Illegal Immigration
6/4/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Senate Set to Slug It Out Over Immigration Bill
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The Senate faces a contentious debate next week on immigration, with backers of a compromise overhaul bill hopeful it will hold up. The landmark immigration bill, the outcome of talks between congressional leaders and the White House last month, has stirred deep passions on both sides. During a recess last week, many senators' offices were bombarded with phone calls, emails and visitors critical of the legislation, while supporters organized their own postcard drives, rallies and opinion pieces in local newspapers. The measure would tilt policy toward immigrants with skills, lay out a path for illegal immigrants here to gain citizenship and beef up border security. Next week, the Senate is set to vote on more than a dozen amendments, including ones aimed at allowing more relatives of immigrants to join them in the U.S. and making it harder for illegal immigrants already here to gain legal status.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin6/1/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Border Safety at Focus of TB Case
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Investigators are looking into whether Homeland Security agents last week positively identified a man infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis when he arrived at the U.S. border, but ignored instructions to detain him because he didn't look ill. The line of inquiry by congressional and Homeland Security investigators raises further questions about the security of U.S. borders. When news of the TB case first broke, it appeared that the patient had slipped into the country undetected. Andrew Speaker, 31 years old, drove as far as New York City before going to a hospital, despite an international search by U.S. authorities. The Centers for Disease Control had caught up with Mr. Speaker in Rome, where it advised him not to use commercial aircraft.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/31/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Fraud feared in deal worked out on immigration
San Diego
WASHINGTON – Opponents of immigration overhaul legislation in the Senate are warning that it could draw an influx of illegal border crossers with phony documents who want to settle permanently in the United States, repeating the fraud that was rampant after passage of an immigration law in 1986. Backers of the measure, already battling charges from conservatives who say the proposal amounts to an amnesty, acknowledge the problem and promise to fix it before the bill becomes law.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/30/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Bush challenges lawmakers on immigration bill
USA Today
President Bush challenged lawmakers Tuesday to support the immigration overhaul bill, asking them to have the courage needed to approve comprehensive changes. Speaking at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center near Brunswick, Ga., Bush stressed administration efforts to tighten the borders. He cited a doubling of funding for border security, and said a decline in arrests reflect a decrease in illegal crossings. The measure pending in Congress, the result of a deal struck between the Senate and the White House, would allow people who immigrated illegally before Jan. 1 to apply for provisional legal status when the bill takes effect.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/29/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Immigration: Debate still surrounds 'imperfect bill'
USA Today
WASHINGTON — Immigration overhaul is a top priority of the U.S. business community, which faces a growing array of conflicting state and local laws that require businesses to police workers' immigration status and that impose fines on firms that hire illegal workers. But that doesn't mean businesses — from construction companies to landscapers, high-tech firms to farmers — are pleased with the compromise immigration bill now under debate in Congress. The bill is the result of a deal struck between the Senate and the White House.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/25/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Majority Favor Changing Immigration Laws, Poll Says
New York Times
As opponents from the right and left challenge an immigration bill before Congress, there is broad support among Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents alike — for the major provisions in the legislation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Taking a pragmatic view on a divisive issue, a large majority of Americans want to change the immigration laws to allow illegal immigrants to gain legal status and to create a new guest worker program to meet future labor demand, the poll found. At the same time, Americans have mixed feelings about whether the recent wave of immigration has been beneficial to the country, the survey found, and they are sharply divided over how open the United States should be to future immigrants.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/23/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Senate Votes to Keep Temporary Worker Program
New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 22 — A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test on Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country each year. If the guest worker program, part of the “grand bargain” negotiated with the Bush administration by a bipartisan group of 12 senators, had been stripped from the bill, the fragile deal could have collapsed. Despite the vote on Tuesday, supporters of the bill were clearly on the defensive.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/22/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Senate Puts Off Action on Immigration
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status. The measure, which also tightens border security and workplace enforcement measures, unites a group of influential liberals, centrists and conservatives and has White House backing, but it has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. In a nod to that opposition, Senate leaders won't seek to complete it before a hoped-for Memorial Day deadline. "It would be to the best interests of the Senate ... that we not try to finish this bill this week," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., as the chamber began debate on the volatile issue. "I think we could, but I'm afraid the conclusion wouldn't be anything that anyone wanted."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/21/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Immigration: What's in the New Bill?
Wall Street Journal
Senate Republicans and Democrats reached a delicate compromise on an ambitious bill to overhaul the nation's immigration policy. The deal would provide legal status to some 12 million immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and offer an eventual path to citizenship. It aims to staunch the flow of future illegal immigrants by boosting border security and creating a guest-worker program. It would also recalibrate a longstanding policy that gives preference to immigrants with family in the U.S. by giving added weight to immigrants with job skills, including education and English proficiency.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/18/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Senate's 'Compromise' Immigration Bill 'Bad for America'
Standard Newswire
Immigration Activist Proposes Alternative to Senate Compromise Republican Senators have compromised the party position on immigration, saying Republicans and Democrats have "reached an immigration deal." However, fellow conservative Colin Hanna, president of Let Freedom Ring, says this so-called "Grand Compromise" is "Neither grand, nor a compromise. It's amnesty, and it's bad for America," Hanna said. Today, Mr. Hanna revealed an alternative and innovate solution. "None of the current proposals for dealing with the almost 20 million illegal aliens currently in the US - mandatory deportation, voluntary deportation or some form of amnesty – enjoys the support of the American public," Hanna said. "Within the next day or so, the Senators who are so self-congratulatory right now will taste the wrath of millions of American citizens who have made it clear that they will not support amnesty. This is a legislative blunder with electoral consequences." Hanna explains, "Let Freedom Ring has developed a workable alternative that could be acceptable to Republicans and Democrats alike. Each side will need to give a little to reach this newly-defined middle ground, but each side can also live with it. If the Senate won't listen, we'll turn our attention to the House." The groundbreaking proposal includes legalization without amnesty. Instead illegal aliens currently in the country will be required to admit wrongdoing, pay a significant fine, agree not to seek citizenship, become apart of a national database and swear loyalty to the United States. "This clearly isn't amnesty. It's closer to a plea bargain, and it begins exactly as it should: with an admission of guilt," stated Hanna. "For the good of the nation, all parties need to find a way to negotiate the details without compromising their principles. The American public expects both leadership and cooperation from their elected representatives, and the time for action is now."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/17/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Immigration: Legalization Without Amnesty
StandardNewsWire
Immigration activist Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring, Inc., and its immigration project WeNeedAFence.com, will hold a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at 12:30 PM on Thursday, May 17 to introduce a new strategy designed to break the legislative logjam in the development of immigration reform legislation.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/15/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Immigration: Which bill will the Senate take up this week?
Washington Post
Less than a year ago, Sen. John McCain of Arizona was the most visible Republican in the fight for immigration reform, having joined forces with Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.) in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to clamp down on border security and create a guest-worker program for the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. Now, a renewed effort is underway, but this time without McCain as Kennedy's co-star. As he stumps in Iowa and New Hampshire, McCain has handed off day-to-day negotiations on immigration to his staff and to fellow Senate Republicans Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). In his formal presidential announcement speech in New Hampshire last month, he made no mention of the issue.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/10/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Outrage: Maryland pro-immigrant group publishes how-to guide for illegals.
RapidResponseMedia
A Maryland-based immigrant-advocacy group is distributing guidebooks instructing those targeted by federal immigration agents during job-site raids not to cooperate with authorities if they are arrested or detained. The eight-page, two-color illustrated book lists what rights "people who are not United States citizens" have if detained by immigration agents, details what to do if served with a warrant or charged with a crime, and urges them to remain silent if they are arrested.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/3/2007 | Freedom of Speech, Illegal Immigration
Police to Review Clash at LA Rally
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police Chief William J. Bratton on Wednesday promised an investigation into the conduct of police who dispersed an immigration rally, after videos captured officers using force with reporters and firing rubber bullets into crowds. Bratton said officers fired 240 "nonlethal" rounds to clear MacArthur Park late Tuesday. News images showed police hitting a television cameraman to the ground, shoving people who were walking away from officers and injuries from the rubber bullets, including a Hispanic man with welts on his abdomen and back. Lines of officers moved through the park firing the rubber rounds. "The events of yesterday, with all (the training) that we do, should not have occurred," Bratton said at a tense news conference. "We should not be engaged in attacks on the media."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedRev. Clenard Childress, Jr., Assistant Director, Life Education and Resource NetworkDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights InstituteTom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of RepresentativesLen Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy CouncilChuck Donovan, Senior Research Fellow-DeVos Center for Religion a, The Heritage FoundationJessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumTim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPactJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyTodd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the MasterJames Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of CommerceRick Green, President, Torch of Freedom FoundationColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchPeter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological SeminaryGary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation NetworkRyan Messmore, William E. Simon fellow in Religion and a Free Soc, The Heritage FoundationJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinJesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New DestinyPhyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle ForumDon Shenk, Executive Director, The TideTony Strickland, Taxpayer AdvocateLorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources ProjectTimothy Watkins, Producer/Director, Renegade Productions5/2/2007 | Illegal Immigration
U.S. to Plug Border-Security Gap
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security will soon start using a database of stolen passports maintained by Interpol, a move that will help fix a glaring weakness in U.S. border security. But it comes nearly two years after the international police organization made the information available to Washington. For years, Washington has worried about the dangers represented by lost and stolen passports. Stolen passports, especially blank ones that can be filled in with false information, are of particular concern because they can't easily be detected by immigration officers. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, stolen blank passports have been called the "terrorist's golden ticket" because they facilitate unhindered travel.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/2/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Immigration Rally Turnout Lower Than '06
ABC News
Magda Ortiz believes a recent raid in a largely Mexican neighborhood of Chicago made people too afraid to march in an immigration rights rally, which drew far fewer protesters than turned out last year. Ortiz, a 27-year-old legal resident from Mexico and mother of two, pushed through crowds on the city's lakefront with a stroller bearing a sign that read: "Bush, think about the moms. Stop the raids."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin5/1/2007 | Illegal Immigration
MAY DAY: Immigration Rallies Planned Nationwide...
Breitbart.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Demonstrators demanding a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants hope that nationwide marches will spur Congress to act before the looming presidential primaries take over the political landscape. Marches, meetings and voter registration drives were planned Tuesday from California to New York, a year after 1 million flexed their economic muscle in a nationwide boycott during last year's May 1 activities. Though this year's turnout will likely be lower, organizers say immigrants feel a sense of urgency to keep immigration reform from getting pushed to the back burner by the 2008 presidential elections. "If we don't act, then both the Democratic and Republican parties can go back to their comfort zones and do nothing," said Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "They won't have the courage to resolve a major situation for millions of people."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin4/30/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Illegal Alien-related Felony Cases Swamping Federal Courts
Washington Times
Illegal alien-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the southwest border, forcing judges to handle hundreds more cases than their peers elsewhere. Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation. Each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first, handled an average of 397 felony cases last year, compared with the national average of 84.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin4/26/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Federal Raid Triggers Chicago Protest
Breitbar.com
CHICAGO, April 25 (UPI) -- Residents of a predominately Hispanic Chicago neighborhood took to the streets in protest after heavily armed U.S. immigration agents raided businesses. "Soldiers bombarded our neighborhood," Baltazar Enriquez told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It looked like they were marching into Iraq."
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin4/22/2007 | Illegal Immigration
Candidate Giuliani Shifts His Tone On Immigration
New York Times
A decade ago, as mayor of New York, Mr. Giuliani used that historic backdrop to champion the cause of immigrants, calling attacks on people who came here legally a blow to “the heart and soul of America.” And from City Hall he often defended illegal immigrants, ordering city workers not to deny them benefits and advocating measures to ease their path to citizenship.
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David Bossie, President, Citizens UnitedDemos Chrissos, Writer/Producer, RapidResponse Media, Inc.Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle ForumJames Edwards, Cofounder, Olive, Edwards, & Cooper, LLCSteve Elliott, President, Grassfire.orgJoseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDailyColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom RingJoe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin