"The immigration-related provisions in Titles II and III of H.R. 10 (The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act) are an integral and central part of the global strategy to protect against and prepare for terrorist attacks prescribed in Sections 12.3 and 12.4 of the 9/11 Commission Final Report, and in the related detailed analysis in the 9/11 Commission Staff Report," notes FAIR staff counsel Mike Hethmon in a commentary for ILW.com. "Some immigrant advocacy groups have claimed that immigration enforcement is extraneous to the counterterrorism strategy recommended by the 9/11 Commission, and are fighting enactment of H.R. 10. In response, FAIR has prepared short summaries of the key H.R 10 immigration-related provisions, and placed them side-by-side with some of the more pointed statements regarding immigration enforcement found in these reports."

"President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him," the Washington Times reports. "If the House wouldn't deliver this bill before the guy's election, when he claimed he needed it for the Hispanic vote, why would they deliver it after the election, when their constituents overwhelmingly oppose it?" FAIR president Dan Stein said. "Why would House leaders follow the president over a cliff?"

"It's no secret that people sneak into the United States from Mexico every day. But what has been kept under wraps is exactly who is coming in. NBC4's Chuck Henry went deep in the Arizona desert to find out," NBC4 Los Angeles reports. "It's a place that used to go by the name "Cocaine Alley" because of all the drugs that were smuggled through. But now some officials are more concerned about human smuggling, specifically illegal entry at the border by individuals who are not actually from Mexico. They're called 'Special Interest Aliens,' because they're coming from countries believed to be a threat." "'The key is to pass yourself off as a Mexican,' said retired Army Colonel Ben Anderson. He has been following what he calls the terrorist trail and connecting the dots on his website. He said it's a journey that begins on the other side of the world."

"Congress's first order of business should be to deal with the big issue that received the silent treatment during the campaign, but which is the hottest issue at the grassroots: Since the U.S. Constitution makes it the duty of the federal government to 'protect each of [the states] against invasion,' Congress should close all our borders to illegal entry by using increased personnel, technology, aerial surveillance, and military troops," says leading conservative activist and Eagle Forum head Phyllis Schlafly.

Asked at a news conference yesterday about President Bush's guestworker amnesty plan, Secretary of State Colin Powell said a large amnesty could still be in the works. "There are other issues that we know that our Mexican colleagues wish to look at -- regularization and all of the other aspects of migration reform -- and all of these issues are on the table. But we want to start with the temporary workers program and make sure that we get this right and do this well with our Congress. And so, we have a clear understanding of how we should move forward, and I plan to report all of this to President Bush tomorrow." Powell was also asked about Prop. 200 in Arizona. " Proposition 200 is a state proposition and solely within the purview of the state of Arizona and the people of Arizona to make a judgment on. We are still studying the elements in the proposition, and if we have any concerns about elements in the proposition which would make the proposition inconsistent with the federal laws, we will certainly make that view known. But I am not an expert in the proposition, but we will be watching it and its development with great care," Powell said.