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E-verify IS a threat to liberty!

Rebuttal By

Tom DeWeese

I don’t know Peter Gadiel, and he apparently knows absolutely nothing about me. But that hasn’t stopped him from attacking me in a recent article (Influential Conservative is Dangerously Wrong on…

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E-Verify and the Emerging Surveillance State

The rush is on to force into law mandatory use of the E-Verify system that will mandate that all businesses use this hand-me-down from the Social Security Administration in order to hire anyone. Republican Representative Lamar Smith has introduced HR…

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Unfortunately, Arizona does NOT have it right

By Tom DeWeese and Mark Lerner

There is no question that the citizens of Arizona, like the citizens of all of the southern border states, face grave and outrageous dangers from the invasion of illegals rushing across the…

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Fire Mary Peters

May 7, 2008

By Tom DeWeese

The Bush Administration has directly defied, not only the will and intent of Congress, but it is now openly ignoring legislation that the President himself signed into law. As a result a Constitutional crisis…

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Why Illegal Immigration is a Threat to the United States… And How Local Communities are Fighting Back

March 18, 2008

By Tom DeWeese

In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President’s guest worker

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“Comprehensive” Sellout Illegal immigration, the Senate and the White House

June 15, 2006

By Tom DeWeese

There are moments in history when destiny is determined. President Bush and the U.S. Senate now face such a moment as they determine the course of U.S. immigration policy. For this is not

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How to Stop the Flood of Illegal Aliens

March 11, 2005

By Tom DeWeese

The issue that will define our era and determine the nation’s future is illegal immigration. Political debate is full of schemes like “guest worker” programs and temporary worker cards to allow illegals to “fill

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No Fly Lists, Illegal Aliens and the Ravages of Political Correctness

October 18, 2004

By Tom DeWeese

Americans should not feel too secure with the U.S. government’s anti-terror policies because the targeted ones aren’t necessarily the terrorists. The government’s policies are based on the idea that it’s easier to put a

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The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion

By Tom DeWeese

Illegal immigration is about much more than fighting terrorism. The fact is, illegal Mexican’s are pouring across our borders and as a result, American tax-paid services like education and healthcare are being pushed to the

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The Sierra Club’s Immigration Wars

March 4, 2004

By Tom DeWeese

My recent commentary, “What part of ‘illegal’ don’t Americans understand?”, generated a lot of flack. Several responses called me a bigot. Others called me a Nazi. Most of the negative comments parroted the

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