Sanctuary cities to blame for increase in incarcerated aliens

A new Government Accountability Report found that the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in California rose to 102,795 in 2009, a 17 percent increase since 2003. According to federal auditors, more than one in four of the illegal immigrants imprisoned in California are locked up for drug offenses. The average inmate has been arrested a shocking seven times at an average $34,000 annual cost.

The facilitator that allows criminal aliens to roam free is the sanctuary city policy which bans law enforcement officers and municipal employees from asking about an individual's immigration status. Hundreds of cities across the United States, including some of the largest, have declared that illegal immigrants can live without the fear that local authorities may alert ICE of their whereabouts. Even Washington D.C., the nation's capital and U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement's headquarters is a sanctuary. Others include New York, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and -- well, you get my point...[Full Article]

Illegal aliens would find sanctuary in proposed Utah bill

The head of a grassroots immigration reform organization is dismayed over reports that the Mormon Church is one of major supporters of a bill that could make Utah a "sanctuary state" for illegal aliens.

Utah H.B. 116 has already passed the legislative process and now awaits the decision of Governor Gary Herbert to either sign or veto the historic measure. The bill would create a guest worker program for illegal immigrants in the state, despite the fact that immigration statutes are a federal prerogative.

William Gheen is president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). He says the amnesty legislation is guided by the principles of the Utah Compact, which the Deseret News reported has been endorsed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...[Full Article]

Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Immigrants, the Obama Government — What Comes Next?

Nearly five years ago, The Claremont Institute posted an article which provides the basic facts:

Across the nation cities from New York to Houston to San Diego forbid city officials—including police—from inquiring into anyone’s immigration status or cooperating with immigration officials. The police may not stop or detain persons solely due to their immigration status or even inquire into their status while making routine traffic stops or misdemeanor arrests. These policies have, in effect, created safe havens for illegal immigrants, including criminal aliens.

Cities began adopting sanctuary laws in the 1980s, supposedly to foster trust between illegal immigrants and police. Proponents argued that crimes would not be reported, witnesses to crime would not come forth and immigrants wouldn’t cooperate with police if they feared deportation. Yet the policies adopted reflect the power of immigration advocacy groups more than concerns about crime prevention. Politicians in large cities with significant immigrant populations simply surrendered to the demands of immigrant rights groups that sought to minimize—if not extinguish—the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal aliens. Nor is it only immigrants’ rights groups that promote sanctuary cities. Business interests want a steady source of cheap, compliant and exploitable labor; the minions of the welfare state want to magnify their power by extending the largess of the administrative state to those who will, in all likelihood, take their place in the so-called “underclass.”

The resulting policies not only tolerate crime—after all, illegal immigrants are lawbreakers—but actively abet and protect criminal activity by handcuffing the powers of the police.

Nearly five years ago, the Institute reported that a minimum of 400,000 illegal immigrants had “received final deportation orders from a federal judge,” yet “failed to show up for deportation.” Of these, nearly 100,000 were convicted criminals. The Institute reports: “In sanctuary cities police may not inquire into the deportation status of these aliens or apprehend them until they have committed another crime.”

Additionally, the Institute reported nearly five years ago, 25 percent of California’s prison population was illegal immigrants, “far in excess of their numbers in the general population. When these aliens finish their sentences they are subject to deportation. Yet it has been estimated that fewer than 50 percent of these criminals are actually deported.”

“Even criminal aliens who are actually deported later receive sanctuary in these cities upon their return to the United States,” the Institute reported. “Such returnees naturally look to sanctuary cities as safe havens.”

At this same time, Barack Obama was in the U.S. Senate. These were known facts. Keep this in mind...

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Bailout states with our money? For starters let’s demand an end to sanctuary cities

December 9th, 2008

By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Now that the Democrats have just about destroyed our economy, they want to use our money to slither away from the blame they deserve. Thanks to the idiots and moochers that gave them total control of our lives, they can sneak away by bailing out everybody with our money. They won’t put strings on this money, so we should demand them.

Everybody wants a bailout now that the big bad wolf of recession has blown their houses down. They’ll promise us anything to get our money so they can continue ignoring their responsibilities and go back to dancing every night away.

The latest beggars pleading for a bailout are a number of state governments. This presents a unique opportunity for conservatives to begin to make the case that we have better ideas about how to govern. Our conservative House and Senate leaders should jump on this chance to demand that any state getting a federal taxpayer funded bailout has to outlaw the so called sanctuary cities it has.
Recipient states have to agree to use the money we give them from our wallets, for the benefit of American citizens. The days of throwing money down liberal controlled sewer cities that thumb their noses and laugh at laws the rest of us have to live under must end. This is the best chance at getting real leverage for real reform we are likely to have for years to come.

If we win this fight America wins and conservatism wins. If we are outvoted and this string is not tied to these bailouts, we can point to the failures that will follow as reasons to try conservatism to clean up the mess liberalism has made. This is a win-win if those who want to lead us step up and run with it.

The argument that this or that entity is “too big to be allowed to fail” is wearing thin. Unless some of these situations lead to failures and reorganization through bankruptcies nothing will get fixed. We all know that. If the Republicans were still running things very little would happen as well, and we all know that too. Nevertheless, now that we have been pushed off the field and up into the cheap seats we can have things both ways if only those who claim to want to be our new conservative leaders will push the issue. If you still have a Republican House Representative write or call him/her and demand we use this opportunity to end sanctuary cities. Of course it’s only a small step, but it would at least be a step in the right direction.

Illegal aliens bring America diseases while idiots want to give them amnesty.

December 8th, 2008

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

The crush of illegal aliens has brought us a variety diseases. For the first time we have seen cases of Chagas disease a parasitic illness that is the leading cause of heart failure in Central and South America where as many as 18 million people are infected with this deadly sickness. Transmitted by insects, Chagas, which was unknown here ten years ago is now in 23 states.

The open borders crowd from George Bush down are responsible for bring this and other diseases into our lives, because “they do the jobs Americans won’t do.” What a pile of dung!

Tuberculosis is another disease we have to deal with unnecessarily. It is sometimes rampant in illegal alien communities. In a chicken processing plant in Georgia more than 200 illegal workers who cough and slobber over our food, tested positive for TB, a disease we had beaten until it was reintroduced into our nation by illegal aliens.

The Center for Disease Control tells us just fifteen minutes in the presence of a TB suffer will infect half of those nearby. This puts our children at great r isk.

Tuberculosis attacks the weak which includes the illegal children who carry it from their homes to our schools and on to our homes through our children as they illegally attend our schools. During the course of a bout with Tuberculosis an infected person will transmit it to as many as 50 people.

Incredibly Illegal aliens have brought Leprosy to America. For the first time in 40 years we must deal with this killer disease, one we thought was beaten years ago. We have 7,000 lepers among us because of the open borders crowd. Hearing illegals are here to do jobs Americans won’t do is little comfort when our children are unnecessarily facing these deadly diseases.
It is one thing to battle these people in the political arena, trying to keep them from voting for Democrats and more socialism, but the diseases they bring are a whole new challenge nobody is talking about. Let your voice be heard on this. Having TB and other exotic deadly illnesses show up among us points in only one direction: the illegal coughing next to us on the bus to work or in school. We can’t lose this one!