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Phony Fence Under Fire
Conspiracy Exposed
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The Arizona Republic ran the story about the cut-back in the border fence and the DHS bamboozling of the Senate!
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Glenn Spencer -- Arizona Republic -- March 5
One reason border fence flopped: Bush
Your editorial "Fence to nowhere" misses the mark as to cause of failure. Secretary of Homeland Security, Mr. Chertoff, is a fan of amnesty and a North American Union, as is his boss, President Bush. This explains why we are having trouble.
Tony Blankley -- Washington Times -- March 5
Bordering on Inanity
...The Bush administration and the leaders of the Democratic Party both want (for different reasons) no obstruction to the full flood of illegal workers (for the Republicans) and voters (for the Democrats) into the United States: Thus their adamant opposition to a physical obstruction to such passage. |
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KATU-TV -- Portland, Oregon Video Report
Day labor site to open in May
There are new developments in a KATU investigation into a day labor site in Portland. The City Council is expected to award a contract on Wednesday to a group to run the center. KATU's Bob Heye reports...  |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Steelman declares illegals cost state at least $26 million a year
State Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican running for governor, says she plans to appear before a state Senate committee Wednesday and “present an analysis and testimony…that illegal workers are likely costing Missouri between $26 and $49 million every year.” |
NBC6-TV -- South Florida sc
Student activist says ICE targeted her family to silence her
A Miami-Dade College student on Tuesday accused immigration authorities of targeting her family for deportation because of her activism on behalf of illegal [alien] students. -- Gaby Pacheco is a native of Ecuador and in the U.S. on a student visa. She has long spoken out in favor of immigration reform... |
Deseret Morning News -- Salt Lake City Video Included
Questions arise over illegal alien's release in fatal wreck
People are asking questions about why an illegal immigrant who was charged with killing a Spanish Fork man in a car wreck was allowed to make bail, and the answers differ depending on who is giving them. -- Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said ICE declined to investigate the immigration status of Gabriel Hernandez... |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Steelman declares illegals cost state at least $26 million a year
State Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican running for governor, says she plans to appear before a state Senate committee Wednesday and “present an analysis and testimony…that illegal workers are likely costing Missouri between $26 and $49 million every year.” |
NBC6-TV -- South Florida
Student activist says ICE targeted her family to silence her
A Miami-Dade College student on Tuesday accused immigration authorities of targeting her family for deportation because of her activism on behalf of illegal [alien] students. -- Gaby Pacheco is a native of Ecuador and in the U.S. on a student visa. She has long spoken out in favor of immigration reform... |
Los Angeles Times
Senate GOP plans to unveil tough new immigration bills
Senate Republicans are set to announce Wednesday the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures seen yet -- one that would require jail time for illegal immigrants caught crossing the border, make it harder for them to open bank accounts and compel them to communicate in English... |
Sioux County Index -- Hull, Iowa
Sioux County forced to look at immigration issues
“It’s a mess,” said Sioux County Supervisor Dennis Wright, referring to the issue of immigration in the county and the United States. “The federal government has failed abysmally, the state hasn’t done anything and it comes down to the county and city government having to piecemeal enforcement of immigration laws... |
Tucson Citizen
Illegals costs border counties millions, university study finds
Illegal immigration is costing border counties millions a year for law enforcement and criminal prosecutions - diverting money away from parks, libraries and other law enforcement efforts, according to a study to be released Wednesday. -- The costs totaled $192 million for the nation's 24 border counties in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas... |
Associated Press
New Mexico town split over removal of illegal alien
Karina Acosta's senior year at Roswell High came to an abrupt end after she was ticketed for blocking a fire lane outside a school and driving without a license. -- The officer who stopped her — a Roswell policeman assigned to the school — asked her for proof of legal U.S. residency. Acosta, an illegal [alien], had none. |
Clarksville (Tennessee) Leaf-Chronicle
Councilman proposing illegal alien resolutions
Clarksville City Council will vote on two resolutions Thursday regarding illegal aliens. -- The first would establish the Clarksville Homeland Security Officers Program, which would encourage Clarksville Police officers to forward information about illegal aliens they encounter to a department point person... |
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Federation for American Immigration Reform
Amnesty proponents launch campaign to shut down debate!
Having lost last year's epic legislative battle over the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill, pro-amnesty forces are regrouping and launching an all-out campaign to censor the media and stop the debate over true immigration reform. This attack on the media should not come as a surprise. |
WBAL -- Baltimore
Parent seeing red after school letter in Spanish
Sandi Henley opened a letter from Anne Arundel County School Superintendent Kevin Maxwell that made her see red. The letter about MSA testing was written in English on one side and Spanish on the other. -- "We just felt it was a way of Dr. Maxwell to be politically correct, in two languages Spanish and English," Henley tells WBAL Radio. |
El Paso Times
More police patrols planned along river
Juárez police officials announced Tuesday that they would increase patrolling along the Rio Grande bank after U.S. Border Patrol agents reported an increase in cross-river attacks from immigrant smugglers. -- Police vigilance will be heightened along the west Juárez neighborhoods known as Puerto Anapra and El Millón... |
Colby Lyons -- Utah Statesman
The North American Union is More Than a Theory
In May, 100 university students from the United States, Mexico and Canada will be gathering in Montreal for a very unique meeting. These students will be participating in a North American model parliament, sponsored by the North American Forum on Integration. According to the NAFI Web site, the purpose of this gathering... |
Dayton (Ohio) Daily News
Child rapist sentenced to life
A judge on Monday sentenced a Dayton man to life in prison for raping a 10-year-old girl. -- Adrian Garcia-Garcia pleaded guilty Feb. 11 to rape and one count of importuning a child under 13. -- Authorities deported Garcia-Garcia to Mexico in August 2007 because he was in this country illegally. [More "family values"] |
New Richmond (Wisconsin) News
Illegal alien accused of killing deputy blames drunken state
The lawyer for a man charged with killing a Kenosha County sheriff’s deputy says he should not be convicted of intentional homicide. -- Frederick Cohn told a jury yesterday that Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero was so drunk the night of the killing he could not remember what happened. |
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -- Ontario, Calif.
Council, activists quarrel
Pomona, Calif. -- Monday night's City Council meeting deteriorated into accusations and name-calling between council members and a handful of anti-illegal immigration activists. -- Both sides said Tuesday that the comments made at the meeting were shocking and slanderous... |
KOB-TV -- Albuquerque
National Guard to be pulled from border patrol
The state said there will be a six month gap of vulnerability at the border when feds pull National Guard troops. -- State homeland security said the National Guard on the border will leave in July, six months earlier than expected. Officials said border agents won’t take over until December at the earliest... [Note: American Border Patrol observed no National Guard near the border during its January 15, 2008 aerial survey.] |
Jim Horn -- Family Security Matters
Welcome to the Third World: America
...I work in a hardware store and I see daily proof that America is increasingly a third world banana republic trundling merrily along towards total social, economic, and moral bankruptcy. Thirty percent of my customers are illiterate and they ain’t all Mexicans. They can’t read size charts or identifying labels, so they have to rip packages open to feel and compare, or to steal the contents. |
Pacific Daily News -- Hagatna, Guam
Smuggler who fled Guam to be sentenced to 14 years
A man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges will be sentenced to almost 14 years after he fled Guam. -- Kam Kueng Lau, also known as Davy Lau, was charged along with two others, Herman Cruz and Quin Wu, with bribing an immigration official to bring Chinese nationals to Guam through Saipan... |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Legislation on immigration is evolving via trio of bills
Arizona businesses that hired undocumented workers last year would no longer face prosecution under the terms of legislation approved Tuesday by the House Government Committee. -- But anyone in this country illegally could be charged with trespass under another bill approved by the same panel... |
American Patrol
Chertoff Promises
Chertoff, March 3, 2008: "Between the ports of entry, we're on track to build 670 miles of fencing by the end of this year." We note that American Border Patrol reported that DHS built fewer than 90 miles of single-layer fence last year. Stay tuned for ABP's reports on the progress of the border fence. (By the way, Glenn Spencer of ABP reports seeing what he thought was a Predator UAV flying the border last evening. The first such sighting in a couple of years.) |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Mexican gets 21 months in jail in child-smuggling case
A woman who smuggled one child into the United States and tried to bring in another was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in federal prison. -- The 21-month sentence stems from an incident on Oct. 23, 2007, when Jessica Sanchez-Gutierrez, of Nogales, Son., smuggled a 7-year-old boy into Nogales, Arizona... |
San Francisco Examiner
Montgomery residents watch for influx after Va. illegal alien crackdown
As Prince William County cracks down on its illegal immigrant population, some residents in Montgomery County worry their property values and quality of life will take a hit as the undocumented come streaming across the Potomac, invited by the county’s more lenient approach. |
WSLS-TV -- Richmond, Virginia
Illegal alien tuition restriction bill defeated in State Senate
Undocumented [alien] students apparently can continue to attend state public colleges and universities that will accept them— -- at least for now. -- On a 9-5 vote yesterday the Senate Health and Education Committee effectively killed Del. Christopher K. Peace’s House Bill 14 to block... |
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