•   Every illegal alien who could produce marginally plausible "evidence" that he/she had been illegally present in the United States since June 1, 2006, would get amnesty and be put on the path to US citizenship.
•   In exchange for the highest honor our country has to bestow, the illegal alien would have to pay $2,000, pass a criminal record check, pay at least some of any income taxes he/she had chosen not to pay while working illegally, and learn some English. The already overburdened and error-prone U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would be responsible for ensuring that applicants meet these criteria and for handing out temporary visas and work permits to 2-plus million illegal aliens.
•   After the no-longer ? illegal aliens had been in temporary status for six years, USCIS would issue green cards to those who had learned passable English and, in the case of some heads of household, had traveled outside the United States (to any other country, not necessarily their own) for a short time. Single heads of household, children, the elderly, business owners, and those in the military would be exempt from the travel requirement. (Any criminals and terrorists whose fingerprints were not yet on file with the FBI would then have official documents in whateve name they chose to provide USCIS during the first phase of the amnesty.)
•   Lest any illegals be left out of the general amnesty, the bill includes two others for which they could qualify: the AgJOBS amnesty for those claiming to have performed agricultural work in the United States (the fraud rate for a similar amnesty in 1986 is estimated at 70% and resulted in at least one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers getting a green card, which he used to fly to Afghanistan for terrorist training) and the DREAM Act amnesty for those who received a US taxpayer-funded high school diploma or an equivalent.
•   To ensure a constant flow of cheap labor into the United States, the bill would create a worker importation program for an additional 400,000 foreign "guest" workers each year, all of whom would be given the choice to stay permanently, as long as they weren't caught committing a crime or terrorist act before they applied. DHS would have to certify that it is capable of verifying workers' legal status before this new program could take effect.
•   As a bone to lawmakers who believe that the laws they pass should actually be enforced, the bill would mandate that all employers eventually verify the legal status of their workforce and it would increase penalties for those who fail to do so. It would also authorize an increase in the number of border enforcement personnel and in enforcement technology.
•   Finally, as icing on this rich enforcement cake, the bill would create a "North American security perimeter" that would establish Mexico as our first — and only — line of defense against any security threat from the south.

•   •   •  

Indonesians jailed for beheadings   [3/21/07]
Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country and is considered a home of Islamic moderation. However, horrific crimes perpetrated by Muslims against everyone else, especially Christians, have been increasing there. The case of the Christian girls, beheaded as they walked to school, was particularly shocking.

An Indonesian court has sentenced three Muslim militants to jail for beheading three Christian schoolgirls in Central Sulawesi in 2005.
    Hasanuddin, 34, was given 20 years for planning the attack, while two accomplices were given 14 years.
    Hasanuddin had earlier told the court he helped plan the attack but rejected allegations he masterminded it.
    The beheading of the girls, attacked as they walked to school in Poso in 2005, drew international condemnation.
    It also fanned tensions in Sulawesi, where Muslim-Christian violence has continued despite a 2002 peace deal.

Twenty years in prison for the multiple murders of children is little more than a handslap.

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G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics   [3/20/07]
Apparently candidates are getting an earful in Iowa if the New York Times has noticed.

On Saturday morning in Des Moines, Mr. Brownback stood for 30 minutes at a breakfast with Republicans as question after question — without exception — was directed at an immigration system that Iowans denounced as failing. "These people are stealing from us," said Larry Smith, a factory owner from Truro and a member of the central committee of the state Republican Party.
    Finally, Mr. Brownback, with a slight smile, inquired, "Any other topics that people want to talk about?"
    "What are you going to do with illegal immigrants who come here and become criminals?" demanded Jodi Wohlenhaus, a Republican homemaker who lives outside Des Moines.

Senator Brownback has a terrible career immigration voting grade of "D" but that doesn't begin to express the perfidy of the man. He has worked tirelessly for the resettlement of thousands of Somalis as refugees — but not in his state, where voters objected. For these activities, he is acclaimed in some quarters as being an exemplary Christian, full of charity and kindness. Besides welcoming unsuitable tribal refugees into American communities, Brownback recommended the admittance of unlimited North Koreans to chill the NK government on nukes (nutty proposal explained here).

•   •   •  

Minuteman woes   [3/19/07]
Many in editorial offices are doing cartwheels over the dissention among the Minuteman leadership. The liberal scribblers can hardly disguise their glee that the Minutemen are tied up in court when the patriots should be leading the charge against amnesty.

The splintering occurred early. There are Minuteman-type groups all over the country, and most of them don't seem to be affiliated. Three of the top leaders of the border-watcher movement — Jim Chase of Oceanside, Jim Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo and Chris Simcox of Tombstone, Ariz. — have been at odds for some time over conflicting agendas and competing egos.

As usual, the MSM misses the larger point. There are indeed independent Minuteman groups springing up all over the country, because it was an idea whose time had come. The disagreements among Jim Gilchrist and members of his board are unfortunate, but the Minuteman movement has become far larger than a few people. Thousands of Americans who have never set eyes on Gilchrist now identify themselves as Minutemen and act on their own to protect US borders and sovereignty.

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Machines put laborers' way of life, work in peril   [3/18/07]
Rather that importing endless more illiterate Mexican pickers, Washington should put incentives in place for agriculture to replace them with machinery.

In the not-so-distant future, many farm workers may lose their jobs to farm machinery that continues to chop into the local industry.
    Industry experts said the cost-benefit analysis farmers face is fairly simple. At a time when global markets are exerting pressure on local growers, machinery offers the cost savings critical to survival.
    Jim Hill, a Las Cruces-area farmer and owner of a farm machinery dealership, Hill Equipment, said his own chile-picking machine cuts costs by as much as 9 cents per pound, or 30 percent.
    Another machine Hill sells can cut the cost of thinning chile crops to $35 an acre, compared with between $75 and $150 to thin by hand, according to the recently dissolved New Mexico Chile Task Force that helped develop the thinner.
    The thinner costs about $95,000, according to Cemco Turbo, the company that manufactures them in Belen, N.M. But Hill said the machine will pay for itself in a year on a 200-acre chile farm.

•   •   •  

Native Revolt: A European Declaration of Independence   [3/17/07]
Fjordman is one of our favorite European writers, and he begins this piece by citing the recent rioting by Dutch against the police for once again siding with Muslims rather than with the local citizens.

After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage in Utrecht. Apparently Mulder intervened when Muslim youths harassed a pregnant native Dutch woman. Locals claim the police has failed to protect them for years. They say the authorities are afraid of the immigrants and tolerate their criminal behavior.
    This issue is not just about Utrecht or Holland. Similar resentment against Muslim immigrants, but at least as much against their own authorities, is quietly brewing among the natives all over Western Europe.

Like other Europeans, the Dutch have been poorly served by their cultural trait of not questioning authority since the takeover by the EU's unelected bueaucracy in Brussels, coupled with massive Muslim immigration. One of the worst problems is crime and the refusal of many governments to protect citizens from street violence, particularly if the perp is an immigrant. There is no recognized right to self-protection, so Europeans are increasingly feeling cornered.

Citizens in Western European countries pay high taxes to a state that is totally incapable of protecting our most basic rights, and is frequently unwilling even to try. With hate speech laws we are deprived of the right to protest against being swamped by immigration that will eventually render us minorities in our own countries. The law is used to punish the law-abiding while the criminals rule the streets.

Fjordman cites the American Declaration of Independence and argues that Europeans are under more duress than the colonists were in 1776, since Europeans are "being persecuted in our own cities and subject to a government-supported program of gradual cultural eradication."
    He concludes with a European Declaration of Independence. Stirring stuff, although tragic that such words are necessary in Europe in the 21st century. Here's a snippet:

We demand that the ideology of Multiculturalism should immediately be removed from all government policies and school curricula, and that the state should adopt a policy of supporting the continuation of the cultural heritage and traditions of the indigenous populations. Multiculturalism has never been about tolerance. It is an anti-Western hate ideology championed as an instrument for unilaterally dismantling European culture. As such, it is an evil ideology bent on an entire culture's eradication, and we, the peoples of Europe, have not just a right, but a duty to resist it and an obligation to pass on our heritage to future generations.
    We demand that all Muslim immigration in whatever form should be immediately and completely halted, and that our authorities take a long break from mass immigration in general until such a time when law and order has been reestablished in our major cities. We will not accept any accusations of "racism." Many European nations have for decades accepted more immigration into our countries in a shorter period of time than any other people has done peacefully in human history. We are sick and tired of feeling like strangers in our own lands, of being mugged, raped, stabbed, harassed and even killed by violent gangs of Muslim thugs, yet being accused of "racism and xenophobia" by our media and intimidated by our own authorities to accept even more such immigration.

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FBI Puts Local Officials on Notice About Extremists Trying to Sign Up to Be School Bus Drivers   [3/16/07]
The DHS has sent out a warning about foreigners moving into the occupation of school bus driving.

The Department of Homeland Security official said the bulletin was sent to state and local law enforcement officials, and "some school districts have reported an increased number of foreign nationals seeking school bus driver positions and a number of other unusual events."
    The official said that, out of an abundance of caution, FBI shared the information.
    An unnamed counterterrorism official told The Associated Press that the bulletin — sent Friday to state and local law enforcement agencies — did not say how often foreign extremists attempted to get licenses or drive school buses, and did not specify where this might have happened.
    The bulletin noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, the official told The Associated Press.
    Foreigners under recent investigation include "some with ties to extremist groups" who have been able to "purchase buses and acquire licenses," the bulletin says.

The horrors of Beslan show that jihadist monsters will do anything. Children are not off limits to them at all.

•   •   •  

Bush 'optimistic' on immigration   [3/15/07]
Mexichurian Bush is at his absolute worst when he is schmoozing it up among the denizens of Mexico and points south, whom he clearly prefers to his American countrymen.

MERIDA, Mexico -- President Bush said yesterday he has proved his commitment to securing the U.S.-Mexico border and members of Congress now can turn to broad immigration overhaul.
    In a press conference here, he told Mexican President Felipe Calderon he is "optimistic" about chances for reform this year, "because the mood in the Congress seems like it has changed, from skepticism last year to knowledge that getting a comprehensive bill will be in the nation's interests."
    Mr. Bush said part of the reason for the change is he has taken steps to boost border security himself, leaving those lawmakers "more open-minded" to taking the next step.
    "Over the past year, I believe we have shown the American people that there is a strong commitment to the rule of law, and I think members of Congress are now feeling more comfortable that the country is committed to rule of law," he said.

The stepped-up workplace enforcement of the last few months has just been a ploy in Bush's larger agenda of opening the borders and merging with Mexico. No surprise there, though it is nice to see the scheme clearly defined as such somewhere else than in a blog.
    Here's a picture of Bush loading lettuce in Guatemala. Did he think this image would appeal to American citizens after he has told us for years that we are lazy and are unwilling to do manual labor? It's bizarre he would agree to such a photo op.
Someone needs to tell Bush that he is President of the United States of America, not Presidente of the North American Union. At least not yet.

•   •   •  

Fax Numbers for US Senators 2006   [3/14/07]
I couldn't find a current list of Washington fax numbers for members of the Senate, so I compiled one in order to send my homemade faxes when I'm not sending NumbersUSA faxes. One is a flyer of crime victims I put together to show that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.
You can get a full-size printable version of the flyer here.

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California school reform to cost billions more, studies say   [3/14/07]
No one seems ready to ask whether Mexifornia's schools can be fixed, even with mountains of money shoveled at them. The high numbers of non-English-speaking students, some from very primitive cultures, may have already pushed the school system beyond repair, rendering it unable to create the modern education needed by youngsters coming up in a technological society, who need to learn vast amounts of factual knowledge, critical thinking skills and citizenship.

California already spends nearly half its annual budget on education, a total of $66 billion in the current fiscal year, or about $11,000 per student in kindergarten through 12th grade.
    Still, one estimate in the documents obtained by the AP says California might need to spend as much as $1.5 trillion a year to meet its performance goals, an amount equal to about half the annual federal budget.

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Some Muslim workers at Target refuse to handle pork   [3/13/07]
Sharia law is making inroads in Minnesota and other areas of large Muslim immigration.

I'm a reporter who covers Target for the Star Tribune and the other day, I got a call from someone who said that an employee at the Target store downtown refused to run his bacon through a scanning machine. He was mighty upset, arguing that the cashier had "no right to work as a cashier at Target" if she wasn't prepared to swipe his groceries.
    But he was a little vague on the details, so I decided to check it out myself. At the Target store on E. Lake Street, a cashier wearing a hijab looked uncomfortable when I showed up at the cash register with a frozen pepperoni pizza. She immediately called for help, and another employee rang up the pizza and placed it in the basket.
    I asked her if it was because she was Muslim, and she nodded her head. "I can't even touch it," she said.

More proof that Islam and western culture simply don't mix: Freedom of faith on company time? about Muslims suing their employers over "discrimination."

School bus driver Seham Nabry says her boss confiscated her prayer mats and complained that her ritual hand and feet washing messed up the office bathroom. She also says he blared Christian music and taunted Muslim workers as they prayed.
    Nabry said giving up her daily prayers — one of the five pillars of Islam — wasn't an option. So she did what more and more Muslims in Minnesota and across the country are doing — she sued her employer.
    "People told me I should just leave the job and find a new job, but I was thinking if I leave this job, there's no guarantee there won't be another manager like him," said Nabry, a Burnsville resident who emigrated from Sudan. "I came to America for freedom. Why should I walk away?"

Someone should tell Seham that the American people still expect immigrants to assimilate. The saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" dates back to the time of St. Augustine incidentally.
    In addition, the imams who acted suspiciously like terrorists in the Minneapolis airport are suing because of law enforcement's proper efforts to investigate them.

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In Guatemala, immigration tops Bush agenda   [3/13/07]
Every time Bush goes on a foreign junket, he gives away the country. The US is broke, so all he can offer to make nice to foreign leaders is open borders. For some reason he apparently has forgotten that his job is to protect and defend the American people.

GUATEMALA CITY -- President Bush promised Monday to launch a new push to overhaul U.S. immigration laws and faced tough questions about deportation during a visit to Guatemala.
    Bush said he wanted to get a comprehensive immigration deal, similar to one that stalled last summer, through Congress before its summer recess. It would be the first time Bush has pushed such legislation since Democrats took control of both houses after November's elections.
    "It seems like to me we've got to get this done by August," Bush said at a joint news conference with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger. But he added that he was not trying to set a timetable.
    "We don't believe in timetables. But I do believe in pressing hard and working with Democrats and Republicans to get it done," Bush said. "We don't want people to feel like they have to get stuffed into the back of a truck and pay exorbitant fees to coyotes to come and try and realize dreams. There's got to be a better system."

What about American citizens' dreams for their kids to live in a recognizable English-speaking country and have a middle class life?

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World's third-richest man casts long and controversial shadow in Mexico   [3/12/07]
Carlos Slim is Mexico's wealthiest man, and his ascent is a testament to the strength of monopoly business there. Just 15 years ago, he was a very rich man with $1.7 billion, but was not in the stratosphere of superwealth. But thanks to Mexico's robber baron economy, where little business competition exists, the rich get very rich indeed as long as they are a part of the oligarchical power structure.

The world's third-richest man, Carlos Slim, is gaining rapidly on Bill Gates and Warren Buffet with a fortune that grew $19 billion last year ­ the largest wealth gain in the past decade tracked by Forbes magazine.
    It's also a sign of the wealth gap in Mexico's monopoly-laden economy.
    Since Slim bought the telephone monopoly in a 1991 privatization, he's used Telmex as a cash cow to build an empire that includes Latin America's largest mobile phone company; provides banking, brokerage and Internet services; sells insurance and oil industry equipment; and operates retail stores and restaurants.

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House GOP Try to Halt Muslim Seminar   [3/12/07]
What an embarrassment for the Democratic Party that it is still carrying water for the worst fifth column terrorist organization in the country. Congress is typically the last to know what is common knowledge among many citizens, namely that the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an enemy of this country, pretending to be a civil rights organization but supporting the nastiest of the Islamic terror organizations.

House Republicans said Monday that Democrats should retract an offer to let the nation's largest Islamic civil liberties organization use a Capitol conference room for a seminar.
    The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.
    "Democrats arrange official meeting with pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah group in U.S. Capitol," headlined a Conference press release carrying a Washington Times article on the planned meeting.

See Anti-CAIR for the story of CAIR employees convicted of terrorist activities, along with other malfeasance of an enemy agent nature.
    And don't miss the schlocky PhotoShop adjustments in the interest of Islamic Correctness noted by Jihadwatch.org. Stalinist rewrites of history are all in a day's work for CAIR.

•   •   •  

Islam is Taking a Grip on Europe   [3/11/07]
Immigration is war by other means; today's example:

Islam is slowly but surely taking a grip on the European culture, warns the German journalist and university lecturer Udo Ulfkotte. Traditional values, customs and judicial standards are gradually customized to meet Muslim requirements.
    As Ulfkotte explained at a meeting of Christian Democrats in Wetzlar, March 8, more and more institutions are making allowances for Muslims. Many banks, he said, are abandoning the so-called piggy banks, because they are afraid of losing Muslim customers. Muslims regard the pig as an unclean animal.
    German butchers who sell pork are targeted by Muslim extremists, according to Ulfkotte. Muslims occasionally spit on sausages on sale at open-air markets.

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In Tragedy, Glimpsing Oft-Overlooked Newcomers' Lives   [3/10/07]
The New York Times broaches the subject of polygamy practiced by the family in which eight children died in a Bronx fire. The paper doesn't fail to be politically correct at every opportunity.

Mr. Magassa had two wives, Manthia and Aisse. It is not clear when they arrived in this country, but some of their children were born here. Only two of Mr. Magassa's seven children with Manthia lived through the fire. But all of his four children with Aisse, who lived a floor apart from Manthia, survived.
    Polygamy is common in Mali and throughout West Africa. But it is illegal in the United States, and it can bar immigrants from gaining permanent legal residency or citizenship. Many West Africans are uncomfortable talking about the practice with an outsider, particularly so soon after the tragic fire.
    But many West Africans say that Mr. Magassa's arrangement is a subterranean feature of life here, particularly for older men who can afford it. At a spacious African hair-braiding salon on 125th Street, Aminata Dia, the Senegalese owner, consulted with her husband before talking about the practice to a reporter. She said men traditionally bring the first wife first, but of late many prefer to bring the youngest.

Nice culture! We want more polygamous Malians in America, right?
    Not really, of course. The custom is a crime in America for good reason: it is the source of enormous suffering and social discrimination against women wherever it is practiced.
    All Americans regret the death of the innocent Malian children. But that's no excuse to forget that we are a nation of laws. Only with immigration crimes do our lofty political and media elites believe that victimhood trumps the law. Most citizens believe otherwise.
    Furthermore, the public grief being shown by Mayor Bloomberg and others is excessive and clearly political. They want citizens to forget that if authorities had done their jobs, namely keeping out illegal foreigners, particularly polygamous ones, those children would be poor but alive in Africa.

•   •   •  

Maya to "cleanse" sacred site after Bush visit   [3/10/07]
President Bush is touring Latin America for a few days, visiting local sites of interest and pretending to be interested in their charming music and food. If it weren't for commie Chavez mouthing off periodically in Venezuela, we might forget about South America entirely.
    A culture clash was probably inevitable, but this item is sweet with all sorts of irony.

Mayan leaders will spiritually "cleanse" ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush, unpopular here because of foreign policies going back to Central America's civil wars.
    The leaders said they would hold a spiritual ceremony to restore "peace and harmony" at the Mayan ruins of Iximche after Bush tours the site on Monday. [...]
    "We will burn incense, place flowers and water in the area where Mr. Bush has walked to clean out the bad energy," [Morales Toj, head of a national Mayan youth movement] said.

Keep in mind that the ancestors of today's sensitive Mayans were known for ripping the hearts out of living people, as well as beheading and disemboweling, as they pursued their various rituals including human sacrifice.

•   •   •  

Fatal DWI Involves Illegal Immigrant   [3/09/07]
In North Carolina, a father and his 9-year-old son have been killed because of another drunk-driving illegal alien.

Dwane Braswell, 35, and his 9-year-old son, Jerry, of Clayton were in a big rig Sunday when a car ran a stop sign and darted out in front of them. Braswell swerved to avoid it, but his cab rolled over and burst into flames, killing the father and son.
    The other driver, Luciano Telles, fled but is now in the Johnston County Jail. He had prior DUIs in Wake County and is an illegal immigrant.

The accused had two prior drunk driving convictions in North Carolina. Yet even that is not enough to get a perp deported, because drunk driving is not considered a serious crime, despite the many deaths which eventually occur by the hands of serial drunk drivers. One of the most shocking was the killing of Tennesse couple Donna and Sean Wilson by Gustavo Reyes Garcia, who had been arrested more than a dozen times, including five arrests for DUI. Why does law enforcement only pay attention when innocent citizens have been killed?
    In fact, if Rep. Sue Myrick's legislation of the last Congress had been passed, many needless deaths like that of the Braswells would be prevented: Myrick: You're drunk, you're driving, you're illegal, you're deported, period.
    See VDARE.com version.

•   •   •  

Deport the Irish   [3/08/07]
Photo: Thousands illegal alien Irish and their advocates lobbied Washington on March 7. Senator Clinton is shown with her new Legalize The Irish t-shirt.


Of all the arrogant ethnic groups who believe that their history (or IQ or geography) makes them too special to obey US immigration law, the Irish deserve unique condemnation. There are around 50,000 illegal Irish squatting in this country — a low number considering there may be 20 - 30 million foreigners unlawfully residing here.
    Yet the Irish are enthusiastically engaged in lobbying for an illegal alien amnesty for tens of millions which, if enacted, will exacerbate the destruction of traditional American culture and will end any hope of curtailing the invasion of adversaries from Mexico to Iran. A wholesale amnesty with rubberstamp admittance procedures will certainly admit future terrorists, as has happened in previous amnesties. But the Irish apparently don’t regard these threats to America’s national security and cultural values as important when measured against the convenience of a relative handful of Irish illegals.
    Some illegal Irish say they love America. But they have a funny way of showing it, namely by aligning themselves with the open-borders agenda of our worst enemies. They say they want to join the American community but regard pro-sovereignty patriots as “know-nothings.”
    Memo to Paddy: the majority of citizens want immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced.
    No surprise that Irish ethnic publishing has a cheerful view of shredding American’s borders:

The rebirth of the McCain/Kennedy immigration reform bill on Capitol Hill looks this week as if it will coincide with St. Patrick’s festivities in Washington next week.
    And the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform is rallying in Washington today in an effort to spur legislators into action on an issue seen as central to the future of the Irish community in the United States. [McCain/Kennedy bill may get St. Patrick’s unveiling, The Irish Echo March 7-13, 2007]

For genuine immigration reform to occur, the would-be legal immigrant patiently waiting his turn in his home country must be given a better deal than the noisy millions of illegals demanding amnesty. That means deportation, not reward, for lawbreakers.
    All illegal aliens must go to the end of the line in order to enter America. And that line must start in the home country.
    Deport the illegal Irish.

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All L.A. Food Workers May Need Vaccinations   [3/08/07]
Here's another immigration tax — the huge public health tab associated with vaccinating all the food service employees in Los Angeles County ($200/ treatment x 100,000 workers = $20,000,000).
   Hepatitis A is caused by unclean food handling, particularly inadequate hand washing. The illness is "spread by feces-to-mouth contact."

County officials may require food-service workers in thousands of eateries across Los Angeles to get vaccinated for hepatitis A after a series of outbreaks.
    County supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to look into the costs and benefits of such a vaccination, which would be a massive undertaking involving more than 100,000 workers. The requirement could affect 25,000 eateries, 300 catering companies and 270 wholesale producers.
    "We need to ensure that those who are involved in the handling of food are safe and healthy," County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said. "The public is vulnerable."
    The proposal follows the discovery of hepatitis at the Wolfgang Puck catering firm a week ago. A prep cook at the company was diagnosed with hepatitis A and health officials issued warnings to 3,500 people who attended more than a dozen events catered by the company, including a Sports Illustrated bash celebrating the swimsuit issue.

    In 2001, Denver public health officials recommended that people who eat often in city restaurants should get hep shots [Hepatitis shot for frequent diners?].

Colorado, like other Western states, has a higher than average incidence of hepatitis A. And Denver, and other areas with a high level of immigration, tends to have even higher rates.

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How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam   [3/08/07]
Long-time feminist Phyllis Chesler doesn't buy the official feminist crap about Islam being an acceptable lifestyle choice. She married an Afghan man at a young age and lived as an imprisoned Afghan bride in his country. The fellow who had once been a charming intellectual companion turned into an oppressive piggyman as soon as the couple disembarked from the plane in Kabul.

I saw how polygamous, arranged marriages and child brides led to chronic female suffering and to rivalry between co-wives and half-brothers; how the subordination and sequestration of women led to a profound estrangement between the sexes — one that led to wife-beating, marital rape and to a rampant but hotly denied male "prison"-like homosexuality and pederasty; how frustrated, neglected and uneducated women tormented their daughter-in-laws and female servants; how women were not allowed to pray in mosques or visit male doctors (their husbands described the symptoms in their absence).
    Individual Afghans were enchantingly courteous — but the Afghanistan I knew was a bastion of illiteracy, poverty, treachery and preventable diseases. It was also a police state, a feudal monarchy and a theocracy, rank with fear and paranoia. Afghanistan had never been colonised. My relatives said: "Not even the British could occupy us." Thus I was forced to conclude that Afghan barbarism was of their own making and could not be attributed to Western imperialism.
    Long before the rise of the Taleban, I learnt not to romanticise Third World countries or to confuse their hideous tyrants with liberators. I also learnt that sexual and religious apartheid in Muslim countries is indigenous and not the result of Western crimes — and that such "colourful tribal customs" are absolutely, not relatively, evil. Long before al-Qaeda beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and Nicholas Berg in Iraq, I understood that it was dangerous for a Westerner, especially a woman, to live in a Muslim country. In retrospect, I believe my so-called Western feminism was forged in that most beautiful and treacherous of Eastern countries.

•   •   •  

Gates calls for 'infinite' H-1Bs, better schools   [3/07/07]
Bill Gates, the richest man on earth, has made an even larger fortune because of his company's use of cheap foreign labor. In doing so, he has discouraged huge numbers of American young people from a career in information technology.
    IT professionals are often "discarded at age 35" because they have become too expensive at that age and level of expertise. Who would enter a field with such terrible prospects?
    Gates has largely created the problem about which he is complaining.

In only his third appearance ever at a congressional hearing, Gates urged politicians here on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to pursue a three-pronged approach to boosting the nation's competitiveness: equipping American students, teachers and workers with necessary math and science skills; elevating research spending; and rewriting immigration laws to allow American companies to hire more foreigners.
    The United States has much to be proud of in the technology realm, Gates told the politicians, but "when I reflect on the state of American competitiveness, my feeling of pride is mixed with deep anxiety."
    The Microsoft chairman's message was hardly new. Gates and other high-tech leaders have been lamenting the state of the U.S. educational system and work force, particularly in the realm of math and science, for years. They argue that without dramatic policy changes, the United States will lose its competitive edge in the high-tech realm.

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Construction Jobs Expand for Latinos Despite Slump in Housing Market   [3/07/07]
Construction used to be an occupation that provided a middle-class life for hard-working blue-collar Americans. Not any more. The lower wages and inherent exploitability of illegal Mexicans make them a desirable workforce for unscrupulous employers.

Hispanic workers landed two out of every three new construction jobs in 2006, benefiting from strong employment growth in the industry even as the housing market endured a year-long slump.
    The construction industry continues to be a key source of jobs for Hispanics and especially for those who are foreign born. The vast majority of new construction jobs in 2006 were filled by foreign-born Latinos, many of them recently arrived.

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Diversity Day opens minds at a private prep school   [3/07/07]
The kitchen sink view of culture remains the current sociological fad being promoted by educational elites, despite the mountain of evidence that multiculturalism is a failed ideology. Common sense recognizes that emphasizing differences between people is a better way to cause conflict than community, but the Kumbaya Kult soldiers on.
    Here's a recent outburst at a Los Angeles area prep school.

There had never been a day quite like this at the exclusive Brentwood School. Students, faculty and staff set aside regular classes to consider topics such as Harlem Renaissance art, Japanese World War II internment, gay youth suicide, Chicano lowrider culture and dwarfism.

Not all diversity is equal. The Harlem Renaissance is a recognized historical movement of art and literature, but chicano lowriders tricking out their cars — not so much.

Not everyone was happy with the Diversity Day idea when Velasquez proposed it last spring. Some teachers were initially unsure of the academic relevance of diversity issues and were reluctant to give up an entire day of classroom instruction.

Teachers who remain attached to ideas of academic standards better watch out — fawning subservience to the idea of diversity is Job #1 in today's schools!

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Mother: border policy to blame for son's death   [3/06/07]
The victims of open borders get it. The mother of slain sheriff's Deputy David March spoke out of the occasion of the killer's sentencing.

POMONA - Shortly after her son's killer pleaded guilty Friday to his cold-blooded murder, the mother of sheriff's Deputy David March denounced the U.S. government's failure to control the nation's borders.
    "It's my belief that it's our government and the activities that are going on at our borders that were the real killers of Dave, allowing illegal immigration, chaos, lawlessness to thrive in our wonderful country," Barbara March said outside the courtroom.
    "And I think our politicians in Washington should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this country to come to a situation where these killers are able to come in and ruin the lives of Americans.
    "And it's happening every day ... The real people that were accountable for this crime live in the White House. And I'm really sorry to say that."

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Other tongues overtaking English as language spoken in majority of Santa Clara County homes   [3/05/07]
How can it be a good thing for fewer people to be able to understand one another? That's not a community by any definition. Babel was a curse, not a celebration of diversity.

As it grows as a global technology hub, Silicon Valley has become one of the most polyglot places in the United States. Santa Clara County is on the brink of a linguistic milestone: Within the next few years, more people will speak a foreign language at home than the number who speak English, recently released census data shows. Given the statistical uncertainty, that threshold may already have been crossed.
    Santa Clara County has the largest population of Hindi speakers among all counties in the United States, the second-largest population of Vietnamese speakers, the third-largest population of Persian/Farsi speakers, and the fifth biggest number of Chinese speakers, a Mercury News analysis of 2005 census data shows. In percentage terms, the county ranks first in Vietnamese speakers, second in Hindi, third in Chinese and fourth in Persian/Farsi.
    Since 2000, Santa Clara County has passed Los Angeles and San Francisco to become the California county with the highest percentage of immigrants, with 36 percent of its population born outside of the United States. (Santa Clara and Los Angeles remain in a statistical tie.) Miami is the only metropolitan region in the United States with a higher percentage of immigrants than the San Jose area.

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Hmong taking their place at the table   [3/05/07]
Remember when immigrants "earned" respect? No longer.

Second-generation Hmong and those known as the 1.5 generation - they were born in Laos and moved to the United States at a young age - are becoming increasingly vocal and visible in standing up for their heritage and demanding respect.

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How a Community Imploded   [3/04/07]
It has long been the dream of race hucksters like Jesse Jackson that America's changing demographics would allow the people of color to join together in a jolly Rainbow Coalition to advance an anti-white, redistributionist agenda. Once whites were outnumbered by colorful people, the theory was, racism would fade away and paradise would prevail. Like we have in California.
    It hasn't worked out that way. Not by a long shot.
    Today's exhibit is the terrible tale of carnage against black citizens by Mexican gangsters in the Harbor Village area of Los Angeles.
    I've written previously about the hispanic gang murder of 14-year-old Cheryl Green, a black teen who was killed for "trespassing" on Mexican turf near her home in Harbor Gateway last December.
    But the body count doesn't end there. Earlier reports have observed the ethnic cleansing aspect of Mexican gang attacks against random blacks to drive them out of the area. According to LAPD statistics, from 1994 to 2005 there were nearly five times as many homicides, assaults and other violent crimes by Latinos against blacks as by blacks against Latinos in Harbor Gateway.
    From today's LA Times article...

In 1997, 11-year-old Marquis Wilbert, an African American youth with no gang affiliation, was shot and killed by a 204th Street gang member on a bicycle.
    In September 2001, Robert Hightower, a 19-year-old Pasadena high school senior, was shot to death after hugging his sister, whom he had been visiting. A 204th Street gang member shot him, according to court testimony, because he was upset that a black boxer had beaten a Latino in a prizefight.
    In 2003, Eric Butler, 39, was shot to death as he drove from the neighborhood's lone business, the Del Amo Market, which the gang considered to be in its territory. He'd gone there to intervene after gang members began harassing his 14-year-old stepdaughter. She was shot in the back and lives today with a bullet lodged near her spine.

"ALTERED LIVES: Dunya Wagoner holds husband Carl's hand at a medical facility on Valentine's Day. He is bedridden after losing a leg in a Harbor Gateway shooting last August. He also lost his auto-shop business."
    There are smaller crimes as well, like the virtual imprisonment many black citizens feel, for example the kids who aren't allowed to play outside because it is too dangerous. No American should have to live in such conditions, particularly when they are caused by Washington's infatuation with exploitable labor and open borders. A plague of criminal immigrant gangs were the foreseeable blowback.

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Republican lawmaker withdraws support of child savings bill   [3/03/07]
You have to wonder what they are smoking in Sacramexico, as legislators strive to write the most ridiculous bills with the dopiest use of the taxpayers' money. At least the moron in question paid attention to his constituents when they told him he had a screw loose.

A Republican lawmaker who co-authored a bill that would give every child born in California a $500 savings account has withdrawn his support following a backlash within his own party.
    Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, who had promoted the measure as a good investment, announced Friday he no longer supported the bill he had introduced two days before with Democrat Sen. Darrel Steinberg.
    The surprise move came after fellow Republicans questioned the measure's $285 million cost and inclusion of children of illegal immigrants.
    In a press release, Dutton said that thousands of Californians had asked him "what I was thinking" over the past 48 hours. Although he defended the savings account idea as a way for Republicans to help individuals become self-sufficient, Dutton said he could not support the bill because of the state's deteriorating fiscal stability. [...]
    Among the critics was state Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, who sent an e-mail to his supporters saying the bill would create "a new wave of illegal immigration."
    Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said hysteria over immigration had pressured his colleague to withdraw his support.
    "Let's get one thing straight: 90 percent of the calls and the talk radio and all the hysteria is about one issue and one issue only — immigration," Steinberg said. "It is all about xenophobia and there is a lot of hatred out there and we need to stand up against it. A kid is a kid is a kid."

That last bit is typical of the attitude of California Democrats: they can't give away the taxpayers' money fast enough even to foreign kiddies.

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No Spanish-Speaking Child Left Behind   [3/02/07]
Marcela Sanchez is the chirping hispanic columnist who regularly preaches the doctrine that more Mexicans are good for America. But the Mexicanization, er diversity, is getting thicker by the day

According to U.S. government figures, English is the second language for approximately 5.5 million students in the United States, nearly one-tenth of the total U.S. student body. By 2025, one of every four students in this country's public school system is expected to initially be limited in English proficiency.
    The U.S. Census Bureau defines people in that category as anyone aged 5 to 21 who speaks a language other than English at home and reports speaking English less than "very well." Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, schools are held accountable for these students and for how well and how quickly they become proficient in English.
    In many respects, the government figures reflect the record-high immigration that over the last 15 years that has dramatically changed the demographics of U.S. public schools. Considering that the majority of those immigrants come from countries where English is not the native language, it would seem safe to assume that children who have recently arrived are the ones having difficulty with English.
    That's true to a degree -- but actually a small one. Today, the U.S. Department of Education notes, 80 percent of students with limited English proficiency are in fact born and raised in this country; in other words, four out of five are U.S. citizens. This information becomes troubling in light of other studies that suggest many of these students are improving slowly, if at all.

Demographic warfare via immigration is working very well indeed for America's enemies, particularly Mexico which is aided by its perfect location for invasion.
    Meanwhile, in Mexican crime news, Judicial Watch notes, "police chiefs of at least a dozen crime-infested Mexican towns have been recently murdered by cartels..."

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Recent storms didn't (snow)pack enough punch   [3/02/07]
Northern California has had below-average rainfall for much of the winter season. After a February of substantial storms and snow in the mountains, some shallow media types announced that the feared drought was over. Not so, we learn today.

Recent storms have boosted this year's meager snowpack, but the amount of water stored in the Sierra snow is still below what is normal for this time of year.
    The pack has just 56 percent of the water content considered normal for this time of year, according to a statewide survey. [...]
    The snowpack is the state's No. 1 source of water for both drinking and irrigation.

Reponsible voices have noted that California's demand for water is now far greater than previously because of rapid population growth.

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ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.: 1917-2007   [3/01/07]
Arthur Schlesinger was a liberal through and through, as a member of the Kennedy administration and proponent of the New Deal philosophies of Franklin Roosevelt. But he was still an independent thinker first, and wrote a fine little book in 1991 called "The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society".

However liberal, he was not a slave to what came to be called political correctness. He spiritedly defended the old-fashioned American melting pot against proponents of multiculturalism, the idea that ethnicities should retain separate identities and even celebrate them. He elicited tides of criticism by comparing Afrocentrism to the Ku Klux Klan.
    History and its telling, quite literally, ran in Schlesinger's blood. One of his reputed ancestors was George Bancroft, who, over 40 years starting in 1834, wrote the monumental 12-volume "History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent." His father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, was an immensely influential historian who led the way in making social history a genuine discipline.

Schlesinger rejected the political correctness disorder, despite the demands of liberalism to hew to the party line. He will be missed.

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Islam is taking over, says Dutch politician   [3/01/07]
Geert Wilders has been a rare voice warning about the danger which is facing Europe — similar to what Churchill did in the 1930s when he cautioned against Hitler. No one paid attention to Churchill either until it was too late.

On the burqa, Mr Wilders is adamant: "It is a medieval token of a barbaric time, of how not to treat women, even if they want to wear it themselves," he argues.
    Allowing Muslims to wear the burqa in the Netherlands, or to have segregated swimming sessions so as not to offend religious sensitivities, amounts to "religious apartheid" he says.
    The new government coalition of mainstream centre right and left political parties had planned to ditch a decision by the previous government to ban the burqa in the Netherlands which now has a population of one million Muslims, six per cent of the total population. But, Mr Wilders crows, weekend opinion polls show 66 per cent of Dutch citizens support a ban. [...]
    The Dutch politician says he and his wife have received more than 600 death threats.
    Mr Wilders, who is always surrounded by plain clothes police guards, said: "I lost my freedom and privacy because of my opposition to Islam."

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