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Seen at HotAir.com, from Allahpundit:
Report: Senate Republicans sign off on amnesty
Senate Republicans met today and it appears that the majority of them are willing to sign on to a White House-Kennedy “comprehensive” reform. Some have convinced themselves that the measure represents a good trade, i.e. amnesty for 12 million (which they privately acknowledge is the case) in exchange for beefed up enforcement including a worker verification system (assuming government can effectively design one with Democrats refusing to agree to data-sharing among relevant agencies), and an end to chain migration at some point in the future, i.e. when big backlog on extended family members waiting for green cards is cleared up.
Commentary:
I am looking for a word for the actions of our ‘representative’ government to describe their unwillingness to uphold their Constitutional oaths and defend the Country’s borders.
What is the word I am looking for? Malfeasance? No, that’s too soft. Treachery? That’s too smart, but it’s close. Larcenous? Deceptive? Fecklessness? Duplicity?
No. I think the word is tyrannical.
Our governing bodies are actively seeking to deny the will of 77% of the populace and grant unfettered access to the country to hordes of invaders from all corners of the world.
A tally so far:
- 30% of the prison population in California are illegal immigrants. (Many other criminals have not been caught).
- ‘Sanctuary cities’ defy Federal Law with no consequence
- Un-insurable motorists clog the streets
- The burden of non-paying ‘patrons’ of our health care systems results in almost daily closures of hospitals across the Nation.
- Social security and other entitlement programs – already past the breaking point, will be buried as liabilities rise and assets fall.
- Anchor-baby policies encourage the illegal population to grow
- The middle-class is being underbid into extinction by the ‘extra-legals’ who have no standing or obligation to pay into the system of licensing, taxation or insurance requirements
Why?
Not for economics, or concern for civil justice, or compassion for the human spirit. No, it’s for votes.
As our ‘representatives’ are pandering to a new voter pool of 12 – or is it 20? million voters. Let me remind them that this calculus does not hold a marginal propensity for gain.
By gaining 100% of the ‘new’ voters, you will lose half of your base. 12 million on the upside versus 28 million on the downside. Net loss: 14 million, or about 40% of the voters who once identified with the once grand ol’ party’s message.
30 million net votes does not win against the 50 million for the uninforme(D) party. In case you are still wondering, this is precisely what happened in 2006 and now the GOP is again the minority party.
Note to the GOP: If you are not willing to uphold your obligations to uphold the Constitution and defend the borders of the country, Conservatives will find a new avenue for their support. Indeed, the search is in process now.
Voters confirmed in Farmers Branch, Texas this week a measure stop the housing of illegal-entrants to this country in their community. Other voices are rising as well to join the chorus for preservation of the Nation’s security.
After all, this is a case of Americans doing the jobs that Americans’ ‘representatives’ won’t do.
End of Commentary
Headlines and quotes from all over (5/2/2007 – 5/16/2007):
(H/T to Michelle Malkin for the pic.)
Struggle Continues for Immigration Deal
Republicans and Democrats struggled Wednesday over the final details of an elusive deal that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and fortify the border.Among…
4 Mexican policemen slain near Arizona border
The bullet-riddled bodies of four Mexican policemen were found today about 20 miles south of the Arizona border, and the anti-kidnapping chief in another northern Mexico state was reported to have been kidnapped.
Paul noted earlier the rumor that Republicans in the Senate have caved and agreed to a deal on immigration that includes amnesty for illegals. Hugh Hewitt has the talking points that are being circulated…
Work has begun to fill in the longest illegal tunnel discovered under the border between the US and Mexico.
Killing The Children Americans Refuse To Kill
Here’s yet another small child who would still be alive if it weren’t for an undocumented worker ILLEGAL ALIEN (we’ll repeat that for you denser-than-dirt LiberIdiots out there) ILLEGAL ALIEN being on our side of the border, ILLEGALLY, instead of rotting away in the festering shithole on HIS side of border. We’ll post the entire [...]
Border officials outraged over fence contract proposal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas border officials lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday after learning of a call for bids on an up to $250 million contract to build border fencing in Laredo….
Mexico opposition wants army off drug crackdown
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Opposition Mexican lawmakers demanded on Wednesday that soldiers be taken off a joint police and army crackdown on drug trafficking gangs, following a report of…
TOM MAGUIRE ON RON PAUL: “Ron Paul twice went to the moral equivalence argument with his ruminations about what the US might do if China were putting bases in the Gulf of Mexico. And what a great question! Does anyone…
Armed gang kills Mexican police
Four Mexican police officers are kidnapped and later found shot dead, with three people still missing.
Hugh Hewitt: A Disaster: The GOP Caves On Border Security
Word is leaking that the GOP in the Senate are on the verge of agreeing to an immigration bill that has –as a concession to the GOP– less than half of the fencing promised by law last year. White flag time on the…
Former aide to challenge Ron Paul in GOP primary after 9/11 comments
Awesome. He has a long, lucrative career ahead of him giving lectures about the one-world government being organized by Ben Bernanke. Let’s see to it that it begins as soon as possible.
I am calling on Ron Paul to resign his seat, sooner rather than later. Otherwise Congressional District 14 voters from Victoria to Galveston will appear to be endorsing his treachorous, and near treasonous views on foreign policy.
I am sure I speak for many CD 14 voters, and certainly the vast majority of CD 14 Republicans, when I say, Ron Paul, it’s time for you to exit the stage…
I am this morning, declaring my candidacy for Congress in the GOP primaries against Ron Paul. If he does not resign his seat, and if another Republican candidate does not declare against him, I will run a balls-to-the-wall campaign for Congress in Texas CD 14.
I saw more than one person apologize for Paul’s remarks this morning on grounds that he wasn’t defending Al Qaeda’s motivations last night, merely stating them as they’ve been articulated by Bin Laden. Really? No moral benediction whatsoever, huh? Let’s check the transcript, right after the subject of 9/11 was introduced:
We don’t understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we’re building an embassy in Iraq that’s bigger than the Vatican. We’re building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us. (Applause.)
He’s careful to preface that bolded part, you’ll note, with an obligatory nod to “irrationality,” yet somehow he ends up at a position which he doesn’t seem to think is so irrational. They simply did what we would have done, didn’t they? Then he goes on:
I’m suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we’re over there because Osama bin Laden has said, “I am glad you’re over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.”
Jonah Goldberg deals with that argument:
Ron Paul anointed Osama bin Laden the authentic expression of the entire Middle East…
There are far, far, far more Arabs and other Muslims who did not become terrorists because of our actions in the Middle East. But their “perspective” accounts for nothing in Paul’s analysis. The upshot seems to be that our foreign policy must always be held hostage to whichever group of murderers decides to get pissed off at us.
Quite so. Jalal Talabani hasn’t hijacked any planes; why listen to him? And another good point:
If you actually listen to more authentic voices than bin Laden’s — both democratic activists and Islamist bad guys — you’ll find that one of the real reasons “they hate us” is that we support their corrupt rulers and dictators (in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere). Ron Paul’s vision of foreign policy would do nothing to dissuade that impression, because he wants to be “friends” with everybody, starting with those very same dictators.
Yeah, that’s actually the Muslim Brotherhood’s main grievance with the United States. We’re keeping them out of power by propping up Mubarak’s secular dictatorship; the day he falls, the floodgates of democracy will open and the Islamic paradise can at last be founded in Cairo. What’s Captain Nonintervention’s solution to that dilemma? Do we back Mubarak and further antagonize the Islamists? Or do we pull the trap on him, let Egypt go fundie, and make “friends” with the not very libertarian shari’a-ist cretins who’ll take over, notwithstanding the implications their rise to power would have for another war with Israel and the implications that would have for a regional war? The truly amazing thing about Paul’s foreign policy, if you take it seriously, is that it has no moral component whatsoever. Presumably he would even have formalized relations with the Taliban prior to 9/11, lest we lose any “friends.” In fact, Jonah notes Paul’s reference after the debate to “bad policy over 50 years” that’s led to anti-Americanism, which Jonah takes to be a reference to the Cold War. Is it? He seemed to be talking about the Middle East at the time. Isn’t he referring to something else?
The most irritating thing, and the thing that earns Paul so much contempt from centrist conservatives, I think, is that he’s willing to challenge Bush’s assertions — to an O’Donnellesque extent — while taking Bin Laden’s entirely at face value. Osama says he’s aggrieved by the UN sanctions on Iraq? Well then it must be true. It can’t possibly be that, like so many other messianic lunatics with designs on power, he’s using a populist pretext to mask his own imperial ambitions, can it? Let’s ask Bernard Lewis:
In the Muslim perception there has been, since the time of the Prophet, an ongoing struggle between the two world religions, Christendom and Islam, for the privilege and opportunity to bring salvation to the rest of humankind, removing whatever obstacles there might be in their path. For a long time, the main enemy was seen, with some plausibility, as being the West, and some Muslims were, naturally enough, willing to accept what help they could get against that enemy. This explains the widespread support in the Arab countries and in some other places first for the Third Reich and, after its collapse, for the Soviet Union. These were the main enemies of the West, and therefore natural allies.
Now the situation had changed. The more immediate, more dangerous enemy was the Soviet Union, already ruling a number of Muslim countries, and daily increasing its influence and presence in others. It was therefore natural to seek and accept American help. As Osama bin Laden explained, in this final phase of the millennial struggle, the world of the unbelievers was divided between two superpowers. The first task was to deal with the more deadly and more dangerous of the two, the Soviet Union. After that, dealing with the pampered and degenerate Americans would be easy…
Stage One of the jihad was to drive the infidels from the lands of Islam; Stage Two–to bring the war into the enemy camp, and the attacks of 9/11 were clearly intended to be the opening salvo of this stage.
And indeed, just today, an Al Qaeda front group threatens to attack France for the interventionist sin of electing a leader not to AQ’s liking.
Exit question: Is Tony Blair the anti-Paul?
Meet Fabian Nunez, Irredentist and Clintonista
I ran into him the other day in this post at the Lonewacko immigration blog.
Lonewacko notes that he’s a Democrat, the Speaker of the California legislature, co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign, and the guy who recently said:
“There are no excuses, a simple apology is not going to suffice… To say we are outraged is an understatement. We want those responsible in the highest levels of the LAPD to pay consequences.”
What he said yesterday is far, far worse:
[Nunez] said police deliberately led troublemakers back to the peaceful marchers before beginning their assault.
“The only logical conclusion I can come to is that somebody wanted it to bleed into the march so that they can do some target practice on some of the immigrants that were marching,” Nunez said.
If you assume as I do that Nunez simply represents Mexico and its citizens, everything he says and does makes perfect sense.
The California Coalition for Immigration Reform elaborated on Nunez’s background:
Mr. Nunez was a speaker at the Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside in January, 1995. where 500 pro-alien activists, along with Art Torres’ now infamous “Prop 187 is the last gasp of white America in California” statement, made racist, seditious speeches such as:
(The one in which he) called for establishment of “AZTLAN” in “occupied territories of Mexico”; called the United States “AmeriKKKa” & “United Snakes of America”; referred to our southern border as “the false border”; claimed “187 is a declaration of war on the Latino community”; called Pete Wilson another Orville Faubus & Pee Wee Wilson; stated “gringos” stole the land of the territorial minority, stated that “a classroom is just another space in which to organize, our areas are “sin fronteras” (without borders); human rights are violated when people crossing the border have to show green cards; claimed white men are the invaders; naturalization is a step to get back “what was ours – our land”; claimed the need for Chicano studies in schools & “English should be a foreign language”; “We’re in a state of war, a vicious threat to our existence”; “We live in the annexed territories of AZTLAN”; “We live under occupying alien forces”; “We ‘re hostages in our own land, prisoners of war”; “We’re the owners of this land”; “The white man keeps us ignorant”; “We’ll take over our campuses, have joint educational planning with Mexico”; “By 2015 we’ll be the majority, this means a transfer of power, historically we are going to win.”
“…there’s only two kinds of power in this country and in this world … economic power, and we don’t have economic power because we don’t own the means of production, but there’s another form of power, and that’s the power of the masses. So you can be as revolutionary as you want, you can be Chicano nationalists, you can be Mexican-American, you can be Hispanic, you can believe in the concept of AZTLAN, you can believe in the concept of multi-culturalism … somebody can say “I am the only one that has reached revolutionary completeness” …I’ll tell you that on October 16th, 150,000 representatives from the sleeping giant we’re not in a coma, but rather we’re marching down the streets of Los Angeles saying that enough is enough and we’re no longer going to tolerate the racism against our community…
Mr. Nunez seems to hold the same views he did a dozen years ago, but Mrs. Clinton’s selection of him for a key job indicates he might be a smoother pitchman now that he’s mainstream and big-time.
While I was putting this item together I noticed that Digger’s Realm already made these same points, so click on over to his post for more.
Today 2:14 PM | Lastango |
“Latino Groups Play Key Role on Hill”
It’s over, Mexico has won: When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared last week that unnamed “stakeholders” would decide whether Congress overhauls immigration law this year, Latino organizations in Washington understood exactly what he meant. After laboring in obscurity for decades, groups such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican …
GOP Candidates Go for the Jugular in Feisty Primary Debate
My only thought: How come the only libertarians who ever get national attention and publicity are raving lunatic whackjobs like Ron Paul?
California Rep. Duncan Hunter, who wrote the border fence bill signed by President Bush in October, criticized the Bush administration for not moving more quickly to build the barrier.“We need to be able to ask people when they want to come into America: Knock on the front door because the back door’s going to be closed,” Hunter said.
Wotta surprise.
We are so screwed. But we would have been so screwed with the GOP in charge, too.
Today 12:00 PM | Bill Quick |
Illegal immigration timebomb
Earlier this week, Farmers Branch, TX overwhelmingly approved an ordinance aimed at keeping illegal aliens out of the city:
Voters in Farmer’s Branch became the first in the nation today to prohibit landlords from renting to most illegal immigrants.
In final but unofficial reports, the ban was approved by a vote of 68 percent to 32 percent.
Predictably, groups like the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund have joined up with the ACLU and a whole cadre of others to sue Farmers Branch into oblivion. Absurdly, a group calling itself “Let the Voters Decide” attempted to prevent that very thing from happening:
Days before the vote, Let the Voters Decide issued an absurd news release in which it managed to scare up a couple of University of North Texas professors to issue a “study” – little more than a clumsy polemic – arguing not only that illegal immigration is not a societal drain, but that it is a net benefit to a community.
Farmers Branch is not alone. Around the country, 100 municipalities have taken up the federal job of enforcing immigration law in one way or another.
In Pennsylvania, 32 municipalities have considered or enacted resolutions – such as making English the official language, cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants and punishing landlords who rent to them. In California, 13 cities have passed or considered local laws to crack down on illegal immigrants and push for comprehensive immigration legislation. The list goes on.
And state legislatures in all 50 states, dissatisfied with congressional inaction, are considering more than twice the number of immigration-related laws as in previous years – with most imposing tougher restrictions on illegal immigrants.
The message to Congress, some say: If you can’t do it, we will.
And in Hazleton, PA, the incumbent Republican mayor has won both the GOP and Democrat primaries to keep his job. Why?
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday – and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too.
Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with nearly 94 percent of the vote. And he beat former Mayor Michael Marsicano for the Democratic nomination by staging a last-minute write-in campaign, all but guaranteeing himself another term, unofficial returns showed…
Barletta, a businessman who took office in 2000, proposed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act last year after four illegal immigrants were charged with shooting and killing a man.
The measure, on hold due to a legal challenge by Hispanic groups and individuals, was approved last summer and emulated by towns and cities around the nation. It would penalize landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and businesses that hire them.
It’s against this backdrop of grassroots moves against illegal immigration that the Bush administration and the Dem-controlled House and Senate move to pass “comprehensive” immigration reform, which amounts to an amnesty for the millions of illegals already here.
Never mind the continuing effects of unfettered illegal immigration on national security: The day labor center that facilitated 9-11 is still there. For a war president, President Bush is awfully slow to secure the country’s first line of defense, its borders.
Bush apologists see “comprehensive immigration reform” as one of the last remaining shreds of his legacy that remain viable. At Ft. Dix we very nearly suffered a terror attack on US soil facilitated by the porous border. What would that have done to the president’s legacy?
Today 10:24 AM | Bryan |
Mexico: U.S. Must Stop Flow Of Arms
A top Mexican anti-drug official has said the United States government must do more to stop the illicit flow of arms into his country. He says the weapons are being used by drug cartels against Mexican police and army personnel along the border.
Today 8:00 AM
GOP Debate Live Blog/Complaining
Not that I thought it would be interesting, but it just got so. Hot Air also has an open thread on the debate.
7pm:
This is the best moment of the evening: The exchange between Ron Paul and Giuliani was very interesting. Paul, as many of you have already determined, is as much of a moonbat as a Republican can be. What a disaster. He said directly that September 11th happened because we asked for it. He also noted we should talk to al-Qaida, and recognize, essentially, that we deserved what happened to us.
Over and out for that freak. Giuliani stepped in perfectly, and shamed him for the comments, at which point the audience applauded.
John McCain was asked about flip-flopping on the Confederate flag issue. He spun around a bit. Not impressive.
Great and now Tancredo is talking about global warming, and how we need to get away from “petroleum products” because they’re related to national security. Uh, if we were killing more of the enemy we wouldn’t have to be discussing defensive measures. During WWII we weren’t thinking of alternative measures figuring we would have to deal with a perpetually hostile Japan and Germany. For crying out loud, what is this ridiculous, we ‘can’t-win’ position mouthed by so many of these men?
I personally know and like Tom Tancredo. He’s a great guy, I guess I was hoping he would be a bit different from the average Republican. I need to get him back on my show to ask him about these issues. regardless of what happened in 08, Tancredo is someone who will make a big difference in America, certainly on the imperative border/immigration issue.
7:15pm:
Brit just set-up an imagined scenario of an impending terrorist action and what we should do with terrorists we’ve captured who know when the next attack would occur. McCain (sheesh) said that the most important thing we have is world opinion (!) and torturing people to get information would never be worth it. Just so we’re clear: John McCain thinks world opinion is more important than thousands, perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands, of American lives. Yeah, let’s put him in the White House.
Next.
Brit now asks Giuliani about ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ such as water-boarding and his position on the issue, applied in the scenario he described earlier. Giuliani tried to dance a little, says the interrogators should use “every method they can think of, but it should not be torture.” For Christ’s sake. Who are these men that appearing to be morally superior as to not use torture is more important than saving American lives? What the hell is that? He reiterates “every method” when Brit presses on water-boarding.
Romney says the answer is in preventing the bomb from going off, intelligence and prevention. He’s avoiding the question by focusing on Gitmo, and says we should make Gitmo larger! Woo hoo. So now he also dives into the new spin “Enhanced interrogation techniques, but not torture.” Oh friggin’ brother. When Islamist savages feel having a woman standing next to them is torture, exactly what are these men going to do? So far, though, only McCain thinks we should all agree to suicide in order to be thought of as “good” by lefties and the Euros.
Tommy Thompson invokes Reagan. I should have implemented the Reagan drinking game for the debate tonight.
Brownback, while he’s a theocrat and a guy I will never vote for, actually just made my point–if you have to choose between our standing in the world and U.S. lives, he’d choose U.S. lives. Isn’t it horrible when that statement sets someone apart in a GOP debate? I’ll give Giuliani the benefit of the doubt and presume he agrees with that statement. As far as Brownback goes, yawn.
7:20p:
Brit asks McCain if he understands him right, that he considers Enhanced Interrogation Techniques as torture. Yes, of course he does. Let’s all die in the name of being nice. McCain notes that a big issue is, if we use torture that puts our captured troops at risk. Yes, you heard me right.. McCain thinks that al-Qaida and the Islamist savages who enjoy cutting off peoples heads on video will be nicer if we don’t use enhanced techniques. Oh wait, we never have tortured prisoners, but al-Qaida cuts off peoples heads anyway. Hmmm…. This is insane.
Tancredo just nailed it, saying the whole hypothetical discussion about the candidates being against torture even after a nuclear strike, and we’ve got men who know when they next one will be, Tancredo was incredulous and says he’s ‘looking for Jack Bauer at that point’ to appropriate applause.
Chris Wallace asks what it means that the entire field of candidates are all white men. No minorities, no women. Huckabee pretty much doesn’t know what to say. Chris asks Romney about flip-flopping. Frankly, he strikes me as a pretty boy, the Repubs Silky Pony. Just don’t like him and I’ve learned to trust my instinct.
Ooh, Wendell asks about the power of China economically. Duncan Hunter is smart about it, and has been especially impressive tonight. “Arming with American trade dollars.” Brings up Tiananmen Square.
Debate over.
Giuliani and Hunter were the most impressive to me. Tancredo not great on everything, but generally very good. If there was any doubt after the last debate, Ron Paul needs to be locked up somewhere. Something is wrong with him.
The silver lining of this particular debate, perhaps second-tier and the “we deserved it” candidates will drop out of the race. Ron Paul needs to go away, Huckabee, Brownback, Gilmore, all need to think about stepping away.
Today 6:25 AM | Tammy
Several Sticking Points Arise From Immigration Negotiations
Republicans and Democrats struggled Wednesday over the final details of an elusive deal that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and fortify the border
House Votes To Restrict Mexican Trucks
The House voted overwhelmingly to delay a Bush administration plan to allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways.
Yesterday 10:30 PM
Rumors fly: GOP leaders set to cave on amnesty
Alarms are sounding. Red State says Reid’s going to force a vote on the compromise bill before Republican hardliners have a chance to review it. Jed Babbin claims the Dems are trying to expand the number of relatives a legalized alien would be allowed to bring in with him. And now the LA Times reports that both sides have agreed to the scarlet “A” in the form of a measure labelled, ironically, with a Z.
With a deadline looming to craft an accord on immigration reform, a bipartisan group of senators has agreed that their final compromise should immediately grant legal status to all illegal immigrants currently in the U.S…
[T]hey have settled on a plan that would award a “Z visa” to all qualified illegal immigrants in the country before a date that has yet to be decided. Applicants would have to pass security checks, learn English and pay a $5,000 fine.
The visa would have an eight-year probation period, during which time the head of the household would have to return to his home country and then re-enter the U.S. They would have to take their “Z visa” to the U.S. Embassy or consulate and would be guaranteed re-entry to the U.S.
Not a word is mentioned in the piece about border enforcement, but you will be pleased to know that they’ve agreed to let illegal aliens attend state colleges at in-state tuition rates as part of the deal.
Reid threatened earlier today to cancel the compromise bill entirely if a final deal wasn’t reached tonight and resubmit the bill they passed this last year in its place. But what do you know — at Teddy’s request, he’s had a change of heart and has extended the deadline until Monday.
Sounds like the only big issue still keeping them apart is how “temporary” the temporary guest worker program should be. Once it comes to the floor, it stands a great chance of passing: with bipartisan support among the leadership, they might very well have the 60 votes needed to bust the filibuster. And lord knows, they don’t have to worry about a veto.
I fear we need a miracle, my friends — a savior, like Bruce Campbell in “Evil Dead 2,” to deliver us from the amnesty demon.
But where would we find such a man as that?
Yesterday 9:17 PM | Allahpundit |
House Puts Brakes on Plan to Allow Mexican Trucks
WASHINGTON The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to delay a Bush administration plan to allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways.The trucks would have to be declared safe first, the lawmakers…
Yesterday 8:18 PM
Court to weigh Farmers Branch rental ban
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberites Union, which have already sued the city over the regulation, asked for the temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court
Yesterday 8:00 PM
Top anti-narcotics official slain in Mexico City
The new head of a federal anti-narcotics intelligence unit was shot dead on the streets of Mexico City on Monday amid rampant drug violence that has claimed an estimated 1,000 lives this year across MexicoYesterday 8:00 PM
Chambers County seeks help in identifying body found in bayou
Investigators have asked the Mexican Consulate to identify a man’s body found more than two weeks ago floating in Double Bayou about a mile from Trinity Bay in Chambers County.
Yesterday 8:00 PM
Court to weigh Farmers Branch rental ban
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberites Union, which have already sued the city over the regulation, asked for the temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court
Yesterday 8:00 PM
Texas Group Asks Judge to Block Illegal Immigrant Apt. Ban
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund requested the temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court to halt the Farmers Branch order requiring apartment managers to verify legal status before renting to them.
Yesterday 1:11 AM | foxnewsonline@foxnews.com
Mexican Drug Gangs Target Military
Mexican drug cartels armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nationwide military crackdown are striking back, killing soldiers in bold, daily attacks that threaten the one force strong enough to take on the gangs.
Monday 9:30 PM
Lawsuit demands San Francisco police report illegal immigrants
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to be sued for allegedly failing to report criminal suspects who might be in the United States illegally to immigration authorities.
A lawsuit filed last week in Superior Court on behalf of San Francisco resident Charles Fonseca claims the SFPD does not alert U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they arrest undocumented immigrants for certain drug-related crimes, as is required by law.
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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said he expressed confidence in the city’s ability to mount a successful defense against the lawsuit.“This is a cynical lawsuit that reflects the political aims of an anti-immigrant extremist, and I frankly think it’s intended to win headlines rather than a favorable judgment,” Herrera said.
An “anti-immigrant extremist?” Not quite….
City sued for failing to report noncitizens arrested for drugs
Charles Fonseca, a 70-year-old Portola district resident who came to the United States from Nicaragua at the age of 9 and filed the lawsuit May 4, said he opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, especially those who break the law after they get here.
Well, according to the anti-American left and the diversity-mongers and racial pimps, Fonseca probably isn’t a “real” immigrant.
Monday 10:37 AM | Bill Quick |
“Voters welcome ban on illegal immigrant leases”
Some good news for a change, By a decisive margin, voters in this north Dallas suburb approved an ordinance Saturday prohibiting landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants. With all votes counted, the bitterly contested ordinance passed by 67 percent of the vote. “We are fed up with the federal government’s inaction …
Monday 8:33 AM | The Ace
Geraldo asks audience if they want to separate immigrant father from children
Geraldo Rivera may have sunk to a new low on his Sunday evening show “Geraldo at Large” on the Fox News Channel. The illegal immigration activist had a family on whose Haitian-born father, a man who once served 11 years in jail for a drug bust, is facing deportation.
Though he probably hasn’t known this family for more than several days, Geraldo questioned why this “hard-working daddy, who has done nothing but good in this country” may be deported. Since when did “nothing but good” include breaking the law to get here and then getting busted for drugs?
Geraldo then played the “what about the children, oh won’t someone think about the children” card.
About the children: No one ever bothers to point out that according to the law, parents who are being deported get to choose whether their children accompany them or not.Rivera also attacked Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and the most “hysterical voice in the bunch” Lou Dobbs for, uh, supporting the law.Thanks to Randy for the tip.
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Monday 12:25 AM | Ian |
The Atlas Interview: Tom Tancredo
I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with Congressman Tom Tancredo on the critical issues. Tancredo is one to watch. I like much of what he says.
Be sure to catch Mike Tate live blogging Congressman Tancredo at the South Carolina debate shere.
Here is a snapshot of my Q&A with Congressman Tancredo:
Atlas: How would you confront the threat of Radical Islam (Islamism) here in America and abroad?
TANCREDO: Homeland security plans which do not include enforcing our immigration laws and securing our borders are entirely inadequate. A CIS study of 94 terrorists prosecuted for their crimes in the U.S., found that nearly two thirds had committed immigration fraud. It is difficult then to justify the rigor, expense, and inconvenience of new safety measures at our airports and harbors, while leaving the door open for terrorists to slip across our southern border undetected.
Atlas: What do you believe is the defining issue of our time and why?
TANCREDO: Illegal immigration.
Atlas: Are you misrepresented by the media. If so how?
TANCREDO: The issue of illegal immigration is misrepresented by the media. Sometimes the word “immigrant” is synonymous with “illegal immigrant,” they are two completely separate issues.
Atlas: Taxes?
TANCREDO: A growing chorus of economists and experts argue, and I agree, that the current income tax system is complex and unfair and should be replaced by a flat tax or national sales tax. Simplifying the process would dramatically reduce the costs of compliance, make American companies more competitive, and put billions back into the economy by encouraging investment.
Atlas: Do you believe healthcare is a right?
TANCREDO: For citizens and legal residents who are employed by businesses which cannot afford coverage, I favor association health plans which band small businesses together to access lower cost insurance. For those out of work, state governments should be the primary source of relief, but the federal government can offer incentives and subsidies to make sure families who have fallen on hard times are not without coverage.
Monday 12:14 AM | Pamela Geller Oshry
