Leo Banks — Tucson Weekly
Two buried studies showing the impacts of illegal immigration, smuggling uncovered
The federal government’s border fence has been called the Tortilla Curtain. But in the swamp of border politics, there’s a more effective barrier at play, one that filters ideas rather than people. It explains why most Americans still don’t fully understand the disaster on our southern border…
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The Week Magazine
The case for inaction on immigration
On Tuesday, 80 House members unveiled a new immigration amnesty proposal. The bill, written by Illinois congressman Luis Gutierrez, would put illegals on the road to citizenship. — The Gutierrez bill is too permissive to get very far: It grants amnesty to any employed illegal alien provided the alien has not been convicted of a crime and pays a $500 fine…
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New York Times
(Illegal) Immigrants lose lawsuit against Atlanta hospital
Efforts to force the public hospital here to continue providing free dialysis treatment to a group of immigrants, most of them illegal, suffered a setback on Tuesday when a judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the recent closing of the hospital’s outpatient renal clinic…
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U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell
Health Care Scam: Completely reckless, completely irresponsible
…’And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’…
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Arizona Daily Star — Tucson
Two vehicles hit by gunfire at Nogales Port of Entry
Several shots were fired near the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales on Monday, striking two vehicles waiting in line to enter the United States. — Between six to eight shots rang out at about 7:45 p.m., striking a bus and car as they awaited entry into the U.S., said Brian Levin, Customs and Border Patrol spokesman…
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Contra Costa Times
More details emerge on Target’s probe of immigrant workers
…”It’s a misconception that illegals are doing jobs that Americans don’t want. These jobs at Target are very much jobs that Americans do want,” said Yeh Ling-Ling of the Oakland-based Alliance for a Sustainable U.S.A., which seeks to halt illegal immigration…
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The aircraft are part of more than $604 million worth of vehicles and equipment that the U.S. plans to give Mexico in the coming months…
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Kinda makes you wonder how much double layer border fence with an improved road we could build with the money…doesn’t it?
“This is the kind of legislation that foreign governments would promote, not the U.S. Congress,” Smith said. “The amnesty bill does not hold any surprises and lays out the same vision for amnesty that President Obama and the Democrats have promised to the illegal immigrant lobby…. The bill won’t pass because the American people oppose rewarding lawbreakers, which then encourages even more illegal immigration.”
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We note that the bill is promoted by a defacto foreign government…and an actual foreign government.
