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Latest Articles: Immigration
U.S. puts brakes on "virtual" border fence
Post Date: 2010-03-17 11:29:25 by Horse
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(Reuters) - The U.S. government is pulling $50 million in funding from a problematic "virtual fence" meant to secure stretches of the Mexico border and is freezing additional funding for the project pending review, authorities said on Tuesday. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said an allocation of $50 million in funds made under the Recovery Act would be taken away from the ill-starred SBInet program, which seeks to mesh video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies into a high-tech system to detect smugglers. Napolitano said the project, which started in 2006 and was being developed by Boeing Co, has been beset by technical problems, missed deadlines and cost ...
New Immigrants Avoiding Big Cities, Study Finds
Post Date: 2010-03-16 20:48:06 by Prefrontal Vortex
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New Immigrants Avoiding Big Cities, Study Finds More new immigrants are settling in mid-size metropolitan areas like Detroit and Minneapolis, according to a study released Monday. (Mark Fox/Summit Daily News/AP) By Daniel B. Wood Staff writer posted March 15, 2010 at 7:24 pm EDT Los Angeles — US immigrant populations are spreading out, a study released Monday found. New immigrants and their US-born descendants are expected to grow by 117 million by 2050, making up 82 percent of the US population growth over that period, and will “have important implications for housing demand at a time when aging baby boomers are expected to retire and leave the housing market,” the study ...
What Was Karl Rove Thinking? Some Clues From His Autobiography
Post Date: 2010-03-16 13:33:41 by Prefrontal Vortex
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What Was Karl Rove Thinking? Some Clues From His Autobiography By Steve Sailer Karl Rove, “The Architect” of George W. Bush’s campaigns and domestic policy, has been one of the central figures of this already puzzling century. No single adviser has been more closely linked to a President since Henry Kissinger served Richard Nixon. For most of the last decade, Rove defined the official Republican line, stomping alternative conservative viewpoints into obscurity. And it all ended in catastrophe. So is Rove’s autobiography, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, the first memoir from a true Bush insider, enlightening about what went wrong? ...
In Mexico, 13 killed in Acapulco area, 11 others elsewhere in Guerrero Five police officers are slain and the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men are found in Acapulco just as foreign tourists are arriving for spring break.
Post Date: 2010-03-15 13:36:27 by Horse
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Reporting from Mexico City At least 13 people were killed Saturday, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors have begun arriving for spring break. Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said. The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m. Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers who have been at ...
Two Drug Slayings in Mexico Rock U.S. Consulate
Post Date: 2010-03-15 11:41:33 by Horse
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LA UNIÓN, Mexico — Gunmen believed to be linked to drug traffickers shot a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband to death in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, leaving their baby wailing in the back seat of their car, the authorities said Sunday. The gunmen also killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children. The shootings took place minutes apart and appeared to be the first deadly attacks on American officials and their families by Mexico’s powerful drug organizations, provoking an angry reaction from the White House. They came during a particularly bloody weekend when nearly 50 ...
Why Did Obama Administration Drop Immigration Charges Against Agriprocessors’ Rubashkin?
Post Date: 2010-03-12 17:49:04 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Why Did Obama Administration Drop Immigration Charges Against Agriprocessors’ Rubashkin? Howard Foster, the Chicago lawyer we've written about repeatedly because of his heroic pioneering use of the RICO statute in class action suits against the employers of illegal aliens, has just blogged [The Obama Justice Dept. Is Not Enforcing The Laws Against Hiring Illegal Immigrants, March 9th, 2010] about the US Government's decision (which means the Obama Administration's decision) not to prosecute Agriprocessors’ Sholom Rubashkin for immigration violations. Foster writes (links added by VDARE.COM): "Postville, Iowa was a small mainly Lutheran Midwestern town of 2,300 ...
The Democrat's Immigration Priority
Post Date: 2010-03-11 20:33:54 by Deasy
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The great thing about racists is they'll always take the bait. You won't get far into an immigration-reform debate, for instance, before the GOP's more zealous legislators start doing things like criminalizing priests and calling Miami a "third world country." Which is why Democrats ought to be more eager to spend 2010 debating immigration. Back in summer 2009, that looked like the plan. President Obama made a big show of brainstorming reforms, by holding a White House summit and meeting with legislators in both parties. New York Sen. Charles Schumer teamed up with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to work on a bipartisan bill and immigration seemed ...
National Workers ID Card
Post Date: 2010-03-09 10:03:27 by Luke The Spook
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Worker ID Card at Center of Immigration Plan March 8, 2010 by national National Workers ID Card Immigration Plan Calls for ID Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are ...
Texas vs. California: No contest
Post Date: 2010-03-08 13:25:55 by Jethro Tull
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March 08, 2010Texas vs. California: No contestRick Moran One is a big government state, the other a small government state. One has lost population, one has gained. One has low taxes, the other high.Is it any wonder that California is near default while Texas thrives?Michael Barone:Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes -- and no state income taxes -- and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California's year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.But Texas seems to be delivering superior services. Its teachers are paid less than California's. But its test ...
Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform
Post Date: 2010-03-07 13:33:08 by Jethro Tull
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Reporting from Washington - Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already. Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted by approaching midterm elections. In the session, Obama and members of his Domestic Policy Council outlined ways to resuscitate the effort in a White House meeting with two senators -- Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -- who have spent months trying to craft a bill. According to a ...
AZ may criminalize presence of illegal immigrants
Post Date: 2010-03-04 18:22:24 by Horse
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PHOENIX – Over the past several years, immigration hard-liners at the Arizona Legislature persuaded their colleagues to criminalize the presence of illegal border-crossers in the state and ban soft immigration policies in police agencies — only to be thwarted by vetoes from a Democratic governor. This year, their prospects have improved. A proposal to draw local police deeper into the fight against illegal immigration has momentum, and even opponents expect the new Republican governor to sign off on the changes. The proposal would make Arizona the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants through an expansion of its trespassing law. It also would require police ...
Cruz Mario Carnacion and Jose Luis Trejo-Yanez charged in railroad spike theft [over 500 spikes]
Post Date: 2010-03-03 20:05:29 by DeaconBenjamin
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FLAT ROCK — Henderson County Sheriff's deputies on Sunday charged two men with stealing more than 500 spikes from an active railroad track in Flat Rock. Deputies received a call of suspicious activity on the tracks near Blue Ridge Road and caught Cruz Mario Carnacion, 37, and Jose Luis Trejo-Yanez, 35, collecting spikes, according to a statement from the sheriff's office. Investigators said the men were in possession of more than 500 spikes, which are about 7 inches long and weigh about a half-pound. Both were charged with felony conspiracy to damage railroad property, willful injury to railroad property, and trespassing on railroad property. The men gave no address of ...
The gun-toting boys from Brazil who rule Rio’s ‘Corner of Fear’
Post Date: 2010-02-27 14:12:36 by Horse
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A boy steps boldly into the night traffic and waves a gun to bring the cars to a halt, clearing a path for a motorcycle which screeches into the intersection. Riding pillion is another boy, brandishing a machinegun. Later two teenagers, also riding pillion on motorbikes, flash their guns at other motorists; nearby, a boy can be seen taking aim with a rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. Other youths wander the street smoking crack. For residents, the junction between the busy Dom Helder Câmara and dos Democráticos, in North Rio de Janeiro, has become known as the Corner of Fear — and video footage of daily life there has shocked a nation already familiar with guns and ...
Mexican drug trafficker allowed to join U.S. military, deserts a year after receiving his citizenship
Post Date: 2010-02-26 22:02:53 by Jethro Tull
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Ex-U.S. Soldier: Sinaloa Drug Trafficker Mexican federal police have arrested Jose Vasquez Villagrana --0;a former soldier in the United States Army who allegedly smuggled0;two tons of cocaine a month for the Sinaloa cartel --0;in Santa Ana, Sonora0;on the Arizona border as reported by0;Alexandra Olson for The Associated Press: He joined the U.S. military in Arizona in 1990 and deserted a year after getting his U.S. citizenship, according to Mexico's0;federal Public Safety Department. He is believed to have returned to Mexico, where he began trafficking. Vasquez is accused of smuggling Colombian cocaine through Panama and other countries to the northern ...
FORMER ITALIAN PRESIDENT SAYS 9-11 SOLVED
Post Date: 2010-02-24 20:39:14 by christine
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It’s common knowledge, he reveals, CIA, Mossad behind terror attacks
By the Staff of American Free Press
December 24, 2007
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
“All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe…know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order ...
Tax Reminder………April 15, 2010
Post Date: 2010-02-23 23:02:49 by Itistoolate
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Tax Reminder………April 15, 2010 Important tax reminder: Don’t forget to pay your taxes….Muchas gracias! 21 million illegal aliens are depending on you!
African Immigrant gives aids to 40 Young Polish Girls
Post Date: 2010-02-21 19:10:01 by Horse
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Illegal Immigrants: Not So Scary
Post Date: 2010-02-21 08:22:45 by Eric Stratton
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Illegal Immigrants: Not So Scary Steve Chapman Sunday, February 21, 2010 From listening to the more vigorous critics of illegal immigration, our porous borders are a grave threat to safety. Not only can foreign terrorists sneak in to target us, but the most vicious criminals are free to walk in and inflict their worst on innocent Americans. In xenophobic circles, this prospect induces stark terror. Fox News' Glenn Beck has decried an "illegal immigrant crime wave." A contributor to Patrick Buchanan's website asserts, "Every day, in the United States, thousands of illegal aliens unleash a reign of terror on Americans." Sure they do. And I'm Penelope Cruz. ...
From a Florida ER Doctor
Post Date: 2010-02-14 20:09:48 by christine
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Having spent three weeks in a hospital in Naples, Florida with my wife I couldn’t help noticing what was going on in the hospital and I had a lot of time to talk to the doctors and nurses about what I had observed. Below is a commentary from an ER Doctor. Do you think this might be a big reason our health care system and our social security system are so screwed up? Do you think this might be a big reason our taxes keep going up? Who do you think these people are going to vote for? From a Florida ER doctor: "I live and work in a state overrun with illegal's. They make more money having kids than we earn working full-time. Today I had a 25-year old with 8 kids - that’s ...
RIP Capt Phil Harris
Post Date: 2010-02-12 12:42:58 by PSUSA
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Latinos say their votes could tip 40 congressional races
Post Date: 2010-02-08 20:31:59 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON -- Failing to overhaul the nation's immigration system, currently a backburner issue for Congress and President Barack Obama, could play a pivotal role in key mid-term election races in November, according to a new study on Latino voting patterns. The report by America's Voice, which supports comprehensive new immigration policies, says revising the laws is the defining issue for Latino voters. The report says that progress - or the lack thereof - in revamping immigration laws and regulations could affect as many as 40 congressional races in areas with sizeable Latino populations, including the re-election bids of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. John ...
Body found in landing gear bay of Delta airliner at Narita
Post Date: 2010-02-07 23:11:27 by DeaconBenjamin
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CHIBA — The body of an unidentified person, believed to be an adult black male, was found in the landing gear bay of a Delta airliner that arrived at Narita airport from New York on Sunday, Chiba prefectural police said. A mechanic found the body in the left bay of the Boeing 777 and reported it to police shortly after 6 p.m., they said. The man was only wearing a long-sleeve shirt and jeans, and he was apparently frozen to death as his body showed signs of frostbite, according to police, adding the man had no identification on him.
Fate of Obama's Aunt in Judge's Hands [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-04 11:40:47 by scrapper2
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BOSTON -- President Barack Obama's African aunt is going before an immigration judge for a second time to argue she should be allowed to stay in the United States. Kenya native Zeituni Onyango is scheduled to appear Thursday in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston. Onyango moved to the United States in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected. She was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. Her status as an illegal immigrant was revealed just days before Obama was elected. Obama says he didn't know his aunt was living in the country illegally. He says laws covering the situation should be followed. A ...
Phoenix OKs 2% sales tax on food items
Post Date: 2010-02-03 15:24:46 by Jethro Tull
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Desperate to save police, fire and other city jobs, a divided Phoenix City Council on Tuesday approved a sales tax on grocery items that will generate tens of millions of dollars a year. The 2 percent food tax will take effect April 1 and expire after five years, though Mayor Phil Gordon said the council has the option of reversing its decision after it hears from the public during 15 budget hearings planned for this month. The tax on milk, meat, vegetables and other food purchased by shoppers will generate an estimated $12.5 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30. It will raise another $50 million for fiscal 2011. Food purchased with food stamps will not be taxed. The extra tax ...
Hit-and-Run: Death in a 'Sanctuary City'
Post Date: 2010-02-01 13:47:00 by christine
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It was one of the strangest hit-and-runs police had ever seen in Austin, Texas. Early last September, officers answering a call at 4:19 a.m. found a young man dead along a highway. They surmised he was a motorcyclist. He was, after all, wearing motorcycle garb -- a helmet, black-leather jacket, boots. A few hundred feet away, officers spotted a single skid mark running down the highway, and disappearing from sight. Oddly, no motorcycle could be found. A check of the victim's driver's license revealed his name: Eric M. Laufer. Laufer, 25, was a highly-regarded musician and songwriter in Austin -- and unlike many musicians here, the graduate of Boston's prestigious Berklee ...
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