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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Daily features: July 17, 2007

  • Daily video/Candidate tracker


Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson discussed his views on immigration last week. He outlines a few main points: the need to secure the borders but not necessarily with a border fence or wall; the need to punish those who knowingly employ illegal workers; use more aggressive foreign policy with Mexico; raise legal immigration quotas; and formulate an earned legalization plan that would be contingent on learning English, passing a background check, paying taxes, paying a fine for entering illegally, and being employed.
  • Tuesday blog round-up
    • We discovered a new blog that struck us as rather interesting. The Southern Poverty Law Center's "Intelligence Project" compiles links to news articles every day that tracks the anti-immigration movement. You can subscribe to the Intelligence Project and receive updates every day.
    • Apparently, illegal immigration in Illinois costs each household in that state $695/year. The comments on this site are interesting and we're sure our opinionated commenters will want to join in on the discussion.
  • Cartoon of the day
Published in the El Universal (Mexico City) on July 16, 2007.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have no clue what this cartoon means, but it's probably disrespectful and delusional as usual. Mexico simply will NOT take responsibility for the disaster their country has become.

Anonymous said...

America will also not take responsibility for their country being a wasteland(by Americans!)and a no good, obesity ridden, controlling, racist, greedy country.