Friday, June 22, 2007

Postcards from the Edge

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NewsByUs.com
While President Bush and US Senators continue to fiddle with their open borders amnesty policy, also known as the "Immigration Reform" bill, the US military is warning its personnel and civilian employees not to enter Mexican border towns. Chillingly, this warning also includes US towns located along our southern border...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Seven people were hospitalized early Thursday morning after a car fleeing from the Border Patrol on a rural highway collided with a tree about 50 miles east of San Diego, the Border Patrol reported. -- Agents had "initiated a pursuit" of a car heading eastbound on Old Highway 80 from Tierra del Sol that they suspected was carrying...
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Stein Report Includes Video
The buzz on the June 23 march against illegal immigration in Los Angeles is that it's a historic event. It's the first time Los Angeles, or any city, for that matter, has issued an official permit for blacks to march against illegal immigration. The march, as far as it is known, was planned and organized by black activists. [Also see this video: Stein vs. Moore]
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H. Millard
It's a bad time for the United States. Our destruction as a nation that any of us would recognize is underway. -- Protecting our borders and our citizens are the sorts of things that presidents usually do. It's expected by the hoi polloi. It's part of the social contract and fits in with our notion concerning a division of labor and with the concept...
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WCSH-TV -- Portland, Maine
Nantucket, Mass. -- Federal agents arrest 18 people during an immigration raid targeting convicted criminals on Nantucket. -- It comes at the start of the summer tourism season that depends on immigrants who work in the island's hotels and restaurants. -- U.S. ICE officials say the round up targeted criminals...
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WSOC-TV -- Charlotte
Lincolnton, N.C. -- Fearing illegal immigrants could overrun jails, schools and affordable housing, Lincoln County commissioners have adopted policies to halt funding for services used by illegal [aliens... criminals] that aren't mandated by the federal government.
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Houston Chronicle
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who has been under intense pressure from the White House and Republican leadership to support a sweeping immigration overhaul, nevertheless announced today that she will vote against reviving the legislation when it returns to the Senate floor next week.
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Washington Times Editorial
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prepares to bring up the immigration bill once again, the Bush administration and amnesty advocates in Congress are attempting to sell the measure as critical "national security" legislation. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez makes this pitch over and over again...
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NBC13 -- Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Ala. -- A war of words played out in the state supreme court Wednesday. -- There's a legal fight was over what language should be used on Alabama driver's license exams. -- Here's the issue -- state law says only English can be used for official state business, but as many as 12 languages are used on the drivers tests...
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WorldNetDaily.com
A congressional aide who visited Ignacio Ramos in prison said the convicted Border Patrol agent appeared emaciated, losing more than 30 pounds in solitary confinement. -- Ramos, who is appealing his 11-year sentence for the non-lethal shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler, has been in a "special housing unit" since he was beaten by inmates...
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Nashville City Paper
The first officer to arrive at the scene of Saturday's fatal car wreck that killed TSU senior Joycelyn Gardiner testified on Thursday that the driver of the large SUV that collided with Gardiner's sedan was belligerent, combative and smelling of alcohol, and that he tried multiple times to flee the scene.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Critics of a Bush administration plan to open the border to Mexican truck traffic issued a stinging denunciation Wednesday of federal efforts to comply with congressionally mandated safeguards for the plan. -- The report, authored by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a nonprofit group, called the yet- to- be implemented program...
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NewsByUs.com
Senator, I'm not one of your constituents, but I've followed your career for years. Let's be honest, I've disagreed with you quite a few times, but I've never disrespected you. Certain folks have shown themselves people of good will and I can respect that no matter how misguided they might be, they truly mean the best.
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Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette
The Mayor's Hispanic Advisory Council says it is severing ties to the mayor's office in the wake of the adoption of an ordinance that would allow taking away licenses, contracts and other grants from the city to any business that hires illegal [aliens... criminals]. -- The advisory council was one of a number of Hispanic and religious organizations...
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GOPUSA.com
Even though poor Sen. Harry Reid insists on calling the Senate's latest attempt to inundate the nation with hordes of suddenly legalized illegal immigrants the president's bill, it is really Sen. Kennedy's monstrosity. -- The president, desperate to get any kind of amnesty measure through Congress...
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Chicago Indymedia (Lefty Screed)
...This selective enforcement, and the consequences thereof, form a key part of new class action litigation filed today with the US Supreme Court on behalf of 6- year- old Saul Arellano and others. In their filing the lawyers argue the US government has purposefully ignored and selectively enforced its immigration and border regulations...

posted by jillosophy at 6/22/2007 10:46:00 AM

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