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With the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the USA" blaring in the distance, Painesville resident Sue Kramer stood at the edge of Veterans Park on Painesville square Saturday morning, waving an American flag and a sign bearing the message "Revolt, America, Rebel!" Trying to capture the attention of passing motorists, Kramer stood apart from about 60 other demonstrators at a rally to protest illegal immigration. The hour-long event was organized by a loose coalition of Lake County residents called the Grass Roots Rapid Rally Response Team. "I think everyone should be fed up that our government is giving up...

When it comes to dealing with the illegal immigration issue, President Bush and his administration are their own worst enemies. On other issues, the president is sugar and spice when it comes to Democrat opponents. But when it comes to rule-of-law conservative opposition to his “amnesty” proposal, the preferred method of operation is akin to thwacking the hornet’s nest with a stick. You may recall that when the Minutemen first brought this issue to major public attention a few years ago with their volunteer border patrols, President Bush called them “vigilantes.” And it’s been pretty much all downhill from there,...

When they were stopped from going to the Salt Lake City offices of Utah's two U.S. senators Thursday, about 60 anti-illegal-immigration activists started singing "God Bless America." The group, mostly white men and women of retirement age, showed up at the Federal Building to demand that Republican Sens. Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch vote against S.1348, the recent immigration reform proposal. Most of the group consider the proposal amnesty because it would provide a path to legal status for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants nationwide through a guest worker program, where they would have to pay a $5,000 fine...

Protesters by the dozens carried signs, like "Security First, Amnesty Never," outside the Jackson office of Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott on Thursday. It was a shot at proposed legislation and Sen. Lott, who says the bill is not perfect, but it's better than nothing. "Sen. Lott has stated people in Mississippi have no problems with this bill, but as you see now, we are a cross section of Mississippi and we are very opposed to this bill," said Kim Wade of the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, or MFIRE. Senate Bill 1348 adds more border patrol agents and...