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“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***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 [...]

***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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Dale [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vote was 62-36. Here’s the lowdown. Any hope now rests with the House. Start here. *** News coverage: Bloomberg… The Senate’s 62-36 vote sets up a clash with the House, which in December approved legislation that emphasized strengthening barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border and didn’t account for guest workers or undocumented immigrants. The congressional debate [...]

The Senate ignores the Windbag from Massachusetts and votes: The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally. Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing [...]

11pm EDT update: Video highlights of tonight’s O’Reilly Factor in which I try to make O’Reilly see the light here. 1030pm EDT update: The only good thing about watching the speech was getting to watch it in the Fox News green room with Colorado GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, a stalwart immigration enforcement advocate. It was [...]

Here we go again. President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive “guest worker”/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush’s Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids…which, as I [...]

Have you been reading the advance coverage of tomorrow’s May 1 Illegal Alien Strike Day? “Mainstream” journalists are dutifully playing stenographers for the open-borders lobby. Check out the Dallas Morning News, which might as well turn over the presses to the boycott organizers and go home: Dallas area protests and rallies In addition to an [...]

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 [...]

Summit’s over. Apparently, illegals are just “guests” we forgot to invite. This isn’t the first time the president’s played fast and loose with labels in the context of immigration, either. Michelle nailed him on it a year ago. Elsewhere at the summit, Vicente Fox displayed some cojones of his own. From the WaPo article linked [...]

Illegal aliens and their advocates marching in L.A. today As pro-illegal immigration forces organize mass protests in favor of “Mexico! Mexico!” and against stricter border security, President Bush is pushing his guest-worker/amnesty plan hard this weekend. His radio address today was filled with open borders-friendly platitudes (audio and transcript of the address, you’ll notice, are [...]

Just a sample of letters, blog reax, and news updates coming in on the story that should be headline news… The New York Sun: The Bush administration yesterday failed to quell the swelling tide of opposition to the deal that would give a company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates [...]

I’ve been neglecting news at our borders this week. As usual, so have most of our politicians. Here’s the weekend round-up: Feds find weapons cache near Mexican border: A federal task force seized arsenals of illegal weapons and homemade bombs in Laredo, Texas, in connection with a Mexican drug trafficking battle, authorities said Friday. The [...]

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics is on top of the southern border incursion disaster and the war on the border that Washington doesn’t want to fight. Bryan Preston at Junkyard Blog reports on a Dallas PBS station kowtowing to Islamist pressure. Thomas Lipscomb stays on the China Google story. Lisa De Pasquale investigates Business [...]