Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Scary Postcards From The Edge

Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Heritage Foundation
For weeks, Americans were told that there are only two options for dealing with the nation's illegal immigration problem: stay with the status quo or accept a "grand bargain" -- a tenuous behind- closed- doors deal, first made public by The Heritage Foundation, which contained nearly 800 pages of flawed policies...
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Border Enforcement First! House Republicans Take Lead
Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - June 19
Sylvester: Leading Republican congressmen today proposed immigration legislation that emphasizes border security. The Secure Borders First Act introduced by Congressman Peter King and Congressman Lamar Smith. Their legislation calls for security of the border, first and foremost, as a matter of national security, no legalization for illegal aliens in the United States, no amnesty, and enforcement of our existing immigration laws.
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Chicago Tribune
"What we want to do is stop the Senate amnesty bill in its tracks right now," said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) "If Congress is serious about border security and immigration control, then this is the solution."
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McAllen Monitor
Palmview, Texas -- Two illegal [aliens... criminals] survived a harrowing half hour trapped in the trunk of a car during a high- speed pursuit Monday, according to police. -- Authorities discovered the men moments after the vehicle's driver crashed his 1996 Ford Crown Victoria into a barrier along Expressway 83's frontage road near Palmview.
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WTKR-TV -- Hampton Roads
An illegal alien was in court Tuesday accused of taking pornographic pictures of a child. -- Chesapeake police say Carlos Ramos tried to develop the pictures at Wal-Mart. -- A Wal-Mart employee alerted the police when the clerk saw the pictures. [More family values involving Bush's amigos]
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Robert Rector -- National Review
A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned. This remark adds insight to the current debate over immigration in the U.S. Senate.
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American Spectator
...In fact, the bill (S. 1348, the Bush- Kennedy amnesty treason) is a radical and dangerous attempt to open the floodgates. -- It must be stopped. -- That's the only conclusion one can reach after re-reading, closely, the report called "20 Loopholes in the Senate Immigration Bill," released on June 4 by Alabama's...
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Associated Press
East Stroudsburg, Pa. -- Federal agents arrested 81 illegal [aliens... criminals] during a raid at a manufacturing plant in the Poconos. -- All the workers arrested Tuesday at Iridium Industries Inc.'s Artube division have been placed in removal proceedings for eventual deportation, said Ernestine Fobbs...
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Michelle Malkin
The Grand Schemers have settled on amendments to the shamnesty bill in a bid to win over the wafflers: Sixteen of the two dozen amendments the Senate will consider attaching to a revived immigration bill come from senators who helped derail the legislation earlier this month. A list of the proposed changes obtained by The Associated Press...
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Associated Press
Norco, La. -- U.S. drug agents found six stowaways and 182 pounds (83 kilograms) of cocaine in the rudder compartment of a ship heading from Colombia to Houston, Texas, officials say. -- Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency caught the men shortly after the vessel unloaded cargo at an interim stop in Norco...
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Inside Bay Area -- Oakland, Calif.
Hayward, Calif. -- A pizza parlor owner is facing a federal criminal charge and most of his workforce could be deported to Brazil following a Friday night raid on his restaurants by U.S. ICE. -- ICE agents say Glenio Silva, a legal immigrant from Brazil, harbored a workforce of [illegal alien... criminal] Brazilian employees...
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NBC2-TV -- Fort Myers, Florida
One Collier County Commissioner says illegal [aliens... criminals] are costing taxpayers around $70 million a year. But he says he has a unique plan to put a stop to it. -- From the classrooms to the emergency rooms, commissioner Fred Coyle says the cost of [invaders] is weighing down Collier residents.
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Rocky Mountain News
If you need more evidence that the enforcement side of federal immigration law isn't measuring up, just look at the information that has come to light from Senate Bill 90, one piece of the package of immigration reforms that passed the legislature last year. -- The bill, which received bipartisan support, requires Colorado's local law enforcement...
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Associated Press
A man, his son and a woman accused of running a smuggling ring in which truckers were paid to transport illegal immigrants in sleeper cabs were ordered held without bail by a federal judge Tuesday. -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Ramon Felix and his son, Pablo Felix, at their El Paso home...

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