Tag: immigration
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immigration ‘reform’ bill blocked in senate
from raw story: President Bush suffered a major defeat Thursday as the immigration reform bill was defeated in the Senate. Although there had been strong conservative opposition to the bill, the president had been pushing for it hard the last few weeks. “The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions…
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news on the march
3 guardsmen charged with human smugglingfrom new york times: Three members of the Texas National Guard helping patrol the Mexican border have been charged with human smuggling after federal agents found one of them in uniform driving a van crammed with 24 illegal immigrants north of Laredo, the Justice Department said Monday. The guardsmen, including…
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March Clearinghouse
terror database has quadrupled in four years feds select new nuclear warhead design new autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible uk children to be mass fingerprinted fbi: extremists seek school bus work why the towers fell: two theories 10 false flags that changed the world reuters counts 9/11 hijackers as 9/11 victims how 9/11 skeptic…
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aborted babies could be defending our country
from raw story: Zell Miller, the former Democratic Senator from Georgia who backed President George W. Bush in 2004 and spoke at the Republican National Convention, recently told an anti-abortion gathering that the “killing” of unborn babies was the cause of many of America’s woes, including its military, social security, and immigration problems. “How could…
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nj senators introduce 9/11 immigration bill
from courier post: Illegal immigrants who lost loved ones on 9/11 could become legal residents under legislation Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced Tuesday. Also championed by Sen. Robert Menendez, the bill would allow survivors of victims identified by the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund to receive permanent residency – or “green” – cards. An identical proposal…
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‘there’s going to be some kind of impeachment talk’
from raw story: Several Republican lawmakers have sharply criticized the imprisonment of two border agents who were convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the back and attempting to cover it up. Appeals to President Bush to pardon the two men, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, have increased since one was assaulted by fellow…
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texas prison camp future american gulag?
from prison planet: A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency. The privatized Hutto jail, which…
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first-baby sweepstakes fuels immigration debate
from new york times: It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A national sweepstakes would award a $25,000 United States savings bond to the first American baby born in 2007, courtesy of the toy chain Toys “R” Us and its Babies “R” Us division. Instead, after disqualifying a Chinese-American baby girl born in…
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iris scan database of children forms
from houston chronicle: Technology developed to keep track of prisoners by scanning their irises became available Thursday to identify missing children… part of an effort to image the irises of 5 million children into a nationwide database over the next few years, said Robert Melley, vice president and CEO of Biometric Intelligence & Identification. but…
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military considers recruiting foreigners
from boston globe: The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks – including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer – according to Pentagon officials. Foreign citizens serving in the…
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border fence firm hires illegal workers
from npr: A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico. After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented…