In San Francisco, pushing for sanctuary law

A city supervisor,  David Campos,   is pushing the implementation of a controversial sanctuary law in San Francisco,  asking the city attorney in a letter  to back it.  San Francisco Mayor Newsom has said that the new law  -  shielding...

Contoversial Sheriff heckled off stage

In Arizona,  Maricopa County's Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for his controversial policies and practices on Immigration,  and for his defiance of authority,  especially when he was asked by local...

63% of public want citizenship for undocumented workers

As Democrats push for immigration reform and speedy gateway's to legal citizenship for illegal immigrants and undocumented workers,  a new Pew Research poll shows that the American voting public largely favors such reform.   And Secretary of the Office of...

Neo-Nazi protests draw counter-protesters

Neo-Nazi anti-immigration protests drew counter-protests which dwarfed the protesters in some cases,  over the weekend in Arizona and Minnesota,  the Huffington Post reports.   See VIDEO "Anti-immigration rallies held by neo-Nazi groups in Arizona and...

Obama Adm. to insist on granting legal status to 12 mil. illegals

12 MILLION ILLEGALS TO BE GRANTED LEGAL STATUS,  OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL 'PUSH AHEAD' IN  JANUARY 2010 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that the Obama Administration will push through measures to grant legal status to some 12...

ACLU advises caution regarding massive immigration reform

The ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union ) advises that proposed immigrations reform must not curtail or compromise civil liberties. It insists that questions of ethnic and racial profiling arise from the idea of a National ID and Employment card for verification purposes....

Is this what Joe Wilson may have been thinking?

We will have to see how this all plays out:   Of course,  there are reasonable arguments for such a plan,  but from Wilson's seat, and with his thinking,  the outburst may have been unavoidable:  "Fearful that they're losing ground on immigration...

Obama and Immigration reform

The charge that Mr. Obama is an international socialist,  who would use amnesty as a smokescreen for a Trojan Horse ,  which would allow a liberal socialism to enter the US ,  and  to gain a...

Immigration reform: An issue which will widen the divide

Throughout the summer it became increasingly clear that a bipartisan approcah was not going to fly:  American politics are more divisive than ever.  And the pending issue of immigration reform will certainly widen the great divide.  The liberal argument that...

Hundreds march for immigration reform

""We are not here out of anger, we are here out of compassion," said Alejandro Chavez, Arizona chair of the United Farm Workers, organizer of the march. "We just want to make immigration affordable and accessible...

Obama not pushing to pass immigration reform this year

When President Obama promised the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that he would begin work on immigration reform this year, people were optimistic that real change was to come. This optimism seems to have died down with recent comments from...

Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Un-FAIR’ with Facts

The subject of so-called “hate crimes” has been discussed in this space several times during the past 18 months, ranging from proposed federal hate crime legislation to observations that Thomas Jefferson hated “hate crime” legislation and that “love crimes”...

Breeding for Christ, conservatism and consumerism

"An interesting piece came across my desk the other day that paints a chilling picture of how strong the religious right's death grip is on American culture and politics... and how that death grip is actually maintained by business interests who want to ensure that the...

Economic populism vs. the new Gilded Age

"...The outsourcing wave has led to a huge amount of ugly acrimony between the various factions, as the message to white-collar workers is now crystal clear: We don't need you. We can ship your entire department over to India for a third of the cost of your salary. So...

States leap into immigrant showdown

Legislators in Pennsylvania and beyond push laws to make it tougher on illegals, employers.

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