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Chertoff Fights Real Fence
DHS Secretary Should be Fired
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"I don't think double fencing stops anybody," Chertoff said. "All fencing does is slow people up." Reuters
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Reuters -- March 5
U.S. official defends "virtual" border barrier
.....Smith pressed Chertoff to build more double-wall fencing, saying it would be a more effective barrier against illegal crossings.
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"I don't think double fencing stops anybody," Chertoff said. "All fencing does is slow people up."
Kevin James -- TownHall.com -- March 6
2. Demand Chertoff's Resignation
The one man who symbolizes the abject failure of this Administration to secure our borders is Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. McCain should call for Chertoff's immediate resignation. |
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MSNBC
5 years on, DHS strains as goals go unmet
Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years...  |
Sun Herald -- Jackson, Mississippi
Illegal alien hiring bill passes Mississippi legislature
Two freshman Pascagoula legislators worked across the aisle to pass a bill to curb the hiring of illegal immigrants, the state's first immigration bill in recent history. -- The bill, which now awaits the signature of Gov. Haley Barbour, would require employers to use an online database to verify that a worker is... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Van with 22 illegals breaks down on U.S. 60
Phoenix Immigration and Customs Enforcement took 22 [illegal aliens] into custody Thursday morning after their van broke down on McClintock Drive and the U.S. 60. -- When police arrived on the scene, the driver of the vehicle had fled, I.C.E. spokesman Vincent Picard said... |
Alan Stang -- EtherZone.com
I like Ron... and he can win
In 1952, the country was on fire (as usual). The Democrats had ruled for twenty years. Swindler, mass murderer and traitor Franklin Roosevelt was safely dead. Harry Truman, who to everyone’s amazement had beaten Republican globalist Thomas Dewey in 1948, was now completing his term... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Mexico real-estate ventures blasted
Arizona and Sonora state officials were bombarded with criticism Wednesday from more than 100 people at a Phoenix forum on real-estate frauds and failures in northern Mexico. -- "You're stealing our money," said one American, facing Sonora's tourism director. "You suck our money into Mexico, where you've stolen it." |
Reuters
U.S. says may not meet timeline for border control
The United States may be unable to meet its timetable for essentially stopping illegal immigration across its border with Mexico by 2011, a Bush administration official told Congress on Thursday. -- Ralph Basham, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the government was working to meet the target... |
Fox News
Utah Reps say state needs twice as many immigration enforcers
Utah's congressional delegation is asking the Department of Homeland Security to almost double its illegal immigration enforcement presence in the state. -- The group is requesting an additional 22 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to aid in the work that 25 officers are now doing. |
WorldNetDaily.com
Homeland Security says northern border at risk
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security is warning that the U.S. is at risk from invasion through its northern border, a 4,000-mile stretch of mostly unattended territory in 12 states, with the confirmed presence of a number of terrorist and extremist groups in Canada. |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
60 seized in raid on suspected drophouse
About 60 illegal immigrants were detained Wednesday after federal agents raided a Glendale home that they described as a drophouse for alien smuggling. -- The agents, backed with a search warrant, swooped down on the property in the 5000 block of West Vista Avenue between Glendale and Northern avenues. |
El Paso Times
'Zero-tolerance' sector to reach Santa Teresa
The Border Patrol on Monday will expand its "zero-tolerance" approach, which consists of jailing and prosecuting undocumented immigrants, all the way to the Santa Teresa port of entry, agency officials said Wednesday. -- Last month, the Border Patrol started a controversial program called "No Pass"... |
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
3 imprisoned for hiring illegal immigrants for cleaning firm
A West Palm Beach man was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in unpaid taxes for his role in a nationwide tax scheme that employed illegal [aliens] as janitors to clean for restaurant chains like Hard Rock Cafe, Dave & Busters and Yardhouse... |
Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times
Mumpower wants illegal alien worker moratorium
One moratorium request has spurred another from Asheville's elected officials. -- City Councilman Carl Mumpower asked Thursday that the council stop [illegal alien] workers from being hired for downtown construction. -- Mumpower called for "a moratorium on illegal aliens working on downtown building projects." |
San Diego Union-Tribune
Illegal-immigrant criminals siphon funds
The next time a San Diego sheriff's deputy arrests a man who tries to steal a car, hauls him to a county detention center, starts asking questions and discovers he's in the country illegally, here's what will happen: The tax-supported district attorney's and public defender's offices will handle his case... |
Politico.com
Immigration split still hangs over McCain and Republicans
While John McCain was being coronated as the heir apparent at a highly publicized White House meeting with President Bush, his colleagues on Capitol Hill couldn't resist rolling out what could be described as a Lou Dobbs dream package of immigration bills. |
Stanford Daily
Former Mexican President speaks at Farm
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox called for better treatment of Mexican immigrants in the United States, defended the North American Free Trade Agreement and strongly criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a wide ranging two-hour talk at the Graduate School of Business on Wednesday night. |
KGBT-TV -- Harlingen
Chase nets illegals, smuggler
A chase, an accident and the arrest of several undocumented immigrants is how Mission police and Border Patrol agents spent Wednesday morning. -- The incident started in Mission where a the driver of a van got into a chase with Mission police causing an accident near Military Road and Conway Avenue. |
WBIR-TV -- Nashville, Tennessee
Campfield seeks to bar children of illegal aliens' from state's colleges
With Daniela Moya's high school graduation looming, her parents offered her a joint mea culpa. "They are like, 'We brought you here. We decided to stay, and now you are going to pay for it,' " she said. "When they came, they didn't know it was going to be this way." |
Asbury Park Press
Lawmakers: Punish illegal hiring
Ninth District lawmakers said Monday they will support legislation designed to punish firms that hire people in the United States illegally. - Sen. Christopher J. Connors, R-Ocean, said he will back a plan by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, to introduce the measure... |
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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. |
KTAR -- Phoenix
Chop shop dismantled, eight illegals arrested
Working on a tip, DPS dismantled a chop shop in the southwest Valley. -- Eight illegal [aliens] are responsible for stealing cars from the Phoenix area and dismantling them near 27th Avenue and Van Buren St. -- Arizona Vehicle Theft Taskforce Sargeant Doug Hardin said the suspects were taking the parts to Mexico. |
The Oklahoman
Lawmaker hopes to revive stalled anti-illegal alien legislation
Legislation that would expand Oklahoma's anti-illegal immigrant law has stalled in the Oklahoma House, but its author said Wednesday he hopes to revive the idea by attaching parts of it to a Senate-passed measure. -- Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said he decided not to pursue immigration legislation that would... |
Allan Wall -- VDare.com
Border states feel strain.... in Mexico!
In January, a delegation came to Arizona from the Mexican state of Sonora, Arizona’s neighbor to the south, to complain about Arizona’s recently-enacted law that cracks down on illegal immigration. -- There’s nothing new about Mexican officials meddling in U.S. immigration policy... |
Metro Boston News
Illegal alien hotline a go
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the raid at a New Bedford factory that saw more than 350 [illegal aliens] detained by federal agents. -- Several smaller raids in the state followed, leaving hundreds of families left to piece together their lives while living apart. Finding support and services in such a situation... |
WRAL-TV -- Raleigh
Illegal alien jailed for shooting at Raleigh officer
Hector Hernandez was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in federal prison for the shooting at an off-duty Raleigh police officer in 2007. -- Hernandez, an illegal [alien] who had previously been deported, was arrested July 19, 2007, after a shooting at El Deso nightclub at 7429 Capital Blvd. in Raleigh. |
Stein Report
Bill Gates, corporations lobby for H-1B increase
The April 1 deadline and an election year have given American industry renewed vigour to lobby for an increase in the annual quota of temporary skilled worker (H-1 B) visas. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is among industry chiefs headed for Capitol Hill to lobby for this increase... |
American Patrol
Dobbs turns silent on Chertoff
A review of the Lou Dobbs Tonight show over the last two weeks shows that Dobbs has been totally silent on the controversy over the border fence and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. In the past Dobbs has been highly critical of Chertoff. Critics claim that the American Jewish Committee silenced CNN and Dobbs' criticism of the Jewish DHS chief. |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Illegal immigration costs soar for border counties
Illegal immigration is costing Arizona border counties millions a year for law enforcement and criminal prosecutions, diverting money from parks, libraries and other law-enforcement efforts, according to a study to be released today... |
Brenda Walker -- VDare.com
After the Perfect Storm: Overpopulation has its costs...
This just in from the climate debate: a group of atmospheric scientists and actuaries have found that the increasing billions of dollars in costs for hurricane damage do not come from worsening storms—but from the millions of additional people now living in affected areas. |
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