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January 23, 2008
What a Difference a Year Makes by Ira Mehlman, National Media Director for FAIR On Monday night, President Bush will be delivering his final What a contrast from the president's 2007 State of the Union Address. Just a year ago, "comprehensive immigration reform" was the administration's highest domestic priority, as the president asserted adamantly that there would be deal that included legalization of millions of illegal aliens, new guest workers, and more promises of future immigration enforcement. Even as the deal unraveled under withering public opposition, Bush, on a visit to Europe, defiantly declared that he'd be seeing the White House press corps at the bill signing ceremony. What a line of bull if ever we heard one last year. Maybe we'll actually hear him say something when he moves his lips this year. Immigration reform means just that - reform. It doesn't mean doing the same crap year afte year. It means releasing and giving pardons to BP Agents Campeon & Ramos. It means closing the borders! C-L-O-S-I-N-G the borders! C-L-O-S-E!!!!! It doesn't mean slowing them down. It means complete closure! Let's see who is here and who needs to go before we let ANYONE else in. Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 23, 2008 05:51 PMBush alone cannot get first prize for destroying the nation. The joke that the Democratic Party is, the so called opposition, has been complicit in the ruin of the nation. Pelosi, Bush, Reid, and Hillary can all shake hands. I would have included McCain, but he is so clueless on what is good for this nation that it's irrelevant to even mention him. He is a good Canary in the coal mine however, because he helps illustrate how clueless many Americans are--namely those voting for him. Posted by: Bobby on January 23, 2008 06:49 PMWORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY! Posted by: American Me on January 23, 2008 07:48 PMyes what a difference a year makes with 1,000 more US troops dead and more illegasl coming over, and record amounts of ISLAMIC immigrants and yes the average American we are told by the MSM wants John Amnesty MCCAIN, yes what a differnce a year makes Posted by: impeachbush on January 23, 2008 11:22 PMUNEMPLOYMENT IS FALLING It fell out of the statistical base its counted from. A good idea to you parents with kids in college....get them to work full time while attending college [it gives them experience to possibly get a job later], it may take longer to graduate, but if they can't get a job after college and they lose their present job while attending college, they'll at least be an unemployment statistic for Bush. Also, with all our college kids working the jobs available, we definitely don't need more overpopulation immigrants! Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 24, 2008 02:30 PMHow many more illegals have invaded in a year, on the chimps watch... Boosh and the neocons, along with the democratic led do-nothing congress have ran this country into the toilet, and it`s only gonna get worse, until the American voters get rid of these corporate slave sell-out politicians. VOTE ANTI-INCUMBENT! Posted by: Independent on January 24, 2008 03:27 PMSoftwareengineer: Yes, my eldest will be off to college next year and faces who knows how much competition for high-tech internships, graduate school and jobs from hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals on student visas from India and China, who later will be asking for H-1B visas so they can work at Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Infosys, etc. Posted by: legalatina on January 24, 2008 03:57 PMIt looks like Romney is the only game in town. I don't Romney should call for systematic deportation of all illegals who arrived since the turn of the century (2000). A provisional green card for all arriving Unqualified Amnesty for anybody who has filed taxes Any future gate crashers should be jailed for 90 days and subject to retinal scan, photos, and DNA, prior to deportation. The fence needs to enclose a 100 yard, no man's land, with a road. It will be a felony to be caught inside that fenced perimeter, for anybody, US or foreign. The protected zone with cover the entire border. Romney should debate the DEMS on this plan or something like it, until America get the message! Vote for Mitt Romney!!! HE IS THE BEST MAN THAT CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM THE McCAINE'S AMNESTY AND ILLEGALS INVASION!!! VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY TO BE THE PRESIDENT 2008!!! All of us will be cheering when President Bush's last day in office comes. However, the sad part is that not one of the current Presidential candidates is for enforcing our current immigration laws, which probably means more of the same and most likely amnesty. I hope that whoever becomes President will listen to the will of Americans rather than the open borders crowd. With the very poor financial state of our current trade debt, national debt, costs of the Iraq War, costs of illegal aliens, recession on the horizon, unfunded Social Security and Medicare Programs looming with baby boomers retiring, America is not financially nor economically capable of taking on illegal aliens and their financial burden to social entitlements. Hopefully, the next President can financially save us from becoming a bankrupt nation that was once a great nation. Posted by: bpm on January 26, 2008 01:01 AMRemember me from 2005 and early 2006? Remember me telling all of you to buy gold when it was $430? Well gold closed at $910 on Friday. You need to understand they the powers-that-be control the world via their control over the creation of new fiat money, and they are creating new money at 20% at year, they are lying about the CPI, we've been in recession since 2004: Got gold yet, or you still farting around thinking that immigration is the underlying cause? Money is the cause. Until you understand money, then you are ignorant. Money is not that paper stuff in your wallet, nor that electronic digits in your credit card or bank account. God bless and good luck to everyone in finding the truth: Posted by: Shelby Moore on January 26, 2008 12:12 PMThe message on the side mirrors of our automobiles "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" is the metaphor I recently used to describe the perfect storm of crises that are now arriving on our doorstep. Our national debt is over 9 trillion! America's enormous debt and unfunded liabilities put every man, woman, and child on the hook for $150,000 a piece! Our trade deficits grow because the elites have dismantled America's manufacturing base and moved it overseas to increase their Profits! The dollar is in freefall thanks to reckless lending practices and unsound fiscal policies! Rising energy costs and a falling dollar are two different wheels on the same axle that is runaway inflation! The stimulus package providing a rebate (welfare) check to Americans along with interest rates below the true rate of inflation amounts to more hair of the dog that bit us, i.e. monetary inflation on steroids! Worse yet, it amounts to spitting on a fire! God forbid that we should swallow the bitter medicine of not living beyong our means and saddling future generations of Americans with national debt serfdom. Faustian bargains galore. It is time for us to take responsibility for our own destiny. We have an arduous task ahead and there are no magic bullets. Let the politicians know you care deeply about the future your children and grandchildren will face and you won't be buying any of their snake oil. Finally, remember, everyday you can "vote" with your purchases, your investments, by paying down your debt, and how you choose to lead others by example. The power of these simple actions is far greater than you can imagine. RIGHT ON CYNTHIA The Democrats/Republicans tax rebate checks they agree on this year doesn't make it better, it worsens our debt. Its time for immediate depopulation of America to reduce debt checks mailed to overpopulation low income non-citizens. Its time for immediate depopulation in America to increase wages, lower job competition and simultraneoiusly increase the tax base to pay off our debt. Ross Perot was right about 20 years that the federal deficit is horrifying and he's dead right today!!! Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 28, 2008 01:54 PMThe year to think about is the next one. This time next year we will be rid of the Texas Twit Posted by: jmac on January 28, 2008 02:28 PMThis smirking privileged SOB thinks that any citizen who isn’t already wealthy is a target for the government run immigration crime syndicate. It does my heart good every time this SCUMBAG suffers a political DEFEAT! Immigration Remains a Campaign Issue for Republicans, Democrats "Immigration has been one of the hottest topics in U.S. politics in recent In an article for the New York Post, Steven Malanga (of the City Journal) says that splits within the Democratic coalition center on immigration. "Fierce fighting over the minority vote may be the real surprise of the '08 Democratic race, with many blacks gravitating to Sen. Barack Obama and Hispanics to Sen. Hillary Clinton. But this split isn't just about these candidates; it's been a long time coming. The tensions have many sources, but the one few analysts discuss is immigration. Growing anger over the way Hispanic immigration is changing their neighborhoods has prompted many African-Americans to rethink the notion of a rainbow coalition. Meanwhile, surveys show that many US Hispanics mistrust African-Americans and see themselves as more like whites than like blacks," he says. These pro-illegal alien along with the criminals themselves ALLWAYS bring ones race to combat the law. It makes me sick to see foreigners keeping racism alive to further their agenda when in fact, race relations in this country are so good it's almost a non issue! Posted by: Conservative on January 23, 2008 05:01 PMWHERE'S JESSIE JACKSON AND AL SHARPTON FIGHTING TO CONTROL THEIR RACE'S WAGE DETERIORATION FROM AMNESTY??????????? They're too busy fighting stupid mouthed radio announcers or innocent Duke atheletes, or worse yet, embroiled in lawsuit fights over embezzled money with the FBI. Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 23, 2008 05:41 PMreally so why is John AMNESTY MCCAIN ahead in the polls then? or is he really ahead is this not a smoke screen of the media for the Democrats? Posted by: impeachbush on January 23, 2008 11:23 PMDon't trust the DemiRat Traitors,fact is with Bush leading Repuks just as bad! Posted by: Critter on January 24, 2008 07:01 AMU.S. Reaches Deportation Agreement with Vietnam "In two months, the U.S. government will begin deporting THE ILLEGAL RATS COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO INFEST AMERICA They want their anchor babies American citizens. Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 23, 2008 05:44 PMA good sweep of Orange County, Southern California would be a start. We have who knows how many illegal Vietnamese there. Posted by: Bobby on January 23, 2008 06:51 PMWe shouldn't be accepting immigrants from nations with whom we don't have 'return' agreements. I mean, you get to return merchandise to the store, when it doesn't work out. Don't you? Posted by: kerthialfad on January 23, 2008 11:22 PMso it took almost a generation to make an agreement with them, John Mccain would know he spent much time in Hanoi Hilton or whatever its called Posted by: impeachbush on January 23, 2008 11:24 PMGreat! Now how about sending the 20 million Mexicans back to their home country? Not until then will I think our government is serious about stopping illegal immigration. Posted by: June on January 24, 2008 06:41 PMUnless one is Native-American, we and/or our forefathers were all immigrants at one time or another. The melting pot is what's great with who we are. On the other hand, ignorance is what breed stupidity. Posted by: ShallowOne on January 26, 2008 02:06 AMFarmers Branch Passes Revised Immigration Ordinance "Leaders of a Dallas suburb that was blocked from enforcing a ban on We will watch this one and hopefully will see it blossom into a real deterrent for illegals to get housing. Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 23, 2008 01:52 PMWHAT LANDLORD IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD RENT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS???????? Don't those buffoons know they bring illegal hoards into the house or apartment and destroy it. The Texas economy must be in dire straits..... Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 23, 2008 05:48 PMthe ACLU/LA RAZA/ COURTS/BUSH COMPLEX will overturn this bill on the grounds of racial profiling Posted by: impeachbush on January 23, 2008 11:26 PMJose! please pack sand,in Mexico. Invader RAT! Posted by: Critter on January 24, 2008 07:04 AMBorder Agent Hit, Killed by Smugglers' Vehicle "A U.S. Border Patrol agent pursuing suspected drug smugglers "'Dangerous criminal groups have chosen to respond to our tougher security posture at the border with increased violence,' Chertoff said in a statement. 'They mistakenly believe that we will give way in the face of violence. We will continue to show them how wrong they are.'" "The off-road enthusiasts were revving their dune buggies and all-terrain vehicles Saturday morning when a brown Hummer suddenly cut into the campground. The man at the wheel, a suspected drug smuggler, was heading to Mexico, fast. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar, the only person in the way, threw a spike strip in front of the car. The Hummer sped up. 'It looked like the man swerved and hit the agent intentionally,' said one witness," the LA Times wrote in a follow up story. DIDN`T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THIS IN LEFT WING MSM. Posted by: American Me on January 23, 2008 12:54 PMAny fence that is built must have two rows of fences with two anti-car walls or ditches on the outside protecting the fences. Not only will it keep illegals from walking across in great numbers but it will keep cars from driving across; cars with illegals and drugs inside. THIS DEATH WAS PREVENTABLE. The best thing is that it will only cost $4 billion to build or the equivalent of $13 per person. Posted by: Rhino on January 23, 2008 01:00 PMSorry bloggers but I am sick and tired of hearing this crap. We have a Border Patrol. They are sworn law enforcement officers of the United States Government. They should have the perfect right to use whatever force is necessary to prevent intrusiion into our country. If this means using deadly force - well use it! Don't beat around the bush. Shoot to kill, damn it! Hearing stuff like this is pure B.S. Michael Jerkoff and his cronies should be stripped of their offices because of the inadequacies they have shown in lack of performance on the job. Let someone into the job that has be balls to do something to protect our country before it's too late! Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 23, 2008 01:57 PMHis family should sue bush and the congress for failure to enforce the Constitution Art. 4 sect 4 Posted by: jmac on January 23, 2008 02:18 PMIt is maddening to realize that this and other senseless tragedies involving the Border Patrol (such as the unlawful imprisonment of Ramos and Compean) are continuing primarily because the Federal Government bends over backwards to keep the borders open in order to satisfy the corporate lust for low wage workers who stream into the country illegally. By leaving the border wide open for Bush's "good hearted folks that are just coming for jobs", the U.S. government is also allowing dangerous drug smugglers and criminal gangs to enter the country at will. As a result, the lives of Border Patrol Agents are needlessly sacrificed. Cheap labor has a very high cost, indeed. This kind of nonsense will only continue, and get worse, until the American people wake up from their coma, and cleanse our governments of the pro-illegal alien big business whores, who promote the illegal alien invasion of our country, on the backs of the American taxpayers.. Boosh and the rest of the traitors are responsible for the deaths, and have the blood on their hands. VOTE ANTI-INCUMBENT!!! Posted by: Independent on January 23, 2008 03:22 PMWhat is it going to take to impeach this somebirch in the White House. I don't care if he has less than a year left. If we could only get him out and make him take his cabinet appointees and his so called State Department cronies with him, we would save a lot of Border Agents from getting killed. Civilians too. He was killed by the present and past administrations policies on the border, pure and simple. Traitors, to the citizenry. all of them. Posted by: Bobby on January 23, 2008 05:34 PMTHE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES DIDN"T ADDRESS THIS AT ALL All the candidates should be asked point blank, "do you think all legal Americans should be protected from the horrifying South Border Terrorism in a much better method than today?" Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 23, 2008 05:52 PMThe Mexican Goverment will no doubt try to tell the U.S. that we do not have the right to prosecute this criminal in U.S. courts because he is a Mexican citizen. Then demand that he be prosecuted in a world court. We should prosecute this guy and when he is convicted broadcast his execution the live to all Mexican T.V. stations. Posted by: Brian H. on January 24, 2008 03:05 PMBorder Patrol, Police Raise Alarm About Mexican Anti-Drug Campaign "Mexican military efforts to crush heavily armed drug-smuggling "On Jan. 12, Mexican Brig. Gen. Rigoberto Garcia Cortez said the Mexican military and other personnel had surrounded five border cities in the lower Rio Grande Valley — Matamoros, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Miguel Aleman and Nuevo Laredo — in response to gunfights between Mexican police, military forces and heavily armed drug smugglers." We need US infantry and air cover on that border! Lock and load...shoot anythong that tries to cross the border illegally. Posted by: HAD IT on January 23, 2008 12:35 PMOUR USELESS GUTLESS POLITICIANS WILL DO NOTHING AS USUAL! Posted by: American Me on January 23, 2008 12:53 PMAnother alarm bell that should be going off is the Mexican truckers controversy. Senator Byron Dorgan led the fight to deny the Bush administration funding for the program. The legislation passed 74-24 but a loophole is being used to get around the legislation because of wording about using funds to "establish" the program with the administration claiming the funding is not being used to establish their next Trojan horse. Dorgan said "They know what the law says, and they're not above the law." Apparently, there is a hearing scheduled Feb. 12 before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Keep your eyes and ears open. Don't let them pull another fast one on us! article link for reference: Program Allows Mexican Trucks in US http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gS-m4Yjshshs5GBeExfTKOq7Yy8wD8TV93H00 Posted by: Cynthia on January 23, 2008 01:35 PMSeveral things come to mind with this article. First of all why are all the comments from "former" border patrol agents? Are they the only one with the balls to actually say something against the Mexican government? We all know Michael Jerkoff doesn't have them. Secondly, I fully agree that a full military press should be executed to guard the border - with orders that deadly force will be used against intruders. It is our soverignty at stake here and they know it. Thirdly, the fact that the Mexican Military has surrounded cities on their side with troops shouls indicate to the American military that something is up. If this were to happen anywhere else in the world we would be there in a heartbeat so we should be there fully armed and ready to defend. Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 23, 2008 01:49 PMThis situation provides further proof that we need a strong (and armed) military presence at the border, in addition to the double layer wall that Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison recently killed. Hutchison's home address and telephone number should be posted on the internet and provided to the families of all the victims of violence along the southern border. Posted by: Steph on January 23, 2008 02:41 PMSOUTH BORDER TERRORISM THREATENING AMERICA The American amnesty nuts would have to see the mushroom cloud over their city, before they's call it a threat. Perhaps the drug wars are escalating at the border as the illegal alien money laundering decreases with undocumented mass layoffs? Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 23, 2008 05:32 PMDoes this Mexican General think for one minute we believe his rhetoric. Chances are he's been one of the scumbags providing military support for the drug lords. [FAIR edit] Posted by: Bob Hubble on January 23, 2008 06:07 PMVoices of Americans crying in the border wilderness, but no one in corrupt D.C. hears them, especially not Hillary, Bush, or McCain. Posted by: Bobby on January 23, 2008 06:44 PMtoo bad all the US boots are on the ground in Falluja Posted by: impeachbush on January 23, 2008 11:28 PMSICK'N 10-4 we all need to raise Holy Hell! What a Govt we have! NOT! Pro Patria! Posted by: Critter on January 24, 2008 06:59 AMAll the chaos on the border and Prez Bush continues removing the National Guard from the border. He stated that new border police have replaced them. However hiring goals have not been met and it takes months to train new hires. Maybe giant rolls of fly paper can be placed on the border to detain illegal aliens until a patrol arrives. Posted by: Tom on January 24, 2008 09:00 AM |
State of the Union Address. With the economy slipping into recession, real estate prices falling and the stock market in freefall, putting a bright face on the president's domestic agenda for his last year in office will be a challenge for his speech writers. But one issue that Bush will almost certainly not address on Monday is immigration.
years. But while it remains an important issue (Miami Herald) in the 2008 presidential race, there are already indications it may not be a defining one. A recent opinion survey showed voters evenly split over which party they think is better on the issue. To date, the young election season has provided few conclusive answers about which candidates voters think would best handle immigration reform, including dealing with the estimated twelve million illegal immigrants living in the United States. February 5 may provide a clearer sense of immigration’s role as a swing issue when more than twenty states—including border states California, Arizona, and New Mexico—hold party nominating elections," says Council on Foreign Relations analyst Toni Johnson. "Hispanic voters comprised 8 percent of Republican voters in Nevada compared to 15 percent of Democratic voters (CNN), many of whom went for Nevada caucus winner Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). If Nevada proves to be a trend for Hispanic voters, Clinton could get a boost over chief rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), but it is unclear how the GOP races will play out."
more than 8,000 illegal Vietnamese immigrants as a result of a long-sought repatriation agreement signed Tuesday by Washington and Hanoi. The pact deals with a once-forbidden subject in the emigre community - the forced return of Vietnamese nationals to their communist homeland - and it underscores how close Vietnam-U.S. relations have become," the San Jose Mercury News writes. "In addition, the muted reaction Tuesday in San Jose's 100,000-strong Vietnamese community illustrated how much emigre politics have changed in the once rigidly anti-communist stronghold. Although some worried that the communist regime might retaliate against repatriated emigres, most Vietnamese-Americans interviewed Tuesday seemed to view the agreement as a natural outcome of the growing ties between two former enemies."
leasing apartments to illegal immigrants approved a new rule Tuesday to require prospective tenants to get a city license to rent homes and apartments. The measure, approved unanimously by the City Council, requires tenants to provide information to the city, which would then check with the federal government to determine the person's immigration status," the AP reported. "Nearly 200 people packed into City Hall for the council vote. Dozens lauded the council, while dozens more denounced city officials for continuing to push immigration-related measures. 'Here we go again. ... I believe that this will not stand, also,' Farmers Branch resident Jose Galvez said. A November 2006 ordinance barred apartment rentals to illegal immigrants and was revised in January 2007 to include exemptions for minors, seniors and some mixed-immigration status families. Residents endorsed the law 2 to 1 in May."
along the California-Mexico border was struck and killed Saturday by one of the fleeing vehicles, agency officials said. The agent was trying to stop two vehicles that had illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico when he was hit, said agent Jeremy Schappell, a spokesman for the Border Patrol's Yuma sector. He said the incident occurred about 9:30 a.m. in the Imperial Sand Dunes recreation area, about eight miles west of the border crossing at Los Algodones," the LA Times reported.
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