As we wrote last week, Obama met with Congressional leaders to discuss their amnesty bill for late 2009 or early 2010.

The open borders lobby cheered this meeting and expect Obama to make good on his promises. Obama's strategy is to appear to get tough on enforcement, in order to gain political support for his amnesty plan.

One of the chief proponents of this bill will be Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). But Chuck Schumer is sounding like Tom Tancredo. "Illegal immigration is wrong -- plain and simple." Adding, "People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the United States legally."

As Byron York has pointed out, even the term "illegal aliens" is brave, new territory for some Democrats.

Schumer has presented his seven point plan for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. FAIR has provided a great rebuttal.

During the campaign Barack Obama made promises to pass immigration reform. Only a few months into office, he is tackling global warming, the stimulus, and health care. Some open-borders groups were getting worried that he hadn't done anything yet.

Yesterday, after postponing it twice, Obama met with Congressional leaders and plotted the amnesty push. Reports said there will be a bill (most likely beginning in the Senate) before the end of 2009!

The usual suspects will be writing this bill; Chuck Schumar, Harry Reid, and John McCain!

This time around the open-borders crowd is motivated and have learned from thier mistakes in the past. We need to be motivated more than ever to defeat this!

As with health care and cap and trade, convincing the moderate Democrats will be the key to defeating amnesty in 2009!

Here is a list of all those that attended the conference yesterday at the White House. Keep the pressure on!

Once again, Obama is playing games with American workers by delaying the implementation of E-Verify to keep businesses from hiring illegal aliens.

Last year, President Bush issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to use E-Verify. Obama has repeatedly stalled the implementation of the order. He now delayed it for the fourth time! He didn't even give an excuse for this betrayal.

While his DHS Secretary has paid lip service to the program and for all of Obama's talk about American jobs, it's clear that he has no intention of doing anything about protecting them. Obama isn't going to protect the jobs, but even with the Democrats in charge, Congress might do the right thing if we give them enough pressure. We won in the House and came within two votes in the Senate earlier this year.

By Bay Buchanan

From Human Events

Last month the left wing blog, One People's Project, posted a story about one Marcus Epstein. Within this story it was reported that two years ago next month Marcus assaulted a black woman in Georgetown calling her the "n" word.

That blog and its hundred spinoffs then got to the juicy part of the story: Marcus Epstein is executive director of The American Cause, founded by Pat Buchanan and of Team America, founded by Tom Tancredo.

With respect to the incident I have been asked not to comment by Marcus' attorney since the case is still pending. But putting the incident aside, the stories about Marcus were for the most part inaccurate and incomplete. Yet, the left wing bloggers ran with this little factoid because the assailant worked for organizations associated with Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo.

What happened next was a modern day lynching by a faceless, angry, ignorant mob who reveled in the collective assault on their victim. They had wounded an adversary and drawn blood -- without pausing to ask how so talented a young man could have found himself in such a mess.

I am telling his story because Marcus Epstein deserves to have his good name returned to him.

I run both the organizations Marcus works for. I have known him since he came to me as a college grad and asked to be an intern for The American Cause. That was three years ago. I knew of the assault the day it happened and was with Marcus the following day.

I write this story not as an excuse for Marcus' actions. There is no excuse. Marcus would be the first to admit this, and he has, many times.

Marcus is half Jewish, and half Korean. He has a pronounced speech impediment, an exceptional mind, and a remarkable talent for writing. But it was only after this incident that I came to fully appreciate his finest qualities.

In his final semester of college Marcus awoke in a deep depression. He had no idea what was happening to him. He only knew he couldn't do his work. Some days he couldn't get out of bed. That summer he began the long process of diagnosis -- bouncing from one doctor to the next, from one medicine to the next.

While his intelligence and ability were evident, Marcus had serious problems. He drank to excess and suffered periods of deep depression. One Sunday early in 2007 Marcus called and asked if he could come to my home to talk. He was afraid of what he might do if he were alone another minute.

As he sat in my living room my heart broke. Never had I seen a person in so deep and dark a place. He spoke for hours of being a failure and disappointment to family and friends. He didn't think he could live in this tomb of despair any longer.

After exhausting himself emotionally he went to one of my spare bedrooms to sleep. He stayed several months and left only when he felt he was strong enough to be on his own again. But the demons were too great.

Early one Saturday evening, several months later, I received a call from a friend of Marcus'. "Marcus is in jail," he told me. The two of them had gone to Georgetown to have a drink before joining others for dinner, he explained. When they left their drinking hole, however, Marcus was completely intoxicated, nearly incapable of walking. It was then that the incident occurred.

Marcus was arrested and released that same evening. Unable to face this new level of disgrace and failure, he went to his office where he drank to make the pain go away -- for good. He was hospitalized for a week. His parents flew into town, conferred with Marcus, his doctors and his friends. It was clear. Marcus urgently needed professional help.

Marcus agreed and spent six weeks in a California facility. I told him if he did so he would have a job to come back to. In the last two years I have seen a transformation. He joined a 12 step program for alcoholism, attends meetings several times a week, and volunteers at detox and rehab facilities to help others struggling with alcoholism.

As for the assault Marcus was charged and a plea bargain was worked out.

It took Marcus a year after this incident to start thinking about a future. He took the LSATs and was accepted at the University of Virginia Law School on early admissions. The presence of a strong recovery community was one of the reasons he chose UVA and was ready to move to Charlottesville next month.

But the Left doesn't care about any of this. They kept moving this little tidbit, watching it ricochet around their shallow world in the blogosphere, until it landed on a popular site for incoming law students. There individuals who claim they're interested in carrying-out justice in this world saw to it that Marcus paid again for his offense. With nothing but a skeleton of a story they initiated a campaign targeted at UVA's Admission Office. And they won -- Marcus will not be attending UVA Law School in the fall.

Marcus Epstein is one of the bravest young people I have ever known. He deserved a second chance -- as do all of us.

Team America PAC endorses John Brownlee for Attorney General of Virginia. Brownlee is in a close three way race for the nomination that will be decided at the Virginia GOP convention in Richmond on May 30.

Team America's Co-Chair Bay Buchanan said,

"John Brownlee is the only conservative who not only has a proven record fighting against illegal immigration but is also calling for new legislation that would require all employers in the state to use the E-Verify system. John represents the kind of bold new leadership that Virginia desperately needs if it is to tackle the ever increasing problem of illegal immigration and the violent crime, lethal drugs, and brutal gangs that are associated with it."

John Brownlee is the former US Attorney for Virginia's Southwest District. As a prosecutor he built a strong record of cracking down on illegal immigration. He served in the U.S. Army for twenty years including time as a Ranger and in the JAG corps.

Team America Co-Chair and former Congressman Tom Tancredo also endorsed Brownlee:

John Brownlee is a solid conservative who understands the danger to our nation posed by illegal immigration. As United States Attorney, John was on the frontlines of the crackdown against illegal workers in Virginia. As Virginia's next Attorney General, John will lead the fight to halt illegal immigration. John will push for a strong, mandatory employment verification system, and he will use his office to insist that the Federal government enforce our nation's immigration laws. I am pleased to endorse his candidacy.

• John Brownlee on Illegal Immigration
• Contribute to John's campaign

John Brownlee came up short at the VIrginia GOP Convention. He did have a strong showing and almost pulled him out.

Virginia voters shouldn't despair however. The man nominated for Attorney General of Virginia is Ken Cuccinelli. While he is not as good as Brownlee on immigration, he is still very strong on cracking on illegal immigration.

• Ken Cuccinelli on immigration issues