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Right Wing News (John Hawkins) How The Public Really Breaks Down On Illegal Immigration — “In all seriousness, if I were a politician and a pollster came to me to told me that the polling data showed America and Republicans were wildly enthusiastic about the Senate’s plan and were cool to what the House wanted to do, I’d fire him on the spot for incompetence…but, let’s face it, this about selling the Senate’s plan to the House, not about real numbers anyway.”

Wizbang (Jay Tea) Vicente Fox: The ultimate spammer — “The Mexican government has found its goose that lays the golden egg, and it’s the big nation to its north. It has discovered how to take its poorest citizens and encourage them to go north, in direct contravention of United States law and in violation of our national sovereignty, and turn them into productive citizens that are a huge asset to its economy. And now it’s trying to cast this program of economic exile into a moral issue, insisting that it is not only justifiable, but ethical and necessary that the United States continue to act as a relief valve for Mexico’s poor, dispossessed underclass — the very people who, if not presented with the very attractive choice of illegally coming to America, might very will rise up and overthrow their own corrupt, inefficient, callous government.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Saddam’s Kelo — “The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed last night, and Saddam and his co-defendants continued presenting their defense witnesses. The new strategy for the defense is to transform the seizure and destruction of farms and orchards in Dujail not as an attempt at genocide, but instead as an economic redevelopment plan:”