Bob McCarty Writes

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the man who crashed his SUV into a Clayton, Mo., restaurant last month (see the BMW posts Illegal Immigrant Crashes Into Diners in $50K SUV and Illegal Immigrant Repeat Crash Offender) has been indicted on charges of violating immigration law. The newspaper reported today that U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway charged [...]

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Bernard, at A Certain Slant of Light, published an insightful post yesterday on the subject of immigration and the way the topic is treated by decision-makers on the staff of a newspaper in one of the nation’s largest cities, Houston. Take a look at how it begins: James Pinkerton, who normally gets front-page coverage in [...]

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Immigration Crackdown in Our Backyard The headline above appeared atop a no-byline article on the ABC News web site site this morning after a story on immigration aired on the network’s morning program, Good Morning America. While I missed the television version of the story, I suspect it contained the same anti-illegal immigration slant as [...]

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One of the most-read items in recent months at Bob McCarty Writes is a post, ‘They’re back!’ Senator’s DREAM Act is Our Nightmare, which highlighted the pitfalls of pro-illegal immigration legislation backed by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and called for citizens to let their elected officials know how they felt about it. According to a [...]

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UPDATE 9-20-07: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports today that the illegal immigrant (the subject of a Bob McCarty Writes post yesterday) whose SUV ran into diners outside a Clayton eatery this week had been involved in a crash in St. Louis less than two months ago. City police records indicate that the driver, Sergio Lopez, [...]

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An article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch begins this way: A driver whose SUV plowed into a crowd of lunchtime diners outside a restaurant in downtown Clayton (Mo.) on Tuesday told police he had been blinded by a bright light. Clayton police Capt. Steve Grenier said police cited the driver, who lost control while making [...]

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Just like the New Hampshire Republican Presidential Candidates Debate, it appears the finally-official launch of Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign is only hours away. That in mind, I thought I would share this interesting nugget that appeared as the lead paragraph of a Steven Dinan article, Thompson soft on illegals in Senate votes, that appeared in [...]

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