Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Coming Civil War Should those responsible be prosecuted? America has nothing to fear from illegal immigrants. "Like the waves that came before them... immigrants will only enrich our country." -- President Barack Obama October, 2009   CIS / Zogby Poll          "An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure."     "Also, 69 percent of people in Mexico felt that the Mexican government should represent the interests of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) in the United States." The Truth Letter          "California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave." – Mario Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF     "I don't have answers to the mess the government has got us in. But I know big changes are ahead. And they're going to be violent." – U.S. Border Patrol agent American Patrol Report       Post War Prosecutions?       Critics claim there is going to be a civil/Mexican border war and thousands of innocent Americans are going to be killed. Some have argued that there should be a post-war prosecution of those who broke the law and deliberately and knowingly set us up for the war and that a list of these people should be established beforehand. "The time for this discussion is now, before the blood starts running," said Glenn Spencer of the American Patrol Report. Spencer said there are a number of people who deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. "Former California Governor Gray Davis and leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center come to mind," he said. Past Features

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The State Population Council presented a "Socio-Demographic Profile of Youth in Puebla" which reveals that, of more than a million youths between 15 and 24 years of age, one third has the intention of migrating to the United States. The Council’s Secretary presented the document to state’s governor so that it may serve to define policies...

Michelle Malkin     Anita Dunn: A corruptocrat flack and a Mao cheerleader    Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn's career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway's most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle. -- I also noted that Dunn is married to Obama thug lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried valiantly to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics... [See Obama Watch]

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Toronto, Ont. -- Employers who abuse foreign workers will be blacklisted and denied permission to hire another foreigner for two years, according to tough new regulations proposed by the Harper government. -- Under the rules proposed by Ottawa, any employer shown to have violated the Temporary Foreign Workers Program...

San Jose Mercury News      Napolitano besieged by arrogant open-borders fanatics at Alma master    Hundreds of noisy protesters greeted U.S. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano when she returned to her alma mater Thursday night to speak on global security. -- The protesters' message: Tell your boss, President Barack Obama, to keep his promise to work for the passage of a comprehensive immigration reform [aka amnesty] bill by Congress...

Numbers USA          Standing up for jobless Hispanic Americans    NumbersUSA President Roy Beck discusses the unemployment rate for U.S.-born Hispanics. There are 8 million illegal aliens in the working force taking jobs away from U.S.-born citizens, especially Hispanics where 1 in every 5 over the age of 16 doesn't have a job...

The Examiner      53 House Republicans call on Obama to fire Kevin Jennings    A group of 53 Republican members of the House has sent a letter to the president asking for the removal of Kevin Jennings, the gay activist who now runs the Education Department's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. "It is clear that Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in this capacity," the lawmakers write...

Tom Fitton -- Judicial Watch      Obama hostile to immigration law enforcement    The Obama administration is once again undermining the enforcement of our nation's immigration laws. -- Last week I told you about the administration's attempts to undermine 287(g), a highly successful federal program that trains local law enforcement officers in illegal immigration enforcement techniques...

Micheal E. Hill      Senate postpones vote on Vitter/Bennet immigration status amendment    The Senate Democratic Leadership has pulled the Senate Appropriations Committee-reported version of H.R. 2847, the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill (C-J-S Appropriations Bill) from the Senate floor until next week or later. Senate insiders suggest...

Des Moines Register      Slaughterhouse worker testifies she faked records for Rubashkin    Sioux Falls, SD -- An employee at an eastern Iowa slaughterhouse testified Wednesday that Sholom Rubashkin asked her to produce an "extremely large" number of fake sales records in May 2008, the same month federal immigration agents raided the plant... [Related WSJ item]

Media Research Center       sc     Bozell: I hope you all have good lawyers     Yesterday, MRC President Brent Bozell promised to report back publicly with how CNN and MSNBC responded to his challenge to put up – or shut up – proof that Rush Limbaugh actually stated the racist quote that both cable networks attributed to him as fact...

Clay Waters -- Times Watch      N.Y. Times embraces another liberal rally in Washington    Ian Urbina's online-only story on Tuesday's rally for amnesty for illegal [aliens] on the West Lawn was optimistically headlined "Immigration Rally Draws Thousands." -- Unlike the paper's sour coverage of the much larger conservative rally on the National Mall September 12, in which protesters were termed "angry" and "profane" with "no shortage of vitriol," Urbina found no critics...

Huffington Post        CNN scuttles anti-Dobbs ad    CNN is declining to carry a national advertisement, purchased by two progressive groups, which attacks its host Lou Dobbs for his controversial views on [illegal] immigration. [The usual suspects could hardly contain themselves earlier when they thought CNN would actually run their nutty commercial]. [Related item]

W. James Antle, III -- American Spectator      Oooh, look, mavericks!    The media lovefest for liberal Republicans has begun. An earlier version of this story ran under the headline: "Palin who? Meet the real GOP mavericks." And then they regale us with all the stories of the usual Republicans who vote to bankrupt the whole country in order to win these kinds of headlines... snowe graham

Associated Press      Immigration agents nab 280 in Texas gang probe    Dallas -- Immigration agents arrested 280 people in Texas during a six-month national roundup of gang members and criminals. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Thursday that agents working with state and local officials made the arrests as part of Operation Community Shield... [See Crime Watch]

San Diego Union-Tribune      15 illegals, pot seized when boat lands in Encinitas    Fifteen people are in custody and 35 bundles of marijuana have been seized after Border Patrol agents spotted a boat as it came ashore at a Leucadia beach early Wednesday morning, an agency spokesman said. -- It is the third smuggling attempt by sea detected in a 24-hour period in San Diego County. [As ABP has proven, the fence works]

Azadeh N. Shahshahani -- Marietta Daily Journal -- Marietta, Ga.      ACLU hack carps about use of 287(g) in Cobb    The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to accept Sheriff Neil Warren's recommendation on the re-signing of the 287(g) Agreement with [ICE]. They should reconsider this decision. -- The 287(g) program delegates immigration enforcement authority to specific local police agencies... [Please comment on this drivel]

Federation for American Immigration Reform      Latest FAIR Legislative Update    Last week, multiple media reports revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has forced Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to sign a weakened 287(g) agreement....

New York Post      Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro    ...Currently, dollars account for about 62 percent of the currency reserve at central banks -- the lowest on record, said the International Monetary Fund. -- Bernanke could go down in economic history as the man who killed the greenback on the operating table... [See Obama Watch]

Corpus Christi Caller-Times Editorial      Texas rag bemoans border fence    Congress just may be waking up to reality about the fence it voted in 2006 to inflict upon our southern border. Last week, its members again voted on the fence, this time to strip an amendment from the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill that would require 300 additional miles...

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    Blaine, Wash. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 43-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man on October 10 for allegedly attempting to export 192 pounds of cocaine, worth more than $3 million. -- Sukhvinder Shoker, a Canadian citizen, was originally en route to Canada driving a commercial shipment of household goods...

Washington Times      'Toughest sheriff' vows face-off with feds over illegals    The man who likes to call himself "America's toughest sheriff," Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., is planning a Friday showdown with the feds. -- The sheriff has announced he will defy the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by doing a street sweep for illegal [aliens] one day after the expiration of the agreement...

U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith -- Politico      Keep stealth amnesty out of health reform    Seven months ago, I predicted in a Politico op-ed that the open-borders crowd would undertake some of the same efforts at piecemeal amnesty that they began in 2007 after comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty] failed. -- To its credit, the left understood it would be difficult to gain support for amnesty...

Wall Street Journal      ACORN's ally at the National Labor Relations Board    One of Big Labor's priorities in Washington is to place allies in key government jobs where they can overturn existing labor policy without battles in Congress. This is a very good reason for the Senate to hold a hearing on the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). -- Mr. Becker is associate general counsel at the SEIU... [See Obama Watch]

Media Research Center      Special Report: The Left's character assassination of Rush Limbaugh      Legendary talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh recently joined a group seeking to purchase the National Football League's St. Louis Rams, which spurred the latest attempt by the American left-wing media to destroy Limbaugh, or at the very least marginalize him as an extremist...

Phil Leggiere -- Homeland Security Today                  ACLU continues to attack use of 287(g) in Cobb    A focal point of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano's efforts to immigrant enforcement and detection has been pushing for greater federal oversight over the 287 (g) program, which grants broad immigration enforcement authority to state and county law enforcement agencies... [See ACLU watch]

Los Angeles Times      Joint U.S.-Mexican police patrols among proposed fixes for the border    Mexican and U.S. police patrolling the border together? -- That radical idea is one of the recommendations made by a blue-ribbon panel of scholars, diplomats and other experts that spent most of the year searching for "a new vision" in dealing with cross-border issues as diverse as [invasion], security and water...

Jed Babbin      CAIR tries to plant Muslim interns on key Hill staffs    The Muslim activist organization CAIR was attempting to plant Muslim interns in the offices of congressmen who are on committees affecting US national security, a CAIR memo dated 13 January 2007 reveals. -- The CAIR memo says, in part: "We will focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community..."

Jeff Poor -- Business & Media Institute           'Wonder Woman' joins the Beck bashing on Behar Show     Perhaps having a slot on Glenn Beck's former network wasn't enough for the newly minted host of CNN Headline News The Joy Behar Show. Instead, she obviously finds bashing Beck is the way to reach her audience. -- For the fourth time in the 11 broadcasts of her show Behar... Lynda Carter

Michelle Malkin      This is what a "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick" looks like    Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart’s Page A1 conservatives-are-horrible-ogres article led MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to liken me tonight to a "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick" and to rail about my "fascistic hatred." -- But remember: Only conservatives are horrible ogres...

Ted Rall -- State Journal-Register -- Springfield, Ill.      If Obama keeps it up, we're headed for Hooverville    When the economic collapse began a year ago, many Americans took comfort in the historical parallels with the Great Depression. As it had in 1929, the current crisis began under the clueless reign of a Republican, George W. Bush. -- Universally reviled since his non-response to Hurricane Katrina had exposed him... ['Change" Watch]