[RasterMaster]

Just share this little paragraph from Mark Steyn:

Remember the 1986 immigration amnesty? One of its beneficiaries was Mahmoud abu Halima, who went on to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. His friend Mohammad Salameh wasn’t so fortunate. He applied for the ‘86 amnesty but was rejected. So he just stayed on in America, living illegally, and happily was still around to help Mahmoud and co-attack the Twin Towers. He’s the guy who rented the truck, which suggests he had enough ID to get past the rental agent at Ryder.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0104/steyn011304.asp

[RasterMaster]

Here’s a few poll links for you....

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=186;results=2

Maybe you have not been looking at these either:

Hunter beats McCain in his home state:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/top_stories/1_03_321_15_07.txt

SC Straw Poll Makes it Clear:Duncan Hunter Has Emerged as Conservative Answer
http://schotlinepress.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/sc-straw-poll-makes-it-clearduncan-hunter-has-emerged-as-conservative-answer/

Must not even pay attention to FOX polls....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255999,00.html

[Roccus]

Salameh, IIRC, was the mental midget who went back to the rental agency to get his deposit back for the truck he had reported “stolen.” If not for the rental agent asking him to come back later and subsequently notifying the FBI, he and the rest of that crew would have disappeared back into the masses.

[CDB]

What a terrific piece!

I LOVE Steyn’s final para.:

“The world’s most powerful nation has an illegal immigration problem because it has a legal immigration problem. Transferring millions of people from the unofficial shadow network to the arthritic bureaucracy that allowed the problem to get this big is unlikely to solve it.”