Thursday - June 28, 2007

How It’s Done in Florida

Via member sdkar, we find this sotry:

Fla. sheriff targets illegals

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - The sheriff’s department has developed a remarkably effective — and controversial — way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.

Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else’s property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone’s yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car.

Good idea Sheriff.  Now, the money quote:

Indeed.

Of course, there are the whimers.

Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn’t been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.

“We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported,” he said. “The companies don’t want to hire illegal people. Now they’re only hiring those with papers.”

Boo.  Freekin.  Hoo.

Posted by Mr. Christian     on 06/28/2007 at 09:22 AM   
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Sticking a Fork in Shamnesty

Acording to Drudge, Michelle and a host of others, Shamnesty may be on its last breath.

11:10pm Eastern. You know all those calls you’ve made? All those faxes/letters you’ve sent? They are working. Don’t think you can’t make a difference. Here’s the Washington Post headline: “Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again.” More quotes of the day:

The Senate yesterday turned back a series of amendments from both parties aimed at substantially altering controversial immigration legislation, but the bill shed supporters as it became mired in procedural hurdles that left backers concerned about its prospects.

The legislation faces a make-or-break vote this morning when senators will decide whether to cut off debate and move to a final vote tomorrow. If it does not get the 60 votes necessary, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has said he will pull the bill, all but dashing hopes for any meaningful legislation this year.

Top legislative aides in both parties predicted today’s vote would be very close but would fall short of keeping the proposal alive.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a key opponent, crowed last night that “they tried to railroad this through today, but we derailed the train.” Another opponent, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said, “I would say to my colleagues: Let’s end this thing.“

I hope they’re right.  I want this thing to die quickly and decisivly.  But that does not excuse my two Senators who voted for cloture on Tuesday.  No sirree Bob.  They both know in the most certain terms that I and others will be working feverishly in November 2008 to ensure their defeat.

Posted by Mr. Christian     on 06/28/2007 at 04:36 AM   
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   Tuesday - June 26, 2007

The Cloture Vote

Live Blogging the Senate Vote

11:47 - Harry Reid saying that this bill will fix border security and everyone should vote for it for that reason alone.

11:49 - Now he’s waxing on about his father in law coming from Russia and how immigrants make America great. True enough....LEGAL immigrants!

11:50 - Motion to close debate and vote for cloture

11:52 - Voting on union organization bill.  ???

11:53 - Ahhh, OK.  The CSPAN graphic says the immigration bill is next

11:56 - Tallying the votes.  This is a rather important one as well.  This should be defeated....I hope.

12:00 - Still tallying for the union vote.  If this passes, it will allow the unions to come into a company and simply start without a secret ballot, but only using a sign-up sheet.  What happens now is everyone is pressured into signing the sheet, but when it gets to a secret vote, where the union thugs don’t know which way you vote, it is defeated.  If this bill passes (I hear a lot of “Aye’s"), the thugs can simply pressure the majority into signing a form openly.

12:16 - Final Talley for the Union Bill:  Yays: 51 Nays: 48 FAILS! (not a 2/3 majority, I think)

12:25 - First Round of Voting for Cloture.  Now going through those who did not vote the first time

12:35 - Final Tally on Shamnesty Cloture:  Yays: 64 Nays:  35
PASSES!!!!!
This means it goes to the next step.

Final who’s who of the votes when it is available

Update.
The Roll of Shame. 

Posted by Mr. Christian     on 06/26/2007 at 11:47 AM   
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   Monday - June 25, 2007

Muchos Gracias Senor Graham

From Michelle and Hot Air

Over the weekend, one of Mickey Kaus’s readers proposed that shamnesty opponents use YouTube to deliver a message to open-borders senators up for re-election. Bryan and I whipped up our first one–a quick, straightforward Hot Air negative ad with Lindsey Graham’s name on it:

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Shamnesty Action Needed Today

Michelle says it’s too close to call

John Hawkins says:

We need to kill this thing today.  Today.

Get your Senetor’s email and phone numbers here.  Call the Republican National Committee at (202) 863-8500 (option 1) and let them know you will not support any candidate in 2008 who votes for the amnesty bill in the Senate.

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   Friday - June 22, 2007

The Shamnesty Votes

John Hawkins has a good summary of what has to happen for Shamnesty to pass.

Yesterday, a GOP aide, who is one of my sources in the Senate, gave me the rundown on what’s currently happening with the Senate immigration bill (You can see my two previous reports from this source here and here).

To begin with, the key thing to keep in mind about the upcoming vote on the Senate immigration bill is that the pro-amnesty forces have two key cloture votes that they have to win.

The first is the vote on the so-called “clay pigeon” strategy. What this does is take the original bill and all of its amendments and reintroduce it on the Senate floor as a new bill. There are two reasons for doing this. The first is to prevent killer amendments that could upset the “grand compromise” from being voted on. The second reason is procedural, because it keeps conservative Senators who are opposed to the bill from being able to slow up the process.

Go read the rest.  If his source is correct, this may be an uphill battle for them.

Posted by Mr. Christian     on 06/22/2007 at 07:19 AM   
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   Wednesday - June 13, 2007

Maybe They’re Getting the Message

I’m still amazed that President Bush holds so strongly to his personal beliefs in this “Shamnesty” arrangement.  I’m still of the mind that there is something deeper in this whole thing for him that no one knows about.  But, at least some of the Republicans still have a spine it would seem.

Senators Unmoved by Bush Bid to Save Immigration Bill

In a rare visit to Capitol Hill, President Bush pressed Republican senators yesterday to resurrect the compromise overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, but many of the senators instead demanded that his administration first show a more determined commitment to border security.

Indeed.  Anyone who has looked at this for more than five minutes know that step #1 is going to be securing the border.  Why open up a free ride for anyone who is hear and leave the door open for millions more?

Although senators described the meeting as cordial, even jovial, they also said the president’s efforts to rally GOP support did not win any converts. “We’re off the bill. We ought to stay off the bill for a while,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), one of the bill’s sternest critics.

That’s good to hear.

“We . . . have lost credibility in Washington on the issue, and I think before the American people will really ever get behind an immigration policy, they’re going to have to feel that Washington is truly going to follow through on what it says,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).

Ya think?

Posted by Mr. Christian     on 06/13/2007 at 06:54 AM   
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   Friday - May 25, 2007

Flood The Hotline!

Michelle Malkin points to the work Bryan Preston of HotAir is doing.

If you are having trouble getting through the Capitol switchboard to express your opinion about the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty, there’s a special hotline number you might like to try.

1-800-882-2005.

Freepers picked up on it this morning. Bryan Preston dialed it earlier today and captured audio of the hotline. He reports:

The hotline is paid for by something called the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and it’s being blasted to pro-open borders groups all over the country. The hotline gives its callers access to their senators that average Joes don’t have.

You know what to do.  Report back in the comments.

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   Monday - May 21, 2007

The Senate Sucks, Part II

_{Bob Gorrell - National/Syndicated}

Around and around we go, where it stops ... nobody knows. Now, the business people who helped push this lame excuse for an immigration bill through the Senate are balking. Evidently they looked a little closer at the bill and decided, “Hey! WTF!” The Chamber of Commerce just discovered the bill would make employers check a nationwide database for employee eligibility for all employees and they’ve got their knickers in a wad. Large businesses (like my old friend Oracle) think it sucks because they can’t pick and choose what skills they need.

After Aiding Bill on Immigration, Employers Balk
(NEW YORK TIMES) - May 21, 2007

Employers, who helped shape a major immigration bill over the last three months, said on Sunday that they were unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.

In addition, employers expressed alarm as they learned that the Senate bill would require them to check a government database to verify that all current and former employees — aliens and citizens alike — were eligible to work in the United States.

The Senate begins debating the bill on Monday. Supporters, including the White House, had hoped that senators would finish work on it this week, before the Memorial Day recess. But leading members of Congress said Sunday that the bill would take more time and could face significant hurdles.

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said that the immigration bill “can’t possibly be completed before Memorial Day.” On the ABC News program “This Week,” Mr. McConnell said the Senate would need at least two weeks to digest and amend the bill, which he described as “a big, complicated piece of legislation.”

A delay over Memorial Day would give the public an opportunity to weigh the issue, while lawmakers are home, and would give critics more time to hone their arguments.

The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, expressed concern on Sunday about a central element of the bill, under which the government would establish a point system to evaluate would-be immigrants, giving more weight to job skills and education and less to family ties.

“I have serious objection to the point system that is in the bill now, but perhaps that can be improved,” said Ms. Pelosi, a California Democrat. She asserted that this part of the bill, ardently sought by the White House and Republican senators, could undermine “family unification principles which have been fundamental to American immigration.”

Besides revamping visa preferences, the bill would also offer legal status to most of the nation’s 12 million illegal immigrants and would increase the penalties for businesses that employ them.

In the last few years, employers have become a potent force in the debate on immigration, pleading with Congress to authorize more visas for both high- and low-skill workers.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, a bill co-author, said the point system was devised so America “can compete for the best minds that exist in the world.”

Robert P. Hoffman, a vice president of Oracle, the business software company, endorsed that goal but said the bill would not achieve it.

“A merit-based system for allocating green cards may sound good for business,” said Mr. Hoffman, who is co-chairman of Compete America, a coalition of high-tech companies. “But after reviewing the proposal, we have concluded that it is the wrong approach and will not solve the talent crisis facing many U.S. businesses. In fact, in some ways, it could leave American employers in a worse position.

“Under the current system,” Mr. Hoffman said, “you need an employer to sponsor you for a green card. Under the point system, you would not need an employer as a sponsor. An individual would get points for special skills, but those skills may not match the demand. You can’t hire a chemical engineer to do the work of a software engineer.”

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The Immigration Bill: You Decide

OK, gang! It’s your turn again. You have probably read the Senate’s Immigration Bill by now. If not, here is a summary below and a chance for you to express your opinion on the bill. Cast your vote and let ‘em know how you feel. I’ve already cast my vote and you can probably guess how I feel. I’ll leave this poll up all through the weekend so you can give the asshats in Washington a piece of your mind ....

• A 370-mile fence along the Mexican border, 6,000 National Guard troops to support border agents, aerial surveillance, road construction to aid border patrols, and other border security measures.


• A guest-worker program for up to 200,000 workers and a three-tiered system for dealing with the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.


• Illegal immigrants who have been in the country five years or longer would be allowed to stay and apply for citizenship, provided they pay back taxes, learn English and have no serious criminal records.


• Illegal immigrants who have been in the United States two to five years would eventually have to return to a point of entry in Mexico or Canada and apply for a green card, which could allow their immediate return.


• The roughly 2 million immigrants who have been in the United States illegally for less than two years would be ordered home.

_{(WASHINGTON POST) - S. 2611 As Amended; Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006}

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   Thursday - May 03, 2007

Daily Statistics Contest

OK, it’s time to play “Crunch The Numbers”. Take a look at the story below and see if you can decide what the numbers mean. Obviously someone decided it was important to compare the number of dead Mexicans to the number of fleeing Mexicans so the results should probably be of importance to us in some grand, cosmic scheme of things.

So help us figure out what the numbers mean. Are they just not dying fast enough? Is it cheaper to swim the Rio Grande than to die in Tijuana? Or is it just Speedy Gonzalez and his cousins getting faster than Sylvester the cat? And what does all this have to do with Taco Bell food poisoning? Let us ponder the deeper conspiratorial theories involved, eh ... ?

Migration Tops Death in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) - May 3, 2007, 7:51 PM EDT

Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than death since 2000, according to a government report released Thursday.

Mexico’s demographics agency found that an average of 577,000 people migrated to the U.S. each year between 2000-2005, compared to 495,000 deaths a year in the same period. In 2006, 559,000 migrated and there were 501,000 deaths.

Mexico had 104.9 million residents as of last year, an increase of 6.4 million since 2000. Immigration to the U.S. has increased drastically since 1970, when 800,000 Mexicans lived north of the border. Today, there are about 11 million Mexicans living in the U.S., both legally and illegally, the report found.

The study also showed more and more Mexicans traveling illegally to the United States. In 1993-1997, 48 percent of Mexicans who traveled to the United States entered the country illegally.

That percentage jumped to 68 percent between 1998-2001 and to 78 percent from 2001-2005, mostly because of stricter security measures tied to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mexico has long pushed the United States to allow more Mexicans to work legally in the U.S. But the U.S. Congress has focused instead on strengthening border security.

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   Wednesday - May 02, 2007

The Moonbat Zone

Picture this: a man dressed in a dark overcoat and wearing a mask walks into a bank with a large bag and a shotgun. He walks up to the first teller window, shoves the gun in the teller’s face and demands all of the money in the register.

Just as the teller starts filling the sack, the police arrive. One of the policeman quietly comes up behind the robber, bops him on the noggin and knocks him unconscious. Within seconds, FBI agents arrive and arrest the policeman for using too much force in capturing the robber.

As they take the policeman away, the robber gets to his feet and demands the laws be changed so that the money in the sack can legally be his without any penalty or fine - and while waiting for the money to be transferred into his name he demands free medical care for the bump on his head.

Does that sound absurd? Follow me down the rabbit hatch for a second. Down here is a door. You unlock this door with the key of insanity. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of greed, a dimension of ignorance, a dimension of arrogance. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of politics and pandering. You’ve just crossed over into ... The Moonbat Zone ...

Protesters Press for Path to Citizenship
LOS ANGELES (NY TIMES) - May 1, 2007

Tens of thousands of people pressing for immigrants’ rights demonstrated on Tuesday in dozens of cities. But with advocates splintered over tactics, the crowds paled in comparison with the turnout last year.

The protests, with some of the largest gatherings here and in Chicago and Phoenix, took aim at recent raids by immigration agents and stalled negotiations in Congress over proposals for the most sweeping changes in immigration law 20 years.

“I came here like everyone else to make sure we get a just immigration reform law passed,” Abel Corona, 34, who described himself an illegal immigrant from Mexico, said as he marched downtown here. “We are not going anywhere. We are not criminals. We came here to work and even to help this country economically.”

Talking over the din of drums and chanting at the Chicago march, Esmeralda Marin, 30, a Mexican-American, said she was demonstrating to denounce the government raids, which have lead to an increase in deportations in the last year.

“If we have seen anything since last year, we have seen more families torn apart,” Ms. Marin said. The Chicago march drew 150,000 people, the police said, below the nearly half-million last year.

Martha Martinez, 27, who said she was a legal resident, marched in Denver against the raids and on behalf of a family that she said was afraid of being arrested if they participated. “It’s not right to separate families, but that’s what has happened,” Ms. Martinez said, as her 6-year-old son held a sign reading, “I refuse to live in fear.”

Some organizers faulted the raids for lowering the turnout of illegal immigrants. Organizers nonetheless claimed success in drawing attention to immigrants’ concerns. “We have already injected ourselves into the national immigration debate,” said Javier Rodriguez, a march organizer here.

Although sizable in some places, the demonstrations, peaceful and at times festive, seemed to underscore how much the protest movement has struggled in the last year. More than 500,000 people turned out here last year. This year, the police estimated that 25,000 attended the largest of three rallies.

In Denver, where 75,000 people participated last year, an estimated 10,000 demonstrated, organizers said. The police put the number at no more than 2,000. Unlike the protest last year, nobody called for a “day without an immigrant.” No widespread business boycotts materialized. For the most part, students did not pour out of schools.

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The crowds were indeed much smaller this year for two reasons, (a) several hundred thousand illegals have been rounded up and shipped out and (b) these people who are in our country illegally are starting to wise up and realize that the lies the Liberals have been telling them that if they yell and scream loud enough and long enough they will be allowed to stay, aren’t helping their cause in any way. Which is unusual since that is how the Liberals usually get their way.

Only in this case it won’t work. These people have broken the law and we are a nation of laws. The quicker they realize that trying to force themselves upon us is not going to earn them any new friends, the quicker we can start to resolve this whole mess. Yes, we need low-income workers and a guest worker program would be a good start to allowing them to come work here and eventually gain citizenship and move to America permanently if that is truly what they desire. If not, set up a program to allow them to come work in seasonal jobs and return home each year.

Sneaking across the border, taking advantage of our hospitality and generally acting like jerks will not endear them to those of us who live and work here as citizens ... and as long as our lily-livered, pandering-for-votes congress-critters keep dodging the issue, allowing the lawbreakers to continue breaking the law while arresting the agents charged with protecting our borders, we’re not getting any happier with our duly elected representatives either.

So let’s exit The Moonbat Zone before we all go mad and start chasing rabbits down rabbit holes and arguing with cheshire cats. There is a right way to do this that will make everybody happy and it’s so easy. It’s called enforcing the laws .... or as Alice said, “It would be so nice if things made sense once in a while.”

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   Wednesday - March 07, 2007

Illegals Nabbed In Boston

Illegal aliens in Boston working in factories making supplies for our troops because DoD contractor landed a huge contract that was bigger than they could handle without grabbing illegal aliens off the street. Now the illegals have been arrested and will be deported. Our troops will be shortchanged while a new contractor is found. There are so many things wrong with this story I’m getting a major headache sorting it all out. What do you think ....

Major Raid Targets Illegal Immigrants Near Boston
_{BOSTON (Reuters) - Wed Mar 7, 2007 10:46am ET163}

Federal officials detained 350 suspected illegal immigrants at a Massachusetts factory that made supplies for the U.S. military in one of the biggest such raids in New England, authorities said on Wednesday.

The immigrants had been making leather goods, including vests, grenade pouches and backpacks for soldiers in Iraq, and are now being held at a former Army base near the town of New Bedford where they were working, officials said.

Workers who are in the country illegally will be charged and deported, officials said. Most of those caught were from Latin America.

Federal officials said they investigated the Michael Bianco Inc. factory in the former whaling town south of Boston for months and used an undercover agent to pose as an illegal immigrant.

Tuesday’s early morning raid by officials from the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies came at a time the U.S. government is trying to reform its immigration laws and crack down harder on people who enter the country illegally and those who employ them.

The factory won millions of dollars in contracts from the U.S. Defense Department in recent years and officials said it came to rely on illegal workers to meet rapidly growing demand for its products.

Prosecutor Michael Sullivan, the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, said agents arrested the factory’s owner, his payroll manager, plant manager and office manager.

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   Tuesday - March 06, 2007

Open Letter To The President

President George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Mr. President,

I’m sure you have heard the breaking news by now that the jury has returned a verdict in the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. trial. In case you haven’t heard the jury found him guilty on four of the five counts he was charged with and he faces more than 20 years in prison. That’s going to be pretty tough for a 56-year-old man. I’m 58 myself and I wouldn’t look forward to 20 years in the slammer.

Now I’m sure you’re already reaching for your Presidential fountain pen to sign a Presidential Pardon for “Scooter” because you know as well as I do that he just got caught up in the ridiculous Plamegate fantasy that Plame, her husband Joe Wilson and the NY TIMES concocted to embarrass you, the Vice President and your entire administration. That’s all well and good sir and I want to thank you in advance for pardoning this tired old man but before you sign that paper I want you to consider this, please ...

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean

Yes sir, I’m sure you know who these men are too. They are border guards who were unjustly imprisoned for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler caught in the act of smuggling drugs into this country. They were convicted mainly based on testimony from the drug smuggler himself who cut a deal with the federal prosecutor, who let him go free in exchange for his testimony. This drug smuggler was later caught again trying to smuggle drugs into the country but the two men named above are in prison and one of them was badly beaten by Hispanic prisoners recently.

Now here’s the deal, sir. If you pardon “Scooter” Libby and leave these two men, who were doing their job, guarding our borders, to rot in jail and be beaten by the very illegals they have worked so hard to stop - I will not take it kindly. I’m sorry sir but that’s just the way it has to be. I know you’re compassionate and I am asking you to do the right thing by pardoning all three ... “Scooter” and the two Border Patrol agents.

If you free your friend without freeing the two border guards, I’m afraid our friendship is at an end, sir. I have stood by you and valiantly defended you for six long years, through thick and thin and all I’m asking in return is that you examine your conscience and make this right. I hate to lose a good friend but I will have to insist on your honoring my small request.

Thank you and may God bless you and your family and God bless America.

Respectfully,

Allan C. Kelly
(The Skipper)
St. Louis, MO
06-MAR-2007

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