Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson               sc    Maricopa supervisors OK Arpaio's immigration checks    The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ratified an agreement with the federal government Wednesday to allow Sheriff Joe Arpaio to check the immigration status on people booked into jail. -- The board voted 3-2 to have Board Chairman Max Wilson sign the agreement once ICE's designee signs it.

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Manitoba's Department of Labour has opened an investigation into the case of four Filipino workers who say they faced intimidation and broken promises after being recruited to work in Canada. -- A CBC News investigation revealed this week that Glenn Syping, Imelda Campecino, Mercedes Comia and Alan Acar each paid a Niagara Falls, Ont., employment recruiter...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner     Obama wants to put criminal illegal aliens in hotels    On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to use converted hotels and nursing homes to house some illegal aliens, rather than keeping them in jails under the current system. -- In August, DHS Janet Napolitano announced that her agency would be conducting a review of the current system...

Washington Post      Minority groups raise voices on reform    ...Janet Murguía, president of the National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], agreed. "I tend to think that we could win this on the merits and the facts. I don't think we have to resort to race issues to get a common-sense and sound health-care reform," she said. "I think there are people who want to take it in that direction."

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Members of the Population, Borders and Migratory Affairs Committee of the Mexican Congress initiated a session by emphasizing that they will promote reforms concerning protection for the Mexican migrants [read: illegal aliens.... criminals] who head for the United States... [More Mexican meddling]

Michelle Malkin        sc       Census Bureau sending violent felons to our doors?    Why does this sound so familiar? -- "A Senate Subcommittee hearing today revealed that nearly 36,000 Census Bureau employees were hired despite the fact that the fingerprint component of their criminal record checks was botched..." [See Obama Watch]

CNS News         Arrogant ACORN CEO doubts Congress will defund them    Bertha Lewis, CEO of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), said on Tuesday that she doubts Congress will ultimately defund her organization "because we actually do the right thing." -- The House of Representatives has already overwhelmingly approved an amendment to deny ACORN all federal funding...

Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal      Here's Your 'Change': 10,000 applications for 90 factory jobs    Job seekers filed 10,000 applications over three days with General Electric for 90 openings paying about $27,000 a year building washing machines, General Electric spokeswoman Kim Freeman said Thursday. -- GE advertised the jobs Sunday, and began accepting applications and resumes solely via a company website Monday...

Connie Hair -- Human Events      Senate 'Obamacare' concept costs $829 billion    Yesterday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the Obamacare bill still being drafted by the Senate Finance Committee will cost a whopping $829 billion dollars while leaving over 25 million people still uninsured by 2019...

Center for Immigration Studies      The Obama Administration's 287(g): An analysis of the new MOA    The Obama administration may have begun to undermine one of the most successful immigration enforcement programs in the country. Known as 287(g), the program allows trained state and local law enforcement officials to assist federal immigration agencies in carrying out immigration enforcement...

Denver Post Editorial      Is ICE agent above the law?    When did it become too much to ask that law enforcement officers actually follow the law? -- Apparently, a federal agent — a supervisor with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — can lie to jurors, the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and get away with it relatively unscathed...

San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Sun     Census becomes point of contention for Latinos    ..."If we cannot count on the government, why are we going to get counted?," asked Nativo Lopez, president of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana who along with Rev. Miguel Rivera, chairman of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy are asking [illegal aliens.... criminals] to abstain from participating in the census...

John and Ken Show -- KFI - Los Angeles   Audio Report      John and Ken interview Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio    Sheriff Arpaio talks about his loss of part of his 287(g) authority at the hands of the highly questionable Obama administration. -- Thanks to 'StephenLone Wolf' for providing this audio clip.

We Get E-Mail      Advance text of Cardinal McCarrick's pro-amnesty testimony   I am Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., and consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration. I testify today on behalf of the Committee of Migration on the Catholic Church's perspective on comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty]... [See Amnesty Watch]

Press TV -- Tehran      Here's Your 'Change': U.S. deficit hits $1.4 trillion, largest hike since WWII     The US budget deficit spiked to $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year 2009, the biggest hike since the World War II, says a Congressional Budget Office report. -- "The 2009 deficit was equal to 9.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), up from 3.2 percent in 2008, and was the highest shortfall – relative to the size of the economy – since 1945," the CBO said...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      DHS's Napolitano orders Sheriff Arpaio to stop looking for illegal aliens    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has just ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop arresting suspects based solely on the fact that they are illegal aliens. The Arizona sheriff who has been called the "toughest" in America, defiantly said he will continue his sweeps...

Dallas Morning News       Garland ISD to use $500,000 of stimulus funds on "diversity" training    It's hard to teach students you don't understand – students who have different backgrounds, speak different languages or have different traditions. -- So the Garland school district will spend $500,000 of its roughly $21 million in federal stimulus money on diversity training...

Latin American Herald-Tribune -- Caracas      Gunmen storm Mexican hospital to finish off wounded enemies    Assailants armed with assault rifles burst into a hospital in the northern Mexican state of Durango and killed three men being treated for gunshot wounds, the state Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday. -- Wounded last Saturday on the streets of Villa Union, the three men received initial treatment on the scene from the Red Cross...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.     Conference on the U.S.-Mexico Drug War     In another demonstration of the Alice-in-Wonderland nature of the U.S.-Mexico border problem, a recent conference held to analyze and debate the 40-year war on drugs asked why violence "has reached such an extreme."

Salt Lake Tribune      Bennett still pushing for citizenship question    Utah Sen. Bob Bennett has switched strategies in his bid to get the Census to exclude [illegal aliens] when assigning congressional seats to each state. -- In recent weeks, the Utah Republican has pushed legislation that would require the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data in its once-a-decade count...

HS Today         sc        DHS to seek new contracts for northern border security    Although CBP will pass over current SBInet contract for northern border, SBI chief anticipates exercising additional years on it When establishing its next major border security projects along the US northern border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not intend to use its virtual fence contract... [Note: The editor of HSToday, David Silverberg, is pro-amnesty and this, no doubt, influences how his publication covers the border issue.]

American Patrol Report     Cameras catch 97 invaders    The remote cameras of borderinvastionpics.com recorded 97 people walking along one trail just north of the border. Click here to see. "The American people really need to know the truth about the border," said Glenn Spencer, and we highly recommend they visit borderinvasionpics.com."

Micheal E. Hill      Senate rejects anti "sanctuary" amendment to bill that funds DoJ    The Senate last night rejected an amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) to bar Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) funding to jurisdictions that have a "sanctuary" policy barring local law enforcement personnel from communicating with Department of Homeland Security enforcement personnel...

Washington Post      Immigration officials weigh less-restrictive detentions    The United States will review the procedures under which it detains about 380,000 illegal immigrants a year, exploring the use of converted hotels and nursing homes as it seeks to transform a prison-based system into one tiered according to the risk posed by individual detainees, Obama administration officials said Tuesday...

Houston Chronicle     Mayor of illegal alien-bloated Houston steering clear of 287(g)    Mayor Bill White is distancing himself from a controversial federal program that trains local law enforcement to identify suspected illegal [aliens], saying this week that he favors an automated immigration screening program in the city's jails...

US Rep. Paul Broun -- The Hill -- Washington     It's time to make E-Verify permanent    Last week, another extension was needed for the E-Verify program to remain effective. The E-Verify (formerly known as the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program) is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      Former White House speechwriter suggests military coup could oust Obama     Former White House speechwriter John L. Perry has courted controversy by suggesting that the U.S. Military, upholding their oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies, could stage a bloodless coup to oust President Obama. -- In an article originally posted on the Newsmax website, Perry wrote...

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Offenses against kids get three arrested by agents    Border Patrol agents from the Douglas station on Monday arrested three illegal alien males from Mexico; all with criminal records for various offenses against children, authorities said. The arrests occurred in three separate incidents... [See Crime Watch]