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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
April 12, 2006
He's Baaack! - Senator Kennedy on Immigration Reform
Very few Senators heavily involved in passing a major piece of social legislation are still in the Senate forty years later when the subject comes up again. And absolutely none has looked as spectacularly foolish about it as Senator Edward Kennedy. As floor manager of the 1965 Immigration Act Kennedy assured the country
What Should Be A Felony?
The CS Monitor recently covered the issue of the attempts to make illegal immigration a felony. [Felony threat rouses immigrants,April 12, 2006] Now, what they missed is that the present proposals are strong on punishing the immigrants themselves--but rather lax on punishing employers, investors, property owners that profit from illegal immigration.
Illegal Alien Just Wanted An Education...And To Rob You At Knife-Point
Remember Francisco Serrano? (bio here)
He was the 21 year-old illegal alien found living in his old high school in Minnesota last year. After he was arrested for trespassing, the school and most of the town of Twin Cities rallied around the lad and tried to stop his deportation hearing--they even paid his bail.
Oh yeah, and some billionaire guy and his wife wanted to adopt him...he was such a nice boy.
The GOP Caves In...Already
That didn't take long...
In a joint statement issued last night, House Leader Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) announced they would drop the provision from the House bill which would make illegal presence in the U.S. a felony.
"It remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony."
GOP Leaders to Drop Felony for Immigrants By David Espo, AP 4/12/06
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A Nebraska Reader Says He Has No Freedom of Speech But Aliens Do
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A German Reader Says Tyranny Follows the Death of Truth
From: Stan Sipple [e-mail him]