Wow...this just completely turns reality on its head: Aug. 22, 2007. Elvira Arellano speaks to the Mexican Congress about her deportation from the United States. Elvira claims the U.S. broke that law first by 'allowing' illegal immigrants to pay taxes. She may be a senora rather than a senor, but she still has major cojones. LiveLeak.com - Elvira Arellano Says U.S. 'Broke The Law First'...
Yet another reason for us to get serious about immigration enforcement: LOS ANGELES - Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records. ADVERTISEMENT Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations...
Or so says Barak Obama, while fishing for support from a group whose name translates as "The Race". But of course, they're not racist...no: MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard. "Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year. Who was talking...
I'm pretty sure this is supposed to evoke sympathy: Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home. "We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers." But while I'm sorry to see anyone...
This covers it about as well as I've seen: Regarding immigration like a crime problem is the succinct answer to the comprehensive-reform crowd's best rhetorical device: The searing question, What are you going to do about 12 million people? The answer is: The same thing I do about the millions of drug felonies that happen yearly . I don't expect to deal with every one, much as I might like to. I don't have the resources and the public would not support such a sweeping program. So, I am going to go...
As if the recently-deceased immigration bill wasn't bad enough, we've also got lunatic federal judges to deal with: A New York town will pay six illegal day laborers $550,000 and forbid its police department from checking suspects’ immigration status to settle a discrimination lawsuit that claims the men were harassed because they are Hispanic. The case stems from a much-needed police crackdown on disruptive and violent loitering in a public park in Mamaroneck , a town of about 20,000 residents located...
Interesting story in today's Washington Times , noting that the RNC has fired its entire telephone fundraising staff. According to some of the staffers, at least part of the motivation is a major drop-off in contributions from small donors (I'm certainly one of those who are refusing to donate another penny until the RNC and the President stop spitting in our faces and insulting us on immigration). This statement, by an RNC spokeswoman, just smacks of denial: "Any assertion that overall donations...
I used to respect and admire Linda Chavez. Hers was a voice of reason on race and racial politics, among other subjects. I greatly enjoyed her book, An Unlikely Conservative , and found her story inspiring. But reading the following, I cannot believe my eyes: Some people just don't like Mexicans -- or anyone else from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many babies, and that Latino kids will dumb...
A while back, I posted the reasons why I cannot and will not support John McCain for the GOP presidential nomination. One of the first reasons I mentioned was that he is "terrible on immigration" from a conservative's viewpoint, and this week's immigration "deal" with Democrats only proves my point. And McCain's contempt for conservative objections to this deal became all the more obvious after his blast at fellow Republican John Cornyn , following the latter's attempt to improve the enforcement...