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The bipartisan civility police told us we weren’t supposed to talk about illegal immigration during the 2008 presidential campaign because open discussion would “alienate” swing (read: Hispanic) voters. Is it okay now or do we only get permission when the next major open-borders disaster strikes? My syndicated column today (see below) surveys the state of [...]

Hey, how’s that $1.6 billion American-taxpayer-funded Merida Initiative to control crime and chaos in Mexico working out? Not so well. Not so well.
A bad situation keeps getting worse:
U.S. anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico
Mexican gunmen have kidnapped a U.S. security consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America.
Gunmen abducted [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, Mexico is in chaos. Beheaded and bullet-ridden bodies are turning up left and right along the southern border. Drug traffickers are running rampant in Sinaloa. Corruptocrats are letting gangs take over their cities. In Tijuana, 200 people were killed in a month. The CSM reports: “Last weekend turned into one [...]

Hey, remember the $1.6 billion Merida Initiative — the U.S. taxpayer-subsidized spending plan to help Mexico enforce its borders and get the gangs and drug smugglers under control? (Refresher here.)
How’s it working out?
Mira:
A federal official says assailants opened fire on the U.S. consulate in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.
A spokeswoman for Mexico’s Attorney General’s [...]

Build the Reinforced Border Obstacle Now!

The thanks we get.

…and the bad news…

It never dies.

GOP Rep. John Culberson: “These resources should go to our own law enforcement officers rather than Mexico’s.”

President Bush will be in New Orleans today for his final summit with Mexican president Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The main focus is NAFTA. But free trade isn’t the only thing on Calderon’s mind. He’ll be meeting in the US with shamnesty peddlers and immigration enforcement saboteurs in Dallas, as they [...]

Scroll down for updates…here’s the “change that you can Xerox” video… “Lifting whole passages from someone else is not change you can believe in, it’s change you can Xerox.” Who wrote it? Knowing Washington, we’ll know soon enough…Hillary’s ending statement is being categorized by all the talking heads as “valedictory”…Like I said: Swan song…
No, you [...]

You’ll be glad to know that not all elected officials are willing to allow a foreign leader to land on American soil and trash our nation’s immigration laws and the character of its citizens.
You won’t hear President Bush stand up to Mexican president Felipe Calderon. As I’ve been reporting, they’ve been quietly hashing out [...]

“Give it to me.”

Sin Fronteras.

America second.