McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/10/2008 | Bush considering easing rules on foreign farm workers
Bush considering easing rules on foreign farm workers
Of course he is.
UPDATE: Wonder how laid-off workers regard the new, government-subsidized competition?

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…try, try again.
Great news: Obama and McCain agreed to move forward on immigration, says Reid
Apparently “hope and change” translates to “everything old is new again.” Time to prepare the barricades yet once more. We may be free of McShamnesty, but he’s free of us, too, and back to his old “mavericky” ways.

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Ariz. guv emerges for Homeland Security job — Newsday.com
WASHINGTON - Democratic officials say that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is a leading contender for the job of secretary of homeland security in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.
Well, I certainly feel more secure in the homeland now, don’t you?
Napolitano vetoes bill on police role in immigration
Gov. Janet Napolitano […]

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Washington Times - PARISI: McCain owes GOP a second concession speech
Likewise, I now realize, sadly, that I reached across the aisle on issue after issue to liberal Democrats — with Ted Kennedy on immigration reform; with Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform (which ironically proved to be my own undoing in the campaign); with Joe Lieberman […]

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Obama Campaign to Return Aunt’s Donations | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama will refund a small number of contributions made by Obama’s aunt, who has been living in the United States illegally, according to a published report.
The woman, Zeituni Onyango, lives in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of […]

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AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
BREITBART: The Inconvenient Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Come on, […]

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Citizenship often determines who gets medical care
Well, I would hope so. But even the headline is a lie. (It’s the Lie Times; what do you expect?) There’s no suggestion that legal aliens get second-class treatment compared to US citizens.
Roughly 2,000 times over the last 17 years, Marguerita Toribio, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has climbed […]

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Suspect Shot 2 Cops With Officer’s Gun
Two NYPD officers and a man were shot during a struggle in a Queens subway station on Tuesday evening. Police said the whole thing began when cops caught the man illegally using a discount MetroCard.
The more you read this the more things wrong you find.

- The subway turnstiles are […]

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Construction safety terms not understood
A U.S. study concludes specialized language used in construction industry safety training might not be understood by many workers.
Purdue University Associate Professor James McGlothlin and Assistant Professor Bryan Hubbard said the inability of new construction workers and some Hispanic workers to understand certain terms might put them in danger.
Yah, construction can […]

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From blogger “Digger:”
I just received word from the head of Save Shenandoah (http://www.saveshenandoah.com), Joe Miller, that the Mayor of Shenandoah, PA resigned tonight after demands made by residents of the community at the City Council meeting. The group Save Shenandoah was formed after a rally held by Voice of the People USA (http://www.voiceofthepeopleusa.com) on August […]

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Even in California,
About 70% of California voters are against illegal alien drivers licenses…
I doubt if there is any state in the US where a majority favors licensing illegal aliens.

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74% speak Spanish at home - El Paso Times
EL PASO — Nearly three quarters of the 727,070 El Pasoans last year said buenas noches when they went to sleep and buenos días when they woke up, according to new information released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Where did everybody else go? Or did […]

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Barbra vs. Lady de Rothschild - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine
Of course, he’ll secure the borders first! … More: In Florida, McCain declares immigration one of his “first priorities,” blasts Obama for insufficiently supporting the 2006-7 McCain-Kennedy legalization bill. … Note to Nigerian scam artists: Save your emails and focus them on McCain’s “base” […]

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English’s Enduring Value - August 26, 2008 - The New York Sun
Thank goodness U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten showed some common sense when he ruled last week that a Wichita, Kan., Catholic school policy requiring students to speak only English did not break any civil rights laws. Three Hispanic families had tried to end […]

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My Way News - A small town struggles after immigration raid
POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) - A vague unease whispered through this tiny town in northeastern Iowa, where the rolling hills are a study in vivid colors - red barns, white clapboard houses, and vibrant green cornfields plowed with almost architectural precision.
It drifted through Postville’s downtown, where […]

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Illegal immigrant from Honduras facing execution | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
“Armand was a beautiful soul, a beautiful, beautiful man,” his wife, Acela Paliotta, told The Dallas Morning News this week. “He lives inside of me. He loved to help people. There are many friends who have been affected. My husband never […]

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Plant Drops Labor Day For Muslim Holiday - Nashville News Story - WSMV Nashville
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Some workers at a local plant will no longer to be able to take their Labor Day holiday because of religious reasons.
Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off […]

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Actually this reminds me of the value of public executions. In this particular case I do have an answer for his final question though.
After all, just where does a nation without borders deport someone?
To Hell.

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Homeward Bound: Recent Immigration Enforcement and the Decline in the Illegal Alien Population | Center for Immigration Studies
Among the findings:
* Our best estimate is that the illegal immigrant population has declined by 11 percent through May 2008 after hitting a peak in August 2007.
* The implied decline […]

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WASHINGTON (July 25, 2008) — A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of monthly data collected by the Census Bureau shows that the illegal immigrant population has declined significantly between last summer and May of this year. The study is the first to find quantitative evidence that illegal immigrants are leaving the country. […]

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KOPEL: Papers mishandle Bruce allegations : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News
The shot is what’s known as a “dog whistle” - a political term of art first used in the 1990s in Australia. It means using a phrase (or a picture) that may have little significance to the general audience, but which appeals […]

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My Way News - Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
PORT CARBON, Pa. (AP) - Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as […]

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cbs5.com - SF Sanctuary City Plan Had Shielded Alleged Killer
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― A known gang member charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who apparently benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed […]

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McCain tells Hispanic group of his commitment to immigration reform - International Herald Tribune
McCain devoted most of his speech at the convention to what he described as the “slowing” economy, laying out his plans for tax cuts and saying that they would benefit small business owners. He also spoke of one of his fellow prisoners […]

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Salmonella signs point to peppers
Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers
Anyone taking bets on who’s going to eat the tomato industry’s estimated $100M losses? The tomato growers or the government you and me? For that matter, who’s going to foot the bill […]

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