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Mark Krikorian — Center for Immigration Studies

Wanted: Five smooth stones and a sling

It’s always been obvious that immigration lobbying has been lopsided, with the bulk of the money and groups on the expansionist side. But someone’s now gone and quantified it, using House and Senate lobbying reports, and it’s even worse than I thought. Fully 98 percent of the organizations lobbying on immigration are pushing Congress for some combination of amnesty, loose enforcement, and higher numbers. The fact we have any immigration limits or enforcement at all is a testament to the depth and breadth of public opposition to the open-borders agenda.

Human Events online

Illegal Immigration Battles Loom with Obama by Phil Kent

01/13/2009

Despite their victory in the huge fight over amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2007, conservatives can’t rest easy: it’s all about to happen all over again.

The Democrats’ (and RINO Republicans’) push for “comprehensive immigration reform” has returned and will be a major issue this year, and perhaps next year as well if the pro-amnesty groups don’t get their way.

Whether Barack Obama wants to risk another public backlash over such a comprehensive effort early in his first term — knowing that polls indicate the large majority of Americans oppose illegal immigration — is a big question mark. But we do know that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-Nev) said just two Sundays ago on Meet the Press that John McCain had promised him to work “real, real hard on immigration reform, and I’ll work with him”

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Gwinnett Daily Post Letters to the editor on Sheriff Conway’s application for 287 g

1/17/2009

Letters: No good reason to keep illegal prisoners in US

Is there really anything more to say about the wisdom of getting illegals out of our jails and back to their home country? I wish just one liberal would make a good case for otherwise.

Patricia Bloeser
Duluth

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Letters: BOC, sheriff are doing us right with enforcement

The 287g ICE surge at the Gwinnett jail is a positive step toward reducing crime in our county. These illegal aliens – yes, that’s what they are – were arrested for crimes. That’s why they’re in jail!

The protesting “out of town groups” don’t pay Gwinnett taxes like I do or worry about my safety from gangs or drug dealers. The BOC and Sheriff Conway are doing to right thing to get these criminals out of our county! Surge on!

Ken Craft
Norcross

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Letters: Immigrants must also follow laws

I wholeheartedly support this new program at the sheriff’s department and hope it sends a strong message that Gwinnett County expects our laws to be obeyed. Since the federal government won’t do its job in enforcing immigration laws, it falls to the local communities to do so.

This is not an anti-immigrant program. Legal immigrants are quite welcome here. But showing no respect for the laws of this country by sneaking across our border without proper documentation and then not being accountable for that crime is not acceptable.

Plain and simple, it’s a matter of enforcing our laws. If a person is here legally, they have no problem. If not, then they’ve committed a crime and there are consequences for criminal behavior. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Louise Stewart
Norcross

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Californians for Population Stabilization

House passes healthcare bill that includes illegal aliens

The House of Representatives has passed an expanded version of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and made it easier for illegal aliens to access the program’s benefits…

[Watch 1.15.09 CNN Lou Dobbs segment on this issue]

Associated Press

Go East, young man? Californians look for the exit

Los Angeles — Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he’s going to look for it in Colorado. — With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 miles away from his home state’s lemon groves, sunshine and beaches. For him, years of rising taxes, dead-end schools, unchecked illegal immigration…

WorldNetDaily.com

Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure

The United States will need $1.6 trillion to repair damage to its infrastructure from a massive influx of immigrants, a new report reveals. — In his report titled, “The Twin Crises: Immigration and Infrastructure,” prominent researcher Edwin S. Rubenstein examines 15 categories of infrastructure…

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Mexico’s Immigration Law: Let’s Try it Here at Home

By J. Michael Waller

Mexico has a radical idea for a rational immigration policy that most Americans would love.

Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that
foreign visitors and immigrants are:
• in the country legally;
• have the means to sustain themselves economically;
• not destined to be burdens on society;
• of economic and social benefit to society;
• of good character and have no criminal records; and
• contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
• immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
• foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
• foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
• foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
• foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
• those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Who could disagree with such a law? It makes perfect sense. The Mexican constitution
strictly defines the rights of citizens – and the denial of many fundamental rights to noncitizens,
illegal and illegal. Under the constitution, the Ley General de Población, or
General Law on Population, spells out specifically the country’s immigration policy.

READ IT HERE

Open borders nuts in Georgia to ask God to stop enforcement of American immigration laws in Georgia.

The below press release found HERE
INFO on 287 g

ABLE Prays for an End to Unjust Deportations
Found in Press Release
Written by ABLE
Posted on 2009-01-16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ABLE Prays for an End to Unjust Deportations

Atlanta, GA, January 16, 2009 – Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment (ABLE) will hold a prayer vigil on Wednesday, January 21st 2009 at 10am at the Atlanta ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) office located at 180 Spring Street, SW. ABLE leaders, pastors, and concerned citizens will pray for the
following:

• An end to the 26-day fast-tracking of deportations currently taking place in Gwinnett County.
• Gwinnett County will not enter into the 287(g) agreement with ICE.
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform at the federal level, including smart enforcement and a path to citizenship. ABLE will be joining organizations across the country on that day to pray for comprehensive reform.

On January 12th, 2009, ICE and Sheriff Butch Conway began a collaborative effort to empty the Gwinnett County jail of undocumented immigrants. ABLE understands that this stepped up enforcement effort was initiated by ICE. It is an effort to expedite the approval of the sheriff’s request for a 287(g) agreement. Sheriff Conway requested approval for 287(g) in March 2008. The county has been awaiting approval since that time because it has not met ICE requirements

ABLE opposes both the 26-day fast-track expulsion program and the 287(g) agreement in Gwinnett and all Georgia counties. The fast-tracking measure was timed immediately before the change of our country’s administration, when we know that ICE will revise its tactics. Partial and insufficient solutions to the broken federal immigration system are prone to human rights violations like racial profiling. Public safety is not enhanced because the target is not the most violent or dangerous criminals, but all foreign born inmates, many of whom have been detained for minor offenses like driving without a license. ABLE is particularly concerned about these immigrants, community members, mothers, fathers, church-goers, and business owners, who are being targeted by law enforcement and treated like criminals because they are foreign-born. This leads to erosion of trust between law enforcement and the community, and a compromise of public safety because immigrants do not report criminal activity in their communities for fear of being detained and deported. Motivated by these concerns, ABLE made several attempts to schedule a meeting with Sheriff Conway, which he agreed to but then cancelled after researching ABLE’s stance, indicating his unwillingness to be in conversation with his constituents.

Press Release Page 2 ( Note from D.A. – yawn….lets try the way they do it in Mexico ! )

ABLE is a multiracial, interfaith, regional coalition of congregations, unions and grassroots organizations that develops and empowers ordinary people to become leaders who effect change in their communities for the common good of all.

Contact:
Rev.Tracy L. Blagec
ABLE
542 Moreland Avenue, SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
ablega.org
404-218-7913
404-377-4884 (fax)
tblagec@aol.com

Willla Rose Johnson
ABLE
542 Moreland Avenue, SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
ablega.org
404-218-7548
404-377-4884 (fax)
wrjohnson@gamaliel.org

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East Valley Tribune — Phoenix

Judge upholds Ariz. human smuggling law

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Somos America against Maricopa County, arguing the immigrant-rights group failed to show how the county attorney’s prosecutions under the state anti-human smuggling law are unconstitutional…

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