INVASION USA
Border fence averaged $3.9 million per mile
10-foot-or-higher steel barriers designed to stop or slow down people on foot
--Arizona Daily Star

Suspected illegal rapes woman in front of son, 4
'Because of her efforts and the DNA evidence, detectives were able to arrest this guy'
--Miami Herald

Heroin the Focus in City Drug Raids
ASHTABULA — Eleven Ashtabula-area residents were arrested early Thursday in a drug sweep that capped a months-long investigation into heroin trafficking, officers said.

Drug Sweep Suspects Appear in Court
Eight Ashtabula residents arrested on wide range of drug-related charges, including trafficking in heroin

Hispanic Group Alleges Hate Speech on Cable News
In a petition to the FCC this week, the National Hispanic Media Coalition claims that hate speech is "prevalent" on national cable news networks and wants the government to do something about it...

Napolitano Wants Criminal Aliens Out of US
If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country...

Minutemen Brace for Revival of Amnesty Legislation
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is getting ready to again battle against amnesty for illegal aliens – this time with a fresh Congress and a new President...

Mexican Nationals Flock to Consulate Visit
...More than 200 Mexican nationals visited the Rock County Job Center on Thursday to obtain passports or Mexican voter cards, known as matriculas consulares. They came from all over Rock and Walworth counties, representing a variety of ages, family backgrounds and circumstances...

Racial Profiling Claimed in Immigration Arrests
Day-laborer and neighborhood activists Friday accused the U.S. Border Patrol and Riverside police of racial profiling in the immigration arrests of at least 25 people in Riverside's Casa Blanca neighborhoods and said it could strain the Latino community's relationship with the police...

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Guess what Obama's illegal alien aunt wants now ...
'This type of obstinacy and persistence is well known to the family'
--WND

53 Illegal Immigrants Caught in Douglas Operation
Fifty-three illegal immigrants from Mexico has a “candid camera” moment on Sunday. Around 7 p.m. U.S. Border Patrol camera operators spotted the large group crossing the border west of Douglas, Tucson Sector spokeswoman Dove Crawford said on Monday...

Man Faces 20 Years for Fatal Stabbing
A 33-year-old Mexican immigrant who stabbed a City of Poughkeepsie woman to death in July 2007 faces a 20-year prison term for the crime.

12 Arrested During Raid of Furninture Store
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office raided a Scottsdale furniture business today and arrested 12 out of 20 employees, according Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Activists Keep Heat On Obama Over Immigration
When U.S. President Barack Obama took office last week, a coalition of south Texas landowners wrote to his new administration urging an end to a wall-building program on the Mexico border...

Immigration Advocacy Workshop

Immigration Advocacy Workshop
Alliance Group: Justice & Civil Rights
Region: Central

King Avenue United Methodist Church

Columbus, Ohio
43201

An immigration advocacy workshop will take place on Saturday, February 28, 2009.

This one-day workshop is geared toward emerging immigrants’ rights advocates to improve their ability to advocate for immigrants and refugees in Ohio. Leaders from around the state will gather to learn the basics of advocacy, messaging, and talking to elected officials. The event will be hosted by the ACLU of Ohio, Community Refugee and Immigration Services (Columbus), Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (Cincinnati), the American Friends Service Committee (Dayton) and Hispanas Organizadas en Lake Y Ashtabula (Ashtabula).

ANYONE OPPOSED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION , CONTACT rally-team@sbcglobal.net TO JOIN OUR GROUP IN A COUNTER DEMONSTRATION.

Chicago Immigration Activist Marks Year in Church
The illegal immigrant has defied a deportation order to her native Mexico and lived at Adalberto United Methodist Church, hoping to draw attention to Immigration reform at a time when the economy and election of a new U.S. president have taken center stage.

Want a Green Card? Pay $1M for Stake in Orlando Area Condo Hotel
...The condo-hotel resort received government approval several months ago to serve as a "regional center" for foreign investment. Under federal immigration policy, an approved foreigner whose investment is supposed to create 10 full-time jobs in the U.S. can get a conditional visa to live here -- and can ultimately secure a regular "green card" good for permanent residency....

U.S. Born Parents of Undocumented Parents Sue Obama
The lawyers for over 600 American born children filed a lawsuit against President Obama to suspend the deportation of their undocumented parents until there is immigration law reform.

Wright City Men Arrested for Sex Crime
Two Wright City men have been charged with sex crimes against teenage girls.

Illegal Immigrant Backs Up into Mesa Cop Car
A Mesa police officer’s patrol car was damaged this morning after police said an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a suspended driving license put his 1979 Ford pickup in reverse and hit the cruiser during a traffic stop...

Illegal Immigrants Charged with Rapes at Trailer Park
The Warren County Sheriff's Department is investigating two separate cases of statutory rape that occurred in the same trailer park...

INVASION USA
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Activist: 'Where's the fence?'
Says only 200 miles of border barrier actually constructed
--WND

'Dangerous' suspects to be asked immigration status? Maryland county leaders say aim would be to keep criminals off streets --Gaithersburg Gazette, Maryland

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Border agent excited about homecoming
'He wanted me to tell everybody, 'Thank you''
--WND

Government Worried About Media Interest in Obama's Aunt

The Homeland Security Department still is requiring high-level approval before federal immigration agents can arrest fugitives, a rule quietly imposed by the Bush administration days before the election of Barack Obama, whose aunt has been living in the United States illegally...


UPDATE: Undocumented Workers Detained in Corning

Eight undocumented workers were detained Thursday in Corning after police received a tip from code enforcement officials...

Deported Mexican Busted on Drug Charges in Carmel

A Bronx man, once deported to his native Mexico after serving jail time on a drug conviction, is being held without bail at the Putnam County jail after Carmel police found numerous drugs in his car during a traffic stop, Chief Michael Johnson said today...


DPS Sued Over Rules for Immigrant Drivers

Civil rights advocates sued the Texas Department of Public Safety recently, contending that new driver's license requirements for immigrants discriminate against people legally in the United States...


Illegal Alien Sent to Prison

Jose Felix Franco-Maqueda, who had been deported twice before, was ordered to spend 27 months in federal prison Wednesday for entering the United States illegally from Mexico...

Oberlin Passes Passes Measure Favorable to Noncitizens

A resolution giving noncitizens equal access to city services that passed at City Council could be headed to the ballot.


Burglary, Home Invasion Suspects Illegal Immigrants

The three men arrested last week in connection with a string of burglaries and home invasions in Beaumont are illegal immigrants from Colombia, officials say...


State Police Detain 4 Illegal Immigrants After After Traffic Stops

Four illegal immigrants were arrested Tuesday in the vicinity of Gold Star Plaza shopping center, Shenandoah, state police at Frackville said...


Immigrant Advocates Call for End to Raids

Several hundred immigrant supporters and religious leaders from across the country marched to the Southwest Washington headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency yesterday, strumming guitars, beating drums and waving colorful homemade banners exhorting President Obama to halt immigration raids and promote legislation offering illegal immigrants a path to citizenship...

Partying in D.C.: Illegal Alien / Deportation Fugitive Aunti Zeituni Onyango

Well, isn’t this special? After overstaying her visa, ignoring a federal deportation order for years, escaping apprehension in Boston, and taking refuge in Cleveland, the destitute illegal alien aunt of Barack Obama somehow found her way to Washington, D.C., for her nephew’s inauguration.

Federal immigration officials couldn’t find her, but she was spotted by several media outlets and partygoers around the Beltway...

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily
Obama poised to give insurance to illegals
President-elect calls SCHIP expansion '1 of first measures I sign into law'
--WND

Justice is Served!!!
INVASION USA
WorldNetDaily
Bush cuts sentences
of Ramos, Compean
Agents convicted of shooting smuggler
will be released from prison March 20
--WND


ICE Seizes Fraudulent Documents from Weslaco Home
Authorities seized more than 1,200 fraudulent documents from home here Thursday evening, including several hundred Social Security cards, birth certificates and vehicle titles from various states...

As Obama Takes the Whitehouse, Amnesty Ranks Thirteenth (Of Thirteen) On His Priority List

Cops: Bay Shore Woman Stole ID to get Rent Subsidies
A Bay Shore woman who used someone else's identity to qualify for more than $32,000 in government rent payments was arrested Thursday, Suffolk County police said... She was also charged with possessing a forged immigration document...

Selling Out Our Country to Illegals
In the midst of huge financial struggles for the city, the Board of Supervisors began issuing municipal identification cards last week to anyone who provides an ID and a utility bill with a local address or evidence of a child in local public schools... It sounds innocuous except that the main, and likely only, true beneficiaries of the cards, are illegal aliens... Again: what is there about the word "illegal" the supervisors don't understand? ...

COMMENTARY: This Prominent Democrat Called Illegal Aliens 'Free Loaders and Scam Artists'

Most liberals regard illegal aliens as “Undocumented Democrats” and a veritable gold mine of opportunity for holding on to political power by coddling to those here unlawfully and Hispanics in general.


Illegal Immigrants and Families Making $61K Could Qualify for Federal Help Under SCHIP

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the federal program designed to extend health coverage to the nation’s poorest children, would allow legal immigrants and middle class children – those from families making over $61,000 per year – access to a program originally intended for the poorest of the poor.


Naplolitano Says Fixing Immigration System a Priority

Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for homeland security secretary, told a congressional panel this morning that fixing the “broken” U.S. immigration system would be a priority.


Illegal immigrant allegedly used Ohio man’s ID to work in Plymouth

Police say a 36-year-old illegal immigrant has worked in Plymouth for eight or nine years using the identity of an Ohio man, racking up tens of thousands of dollars in debt.


Hundreds wait for hours to buy S.F. ID card

Hundreds of people stood in line for hours at San Francisco City Hall on Thursday to be among the first in the nation to receive municipal identification cards regardless of their immigration status.

Illegal Alien Nabbed in Ashland on Public Indecency Charges

Ashland police arrested a 31-year-old illegal alien Tuesday on charges of two counts of public indecency after witnesses reported him exposing himself and performing sexually explicit acts near the Normal Street Cemetery at the bicycle path.