The Senate's second attempt at comprehensive immigration reform died a particularly devastating death Thursday as Senators, seeing that the measure wouldn't reach the 60-vote threshold, abandoned the ship like illegal aliens running out of a Swift meat-packing plant. Something needs to be done about the millions of illegal immigrants in the United States -- but […]
Republican Sen. Trent Lott went on a whine today over the immigration bill being debated in the Senate. Lott apparently was exasperated by the fact that his GOP colleagues wouldn't go along to get along so John McCain could have a legislative victory to tout as he campaigned across the country -- not realizing that […]
The Boston Globe is reporting that the Bush administration asked for the requirement that illegal aliens pay back taxes for three of the past five years be removed from the latest immigration plan. A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, […]
Here's hoping it dies. Bush has made a couple of egregious mistakes when it comes to domestic legislation during his two terms. The prescription drug benefit was one. McCain-Feingold was another. Somehow it's fitting that the next big one is going to be named McCain-Kennedy. It should go without saying that this should be the […]
Correction appended. Today is the communists' favorite holiday, so it should come as no surprise that pinkos make their way out of the woodwork today. For the second year in a row, supporters of open-borders are rallying across the United States. It would seem like these rallies would be a target-rich environment for Immigration and […]
I'm sure you're familiar with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep last week that netted more than 1,000 illegal immigrants working at Swift & Co. meat-processing plants last week. Well, apparently those jobs weren't among the ones Americans won't do -- people (most of them apparently legal residents) were lined up out the door to […]
Uniform manufacturer Cintas has started checking its workers' Social Security numbers against the federal government's database and is now laying off workers whose numbers are coming up invalid -- an indicator that they're not allowed to work in the United States. One of the workers complained about the move to the press. Cintas has notified […]
Which explains why nine Cubans broke out of a detention facility in Tijuana and showed up at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego asking for political asylum.
To say I've been disturbed by the recent protests against congressional efforts to tighten security on our southern border and make illegal immigration a felony instead of a misdemeanor would be an understatement. I've seen a plethora of photos from these protests and I'm shocked by the display of "patriotism." I use the scare quotes […]
For those suffering extreme cases of Post-Election Selection Trauma, a word of advice on getting through Canadian immigration: Pizza. Canada's immigration minister Judy Sgro has resigned over allegations that she agreed to help a pizza shop owner avoid deportation in return for free food. Harjit Singh says he delivered free pizza and garlic bread to […]