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Obama: Grab second chance on immigration
Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 28, 2007 | U.S. Sen. Barack Obama

Posted on 06/28/2007 8:38:38 AM PDT by H8LIBERALS

"Immigration is certainly a difficult issue. When we first tried to fix the system last year, it was a time when hundreds of thousands of immigrants were protesting in the streets, while self-proclaimed vigilantes known as the Minutemen were rushing to defend our Southern border. In Congress, a good-faith attempt at reform that I helped construct passed the Senate but ultimately failed in the heat of election-year politics..."

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; immigration; obama
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To: H8LIBERALS
Memo to Obama: ESAD.
21 posted on 06/28/2007 8:57:39 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Rapscallion
I've found American's for Better Immigration's 2008 Presidential Candidates website helpful in researching candidates' positions on immigration issues. See here: http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez2008.html
22 posted on 06/28/2007 9:03:22 AM PDT by H8LIBERALS
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To: Rapscallion
I've found Americans for Better Immigration's 2008 Presidential Candidates website helpful in researching candidates' positions on immigration issues. See here: http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez2008.html
23 posted on 06/28/2007 9:03:53 AM PDT by H8LIBERALS
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To: H8LIBERALS
From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

Main Entry: vig·i·lan·te

Pronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE

Function: noun

Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans

: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

Unless I am unaware of a law-enforcement or judicial (i.e., punishment) function that any of the Minutemen have executed, a certain college professor needs an English lesson.

24 posted on 06/28/2007 9:09:36 AM PDT by RonF
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To: H8LIBERALS

The Minutemen have prolly rescued more Mexicans recently from the desert and heat than any American or Mexican govt. agency.
And without tax funding.


25 posted on 06/28/2007 9:21:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (Hey, didja get the number of that truck? The one that just flattened both parties.)
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To: H8LIBERALS

A DIFFICULT ISSUE?

No, MORON, it’s QUITE SIMPLE (not as simple as you, but simple enough):

1. ROUND THEM UP

2. SHIP THEM BACK

3. CLOSE THE BORDER SO THEY STAY OUT

4. IF THEY WANT TO COME HERE, LET THEM STAND IN THE SAME LINE MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS DID, GET DELOUSED, GET CHECKED FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, GET A FEW SHOTS, ANSWER LOTS OF QUESTIONS — IN ENGLISH! — GET A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK, ETC.

Questions, Obama??


26 posted on 06/28/2007 10:01:08 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Wor)
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To: RexBeach

Then there was the soldier who was talking to Chelsea Clinton.

She asked him how he felt about fear.

He told her there were only 3 things he was afraid of.........

1) Osama

2) Obama

3) and Yo Mama


27 posted on 06/28/2007 10:26:34 AM PDT by Islander2
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To: Edgerunner

If the government of the people, by the people, and for the people will NOT enforce the laws of the land, the people MUST

Old concepts for the young who wish to be in power. Let them repeat History. Some day the public will get it.


28 posted on 06/28/2007 10:26:53 AM PDT by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: JSDude1
So following the law now..is being a vigilante: UP is DOWN, RIGHT is WRONG..

We really are Living in 1984, the end times..ect.

Many times in our History In the absence of law Vigilantes have defended the innocent. But of course they have the power to rewrite, reinterpret, and redefine.

29 posted on 06/28/2007 10:30:17 AM PDT by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: H8LIBERALS

I think Joe Biden is gonna hafta take it back. He is clearly not articulate.


30 posted on 06/28/2007 10:30:44 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I never consented to live in the Camp of the Saints.)
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To: H8LIBERALS
Black Back to the Back of the Line Black unemployment and illegal immigration.
31 posted on 06/28/2007 10:31:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Islander2

LOL!!!

Yo Mama, ,Obama-Jama, and his happenin’ Mama, Michelle Obama-Jama.


32 posted on 06/28/2007 10:33:38 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Poincare

The historical vigilantes brought law enforcement to areas and situations where the government failed or was not present. The Hollywood “vigilantes” on the other hand were portrayed as a lynch mob. Typical leftist distortion.: “Let the elites run things.”

Ahhhh, someone who understands.


33 posted on 06/28/2007 10:35:27 AM PDT by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: RonF

: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice

Ahhhhh more truth.


34 posted on 06/28/2007 10:37:55 AM PDT by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: DancesWithBolsheviks
You need to formally apply to be a vigilante else you will be an undocumented vigilante.

Darn it. So when I stalked out that rapist, shot him, buried him in my backyard...that was unofficial?

:-)

35 posted on 06/28/2007 10:51:10 AM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: H8LIBERALS

Barack Hussein Obama. Hard to believe he’s a serious presidential contender.


36 posted on 06/28/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: lowbridge

If you can prove that you’ve been doing it continuously since Jan 1 of this year you can be ‘regularized.’


37 posted on 06/28/2007 11:02:51 AM PDT by DancesWithBolsheviks (Demands, marches and media sob stories diminish my compassion.)
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