A South Dakota Moderate

Ken Blanchard asks that question in response to a speech given by Barack Obama recently in San Francisco. The text from the offending portion of the speech is below.
[T]he truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. [...]

Indicted former House Majority Leader Tom Delay has figured out why illegal immigration is needed and what could have been done to prevent it.
“I contend [abortion] affects you in immigration,” DeLay told the Washington-area gathering. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn’t need the illegal [...]

When people wonder why there is such an outcry against amnesty for the millions who have entered and remain in this country illegally, a story in the NY Times reminds us.
The State Department said the 60,000 visas it had expected to offer would no longer be available because of “sudden backlog reduction efforts” by [...]

I thought I must have tuned into a bad epsiode of the “Twilight Zone” today as South Dakota’s Senate Delegation weighed in on the just defeated Immigration Bill. The bill which was being pushed by George Bush was soundly defeated 46-53 falling well short of the 60 needed for Cloture.
The immigration bill getting defeated isn’t [...]

It seems that one of the companies hired by our government to build the useless border fence on our southern border with Mexico has their own illegal alien problem.
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail [...]

Only several months removed from President Bush’s speech promising a major overhaul of the immigration policies in the US, the GOP has decided that it isn’t a political winner for them and will instead focus on other issues.
With Congress reconvening Tuesday after an August break, Republicans in the House and Senate say they will [...]

With the Federal Government’s failure to come up with any viable immigration reform package, local governments are deciding to take the lead on their own.
The latest city to fight back against illegal immigrants is Hazleton, PA.
Last month, in a raucous meeting, the mayor and City Council passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. (Barletta wore a [...]

What do you do if your immigration plan is dead in the water and your conservative base doesn’t even think it is a good idea? If you are George Bush, you change your stance. After all it is an election year and many in your party are engaged in tough re-election battles.
After weeks of pushing [...]

The Bush Administration’s request to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the border in Arizona and New Mexico was rejected by Schwarzenegger because he felt it would stretch his guard troops too thin in the case of an emergency in the state.
Another blow to President Bush’s election year [...]

Only a short while ago President Bush outlined his plan for immigration reform on national TV and already it is going down in flames. House Republican leaders decided to hold off negotiating a compromise bill with the Senate and instead opted for a series of field hearings which pretty much kills any chance that an [...]

The Washington Post has a story today on how the government had pretty much abandoned efforts to punish companies that hire illegal workers, at least until the immigration debate started heating up in the past few months.
High profile raids in the recent past by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of several businesses has given the [...]

The Colorado State Supreme Court has ruled that a proposal that would deny state services to illegal immigrants violated the state constitition that required initiatives to only deal with one issue and therefore could not appear on the November ballot.
The court ruling comes too late for the measure to be resubmitted in time for this [...]