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I expect that Obamessiah is going to act like the regular politician he is ("a new kind of politics"?  No, just a better speaker and an "in the tank" MSM that refuses to ask the hard questions) when it comes to enforcing our present set of laws against illegal aliens.  Yeah, I'm already getting that sinking feeling again with McCain now talking, AGAIN, about "comprehensive immigration reform".

Sidebar - you know, I'd really like to see a debate where conservative bloggers are the questions askers to Obama and liberal ones for McCain.  However, since I would predict that McCain would do alright but Obama, without his teleprompter, would fold faster than a cheap paper plate caught in a New England summer thunderstorm.

Still, from USANumbers, I just saw this:

The House Appropriations Committee now plans to consider on Tuesday (June 24) the DHS spending bill that will determine funding levels for immigration enforcement next year.

Postponement of the planned markup of the bill on June 18 looks like a case of cold feet. I am proud of all the NumbersUSA members whose icy reception of talk of de-funding resulted in a blizzard of phone calls -- and perhaps the cold feet.

U.S. House leaders continue to gauge whether next Tuesday they can escape public wrath if they take funding away from a couple of the most effective enforcement procedures resulting in illegal aliens leaving the country. Appropriators will decide whether to de-fund that enforcement for next year or, as we encourage the public to demand, to expand the funding.

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We cannot tell you for sure what committee leaders had planned to introduce on June 18 because they have refused to make public their bill. (Whenever that happens, we generally are correct in suspecting that they are including convoluted language designed to disguise legislation that we would oppose. If they wait to the last minute to make a bill public, we don't have time to read and analyze it and to alert you to any dangers.)

I am an Open and Transparent Government kind of guy - I want ALL aspects of what the bureacracy and elected officials are doing to be in full view.  With the power of the 'Net, the ability of ordinary citizens to use off-the-shelf technology to use to monitor these folks, people in government have to realize that thousands of flashlights are coming in to what used to be dark or murky corners.

We do know that there are strong currents within Congress wanting an election-year action that will look really tough against the worst criminals among illegal aliens while secretly gutting the enforcement programs that are proving effective in pushing overall illegal immigration down.

Particularly at risk are two effective efforts that the pro-illegal groups despise:

• No. 1: 287(g) program allowing and equipping local agencies to arrest and detain illegal aliens of all kinds.
• No. 2: Arrests of any illegal alien encountered while looking for criminal alien fugitives.

One idea floating around Congress would be to take away all funding for 287(g) and put it into a larger fund for tracking down fugitive criminal aliens.

Well, we lit it up and melted it down before, folks......time for a threepeat?

You can continue to phone committee members at 202-224-3121, asking for expanded funding for the 287(g) program for local immigration enforcement.

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What happened?  The illegals are leaving for states that are more lenient. 

Now, South Carolina is following suit:

Senate initially OKs immigration bill that would fine employers who hire illegals

COLUMBIA -- The state Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday night to a new immigration reform plan that provides for civil fines of up to $10,000 for businesses that knowingly hire illegal workers.

"This is probably the toughest anti-illegal immigration bill in the country," President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell said.

The voice-vote approval of the amendment came after hours of a Democrat-led fillibuster of the previous plan and complaints that it would hurt farmers and not solve the state’s illegal immigration problems.

Given the empirical evidence from Arizona and from Prince William County in Maryland, I'm not so sure I'd be so quick to use that last phrase.  It does seem quite clear that when the law is passed and enforced, it DOES solve the illegal immigration problem.

And not a red cent has to be spent on deportation - they self-deport (or at least, self-move). 

The new proposal would require that private employers verify each workers’ legal status using either a South Carolina driver’s license, a federal electronic verification system or a new state form similar to the federal I-9 form that would be monitored by state regulators.

[snip]  "We’ve had meetings, numerous phone calls and letters back and forth with Senate Republicans over the past couple of days about the need for a strong electronic verification system," Sanford said in a statement after the vote.

[snip]  "The message should go out loud and clear that South Carolina is not a haven for the employment of illegals," McConnell told senators.

[snip] McConnell said businesses that fail to keep the proper records could be fined between $100 and $1,000 per violation, while those that are found guilty of knowingly and intentionally hiring illegals could be fined a maximum of $2,000 per violation for first offense and up to $10,000 per violation on third and subsequent offenses.

So, why South Carolina?  And right now?  Probably this is why....

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THere is also the problem that when illegal immigrants flood into an area, wages become depressed relative to when there are none. 

Problem is, even when immigration is legal (and I DO support legal immigration), if employers game the system, it can depress wages as well:

Jobs Americans Won't Do?   [Mark Krikorian]

Another WaPo sob story about a firm desperate for more H-1B visas. The Baltimore company's CEO says "We offer the same salaries and perks whether you're from Baltimore or Bangladesh . . . but we simply cannot find enough qualified U.S.-born staff to fuel our growth."

My profession, computer tech, keeps saying the same thing - it needs more legal immigration.  However, continue on to see how it has put itself into a pickle in this regard and it did it to itself.

Well, John Miano, a Fellow with my Center, took a look for me at the "Labor Condition Applications" that the company filed with the Department of Labor to receive its H-1B workers. Lo and behold, the average H-1B wage for architects at this particular firm is about $45,000, compared with the average for all architects in Baltimore of about $69,000.

So, by gaming the legal immigration process, this firm has gained an advantage over the competition (all other things remaining equal). My, my, no wonder they want more cheaper sources of labor!

So while it may be true that the company pays its foreign contract labor the same as its American workers, it seems to be paying all its architects 35 percent less than the market average. It's no wonder they can't find enough American workers. But why is it government's job to help this business avoid adjusting to market realities?

We've had Mark on Meet The New Press before - perhaps it is time to have him back on!

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Regular readers of the 'Grok know that one of our guiding lights is the Rule of Law.  It is, along with right to Free Speech, the right to Private Property, and the Right to Vote, among the chief standards upon which our society functions.

You may not like the Law, you may protest the Law, you may wish (or are attempting to) change the Law, but we all must OBEY the Law and be held accountable when we refuse to recognize and follow the Law.  Most adults understand this.  Unfortunately, this view is not always held by all - especially those (sorry, couldn't resist) that have no problem with open borders and having illegal aliens in their midst.

Well, decisions DO have consequences, as Grizzly Groundswell has the story (emphasis mine):

Recently, I wrote on the murder of Jamiel Shaw Jr last month in Los Angeles by an illegal alien gang member who was never deported after being released from LA County Jail. The suspect had served 4 months on a weapons charge. Apparently, when arrested, he told the cops that he was born in LA, and his word was accepted. One day after his release, he shot and killed Jamiel Shaw, a 17-year-old star high school football player and son of a servicewoman serving in Iraq. Had normal procedures been followed, an immigration hold would have been placed on this person, and he would have been deported upon his release. But because Los Angeles is a “sanctuary city”, immigration authorities were never notified. Now, we have a dead youth senselessly murdered.

In response to this outrage, mayoral candidate Walter Moore, with the support of Jamiel Shaw Sr, is asking the LA City Council to revoke the city regulation (Rule 40) that prohibits LAPD officers from even detaining known illegal alien gang members. Yesterday, the two appeared before the City Council to state that “Enough is enough” and plead for their support.

So far, they have met with zero results. In fact, they were treated with arrogance and disinterest.

For example, City Councilmember Ed Reyes, while expressing sympathy for Mr Shaw, stated that to revoke the rule would bring “unintended consequences”. Such as, Mr Reyes? Saving innocent lives, perhaps?

 What a bunch of garbage that is the leadership of the City of Los Angeles. From Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa [you know, the one who just had to admit having an affair with a local TV reporter covering City Hall?  -Skip], the leading voice of Sanctuary, to his political hack police chief, William Bratton, to the City Council, this has to be one of the worst-run cities in America-and there is a lot of competition.

I've blogged about this before....this time, the sweeping under the rug may not work.

Read the whole thing. 

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Bumped and Updated:

This is unexcusable - perhaps THIS is why she resigned - or was she forced to resign?

This comes from an article from the Union Leader discussing Tom Tancredo, former Republican candidate for President as he visited BAE Systems as a campaign stop.  The below was left as a response to the article (the Union Leader allows comments on its articles):

Tancredo and his allies are xenophobics with strong ties to white supremacists groups. NH is going back to the times of segregation, and bringing back KKK.

- Representative Lily Mesa, Manchester

If indeed this was her feelings and her writing, there is absolutely no excuse for it. Given my conversations and emails with her, I am not surprised.

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For quite sometime, I was reporting about the attempt by Lily Mesa and Susie Nord (Democrats in the State House) to have HB404 passed here in NH.  This bill, if implemented, would have made it illegal for any law enforcement agent or official to ask anyone their immigration status.

Well, that bill failed.  I am happy to report that I am hearing that one of the legislators has decided to resign.  From talk show host, Micheal Graham at his blog "the natural truth":

Sad news for John McCain, Ted Kennedy and amnesty supporters across America: Rep. Lily Mesa has resigned from the New Hampshire state legislature.

According to some of her fellow legislators, she is resigning in part because her pro-amnesty, anti-enforcement bill was soundly defeated in the legislature. It would have banned any state or local resources from being used in any way to help enforce immigration laws. That proposal wasn't popular with the New Hampshire Union-Leader, or the people of New Hampshire.

Good.  and.  riddance.

HB404 was a lame idea to begin with, and they refused to even defend it in public.  If you are unwilling to defend your agendas in public, they deserve to be defeated.

Yippee!! 

(H/T: Mike P) 

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I was reading the story in the Union Leader about the wanted man arrested after his picture appeared on the front page of Tuesday's paper, which I found rather comical in its own right:

CONCORD – Vern Potter's whereabouts had been unknown since Concord police issued an arrest warrant for him in January.

Then a police lieutenant happened to spot a Page 1 photo of Potter in yesterday's New Hampshire Union Leader, shoveling snow off the roof of Andover Elementary School. The photo accompanied a story with the headline, "Up on the roof; shoveling reaches new levels."

Police learned that the 31-year-old Potter, who works for a roofing company, was at the school again yesterday and arranged to arrest him on a Class A felony insurance fraud charge.

Heh! Then I read the comment left by John of Merrimack:

It's too bad for this guy he isn't an illegal immigrant. Then the cops would have just looked the other way.

Sad, but true...

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Deputy Uses Taser on Fleeing Bicyclist; riding at night without proper lighting...

Rivera was transported to Glenn Medical Center, where he was cleared for booking into the Glenn County Jail on suspicion of resisting arrest, riding a bicycle without proper lighting, riding under the influence of alcohol and use of false citizenship/government documents.

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Update 3:  Look at the post below and ask yourself one question - WHY is McCain accepting money for his Reform Institute from GEORGE "I hate America" SOROS?  This guy has used his billions to fund left wing and anti-American groups - he hates Republicans as right-wing fascists.

So let me ask: if McCain is running on an "America #1 policy" (which I agree with), why is he taking money from Soros whose stated aim is:

"I'm not looking for a worldwide recession. I'm looking for a significant shift of power and influence away from the US in particular and a shift in favour of the developing world, particularly China."

I put Juan Hernandez in that same class - he wants Mexico ahead of the US.  So why is McCain trucking with these two?
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Update 2:  So the campaign says that he's an unpaid volunteer? It's getting worse; Michelle is really on it big time:

Hernandez is a fellow at McCain’s “Reform Institute.” What has he been working on there for the past year?

“Dr. Juan Hernandez serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative.”

 The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group, as Ed Morrissey noted two years ago, “that employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain’s staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.”

Who funded the Reform Institute, which boasts Juan “Think Mexico First” Hernandez as its resident amnesty fellow? The donor list is a who’s who of ultra left-wing, open borders elites.

• OSI (Open Society Institute), founded and funded by George Soros.
• David Geffen is an entertainment-industry mogul who supports Democrats and left-wing causes.
• The Proteus Fund
• Educational Foundation Of America, which also supports abortion.
• The Tides Foundation, which heavily promotes “reproductive justice”

 Soros’s OSI is a key open borders funder–providing support to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; and the American Immigration Law Foundation

Florida voters - read and weep...then get ANGRY!!!
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Update: News is spreading fast in the conservative blogosphere - From AnkleBitingPundits:

McCain’s campaign is trying to dodge the issue with this lame explanation:

McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers emphasized to WND that Hernandez is “a non-paid volunteer to the campaign, and he does not play a policy role.”

“Juan works with us to reach out to the Hispanic community to meet with the folks in the various states,” Rogers said.

Asked if the McCain campaign has repudiated Hernandez’s “Mexico first” declarations, Rogers did not give a direct answer.

Sell that crap somewhere else guys. 

There’s a saying that goes like this: “Show me who you hang with and I’ll show you what you are”.

If that’s the case then John McCain is in serious trouble.
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My guy was Fred - conservative, articulate, painted out all of the stances he had.  So now the question is who would I next support?

My #1 issue is the war on Islamofascism - a 7th century religious/political ideology that wants us all under Shari'a Law.  On this issue, all of the Repubs are good (except for the neo-isolationist Ron Paul). McCain, with me however, has the most credibility. 

My #2 issue is illegal immigration - the singular issue on which I have had heartburn for a while.  Yes, I was irate this past summer when McCain, Graham, and others insulted we conservatives as being bigots (along with other names) acting as we were frickin' rascist idiots.

The blogs and talk radio melted their phone system and handed their heads to them - the bill with it's thinly veiled attempt at amnesty (sorry, a fine, learn English, pay back taxes [what a joke - and HOW were officials supposed to figure that out??] does not fit the crime of illegally passing our borders) and that despicable Z-Visa (yeah, SURE governmental officials can do a complete background check in 24 hours to deny that visa when they cannot even do passports in 6 months for LEGAL CITIZENS).

I thought that things might be better, as in Wolfeboro during the NH Primary runup, McCain said he learned his lesson - "secure the borders first". 

NO FRICKIN' WAY HE DID - NOT WITH THIS NEWS!!!! 

And now, at MichelleMalkin as well as a few other sites, I find out that this two-faced open border retread from the Mexican Government is now going to be McCain's advisor on the border????  His National Director of Hispanic Outreach??  Credibility => now zero.

Dr. Juan Hernandez, McCain Hispanic outreach director: "We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”

Hernandez was a close advisor to Vicente “Welcome to North America” Fox and headed up a Mexican bureaucracy called the “Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad.” It was designed to allow Hernandez to travel across the country, meddling with local, state, and federal immigration enforcement on behalf of millions of illegal aliens in America. He lobbied for illegal alien driver’s licenses and Mexico first, defended Mexican bus operators carrying illegal aliens to the USA, and promoted extending banking privileges to illegal aliens.

In an interview on ABC News’s Nightline, Hernandez stated bluntly that he was betting that the Mexican American population in the United States –all generations– “will think Mexico first…”I want ‘em all to think Mexico first.”

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I am confident that McCain “gets it” when it comes to this one. At a town hall meeting in Wolfeboro just after the defeat of the so-called “comprehensive” immigration bill, he duly noted that Americans had spoken and want the borders verifiably sealed before anything else gets done in this area. It is the rare politician that acknowledges being wrong on a matter, and recognizes the collective voice of regular people.

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I previously blogged about Huckabee's turn around on the Arkansas version of the DREAM act.  I did not know about this.  Michelle Malkin's column in the Detroit News has more:

Breakout GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, the soft-on-border control former governor of Arkansas, scored a jaw-dropping endorsement Tuesday from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Despite a long gubernatorial record opposing employer sanctions and pushing tax-subsidized illegal alien education benefits, Huckabee won Gilchrist's support by unveiling a last-minute, tough-sounding homeland security plan.

I was a bit confused when his immigration plan, especially when I read that it was basically Mark Krikorian (a former guest of Meet The New Press).  Yet, this flip flop, once again, is as big as any of which Romney is accused: 

Just two years ago, Huckabee appeared before the open-borders Hispanic group, The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), preaching an open-door policy. According to the Arkansas News Bureau, Huckabee also criticized state legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and enhanced reporting of illegal aliens as un-Christian, un-American, irresponsible and anti-life -- not to mention "inflammatory," "race-baiting" and "demagoguery."

Just last year, Huckabee lambasted opponents of the bipartisan shamnesty bill providing a mass pardon to illegal aliens as "driven by racism or nativism." He called strict immigration enforcement -- the kind he now supports -- "sheer folly" in his campaign-timed book released earlier this year. He actively invited the Mexican government to establish a consulate in Arkansas -- giving its office a $1 per year special office space rate -- so that its foreign officials could start dispensing security-undermining matricula consular ID cards to illegal aliens for banking and employment purposes. And he's not only for government in-state illegal alien discounts, he's for expanding them far beyond what the federal DREAM Act proposed.

Not once do I see Rule of Law mentioned.... to flip this late in the campaign?  Ha!

Yes, Rudy and McCain have had similar stances in the past concerning my #2 issue.  And they still need to be watched.  However, what Huck has done is pure pandering to conservatives like me.  At least McCain has apologized for being wrong on the border issue.

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In the previous post, Huckabee - the wrong message to the wrong folks, Sanity Please decided to respond.  Rather than keeping my response in the comments section, I've decided to Post it, as this is one of the most important issues in the illegal immigration debate.  Once again, in different guise, we have the all inclusive phrase "it's for the children".

Continue reading "Wrong Msg to the Wrong People - A rebuttal" »

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It ain't rocket science!

by Skip Murphy

There have been many out there that have consistently said that we cannot, as a nation, deport all of the illegal aliens that are here (estimates range from 12 to 20 million).

My response has always been is that we don't have to forceably round them up, clap them into buses, trains, and planes and then ship them out.  Nope, being a frugal conservative Yankee (are there many others out there like me?  Please?), just make the incentives go away and then they will go away.

By themselves.

So when I noted it here and here, I figured it was time to just sit back and watch.  Now, I am happy to report that my hyposthesis is correct:

Migrants lose jobs as hiring law nears

Employers verifying status fire hundreds, attorneys say

 Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of undocumented workers have been fired as a result of Arizona businesses reviewing the work-eligibility forms of their employees as the state's new employer-sanctions law draws near.

The fired workers couldn't provide missing information uncovered during the reviews or confessed to being in the country illegally, say attorneys involved in the reviews.

The number of firings could grow significantly once the law goes into effect Jan. 1 as employers scramble to make sure they are in compliance. Under the law, repeat violators will lose their business licenses.

The key here is that finally our politicians have made the "tough" decisions - protect our sovereignty and our lower skilled workers.  The kicker is that this action has teeth in it - if employers get caught, it will be the kiss of death.  No longer is it at a level where it can be assumed to be simply a cost of doing business.   

The law, signed by Gov. Janet Napolitano in July, is aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration in Arizona by pulling the plug on the job magnet that has drawn undocumented immigrants to the state by the tens of thousands over the past decade.

But of course, those that profit from illegal workers have their panties in a bunch....

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Arizona Republican (H/T: Lucianne.com):

Driver's licenses for migrants?  Not in Mexico

MEXICO CITY - The question of whether to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants ignited a national debate in the United States. But in Mexico, the largest source of U.S. immigrants, there's no question: Here, you must be a legal resident to get a driver's license.

All of Mexico's 31 states, along with Mexico City, require foreigners to present a valid visa if they want a driver's license, according to a survey of states by The Arizona Republic.

"When it comes to foreigners, we're a little more strict here," said Alejandro Ruíz, director of education at the Mexican Automobile Association.

Once again we see the fecklessness of the debate:

• oh, the poor things, we have to let the drive here.  They only want a better life
• We have to know who is here!
• Once they get them, then they will have to get insurance, obey the law, yadda, yadda, yadda

Sorry, not buying it. Once again, Los Gringos have been had over throwing away the basics of the Rule of Law - if it were not for the flap of Hillary trying to parse and have the issue both ways on licenses for NY immigrants and Gov. Spitzer's ham-fisted ways on this, most of us would just be called bigots once again for asking that our laws be followed and it would have slipped by.  Yet, the Mexican government is just as complicit in this as these chuckleheads are:

Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat declined to comment on the controversy this week, but the Mexican government has fought U.S. restrictions on licenses in the past.

Once again, that phrase of "Fine for me but not for thee" rears its ugly head.  I MIGHT, as Glen Reynold put it, if there was some reciprocity, but there isn't. 

And I might add... 

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Democrats had better start dealing with this. Polls show a large majority of Americans, including Democrats, opposed to illegal immigration. They also find that most Americans favor some sort of amnesty for many illegals. Clinton apparently tried to finesse the two, while ignoring what's behind the numbers.

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What many Democrats (and Republicans) don't "get" is that the support for amnesty is highly conditional. It rests on trust that any official pardon will be the last one. The "grand bargain" on immigration went down in flames last spring because no one believed the sales pitch — that with the amnesty would come a stop to future illegal immigration.

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When will people know that their politicians mean business? When they hear them say "no."

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A Big Thumbs Up for Sununu & Gregg! Keep up the good work...

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Call Senator Gregg's office at 224-3324 as he has not committed to voting no on illegal immigration. They're voting today so please call before 11 am.

   From:   Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA 
Date:   Wednesday 24oct07     2 a.m. EDT 
 
 
Use this for your final phone calls to stop DREAM Act amnesty this morning 
 
PHONE SENATE SWITCHBOARD AT:
202-224-3121

THIS IS A SHOW-DOWN MORNING, FRIENDS.

The vote on amnesty may be before noon.

I have a simple paragraph you can use on the phone if you have never

called a Senate office. It is so easy.

"Hi, my name is xmxmxm xmxmxmx. I am calling about S. 2205, the DREAM

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I just could not let this one go ( the same one that Jorge wrote about here).

How many other countries do you know actively help their countrymen to willingly break their neighbor's laws?  But absolutely crack down on illegal immigration into their own country?

And what other country in the world seems to be allowing it?

Mexico to bolster immigrant defense

The Mexican government is giving its consulates in the U.S. wide latitude to ramp up a campaign to toughen their defense of immigrants and plans to give them more resources as well, officials familiar with the strategy said.

The move comes as deportations reach an all-time high in the toughest crackdown in decades by the U.S. government and police authorities.

Once again, it is "immigration" and not written as "illegal immigration" in the report.  And that is, and has been, the crux of my ire.  Not only now is it focused on individuals but now the country of Mexico. Yet, that decry that we discriminate against Mexicans - do you think that there may now well be a legitimate reason (aw, just forget about those comic books they cooked up earlier!).  Thus, we have a sovereign country's laws being flouted, but another country is being blatantly open about subverting their neighbor's laws. 

Among the actions under discussion are the creation of...

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The tightening of immigration enforcement and state laws threatening employers with severe penalties for employing illegal immigrants—to the extent of closing the business after the second conviction--has resulted in a steady wave of illegals fleeing north to Canada for fear of deportation, not just from Arizona and Texas but from Florida and other states. 

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Windsor, Ontario, seems to be the destination of choice, thanks to a non-profit outfit in Florida which, for a “donation of $400,” will complete the necessary paperwork to seek asylum in Canada.  So reports the Windsor Star in the article Mexicans Pour Into Canada from the U.S. 

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This influx of new mouths to feed and service is straining the coffers of the local government.  Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis has appealed to Ottawa for financial help, as reported in the article “Refugees Pose ‘Potential Crisis’”

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For the three weeks ending September 19, more than 45 families and 31 individuals –200 people—have crossed the Detroit River over the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor. Will the Detroit River become the northern equivalent of the Rio Grande?

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