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Ira Mehlman -- Townhall.com sc
What's amnesty got to do with funding the troops?
There is an unwritten rule in Congress that the appropriations process should not be used to pass major legislation. So when the Senate Appropriations Committee makes an exception to this rule, you can bet that they are doing so only to deal with some burning crisis...  |
Kansas City Star
Special Order 40
Thirty years ago, Los Angeles told its police officers that it couldn't pull stop someone simply to see if they were in the country legally. Authorities wanted to build trust with illegal [aliens], so if they spotted a crime or were victimized themselves, they wouldn't be scared to report it... |
OzarksFirst.com -- Springfield, Missouri
Illegal aliens pick wrong driveway
Webbers Falls, Okla. -- A van loaded with suspected illegal immigrants picked the wrong driveway to pull into earlier this week in Oklahoma. -- The van, loaded with 17 men, two women, and one boy, pulled into the driveway of the rural home owned by Webbers Falls Police Chief Tim Brown on Tuesday... |
D. A. King -- The Dustin Inman Society
Chambliss taking no chances at Georgia GOP convention
...Last year, Chambliss faced the state GOP convention just as an immigration bill was unveiled in Washington. He and Isakson had participated in the negotiations, and Chambliss received a round of boos from delegates... |
Reuters
Suspected drug hit men dump head in Mexican city
Monterrey, N. L., Mex. -- Suspected Mexican drug hit men dumped the head of a murdered man on top of a car in the street, police said on Friday, in a rare outrage in the wealthy city of Monterrey. -- The head, found on Thursday night on the roof of a car parked in a middle-class residential area, had a written message next to it signed by the Gulf cartel... |
KTAR -- Phoenix
Arpaio accepting donations to fight illegal immigration
There sheriff made news when he set up an illegal immigration hotline. Now he's set up another one to help fund his efforts to fight it. -- Earlier this week, the governor cut money more than $1 million from the sheriff's budget to fund a statewide task force to hunt fugitives... |
UPI
Razor wire added to US border fence
The U.S. Border Patrol said it has become necessary to top a five-mile section of border fence with Mexico with triple-strand razor wire to battle smugglers. -- The Los Angeles Times says the "concertina" wire has been added to the existing fence separating San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico... |
John Ross -- Counterpunch
Why Mexican justice is a euphemism
Even in the best of times, Mexican justice is a euphemism - and these are not the best of times. With 90% of all crimes unprosecuted or unreported, conviction rates are below 10% and too often those who are convicted are innocent victims themselves, rounded up and summarily charged so that security forces... |
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
Latest news from south of the border
Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz, the past director of the Special Unit on Organized Crime of Mexico's Dep't. of Justice, said that the security crisis in Mexico, together with the challenge by organized crime and the lack of strategies against narco-traffic groups foretell the "Colombianization" of the country... |
NewsMax.com
Gunfire, kidnappers await tourists at Mexico border
The U.S. State Department has issued an alert, warning travelers that the "equivalent to military small-unit combat" is taking place across the southern U.S. border in Mexico and that Americans are being kidnapped and murdered there... |
Associated Press
State cancels border camera request for now
Texas officials have at least temporarily canceled a bid request for a border video camera network aimed at allowing the public to help spot illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. -- Gov. Rick Perry and his emergency management division dubbed the system a "virtual border neighborhood watch" that would... |
Chuck Baldwin -- News With Views
Three peas in a pod
...But McCain seems to be calling for something beyond even a North American Union (NAU) of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. He talked about 'creating the new international institutions necessary to advance the peace and freedoms we cherish,' as if they would be built on top of the EU and the NAU... |
El Paso Times
Customs and Border Protection officers protest
Short staffing and pressure to relieve long waits at the El Paso ports of entry have soured working conditions for Customs and Border Protection officers, said union members picketing Friday near the Bridge of the Americas. -- The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 143 is composed of about... |
The Age -- Melbourne, Victoria
Ted Kennedy rushed to hospital
US Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading Democrat and patriarch of a prominent American political dynasty, has been hospitalised in Boston, a spokesman for a hospital in Cape Cod said [this morning]. -- Sen. Kennedy, 76, was rushed from the Kennedy compound at Hyannisport, Mass., to Cape Cod Hospital at 9am.[EDT]... |
Glenn Beck Show -- CNN sc
Bob Barr bewails border barrier
Presidential candidate Bob Barr was on CNN with Glenn Beck on May 14. He said this when asked if he supported construction of a fence on the Mexican border: "...I think it would look absolutely awful. And even though it's a fence to keep people from coming in, as opposed to the Berlin wall, it gives the same impression. Not the impression I want to give the world about America..." |
J. James Estrada -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Washington
Arizona governor fights illegal immigration task force
Manuel Espinoza-Vasquez lives in Gilbert, Arizona and is a student at Arizona State University. He is an illegal [alien] and he is facing deportation. Espinoza-Vasquez was stopped by Gilbert police for making an "improper right turn." At the same time, three teenagers were deported to Mexico after they were stopped... |
WTNH-TV -- New Haven, Connecticut
Brazil opening consulate in Hartford
Brazil is formally recognizing the growing Brazilian community in Connecticut by opening up a consulate in Hartford. -- Brazilian ambassador Oto Agripino Maia announced Wednesday at the Shaheen Brazilian Community Center in Hartford that his country will open the consulate later this year... |
Houston Chronicle
Citizenship to be checked in event of a storm
Brownsville, Texas -- Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley's [illegal aliens] during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints... |
Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.
Do policies prevent police from enforcing immigration on the street?
Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement got a call from elected officials in Mission Viejo who wanted help cracking down on day laborers they said were a public nuisance. -- Brian DeMore, ICE's acting field office director for detention and removal in Southern California, told officials that federal agents... |
Missouri.net
Missouri to illegals: "Go Away!"
The state has hung the "not welcome" sign out for illegal [aliens]. -- The message from the state to illegal [aliens] -- it will be illegal for any city to offer you sanctuary. You will not be able to get any state or local public benefits. Employers cannot knowingly hire you--and if they do they could lose their business permits and licenses. |
Mike Cutler -- Family Security Matters
Raid at meatpacking plant illustrates key immigration concerns
Earlier this week, a multi-agency field operation conducted by ICE and other law enforcement agencies was conducted at a meatpacking plant in Iowa. 300 people were arrested, representing a third of the plant's employees. Complaints about identity theft (ID fraud) led, in part, to the raid, and the arrest warrants... |
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