Just last week, Utah Congressman Chris Cannon told the Salt Lake Tribune that he is “determined to help President Bush reform the nation’s immigration laws, despite resistance from Republicans and a barrage of attacks [he] endured from immigration foes in his recent re-election.”

But today it’s being announced that Rep. Cannon, the “point man” in Congress for the White House on immigration, is off the immigration subcommittee.

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For the tens of thousands of American families already devastated by Chris Cannon’s work in Congress, e.g., on H-1b visas, it’s too late, of course, but the news of Cannon’s exit has to be seen as another enormously encouraging sign that the transnational ideologues running the show at the White House will be unable to do much beyond duping the president.

The big losers with Cannon’s exit are the immigration lawyers and the Wall Street Journal.

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The departure of the immigration lawyers’ favorite Congressman from the position in which he’s done so much to increase their customer base must have the immigration lawyer industry in a mad scramble this morning to find someone else who’ll keep the immigration loopholes open.

How cheated the immigration lawyers must feel!

We’re very excited by the response to our new Billboard Democracy Campaign, which will advertise–on billboards in their home districts–the immigration voting records of members of Congress.

Twenty-six members of Congress are now in the race for a billboard–including Chris Cannon, a member with so much experience as a billboardee, he has to be considered the incumbent.

They spent a lot of money in the last election making sure Rep. Cannon remained in office, and now he is worth only a fraction of what he was while on the Immigration, Border Security, and Claims subcommittee.

The other big loser, the Wall Street Journal, has for 20 years advocated a five word constitutional amendment reading, “There shall be open borders.” The radical ideologues running the WSJ editorial page placed such a high value on Cannon’s immigration work in the House that, during the last election season, it published two disgraceful editorials in rapid succession specifically targeting Cannon’s race (and ProjectUSA)–editorials Cannon mailed to every registered Republican in his district.

ProjectUSA has filed four formal complaints so far with the House Ethics Committee asking for an investigation into Congressman Chris Cannon, and we’re working on a fifth. Requests for investigations are also pending or active with at least three federal law enforcment agencies. Chris Cannon, in other words, won’t likely fade from the scene and we’ll keep you updated on the progress of those investigations.

But, for today, if you believe as we do that the United States is a country, not a market, that the advocacy of mass immigration on economic grounds is inherently evil: humans are not packaged goods, and that a country should do its own work, go about your business with a lighter step.

Starting today, the U.S. Congress poses less of a threat to the American people.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I believe that if a person, an employer, can’t find somebody willing to do a job in America, they ought to be able to legally hire somebody who is not a citizen of our country, and that that person ought to be treated with respect.”

George Bush

“The problem of people violating our immigration laws will never be solved by rewarding them for that behavior.”

Tom Tancredo

If only Tom Tancredo’s father had been president…

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