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White House compares illegal immigration to speeding PDF | Email Bill Sammon, The Examiner May 26, 2006 5:13 PM (2 days ago) WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday said a Senate bill that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants is analogous to a traffic law that allows a speeder to pay a fine and continue driving. "If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you're not forever a speeder, are you?" White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner. "So the fact is, you have paid your debt to society,"...

Rice, Blair, Clinton call for investment in Gaza NEW YORK (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US president Bill Clinton, met in New York to call for development investments in Gaza. "There is a lot of poverty and despair but there's new hope and opportunities because of the Israel withdrawal," Rice said during an informal discussion organized by Clinton around the opening of the summit. "I would urge the people in this room to think early and often on what opportunities there might be for private investments in Gaza, for job...

Two Democratic Governors, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, have declared a state of emergency and asked for federal help to deal with the costs of the violence and property damage caused by illegal aliens coming over their southern borders. If President Bush lets these partisan Democrats get to the right of him on the immigration issue, all Republicans will suffer in the next election. Dr. Madeleine Cosman, Esq. is a national authority on the diseases brought into our country by illegal aliens, who of course are not given health examinations required of all legal immigrants....