| September 12, 2009 | -
President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and implored Democrats to pass their own health-care legislation. During the speech, the president noted that the bill would not extend health insurance to illegal immigrants, at which South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouted, “You lie!” Afterwards, Wilson received $1 million in campaign contributions. Shares in health insurance companies went up, and the number of Americans without health insurance rose to 46.3 million.
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Politico
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| August 9, 2009 | - With Congress in recess, opponents of and advocates for health-care reform stepped up their media campaigns. Angry citizens, led by industry front groups, former “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” organizers, and Rush Limbaugh, shouted down Democratic lawmakers at “town hall” meetings across the country. “Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!” shouted protesters in Tampa, Florida. “Forty million illegals!” (Even though the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are specifically excluded from the health-care plan.) Protesters waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags gathered at the closed offices of the Service Employees International Union in St. Louis, claiming that union members had attacked conservative activist Kenneth Gladney at a recent health-care forum. Gladney, who does not have health insurance, took up a collection for the treatment of his injuries.
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Bloomberg
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Washington Examiner
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Businessweek
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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| April 5, 2009 | - Jiverly Wong, a 41-year Vietnamese immigrant who had recently been laid off from a Shop-Vac factory in Binghamton, New York, barricaded himself inside the town's American Civic Association with two handguns and killed thirteen people (most of them immigrants attending English classes) and himself. “He was going to take the police on--or at least try to stop us from stopping him,” said police chief Joseph Zikuski. “He must have been a coward.”
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New York Times
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| October 9, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for president gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, for a debate on the economy. Mitt Romney, who was born in Detroit, bemoaned the “one-state recession“ gripping Michigan; Duncan Hunter repeatedly blamed the loss of American manufacturing jobs on free-trade policies with “communist China”; Ron Paul attributed the large profits of hedge-fund managers to a conspiracy among politicians, banks, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and the military-industrial complex to inflate or destroy currencies and swindle the middle class; and John McCain advised Paul to read ”The Wealth of Nations." The candidates generally agreed that taxes are too high. “We’re taxed to the max,” said Sam Brownback. Mike Huckabee touted his Fair Tax proposal to abolish the IRS and to tax consumption as a way to shift the tax burden onto drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and illegal immigrants. Paul and Tom Tancredo refused to pledge to support the Republican nominee in the general election.
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New York Times
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| September 26, 2007 | - Riverside, New Jersey, joined the list of towns across the nation that were rescinding anti-immigrant ordinances because they were hurting local economies. “The business district is fairly vacant now, but it's not the legitimate businesses that are gone,” said former mayor Charles Hilton. “It's all the ones that were supporting the illegal immigrants, or, as I like to call them, the criminal aliens.”
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New York Times
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| August 30, 2007 | -
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff vowed to make employers who hire illegal immigrants “unhappy.”
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Washington Post
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| July 18, 2007 | - Former congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years,” said DeLay, “we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
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Raw Story
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| April 4, 2007 | - In Beardstown, Illinois, federal agents arrested 62 undocumented immigrants in a pork plant.
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Reuters
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| February 13, 2007 | -
Bank of America was offering a new credit card aimed at illegal immigrants.
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Reuters
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| October 27, 2006 | -
Mexican president Vicente Fox called a proposed 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border an “embarrassment.”
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Yahoo News
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| September 22, 2006 | -
Fruit farmers rallied in Washington, D.C., to protest a shortage of low-wage, uninsured, illegal immigrant
laborers.
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New York times
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| September 21, 2006 | - The Boeing Company was awarded a congressional contract to build a 6000-mile “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Washington Post
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| August 22, 2006 | - The mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, announced his intention to make his city the “toughest place on illegal immigrants in America.”
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Washington Post
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| July 19, 2006 | - Sheriff's deputies in Arizona stumbled upon 100 Mexican
immigrants wandering in the desert west of Phoenix.
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NY Times
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| June 20, 2006 | - The theme of the 2006 World Refugee Day was hope.
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VOA via Google News
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| June 14, 2006 | - Vandals were emptying the water tanks that volunteers place in the Arizona desert; the volunteers maintain the tanks so that illegal immigrants from Mexico do not die from dehydration when crossing into the United States.
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KVOA Tucson
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| June 8, 2006 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Artesia, New Mexico, to address the Border Patrol Academy and suggested that immigrants had better learn to speak good American. “I knew I was in pretty good country when I saw all the cowboy hats,” he said. “And I think I saw one guy spitting in a can.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| June 2, 2006 | -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered 1,000 National Guard soldiers to the Mexican border.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| May 17, 2006 | - A Honduran teenager who stole an anti-immigration protest sign in New York was facing deportation.
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Breitbart.com
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| April 1, 2006 | - Polls found that 51 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage (the same percentage that thinks illegal immigrants mostly contribute to American society).
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| March 26, 2006 | - A half-million people protested in Los Angeles against changes to U.S. immigration law.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| March 11, 2006 | - In Chicago between 300,000 and 500,000 people marched to protest a House bill that calls for increased border protection to limit immigration.
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CBS2Chicago.net
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| May 5, 2005 | -
Spain gave 700,000 illegal immigrants amnesty.
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ISN
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| March 2, 2005 | - The Department of Homeland Security required 1,700 legal immigrants to wear ankle bracelets.
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NPR
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| February 2, 2005 | -
Malaysia's Home Ministry gave illegal immigrants one last chance to leave the country before being whipped.
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BBC News
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| January 24, 2005 | -
United States
immigration authorities were evaluating a program that uses unmanned drones to patrol the border of Arizona and Mexico.
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USA Today
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| December 28, 2004 | - A new law took effect that bars immigrants from claiming refugee status in Canada if they have to travel through the U.S. to get there,
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New York Times
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| April 17, 2004 | - The 9/11 commission concluded that the harsh immigration policies put in place after September 11 were useless.
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New York Times
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| 0, 2000 | - William Wayne Justice, a federal judge in Texas, known as “the law east of the Pecos,” whose rulings integrated public schools, reformed prisons, and helped educate illegal immigrants, died at age 89.
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