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Saturday, January 12, 2008 -- 6:10 PM
Limited updates will resume after 9:30 AM Sunday. Good evening.
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Register Guard -- Salem, Oregon
Invaders, ethnic hustlers toss tantrum over license changes
Salem, Ore. -- More than 1,000 people packed the Capitol on Friday to voice their opposition to the government’s push to issue driver’s licenses only to those who can prove they’re legally in the United States. -- Before they crowded into a hearing room and several overflow chambers inside... |
WorldNetDaily.com
Citizens blast tax-funded 'sanctuary' for illegals
...The El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center was the town's solution for stopping ''migrant workers'' from lining the streets each day to wait for employers to drive by and hire them. -- Sometimes as many as 100 ''day laborers'' gathered each morning. Neighborhood residents complained they blocked traffic...  |
Reuters
Catholics play vital role in helping migrants to U.S.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mex. -- At a Catholic-run shelter just across the border from Laredo, Texas, dozens of Latin American migrants say grace and tuck into a hearty meal of sausages, beans and rice, before trying to swim across the Rio Grande into the United States. Weary migrants on their journey north often... |
Investor's Business Daily Editorial
The border vote
California has real power, for once, in the primary process. It also bears more than its share of the costs of illegal immigration a fact that John McCain, in particular, should keep in mind. -- In Iowa and New Hampshire, it's fair to say that border issues were probably not at the top of voters' minds...  |
Donald A. Collins -- VDare.com
Democrat rebuts open border propaganda by WAPO's Aizenman
Since we already had at least one "treatment" of the issue from this Washington Post reporter, N.C. Aizenman, which I described in an earlier VDARE.com article, I have been watching to see when the other shoe (or shoes) from this open border mule for hire would be dropped.  |
Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.
Mexicans dispatching fresh troublemaker to Orange County
...After efforts to craft an immigration reform package failed in Congress, Mexican President Vicente Fox publicly expressed his disappointment. Calderon has refocused his administration's interest in an immigration overhaul. He also has been critical of U.S. efforts to build a border fence... [More Mexican meddling]  |
Laredo Morning Times
Ex-Border Patrol agent, wife busted
A former Border Patrol agent and his wife, who also own the restaurant Burger Patrol, were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to transport illegal [aliens.... criminals]. An indictment unsealed in federal court Friday alleges that on three occasions in 2007, David Cruz and Susana Lopez- Portillo De Cruz conspired to...  |
Houston Chronicle
Hutchison on defensive over border fence amendment
In an uncharacteristic display of public frustration with party colleagues, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on Friday sharply criticized two Republican congressmen who had accused her of a stealth effort to derail the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border...  |
Associated Press
Kidnappings cross the border
Phoenix -- A woman leaving an eyeglass store is grabbed in the parking lot by four men who force her, kicking and screaming, into a pickup truck. The kidnappers demand a $900,000 ransom. -- But police soon realize her family is holding something back and isn't fully cooperating with them...  |
Mark Andrew Dwyer -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto
The bilingual education that put California in the red
I was shocked by Gov. Schwarzenegger’s draconian proposal of “across the board” state budget cuts in order to remedy the $14 billion deficit. -- Rather than distributing the cost of bringing governmental reckless spending under control “evenly”, he should at least make an effort to identify the areas...  |
Washington Times Editorial
Hillary's illegals
"No woman is illegal," Hillary Clinton declared Thursday to campaign-rally attendees after a man said his wife is an illegal alien. The applause followed. Thus does Mrs. Clinton put her own twist on a very common immigration dodge: pretending that when critics of the Bush-Kennedy open-borders philosophy...  |
Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) Sun-News
Speakers blast Lindsey Graham's stance on invaders
A group of vocal foes of illegal immigration continued to marshal support Friday night, recruiting new members, calling for new laws and escalating their criticism of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. --- Almost every speaker Friday mentioned Graham, by name or by an oblique reference to "the senator." |
California Chronicle
California bill would end in-state tuition for invaders
In an effort to bolster membership and retention in the California National Guard, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) is proposing an education assistance program that would provide members of the Guard free tuition at state colleges and universities. Assembly Bill 1758: the California National Guard Tuition Assistance Bill was submitted to the Assembly this week.  |
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Critics pounce on Clinton after immigration comments
An off-the-cuff comment Hillary Clinton made in Las Vegas on Thursday has ignited a national firestorm. -- Answering a shout from a man in the crowd who said, "I'm married to an illegal woman," Clinton shot back, "No woman is illegal," grinning as the packed Mexican restaurant at which she was speaking... |
Associated Press
Tough border recruiting
AA NASCAR race car, sponsored by the U.S. Border Patrol. Billboards hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande, promoting a career as a border agent. TV commercials for the federal agency, aired during Dallas Cowboys games. -- With the Border Patrol undergoing an unprecedented hiring boom... |
Associated Press
Kidnappings cross the border
Phoenix -- A woman leaving an eyeglass store is grabbed in the parking lot by four men who force her, kicking and screaming, into a pickup truck. The kidnappers demand a $900,000 ransom. -- But police soon realize her family is holding something back and isn't fully cooperating with them...  |
Associated Press
Mexico criticizes US Border Patrol
San Diego -- Mexico's government is criticizing the U.S. Border Patrol for firing tear gas into Mexican territory, a new tactic that U.S. authorities say protects agents against rocks and other projectiles hurled at them from across the border...  |
Mark R. Levin -- National Review
The real McCain record
There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.  |
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