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Not that this is a surprise to anyone who has actually listened to President Bush’s open borders-sympathizing over the last five years, but here’s the “news” from AP tonight:
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 7:54 PM
A more accurate headline: Privately, Bush Says He Favors Amnesty
More:
WASHINGTON — President Bush [...]

The open-borders lobby has been phenomenally successful at getting the Beltway elite in both parties and in the media to embrace its blanket overgeneralizations and platitudes about the illegal alien population.
“They just come here to work.”
“They’re all Americans, too.”
“Illegals aren’t criminals.”
And so on.
Those who impertinently challenge such characterizations in an effort to bring the [...]

See, I told you so. This morning I told you that the immigration raid dog-and-pony show would result in most of the illegal aliens arrested being released. The New York Times reports in tomorrow’ edition (hat tip Thomas Galvin):
The arrests took place just days before the Senate reconvenes with immigration laws on its agenda. Earlier [...]

Quote of the morning comes from the incomparable Thomas Sowell (via RealClearPolitics):
How often have we heard that illegal immigrants “take jobs that Americans will not do”? What is missing in this argument is what is crucial in any economic argument: price.
Americans will not take many jobs at their current pay levels — and those [...]

Photoshop courtesy of the Stein Report
My syndicated column today follows up yesterday’s post about Arlen Specter’s Gold Card program for illegal aliens.
Buy now, pay later:
This proposal is a gargantuan political and bureaucratic disaster. It’s a slap in the face to millions of naturalized Americans who followed the rules to follow their dreams, and to [...]

Last week, I wrote “They are all profilers now“–mocking Democrats for their expedient embrace of profiling to exploit the ports fiasco. This week, I’m sick of conservatives playing the race card to attack skeptics of the ports deal. From my syndicated column today:
It’s one thing for feckless grievance-mongers on the Left to accuse Americans [...]

Paging the Department of Homeland Security. Hello? Hello?!
*New* via the San Diego Union Tribune : Two tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel

Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end.
The tunnel begins about 85 feet below a small warehouse about [...]

The Inland Daily Bulletin reports on the latest armed Mexican incursions on our southern border:
Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.
Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of [...]

I’ve reported before on the illegal alien gang MS-13’s past threats against American law enforcement officers. Now, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports on a new threat on Border Patrol agents:
Mexican alien smugglers plan to pay violent gang members and smuggle them into the United States to murder Border Patrol agents, according to a [...]

Haven’t seen much coverage of the standoff over the weekend between US Border Patrol agents and armed Mexican bandits. The El Paso Times reports:
A marijuana-laden dump truck got stuck in the Rio Grande on Thursday evening in Hudspeth County, leading to a standoff between U.S. law enforcement and what appeared to be the Mexican military, [...]

If you’re in southern California, check out the Liberty Film Festival for fair and balanced entertainment. Looks like there are some very interesting films, documentaries, and panels on tap for tomorrow. Also visit the Libertas blog for more info.
Congrats to Jason, Govindini, and the rest of the organizers and sponsors.
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These features looked especially intriguing:
“Broken [...]

If you were paying attention, you read rumblings about the Department of Homeland Security’s shakeup in one of this blog’s special reports back in May.
Well, now it’s officially done. DHS chief Michael Chertoff wil unveil the plan publicly at 1pm EST today. The key details via CQ:
Many of the expected changes have long been [...]

Tons of readers are asking me to comment on the story of Gregory Despres, the Bloody Chainsaw-Toting Freak, who crossed the Canadian-U.S. border in April carrying his entire murder kit. The Ottawa Citizen has a good overview of the story and this scary photo:

(CP PHOTO/HO/WHDH-TV) (AP)
It’s scary. It’s bizarre. Great water-cooler and cable news fodder. [...]

I just obtained a May 2, 2005, memo (after the jump, below) from a Department of Homeland Security source. Bottom line: They’re moving around some bureaucratic furniture and getting rid of some dead wood. But it’s not all good news.
The document reveals that Robert Bonner, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, has been asked to [...]

Item #1–As noted by Chris Kelly last week on The Immigration Blog, Minuteman Project co-founder and newspaper publisher Chris Simcox was barred by Bush administration officials from attending a Department of Homeland Security press conference with DHS chief Michael Chertoff. The Washington Times follows up today:
The press conference, at the Border Patrol’s field office in [...]

Let me sum up the state of the immigration debate over the past two decades:

1986–I think we should protect our borders and enforce immigration laws.
Response: Racist!
1996–I think we should do a better job of protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws.
Response: Racist!
9/12/2001–I think we should really, finally get serious about protecting our
borders and enforcing immigration [...]

My tribute to Deputy March is up at The Immigration Blog.

Here’s my column today on the status of the border-bungling pols in Washington. Headed down there now for the Hold Their Feet To Their Fire dinner. Back later with more.

Getting lots of e-mail from readers and fellow bloggers about these photos of ACLU “legal observers” (scroll down)–assigned to monitor potential illegal activities of the Minuteman Project–apparently breaking the law themselves and smoking pot on the job.
I’ve contacted the ACLU of Arizona for comment. Also am tracking down the person who took the photos. I’ve [...]

Looks like I’ve been made an honorary border patrol agent.

It has been a busy news day, but I can’t let President Bush’s appalling comments about law-abiding, pro-immigration enforcement Americans pass without comment. As reported in the Washington Times:
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as “vigilantes.”
He said he would pressure Congress to further [...]

The Open Borders mob is going after Jim Gilchrist, organizer of the Minuteman project. The Orange County Register reports:
Jim Gilchrist hopes most of his neighbors won’t believe the signs held by protesters at the entrance to his quiet, gated community.
They included “Minuteman, a racist domestic terrorist” and “KKK supports Minuteman” scrawled in bold letters and [...]

Dan Stein of the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform reports that liberal House Democrats have begun to pounce on the Bush administration’s border security lapses:
I attended a Capitol Hill hearing today on “Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources.” No one could have missed the fact that Democrats are preparing to pounce on the Bush administration’s failure [...]

The open borders lobby is going into hysterics over the Minuteman Project, a grassroots organization of 500 volunteers who will converge on Cochise County, Ariz., in April to call attention to lax immigration enforcement.
The MSM has taken to labeling the citizen volunteers “vigilantes,” prompting this response from one observer:
Minutemen Project volunteers are not vigilantes. [...]

I’m continuing to track Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13, the violent illegal alien gang that has spread from El Salvador to Honduras to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and across the heartland. The latest arrest involves an illegal alien MS-13 member in Texas wanted for masterminding a shocking bus attack in Honduras in December that claimed the lives of [...]

You know those 2,000 Border Patrol agents President Bush promised to fund–and which Tom Ridge recently derided as “fool’s gold?” Well, the President’s proposed budget only funds 210 of them.
I blogged on Bush’s backstabbing of the Border Patrol here. The Tar Pit has much more.
House Homeland Security Chairman Chris Cox (R-Calif.) calls the decreased [...]

Meant to blog this on Friday, but Rush Limbaugh delivered some tough remarks on federal spending and illegal immigration that have grass-roots conservatives buzzing. “We cannot maintain our sovereignty without securing and protecting our borders in an era where terrorists around the world seek entry to this country,” Limbaugh said in his radio monologue.
John [...]

Yesterday on FOX News (video here thanks to Cheese and Crackers/Wes Roth), I discussed this report on increased assaults on Border Patrol agents along the southwestern border.
Now, comes word that federal agents are being targeted for kidnap/murder plots by Mexican drug cartels. From the Brownsville Herald:
A plot to kidnap and kill two FBI agents on [...]

Terry Jeffrey blows the whistle.

For those who may still be laboring under the illusion that we are not at war, I strongly suggest that you visit Cryptome.org’s Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief page before it gets taken down. The proprietor, John Young, was leaked sensitive but unclassified homeland security briefs and posted five months’ worth of the briefs (Sept [...]