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Sen. Marco Rubio scolded Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign over a Spanish-language radio ad that accuses rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant.” “This kind of language is more than just unfortunate. It’s inaccurate, inflammatory, and doesn’t belong in this campaign,” Rubio told The Miami Herald when asked about the ad. “The truth is that neither of these two men is anti-immigrant,” Rubio said. “Both are pro-legal immigration and both have positive messages that play well in the Hispanic community.” Rubio’s sharp rebuke comes a day after he subtly corrected Gingrich for comparing Romney to former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, branded by...

Longtime readers of this blog know the tragic story of Los Angeles teenager Jamiel Shaw, who was gunned down by an illegal alien gang member in 2008 amidst brown-on-black violence in California’s open-borders sanctuary. The Shaw family has remained active and vocal in the fight against illegal immigration. Appalled by the Colbert Congress fiasco, Shaw’s aunt wrote an open letter to the comedian. Let’s see him walk a day in their shoes. Any other liberal Hollywood takers? Anyone? Anyone? An Open Letter September 24, 2010 Dear Stephen Colbert, In preparing this open letter to you, I am literally fighting back...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Although the U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation that would have helped children of undocumented immigrants work toward legal status and get a college education, an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed confidence Sept. 24 that the idea "is gaining more support on the merits." "These issues take some time to pass, even if the American public is ahead of their elected officials," said Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy and public affairs for the USCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services. He was commenting on the Senate's 56-43 vote Sept. 21 against a...

Geert Wilders, popular MP whose film on Islam fuelled debate on race in Holland, wants an end to mosque building & Muslim immigration. .. adores Thatcher... 'Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology,' - Wilders, a lanky Roman Catholic, 'the ideology of a retarded culture.' ..a crash course in Koranic study. Likening the Islamic text to Hitler's Mein Kampf, wants 'fascist Koran' outlawed.. all immigration from Muslim countries halted, Muslim immigrants paid to leave & all Muslim 'criminals' stripped of Dutch citizenship and deported 'back where they came from'.. 'I have a problem with Islamic tradition, culture, ideology. ...Swiss...

Swiss voters are going to the polls to decide whether the country should impose more restrictive asylum laws. The UN says that the measures under consideration in the nationwide referendum could lead to breaches of the Geneva Convention on Refugees. The laws include demands for valid identity papers and cuts on welfare for asylum seekers and the detention of rejected applicants until deportation. The Swiss government says the changes will reduce abuse of its asylum system. The Swiss Refugee Council say the measures are far too strict, especially at a time when the number of people applying for asylum in...

1 hour, 18 minutes ago The Washington state Republican Party has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the Constitution's guarantee of automatic citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. Delegates supporting that platform said their concerns included the cost to public hospitals and the expense of welfare for the children of indigent or deported illegal immigrants. "I think voters realize immigration is a problem and we are trying to grapple with solutions to the illegal-immigration problem," Diane Tubeless, state GOP chairwoman, said of the resolution adopted Saturday with little debate and few dissenting votes. The 14th Amendment...

A lot of people say I'm hell on black political leadership. They are correct. Most of the time, our elected and self-appointed African-American leaders are do-nothing, self-aggrandizing and venal. Now hold the presses. I actually have something positive to say about African-American leaders. In the thorny debate over immigration reform, many are seizing the moral high ground -- against their own self-interests. We all know that the face of immigration reform is largely Latino. People of all stripes have misgivings about issues like amnesty, guest worker programs and other prongs of the immigration reform movement. Still, black leaders are trying...

"What’s going on in there?" I asked Kate Obenshain Griffin, Virginia’s Republican chairman, as I left my car at the Capitol Hilton and prepared to go inside for the afternoon session of the Republican National Committee meeting yesterday. "It’s pretty dull," she replied, "except for the resolution on immigration. I think you better get in there." Griffin was right. In a move that showed that—the President’s sagging popularity and his lame duck status notwithstanding—the Bush White House still flexes considerable muscle within the Republican Party. After circulating a petition last year among fellow RNC Members, Arizona’s Republican National Committeeman Randy...

Vote NO on this MSNBC poll asking whether Congressman Tancredo should resign. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8704295/ Vote NO thanks :)

Senator Chris Lauzen’s speech to the Illinois Senate on SB67 I’ve lived in Aurora, Illinois for my entire life. 35% of my neighbors are Hispanic and 25% are African-American. I respect and enjoy my neighbors! Legal immigration is good. Illegal immigration is not. Illegal immigration is neither compassionate nor moral for those who are exploited by trade in their misery, nor fair to current citizens and legal residents of this country. Until our federal government acknowledges and shoulders its responsibilities at our borders, the State of Illinois should not make matters worse. Legislation that gives illegal immigrants yet another incentive...