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June 03, 2009



Rasmussen: Immigration Issue of Low Importance to Voters

According to the results of a Rasmussen poll released yesterday, the issue of immigration ranks ninth among the ten big issues currently affecting voters. The issue of immigration actually dropped in importance to only 42%, representing an 11-point drop from early May. You can check out all the details of this latest poll at RasmussenReports.com.



 



America's Voice Struggles to Find a Voice

By Dan Stein, President of FAIR
America's Voice, one of Washington's newest "instant" organizations created by a handful of big foundations virtually overnight, is helmed by the legendary Frank Sharry - widely regarded as one of the most unsuccessful legislative prognosticators in the nation's Capitol. Judging from its website traffic report, America's Voice must be pretty soft. No one is listening.

Sharry created America's Voice after he again miscalculated in a failed strategy to pass the mass amnesty bill in 2007. Now, Sharry and his allies have decided it is time to jettison their corporate allies who'd proven impossible to work with because of on-going disagreements over guest worker programs.

Under Sharry's leadership, America's Voice is basically a well-funded far-left smear blog designed to look like a clever "hit machine." Working closely with the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, Sharry's group has been trying to smear America's true immigration reformers on a daily basis.

Problem is, no one seems to be listening. Internet traffic surveys suggest America's Voice isn't generating much interest from the general public. It struggles to attract less than 10,000 unique users a month, and most of those are probably professional people on the same big foundation dole that Sharry rides. Just proves that all the money in the world won't help if your ideas are bankrupt.



 



Oakland OKs ID Cards for Illegal Aliens

The city of Oakland, CA, will go the way of New Haven, CT, and its sister city San Francisco in issuing municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants and others who may have trouble obtaining state identification. Couldn't this new program be interpreted as giving "localized" amnesty to illegal immigrants? Read this breaking story at MercuryNews.com.



 



Sheriff Arpaio Wants Probe of Federal Officials

Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants the tables turned on Dept. of Justice officials whom he says improperly shared documents with the Department of Homeland Security. DHS is currently auditing Arpaio's use of federal immigration powers. Read the full story from the Associated Press.