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For many conservatives, John McCain is not their favorite Republican. They think he's built a career at their expense, painting them as fools and bigots. They resent his holier-than-thou attitude. And they're not inclined to trust anyone who has been so fawned over by the national media. Curiously, a lot of liberal Democrats feel the same way about McCain. He isn't their favorite Republican either -- but it's because they know he'll be tough to beat in November. They would have preferred to run against someone more extreme and easier to demonize. That's not John McCain. first met McCain 10...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently said, "We're inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of services." Newsom could have said -- just as easily -- that he's inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of the taxpayers! Believe it or not, the City of San Francisco just launched a $83,000 public relations campaign that will actively encourage waves of illegal aliens to sneak across the border. This media blitz will include television and radio ads, billboards and bus signs and brochures distributed at police stations and hospitals. And what's the goal?...

Tonight, a mom is grieving after police say the person who was supposed to be taking care of her child may have caused his death. Ethan Gibbs would've celebrated his second birthday at the end of March. On Wednesday, his mom says she dropped him off at his baby sitter's apartment, but the baby sitter left Ethan with the man who police say severely beat the little boy. WBTV's Michael Handy sat down with Ethan's mom who says she blames herself more than anything. -------- "He didn't kill my son, he tortured my son," said Amanda Gibbs, who is the...

Joe can go back to tending his garden properly; Jenny can pick up the needlepoint all over again. All over America today the American people are breathing a sigh of relief and starting to resume their lives. We won another battle to keep our country strong, we fought back the foes who would sell out our country and we did so with such heat and enthusiasm, that we shut down the senate phones because so many Americans dropped what they were doing and stood up to the government and told them you work for us. This is proud day, a...

Thanks, but maybe no thanks. That's the refrain among many undocumented immigrant farm workers interviewed in Homestead on Friday, a day after learning of a possible deal struck in Congress to repair the nation's broken immigration system. Some said the thousands of dollars of fines and fees contemplated in the proposal would impose significant financial hurdles -- one said it would cost $10,000 to pay the legalization costs for her and her husband. ''I've started to save money, but I don't think I'll have enough once it becomes law,'' said Lucía de la Crúz, a Homestead farm worker from Guatemala....

MEXICO CITY - President Bush will travel to Mexico in March to meet with President Felipe Calderon, the government said Wednesday. The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that Bush will be in Mexico March 12-14 as part of a tour of Latin America. Bush and Calderon met for the first time at the White House on Nov. 9, before the Mexican president had been sworn in, and discussed border security and illegal migration, among other topics.

Some parishioners of St. Patrick's Church were surprised by a letter they found on their windshields after attending a recent Saturday evening Mass. The missive, written by Grass Valley resident Ed Yarborough, accused the church's priest, the Rev. Tim Nondorf, of encouraging illegal immigrants by offering special services, including Mass in Spanish. "Do you believe it's ethical for a clergyman to help criminals break the law?" Yarborough wrote in his public letter. "Aren't illegal aliens criminals? Their very presence in this country is a violation of federal law. Does that not concern you? Didn't Jesus say 'render unto Caesar'?" In...

During the pro-illegal alien rallies in cities across the US last Spring, activists were hard at work registering illegal aliens to vote as Democrats. In New York, a city that doesn't require proof of citizenship to vote, activists registered tens of thousands of illegal aliens during a huge demonstration in Manhattan. News reporters on the scene ignored the illegal voter registration, preferring to give Americans a distorted view of the illegal alien issue. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of Representative, declared in a press statement that he introduced a bill that...

Mexico's President Vicente Fox extended his gratitude to, and praise for, the US Senate for passing an immigration bill he termed "a monumental step forward". The bill, if made law, would provide more than 12 million of illegal aliens with a path to eventual citizenship. However, it must be reconciled with a tougher bill passed in the House of Representatives. Mr Fox, following a four-day trip to the US, said this was "a moment that millions of families have been hoping for". Mr Fox said in an address to the California legislature in Sacramento late on Thursday: "This is the...

Republican members of House of Representatives continue to send their collective message to President George W. Bush and Senate liberals such as Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): They are overwhelmingly opposed to any deal that provides illegal immigrants a path to citizenship through a program that amounts to "amnesty" for over 12 million illegal aliens. The heated rhetoric emanating from the GOP members of the House significantly dims the prospects that President Bush will win the immigration compromise he is seeking, according to the GOP establishment within the Beltway. The Republican opposition spreads across the geographical and ideological boundaries that often...

This battle over illegal immigration and what to do about it is the nastiest, most contentious and divisive issue to afflict the U.S. in my long lifetime. We are literally at each other's throats. As I wrote last week, when things reach this stage reason and sanity go out the window. Nobody listens to anybody else. In this sense the deafest people around are, in this order, the Senate of the United States, the President, and the liberal bleeding hearts who spend most of their energies in thinking up ways to give the nation and everything in it away to...

Mexican Standoff I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations. I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place. But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me...

A representative from Mexican President Vicente Fox claims that if the US National Guard troops detain illegal aliens crossing the US-Mexico border, the Fox government will file a lawsuit against the Bush Administration in US federal court. There are some political observers who believe that the American Civil Liberties Union is preparing to assist the Mexican government in such a lawsuit. In fact, the ACLU sent a statement to the Mexican government regarding their stance on immigration enforcement. As Congress moves forward to reform our nation’s immigration laws, the ACLU said the US must reject measures that threaten to increase...

Senators will start debate as early as Monday on a bill that would create a temporary- worker program, stiffen penalties for employers who hire undocumented workers, and allow millions of illegal aliens to apply for citizenship. Tom Tancredo had harsh words regarding the Frist-Reid compromise that allowed the Senate bill to go forward. "By caving in to the Democrats this morning, Bill Frist pushed the Senate towards the biggest illegal-alien amnesty in American history," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., the leader of those Republicans. "It is a sad day for legal immigrants who embrace this country by following our laws,...

For the last couple weeks I have written about my feelings and the history surrounding the illegal immigration problem in America. This problem and the lack of our government doing anything to stop or deal with it this has a majority of people on both sides of the political spectrum upset. Everyone is talking about it and getting upset because our government is doing nothing to deal with it. This is most likely going to decide the outcome of the next few elections in this nation both local and on a state and federal levels. We see demonstrations all the...

Illegal aliens (I refuse to ever again use the word immigrant in this context) commit violent crime. They commit a lot of violent crime. The latest numbers I've seen or heard put the national population of our nation's prisons as being composed roughly 27 percent by illegals. But you sure don't hear about this much. And we know why! Spineless Democrats know that focusing on such numbers would send a shiver down the spine of true God-fearing, rule-of-law Americans. But spineless Democrats are hoping to turn the estimated 12 million illegals who are here into potential voters – so don't...

WASHINGTON — El Paso taxpayers may be stuck next year with paying the full tab of jailing thousands illegal immigrants. Congress left town last week to campaign for the Nov. 5 elections without reaching an agreement with the Bush administration on funding a Justice Department program that provided $546 million last year to the states. All 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, including Guam, have shared in the federal dollars distributed through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program since 1995. California, New York, Texas, New Jersey and Arizona got the bulk of the federal money. California received...