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Today's single payer post: anti-immigrant bigots go wild!

Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:40pm — DCblogger

The The Sideshow points to the ever alert Bart Cop: Hospital Attempts Deportation of Woman With Inadequate Insurance

A gravely ill woman at risk of being removed from the country for lack of adequate insurance coverage awoke from a coma Tuesday.

The hospital has been seeking to return her to her native Honduras; her family took the hospital to court.

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Want Any More Proof "Republican Immigration Reform" = "Fear Teh Brown"?

Thu, 06/14/2007 - 5:17pm — admin2 (not verified)

This is so funny....

oh.

wait.

No it's not (via Carpetbagger Report/SFgate):

The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions — state deputy political director — and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored by Silicon Valley tech firms that is under fire for displacing skilled American workers.

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15:38:02 lambert That's not the RBC meeting, though. That's the smoking gun, beyond "Smart politics" (Wolfson).
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