but the North Dakota governor has dibs on any warm, Mississippi names.
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Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
Tough laws passed last year against illegal immigration have created a need for farmworkers.
By Nicholas Riccardi
Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2007
DENVER — Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last […]
The arrogance in the White House would be laughable if it were not so disgustingly dangerous.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Not Our Kind of People [Mark Krikorian]
According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old […]
Next year, the toy retailer may want to avoid this problem by giving the savings bond to the last infant born in the year.
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“In Reversal, Toys “R” Us Gives 3 Baby Prizes
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: January 7, 2007
Toys “R” Us yesterday reversed its decision and awarded a $25,000 savings bond to a baby […]
To add the perfect absurdity to this event, ‘Solomon’ Trump should settle the matter of an American citizen’s becoming second class at the moment of birth. Jingoists Unite. You have nothing to lose but your souls.
“January 6, 2007
First-Baby Sweepstakes Fuels Immigration Debate
By NINA BERNSTEIN
New York Times
It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A […]
“Illegal Immigration Hardliner Mitt Romney Hires Undocumented Workers To Tend His Lawn
The Boston Globe reports today that for the past decade, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has employed a landscaping company that relies heavily on undocumented Guatemalan immigrants. The company, Community Lawn Service with a Heart, also tended to the lawn at Romney’s son’s house.”
When […]
“Local agent faces charges
Immigration officials say Dominguez oversaw operation that smuggled Cuban baseball players to the U.S., where they signed pro contracts.
By Lance Pugmire, Times Staff Writer
November 1, 2006
A Southern California player agent who has represented defected Cuban baseball players was among five men charged Tuesday with smuggling, transporting and harboring Cuban players who were […]
Plan may put troops at Mexico, U.S. border
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published May 13, 2006
WASHINGTON - President Bush, trying to build momentum for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, is considering plans to shore up the Mexican border with National Guard troops paid for by the federal government, the Associated Press reported Friday, citing unnamed administration […]
Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English
By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Friday, April 28, 2006 41 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish —President Bush declared Friday, amid growing restlessness over the millions of immigrants here illegally.
Please find the riveting story here.
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Each of us can rest assured that a scene like the one in that grainy 16 mm film would never happen in America. Nevertheless, awareness of ethnic origin is a fact of life. Like Rashomon, views of your basic non-White Anglo-Saxon Protestant peoples are as varied as the needs they fulfill. First, read the article.
U.S. […]