immigration

"The officer was about to send me back" "Free to fulfill the purpose of our lives in the United States of America"The Tennessean published this story by Maria Pervatt, a new U.S. citizen from Costa Rica, in which she describes her immigration back to Gallatin and subsequent citizenship process.

Odd to hear that from a journalist. I spend about 5-8 hours a day combing the Internet for news stories, and frankly, most of it is just so sad or bad, we all need a break from it.

Here's your news in shorthand today:

From the Politico:

“You can’t underestimate John McCain with Hispanics,” Richardson said. “He’s got a good record on immigration.”

Real American Eric Crafton says:

GoldnI on an email by the Middle Tennessee chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors strongly urging their members to vote for John McCain:

According to Harry Moroz:

Greg Siskind notes a high false positive rate in the federal government’s new E-Verify immigration “instacheck” system:

Each presidential candidate has members of his own party sitting on the fence — but Obama’s fence sitters are more problematic:

Former Presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo will not endorse John McCain because he doesn’t want to be “Hageed”:

I’ve been watching a Civil War flick.