My letter on Huckabee and the endorsment from Jim Gilchrist. Link to Times here

Huckabee not credible on illegal immigration

One must wonder which Mike Huckabee Minuteman Project co-founder James Gilchrist has endorsed (“Illegals foes reject nod to Huckabee,” Nation, Thursday). Is it the Mr. Huckabee who said that opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens was “driven by racism or nativism” and pushed for in-state tuition for illegal aliens as governor of Arkansas?

Is it the Mr. Huckabee who wrote in his book this year that strict enforcement of our immigration laws would be “sheer folly”? Or is it the Mr. Huckabee who described Arizona’s legislation requiring proof of citizenship to vote and demonstration of eligibility to access public benefits as “inflammatory race-baiting demagoguery”?

Or is it the candidate Huckabee with the Clintonian “anything-for-a-vote,” sudden, poll-driven, new-and-improved position on the organized crime of illegal immigration, illegal employment and our unsecured borders?

D.A. KING

President

Dustin Inman Society

Marietta Ga.

Pellegrino has been the subject of several Marietta Daily Journal letters to the editor recently, I hope that I haven’t missed posting any below. I am personally sure that we here in Cobb County Georgia have the most useful village idiot in the state. We salute Rich Pelligrino for showing us all how mindless he truly is, while assisting Jerry Gonzalez and the open borders left.
Here are a link to some ( Click on “letter to the editor” to read entire letter)

James Stoll/Letter to the Editor: Spokesman for illegals promoting anarchy 12/12/2007
It would seem that Mr. Pellegrino has some difficulty with the English language. He does not seem to understand the meaning of the phrase “breaking the law.” I will try to explain what it means, in this country…

and

Larry Ceminsky/Letter to the Editor: Don’t confuse compassion with the law 12/13/2007
Mr. Pellegrino stated that there is “extreme fear and paranoia … of a loud, fringe minority” in our community toward the undocumented immigrants. He further asks what logic is that?…

and

Harry Hagan/Letter to the Editor: We’re on way to becoming ‘mongrel nation’ 12/13/2007
I’m sure it feels great to be such a caring and sensitive guy, but this invasion by millions of desperately poor, uneducated, unskilled (in most cases) people has abjectly dire consequences for all of us, including him. ..

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Dave Minner/Letter to the Editor: Sheriff, King fighting crime against Georgia 12/14/2007
Mr. Pellegrino is right in his observations that under the Gonzalez Justice Department millions of illegal immigrants were allowed entry into the United States…

and

Pete Borden/Letter to the Editor: Cobb not ready to sacrifice rule of law just yet 12/14/2007
Mr. Pellegrino could write a book about “buzz words” and myths to use when speaking for the rights of lawbreakers…

And, here is one from the braintrust himself

Rich Pellegrino/Letter to the Editor: Latest sign of anti-illegals paranoia (1.00) 12/09/2007
It appears that some Cobb Commissioners, including the chairman, are being influenced by the anti-immigrant rhetoric, fear and paranoia of Dustin Inman Society head D.A. King, disguised in a cloak of reason and security, who requested that “legal residency” be required for Cobb Business Licenses.

WRAL-TV — Raleigh
Hundreds use fake IDs for food stamps

A state audit has found that hundreds of people have used bogus Social Security numbers to obtain food stamps. — From July 2002 to last April, 1,906 people were receiving food stamps from the state Department of Social Services based on invalid Social Security numbers, the audit report stated. Another 1,237 food stamp recipients were using…

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NAHJ Urges News Media to Stop Using Dehumanizing Terms When Covering Immigration

Calls for stopping the use of “illegals” as a noun, curbing the phrase “illegal alien”
Media Contact:
Joseph Torres (202) 662-7143; Daniela Montalvo (202) 662-7152

Washington, D.C. — As protesters march in the streets and debate intensifies in Congress over how to fix the nation’s immigration laws, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists calls on our nation’s news media to use accurate terminology in its coverage of immigration and to stop dehumanizing undocumented immigrants.

NAHJ is concerned with the increasing use of pejorative terms to describe the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. NAHJ is particularly troubled with the growing trend of the news media to use the word “illegals” as a noun, shorthand for “illegal aliens”. Using the word in this way is grammatically incorrect and crosses the line by criminalizing the person, not the action they are purported to have committed. NAHJ calls on the media to never use “illegals” in headlines.

In addition, the association has always denounced the use of the degrading terms “alien” and “illegal alien” to describe undocumented immigrants because it casts them as adverse, strange beings, inhuman outsiders who come to the U.S. with questionable motivations. “Aliens” is a bureaucratic term that should be avoided unless used in a quote.

Lots more HERE.

Note from D.A. – illegal aliens have documents: Either stolen from Americans or fraudulent/forged documents…or the Mexican matricula consular card. How is that “undocumented”?

Some far far lefties don’t even want you to call illegal aliens “illegal immigrants”!.

Wikipedia on matricula consular ID HERE:Security issues

U.S. law enforcement officials also cite that Matrícula Consular cards are issued by Mexican Consulate without checking the authenticity of the applicant’s supporting documentation. Mexican nationals often provide a birth certificate to Mexican Consulates in order to obtain the Matrícula Consular card. Mexican birth certificates are easily forged and can be purchased on the black market for a few dollars also American birth certificates as well.

Bruce DeCell, a retired New York City police officer who lost a son-in-law in 9/11, obtained a forged Matrícula with his name, and successfully used it as identification to enter the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security. DeCell’s card, which he obtained from a street vendor in California, gives his address as “123 Fraud Blvd.” in “Staton Island”, New York, and his birthplace as “Tijiuna”, B.C.[7]

Associated Press

29 cons, none named Ramos or Compean, receive Bush pardons

President Bush granted pardons on Tuesday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and an election- laws violator but not to I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was once the top aide to his vice president. — In all, Mr. Bush pardoned 29 convicts and reduced the prison sentence of one more in an end-of-the-year presidential tradition.

HERE.

On Ramos and Compean HERE.

Mr. King,
My name is ******

For the past year I worked for Margari**’s Mexican Grill in Macon, Ga.

In that time I have learned some very disturbing facts about illegal aliens in the work place. How they get fake documentation and how they are moved from restaurant to restaurant under different names in order to avoid detection. I have also seen plane out racism against white and black Americans. I have seen American workers fired in order to bring in new illegal aliens to work. I finally could not take it any more and quit. After informing them that if they did not conform to the laws of both the U.S. and the state of Ga. that I would report them. I was told ” just who are you going to report this to, the I.N.S.?” They are right, I can not find any agency that seems to even care.

I feel like they local, state, and national offices would rather turn their head. I am giving you my phone number in hopes that you will call me.
PLEASE HELP,

Name with held by request
Georgia

Immigrant Advocates Coach on Avoiding Arrestby Jennifer Ludden
NPR

In the past two years, the immigration agency has dramatically stepped up arrests of illegal immigrants in workplaces and in their homes.

In response, immigrant rights advocates have been holding “know your rights” seminars that coach people on how to avoid arrest.

Gloria Contreras-Edin of Centro Legal has held nearly two dozen of these seminars since an immigration raid in a Minnesota prairie town last spring.

She says she wants people to be prepared if immigration agents come to their homes

Read the rest and listen here.

Saudis Building Their Own Border Fence
Story here FromNewMax.com

“The feeling in Saudi Arabia is that Iraq is way out of control with no possibility of stability,” says Nawaf Obaid, director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project. “The urgency now is to get that border sealed.”
Saudi Arabia is starting to look a lot like south Texas, and it’s not just the oil derricks.
The Saudis are pumping $5 billion into a border fence to keep out illegal immigrants and potential terrorists, with a significant portion going to seal off the Iraqi border.

Plans call for a 550-mile fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, bolstered by an electronic fence along the Red Sea to separate the Saudi sheiks from neighboring Jordan and Yemen.

As the controversy over U.S. efforts to fence off its border with Mexico continues to percolate, the Saudi fence is getting little media attention.

Termed the “MIKSA” project, the overall plan also calls for an extensive telecommunications network, 225 radar installations and 400 border posts housing 20,000 troops, according to Middle East News.

Security experts say the fence has taken on new urgency in Saudi Arabia amid fears that U.S. peacekeeping efforts in Iraq will fail, resulting in regional chaos and an expansion of terrorism.

Saudi officials deny such concerns.
“This is not an anti-terrorism project,” a top Saudi security official tells Newsmax. “This is an anti-illegal immigration project.”

The official, who spoke exclusively to Newsmax on condition of anonymity, said Saudi Arabia is second only to the U.S. as a destination for illegal aliens.

Some 4 million illegal immigrants from Arab, Asian and African countries have been drawn to Saudi Arabia by its high standard of living and unrest in their home countries. Saudi Arabia absorbs up to 400,000 illegal immigrants each year.

“We also are concerned that the situation in Iraq may worsen and dissolve into further war, which would leave us dealing with a lot of refugees,” the security official tells Newsmax. “The U.S. is doing a very similar project on the border with Mexico. Ours is much more comprehensive, because we are blocking the entire border.”

Bids already have been submitted by 14 construction companies, including U.S. companies such as Raytheon, for the first phase of the construction – separating Saudi Arabia from Iraq.

Ironically, one of the firms invited to bid on the project was the Saudi Bin Laden Group, a company controlled by the family of Osama Bin Laden, according to published reports.

The cost of the Saudi Arabia – Iraq segment, the official noted, is estimated at around $1.5 billion.
“This project was supposed to have happened 10 years ago, but we didn’t have the budget,” the Saudi official says.
The Saudi border fence should prove much more formidable than its U.S. counterpart.
Anyone wanting to slip illegally into Saudi Arabia would be forced to: climb a series of high sand berms; scale a high fence girded with razor wire on top and bottom; creep along a 50-yard stretch of no-man’s land; clamber over a barbed-wire pyramid; cross another open 50 yards; and shinny over a second barbed-wired fence all while avoiding detection by ultraviolet sensors, night vision cameras, buried movement sensors and patrol dogs.

Command posts topped with helipads make quick troop response to any intrusion easy.
The only legitimate way through will be by 135 electronically controlled gates, in effect, turning the entire country into a gated community, or a prison, depending on your perspective.

The fence will replace the currently existing 6.2-mile stretch of patrolled security zone, backed up by only a 20-foot high berm of sand.

The remainder of the fencing will eat up the rest of the $5 billion budget, comprising virtual electronic fencing and sensors between Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Yemen. Increased radar facilities and aircraft will further strengthen the Red Sea border.

“We expect to start building in the first quarter of next year and hoping to have the project finished by the end of 2008 to early 2009,” the official tells Newsmax.

Two years ago, Nawaf Obaid, director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, told the London Telegraph, “The feeling in Saudi is that Iraq is way out of control with no possibility of stability. The urgency now is to get that border sealed; physically sealed.

“If and when Iraq fragments, there’s going to be a lot of people heading south and that is when we have to be prepared.”

Saudi sentiments apparently have changed since then, at least for public consumption. Inside Saudi Arabia, al-Qaida is on the run from Saudi military, but the threat of new terrorist entry from Iraq and Yemen, experts note, certainly is part of the concern fueling Saudi Arabia’s rapid progress in building the fence.

© 2007 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Dear Mr. King,

During the past couple of days, I have tried to report an illegal immigrant in Fulton county and, with my surprise, none really cares or wants to deal with this matter.

I know for sure that this person, additionally to being illegal immigrant, a couple of years ago bribed a DMV employee to get her drivers licence. This person has committed a fellony, but police officers don’t care to investigate. I’m also sure that my call to ICE will probably be ignored. What can I do to get at least a bit of attention on this case?

Thank you,
N.P.

Georgia

Nadia: It is becoming increasingly clear that you may have to wait until this illegal alien is responsible for the death of an American to get much attention…dak

Open door to Mexico, see prosperity walk through it

By ROY R. REYNOLDS ( roy.richard.reynolds@gmail.com )
In the Houston Chronicle

But despite all the bluster, there’s a quick solution to illegal immigration that doesn’t involve building a wall along the border or detaining aliens as they have begun to do in Laredo: Make all immigration legal.

It’s time to build a door, not a wall.

Giving Mexican citizens a pass to come here to work would damage neither Texas nor the United States. In fact, it would likely make both this country and Mexico stronger.

And giving someone an easy, legal means to enter the state would provide a much better measure of control than our current grasping of sand. If Mexicans were free to come work, then border agents would know that anyone sneaking across the Rio Grande is probably up to no good.

Entire OP-ED here

Note from D.A. – also see here: