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News items and timely commentary: Note: If you're looking for information and commentary on the new comprehensive immigration/amnesty bill that is being cooked up in the Senate, under the name of Senate Bill 1348, see this page. What our founders couldn't foresee. This once-great nation is coming apart at the seams. ... America has always welcomed immigrants who come here to become Americans. Immigrants who come here with no intention of becoming Americans, or to become hyphenated Americans do not share our founders' belief system. Black nationalism rejects the founders' belief system, and curses the nation they created. The seams of American society are further tested as Muslim immigrants refuse to accept and integrate into American culture. Instead, Islam insists that America accept its veils, custom, and culture. Illegals: Welcome! The United States is apparently facing a critical shortage of illegal aliens. If you've spent any time in Tucson or Los Angeles, you might not recognize this emergency situation. But the illegal-alien deficit is so dire that special accommodations must be given to petty criminals, to make sure that they don't depart our shores. Acceding to pressure from illegal-alien advocates, the Obama administration has clarified that local law-enforcement agencies that have been deputized to enforce immigration law (this enforcement power is known as 287(g) authority) should focus on so-called "dangerous" illegals... How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up. The "interfaith coalition for media justice" is led by the United Church of Christ. Yes, that's the same church of Obama's race-baiting, Jew-bashing ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright. Other members include the Presbyterian News Service, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the National Council of Churches. These religious liberals have partnered with the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which filed a petition in January demanding that the FCC collect data, seek public comment and "explore options" for combating "hate speech" from staunch critics of illegal immigration. Obama Census Bureau To Count Illegal Aliens in Census? On the website of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) a press release from Obama's U.S. Census Bureau Director, Robert Groves, can be found. That press release appears to make obvious that the Bureau plans to count illegal aliens in our census. The press release was issued to America's Hispanic organizations to urge them to help with the coming census. Obama Won't Give Federal Insurance Benefits to Illegal Aliens, He'll Make Them Legal First. It is true that both the House and Senate health care bills as they are now drafted would make illegal aliens ineligible for federally funded health care. But President Obama has stated as recently as last month at a press conference in Mexico that he will seek "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation that will put illegal aliens on a "pathway to citizenship." Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care. President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage. He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered — a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants. Obama's next push is amnesty. It is no surprise that, after passing health care "reform," President Obama plans to move on to his next big domestic initiative: granting citizenship to more than 12 million illegal immigrants. For decades, Beltway and business elites have championed a policy of open borders and unlimited Third World immigration. Amnesty is simply its logical culmination: the triumph of political and corporate interests over patriotism. Homeland Security's Goal: According to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Border Patrol, the vast majority of illegal aliens and contraband attempting to move across our border through official ports of entry will succeed. In other words, our border security fails most of the time — not out in remote desert areas, but at official ports of entry where people and vehicles can be stopped and screened. Illegal-Alien Census Boycott? Bring It On! The Boston Globe reports that advocates for illegal aliens are urging their followers to boycott the 2010 census. They want illegal aliens to "protest the government's inaction on immigration legislation." Translated from liberal Boston Globe-speak, they mean legislation that would provide amnesty for the 15 million who are here illegally and would end the federal government's half-hearted efforts to enforce our immigration laws. I sure hope the boycotters are successful. Obama's war on Sherrif Joe Arpaio: You may have heard of Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio who has been a one man border enforcement machine — doing the job the feds refuse to do. Well, Joe got himself in a spot of trouble with Obama administration immigration enforcement officials at Homeland Security by rounding up 13 illegal immigrants and trying to deliver them to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. One would think that ICE would be grateful to Sheriff Joe for doing their work for them. The Myth that Liberals Care About Hispanic Americans: The liberals will tell you they're the best friends Hispanic immigrants have ever had because they believe anyone who manages to sneak across the border should be made into a citizen. Meanwhile, Hispanic immigrants in this country who spent years waiting and spent thousands of dollars in fees to get through a bureaucratic nightmare because they loved and respected this country, are being played for chumps. Bailing Out Illegals. California is a leader in both government debt and the sanctuary city movement. But as its citizens seek shelter from the economic storm, the question has arisen anew whether its non-citizens and the better life they want takes precedence over its citizens and the better life they are entitled to. In this mother of all recessions, it's getting harder to argue that illegal aliens are here to do the jobs Americans won't do. These days there are fewer jobs Americans won't do. These days there are fewer jobs, period. It's fair to ask whether those who are going to pull the wagon of higher taxes should get to decide who rides inside. Harry Reid's Assault on American Workers. What Reid means by "bringing 11 million people out of the shadows" is making illegal immigrants legal — thus rewarding illegal behavior and encouraging further illegal immigration. What he means by a "decent guest-worker program" is giving employers the power to import foreign workers into the United States and keep those workers laboring here in a status that is inferior to a free American citizen or permanent legal resident. Goodbye, Gringo America. L.A. Latinos celebrate the Farce of July. It's payback time for white America. "America's Palestinians" are on the march, chanting "Ahora es la tiempo por audacia"! Thousands of Latinos are gathering this Independence Day to celebrate the Farce of July. This annual all-day concert and street fair is held on Cesar Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles — the heart of the barrio. Democrats play word games on immigration. [Sen. Charles] Schumer can read the polls as well as anybody. He knows he can't spout a bunch of pro-amnesty euphemisms and satisfy the voters' desire for strict controls on illegal immigration. That means he has to at least adopt the language of toughness. Speaking in code to disguise what they mean. If the radicals who gathered downtown want to demonstrate in favor of a mass amnesty — for open borders, over which hundreds of millions of the world's poor and oppressed would be invited to come here and swarm our free public schools and free hospital emergency rooms till our current socialist policies drive us finally, completely bankrupt — let them at least say what they mean. E-Verify works, so, of course, let's not use it. With billions of your federal tax dollars gushing forth from Washington — as part of President Barack Obama's stimulus bill to put Americans back to work — wouldn't it be nice if someone invented a special magic faucet? A magic faucet to compel those federal contractors doing all the hiring with all that federal money to make certain the jobs go to people who are legally entitled to work in the United States. Is that kind of magic too much for a beleaguered taxpayer to expect? Actually, the faucet has already been invented. It's called E-Verify. And it works. How Liberal Is San Francisco? The District Attorney of San Francisco worked on behalf of illegal aliens in order to expunge drug convictions from their records. And she now says that the illegal aliens were "following the rules." One must read this sort of gibberish three or four three times to make sure that the words are not truncated or a reporter's very bad joke. Five Ways that Insanity Has Become the New Normal in America: Although we have laws on the books designed to prevent illegal immigration, they are systematically ignored or the people in charge of enforcing them are deliberately understaffed so they can't fulfill their duties. Bizarrely, people who merely suggest that the laws on our books should actually be enforced are derided as racists and nativists. Georgia lawmaker wants to end 'birthright citizenship'. U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, has proposed changing the long-standing federal policy that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil, a move opposed by immigrant rights advocates. Supporters of Deal's proposal say "birthright citizenship" encourages illegal immigration and makes enforcement of immigration laws more difficult. Workers using fake Social Security numbers are fired — and the union is upset. Computer 'raid' in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated. "A desktop raid" is how the workers' representative, John M. Grant, vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and commercial Workers International Union, described the scenario. Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided "invalid or fraudulent" Social Security numbers. The government took no action against the workers. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31. Janet Napolitano's Jailhouse Crock. The administration wants to stop paying states and communities for jailing illegal aliens with felony convictions. The homeland security secretary says "crossing the border is not a crime per se." Oh, but it is. Napolitano's Politically Correct Border Security. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano is determined to beef up security along the rough and tumble Canadian border. That's right, Canada. ... A good bet is that our Canadian friends are merely foils for Obama and Democrats whose first priority is party building. Entrenching a Democratic majority is higher on their list than stopping the flow of illegals and crime from Mexico. Powerful Democrat Calls Illegal Aliens 'Free Loaders and Scam Artists'. Most liberals regard illegal aliens as "Undocumented Democrats" and a veritable gold mine of opportunity for holding on to political power by coddling to those here unlawfully. For that reason, most Democrat politicians have abandoned patriotic concern about homeland security, the rule of law, stability of the American economy and social order, and preservation of American language and culture. In fact, one can search high and low for a liberal with a patriotic, pro-America stance on illegal immigration, and that search will usually be futile. Immigration and Self-Preservation. I will be the first to admit to being annoyed by automated phone instructions that direct me to press "one" for English and "two" for Spanish. It is more than a minor inconvenience. It is a matter of principle. If immigrants are to make a meaningful contribution to society they must do a little work before they are given all of society's benefits. That includes taking the time to learn English. The Apology Obama Should Have Given. America is the only country founded on the basis that basic human freedom and liberty are granted by God and not man. America is a shining light beckoning oppressed people of foreign lands to emigrate and live the ideals and dreams that are America. We only require that the immigrants assimilate into American culture. Shall We Texans Secede? Okay, I guess we Texans won't secede. We love our country too much to abandon it to the Obama crowd. But it is tempting. If we did secede, you can count on one thing: the border with Mexico would be secured pretty darned fast. Supreme Court makes it easier to fight deportation. The Supreme Court has made it easier for illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation to get another chance at a court hearing. The decision came in the case of Jean Marc Nken, who came to the United States in 2001 and did not leave when his visa expired. Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is "un-American." The speaker, condemning raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, referred to the immigrants she was addressing as "very, very patriotic." Hillary, Pelosi in la-la-land on immigration. Last week Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) described the law-enforcement activities of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "un-American." Which triggers the question — since when is enforcing federal law by a federal agency "un-American"? ... Pelosi's comments reveal just how out of touch she is — like most of her party's leadership — with most Americans. Delay in Immigration Raids May Signal Policy Change. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks, asking agents in her department to apply more scrutiny to the selection and investigation of targets as well as the timing of raids, federal officials said. Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind. I have seen the electoral future, and it is rigged. With fraud-prone, ideologically driven interest groups swarming the census-gathering process, the left is solidifying its chances of a permanent ruling majority. Lax immigration enforcement is the not-so-secret key to the Democrats' power grab. And the Obama administration is all too happy to aid and abet. Border plants to be killed to reveal smugglers. The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants. Hundreds wait for hours to buy S.F. ID card. Hundreds of people stood in line for hours at San Francisco City Hall on Thursday to be among the first in the nation to receive municipal identification cards regardless of their immigration status. The cards, also available in New Haven, Conn., and being considered in other cities, have sparked fury among advocates of stricter immigration laws. They argue cities have no business declaring people residents if they are not in the country legally. 16 illegals sue Arizona rancher. An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home. Your Land Is Their Land. Our southern border is so out of control you can now be sued by those illegally entering the country and trespassing on your property. Illegal aliens, it seems, have a right to interstate travel. Update: Rancher ruling adds to border debate. Arizona rancher Roger Barnett initially faced the possibility of paying $32 million to compensate several illegal immigrants he stopped at gunpoint on his land. He walked away instead with a verdict that rejected any notion he violated the trespassers' civil rights and affirmed that U.S. citizens can still detain aliens crossing the border. What remains to be seen, though, is what impact the $77,800 in damages that a jury Tuesday ordered Mr. Barnett to pay will have on America's larger immigration debate and the efforts of some illegals to get compensation from a country they aren't even allowed to enter. Foreign aid? The $787 billion stimulus bill is about as long as the Manhattan phone book and as full of surprises. We just found another doozy. Democratic leaders slipped in a provision eliminating a law requiring that workers on federal contracts prove they are citizens or legal residents of the United States. The eliminated provision includes a program called "E-verify" that allows employers to quickly access federal databases to check the legal status of workers — all but avoiding the risk that forged documents will fool an innocent employer into hiring an illegal. Stimulating Illegals: At least 300,000 of those stimulus jobs will go to illegal aliens who are likely to send that money home to their native countries. Just whose economy are we stimulating? Dream Over: Illegal Alien Student Amnesty Awakens to Fiscal Reality. Even as the illegal alien advocacy lobby is frantically trying to spin the election of Barack Obama as a mandate for a sweeping amnesty, they have all but conceded that the economic crisis and worsening unemployment have probably doomed their efforts. Homeland secretary wants criminal aliens out of US. If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. Fallout from DPS rule change for immigrant licenses: A prominent Latino civil rights organization today [1/28/2009] filed a lawsuit in state district court challenging the Texas Department of Public Safety's policy requiring proof of legal immigration status, claiming it has denied driver's licenses to qualified applicants. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund argued in the lawsuit that DPS overstepped its authority by issuing the stricter requirement. New England border protection chief charged with hiring illegal immigrants. The regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection was charged today with repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her Salem home after one cleaner wore a wire during an undercover investigation. ... "She's supposed to be deporting aliens, not hiring them," said Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly, chief of the public corruption unit. Some Mexicans leaving US, planning never to return. Layoffs, dwindling job opportunities, anti-immigrant sentiment and the crackdown on illegal immigrants are forcing hard choices on many Mexican nationals in Colorado. Though not an exodus, some are returning to a nation they haven't seen in years. Where did the illegals go and why? They are leaving. Illegal immigrants, that is. Analysts from both ends of the immigration debate, from the Center for Immigration Studies to the Pew Hispanic Center, agree. The "unlawfully present" population in the United States has shrunk — and it's getting smaller. According to Pew, there has been a drop in the annual illegal "inflow" of people to the country since 2005. And the numbers of those already here is going down. It peaked at 12.4 million in 2006 and is down by about 1 million now. With the economy souring, illegal immigrants are going home. Malaquias Gaspar left his farm village in southern Mexico when the economy soured in the mid-1990s. He headed north illegally and found the proverbial better opportunity in South Florida, where he made a decent living by picking fruit and building homes. But the U.S. economic crisis has disrupted his life and the lives of countless other illegal immigrants who are now planning to leave or have already left. La Raza: Losing Jobs to Illegals is 'Not a Concern' of Americans. Americans are "not concerned" that they may lose jobs to illegal aliens in a tight job market, according to speakers at a panel discussion conducted Thursday [11/13/2008] in Washington, D.C., by the National Council of La Raza. The One Job Americans Just Won't Do. I kept hearing about all those jobs Americans just won't do. We're never really told what they are, but I guess we should be happy they're getting done and stop complaining about all the negative aspects of having twenty million illegal aliens in our midst. Perhaps we should just accept the idea that 25 American citizens are going to continue to be killed every day by illegals — half of them by drunk drivers — because it's a small price to pay to get all those jobs done. Selling out black Americans. It's both libel and lie, but it's repeated again and again by immigration lobbyists. Be they liberals, libertarians or plain la Raza racists, they all say the same: illegal aliens only take the jobs Americans refuse to do. The nation's elites are forever singing hymns to illegal aliens for allegedly rescuing Americans from sloth. Terry Anderson does not. His testimony in 1999 to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims ought to have made Congress sing a different tune. Sadly, it didn't. Forgotten "A". The fact is: We are not a "nation of immigrants." This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents currently in the United States were born here. Sure, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a "nation of immigrants." … Even if we were a "nation of immigrants," it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control. Cornyn wants investigation into immigrant inmates. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has called for an investigation into how immigration officials screen inmates in Harris County Jail, after a series of reports this week by the Houston Chronicle. The Chronicle investigation found federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals, including some ordered deported decades ago, to walk away from jail despite the inmates' admission to jailers that they were in the country illegally. SC Bans Illegals from Attending State Schools. South Carolina Act 280 bans illegal immigrants from attending state universities, colleges and technical schools. Now, in the first week of college for many, a certain group will not be walking campuses like that of the University of South Carolina. South Carolina Representative Tedd Pitts of Lexington said, "We wanted to make sure people here illegally were not going to our institutions." The unmentionable population boom. What's really driving the population growth is significantly higher birth rates among immigrants and the continued influx of foreigners. That's where political correctness kicks in and politicians go mum, including the presidential candidates. Anchors Away. The [Democrat Party] Platform Committee just concluded a heated but respectful debate over an amendment to add language to the platform in support of a law denying citizenship to so-called anchor babies (babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants). The amendment failed. The amendment was offered by Kendal Unruh of Colorado. Anchor Babies: About every six months the population of the U.S. increases about as much as the population of Tallahassee. Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? They are newborns, children of illegal aliens born in the United States — birthright citizens, "anchor babies" — not illegal aliens. This quirky legal right then allows the mother's parents and siblings to remain, and later a whole bunch of their relatives to immigrate legally. This why they are also known as "Jackpot babies." They are here illegally, and not necessarily to work. Illegal Immigrants or Undocumented Workers? Recently, various activists, certain members of the Hollywood Elite, various politicians and others like Mexico's President Fox, have been saying that the term "illegal immigrant" is improper and that to be politically correct, one must use the term "undocumented worker." They claim that, the term "illegal immigrant" is racist and derogatory. Radical Ties and Hate Speech in the Immigration Debate. Among the network of organizations that have not only been promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, but actively working to thwart enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, few have been as effective as CASA de Maryland. CASA not only lobbies on behalf of complete amnesty for immigration law violators, it operates day labor hiring centers around Maryland specifically geared toward helping illegal aliens find jobs that federal law prohibits them from holding. South Texas deputies authorized to fire into Mexico. Authorities in South Texas said today that they won't be intimidated by increasingly violent drug smugglers, announcing a larger Border Patrol presence and that more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the Mexican border. Operation "River Freedom Denial" will target areas along the Rio Grande in the southern tip of Texas where violence has risen lately with more ground and air resources, said Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello. Texas Authorities Say They'll Confront Border Violence. South Texas authorities said Friday [10/22/2008] they won't be intimidated by increasingly violent drug smugglers as they announced a larger Border Patrol presence along the Mexican border and said more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the border. Hartford Bars Police from Asking Status of Illegal Aliens. The city council of Hartford, Conn., has unanimously approved an ordinance that prohibits police and city employees from asking people about their immigration status. The ordinance would bar police from arresting or detaining any person on the sole grounds that immigration authorities had issued an administrative warrant for them. Many Officials are Reluctant to Help Arrest Immigrants. Although law enforcement agencies in Prince William and Frederick counties have agreed to help federal authorities enforce immigration laws, officials in many other parts of the country remain reluctant to do so, saying they fear losing the trust of immigrant communities and worry about being accused of racial profiling. Despite a nationwide clamor against illegal immigration, only 55 of more than 18,000 police and law enforcement agencies across the country have signed agreements to coordinate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration Enforcement? Yes, We Can! Can illegal immigrants be induced to pack up and go back? The evidence is in and the answer is "yes." The Bush Administration began with a deep hostility toward immigration enforcement and a commitment to amnesty. But as the drive for amnesty was stopped by public outrage, the Department of Homeland Security has been given the green light to actually do its job. Mexico imploding. Mexico is of paramount concern because Mexican problems become American problems at our porous border. While immigrants pour from the Mexican border for economic reasons now, those numbers will multiply exponentially if Mexicans are fleeing for safety. The sovereignty of the Mexican government is slipping into the hands of drug lords and corrupted officials. Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Multiculturalists. So, whatever happened to immigration as a presidential campaign issue? In the early caucus and primary states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina — the media assured us that immigration was foremost on the minds of voters. You couldn't watch a Republican debate without the issue dominating a good chunk of the discussion. National security = border security. The open borders of the United States amount to a national security exposure. This is a fact that cannot be debated. One has only to look at the number of foreign nationals attempting to illegally enter the U.S. through Mexico over the last several years. Since 2005, the Department of Homeland Security reports that more than 331,000 people from countries other than Mexico have been apprehended trying to cross the Southern land border. Refugee Program Halted As DNA Tests Show Fraud. The State Department has suspended a humanitarian program to reunite thousands of African refugees with relatives in the U.S. after unprecedented DNA testing by the government revealed widespread fraud. … Tests found some applicants lied about belonging to the same family to gain a better chance at legal entry. PETA wants to advertise vegan message on border fence. "We think that Mexicans and other immigrants should be warned if they cross into the U.S. they are putting their health at risk by leaving behind a healthier, staple diet of corn tortillas, beans, rice, fruits and vegetables," said Lindsay Rajt, assistant manager of PETA's vegan campaigns. The Editor says... If the PETA people think life is so bad here, maybe they should all go to Mexico. Illegal workers get help from fund. When federal immigration agents raided a Houston rag factory and took 166 suspected illegal immigrants into custody, a Boston philanthropist and multimillionaire was ready to chip in bond money to help the workers. Robert J. Hildreth, 57, is the public face of the National Immigrant Bond Fund, a fledgling organization that helps immigrants swept up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raids post bonds. Mexican soldiers enter U.S., hold agent briefly. Four Mexican soldiers crossed into a remote area of Arizona and briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico, U.S. authorities said. Border patrol agent held at gunpoint. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night [8/3/2008] by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist. Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified. Checking citizenship made mandatory. Federal contractors now must check the citizenship and legal status of their employees by using a free service that's been in existence since 1996. … President Bush's executive order directs federal contractors to finally do what federal agencies already do — use the E-Verify Internet system to confirm a worker's legal status within seconds, reports The Washington Times. Tucson chief revises illegal immigrant policy. Officers to follow new illegal-immigrant rules Tucson's police chief is revising his department's policy outlining how officers deal with the illegal immigrants they encounter. … Victims, witnesses and people stopped for minor driving offenses will never be asked about their immigration status. Pacheco says the old policy allowed that and some victims ended up being deported. Man wanted in death of border agent apparently set free in Mexico. The head of the union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents says a man imprisoned in Mexico in connection with a Yuma-based agent's death has been released by a Mexican judge. National Border Patrol Council president T.J. Bonner says an unidentified Mexican judge released Jesus Navarro for time served. Immigration arrest raises concerns. Alamance County has been identifying and deporting illegal immigrants from its jails for more than a year, but now a [library employee]'s arrest has some worried that county officials may be using another tool — public health department medical records. The concerns stem from a State Bureau of Investigation probe of the county health department. Some county officials, who called in the agency, think department employees were helping illegal immigrants work under false names. Border Patrol agents combat rock-throwers with paintball guns. Some U.S. Border Patrol agents along the Mexican border are packing paintball rifles, but they're not being used for games. Agents in the patrol's Tucson, San Diego and Yuma sectors have been armed with guns that launch pepper spray and paintball projectiles and are trained to fire paintballs when they come under attack along border fences. New option for illegals: Self-deportation. Federal immigration officials in Chicago and four other cities launched a self-deportation program on Tuesday [8/5/2008] for immigrants who have evaded federal deportation orders and want to turn themselves in. Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers. The Mexican Consulate's office in Dallas is seeing increasing numbers of Mexican nationals requesting paperwork to go home for good, especially parents who want to know what documentation they'll need to enroll their children in Mexican schools. "Those numbers have increased percentage-wise tremendously," said Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in Dallas. "In fact, it's almost 100 percent more this year than it was the previous two years." SAVE Act Enforces Immigration Laws. Six years after 9-11, and after nearly a year of wrangling over President Bush's disastrous plan for "comprehensive immigration reform" the federal government still hasn't done what most Americans want: secure our borders from the continuing flood of illegal aliens. Americans are frustrated and distrustful. Phoenix Mayor Asks FBI to Check Sheriff. The mayor wants the FBI to investigate whether the local county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws with his recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants. The "saturation patrols" have drawn protests from civil rights and immigrant-rights advocates, but they have drawn support from backers of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and from people who believe the government hasn't done enough against illegal immigration. Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants. The U.S. Homeland Security department has launched an ambitious nationwide effort that would cost $2 billion to $3 billion a year to identify and deport the estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants locked up each year in jails and prisons. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was denounced by immigrant rights groups and received cautiously by those favoring tighter enforcement. National Guard Will Be Withdrawn From Unsecured Border. Members of Congress are split on whether the National Guard should end its deployment along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, as planned. On Monday [6/9/2008], Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff predicted the border would not be secured until 2011. Language scofflaws: In an action that can only be construed as pandering to Hispanics, Sen. John McCain unveiled a Spanish version of his campaign Web site -- and he did it on Cinco de Mayo day (May 5), the Mexican holiday. Such obvious attempts by politicians to ingratiate with non-English-speaking ethnic groups have made many Americans wonder why such pandering is necessary since a person needs to be a U.S. citizen before he can vote…. McCain Proves Amnesty is Political Suicide for the GOP. [Scroll down] The Democrats clearly believe that they're going to be the ones to benefit politically from turning illegals into American citizens. That's the driving force behind their push for an amnesty and their desire to keep the floodgates on our southern borders open. That brings us to John McCain's presidential campaign. No Republican is more closely associated with amnesty than John McCain. When Obama, Clinton and McCain Decisively Agreed. One thing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud. Border crossings cut by Texas crackdown. A strict policy to arrest, prosecute and jail illegal aliens who cross into the U.S. has shown significant success in reducing crossings and crime along the Texas border, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials said this month. Illegals begin leaving Arizona as new law approaches. For the first time, Mexican officials in Arizona admit there is hard evidence illegal immigrants are preparing to leave the state because a new employer sanctions law is making it difficult, if not impossible, for them to keep a job. Arizona slams door on illegal immigrants. As it has become the favorite entry point for undocumented migrants trying to sneak into the United States, Arizona has become a laboratory for whether a state can single-handedly combat illegal immigration. In recent years it has barred illegal immigrants from receiving government services, from winning punitive damages in lawsuits and from posting bail for serious crimes. Metal wire trap set for Border Patrol agents in San Diego. The Border Patrol says it found a metal wire strung between two border fences in San Diego — an apparent effort to inflict serious injury or even death to its agents. Border Patrol agent dies, struck by fleeing vehicle in California. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday [1/19/2008] when he was struck by a fleeing vehicle along the border in southeastern California, agency officials said. The agent was trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the country from Mexico when he was hit, said agent Eric Anderson, a spokesman for the agency's Yuma sector. A trafficker's vehicle of choice: Houston entrepreneur Bill Christmann was shocked when thieves stole his souped-up black Ford F-250 pickup from his west Houston driveway one night last July. But shock turned to concern the next day after Christmann learned thieves had driven the 2001, heavy-duty, four-wheel drive truck to Laredo, loaded it with illegal immigrants and drove it back from the border, roaring off-road through fenced ranch pastures. Police chased the truck south of San Antonio before the smugglers crashed the vehicle into a tree. Van Driver Arrested for Role in Minnesota School Bus Crash. Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday [2/19/2008] is in the country illegally. Multiple sources tell FOX 9 that Morales is in the country illegally, but immigration officials will only confirm they are investigating her status. Woman: Morales Didn't Know How to Drive. The Minnesota Department of Motor Vehicles confirms Alianiss Morales has a valid Minnesota I.D. card, but does not have a driver's license. She's been in trouble before for driving without a license. Alianiss Morales received a ticket in May 2006 for driving without a license. The Editor asks... Why wasn't she deported in 2006? Illegal Immigration Problems Continue to Snowball. The last time I checked, most individuals who were victims of illegal aliens and wanted to report such violations could not get through to an officer at DHS-ICE to even lodge a complaint. This is simply unacceptable. There should be an 800 number where citizens can report illegal aliens to a person at the end of the line who will deal with it responsibly. The Messy Politics of Illegal Immigration. With the war in Iraq politically on the back burner, illegal immigration is heating up as a campaign issue. The public wants action, and the candidates are scrambling to react. New third rail of politics: Immigration is the new "third rail" of U.S. politics. I know, because I remember the old third rail. The old third rail, of course, was Social Security. Touch it, and die politically. Back in the 1980s the Republican Party would routinely come up with plans in Congress to "reform" Social Security. Like clockwork — when the next congressional election came around — the Democratic Party led by then Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neil would demagogue the issue and pronounce with TV ads that Republicans wanted to privatize Social Security and, by the way, cut or eliminate grandma's benefit check. On the other hand... Immigration: Not Really A Third Rail. Outside of a Republican primary, how much does the issue really matter? A new poll from Zogby International suggests illegal immigration is unlikely to move a significant number of votes in the 2008 presidential race. But, say political strategists, the issue is fraught with danger for both parties. The United States Needs More Conservative Opinion in Spanish. In recent years, the conservative media clout within the United States has risen markedly, at least in the English language. … However, there is a vacuum when it comes to Spanish language conservative media. The Hispanic market is predominantly ruled by a liberal agenda and sometimes an anti-American one. With a Hispanic population in the United States close to 40 million people, there is an urgent need to debunk the continuous spin of the left-wing media in Spanish within the United States. A Diverse Opinion About Diversity. For a couple of hundred years, foreigners have been flocking to the shores of this most welcoming of nations. They would bring along their art and music along with their cuisine, but they adapted their ways in order that their children and their children's children would acclimate and be full-fledged Americans. There was a reason, after all, that America was nicknamed the Great Melting Pot. But somewhere along the way, there was a sea change. Now we have that oddest of strange creatures known as the dual citizen and we have millions of people living here who apparently have no particular loyalty to this country and are being encouraged to retain their own language and their old ways. Stop the Illegal Sanctuaries. A Government Accountability Office study found that 55,322 criminal aliens were arrested a total of at least 459,614 times, averaging over eight arrests per alien. The Department of Justice expressed its surprise at the "extremely high" rate of re-arrests for criminal aliens when it found that that 73 criminal aliens in a study group were arrested a total of 429 times. Localities that adopt "sanctuary" policies, in an effort to be welcoming to both legal and illegal immigrants, need to consider whether such policies have the effect of attracting and incubating crime. 8 crack dealers shielded by S.F. walk away. An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday [6/30/2008]. The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco's 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Slaying suspect once found sanctuary in San Francisco. The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city's long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned. Bush Should Strip Sanctuary Cities of Federal Funds. Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco's outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it's time for President Bush to crack down on all the cities in the United States that follow this absurd policy. McCain under glass: This nation's 12 million illegal aliens need to be urged homeward in part because, if we don't do it, we are in effect inviting tens of millions more to come. Mr. McCain is willing to let most stay put forever if they pay a penalty and bristles when it's suggested this is a reward, a kind of amnesty. But it is. U.S. catching illegals in record numbers. The Department of Homeland Security, continuing to enforce what it calls a "strict policy of arresting, prosecuting and jailing" illegal immigrants, deported a record number of those caught on the nation's borders last year — more than 280,000 in fiscal year 2007 compared to 186,000 a year earlier. It was the largest number of illegals ever removed from the country in a single year. Illegal immigrants "self deport" as woes mount. The toughening environment has been coupled with a turndown in the U.S. economy, which has tipped the balance toward self deportation for many illegal immigrants left struggling to find work. U.S. tries to shut revolving door of illegal reentry. Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously deported and then reentered the country illegally — a crime that now makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Times review of U.S. attorney's statistics shows. Worksite enforcement debate flares. The high-profile harboring case against a landscaping company owner who employed an illegal immigrant charged with murder in the slaying of a Houston police officer has heated up the debate over worksite enforcement. Plant workers indicted in alleged immigrant hiring scheme. Three former Pilgrim's Pride Corp. employees and another man accused of running an identity theft ring to help get jobs for illegal immigrants at two poultry plants have been indicted, prosecutors said. A former human resources employee alleged to have hired workers even though she knew about the scheme was indicted on charges related to her citizenship application. Illegal Alien Sues, Saying NYPD Called in Feds. An unlicensed cab driver will seek to show a federal jury this week that the police department is failing to abide by Mayor Bloomberg's pledge that the city won't alert immigration authorities to illegal aliens who otherwise obey the law. Scottsdale Arizona cops ask citizenship proof. Police in suburban Scottsdale have begun routinely asking for proof of citizenship from every suspect they arrest and turning those who are in this country illegally over to federal immigration officials. The procedure was started Oct. 15, a result of the September killing of Phoenix police officer Nick Erfle by an illegal immigrant, Erik Jovani Martinez. Is Houston a sanctuary for illegal immigrants? So what is a sanctuary city? Experts said there is no single, universally accepted definition. The phrase is often misused in the news media and by politicians to describe cities with a wide range of policies on treatment of suspected illegal immigrants, critics said. It ain't over 'til the alien wins. Immigration lawyers and ethnic activists run a massive, lucrative industry whose sole objective is to help illegal aliens and convicted criminal visa holders evade deportation for as long as possible. Entry into this country should be a privilege, not a right. The open-borders lobby has turned that principle on its head. More being forced out of U.S. The federal government says it has steadily increased the number of illegal immigrants it removes from the country annually, but critics say the effort is still shackled by a critical lack of personnel and detention facilities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently released its latest data on the number of illegal immigrants deported. In fiscal year 2007, which ended Sept. 30, ICE deported 221,600 illegal immigrants, including 84,700 who were convicted of criminal offenses. The dirty little secret of immigration reform: During the fractious, months-long immigration debate, Big Business hid in the corridors of Congress or ducked behind closed doors, afraid to say in public what it whispered in private: We need illegal workers. Border fence delay challenged. A California congressman yesterday called on Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to override a ruling by a federal judge ordering the delay of construction of security fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. Importing mayhem: According to statistics released by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) in May 2006, 12 Americans were murdered every day by illegal aliens last year. In addition, 13 were killed daily by drunk illegal aliens. Between the conventional murderers and the drunk — and in a great many cases unlicensed — homicidal drivers, illegal aliens, overwhelmingly Mestizos from Mexico and Central America, killed 9,125 Americans in 2006. Enough with the obfuscation, already. In April 2005 the Government Accountability Office released a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated during 2003. These are its main findings: • The 55,322 illegal aliens studied had been arrested a total of 459,614 times, over eight arrests per person; • These 459,614 arrests represented about 700,000 criminal offenses, some 13 offenses per person. These figures were available in June '07, when half the U.S. Senate, President Bush, top Federal Government officials, a vast business lobby, and the entire apparatus of the Democratic Party pulled out all the stops to ram through a legalization of an estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens. Importing poverty: The argument that illegal aliens have been needed to fill a labor shortage in the U.S. economy is not supported by the facts. According to the Census Bureau, 14.3 percent of illegals work in manufacturing. Yet, manufacturing has lost more than 2 million jobs since 2000, with more jobs lost every month. Hordes of American citizens would love to regain factory employment, as they have not been able to find comparably rewarding jobs elsewhere; but illegals have been hired in their place. DMV's fraud busts hit Latinos. Workers at Oregon's Driver and Motor Vehicle Services have turned in nearly 200 people to police for suspicious documentation, an effort that overwhelmingly singled out Latinos. This summer, the DMV changed a long-standing policy: Rather than simply refuse service to customers suspected of presenting phony or altered documents to obtain licenses or identification, employees began to alert police. The Editor says... They're not necessarily "singling out" Latinos — if the Latinos are the ones committing fraud, they're the ones who will be caught. By and large, Latinos are the cause of the illegal immigration problem — not the victims of it. Illegal Aliens' Impact on American Jobs: Illegal immigration distorts the law of supply and demand in a capitalistic society. In fact, regarding wages, it is hypocritical to want to raise the minimum wage on one hand while the other hand wink at illegal immigrants working at far below prevailing wages. The victim, then, is the American worker and taxpayer. Immigration's Racist Canard: Often I've heard the accusation wielded by my opponents that I must be a racist if I want our nation to secure its borders and create an immigration system that possesses meaningful integrity. Hillary Clinton raised this issue in the most recent debate. A country wrecked by unlimited immigration. The truth is that we have no idea how many people are in this country. That is a scandal. We have no idea because this Government decided, when it came to power in 1997, that it would be a good idea to stop proper enforcement of border controls. Jack Straw, our smug so-called Justice Secretary, was home secretary at the time, and was responsible for this. Defending American Sovereignty and Culture Is Not Racist. Contrary to the perception of editorial writers at great newspapers like the New York Tiimes, defending American sovereignty is not a expression of racist hatred. In fact, it (defending America) is essential if this republic is to survive. Acting in the best interests of America means, among other things, preventing further invasions from third world illegal aliens. It also means deporting those already here. Please save the teary sob stories and lamentations for the poor Mexican migrants who come to America only for a better life. In fact, there are upwards of 38 million of these conniving criminals in America right now. Time to Wake Up from the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act (S. 774) is a nightmare. It is a massive amnesty that extends to the millions of illegal aliens who entered the United States before the age of 16. The illegal alien who applies for this amnesty is immediately rewarded with "conditional" lawful permanent resident (green card) status, which can be converted to a non-conditional green card in short order. The alien can then use his newly acquired status to seek green cards for the parents who brought him in illegally in the first place. In this way, it is also a backdoor amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens who brought their children with them to the United States. This DREAM could be your worst nightmare. Sen. Dick Durbin has been trying to drum up support for getting the DREAM Act passed as an amendment to the pending defense authorization bill. … The ultraliberal senator from Illinois wants to make sure there are no sad little illegal immigrant children falling through the cracks of our mean-hearted society. That's why he wrote the bill, whose full title is the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2007. … The bill is supposed to be about helping "Alien Minors," but that is a complete falsehood. 'Dream' for illegals gets a wake-up call. Sen. Richard J. Durbin [D-IL], trying to win support to pass his proposal to give legal status to illegal aliens who go to college or join the military, said yesterday [9/19/2007] he has dropped from his plan a mandate for in-state tuition rates and is promising to impose an age limit to cut the number of people who would be eligible. End the Dream. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin plans to bring to the Senate floor today [10/24/2007] the newest incarnation of the Dream Act, S. 2205, which would provide illegal alien students the ability to attend college while paying lower in-state tuition rates. Legislation affecting children of illegals fails Senate test vote. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — DREAM Act for short — was a popular part of a broad immigration plan that would have legalized as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants and fortified the border. Giuliani: Illegal Immigration No Crime. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said illegal immigration is not a crime, prompting rival Mitt Romney to accuse him of not taking the problem seriously. The two have clashed for weeks over illegal immigration, an issue that inflames GOP conservatives who influence primary elections. The irony is that both candidates have in the past taken more liberal stands on the issue. Same story... Rudy: No crime being an illegal immigrant. Rudy Giuliani said Friday that being an illegal immigrant isn't a crime, and it shouldn't be one in the future either — comments likely to anger conservatives already leery about his liberal immigration policies as New York mayor. Reaction and commentary... Illegal immigration isn't a crime?. The truth is that the former mayor of the biggest sanctuary city on the planet is similar to President Bush in terms of being tone-deaf to the roar of legal citizens who have positively had it with illegal immigrants. 'Illegal' Crime: The newly-elected mayor of Dallas, Tom Leppert, has promised to open a taxpayer-funded immigration office. According to the Dallas Morning News, this office would help immigrants -- both legal and illegal -- "assimilate" into the city and North Texas region. Wow. An office funded by hard-working taxpayers which would teach illegals everything they need to know about assimilation, perhaps like obtaining free health care, snagging a job, or placing their children into Dallas-area public schools. Maybe this will start a trend all over the country. VAWA Gives More Rights to Illegals than Citizens. The U.S. Congress has granted you the Keys to Kingdom that will unlock the door to U.S. citizenship, a good-paying job, and tons of free services. Here's how it works. Betraying America Por La Raza! On June 10, the Justice Department announced that three Texas National Guard members helping to patrol the Mexican border had been charged with human smuggling. One of the three was caught, in uniform, driving a van packed with 24 illegal Mexican immigrants along Interstate 35 in Texas, some 68 miles north of the border. 15 Things You Should Know About 'The Race': Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate." Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? La Raza To The Bottom. In Orwellian fashion, defenders of "La Raza" deny that it means "the race." San Francisco Chronicle writer Carla Marinucci says of Obama's appearance before the group's national convention in San Diego that Obama "embraced the ideas reflected in the organization's name, La Raza, loosely translated as 'the people.'" A very loose translation it is. The mainstream media discover illegal immigration. The other evening, … my husband made a rather astute observation: "Why is it that all the news shows are suddenly doing 24/7 analysis of the immigration problem? You think they're trying to help the Democrats?" He had a point. Problems stemming from illegal immigration have provoked strong feelings among voters for years without sparking much more than an NPR/La Raza lovefest. Fed dollars proposed for La Raza. Tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars soon could be flowing into the National Council of La Raza, an organization that advocates for civil rights for Hispanics and has connections to groups that advocate the separation of several southwestern states from the rest of the nation. Illegals using fire to clear border. U.S. Border Patrol agents seeking to secure the nation's border in some of the country's most pristine national forests are being targeted by illegal aliens, who are using intentionally set fires to burn agents out of observation posts and patrol routes. Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization: Mexico's policy toward illegal immigrants on its southern border is as brutal as America's is humane. Violators are often summarily deported — if they are not first robbed by Mexican officials or beaten and killed by criminal gangs. Mexicans may lecture Americans about our purported sins in trying to secure our border, but they don't seem to care what their own government does to Guatemalans. NY Times/CBS Poll Finds that 69% Believe Illegal Immigrants Should Be Prosecuted. A New York Times/CBS News poll released yesterday found that 69% of American adults believe illegal immigrants should "be prosecuted and deported for being in the U.S. illegally." Just 24% disagree and say they should not. L.A. police to stop impounding cars of unlicensed drivers. The Los Angeles Police Department has imposed a moratorium on impounding the vehicles of unlicensed drivers amid concerns that the practice may be unconstitutional, officials said Tuesday [8/28/2007]. The decision touches on what has long been a hot-button issue, because many unlicensed drivers who have their cars towed are illegal immigrants who cannot get driver's licenses. Illegal Aliens Declare War on the United States. In Prince William Country, Virginia, illegal aliens have just basically declared war on the county, law and order, and the very livelihood of innocent Americans. They have done so, and no one in Washington really seems to care. Supervisor Ammiano drafting legislation for ID card for illegals. San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano is drafting legislation to create a city identification card for immigrants unable to get traditional ID cards, a move likely to anger advocates of tougher immigration enforcement. The cards would be accepted by all city agencies and organizations that receive city funding. … He also is trying to persuade financial institutions to allow residents to use the cards to open accounts. Oppose REAL ID and "no work list" in immigration bill. The current debate on immigration reform in the U.S. Senate has been highly secretive. The text of the bill has still not been officially released, though it has been leaked, and the mainstream media reports have been largely superficial. Did you know that this bill would reinstate the REAL ID card, which has already been rejected by fifteen states? Indeed, the legislation makes it impossible for Americans to work without either a national REAL ID card or U.S. passport. Did someone mention the REAL ID (National ID) card? Giuliani: America needs high-tech fence, ID card for foreigners. Rudy Giuliani said Friday the United States needs a technological fence and tamper-proof ID cards for foreigners in the country. … A single, tamper-proof ID card would prevent forgery and reduce illegal immigration, he said. "Every single person who is here from a foreign country should be required to have one," Giuliani said. "If they don't have one, they should be thrown out of the country." The Editor says... Let's think this through — since obviously Mr. Giuliani has not. There is no such thing as an ID card that is just for foreigners. The alien can just throw away the card and immediately he will be one of the locals. Obviously Mr. Giuliani's plan will result in everybody having to carry a National ID card, or they will be "thrown out of the country." Illegal immigrants refrain: 'Leaving America is not an option'. Francisco Gimenez risked his life to get into United States. He is not planning to leave in a hurry. Like many members of Los Angeles' immigrant community, the 27-year-old butcher is skeptical about proposed legislation intended to offer illegal workers a path to citizenship. Go home, illegal immigrants. Illegal aliens who have babies in the United States should take their kids back across the border, Republican state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe said Monday. "If you have a child here illegally, you should pick that little baby up, take that child back home with you and come back the right way," said Metcalfe, of Cranberry. Why They Won't Assimilate: Assimilation is not a process magically initiated upon setting foot on American terra firma. Rather, it only occurs when one or both of two conditions are met: The foreign elements must have a desire to assimilate or the host nation must place pressure on them to do so. Unfortunately, neither is the case today because both immigrants and native-born Americans are far different than they once were. The Immigration 'Compromise': The public realizes that this inundation is going to continue unless somebody stops it, and that the upshot will be, in a few more decades, a brand-new United States, with a powerful bloc of Spanish-speaking residents and a culture to match. On the other side are two powerful groups of Americans who are benefiting from this process. They connived at its inception in the 1960s, but were forced to accept an effort at "reform" in 1986, under which the illegal tide would henceforth be stopped at the border, in return for a legal amnesty for the 3 million or so already here. Then they managed to prevent any serious border enforcement, and the tide flowed on to its present 12 million. Officers' hands tied on illegal immigrants. It began as a tip to America's Most Wanted: An anonymous caller said the No. 1 fugitive was holed up in a South Side house. With the TV show's cameras in tow, deputy U.S. marshals raided 788 Stambaugh Ave. on Jan. 7 looking for Manuel Penaloza, who was wanted in two killings and a carjacking in Pasadena, Calif. Instead, they found five undocumented immigrants in the tiny bungalow. The Amnesty Fraud: Part III. Whose problem is the immigration bill in Congress supposed to solve? The country's problem with dangerously porous borders? The illegal immigrants' problem? Or politicians' problems? It has been painfully clear for years that the country's problem with insecure borders and floods of foreigners who remain a foreign — and growing — part of the American population has the lowest priority of the three. Border Patrol Agents Under Attack. Assaults against agents in the Yuma sector have shot up to 126 in the first six months of this fiscal year. That's approaching the number of assaults all last year. Agent Ben Vick was lucky he was wearing a helmet when this brick hit his head. "I looked down and though, 'Oh, that's what hit me.' Because before that, I had no idea. It was just such a huge blow," Vick says. The Real Immigration Threat: The real problem began with a piece of legislation titled "The Immigration Reform Act of 1965" (Ted Kennedy's brainchild). It not only increased immigration levels from approximately 250,000 yearly to about one million, it also has created a situation wherein 85 percent of our immigrants hail from the Third World and Asia and half from Spanish-speaking countries. This was a departure from historical norms and guaranteed the ultimate destruction of our western, Anglo-American culture. Mexico to honor Sen. Kennedy. The Mexican government is honoring U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy for his defense of immigrant rights. Helping the undocumented afford college. For Francisco Alvarado, a 22-year-old undocumented immigrant enrolled at Cal State Dominguez Hills, a college education would be impossible without some financial assistance. In his two years at the school, Alvarado has received about $4,000 from the student organization Espiritu de Nuestro Futuro, which raises scholarship money for undocumented students. Coffee chain drops names over concerns it's an ethnic slur. A small but growing coffeehouse chain is changing its name amid concern that the moniker meant to celebrate the seed of its main product also is a disparaging term for Hispanics. Beaner's Coffee, based in East Lansing, on Friday [9/14/2007] informed franchisees and employees at its 77 stores in Michigan and eight other states that it would become Biggby Coffee, effective Jan. 31. The Editor says... I've lived and worked around Hispanics all my life and have never heard that term. And now I wonder: is there shame in eating beans? Are the Hispanic people really so easily offended, or was this controversy generated by a third party troublemaker? Thousands attend immigration rally in downtown Dallas. Many in the crowd authorities estimated at more than 5,000 held signs that read "No to 2903," referring to an ordinance in the Dallas suburb of Farmer's Branch that would make it illegal for landlords to rent apartments to illegal immigrants. Inaction on Immigration: When it comes to illegal immigration, Washington has provided plenty of talk but very little action. For example, I have a correspondent in southern California who's been part of a private effort to catch illegals. I asked him recently how things were going at the border. "What border?" he wrote. "Day after day, we have both in-person sightings, and remotely recorded videos of groups crossing." Memo: Illegal immigrants in Texas need 6 arrests to be charged. Guidelines issued by U.S. attorneys in Texas showed that most illegal immigrants crossing into the state had to be arrested at least six times before federal authorities would prosecute them, according to an internal Justice Department memo. The disclosure provides a rare view of how federal authorities attempt to curb illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes. Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. Illegal Mexican alien sentenced after six prior deportations. A 29-year-old Mexican farm worker who has been deported at least six times for illegally entering the United States will spend 15 months in federal prison. Vincente Santiago-Castro then will be sent back to Mexico once again. Guide coaches illegals on raids. A Maryland-based immigrant-advocacy group is distributing guidebooks instructing those targeted by federal immigration agents during job-site raids not to cooperate with authorities if they are arrested or detained. The eight-page, two-color illustrated book lists what rights "people who are not United States citizens" have if detained by immigration agents, details what to do if served with a warrant or charged with a crime, and urges them to remain silent if they are arrested. They want your job, your property, and your country. I am speaking, of course, of illegal immigrants, aka undocumented immigrants, aka undocumented workers, aka unauthorized migrants, aka Mexican nationals, whose number may be as high as 30 million — 22 million adults who have invaded this country since the previous mass amnesty in 1986, and as many as eight million children whom female illegal aliens have borne in this country during that time, and which have been improperly defined by the federal courts, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, as "American citizens." Can Congress repeal birthright citizenship? Many Americans are angry about illegal immigration and believe birthright citizenship encourages it. Unsurprisingly, then, the idea of eliminating automatic citizenship for the children of lawful and unlawful aliens has gained remarkable traction around the country. U.S. Can't Account for 600,000 Fugitives. Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported Monday [3/26/2007]. Newsom pledges to make SF a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed Sunday [4/22/2007] to maintain San Francisco as a sanctuary for immigrants and do everything he can to discourage federal authorities from conducting immigration raids. Activists Rally Against Illegal Immigration. Several hundred protesters gathered outside the White House on Sunday [4/22/2007] to complain about President Bush's handling of the immigration issue, including his push for "comprehensive" reform. The protesters demanded tighter border security. Fed-Sponsored Program Allows Immigrants Without Social Security Numbers to Wire Money Home Cheap. A federal program designed to help legal immigrant Mexican workers wire their earnings back to families in Mexico also is providing a "fast, safe, and low-cost way" for illegal workers without Social Security cards to funnel money out of the U.S. Bill would mandate nicer term for illegals. A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents. "I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space." The Editor says... Surely a State Senator is a person who has spent enough time in school to notice that English words often have multiple definitions. Alien is one of those words. If the dictionary is sanitized to remove all offensive words, just because some politician objects to the connotations, soon all that's left will be Orwellian Newspeak. Report: Bank of America's New Credit Card Targets Illegal Immigrants. Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday [2/13/2007]. [Okay, if an illegal alien can open an account without a Social Security number, why can't I?] Bunk Of America: By creating a new incentive to illegal immigration — credit cards for those lacking Social Security numbers — is Bank of America breaking law? And will terrorists find it easier now to finance their activities? This writer seems to think it's just a shrewd business decision. Credit Where Credit Is Due. The Bank of America ... has been ahead of the game in offering services to immigrants. In 2005, it eliminated fees for transfers to Mexico for account holders. And last week, the bank expanded a tiny pilot program offering credit cards to people without credit history or Security numbers. In other words: illegal immigrants. Bill would block credit cards for illegals. U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced legislation Monday [3/5/2007] that would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving credit cards from American financial institutions. The Photo Identification Security Act would require banks to use what Blackburn calls "secure forms of identification" to obtain credit. In a statement put out by her office, she says that Bank of America "has come under fire in response to reports that it allows illegal immigrants access to credit cards without proper documentation." Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican Pesos. Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos. Restaurant experts and economists said they knew of no other food chain with locations so far from the Mexican border offering such a service. "We're trying to reach out to our core customer," Antonio Swad, president of Pizza Patrón Inc., said Friday [1/5/2007]. Texas-Based Pizza Chain Accepts Pesos. A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation's debate over immigrants. … Wal-Mart, H-E-B supermarkets and other American businesses in towns along the Mexican border accept pesos. And some busineses in New York and Minnesota communities along the northern border accept Canadian dollars. The difference here is that many of the pizza joints are far from the border, in places like Dallas, more than 400 miles away, and Denver, more than 700 miles. New Orleans Police Creates Illegal Alien Sanctuary. A five-year-old Louisiana law ordering local police to arrest illegal immigrants during routine traffic stops will no longer be enforced by the New Orleans Police Department, which issued a directive this week prohibiting officers from arresting people in the country illegally. Deportation cases soar as L.A. jails screen more. The number of Los Angeles County jail inmates identified as suspected illegal immigrants nearly doubled in the year since the Sheriff's Department started investigating their legal status. … "The benefit is these people who are committing crimes aren't being released onto our streets to commit more crimes. They are being removed from the United States," said Jim Hayes, director of the Los Angeles field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mexican Truck Deal Draws Angry Reaction. The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress. They said Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs and endanger motorists on the northern side of the border. President Hillary Clinton? Question: When you apply for welfare in Mexico what does the government give you? Answer: A map to the United States. How can President Bush (with a straight face) assure us that he is dedicated to stopping terrorism in America — while putting out the welcome mat for millions of foreigners to cross our porous borders breaking our laws? This type of ill-prepared approach to stopping potential terrorists entering through our borders is just plain insanity. What's Worse Than Open Borders? Look around you... When the U.S. is trespassed upon at will by 15 million to 30 million illegal aliens, our border troops are under orders to flee from their posts if attacked, and the only thing upon which President Bush and Speaker Nancy Pelosi agree is the need for amnesty for brazen masses of immigration criminals, it would be easy to say that America has a de facto policy of open borders. The New Slavery: Illegal workers. Every American knows that one of the biggest blights upon America's legacy of freedom and economic opportunity was slavery. … Like a man returning to smoking, our generation has once again gotten hooked on cheap labor. Unfortunately, we are forgetting that this kind of labor may be dangerous to our national health. What am I referring to? The cheap labor of illegal aliens. They are victims of what I would like to call "the new slavery." Although the problem can be solved, it is important to remember that the situation is complex both morally and economically. Illegal immigrants caught in jails. Juan Martinez was looking forward to returning to his construction job after finishing a month-long sentence for violating probation on drug charges. When he was finally released from the Orange County jail, he was met by immigration agents, not his mother. Agents remove 2,300 illegal aliens in two weeks. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents removed more than 2,300 illegal aliens from the country in the past two weeks on 35 flights to the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia and Africa — one of the busiest periods of the year for ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who heads ICE, said 852 of those removed had criminal records, and that another 21 flights this week will take 2,087 aliens to Central America and the Caribbean, including 515 who are criminal aliens. U.S. fights against ID sales to illegals. Asked by a federal judge why she sold her birth certificate, Rosie Medellin said she needed a few bucks and didn't really think it through. Bobby Joe Flores said he sold his ID documents to buy drugs. Margarita Moya and her son did it to raise money for medicine for a loved one. Their documents were destined for illegal immigrants. Measure classifies protesting illegals as terrorists. A group of conservative Republican state lawmakers want to classify as domestic terrorists protesting illegal immigrants who "intimidate" or "threaten" U.S. citizens. The GOP bill would also classify members of Mexican or other foreign criminal gangs or drug cartels as domestic terrorists and classify violations as felonies. A Chain of Corruption: The Bush propaganda that illegal aliens only take jobs Americans won't do is patently false. There is probably no industry in which illegal aliens are more heavily concentrated than meatpacking. Yet even at Swift, we are told, 60 percent to 70 percent of the workers are neither illegal aliens nor do they have phony IDs. Illegal Immigration and Low Wage Labor. Leprechauns, unicorns, and the assertion that illegal immigrants take jobs Americans won't do — they're all myths. Some myths are harmless, while others, like the medical benefits of bleeding, cause harm. The assertion about illegal immigrants taking unwanted jobs is not harmless. Low wage Americans bear a considerable burden. A new entitlement for illegals: Never say Ken Boehm didn't warn you. … As absurd as this story line surely must seem to rational people, Mr. Boehm worries that someday taxpayers actually could be forced to pay for lawyers representing illegal aliens in the U.S. who want amnesty and citizenship. Boehm is co-founder and chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia nonpartisan foundation promoting ethics in public life. He also is not delusional. Note: The subsection about the two railroaded Border Patrol agents has now moved here. Why Is it "Impossible" to Deport Illegal Aliens, Mr. Bush? [President Bush] turns downright squeamish when it comes to defending America's own borders and enforcing our immigration laws. Most distressing is Bush's assertion that deportation of millions of illegal aliens is "impossible." How in the world can it be "impossible" for the most powerful and technologically advanced nation in the world to remove criminals who have invaded our nation at time of war? The race to the bottom: In the race to the bottom for votes to win office, or to preserve themselves in office, it would be difficult to out-run Republicans as they pander to the Hispanic vote by refusing to control our southern border against an invasion by millions of illegal aliens. Democrats are trying and they may soon pass Republicans in their cynical pursuit of political power. How will illegal immigration end? We hear all sorts of solutions for ending illegal immigration. Build a wall! Beef up border security! Fine employers, and create a massive guest-worker program. Or America could insist on tamper-proof identification cards, or detention, deportation or even amnesty for some illegal aliens — or all of these measures somehow combined. Americans cheated by 'virtual' laws. On Dec. 14 [2006], the Government Accountability Office lowered the boom on the Bush administration by releasing a report stating that the government has given up on plans to implement a system to track the entry and exit of foreign visitors. Congress ordered the creation of an entry-exit system called US-VISIT (excluding Canadians and Mexicans) back in 1996, and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made this system imperative. Some of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States legally on visas but never departed when their visas expired. It's now 2006, and we are told that an entry-exit system doesn't exist and the government has abandoned plans to create it. Liberals' sudden new respect for a Christian holiday. Recently US agents raided Swift meat packing plants in many states to round up illegal aliens. The liberal press was outraged that this was done on a major Mexican religious holiday/festival, the Virgin of Guadeloupe Day, celebrated December 12. Extremist Latino rhetoric flares in the background. Some of the most stridently racial rhetoric these days is not being heard from blacks or whites but rather from Latinos. From street activists to students to professionals, Latinos are stoking ethnic anger as they pander to crowds with blatant stereotypes and use racially charged language to motivate their supporters — and they are doing so with virtual impunity. Our Town — Or Is It Theirs? There has been discord enough in the shady streets of this rice-growing city [Williams, California] north of San Francisco, where the population has shifted from three-quarters white to nearly three-quarters Latino in just two decades. Anyone wanting some heated conversation need only mention the time six years ago when the board of education extended the Christmas break to three weeks to give Mexican families more time to go home for the holidays. Hazelton: The people vs. the ACLU. Louis Barletta, mayor of Hazleton, Pa., has thrown down the gauntlet to those who think America belongs to anyone who can walk across the border. The American Civil Liberties Union and a Puerto Rican group have taken up the challenge. And the mayor has upped the ante by hiring as defense counsel the former head of immigration in the Justice Department. Why Illegal Immigration Is About to Get Worse: A voter trying to affect the course of government is a little like a pilot trying to affect the course of hand-to-hand combat with a 500-pound bomb. Just as there is simply no place in the battle that the pilot can strike without inflicting casualties on his own side, there is no candidate in a two-party election that any given voter can support without voting against some of his own beliefs at the same time. Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices. You might assume that the plentiful supply of low-wage illegal workers would translate into significantly lower prices for the goods and services they produce. In fact, their impact on consumer prices — call it the "illegal-worker discount" — is surprisingly small. … Eliminating illegal farmworkers, by shrinking the pool of available labor, likely would raise wages for those who remain. City sued over day-labor site. City officials are violating federal law by collecting fees from workers at a day-labor site in Laguna Canyon without checking immigration status, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday [10/03/2006]. Town bars foreign flags in swipe at immigrants. A Nevada town passed a law this week making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself, the latest swipe by a U.S. community at illegal immigrants. It's About Drugs, Idiota. Since 1984, the ruling governments of Mexico have been operating under a pact signed during the reign of President Miguel de la Madrid and the drug lords. The deal required the cartels to keep their billions of narco-dollars in Mexico's nationalized banks in exchange for quiet cooperation from the government. In other words, the drug lords could expect to carry out their business unmolested. Why was such a deal necessary for the Mexican government? Because its economy was sinking — and, because drugs are the biggest of all businesses in the country. Is immigration bad for blacks? Perhaps the most tragic American paradox of the last half century is that as the legal and social restrictions hindering black economic advancement diminished and a sizable black middle class emerged, a large fraction of black men dropped out of the workforce and/or went to prison. … About one quarter of black male high school dropouts are locked up at any point in time. Was immigration's depressing effect on wages responsible for this by dissuading less skilled blacks from honest labor? There's Still Time To Block Immigration-Induced Leftism — If We Act Now. In the long run, of course, California is in for ever more trouble as its huge reserve of leftist nonvoters trickles into the electorate. And as the recently unveiled mini-Census of 2005 reveals, California has been raked over so hard by illegal immigration that the illegals themselves are now fleeing for greener pastures in the other 49 states — bringing California-style problems with them. … Hispanic voting is still so weak that it's not yet too late politically to shut off the influx from abroad… if we act now. Immigration tipping point? Feeling the heat of the midterm elections, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says it's time to authorize a 700-mile fence to stem "uncontrolled" immigration from Mexico. It now looks like the Senate will follow the House in approving the fence. Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said he has "never seen such a disconnect between the American voter and many elite lawmakers," adding that "securing the border this year is a cornerstone to national security." Experts say tough border laws are likely illegal. Lawmakers around the country are passing state laws to get tough on illegal immigration, but legal experts say many of those laws will turn out to be unconstitutional. Cornyn amendment on border security funding dies. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, used a procedural move late Wednesday [8/2/2006] to toss out an amendment proposed by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., providing the money for border security projects already authorized by Congress but not funded. House Panel: Senate Bill Would 'Cede Control' of Border. [House Judiciary Committee] Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) warns that the Senate is trying to "cede control" of the country's southern border security to the Mexican government. Suit over illegals OK'd for workers at Tyson Foods. A federal judge has ruled that workers can file a class-action suit against Tyson Foods Inc. for depressing wages by hiring illegal aliens. The Great Divide Over Illegal Immigration: Those of us who support Rule of Law have asked this question about President George W. Bush and about so many of our officials. Why would anyone want to take a country such as the United States that has worked remarkably well as a democratic society and change it into something that resembles a third world country with few property rights and no middle class? Why change the United States into Mexico? The religious worker visa scam. It's not just back-door illegal immigration that remains a big problem. Front-door exploitation and lax enforcement of visa requirements greased the skids for the 9/11 hijackers — and with DHS still facing understaffing, mismanagement, and massive backlogs, those avenues are still open. U.S. White Population Will Be Minority by 2042, Government Says. The white majority in the U.S. will be outnumbered by Americans of other races by 2042, eight years sooner than previously projected by the Census Bureau. Minorities, defined by the agency as everyone except non-Hispanic, single-race whites, will make up 54 percent of the U.S. population in 2050, compared with 34 percent of the population today, the Census Bureau said in a statement. The Editor says... To see what America will look like in 2042, visit Dallas this year. No, not the suburbs to the north, the city of Dallas itself. I like my neighborhood well enough, just a hundred yards outside the Dallas city limits, but it's obvious there's "white flight" underway here. Speaking of the suburbs ... What's going on in Farmers Branch, Texas? One Dallas suburb has taken bold action and has picked up the slack left by the federal government. The latest: Judge: Farmers Branch illegal immigrant rule unconstitutional. A federal judge found Wednesday that a Dallas suburb's rule prohibiting apartment rentals to illegal immigrants was unconstitutional and could not be enforced. Texas town's immigrant-renting rule is struck down. A Dallas suburb's ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday. Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision. [As usual, when activists on the political left lose at the ballot box, they head straight to the courtroom.] Farmers Branch proposes new ban for illegal immigrants. The Dallas suburb that jumped into the nationwide debate over immigration plans to take up another law to force out undocumented immigrants. The Farmers Branch City Council plans to consider a new ordinance Tuesday banning landlords from renting apartments and houses to illegal immigrants. It would require the city and federal government, not the landlords, to determine who is in the country legally, The Dallas Morning News reported on its Web site Thursday [1/17/2008]. Groups: Block Texas town's immigrant ban. Latino activists and civil liberties advocates asked a federal judge Tuesday [5/15/2007] to block a voter-approved ordinance that prohibits landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch. The Editor says... This tactic can be found somewhere around page two of the Democrats' playbook — If you can't win at the ballot box, shop around for a sympathetic federal judge. Anti-Illegal-Immigrant Law OK'd in [Farmers Branch] Texas. Voters in this Dallas suburb became the first in the nation Saturday [5/12/2007] to prohibit landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants. The ban was approved by a vote of 68 percent to 32 percent in final, unofficial returns. The balloting marked the first public vote on a local government measure to crack down on illegal immigration. Texas Immigration Proposal Draws Protest. Clutching American flags and signs that read "America was formed by immigrants," more than 300 protesters on Saturday [8/26/2006] denounced a [Farmers Branch, Texas] city proposal that would prohibit landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants. About two dozen counter-protesters staged a demonstration nearby. The proposal by City Councilman Tim O'Hare would also make it tougher for illegal immigrants to work in the Dallas suburb, penalize businesses that employ undocumented workers and make English the city's official language. The Editor says... Over the last 1000 years or so, there may never have been a time when immigrants outnumbered those who were born in North America. But that's ancient history, and in any event, the suburbs of Dallas were not "formed by immigrants." If immigrants are unwelcome in Farmers Branch, there are plenty of other places to live and work. And you don't need to know much about English if you live in East Dallas, West Dallas, or most of South Dallas. Texas town considers anti-illegals bill. This Dallas suburb could become the first city in Texas to adopt a sweeping ordinance intended to keep out illegal immigrants, a cause for concern among its large minority population. Dallas suburb discusses illegal immigrant crackdown. City Council members were meeting this evening to consider a controversial proposal intended to crack down on illegal immigration, the first local measure of its kind in Texas. This near-Dallas suburb is considering whether to make English the city's official language, enroll police officers in a federal training program that will make them de facto immigration officials and prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. Update: ACLU Sues Texas Town for Not Renting to Illegals. Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday [12/26/2006] challenging a suburb's new law that outlaws renting to illegal immigrants, alleging the ordinance violates federal law and forces landlords to act as immigration officers. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the suit on behalf of Farmers Branch residents and landlords. Texas Town OKs Anti-Immigration Measures. Leaders of this Dallas suburb unanimously approved tough new anti-immigration measures Monday evening [11/13/2006], including one that makes English the official language. Leave Racism Charges Out of Immigration Debate. Farmers Branch has become the latest epicenter for the type of shrill protest that arises whenever anyone suggests getting serious about our immigration laws. First came Hazleton, Pa., where Mayor Lou Barletta pushed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, punishing landlords who rent to illegal aliens and businesses who hire them. English became the town's official language, eliminating polylingual legal documents and signs. Texas town cracks down on illegal aliens, expects suit. City Council members Monday night unanimously passed ordinances they hope will curtail illegal aliens, but said they expected the new laws to be fought in court. Hundreds were turned away from City Hall, and the council chamber itself was filled to legal occupancy as the city leaders passed the strictest set of ordinances against illegal entry in any Texas city. Small towns clamping down. In small towns and sleepy suburbs across America, growing numbers of local politicians are sending a message to the federal government: If you won't solve the illegal immigration problem, we will. … In the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, where the City Council passed its own anti-illegal-immigrant ordinance Monday [11/13/2006], Latino and Christian activists already are planning to sue. Two Towns Adopt English as the Official Language. Less than one week after Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved making English the official language of the state, two towns — Farmers Branch, Texas and Taneytown, Md. — declared English as their official language Monday evening. Both measures call for the town government to do official business overwhelmingly in English, with common sense exemptions consistent with federal and state law, such as emergency services. What's going on in Irving, Texas? Attention all illegal immigrants: If you aren't smart enough to stay away from Irving, or Farmers Branch, you should at least avoid attracting the attention of the police! Illegal immigrants make up 11% of Irving's arrest total. Eleven percent of people arrested in Irving in the past 13 months were illegal immigrants, and the overwhelming majority of them were arrested on misdemeanor charges, according to Irving police data. The city's Criminal Alien Program, which identifies illegal immigrants who have been arrested and hands them over to federal authorities, has turned Irving into the latest hot spot in the nation's immigration debate. Renters no more: Undocumented immigrants are able to buy homes. Despite being in the U.S. illegally, undocumented immigrants can legally buy a house. Certain lenders don't ask for immigration papers. And buyers using a special tax ID often don't need a lengthy credit history. A Harsher Border Crossing. America's vast frontier with Mexico remains a highly porous landscape, where migrants by the hundreds of thousands cross annually. But stepped-up patrols, more barriers and high-tech monitoring have made the boundary impenetrable for many. Man says he illegally crossed border 4 times in 10 days. Aurelio Solorzano-Ovando, 35, told officials that three of those crossings resulted in arrests by Border Patrol agents, who released him in Mexico. Deputies arrested Solorzano-Ovando and 11 other undocumented immigrants Thursday in the far-west Valley on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle themselves into the country. States try to block illegal workers. At least 30 states have passed laws or taken other steps this year to crack down on illegal immigrants, often making it harder for undocumented workers to find jobs or receive public services. Colorado congressman calls Miami a 'Third World country'. [Rep. Tom Tancredo], whose district includes suburbs of Denver, pointed to Miami as an example of how "the nature of America can be changed by uncontrolled immigration," the story says. "Look at what has happened to Miami," the WorldNetDaily quotes Tancredo as saying in an interview. "It has become a Third World country. … You would never know you're in the United States of America." Immigration raids make a ghost town in Georgia. Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago. This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since September 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants. In Exchange for Records, Fewer Immigration Raids. Over the past seven months, Bush administration officials have quietly toured the country, trying to persuade businesses that rely heavily on immigrant labor to join a little-known program that would spare them from embarrassing federal raids if they voluntarily handed over their workers' documents so the government can scan them for fraudulent information. What Is It About "Illegal" That No One Understands? A woman crossed the border of the United States illegally. Twice. After her second incursion, she had a baby, which, under the 14th Amendment, is an automatic American citizen. She, however, remains a criminal alien. (Did I mention that she was convicted of working under a false social security number at O'Hare Airport? Yeah. That, too.) Immigrant Criminals Going Free Instead Of Facing Deportation. Federal officials said [Manuel] Pardo was deported, but three weeks ago he was back in the county jail, charged with driving without a valid license. Although it is a felony to return to the United States after deportation, he was released on $500 bail. He walked out nine hours after he was picked up. Employers held on charges of harboring illegal aliens. Employers in three states targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as part of an enhanced effort to combat illegal-alien employment schemes have been arrested for, or pleaded guilty to, charges of harboring illegal aliens. Nine Killed in Crash Fleeing Border Patrol. A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine people and injuring at least 12 others, officials said. … The large SUV was carrying up to 22 people when the driver had tried to circumvent a checkpoint on the highway, Border Patrol spokesman Lloyd Frers said. Immigrant Smugglers Bring Violence To U.S. Highways. Two separate illegal immigrant smuggling rings caused deadly incidents on U.S. highways this week, illustrating how the lucrative business is spreading its violence north of the border and threatening innocent Americans. In the first event a sports utility vehicle loaded with illegal immigrants rolled over in Utah's Four Corners area, killing eight people and injuring six others. Mexico aims to maintain easy flow over the border. Mexican President Vicente Fox's multistate tour of the western United States last week came while his government is in the midst of a massive, well-financed campaign to influence congressional efforts at stricter immigration enforcement and shape public opinion to allow more Mexican nationals into this country. 55 Guardsmen Decrease Mexican Border Infiltration 21% in 10 Days. That pretty much summarizes what was undoubtedly the most important news story of the last week, a report that was all but buried by the mainstream media. … The shocking drop-off in human smuggling is attributed to one factor: the arrival of the National Guard on the border. More examples of suppressed news stories. Social Security uncovers illegal workers. Privacy concerns prevent the Social Security Administration from notifying an employer that a hired foreign national is not authorized to work in this country, including someone who may be a potential national security risk, says a government audit. Identity theft linked to illegal immigration. Nobody likes getting a letter from the IRS. So imagine Amanda Bien's reaction last Valentine's Day when the agency wrote to demand $3,300 in back taxes. For jobs she never worked. Five of them. In multiple states. … Someone, somewhere, got Bien's name and Social Security number and gave it a workout. Illegal Dirty Little Secrets about Social Security. There are two dirty little secrets behind the debate over the illegal alien issue that even the advocates of securing the borders first have failed to discuss. The first secret is that the estimated twelve to twenty million aliens living and working illegally in the United States have to commit identity theft to secure employment. The second secret is that without illegals' payroll tax contributions, filed under stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers, the Social Security system would collapse years earlier than estimated. More information about Social Security. Illegal immigration? Eisenhower had an answer. George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border. Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected President Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. A Latin conservative tidal wave is not coming. The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking. For years, conservative open-borders advocates have touted Hispanic "family values" as a prime reason to increase immigration. … The truth is now supplanting the fiction. Last Friday [7/21/2006], the New York Times ran an editorial, "Young Latinas and a Cry for Help," that laid out the real state of the Hispanic family. … [The Hispanic] out-of-wedlock teen-birth rate is three times that of white teens, and significantly more than that of blacks as well. The Hispanic dropout rate is also the highest in the country — the Manhattan Institute's Jay Greene puts it at 47 percent. Bribery at the Border Worries Officials. Federal law enforcement officials are investigating a series of bribery and smuggling cases in what they fear is a sign of increased corruption among officers who patrol the Mexican border. "Aztlan" spurs pride in Latinos, fears among immigration foes. "Up until recently I dismissed the idea as a kooky fringe element, but if you look at the demonstrations and see the flags and hear people chanting that this is stolen land and 'we are reclaiming our lost land' it sounds more serious," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supports tough enforcement of immigration laws. Who Is The U.S. Senate Working For? Recent legislative actions in Washington, D.C., raise the question of just who the U.S. Senate is working for. … The Senate Immigration bill is straight out of the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan for ruling the world. There is Amnesty for all the Illegal Aliens lawbreakers who are here in violation of our Immigration laws. The Senate is trying hard to convince voters that it's not Amnesty, but that is what the Senate bill provides. City to crackdown on illegal immigration. With tensions rising and its police department and municipal budget stretched thin, this small northeastern Pennsylvania city is about to begin what the mayor calls one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants in the United States. "Illegal immigrants are destroying the city," said Mayor Lou Barletta, a Republican. "I don't want them here, period." Same story: Pennsylvania city to target illegals via employers, landlords. With tensions rising and the police department and municipal budget stretched thin, Hazleton is about to embark on one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal aliens anywhere in the United States. Last week, the mayor of this former coal town introduced — and the City Council tentatively approved — a measure that would revoke the business licenses of companies that employ illegal aliens, impose $1,000 fines on landlords who rent to illegal aliens and make English the official language of the city. A break, maybe, for the illegals. A letter urging the president to abandon the Senate legislation and take up the House immigration bill instead was delivered yesterday [6/19/2006] to the White House with 39 prominent conservative names on it.  Illegal Immigration Factsheet. Illegal immigrants to the US cost the country at least $10 billion more than they contribute to the economy. Illegals' tax deal could kill bill. A key feature of the Senate bill is that it would make illegals pay back taxes before applying for citizenship, a requirement that supporters say will raise billions of dollars in the next decade. There's just one problem: The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits revenue-raising legislation from originating in the Senate. Free ride for illegals on way to Manassas. A sheriff's deputy in Belmont County, Ohio, detained the aliens for about two hours early Tuesday [6/20/2006] after stopping the van on Interstate 470 for a traffic violation. A passenger in the van told deputies that they were illegal aliens and heading to Manassas to find work. The deputies released the group after federal immigration authorities said via telephone they could not interview the aliens. Only 483 Guard Working on Mexican Border. On the deadline to have 2,500 troops along the Mexican border, the National Guard said Friday [6/30/2006] that only 483 were in position and working with the U.S. Border Patrol as the Bush administration had directed. Use and Abuse of Euphemism: Before we decide what to do about illegal immigration, we might first decide what to call it. … If you consider these alternatives carefully and dispassionately, it becomes obvious that the term considered most verboten here, "illegal alien," is actually the most accurate one. "Undocumented worker" is absurd — not all immigrants are workers, obviously, and most who are working do not lack for documents, albeit of a counterfeit variety. Bush declines to meet with border officials. President Bush has refused to meet with border law enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs. Senate Amnesty: Can't Fire Illegals, Just Citizens. Foreign guest farm workers, admitted under the bill, cannot be "terminated from employment by any employer … except for just cause." Please note that American agricultural workers can be fired for any reason. In fact, many American workers can be fired for any reason. But it gets better. It extends the Davis-Bacon Act's requirement for the payment of "prevailing wage" to all temporary guest workers. That puts them ahead of Americans, who have this protection only on federal job sites. Birthright sale: This is one of the most reckless gambles with the future of this nation ever taken by supposedly responsible members of Congress. The idea we must consult with Mexico before controlling our own borders is staggering — and revealing. The Mexican government has already shown its utter contempt for our laws by publishing booklets advising its citizens how to enter the U.S. illegally and how to take advantage of American welfare state provisions. Guest workers aren't cheap; they're expensive. This Kennedy-McCain (aka Hagel-Martinez) bill might be the worst and the most expensive bill ever passed by the Senate, and it should be an embarrassment to any Republican who voted for it. The media have reported on the sections that grant illegal residents amnesty (aka path to legalization or earned citizenship). But the media have censored out of their news reports the sections that are 10 to 20 times more costly and far more dishonest than playing games with the word amnesty. Let's Build Walls Instead of Bridges. Let me say right off, lest someone go off half-cocked when reading this, that what I am discussing here is not meant for LEGAL immigrants, legal Hispanics or other minorities who have immigrated to this country to become legit Americans. It is not intended as immigrant-bashing either; instead, it is meant to bring out the serious problems we have and then offer some ideas on how to fix them. But for those who are in this country unjustly and against our laws, I make no apologies for my thoughts here on paper. Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the Senate's Kennedy-Bush-McCain Guest Worker Amnesty Bill: #10. Allows illegal aliens to claim Social Security benefits for work performed illegally. #8. Requires consultation with the Mexican government before construction of fencing along the border. #2. Grants amnesty to family members of illegal aliens who live outside the country. #1. Grants amnesty to millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S. Immigration Bill Is Worse Than You Think. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, offered a devastating analysis on the Senate immigration bill in a speech delivered on the Senate floor on Tuesday, May 23. Sessions pointed to shocking elements of the bill that were hidden deep in its text. These include, for example, that the employers of illegal aliens would be given an amnesty for cheating on their taxes, and that under the terms of the law the government would for all practical purposes have to take an illegal alien's word for it that he has been in the country illegally long enough to qualify for an amnesty. Texas GOP takes hard line on border. A tentative new platform for the Republican Party of Texas calls for building a "physical barrier" along the entire U.S.-Mexico border and urges the federal government to deploy agents to round up illegal immigrants and expedite their return to their original country. President's immigration speech lacks credibility. If President George W. Bush had given his May 15 speech calling for immigration reform five years earlier, we would have believed him. Now, after five years of doing nothing to protect our borders, he is not credible. The problems he eloquently expressed didn't just emerge this year. They existed when he took office and throughout the last five years when he did nothing to correct them. America's other assimilation problem. Fernando Guadarrama, 21, a construction worker from Mexico who has lived illegally in the United States the last seven years, made a little mistake. When Mr. Guadarrama's pickup was pulled over in Colorado because his rear license plate light was out (according to The New York Times), he actually told the police officer that the only reason he had a Mexican driver's license was because, well, as an illegal immigrant, he couldn't get an American one. Excellent! Bordering on fraud: The immigration bill before Congress has some of the most serious consequences for the future of this country. Yet it is not being discussed seriously by most politicians or most of the media. Instead, it is being discussed in a series of glib talking points that insult our intelligence. Bordering on fraud: Part II. Of all the insults to our intelligence in the current discussions of immigration legislation, the biggest insult is the claim that border control legislation and legislation on the illegal immigrants already in the country must go together. Why? What will happen if they are done separately? And who will be worse off? Bordering on fraud, part III. Some people are worried that amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights that American citizens have. In reality, it will give the illegals more rights than the average American citizen. Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs and other benefits. The real national language: As far as I can see, when President Bush talks about a "rational middle ground" on the immigration front, what he really means is that Congress should pass more immigration laws that no American president will bother to enforce. Bush talks tough; does he mean it? Bush talked like a cop last week, but, of course, he also reiterated his support for a guest-worker plan, which everyone knows will eventually morph into an amnesty for illegal immigrants. So Bush is a cop who wants to let the crooks go free. 62 Senators Betray America's Sovereignty. The United States Senate approved an amnesty bill (S.B. 2611) on Thursday [5/25/2006] that effectively advertises to foreigners that the U.S. government refuses to enforce its own immigration laws. Despite the denials of senators like Ted Kennedy, John McCain, Harry Reid, Bill Frist, and Hillary Rodham-Clinton, this is an amnesty bill — and one of vast proportions. For starters, build a wall. [President] Bush is wrong to say these people would go to "the back of the line." This makes it sound like there's one line to get into the country, when in fact there are many. There are now 79 kinds of visas for merely getting into the country, including a special visa just for fashion models. But the important point is that the Senate bill wouldn't have illegal immigrant gardeners and busboys standing in line with Heidi Klum to get into the country in order to reside here. American alien nation. We are, as we are endlessly told, a Nation of Immigrants, a concept that blows to smithereens the unique nature of the "nation" to which immigrants have traditionally assimilated: the European-derived, mainly Anglo-Saxon polity, born of the Enlightenment and extraordinarily blessed by Providence, which the current president is now rapidly phasing out. Bill would make illegal immigrants criminals. The Arizona House gave final approval Thursday night [5/25/2006] to a bill that would criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants in the state and provide $160 million for the effort. 2,000 ask El Paso Sheriff to Resign. More than 2,000 residents of El Paso County have signed a petition asking for the resignation of Sheriff Leo Samaniego, saying that deputies have been overstepping their boundaries by checking immigration papers. "The sheriff's (deputies) are not helping the community anymore," said Alicia Acosta, a Montana Vista resident who signed the petition. "People are afraid to go out. They don't trust the sheriff's (deputies.) We want the sheriff's (deputies) to make us safe, not to do the job of the Border Patrol." Usually the people who don't feel safe when the cops come around are exactly the ones who shouldn't feel safe. However, there are plenty of cops around the country who apparently don't have much common sense. Minuteman's goal: To shame feds into action. Chris Simcox, co-founder of the Minuteman border watch movement, is feeling vindicated. President Bush last week ordered 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, a move the 45-year-old former kindergarten teacher says is long overdue. El futuro de America? Si. The bill's crazy provisions for allowing 66 million new legal immigrants into the United States by 2026 aside (twice the population of Canada), the Senate bill grants citizenship rights to 10 to 20 million mainly Mexican illegal aliens who have sneaked into the country since the last U.S. amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986. A defining moment on immigration. As I write this, Congress is well on its way toward passing one of the most important pieces of legislation of the 21st century. Memo exposes huge border enforcement gaps. "This is an example of a kid who knows the system," states an internal Border Patrol document that decries the lack of federal smuggling prosecutions. "What is true is that he will probably never be prosecuted if he only smuggles one or two bodies at a time." One Sheriff Sees Immigration Answer as Simple. Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks he has found the answer to the problem of illegal immigrants in the United States. It's not the National Guard. And it's not amnesty. "Fuhgeddaboudit!" growled Arpaio, his Boston accent unbleached by the desert sun. The sheriff's solution: Lock 'em up. Illegals exploited in Katrina cleanup, study says. Because many are in the country illegally, immigrant workers rebuilding New Orleans are especially vulnerable to exploitation, according to a study released Tuesday [6/6/2006] by professors at Tulane University and the University of California at Berkeley. The Editor says... Who is exploiting whom? The illegal aliens sneaked into the country, looking for any kind of work, and they found it. Many are paid in cash, so they pay no taxes. And when they get paid, they'll export much of the money back to their families south of the border. If the working conditions aren't suitable here, they should go home and spread the word about how terrible it is in the U.S. The president's immigration address. President Bush employed the classic "melting pot" metaphor, but changing the character and culture of America through uncontrolled immigration — legal or not — would drop a glacier in the pot that would never melt. With All Due Respect, Mr. President... What we want is straightforward. We want progressively effective border security, whatever the methodology. We want our immigration, employment and tax laws enforced. We want no one, neither illegal immigrants nor the employers who facilitate them, to be rewarded for breaking our laws. Immigration: At the tipping point. It's hard to deny that the catalyzing events were the audacious protests of illegals throughout the country, waving Mexican flags, disrespecting the American flag and demanding, sometimes in Spanish, their "civil rights." Perhaps Sen. Ted Kennedy's pathetic pandering to this burgeoning new constituency contributed to the national wake-up call as well. Illegal Immigration Is Not a Civil Right. Liberalism's delusions have reached their most ridiculous extreme in the protests by illegal aliens. It was ridiculous enough that American liberals thought they were entitled to things that other Americans had worked for and earned, but now America is being told that illegal aliens — people who have no right to be here at all — should have the rights of citizens. Immigration Debate Is Symptomatic of Society Unable to Say 'No'. What is it that makes people here for decades and centuries cower in front of those here illegally, arriving only yesterday? What is it that makes people unwilling to lay claim to their own land and country? It is guilt. It is fear. It is a brainwashing that has convinced so many that every member of the world is entitled to U.S. constitutional and welfare "rights." Something's missing for Bush's "comprehensive" immigration reform. Everyone knows that anything short of enough border guards to do Hands Across America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean won't do a thing to eliminate illegal immigration. The only thing that might work is a physical barrier. The president offhandedly dismisses a wall as something that could never stop the "enormous pressure on our border." By what logic? Insanity on bordering: The only issue in recent years to create this degree of both inter-party and intra-party division has been the debacle over Dubai Ports World management of U.S. port terminals. Not coincidentally, these are both matters of border security. Oh, this is just brilliant. Illegals granted Social Security. The Senate voted yesterday [5/18/2006] to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents. Read my lips: No new amnesty. On the bright side, if President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal immigrants ends up hurting Republicans and we lose Congress this November, maybe the Democrats will impeach him and we'll get Cheney as president. Immigration parlor tricks: Rush [Limbaugh] is a very smart fellow, and his comments on economic issues normally range from astute to brilliant. But these numbers are not "just striking," they are patently absurd. Regardless whether the bill in question (S.2611) is better or worse than other immigration bills, to suggest it would, could or even might permit legal immigration to average between 5.1 million and 10.9 million per year is nothing more than a cheap parlor trick. Al Capone's only mistake? He should have been an illegal immigrant! As an illegal immigrant, Capone would not have been subject to taxes and "The Untouchables" might still be chasing his great-great grandchildren in their attempt to bring Chicago's most powerful crime syndicate to justice. Today, Chicago is a sanctuary city, meaning illegal immigrants are now truly the "untouchables." What if Mexicans were crack? The most interesting part of this political and ideological cage match is that few of the usual labels have much utility. President Bush and Senator Kennedy agree on a lot. Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, can sound like conservative Republicans in their demands to close the border. Some Mexican Migrants Turning to Bicycles. Many illegal immigrants no longer hike. They bike. The 110-degree heat and rough terrain of the Arizona desert would exhaust the fittest of cyclists, but these migrants are often middle-aged housewives or farmers, riding battered second-hand bikes for 30 or 40 miles. Bordering on disaster: The illegal immigration crisis now threatens to mark George Bush's legacy the way the Iran hostage crisis marked Jimmy Carter's. The question is how long America will be held hostage. Untying the immigration knot: The Martinez-Hagel plan would pave the way for an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years — fully one-third of the current population of the United States. Amnesty Undeniable: The most important part of Monday night's speech by President Bush on immigration was not his call for sending unarmed National Guardsmen to temporarily assist the Border Patrol. Rather, it was his formal embrace, for the first time, of citizenship for illegal aliens. Anthem action: Days after the national anthem was translated loosely into Spanish on a widely released album, Rep. Jim Ryun, Kansas Republican, was seeking co-sponsors to legislation affirming that the musical composition be sung only in English. As far as the congressman was concerned, there are a "few things specific to our nation that should not be recited or sung in another language". Minutemen spread to the north. "This country is the United States," Clark said. "I mean, countries are defined by borders. Every other country in the world defends their borders and has people on their borders and doesn't allow illegal immigration." New, green INS divides time between catching aliens and corralling trash: The Immigration & Naturalization Service has asked agents to start picking up trash and avoid walking or driving on fragile natural habitats in their path. Color-coded cronyism at DHS. Who needs the government to tell us the status of homeland security? If you're not seeing five-alarm red over the perpetual chaos at DHS, you need to call the eye doctor. The Ontario (Calif.) Daily Bulletin reported Tuesday [5/9/2006] that Border Patrol agents are now ratting out Minutemen, immigration enforcement volunteers who have broken no laws, to Mexico. Yes, we are paying our federal immigration officers to gather intelligence on our own citizens — and then turn it over to a foreign government intent on sabotaging our sovereignty. Illegal Immigrants Returning To Mexico For American Jobs. As dozens of major American corporations continue to move their manufacturing operations to Mexico, waves of job-seeking Mexican immigrants to the United States have begun making the deadly journey back across the border in search of better-paying Mexican-based American jobs. Sensing change, migrants rush to the border. Mexicans are hurrying to Arizona anticipating passage of a guest-worker plan. Arizona Weighs Options for Border Patrol. As public frustration grows over the state's porous border with Mexico, the once-rejected notion of using state police to supplement federal patrols is gaining traction. One state lawmaker's plan includes $20 million for the Arizona Department of Public Safety to run a 100-member squad to operate surveillance equipment, construct border barriers, target drug and immigrant smugglers and perhaps patrol the border. U.S. blasts Canada on terrorism. Islamic terrorist cells continue to operate in Canada, according to a Bush administration report released yesterday [4/28/2006] that fingers a "liberal" immigration system for allowing terrorists to infiltrate the country. U.S. workers and taxpayers pay heavy price for illegal immigration. An employment service in Mobile, Ala., recently received an "urgent request" to fill 270 job openings from contractors who were hired to rebuild and clear areas of Alabama devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The agency immediately sent 70 laborers and construction workers to three job sites. After two weeks on the job, the men were fired by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for lower wages. Bush Against Singing National Anthem In Spanish. The national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — President George W. Bush declared Friday [4/28/2006], amid growing restlessness over whether to grant legal status to immigrants who are in the United States illegally. Jose, can you see: Lo and behold, the supposed ode to immigrants turns out to be little more than a propaganda anthem in the battle to legalize illegal immigrants. Even without the political message, however, a Spanish-language rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner is problematic. Calling a Tail a Leg: [When you sing Spanish words to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner",] are you then singing a "Spanish version" of the national anthem? No, of course not. … There can be no "Spanish version" of the national anthem or any other alternate version, unless Congress says so. Sen. Kennedy Bashed for Illegal Aliens-Civil Rights Comparison. A black conservative minister and staunch immigration reform advocate Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Tuesday [4/11/2006] denounced Sen. Ted Kennedy for comparing pro-illegal immigration rallies to civil rights marches for blacks half a century ago. Publisher of Spanish-language newspaper deported. The publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper has been deported, ending a five-year legal tussle over her immigration status. Cecilia Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday [4/14/2006] and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency. The Wall Street Journal is distorting the truth about immigration. For some weird reason the Wall Street Journal has become obsessed with defending the alleged benefits of increased immigration: even to the point of wilfully ignoring historical and economic evidence to the contrary. It is doing what it has rightly condemned the left for doing — and that is treating the truth with contempt. Incredible! Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona. U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned. Chertoff: End Illegal Alien "Catch and Release" Policy. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff promised Tuesday [10/18/2005] to end the "catch and release" policy that has allowed tens of thousands of non-Mexican illegal aliens to disappear within the United States. DHS to end 'catch and release' of illegal aliens in October. The Homeland Security Department plans to stop releasing illegal immigrants into the United States by October, a senior official said Friday [2/3/2006]. Greg Giddens, program manager for the department's Secure Border Initiative, told Government Executive he has been asked to end the "catch and release" practice by then. The dangerous game of catch-and-release: Let me state the obvious for the 9,999th time: America is still not serious about enforcing its immigration laws. The revolving door at the border: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, led by 18 fugitive operations squads, is vigorously hunting 80,000 criminal aliens and more than 320,000 "absconders," foreign nationals who were ordered deported but disappeared. Meantime, the Border Patrol is expected to arrest a million illegal aliens this year. The land of opportunity… Illegal alien hits the American jackpot with $44,000 job, crime spree. An illegal alien twice deported by the U.S. "hit the jackpot" on his third try, gaining a job paying $44,000 a year and a federal loan helping him to buy a home in North Carolina. Now, the 24-year-old Mexican is accused of terrorizing American women, as authorities believe he committed up to nine rapes in addition to other crimes. Four killed, 21 injured in smuggling rollover. Four people were killed and 21 injured in what officials are calling Santa Cruz County's "most serious" human smuggling accident ever. Van Full Of Immigrants Goes On Wild, Wrong Way Ride In San Diego. A van crammed with 54 illegal immigrants was detained Monday [5/1/2006] after the driver took them on a wild ride in the wrong direction on several freeways, ripping the van's tires on spikes near the Mexican border. Migrant crashes tax UMC resources. Southern Arizona's only Level 1 trauma center expects to be "slammed" again at any moment, as it was yesterday morning after a rollover crash in Santa Cruz County killed four illegal immigrants. The nine most critically injured in the crash, all adults, were airlifted to University Medical Center in Tucson early yesterday morning [4/20/2006]. Illegal alien gets 6 years in death of WWII vet. Chester Dillahunt of Fairfield survived World War II and the Korean War to be killed at the age of 86 by a drunken illegal immigrant. On Friday [12/23/2005], Jeronimo Rocha, from Brazil, was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime. He'll be deported back to Brazil after he serves his term. 11 illegal immigrants plead guilty. Eleven illegal immigrants charged with using fake or stolen Social Security numbers while working at a Palmer Township plant pleaded guilty Monday [10/24/2005] and were released from Northampton County Prison. Police still seeking illegal alien in fatal crash. Reyer Aruero, if that's his real name, knew he was in trouble. So within hours after police said he cause an Aug. 25 car-motorcycle crash that killed a Kingsbury man, the illegal Mexican immigrant was long gone. Immigrants Bring Drug-resistant Tuberculosis to California. A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis known as MDR-TB is persistent in California, primarily among its foreign-born population, and has serious financial implications for the state's public-health system, say federal and state health officials. Treatment for MDR-TB is very expensive — ranging from $200,000 to $1.2 million per person, over an 18- to 24-month time period. TB or not TB? If anyone needs another reason to oppose illegal immigration, to which the Bush Administration continues to turn a blind eye, how about the spread of a deadly communicable disease? Great Britain Being Invaded by Immigration. The United Kingdom suffers another kind of invasion much more devastating than the Nazi Blitzkriegs in WWII: massive, unrelenting immigration of non-assimilating Third World people. Eleven illegal aliens fail to appear for court date. Eleven illegal aliens who were released by federal authorities after a traffic stop in Fairfax County on Sunday [4/10/2005] did not show up for immigration proceedings … About 30 percent of illegal aliens who are ordered to appear for immigration proceedings fail to show up. Arizona to Clamp Down Even Harder on Illegals. Four months after residents voted to deny some government benefits to illegal immigrants, advocates for limiting immigration are pressing lawmakers to enact even more restrictions on those who sneak into the country. Who's Getting the New Jobs? A startling new study shows that all of the growth in the employed population in the United States over the past few years can be attributed to recently arrived immigrants. Seven Killed in Van Crash; 33 Illegal Immigrants Were on Board: A van carrying 33 illegal immigrants smashed head-on into two other vehicles as it went the wrong way on an interstate with its headlights off, apparently in an attempt by the driver to avoid an immigration checkpoint. Seven people were killed and 31 injured. Editor's Note: That's not just an immigration issue. The incident described above was a forcible invasion of this country by unwelcome citizens of other countries. Back to the Home page |
