Quick history quiz. Who said the following: "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this."?

That was Ted Kennedy on the floor of the US Senate in 1986, pushing for legislation that successfully granted amnesty to several million illegal aliens that year.

There you have a good example of why the word "amnesty" is such a hot-button with politicians and the American public. Because the only thing that bill did successfully was grant amnesty.  read more »

The latest poll from ABC News re: the President's job approval takes a look at how he's viewed by conservatives in reference to how he's handling the immigration issue. The numbers aren't good.

President Bush's immigration reform package has badly damaged his ratings on the issue from his core supporters, with his approval rating for handling immigration plummeting among Republicans and conservatives.

Not only has the immigration issue driven that big wedge we mentioned between the White House and the party base, but also seems to be driving a big wedge between the RNC and the pocket-books of rank-and-file Republicans. From the Washington Times:  read more »

It's no secret that the immigration issue has driven a HUGE wedge between conservatives and the White House. What seems to have made it worse is that instead of working to address the concerns of the party base, the White House has gotten more strident, and in some cases gone on the offensive against critics on the right.

Peggy Noonan has an article in the Wall Street Journal today on the subject and essentially washes her hands of the administration.  read more »

The former Mexican Presidente' gives his take on US immigration reform...

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Here's the video she has up at YouTube...

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While conservatives have justifiably been focusing their attention to the problems they see in this awful piece of legislation, the various minority factions within the Democrat majority in the US House are having their own problems.  read more »

This isn't good. It seems the Secret Service is running short of manpower, considering they've got so many presidential candidates they may have to eventually offer protection to, (currently about 20). As a result, they're planning to "borrow" about 2,000 immigration officers and airport screeners to help do the job.  read more »

Frankly, it would kind of shock me if he does, but the President of the University of Colorado has written a letter recommending that he be fired.  read more »

Rasmussen's latest nationl poll confirmed earlier numbers which seemed to indicate an upward trend for Romney. The latest has him ahead of McCain for the first time in any national survey.

From the survey report:  read more »