From the AJC on Cobb County stepping up to help ICE enforce that pesky law…“Jerry Gonzalez, a member of the Cobb Latino initiative and executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials said the controversy “has set us back tremendously.”

We don’t think these folks regard the recent success in Cobb County as a big win for Americans

Hispanic group: We feel slighted

By SHELIA M. POOLE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/02/06

Some advocates for Cobb County’s fast-growing Latino population are upset that county authorities did not consult them about a plan to let the sheriff speed up the deportation of certain illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.

Members of the Cobb Hispanic/Latino Initiative said they learned only from news reports that the county commissioners planned to vote on the deportation plan. The committee was created in 2004 by Sam Olens, chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners, and Georgia Power Region Manager David Connell, who was then incoming chairman of the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s like we don’t count,” said Patricia Henao, director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s community outreach center in Cobb. “You guys ignored us. That’s how I feel.”

Zayra Alicia Fosse, state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also took issue with the commissioners during an initiative meeting Monday.”To see us completely ignored … this is mind-boggling,” she said.

The county commissioners endorsed a plan Oct. 24 that would let the sheriff’s department work more closely with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The plan would help sheriff’s deputies identify illegal immigrants in the county jail who have committed crimes. Immigration authorities would deport an immigrant after a federal court authorizes the removal and after the immigrant completes his or her local sentence.

More on this “mind boggling”, but very funny story here.

Maybe they should have a rally to protest law enforcement in the U.S.? Again. Hmmm…maybe if MALDEF and these folks think Cobb using available federal tools to discourage illegal immigration and employment is a bad thing …we shouldn’t do it?

Ummm…..let me know if El Presidente Fox sounds somewhat insensitve, hurtful, xenophobic or [gulp] …nationalistic to you here.

Mexico’s love-hate relationship with the U.S.
President Fox’s comments reflect disdain for culture of nation many rely on economically

By DANE SCHILLER
San Antonio Express-news
November 2, 2006

MEXICO CITY — When President Vicente Fox said Mexicans should be glad they weren’t born in the United States, it was a reminder of an ugly little truth.

Aside from the U.S. economy, many Mexican citizens — especially those living in Mexico — don’t care much for the United States.

“We are already a step ahead, having been born in Mexico. Imagine being born in the United States, oof!” Fox said Tuesday with a chuckle, according to the Associated Press, after a remark that Mexicans should be thankful for their heritage.

The comment, made at a public event while Fox visited the central state of San Luis Potosi, raised some eyebrows in the United States, but went all but unnoticed in Mexico.

That is because although millions of Mexicans risk their lives to sneak into the United States as illegal immigrants each year, many see U.S. society and politics as troubled.

Maybe that is why they are trying their best to change the U.S. into an image of that paradise to our south?

You can read the rest here, but this is my favorite quote, which I think reflects the real attitude of those seeking a “path to citizenship” while they look for a better life.

Mexicans still point with anger to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, under which Mexico signed away about half of its territory, including what would become Texas, California and other U.S. states...Among the most popular sayings regarding Mexico’s perception of the U.S. is one credited to Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, removed from power by the 1910 Mexican Revolution: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.”

Uhh…yeah, lets open the borders, that will solve the problem. Right?

This from the Washington Tmes:

Georgia Rep. Charlie Norwood, a critic of President Bush’s efforts to secure U.S. borders, wants the administration to deploy 50,000 troops to guard America’s southern and northern borders.
“For those who say that deploying tens of thousands of soldiers to secure our 7,000 total miles of border is unrealistic, please explain our posting 37,000 troops for 50 years to secure 155 miles of South Korea’s border,” Mr. Norwood said.
Mr. Norwood, a Republican who unsuccessfully has sought the passage of legislation to give 600,000 state, local and tribal police officers authority to enforce federal immigration law, said Mr. Bush’s deployment in May of 6,000 National Guard troops on the southwestern border is a “weak response” to the flood of illegal aliens.

Mr. Norwood said the deployment would cost $2.5 billion a year, less than 4 percent of the minimum $70 billion a year the nation spends for the health care, education and incarceration costs of illegal aliens.
The six-term congressman said that since the House investigation, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have estimated the number of auxiliary troops necessary at 50,000. He said that Texas Gov. Rick Perry put the number at 60,000 and that the Heritage Foundation called for a force of at least 48,000.
“President Bush responded … by ordering 6,000 National Guard to the southern border,” he said. “The size of the deployment is a fraction of what’s necessary to do the job right. It simply will take that many soldiers posted on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico to stop this crisis.”

the rest….