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- Senate torpedoes immigration-reform bill
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Times
  The Senate today drove a stake through President Bush's plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections. The bill's supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate and clear the way for final passage of the legislation, which critics assailed as offering amnesty to illegal immigrants. The vote was 46 to 53 in favor of limiting the debate.
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- Media Matters - Boortz: Put up the Fence!
  Posted by theangryindian from Media Matters
  On the June 18 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz advocated building a "double fence along the Mexican border, and stop the damn invasion." Boortz continued: "I don't care if Mexicans pile up against that fence like tumbleweeds in the Santa Ana winds in Southern California. Let 'em. You know, then just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line, and somebody's gonna be a millionaire out of that." On the June 11 edition of his show, a caller asked, "Why can't
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- Matrimony of Rights: Gay Marriage and
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  There’s hope for the United States yet. A bid by the bigoted right and Catholic wrongs to defeat gay marriage in Massachusetts failed. Perfect timing: the similarities between opponents of gay marriage and opponents of amnesty for undocumented immigrants are not only uncanny. They’re almost indistinguishable.
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- Immigrants as America's Undocumented Saving Grace
  Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam
  There are no such things as illegal immigrants or illegal aliens. There are immigrants. Some are documented. Some are not. Both contribute. Both make this country work better than it would without them, as they always have. The difference is details. The country’s debt to immigrants, legal, undocumented or involuntary, is larger than America could ever repay.
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- Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties
  Posted by Jon from Washington Post
  The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law.
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- Overhaul of Immigration Law Could Reshape New York
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  The proposed law certainly would not end the flow of legal immigration to New York. But it could profoundly alter the currents that have long fed the city’s mom and pop entrepreneurship, its kaleidoscopic diversity, and family networks that nurture and help assimilate newcomers.
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- Fred Kaplan | Hyping al-Qaida
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  "If you tuned in at the end of George W. Bush's press conference Thursday morning, just in time to watch him defend the immigration bill, you caught a glimpse of the leader he might have been, the 'compassionate conservative' of the 2000 Republican Convention - impassioned, inclusive, empathetic, yet practical," says Fred Kaplan. "If you sat through the rest of the conference, which dealt mainly with the war in Iraq, you saw the bedraggled president he has become."
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rhoadesb comments on:
Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.

I see no way this will ever be fixed as long as the world is driven by the desire to amass money.. I do not say this in any altruistic sense, just logic. This may be the best system we’ve got at the moment, but it is by no means a good one.
While I am by far (for the moment) much better off than these folks, I am by no means immune to perhaps having to choose between living and dying for myself and or a family member because of monetary constraints at some point.

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3:38 am 11/10/08
Jwgardner comments on:
B.C. apologizes for Komagata Maru incident

I’m all for political correctness under most circumstances, but this one kind of reeks of political pandering to me. And misplaced pandering, at that. Why apologise now for that incident, when a whole bunch of injustices perpetrated to two larger Asian immigrant populations in BC – the Chinese and Japanese – remain unanswered? Were earlier apologies for specific incidents supposed to be blanket apologies?

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9:52 pm 5/24/08
theauthor comments on:
Immigration raid largest in U.S. history

Good, this opens up more jobs for actual Americans who are sucking up welfare checks.

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6:06 pm 5/13/08
theangryindian comments on:
Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

Old story. But people wish to believe it.

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5:39 pm 3/30/08
Damianmann comments on:
Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype

divide and conquer

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11:33 pm 3/29/08
Jeff comments on:
NPR: Bill Gates Targets Visa Rules for Tech Workers

NPR let Gates dodge most of the questions refusing to follow up or request him to answer the question they asked. Gates kept returning to his talking points.

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11:15 am 3/13/08
Jeff comments on:
Microsoft | Revamp visa system, Gates urges Congress | Seattle Times Newspaper

Gates seemed to laugh before he answered the question about whether more H1B visa workers depress wages in the U.S. The laugh seems like a tell to me i.e. he’s lying.

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7:37 am 3/13/08

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