Thursday - April 13, 2006

Open The Floodgates

Well, this should just about wrap this whole illegal invasion up. There are 12 million Mexicans illegals here already. They are not only protesting to have our country turned over to them but they’re telling all their relatives back home to “git here while the gittn’s good”. Today’s Day-By-Day cartoon (in the sidebar) really scares me. No, really ....

Guest-Worker Hopes Spark Rush To Border
_{Apr. 12, 2006 11:31 AM}

NOGALES, Mexico (AP)—At a shelter overflowing with migrants airing their blistered feet, Francisco Ramirez nursed muscles sore from trekking through the Arizona desert - a trip that failed when his wife did not have the strength to go on. He said the couple would rest for a few days, then try again, a plan echoed by dozens reclining on rickety bunk beds and carpets tossed on the floor after risking violent bandits and the harsh desert in unsuccessful attempts to get into the United States.

The shelter’s manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he has not seen such a rush of migrants since 1986, when the United States allowed 2.6 million illegal residents to get American citizenship. This time, the draw is a bill before the U.S. Senate that could legalize some of the 11 million people now illegally in the United States while tightening border security. Migrants are hurrying to cross over in time to qualify for a possible guest-worker program - and before the journey becomes even harder.

“Every time there is talk in the north of legalizing migrants, people get their hopes up, but they don’t realize how hard it will be to cross,” Loureiro said. South-central Arizona is the busiest migrant-smuggling area, and detentions by the U.S. Border Patrol there are up more than 26 percent this fiscal year - 105,803 since Oct. 1, compared with 78,024 for the same period a year ago. Along the entire border, arrests are up 9 percent.

Maria Valencia, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the rise in detentions did not necessarily mean more people were crossing. She attributed at least some of the additional detentions to an increase in the number of Border Patrol agents. “We’ve sent more technology and agents there, and I think that’s had an impact,” she said. But Loureiro, who has managed the shelter for 24 years, said the debate in the U.S. Congress has triggered a surge in migrants. In March, 2,000 migrants stayed at the shelter - 500 more than last year.

Many migrants said they were being encouraged to come now by relatives living in the United States. One of them is Ramirez, a 30-year-old who earned about $80 a week at a rebar factory in Mexico’s central state of Michoacan. He spent an entire night walking through the Arizona desert with his wife, Edith Mondragon, 29. When her legs cramped, their guide abandoned them and the couple turned themselves in to U.S. authorities. They were deported. But they said they would try again when they regained their strength.

“We want to try our luck up there,” Mondragon said. “We can’t go back to Michoacan because there is no future there.” Ramirez said the draw was not only the prospect of work in Minnesota, where two of his brothers milk cows on a ranch. He was also excited about the idea he might be able to do it legally. “My brothers said there is plenty of work there, and that it looks like they will start giving (work) permits,” he said. Many of the migrants also are being driven by a desire to get into the United States before the likelihood that lawmakers further fortify the border.

- More on the invasion at Arizona Central ...

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Oh Yes He Did

_{Mike Lester—Rome (GA) News-Tribune}

- April 12: “Now The Latinos Have A Dream”

Yesterday, Senator Kennedy told the rally: “Dr Martin Luther King Jr called on the nation to let freedom ring.

“It is time for Americans to lift their voices once again, this time in pride for our immigrant past and in support of our immigrant future.”

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   Wednesday - April 12, 2006

Democratic Oxymoron: Criminalizing Illegals

It’s bad enough the Republicans are caving in again but we still have to endure Senator Ted “Lifeguard” Kennedy’s bloviating and pandering to the illegal population. This issue has gone far enough to suit me but does Congress care? Evidently not. They fought and squabbled over which party was going to take the fall for punishing the criminals in our midst, finally gave up and took two weeks off to rest up.

If it weren’t for the fact that we pay these people good money to protect our interests, this would be almost laughable. As it is, the American people are being shortchanged on this deal. To make matters worse, most of them will start campaigning soon for re-election, at which time we will hear more lies than should be allowable under the law. “Under the law”? Oh, wait! I forgot. The only people who have to obey the law are us taxpayers and legal citizens. Politicians and Mexicans can come and go and do as they please. Argh .....!

GOP Leaders to Drop Felony for Immigrants
_{April 12, 2006}

WASHINGTON (AP)—The two top Republicans in Congress, confronted with internal party divisions as well as large public demonstrations, said Tuesday they intend to pass immigration legislation that does not subject illegal immigrants to prosecution as felons.

A written statement by House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, did not say whether they would seek legislation subjecting illegal immigrants to misdemeanor prosecution or possibly a civil penalty such as a fine.

“It remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony,” the two men said. An estimated 11 million men, women and children are in the United States illegally.

The Republican-controlled House passed legislation late last year that is generally limited to border security measures. It makes illegal immigrants subject to felony prosecution. Senate efforts to write a broader bill - covering border security, a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million in the country illegally - are gridlocked with lawmakers on a two-week vacation.

Frist has said he intends to bring the issue back to the Senate floor, although he stopped short of a flat commitment and the prospects for passage of an election-year immigration bill are uncertain. The late-afternoon statement by the top GOP leaders in both houses came after days of large street demonstrations by protesters opposed to criminal penalties for illegal immigrants.

Additionally, in a Washington Post-ABC News poll published during the day, only 20 percent of those questioned said they favored declaring illegal immigrants to be felons and barring them from work. More than 60 percent indicated support for the general approach envisioned in the leading Senate proposal. It includes a requirement that illegal immigrants be required to pay a fine and back taxes as part of a process of qualifying for eventual citizenship.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- Mass., dismissed the proposal by the GOP leadership, saying: “Actions speak louder than words, and there’s no running away from the fact that the Republican House passed a bill, and Senator Frist offered one, that criminalizes immigrants. This debate shouldn’t be about making criminals out of hardworking families ... but rather about strengthening our national security and enacting a law that reflects our best values and our humanity,” Kennedy said.

- More on the spineless weasels in DC here ...

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Pink Slip

I’m sorry but this whole illegal aliens thing has reached new lows of arrogance and stupidity. These women came here illegally, found a job, then walked off the job to protest. Then they got fired because they didn’t show up for work. Read that again. Does it make sense to you the second time around?

They broke the law to come to America illegally in order to “find good jobs and make a better life” as they keep telling us. Then they walk off the job to protest for more rights. Then they got fired from their “good job”, after not showing up for work. Now they’re going to protest against the company for firing them?

If there is even an inkling of intelligence in that progression of events, I wish someone would point it out to me. Do we really want people this stupid coming to America? Forget the fact that that they broke the law for a minute. When you combine this incredible amount of stupidity with the unbelievable arrogance to think that you deserve the right to walk off the job whenever you want, the result is incomprehensible.

Immigrants’ Firing Leads To Protest
15 women lose jobs after attending rally; Manager says they were warned
_{April 11, 2006}

(DETROIT FREE PRESS)—A manager at a Detroit meatpacking plant said Monday that 15 immigrant women were fired last month after attending a protest for immigrant rights. He said they had been told that they would be terminated if they missed work on the day of the protest.

But the workers and an activist working on their behalf said the women were given no such assurances. If the workers knew they would have been fired for attending the March 27 rally in Detroit, they never would have skipped the morning shift, said Elena Herrada, a Detroit activist who is trying to help the women get their jobs back.

Herrada and about 20 union officials went Monday to Wolverine Packing Co. offices on Rivard to inquire about what happened. They were given a letter signed by general manager Jay Bonahoom, explaining why the workers were terminated.

Meanwhile Monday, marches were held in Washington, D.C., Atlanta and other cities to protest proposed changes in immigration rules. On Sunday, hundreds gathered at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Detroit. Some of the Wolverine workers were undocumented, Herrada and one of the workers said, and wanted to march in the Detroit rally to show their support for immigrant rights.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly Latinos, protested legislation that would make it a crime to help undocumented immigrants. The next morning, when the women reported to work for their shifts as meat cutters, a supervisor told them to clean out their lockers and go home.

Bonahoom said that as far as Wolverine knows, the workers were documented, but an employment agency does the actual hiring. He said the workers had been told, “written and verbally,” on the Friday before the protests that their attendance was mandatory on the day of the protest.

They were fired “for standing up for their rights,” Herrada said.

- More Mexican Madness here ...

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   Monday - April 10, 2006

Breaking The Law

What part of “ILLEGAL” do people not understand? America is a nation of laws and equal justice under those laws - at least that’s what we strive for in the land of the free and the home of the brave. You want to come to America? Fine. Pack up your gear, drag your butt over here, apply for an entry visa, get a job and contribute to our society, pay your taxes, learn about America, pass a few tests after a few years and you’re officially an American citizen. It’s that simple.

It’s the same process that millions before you went through, including my great-grandfather back in 1847. I was fortunate enough to be born here and I love my country. I welcome anyone who wants to come to America and join me - but there is a right way and an ILLEGAL way. If you choose the right way, then you and I can be buddies and I’ll buy you a beer. If you choose the ILLEGAL way then you need to be shipped out or locked up.

Here’s the way I see it - by choosing to come here illegally, you have chosen to flout our laws and you demonstrate a complete disregard for the rules that 300 million Americans live by. That is a sign of disrespect for me and my country and I don’t like it one bit. In fact, I will not tolerate it in any way, shape or form. By all estimates, there are approximately 11 million lawbreakers right now in this country and today they and their friends will be marching and protesting to protect their rights.

Do you want to know what rights an ILLEGAL immigrant has? He or she has the right to go back where they came from and stay out of America until they learn to respect the law. That’s it. There are no other rights. None. Ningunos. Niets. Aucun. Keine. κανένας. Nessun. どれも. 아무도. никакие. 无. Got that?

Thousands Rally for Immigrants Across U.S.
_{Apr 10, 1:23 AM (ET)}

DALLAS (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest Sunday urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Shouting “Si Se Puede!” - Spanish for “Yes, we can!” - the marchers crammed into the downtown streets. They included families pushing strollers with their children and ice cream vendors who placed American flags on their carts. Many wore white clothing to symbolize peace.

Police estimated the crowd at 350,000 to 500,000. There were no reports of violence. It was among several demonstrations that drew thousands of protesters Sunday in New Mexico, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, Utah, Oregon, Idaho and California. “If we don’t protest they’ll never hear us,” said Oscar Cruz, 23, a construction worker who marched among the estimated 50,000 in San Diego. Cruz, who came illegally to the U.S. in 2003, said he had feared a crackdown but felt emboldened by the large marches across the country in recent weeks.

In Birmingham, Ala., demonstrators marched along the same streets where civil rights activists clashed with police in the 1960s and rallied at a park where a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. stands as a reminder of the fight for equal rights and the violence that once plagued the city. “We’ve got to get back in touch with the Statue of Liberty,” said the Rev. Lawton Higgs, a United Methodist pastor and activist. “We’ve got to get back in touch with the civil rights movement, because that’s what this is about.”

Organizers in St. Paul, Minn., were surprised by the crowd - police estimated 30,000 - calling for change at a rally at the state Capitol. The rallies also drew counter-demonstrators. In Salt Lake City, Jerry Owens, 59, a Navy veteran from Midway wearing a blue Minuteman T-shirt and camouflage pants, held a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. “I think it’s real sad because these people are really saying it’s OK to be illegal aliens,” Owens said. “What Americans are saying is ‘Yes, come here. But come here legally.’ And I think that’s the big problem.”

Sunday’s demonstrations come ahead of nationwide protests set for Monday, a signal that what began as a string of disparate events - attracting tens and even hundreds of thousands of people - has become more coordinated.

- More on this story here ...

- The website of the organizers of April 10 protest

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   Saturday - April 08, 2006

Bush Says Democrats Suck

Bush: Democrats’ Leader Sunk Immigration Bill
‘I call on the Senate minority leader to end his blocking tactics’
_{Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:19 a.m. EDT (14:19 GMT)}

WASHINGTON (AP)—President Bush blamed Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Saturday for the potentially fatal blow dealt to compromise immigration legislation. The landmark bill, which would offer eventual citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants, fell victim Friday to internal disputes in both parties. But Bush—echoing earlier complaints from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee—sought to place all the blame on Reid, D-Nevada, who refused to permit votes on more than three Republican-backed amendments.

“I call on the Senate minority leader to end his blocking tactics and allow the Senate to do its work and pass a fair, effective immigration reform bill,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. Hailed as a bipartisan breakthrough earlier in the week, the immigration measure would have provided for stronger border security, regulated the future entry of foreign workers and created a complex new set of regulations for the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.

Officials said an estimated 9 million of them, those who could show they had been in the United States for more than two years, would eventually become eligible for citizenship under the proposal. Faced with a major setback only months before much of the Republican-controlled Congress is up for re-election, Bush sought to give life to the issue. Speaking mostly to conservatives in his party, he said border security must be improved and enforcement within the United States needs to be enhanced.

But in a nod to business leaders who support temporary worker programs that would ensure an easy supply of low-cost labor, he spoke passionately about the need to put out the welcome mat for those from other countries. “Immigration is an emotional issue and a vitally important one,” Bush said. “At its core, immigration is the sign of a confident and successful nation.”

The legislation was gridlocked as lawmakers left the Capitol on Friday for a two-week break. After bewildering political maneuvering, a key vote produced only 38 senators, all Democrats, in support—22 short of the 60 needed. “Politics got ahead of policy on this,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, lamented.

- More on the President’s radio address at CNN ...

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Flight Plan

_{Mike Lester—Rome (GA) News-Tribune}

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   Friday - April 07, 2006

The Senate Fiddles …

Partisan bickering, my aching back! The Senate squabbling continues and while they fiddled around another 10,000 MESS-Cans crossed the border. We’ll be knee-deep in refried beans before the ass-clowns in Congress actually do something.

Face it, it’s an election year and neither party wants to piss off millions of Hispanic voters and neither party wants to piss off millions of legal Americans who are sick and tired of the flood of illegal immigrants. They will continue to fiddle-fart around unless somebody up there in DC decides to act like they got a pair. Unfortunately, I don’t think you could find a real pair of cojones in the entire town. Maybe they can hire some MESS-Cans for that too ...

Partisan Bickering Delays Immigration Deal
_{Apr 7, 7:09 AM (ET)}

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate breakthrough on an immigration bill praised by leaders in both parties appeared endangered by partisan bickering over amendments from opponents. Both sides acknowledged that if the Senate is going to pass a bill, it might not occur until Congress returns from a two-week Easter recess.

Republicans appeared united in blocking a final vote on a compromise proposal worked out among immigration leaders in the two parties until Democrats allow votes on amendments by opponents. A test vote was scheduled Friday on the compromise, as well as a bill by Majority Leader Bill Frist. Democrats said the amendments would undermine the immigration compromise that offered hope for American citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

“I know the reality, tomorrow we cannot finish it,” the assistant Democratic leader, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said late Thursday. Supporters of the compromise claimed 70 votes and said they could defeat all of the amendments offered by opponents. Republicans, however, closed ranks in insisting that at least some of those amendments get votes. Both sides indicated the Senate would complete the bill when Congress returns from the recess that begins Monday.

“The momentum can move either way. Who knows what we’ll face when we return,” Durbin said. President Bush had applauded the Senate’s efforts to draft a comprehensive immigration bill. “I would encourage the members to work hard to get the bill done prior to the upcoming break,” he said Thursday. The election-year legislation is designed to enhance border security and regulate the flow of future temporary workers as well as affect the lives of illegal immigrants.

It separates illegal immigrants now in the U.S. into three categories. Illegal immigrants here more than five years could work for six years and apply for legal permanent residency without having to leave the country. Those here two years to five years would have to go to border entry points sometime in next three years, but could immediately return as temporary workers. Those here less than two years would have to leave and wait in line for visas to return.

The bill also provides a new program for 1.5 million temporary agriculture industry workers over five years. It includes provisions requiring employers to verify they’ve hired legal workers and calls for a “virtual” fence of surveillance cameras, sensors and other technology to monitor the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border.

- Congressional Haggling To Read About Here ...

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   Monday - April 03, 2006

Hector and Maria

Jim at the Parkway Rest Stop has a great analogy.  Here’s a preview:

It started out as just another workday for Tom Armstrong. He arose at the usual time, showered, shaved, combed his hair, brushed his teeth and got dressed for work. He headed down the stairs for his daily blood pressure pill with OJ. As usual, he’d buy coffee at the nearby convenience store and sip it during the forty-minute drive to the office.

When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he turned toward the dining room, and he saw a rather dirty looking stranger sitting at his dining room table drinking a cup of coffee and reading a foreign language newspaper. The man appeared to be in his late twenties and was in need of a shave. And, he was drinking his coffee from Tom’s favorite weekend coffee cup.

The man looked up from the newspaper and said, “Good morning,” and Tom stopped dead in his tracks, simultaneously frightened and angry.

Tom: “Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in my house?”

Hector: “My name’s Hector. There’s some coffee left. You want some?”

Tom: “How did you get in here?”

Hector: “I was going to come in the front door, but you’ve got a good lock on it, so I went around the back. Man, you need a better lock on that door.”

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   Sunday - April 02, 2006

Citizens On Patrol

They’re back on the border in Arizona, trying to help stem the flow of illegal aliens into America. The ACLU hates them. The illegals already in this country are marching and protesting. No one wants to obey the law ... except the MinuteMen. This is all wrong. Why won’t our government protect our borders? Somebody in Washington better wake up soon. Most Americans are sick and tired of this blatant disregard for the rule of law.

Minutemen Reopen Border Control Effort
_{April 2, 2006, 12:22 AM EST}

THREE POINTS, Ariz. (AP)

Minuteman volunteers concerned about the continued flow of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico gathered Saturday with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones for a new monthlong campaign aimed at raising public awareness.

A year after their first watch-and-report operation along the border in southeastern Arizona, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps embarked on a much larger effort in this state’s busy migrant-smuggling corridor.

“I’m concerned about what’s not being done by the government—hasn’t been done for ages, apparently,” said J. Glenn Sorensen, a retired school administrator now living in Flagstaff. Sorensen, who was not involved last year, said he thinks the organization has already accomplished part of its purpose, “to draw national attention to an insecure border. I don’t think anybody wants to close the border—I certainly don’t. Basically, I think they need to be secure.”

No one in the group had any illusions about their campaign’s effectiveness, since it targets a relatively short section of the border for just a month. However, it comes at a time when Congress is debating changes to federal immigration laws, which have drawn supporters of legitimizing illegal immigrants to demonstrations across the country.

“This is like sticking a finger in the dike,” said Ken Raymond, a retired electrical engineer and airplane mechanic from Tucson. Yet some immigrants were apprehended. Minutemen volunteers in New Mexico alerted the Border Patrol to a group of immigrants Saturday. “We hadn’t been on the line more than 30 minutes when we spotted our first group of seven,” said Bob Wright, director of the state’s Minuteman group.

At a rally of at least 200 mostly older men and women at a remote southern Arizona ranch Saturday afternoon, politicians and activists opposed to illegal immigration gave fiery speeches calling for more border control. Don Goldwater, a Republican candidate for Arizona governor, said he had a message for President Bush.

“Build us that wall—now!” Goldwater said, referring to a measure that would add 700 miles of fences along the border. He promised that if elected, he would put illegal immigrants in a tent city on the border and use their labor to build the wall. Goldwater is a nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater. Each month, thousands of illegal immigrants cross into Arizona. Since Oct. 1, agents have caught more than 48,000 in the area staked out this weekend, up 53 percent from the same period a year earlier.

Chris Simcox, the Minuteman group’s national leader, said four watering stations placed by the group Humane Borders to keep migrants from dying in the desert will be among the sites under surveillance. Last year, more than 400 people died trying to cross the desert, many from dehydration or heat exposure, according to the Border Patrol.

“We watch them all the time,” Simcox said of the water stations. “It’s a great place to report illegal activities.” Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox support a so-called guest worker program that would allow illegal immigrants already holding jobs in the U.S. to stay. The Minutemen arriving south of Tucson plan to patrol private ranch property about 30 miles north of the border. The group says it plans similar exercises along the border in California, New Mexico and Texas, and along the Canadian border in Washington, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York state.

In Sumas, Wash., about 150 Minuteman volunteers were keeping watch Saturday. “We’re going to be running posts both day and night,” said chapter organizer Claude LeBas, whose 10-acre farm was the staging area. Along with binoculars, cell phones and radios, a number in Arizona wore sidearms, including state Rep. Russell Pearce, a Republican and a leading voice in the Legislature calling for a crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Those planning to patrol were under strict orders to call the Border Patrol and to avoid confronting intruders or drawing their weapons, said Simcox and Stacey O’Connell, in charge of the Arizona chapter. Although last year’s patrols were nonviolent and disciplined, there are still concerns about having armed groups in a busy trafficking area, Border Patrol spokesman Gus Soto said last week.

Weapons are not part of the Northwest campaign, said LeBas, a retired U.S. Customs agent. Minuteman leaders have said that all the group’s members have been screened to weed out members of racist organizations. Still, the American Civil Liberties Union-Arizona said it was concerned over “the potential for taking actions and ... attempting to enforce immigration laws,” executive director Alessandra Soler Meetze said.

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   Friday - March 31, 2006

Tancredo For President?

I may be tempted to vote for Tancredo if he runs in 2008. Right now, he’s the only politician in Washington who seems to be listening to the American people instead of the Mexican people. In addition, if the Democrats think he’s “nuts” as one of them stated in the article below, then he sure gets my vote. I’m for anything the Democrats are against. It’s my own personal “sanity check”. If the Donks hate it then it must be good ...

Tuning In to Anger on Immigration
Rep. Tancredo’s Profile Grows With Push to Secure U.S. Borders
_{Friday, March 31, 2006}
(WASHINGTON POST)

The first time Rep. Tom Tancredo got really angry about immigration, the year was 1975, and he was a junior high school social studies teacher in Denver. The state had recently passed the nation’s first bilingual education law, and Hispanic kids were taken from his class to study in Spanish.

That idea made zero sense to Tancredo, the grandson of Italian immigrants. He believed that newcomers should be assimilated into the country, as they had been for generations. The image of America as a beacon for people from all over the world uniting under one flag and one language was threatened, he contended, if the country started adapting to immigrants, instead of the other way around.

A year later, Tancredo launched a political career animated by his obsession to stem the tide of immigration from Mexico and Central America that he feared would change the character and security of the country. Today, the four-term Republican House member stands at the center of a national debate over how best to deal with the nearly 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Tancredo helped the House pass a bill in December that would impose criminal sanctions on illegal immigrants and those who employ them and that would erect a wall along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border to keep others out.

That legislation has triggered massive protests throughout the country and prompted a Senate committee this week to pass an alternative measure with a guest-worker program that would help many illegal immigrants eventually win permanent residency or even U.S. citizenship. Tancredo, 60, has so effectively tapped into the anger of millions of Americans who favor a crackdown on illegal immigrants and tougher measures at the border that the back-bench Republican is considering making a bid for president in two years. But in Washington, he is viewed warily by Democrats, the White House and even some of his Republican colleagues as a loose cannon or even a zealot.

After Tancredo suggested in 2002 that President Bush’s views on immigration amounted to a national security threat, White House political adviser Karl Rove told him, “Don’t ever darken the door of the White House”—although Tancredo later was invited to the White House for a bill signing. Democrats have criticized him for stoking anti-immigration sentiment, although some see his tactics as helping them by driving Hispanic American voters in Florida, California and other states away from the Republican Party. “I’m all for more and more nuts in their party speaking up,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), who chairs the House Democrats’ congressional campaign committee. “I want more of those guys.”

- Read More About Tom Tancredo At The Washington Post Today ...

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Decisions

_{Bill Schorr—United Media}

- Denver Post: “Mexico Is Global Turnstile To US”

- Automotive News: “GM To Build New Plant In Mexico”

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   Thursday - March 30, 2006

Estúpido e está loco en la cabeza!

_{Michael Ramirez—The Los Angeles Times}

- San Francisco: “Spanish-Language Radio Spread Word Of L.A. Protest ”

- Atlanta: “Nervously, Latinos Protest in the South”

- Chicago: “100,000 Immigrants Protest Bill”

- Los Angeles: “Police Enforce Truancy Laws To Quell Student Walkouts”

If Paco and Chico want to become Americans, they’re sure as hell going about it the wrong way. First, they come here illegally and then they have the damned nerve to fly the American flag upside down in protest?

The Mess-cans have finally managed to piss off The Skipper to no end. This crap will end henceforth. Either get with the program or get back to Mexiso ... RIGHT DAMN NOW! In fact, just get the hell out. Period.

If any of you reading this out there know of any company that hires illegal Mexicans, alert the authorities immediately. Let’s put pressure on our lazy, slacker politicians to enforce the law. Send the illegals packing and fine the companies who hire them. JUST DO IT!

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   Wednesday - March 29, 2006

Over the Top

I’m so busy I can’t blog all of the stuff that I want to, but this is just too much to ignore.

Check with Michelle for all the updates, just know that this is the beginning of the end.

Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)

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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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