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The Great Illegal Immigration Myth of '06
Human Events ^ | 12/27/06 | John Hawkins

Posted on 12/28/2006 5:14:01 PM PST by WatchingInAmazement

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To: Mojave
You are the most predictable.

Irregardles of the event, we know that your knee will jerk.

61 posted on 01/01/2007 3:04:16 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: WatchingInAmazement

Great article.


62 posted on 01/01/2007 3:53:10 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Circumstances are the fire by which the mettle of men is tried.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
Give me a plausible reason why Sensenbrenner was removed.

CAFTA. I think all the Republicans who lost voted for CAFTA.

63 posted on 01/01/2007 4:40:31 PM PST by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: Ben Ficklin
Irregardles

Poor grammar, poor spelling and poor comment.

64 posted on 01/01/2007 8:11:53 PM PST by Mojave
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To: WatchingInAmazement
Thank you.

Thank you for putting the actual numbers on what I knew to be true, but didn't have the statistics to prove.

Do you think Karl Rove told POTUS the truth or are they in dreamland between what he is saying and knows to be true?

John McCain, too, is in denial and evidentally believes he is going to draw the Hispanic vote in the primaries next year.

Now, what happens to the GOP when they pass amnesty this year? Predictions?

65 posted on 01/01/2007 8:22:35 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Iwo Jima

That sentence is seared in my brain.


66 posted on 01/01/2007 8:25:17 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Vigilanteman

As an outsider looking in, it appeared to me Santorum really ran a poor campaign and, worse, somewhere along the line ran out of money too soon.


67 posted on 01/01/2007 8:27:44 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: padre35
illegal immigration costing the Repubs the majority is a myth...

Said it before, and I'll say it again: between five (5) and fifteen (15) percent of the Republican voter base in '06 were SO demoralized they were almost ashamed to admit they were Republicans.

I was a poll volunteer, and was privy to lots and lots of 'line talk', so to speak.

Many conservative Republicans said it was a tossup on whether or not they were gonna even vote.

They, like myself, were spittin' red-in-the-face mad that Republicans, despite owning ALL THREE BRANCHES of the US GOVT., couldn't even get a simple US-Mexico security wall passed --- when it's so blatantly obvious this country is being invaded daily by third world hoardes who, while maybe some are simply looking to work, are none-the-less bringing disease, crime, pestilence, and lower wages into suburban and urban America.

I AM SICK TO DEATH OF HAVING TO CHOOSE ENGLISH OR SPANISH ON EVERY FREAKIN' THING, from getting coffee at the local 7/11 to phone trees, to voting instructions, to everything.

And if Republicans think that by inviting even MORE hoardes of third worlders into the US will make them respect our Judeo-Christian society any more -- then Republican leadership is even loopier than I imagined.

Lastly, if GWB and the Republican-Democrat branches of Congress pass this insane amnesty bill, the Republican party will splinter into a number of groups, all of whom will never win national leadership again.

The Dems must be giddy over the mess the GOP has created for itself in the past year.

Amazingly, I heard today on the radio that the Dems are telling everyone that they are gonna kill the 700-mile wall that Repub numb-skulls campaigned on in October.

68 posted on 01/01/2007 8:29:48 PM PST by Edit35
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To: Ben Ficklin

We passed felony language in Arizona (and oops! The Gov actually signed it (said she made a mistake there)... that is what Arpaio is using to arrest, try and deport coyotes as well as the illegals they are bringing in with them... very simple, it's a felony in Arizona to hire someone to bring you into this country illegally, ergo, the coyote and the alien go to jail.. Now, if only every Sheriff in Arizona enforced it as vigerously as Arpaio!


69 posted on 01/01/2007 8:30:46 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Ben Ficklin

Hastert and Frist are both milktoast and were both afraid of their own shadows. Personally, I'd rather see a cowboy in both positions.


70 posted on 01/01/2007 8:31:47 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Czar

I wouldn't even call HAstert a RINO, I think he was a weak-spined wimp...


71 posted on 01/01/2007 8:34:31 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Ben Ficklin
Did you read the article, or see this as another change to push your OBL here? Because, if you read it you realize what we have been telling you, and others. Getting tough on illegal immigration had no effect on the outcome of the election and Nancy P as our new speaker.

I'm still waiting to here why you and your cabal are all so in favor of amnesty.

72 posted on 01/01/2007 8:37:17 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: MojoWire

Did you notice that even a box of Bisquick now has English and Spanish on the label.. a freaking box of bisquit mix!


73 posted on 01/01/2007 8:38:29 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: truth_seeker
I think Republicans were harmed because after six years in power, they had little to nothing to claim as immigration reform.

Exactly.

And what made it worst was Republicans tried this gimecky 'last minute' 700-mile border fence, which didn't even get properly funded.(The Dems already claim they can get the fence legislation "killed".

The whole fence issue was so muddled it didn't even have time to sink into the American psyche, and the lame-ass national media certainly wasn't gonna do the GOP any favors by portraying the security fence as either a good thing or a "win" for America.

Enough rank and file Republicans were so demoralized over Foley the Perv, Cunningham the crook, Dey the ?? whatever, and Abrahamoff the grifter that they were practically hiding under the sheets come election day '06.

74 posted on 01/01/2007 8:39:31 PM PST by Edit35
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To: MojoWire

If Amnesty is passed many will look back on November 2006 as a warning that was ignored.


75 posted on 01/01/2007 8:43:07 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: MojoWire



I agree, if the Repubs won't perform on this, if they keep pushing things like the NAU, if their isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties then why bather?


76 posted on 01/02/2007 3:49:04 AM PST by padre35 (We are surrounded, that simplifies our problem Chesty Puller)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Why we lost so many of the elections in the last round is due to more than one thing. But the one thing that explains why so many different types of elections were lost to me can only be explained by the fact the so many well-placed people supposedly on our side including the President, Rove, head of the RNC, etc. really did not want to win. They preferred to have the Democrats win so that they could get their cherished projects enacted AND have the conservatives to blame for it. A win-win situation, to them. Lose-lose to me.
77 posted on 01/02/2007 9:53:27 AM PST by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Iwo Jima

I hope you're wrong. I fear evidence is to the contrary, with the deliberate pulling of any support for anti-OBL candidates, like our candidate in S. Arizona


78 posted on 01/02/2007 10:52:18 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
The candidates themselves failed to do what they could and should have done to help themselves. But I think that they were relying on the RNC to do certain things that one would naturally expect them to do, but which they never did or did the opposite. Also, the pollsters and opinion leaders seem to have given them false leads and hopes.

Next time more candidates should consider going it alone because the RNC can't be trusted to have the same objectives as a conservative Republican.
79 posted on 01/02/2007 11:01:55 AM PST by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Yes, I read the article. There are other more credible sources that contradict it.


80 posted on 01/02/2007 11:06:46 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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