McClatchy:

But even if the immigration agency were able to double the number of expelled fugitives - as it maintains it will - from the 17,817 deported in fiscal year 2006, it would take 20 years to return the 632,189 fugitives already identified. That doesn’t take into account the thousands of others immigration judges would order deported during ( Read more... )

Originally published at Memnison Journal. You can comment here or there.

• Cut and run - from George Bush - if you want to get re-elected. ‘Hey, aren’t you a Republican?’  ‘Who, me?’
• “Sen. Barack Obama urged Kenyans to take control of their country’s destiny by opposing corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a speech Monday in Nairobi.” ( Read more... )

• You remember how that revolving door used to bring people in and out of the Pentagon and contractors for the Pentagon? Now it's for Homeland Security, too.
• You remember signing up for that cheap rate on the adjustable rate home mortgage? It's clobberin' time, pal. "In our zeal to make mortgage lending more available to a greater number of people ( Read more... )

On weekdays that I work at home, I will sometimes go off for lunch to a nearby good Punjabi / Indian buffet lunch place and work over Mutter Paneer, naan and so on, finishing off with a nice Gulab Jamun or ten.  And I read the papers.  The freebie ones in the lobby for the locals to read about what's going on back in India ( Read more... )

You can't play both sides of the game, bub.  Bush losing support of Hispanics (who he'd wanted in the GOP tent) and the mad-as-hell-on-immigration people.

A good commentary on the subject here about the people who are against doing anything on the subject of illegal immigration.  Folks, the solid truth on this is that we've always liked having a ( Read more... )

Who are you going to trust, the Attorney General or the White House Press Secretary?

Americablog asks the question: OK, where's the $2 billion for the border stuff going to come from?  Bush was supposed to allocate money for Border Agents in the budget for thousands of new agents and had the authority to do so years ago in a law passed by Congress, but refused to do so.  And Senator Byrd was on the floor of the Senate yesterday ( Read more... )

• Laura Bush gets thwacked for putting down traditional marriage. Er, or really, not being fervent enough for the 'marriage defense amendment'.
• The city council in Black Jack, Missouri will not allow an unmarried couiple to live together with their kids. It's a man and a women, think of the scandal!
• Congress is scheduled to be in session only 97 days ( Read more... )

DHS Secretary Chertoff on the idea of using the National Guard at the Mexican border, from a couple of months ago:

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Oh, yeah - oil supply right now is way ahead of demand. Just thought I'd throw that in.

Watched the President's speech on 'immigration reform', and was highly unimpressed. 
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