Archive for September, 2010

This Tuesday, September 14, New York State will be holding primaries for party nominations for elected office.  If you are affiliated with a party, you can vote in that party’s primary.  Your September primary vote carries no obligation for the general November election. Find out where to vote, and then drag yourself to the...
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Illegal aliens villainous and sympathetic take part in our round-up of recent immigration news.  We end with a northern sighting of our mascot:
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National Public Radio, which is one of the more reliably biased English-language broadcast networks on the subjects of immigration and border issues, aired a story today about Operation Streamline, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2005,  and continued by the Obama administration during his first two years of office.
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American-Rattlesnake scours the world for the latest immigration news at home and abroad, and always has a special place in its heart for its sometimes noisy mascot:
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A round-up of what’s happening in immigration news worldwide and in the United States (finishing with a fact about our favorite reptile): •  Colorado State Representative Randy Baumgardner (R–Hot Sulphur Springs) is working on Arizona-style legislation to fight against illegal immigration in the Mile-High state. Mr. Baumgarden says that illegal immigration costs Colorado over...
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  I’d be remiss if I didn’t use the platform I have here to extend my thoughts to the widows, widowers, bereaved children and other family members who lost loved ones nine years ago today in the most horrific attack on U.S. soil in this nation’s history.
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The fight over the implementation of SB 1070 has illuminated the question of state vs. federal authority perhaps more than any other recent public debate. However, one of the first municipalities to address the uninterrupted flow of illegal immigration was the small Pennsylvania town of Hazleton. Today we learned that the town’s stringent restrictions...
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News of yet another fraudulent scheme to exploit America’s immigration system comes to us via the Hindustan Times, which reports on the indictment of a former minister from the Indian state of Goa accused of furnishing illegal aliens with forged documents.
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At that increasingly common intersection of the 2nd Amendment and immigration reform we have a story about a man on Long Island arrested for shooting  alleged members of MS-13. Now, I’m not as interested in the claim that these particular individuals were members of Mara Salvatrucha-an extremely violent street gang that originated in Los...
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One of the neglected issues in the immigration discussion is the daunting task the government faces in protecting the coastline of the United States, a problem vividly illustrated by an incident that just occurred in San Clemente.
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