In an update to a story we’ve been following closely, the supporters of the DREAM Act failed to achieve cloture on a defense spending bill that would have included their little poison pill amendment. It looks like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s attempt to exploit ethnic grievances by pandering to Latino voters seems to...
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Immigration news never takes a break, but the Daily Rattle certainly did over the weekend, as does our mascot — only for much longer. News both exhilarating and terrifying comes to us from home and abroad: • The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrat (SD) party has thrown that country into political limbo. Doubling their electoral results...
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Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press yesterday, and in doing so reaffirmed the low opinion much of the public has of his expertise on domestic policy matters, particularly with respect to immigration issues. His appearance yesterday focused largely on the merits of the DREAM Act, whose passage he wholeheartedly endorses.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the contemporary history of Mexico, the title of this post is drawn from the battle cry uttered by the man whose likeness you see in the picture above. Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, a Roman Catholic priest, issued his call to arms in 1810,
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It turns out that ICE isn’t the only government agency whose administrators are trying to evade enforcing immigration law. Thanks to a scoop from the American Spectator, we now have the third internal memo from the Obama administration detailing its plan to enact a de facto amnesty over the objections of both Congress and the American public.
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Politicians may play complicated games when it comes to immigration, but the rattlesnake is quick and efficient when he strikes his prey: • The Sweden Democrat party is poised to gain seats in the Swedish parliament and take part in forming a new government. The Sweden Democrats primary platform plank is opposition to unrestricted...
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Today’s news summary is short and bitter-sweet. Just like our mascot, the cause of immigration activism is bruised and battered out in the wild, but the fight for survival continues: • 46 criminal gang members were rounded up by a joint federal-local task force in Oklahoma. 34 of those apprehended were foreigners from Mexico...
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Contrary to popular belief, there are many people who listen to AM radio for reasons that are not weather, traffic, or sports-related. The Santa Barbara Independent brings us news of a format change for a station that has been known as Progressive Talk Radio for several years.
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Politicians at home and abroad play immigration for political gain, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad. And while rattlesnakes live only in our hemisphere, their slithering cousins are everywhere: • The Atlantic is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is bundling in the DREAM Act, which provides a path to citizenship...
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As my friend, Mr. Evanchik, points out in the activism section of this website, today is the last primary of the 2010 election cycle. For New Yorkers, that means deciding which candidates will compete in the fall election for governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, attorney general, the state legislature, and two United States Senate seats.
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