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October 22, 2007


Judge Kicks Out Challenge to Oklahoma Immigration Enforcement Law

Federal judge James Payne, whose court heard the challenge to Oklahoma HB 1804, has dismissed the lawsuit. None of the nine (or maybe eleven – he noted that the complaint wasn’t even clear on who was a plaintiff) named plaintiffs had standing, according to the Judge's opinion. This is a major victory for state level immigration enforcement legislation. The order dismissing the lawsuit refers to the Hazleton litigation, pointing out that the John Doe illegal alien plaintiffs in Oklahoma were much more vague and hypothetical than the claims made by the Pennsylvania plaintiffs.

IRLI (Immigration Reform Law Institute) has been providing legal assistance to cities and states around the country in drafting and defending laws like HB 1804. We expect that the plaintiffs in this case will appeal.

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Finally, a judge who stands up for law abiding, "American citizens."

Posted by: Ben on October 22, 2007 06:41 PM

Small steps but they are steps in the right direction.

We need these small steps to set a precedence for others.

There needs to be many more of these lawsuits filed on behalf of illegals tossed out of court!

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on October 22, 2007 07:07 PM

I am so happy to see a judge stand up for the American people. Lets hope more judges will follow suit.

Posted by: aloha on October 22, 2007 09:03 PM

If we had more judges like Judge Payne, this Country of ours would not be in the mess it is in. God bless Judge Payne!!

Posted by: Susan Davis on October 22, 2007 09:22 PM

YES THIS IS GOOD NEWS

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 23, 2007 11:13 AM

BRAVO...GREAT NEWS...ONWARD PATRIOT SOLDIERS!!!
Federalism...may save the day!

More good news...'OL FRED THOMPSON have opened up
against the ILLEGAL INVASION...big time. He has proposed a 7 point approach to closing the borders, massive increase of the Border Patrol NO AMNESTY, strong employer sanctions for ATTRITION, training state and county & local peace officers to arrest illegals, control of entry and departure information, and more. Pretty much OUR AGENDA!!!

The old boy has thrust his tit into the political wringer! Give him a chance to carry the ball amoung the top tier candidates ! Either HILLARY or GIULIANI would be a kill shot for the America Republic! Fred should be guardedly supported for his stance expressed today...Hopefully he will make an irreversible commitment to our struggle. I know it is IFFY, but it is at least 50%-50% likely to be be LEGIT ! I greatly mistrust the CFR, but he is seemingly our best realistic shot!

Posted by: Allan S. on October 23, 2007 05:14 PM

for every real american judge there are uundreds of liberal MUSLIM loving bastards the system is the problem deomcracy mis dead, we need ron paul, tandreod, hunter, ofr buchanan

Posted by: IMPEACHBUSH on October 23, 2007 10:01 PM

This judge should be the poster child for what a United States judge should be. Shame on the rest of them.

Posted by: Bobby on October 23, 2007 11:04 PM

It's Judges like this one that give me hope that we can still beat the open border looneys out there.

Brian

Posted by: Brian on October 24, 2007 11:36 AM

10-4 BRIAN! Me TOO!

Pro Patria!

Posted by: Critter on October 24, 2007 01:58 PM
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NY Democrats Complain Spitzer Driver's License Decision Will Cost Them

"Top Democrats fear that Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens has endangered their party's candidates across the state -- and even threatens the presidential prospects of Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Post has learned. A half-dozen senior Democrats told The Post that Spitzer's licensing plan is producing what one called "a mass exodus" away from the party's candidates that may lead to unexpected losses in November's local elections," the New York Post reports. "Another senior Democrat predicted that Sen. Clinton, who has repeatedly refused to say whether she backs Spitzer's plan, would soon be forced to reject it. "The immigrant license issue is one of the most politically dangerous in the nation, and Hillary will have to come out against it," the Democrat said."

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VOTE FOR A DEMO-RAT... IS A VOTE FOR AMNESTY!

Posted by: American Me on October 22, 2007 03:39 PM

THROW THE BUMS OUT IN 08!

Posted by: Independent on October 22, 2007 03:46 PM

Hillary Clinton will have to represent, and be responsive to, the wishes of the American people if she wants to be our President. I'm glad her campaign's feeling heat on this issue. Unless someone is electronically pulling the national elections, the American people will have our day to choose our leader. And the Senator's in favor of choice, isn't she?

Posted by: Concerned Citizen on October 22, 2007 04:07 PM

"... License Decision Will Cost Them ."
Yes. It may. However: Few people in human history have ever shown such a ruthless glee at spending Other Peoples Money as the Democrats, so I am not so sure that fear of cost of any kind will be too much of a deterrent. They are quite good at whipping up words like icing for a cake and smearing it all over any ugly thing that they endorse-and those among us who take their political direction from Katie-Oprah-Barbara still EAT IT UP.

Posted by: Angus MacLeod on October 22, 2007 04:18 PM

THE DEMOCRATS USED TO BE THE BACKBONE FOR OVERPOPULATION CONTROL IN AMERICA

The party's completely lost its backbone and credibility to solve global warming with the current crop of Presidential candidates pushing for open border overpopulation and more slamdunk environmental degradation of the earth.

Did you know bloggers that for every molecule of carbon dioxide accumulating in the earth's atmosphere, two molecules of oxygen get permanently robbed and yes, the earth's oxygen percentage is depleting at an alarming rate?

We must depopulate America and the earth now!

See the proof:

http://www.truehealth.org/oxydecl.html

Some polluted overpoulated cities are down to 15% oxygen (we were as high as 38% before the alarming decline).

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 22, 2007 06:03 PM

Who really looks at what will cost to get these people identified and deported?

What will be SAVED is the millions and millions (maybe even billions) of dollars that are being put right down the drain on illegals now. The cost benefit cannot really be realized until we actually do it!

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on October 22, 2007 07:09 PM

If it doesn't cost the Democrats bigtime then all it means is that the American public doesn't care and is truly ready for a dictator. You'd think
Spitizer would have been run out of the State on a rail by now.

Posted by: Bobby on October 22, 2007 07:16 PM

The Clintons sold Americans down the river by pushing through NAFTA, laying the groundwork for further foreign entanglements, and pursuing policies that led to a massive influx of immigrants. Now some NY Dems worry that Spitzer's attempts to give illegals driver's licenses will drive a stake through Hillary's presidential campaign? What a farce!

It is like wringing one's hands over the potential ostracism of a serial killer because his brother was arrested for indecent exposure. Ignore the serial killing and focus on the brother's antisocial behavior.

It just so happens that I just finished reading a new article from The Nation, Hillary's Mystery Money Men, about Hillary's shady fund raising connections and how Dem and GOP elites (esp. the Bushes and Clintons) are using the same corporate cronies to fatten their political and private coffers. This goes beyond strange bedfellows, it has become a political and economic orgy at our expense.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071105/baker_federman

Hillary 'La Raza' Clinton may not decide to endorse the illegal alien driver's license plan, but that shouldn't signal to anyone that she is going to stop being an open border devotee.

At least the "mass exodus" tells us some people are paying attention.

Posted by: Cynthia on October 23, 2007 01:22 AM

Do any of you realize how disgusted most Democrats are with their party, and its failure to represent us? We have had it up to here!

What I don't understand is why some of you would continue with rhetoric that serves only to vent your anger and create a further divide amongst Americans (the term Demo-rats comes to mind).

I am a Democrat and a mother of 5, one of whom served in the military, one who is a policewoman in Morrisville, PA. I am also disgusted with my party, and with the Republican party as well, neither of which seems to give a damn for Americans. However, I do recognise that no member of either party (referring to civilians) deserves to be belittled, not to mention that all this does is divide us when what we need most right now is to unite.

Please, please, stop with the bashing. We must stand together on this.

A wise man once said "We must hang together, or we will surely hang seperately."

Posted by: Marie Schultz on October 23, 2007 08:51 AM

Email Senator Clinton to encourage her to OPPOSE given driver's licenses to Illegal Immigrants:

http://clinton.senate.gov/email_form.html

Say that you are watching her votes on illegal immigration and will hold her accountable in 2008.

Posted by: Peter on October 23, 2007 04:24 PM

deomocrat republican no difference , only dobbs and sessions and demint are godd the rest can go to hell

Posted by: impeachbush on October 23, 2007 10:02 PM

CAN! NY Voters recall Spitzer?

Posted by: Critter on October 25, 2007 10:04 AM
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VA GOP Calls Gov., Other Democrats On Links to Radical Islam

"Two Republican state legislators are accusing Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and other Democrats of embracing radical Islamic organizations that support terrorism, an allegation that has outraged the governor and Muslim leaders, who say the GOP is resorting to fear-mongering to win votes. As Republicans work to retain their majorities in the General Assembly, the two delegates from the Shenandoah Valley say they are conducting an investigation into Democrats' ties to the Muslim American Society and Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center, both in Falls Church," the Washington Post reports.

"'It is clear to me that the leadership of the Virginia Democratic Party has compromised the best interests of the citizens of Virginia by cozying up to organizations and individuals that have radical agendas,' [Del. C. Todd Gilbert] said in a statement Friday. 'I am appalled by the utter lack of judgment that Democrats at the highest levels have shown in joining forces with a radical element of the Muslim faith for the sole purpose of filling the ballot box.'"

In a related entry, Michelle Malkin notes that Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week has begun.

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Does anyone else find it a perversion that any branch/level/part of this government would aknowledge an organization which defines itself, and expects recognition based on religious doctrine?

Imagine a Christian American Society, or a Hebrew American Coalition, or perhaps an American Buddhist Society?

We simply do not, and should not be engaging in pandering to the rights of any group of people based on religious affiliation. This nation grants the right to practice the religion of your choice, but assures us freedom from any organized religion's involvement in our government. Period.

I'd like the leaders of this country to stop the pandering stupidity, and start governing with respect for the American people and this nation's constitution. We are becoming the land of the absurd, and it needs to stop. Now!

Posted by: Marie Schultz on October 22, 2007 01:06 PM

DEMOCRATS DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM ISRAEL

You think I'm kidding, check out this proof:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A6E0926C-5211-45F2-8362-0D9FF113205B.htm

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 22, 2007 01:29 PM
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NYT Editors Strange Upset Over French Immigration Fraud Measure

"Immigration issues bring out the worst instincts in politicians who should know better. Congress showed that earlier this year. Now it is the turn of France’s Parliament. It is moving toward final approval of an ugly new law that would introduce DNA testing as a potential basis for excluding prospective immigrants hoping to reunify with family members already living in France. DNA testing can be a useful tool in establishing criminal guilt or innocence. But it has no rightful place in immigration law. Modern French families, like modern American families, are constituted on many bases besides bloodlines and genetics. This is something most French politicians and voters should be aware of," says the New York Times in an editorial.

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While I don't agree completely with DNA testing, neither do I agree with the NYT, though I'm not surprised at this view. Too many people are in this country and immigration continues unabated. The family members coming here, needs to be restricted to immediate family and strictly enforced. Immigration in general should be controlled, until we get a handle on it.

Posted by: Born American on October 22, 2007 12:24 PM

THE NYT REMINDS ME OF MEXICO"S INTERFERRENCE WITH AMERICA'S SOVEREIGN LAWS

What business is it of the NYT to question France's immigration laws?

Print the neutral news, not your biased opinions of immigration laws any country in the world has a right to initiate.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 22, 2007 12:59 PM

It seems to me that the NYT has misused the word "pseudoscientific." There is nothing pseudoscientific about using genetic testing to determine relatedness. It is true that genetic testing cannot determine if people are related by adoption, but the question of adoption is a matter of law and policy, not science.

Posted by: Hal K on October 22, 2007 02:49 PM
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Illegal Aliens Leave Prince William, VA, in Advance of Ordinance

"Supporters of the anti-illegal immigration measure adopted in Prince William County last weekhave argued that its most important purpose is to send a powerful signal to the county's mostly Latino illegal immigrants that they are no longer welcome. It appears the message has already been received: Terrified that new policies will lead to mass deportations, illegal immigrants and the many legal immigrant relatives and friends who live with them have been moving out of Prince William ever since July, when county supervisors first approved the plan's outline," the Washington Post reports. "Although one of the new measures directs county police to check the immigration status of only criminal suspects, many immigrants think that all Latinos will be subject to random sweeps, Catacora added. The effect on his once-bustling academy was palpable on a recent weeknight, when all but one of the six classrooms were deserted."

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Folks, this is only half the battle, even for the good people of Prince William, VA. We are a long way away from letting the 'cause and effect' of this move take hold. Simply put, this will not help - UNLESS this town is treated fairly by the State and Federal governments and does NOT have their savings ripped away from them and 'redistributed' based on 'population' or 'school enrollment' that counts illegal aliens and their children the same as legal residents.

Posted by: Bill Dexter on October 22, 2007 11:50 AM

Adios and good riddance! No Hasta La Vista, baby. You can run and hide elsewhere, but hopefully, in the near future, this issue will be resolved in favor of American citizens and illegals will be no more. If you can't come here the right way, Go Home!

Posted by: Born American on October 22, 2007 12:18 PM

WAS THE ACADEMY THAT EMPTIED PAID FOR BY THE LEGAL MIDDLE CLASS?

If so, that's one more illegal bill Americans won't get in the mail to support illegal Communism in America.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 22, 2007 12:54 PM

ATTRITION WORKS!... WAKE UP YOU USELESS SELL-OUTS IN WASHINGTON!

Posted by: American Me on October 22, 2007 12:59 PM

TAKE ACTION: HOLD THE WASHINGTON POST ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIGHLY BIAS ARTICLE. HOW THE HEART STINGS PLAY WHEN YOU READ THE ARITICLE.

Contact the Staff Writer at local link:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/n.c.+aizenman/

We need to start holding the mass media for bias in reporting.

Posted by: Peter on October 23, 2007 02:59 PM
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The Myth of Hispanic Voting Backlash

"When President Bush's immigration reform bill collapsed this summer, largely because of objections from his own party, open-borders advocates warned that the GOP would pay a harsh political price for killing the bill. Latino support had been crucial in electing Bush, the argument went, and Latino voters represented a rising electoral tide that Republicans were ignoring at their peril. But such commentary is based on an inaccurate picture of the Latino voting public that emerged after the 2004 election and persists today. Just days after the election, for instance, Dick Morris, a former pollster and advisor to President Clinton, declared that Latinos had elected Bush; they represented 12% of the electorate, Morris reasoned, and 45% of them had pulled the levers for the president, enough to be decisive," says Steven Malanga in the LA Times. "The Latino vote for Bush was far from decisive, however, and it may be years before it plays a pivotal role in a national election. Latinos may represent about 14% of the U.S. population, but they constituted just 6% of the 2004 electorate -- 7.5 million voters out of 125 million. According to Census Bureau data, only 34% of the nation's adult Latino population registered to vote in 2004, and 28% voted. By contrast, 67% of the country's adult white, non-Latino population and 56% of its adult black population voted in 2004. Black voters outnumbered Latino voters nearly 2 to 1 in 2004."

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AND THE OPEN BORDER DEMOCRATS THINK THEIR PARTY ISN'T SPLIT ON OVERPOPULATION IMMIGRATION ISSUES

Wishful thinking that all Latino want overpopulation amnesty. The facts are most legal American citizens simply don't want anymore overpopulation.

I'd say its slamdunk too that the illegal alien Amnesty Bill butcher axed the Democrats, just like it did the Republicans. The larger block of Undecided Voters clearly don't want overpopulation amnesty either.

My proof? They're undecided.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on October 22, 2007 12:51 PM

This whole hispanic vote thing is a bunch of b.s., and propaganda... Illegal aliens can`t vote anyways, well except for New York now... That`s something billary and the demo-rats want to change.

A VOTE FOR A DEMO-RAT, IS A VOTE FOR AMNESTY!

Posted by: American Me on October 22, 2007 12:57 PM

Evil men see the world only through the prism of Numbers. Stupid people believe that Salvation can be had by Believing in the Catechisms they spin out like webs on spreadsheets, to be broadcast by the nightly news. Hell on earth is the only thing that can result from treating Life as a game of manipulating cyphers. Obscure? Maybe. But here is evidence of the truth of what I say:
"Dick Morris, a ... pollster ... 12% ... 45% of them had pulled the levers ... about 14%... just 6% ...- 7.5 million voters out of 125 million. According to Census Bureau data, only 34%... By contrast, 67%... 56% ... 2 to 1 in 2004"
This is the worldview of a bookie, or a shill.
Sorry. Make that a bookie AND a shill.
It is not only the appropriately named Dick Morris that see the world through this skeletal and inhuman mode. I am sick and sorry to say that all of politics is done precisely on this amoral and mechanical way of thinking/being.
Did you want Reason used in the making of law?
Sorry, Reason was trumped by the jack of diamonds at the poker table.
Did you hope that Decency would be woven into the cloth of our policies?
Sorry, Decency (snicker snicker snicker) was lost when the ball landed on Black 13 at the roulette wheel.
Common Sense?
hahaha. Silly mortal. The entire stack of chips labled "common sense" was pumped down the slot of the one armed bandit just to hear the tokens rattle.
Global Economics is Hells Casino.
You will find no truth in it, if thats what you were looking for; only justifications.
...Justifications seen in the cynical and EXPLICITLY RACIALIST calculations you have just read in the article above are all we have as a reflection of who we are as a nation.
We were not meant to be ruled by reptiles however.
And our nation was never conceived of as a confederation of "Stakeholders"* in a gambling enterprise whose slaves are free only to shop at the company store.

Posted by: Angus MacLeod on October 22, 2007 01:16 PM

Dear Angus,

Please be kind enough to warn the rest of the building to pick their feet up off the floor prior to your next platitude-riddled soapbox display of self-righteous angst. Those who wish remain unsullied by your diatribes will thank you.

Yours truly,
The Reasoning Vertebrates

Posted by: StayoffthesauceAngus on October 23, 2007 09:47 AM

My apologies.

Posted by: Angus MacLeod on October 23, 2007 01:03 PM
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