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Migrant Encounters at Border Hit Historic Low Not Seen Since Nixon Administration

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Vetting Aliens from Third World Countries

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The Supreme Court already decided birthright citizenship — in 1898

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A strange peacefulness over Los Angeles in the wake of ICE raids on illegals

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Trump is Closing the Border. Now What About Legal Immigration?

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The Church, Illegals, and the Law

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H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada

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Recently Retired Border Patrol Union President Lays Out the 'Very Disappointing' Truth About Kamala Harris' Immigration Efforts

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New York Times in a panic over Trump's promise to uphold U.S. immigration law

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Illegals Immigrants and the 2010 Census

I like this Letter to the Editor originally published in The Pottstown Mercury from a Chester County resident who is concerned about how the Obama Administration is planning to conduct the 2010 Census.

Why is the Census counting illegals within the U.S.?

Are you aware that undocumented aliens will be included in the 2010 census? The primary beneficiaries of this "count" will be border states whose seats in Congress and shares of federal grants will increase. Pennsylvania is likely to come out the poorer. For these reasons and so many others, yet another hot button issue is heading our way. Should undocumented aliens be afforded a 'path to citizenship'?

What advocates of the citizenship option fail to appreciate is that we are a nation of laws. If that is ever forgotten, we become the less for it.

Rather than a path to citizenship, the debate must be refocused on a path to guest worker status. As a cattle ranch manager in Canada, I learned that it was common to supplement labor shortages through the Canadian guest worker program. Upon completion of employment contracts, guest workers returned to their countries of origin. It was a win/win proposition for all parties from many perspectives.

The question then becomes one of how we get to a controlled guest worker system from where we are now. Obvious elements would include enhanced border security, universal adoption of the E-verify program and crippling penalties for all who would subvert the lawful immigration process. Resident undocumented and document-expired aliens should be given one opportunity to come in from the shadows and be registered as temporary contracted guest workers. This would require a mechanism of sufficient scale, funded by guest worker employers, to manage the registration of millions within a predetermined timetable.

Given the inability of our government to efficiently process "clunker" rebates, it would be necessary to contract this short-lived program out to more capable private sector interests with albeit, federal oversight. Concurrently, a mirror image and successor to the temporary U.S. model for large scale guest worker contracting would be established outside our borders in a multitude of venues.

With a natural population growth rate of barely 1 percent, a robust and well-reasoned immigration policy is necessary to sustain our domestic economy. The violation of our immigration laws and disregard for our institutions however, must never be co-mingled with a path to citizenship. Such advocacy is not just un-American, it is anti-American. Elected officials who fail to grasp this point should be welcomed back to the private sector post haste.

MARK FURLONG
North Coventry

Originally posted at TONY PHYRILLAS

Bush frees U.S. border agents who shot Mexican drug dealer

On his last full day in the White House, President George W. Bush has corrected one of the biggest travesties of justice ever by granting clemency to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer.

Bush commuted the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were made scapegoats by open boarder advocates who want to encourage illegal immigration.

The two agents were serving 10-year prison terms for the 2005 shooting.

From The Associated Press:

(Ramos and Compean) were convicted of shooting admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande, away from an abandoned van load of marijuana.

The border agents argued during their trials that they believed the smuggler was armed and that they shot him in self defense. The prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence linking the smuggler to the van of marijuana.

The prosecutor also said the border agents didn't report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.

The agents were fired after their convictions on several charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon and with serious bodily injury, violation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. All their convictions, except obstruction of justice, were upheld on appeal

The Bush decision has drawn widespread praise.

"FAIR, and all Americans who value justice and the sacrifice of the men and women who protect our nation, are gratified by President Bush's decision, on his final day in office, to commute the sentences of former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean," stated Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

"President Bush certainly saved the best for last," said Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly, who has consistently worked for the past two years to disclose little-known facts about this case through her weekly columns. "We are overjoyed and relieved that these two brave men will be freed from prison and finally returned home to their families."

President George W. Bush Grants Commutations

Originally posted at TONY PHYRILLAS