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The bloody consequences of open borders, part 99,999,999:
A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said.
The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border [...]

Mexican lawmakers whine about Arizona employer sanctions law.

The bloody consequences of open borders, part 9,999,999.

Update 12/31: Lonewacko has reax.
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The Sunday edition of the Dallas Morning News carries a lengthy lead editorial extolling the “illegal immigrant” as the 2007 “Texan of the Year.” The full piece is here. (hat tip - Freedom Folks and MM.com readers). I’ll cut to the chase and give you the paper’s rather underwhelming, “on the [...]

Poof!

“As it’s currently written, the omnibus language guts the Secure Fence Act almost entirely.”

Open-borders horror story.

Outrage: “A 3-year-old girl was found abused and bleeding Thursday night, and officials have arrested her uncle, an illegal alien, for child molestation.”

The Center for Union Facts is marking Labor Day by reminding Americans of union fatcats and the corruption of Big Labor. The state of the unions is…not good:

* Union membership is down to 7.4 percent of private sector employees and down to 12 percent overall (government employees are highly unionized, at a rate of 36.2 [...]

Police said 15-year-old Dani Countryman was trying to fight off Alejandro Rivera Gamboa and his cousin, 23-year-old cousin Gilberto Javier Rivera Gamboa when they strangled her to death at a Milwaukie, Oregon apartment in late July.

“Mexico is calling on the United States to alter a plan to expand border fences designed to stem illegal immigration, saying the barriers would threaten migratory species accustomed to roaming freely across the frontier.”

A case of the slows.

Aceptamos pesos.

You can’t make this stuff up: “Part of a vehicle barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border was erected in the wrong country and soon will be removed and rebuilt on American soil, federal officials confirmed Monday.”

Another illegal alien drunk driver takes the lives Americans didn’t take.

Border security up in flames.

Just doing the littering Americans won’t do:
After three years of cleanups, the federal government has achieved no better than a 1 percent solution for the problem of trash left in southern Arizona by illegal border-crossers.
Cleanup crews from various agencies, volunteer groups and the Tohono O’odham Nation hauled about 250,000 pounds of trash from thousands of [...]

Must-see and must-read: On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, I interviewed Todd Bensman, who completed a six-month investigation of Middle Eastern illegal aliens crossing the southern border into Mexico. He traveled to Syria, Guatemala, and Mexico to trace the human pipeline of so-called “special interest aliens.” The San Antonio News Express is running his four-part series. [...]

So, what about the three illegal alien Jersey Jihadist suspects–the Duka brothers? Were they smuggled across the border or stowaways? That’s what the feds are checking out now.
They’re also checking to see if the three other accused jihadi plotters–one a naturalized US citizen, the other two green card holders–lied on their applications.
Yeah, that would [...]

Fence? What fence?
Last September, I said this about the House vote to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border:
There’s no funding for the fence, which will take years to build if it ever does get funded. There are so many other immediate reforms that could have been adopted this year that would have [...]

***scroll for updates…hasty declarations…
Update: 10/1012:57am. Sigh. The perils of blogging while traveling. It looks like Mickey was wrong– and I was wrong to pull out a premature I-told-you-so on the pocket veto claim. And this one item won’t be a reason for sitting out the election. Xrlq lays into me. Point taken, though nothing he [...]

***Update: The border fence clears a Senate hurdle***
No, I’m not making it up:
U.S.-Mexico border fence may harm animal migration
A plan to fence off a third of the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
The House of Representatives [...]

I’ve already told you how underwhelmed I am by the GOP’s empty, election-season, unfunded border fence gestures. Mickey Kaus detected signs of a Frist fence flake-out on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulous yesterday, and I think Mickey’s radar is dead-on:
Has Sen. Frist given up on the border fence? It sure sounded that way [...]

Yes, I know. The House voted to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border. Press release:
Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 6061, Secure Fence Act of 2006. The bill passed 283-138-1 with 131 Democrats voting against the measure.
“Every year, nearly one million illegal [...]

Things don’t look good down at the southern border where the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps has supposedly been using gobs of citizen donations to build a fence to keep out illegal aliens. The Washington Times, which has supported the project (as have I), editorializes today:
As supporters of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, we were disheartened [...]

Getting lots of alarmed e-mails asking about beheadings at the southern border and why they’re not being reported. Some readers are claiming the murder victims were US Border Patrol agents. Wrong. Others are attacking the media for ignoring it. Terrible crimes, no question. But there’s no cover-up. Here’s the story. Here’s more. Q&O blogger [...]

What if George W. Bush really believed in enforcing the borders? Allah Pundit presents the Bush immigration speech remix. Put down your coffee before listening.
Heather Mac Donald has a must-read (everything she writes is must-read) post over at The Immigration Blog: Why East Coast Elites Should Shut Up About Immigration. Ditto that.
John Hawkins polls right-of-center [...]

The Minutemen began a fence-building project in Arizona today–and they didn’t ask Mexico’s permission. Chris Simcox issued a statement announcing the construction project now underway:
Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”), today announced plans by the MCDC to work with local Arizona land owners to build border security fencing on private land [...]

Does the Senate immigration bill essentially give Mexico veto power over our border fences? Hearing this from several readers and sources. Reader Greg writes:
Senator Cornyn gave Lou Dobbs a statement saying the last-minute Amendment SA 41[8]8 says Mexico must be consulted before any fence is constructed.
From F/R thread:
I heard this on Sean Hannity’s Fox Radio [...]