A North American Approach to “Security” Click here for Pastor’s June 9, 2005 Senate testimony.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform is code for amnesty-again. North American “Integration” for Security and Prosperity is code for open borders.

Click here for info on Atlanta seminar on Prosperity and Security in an Integrated North America
from GALEO [ Sam Zamarripa’s illegal alien lobby here in Atlanta, operated by Jerry Gonzalez].

Here for the entire Council on Foreign Realtions Task Force report on the “Building a North American Community”

Also see here.

Vote to bar illegal immigrant rentals draws hundreds

Escondido council OKs immigration ordinance
By J. Harry Jones
San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

10:49 p.m. October 4, 2006

ESCONDIDO – The national immigration debate rocked Escondido on Wednesday night when the City Council passed a highly divisive ordinance that would prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants.
Every chair in the 350-seat council chambers was filled and the meeting was broadcast live at a park next door where hundreds more watched the council debate the measure.

It was approved by a 3-2 vote and will be the first of its kind in the state. It will not become law until a second reading in two weeks, followed by a 30-day waiting period.

Speaker after speaker decried the law as racist and inhumane, only to be followed by speakers praising the council for standing up for Escondido and America.

Police lined the walls of the meeting room, and everyone who entered had to pass through metal detectors. Outside, officers formed a line to keep the two sides separated. City officials had about 200 officers from several jurisdictions in the county on hand.

The Escondido vote comes at a time when illegal immigration is one of the polarizing topics locally and nationwide.

The rest.

Altoona illegal immigrant ordinance goes into effect
Associated Press

ALTOONA, Pa. – A city ordinance aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants is to go into effect Saturday.

The measure aims to pressure illegal immigrants by punishing companies that hire them and landlords who rent to them.

Altoona City Council in September voted 6-1 to adopt the “Undocumented Alien Control Ordinance” proposal, which is similar to a measure passed in Hazleton earlier this year.

The vote came just weeks after a Blair County jury recommended that Miguel Padilla be sentenced to death for the murders of three men outside a city nightclub last year. Immigration authorities have said that Padilla, 27, of Gallitzin, had been in the country illegally from Mexico since he was about 9 years old.

Representatives of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, the American Civil Liberties Union and some community activists had asked the council to table the ordinance

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More on the story from CentreDaily.com in Pa.

AP) CHICAGO Illinois is paying millions of dollars for the medical care of uninsured, low-wage workers, according to a new report from the state Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

The report, released Friday, shows that the health care of low-wage workers cost the state $335.7 million between August 2005 and March of this year. More than 363,000 workers from 3,270 companies received medical benefits from state programs during that period.

It’s the first time the state has tallied the cost associated with businesses that provide no medical coverage to some workers.

The information is likely to be used by unions as they lobby for new laws about health insurance. Business leaders say they have had to reduce benefits or cut health insurance entirely to stay competitive.

The same report shows that hospitals’ charity bills for the workers added up to $77 million over eight months.

Read it here.

The Mexican Border Fence Hoax
Written by Vincent Gioia
ChronWatch.com
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Many of us have insisted that Congress address border protection before dealing with illegal aliens in our midst. House Republicans have been particularly vocal and responsive about the need to first protect our borders and they passed a bill to do just that. The Senate, on the other hand, had no such intention and the Senate bill on illegal immigration was a total capitulation to illegal immigrants that even proposed amnesty for law-breakers.

The House and Senate took up appropriation bills for Homeland Security in committee ‘to resolve the differences’ and both the House and Senate approved a ‘compromise’ appropriation bill with an apparent $1.2 billion for a “border fence” which was sent to the White House. With great fanfare, the President signed the bill and border protection advocates were told that the border fence financed by the appropriation bill would protect our Mexican border.

Now, having mollified conservative critics with ‘border protection first,’ Congress and the president consider themselves free to deal with illegal immigration as they wanted to in the first place without opposition by those who want to protect our borders before addressing the problem of illegal immigration. Unfortunately, the claim of border protection beginning with the appropriation of over one billion dollars allegedly for that purpose is just a big hoax. The public scam is even worse than described; the law funding the ‘border fence’ provides a five-year term for completion, not the 18 months Homeland Security officials are mandated to gain “operational control” of the border.

There is more…. But, for those who still don’t get it…the plan is for open borders and a free flow of goods and people.

Now That You Are A Permanent Resident

The below is taken from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Website.

Responsibilities
You are required to obey all of the laws of the United States, the States, and localities. You are required to file your income tax returns and report you income to the US Internal Revenue Service and State IRS. You are expected to support the democratic form of government and cannot attempt to change the government through illegal means. If you are a male, age 18 through 25, you are required to register with the Selective Service.

Ummm….what about people [ Hola Teodoro Y Adelina!] here on visas who are helping illegal aliens and demanding that they be allowed to…vote?

On September 4, 2006, I asked the editor of VDARE.com to remove my name from the VDARE editorial collective. Since then, I have demanded the same several times. To date, he has refused to comply with my demands and is using my name without my permission and against my will.

I want – and have – no further association with VDARE.com.

Crazy world.
dak

Transcripts from CNN:

The real story today is that illegal immigration has been so prevalent for so long that we can`t even recognize its consequences any longer. We all have focused on the people not learning English or the millions of dollars we`re paying in family aid for their children. But what about the less obvious effects?

In Los Angeles, I was there this weekend, I pick up a magazine, and I`m reading this story. Los Angeles is a city that is influenced by illegal immigration perhaps more than any other. The middle class, according to this article, has all but vanished. A recent report determined that over 71 percent of neighborhoods in Los Angeles are now considered to be either upper or lower class.

The middle class, which for so long has been the majority and the meat of America, is now relegated to a distant third place. Almost 500,000 households in L.A. earn less than $15,000 a year. Imagine earning $15,000 in a year where the average home costs more than $500,000.

Meanwhile, over 250,000 households have a net worth over $1 million. That is the greatest concentration of millionaires anywhere in the country, and the divide is only getting bigger. I read a report — in fact, I read report after report after report, and nobody even dares to mention that illegal immigration might be a contributing factor. Gee, do you think so?

And that`s a shame, considering that it is not just Los Angeles that is being impacted. Of the top 10 cities with the smallest percentage of middle-class neighborhoods, seven of them are places where illegal immigration has been a huge problem, cities like Bakersfield, California, Houston, Dallas, El Paso, Tucson, Arizona. Gee, what do they have in common? Is this really a coincidence?

I`ve been telling you for months that this situation with our borders is just one piece of the perfect storm that is forming against us. And if you don`t think that immigration or a declining middle class is a big deal, just consider that there has never been a great society that has ever prospered with just rich and just poor. And neither will we.

So how do we turn this around? CNN`s Lou Dobbs has covered both the threat of illegal immigration and the declining middle class extensively, and I sat down with him earlier today.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BECK: Am I wrong? Can a society live without a middle class?

LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Sure. There are societies all over the world living without a middle class. But this is America, and the middle class is the foundation of everything this country stands for: a land of opportunity; a quality of economic opportunity; a quality of educational opportunity.

And towns, communities, cities without a middle class, you know, have turned their back on the heritage of the nation and, in my opinion, have assured a failure of our future.

BECK: Was Carroll Quigley right on the shadow government, on the companies taking over and really controlling everything? Because it`s really the only thing that I can put my finger on to say, “Why aren`t we doing anything about illegal immigration?” We`re run by companies now, aren`t we?

DOBBS: Well, both political parties are run by the very same people, corporate America, $2.4 billion in lobbying each year. No other special interest comes that close.

The power of corporate America — and I`m talking about big business. I`m not talking about small business. There`s even a fiction in this country now that small business, medium-size business, and corporate America are all the same. They`re not.

Corporate America is working against the interest of the medium- and small-size businesses, are working against the middle class, destroying jobs, not creating them. Small business continues to create jobs in this country, more than 80 percent of them. But the truth is that corporate America is dominating our legislative and our electoral system.

BECK: Wouldn`t you go further than that? It`s not just corporate America. I mean, it`s global corporations. I think we`re being turned into MexAmeriCanada.

DOBBS: Well, there are some obviously who would like to do that through the North American Union. And I think the Bush administration should be held to account for what they`ve tried to do with the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership. It`s absolutely disgusting, by any standard, what these elites have tried to do in this country.

And, frankly, I can`t wait. We`ve been examining this problem for some time, this story, this issue. I find these people so repugnant I can`t even express my disgust on a family broadcast like yours.

BECK: But I have to tell you, you know, you say this, and the way I hear you phrase that right now, it`s the Bush administration. And I feel the same way. I`m a conservative. I voted for Bush. I can`t even begin to explain what they`re doing. But it`s — you know, I feel as if…

DOBBS: By the way, they can`t either.

BECK: I know they can`t. The Democrats and the Republicans are taking us to the same frickin` destination. One`s just taking us in a train, and the other is taking us in a plane.

DOBBS: Well, it`s about time people woke up to one thing, though: They`re taking us. But the fact that we`re rolling over and allowing people to claim they`re Democrats and claim they`re Republicans, and not a single — you just described yourself as a conservative.

BECK: Right.

DOBBS: What the heck does that mean? The difference between a conservative and a liberal today, a Democrat and a Republican?

BECK: There`s a difference between a liberal and conservative, not Republican…

DOBBS: Let me tell you. You may in your mind have a fixed understanding of that. But as a political force and any way in which to express your political will, it means nothing.

BECK: Yes, you`re exactly right. You are exactly right.

DOBBS: Because if this country does not awaken to what we`re doing to our middle class and the fact that traditional American values — independence, equality, self-reliance, the common good, the national interest — are the values that we all should be working toward, whatever label you want to aside in partisanship, fine. But those are the values we`ve got to turn to, and we`ve got to become an aspirational society again.

BECK: What is going to finally wake us up?

DOBBS: Leadership. Leadership.

BECK: Where are they?

DOBBS: Well, I`ll tell you what: They`re out there. The fact is there`s so much noise and silliness over all of these wedge issues — gay marriage, gun control, abortion, whether we have “under God” in the pledge of allegiance. For God`s sake, it`s America. If you want to say “under God,” say “under God.” If you don`t, don`t. It`s individual liberty, individual responsibility.

Why do we even allow the airwaves, the national dialogue to be polluted with this nonsense?

BECK: I`d just ask you though: Where are the leaders? I don`t see them.

DOBBS: The leaders…

BECK: The leaders, do you know who the leaders are?

DOBBS: Well, I certainly…

BECK: I mean, I don`t mean us as TV people. I mean the people. We, the people, are the only leaders, and that`s trouble, man.

DOBBS: Actually, I think it`s the only salvation. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a very important book almost 40 years ago called “Participatory Democracy.” And it was a time in which people were engaged in great issues, civil rights, Vietnam, talking about the future of the country. When`s the last time, Glenn, you heard somebody say, “I`ve got this five-year outlook on the nation. This is what I think we should be doing. I think this is how we should be committing ourselves”…

BECK: Right.

DOBBS: … “as a nation”?

(CROSSTALK)

DOBBS: We have fools on both the left and the right, Democrat and Republican, talking about their fears, their anxieties, their political correctness, their high-bound orthodoxies, whether it be in the media, whether it be their partnership, or whether it be academic, instead of independent thinking about who you are as an American and what we owe one another to assure that equality.

BECK: Lou, thank you very much.

DOBBS: Great to be with you.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

The MEChA slogan is “Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” which translates, “For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.” The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: “Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.”
— State of Emergency, By Patrick J. Buchanan

In an address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois on Jan. 27, 1838, a 28-year-old lawyer spoke on “the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.” Abe Lincoln asked and answered a rhetorical question: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Lincoln saw ahead a quarter of a century—to civil war. The question that must be asked a century and a half after Lincoln’s death is the one that troubled his generation. Are we on the path to national suicide?…

This from Buchanan.org, with thanks.

Originally published in the American Conservative magazine, September 25, 2006

Nation or Notion?
By Patrick J. Buchanan

America rose from kin and culture, not an abstract proposition.

In an address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois on Jan. 27, 1838, a 28-year-old lawyer spoke on “the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.” Abe Lincoln asked and answered a rhetorical question:

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Lincoln saw ahead a quarter of a century—to civil war.

The question that must be asked a century and a half after Lincoln’s death is the one that troubled his generation. Are we on the path to national suicide?

The America of yesterday has vanished, and the America of tomorrow holds promise of becoming a land our parents would not recognize. Considering the epochal changes that have taken place in our country, the political and economic powers working toward an end to national sovereignty and independence, it is impossible to be sanguine about the permanence of the nation.

In Catholic doctrine, death occurs when the soul departs the body, after which the body begins to decompose. So it is with nations.

Patriotism is the soul of a nation. When it dies, when a nation loses the love and loyalty of its people, the nation dies and begins to decompose.

Patriotism is not nation-worship, such as we saw in Europe in the 1930s. It is not that spirit of nationalism that must denigrate or dominate other nations. It is a passionate attachment to one’s own country—its land, its people, its past, its heroes, literature, language, traditions, culture, and customs. “Intellectuals tend to forget,” wrote Regis Debray, “that nations hibernate, but empires grow old. The American nation will outlast the Atlantic Empire as the Russian nation will outlast the Soviet Empire.”

A century ago, the French historian and philosopher Ernest Renan described a nation:

A nation is a living soul, a spiritual principle. Two things, which in truth are but one, constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the common possession of a rich heritage of memories; the other is the actual consent, the desire to live together, the will to preserve worthily the undivided inheritance which has been handed down … The nation, like the individual, is the outcome of a long past of efforts, and sacrifices, and devotions … To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again—such are the essential conditions of the making of a people.

This community called a nation is much more than a “division of labor” or a “market.” Added Renan:

Community of interests is assuredly a powerful bond between men. But … can interests suffice to make a nation? I do not believe it. Community of interests makes commercial treaties. There is a sentimental side to nationality; it is at once body and soul; a Zollverein is not a fatherland.

An economic union like the European Union is not a nation. An economy is not a country. An economic system should strengthen the bonds of national union, but the nation is of a higher order than the construct of any economist. A nation is organic; a nation is alive. A constitution does not create a nation. A nation writes a constitution that is the birth certificate of the nation already born in the hearts of its people.

“‘Nation’—as suggested by its Latin root nascere, to be born—intrinsically implies a link by blood,” wrote Peter Brimelow in National Review in 1992. “A nation in a real sense is an extended family. The merging process through which all nations pass is not merely cultural, but to a considerable extent biological through intermarriage.”

Brimelow describes a nation as an “ethno-cultural community—an interlacing of ethnicity and culture,” that “speaks one language.” He cites the late senator from New York:

In his recent book Pandaemonium, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan even used this rigorous definition, in an effort to capture both culture and ethnicity: a nation is a group of people who believe they are ancestrally related. It is the largest grouping that shares that belief. (Moynihan’s italics)

To be a nation, a people must believe they are a nation and that they share a common ancestry, history, and destiny. Whatever ethnic group to which we may belong, we Americans must see ourselves as of a unique and common nationality—in order to remain a nation.

There is a rival view, advanced by neoconservatives and liberals, that America is a different kind of nation, not held together by the bonds of history and memory, tradition and custom, language and literature, birth and faith, blood and soil. Rather, America is a creedal nation, united by a common commitment to a set of ideas and ideals.

“Americans of all national origins, classes, religions, creeds and colors, have something in common … a political creed,” wrote Gunnar Myrdal in 1944. During the battle over Proposition 187 in 1994, when 59 percent of the California electorate voted to cut off welfare to illegal aliens, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett accepted Myrdal’s idea, declaring, “The American national identity is based on a creed, on a set of principles and ideas.”

Irving Kristol embraced the Bennett-Kemp view when he compared the United States to the former USSR: “[L]arge nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesterday and the United States of today, have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns.”

FDR seemed to agree, asserting, “Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart. Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race and ancestry. A good American is one who is loyal to this country and to our creed of liberty and democracy.” To be one nation, said Bill Clinton, all we need to do is define ourselves by “our primary allegiance to the values America stands for and values we really live by.”

In his first inaugural address, George W. Bush endorsed the creedal-nation concept: “America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be citizens.”

To this idea of America as a creedal nation bound together not “by blood or birth or soil” but by “ideals,” there is a corollary that has driven immigration policy for 40 years—that people of any culture or continent can be assimilated with equal ease, depending only upon whether they assent to the tenets of our creed.

Demonstrably, this is false. Human beings are not blank slates. Nor can they be easily separated from the abiding attachments of the tribe, race, nation, culture, community whence they came. Any man or woman, of any color or creed, can be a good American. But when it comes to the ability to assimilate into the United States, all nationalities, creeds, and cultures are not equal.

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VIVA LA MIGRA! Right now, as you read this page, brave U.S. Border Patrol Agents are risking their lives to stop millions of people from all over the world from illegally entering our nation. In Spanish, the slang name for anyone who enforces immigration laws is “La Migra”.

Long live the immigration authorities! In Espanol? !VIVA LA MIGRA!

We salute and extend our sincere gratitude to the U.S. Border Patrol.

We also note with disgust the conniving cowards in our government who manipulate the Border Patrol Agents in their effort to follow the orders of the wealthy corporate campaign donors and allow a continuous supply of tax payer subsidized black market labor to enter our beloved nation.

Don’t worry, terrorists will never figure out that they have only to walk into the U.S. from Mexico. Right?

From Atlanta Latino

Police on the hunt: More immigrants caught

By Mario Guevara
mguevara@atlantalatino.com
10/05/2006
Last week 17 Mexican and Central American immigrants were witnesses to the new system being implemented by local law enforcement authorities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to crack down on human trafficking.

The immigrants had been traveling in one of a group of vans stopped by local authorities under suspicion of transporting undocumented individuals. Nine Salvadorans, five Mexicans and three Hondurans were among those detained, as well as the Hispanic driver. The group included seven women and a 17-year-old minor from El Salvador.

After finding that vans are filled with undocumented immigrants, the police have been proceeding to inform immigration authorities, who have been arriving to arrest those without proper documentation just a few minutes later.

The joy of making it onto American soil didn’t last long for Santana Sanchez, 22, a Salvadoran who was among the group of detainees. Sanchez is six months pregnant, and not even did telling the authorities she is expecting save her from going to prison.

“I distinctly remember how the ‘pollero’ (coyote) driving us told us that we were passing the largest aquarium in the world when he was startled by a patrol car behind us,” says Sanchez. “The police turned on the lights for him to stop. Immediately the officer asked him for his license and looked inside the van. All I remember is that he said something in English to the driver. Later, I found out that he had told him that nobody should attempt to flee.”

According to Sanchez, not even five minutes had passed before they were surrounded by at least three cars from “la migra.” One by one, the immigrants were brought out of the van and immediately handcuffed.