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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 [...]

Vote was 62-36.
Here’s the lowdown.
Any hope now rests with the House.
Start here.
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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 on immigration has sparked demonstrations across the [...]

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 and 500 [...]

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 nice to [...]

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 predicted, [...]

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 all-day consumer [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 available [...]

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 control over [...]

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 feds captured more [...]

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 Week reporter Eamon [...]

Lorie Byrd posts her list of things she wants to hear President Bush address tonight.
La Shawn Barber has one thing on her mind: Illegal immigration.
Agreed. In addition to a strong defense of our sovereignty against the rash of southern border incursions and immigration enforcement-undermining antics of the Mexican government, I’d like to hear a robust [...]

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 [...]

A serious, pro-enforcement measure on border security and immigration control has just passed the House. Three years after I published Invasion, many of the policy recommendations included in the book have been embraced:
The House acted Friday to stem the tide of illegal immigration by taking steps to tighten border controls and stop unlawful immigrants from [...]

Three curious stories of illegal alien pilots just wandering around Mexico and the U.S.:
1) From AP last week:
A day after he was expelled from Mexico, a man who once ran a Southern California aerospace company was indicted for allegedly exporting military jet parts in violation of the federal Arms Export Control Act.
Arif Ali Durrania appeared [...]

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 [...]

Finally, the open-borders ACLU has found a border-crosser it wants to crack down on: FOX News’s Sean Hannity, who broadcast live from the southern border on Monday and Tuesday night with excellent coverage of the Minuteman Project.
Hannity stepped across a fence for a few seconds, and now the ACLU and a Democrat state legislator want [...]

Last week, I talked about the new passport requirements for Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans traveling across our northern and southern borders. Gave the plan a thumbs-up and highlighted the continued lapses in Canada’s passport screening office. Imposing this reasonable security measure on short-term visitors would put needed pressure on both our neighbors to shore up [...]

Please take a moment to visit my new group blog offshoot, The Immigration Blog. I’ve invited a few of the writers, researchers, and citizen activists I consider among the most compelling and insightful analysts on immigration and border security to join me in this new venture. Those joining me are:
-Bonnie Eggle
-Peter Gadiel
-Chris Kelly
-Heather Mac Donald
-Juan [...]

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 [...]

Hey, Open Borders pollyannas, here’s another example of a terrorist slipping through our southern border for you to ignore:
Mahmoud Youssef Kourani.
Earlier this week, the Detroit News reported:
A Dearborn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing material support to Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization.
Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, 33, admitted to hosting meetings at his Dearborn home during [...]

The New York Times reports:
New intelligence information strongly suggests that Al Qaeda has considered infiltrating the United States through the Mexican border, top government officials told Congress on Wednesday….
Intelligence that “strongly suggests” that Al Qaeda operatives have considered using the Mexican border as an entry point was cited in written testimony by Adm. James M. [...]

If you can’t access the Drudge-linked report of the dirty bomb threat in Boston, go to The Counterterrorism Blog–one of my new daily reads.
The southern border figures prominently in the story, a threat we’ve documented copiously here, here, here, here, and…you get the idea.
The story also brings to my mind suspected al Qaeda operative [...]

There are a few new items to report on the rise of Mara Salvatrucha, the brutal illegal alien gang that we’re keeping an eye on here.
- Boston’s city council president is concerned about the gang/terrorist threat posed to tankers in East Boston.
-Somerville, Mass., police nabbed a reputed MS-13 member suspected of stabbing a man through [...]

I find it annoying that Bernard Kerik is getting praised in some quarters for “coming clean” and “accepting responsibility” for his “mistake.” From all accounts, including Kerik’s own, President Bush’s aides asked him upfront about the nanny question several times during the vetting process and he did not come clean.
Kerik didn’t just make some [...]

that Tom Ridge is handing in his resignation.
Some conservatives want Rudy Giuliani to replace Ridge. Before you get on the bandwagon, here’s my column from 2002 highlighting Giuliani’s open-borders court battle to keep New York City safe for illegal aliens and, yes, terrorists.
Update: News conference is set for 2:45pm.
Update II: Ridge says he has [...]