Thursday, May 23, 2013

CNS News      Outrageous: Obama meets with illegals in the Oval Office    President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met in the Oval Office on Tuesday with three people who are in the country in violation of U.S. immigration laws but who have received "deferred action" allowing them to stay in the country under the terms of a "memorandum" issued unilaterally last year by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano...

WND.com      NBC correspondent: Obama trying to 'criminalize journalism'    The chief White House correspondent for NBC News, which largely has been enthusiastic about Barack Obama's presidency, has delivered a stunning verdict on the latest moves to come out of the White House administration: It's trying to criminalize journalism. -- Wrote Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, "One gets the sense this White House has finally gone too far for even liberal media members."

NAFBPO          Latest news from NAFBPO    In the debate over illegal immigration, one word causes consternation: amnesty. One side is adamant that its proposals don't amount to amnesty, the other insists that they do. But both sides are missing the point. The real question is not whether that word "amnesty" overstates the defects of the bill, but how very much it understates them....

Oregon Registered Voters Protect Oregon Driver's Licenses Senate Bill 833 was recently passed in the Oregon legislature and signed into law on May 1. This law gives driver privilege cards to illegal aliens in Oregon. Protect Oregon Driver Licenses has filed a referendum (#301) to place SB 833 on the 2014 ballot so that voters can decide for themselves whether they want this law to be implemented in Oregon. Your signature and that of 58,142 others will make that possible... Read More

Jim Galloway -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution      Georgia Democrat comes out against nation-wrecking amnesty scheme    In his first big splash since turning down a Senate campaign, U.S. Rep. John Barrow is tacking to the right on immigration --- a sign of both how he intends to hold onto his Republican-leaning district for another cycle and the incredibly shaky immigration reform politics in the House. -- The Augusta Democrat today introduced his own bill to beef up security on U.S. borders, while providing periodic [ICE] reports to Congress. He compared the Senate bill to the 1986 "amnesty" and declared it "a pig in a poke"...

KNX Radio -- Los Angeles      Report: 'MEChA boy' Villaraigosa broke?    Is the highest-paid mayor in the United States broke? -- With just over a month left in his second and final term, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will leave office in June reportedly without a place to live or a car of his own to drive, according to a report published Thursday. -- Jill Stewart, L.A. Weekly's managing editor, told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO that Villaraigosa faces an uncertain political – and financial – future when he steps down June 30. -- In order to maintain his current lifestyle, which includes frequent cross-country travel...

American Border Patrol        Rivers of blood    For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor       Family flees after possible cartel banner left at San Juan home    Officers say they are investigating a banner that claims to have been signed by the Zetas and asks for a $500,000 drug debt to be paid. -- San Juan police investigators learned of the banner Monday afternoon while following up on leads into stash houses. -- Police Chief Juan Gonzalez cited security reasons in not identifying the homeowner, who found the banner outside of the house in the 2000 block of Mayfair Street...

One News Now      Amnesty bill 'bloated,' says coalition    A head of a pro-family organization has joined a coalition of conservative grassroots organizations and tea party groups opposing the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill. -- The group calls itself "The Coalition against S.744," the 844-page immigration bill introduced by the bipartisan Gang of Eight. The Coalition's members believe the bill - which is currently headed to the full Senate - is problematic to conservatives for several reasons, including the fact that it rewards millions of illegal [aliens] with amnesty...

Ira Mehlman -- ImmigrationReform.com    AFL-CIO: We have no higher priority than amnesty for illegals    One might think that given more than 20 million Americans unable to find full-time jobs, and testimony by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that the American job market remains weak, that organized labor's highest priority would be getting Americans back to work. -- Or, one might think that the highest priority of the labor movement would be representing the interests of union members, negotiating salaries, benefits and working conditions on their behalf...

Brandon Smith -- Alt Market      Is America's economy being Sovietized?    The foundation of the Soviet model of trade and investment was centralization under the guise of "universal public ownership". The entire goal of communism in general was not to give more social and political power to the people, but to extinguish alternative options and focus power into the hands of a select few. The process used to reach this end result can vary, but the goal always remains the same. In most cases, such centralization begins with economic hegemony, and it is in our fiscal structure that we have the means to see the future...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor      Police: 5-ton pot bust sets record at Harlingen PD    Authorities are investigating the source and destination of a 5-ton drug shipment that the Police Department is calling the largest marijuana seizure in its history. -- It was found Friday in a warehouse among packages of fideo, according to officials. About 11:51 a.m. that day, an officer on patrol in the 6000 block of West Expressway 83 saw a semi-truck being loaded with marijuana, police said...

Daily Caller     Cruz: Senate holding immigration reform 'hostage' to citizenship    Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz failed to knock out problematic provisions in the Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration bill Tuesday, but not before warning that the bill could make immigration worse. -- During the Senate Judiciary Committee's mark-up, Cruz said the immigration reform bill might encourage a less-than-humane outcome for those attempting to immigrate to the United States illegally...

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas         Feds offer few details on Border Patrol fuel rationing    A CHANNEL 5 NEWS investigation into fuel rationing at some Border Patrol stations has drawn the attention of the agency's national press office in Washington. -- A story on the fuel shortages aired on CHANNEL 5 NEWS Monday. The investigation prompted other media outlets to call the Border Patrol for answers. The agency decided to handle all media inquiries from the Washington office...

Daily Caller      USCIS union: Fake information ignored in immigration applications    Two immigration enforcement union heads who have been vocal in their opposition to the Senate immigration bill brought their message to Capitol Hill Wednesday. -- Kenneth Palinkas, president of the union representing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees, showed up to listen in and lend support as Immigration and Customs Enforcement union head Chris Crane testified about the "Gang of Eight" bill before the House Judiciary Committee.

We the People -- California's Crusader      Remember 1986 L.A. media event    After the press conference, the attendees - citizen lobbyists - met with Senator Dianne Feinstein's staff members to express strong opposition to the Senate Amnesty Bill, S 744 – calling for the defeat of the bill. Signed petitions in opposition to the Senate Amnesty Bill – addressed to Senator Dianne Feinstein – were hand-delivered to her staff members...

Donna Anderson -- Infowars      Amnesty Bill Sart Up Costs: Blackmailers start at $6.6 billion for 2013    Section 6 of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act provides that $6.6 billion be placed in a separate Treasury account on or before October 1, 2013. The bulk of the money, earmarked for "one-time and start-up costs necessary to implement this Act," is to be transferred from the general fund, which means it's coming directly out of taxpayer's pockets...

NBC5-TV -- Dallas      Feds investigate possible cartel connections in Southlake shooting    NBC 5 has learned federal agents are investigating possible drug cartel connections to a Wednesday shooting at Southlake Town Center. -- Officials say a masked gunman shot and killed a 43-year-old Southlake man in the parking lot of the affluent city's town center in what appeared to be a targeted attack. -- Chief Stephen Mylett of the Southlake Department of Public Safety said his investigators are consulting with DEA, FBI...

Michelle Malkin -- VDare.com     The Obama crony in charge of your medical records    Who is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don't know her --- but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans' health information. -- If the crony odor and the potential for abuse that this "epic" arrangement poses don't chill your bones, you ain't paying attention...