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<p>ORLANDO — Rudy Giuliani said he will not support any legislation to make it easier for illegal immigrants to stay in this country unless there is a requirement to force all immigrants to have "tamper proof" identification cards.</p> <p>"We need to know everybody who is in the United States," the Republican presidential candidate said today.</p>

(CBS) Good news for John McCain: The Iraq war, for the moment, isn't the top political issue in the news. Bad news for John McCain: It's been replaced by immigration. Thanks to a bill with his name on it — right next to Ted Kennedy's. The deal between a bipartisan group of senators and the White House, much of it based on the immigration overhaul bill known as McCain-Kennedy, may not become law, but even the chance of progress has left many conservatives incensed. The day after the deal, the web site of National Review, a popular magazine among conservatives,...

I never thought I would see the day that I turned my back on George Bush and the GOP, but that day has finally come. I was a tremendous advocate of President Bush and the GOP through the Global War on Terror and turn a blind eye to the run away spending by the GOP. I can no longer do this in good conscience; a man I thought would go down as one of the greatest Presidents in history has now cemented his legacy right next to that of Jimmy Carter as one of the worst Presidents in this Nation’s...

THE ISSUE: A comprehensive immigration plan that includes a guest-worker program. ("Base Desires," Dick Morris, PostOpinion, June 26). **** No one with any common sense believes the Senate immigration bill would really be enforced. Rather, it would only begin another round of illegal entries into the country. Bloomfield, Conn. **** Grass-roots conservatives, who worked hard to get President Bush re-elected........will not support a plan that includes amnesty. Lyles, Tenn. **** The resultant population drain and strain on our social programs will surely reduce the United States to just another Euro-type weakling.........enforce existing laws that heavily fine employers of illegal immigrants....

The debate in Washington over reforming America's immigration laws has produced not only heated rhetoric but a few fantastic claims. Few are wilder than a prediction from a well-known think-tank that the reform bill just passed by the Senate will result in 103 million legal immigrants to the United States during the next 20 years. In a "Web Memo" from the Heritage Foundation, author Robert Rector claims that the Hagel-Martinez immigration bill (S. 2611) would unleash a flood of chain migration that would overwhelm America's capacity to absorb so many people. He calculates that the bill would not only allow...

As we go into the summer battle over immigration, I hope that the House will take on the mantle of cowboys and fight this out with the Senate. Washington disdains the "cowboy" image of President Bush and he apologized for his "cowboy" remarks (why in the world, I don't know). He needs to be reminded of how middle-America views the cowboy and that the "cowboy" attitude is exactly what made him loved by his supporters. We need that "cowboy" back and we need our House Representatives to put on their cowboy hats. This is for the House, President Bush and...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The House author of a border security bill that triggered massive street protests stood firm Friday against amnesty for illegal immigrants and predicted tough negotiations with the Senate on compromise legislation. The Senate passed its sweeping bill 62-36 Thursday after two weeks of debate and difficult votes that tested the strength of a coalition of bipartisan senators who supported the opportunity for U.S. citizenship that their bill would give most of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people who are in this country illegally. "This will set up a very difficult House-Senate conference committee because the...

If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years—fully one-third of the current population of the United States. Much attention has been given to the fact that the bill grants amnesty to some 10 million illegal immigrants. Little or no attention has been given to the fact that the bill would quintuple the rate of legal immigration into the United States, raising, over time, the inflow of legal immigrants from around...

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he believes Congress will be able to work out differences and pass an election-year immigration bill, calling reform too important to neglect. "I think the committee bill which got to the floor has the key ingredients of a successful bill," said Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., who has pledged to have legislation ready for debate soon after lawmakers return Monday from their two-week recess. Specter noted that the Senate bill is aimed at protecting the borders, regulating the flow into the country of so-called guest workers...

HIDDEN BOMBS By KRIS W. KOBACH April 7, 2006 -- IMMIGRATION-BILL SURPRISES HOW do you slip legislative poison past a U.S. senator? Bury it on page 302 of a bill. The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders yesterday announced a compromise on an immigration bill - with some details still to be worked out. But details that may continue from the bill passed out of the Judiciary Committee should definitely be deal-breakers. Like that surprise hidden on page 302 - which would replace the country's entire bench of experienced immigration judges with pro-immigration advocates. With a few exceptions, today's immigration judges...

NEW YORK - Thousands of immigrants formed a line stretching more than a mile long Saturday as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, waving flags from more than a dozen countries as they demonstrated against possible immigration reform in Congress. Heralded by a cacophony of trumpets, whistles and drums, the crowd of mostly Latin Americans gathered in downtown Brooklyn and trudged a path laden with symbols of the city's immigrant strength on their way to a plaza in lower Manhattan. The marchers mustered in a neighborhood settled by the Dutch, crossed a bridge designed by a German, and finished in...

Hundreds of people gathered along 40 miles of state Highway 111 in the Coachella Valley Sunday to protest a proposed federal law that would heighten enforcement targeting undocumented immigrants. In groups ranging from a few dozen to more than 150, the mostly Latino crowds of demonstrators cheered honking autos in Coachella and Indio; waved farmworker union, American and Mexican flags at a ritzy resort in Indian Wells; and held hands before a strip mall in Cathedral City. About 75 picketed the street in front of the office Rep. Mary Bono, R-Palm Springs, to protest her vote in December for HR...

WASHINGTON - Several faith-based groups oppose a Republican-sponsored immigration and border security bill that could move quickly through the House with a spending package for the wars in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites). The groups say the bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) Chairman James Sensenbrenner proposes asylum law changes that would hurt refugees fleeing religious persecution and should be debated in full committee hearings. But Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, says the changes will prevent would-be terrorists from slipping into the country by abusing the asylum system. The changes are...

LIVE OAK - Peaches are in season, and Leticia Lopez has just spent six hours doubled over a bin, picking out the misfits. Lopez came to this small town north of Yuba City about a year ago, leaving five children - ages 3 to 17 - in Michoacán so she could earn money for them here. The 34-year-old widow finds it difficult and frightening without her family and without papers. She would prefer to be here legally, but economic realities compel her to stay. In Mexico, Lopez made about $15 a week cleaning houses and washing clothes. Here, she makes...

But representative believes Capitol Hill would produce worse immigration bill A leading voice in Congress for tough immigration reform believes President Bush's plan to allow millions of illegal aliens to remain in the country will not pass, but he fears his colleagues will open the door wider. "I don't think that's going anywhere," Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said of the president's proposal in an interview yesterday on Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily RadioActive program. "If something comes out of this Congress, it'll be worse," Tancredo said, noting Democrats want to make it even easier for illegals to stay in the United States,...

On Wednesday, January 7, 2003, President Bush proposed a reform of our nation's immigration system. It is clearly obvious that the immigration plan proposed by the President has not been received well at all by most conservatives and Republicans. The bad news is that the plan proposed seems to be a backdoor form of amnesty for illegal immigrants. The good news is that this is not an Executive Order. It is instead a request to the Congress to come up with a bill that addresses the problem of illegal immigration. The silver lining is that President Bush has put the...

Congressman attacks ProjectUSA on amnesty bill Issue 166: September 17, 2003 contact@projectusa.org In a recent Arizona Republic piece, U.S. Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona lashed out at ProjectUSA, accusing the Washington, D.C.-based immigration watchdog group of "demagoguery" and "mischaracterization." The Congressman objects to a new ProjectUSA campaign to gauge voter support for a bill he recently introduced in Congress with fellow Arizona Republicans, Congressman Jim Kolbe and Senator John McCain. The Flake-Kolbe-McCain bill, H.R. 2899, would permit illegal aliens living in the United States to gain legal permanent status without first having to return to their home countries. Furthermore,...