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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Border Security First?
McCain Says Yes - Obama Says No, Combine Security With Amnesty
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Salt Lake Tribune 2/19/08
Oppenheimer: On immigration, Obama aides say he was more active than Clinton in pushing for the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill that failed to pass in Congress last year, and that would have provided a path to legalization to millions of undocumented workers.
See Conquest of Aztlan - the video that exposes Mexico's plan of conquest.
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Fox News -- February 19
Obama: Government Using Illegal Immigration to Score 'Cheap Political Points
"The issue of immigration shouldn't be used as a "political football," Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday.
Obama spoke at a rally in San Antonio, a city with a heavy Hispanic population. Obama said the government should be trying to come to a solution on the issue rather than trying to score "cheap political points."
Obama says border security has to be combined* with a pathway to citizenship for people who are already in the U.S.
Obama's statements were met with cheers. Before his address, some in the crowd chanted "Si, se puede!" - the Spanish equivalent of "Yes, we can!"
* McCain says border security must precede discussion of amnesty.
NumbersUSA gave Obama an F- on Amnesty. |
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WOAI -- San Antonio sc
Obama to San Antonio Rally: Immigration not a 'political football'
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, addressing a rally in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in his majority Hispanic city, said Tuesday that the issue of immigration should not be used as "a political football." -- Security of the border has to be combined with a pathway to citizenship for people who are already here...  |
New York Times
Minutemen fight change in highway cleanup site
San Diego -- When California awarded the San Diego Minutemen, a group well known for its border monitoring in search of illegal immigrants, a permit last Nov. 21 to clean a stretch of highway including the Border Patrol checkpoint at San Onofre, complaints from [illegal alien] advocacy groups and Hispanic lawmakers were swift and strong. |
WJLA-TV -- Washington
Maryland community tries to become illegal alien sanctuary
A Maryland community voted to pass a controversial proposal that will make it a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants, but it was tabled indefinitely. -- City leaders are ready to make Mt. Rainier a sanctuary city, prohibiting local agencies from enforcing immigration laws and inquiring about a person's legal status. |
Gary Hubbell -- Aspen Times Weekly
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates -- a woman and an African-American -- while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. |
KETK-TV -- Jacksonville, Texas
Trans-Texas Corridor debated in East Texas
Tyler, Texas -- Heated debates are cropping up in rural East Texas communities as the Texas Department of Transportation hold hearings on the proposed the Trans-Texas Corridor. -- It's the first construction project of it's kind in the country. The Texas Department of Transportation says they want it to make room for a growing state. |
Randall Burns -- VDare.com
Jewish and Catholics politicos behind immigration enthusiasm
Congressional voting patterns on immigration policy differ strikingly according to the religious affiliation of the elected official. Jews and Catholics are the strongest immigration enthusiasts. It’s an update of the old saying about the Mafia: Jews provide the moxie (money/media support), Italians (Catholics) the muscle (votes). |
Associated Press
Prince William spends reserves to fight illegal immigration
Manassas, Va. -- Prince William County supervisors have voted to spend nearly all of the county's contingency reserve fund to pay for a crackdown on illegal immigration. The board of supervisors voted unanimously to spend $800,000 from the cash-strapped county's reserve fund to pay for the efforts. |
WWMT-TV -- Kalamazoo, Michigan Video Included
Teen dies after hit and run crash (illegal alien involved)
A teenage boy passed away Monday night after being run down by a hit and run driver in St. Joseph County. It happened around 6p.m. Sunday night on M-60 near Fischer Lake Road, just northeast of Three Rivers. -- The driver is in jail, after his bond was set at $750,000. Sergio Onofre is charged with... [Watch this video report] |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Smugglers jump out of moving dump truck filled with illegal aliens
Suspected smugglers jumped out of a moving dump truck filled with illegal entrants on a Douglas street Monday. A Border Patrol agent ran it down, jumped on board and brought the vehicle to a halt. -- The incident occurred Monday just before 9 a.m. in Douglas on 18th Street, according to a news release... |
Wall Street Journal
Wage Study: Illegal workers hurt other illegal workers most
There’s a long-running debate among economists over how much the addition of immigrant workers dampens the earnings and job opportunities of U.S. citizens - if at all. A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta wants to know what the impact is from illegal immigrant workers. |
News 14 Carolina -- Raleigh, North Carolina
NC study: 1 in 5 jail inmates foreign born
Raleigh -- A new study shows one in five inmates in North Carolina metropolitan jails was not born in this country. -- The Sheriffs's Association believes a large number of those inmates are here illegally as well. At the same time, some counties are starting a new program that can lead to quicker deportation... |
Tony Dolz -- American Chronicle
McCain - Last GOP president and father of the one party system
In the unlikely event that John McCain gets elected president, he will be the last Republican president. -- John McCain will finish the job of keeping the Republican Party divided over spending, the war and open borders/immigration law enforcement that was started by President Bush. |
U. S. Rep. Ron Paul
If we subsidize them....
For decades we have welcomed new immigrants to our American "melting pot". We respect those who come here peacefully to pursue their American Dream. But Americans have noticed lately that modern problems associated with illegal immigration are at a crisis point. Taxpayers are now suffering the consequences... |
San Jose Mercury News
Illegal immigration from India growing
The Bay Area has a piece of the nation's fastest growing group of illegal [aliens], but don't assume you know where they come from. -- Try India, whose engineers and programmers help power Google and other Silicon Valley companies, whose doctors heal the Bay Area's sick and whose entrepreneurs and... |
Paul Craig Roberts
Has Bush been spying, blackmailing Congressional Democrats?
President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to spy on terrorists, and we will all be blown up. |
WSLS-TV -- Roanoke, Virginia
171 convicted illegal alien sex offenders in Virginia arrested
“Operation Cold Play” helps identify 171 convicted illegal alien sex offenders in Virginia. -- Virginia’s Attorney General Bob McDonnell, State Police, and investigators from ICED say the investigation is a part of “Operation Predator,” a multi-year effort targeted at sex-offenders across the country... |
Tom Fitton -- National Ledger
Crackdown causes mass flight of illegals out of Arizona
Previously it was reported that a federal court in Missouri upheld a law penalizing businesses that hire illegals. Last week, more good news to report from Arizona: "A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the business licenses of... |
KTAR -- Phoenix
Police union blasts new Phoenix illegal alien policy
The Phoenix police union has labeled changes in the Police Department's immigration enforcement policy "smoke in mirrors," just a rewording of the old policy that prevented officers from asking anyone they stopped about their immigration status. |
Mike Cutler -- Family Security Matters
Illegal alien advocates ignore the real problem
Two United States Catholic bishops have written to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, asking the agency to adopt policies aimed at assisting families and communities affected by immigration raids. Normally I do not engage in discussions relating to religion, but this issue should be important for all Americans... |
Barack Obama -- Dallas Morning News
Obama: I will repair our relationship with Mexico
Under George W. Bush, the United States has not lived up to its historic role as a leader in the Western Hemisphere. As president, I will restore that leadership by working to advance the common prosperity and security of all of the people of the Americas. That work must begin with a renewed strategic partnership with Mexico. |
Gwinnett Daily Post
Sheriff plans to pursue training deputies in deportation program
Sheriff Butch Conway plans to train his deputies to begin deportation proceedings for illegal [aliens]. -- Conway, who has been in a public battle with Chairman Charles Bannister over the proposal for weeks, said he would like to start training 18 deputies in July, if he can hire enough personnel to fully staff the jail... |
KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas
Officer injured in Mission (illegals involved)
Mission police pull a car over near South Shary Road that had four illegal immigrants inside. When police approached the car two of the illegals ran off. This lead to a foot chase. -- During the chase a Police Officer fell and injured his leg. The officer is on his way to the hospital but is expected to be okay. |
Glenn Spencer
Is American Border Patrol about to be ripped off?
American Border Patrol has been doing aerial surveys of the border for more than a year. Last week Colin Hanna called me with the idea of doing a joint flight. Without agreeing to such a joint effort, I sent him our most recent border survey. (He got it on Saturday.) He said he would call me on Monday. He didn't... |
The Monitor -- McAllen, Texas
CBP investigating shots fired by Border Patrol agent
A Border Patrol agent fired his gun at a suspect Monday afternoon. -- The agent shot in self-defense, and does not know whether he hit the man, who fled across the Rio Grande to Mexico, leaving behind his Chevy Suburban packed with illegal immigrants, said Oscar Saldana, a spokesman for the agency. |
Indianapolis Star
Immigration bill advances
Businesses that knowingly hire [illegal aliens] would be tried in an administrative rather than a criminal court under one of several changes lawmakers approved to an immigration bill Monday. -- The change was among many backed by Democrats, who said they strengthened the bill... |
El Paso Times Editorial
El Paso feels Juárez drug war
Now for the after-effects of seeing our county hospital in lockdown because a patient was believed to be a target for assassination. -- The times, and our geographic location along the border, dictate that we may have to live with this sort of thing amid what are violent drug wars involving drug cartels... |
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