Postcards - and video - from the edge
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The Selling Out of America"Something Doesn't Smell Right"
"They need to hear from America right now and this time America is right."
"They need to hear from America right now and this time America is right."
- DeMint
Dobbs: What are the Senators from South Carolina hearing from their constituents?
DeMint: Our constituents are very clear. Over ninety percent, probably over ninety-five percent of all our calls and emails and letters are telling me to keep fighting to kill this bill. And they see it as a much bigger issue than immigration. They see it as a selling out of America - some kind of betrayal. [...]
Senator Sessions: They're [Senators supporting the bill] planning with the precision of the Normandy Invasion.[...]
DeMint:...They're using procedures that have never been used in the Senate.. ...something doesn't smell right.
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Network World Includes YouTube™ Video
Network World Includes YouTube™ Video
The objective, says Lawrence Lebowitz, vice president of marketing at Cohen & Grigsby, couldn't be more straightforward. -- "Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified U.S. worker ... our objective is to get this person a green card," Lebowitz tells his audience.
Mission, Texas -- An elementary school went into lockdown, after a group of illegals ran into a nearby neighborhood. -- It started when a Border Patrol agent noticed suspicious activity near the river. The agent followed a van into a Mission neighborhood near Pearson Elementary... [Also see: Man finds illegals in his kitchen]
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William Hawkins -- Washington Times
The argument that illegal aliens have been needed to fill a labor shortage in the U.S. economy is not supported by the facts. -- According to the Census Bureau, 14.3 percent of illegals work in manufacturing. Yet, manufacturing has lost more than 2 million jobs since 2000, with more jobs lost every month.
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WBBM -- Chicago
WBBM -- Chicago
Attorneys representing more than 300 U.S. born children of [illegal aliens... criminals], including 70 children from Chicago, have filed a national class action suit and are requesting an emergency hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. -- The suit claims the deportation of [illegal] parents violates the constitutional rights of their U.S. citizen children.
Montreal, QC -- Police in Montreal say they've foiled a bizarre extortion and murder plot apparently aimed at a couple who pocketed a $27 million lottery jackpot last month. -- A Mexican citizen was arrested Monday afternoon in a Montreal neighbourhood and arraigned yesterday for conspiracy to abduct, conspiracy to commit murder...
Several area roofing companies here, along with their owners and several employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for using a workforce composed largely of illegal aliens. U.S. Attorney John F. Wood, Western District of Missouri; and Pete Baird, assistant special agent in charge for ICE, Office of Investigations in Kansas City...
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The Conservative Voice
Judicial Watch is a leader in the effort to educate the American people about the inner workings of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a joint initiative of the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. While the Bush administration continues to claim the partnership is merely an effort to foster greater cooperation...
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Fox News
Fox News
Pressure is growing on Capitol Hill to investigate the prosecution of two former Border Patrol agents doing prison time for their on-duty shooting of a Mexican man who was transporting drugs into the United States. -- Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos are serving 12 and 11 years, respectively...
posted by jillosophy at 6/21/2007 11:09:00 AM
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