When the media covers identity theft and fraud as an isolated story, it treats those crimes as serious felonies that adversely impact the lives of victims in real and compelling ways. Young children are often targets, and by the time they realize they have had their identities stolen, the damage has already been done. But when the media covers immigration, it ignores the numerous felonies that aliens have to commit to live and work in the U.S. illegally without being detected.

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Want to get your blood pressure up?  Read the transcript of a White House press conference this week about the insistence that the hundreds of thousands of unemployed high-skilled Americans apparently don't exist.   While Pres. Obama was showing compassion to the wife of ONE unemployed high-skill American worker this week in a much-publicized internet exchange, his Administration was making it clear that it will multiply the difficulty of hundreds of thousands of other unemployed high-skill Americans to get a job. 

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Pres. Obama's own staff has produced the data to show that the President was wrong Monday when he said America doesn't have enough engineers, was wrong last week in the State of the Union to say we need more high-skilled foreign workers, and was wrong in sending out spokespersons to claim that not enough Americans are obtaining engineering degrees. But the President -- like most Republican leaders -- tends not to look for facts when thinking about immigration but just looks to his elite business cronies. Look at the numbers in this shocking new report . . .

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Offered a stark choice on the illegal immigration issue, Florida Latino Republicans today broke nearly 2-1 for the candidate with the firmest opposition to amnesty and strongest support for enforcement.  It was a strong rebuke of the majority of media commentators who insist that Latino-Americans can only be won by promising rewards for lawbreaking. And it was a victory for the concept of self-deportation as an alternative to mass deportation and mass legalization. 

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A Google-sponsored town hall event with President Obama Monday evening quickly turned to immigration issues.In the most publicized moment of the event, a woman from Texas asked Pres. Obama why he supported importing more high-tech foreign workers when her husband, who is a semiconductor engineer, has been unemployed for the past three years. Pres. Obama's only response was to pander to the high-tech lobby.

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Much has been written recently about the dismal unemployment rate (13 percent) among returning veterans, and a recent Washington Times story notes that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who for years has had a soft spot for illegal aliens, has initiated a drive designed to help returning service members and their spouses find jobs. But at the same time, Chamber President Thomas Donahue supported making illegal aliens living in the U.S. "official".

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Newt & Mitt mixed it up with vigor at the very beginning of tonight's debate over whether opposition to amnesty is "anti-immigrant."  The exchange was the best yet in a debate at finally connecting illegal immigration to the jobs issue. But the heat also cooked up some comments that were scary indicators about expanded legal immigration.

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Compared to the heavy-metal terror I used to feel listening to Pres. Bush's State of the Union immigratiion appeals, Pres. Obama's obligatory immigration section tonight was easy-listening music.  The verses and chorus were nearly identical to last year's and just didn't sound like he had a thought in the world that any of it could happen.  What really galled me, though, was his bragging about more than 3 million U.S.

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In the Tampa Bay debate Monday night, Mitt Romney confounded wide swaths of the internet with a concept that we've been trying for years to persuade the news media to acknowledge:  A concept of handling the illegal alien population with something between mass legalization and mass deportation.  Simply put, you take away the things that drew illegal aliens here and let most of them self-deport.

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An audience member asked a great question:  How would the candidates ensure that Americans are first in line for jobs?  But the CNN moderator ignored the jobs issue and turned it into a question only about amnesty.  The four remaining GOP Presidential Candidates proceeded to repeat past amnesty stances but failed to address the key question.  Nonetheless, we did learn a few things about the remaining candidates.  Here they are . . . . .

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