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How many American lives has John Ashcroft saved? Plenty. Across our nation, enemy terrorists have been apprehended since 9/11 — in Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, Peoria, Columbus, Buffalo, Baltimore, Alexandria, and elsewhere. Thanks to Mr. Ashcroft and the Bush Justice Department, terrorist cells have been disrupted and prevented from launching attacks (and from killing both Americans and non-Americans who live here), and more than 2,000 illegal aliens from the Middle East have been deported. Meanwhile, opponents led by the ACLU have instigated a vicious campaign of slander against the Bush-administration efforts to protect American lives. Reluctant until very recently to...

Good riddance to James Ziglar, the hopeless head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service who announced his resignation last week. This is a man whose main qualifications for the nation's top immigration enforcement job were his boyhood friendship with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and his effortless ability to suck up to Sen. Ted Kennedy. This is a man whose law enforcement background consisted of less than three years as the U.S. Senate's sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, protecting the Senate gavel and playing Senate hall monitor. This is a man who freely admitted before his confirmation that he had "no discernible...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - The ranking Republican on a Senate Judiciary subcommittee responsible for oversight of the Immigration and Naturalization Service is questioning that agency's decision to discipline two Border Patrol agents for publicly pointing out security weaknesses along the U.S. border with Canada. "As a longtime advocate for whistleblowers, I am shocked and angry about the INS Border Patrol's retaliation against Border Patrol agents Mark Hall and Robert Lindemann," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a letter to INS Commissioner James Ziglar Friday. "Based on this situation, it appears that some managers at the INS and Border Patrol...