Saturday, July 10, 2010

Lawless state enabled child’s rape

For a little girl who spent this weekend lying in a Massachusetts hospital, the debate over illegal immigration isn’t about race or politics.

It’s about life and death.

Four-year-old Heidi was brutally raped on Saturday. Now she’s listed in “serious” condition at Baystate Medical Center.

Springfield police have charged 22-year-old Edlizar Mazariegos with aggravated rape of a child with force. Mazariegos, who regularly traveled up and down the East Coast without a driver’s license, is an illegal immigrant. As of this writing, he is on the run from Massachusetts police - likely for the first time ever.

He’s certainly had no need to run before.

This is, after all, “Welcoming Massachusetts,” where liberal Democrats openly support benefits for criminal immigrants and oppose immigration law enforcement...

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Sheriff's Employee Arrested as Illegal Immigrant

DALLAS - A detention service officer at the Dallas County jail was arrested Friday and charged with immigration violations.

Maria Elvia Ross has been a county employee for years. She was hired former Sheriff Jim Bowles in 2001 and has since served on Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s quality assurance team for improving jail sanitation.

It wasn’t until she applied for a sheriff’s deputy position that a background check flagged her immigration status.

The county says that out of the 1,300 detention service officers, none undergo regular background checks...

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Illegal Immigration and sanity: Border Patrol in Northern Ohio (Sandusky County, Ohio - July 1, 2010)

If you live in a rural area, particularly one like Sandusky County, Ohio, where labor intensive crops such as tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumbers are prime earners for farmers, you are likely aware that large numbers of migrant farm workers travel the country to work the planting and harvest seasons. They preform hard work in return for pay that permits them a lifestyle that I doubt I would enjoy, nor would, I daresay, most of my readers (all three of you). Some of them do not possess the necessary documentation for them to accept money in exchange for services from a local farmer. In other words, they are “illegal” workers.

Before I go any farther, think about that for just a moment. Full grown adults-citizen and non-citizen alike-are legally barred by the State from entering the simplest of contracts. Why? How does this comport with the idea of a “free” country, if people must prove their status before some officious bureaucrat. And you must do that if you are a citizen, or not-if you work “under the table” you are a criminal in the eyes of the State just as much as if you crossed the border illegally. I fail to find a justification for such a thing under any theory of governance (or even lack of governance) that has any likening to individual freedom...


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Cops hunt man accused of raping child

Cops are searching for a Guatemalan man accused of brutally raping a 4-year-old girl in Springfield on Saturday while the victim’s mother was working on a blueberry farm in Connecticut.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Edilzar Mazariegos, 22, who is charged with aggravated rape of a child with force, said police Sgt. John Delaney. Mazariegos is also known as Edy Gonzales, Delaney said.

Police said the girl’s mother went to work at 8 a.m. on Saturday and returned at 5 p.m. when she found her daughter crying and bleeding...

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A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants

As the nation's attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.

But the bill also made any immigrant who'd entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty — a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.

In his renewed push for an immigration overhaul this week, President Obama called for Republican support for a bill to address the growing population of illegal immigrants in the country. This time, however, Republicans know better than to tread near the politically toxic A-word.

Part of this aversion is due to what is widely seen as the failure of Reagan's 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. However, one of the lead authors of the bill says that unlike most immigration reform efforts of the past 20 years, amnesty wasn't the pitfall.

"We used the word 'legalization,' " former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson tells NPR's Guy Raz. "And everybody fell asleep lightly for a while, and we were able to do legalization."

The law granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants, yet was largely considered unsuccessful because the strict sanctions on employers were stripped out of the bill for passage.

Simpson says the amnesty provision actually saved the act from being a total loss. "It's not perfect, but 2.9 million people came forward. If you can bring one person out of an exploited relationship, that's good enough for me."...

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Immigration cracks down on illegal cabbies

Weeks ago the Philadelphia Parking Authority mailed a letter to immigrant cabdrivers telling them that credit-card payments were owed to them and to come to the PPA to get paid, drivers said.

When 26 drivers showed up at the PPA garage and impoundment offices in South Philadelphia Wednesday, 23 wound up handcuffed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who determined the cabbies were in the United States illegally, according to ICE spokesman Mark Medvesky.

All but four were released but their names were placed on a deportation list. Medvesky didn't detail why the four others were held...

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New Albany Police Chief says Galion restaurateur in US illegally (New Albany, Ohio - June 30, 2010)

On Thursday, June 24, 26-year-old Omar E. Jimenez of 6467 Hillgrove Road, Galion, was arrested along with two other men in a drug bust. All three “aggravated trafficking” suspects are being held on $500,000 bonds in a Franklin County jail.

New Albany Police Chief Mark Chaney said that Jimenez was one of three “major players,” along with Ricardo Rodriguez of New Albany and Cristian Garcia of Westerville, in a cocaine sting operation that led to the arrest of the three men last Thursday. Garcia was the assistant manager at Mexican restaurant Don Patron in New Albany.

“Somehow he (Jimenez) hooked up with these other guys. We’re not sure how… Jimenez and Rodriguez both are not saying anything or cooperating (since their arrests); they’ve invoked their ‘right to remain silent,’” Chaney told the Galion Inquirer on Tuesday...

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Man accused in rape of young girl indicted

LEBANON — A Texas man in jail with a $1 million bond was indicted on rape charges.

The Warren County grand jury on Friday, July 2, returned indictments for rape, attempted rape and abduction against Armando Bautista Hernandez, 27, of Houston, Texas.

Hernandez is accused of raping a 16-year-old female at the Red Roof Inn in Deerfield Twp. on June 4...

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Ohio Man Killed During July 4 Fireworks Display (New Philadelphia, Ohio - July 8, 2010)

Oswaldo Quinilla Lux, 23, was shot on Sixth Street, according to police.

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio -- A New Philadelphia, Ohio, man was shot and killed during a July 4 fireworks display, according to police.

Oswaldo Quinilla Lux, 23, was killed at about 2:32 a.m. on Sixth Street in New Philadelphia, according to police.

Lux was shot in the side, and police said the bullet passed through his heart and one lung. The incident happened as people were shooting fireworks.

Josh Tolotti said a man came rushing up to him saying another man had been shot.

"He said, 'Someone shot my friend with fireworks,' and then he said, 'Someone drove past and shot my friend,' " Tolotti said...

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Friday, July 9, 2010

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion A Year, Study Finds

The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The study, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com, “is the first and most detailed look at the costs of illegal immigration ever done,” says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Justice Dept. Sues Arizona Over Its Immigration Law

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Arizona to challenge a new state law intended to combat illegal immigration, arguing that it would undermine the federal government’s pursuit of terrorists, gang members and other criminal immigrants.

The suit, filed in federal court in Phoenix, had been expected since mid-June, when Obama administration officials first disclosed they would contest the Arizona law, adding to several other suits seeking to have courts strike it down.

The federal government added its weight to the core argument in those suits, which contend that the Arizona law usurps powers to control immigration reserved for federal authorities. The main suit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other civil rights groups...

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Obama: U.S. Borders Cannot Be Secured With Fences and Border Patrols

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama said today that U.S. borders cannot be secured with fences and border patrols. “It won’t work,” he said.

Obama made the statement in a speech at American University in Washington, D.C. in which he called on Congress to enact a “comprehensive immigration reform” law that would include a “pathway for legal status” for illegal immigrants—or what critics call amnesty...

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How does Ohio immigration law differ from Ariz.?

With so much attention focused on Arizona's new immigration law, some have asked how it differs from enforcement in Ohio.

Capt. Lonnie Sparkman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said the laws are not that different because both mirror federal laws.

To be more specific, Ohio does not have a state immigration law. It operates under the federal law. Arizona recently passed a state law that is, in some ways, more stringent...

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Welcome To Maywood, Mexico

Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than half foreign born, and 40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated city of Maywood has achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless and chaotic as any place in Mexico. Maywood is a warning to every city and town in America.

The Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted out to neighboring cities or to L.A. County government.

How did this happen? Until recently, Maywood was the model for "brown power" politics.

Maywood was the first California city with an elected Hispanic City Council, one of the first "sanctuary" cities for illegal aliens, the first city to pass a resolution calling for a boycott of Arizona after that state passed a law to enforce federal immigration laws, the first California city to order its police department not to enforce state laws requiring drivers to have licenses to drive, the first American city to call on Congress to grant amnesty to all illegals...

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