WorldNetDaily.com

Look how much money you spend on illegals…

A new report from Numbers USA, which advocates for limits on immigration into the United States, says each American paid $330 last year to provide government services for illegal aliens. — Numbers USA staffer Chad MacDonald said if an amnesty plan becomes law, allowing illegals from coast-to-coast to suddenly establish citizenship…

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GREAT VIDEO HERE!

CNN

Russell Pearce vs. the notorious Isabel Garcia on CNN

CNN’s Tony Harris discusses the passage of Arizona’s SB1070, the toughest anti-invader bill in the nation, with bill author Russell Pearce and Isabel Garcia, Pima County Public Defender, Mexican government agent (or was at one time)… HERE – Thanks to Glenn Spencer and AmericanPatrol.com

San Francisco Examiner Editorial: Securing the border should be top priority

April 19, 2010

A feud between the Interior and Homeland Security departments over federal wilderness areas that comprise 40 percent of the nation’s southern border has been undermining the mission of both agencies for nearly a decade. This adolescent refusal to cooperate threatens the security of all Americans.

That much was made clear March 27, when Arizona rancher Rob Krentz and his dog were shot to death by someone crossing the border illegally. The murderer then escaped in a pronghorn antelope protection area that the Interior Department placed off-limits to Border Patrol agents. Krentz had repeatedly complained that illegals were threatening his family, stealing and destroying his property, and even sabotaging his ranch’s water supply.

Something’s very wrong when law-abiding, tax-paying citizens like Krentz have to live in constant fear and get less protection from their own government than desert pronghorns.

On April 6, The Examiner’s Sara Carter quoted a confidential law enforcement report warning that 23 Somalis with suspected ties to al-Qaida were headed for the same unguarded border areas after being mistakenly released by Mexican authorities. If they entered the U.S. via the 4.3 million acres of federal wilderness areas, the Border Patrol was powerless to stop them.

But legislation introduced last week by House Republicans would bar the Interior Department from interfering with Border Patrol efforts to keep drug smugglers, human traffickers and potential terrorists out of America. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, one of the bill’s sponsors, said most of the illegal traffic occurs on government land. But the Interior Department’s interpretation of its responsibilities prevents the Homeland Security Department from doing its congressionally mandated job, leaving its agents vulnerable to arrest for violation of wilderness and endangered species laws.

As The Examiner’s Barbara Hollingsworth reported in February, the biggest beneficiaries of the bureaucratic turf battle have been illegal immigrants and smugglers working for the Mexican drug cartels. So many drug smugglers, human traffickers, rapists and other criminals enter the U.S. that the wilderness park areas are now considered unsafe for American citizens. A recently posted YouTube video of some 700 people crossing the border illegally on just one trail between February and March is a chilling reminder of the federal government’s continuing failure to secure the border.

It’s time to let the Border Patrol do its job. Congressional Democrats should put aside partisan considerations and pass this GOP proposal without delay, as it’s literally a matter of life and death.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/Examiner-Editorial-Securing-the-border-should-be-top-priority-91444584.html#ixzz0lbUJoJNe

D.A. King — Chattanooga Times Free Press
Sunday, April 18, 2010

America hardly needs a repeat of amnesty fiasco

…Far too many Americans lack fundamental knowledge of many facts concerning America’s ongoing illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis. Endless, misleading headlines and a constant barrage of contrived cries of “injustice” from special-interest, open-borders groups opposed to enforcement have diminished accurate and rational conversation on the issue…

“Mexico uses its military to attempt to secure its own southern border, has an efficient and enthusiastic interior immigration enforcement system and deports nearly as many illegal aliens each year as we do. Most are Hispanics migrating from Central America looking for a better life. No one in Mexico regards the attempt at self-preservation and application of immigration laws as somehow “extreme” or “mean-spirited.”
Or “anti-immigrant….”….the rest HERE

The above linked column was part of a solicited PRO/CON legalization front page side by side spread in the Chattanooga Times/Free Press. The pro-amnesty column opposite mine is linked below. We thank the Times Free Press for the space. And for standing up to angry Jerry Gonzalez and his paniced, race-baiting lies.
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Feghali: Immigration reform would boost our economy

Fixing our broken immigration system is vital to America’s economic recovery.

As our economy shrinks, state governments are desperate for revenue. Without additional sources of funds, they are increasingly making the decision to cut important social services, raise taxes, or even worse, lay off hard-working state employees.

Just last month in Tennessee, the state laid off 850 workers, with the Department of Intellectual Disabilities taking the biggest hit, along with children’s services. Gov. Phil Bredesen called these cuts “unfortunate, but necessary” to keep Tennessee afloat.

Although there is no silver bullet for our economic troubles, an important source of revenue and economic growth…

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BBC

Illegal Immigration: Is an amnesty the answer?

…Researchers at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford have looked at previous studies, in particular ones of a United States amnesty in 1986. — They found that “almost all show that the large-scale amnesty implemented in 1986 has not reduced, and has in fact increased, [illegal immigration] to the US, since it established new migration flows due to networks and family ties.”

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“Nobody gets deported for a broken tail light or driving without a driver’s license,” King said. “The singular reason for deportation is violation of American immigration laws.”

Gainesville Times

2,000 referred for deportation since 287(g) put in place

Two years after sheriff’s officials started an immigration enforcement program known as 287(g), some 2,000 people arrested in Hall County while in the country illegally have been turned over to federal officials for possible deportation. — The number of those who have been taken into custody by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have varied…

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Seattle Times — April 14

Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce is an American hero

Arizona immigration law would be among nation’s strictest

Arizona is moving ahead with anti-illegal-immigrant legislation widely considered among the most stringent in the nation. It would hand the police broad power under state law to check the legal status of people they reasonably suspect are illegal immigrants.

The legislation was approved by Arizona’s House on Tuesday and is heading back to the Senate, which is expected to pass it and send it to Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican. She is expected to sign it.
The police would be authorized to arrest immigrants unable to show documents allowing them to be in the country and the legislation would leave drivers open to sanctions, in some cases for knowingly transporting an illegal immigrant, even a relative.

Immigrants unable to produce documents showing they are allowed to be in the United States could be arrested, jailed for up to six months and fined $2,500.

Currently, officers can inquire about someone’s immigration status only if the person is a suspect in another crime. The bill would allow officers to avoid the immigration issue if it would be impractical or hinder another investigation.

The bill also would allow citizens to sue to compel police agencies to comply with the law, and no city or agency could formulate a policy directing its workers to ignore the law, a provision that advocates said prevents so-called sanctuary orders that police not inquire about people’s immigration status. HERE

MALDEF

MALDEF whining about raids in Arizona

Reports of a significant and highly-publicized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation this morning in Arizona are troubling not because of the operation’s aim, but because of its timing. While breaking up a human-smuggling ring is important and consistent with enforcement priorities, the inevitable collateral effects of undertaking any significant ICE operation…

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KGUN-TV — Tucson

Immigration sweep targets shuttle vans from Nogales to Phoenix

…Margo Cowan of Derechos Humanos says, “Today our community was attacked. We were viciously attacked by agents with automatic weapons, with masks covering their faces put up roadblocks on out streets and stopped our brothers and sisters mothers and fathers men and women and children and ask for the documents that’s outrageous.”

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Associated Press

Immigration agents raid Arizona shuttle van business

Dozens of federal immigration agents are raiding a Phoenix business that advertises van shuttle services from northern Mexico to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. — The agents converged on Sergio’s Shuttle Thursday morning. Another shuttle service a block away was also apparently a target of the raid…

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