Saturday, June 28, 2008

INVASION USA
Gangs traffic 500,000 foreigners a year across Mexico
Illegal trade brings 'extraordinary earnings' since each person pays $4,000 to $15,000
--Monsters and Critics


Judge upholds illegal alien sanctuary in L.A.
Dismisses taxpayer lawsuit, lets police don't-ask-don't-tell policy stand
--KNBC-TV, Los Angeles


[From WorldNetDaily.com]

Friday, June 27, 2008


Gov. Patrick to give illegal immigrants free tuition to Massachusetts colleges

Friday, June 27, 2008 12:46:57 PM · by pabianice · 50 replies · 1,366+ views

WTKK radio | 6/27/08

Deval Patrick, already arguably the worst governor in the United States, has announced that he intends to give illegal immigrants free tuition to Massachusetts state colleges. "It's a simple matter of justice," he is quoted as telling reporters. As the station notes, out of state US citizens are required to pay a higher-than- instate rate to attend the same schools.

Triple-killing suspect escaped prior S.F. prosecution (MS-13 gang member / "soccer team member")

Friday, June 27, 2008 12:05:16 PM · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 529+ views

SFGate.com ^ | 6/27/08 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

SAN FRANCISCO -- A suspected gang member accused of killing a father and two sons escaped prosecution in a weapons case earlier this year when the San Francisco district attorney's office concluded it didn't have enough evidence to connect him to a gun that a passenger in his car was carrying, authorities said Thursday. Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante, who police say is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang, was formally charged late Thursday with three counts of murder in the shooting deaths Sunday of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16....

U.S. helps ransom Reyes' kin - Relative of congressman's wife whisked out of Mexico

Friday, June 27, 2008 12:30:39 PM · by AuntB · 27 replies · 592+ views

Washington Times ^ | June 27, 2008 | Jerry Seper

U.S. authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez..... Erika Posselt, a Mexican national described only as "a relative of the wife" of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and powerful chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was abducted June 19 ......in Juarez. Held for three days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - at Mr. Reyes' request - helped arrange her safe return. ........ the kidnappers negotiated with Mrs. Posselt's brother in Juarez and agreed to release her...

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says

Friday, March 02, 2007 08:18:13 AM · by alienken · 69 replies · 4,489+ views

One News Now.com ^ | 2/22/07 | Jim Brown

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says Jim Brown February 22, 2007 Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population. Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service...

Summer a deadly time along U.S.-Mexico border

Friday, June 27, 2008 10:01:52 AM · by SwinneySwitch · 40 replies · 547+ views

Houston Chronicle ^ | June 27, 2008 | DANE SCHILLER and DUDLEY ALTHAUS

A woman who sneaked into Houston this week after hiking miles through one of the most brutally hot and deadly stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border is frantic for help, but scared to ask for it. While evading U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints in South Texas, she left behind the body of another woman who collapsed and died, perhaps from a scorpion sting or snake bite. The woman, who gave her name as Karina and insisted on anonymity, said she tried to help her friend walk when they fell far behind a larger group led by a smuggler. Now she is carefully...


[From FreeRepublic.com]


WorldNetDaily
6 Mexicans dressed as cops kill Phoenix man
Home riddled with more than 100 bullets in suspected drug-cartel 'hit'
--WND



MS-13 WATCH
Gang member arrested in killing of dad, 2 sons
Trio gunned down in San Francisco after minor traffic mishap
--San Francisco Chronicle


[From WorldNetDaily.com]


Police Union Standing By Mexican Militia Reports (AZ Mex Military home invasion)
Post Date: 2008-06-26 22:48:36 by out damned spot
10 Comments
Police documents show that at least one of the suspects involved in a home invasion and homicide were active members of the Mexican Army. View Police Documents: Page 1Page 2Page 3 A top member of a Phoenix police union is standing by reports that at least one of the men involved in a Monday morning home invasion and homicide was an active member in the Mexican Army. Click Here for the update. "Even if you put aside the Mexican military, you have illegals in the country...they're protected with tactical gear using tactical strategies in police uniforms willing to ambush police officers. I think that's bad enough," said Mark Spencer, President of the Phoenix Police Enforcement ...

Tijuana Crime Rate Up 300% As Mexico Gets Its Illegal Alien Criminals Back
Post Date: 2008-06-27 03:56:36 by WhiteSands
4 Comments
Tijuana Crime Rate Up 300% As Mexico Gets Its Illegal Alien Criminals Back By Digger The Mayor of Tijuana, Kurt Honald, never made a peep when it came to the amount of crime that Mexican illegal aliens committed in the United States, but now his city by the border is experiencing a concentrated taste of what has been occurring here for years though more spread out. With deportations of illegal aliens from Mexico only slightly up this year from their minuscule numbers over the past decades, Mexico is already crying in their soup at receiving their criminals back that they encouraged to head north. Tijuana's petty crime rate is up 300% and as usual it is all America's fault. The moral of ...

Families of missing say Reyes did nothing to help (Congressman Reyes)
Post Date: 2008-06-27 09:42:12 by fitz
4 Comments
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who said seeking help for a relative kidnapped in Juárez was what he would have done for a constituent, was criticized by family members with missing relatives in Mexico for not doing more to help them. The co-founder of the International Association of Relatives and Friends of Disappeared Persons questioned on Thursday why Reyes, D-Texas, failed to help Americans whose relatives were kidnapped in Juárez in the same manner his staff intervened in the recent kidnapping of his wife's niece, some members of the International Association of Relatives and Friends of Disappeared Persons said Thursday. Erika Posselt, a Mexican citizen, was kidnapped and ...

McCain confirms trip to Colombia, Mexico next week
Post Date: 2008-06-27 00:03:23 by fitz
12 Comments
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain will travel to Colombia and Mexico next week to highlight his support of free trade with both countries, his campaign confirmed on Thursday. McCain, an Arizona senator who has wrapped up his party's White House nomination, will hold events in Cartagena, Colombia, on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by events in Mexico City on Thursday. "He'll be meeting with public officials and discussing critical issues to the relationship to the United States of both of those countries," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. McCain has tussled with Democratic opponent Barack Obama over free trade in the campaign ...

[From LibertyPost.org]

Mexican set free after border patrol agent struck, killed
Judge releases drug dealer accused of murdering U.S. officer with vehicle
--WND

Proposed license plate: 'Hispanics discovered Florida'
'I think this is just part of our assimilation process and our acceptance'
--South Florida Sun-Sentinel

[From WorldNetDaily.com]

McCain, Obama Campaign Managers Address Hispanics
Washington (CNSNews.com) - The campaign managers for presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama spoke behind closed doors to more than 100 members of a national Hispanic organization on Wednesday. Full Story

Congressman's Relative Kidnapped in Mexico
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. authorities are helping Mexican officials investigate the apparent kidnapping and weekend release of a relative of Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas). News on the Web

Suspected Killer of US Border Patrol Agent Freed in Mexico
(CNSNews.com) - A Mexican judge has freed a man suspected of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent, to the surprise and dismay of U.S. officials. News on the Web

[From CNSNews.com]

OPINION
Mexican Law Enforcement Competing With Drug Cartels
Mexican government frees a drug smuggler that murdered an American police officer
Former INS Agent, Michael Cutler, Ret.

OPINION
A Typical Week End on the Arizona Border
Smugglers of people or narcotics are dregs of society, parasites
Former US Special Agent, John W. Slagle, Ret.

OPINION
The Cost of Illegal Immigration
Seattle Times soft on Illegal immigration
Lynn Stuter

OPINION
Is Mexico's Drug War A Civil War?
Is Mexico in the midst of a Civil War?
Allan Wall

[From NewsWithViews.com]

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

2 face charges on quarter-ton of marijuana

Authorities say they planned to bring it to area

By Rick Armon
Beacon Journal staff writer

http://www.ohio.com/news/20730729.html
INVASION USA
WorldNetDaily Exclusive

'Adios' English school? Super wants Spanish
Administrator calls for language program amid soaring illegal immigration statistics
--WND


WorldNetDaily
Tancredo takes McCain to task on immigration
Congressman's letter hints at accusations of pandering, flip-flopping
--WND

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Federation for American Immigration Reform

House Appropriations Committee Rejects ICE Worksite Enforcement Amendment

This morning, Rep. David Price (D-NC), Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security, presented the FY09 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to the House Appropriations Committee. According to Chairman Price’s earlier press release, the bill mandated that $800 million of the funds allocated to ICE be used to identify and remove criminal aliens in an effort to reprioritize ICE’s law enforcement activities. This spending requirement could restrict ICE’s ability to fund other enforcement priorities should the need arise. Additionally, the bill provided approximately $90.7 million for enforcement which is short of the President’s request of $93 million.

To counter this move, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) offered an amendment that would shift from a non-enforcement area of the bill just $2.3 million specifically to help fund ICE’s worksite enforcement efforts. Earlier today, the House Appropriations Committee rejected Rep. Kingston’s amendment in a largely partisan vote.

In support of his amendment, Rep. Kingston told the committee that:

  • Workplace enforcement is important because employment is the driving force behind illegal immigration. The demand for fraudulent documents made by illegal aliens creates the thriving criminal enterprises that make them.
  • ICE’s Worksite Enforcement arm plays a key role in fighting against illegal immigration and homeland security, promotes national security, protects critical infrastructure and ensures fair labor standards.
  • Worksite Enforcement Investigations focus on employers involved in criminal activity or worker exploitation, including:
    • alien smuggling, document fraud, human rights abuses and/or other criminal or substantive administrative immigration or customs violations;
    • substandard or abusive working conditions;
    • employers who utilize force, threat, or coercion, such as threats to have employees deported in order to keep the unauthorized alien workers from reporting the substandard wage or working conditions.
  • The presence of illegal aliens at a business does not necessarily mean the employer is responsible. Developing sufficient evidence against employers can take years; therefore, ICE builds worksite investigations in stages.
  • No industry, regardless of size, type or location, is exempt from complying with the law. These investigations often find that some of the employers are not paying a living wage, paying overtime, etc.

From ALIPAC

ALIPAC

Friends of ALIPAC,

Things are moving very fast on the state level and we can no longer keep up under our current centralized position at ALIPAC. While we are happy to see so much immigration enforcement legislation being offered, we need to grow and adapt to be able to offer more support in more states.

We know that many of you are willing to help in our targeted states, but are disappointed more is not happening in your home states.

We also know that ALIPAC's strongest support levels come from California, Texas, Florida, and Illinois. Each of these states are America's most populated states and each is in deep trouble with illegal immigration.

We are pleased to announce that we have been working on a plan to begin establishing state directors for ALIPAC who will be charged with the mission of focusing exclusively on monitoring and deploying the ALIPAC mission in individual states.

For CA, IL, FL, and TX we will be establishing state directors and special response teams.

The influence of the illegal alien lobby is so strong in these states we will often have to play defense, until our movement grows in more states giving us the leverage we need to implement more enforcement in our most populous states.

Also, each state that cracks down on illegal immigration in 2008 creates another barrier to any plans by McCain or Obama to ask our Representatives in Congress for Amnesty again.

Right now we have strong crackdown legislation in about five states with almost 40 states taking some kind of enforcement action. We believe that if over 20 states join the strong crackdown list then any new attempt to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty in DC will be doomed because of the challenge DC would have overriding the entrenched actions of our states!

Our state plans combined with our candidate operations can provide you with the motion towards Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement you want to see.

More information will be sent to you soon.

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us


PS: ALIPAC is quoted on the LA Times this week. See...

An immigration end run around the next president
http://www.alipac.us/article-3298-thread-1-0.html




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ALERT: FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform)

Federation for American Immigration Reform Action Alert

Your Calls Needed Immediately!
House Appropriators Set to Limit Workplace Enforcement

Today, the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Homeland Security is marking up the FY09 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill and funding for worksite enforcement is at risk.

Today, Congress Daily — a well-known Capitol Hill newspaper - reports that House Homeland Security Appropriations Chairman David Price (D-NC) will attempt to reset Homeland Security's priorities by shifting money away from worksite enforcement.

According to Congress Daily, in a speech before the Center for American Progress yesterday, Rep. Price announced that he intends to shift $800 million away from workplace enforcement and direct ICE to use the funds to deport criminal aliens. While deporting criminal aliens is also an important goal, it should not come at the expense of worksite enforcement. Congress should fund both! Congress needs to enforce all of our immigration laws in order to ensure that our immigration system works and has integrity.

Call Rep. David Price's office and the Appropriations Committee at the numbers below and tell them:

You will not stand for this attempt to stop ICE's effective workplace enforcement activities.

You oppose any effort to restrict ICE's enforcement activities.

The committee should fully fund all enforcement activities.

Appropriations Committee: (202) 225-2771

Rep. David Price: (202) 225-1784

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To join or donate to FAIR, click here.

Court OK's border fence despite environmental worry

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it won't stand in the way as the U.S. extends its security fence hundreds of miles along the border with Mexico, allowing building to proceed full-speed despite claims that it harms the environment and animals that live in the area.

Given sporadic attention for years, the concept of a border fence took on new life after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which also revived the nation's heated immigration debate. Intelligence officials have said the holes along the southwest border could provide places for terrorists to enter the country.

++ Read More

ALERT: NumbersUSA.com


From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 24JUN08 1:45 a.m. EDT
Chairman Price today will try to greatly reduce most-effective enforcement efforts
DEAR SUPPORTERS OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,

The House Appropriations Committee today (Tues) will be deciding how the federal government enforces immigration laws.

See the story below on how Chairman Price hopes to largely stop ICE and local governments from bothering illegal aliens who haven't committed felonies.

PLEASE PHONE THE MEMBERS OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE LISTED BELOW.

Please phone them at:

202-224-3121

We don't have a minute to spare. Start calling them now and leaving messages on their machines. Keep calling until staffers arrive and start answering phones. Continue to call all day. A firestorm of calls is apparently necessary to shake them from Rep. Price's insistence that illegal aliens who don't commit felonies should be allowed to keep their U.S. jobs in peace.

We believe we have both Democratic and Republican allies who will offer amendments to protect the 287(g) program for local enforcement. It is still possible to protect local enforcement and to continue workplace raids. As you can see in the story below, Chairman Price does not believe there is any harm in foreign workers illegally taking jobs.

Please read my blog that is on the NumbersUSA home page. It contains my comments from here on the Mexico/Arizona border and how Chairman Price and his kind are responsible for some pretty awful things happening down here.

Please phone at least one committee Member on the list below. Call at:

202-224-3121

Tell the person who answers some or all of the following:

You are calling about the DHS Appropriations bill (Department of Homeland Security.

You know the Congressman/woman is on the committee that will be marking up the bill ("marking up" means amending and putting into final form to send to the full House of Representatives).

It is most important the he/she expand funding for the 287(g) program that trains local agencies to enforce immigration law.

You want ICE to continue to conduct workplace raids on companies with huge illegal workforces.

You might want to pick up some of the themes from my border blog. www.NumbersUSA.com

Slam everything from Chairman Price's comments below to which you object.

HERE ARE MEMBERS OF HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

Please phone a Representative from your state.

If your state is not listed here, please phone a Representative in your region of the country.

One phone call will be a wonderful help. If you have time and want to be a hero today, please call as many from your region as possible.

ALABAMA

Robert B.Aderholt
Jo Bonner
Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr.

ARIZONA

Ed Pastor

ARKANSAS

Marion Berry

CALIFORNIA

Ken Calvert
Sam Farr
Michael Honda
Barbara Lee
Jerry Lewis
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Adam Schiff

CONNECTICUT

Rosa L. DeLauro

FLORIDA

Allen Boyd
Ander Crenshaw
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Dave Weldon
C.W. Bill Young

GEORGIA

Sanford Bishop
Jack Kingston

IDAHO

Michael K. Simpson

ILLINOIS

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Ray LaHood
Mark Steven Kirk

INDIANA

Peter J. Visclosky

IOWA

Tom Latham

KANSAS

Todd Tiahrt

KENTUCKY

Ben Chandler
Harold Rogers

LOUISIANA

Rodney Alexander

MARYLAND

C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger

MASSACHUSETTS

John W. Olver

MICHIGAN

Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
Joe Knollenberg

MINNESOTA

Betty McCollum

MISSOURI

Jo Ann Emerson

MONTANA

Dennis R. Rehberg

NEW JERSEY

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
Steven R. Rothman

NEW MEXICO

Tom Udall

NEW YORK

Maurice D. Hinchey
Steve Israel
Nita M. Lowey
José E. Serrano
James T. Walsh

NORTH CAROLINA

David E. Price

OHIO

David L. Hobson
Marcy Kaptur
Ralph Regula
Tim Ryan

PENNSYVANIA

Chaka Fattah
John P. Murtha
John E. Peterson

RHODE ISLAND

Patrick J. Kennedy

TENNESSEE

Zach Wamp

TEXAS

John Carter
John Abney Culberson
Chet Edwards
Kay Granger
Ciro Rodriguez

VIRGINIA

Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
James P. Moran
Frank R. Wolf

WASHINGTON

Norman D. Dicks

WEST VIRGINIA

Alan B. Mollohan

WISCONSIN

David R. Obey


ICE Priorities Key Flashpoint Of Department Spending Bill


Tue. Jun. 24, 2008
by Chris Strohm
(from Congress Daily)

House appropriators today are expected to approve a bill that would make a major shift in U.S. immigration policy by focusing law enforcement resources on tracking down and deporting criminal illegal immigrants over raiding worksites.

The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up the FY09 Homeland Security spending bill, which would provide the Homeland Security Department $39.9 billion in discretionary spending.

In a move that could put appropriators on a collision course with the White House, the bill would target $800 million for the bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a way that differs from the Bush administration's request.

ICE enforces U.S. immigration laws inside the United States and has conducted several high-profile and controversial worksite raids.

Advocates of the raids say they are needed to prove the government is serious about cracking down on illegal immigrants. Critics say they ensnarl migrant workers who are not threatening and cause major disruptions to families.

Under the direction of Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Price, D-N.C., the bill would direct ICE to spend the $800 million to identify and deport illegal immigrants in U.S. communities or jails who have committed serious crimes.

"We're serving notice that this is to be ICE's priority," Price said Monday during a speech at the Center for American Progress.

"In other words, while we have been using scarce resources to detain and deport laborers at meatpacking plants, we have allowed tens of thousands of dangerous criminal aliens to be released back into our communities after serving their sentences, with no awareness on our part of their immigration status," he said.

Overall, the bill would give ICE $4.8 billion. That is only $60 million above the administration's request for ICE, meaning the
additional funding to identify and deport illegal immigrants comes out of other areas of the budget.

"No matter what one's opinion about the broader illegal immigration problem and how to address it, we should all be able to agree that ICE's highest priority should be to identify and deport unlawfully present aliens who have already shown themselves to be a danger to our communities and have been convicted of serious crimes," Price said.

An aide to Price said the funding shift would not prevent ICE from conducting operations unrelated to deporting criminal illegal immigrants, but the bill would make clear doing so should be the top priority.

A spokeswoman for ICE said the agency gave Congress a plan earlier in the year with detailed estimates on the anticipated costs to identify and remove criminal illegal immigrants in U.S. jails.

But she said the spending bill "places restrictions on existing funds used to support broader ICE enforcement efforts like those that target immigration fugitives and criminal aliens in our communities as well as those that allow ICE to partner with state and local law enforcement agencies to reduce crime."

She added: "We are hopeful that the House will fund the plan without restricting these other important immigration enforcement programs."


Several amendments to the spending bill could be offered during today's markup.

Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee ranking member Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said he is concerned that the bill places too many restrictions on the department when it comes to spending money to build fencing along the southwest border.

Appropriations ranking member Jerry Lewis has said he opposed a provision that would require the department to pay prevailing wages on contracts.

Rogers expressed concern that the bill does not cap how many airport screeners the Transportation Security Administration can hire.


THANKS, YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED,

Monday, June 23, 2008

HOMELAND INSECURITY
WorldNetDaily Exclusive

U.S. military fights drug war on Mexican border
Joint Task Force North assists federal law enforcement
--WND

LAW OF THE LAND
Court
rejects case on fast track for border fence
Environmental groups wanted to rein in administration's power to waive laws
--Associated Press

[From WorldNetDaily.com]


Environmentalists Fail to Stop Border Fence Construction
(CNSNews.com) - The Supreme Court has turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. News on the Web

Mexican Smugglers Making US Lands Unsafe
(CNSNews.com) - "Once-pristine landscapes on the U.S. Southwest border have become dangerous corridors for drug-smuggling operations and other illegal activities that threaten Indian communities, public land stewards and recreational visitors," the Interior Department's Web site says. Full Story

Soldiers Raid Tijuana Drug Cartel at Baptism Party
(CNSNews.com) - Mexican authorities arrested a total of 61 people in Saturday's sweep, including the band hired to play at the party and three city police officers. Full Story

[From CNSNews.com]