The Morning News -- Fayetteville, Ark. -- September 4, 2009      Drug ring leader sentenced    The alleged kingpin of a methamphetamine ring was sentenced Thursday to federal prison for money laundering. -- Juan Carrillo was sentenced to 20 years and fined $50,000. He's expected to be deported when released. -- Prosecutors said the ring brought drugs to Northwest Arkansas from California and Texas.

KSN-TV -- Wichita, Kansas -- September 4, 2009      Illegal alien charged in sister's murder    A Garden City man has been formally charged with first-degree murder in the death of his sister. -- Police say 52-year-old Luis Montoya stabbed his 55-year-old sister Maria with a kitchen knife in their mobile home last month after the two had been arguing over household chores...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- September 4, 2009     Feds: 2 Mexicans arranged jobs for illegal workers    Federal prosecutors have accused two Mexican men of arranging employment and obtaining false documents for several illegal [aliens] and using fake identification to take out mortgages totaling more than $1 million. -- The men - Rogelio Lopez-Tiznado, 39, and Gabriel Perez-Zambrano, 37 - made their initial federal court appearances Thursday...

Bellingham (Wash.) Herald -- September 4, 2009      Border Patrol seizes $3 million in Ecstasy, cocaine near Sumas    U.S. Border Patrol agents seized about $3 million worth of Ecstasy and cocaine near Sumas Wednesday night, Sept. 2. -- The agents were patrolling along the border when they spotted two people's footprints and the tracks of a heavy object being dragged along a row in a raspberry patch that went south from the U.S.-Canadian border...

Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram -- September 4, 2009      Mexican drug ring broken up in Paramount sting    Authorities broke up a drug distribution ring linked to a notorious Mexican cartel after snatching traffickers who agreed to buy 160 pounds of cocaine in a Home Depot parking lot on Alondra Boulevard, officials said Thursday. -- The bust involved an investigation into a Sinaloa, Mexico-based drug ring with ties to Los Angeles, Imperial and Riverside counties...

Wall Street Journal -- September 4, 2009      Pot 'plantations' on the rise     Marijuana growers, many believed to be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels, are aggressively expanding their illegal farming operations in the U.S., clearing land to plant pot in dozens of national forests from coast to coast. -- Illicit cannabis farms on public land first sprang up in California more than a decade ago and remain a serious problem in that state...

CNN -- September 3, 2009      Dangerous Mexicans running pot farms around the U.S.    ...As many as 82 Mexican nationals were taken into custody and deported, the Fresno County state attorney's office told CNN. So far, the U.S. attorney's office has charged 16 people. If convicted, those without prior drug charges would face 10 years to life and a $4 million fine; those with drug records could get double that sentence. -- But little intelligence is gleaned from growers. They don't want to talk, fearful of the consequences...

Fox News Memphis -- September 3, 2009      Previously deported illegal alien charged in wife's beating    An illegal [alien] and convicted felon made his first court appearance Wednesday in Bartlett. He's charged with beating and raping his wife, in front of their children. -- Police say it happened on the 6000 block of Fairway Heights Cove, Monday. Bartlett police say they have not been called to the home before...

Nashville Tennessean -- September 3, 2009     Illegal alien charged with statutory rape of girl, 15    A 23-year-old man who told police he is in the country illegally is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online through the social networking site, MyYearBook.com. -- Jose A. Chicas is scheduled to appear in court next week on two counts of statutory rape in connection with the crime... [More 'family values' that should have stopped at the Rio Bravo]

The Herald -- Rock Hill, S.C. -- September 2, 2009       Illegal alien pleads guilty in crash that killed couple    York, SC -- The woman who police say caused a head-on crash that killed a Charlotte couple near York earlier this year plead guilty to two counts of reckless homicide today and will spend the next eight years in prison. -- On May 6, Maria Garcia-Sanchez, 29, crossed four lanes of traffic and the paved median of S.C. 161, striking a pick-up head on...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix -- September 2, 2009      43 illegals nabbed in Douglas drop house    Tucson -- Border Patrol agents and Douglas police uncovered a stash house Monday. -- Agents and officers discovered 43 people concealing themselves within the home. -- All the occupants were determined to be illegally in the United States...

Gant Daily -- Clearfield, Pa. -- September 2, 2009    Four Mexican illegals nailed in I-80 traffic stop    Bradford Twp. -- Four illegal aliens were apprehended along Interstate 80 at mile marker 123 eastbound at 6:07 p.m. Tuesday in Bradford Township Clearfield County. -- men were encountered following a traffic violation. They then determined the men were illegally in the United States...

Winston-Salem (NC) Journal -- September 2, 2009      West Salem DMV worker arrested    The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles closed the license-plate agency in the West Salem Shopping Center yesterday after one of the agency's former employees was arrested on fraud charges. -- Zoyla Bustos-Perez [an illegal alien] was charged with misapplication of government property, obtaining state vehicle titles by false pretense, and accessing state government computers to defraud the state...

Northwest Herald -- Crystal Lake, Illinois -- September 2, 2009      Twice deported Mexican nabbed again... while allegedly driving drunk    A Mexican citizen who's twice been deported from the United States was sentenced to prison after he was found to be in the country illegally again. -- Marcelino Tellez-Pineda, 35, most recently was discovered after he was arrested Jan. 1 by Hebron Police for driving under the influence, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice...

Associated Press -- September 2, 2009      Illegal alien busted for DUI... for the 7th time     Bend, Ore. -- A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following his seventh conviction for driving while under the influence of intoxicants. -- Deschutes County Judge Stephen Tiktin ruled that Rafael Diaz-Quintana is ineligible for early release and is barred from participating in any rehabilitation programs...

KOKI-TV -- Tulsa -- September 2, 2009      Immigration process for suspected hit & run driver    A Tulsa woman hit and killed while on a morning bike ride and police say the driver sped off. -- The suspected driver was arrested this afternoon where he faces charges in 74-year-old Beverly Duffield’s death. -- Authorities are questioning the immigration status of 28-year-old Roberto Alvelais-Torres who is being held without bond...

Las Vegas Review-Journal -- September 1, 2009      Illegals apologize for killing, ask for mercy     Two men found guilty of murder for the May 2007 fatal bombing in the Luxor parking garage begged for mercy on Monday. -- The same jury that found Omar Rueda-Denvers and Porfirio Duarte-Herrera guilty of building and planting the pipe bomb that killed Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio is expected to decide their fate today... [See Crime Watch]

Treasure Coast Palm -- Stuart, Fla. -- August 31, 2009      Illegal alien allegedly drunk as a skunk before fatal crash    A man whose blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit faces felony charges after a Saturday crash that fatally injured a woman and left two others with less severe wounds, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday. -- Isaias Mejia-Hernandez, 26, who is in the country illegally, faces DUI manslaughter, DUI serious bodily injury...

KPHO-TV -- Phoenix -- August 31, 2009      Mexicans get prison in illegal alien hostage case    Tucson -- Two Mexican men have been given federal prison sentences for holding 31 illegal immigrants hostage at a Tucson home at gunpoint, demanding more money for being smuggled across the Arizona border. -- Prosecutors said Victor Sauceda-Parra, 34, of Culiacan, Sinaloa, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison...

Southampton (NY) Press -- August 31, 2009     Police raid two suspected brothels (illegals allegedly involved)    Police arrested five people in evening raids of two apparent brothels in Southampton and Westhampton on Saturday. -- Both homes had "anti-police" shrines in their living rooms where patrons would pray to Santa Muerte, Saint Death, to ward off law enforcement, police said...

KUSA-TV -- Denver -- August 30, 2009      New photo released in nationwide search for likely illegal alien fiend    A higher resolution photo of a suspected sex offender has been released by the Aurora Police Department as they continue their search for the man accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old. -- Police are still asking the public for help in finding 20-year-old Daniel Hernandez-Ramos who they believe sexually assaulted the child in early August...

Houston Chronicle -- August 29, 2009     Illegal alien brothers charged in Houston doc's slaying    Investigators trying to determine who might have gunned down a prominent Houston doctor at his Bellville ranch last weekend didn't have to look very far to get a break in the case. -- On Friday, they charged two brothers of the physician's ranch hand with murder and announced they were also looking for the men's cousin...

The News Journal -- Wilmington, Delaware -- August 29, 2009      Illegal alien, others nabbed in fake ID bust    A two-month investigation into drug sales at a Georgetown house led to the arrests of three men, including one for making fraudulent Social Security cards, police said. -- No drugs were found, they said. -- eorgetown police Lt. Lawrence Grose identified the three suspects as: Rene Morales-Mazariegos, 28, and Reynaldo Leal and Nicholas Ojeda...

Wall Street Journal -- August 29, 2009      Mexico investigates passport corruption    Dallas -- Mexican authorities are investigating allegations of corruption and improper behavior at the Mexican consulate here, triggering calls from political leaders on both sides of the border for an ethics review at Mexico's consular offices in the U.S.

Denver Post -- August 27, 2009     International drug cartels infiltrating Colorado's national forests    Authorities have seized nearly 20,000 marijuana plants from national forest land in Colorado this summer, part of an apparent expansion of growing operations funded and run by international drug cartels. -- The operations pose a significant safety hazard to hikers who may happen upon the armed farmers in the woods...

Washington Post -- August 27, 2009      Mayhem crosses the border with informers    AEl Paso -- José Daniel González was living the sweet life in America. He bought the $365,000 two-story Mediterranean with the tile roof and swimming pool. He started a trucking company, was raising a family. But on a Friday night in May, he was executed in his front yard -- eight shots, tight pattern, close range...

Associated Press -- August 27, 2009      Togo man admits smuggling girls to NJ hair salons     Newark -- A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to work at hair braiding salons in New Jersey. -- Lassissi Afolabi pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiring with his ex-wife and others to commit forced labor and related crimes in Newark and East Orange, where he lived...

KXO Radio -- El Centro, Calif. -- August 26, 2009       Sex fiends nabbed sneaking back into U.S.    Border Patrol agents say three convicted sex offenders were arrested in four days. -- The first arrest occurred at around 5:00 pm Saturday. Border Patrol agents responded to a request for assistance from Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies near Mecca. Agents interviewed a subject who was in the Country illegally...

News9-TV -- Denver -- August 26, 2009      Nationwide search for likely illegal alien accused of assaulting 4-year-old     Police are asking for help in finding a man who they believe sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl earlier this month. -- There is a nationwide arrest warrant out for 20-year-old Daniel Hernandez-Ramos. -- The sexual assault happened on Sunday, Aug. 9 around 9:30 p.m. outside the Wentworth Apartments...

Los Angeles Times -- August 26, 2009      Prosecutors to seek death penalty for alleged killer of football standout Jamiel Shaw    The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will seek the death penalty against the 20-year-old gang member charged with killing 17-year-old high school foootball star Jamiel Shaw. -- Shaw was several doors from his Arlington Heights home on March 2, 2008, when two men in a car pulled up next to him...

Chicago Tribune -- August 26, 2009      Illegal faces deportation after DUI charge; whining ensues    A former honor student from the Southwest Side, Rigo Padilla, 21, started classes Monday at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But by Christmas Padilla could end up thousands of miles away in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico -- a place he barely knows. -- He was ordered deported last week by a judge for being in the U.S. illegally...

Lower Hudson Journal News -- August 25, 2009      Another illegal alien DUI suspect busted    Brewster, NY -- In what is becoming a disturbing and familiar trend in and around this tiny village, police have charged yet another illegal [alien] with driving drunk. -- Jose Morales, 32, of Brewster also was driving without a license when he was stopped by Brewster police at 460 N. Main St. at 11:47 p.m. Saturday after being seen driving without headlights, police said...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- August 24, 2009      Criticizing joker in the White House is 'hate speech?'    A local Texas newspaper has cited the now iconic “Jokerbama” image as an example of hate speech after a military veteran reported the presence of the posters on light poles in his local area to City Hall officials. -- The Hays Free Press carried the headline Freedom… of hate speech?on its front page late last week...

KCBS-TV -- Los Angeles -- August 24, 2009      Ex-Armenian consul charged in alien scam    A former Armenian consul in Los Angeles has pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstructing immigration proceedings in an alleged document scam aimed at helping [illegal aliens] avoid deportation. -- Prosecutor Sandy Leal said Norair Ghalumian pleaded not guilty to the charge in federal court in Santa Ana on Monday.

Mid-Hudson News Network -- Poughkeepsie, NY -- August 24, 2009      Migrant worker charged with raping woman on country road    Stuyvesant, NY -- State Police at Livingston have arrested a migrant worker who frequented a horse farm for allegedly abducting and raping a woman as she took an early morning walk on Eichybush Road in the Town of Stuyvesant. -- Manuel DeJesus Mauricio Ramirez, 29, a Guatemalan national, was charged with rape in the first degree... [More "family values"]

Portland Oregonian -- August 24, 2009        High times for an Oregon business: pot growing    ...Police say Mexico-based criminal organizations are finding it easier to grow marijuana in the United States than to smuggle it across the border. Glerup has found intricate irrigation systems of PVC pipe, hand-dug water reservoirs at natural springs filled with fertilizer to provide nutrients to the marijuana plants, and camouflaged drying racks...

Ventura County (Calif.) Star -- August 23, 2009     SUSPECT STATUS UNKNOWN     Man arrested for punching 13-year-old player after soccer game    A 20-year Oxnard man was arrested this afternoon after he punched a 13-year-old soccer player during a fight at the end of a youth soccer game in east Ventura, police said. -- Efrain Flores, the brother of one player involved in the melee Saturday afternoon at Community Park, was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and abuse...

Boston Globe -- August 22, 2009      Illegal alien arrested in Coolidge Corner attack    Brookline Police arrested a second suspect last night in the brazen abduction and rape of a 30-year-old woman who was walking in Coolidge Corner early Tuesday when she was attacked. -- Police said 26-year-old Ismael Martinez of Waltham was arrested at his home Friday night, following Thursday’s capture of 25-year-old Jose Arita, a Guatemalan construction worker... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Riverside (Calif.) Press Enterprise -- August 22, 2009      2 arrested in human-smuggling case    San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives and federal immigration agents have arrested two men they say dumped a Guatemalan man and woman in the Mojave Desert. -- Raul Enrique Ibarra, 27, and Pedro Marcos Marcos, 28, were taken into custody at a home in Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County...

Los Angeles Times -- August 21, 2009      Illegals nabbed on Carlsbad beach    Twenty-three illegal [aliens] were caught by U.S. Border Patrol agents on a Carlsbad [Calif.] beach this morning after wading ashore from a suspected smuggling boat, according to authorities. -- The Mexican [illegal aliens], five of them females, were spotted by a patrol boat about 4 a.m. off of Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. The boat got away, heading south...

Chicago Sun-Times -- August 21, 2009      'Most significant drug conspiracy' busted in Chicago     Usually drug busts in Chicago begin and end at the street level. -- But on Thursday, federal authorities announced they disrupted a massive drug operation by ensnaring notorious Mexican drug lords, cutting off shipments of cocaine by the ton into Chicago and knocking out a major distribution network that operated out of the city...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor -- August 21, 2009      Suspected smugglers attack Border Patrol agents with rocks    A group of suspected drug smugglers attacked two U.S. Border Patrol agents with rocks during a chase near the Rio Grande on Thursday evening. -- Agents were following a vehicle loaded with marijuana when the driver stopped at the riverbank and fled on foot, Border Patrol spokesman John Lopez said...

Hollister (Calif.) Free Lance -- August 21, 2009      Mexican illegal alien held on rape charge    Federal immigration authorities have confirmed the man suspected of kidnapping and raping a Watsonville woman last weekend is an illegal [alien] from Mexico, the San Benito County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. -- With U.S. ICE placing a hold on 36-year-old Roberto Carranza, he no longer is eligible for bail... [More 'family values' that should have stopped at the Rio Bravo]

Fort Mill (SC) Times -- August 21, 2009      Pro-illegal alien groups decry fingerprint sharing policy    Some lawmakers in Philadelphia are joining immigrant advocacy groups in opposition of a new policy where city police turn over to federal authorities the fingerprints of immigrants who are arrested. -- The "Secure Communities" program allows local authorities access to federal criminal and immigration records...

Salem (Oregon) News -- August 21, 2009     2 suspected illegals busted in rape of 12-year-old    Detectives have arrested two men for sexual activity with a 12-year old girl. The girl was an acquaintance of the men and the sexual contact occurred independent of each other. -- ...Washington County Sheriff's Detectives arrested 18-year old Ramiro Vargas-Ramos and 19-year old Francisco Lopez-Mendez, both men from the Community of Aloha...

PhillyBurbs.com -- Philadelphia -- August 21, 2009      Suspected illegal alien accused of raping boy, 17     "That's him," the boy said, crying. "That's him ." -- The 17-year-old was in tears as he identified the 48-year-old man he was accusing of raping him at the Bucks Landing Apartments in Warminster, according to court records. -- Police arrested Emigdio Asencio, who lives at the apartment complex on Saturday... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Associated Press -- August 21, 2009      Man charged in beating of 78-year-old woman, flees home to Mexico    A former Redwood City man is facing the possibility of at least 20 years in prison after being charged with the 2008 beating of a 78-year-old woman. -- Jose Perez-Gonzalez is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to attempted murder and other charges Thursday...

WSB-TV -- Atlanta -- August 21, 2009      Likely illegal alien accused of molesting 6-year-old    Canton police arrested and charged Rolando Ajanel Tayun Tuesday after investigating allegations that he molested a 6-year-old girl. -- Police said Tayun, 25, who also goes by the name Anthony C. Borrero Gutierrez, was taken to the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center...  [More "family values"]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- August 20, 2009      Mexican drug cartels now recruiting hit men from U.S. military    Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18 who was arrested Monday, is accused of working as a paid hit man, and assassinating a member of the Juarez Cartel who had become an informant for U.S. authorities. -- Along with Apodaca, El Paso police have charged Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, 30, and Christopher Andrew Duran, 17 with capital murder...

Brownsville (Texas) Herald -- August 20, 2009     Illegal alien peddler accused of raping 12-year-old runaway    Mission -- An ice cream vendor stands accused of raping a 12-year-old runaway girl. -- Fidel Hernandez Garcia, 17, an [illegal alien] , was charged with aggravated sexual assault Wednesday afternoon at the office of Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Ismael "Melo" Ochoa. The judge set the teen’s bond at $50,000... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

Associated Press -- August 20, 2009      Woman sentenced to prison for sham marriages     San Francisco -- A woman federal prosecutors say arranged sham marriages will be serving time in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of marriage fraud and other charges. -- Federal prosecutors say Kwan Tsoi, also known as Joyce Cai, was sentenced Tuesday to 19 months in prison for arranging fake marriages so that non-citizens could obtain 'Green Cards.'

KDVR-TV -- Denver -- August 20, 2009      Girl kidnapped, held hostage 2 years in Mexico, returns home    A local teenager is back home, after being kidnapped and held hostage in Mexico for two years, by an abusive boyfriend. -- Her parents say Alisha Martinez had been missing since April of 2007. They say she first met 22 year old Adan Garcia-Cruz when she was 14. He checked her out of school one day, saying he was her uncle... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas -- August 20, 2009     Border Patrol agent run over    Penitas, Texas -- Two suspected smugglers accused of running over a border patrol agent with an all terrain vehicle are in federal custody. They were arrested after an all-out manhunt near Penitas last night. -- NewsChannel 5 has learned the agent was walking on a levee, patrolling the area, when he was hit by two smugglers on the ATV....

Corning (Calif.) Record -- August 19, 2009      Broken taillights lead to chase, immigration hold    A car and foot chase with Corning police through town landed a man in jail. -- Jose Fernando Castillo-Alanis, also known as Fidel Mata, was driving a Toyota Camry northbound on Fifth Street when Corning police Officer Tiffany Hill attempted to make a stop on the car because it did not have tail-lights, said police...

Riverside (Calif.) Press Enterprise -- August 19, 2009     Illegal alien carjacking suspect escapes from jail    A suspect in a series of knifepoint carjackings escaped from a San Bernardino County jail early Tuesday by scaling the roof and apparently leaping off the prison grounds, officials said. -- Joel Maldonado was reported missing from his assigned housing area at the sheriff's Adelanto Detention Center shortly after midnight...

Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star -- August 19, 2009      Illegal alien kidnap suspect pleads not guilty    Ballston Spa -- A 23-year-old El Salvadorian man accused of kidnapping a woman in Saratoga Springs last month pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a 15-count indictment in Saratoga County Court. -- Victor Vladimir Hernandez-Perez, who police say has lived illegally in the country for years, is charged with several felonies...

Los Angeles Times -- August 19, 2009     Pot farm fire reveals a troubling trend (Mexican criminals in the U.S.)    Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Narcotics agents said Tuesday they had little doubt that the nearly 90,000-acre La Brea fire was started by Mexican drug traffickers who were tending a large, sophisticated marijuana farm planted on the side of a mountain...

The Daily Citizen -- Dalton, Georgia -- August 19, 2009       Suspected illegal alien held in vehicular manslaughter case    A man accused of vehicular homicide had a bond of $50,000 set in Whitfield County Superior Court on Tuesday, and by day’s end had a hold placed on him by ICE -- Ismael Lopez-Rodriguez, 36, of 119 Gay St. in Dalton, was charged with second degree vehicular homicide in the death of motorcyclist Audie Burnette...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix -- August 19, 2009     DPS: 11 coyotes, 29 illegals found at 3 Valley drop houses    Phoenix -- DPS announced Tuesday that 11 human smugglers and 29 [illegal aliens] were found at three drop houses in the Valley this past week. -- The most recent incident happened at about 3 p.m. on Friday, August 14 at a home near 55th Avenue and Thomas Road, according to a DPS news release...

Naples (Fla.) News -- August 18, 2009     Berserk illegal alien accused of going on rampage with machete    A Guatemalan national remained jailed Monday accused of striking three people with a machete after breaking into the home of the mother of his children in Bonita Springs while four children younger than seven years old were inside...

Los Angeles Times -- August 17, 2009      Major California wildfire blamed on Mexican pot growers    A fire that has burned more than 87,000 acres in Santa Barbara County was started by an illegal marijuana operation, authorities said, apparently making it the first major wildfire in the state caused by drug traffickers. -- The county sheriff's department, which has recently eradicated other nearby marijuana plots, believes the site was run by a Mexican drug organization...

Bakersfield Californian -- August 17, 2009     Kern awash in unlicensed [read: illegal alien] drivers    Sobriety checkpoints set up in Bakersfield in recent months haven’t nabbed huge numbers of drunken drivers. -- But they’re netting unlicensed drivers by the dozens — with 92 cited at a checkpoint in east Bakersfield last month...

The Examiner -- August 17, 2009       Majority of illegals arrested in Prince William charged with one of three crimes    The vast majority of of illegal [aliens] arrested in Prince William County last year were charged with public drunkenness, driving under the influence or driving without a license, according to recent data. -- Among 20 common crimes, such as vandalism and drug possession, arrests for the three crimes accounted for 76 percent of arrests of illegal [aliens]...

KTVZ-TV -- Bend, Oregon -- August 17, 2009      Big pot grow seized on Warm Springs reservation (Mexicans involved, as usual)    Days after tribal police and federal agents seized 1,630 marijuana plants worth an estimated $5 million from a remote area of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, authorities in California said Sunday a more than 85,000-acre wildfire in Santa Barbara County had been traced to a cooking fire at an illegal marijuana grow...

San Francisco Chronicle -- August 16, 2009     Victims' family loses round in sanctuary suit    The family of a father and two sons who were gunned down on a San Francisco street last year has failed to convince a federal judge that the city violated the victims' constitutional rights by shielding their alleged murderer from deportation... [See Sanctuary Watch]

Associated Press -- August 16, 2009      California wildfire started by Mexican pot growers' campfire    Investigators have found that a week-old wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest was started by a cooking fire set by marijuana growers. -- Santa Barbara County Sheriff's officials said in a news release Saturday that its narcotics unit and U.S. Forest Service special agents found that the camp where the fire started was part of a drug organization run by Mexican nationals...

Associated Press -- August 15, 2009      Family of murdered Texas teen sues Clackamas County    Oregon City, Ore. -- The family of a murdered Texas girl has sued Clackamas County, saying authorities knew her killer was in the country illegally but failed to report him. -- The Oregonian reports the estate of Dani Countryman is seeking $3.5 million in damages in a lawsuit filed in Clackamas County Circuit Court...

Pine Bluff Commercial -- August 14, 2009      FBI: Human trafficking up among illegals in Arkansas    The FBI is investigating more human trafficking cases involving Latin American [illegal aliens] brought to Arkansas for prostitution or as modern-day indentured workers chained to debts they can't pay off, a head special agent said Friday...

WFAA-TV -- Dallas -- August 14, 2009     Gov't Incompetence: Rape suspect missing after deportation to Mexico    Jose Rico, who was accused of raping two young girls made bail and was deported to Mexico. Now he is nowhere to be found. -- For months, families in a northeast Dallas lived in fear after two girls — ages 12 and 14 — were home alone and bound after they were raped by a man...

Washington Post -- August 13, 2009         Former victims mix up an antidote to terror [More invader atrocities]    The three women didn't draw much attention from the lunch crowd at Congressional Country Club. That's only because no one could hear what they were saying. -- "Why did he have to tie us up so tight? We are just old people," asked the 94-year-old...

Baxter Bulletin -- Mountain Home, Ark. -- August 11, 2009      Illegals nabbed    Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers announced Monday that three persons arrested for various offenses in Marion County this summer were residing in the United States illegally and are now in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Two men from Guatemala were arrested Aug. 2...

Newsweek - New York -- August 10, 2009     Feds raid alleged sex worker slave ring (illegals involved)    Two dozen female bartenders at two Suffolk bars raided Monday as part of a federal crackdown on a reputed large sexual-slavery ring were being questioned late Monday by federal agents to determine the extent of the operation, law enforcement officials said... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

San Jose Mercury News -- August 9, 2009      Illegal alien pleads guilty in hit-and-run that seriously injured 8-year-old boy    The man who smashed his car into a San Jose boy and his father as they walked to school in January and then drove away pleaded guilty for his role in the hit-and-run collision and will spend no more than two years in prison...

San Diego Union-Tribune -- August 5, 2009      Illegal alien linked to City Heights hit-run, turns himself in    31-year-old man turned himself into police Tuesday morning in connection with a hit-and-run accident Monday that gravely injured a pedestrian in City Heights, San Diego police said. -- The driver, Alfredo Cruz, came into the Mid-City police station about 9 a.m. His car had been found six hours earlier...