Kansas City Star    Missouri and Kansas pushing tougher laws on invaders    With Congress on the sidelines, lawmakers in Kansas and Missouri say they have no choice but to make illegal immigration a target in 2008. -- In both states, legislators are pushing tougher laws. The measures — being considered in neighboring states and already passed in Oklahoma — range from...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial    Relative Huckster    Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, suddenly taking a hard right on immigration, has signed a pledge to enforce U.S. immigration laws and send all illegal aliens packing. -- Oh, it's a "tough plan," he said, but a "fair and reasonable" one. -- Right. This from the former governor of Arkansas who pushed for taxpayer-paid tuition for illegal aliens...

Market Watch   Immigration looms large in Florida vote    Cathy Farmer, a Tampa nurse, complains that illegal immigrants are taking jobs that Americans could do. Jon Santiago thinks there isn't a proper system in place to provide immigrants' children with health care. Dan Semenza doesn't have a problem with legal immigrants. But the illegal ones? They're a strain, he says, on American hospitals and schools.

Pam Meister -- Family Security Foundation    Open border shyster John McCain deserves a dunce cap    In the days of yore, students who did not make a valid attempt to learn their lessons and acquitted themselves badly at recitation time were sometimes relegated to a corner of the room in order to shame them. Sometimes a pointed cap would be put on their heads as a warning to other students...

Lew Rockwell  sc  Open-borders New York Times endorses 'McQueeg'    That, by itself, ought to be enough to disqualify him [RINO John McCain]. Somehow the Times manages, in their endorsement, to discuss their reasons for opposing all the other GOP candidates still in the race except for one--odd, considering that they claim to want a candidate who has...

John Reiners -- Tampa Tribune    Anchor babies weigh down economy    About every six months the population of the U.S. increases about as much as the population of Tallahassee. Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? They are newborns, children of illegal aliens born in the United States - birthright citizens, "anchor babies" - not illegal aliens. This quirky legal right then allows the mother's parents and siblings to remain...

Sterling (Colorado} Journal-Advocate    Likely invader busted with stolen ID    Sterling Police arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of stealing a California woman’s identity after a forged Social Security card was found in his vehicle during an early morning traffic stop. -- Salvador Orozco, through a Spanish translator, told the officer he was using the card to gain employment...

Omaha World-Herald    Feds arrest alleged Mexican invaders at Omaha Steel Castings    Federal agents Friday arrested eight allegedly [illegal aliens.... criminals] at Omaha Steel Castings Co., said a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -- The workers, all men from Mexico, will be offered a hearing before an immigration judge, said ICE spokesman Tim Counts...

Fox News    Mayors blast Congress over the invasion    Mayors [of the amnesty-cheerleading sort] from across the country said Friday that Congress is unlikely to act on the nation's immigration problems this year and blasted lawmakers for what they called irresponsible procrastination. -- "The message that immigration reform -- comprehensive and practicable -- is not going to be addressed for a year or two is unacceptable. It's outrageous," said Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon.

Antelope Valley (Calif.) Press   Lancaster City Council votes to boot invaders out    The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to initiate a program intended to lead to the deportation of illegal [aliens.... criminals] arrested by Lancaster sheriff's deputies and convicted of violent crimes. -- Under the program, proposed by Councilman Ron Smith, deputies and custody assistants who book suspects...

Michelle Malkin    Meet the Enemy: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”    Shamnesty peddler John McCain taps former Mexican government official/shamnesty advocate Juan Hernandez as his presidential campaign Hispanic Outreach Director. -- Hernandez is a fellow at McCain’s “Reform Institute.” What has he been working on there for the past year? [Video: Eagle Forum's Jessica Echard debates bombastic double-talking liar Hernandez]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review    BP apprehends suspected invaders in Sierra Vista    The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended several apparent illegal [aliens.... criminals] on the city’s east side Thursday evening. -- It appeared that Border Patrol units had pulled over a white PT Cruiser with California plates in the 5100 block of Michaelangelo Drive, just west of North Guilio Cesare, shortly before 6 p.m...

Daily Press -- Newport News, Virginia   Hearing postponed for illegal alien murder suspect    James City -- A competency hearing for capital murder suspect Oswaldo Martinez was postponed Friday after language experts from Gallaudet University asked for additional time to evaluate his progress. -- Martinez, [an illegal alien.... criminal] from El Salvador, is charged with rape, murder, sodomy and robbery... [More of Bush's pet fiends]

Alan Caruba -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto    What's more costly than Iraq? Illegal immigration   Here are some statistics provided in a post from one of my favorite forums: 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. -- 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens....

David Frum -- New York Times   Turning the Triple Play ("Explains" the GOP "breakup")    WHY is the Republicans’ three-legged stool wobbling? -- Why aren’t economic, social and political conservatives pulling together during this primary season the way they have in the past? To understand, let’s imagine that we had three conservatives in the room with us — and that they said exactly what was on their minds...

Anchorage Daily News    Alaska assemblyman raises invader issue again    Late last year the Anchorage Assembly killed Paul Bauer's plan to have police check for illegal immigrants during traffic stops. -- Now, Assemblyman Bauer hopes to resurrect the idea by putting the debate before voters. -- He's proposing two ballot questions for the April 1 election....

Daily Herald -- Provo, Utah   2 bills target invaders    The lack of federal initiative on the immigration issue has led to a knock-down drag-out debate at the state level. -- Two bills touching on the issue, one subtly and the other overtly, were bandied about a legislative committee and the public Friday. -- First, the most hotly debated:..

Chuck Baldwin -- VDare.com    What the Man Behind the Curtain wants for America    "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" is the famous quote from the wizard in the movie classic, The Wizard Of Oz. However, when it comes to national and international affairs, many, if not most, Americans seem to have taken the mythical wizard's advice. They seem oblivious to the man behind the curtain. And make no mistake about it: there is a man (or group of men) behind the curtain...

Sara A. Carter -- Washington Times    Homeland Security silent on Mexican TB carrier's multiple U.S. entries    The Senate Homeland Security Chairman urged the Department of Homeland Security to provide answers to questions submitted three months ago regarding the multiple entries of a Mexican national carrying a dangerous strain of tuberculosis...

David Limbaugh -- WorldNetDaily    McCain's a 'hero' – so what?    Many conservatives have said Sen. John McCain is not conservative enough to suit them. Some of McCain's defenders have not only disagreed but have impugned his critics, hypocritically blaming them for divisiveness. -- But intramural bickering isn't the issue. What's important is that conservatives have...

Newsday -- New York    Illegal alien janitor accused of molesting student    Princeton, NJ -- Princeton Township police say a janitor sexually assaulted a 14-year-old student inside a classroom at The Hun School. -- Police arrested Erickson Pretzintzin-Suchi when he showed up for work at the private prep school on Wednesday... [Related: Deportation was issued for sex assault suspect]