El Liberal (Popayan Colombia) 6/24/10

Illegal aliens in Colombia

Police in Cauca, (southwest Colombia,) detained 5 Haitians illegally in the country. The five had entered from Ecuador around Ipiales, a town on the border with Ecuador. Local police reported that some 180 illegal aliens, mainly Chinese and Haitians, have been detained in the area in the past couple of years. A local police commander of the police at Cauca, Lt. Col. Carlos Rodriguez Cortes, stated that these last five aimed to reach the United States.

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NumbersUSA Responds to President Obama’s Hypocritical Speech Calling for Amnesty

By Rosemary Jenks, Thursday, July 1, 2010- posted on NumbersUSA

On Thursday, President Obama gave a speech at American University in Washington D.C., blaming partisan politics for Congress’ inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty). The President also noted that our borders are as secure as they have been in decades and that America’s immigration laws are unenforceable.

In an incredibly hypocritical statement, the President said that employers must be held accountable for knowingly hiring illegal aliens, despite the fact that under his administration, the Department of Homeland Security has virtually stopped criminal prosecutions of employers who hire illegal aliens and has completely stopped ICE’s worksite enforcement actions. On top of this, President Obama’s Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to overturn Arizona’s mandatory E-Verify law — a law that is proving effective at getting unemployed Arizonans back to work. Perhaps the President is unaware that 25 million Americans cannot find a full-time job, while an estimated 7 million illegal aliens hold non-agricultural American jobs.

The President’s contention that America’s borders are more secure than they’ve been in decades is ludicrous His claim would come as a major surprise to the law enforcement officials and ranchers who have been shot or shot at in recent months by illegal aliens and to the human and drug smugglers operating there with impunity. All of which he would know if he took the time to visit the border and talk to those trying to secure it or to those living near it.

Laws? What laws?
President Obama maintained the fallacy that the United States’ immigration laws are simply unenforceable. I’m not sure how the President would know this, as he has actively prevented them from being enforced. When he took his oath of office and swore to faithfully execute the laws of the land, he didn’t say. “except those laws I don’t like….like immigration laws.”

Unfortunately, he was specific about one thing: his support for an amnesty for the 11-18 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Even though he admitted that these individuals came here to take jobs from US workers who desperately need them, he still wants Congress to give them an amnesty so they can permanently keep the jobs they’ve stolen from unemployed legal workers. In fact, apparently wanting to ensure that no illegal alien is left behind, the President called on Congress to pass three amnesties—the DREAM Act, AgJOBS, and blanket amnesty as part of comprehensive immigration reform. It is disappointing that the 7 million illegal aliens with non-agricultural jobs are more important to the President than the 25 million Americans who are unable to find full-time work.

Finally, his politicization of the issue is offensive. The President talked about all the different groups he’s met with, representing all kinds of views, faiths, and beliefs. Unfortunately, the only groups he hasn’t met with are those who represent the American people, who oppose amnesty and his apparent plan to ratchet up already too high legal immigration levels. He claims that Republicans are the ones blocking comprehensive immigration reform. However, the last time I checked, Democrats control both the House and the Senate, and if President Obama does not have the votes to force an amnesty through Congress, it is because many Democrats, like most Republicans, actually represent their constituents and oppose amnesty.

ROSEMARY JENKS is the Director of Government Relations for NumbersUSA

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Fox News

Bloody Border: 21 killed in shootout between drug, migrant trafficking gangs

Nogales, Son., Mex. — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said. — The fire fight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border, near the city of Nogales, that is considered a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling…

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I heard Rush Limbaugh deliver this message yesterday after the community organizer in the White House made his amnesty-again speech. It is well worth your time to know and understand

It’s the Statue of Liberty, Not the Statue of Immigration
July 1, 2010

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RUSH: Now, Obama did something else today in this speech that the left always does when they bring up the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus. “Give me your tired, give me your poor, give me your huddled masses,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That has been interpreted over the years. First of all, most people think that that’s part of the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty, which it’s not. I will ‘splain in a moment. They also have told us that what Emma Lazarus meant was, “Give us your downtrodden, give us your disadvantaged, give us your poor, give us your wretches, and we will take them in and we will help them,” and that’s not what it was all about.

It was about the United States being a home to those fleeing oppression, not poverty per se. He even had the audacity to say that Emma Lazarus devoted her life to health care. Now, here’s the story about all this. The Emma Lazarus poem, “Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry, huddled masses,” blah, blah, blah, does not and never has appeared on the Statue of Liberty. It was a poem written in a contest to raise money to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. It was not even put on display inside the exhibit, inside the pedestal until years later. The New Colossus is the title of it. It was written in 1883. In 1903, 20 years later, it was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty. You don’t go to the Statue of Liberty, wander around outside and see The New Colossus as part of the design on the outside of the Statue of Liberty.

“The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the ‘Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty,’ the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal’s construction. The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially Lazarus refused, but Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor. The New Colossus was the only entry read at the exhibit’s opening, but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886. In 1901, Lazarus’s friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was mounted on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.”

The Statue of Liberty was never meant to be a symbol of immigration. It was meant to be a symbol of liberty and freedom. The Statue of Liberty as designed and constructed had nothing to do with what Emma Lazarus wrote, and it’s another distortion of the left to suggest that this country was founded for the express purpose of taking anybody, anywhere, any planet, any country, who wanted to come into the country. Under the guise that they were poor, they were huddled, they were hungry, they were thirsty. It was not about immigration at all. It was about liberty. We don’t call it “the Statue of Immigration.” We call it the Statue of Liberty. It was dedicated October 28th, 1886.

It is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which Elena Kagan yesterday in her testimony said, (raspberry). “It’s irrelevant to me when I look at the law,” and yet here’s her president citing Emma Lazarus as though it’s part of the Statue of Immigration. It’s the Statue of Liberty. It has nothing to do with immigration. It commemorated the Declaration of Independence. The French did it. So profound did everyone in the world think the Declaration was, and in fact Abraham Lincoln often gave it more weight than the Constitution itself in terms of its deep meaning. Lady Liberty is stepping forward. She is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the United States TO the rest of the world.

The torch is not to light the way to the United States. It is to light the way to liberty to the rest of the world. Lady Liberty is carrying the light of liberty to the rest of the world. It is not a beacon for immigrants to get to this country because they’re tired, they’re poor, they’re huddled, hungry, or thirsty. The president of the United States has joined the chorus of those who have purposely misrepresented the Statue of Liberty — making it out to be the statute of immigration, misrepresenting Emma Lazarus — and it’s just an outrage how wantonly open the destruction and revision and redefinition of the great traditions and institutions that define this country is taking place now, at the hands of this regime…

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Arizona Republic — Phoenix

Arizona lawmaker rips Obama’s pro-amnesty twaddle

A prominent Arizona legislator says he’s “offended” by President Barack Obama’s speech on immigration [read: amnesty], including what Obama said about Arizona’s controversial enforcement law. — Republican Rep. John Kavanagh called Obama’s address in Washington Thursday a “political speech” that, in Kavanagh’s words, “probably annoyed everybody

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2010 SCREEN PRINT HERE. Oops, eh Clint?