Tuesday, June 18, 2013 -- 7:30 PM Next updates as early as possible on Wednesday

KGW-TV -- Portland, Oregon      Fallen deputy's brother tracking down fugitive   Salem -- Father's Day will always be difficult for the family of Marion County Deputy Kelly Fredinburg. He was killed in the line of duty six years ago while responding to another officer in distress. -- The driver of a car that crossed the center line, causing a fatal head on collision is still on the run and is believed to be in Mexico. -- "Someone knows where he is and we have a $20,000 reward that is payable here or in Mexico," said Kevin Fredinburg, the brother of the fallen deputy...

Stephen Dinan -- Washington Times     Rubio, other Senate RINOs reject border fence proposal    Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn't want to delay granting illegal [aliens] legal status while the fence was being built. -- The 54-39 vote to reject the fence shows the core of the immigration deal is holding. The vote broke mostly along party lines, though five Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the bill's authors, voted against the fence...

Todd Starnes -- Townhall.com      Mob of arrogant pro-amnesty fanatics storm Kansas Sec. of State's home    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is calling for a criminal investigation after a huge mob of illegal alien supporters surrounded his private home Saturday and held a rally on his front porch. -- At least 200 members of Sunflower Community Action were bussed into Kobach's Kansas City-area neighborhood on Saturday -- to protest his staunch anti-illegal [immigration] views...

NAFBPO          Latest news from NAFBPO    There was a striking moment in the Senate Judiciary Committee's debate on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill when Republican Jeff Sessions and Democrat Charles Schumer argued over the number of [illegal aliens] who would be allowed into the country under the new legislation. -- Sessions cited reports suggesting the figure would be more than 20 million over the next decade in addition to the 11 million or so who are already in the United States illegally...

Manuel Roig-Franzia -- Washington Post      Mark Krikorian: The provocateur standing in the way of amnesty    Mark Krikorian is tapping the earpiece of his glasses --- into the center of his right eye. -- Clink. Clink. -- "This eye doesn't track," he says by way of explaining his slightly distracted, far-off gaze. -- Clink. -- "It's fake," he says, his tapping drawing a quizzical glance from a neighboring table in Siroc, the demure downtown Washington restaurant. "It's a prosthesis. The guys who do it are called ocularists..."

Jessica Vaughan -- CIS.org     Pro-amnesty stance not enough to earn Latino support     Sen. Lindsay Graham's (R-S.C.) absurd notion that Latino voters will flock to Republican candidates if they embrace amnesty and "comprehensive immigration reform" has been once more refuted, this time a Massachusetts special election to fill John Kerry's U.S. Senate seat. On Friday, El Planeta, the state's largest Spanish-language newspaper, endorsed Democrat Ed Markey, a long-serving member of the House...

Huffington Post      Arpaio Death Threat: Arrest warrant issued for suspect over tweet     Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, reportedly received a death threat from a man who said he wanted to "personally blow" his "head off." -- An arrest warrant was issued for 22-year-old Caesar David Nunez on Monday, MCSO spokesman Deputy Joaquin Enriquez told ABC15. -- "I want to personally blow Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head off," Nunez said in a Tweet in April, according to Enriquez. Nunez reportedly admitted he wrote the threat because he disagrees with Arpaio's stance on [illegal] immigration...

Washington Post     Obama's claims on illegal border crossings     We are always interested in even slight shifts in presidential rhetoric. What happened in the space of four months, so that the president's claim that illegal crossings were at a four-decade low was suddenly softened to the lowest level in "decades"? -- Let's take a look. -- When the president speaks of "illegal crossings," he is speaking of "illegal alien apprehensions." This is an imperfect metric...

NBC Latino    Legislation to criminalize illegals takes center stage today    Pro-[amnesty] groups and legislators are getting ready to rally against the markup of a House bill in the Judiciary Committee today. The "Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act" known as the SAFE Act, introduced by Republican South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, calls for criminalizing all [illegal aliens] and allowing state and local governments to enforce immigration laws.

Paul Craig Roberts -- American Free Press     Why government disinformation works    Have you ever wondered how government's misinformation gains traction? What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9-11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone, whether on the right or left, goes along with the government's explanation, because they can hook their agenda to the government's account...

New York Times      Feds claim to be "plugging" Arizona border to illegals, who now are invading Texas  A surge in [illegal alien] traffic across the Southwest border into Texas has resulted in a milestone: the front line of the battle against illegal crossings from Mexico has shifted for the first time in over a decade away from Arizona to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. -- This shift has intensified a bitter debate under way in the Senate over whether the border is secure enough now, or ever will be, to move ahead with legislation...

CNN      Boehner: No way to get amnesty bill to House floor without GOP majority support    Under pressure from House conservatives opposed to comprehensive immigration reform, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday, "I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have majority support of Republicans." -- Until now, Boehner has sidestepped questions about how he will move forward in the House on immigration reform and whether he would allow a vote on a bill that relied on Democrats to pass the GOP-controlled chamber...

Allan Wall -- News With Views     Amnesty Must Be Defeated: How you can help    They're at it again. Our political elite (of both parties) is once again trying to ram through an amnesty of illegal aliens. As badly-managed as our current immigration system is, the amnesty proposal currently in Congress would make it even worse. -- It's officially titled "The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S. 744)" but it doesn't make our border more secure...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     ICE allowed illegal alien charged with multiple child-rapes to return to Mexico    In 2009, Jose Adan Rico, 37, posted bail at the Dallas County Jail where he was being held on burglary as well as sexual assault charges for a pair of brutal child-rapes. -- The victims were ages 12 and 14. -- In fact, the Dallas police had already linked DNA evidence from the crimes to Rico and were understandably shocked to discover that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials suddenly deported the suspected child predator back to Mexico before facing his punishment here...

The Blaze     Ted Cruz set to infuriate the Left with amnesty bill amendment    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday announced his intention to file another amendment to the so-called "gang of eight" immigration bill that is facing tough opposition from some GOP lawmakers. -- "I'll file amendment to immigration bill that permits states to require ID before registering voters & close this hole in [federal] statutory law," Cruz wrote via his official Twitter account.

ImmigrationReform.com     Failed to pay taxes? Americans face jail time, illegals receive amnesty    One of the major talking points from the Gang of Eight before they released their "comprehensive" immigration reform bill was that amnestied illegal aliens would be required to pay back taxes in order to receive legal status ---- "registered provisional immigrant" (RPI) status. However, as many Americans now know, such a requirement is not actually contained in the 1,000 plus page bill...

Rasmussen Reports      Distrust Growing: 70% believe IRS decision to target conservatives was made in DC   While the controversy over the National Security Agency surveillance program has dominated the news recently, concern about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations remains high and is inching up. Despite the large number of controversies engulfing official Washington, the number of people following the IRS scandal has actually increased in recent weeks...

American Border Patrol        Photo of the day    I wanted to make you aware that my husband and I found a large illegal campsite in the Garden Canyon Wash, located off the trailhead where Kachina becomes S. Calle Encina and close to the Fort. Huachuca border. There were between 6-8 backpacks, blankets, loose clothing, etc...

Daniel Horowitz -- Red State     The veiled anti-American sentiment of open borders politicians    When it comes to the issue of immigration, the open borders "right" has adopted the parlance, tactics, and ad hominem attacks that traditionally emanate from the left. They impugn the motives of those who desire strong border security and orderly/gradual immigration as racist. However, in recent days, it is they who have been exposed as individuals who harbor deep-rooted prejudges... against native border Americans.

Michelle Malkin -- Noozhawk.com     Beware Obama's 'social innovation' slush fund for nonprofits    We all know now what the vengeful Internal Revenue Service under President Barack Obama has been doing to conservative nonprofits the past four years: strangling them in the crib. But do you know how much pampering and largesse far-left welfare-state charities have received while limited-government groups suffered? You don't know the half of it...

Red State      RINO Rubio aide says American workers "can't cut it"    This cannot stand, particularly if you want to run for President. Ryan Lizza is a liberal and has occasionally written about things he does not understand, i.e. Christianity, but Ryan Lizza doesn't make sh. . . tuff up. He's good. -- So when Ryan Lizza writes that a Rubio aide told him Senator Rubio had "sided with the Chamber against the construction workers," we have to take seriously that the aide to Senator Rubio really believes there are Americans who should, for lack of a better term, suffer the fate of natural selection...

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