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Where is Our Homeland Defense?
Mexican Drug War Could Spread Across Border
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- May 12
Dobbs: Mexico's raging drug wars are escalating. The second-ranking police officer in the border city of Juarez was gunned down Saturday and his boss, the police chief, then announced his resignation. The State Department, the U.S. State Department is renewing its call for Congress to release more than $1 billion in aid to Mexico to help it fight the drug cartels. Casey Wian has our report.
Wian: (voice-over): A 50-shot fuselage killed Juan Antonio Roman, second in command of the Juarez police force Saturday. At least five senior Mexican law enforcement officers have been assassinated within a week. Roman's name was number one on this suspected drug cartel hit list left at a Juarez police memorial in January.
So far 2,500 Mexican federal troops have been unable to stop the violence in Juarez, the city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso has endured more than 200 drug-related killings so far this year. El Paso police say they've seen little evidence of the violence crossing the border into the United States, but if it does, the sheriff says they're ready, Lou.
Dobbs: Well that's very, very much a statement filled with bravado...
 See Spencer's warning about Juarez from ten years ago
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Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Conservative Voice
Obama crusades for illegal alien driver's licenses
Barack Obama is easily winning the African American vote, but to woo Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal [aliens]...  |
Cox News Service
Slowdown found in assimilation of immigrants
Current immigrants -- especially Mexicans -- are less assimilated than those 100 years ago, a study to be released today found. -- The study uses Census data going back more than a century to measure assimilation through various indicators such as English-learning, employment, home ownership, rates of marriage to native-born people... |
Battle Creek (Michigan) Enquirer
26 illegal aliens held in Chippewa County
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. -- Authorities say 26 illegal [aliens] are being held in Chippewa County after a series of arrests over the weekend. -- The U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Sault Ste. Marie said Monday it assisted the county sheriff’s department after two vehicles were stopped near Trout Lake. |
San Diego Union-Tribune
Border Patrol agent fires at vehicle
A Border Patrol agent working with a federal task force fired two shots at a vehicle in Rancho San Diego Monday morning after the driver steered toward the agent, officials said. -- The unidentified agent, who was working with a U.S. Marshals' fugitive task force, had a home on state Route 94 near Millar Ranch Road under surveillance... |
Fox News
Community colleges will no longer accept illegals
North Carolina's community colleges will no longer admit illegal [aliens], returning to more restrictive policy on the advice of the state Attorney General's Office. -- Last year, the system said it would enroll illegal [aliens] who are 18 years old and high school graduates at all of its 58 campuses... |
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MooreIsBetter.com
Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... |
Des Moines Register
Claims of ID fraud lead to largest raid in state history
Postville, Iowa -- The largest workplace raid in Iowa history Monday resulted in the arrest of more than 300 people and reignited the debate over immigration. -- As two law enforcement helicopters hovered overhead, dozens of federal agents descended on Agriprocessors Inc., the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse. |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Metcalfe introduces Pennsylvania voter ID bill
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Indiana's law requiring voters to present photo identification, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe wants to enact the same kind of law in Pennsylvania. -- The Cranberry Republican has introduced House Bill 2519, which would require anyone wishing to vote to show one of several forms of photo ID.... |
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette
Search warrants detail reasons for Postville raid
..."This criminal search warrant is sought simultaneously... in connection with the issuance of 697 criminal complaints and arrest warrants against persons believed to be current employees of Agriprocessors... Of the approximately 697 charged by complaint, the government currently possesses copies of photo identification for only about 15 individuals..." |
EuroNews.net
Italy has an arsenal of anti-immigrant measures
...EU law allows governments to expel European citizens who commit crimes, or don't have sufficient funds. Italy intends to introduce a strict means test and send illegal immigrants to jail for up to four years... |
Chuck Baldwin -- News With Views
Birds of a feather
There is an old adage that, for the most part, has proven itself to be true: "Birds of a feather flock together." In other words, one can discern much about a person by the company he or she keeps. Accordingly, here is a sample of the quirky company of Senator John McCain... |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Yes, borders are a federal matter, but...
Slightly wonkish here, but you'll remember that, last July, Neil Warren in Cobb County became the first Georgia sheriff to join a federal program that allowed certain deputies to be trained to identify the illegal immigrants who peopled his jail... |
Barnard R. Thompson -- Mexidata.info
Lame duck California politician plays to Mexico audience
California Assembly Speaker Fabián Núñez, the lame duck representative from Los Angeles, led a group of three (maybe four?) state legislators to Mexico City in early May, on a four day visit “to meet with Mexican President Calderón, business and political leaders.” According to a press release from... |
San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun
Police avoid actively seeking out illegals
Representatives of multiple Inland Empire law-enforcement agencies said they do not seek out illegal immigrants while patrolling the streets and investigating other offenses. -- "That's a big federal issue. It's definitely not a local issue," San Bernardino police Lt. Brian Boom said. |
Des Moines Register
Town's Hispanics shutter businesses, scatter
Postville, Iowa -- ...The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant scattered the Hispanics of Postville. About 400 found their way to St. Bridget's Catholic Church, waiting for information. Some filled out G-28 forms that allow a lawyer to represent their detained children or minors in their care... |
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