Texas Cable News   sc       Harris County Sheriff in favor of 287g program    Houston -- 11 News has learned that Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to continue a controversial, federal program that allows some of his deputies to act as immigration agents. -- "A lot are saying, "Well, you know, you're deporting somebody for a minor crime," said Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Michael Lindsay...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Mexican Senator Manuel Velasco proposed that the country's new head of the National Human Rights Commission ally himself with international agencies to "strive for the legal recognition of our fellow citizens who work in the United States." [More meddling Mexicans]

CBP via Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Border Patrol weekly blotter    Border Patrol agents seized over 15,714 pounds of marijuana, over 200 pounds of cocaine, 22.48 pounds of methamphetamines and 4.54 pounds of heroin. Agents arrested 14 criminal aliens and 8 gang members. There were 12 rocking incidents...

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Raleigh, NC -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's latest estimate on the number of illegal [aliens] in the country is anywhere from 12 million to 20 million, with a suspected 350,000 in North Carolina. -- The Bush administration tried to reduce that number by trying to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the country... [See yesterday's headlines]

Laredo (Texas) Morning Times      Gun battle in Nuevo Laredo; bridges stay open    Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mex. -- A fierce gun battle between Mexican soldiers and armed gunmen believed to be drug traffickers has left numerous bodies in the street Wednesday afternoon in a southeast neighborhood, according to residents and business owners in the area...

Charles Krauthammer -- Human Events      Fox Wars    Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed. -- Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily. -- The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news."

Los Angeles Times     sc      Probe of Mexican drug cartel leads to nearly 1,200 arrests in U.S.    Reporting from Washington - In a series of recent raids throughout the United States, federal authorities have arrested nearly 1,200 people who they say are connected to one of Mexico's most aggressively expanding and deadly drug trafficking cartels, known as La Familia Michoacana, law enforcement officials told The Times' Washington bureau... [See Crime Watch]

Media Research Center      Bozell applauds networks for standing by Fox against Obama and goons    Alexandria, Va. -- Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today applauded ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN for uniting with competitor news network Fox News in response to the Obama White House excluding Fox from an interview with "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg...

Alan Caruba -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto      Using "global warming" to steal your rights    By now, anyone paying any attention whatever to the weather has begun to notice that it is getting colder earlier in the U.S. and that this is occurring around the world. -- On www.iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix, the author of "Not by Fire, but by Ice" and "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps," reports on current weather events.... [See Obama Watch]

London Telegraph      Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years    Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr. Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from the 62 per cent he recorded from April. -- His current approval rating – hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle – is close to the bottom for newly-elected president...

CNS News      White House to keep Obama's 'czars' from testifying before Congress    The White House is not going to allow the president's newly created "czars" to testify before Congress. -- White House Counsel Greg Craig has indicated that he will refuse to allow any of the 18 new "czar" positions created by President Obama to testify before Congress, according to Sen. Susan Collins... [See Obama Watch]

Associated Press      Congress OKs immigration law ending 'Widow's Penalty'    A legal provision criticized for making personal tragedies worse by triggering the automatic deportation of a small group of widows and widowers of U.S. citizens will not be in effect for much longer. -- Congress gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that would effectively abolish a provision known as the "Widow's Penalty."

Arizona Republic Editorial      Open-borders rag attacks Pearce, Hayworth... again     Is it foolhardy to bequeath one of the most important social issues of our time - immigration reform - to the absolutists and the radicals? -- The question answers itself. Because Congress has abdicated its responsibility to resolve illegal immigration, powers have stepped into their leadership vacuum...

Politico      Rep. calls for English-only consumer protection    Financial reform just wandered into the culture wars. -- Democrats erupted over an amendment offered by New York Republican Rep. Chris Lee Wednesday night that would bar the proposed consumer financial protection agency from mandating financial firms provide disclosures in any language other than English...

Michael Roberts -- Westworld -- Denver     The silencing of Cory Voorhis in the dust-up over Obama nominee Villafuerte    This morning's Denver Post features an angry (in a good way) article about Stephanie Villafuerte, a former deputy district attorney and Bill Ritter associate nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. Attorney. Villafuerte appears to have had a significant level of involvement... [See this Action Request]

The Journal News -- White Plains, NY      Putnam sheriff candidates debate tactics on immigration enforcement    The two candidates for Putnam County sheriff spoke to the Journal News editorial board today, and spent time debating which of them would work more closely with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Neither one believes that the much publicized 287(g) training -- provided by ICE to local officers -- is the answer...

NoWorldSystem.com      Hate crime bill is a Trojan horse against free speech    The U.S. Senate has passed the homosexual hate-crimes bill and will now send it to President Obama to sign it into law. This bill is a Trojan horse to legitimize the creation of more laws that will completely obliterate the 1st amendment of the United States... [See Free Speech Watch]

Houston Chronicle      ICE numbers    Illegal immigration may be the hottest of hot-button issues. The debate regularly raises temperatures on all sides, which makes it absolutely necessary for the public conversation to be based on agreed-upon facts. Which makes it crucial for the federal Immigration and Enforcement Program (ICE) to review...

Pajamas Media      Obama and the Constitution; He has his doubts    I missed this first time around. Brian Lancaster at Jumping in Pools reported on Obama's college thesis, written when he was at Columbia. The paper was called "Aristocracy Reborn," and in the first ten pages (which were all that reporter Joe Klein - who wrote about it for Time–was permitted to see), the young Obama wrote...

National Council of The Race      'Tan Klan' lauds passage of dangerous 'hate crimes' bill    ..."Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, 'An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere.' This bill is a testament to our nation's willingness to put an end to the national wave of hate crimes that has claimed the lives of innocent people," said NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguía...

Ann Coulter -- Human Events     The grating communicator    The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants...

Michael Barone -- The Examiner      Obama hits opponents with Chicago brass knuckles    "His father was a great friend of my father." The reference to William Ayers' father was how Mayor Richard J. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for his association with the unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist. Daley's father of course was Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago...

Denver Daily News     Democrats up in arms over 287(g) program    Democrats are pushing back against a Department of Homeland Security announcement last week that it will enter into new controversial agreements with local law enforcement agencies to combat illegal immigration. -- Congressman Jared Polis, D-Boulder, said standardizing the 287 (g) program would only threaten the nation's constitutional protections...

San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun      Inland Empire agents deliver blow to Mexican drug cartel    Drug agents have delivered a "swift kick in the butt" to a Mexican cartel that ships its product all over America from an Inland Empire base and has a reputation for beheading its enemies, an official said. -- Targeted was La Familia Michoacana, which authorities described as the newest and most violent drug cartel... [See Crime Watch]

Bob Chapman -- The International Forecaster      Federal Reserve runs the United States    ...The charade in NYC and Washington goes on. There is no question that our government is controlled by the unelected that lurks behind the scenes or are appointed as bureaucrats to run our country. It was never more evident than when administrations changed last January... [See Obama Watch]

Michelle Malkin     If you like Medi-fraud, you'll love Obamacare    Hey, just what we and future generations of taxpayers need: Vast new opportunities for out-of-control government health care fraud! -- Philip Klein at the American Spectator reports: Guillermo Denis Gonzalez was released from prison in Florida in 2004 after serving 12 years for murder....

Associated Press      Usual folks think illegals should be counted in U.S. Census    A coalition of black, Latino and Asian lawmakers on Thursday expressed opposition to a proposal that would require next year's census forms to ask about the status of a person's citizenship. -- The House lawmakers criticized a proposal by Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Bob Bennett, R-Utah, as a political ploy designed to discourage [illegal aliens] from participating... [Related item]

Joe Weisenthal -- Business Insider      Democrats dismayed by White House's idiotic war on Fox News    Will someone please stand up and defend The White House's thinking in going after Fox News. We've talked to several people about this, most of whom are Obama supporters, and not one can muster even a vague defense of his office's decision to shun and ridicule Fox News. It's just a terrible, terrible decision...

CNN          Sheriff Joe dukes it out with the notorious Isabel Garcia on CNN    Anderson Cooper talks to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Mexican Reconquista zealot/ Mexican government agent Isabel Garcia of Coalición de Derechos Humanos, a notorious radical Tucson-based group that advocates for illegal aliens...

Yahoo! News Blog      Secret Service strained to protect Obama    An internal congressional report questioning the ability of the Secret Service to continue fulfilling its duties was leaked to the Boston Globe. The report says the Secret Service is strained by a drastic increase in threats to President Obama, coupled with deep budget cuts. Some are speculating that the agency may need...

We Get E-Mail       Fight back against the attack on Dobbs     There's lots of activity by illegal alien advocates to remove Lou Dobbs from CNN - see www.bastadobbs.com. Please call CNN (404) 827-1700) and leave your message; also post a comment at...

L. Brent Bozell III -- Human Events       The censorious sound on the Left     Rush Limbaugh was convicted of racism in a kangaroo court of "objective" media and dropped as a potential owner of the St. Louis Rams football franchise. His accusers claimed he once said slavery "had its merits" and that the assassin of Martin Luther King deserved a "Medal of Honor."

Stein Report      Why 287(g) agreements work    "There is no better measure of the effectiveness of tools used to enforce our immigration laws than the howls of opposition from the anti-enforcement crowd. The ACLU's own hostility to 287(g) should be viewed as an unintentional but unmistakable endorsement of its effectiveness," says D.A. King...