Hearing sought on Islamic, Mexican ties
Washington Times
By Sara A. Carter
August 9, 2007

A ranking House Republican yesterday demanded a hearing based on recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the United States are teaming with Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorism networks overseas.

Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document — first reported yesterday by The Washington Times — highlights how vulnerable the nation is when fighting the war on terrorism.

“I’ll be asking the terrorism subcommittee to hold a hearing on the DEA report’s disturbing findings,” said Mr. Royce of California. “A flood of name changes from Arabic to Hispanic and the reported linking of drug cartels on the Texas border with Middle East terrorism needs to be thoroughly investigated.”

Likewise, Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said the DEA document revealed startling evidence that Islamic radicals are camouflaging themselves as Hispanics while conducting business with violent drug-trafficking organizations.

“I have been ringing the bell about this serious threat of Islamic individuals changing their surnames to Hispanic surnames for three to four years,” Mr. Culberson said. “Unfortunately, Homeland Security’s highest priority is to hide the truth from Congress and the public. I just hope we’re not closing the barn door after terrorists have already made their way in.”

Mr. Culberson, a member of the House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee, yesterday wrote a letter to the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. David E. Price, North Carolina Democrat, requesting a full investigation and hearing into the matter. A spokesman for Mr. Price said the committee is contacting the law-enforcement agencies and will work closely with Mr. Culberson’s office on the matter.

“We certainly want to learn more about the matter from the agencies involved,” said Paul Cox, press secretary to Mr. Price.

The 2005 DEA report outlines several incidents in which multiple Middle Eastern drug-trafficking and terrorist cells in the U.S. are funding terrorism networks overseas with the aid of Mexican cartels. These sleeper cells use established Mexican cartels with highly sophisticated trafficking routes to move narcotics — and other contraband — in and out of the United States, the report said.

This is not even close to the whole story…read it here.

Press Release from the National Council of The Race ( La Raza )

( BONUS INFO – HERE for the dearly departed Charlie Norwood on La Raza)

Contact
Michele Waslin
Jacqueline Pacheco
(202) 785-1670

Aug 10, 2007

NCLR CALLS ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO RECONSIDER DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES IN IMMIGRATION PACKAGE

Murguía Urges President Bush to Meet with Hispanic Leadership on Reversal of Position

Washington, DC – The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., expressed deep concerns over the Bush Administration’s recently unveiled immigration plan. The measures include increasing the use of state and local law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration laws, expanding raids at workplace sites, and implementing new Social Security “no match” regulations that could put millions of Americans at risk of losing their jobs.

“Today the Bush administration put forth a set of measures disguised as immigration enforcement which amounts to an assault on the civil rights of all Hispanic Americans,” stated Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

“The package of measures announced today will result in the racial profiling of all working Latinos. In effect, what these measures will do is impose a substantial burden on a subset of our citizens which is based entirely on the color of their skin, their accent, or their name,” continued Murguía.

“Frankly,” Murguía added, “this plan is such a dramatic shift from President Bush’s previous strong support of the need for comprehensive immigration reform that it seems to be a complete reversal of his position. I call on President Bush to meet with leaders of the Hispanic community to explain how this package of discriminatory measures squares with his stated desire for immigration reform that is consistent with American values.”

“Finally, Congress should not escape accountability. Congressional opponents of real immigration reform have been targeting legal immigrants and even U.S. citizens in recent debates. The distinction between undocumented and legal immigration and between immigrants and Latinos has been deliberately blurred. It is the responsibility of congressional leaders to halt the scapegoating, do their job, and fix our nation’s broken immigration system,” concluded Murguía.

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We get mail:

From: “Rob La Fontaine” roberto_carlos_melendez@hotmail.com

Comments:

Long live the illegal immigrants in the united states! long live the lives of many who are willing to work extremely long hours to have your commodities at a convinient price! long live the poeple who are judged by crossing a border in order to put food to their families’ tables!

for the lack of knowledge about certain issues such as these, America becomes more ignorant day after day thanks to people like yourselves who are more than willing to point fingers at others who only come to this so called great country to work for extremely long hours. No american will be willing to work in the fields for more than 12 hours and get paid minimum wage, no american would be willing to clean hotel rooms day after day for a living and still get paid a ridiculously low amount of money, no american would be willing to spend long hours under the sunlight working on landscaping, bleeding on foreign land to bring bread to the table of their broken households…get a grip and look at the big picture and for once think of others instead of thinking about yourselves. Thats exactly why many are the countries that hate the american way of life…selfish….

you are all ridiculous, not professional, and selfish and are willing to give others one side of the argument…

so unprofessional and disgusting, as an American citizen and resident, you disgust me and great is my shame to have in my country such media…

WorldNetDaily.com

3rd SPP summit shrouded in secrecy

President Bush will interrupt his summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, next week to attend the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, slated for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the five- star Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort…

READ THE REST!

Americans Oppose Open Border
September 10, 2001
Newsmax.com

It was showcased as a meeting between two presidents who like, trust and admire each other and could thus tackle one of the thorniest issues to face both the United States and its southern neighbor and trading partner Mexico – immigration.

If Social Security is the third rail of American politics, legal and illegal immigration from south of the border rivals it as the trip wire of an explosive issue capable of destroying political careers and dividing the nation and its political parties into warring camps.

Last Wednesday, barely a day after Mexico’s President Vicente Fox arrived for his state visit, Fox unexpectedly lit the fuse and set off the explosion before the two presidents could get down to brass tacks in discussing the presence of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants already in the U.S., and millions more who ache to come here.

Solve the problem before the year 2001 ends, Fox demanded of his host, who had no idea it was coming.

The extent of the problem is illustrated by the fact that since 1970, the number of Mexicans living in the U.S. has swelled from around 800,000 to more than 8 million, half of them illegal, according to BusinessWeek magazine.

Moreover, with the Mexican economy in even worse shape than the U.S. economy, millions more look northward for jobs and a better life. As a result, the tide of illegal immigrants swarming into the U.S. has become an unstoppable wave crashing over the U.S.-Mexico border day and night.

“The cold fact is that we have more undocumented immigrants today than we’ve ever had since they started counting,” Michael Fix, director of immigration studies at the Urban Institute, told BusinessWeek. “It makes sense to rethink the policy.”

PLease read the rest and send it to your U.S. Senator.

Border Patrol Agents, already understaffed taken off patrol to construct fence.

From the Washington Times:

Border Patrol to build fencing
By Jerry Seper and Stephen Dinan

The U.S. Border Patrol is asking for volunteers among its agents to help build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Bush is withdrawing half the National Guard troops he sent there last year to build fences.

A memo circulated last week to Border Patrol sector chiefs said fence-building efforts on the Southwest border were going to fall short of Mr. Bush’s goal of finishing 70 miles in fiscal 2007, which ends Sept. 30, “so the Border Patrol is now going back into the fence-building business.”

The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, called on the chiefs to provide lists of agents who “can and have built fences in the past,” adding that the agency was looking for welders, equipment operators and “anyone else with construction experience.”

“They are moving quickly on this, so your sector’s response will be needed back here by noon tomorrow,” said the Aug. 6 memo, which asked that the entire Border Patrol be canvassed for agents qualified and able to work on fence construction….more

Change of Heart on Immigration? The White House thinks it is calling America’s bluff on illegal immigration

Mark Krikorian on the new White House policy to enforce existing laws. HERE from NRO.

People are begining to understand the “why” on the fact that the American president has refused to secure our borders.

I post below a short column I wrote for MICHNEWS.com on September 6, 2005.

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration
By D.A. King
MichNews.com
Sep 6, 2005

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.” George W. Bush…Presidential candidate, August 2000, in a speech on Latin America in Miami Florida.

Where ever I go, people who are paying even a little attention to the invasion and colonization of our nation ask me the same question: “Why is our government allowing this to go on”?

I normally give the short answer…”follow the money” I say – and hope that it is enough for most to connect at least some of the dots.

Not everyone pays enough attention to do so.

The issue of illegal immigration is closely related to the erosion of United States sovereignty.

Our intentionally unsecured borders and our government’s deliberate and unapologetic lack of enforcement of our immigration and employment laws is merely a necessary step to a much larger goal – a “New America” in a “North American Community.”

A New America that would replace the traditional self-governing “Old America” for which our founders sacrificed and our grandfathers fought to pass on.

In March 2005, President George W. Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada announced the establishment of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America”. This represents the official public beginning of an ongoing series of agreements and implementations aimed at combining the economies, populations and cultures of the nations of North America into a borderless “North American Free Trade Zone”.

Think: “I pledge allegiance to the Continent and to the Commerce for which it stands.”

Along with mass, uncontrolled immigration, legal and illegal, trade agreements are a favored tool in the transformation. The North American Free trade Agreement [NAFTA], the recently passed Central Free Trade Agreement [CAFTA], and the looming attempt to put the Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA] in place would guarantee a unending “free flow” of goods and people across our traditional borders.

While most Americans expect to pass on to their children a nation of law, with defined, secured borders – and a common language, the Globalist elite who are actually making the decisions concerning our future have a far different America in mind..

..Please read the rest here.

The TAR site has been dormant and not updated for more than a year…

The Seattle Times on the effect of illegal labor on prices, from last year.

Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices
By Drew DeSilver

Seattle Times business reporter

More than 7 million illegal immigrants work in the United States. They build houses, pick crops, slaughter cattle, stitch clothes, mow lawns, clean hotel rooms, cook restaurant meals and wash the dishes that come back.

You might assume that the plentiful supply of low-wage illegal workers would translate into significantly lower prices for the goods and services they produce. In fact, their impact on consumer prices — call it the “illegal-worker discount” — is surprisingly small.
The bag of Washington state apples you bought last weekend? Probably a few cents cheaper than it otherwise would have been, economists estimate. That steak dinner at a downtown restaurant? Maybe a buck off. Your new house in Subdivision Estates? Hard to say, but perhaps a few thousand dollars less expensive.
The underlying reason, economists say, is that for most goods the labor — whether legal or illegal, native- or foreign-born — represents only a sliver of the retail price….THE REST HERE.
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The media is now on a full court press to make America believe that we will somehow perish as nation if we secure our borders ( Bush will never secure our borders) and enforce our immigration and employment laws. It is the warm-up for the next amnesty attempt. Below is just one of dozens of stories in the media from the last few days on how threatening to the profiteering business community it is to begin to eliminate illegal labor.

If anybody knows Tommy Bagwell or this Hively person, please convey my disgust and contempt to them? If I see either or both in the Georgia Capitol next session, I will happily tell them myself.

Michael Hively, general manager and chief financial officer of Glennville-based Bland Farms, said illegal workers are necessary to the economy.

“I think we’re all being pretty narrow-minded when we sit back and say we don’t need this illegal work force,” he said. “Let’s face it. It’s a part of our culture and economy. So I think as a country we need to figure out how to deal with it instead of passing laws to put more pressure on employers.”

Tommy Bagwell, chief executive of American Proteins, a poultry by-products rendering business in Cumming, said illegal immigrant labor is indispensable in the U.S. economy for business and homeowners.

“Everybody better learn how to run your lawnmower because there ain’t going to be nobody to cut your grass,” he said

More from today’s AJC:

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.Found in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Marilyn Geewax
Posted on 2007-08-11

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.

By Marilyn Geewax
Cox Washington Bureau

Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration’s new crackdown on illegal immigration could have a devastating impact on key industries in Georgia, business and legal experts said Friday.

Forcing companies to fire employees whose Social Security numbers and names don’t match government records may disrupt the state’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries, they predicted.

“I think there will be a fairly significant impact on employers,” said David Whitaker, executive director of the Georgia Employers’ Association, a Macon-based organization that provides members with management and human resource services.

Under current laws, “you could be penalized for doing too much investigation,” because employees could sue for discrimination, he said. “Now the pendulum is going to swing the other way.”

Foreign-born workers make up 11.9 percent of Georgia’s civilian work force, Census Bureau figures show, and two-thirds of those are noncitizens, including many illegal immigrants.

The top occupations for foreign-born workers in Georgia are construction, manufacturing, and professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services.

Michael Lucas, who heads the labor and employment practice of the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP, said much of the Southern economy could be hit hard by the new rules.

While the impact will be felt in the Northeast in places such as restaurants and golf courses, he said, the South has entire industries that depend heavily on immigrant labor, such as chicken processing, vegetable growing and hospitality.

“I think you’ll see the major impact on small- to medium-sized businesses,” he said. “This greatly increases the risks,” so they will have to fire illegal workers, he said. Read the rest here…from Jerry Gonzalez’ Websitesite. Thanks Jerry! BTW, again: Do you get paid per illegal alien…or is a salary draw sort of arrangement? We hope the former…