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Rudy channels Rove, spouts immigration lawyers talking points

January 14th, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

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Three reasons I can’t trust Giuliani on immigration

November 30th, 2007 3 Comments

In 1999, I started the immigration time-out organization, ProjectUSA, which put up billboards advertising facts about US immigration policy and its impact on the United States. Although we put up billboards in almost every region of the country, most of our “billboard democracy” activism took place in New York City—mainly because that is where [...]

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Ron Paul’s libertarianism not the scary kind

November 26th, 2007 No Comments

Everyone seems to be talking about the remarkable political phenomenon that Congressman Ron Paul’s run for the presidency has become. Rep. Paul’s campaign for the White House took off when the Texas Republican, who previously ran as the Libertarian Party’s candidate, strayed outside party orthodoxy on Iraq during a nationally televised debate between GOP [...]

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Let them eat frijoles

April 30th, 2007 No Comments

April 30, 2007
Sebastian Mallaby is a columnist and former editorial board member for the Washington Post. He is also the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. His latest opinion piece, “Lazy, Job-Stealing Immigrants? Nativist Nonsense Distorts a Critical Issue,” is just more of [...]

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Embrace amnesty, just don’t call it an amnesty

August 30th, 2004 No Comments

2004-08-30
Issue: #202
An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times welcomed Republicans arriving in town for the party’s national convention with some free advice on the immigration issue for GOP campaign strategists.
“If the Republicans want to court moderates and appeal to minority voters like Hispanics,” counseled the Times, the party must embrace an amnesty for illegal aliens, [...]

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California growing faster than Bangladesh

May 23rd, 2001 No Comments

Issue 75: May 23, 2001
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Ed Abbey
+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
Last December, in a Los Angeles Times story, reporter Robin Wright asked Bangladeshi President Sheika Hasina:
"At independence, Bangladeshi women averaged six to seven children. Today, that rate has been halved by a [...]

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Iowans "unsophisticated" says Des Moines Register columnist

May 18th, 2001 No Comments

Issue 74: May 18, 2001
+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
Last September, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announced his support for a plan that would exempt Iowa from federal immigration limits.
A combination of national ridicule and strong local opposition has since caused Vilsack to backpedal on the issue, but an early champion of his cheap labor scheme, [...]

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New Gallup poll points to immigration time-out

May 7th, 2001 No Comments

Issue 73: May 7, 2001
+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
In a new Gallup poll released Thursday (May 3, 2001), more Americans (43%) want to see immigration levels lowered from current levels, than to remain the same (41%). (http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010503.asp )
To those who object to current U.S. immigration policy — which will drive 90% of the country’s [...]

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Immigration a "public relations nightmare" for Sierra Club

April 30th, 2001 No Comments

Issue 71: April 30, 2001
+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
On an issue that continues to divide the Sierra Club, an important ballot initiative was narrowly beaten back this month. The referendum would have forced Club leaders to stress population growth as a major factor in sprawl. (This would seem an obvious connection, but the sprawl/population issue [...]

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Truthmobile and immigration dissent in Iowa

April 16th, 2001 No Comments

Issue 69: April 16, 2001

+== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+
Last year, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsak made national news by suggesting his state exempt itself from federal limits on mass immigration and turn Iowa into another Ellis Island. A condition exists in Iowa in which some businesses are reluctant to pay wages high enough to [...]

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