The New York Times: Home of the Whopper By Charles Breiterman, Friday, August 7, 2009 An Illegal alien graduated from Harvard. A sob story newspaper article bemoaned his lack of options, stating that he thought that the Dream Act would be law by now. The reporter neglected to mention that the Harvard alumni network is some 3,000 strong in Mexico, and includes the current and former presidents of that country. This guy should be able to find a good job, legally, in Mexico. Read More » Going to August Town Hall Meetings is the Most Important Thing NumbersUSA Members Can Do By Chris Chmielenski, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 If you tuned into one of the cable news channels or logged onto one of the online news services over the past two days, you were likely to see mobs of angry citizens confronting their Congressmen over the proposed healthcare legislation. This is exactly the kind of dedication and energy we need from our NumbersUSA members this month on the immigration front. Read More » Lamar Smith Spells Out Costs of Speaker Pelosi's Insistence on Covering Illegal Aliens With Federal Health Plan By Roy Beck, Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Now, nobody in Congress can claim not to know what is going on with illegal aliens and the proposed federal health plan. Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas has laid out the details in The Hill, a newspaper for the Capitol Hill staffers and Members of Congress. Read More » Today, House Committee Showed Why You Can Never Believe A Congressman Without Verification By Roy Beck, Friday, July 31, 2009 Congressmen lie. Congressmen deceive. Congressmen think the voters in their District are either idiots or too apathetic to notice. Today's vote on health care for illegal aliens is such a perfect example. The vote was a farce that will be used by many Congressmen to defend themselves against charges that they promote illegal immigration, when in fact their action today just encouraged more of it. Read More » Recent News Schumer Points to the Fall for Amnesty Proposal Sens. Jeff Sessions and Lamar Alexander Cosponsor the SAVE Act Gallup Poll Reveals Americans Favor Reduced Immigration Sen. David Vitter Cosponsors SAVE Act 'Treehugger' Website Wonders if Immigration Should Be Reduced To Help Environment Sen. Mary Landrieu Cosponsors SAVE Act American Meat Institute Favors E-Verify Schumer Points to the Fall for Amnesty Proposal Keep the Pressure on Congress By Chris Chmielenski, Friday, August 7th, 2009 The House of Representatives began their summer recess last week, and the Senate will be leaving Washington this week to spend some time in their districts before Labor Day. This is the best time to get to your Members' local office and tell them to vote against giving health care to illegal aliens. Read Roy's blog that summarizes an op-ed written by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) detailing the ways illegal aliens can get coverage under the new plan. You can find a list of your Members' local offices on our website. The pro-amnesty groups are organizing trips to Town Hall Meetings across the country, so make sure your voice is being heard as well. NumbersUSA takes no position on health care reform, but we do oppose the coverage of 11-19 million illegal aliens. When attending a Town Hall Meeting or visiting a local office (see a list of talking points), it's important that you stress the importance of verification. The health care reform bill (H.R.3200) excludes illegal aliens from receiving benefits, but without verification, it will be easy for anyone to receive benefits under the bill. Don't let your Congressmen off the hook; keep the pressure on until the say they'll support adding verification to the bill. We also had four great amendments added to the Homeland Security spending bill last month. The amendments would permanently re-authorize E-Verify and make it mandatory for all government contractors, ensure the completion of the border fence along the Southwest border, and reinstate the No-Match letter program. After the summer recess, a conference committee will decide whether or not to keep these amendments in the bill. Ask your Members to keep these four amendments passed by the Senate in the bill.

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Tennessee Man Jailed in 2006 Murder of Marshall County Man
GUNTERSVILLE, AL. - A Tennessee man sought in connection with the July 2006 shooting death of a Marshall County man is being held without bond in the county jail here...

Distinction Fading Between 'Legal' and 'Illegal'
...Asked what he thought about illegal immigration, the late singer-politician Sonny Bono replied: "It's illegal." Nowadays, of course, referring to illegal immigration as somehow illegal is considered overly harsh and judgmental, perhaps racist and nativist as well. Better to refurbish one's vocabulary by talking about "undocumented workers," which eliminates that unwelcome hint of lawbreaking...

Obama Sees Early 2010 Start on Immigration Reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the country's immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both sides of the political divide, by "early next year."...

ICE Announces 29 Arrests
... A total of 29 gang members and gang associates, including many with serious criminal histories, are in custody this morning following a three-day multi-agency gang enforcement operation in Las Vegas and Mesquite spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Brothers Likely Facing Deportation
Two brothers are likely to be deported following sentencing in a forgery case Thursday in Mower County...

Ohio ID Crime Arrests Up 8 Percent This Year (Columbus, Ohio - August 3, 2009)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The State Highway Patrol says during the first half of this year Ohio troopers made 8 percent more arrests for identity crimes, compared to the same period in 2008...

Sheriff's Deputies Arrest 13 More Illegal Aliens on State Felony Charges
Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today said his human smuggling deputies arrested 13 more illegal aliens late last night on state felony charges, which brings the total number to 61 illegal aliens arrested by his deputies in the last seven 7 days...

Arpaio to Continue to Arrest Illegal Aliens Regardless of Federal Interference
Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today said his human smuggling deputies arrested 13 more illegal aliens late last night on state felony charges, which brings the total number to 61 illegal aliens arrested by his deputies in the last seven 7 days...

New Study Shows True Cost of Illegal Immigration in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON (Map) - A study released this week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), documents the real cost of illegal immigration to Pennsylvanians. The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Pennsylvanians finds that providing education and health care to illegal aliens and their families, and incarcerating criminal illegal aliens, costs state taxpayers nearly $730 million annually...

End to Arizona Employer-Sanction Law Sought
The nation's largest business group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court

to quash Arizona's employer-sanctions law, at least in part to prevent the idea from spreading...

H-2B Fraud Ring Busted in Utah
An alleged H-2B visa fraud ring operated in Utah for at least four years from July 2005 to June 2009. The Salt Lake Tribune has done a series of stories about the conspiracy, and KSL TV 5 has an excellent video news report of the story (link below).
[4 visa fraud suspects appear in federal court, by Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News (Salt Lake City),August 3, 2009]...

There Could Be Amnesty for 30 Million Illegals by Labor Day
July 2009: Conducting interviews on this topic is the founder and president of the Minuteman Project Jim Gilchrist.
The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigration.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sen. Chuck Schumer said an immigration bill can be done by the end of the year or early next year that works out disagreements between labor and business interests on the flow of legal foreign workers...

11 Illegal Immigrants Found in Van on I-95 in Maryland
Authorities discovered 11 illegal immigrants traveling from Houston in a van pulled over for speeding by Maryland State Police on Interstate 95, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman confirmed...

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Illinois Dems Renew Push for Immigration Reform
When the summer recess is over and Congress returns to Capitol Hill, will immigration reform remain a top priority for Democrats? While members of Congress have been sending mixed messages about exactly how hard they'll push for reform, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has pledged to introduce legislation before Labor Day. And just this morning, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that she sees drafting such legislation as the most pressing issue on her department's agenda. Still, the White House itself has been somewhat slow to commit...

Illegal Alien Arrested for Raping Girl in Tennesee
Guatemalan national Ever Ricardo Morales, 22, was arrested on Wednesday in Murfreesboro, TN and charged with five counts of statutory rape. The victim is a 13-year-old girl...

Immigrant Worker's Protest Layoffs, Repression
Over 1,000 immigrant workers and their supporters marched in Los Angeles July 29 in opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies. While the marchers were protesting the increasing use of I-9 audits and E-Verify (both means by which the government checks on the “eligibility” of workers for employment), mass firings and sweeps against the immigrant working class in industries across the country, the organizers of the protest are merely asking that fired workers be given more notice...

La Raza Starting to Sweat Over Patriotic Resistance to Open Borders Agenda
Last week (July 25-28) the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) held its annual conference at Chicago’s McCormick Place West. The conference was originally scheduled to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, but organizers moved it in order to “punish” that town after its mayor had the audacity to appoint one of the Minutemen to an official position...

Rosenberg Man, On Probation After 2004 Rape, Is Hit With a 10 Year Prison Sentence
A Rosenberg man, on probation for his part in the 2004 rape of a teenage girl, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by 240th District Judge Thomas Culver III, who revoked his probation...

Suspect Faces More Charges After Women Grabbed
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An illegal immigrant that police said grabbed at least four female joggers in the Belmont area is now facing more charges...

What Are the Odds? Members of International Gang Found in Spa City?
Two El Salvador nationals arrested in Saratoga Springs are members of the violent international gang MS13, and police are investigating whether a Salvadoran from Corinth who is charged in the alleged kidnapping of a 24-year-old woman is part of the group, authorities said today...

Minutemen Settle Adopt-A-Highway Suit
A lawsuit alleging that state officials conspired to prevent an anti-illegal immigration group from participating in the state's Adopt-a-Highway program was settled, a court document states...

DMV Inspectors Bust Sampson Fake ID Operation
Three Sampson County men have been charged in manufacturing fake IDs and other fraudulent identification documentsfor illegal immigrants...

Attend/Watch NDN Event - Politics and Policy: What to Expect from the Immigration Debate
Please join NDN on Tuesday, August 4 at 12:00 p.m. for a discussion of the political and policy elements that are likely to be considered in the upcoming comprehensive immigration reform bill in Congress...

La Raza, Mexican Terrorist Organization
...What is La Raza? The National Council of La Raza (its full name) is a pro-mestizo advocacy organization. The title “La Raza” is Spanish for “the race,” and its underlying rational is to support the interests of the mestizo race (people who are mostly Amerindian blood with a little Spaniard blood mixed in – people mostly from Mexico, Central America, and neighboring areas)...