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A liberal blogger at Talking Points Memo is trying to stir up the conservative pot by posting old video of Rudy saying “Bulls**t” at a police union rally in 1992. TPM claims Rudy “screamed” and was “unhinged.” Not:

I’ve expressed my disapproval before when public figures use profanity in public. But making a big deal out [...]

Deadly consequences of open borders, part 998,999.

There was a glimmer of hope on the shamnesty landscape today in the House. Stalwart immigration enforcement proponent Tom Tancredo won approval–by a significant margin–of his amendment banning DHS funds for renegade sanctuary cities. From Rep. Tancredo’s website:
U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) amendment to cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bill (H.R. [...]

File this under Sanctuary Nation: Open-borders activists sued the Mamaroneck, NY, police to prevent them from inquiring about the immigration status of “undocumented” day laborers. Not only did the open-borders crowd win the lawsuit gagging police, but the federal judge in the case, Colleen McMahon, also ordered the village to pay more than half a [...]

We heard a lot of whingeing on the Senate floor–and across the cable airwaves (see Geraldo)–about how illegal aliens will now be forced back “into the shadows” because the shamnesty bill failed.
Reality check number 999,998: Cook County, Ill., declares sanctuary
A month after rejecting an identical proposal, the Cook County Board today voted to forbid county [...]

A legal immigrant is taking San Francisco to court over its sanctuary law for illegal aliens:
A San Francisco illegal immigration opponent has sued the city’s police chief and police commissioners for failing to comply with a state law that requires officers to tell federal authorities about all suspected noncitizens who are arrested on drug charges.
Charles [...]

In San Diego and across the country today, churches of all denominations are uniting to declare their collective defiance of federal immigration laws:
Alarmed by immigration raids on illegal workers, a coalition of U.S. religious groups is launching a sanctuary movement on Wednesday to harbor immigrant families who risk being torn apart.
Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and [...]

It’s about time:
Illegal immigration opponents have sued the Los Angeles Police Department, taking aim at its long-standing policy of ignoring most suspects’ immigration status.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court seeks to force officers to inform federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are arrested on drug charges.
The department prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration [...]

Add Hightstown, NJ to the list of outlaw sanctuary cities:
After federal agents launched a massive raid on an apartment complex here two years ago, other illegal immigrants in this quiet town near Princeton University grew so wary of the law, authorities say, that many began hiding behind headstones in a local cemetery when patrol cars [...]

This is a new billboard that went up in Denver this week. (Hat tip: Slapstick Politics) Like most major metropolitan cities from NYC to Los Angeles to San Francisco, Denver is a de facto sanctuary city for illegal aliens. It’s an open secret. Might as well advertise it in black and white. Here’s more on [...]

Joanne Jacobs notes a move by San Francisco officials to put an initiative on the state ballot to let non-citizen parents of public schoolchildren vote in school elections:
I’d bet the majority of non-citizen immigrants won’t bother to vote if it becomes possible. After all, most citizens don’t bother to vote in local elections. I also [...]