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Donald Trump is running riot in the GOP china shop and gleefully tearing the place up. Consider the strength of Trump’s position: If he wins South Carolina by a big margin, he goes into Nevada with momentum, and the latest poll there has him leading by 26 points and pushing 50 percent. If he enters Super Tuesday a week later having won three out of the past three states — and with Cruz diminished by a South Carolina loss and Rubio having won nowhere — he could easily win, say, 10 contests that day. It might still be possible to...

The illegal aliens in this country are threatening a massive boycott on May 1, purportedly to demonstrate they are so essential that the U.S. economy would shut down without their labor. On the contrary, such a boycott will expose the lie expressed by President Bush in Cancun, Mexico that they are "doing work that Americans will not do." According to the Pew Hispanic Center, illegal aliens are less than 5 percent of our labor force. If every one of the 20 million illegal aliens in our country plays hooky from his job on May 1, the overwhelming majority of those...

by Mark Finkelstein April 29, 2006 Give Ellen Ratner credit for consistency - if not for logic. For the second week running Ratner used her 'Long & Short of It' platform on Fox & Friends Weekend to tout her solution to the immigration problem - sheer surrender in the form of 'open borders'. Here is Ratner's rant on the same subject from last week's show. Ratner: "I want to say again . . . I know it gets a lot of mail, why I am in favor of really having open borders between Canada and Mexico, because there is not...

I got interested in the view from Mexico of the illegal immigration problem. I looked in the Spanish language media and ran across this article: Translation: "The immigration problem will not be resolved by the construction of a frontier wall" said World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz. "I don't see immigration as a problem, it has to do with the creation of jobs and opportunities and not about building a wall between the rich and the poor."

The second session of the 109th Congress is poised to renew debate on controlling the borders and bringing an end to illegal immigration. As most of you already know, the House passed a bill in mid December that purports to get tough on illegal immigration without adding any guest worker or amnesty provisions. This much is satisfying, but the House bill could and should have been stronger. Only the TRUE Enforcement and Border Control Act, H.R. 4313, aims directly at the root incentives that drive illegal immigration and mirrors what the public is demanding. Read FAIR's exclusive analysis of the...

The Hagel-Martinez Guest Worker Amnesty Plan: Round 2! The Senate returned from recess this week with plans to take up immigration reform again during the month of May. Both Senator Frist and Senator Reid have publicly announced they plan to have an immigration reform package voted out of the chamber by Memorial Day recess and FAIR has learned that the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” is still the vehicle of choice. During the floor debate three weeks ago, Senators tried to market the Hagel-Martinez “compromise” as some moderate version of the massive McCain-Kennedy guest worker amnesty. The American public was not fooled then,...