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Headlines and quotes from all over (3/31/2007 – 4/9/2007):
Recaps from an eventful week:
4/10/2007
Blacks Crushed By Immigrant Job Juggernaut
Employers hired workers at a surprisingly strong clip in March. The headlines spoke of a 180,000 gain in payrolls, but the “other” job survey based on households rather than businesses revealed an even more robust gain: 335,000 employees for the (via missionaryman)
In this episode…
We are often accused of focusing on race, but who actually seems obsessed with it? We take a look.
Bush thanks Nat’l Guard on Mexico border
President Bush commended the efforts of U.S. National Guard members recently deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to support the Border Patrol.
U.S. Raid on Immigrant Household Deepens Anger and Mistrust
A crackdown on one extended family — legal immigrants all — exhibits growing tension in Suffolk between immigrants and longtime residents.
Ads in Calif city urge immigrants to learn English
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Desperate for English-speaking workers, business leaders in a heavily immigrant California city have launched a $4.5 million campaign to persuade residents to learn the language.
4/9/2007
Bush ties guest worker plan to border security
President Bush said today the United States has toughened security along its border with Mexico and it’s time for Congress to approve legislation overhauling the nation’s immigration laws.
DNA Tests Offer Immigrants Hope or Despair
Genetic tests are forcing some immigrant families to confront unexpected and sometimes unbearable truths.
Illegal immigration is better than a poorly designed guest-worker program.
Schneider: GOP split may aid Bush on immigration
What kind of challenge does immigration reform pose for President Bush? Everybody favors better border security. The issue is what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States.
Schneider: Can Bush triangulate on immigration?
What kind of challenge does immigration reform pose for President Bush? Everybody favors better border security. The issue is what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States.
President Bush is pushing for a shake-up of the US immigration system to secure the nation’s borders.
Border Patrol Agents Under Attack
On the stretch where Arizona and Mexico meet, border agents say they are victims of assault from smugglers. There have been more assaults against agents in the Yuma sector this year than all of 2006, Kelly Cobiella reports.
Mexico-U.S. Border Gets Dangerous
President Bush said fewer people are trying to cross the border illegally thanks to a security crackdown. But as Kelly Cobiella reports, patrolling the border is getting more dangerous.
As Arrests Go Down Along Border, Violent Acts Are On The Rise
Only On The Web: Kelly Cobiella talks to senior Border Patrol agent Chris Van Wagenen about the rise in violence along the U.S. border with Mexico.
President Bush Asked Congress To Approve Guest-Worker Program
CBS News RAW: President Bush used a speech in Arizona to push Congress to approve his guest-worker program. He also talked about the tightened security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bush touts tighter security along border
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Bush is hopeful for a legislative compromise by August. He was making his case at a point along the Yuma Sector Border, a 125-mile stretch overlapping Arizona and California. Bush hoped to send a message—particularly to conservative critics from his own party—that the stepped-up border enforcement is working.
So far this budget year, apprehensions of people crossing illegally in the Yuma Sector is down 68 percent, according to the White House. Bush credits that to the power of deterrence.
I’d bet that this statistic is just as honest as Bush’s claims that he doesn’t support amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens.
Bush Renews Push For Immigration Reform
President Bush, on a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, touted progress in deterring illegal crossings and pressed Congress to pass legislation with a guest worker provision.
Bush Renews Push For Immigration Reform
President Bush, on a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, touted progress in deterring illegal crossings and pressed Congress to pass legislation with a guest worker provision.
Bush pushes for immigration reform
YUMA, Ariz. – President Bush visited the U.S.-Mexico border Monday to tout a guest worker program for immigrants, pursuing a key domestic policy goal despite chilly relations with Congress.Admitting a comprehensive immigration reform bill is an
While the border fence shrinks and his support among grass-roots conservatives plummets, President Bush continues to lobby for his massive illegal alien amnesty plan. The open borders lobby, of course, isn’t appeased enough. They want their green cards NOW…
Oh, this is rich:
Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens and condemning President Bush’s latest proposal.
Bush To Launch Immigration Campaign Today
George Bush will start working on the one issue where he finds sympathy from the Democratic majority Congress — immigration. The new campaign starts in Yuma, Arizona, where Bush will speak near the Mexican border about the need to both…
Bush Back To Work On Immigration Reform
President Bush is getting back to work with a second visit to an Arizona border town, where he will renew his push for Congress to present him with an immigration reform bill. But, with opinion divided, he may have some more waiting to do.
Bush seeks momentum for immigration overhaul (Reuters)
Reuters – Engaged in a fierce debate with Democrats over Iraq, President George W. Bush will seek momentum on Monday for an overhaul of U.S. immigration law with his second visit in a year to a major border crossing.
4/8/2007
Bush Renewing Efforts On Immigration
President Bush will relaunch his push for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws today in Arizona, with a fresh speech on the border and a new congressional leadership that is friendlier to his views, but with the same dynamics that scuttled his
WP: Bush renews immigration push
President Bush will relaunch his push for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws today in Arizona, with a fresh speech on the border and a new congressional leadership that is friendlier to his views, but with the same dynamics that scuttled his
Bush travels to Yuma, Ariz., to showcase gains in securing the border, as he looks for Republican support for his immigration plan.
L.A. Marchers Demand Immigration Rights
Thousands of March in Los Angeles to Support Immigrant Rights and Demand Path to Citizenship
4/7/2007
Kansas Democrat breaks ranks on amnesty
I can’t find anything to link to, so I guess I’ll have to do this the hard way. This isn’t getting covered on any of the news wires or CNN’s own page, but I heard this on CNN the other day and I chased down a transcript. Sitting in for Lou Dobbs is the wonderfully named Kitty Pilgrim; sitting in for the typical Democratic insanity is Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kansas:
BOYDA: Well, I’ve gone to leadership, and I’m very proud to be a Democrat, and I’ve just said, listen, we’re going to have to part company. This whole thing on amnesty and immigration is an important issue in my district, and I think in the entire country.
And on a given day, I said I’m not sure you understand the amount of outrage that’s going on in our country by not enforcing our laws and protecting our borders.
Migrant workers hold LA protest
Thousands of migrant workers in Los Angeles protest at a leaked White House plan on immigration.
“It’s A Crime” Means “You’re A Criminal” And Subject to Deportation
This bifurcation between illegal immigrants and US citizens occurs because of a law no other nation I am aware of has on the books: that anybody and everybody born within the borders of the United States is a US citizen, no matter how they came to arrive there.
The state House narrowly approved legislation Thursday to require all who want a state, county or city permit to do business to prove they are in this country legally.
In comments to Justin Levine’s post about people killed by an illegal immigrant drunk driver, a few leftists are arguing that the illegal status of the drunk driver is irrelevant unless I can show that illegals drive drunk at a higher rate than do legal citizens.
“Few Border-Crossers Are Prosecuted”
From the AP:
Bush plan sparks ire, immigration rally (AP)
AP – Organizers expect several thousand people at an immigrant rights rally on Saturday, saying many illegal immigrants are angry about a White House plan that would grant them work visas but require them to return home and pay hefty fines to become legal U.S. residents.
Illegal Border-Crossers Rarely Prosecuted
Ninety-eight percent of illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.
4/6/2007
The 24-year-old man suspected of causing the accident that killed film director Bob Clark and his son had a bloodalcohol level three times the legal limit, authorities said Thursday.
Hector Manuel Velazquez-Nava, a native of Mexico who federal authorities said was in the U.S. illegally…
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Few border-crossers are prosecuted
EL PASO, Texas – For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted.Ninety-eight percent of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30,
U.S. set to deploy border monitor towers
The United States is on track to deploy nine surveillance sensor towers along the Mexican border this spring as part of the Secure Border Initiative. …
CBP: Fewer arrests on southern border
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported that apprehensions at ports of entry along the southern border are down 30 percent.
4/5/2007
Study Shows Low-Skilled Workers Are a Drain on Taxpayer Money
The Washington Times reports:
Immigration reforms that increase the number of low-skilled workers entering the United States threaten to impose a high cost on taxpayers, says a study being released today.
Illegal Immigration And Drunk Driving
I have never seen Bill O’Reilly yell so loudly.
What he and Geraldo don’t know (yet) is that film director Bob Clark and his son were also killed by an illegal alien in a DUI accident. Few media outlets have reported the immigration aspect of the story yet.
“A Christmas Story” Director Bob Clarke & Son Killed by Drunk Driver
Killed by a drunk Latino driver with no license. The LAT pretty much has an embargo on using the word “illegal immigrant,” so don’t take the lack of mention of that to be proof of that he was a citizen….
Oh, Come On [John Podhoretz]Nothing that’s going on in the Senate on immigration has anything to do with Tom Tancredo’s bid for the presidency, Mark. This is the danger of being so wrapped up in a single issue — not everything that goes on in the world is about your issue.
At least the Pod – open-borders amnesty dude that he is – certainly hopes so.
He may discover come 2008 that illegal immigration is a far bigger issue than he wants or hopes it will be.
The Incredible Shrinking Border Fence
Low-skilled Immigrant Workers Means High Cost for Taxpayers
Looks like President Bush, Fred Barnes, Jeff Flake, Larry Kudlow and others need to read this report: Immigration reforms that increase the number of low-skilled workers entering the United States threaten to impose a high cost on taxpayers, says a study being released today. The Heritage Foundation …
4/4/2007
Bush And The Senate GOP Slash The Size Of The Border Fence
There are few things that Bush and the Republicans in the Senate could do that would more strongly telegraph their opposition to enforcing our immigration laws than cutting back on the size of the wall being built at the border….
Fence? What fence? Last September, I said this about the House vote to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border: There’s no funding for the fence, which will take years to build if it ever does get funded….
Deadly Drug Cartels Moving Into Peru
Peru is increasingly bearing the brunt of the violence and intimidation that comes with Latin American drug cartels. With massive pressure to curtail coca crops in Colombia, the deadly Mexican gangs that distribute cocaine are moving in.
4/3/2007
In this weeks edition…
Murder and mayhem at the border
Crimes committed by illegal aliens
And Minutemom Christie takes on Enrique Morones and his band of merry reconquistas
All this and more in this weeks exciting episode…
4/2/2007
Border a ‘free for all,’ group says
Robert Anglen The Arizona Republic Apr. 2, 2007 12:00 AM Less than 24 hours after beginning patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps say they encountered as many as 350 undocumented immigrants. Minuteman President Chris Simcox said Sunday that his group rescued seven immigrants, found the body of another and led border agents to hundreds
4/1/2007
DRJ Pores through Border Patrol Trial Transcripts
Cross-Examination of Jose Compean (Vols XIII-XIV):
The testimony of the last witness, Jose Alonso Compean, concluded late Friday evening and the parties rested.
3/31/2007
While Thousands Sneak Across The Border………..
When you hire illegals to fulfill a US Government contract to build a border fence, and fatten your own pocketbook, you get six months at home confinement. Well, some fish get more scrutiny than others: The false information and tax evasion charges relates to Kerik’s failed nomination for Homeland Security secretary, …
3 deadly attacks in Monterrey tied to drug lords
In one of the bloodiest seven-hour spans in recent history, seven people were killed in Monterrey, Mexico, in three attacks linked to drug cartels. At least one police officer was slain, bringing to 16 the number of lawmen killed in the Monterrey area this year.
Anti-immigrant sentiment up in Houston
As the size of Harris County’s young Latino population overtakes its aging Anglos, anti-immigration sentiment is increasing among area residents while admiration for ethnic diversity diminishes, the 2007 Houston Area Survey shows.
Truck’s secret hold hid 2 tons of drugs
What appeared to be a truck hauling an empty container from Mexico turned into the seizure of more than 2 tons of marijuana, El Paso Customs and Border Protection reported Friday. Officers confiscated 4,723 pounds of pot from the truck. The rig arrived late Thursday at the Bridge of the Americas cargo facility
Tags: illegal immigration, crime, illegal aliens, mexico, border security
