Daily features: July 17, 2007

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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.

Daily features: July 16, 2007

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Legal immigrant rally in San Jose, CA on green card processing backlog.

Read our earlier post on this: Daily features: July 11, 2007

• Monday blog round-up

• Jean Pfaelzer, of a George Mason University blog, takes a look at "What's scary about the anti-immigration debate".
• Would you pass the citizenship test?
• Cyberhillbilly's blog posted a video of Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly discussing immigration last night.
  

• Cartoon of the day

By Eric Allie of PoliticalCartoons.com, July 13, 2007.

Daily features: July 13, 2007

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The Department of Homeland Security is withholding border security money from Arizona. Aired on CNN, July 12, 2007.

• Friday blog round-up

• Michael Linton of the FirstThings blog talks about his daughter's experience with undocumented workers at a restaurant where she waitressed.
• The ImmigrationProf blog provides links to contacting your congressmembers if you are interested in having them support or rally against the DREAM Act. For those of you not in the know:
• "It would provide a 6-year path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship for individuals brought to the U.S. years ago as undocumented children if they graduate from high school and continue on to college or military service."

• Cartoon of the day

By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com.

Daily features: July 11, 2007

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The border fence cameras/sensors may not be working as expected. Aired on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360", July 10, 2007.

This shouldn't be suprising to our readers: Virtual' AZ border fence to stay quite virtual for now

• Wednesday blog round-up

• The Houston Chronicle's blog reports that some attorneys there are encouraging legal immigrants who've been waiting on their green cards for many years to join the class action lawsuit in Chicago.
• This fits in with our earlier post, Citizenship applicants sue U.S. over delays
• Neal Boortz writes in his blog that no action on illegal immigrants will ever be effective because such action would disproportionately affect Hispanics, which would be "politically incorrect", much to his chagrin.
• Tanya Doriss at the Center for American Progress writes about reproductive justice and immigrants' rights. Her arguments are backed by statistics.
  

• Cartoon of the day

Published in the El Universal newspaper (Mexico City), July 10, 2007.

Daily features: July 10, 2007

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Kathy Kiely's master's degree project is a video of members of Congress speaking about their immigrant roots.

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• The VanishingAmerican blog takes a look at "mushy moderates" and immigration.
• Chicago Public Radio introduces us to Rose Anne, a second-generation Mexican-American as part of their ongoing Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders series.
• The BatseLine blog synthesizes the recent headlines about illegal immigration issues in Tulsa, OK.

• Cartoon of the day

By Lisa Benson, WashPostWritersGroup.

Daily features: July 9, 2007

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Ron Paul, Republican presidential candidate, speaks of immigrants' "American" work ethic.

• Monday blog round-up

• John Hawkins at RightWingNews' blog looks at how illegal immigration has affected two GOP senators: Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
  
• The Council on Foreign Relations' blog compiles information on "Immigration: the Other Health Crisis".
• About.com answers FAQs on green card marriage.
  

• Cartoon of the day

Published in the Boston Globe, July 7, 2007.

Friday blog round-up

A daily feature, here we highlight interesting posts, points of view, and links as recorded on the blogosphere.

• Frank Salvato of NewsByUs writes post-S.1639: "Our politicians have become oblivious to their constitutional duty to their constituencies because we have become apathetic to the governmental process."
• Joe Gandelman of TheModerateVoice asks if S.1639 being blocked makes "George Bush now a political lame duck—or a political dead duck?"
• ColoradoMediaMatters reports that two radio hosts in that state "baselessly" asserted that 78 percent of Americans are opposed to immigration reform. The UPI/Zogby poll actually said only 56 percent were.
  

Wednesday blog round-up

A daily feature, here we highlight interesting posts, points of view, and links as recorded on the blogosphere.

• BaconsRebellion talks about what he sees as "dysfunctional zoning policy" and its relation to "dysfunctional immigration policy" in Virginia.
• EyesOnTrade culls together clips re: how Latino groups are calling for opposition to NAFTA trade agreements that would "increase the pressure on impoverished small farmers in Latin America to attempt to come to the United States".
• ImmigrationProf points us to an interesting scholarly article that includes a defense for "earned legalization" of undocumented workers.
  

Tuesday blog round-up

A daily feature, here we highlight interesting posts, points of view, and links as recorded on the blogosphere.

• Bill Hobbs of the ElephantBiz blog writes that McCain is facing a conservative grassroots backlash due to his support of the immigration reform bill. Be sure to watch the video Hobbs posted.
• Steve Benen of the CrooksandLiars blog writes that the California GOP is fraught with immigration problems from within.
• TravelsofBryan comments at length on his reaction to reading the transcript of Dick Lamm's speech titled "Eight methods for the destruction of the United States". Bryan calls Lamm "too extremist".
  
• BizzyBlog agrees with the Heritage Foundation article that declares the immigration bill a "national security nightmare".
• DailyTitan writes that illegal immigration has led to the closure of 84 California hospitals.
  

Monday blog round-up

A daily feature, here we highlight interesting posts, points of view, and links as recorded on the blogosphere.

• Mickey Kaus wonders whether liberal politicians have forgotten about low-wage workers. (Kausfiles)
• Michelle Malkin supports Dunkin' Donuts' move to sue franchisees that knowingly employ undocumented workers. (MichelleMalkin)
• Making the Internet rounds is a video/sound clip of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) singing in Spanish and discussing immigration reform. (Breitbart)