Bay Buchanan — Human Events

As McCain panders, our borders crumble

One year ago the American people soundly rejected amnesty for illegal [aliens]. Across the nation, there was heavy sentiment against one if its principal supporters, John McCain. Last November Senator McCain shifted positions — not abandoning amnesty but putting it instead on the back burner to a secure border…

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TRUE REFORMER CANDIDATES PRESENT:

Dear Citizens of Georgia,

Your state’s primary election is coming up on 15 July 2008.

Please click here to find out which candidates in your state have pledged to tackle immigration problems.

Immigration policies will be affected by each election for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and Governor. We don’t want you to vote without knowing about the immigration promises of the candidates vying for your support.

If you see candidates that have not yet taken the survey or pledged to make major changes to reduce overall immigration, please send them a survey . You will see how to do that on the top and bottom of every race’s page.

NumbersUSA never endorses candidates. But we want you to know before you vote which candidates support the kind of immigration policies that we support. We realize that voters mark their ballot based on many issues and judgments about the character and leadership of a candidate. We don’t presume to suggest the best candidate for your overall needs and interests.

We are strictly non-partisan, with no preference for one party or another. During the 2006 mid-term elections, lots of Democrats, Independents, Libertarians and Republicans signed our surveys identifying themselves as committed to deep reductions in overall immigration. We’re counting on your support and enthusiasm in 2008 to encourage even more candidates to return their surveys to us so concerned voters as yourself will know where the candidates stand on immigration issues prior to the primaries and general election on November 4.

Sincerely,
Roy Beck
www.NumbersUSA.com

Liam Julian — CBS News

Raza Studies” defy American values

…What, exactly, is Raza Studies? Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne asked that question in November 2007 when he inquired if it wouldn’t be too much trouble for TUSD to send to him the Raza curricula it was teaching and the textbooks from which it taught them. Actually, TUSD replied to Horne, meeting his request would be a heckuva lot of trouble

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Miami Herald

Illegal alien charged with putting newborn in trash

A baby girl born in a Lauderdale Lakes home two weeks ago went from her mother’s womb into a trash-filled white garbage bag. — The little girl survived the ordeal and is in good health, while the mother sits in county lockup, charged with attempted murder, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

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“Although legal residents also require Hispanic interpreting services from time to time, he said from his own experience it’s mainly undocumented immigrants who are in need of these services….”

Whitfield County budgeted $70,000 for 2008 to pay for interpreting services, up from $43,000 in 2002, said Conasauga Judicial Circuit Court Administrator Brad Butler.

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Ms. Heather Bates 2 July, 2008
Clerk of Commission
Hall County Board of Commissioners
Hall County, Georgia

As of July 1st, 2007, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529 – HERE) of 2006 requires that all public employers make use of the no-cost federal employment eligibility verification system now called “E-Verify”. (HERE) to insure employment eligibility of newly hired employees. (Section 2)

Also, as of July 1st 2008 that all contractors and subcontractors with 100 or more employees entering into a contract or performing work for public employers be required to demonstrate use of the E-Verify system.

Under current Georgia Dept. of Labor regulations, an affidavit from the bidding contractor is required to demonstrate use of the E-Verify system. (HERE)

Section 9 of the law requires that all government agencies in Georgia use the federal ‘Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements’ (SAVE) (HERE) data base to verify the eligibility of all applicants for public benefits. Further, that all applicants – under penalty of false swearing – sign an affidavit attesting to either U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status/lawful presence in the United States.

For any applicant who has executed an affidavit that he or she is an alien lawfully present in the United States, eligibility for benefits must be made using the (SAVE) program.

Additionally, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act requires each state agency or department which administers any program of state or local public benefits to provide an annual report with respect to its compliance with this Code section.

Public benefits include all “professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government” (8USC1621 HERE).

Please consider this my formal open records request for copies of all documents relating to Hall County’s compliance with sections 2 and 9 of the law, including copies of the Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the United States Department of Homeland Security for both E-Verify and the SAVE system from 1 July, 2007 to 1 July, 2008, inclusive.

I ask that copies of all affidavits from all contractors allowed to bid on public jobs attesting to use of the E-Verify system, copies of all affidavits from all applicants for public benefits – including new issue or renewal of commercial (business) licenses from the same time period – be included as well as a copy of the annual report required by law on compliance with section 9…the SAVE program.

Thank you,

D.A. King
President, the Dustin Inman Society
www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

Marietta, Ga.

NOTE: THe same letter was sent to Gainesville, Ga. government

Think Progress
Washington Times paper calls McCain out for lying about support for 1986 IRCA

As ThinkProgress noted on Saturday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made inconsistent immigration pledges in a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, claiming he would both “secure our borders first” and make comprehensive reform his “top priority”…

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Philadelphia Bulletin

McCain’s immigration stance coming undone

Just days after Congressman Tom Tancredo wrote a firm letter warning his party’s presumptive presidential nominee to stay the course on border security, an appearance by John McCain at a Latino leadership conference reopened the very immigration debate that practically derailed his presidential ambitions last year…

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Fox News

Drug Dealers Going Free Under San Francisco Sanctuary Law Tuesday , July 01, 2008

A sanctuary ordinance in San Francisco is protecting young drug dealers from federal deportation in what a U.S. prosecutor is calling a “gaming of the system” for illegal immigrants.

The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department has been shipping underage crack dealers to group homes in an effort to shield them from the feds under the city’s 1989 “City of Refuge” ordinance, which prohibits city employees from informing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of illegal immigrants.

Up until last month, the department flew the drug dealers back to their home countries without informing ICE agents. But now, after being sent to the group homes under the new policy, the youths just run away.

“These kids are gaming the system,” Joseph P. Russoniello, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, told FOXNews.com. “Whoever they are, they’re playing it like a Stradivarius because the cops are saying they’re seeing these characters three and four times.”

As first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, eight Honduran crack dealers escaped from youth rehabilitation centers run by Silverlake Youth Services in San Bernardino County in recent weeks.

Russoniello would neither confirm nor deny an investigation into the department’s shielding of illegal immigrants, but he told FOXNews.com that he was first informed in January of ICE’s brushes with the city’s probation officers as they transported detainees south of the border via the Houston airport.

“They had stopped them and found out that they were — despite the fact that they had claimed they were juveniles — they were adults,” Russoniello said. “In some cases, they were convicted felons; in other cases, they had actually entered the country after deportation, and so on.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office approached the city for an explanation and was told on June 16 that the probation department had ceased deporting underage offenders.

Russoniello said that still did not “resolve the ultimate problem, which is why wasn’t juvenile probation reporting to ICE that they had in their custody people who were illegal aliens?” He said he’s still awaiting an answer from the city.

Requests for comment from Mayor Gavin Newsom and the city’s probation department and attorney’s office were not returned.

“We are abiding by the sanctuary city ordinance,” William Siffermann, the chief of the Juvenile Probation Department, told the Chronicle.

Last year, Newsom ordered the city’s departments to develop training on the ordinance. In April, he began a public awareness campaign to promote the city’s sanctuary policy to undocumented residents.

Siffermann told the paper that his agency flew home only offenders who had failed all other rehabilitative efforts, from foster care and juvenile detention to probation.

Greg Palmore, an ICE spokesman in Houston, referred all questions by FOXNews.com to the Justice Department. But he told the Chronicle that “although San Francisco is a sanctuary city, it’s a problem whenever someone attempts to evade the law. … Our law does not allow us to turn a blind eye to any individual who has come into this country illegally.”

Siffermann defended the city’s policy to shield youthful offenders from deportation.

“It might prevent them from obtaining citizenship,” he told the paper.

Russoniello disagreed.

“No matter whose immigration reform is adopted, nobody is going to have a line for people who are drug dealers to get the benefit of amnesty or citizenship,” he said. “So you’re wasting your time trying to protect them.”

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