More calls to get tough on immigrants
• USA TodayRecent demonstrations demanding that immigration laws be eased are fueling new interest in states far from the U.S.-Mexican border in groups that support stricter immigration enforcement.
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Immigration
The Immigration Payoff
• Business WeekLiving south of the U.S. border can be a surreal experience. When I was in Tijuana recently trying to navigate a poorly marked main artery to return a rental car, I suddenly realized I was on the wrong side of the four-lane highway, heading toward Sa
Minutemen to government: Build a fence, or we will!
• Associated PressMinuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will. Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the med
Chertoff downplays Mexican military incursions
• WorldNetDailyThe Border Patrol has tracked 216 incursions by Mexican military or police forces since 1996, the Daily Bulletin first reported Sunday.
Employers risk to bring us products as inexpensively as possible
• Christian Science MonitorIt's a topic often lost in the heated battle over whether to add more border patrol agents, build a bigger fence, or deploy the US military along the border with Mexico. But in the end the US can't stem the flow of illegal immigrants until it
Mexican Flag burning in Tucson TV 9 Video
• WTPAZ.orgArizona Daily Star article highlighting the arrest of Roy Warden a day after burning the Mexican Flag in Amory Park and shoving members of the press
Phoenix talk radio solution to immigration: Kill 'em
• Phoenix New TimesOn a March 8 installment of 550's 8 p.m. bile-fest, James, an occasional fill-in host at the station, hocked up the snot-ball that illegals trying to make it over the border should be shot on sight. This, James shared with listeners (most of whom
After protests, Republicans mull changes in bill
• ReutersFollowing huge nationwide protests, House Republicans moved to possibly change 2 key provisions in a get-tough immigration bill passed. One would turn millions of illegal immigrants into felons and the people who provide them humanitarian relief woul
Immigration Rally in Phoenix - From the Inside
Ernest HancockWe did our best to provide ‘The Injection of the libertarian infection into the bone marrow of Arizona Hispanic politics, for which there will be no cure’ to as many human beings as we could with our small group of dedicated freedom activists.
More than 2 million Immigration protestors nationwide
• BloombergMore than 2 million people wearing white T-shirts or armbands and carrying American flags may rally across the US today against an immigration reform bill that would tighten the borders and impose stiffer penalties on illegal immigrants, organizers s
Immigration "solutions" - By Thomas Sowell
Ernest HancockThe releasing of children from schools to take part in these marches and the support of the marchers' goals by some religious leaders demonstrate that this contempt for the laws of the land has spread well beyond immigrant communities.
Government to keep database on who is permitted to work
• Associated PressAt the heart of any immigration bill that makes it through the heated congressional debates is likely to be a computerized system that could help employers determine instantly whether someone can legally work in this country.
Group burns Mexican flag, plans on igniting more
• KVOA TV News 4 TucsonBefore igniting the flag, group members recited the Pledge of Allegiance. (How many people does this guy represent?)
Immigration - Government & the Individual - by Jim Peron
Ernest HancockDave Gallagher assumes we are putting the immigration cart before the welfare horse. This argument is one that some, especially those who want to cater to the xenophobic Right, use with certain regularity
Immigration Solution: Mexican Freedom - by Roy Miller
Ernest HancockIt always seemed odd that the major populated areas that straddled the border had an obvious difference in appearance between the portion on the Mexican side and the portion on the United States side.
THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS
Stephen LendmanThe US war against immigrants in their fight for equal justice.
Fascist Nation
<b> Illegal Aliens and My Money </b>
Powell GammillImmigration. Illegal aliens. Migrants. We talk about closed borders, fences, military patrols, felony convictions, detainments and expulsion. We never seem to discuss what illegal aliens from around the world mean to us?
Immigration, Freedom and those Damn Libertarians
Ernest HancockIt’s common knowledge to those interested in politics that libertarians support “open borders”, and if you asked a non-libertarian, “Why?”, the most common response is a blank stare.
Necessary Evil
The Open Borders Cart Before the Welfare Horse
Dave GallagherWhen local Philadelphians are talking more about the southern border than Terrell Owens being traded to the Dallas Cowboys, it is a hot issue...this issue is the single greatest perceived negative by many...exploring the LP in their search for a new
Criminalizing Workers not Immigration Answer
Howard BlitzIndividual liberty and a free market, where the price mechanism operates without government interference, allows for the proper amount of immigration.
Hundreds of thousands rally for Immigration
• Associated PressHundreds of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest Sunday urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Ten Traitors Plus One
Frosty WooldridgeTen of the worst in Congress stand in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Article IV Section 4. Unmasking them gives the public the ability to vote them out of office in November, 2006.
U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s Mexican deportations
• By Wendy Koch, USA TODAYThe deportation of Piña's family tells an almost-forgotten story of a 1930s anti-immigrant campaign. Tens of thousands, and possibly more than 400,000, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were pressured — through raids and job denials — to leave the U
Protesters Defend Carrying Mexican Flags
• Associated PressHundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the US. [British flag license plates anyone?]
Immigration: A tale of two cities
• USA TodayAs Washington grapples with rewriting immigration law, possibly settling the status of 12 million undocumented residents, the issue is playing out at the local level—with communities deciding whether to support or subvert the federal will.
1930s deportation of Mexicans
• USA Today"They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, CA, of the 1931 raid. "They didn't let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that
Immigration: Businesses will pay more, so you will pay more
• Business Week"Unless there is reform, American competitiveness will suffer as other countries benefit from the international talent that US employers cannot hire or retain," wrote Microsoft's Bill Gates to lawmakers.
Immigration and the GOP
• WSJ EditorialThe most important political outcome may turn out to be the message that Republicans send about the kind of the party they are and hope to be.
Poll: Americans divided on Immigration
• Pew Research CenterThe public remains largely divided in its views of the overall effect of immigration. Roughly as many believe that newcomers to the U.S. strengthen American society as say they threaten traditional American values, and over the longer term, positive
Chris Simcox, Minuteman Project - Sat. April 1st at the Arizona Breakfast Club
Ernest HancockChris Simcox is the controversial cofounder (with James Gilchrist) of the Minuteman Project, and the project's main spokesperson, which brought nationwide attention to the problems created by illegal immigration on our southern border.
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