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Out of office, off an aborted presidential run and “working harder than ever,” former Rep. Tom Trancredo touched down in the Belly of the Beast on Tuesday to hurl some red meat at the local coven of his national base. He was visiting a local meeting of the paleo-con leaning Robert Taft Club, named for the presidential scion and longtime Senate Republican Leader who voiced his Midwestern skepticism of international adventurism. The modest crowd of mostly respectable gents, who braved the sea of Caps fans to huddle in the bowels of a Chinatown, DC steakhouse, gobbled it up. But it...

The issuance of "Matricula Consular" identification cards to illegal aliens in the United States by the Mexican government is a frontal assault on America's system of laws and sovereignty. Peddled to Mexican illegals through the Mexican government's many consular offices in the United States, these documents serve one purpose alone: to falsely confer legitimacy upon those who are in this country illegally. These cards are then used by illegals to attain driver's licenses, to open bank accounts, and increasingly to access government services to which they have no legal right in the United States. But it doesn't stop there. Earlier...