I have just about given up on anything substantial being accomplished on illegal immigration in this country.
While I understand that many businesses depend on folks who are not American citizens to carry their workload, if we do not begin somewhere, and not just by building a fence, how will we ever arrest this [...]

This is amazing, Why hasn’t someone thought of this before? There are still geniuses in government.
Undocumented immigrants are starting to leave Arizona because of the new employer-sanctions law.
The state’s strong economy has been a magnet for illegal immigrants for years. But a growing number are pulling up stakes out of fear they will [...]

A Mexican woman who has already been deported to Mexico once, made it back here and took sanctuary in a church in Chicago.
Now, she decided to speak out against the injustices of our immigration system and got herself caught by ICE after speaking at 3 Los Angeles churches and on her way to a fourth.
Elvira [...]

This story definitely speaks for itself.
– Israel closed the door Sunday on a surge of asylum-seekers from Sudan’s Darfur region and from other African countries, the largest influx of non-Jewish refugees in the modern history of the Jewish state.
Authorities announced that they had expelled 48 of more than 2,000 African refugees who have [...]

These days it’s a big deal to be a federally recognized Native American tribe.
The tribe has to prove it has existed as a tribe for a long time and there’s a lot of paperwork associated with it. After recognition, the tribe is usually sovereign meaning they make their own laws on their reservations and [...]

From Politico and AP News Myway comes basically the same story that the Bush Administration is preparing to finally get serious about the borders of our country and the illegal immigrant problem.
Since Politico has more information I’ll quote from it:
The administration is unveiling a series of tough border control and employer enforcement measures designed to [...]

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing “Iraqis and other Middle Eastern” individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.
An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been [...]

Mona Charen has a column up at Townhall.com declaring she is a “mushy moderate on immigration”.
I think she spells out some of the conflicting feelings I’ve had about immigration, legal or illegal.
It won’t surprise regular readers that I consider myself to be moderate to liberal on some social issues, and I am evolving on my [...]

The Senate voted 53-46 to defeat cloture on the Immigration bill. The clay pigeon is now a dead duck.

To all those “conservatives” who proudly cast their votes for President Bush twice and are now calling him names because he supports the immigration bill (as proposed it’s a bad bill), you can take heart because it seems some of the senators you are also bashing and have declared war on are not going to [...]

I’ve been reading some conservative web sites and I thought our country had just been attacked.
I had to have a portrait taken for our church directory and on the way back the host of the talk show on at the time must have had every vein in his head and neck bulging to the point [...]

According to the information I have heard about the attempted resuscitation of the immigration bill, Leader Reid will use what is called a “clay pigeon”.
Yesterday I heard it described this way: First the Senate will try to get cloture on the bill. This in itself is doubtful and if cloture is not reached the [...]

I’ve been reading some editorials about the immigration bill now before the Senate, and I’m beginning to think about it more than I have in the past.
What happens if we don’t pass an immigration bill this year? I guess everything would remain the same, but will Congress and the president finally realize we want [...]

The leaders of both sides of the Senate have agreed to bring up the immigration bill next week after completion of the energy bill.
Yesterday President Bush threw his support behind a $4.4 billion funding plan for border security which he and Congress have approved but never funded.
This has not won over any Republicans, as they [...]

When the immigration debate began which now seems like an eternity ago, it appeared to be the general consenus here at “J”’s that calm should prevail and we would wait and see if and when legislation was actually offered for consideration and then offer reasoned opinions.
This certainly did not mean that after reading the preliminary [...]

Kimsch from Musing Minds has a good post up that tells what she would like to see when the immigration reform bill is reconsidered.
So called “Sanctuary” cities, counties, and/or states lose federal funding until they stop being sanctuaries. If local governments won’t follow federal immigration laws, why should aliens?
Deport the criminals first. (see Patterico’s series [...]

I cannot tell you where this happened or how I know, but it’s a true story that happened last night.
An emaciated illegal male checked into a hospital emergency room yesterday sometime, complaining of excruciating pain in his digestive tract.
He was passing blood in his urine and from his rectum.
Diagnostic tests revealed something in his digestive [...]

After a couple of days of wrangling to get the new immigration bill through the Senate, in the end the Senators couldn’t agree on whether or not to extend debate and Senator Reid withdrew the bill, saying he hopes to revisit it this year.
Supporters of the bill could only muster 45 votes to limit [...]

The immigration bill that is now before the Senate is being tweaked a bit.
I’m going to quote from an AP story that is on Fox News.com.
A proposed immigration overhaul narrowly survived several strong Senate challenges Wednesday, but it suffered a potentially deal-breaking setback early Thursday.
Shortly after midnight, the Senate voted 49-48 to end a new [...]

From the Washington Times:
The Senate’s immigration bill will only reduce illegal immigration by about 25 percent a year, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report, Stephen Dinan will report Tuesday in The Washington Times.
The bill’s new guest-worker program could lead to at least 500,000 more illegal immigrants within [...]

After a Memorial Day week spent back home with their constituents backers of the Senate Immigration bill are more optimistic about its passage so long as it stays in its current form.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who led negotiations on the bill for his party, said the flood of angry calls and protests that greeted [...]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California says the public emotion surging around efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy is the greatest she has seen since her 1992 election.
The Democrat said the topic hasn’t translated into the 30,000-plus phone calls to her office that would mean “something is really going on” [...]

James Lileks offers his take on the illegal immigration bill.
Interesting news about the immigration debate, eh? I understand they’ve crafted some sort of bill. Having read the whole thing, I feel compelled to offer some of the highlights:
6 (1) (D) Undocumented Xenonationals who have been in the country since noon March 16, [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced the Senate will delay final action on the Immigration Reform Bill.
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 [...]

Not every illegal immigrant is Mexican. I know that probably surprises a lot of people—NOT! But a lot of people feel they are all Mexicans.
Many people from the poor countries in Central America sneak into the United States via Mexico, but they are not Mexicans.
The proposed immigration reform bill goes to the Senate [...]

It has been another whirlwind day on Republican blogs. Many see the death of the Republican Party due to the upcoming Illegal Immigration legislation. As I wrote in the wee hours of yesterday morning, they are entitled to their thoughts. I for one do not respond well to shrill rhetoric and tend to [...]

It is refreshing to read of compromise in the United States Senate. Now if we can keep the extreme factions of both parties from going over a cliff ,we might see some real movement on a bill addressing Illegal Immigration.
From heading right :
Senators negotiating a bipartisan immigration reform bill have settled on [...]

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Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to [...]

Source of this shortened version.
JUAREZ, Mexico — The man shot in the buttocks by two U.S. Border Patrol agents now in prison for the shooting and the coverup is breaking his silence, saying he is well aware that ‘everybody hates me there (in America).’
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was shot in February 2005 by Border [...]

It seems Arizona Senator Jon Kyl and not Senator John McCain is the White House go-to man for immigration legislation.
Last year the Senate passed a pretty liberal immigration bill that allows a path to citizenship for just about anyone who wants it. If not for the Republican House last year this bill would have [...]