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Update 6pm Eastern. Much, much more at HA, plus video.
Update 4:35pm Eastern. Tancredo tells Cavuto that Romney’s immigration plan is “viable, that he’ll stick with it, and that he has the best shot.”
Update 3:10pm Eastern. A source tells me Tancredo has endorsed Romney. Still checking.
Yep. More from the Des Moines Register:
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo [...]

Tom Tancredo’s retiring from the House at the end of the year, but not from public and political life. He was pressing for border security and immigration enforcement long before many of the fairweather GOP proponents and TV talking heads made it their ratings-friendly cause. I’ve had the privilege of speaking with him and beside [...]

Tom Tancredo gets a surprising standing ovation.

Jihadists and hardline Hindus are burning Valentine’s Day cards to protest the West today. It’s an annual rite.
Anti-Israel protesters are protesting V-Day flower sales in the UK.
Kathleen Parker takes on Eve Ensler: Will you be my vagina-tine?
NRO’s Valentine’s Day symposium asks a group of politics lovers who their one true is (or was). Margaret Thatcher [...]

Jim Hoft thinks there might be disruptions from the balcony.
Brit Hume says Nancy Pelosi put on a new outfit for her historic moment at the last minute because she spilled chocolate on her suit.

Madame Speaker

Hang in there, Dick
Everything’s already anticlimactic from here. The full SOTU text is up–and so is Democrat Jim Webb’s rebuttal. Allah’s [...]

Shutting down speech
Well, I hope all you open-borders folks are proud of how your young acolytes in academia conduct themselves. They rushed the stage at Columbia University to shut down Minutemen Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist. They briefly disrupted MP co-founder Chris Simcox’s speech at Georgetown by pulling a fire alarm.
And last night, they crashed Tom [...]

I’m hanging it up for the night, er, morning. Unlike Michael Moore in 2004, however, I will not be staying in bed for three days in a catatonic state. I will not need PEST shock therapy. I will not move to Australia.
A moonbat reader e-mailed a taunt earlier this evening:
How’s it feel to be [...]

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, [...]

***scroll for updates…11:30am EDT Newsflash: The country is still standing…***

Welcome to May 1. It’s the day to hate the Yankees. That is: Americans, not the baseball team. Via Mexidata:
In Mexico, what began as a vague appeal for cross-border solidarity on the Internet is snowballing into a movement as well. In various parts of the country, [...]

Remind me again which party has the majority in the U.S. Senate? Via Reuters:
Senate leaders on Thursday announced a bipartisan compromise on an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and creating a temporary worker program.
“I think we’re looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon,” Senate [...]

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 [...]

The president’s in Mexico today and tomorrow to deliver a stern message to Vicente Fox: we’re not going to stand for any more illegal immigrants … so we’ll have to call them “guest workers” instead.
Tom Tancredo: “I wish he’d think about the party and of course I also wish he’d think about the country.”
Also attending [...]

***scroll for updates…Bush warns against stoking anti-immigrant feelings. Wants a “civil debate.” Video here…Ok. Tell that to the divisive militants below…***
As Mickey Kaus points out, the reporters at the Los Angeles Times (and all other major media, for that matter) have downplayed the radical ethnic separatism that characterized the pro-illegal immigration rallies over the weekend. [...]

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 [...]

***updated 12/1 below***
The crescent is gone. AP reports:
Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing a crescent-shape design that some critics had said was a symbol honoring terrorists, officials announced Wednesday.
The new design for the memorial, to be built on the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, [...]

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, [...]

My latest column, “Monumental surrender,” on the Flight 93 Memorial controversy, bubbling in the blogosphere for nearly a week, is up:
War memorials should memorialize war. If you want peace and understanding and healing and good will toward all, go build Kabbalah centers…
…A proper war memorial stirs to anger and action. We all remember passenger Todd [...]

A few weeks ago, I spoke to conservatives at the Young America’s Foundation annual student conference about immigration and national security. I noted that it was no longer true, as I had been observing over the last several years, that the only thing saving Republicans on the issue of border security was the Democrats’ stupidity. [...]

Conservative radio talk show host and NRO contributor Michael Graham has been suspended from WMAL-AM without pay in Washington, D.C., for bluntly challenging Islam last week on air and this week in a column. Excerpt from his JWR piece:
I take no pleasure in saying it. It pains me to think it. I could [...]

My friend Rep. Tom Tancredo is in hot water for his remarks about how we should react in response to an Islamist nuclear attack. Jack Kelly, Captain Ed and Hugh Hewitt respond. Hugh says Tancredo’s statement “is the most irresponsible statement any American official can make.”
Rep. Tancredo’s remarks were most certainly unwise, and he should [...]

There are appalling new developments in the cop-killer case in Denver. As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, Det. Donald Young’s suspected killer, 19-year-old illegal alien Raul Garcia-Gomez, was employed at a restaurant co-owned by the city’s mayor, John Hickenlooper. Garcia-Gomez worked for the Cherry Cricket for 10 months despite a federal notification sent to [...]

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 [...]

From the “Malkin’s Believe It Or Not” file…
CAIR, the Muslim activist group that has at least three former officials who have been indicted on charges of terrorism, money laundering or fraud, was recently welcomed by the State Department to discuss foreign policy initiatives. From Islam Online:
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad presented in the meeting — [...]

FYI, tonight around 8:30pm, I’ll be on FOX News Channel’s Heartland show with John Kasich.
Tomorrow, I’ll be doing my second stint on NYC’s WABC AM talk radio from 10 am to 1 pm EST. Rep. Tom Tancredo will be joining the program during the 11 o’clock hour. You can listen on the Web here.
And tomorrow [...]

As I discussed on FOX News this evening, federal judge David Bury has lifted a restraining order on Arizona’s Prop. 200.
It’s a gratifying (if temporary) win for pro-immigration enforcement activists. Even the Democrat state attorney general, who had publicly opposed the ballot measure, agreed that it was constitutional and dismissed the open-borders lobby’s argument that [...]