[Dane]

Romney is just taking the clinton/liberal media bait. Clinton/obama are setting up the stage to make immigration an issue and bring out the blowhard buchanan/tancredo types on FR with their bomnast. Immigration didn't work for the GOP in last Tuesday's election Virginia election and the democrats know it, but like the definition of insanity of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the blowhard kneejerk wing of the GOP still uses the same tactics.

DES MOINES, Iowa--Barack Obama said publicly Thursday what many Democrats are fretting about privately these days, which is that the Republicans will be coming after them next year on the issue of immigration and they'd better get ready. Obama made that observation when my colleague Shailagh Murray and I asked him about immigration during an interview aboard his campaign bus in Iowa. "My estimation is that the Republicans will run on two issues, and two issues only," he said. "Terrorism and immigration. That is going to be their campaign." During two days of town hall meetings in southeast Iowa, before otherwise friendly audiences of Democrats, Obama was repeatedly challenged on immigration. The sense of frustration and anger about illegal immigration was evident at virtually every stop and it seemed a harbinger of what could be the Democrats most difficult challenge in 2008. Obama said Democrats must do two things. First, make "absolutely clear" that their party is determined to shut down the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, but, second, to do so in a way that shows the United States can be a "nation of laws and a nation of immigrants at the same time." Obama accused Republicans of trying to demagogue the issue but sounded wary about whether Democrats are equipped to counter GOP attacks. "There's no doubt there will be attempts made to hit whoever the Democratic nominee is on this issue. And we have to stand our ground and not be defensive." On this subject, Obama and former President Bill Clinton agree. The former president is known to believe that of all the issues likely to be at the forefront of the 2008 campaign, immigration holds the greatest potential peril for the Democrats

I posted this Dan Balz, Washington Post writer article, but it was deemed as flame bait.

[Leisler]

Easy. Pro Immigration. Anti illegal. Pro law borders, security.

If Republicans can establish that first, I’d like to see the Dems work around it. Dems have been, rightly, getting whacked on law and order since Nixon.

[ellery]

Immigration didn't work for the GOP in last Tuesday's election Virginia election and the democrats know it, but like the definition of insanity of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the blowhard kneejerk wing of the GOP still uses the same tactics.

Immigration enforcement didn't hurt republicans in Pennsylvania...Hazelton's mayor overwhelmingly won re-election, and our superior court judge who was slammed all over the media for daring to speak out on illegal immigration was retained in office.

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11:42 p.m.: And from the AP: HAZLETON, Pa. - Mayor Lou Barletta, a Republican who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in this small city, easily won re-election Tuesday to a third term.

He defeated a Libertarian candidate, John Medashefski, a coffee shop owner who argued the city should drop its effort to push through a law targeting illegal immigrants.

With 82 percent of precincts reporting, Barletta had 2,593 votes, or 89 percent, compared with Medashefski's 323 votes, or 11 percent.

In the primary, Barletta also won the Democratic nomination as a write-in candidate, easily defeating a comeback bid by a former mayor and leaving himself with no Democrat to face in the general election.

Last year, Barletta pushed through a law that targeted landlords who rented to illegal immigrants and businesses that employed them in this city of 30,000. The law, emulated by dozens of towns around the nation, was struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional. The judge said states and municipalities cannot regulate immigration.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07310/831660-366.stm?cmpid=earlyreturns.xml

Judge wants change in federal treatment of ‘illegal aliens’

A state Superior Court judge called for a grassroots effort to change federal laws which he said currently allow legal immigrants and U.S. citizens to be prosecuted for unlawful activity, but prohibits prosecution of “illegal aliens.” “It’s happening in communities like Gettysburg and Shenandoah and Tamaqua,” Judge Correale “Corry” F. Stevens told members of the Adams County Republican Committee Thursday evening at the county ag center, “and it could happen in Black Horse Tavern and Aspers and Zora.” For example, he said state police stopped a van for speeding on an interstate and detained the four “illegals” they found inside. “They called ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and they were told, ‘Let them go,’” Stevens said. “The policemen had no choice.”

http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2007/05/02/