Sunday Shows Go Full Out On Immigration

April 6, 2013 | Filed Under ABC, CBS, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Fox News, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, NBC, President, Progressives, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

It looks like the Sunday morning political shows got the same memo that Immigration is the topic of the day for April 7.

The big three networks and CNN are all hosting guests that certainly lean toward amnesty for illegals if not out right in support of the same.

CBS’ Face the Nation

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State

NBC’s Meet the Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Bill Richardson, former U.N. Ambassador and New Mexico governor (D)
Michele Flournoy, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

Democrats Want Background Checks… Except When They Don’t

February 18, 2013 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Journalism, Labor Law, Law, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Unemployment, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the main discussions in this ginned up, fact-free anti-gun debate coming from the Democrats and their fellow extreme leftists is that they want “universal background checks” for gun purchases. So, “background checks” are a good idea to left-wingers… but in all cases? As it happens, NO is the answer to that. Democrats don’t want universal background checks in all cases.

Jams Bovard shows us this fact quite clearly in his recent Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril.”

Now, Bovard isn’t talking about the gun debate with his piece. In fact, he never mentions guns even one time. Bovard, you see, is talking about background checks as a condition for employment.

As it happens, Democrats and the Obama administration are attempting to eliminate background checks for prospective employees claiming it is a “civil rights” issue.
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Illinois Passes Drivers Licenses for Illegal Immigrants

January 10, 2013 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Pat Quinn, Progressives, Republicans, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

After a vote on January 8, Illinois is set to join only two other states, New Mexico and Washington, to allow illegal immigrants to apply for state drivers licenses. A third state, Utah, allows illegals to drive on temporary permits.

The 65-46 vote where 11 Republicans, some in leadership positions, joined Democrats to extend legal licenses came after a long, heated debate (SB 957).

Conservative activist William J. Kelly criticized the law.

“This kind of legislation has spurred a serious fraud problem in New Mexico and other states where it has been enacted,” Kelly wrote in the State Journal-Register. “Papers have been forged, auto repair shops have been regularly listed as places of residence, and more illegal driver’s licenses schemes have caused headaches for law enforcement as foreigners from other countries come to the state to fraudulently receive a U.S. driver’s license.”

Indeed, New Mexico’s Governor has been fighting to repeal her state’s licenses for illegals law.
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Them Hispanics Are Gonna Take Us Over… Or Something

October 16, 2012 | Filed Under Business, Capitalism, Democracy, Education, Hispanics, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Mexico, Race, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

For the last 20 years or so, there have been a lot of white Americans expressing alarm at all the little brown babies rolling around our nation of immigrants. It has worried them for quite some time. The trope is that whites are afraid they’ll be hip deep in the mewling, dark-haired droolers and they fear that America will become a mere satellite of Mexico in no time because of it. I, for one, have never been that worried about it and today I just saw some numbers that seem to prove right my skepticism of the Know Nothings.

Before I get to the numbers, I have to say I’ve never been too overly worried about Hispanics destroying the USA. Of course, I am against illegal immigration as much as the next border fence-yearning conservative. We have laws for a reason, after all.

However, I’ve never, ever been one of those that want the brown folks to be excluded from our national experiment. The worry that many had is that all these Hispanics will come here bringing all their communist-loving, Democrat-voting ways and that English will disappear and our national identity will be destroyed.

It was never my experience that this must be so, however. It was my experience that, while first generation Hispanic immigrants might never acculturate, their kids don’t take much effort to become fully Americanized in short order. They like American music, they like American food, American entertainment… in short, they don’t retain much Hispanic-ness growing up here in the U.S. It was even my experience that a lot of them are none too happy to be forced by their parents to visit Mexico or points further south, either.

They are Americans They don’t feel like Mexicans (or what have you).
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Calif. AG Pushes to Award Law License to Illegal Immigrant

July 23, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Business, California, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Hispanics, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Liberals, Mexico, Race, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

California’s Attorney General, Democrat Kamala Harris, has weighed in on the side of an immigrant who is asking the State Supreme Court to award him a California law license after his graduation from law school despite that he’s neither a legal resident nor a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.

In her brief, Democrat Harris pleaded with the court to award this license. “Admitting Garcia to the bar would be consistent with state and federal policy that encourages immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to contribute to society,” Harris said.

This is nonsense. Our laws do not encourage undocumented immigrants to “contribute to society.” Only when our laws are ignored, set aside, or broken by recalcitrant government officials do they somehow encourage illegals to “contribute to society.”

In truth, our laws encourage illegal immigrants to become legal or go back home.
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NBC Uses Che Guevara-Loving Illegal Immigration Activist to Denounce Arizona

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mexico, NBC, President, Rights, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a report on the recent Supreme Court decision reversing parts of Arizona’s immigration law, NBC’s Matt Taibbi gave extensive airtime to an activist for illegal immigration. The woman was shown sitting in a room prominently featuring a poster of Cuban communist, terrorist and murderer, Che Guevara, and among other activists wearing “Legalize Arizona” t-shirts. Yet, NBC labeled this woman a mere housewife and mother without noting her status as essentially a lobbyist against America’s immigration laws.

Taibbi sympathetically portrayed Mrs. Leticia Ramirez as “a mother” who just happens to have “been in this country illegally for over a decade,” and a woman just trying to be a good citizen.

Mrs. Ramirez, wearing an activist t-shirt that says “Arrest Arpaio, Not The People; End Police and ICE Collaboration,” said she is worried that the Supreme Court decision will cause fear in her illegal community.

It’s going to affect the whole community because they’re not going to be able to go out, have a normal life. They’re going to be afraid that if we go out they might – we might get stopped just for your color.

Of course, the fact is that laws governing immigration are supposed to do just that, make lawbreakers fear their status. Tougher laws are successful in making illegal entrants self deport. That is why they work.
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My Call to the Department of Justice Racism And Civil Liberties HOTLINE!!

June 27, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Hispanics, Humor, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, PCism, President, Race, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

My friend SooperMexican sends along the result of his call to Eric Holder’s DOJ Arizona racism hotline.

Says Soops:

When the news broke that the Department of Justice had set up a “hotline” to call in abuses of civil liberties in Arizona after the Supreme Court ruled on SB1070, I didn’t think much of it.

Now, I know that as a Republican white guy I am not allowed to have a friend who is Mexican. But I do. I also have a daughter-in-law who is Mexican. One to be that is from Puerto Rico. And I married a Korean. So, I guess I should turn in my white guy card.
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Too Many ‘Foreigners’

March 21, 2012 | Filed Under Frank Hyland, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, PCism, Society/Culture, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Frank Hyland

One of the hottest debates raging at the moment is that on immigrants and our policies toward immigrants. It is also one of the most serious debates because it has implications for the very security of our nation.

The U.S. is not the only nation that is feeling imperiled by the problem. A number of other nations that also have held their doors open wide for decades and longer have reached the point at which they are going beyond questioning their historical welcoming policies, and have decided that they have been mistaken in the past. France, Germany, and Australia are just three examples among many. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is “working worse and worse.” He went on to say that he intends to reduce the number of immigrants by almost half. In perhaps the harshest criticism of the situation, Germany’s Prime Minister Merkel declared that Germany’s attempts to build a multicultural society have “utterly failed.” Australia’s Prime Minister Gillard, in a speech delivered almost a year ago, provided a great deal of insight into the problem, its origins and the solution: Gillard said that Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should leave Australia and that “…immigrants, not Australians, must adapt. Take it or leave it.”

Typically, none of the U.S. Mainstream Media coverage has defined “foreigner” before praising or criticizing. It ought be thought very curious by those who call themselves “Journalists,” to say the least, that a nation like the U.S., founded by and inhabited by literally millions and millions of immigrants can so suddenly encounter an immigrant problem. A closer look at reports of problems sheds light on the answer. Two paths taken by those emigrating to the U .S. are rather obvious. On the earlier path, the millions who arrived in the U.S. from all over the world – Europe, Asia, Latin America – emigrated because they sought a better life, a life where their hard work could and would give them and their children and grandchildren a life that, previously, they could only dream about. To begin with, the great majority emigrated legally. They lived in homes that were, at best, far from ideal. Many worked under conditions that were horrible. They were both subjected to and carried out discrimination based on their ethnicity. But they kept their dream alive throughout their work lives – a better life for their descendants. And along the way, they maintained their identity. Columbus Day, Passover, St. Patrick’s Day parades and numerous other ethnically oriented occasions existed, as did Chinatowns from coast to coast. They identified themselves as Italian-AMERICANS, Irish-AMERICANS, Chinese-AMERICANS, Polish-AMERICANS, and on and on. There were numerous enclaves, sections of large cities, which had strict ethnic identities, a la the Chinatowns and Little Italies you can still see to this day.
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A Few Moments With Senator Jim DeMint

February 9, 2012 | Filed Under Budget, Congress, Conservatives, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Jim DeMint, Senate, Taxes, The Law, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Senator Jim DeMint (R, SC) is well known as the most conservative man in the upper chamber. He gave a rousing speech here at CPAC and afterward told a small gathering of us that many of the points he made will appear in his forthcoming book, Now or Never, Saving America From Economic Collapse. That message is, he said, that we have only a short time to turn this mess around and get this country back on track.

DeMint said that we need to remind our people — or in too many cases teach them from scratch — about America’s exceptionalism, but we also need to learn what changed from the days when our exceptionalism was better understood by the people. DeMint also noted that one of the problems we have to over come is that the Democrats agenda now prevents them from working in any way with the GOP and because their agenda is so extreme we just can’t compromise with them any more.

“Something’s gotta give,” DeMint said, “We have about a year before its too late
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What Conservatives and the GOP Dare Not Say about Immigration

January 12, 2012 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Republicans, Selwyn Duke | 1 Comment

-By Selwyn Duke

In a recent election piece, pundit Ann Coulter identified illegal migration as one of the two most important issues of our time. She writes that if we fail at halting it, “the country will be changed permanently.” She continues:

Taxes can be raised and lowered. Regulations can be removed (though they rarely are). Attorneys general and Cabinet members can be fired. Laws can be repealed. Even Supreme Court justices eventually die.

But capitulate on illegal immigration, and the entire country will have the electorate of California. There will be no turning back.

She expands on this later in the piece:
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Media Forgets to Mention S. C. Immigration Law-Blocking Judge is Obama Appointee

December 23, 2011 | Filed Under Associated Press, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Judges, Law, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Regulation, South Carolina, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the Old Media’s favorite ways of attempting to hide the ideological track of a story is to somehow forget to mention to which party someone in the news hails or owes fealty to. In this case it is what they don’t report that misleads. This week we find a classic what-they-don’t-say story concerning the judge that blocked sections of South Carolina’s new immigration law.

For those unaware, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel temporarily blocked segments of South Carolina’s new immigration laws because he claimed that some of its provisions impinged on federal prerogatives, things over which the state has no jurisdiction.

The South Carolina law was opposed in court by Obama’s left-wing, activist Department of Justice headed by Eric “Fast And Furious” Holder and a gaggle of civil rights groups and Judge Gergel agreed with these attackers issuing an injunction to stop implementation of the provisions in question.

The Old Media reported a lot of details in the story, of course. We learned all about who opposed the provisions, who scoffed at the injunction, in what District Judge Gergel hailed, and in some of the reports we even get to hear what Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley had to say about it all. But one thing few of these news outlets seemed to report might help readers understand the decision better.

Judge Richard Mark Gergel is an Obama appointee.
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The Top 50 Examples of Liberal Media Bias

December 10, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Censorship, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas, Communism, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elana Kagan, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Hate Crimes, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Judges, Liberals, Liberty, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, NPR, PBS, Regulation, Republicans, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Let’s face it, liberal media bias has been around since there have been liberals to do the “reporting” of the news. But this fact should surprise no one. After all, the news media has always been filled with bias of one type or another. In fact, there was a time when American customers of the news knew exactly which newspapers sported which point of view. It was taken for granted that one newspaper supported one side and another newspaper a different side.

But in the late 1950s and early 1960s that all changed. Suddenly the folks in the news media began to present themselves as unbiased pursuers of “the truth.” Gone was the out-in-front bias and instead the media cloaked itself in a new air of detachment, a new just-the-facts mien.

This new era in media conceit coincided with the advent of a liberal mindset that took on the weight of the world, a new era in which liberals felt that their ideals rose above God, tradition and country….

Read the rest at The Western Center for Journalism.

Jose Antonio Vargas: Being an Illegal Alien Made Me… a Better Reporter?

December 8, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mexico, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Jose Antonio Vargas is the perfect example of media bias. He presents himself as both an activist for illegal immigrants and a “journalist.” He’s uniquely suited to this claim in today’s PC world, too, because he is himself an “undocumented American,” as he styles it. And in a new interview he also claims that being an illegal alien made him a better journalist.

Vargas has been blurring the line between journalist and activist since it became public knowledge that he has been in the United States illegally since he was a child. After his coming out, Vargas launched himself into being an advocate for illegals. Only in the Old Media establishment can someone be an advocate for a political viewpoint yet still be consider a just-the-facts journalist. Vargas isn’t the only one, of course. Remember such “journalists” as Sanjay Gupta, Chris Matthews, Jay Carney, or Linda Douglas. Well, if you are a left-wing activist it works, anyway.

In the new interview with The Ithican’s TinaMarie Craven, Vargas posits that his status as, in his words, an “undocumented American” (nice conceit, that) made him a more careful reporter. He had to exhibit the utmost veracity, he said, because if not people might start looking closer at him and his background.
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Mitt Romney on Amnesty: Once a Liar…

November 23, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Immigration/Immigrants, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President, Republicans, RightPundits.com, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last night’s debate gave us all a perfect example of why Mitt Romney is the single worst candidate the Republican Party could put up for consideration. The incident arose when Newt Gingrich brought up his point that we simply cannot deport millions of illegals back to Mexico. Romney leapt to demagogy on the issue and pretended he was against amnesty. Well, at least he’s against it this year.

Romney puffed himself up and slammed Newt for offering amnesty to those that broke our laws to get here. “Look, amnesty is a magnet,” Romney retorted to Newt’s discussion of the immigration problem. The former liberal Massachusetts Governor then stood firm that amnesty is a bad idea.

So, last night Mitt was against giving illegals the right to citizenship, he said they shouldn’t be allowed to “jump to the head of the line” just because they were already here in contravention to our immigration laws. But that was last night. Once again we see a past Mitt Romney singing a different tune…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Immigration, Migration, Politics and Policies

October 21, 2011 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, President, Republicans, Senate | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

When early humans got the hang of walking upright, the first thing many did was to walk out of Africa and, eventually, to all parts of the Earth from Asia to Europe, to North and South America, proliferating into different races.

Always restless to see what was over the horizon, they populated continents. There will shortly be seven billion of us on planet Earth, an extraordinary number and one with considerable consequences regarding issues of food, water, housing, transportation, trade, and energy.

In terms of our DNA, we are all one big family, closely and uncomfortably related to chimpanzees. A look back at the past five thousand years we call civilization reveals that, in addition to developing agriculture, building cities, and establishing trade, we have never stopped engaging in wars great and small.

In good times we reproduced like rabbits. In bad times, we gathered around the fire and hoped the food would hold out. Many packed up and went someplace else, anywhere else.
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Newest PC Goal: More Hispanic Theme Parks

October 13, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Hate Crimes, Hispanics, Immigration/Immigrants, Race, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

When is a national park not a national park? When it is “themed” toward one small segment of the population by a government infected with PCism. That is what U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did when he advocated recently for “Latino” themed national parks and historical landmarks.

One might ask if Salazar is Interior Secretary of the right country with such a suggestion?

To carry through with his penchant for identity politics, Salazar has also pushed the National Parks Service to forget about those evil dead white guys and try to find more places for our historic landmarks that are associated with women and minorities.
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Alabama Shows the Best Way to Limit Illegal Immigration

October 3, 2011 | Filed Under Alabama, Anti-Americanism, Arizona, Barack Obama, Business, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Tougher than Arizona’s, Alabama’s new immigration law is a perfect example of the best way to put limits on illegal immigration. Sadly these are laws being forced upon the states to implement instead of coming from the federal government, but regardless they are effective in limiting illegals.

The Mobile Press-Register has a story sort of crying that Mexican oriented businesses in Alabama are suffering under the state’s new laws. These businesses have lost half — or perhaps as much as 75% in some estimations — of their customer base. Where have they gone? These customers are either moving back to Mexico or to other states and are doing so to avoid the tougher laws holding them to account in Alabama for their criminal trespass upon this country.

The Press-Register provides the stories of several business started in Alabama by Mexicans catering to Mexican immigrants. The businesses are on the verge of collapse because their illegal immigrant clientele have left the area.
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Obama’s Illegal Alien Uncle Busted for Drunk Driving, Hits Police Car, Media Silent

August 29, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Kerry Picket had an interesting report in the Washington Times on the 28th. Apparently President Obama’s uncle Omar, an illegal alien living in Massachusetts, was arrested for drunk driving after smashing into a police car in Framingham.

Picket also reports that the 67-year-old uncle Omar tried to, or at least wanted to, call the White House to get Barack’s help with the charges after he was arrested.

Picket writes, “I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied: ‘I think I will call the White House.’”

The president’s uncle, O. Onyango Obama, was mentioned in his book “Dreams From My Father” where Barack says that uncle Omar moved to the USA “25 years ago and never came back.” He’s been here for decades, living illegally the whole time.

It seems that uncle Omar’s time has run out, though. He’s now being held on an ICE warrant. Let’s see if he gets deported.
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Vote Fraud Paradise in Maryland

June 28, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Education, Elections, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Maryland, Mexico, Regulation, Taxes, The Law, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to SB167/HB470, Maryland is yet another U.S. State attempting to reward illegal immigrants with free or cut rate in-state university educations all at the detriment to the real citizens of the state — and all without the direct vote of the people. But this state version of the DREAM Act has resulted in some other attempted skullduggery, mainly violations of the state’s voting laws.

Here is what happened. Two Maryland legislators, Senator Victor Ramirez and Delegate Sheila Hixson of St. George’s County, introduced the bill in question that gave illegals in-state tuition to the state’s colleges – in other words, illegals will be taking the place of actual citizens at the state’s colleges. Even as the bill became law, the people of Maryland were not too happy with the whole thing. So, in time-honored fashion, the people of Maryland took up petitions to try and have a voice about being rid of this rewarding of illegals.

As it happens the citizens against this Maryland version of the DREAM Act didn’t just collect the requisite 18,579 (or so) petition signatures, they collected 40,000! This made the supporters of illegal immigrants suddenly all upset, as you can imagine, and here is where the lawbreaking came in.
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America’s Unfocused Immigration Policy Hurts American Workers

June 27, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Business, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Liberals, Mexico, President, Sy Woodsman | Comments Off

-By Sy Woodsman

I work for Customs and Border Protection and witness daily the damage our misguided immigration policy does to American citizens.

Did you know it takes about 4 hours to send each illegal alien back? The report generation and CYA process is staggering. (CYA Cover Your A*s) The CYA process and is due to the multiple and ever vigilant immigration lawyers and is a tremendous waste of manpower. If only they fought for you the American citizen as hard as they do for illegal immigrants!
Do you realize that while real unemployment is listed as 15.8%, today I and my coworkers at Customs and Border Protection will have admitted multiple J1 Visas who will be doing a job that you, or your teenager, or any other actual American citizen might need?

Sadly, I will admit a B1 (business) Visa holder into the country tomorrow that will abuse the limits of said Visa. Educate yourself about the B1 Visa abuse.
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Jose Antonio Vargas: From Journalist to Illegal Immigrant and Political Activist

June 23, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Education, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston, Washington Post | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The newly publicized life-story of award winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas seems to be one of those revelatory stories that tends to confirm some of the worst charges against liberals and the Old Media. The media sees no reason not to break the law, it employs people with political agendas, and all the while refuses to inform customers of the “news” that this is the case. As it happens, Vargas is an illegal immigrant in this country and has been for decades.

Vargas won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, he also made tongues wag recently with an exclusive interview with the reclusive founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. But his chief journalistic interest has been as a political reporter for the Washington Post.

But even as he has for more than a decade been given the role of an arbiter of sorts of political news, Vargas has been an illegal resident of the very country he has been reporting on.
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Illinois GOP Betray Own Platform

June 1, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Coal, DREAM Act, Economy/Finances, Education, Electric, Energy, Ethics, Gambling, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Nuclear Power, Republicans, Taxes, Transparency, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

With the latest three votes, the Illinois GOP has shown itself to be little else but Democrat lite and has shown that even planks in its own platform are meaningless when it comes to voting time.

The last Illinois Republican Party platform was produced and approved in 2008 (See .pdf here) and there hasn’t been another one since.

Lets start our scolding with the recent vote to wildly expand gambling in Illinois, a bill that 21 Republicans voted for, shall we?

SB744 passed this weekend with a 65-60 vote in the Illinois House. 21 Republicans voted “yea” on this despite what their own party platform say. That platform says…
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Dem. Party Chair Mad that GOP wants to Make Being an Illegal Alien… er… Illegal

May 31, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Jobs, Labor Law, Law, Liberals, Mexico, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a Democrat Congresswoman from Florida and is currently the head of the Democrat National Committee. She is also one of the most vitriolic, off base, half informed demagogues of the far left in America today. There are tons of examples of her lies and calumnies out there — it’s an almost daily occurrence now that she is DNC head — but today we have a new one. This time DWS is lamenting how Republicans want to make illegal immigration, well, illegal.

Yes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not bright enough to catch the “illegal” part in the phrase “illegal immigrant.” Apparently the question, “what part of illegal don’t you get,” is one she doesn’t get.

Naked Emperor has the video of Wasserman Schultz from May 26 of this year.

Transcript:
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Illinois Legislature Passes DREAM Act Giving Illegals Free College Education

May 31, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DREAM Act, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Tom Cross, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a 61-53 vote in the Illinois House, an Illinois version of the DREAM Act (SB2185) has been passed and will be signed into law by accidental Governor Pat Quinn.

The Illinois DREAM Act will provide free money for the children of illegal immigrants to go to state colleges and universities.

Supporters say that this bill does not use state money, but this is obviously hogwash. While much of the money that will go to illegals for free schooling will come from private sources, the panel that will do this duty is obviously going to be funded by the state.

Once again, the State of Illinois — drowning in debt and losing businesses hand over fist — is creating yet another expensive program to aid people breaking our immigration laws.
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Blame (Republican) SB35 Opponents for Illinois DREAM Act Passage

May 15, 2011 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Law, Liberals, Pat Brady, Pat Quinn, Regulation, Republicans, Tom Cross, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Doug Ibendahl

“The decay of the Soviet experiment should come as no surprise to us. Wherever the comparisons have been made between free and closed societies — West Germany and East Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, Malaysia and Vietnam — it is the democratic countries that are prosperous and responsive to the needs of their people.” – Ronald Reagan

A lot of Republicans are outraged that 11 Republican State Senators helped the Democrats pass the Illinois DREAM Act last week (the bill is now in the House).

The outrage is certainly justified. But it wasn’t just the DREAM Act. The GOP Platform took a beating on several fronts last week.
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Gov. Quinn Votes Yes to Release Hardcore Criminals Amongst Us

May 13, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Chicago, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Nanny State, Pat Quinn, Republicans, Security/Safety, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Illinois Governor, Democrat Pat Quinn has decided that it is a great idea to release violent, hardcore criminals among the citizens of his own state. At least those criminals that are illegal aliens, anyway. Why do I say this? Because Quinn has pulled the State of Illinois from the Secure Communities program operated by the Dept. of Homeland Security — a program that helps states deport violent criminals that are illegal aliens.

With no fanfare, Quinn quietly sent a letter to Homeland Security saying that he would no longer be cooperating with them to identify and deport criminal illegals. He’d prefer to keep them here, apparently.

Quinn claimed that the program was deporting too many illegals that weren’t convicted criminals so he felt it was a bad program. Note that Quinn doesn’t seem to think being an illegal immigrant in the first place is a law breaking action!

Nice, eh?
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Outrage: Democrats Bring Illegal Aliens to Austin to Testify at Education Hearing

May 12, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Regulation, Texas, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Duke Machado, one of central Texas’ leading Hispanic Republican activists, went to Austin Wednesday to testify in favor of a bill that would cut off taxpayer-funded financial aid to illegal aliens. He was shocked at what he saw when state Democratic Sen. Judity Zarririni brought in her Iillegal immigrant) witnesses against the bill…

…it’s obvious that the Democrats demonstrated their usual contempt for the rule of law, and time after time played the one card they always carry in their hand — the race card.

Read the rest at The PJ Tattler.

11 Illinois Republicans That Support Illegal Immigrant DREAM Act

May 9, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Education, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Republicans, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

When a communist newspaper celebrates the actions of Republicans, well, what more do you need to know how far off base a vote is? The People’s World is all excited about the fact that 11 Illinois State Senators voted to give freebie “scholarships” to illegal aliens to attend Illinois universities and schools.

Last week State Senate President John Cullerton’s Illinois state DREAM Act (SB 2185) passed with a 45 to 11 vote. This program sets up privately funded scholarships to upwards to 95,000 children of illegal immigrants so that they can attend schools in the Land of Lincoln.

Supporters claim that this was a no-brainer vote because no state money is used for this program. This, however, seems to be a falsehood. For one thing SB 2185 sets up a state commission which surely will cost the state to administer. Not only that but the law forces High School counselors to get special sensitivity training on the needs of illegal immigrants. Who the heck is going to pay for all that nonsense if not the local schools that will have to hire consultants to come in for these time wasting training sessions?
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Importing Disaster: Demographic Changes Mean Democrat Future

May 7, 2011 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Selwyn Duke | Comments Off

-By Selwyn Duke

At a gathering some years ago, I had a political conversation with a man who had recently arrived here from Denmark. He was advocating his home country’s socialist system, which, of course, led to profound disagreement. He was good natured and cordial, however, so the debate ended on a polite note. Yet it also ended on an ironic one: When asked if he wanted to return home, his answer was no.

This is a common phenomenon. We see it, for instance, in liberal northerners who move to the South for the lower taxes and cost of living and greater freedom but then continue to vote for the kind of politicians who made the Northeast a nice place to leave. And while this befuddles many, it’s simply man’s nature. Of course people want that which is good, such as a better lifestyle, but wanting and attaining are two different things. Everyone wants good health, for example, but many nevertheless are too attached to unhealthful foods and practices to relinquish them. Oh, they might move into your healthy body if they could, but they would likely do to it what a government–subsidized project does to a good neighborhood.

Now, there is a reason why I’m talking about how a change in location doesn’t equate to a change in ideology. In the Financial Times recently, Richard McGregor reported on the latest population data, writing:
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About That Big L.A. May Day Parade… A BIG Bust

May 2, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, California, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Los Angeles, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember that L.A. May Day parade? It was supposed to be a big deal, you know? You see, there was supposed to be 50,000 protesters marching in downtown Los Angeles to protest over how rotten the U.S. treats illegal immigrants.

As JWF tells us, local LA TV was all about helping the purported 50,000 immigration protesters turn out its people to focus America’s attention on making sure illegal immigrants become fully legal. Nothing less than full amnesty will do.

Yep, 50,000. That’s a lotta folks. It would be a pretty big statement to have 50,000 protesters.
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