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Immigration talk follows McCain to Iowa By HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 32 minutes ago LE MARS, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record) has a message for critics of the immigration compromise he helped devise. ADVERTISEMENT "I respect your disagreement, but what's your proposal?" McCain said Saturday. "If people who are running for president of the United States don't agree with this proposal, what's your proposal? ... The status quo is not acceptable," he told reporters. McCain's comments came after a town hall event at a golf course in Le Mars, in...

Hispanic gang specialist, retired L.A. Sheriffs Sgt. Richard Valdemar told Full Disclosure Network™ "It is my duty as a Hispanic to talk about this (the illegal immigration issue) because you cannot, you would be called a racist." In a six minute video preview of part four of a four part Special Series of interviews, Sgt. Valdemar describes what it was like to work for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 33 years while having to deal with legal and illegal Mexican immigrants in a city that has become known as "the illegal immigration capitol of the nation."

WASHINGTON — The House author of a border security bill that triggered massive street protests stood firm today against amnesty for illegal immigrants and predicted tough negotiations with the Senate on compromise legislation. The Senate passed its sweeping bill 62-36 Thursday after two weeks of debate and difficult votes that tested the strength of a coalition of bipartisan senators who supported the opportunity for U.S. citizenship that their bill would give most of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people who are in this country illegally.

The Bush administration and Republican Senators have badly misjudged both the attitudes of most Republicans (and, of course, most Americans) toward illegal immigration, and the intensity of those views. While we have opposed the Senate plan, we have been pretty mild-mannered about it. So I'm turning the microphone over to my friend Bob Cunningham. No one I know of argues immigration-related issues more cogently. Equally important, no one I know of conveys the white-hot anger and sense of betrayal that millions of Americans feel about this issue more effectively. We know that this site is widely read in the White...

La Republica Norte-Americano?Thursday, January 29 @ 16:04:24 The Border Governors Conference will continue having several "planning meetings" throughout the year, in preparation for the next conference (the 22nd) that is scheduled for August 9-10, 2004, in New Mexico. The US governors involved are Perry (TX), Richardson (NM), Neopolitano (AZ), and Swarzenegger (CA).Agenda & Details What follows here is the result of the latest (21st) Conference that was held in Mexico August 7-8, 2003. XXI BORDER GOVERNORS CONFERENCE, UNITED STATES-MEXICO AUGUST 7-8, 2003 CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA JOINT DECLARATION PREAMBLE THE GOVERNORS OF THE STATES OF ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS...

<p>The Bush administration's proposal to offer amnesty to illegal immigrant workers has prompted federal officials to instruct border patrol agents not to disclose information that might reflect poorly on the idea, a government document shows.</p> <p>Meanwhile, U.S. border patrol agents have been told to ask a series of questions when they capture illegal immigrants, including whether the immigrants have heard of President George W. Bush's proposal.</p>