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New Orleans One of the Obama pop-ups yesterday that was NOT in the news, probably for obvious and deliberate reasons, was President Obama’s drop by at a meeting between Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and an array of people who are strongly committed to comprehensive immigration reform from business, religion, labor, [...]
Houston Janet Napolitano, director of Homeland Security is on Maher’s HBO show and being interviewed tonight. Maher needs to stop shoveling softballs and ask Napolitano why she is allowing the untrammeled abuses of Sheriff Arpaio in Phoenix to continue unabated. Do something with me. Hit these links to build some heat on Maher to [...]
New Orleans Big city police chiefs from places like Miami,Sacramento, and elsewhere came out yesterday against 287(g). They don’t want local police forces to be confused with the immigration storm troopers of ICE.
The Miami chief in a published report cited the downturn of cooperation between immigrants and police in his city as dating from a “get-tough-on-immigrants” speech [...]
Washington Folks at the immigration summit descended on the Capitol to push for reform. There was applause when someone announced that 80,000 emails were sent. The New York Times editorial page gave the activists and their energy props, but also pointed clearly at how few clothes our emperor was wearing, [...]
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