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The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 minimum […]

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For those who may share my fascination with the awfulness of the Washington Post’s immigration coverage, you won’t want to miss this corker by the policy geniuses on the Post’s editorial board.
CHECK OUT the asparagus you have for dinner, the cucumber in your salad and the pear on your plate for dessert. Chances are […]

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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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If you are going to church this morning, and you are a member of any of the major Christian denominations, think about this when they pass the offering plate: some of the money you give to your church is probably helping to pay for a big ad campaign pushing extremist immigration views.

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Referring to legislation that would permit illegal aliens to avoid the penalty under U.S. law for being in the country illegally (going home for a while), Senator John McCain began angry remarks from the floor of the senate, Wednesday, “Of course, it is not amnesty. Of course, it is not amnesty.”
Sorry, but of course, […]

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