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November 06, 2007
Navarette: Illegal Aliens Didn't Move to San Diego To Set Fires "It didn't take long for the public debate over the Southern California wildfires to spread to the incendiary issue of illegal immigration. Early on in the crisis, local journalists received an anonymous and remarkably uniformed email definitively blaming the devastation on 'illegal campfires set in the forest routes that illegal aliens use to invade our country' and 'the 'soft on illegal aliens' policies of our President and the Senate.' Other comments came from the San Diego Minutemen, who were upset with Bill O'Reilly for dismissing the notion that the fires were set by illegal immigrants on his radio show," says Ruben Navarette in the Wall Street Journal. "Talk about jumping to conclusions. Illegal immigrants in the canyons around San Diego are known to light controlled campfires to cook food, but not in the area of the county where these fires started. As of yet, there is no evidence that they started the wildfires." The San Diego Minutemen and No More Invasion have posted a new YouTube video showing their latest trip to the illegal squatter camps in the canyons around San Diego, including the "open fire pits" that Navarette says are safe. New Audit, Same Results: DHS Faulted at Port of Entry Screening "U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers failed to stop roughly Democrats Should Take Illegal Immigration Seriously "Hillary Clinton -- and the other Democrats running for president -- couldn't Study Shows No Shortage of Ag Workers "U.S. farmers and the agribusiness lobby in Washington can cry foul all they "The research, which expands on a report in June by Martin, was conducted for the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank striving to end illegal immigration and set strict limits on legal immigration. The report's release comes as an amendment to a massive U.S. Senate bill, called the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, or AgJobs, is expected to be introduced this week." Feinstein Pulls Back on Ag-Jobs "Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced late Monday that she would |
1 in 10 illegal immigrants and serious drug and weapons violators from entering the United States through airports and official land border crossings last year, according to a new congressional review," the Washington Post reports. "While screeners turned back more than 200,000 foreigners in 2006, random audits indicate that they missed another 20,000 violators. The Government Accountability Office, Congress's audit arm, blamed failures by officers and supervisors along with inadequate training and staffing. A Customs and Border Protection study this summer concluded that the agency needs 1,600 to 4,000 more officers and agricultural specialists at the nation's air, land and sea ports, or a boost of 7 to 25 percent, the GAO reported. "
possibly have assumed that they would forever skate around the issue of illegal immigration. That notion came to an end in the most recent debate, when the New York senator badly slipped over a question about her state's controversial plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Did she think no one would ask? Democrats had better start dealing with this. Polls show a large majority of Americans, including Democrats, opposed to illegal immigration. They also find that most Americans favor some sort of amnesty for many illegals. Clinton apparently tried to finesse the two, while ignoring what's behind the numbers," says columnist Froma Harop.
want, but the truth is that the country is not experiencing a devastating labor shortage due to stricter immigration enforcement, a leading agricultural researcher concluded in a report released Monday. Philip Martin, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California-Davis, said he crunched the numbers and that the facts unequivocally show that there's no labor shortage -- just unsatisfied growers who aren't getting as many workers as they'd like," the San Antonio Express News reports. 
not offer an immigration amendment to a farm bill currently under debate. Feinstein's amendment is known as AgJobs, shorthand for the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act. It would give thousands of illegal immigrant farm workers a chance to work in the United States legally and a path to citizenship," the Austin American-Statesman reported. "The senator told Congressional Quarterly that she made the decision after taking a 'clear-eyed assessment of the politics of the farm bill' and the defeat of recent bills to overhaul immigration laws. Feinstein also said she would pursue a vote on AgJobs in the winter or early next year."