You think fuel prices are bad, that's just the beginning

YOU THINK THE FUEL PRICES ARE BAD, THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE PROBLEMS WE ARE FACING IN OUR COUNTRY

Congressional Hispanics knock Democratic leaders
04/23/2008
By ERICA WERNER / Associated Press
http://tinyurl.com/4prock
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus denounced House Democratic leaders Wednesday as "spineless" and little better than Republicans for failing to take on comprehensive immigration reform.
Leaders of the all-Democratic caucus, which numbers two dozen, criticized their party leadership at a news conference for instead scheduling hearings on enforcement legislation and specific visa issues.

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Feds: Houston bus companies transported illegal drugs from Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/3hfw67

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Tucson Region
Shootout in Mexico briefly shuts Lukeville port
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/235654

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Calderón defends immigrant workers: MEXICAN LABOR ESSENTIAL to U.S., HE SAYS
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=222937

(WHAT HE DIDN'T SAY IS MX WANTS THE MONEY THEY SEND HOME TO MX!!!!!)

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Los Angeles 'is a Third World city'
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=222863

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LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asks legislature to declare forged documents legit
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=222784
Concluding with his traditional "Viva la Raza!" Villaraigosa argued that the counterfeit documents were actually better than real documents and said he hoped the state legislature would declare the counterfeits as good as legitimate papers.

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Report uncovers hidden cost of immigration
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/319-04232008-1523493.html
By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Are you having a hard time paying your bills, making your mortgage payments or putting your kids through college? You need to know how much of your hard-earned income the government is skimming off and diverting into handouts to immigrants and illegal immigrants.
You can read the depressing details in the new 70-page document called “The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration” by Edwin S. Rubenstein (www.eagleforum.org/sources). A Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow with a mile-long scholarly resume, he has been doing financial analysis ever since he directed the studies of government waste for the Grace Commission of 1984.
The bottom line, which you need to know for your own bottom line, is that U.S. taxpayers are giving more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant, a third of whom are in the country illegally. That's $36,000 for each immigrant household of four.
Because the United States has 37 million immigrants, legal and illegal, the national cost was more than $346 billion last year, which was twice our fiscal deficit. The cost of immigrants is so high because, as Rubenstein writes, “Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax and are more likely to receive public benefits than natives.”

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Family Values of some of our Illegal Aliens
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/FamilyValuesLink.html