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  • Obama Presidency an Illegal Immigrant’s Dream

    10/30/2008 6:03:25 PM PDT · by HollyButler · 10 replies · 274+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | October 29, 2008 | Nat Helms
    Barack Obama would use his presidential power to discourage enforcement of federal immigration laws and offer blanket amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants as part of his quiet plan to dismantle U.S. immigration policies. In numerous speeches and interviews, Obama has repeated his pro-illegal immigrant stance, aimed squarely at filling voter rolls with hordes of newly minted Democratic voters. But giving amnesty — and eventually, citizenship — to 12 million illegal immigrants would not only overwhelm social service programs but also forever alter the nation’s political profile, especially in the South and the West, experts warn. Despite such dire predictions,...
  • SAUNDERS: No force border enforcement

    10/22/2006 8:06:21 AM PDT · by SmithL · 26 replies · 788+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 22, 2006 | Debra J. Saunders
    SOMEONE OUGHT to tell the Bush administration that prisons are for criminals, not law-enforcement personnel trying to do their jobs. On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas sentenced two former Border Patrol agents to 11 and 12 years in prison because they shot at a drug smuggler who was evading arrest. In February 2005, Border Patrol agent Jose Alonso Compean got in a scuffle with smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, who was driving a van that carried 743 pounds of marijuana. Compean and fellow agent Ignacio Ramos shot at Aldrete-Davila -- they say they thought he had a gun, which Aldrete-Davila denies....