Montana Man To 'Thank' Arizona For Anti-Illegal Immigration Stance
A man active in the Tea Party movement in Montana said he will attend an anti-illegal immigration rally in Arizona this weekend, where he will present officials state flags from Montana in appreciation of their efforts to control the borders with Mexico.
Tim Ravndal of Townsend says he will make a public presentation of the flag at the rally Saturday in Phoenix to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County. Ravndal said he hopes to meet with Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday and give her another flag.
In April, Brewer signed state Senate Bill 1070, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. The bill, considered the toughest anti-illegal immigration legislation in the nation, also mandates that police enforcing any other law to question people about their immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country illegally...
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Rohrbacher Takes Protest Against Mexican ID Cards To Catalina Event
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher flew by helicopter to Santa Catalina Island at dawn Thursday to personally condemn an effort by the Mexican Consulate to offer identification cards to local undocumented workers.
But his hastily arranged visit, which aimed to single out Avalon as an example of a community overwhelmed with illegal immigration issues, drug abuse and crime, drew mixed reviews from island officials and merchants.
Some welcomed the attention in an isolated seaside community, about 22 miles off the Southern California coast, where an estimated 70% of the 3,000 permanent residents are Spanish-speaking Latinos...
Mexico Opens California Office To Provide ID For Illegals
The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.
"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Illegal Immigrants Crime Spree In WA.
Gregorio Luna Luna had a history of beating up his live-in girlfriend Griselda Ocampo Meza. He was also in the U.S. illegally. On May 1, Luna Luna was deported to Mexico. Three weeks later Meza was murdered in her apartment in a violent knife attack.
Franklin County prosecutors say Luna Luna slipped past the border again and killed Meza in front of their five year old son. He's in the county jail awaiting trial.
A suspected rapist in Edmonds, Washington has been deported at least 4 times according to Snohomish County prosecutors. Jose Lopez Madrigal has been charged with raping a woman next to a dumpster behind a Safeway store. A witness to the attack alerted police and Madrigal was taken into custody.
An illegal immigrant just convicted of his possible 3rd strike in Whatcom county- a rape of a homeless woman- has been deported to Mexico five times.
Washington State ranks 11th in the nation in the number of illegal immigrants with an estimated 150,000. They make up 2% of the state's population, but account for 4.5% of those in Washington prisons. In Franklin county, 14% of the jail bookings are illegal immigrants...
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Officials: Ohio, Arizona Share Concerns Over Illegal Immigration
COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. — “United States citizen?” the Border Patrol agent asked, his eyes darting into the back of the car and passenger seat. He didn’t ask for identification, but accepted the answer, “Yes, sir.”
“Have a good day,” he responded.
The checkpoint was more than 50 miles north of the Mexican border on Highway 80, just south of the town of Benson in Chochise County, Ariz.
More than 1,000 miles away, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones wants his deputies to have the power to ask the same question.
Jones and state Rep. Courtney Combs, R-Hamilton, spent several days this week touring that part of the U.S. border with Mexico where roughly half of the arrests of those trying to cross take place.
Their goal is a bill in Ohio that “mirrors” a controversial Arizona measure requiring local officers to question anyone detained in the enforcement of another law about his or her immigration status if there’s reasonable suspicion that person is in the country illegally...
Arizona Border Land A 'War Zone'
BISBEE, Ariz. — The frustration is palpable. It’s on the faces of ranchers who work within arm’s reach of loaded rifles for their own safety, and who shake their heads when they talk about the effectiveness of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Some of them work in fear after a rancher was shot to death on his property in March by a suspected illegal immigrant.
The problem is visible: hidden cameras show hundreds of people streaming through the desert on a regular basis. Some carry what police say are 80-pound bundles of marijuana; others are young males and females looking for a better life.
The next day, piles of water bottles and backpacks litter the ranches in spots where they stopped to rest. On Monday, May 25, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office picked up yet another dead body just two miles from the border...
