :  Friday, May 19, 2006 8:49 PM To :  <Brilliant> Subject :  Important Immigration Update | | | Elizabeth DoleChair, NRSC Hello folks, The Senate has been debating various aspects of immigration this week to strengthen border security and reform our nation's immigration policy. I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know what's really been going on, and where Republicans and Democrats stand on these critical issues. When given the opportunity to vote for true border security--including 370 miles of triple-layered fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along our border with Mexico--15 Democrats voted against the proposal....

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Please excuse this vanity post. I respect the cumulative expertise on this forum and would value your thoughts on the following. The need to improve security on our borders seems obvious. Less obvious is how best to deal with our existing illegal immigrant population. We don’t really even know how many people are involved, how old they are, how many are in our schools, what other services they are using, how many of them are currently employed, etc. It’s little wonder that Congress is at loggerheads. Shouldn’t Congress first accurately scope the problem and prevent it from growing still larger,...

Maryland's largest immigrant advocacy group is training supporters to keep close watch on the members of an illegal-alien watchdog group as they monitor day laborers. CASA of Maryland and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland have offered four training sessions for legal observers who would videotape and document interactions between the Maryland Minutemen and day laborers seeking work. About 70 people, many of them law students, have attended the training sessions, organizers say. "Both groups have the constitutional right to public right of ways and to free speech," CASA staff attorney Steve Smitson told about 20 people Wednesday at...

This bipartisan deal cut by Sen. John McCain is noxious. No, the issue isn't judges. (Or campaign finance, or health care...) It's illegal immigration and a proposal that has just been cooked up by the Arizona maverick and the Massachusetts non-maverick Sen. Ted Kennedy to grant an amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Under the bill, illegals would have to work in the U.S. — which they are already doing — for six years as legal temporary workers, then they would be eligible to apply for green cards. Also, a new category of guest workers would be created who would...

U.S. Rep's Tom Tancredo's views on immigration have alienated him from a White House occupied by his own party and have made him a whipping boy for those who favor liberal immigration policies. In a Greeley ballroom Monday night, Tancredo's views earned him three standing ovations.

Anguish in the Salvadoran community abated Wednesday evening when the federal immigration service said it had decided to renew the temporary work and residence permits of almost 250,000 Salvadoran migrants. An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the reason for renewing the permits was because El Salvador was still rebuilding after massive earthquakes that struck the country in 2001. The disaster provided the reason for granting 248,282 undocumented Salvadorans in the United States so-called Temporary Protected Status. TPS permits enable undocumented foreign nationals to stay and work in the country for up to 18 months without fear of...

Mondays really suck. Even if they’re busy, they still manage to be boring. Liberals and government goofs tend to lie low on Mondays, as if they know that conservatives are particularly testy on that day and dangerous to provoke. I hate being bored. I’ve tried most of the more popular sins at least once, so tonight I’m taking a shot at what quite a few Freepers would call Heresy. Introduced for your perusal is a short essay from 1988 by the erstwhile patron saint of environmental extremists, Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang. I say erstwhile as he...

Arizona law enforcement agencies Thursday vowed to crack down on smugglers who lead border crossers to their deaths in the state's deserts. U.S. Attorney Paul K. Charlton announced the formation of "Operation Desert Risk," a joint local, tribal, federal, and state effort to reduce deaths and cut crimes associated with smuggling. "Our message to those who would smuggle individuals across our Arizona deserts is that you will go to prison," Charlton said. "Our message to those who would be led through the deserts by these smugglers who care nothing for anything but money is to stay home and stay safe."...