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Latest Articles: Immigration
Sen. John McCain Interview: Immigration
Post Date: 2010-04-10 20:24:40 by James Deffenbach
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The Star editorial board met with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain on April 1. Excerpts of the conversation were published April 11 in the Star print edition, and we've collected segments, organized by topic, of the wide-ranging interview online: IMMIGRATION STAR: So we know you don't favor amnesty. And you've said for more than two years that the border must be secure before comprehensive reform can be debated. And you also criticized Congress for failing to secure the border. So we wonder what - McCAIN: And the administration. STAR: And the administration. What exactly have you done in Congress to achieve that end? McCAIN: Well, as a new member of the Homeland Security ...
Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County Texas, tells Citizens to Arm Themselves as He Can No Longer Protect them from Spillover Border Violence
Post Date: 2010-04-10 09:42:01 by Jethro Tull
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I just heard this and wanted to get the entire story before saying anything about it. Sheriff Arvin West of Hudspeth County, the third largest county in Texas has told his citizens to arm themselves, that he can no longer provide protection for them against spillover violence in the border areas. I’m sure the sheriff did not take this lightly, the violence pouring over the Mexican/American border is rapidly getting beyond what local and state authorities can contain. The sheriff made the statement at a town hall meeting. Governor Rick Perry has already activated the Texas border violence spillover contingency plan, in which he requested federal aid. There is no doubt that Texas is a ...
Drug gang hangs two from bridge near Mexico City
Post Date: 2010-04-09 20:38:35 by Horse
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Reuters - Suspected drug hitmen hung the bodies of two men off a major bridge on Friday in a weekend get-away near Mexico City in the latest brazen act of drug violence near the capital. The two men were found stripped to the waist and hung by the neck from the bridge near a shopping mall early Friday morning in Cuernavaca, said the attorney general's office for Morelos state, which includes the city. Mexican media reported the hitmen riddled the bodies with bullets before fleeing the scene. "Given the characteristics of this act, the killings appear to be linked to drug cartels and it is something we are seeing more of in the area," said a spokesman for the attorney ...
War in Hazleton
Post Date: 2010-04-09 12:54:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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War in Hazleton By Kevin DeAnna on Thursday, 01 April 2010 Mayor Lou Barletta, the rare elected official who actually seems to care about his constituents and his country, is speaking out about a class called “War in Hazleton” at Temple University. Professor Lori Zott has formed a multi-disciplinary class which looks at the immigration battle in Hazleton, Pennsylvania -- from a multicultural perspective of course. Judging from the syllabus, the class hammers away with the usual brain dead narratives – but includes some heretical ideas at the end, for those who want to hear it. The class syllabus begins with the inevitable poem from Emma Lazarus, which unfortunately for ...
Are Federal Officials Above the Law?
Post Date: 2010-04-05 06:08:04 by Ada
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A federal judge’s ruling in a case challenging the Bush administration’s infamous and illegal domestic surveillance case will likely demonstrate, once again, the hypocrisy and deceit of Barack Obama and his merry band of liberal statists. When Obama was a presidential candidate, he emphasized to American voters that President Bush’s warrantless surveillance of Americans was “unconstitutional and illegal.” But once Obama got into office, he silenced his tune, especially in lawsuits that were brought by victims of this criminal action. Like Bush’s Justice Department, Obama’s Justice Department took the position that people’s lawsuits should be ...
10 illegal aliens in S.C. admit to bilking IRS out of $13 million
Post Date: 2010-04-03 20:46:57 by Phant2000
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Ten people illegally in the United States pleaded guilty for their involvement in a four-year, $13 million fraud against the Internal Revenue Service, acting U.S. Attorney Kevin F. McDonald said Thursday. Nine defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and for entering the United States without authorization, Assistant U.S. Attorney David C. Stephens told The Greenville News . The 10th defendant pleaded guilty to mail fraud and illegal entry, Stephens said. Senior U.S. District Judge G. Ross Anderson Jr. accepted the pleas and will sentence the defendants later. “This is the largest tax fraud case that I’m aware of ever occurring in the district of South ...
Somali Muslims Changing Small Town - CBN.com
Post Date: 2010-04-02 17:59:40 by Horse
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Racial ‘Cleansing’ in L.A. Federal prosecutors say a powerful Latino gang systematically targeted rival black gang members and innocent black civilians in a reign of terror
Post Date: 2010-04-02 00:16:04 by Horse
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A south Los Angeles Latino street gang targeted African-American gang rivals and other blacks in a campaign of neighborhood "cleansing," federal prosecutors say. Alleged leaders and foot soldiers in the Hispanic gang Florencia 13, also called F13, are being arraigned this week on charges stemming from a pair of federal indictments that allege that the gang kept a tight grip on its turf by shooting members of a rival gang—and sometimes random black civilians. The "most disturbing aspect" of the federal charges was that "innocent citizens … ended up being shot simply because of the color of their skin," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien told reporters in ...
Mexican Drug Gangs Attack Army Bases Near the Border
Post Date: 2010-04-01 17:18:02 by Horse
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Drug gangs in Mexico have attacked two army bases in a serious escalation in the country's drug war. Eighteen gang members died in the ensuing gun battles, in which gunmen attacked in force in bulletproof vehicles, using hand grenades and assault rifles. The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases were part of seven attacks across two northern border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon - areas that have seen escalating violence in recent months. Army General Edgar Luis Villegas called the attacks "desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities" on He said gunmen parked trucks and SUVs outside a military base in the border ...
States Boost Border Security as Pleas to Washington Go Unmet
Post Date: 2010-03-31 16:53:53 by scrapper2
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Border states are looking to take matters into their own hands, boosting law enforcement to patrol for illegal immigrants while their pleas for federal assistance go unmet in the wake of the murder of a prominent Arizona rancher. Local authorities suspect Robert Krentz, found dead on his cattle ranch Saturday night, was killed by an illegal immigrant who fled back across the border into Mexico. Gov. Jan Brewer told Fox News on Wednesday that after repeatedly calling on the federal government to send in 250 National Guard troops, she hasn't ruled out making the call herself. "I can, and I haven't ruled that out," she said. Brewer has also offered state law enforcement ...
Rancher's Murder Exposes Deadly Gaps in Border Policing, Tancredo Says
Post Date: 2010-03-30 19:57:34 by scrapper2
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Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, reacting to the murder of a well-known Arizona rancher by an assailant authorities believe was an illegal immigrant, said violence on the border has spiraled out of control and the federal government seems powerless to stop it. Tancredo, who has called on the Obama administration to deploy the National Guard in response, told FoxNews.com Tuesday that the killing shows how bad the situation has become for Americans living north of the Mexican border. "The violence on the border is ... getting worse all the time," he said. "This is just a horrible manifestation of it." Tancredo, a Republican who briefly ran for president in 2008, said ...
An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship
Post Date: 2010-03-30 17:44:22 by scrapper2
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A simple reform would drain some scalding steam from immigration arguments that may soon again be at a roiling boil. It would bring the interpretation of the 14th Amendment into conformity with what the authors of its text intended, and with common sense, thereby removing an incentive for illegal immigration. To end the practice of "birthright citizenship," all that is required is to correct the misinterpretation of that amendment's first sentence: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." From these words has flowed the practice of ...
Video: Students Becoming Part of Mexican Drug Cartels
Post Date: 2010-03-29 13:03:51 by Horse
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Sen. Graham: Obamacare Doomed Immigration Bill
Post Date: 2010-03-29 01:23:11 by Horse
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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Democrats' aggressive push for healthcare reform has "poisoned the well" for immigration reform, leaving it effectively "dead" in the Senate. "When I say immigration's dead in the Senate, risk-aversion abounds," Graham told the media during a Capitol Hill news conference, "Some of my colleagues will lose over healthcare. The consequences of this vote are going to be long-lasting politically." Graham's view that immigration reform had been torpedoed by healthcare reform should come as no surprise to leading Democrats.
The White Anxiety Crisis
Post Date: 2010-03-28 19:56:18 by Horse
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Two competing narratives dominate our debate about the ongoing ethnic and demographic transformation of America. The first holds that non-European immigrants — O.K., let's be honest, Mexicans — will rip apart the nation's social fabric. The second has it that the diversity of younger generations of Americans will inevitably lead to a more integrated, postracial era. But both of these narratives are off the mark. With some minor differences, today's immigrants are assimilating into U.S. society in ways not terribly unlike those of millions before them. At the same time, it's likely that decades from now, Americans will still invest a lot of meaning in group ...
Tancredo to keynote Tea Party protest in Arizona 20 miles from Mexican border
Post Date: 2010-03-25 17:23:20 by X-15
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DENVER, COLORADO -- Former Congressman Tom Tancredo will be the keynote speaker at a Tea Party protest rally on March 27 in Sonoita, Arizona, a rural crossroads located about 20 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border. The event is sponsored by the Sonoita Tea Party organization. The trip will be the former congressman's first visit to the border region since President Obama took office. "The Tea Party movement is a grassroots citizen protest against government takeover of health care, catastrophic public debt and a bureaucracy eroding our freedoms. All of these taxpayer burdens are made worse by the costs imposed by 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants," said Tancredo." ...
What Happens Next In Immigration Reform?46;
Post Date: 2010-03-25 04:28:11 by Itistoolate
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Minutemen return to the border – this time locked and loaded
Post Date: 2010-03-24 21:47:50 by X-15
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TOMBSTONE – On March 15, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Carmen Mercer sent out an e-mail message proclaiming, “High Alert for All Minutemen.” Her message began with, “Obama cuts border security funding and freezes hiring of new Border Patrol.” She wrote, “The Minutemen are returning to the border – locked and loaded – to say, ‘You are wrong Obama, America comes first!’” Mercer chastised the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, stating Janet Napolitano thinks “border security is a waste of time and a politically sensitive issue,” adding the Minutemen are returning to the border – locked and loaded ...
Trucks Burned in Possible Threat to California Police
Post Date: 2010-03-24 15:39:57 by Horse
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Four city trucks were torched in a Southern California town plagued by booby trap attacks on police officers, and authorities said Wednesday the fires might be linked to the previous attempts. The city code enforcement trucks were discovered burning at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at a Hemet City Hall parking lot about two blocks from the police department, authorities said. The trucks were empty and no one was hurt. Although the trucks are not issued to police, investigators believe the arson is connected to threats and booby-trap attacks aimed at an anti-gang task force in Hemet, a desert city about 85 miles east of Los Angeles. "The flames were going 2 to 3 feet above the truck in ...
California, in Financial Crisis, Opens Prison Doors
Post Date: 2010-03-24 05:34:32 by Jethro Tull
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California Reeling: California’s Zigzag on Welfare Rules Worries Experts (October 7, 2009) Times Topic: California Budget Crisis Enlarge This Image Michal Czerwonka for The New York TimesThe terms of Eric Susie's parole changed under California's new law. “I feel like I am finally free,” he said. More Photos » The state has begun in recent weeks the most significant changes since the 1970s to reduce overcrowding — and chip away at an astonishing 70 percent recidivism rate, the highest in the country — as the prison population becomes a major drag on the state’s crippled finances. Many in the state still advocate a tough approach, with ...
Suspect in sex charges case kills self in home
Post Date: 2010-03-22 22:05:24 by DeaconBenjamin
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A Delaware man who had been indicted on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition against a child fatally shot himself Friday night after officers arrived to arrest him, officials said. Zewar R. Ali-Dib, 28, of 246 Silver Maple Dr., was found dead in his apartment, according to news releases from Delaware city police and county deputy sheriffs. Earlier Friday, a Delaware County grand jury indicted Ali-Dib on one count of rape and five counts of gross sexual imposition, Sheriff Walter L. Davis III said. Officers arrived with an arrest warrant about 9:20 p.m. After knocking on the door, they saw someone peek out a front window and then heard a woman inside scream, police said. Jennifer ...
Obama backs senators' immigration overhaul outline
Post Date: 2010-03-20 23:22:36 by Rotara
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year. Obama said work on an immigration bill should move forward based on an outline released Thursday by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "A critical next step will be to translate their framework into a legislative proposal, and for Congress to act at the earliest possible opportunity," Obama said. The outline calls for illegal immigrants to admit they broke the law, pay a fine and back taxes, and perform community service if they want to get on ...
59% Say U.S. Should Continue To Build Fence on U.S.-Mexico Border
Post Date: 2010-03-19 23:58:12 by Eric Stratton
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59% Say U.S. Should Continue To Build Fence on U.S.-Mexico Border Thursday, March 18, 2010 The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it is halting funding of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, but 59% of Americans believe the United States should continue to build that fence. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of adults disagree and think the building of the fence should be stopped. Fifteen percent (15%) more are not sure. Support for the fence has been at this level for several years. In January of last year, 60% favored the continued building of the fence to help stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking. In August 2007, 56% felt ...
Perry activates violence response plan for border (Texas)
Post Date: 2010-03-18 22:32:06 by X-15
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March 16 Texas Gov. Rick Perry has activated a secret contingency plan to handle spillover violence, citing an increasing threat along the Texas-Mexico border. Perry's office said details of the plan, activated Tuesday, wouldn't be released because of security concerns. However, the governor said, "We have taken important measures to increase the law enforcement presence along the Texas border and have placed additional resources on standby to combat any potential situation." The plan includes increased surveillance of border activity and more ground, air and maritime patrols. Additional resources ready for rapid deployment have been placed on standby. Those resources ...
Dick Armey: Tom Tancredo is ‘Destructive’ to Republicans on Immigration
Post Date: 2010-03-18 02:14:03 by X-15
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Former Republican House leader Dick Armey said staunch anti-immigration opponents such as Rep. Tom Tancredo are destructive to Republicans — and are alienating a “natural” constituency that could help the party win elections. “Who in the Republican Party was the genius that said that now that we have identified the fastest-growing voting demographic in America, let’s go out and alienate them?” Armey said, referencing Hispanics, during a luncheon in Washington at the National Press Club. “When I was the majority leader, I saw to it that Tom Tancredo did not get on the stage because I saw how destructive he was,” Armey said of the Colorado ...
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