AMHERST — All five illegal aliens who fled from a minivan on the Ohio Turnpike in Amherst on Friday have been arrested, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
The five men — two from Honduras, two from Guatemala and a Mexican — fled from the van after it was pulled over by Border Patrol and ran south into a wooded area behind the Vermilion Valley Service Plaza. Amherst police and the Ohio State Highway patrol arrested three of the suspects within a few hours. Amherst police and Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the other two early Saturday morning.
All five were then turned over to the Border Patrol’s Sandusky Bay Station, according to a press release.
Melvin Hernandez, of Mexico, is charged with felony counts of transporting illegal aliens, according to the release.
See Tuesday’s edition of The Morning Journal for more on this story.
SEE STORY: Border Patrol searching area for illegal immigrants on the run
Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Congressman Tom McClintock Tells Mexico To Butt Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDo36xPYgE
ALIPAC1 — May 20, 2010 — Mexican President Felipe Calderon insulted America by demanding that our congress pass amnesty for Mexican illegal aliens on May 19, 2010. Congressman Tom McClintock told Calderon to Butt Out of American affairs.
Four Mexican nationals charged with rape, murder of La. woman
On Sunday, less than 24 hours after the lifeless body of Angela Laudun, 33, was discovered in a remote area, Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Deputies arrested and charged four Mexican nationals with her rape and murder.
According to the sheriff’s office, around 2:00 a.m., Saturday, the woman voluntarily left a Galliano bar with the men, at which time they drove her to a nearby house. Apparently, Laudin became concerned for her safety and tried to leave, but the men held her down and took turns raping her.
At some point, during the ordeal, she was strangled to death...
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Since the Arizona legislature passed Senate Bill 1070, the media has been abuzz about illegal immigration. How dare they pass such a measure? That's the message that keeps flowing from the mouths of the liberal elite. They have tolerance for drug dealing, kidnapping, murder, and other crimes, but no tolerance for people -- American citizens -- who want to protect themselves. Take a public position against Arizona's new law, and you are celebrated by the media for expressing your First Amendment rights of free speech and free expression. But how about if you support the law? If you're Jim Clark, support for Arizona's new law got him thrown out of a basketball game...
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(Editor's note: This is Part One of a two-part series on solutions to America's illegal immigration problem.)
With his thick Austrian accent, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quipped in his commencement address at Emory University last week, "I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me."
It seems that the whole country is taking sides in the battle over the border in Arizona. Yet it truly remains the tip of the iceberg of ourimmigration troubles. Spurred on by the national debate, at least 10 other states are now seeking to enact tougher illegal immigration laws.
Now, more than ever, we must protect our borders and sovereignty by providing genuine solutions to the dangers of American boundary fluidity. With estimates showing that by 2060 America will add 167 million people (37 million immigrants today will multiply into 105 million then), it is imperative for us to do more to solve this crisis. Now is the time to beat the doors of change and save the boundaries and future of America...
TRENTON, N.J. — Since moving to this city from her native Guatemala a decade ago, Herlinda, an illegal immigrant, has supported her family with restaurant work, but has had no way of proving that she lives here. Without government-issued photo identification, like a driver’s license or a passport, she said, she could not get treatment at most medical clinics, borrow a book from the library, pick up a package from a mail center or cash a check.
But this month she discovered a solution: a community identification card issued by a coalition of civic groups and endorsed by Trenton and Mercer County officials...
$1 billion, 30-week processing program revealed in leaked 14-page Homeland Security memo
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, already has drafted a plan for processing 13 million illegal alien applicants for amnesty in a 30-week period at an estimated cost of $1 billion, WND has learned.
The plan, a copy of which was obtained by WND, anticipates the approval of so-called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" legislation pending in Congress and assumes a nine-month ramp-up period for processing of applications.
The undated draft report anticipates the possibility of the legislation requiring public benefits to amnesty applicants.
"If the statute requires interim benefits while application pending, issue discrete variant of status document (shorter term duration that [sic] if issued after prospective immigrant status granted)," the 14-page memo states...
An illegal immigrant from Bolivia had security clearance and was working as a custodian at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when he was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials for claiming he was a U.S. citizen while applying for additional security credentials.
Juan Sejas was taken into custody at Washington Dulles International Airport by CBP officials after he provided them with an allegedly fake Puerto Rican birth certificate and Social Security card. Sejas was seeking a CBP certificate that would allow him into the International Operations Division. The certificate, authorities said, would have given him further access to secure areas...
Friday, May 21, 2010
Mayor Michael B. Coleman has banned city workers from traveling to Arizona on government business, a decision that plunged Columbus yesterday deep into the nation's emotional debate over illegal immigration.
Coleman, who opposes a new Arizona law allowing police to demand documentation from people who they suspect are in the country illegally, has told city department heads that he will not authorize travel to the state and will review contracts with businesses based there on a case-by-case basis.
The travel ban started several weeks ago when the mayor rejected a request from the city's technology director to attend a seminar in Phoenix, Coleman spokesman Dan Williamson said.
"He agrees with those who want to send a message to the state of Arizona that this is not the American way," Williamson said.
But the decision brought swift calls for retaliation from supporters of the Arizona law, who insist the state is not targeting people based on race or ethnicity but simply reacting to a lack of federal action to enforce existing immigration laws.
News of the policy first was reported on Dispatch.com yesterday morning. By early afternoon, after conservative websites began linking to the story, a boycott against Columbus was brewing.
"I was about to book a week in Columbus so my son could attend a sports camp at OSU," wrote one reader, a resident of Virginia. "I guess I will take my money elsewhere. No summer trip to Columbus for my family."
A reader from Michigan wrote: "This settles it for me then. I will no longer stop in Columbus for my meals, fuel and hotel while traveling from Michigan. I will just go a little farther down I-70 and give my money to Zanesville."...
Why was this passed as an Emergency Resolution?
William Gheen Calls for "End to Illegal Immigration" on Alex Jones Tv (05/19/2010)
TheAlexJonesChannel — May 19, 2010 — Alex welcomes back to the show William Gheen, the leader of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC or ALIPAC, which is one of the largest grassroots organizations in America fighting for more immigration enforcement, border security and against illegal immigration and Amnesty. Gheen appears regularly on hundreds of talk radio shows across America, as well as on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and CBS. Mr. Gheen is often quoted in newspaper articles and is sourced in publications like USA Today, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and the Washington Times.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks at Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill May 17. (AP Photo)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted Monday that she has not read the controversial Arizona immigration law even though she's gone on television to criticize it, and continued to assert that it was "bad law enforcement law."
The admission comes after Attorney General Eric Holder, who earlier warned the law could create a "slippery slope" toward racial profiling, told a House committee last week that he had not read the bill either. On Tuesday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said he too had not read the bill, even as he defended diplomatic official Michael Posner for comparing the law to Chinese human rights violations.
Napolitano discussed the policy under questioning by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the BP oil spill response.
"I have not reviewed it in detail. I certainly know of it," the former Arizona governor said when asked by McCain whether she had a chance to give the language a close look...
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Jan. 9, 2008: A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over a group of immigrants arrested after crossing illegally from Mexico through the Altar Valley in Arizona.
Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers even more than once thought -- a whopping $2.7 billion in 2009, according to researchers at the public interest group that helped write the state's new immigration law.
Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.
FAIR’s cost estimates – compiled for a comprehensive national immigration report it plans to release next month – include several new cost areas, including welfare and the justice system, that weren’t in previous reports...
AMHERST, OH -- Five illegal immigrants were captured after an intense search took place on the Ohio Turnpike Friday morning.
After doing a routine cruise on the Ohio turnpike at approximately 9:55 am, the U.S. Border Patrol noticed a suspicious acting vehicle. Agents attempted to perform a vehicle stop near the Vermillion Valley Service Plaza, however, as the mini-van was pulling over, three passengers in the back seat bailed out and ran south into a heavily wooded area behind the plaza. Once the vehicle came to a complete stop, the driver and front passenger also bailed out of the van and began following the other three subjects in an attempt to escape Border Patrol agents.
Agents immediately contacted the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Great Lakes Air Branch and an AS-350 ASTAR Light Enforcement Helicopter was dispatched to the scene. Additionally, Border Patrol agents requested assistance from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Lorain County Sheriff’s Department, and Amherst Police Department in locating the fleeing subjects...
