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I thought open-borders libertarians and socialists opposed stereotypes. Just kidding. Under the inflammatory headline, “Europe’s Arizona Problem” by Christopher Caldwell in The New York Times, we read: Any time Europe’s external borders look porous, individual countries get nervous. Denmark’s prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, has called for refortifying the country’s borders with Germany and Sweden, prompting accusations that he means to undo Schengen. It’s not all that surprising; Denmark is the Arizona of Europe — the European country most hostile to mass immigration — and Mr. Rasmussen is behaving as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer did last spring, taking federal enforcement...

Arizona has thrust a proverbial stake in the ground of our Southwest border; choosing to support legal immigration and take a stand against the violence and crime that accompanies the business of trafficking humans across international borders. We have seen numerous protests in response to Arizona’s new Immigration law. However, who is protesting and what are the motivations behind those protests? Are the protesters who we have seen breaking windows, assaulting cops, and carrying torches, just concerned citizens worried about the potential for harassment? Or are they radical Marxists just seizing on the opportunity to create more havoc in support...

A lawsuit filed in federal court by Latino immigrants seeks to force immigration authorities to complete hundreds of thousands of stalled naturalization petitions in time to vote in November. The class-action suit was brought by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund on behalf of legal Hispanic immigrants in the New York City area who are eager to vote.....The suit demands that the agency meet a nationwide deadline of Sept. 22 to complete any naturalization petitions filed by March 26. Latino groups hope to summon the clout of the federal courts to compel the Bush administration to reduce a...

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I just spoke with Speaker Hasteret's Office. I am told that he is waiting for "more hearings" one in Mid-July and another in Mid-August before appointing conferee's on the Immigration Bill..... I told him that the AMERICAN PEOPLE want the HOUSE bill not the SENATE bill !!! NOW IS THE TIME TO CALL SPEAKER HASTERET's OFFICE and tell him to APPOINT CONFEREE's NOW !!! David Click here to read MY OPEN LETTER TO CONGERSS

I am adding this thread for everyone to POST their OPEN letters to congress on this debate.. please take the actual discussions to other threads.. The purpose of this is so that we can PRINT THIS THREAD and fax/mail it to OUR REPS !!

For more than a week, I’ve been trying to write about the great immigration debate. Each time, however, I would get bogged down with the many intricacies involved in this very convoluted issue. Securing the borders would seem to be an obvious goal of any immigration discussion, but not in this debate. As marchers began demanding “rights” for illegals in cities across the nation, the debate quickly turned ugly. Many found themselves afraid to criticize for fear of being falsely labeled racist. While a broad spectrum of solutions has been bandied about, it appears that we are a nation without...