Marietta Daily Journal

October 30, 2009

D.A. King: Illegals’ invasion tears lives apart on this side, too

Robert Rosas is a name that is sadly unfamiliar to most Americans. It shouldn’t be. His tragic story is one of many that represent the “other side” of the illegal immigration “debate” that is routinely avoided by the various anti-enforcement groups and in the media.

Rosas, a three-year United States Border Patrol agent, was mercilessly gunned down while on patrol on the U.S. – Mexico border near Campo, Calif., in July.

Agent Rosas was tracking suspected illegal border crossers who were headed north from Mexico looking for a better life when he was killed by multiple gunshots. According to the Border Patrol, seven people have been arrested in the U.S. and Mexico in connection with Rosas’ murder, but the suspected shooter is still at large.

Maybe he made it into the interior of the United States. Maybe he is right now taking a job from an American worker in Georgia. Maybe he will be given a traffic ticket for a broken taillight by an American policeman and then sent on his way, as the ACLU demands. Maybe you will see soon him marching with other illegal aliens in American streets demanding “justice,” legalization … and U.S. citizenship.

Killed at age 30, Rosas was one of more than 100 Border Patrol Agents who have died in the line of duty. He leaves behind a wife, Rosalie, a 2-year-old son, Robert and a now 1-year-old daughter, Allysa.

Rosas’ murder came to mind again while reading numerous reports about the nationally reported outrage from “immigrant rights” organizations over an illegal alien Halloween costume. The trick or treat costume consisted of a space alien mask, an orange jumpsuit emblazoned with the words “illegal alien” and a hand-held “green card.”

In various e-mails of protest to merchants, Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, called the costume “distasteful, mean-spirited and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.”

Another coalition spokesman, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, said the costume “perpetuates this idea we have about undocumented immigrants as alien foreigners, strangers, scary.” According to Cabrera the jumpsuit was too similar to what many captured illegal aliens wear in detention centers, “where they can spend months at a time, and where there is a lot of suffering.”

Rosas’ death should also be remembered when we consider a recent Zogby International opinion poll conducted in Mexico on American immigration policy.

The survey finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal aliens in the United States would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States. As happened with the 1986 amnesty.

As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico provide insight into the impact of another amnesty, as well as other questions related to immigration.

Among the findings taken from a report on the poll from the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.:

“A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would go to the United States illegally. Of Mexicans with a member of their immediate household in the United States, 65 percent said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally.”

More from CIS:

* Interest in going to the United States remains strong even in the current recession, with 36 percent of Mexicans (39 million people) telling Zogby they would move to the United States if they could.

* A new Pew Research Center poll also found that about one-third of Mexicans would go to the United States if they could.

* An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to … Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure.

Like most Americans, Robert Rosas was sure of his loyalty. He died trying to protect his country. His dedication to duty represents the pro-American side of the “immigration debate.”

Radical anti-enforcement, amnesty-again groups that demand “dignity” for the illegal aliens who make it past the Border Patrol and howl that deportation would “tear undocumented families apart” should be reminded of Robert Rosas and his American family.

D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org.

Washington Times

October 27, 2009
Vitter takes on census, immigrant rights groups

In his push to have the Census Bureau count the number of U.S. citizens, Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, is taking a very parochial approach with his colleagues: Your state could be the one to lose an extra seat in Congress…

HERE

The Center for Immigratin Studies
Washington D.C.
October 27, 2009

The 287(g) Program

Protecting Home Towns and Homeland

WASHINGTON (October 27, 2009) – The 287(g) program was created by Congress in 1996 to enhance cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The Obama administration has imposed new rules for the 287(g) program that unduly constrain the local partners and could allow more alien scofflaws identified by local agencies to remain here. But even with these changes, based on unsubstantiated criticism from ethnic and civil liberties groups, the 287(g) program remains an effective tool in immigration law enforcement and local crime-fighting.

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines in detail the 287(g) program’s history, status, and results, concluding with a number of recommendations for improvement. The report, “The 287(g) Program: Protecting Home Towns and Homeland,” by Jessica Vaughan and James R. Edwards, Jr., is based on interviews with participating local law enforcement agencies (LEAs), statistics and reports provided by local LEAs, and data provided by ICE through a FOIA request.

Among the findings:

About 1,000 officers from 67 law enforcement agencies have been trained and participate in the program. With 9 new agencies joining and a handful of agencies dropping out in 2009, the total number of participating agencies as of October 2009 is 73.

287(g) officers lodged immigration charges on more than 81,000 illegal or criminal aliens between January 2006 and November 2008, according to data provided by ICE.

In 2008, the number of 287(g) arrests (45,368) was equal to one-fifth of all criminal aliens identified by ICE in prisons and jails nationwide that year (221,085). The program has flagged a large number of known serious and/or violent offenders, as well as some low-level offenders still at the bottom of the criminal behavior escalator. Illegal aliens targeted by the program have been identified as a result of involvement in local law-breaking in addition to immigration law-breaking.

While 287(g) agencies use the authority mainly to identify and process illegal aliens who have committed additional crimes, Congress never intended the program to be limited to that use. Lawmakers intended for local agency partners to use the authority for local law enforcement priorities and according to local needs, which may or may not be the same as federal priorities.

Participating agencies credit the 287(g) program as a major factor in reduced local crime rates, smaller inmate populations, and lower criminal justice costs.

287(g) is cost-effective — much less expensive than other criminal alien identification programs such as Secure Communities and Fugitive Operations. For example, in 2008 ICE spent $219 million to remove 34,000 fugitive aliens (mostly criminals). In 2008, ICE was given $40 million for 287(g), which produced more than 45,000 arrests of aliens who were involved in state and local crimes. In Harris County, Texas, the billion-dollar ICE Secure Communities interoperability program found about 1,718 removable aliens in its first six months beginning late in 2008; meanwhile the locally paid 287(g) officers in the same jail system charged about 5,000 criminal aliens over the same time period.

287(g) is a force multiplier. In 2008, the Colorado state 287(g) unit alone made 777 immigration arrests. In that same year the entire ICE investigations office based in Denver, which covers all of Colorado and several other states, made a total of 1,594 arrests. In Maricopa County, Arizona, the local ICE detention and removal manager supervises five ICE deportation agents, who are supplemented by 64 additional locally paid county jail 287(g) officers who also identify and process criminal aliens.

The largest number of agreements have been signed for 287(g) programs in correctional institutions, such as county jails or state prisons. These programs were responsible for 91 percent of the 287(g) arrests over the period we studied.

The task force/investigative 287(g) programs provide equally important crime-fighting benefits and are a useful tool to address such illegal immigration-related crime problems as alien smuggling, drugs, street gangs, and identity theft.

The Colorado, Arizona, and Alabama 287(g) programs have boosted ICE efforts to combat alien smuggling, which has been neglected since the agency’s formation.

Notwithstanding allegations from immigrant and civil liberties advocates, there have been no confirmed instances of racial profiling, discrimination, or other abuse of authority under the 287(g) program. There is no evidence whatsoever of a “chilling effect” on crime reporting in the 287(g) jurisdictions.

The waiting list for 287(g) is long — reportedly one to three years from the time of request to join until implementation.

The biggest obstacle to improving and expanding the 287(g) program is the lack of funding for bed space to detain illegal aliens discovered by local agencies to have committed crimes. As a result, ICE currently is removing fewer than half of the criminal aliens identified under 287(g). Several states have submitted proposals to ICE to help alleviate this problem, but ICE has not acted to increase funding for bed space, even as it claims to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens

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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institution that examines the impact of immigration on the United States.

Fox News

Are our crime fighters becoming Mexicanized?

Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead — almost double last year’s tally — in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006…

HERE

El Financiero (Mexico City )
10/15/09

Mexicans urged to participate in US census

“The Mexican consulates in Los Angeles, California, and Miami, Florida pointed out that the participation in the 2010 US census of Mexicans residing in the US will be fundamental for assigning up to 300 billion dollars annually in social programs during the next 10 years. Their report indicated that the 2010 census will be crucial to determine federal and state funds to be applied toward the Mexican origin population. Specifically, the results will determine the spending of such funds on programs of transportation, health, education, infrastructure and assistance to vulnerable populations, including those who do not speak English well. In this sense, many of the government social programs benefit Mexicans residing in the US and therefore their participation in the census is necessary.

HERE

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi — WorldNetDaily.com

Insider reveals secrets of North America plot

The integration of the United States with Canada and Mexico, long deemed by many as little more than a fanciful “conspiracy theory,” was actually an idea promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations and sold to President Bush as a means of increasing commerce and business interests throughout North America…

HERE

“Striking a nerve among both advocates and critics, a recently released study based on 2007 data found an estimated 71 percent of the region’s ( greater Boston) adult Brazilian immigrants living here illegally. HERE

“The all-time apprehension record was 1,693,000 in 1986 immediately preceding passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which allowed the legalization of several million unauthorized immigrants, established sanctions for employers who knowingly hired unauthorized immigrants, and provided for increased border enforcement.” DHS….HERE

Pocono Record — Stroudsburg, Pa.

Temp agency got $2.5 million using illegals, courts say

Federal authorities say the temp agency that supplied an East Stroudsburg factory with undocumented workers in 2007 is involved in an extensive and complicated web of fraud. They say, in court papers, that H&T Staffing Services, operating under that and other, similar names in Pennsylvania…

HERE

ACTION NEEDED! VOTE YES TO BUILDING DETENTION FACILITY IN GEORGIA!

Private prison would hold illegal aliens apprehended in Southeast

POLL IN GEORGIA NEWSPAPER ON PUBLIC OPINION OF BUILDING DETENTION FACILITY

Poll in Millen, (Georgia) newspaper asking for public opinion on building a privately operated detention facility that would hold captured illegal aliens HERE ( left side of Homepage MillenNews.com )

I voted “YES “.

It looks like the anti-enforcement nuts have made an effort to skew the poll. There is strong national opposition to constructing more detention space for illegal aliens.

PLEASE TAKE 30 seconds to vote and reflect the pro-American position

D.A. King
The Dustin Inman Society
Georgia