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The article I posted Thursday, Bill to improve health care…in Mexico!, was favorited at digg.com (thank you). An appearance on digg.com means many more readers, and that’s good. Voters really should have as many alternative news sources and hear as many differing opinions as possible.
Unfortunately, among the hundreds of comments the article generated, some [...]

The health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters. Too many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear that an illness might leave them destitute. Too many Americans spend years sacrificing to pay [...]

John McCain and Barack Obama sponsored S.1033. Do not forget what this piece of legislation would have done.

Sponsored or Co-sponsored the
Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 (McCain/Kennedy)

Senator

State

Date

1.
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Sen McCain, John
[AZ]
05/12/2005
[introduced]

2.
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Sen Brownback, Sam
[KS]
05/12/2005

3.
 

Sen Chafee, Lincoln
[RI]
03/27/2006

4.
 

Sen Graham, Lindsey
[SC]
05/12/2005

5.
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Sen [...]

By an amazing coincidence, John McCain makes the same argument immigration lawyers make in denying the bills he supports are amnesties. You can see for yourself by reading a copy of the talking points, essentially one falsehood repeated in various forms, circulated on Capitol Hill by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn (AILA).No one is [...]

In May, 2006, Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy were striving to pass a complex piece of legislation through the Senate. It wasn’t going very well. Opponents of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act wouldn’t stop calling the bill an amnesty.
When it comes to infuriating the citizenry, nothing works so well as a proposal [...]

Rudy Giuliani, repeat after me: amnesty is relieving a class of lawbreakers [amnesty is relieving a class of lawbreakers] of the penalty required by law [of the penalty required by law] at the time they broke the law [at the time they broke the law].
For foreign nationals now illegally in the country, the [...]

For those who may share my fascination with the awfulness of the Washington Post’s immigration coverage, you won’t want to miss another recent corker by the policy geniuses on the Post’s editorial board.

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The Washington Times’ Steven Dinan, reporting on the “hand-to-hand” battles in the senate over the comprehensive amnesty bill, redesignated S. 1639:
Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who is pressing for the bill and helping organize business groups, said the local approach is effective, particularly on an issue so closely tied to the [...]

Does anyone think that the reason there are millions of foreign nationals living in the United States in violation of US immigration law is because the government just never got around to allocating an extra $4.4 billion to enforcement? That’s what President George W. Bush hopes you think as he offers a new sop to, [...]