Illegal Immigration: Should the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Is crossing a border to earn a living so unforgivable the punishment should be imprisonment or exile? Is that the response of a rational nation?
Posted to Politics by Dave Nalle on April 1, 2006 04:25 AM
The Immigration Fixation
Immigrants want stability so let's give them that.
Posted to Politics by Samuel James on April 1, 2006 01:36 AM
Immigration: Do The Numbers Fit?
Consult a higher authority when it comes to immigration decisions.
Posted to Culture by Barbara Payne on March 30, 2006 07:25 PM
Failing Immigration Policies
The new immigration bill of the United States has the same deadly flaws already experienced in the EU.
Posted to Politics by Sampsa on March 28, 2006 08:47 PM
La Reconquista Takes to the Streets To Regain Mexico's Stolen Lands
Way back in 1847 we fought a war with Mexico, and General Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott and the redoubtable General Zachary Taylor won handily. We conquered the country, and their government went into exile....
Posted to Politics by Dave Nalle on March 27, 2006 02:30 PM
McCain Goes Hunting the Establishment
Someone needs to check John McCain for a hunting license. He’s been prowling the Republican establishment for the past few years, hunting for those he can convince to join his budding bid for President. Lately, McCain has been...
Posted to Politics by Drew McKissick on March 23, 2006 12:29 PM
Interview with Jeff Latas, Democrat for Congress In Arizona's CD8
Jeff Latas is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona’s CD8. What will probably catch people’s notice about Jeff is that he is...
Posted to Politics by Michael D. Bryan on March 21, 2006 02:11 AM
Interview with Francine Shacter, Democrat for Congress in AZ CD8
Meet Congresswoman Mom. It’s not her chosen campaign slogan, but I think it sums up Francine Shacter’s iconoclastic campaign for Congress in Arizona’s 8th District pretty well. When asked, Francine chose as her (purely provisional) slogan, “I...
Posted to Politics by Michael D. Bryan on March 11, 2006 10:13 AM
The Challenges of Multiculturalism
What is the price of open immigration and is it better or worse than a more restrictive alternative?
Posted to Politics by AlbertaLIfe on March 6, 2006 06:24 PM
Immigration's Evil Side
An innocent man is trapped for two months in Immigration hell while the Immigration goons try to void a judge's ruling.
Posted to Politics by Mark Schannon on February 25, 2006 04:11 PM
Why Europe Has Less Success Integrating Muslims Than North America
Recently a friend made an interesting observation about the whole Muhammad cartoon kerfuffle. He pointed out that while several European papers have published the cartoons, relatively few have in the US and Canada. Of course the Internet is...
Posted to Culture by Akeel Shah on February 14, 2006 07:27 PM
Article comments
1 - Raj B
What about Legal Permanent Residents waiting to unite with their families? Anyone willing to blog about this?
2 - edward przydzial
no amnesty. enforce the law. all who crossed our border without permission are criminals and do NOT have rights. they are illegal. they need to pay all back taxes, they should not be voting or sending thier children to our schools... using our services while refusing to speak english, refusing to assimilate to the country they say they want to be a part of. they are mexico's illiterate, criminals and poor people being sent here by mexican leaders who have violated the us border for the past 25 years. they claim rights but the fact is THEY are NOT legal citizens so they DO NOT HAVE RIGHTS, or the right to be on our soil and all companies who have employed these 'illegals' need to pay for this immigration problem we are faced with.
3 - edward przydzial
why should 'illegals' get to violate our law over the others who have tried being citizens legally? that's not fair or right. these 'illegals' have contributed nothing to this country... past immigrants came here and
built our cities and our nation but these people are here to re-colinize the southwest into mexico... they were told to display american flags after the news showed them on the first few days how disrecpectful they were running through the streets waving mexican flags...
if you do it legal you belong here if not you are an 'illegal' and continued living/hiding in the shadows and being paid under the table does not help your cause so you should report or go back and apply for re-entry...
4 - edward przydzial
if the 'illegals' left our wages would be 'higher' and american's would do the jobs for the decent pay. these 'illegals' keep us hard working americans slaves to low wages high taxes and bosses who do not care but will hire an 'iilegal' to replace you for below minimum wage and under the table payments...
5 - Bill
I'm just wondering if WalMart has a big hand in this immigration thing. Considering that they've been caught several times employing (and abusing) illegal aliens, it wouldn't surprise me if they are behind the scenes, exerting a lot of pressure (AKA $$$) on Congress and being an anonymous organizer of these protests. If this is true and their ploy works you'll see a lot more abuse of both Federal laws and of these poor people as well. WalMart has such a "black eye" because of their previous abuses, that a little propaganda of being the "good guy on the block" wouldn't hurt them.
6 - El Bicho
Reviews of a couple of films that deal with illegal immigration: The Gatekeeper and In This World
7 - Bliffle
The problem lies in a corrupt mexican government that supports a nepotistic family oligopoly that exports it's economic failures to the US.
8 - Mark Bellinghaus
Just found this article. Very interesting indeed. That's a very important toppic. Great information. Thank you.
9 - Heloise
By the numbers it would cost the US taxpayers ONE BILLION dollars for every million illegal immigrants that are allowed to remain in this country. I am rounding off the numbers mentioned on Lou Dobbs this week. It is astounding. Here's more from NUMBERSUSA about how the vote went and who is responsible for almost allowing over 100 MILLION illegals into this country over the next 20 years. Mind you that would be a BILLION with a B for every million illegals let in our home.
KEEP UP WITH SENATE VOTES
AS THEY HAPPEN ON OUR SPECIAL
'VOTE DAY ACTION CENTER'
Our NumbersUSA Capitol Hill staff is doing an extraordinary job of putting on line every amendment as it is offered, with a cogent and accurate summary. You will see all of them on the Vote Day Action Center page.
And you will see the results of all votes on each of the amendments (with links to the roll call tally).
www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/2454.html
THIS WEEK'S WORST OF THE WORST ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN WORKER
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Chafee (R-RI)
DeWine (R-OH)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Salazar (D-CO)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
The Senate is full of people who believe that American workers should have to compete with millions of imported foreign workers.
But on the Sen. Bingaman amendment to put some limits on the damage to the American worker, the 18 Senators above showed that they apparently have no limits.
Those 18 Senators voted to keep in the bill a provision that the Heritage Foundation announced on Monday would allow corporations to import more than 130 million foreign workers over the next 20 years!!!
Senators McCain and Kennedy are responsible for the original language that would have led to such an absurd conclusion. NumbersUSA has been railing against that provision for a year. But when the Heritage Foundation widely publicized the numerical impact on Monday, most Senators began to be concerned that the bill might be far more radical than they had realized.
Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) offered an amendment yesterday that would cap the guestworker program at 200,000 a year, allowing 2 million over 20 years instead of more than 130 million. We definitely don't want 2 million guestworkers, all of whom would be allowed under S. 2611 to become U.S. citizens. But the amendment showed some sanity.
I hope you will call the offices of those 18 Senators and let their staff know what you think about their insistence on giving corporations another 130 million foreign workers -- on top of the nearly 50 million foreign workers and dependents who already are here.
Just so you get your facts straight: The 18 Senators above voted to table (kill) the Bingaman amendment, which would have left the 130 million extra foreign workers in the bill.
These 18 Senators apparently would do anything the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked them to do, regardless of what their constituents thing. Or would they? Your incredible outpouring of phone calls today and Thursday and Friday might just change the minds of some of them.
(When the 18 failed to table the amendment, it then passed on voice vote.)
HIDING?
Cochran (R-MS)
Lott (R-MS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
If you live in Mississippi or West Virginia, find out why these three are not voting on any of the amendments.
Rockefeller has a history of avoiding tough immigration votes because he is torn between following Democratic open-border leadership and the overwhelming wishes for immigration restrictions of the West Virginia voters (as represented so well by the state's other Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd).
If we are to have any chance of blocking this terrible amnesty on the final vote, we are probably going to have to have Cochran, Lott and Rockefeller.
They need to hear from all of you who live in their states -- now.
THIS WEEK'S GREATEST FRIENDS OF AMERICAN WORKERS (OPPOSED MASS IMPORTING OF FOREIGN WORKER COMPETITION)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Levin (D-MI)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Talent (R-MO)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wyden (D-OR)
You are going to see some names on that list that you usually don't see when we are praising Senators.
But praise where praise is due.
Chief hero in this fight was Sen. Dorgan (D-North Dakota) who is one of the five best immigration-sanity champions overall in the Senate.
Dorgan introduced an amendment to kill the guest worker provisions of S. 2611 entirely.
The 28 Senators in the list supported that effort by voting against a motion to table the amendment.
It was gratifying to see so many Democrats, for a change, living up to their reputation of supposedly being the champion of the working classes. Many of the Democrats on this list have been big supporters of amnesties for illegal aliens. It is assumed that even though this bill still has the guestworker program that they opposed that they will vote for the bill in the final ballot because they want an amnesty so badly.
When you call to praise them for trying to kill the guestworker program, urge them to be consistent and vote to kill the amnesty which will keep million of illegal aliens in unfair job competition with present American workers and will entice millions more illegal aliens to compete in the future.
Probably the biggest applause has to go to the few Republicans who totally defied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (which usually has such a stranglehold on the Republican Party) and voted to kill the new mass guestworker program that will allow all to become permanent residents. Give a special thanks to Republican Senators Coburn, Dole, Inhofe, Roberts, Sessions, Talent and Vitter.
REWARDING ILLEGAL ALIENS MORE IMPORTANT TO THESE SENATORS THAN PROVIDING SECURITY
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
These 55 Senators voted against the amendment by Sen. Isakson (R-GA) that would have at least held off granting amnesty rewards to illegal aliens until after it could be certified that our borders are secure.
Since most of the supporters of amnesty claim they are equally in support of secure borders and enforcement against future illegal immigration, one would think they would be fine with guaranteeing that the security and enforcement provisions don't get left unimplemented as happened in the 1986 amnesty.
But the 55 Senators above said, "No way. Amnesty first and then you guys can just wait and see if any enforcement ever happens in the future." OK, nobody actually said that, but that's what I infer.
The vote on the Isakson amendment will probably be the clearest vote on S. 2611 to show you which Senators are the most supportive of amnesties and of helping illegal aliens.
If your Senators are on the list above, ask them why they were against the amendment. To support this amendment was not to even oppose amnesty but to say it has to come after enforcement. The 55 above wouldn't even go along with that. They are Amnesty Above All.
If we are to block S. 2611 in the final vote, we probably are going to have to win over at least five of the people on that list.
Maybe if you hammer them hard enough, you can deliver five!
Why is rewarding illegal aliens so much more important than the security of our country with these Senators?
NOT VOTING
Cochran (R-MS)
Gregg (R-NH)
Lott (R-MS)
McCain (R-AZ)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
10 - edward przydzial
...yes i did vote for bush. yes i do agree with 'most' but not 'all' of his policies...
the illegal immigration issue is one i disagree with the president... i would like to see the borders controlled and a wall. enforce the laws of the land on the illegals here... they need to report and show themselves. as if we can't see them to begin with...
they should NOT be allowed legal status. it shows america our rules and laws mean nothing. they have violated the very rights and laws they demand from the united states and we owe them nothing.
and to the illegals here "YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME".