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October 09, 2006
Former Justice Dept. Official - Stop the North American Union "After all was said and done, the U.S. Congress finally In a related story, Rep. Tom Tancredo asks Bush administration to stop work on the SPP (security and prosperity partnership), viewed as a precursor to creating a North American Union. "Tancredo is one of four members of Congress who has signed on to a resolution designed to express 'the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.'" Illegal Alien Influx a "Three-Year Root Canal" For Small Virginia Town "For 300 years, Steve Jenkins's ancestors have made Culpeper their home. They farmed the land and built the town. A Jenkins was one of the first in town to sign up for battle when the Civil War broke out. Today, members of the family are high school football coaches, businesspeople and political leaders. So when he sees his home town overrun with traffic, when he sees dozens of men hanging out in a parking lot waiting for work, when kids in school are encouraged to take Spanish so they might better communicate with some of the newcomers, Jenkins questions whether this is still the Culpeper his family has loved for so many generations," says Washington Post metro columnist Marc Fisher. "Still, most of the simmering anger in Culpeper focuses on immigrants. In the past few weeks, Jenkins has pushed those emotions out into the open. He wants Culpeper to join the small cadre of communities that tired of waiting for the federal government to decide whether to get tough on illegal immigrants or to ease their path toward citizenship." Illegal Aliens Seek Compensation for Working 9/11 "No one knows how many illegal immigrants worked at Ground Zero in the days after Sept. 11. Immigration advocates claim it was thousands. And now, as the workers have become sick, partisans on both sides cast their plight in moral terms," the Washington Post reports. "Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes immigration increases, expressed regret for illegal immigrants who fell sick after working at Ground Zero but said they should not have been allowed to enter the country illegally. 'It tells us how harmful it is to have a policy that winks at illegal immigration and gives status to illegal aliens,' Krikorian said. 'If they present themselves to authorities, they should be sent home. It makes people squeamish to say this because of what happened. But this is a result of the ridiculous situation we've put ourselves in.'" GOP Abandons Arizona Enforcement Candidate "Randy Graf became the Republican candidate for Congress by taking a tough stand on Mexican border security but he seems unable to win over voters with a month to go until the November 7 election," opines Reuters in a slanted news story. "The former golf pro and state representative, who was part of a civilian volunteer force to halt illegal border crossings, is hoping a strong enforcement message that includes deploying troops along the border will draw the hard-line conservative vote in southern Arizona." According to Reuters, "With only weeks to go until Election Day, Republicans nationally are signaling they are not onto a winner with the enforcement-only approach. In fact, they appear to be backing away from it -- at least in southern Arizona. The Republican National Committee pulled $1 million in funding from Graf's war chest in recent days, while retiring Republican moderate Rep. Jim Kolbe has withheld his endorsement." [FAIR comment: Graf ran against Kolbe in previous years, something that Reuters chose not to report.] |
managed to pass immigration legislation in the year 2006. On Sept. 14, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (H.R. 6061); and the U.S. Senate, late on Sept. 29, voted for a bill (S. 80-19), endorsing the House version. Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass., spokesman for the anti-fence forces, was conspicuous by his absence at the vote," writes James Walsh, former INS associate general counsel. Walsh warns readers that despite signing the DHS funding bill, Bush hasn't given up his vision of combining the U.S., Canada and Mexico into one entity. "At the DHS Appropriations Act signing, President Bush repeated his support of a "comprehensive" immigration bill to legalize most illegal aliens presently in the United States and to provide a temporary worker program. The president may have envisioned comprehensive immigration legislation as a facet of his larger vision of a North American Union (NAU) melding Mexico, Canada, and the United States into a conglomerate similar to the struggling European Union (EU).
House Republicans and those who want to maintain the national sovereignty of the United States had different ideas."