Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Bush Killed Immigration Provisions "We're Screwed" Senator Collins (Right) Fox And Friends - December 7 Senator Collins: We do need to overhaul our laws. The president is committed to that, I'm committed to that, but these were highly controversial and divisive provisions, many of which were opposed by the administration. We accepted several that were less controversial, but we need to do this in the context of overhauling immigration laws and that can be done early next year. According to news reports, Rep. Tom Tancredo said, "We're screwed, President Bush is an open borders guy." Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Juan Mann DeportAliens.com

VDare.com "Go West, Criminal Alien!" - Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Warning to Arizona, California and the West: Brace yourselves for an invasion of deported criminal aliens. -- Why? Because three judges from the notorious federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, [Judges Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt, and Sidney R. Thomas, who wrote the decision] , have taken it upon themselves last month to strike down the perfectly good federal "reinstatement of removal" regulations of 8 C.F.R. section 241.8...

Register-Pajaronian -- Watsonville, Calif. Fraudulent documents plot foiled A fraudulent document manufacturing operation was broken up late Tuesday in Watsonville following an eight-month investigation by police. -- Three people were arrested in the sting, which uncovered a healthy sampling of fraudulent permanent resident alien cards, temporary resident alien cards, a few Social Security cards and manufacturing equipment.

Ramirez Watch

Rev. Allan B. Ramirez -- Newsday -- New York Major invasion aide lectures Suffolk County executive Suffolk County has received national attention as an intolerant place for immigrants. Brutal beatings, daily protests against day laborers, and the firebombing of a young Mexican family are but a few of a rash of anti-immigrant incidents. -- And most recently, there was a cross burning at the home of two bi-racial couples... [Contact this blowhard Ramirez]

Associated Press Jails Must Stop Using Dogs Near Immigration Detainees Jails and detention centers around the country must stop using police dogs to control immigration detainees as of Saturday under a new policy issued by the DHS. -- ICE, a division of Homeland Security, issued a memo to its field offices last month ordering them to refrain from contracting with lockups that use dogs around detainees.

Government Malfeasance

Fox News House passes bogus Intelligence Reform bill The House overwhelmingly approved an intelligence reform bill Tuesday evening, clearing the way for the law's expected passage in the Senate by Wednesday. -- President Bush has said he would sign the legislation. See final roll call here.

Angela Kelley -- National Immigration Forum Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Is It Within Our Grasp? President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox held talks in Santiago, Chile at the recently held Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Although the topic of immigration reform came up, no breakthrough was reached. It is high time for the key actors ­ the Bush Administration, the Fox Administration...

Washington Times Illegal aliens cost California billions Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of California - which has the highest number of illegal aliens nationwide - $10.5 billion a year for education, health care and incarceration, according to a study released yesterday. -- A key finding of the report by FAIR said the state's already struggling kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system spends $7.7 billion a year on children of illegal aliens...

Frank Gaffney Jr. -- Washington Times Deforming intelligence ...Arguably far more important in terms of reducing the chance of another terrorist attack on the American homeland are a set of commission recommendations some members of Congress have no interest in adopting. These pertain to border security, changes to policies and practices governing legal and illegal immigration and standards...

Ramirez Watch

Glenn Spencer to Newsday Ramirez says American Patrol is "a nationally known hate group." American Patrol is nationally known, not as a hate group, but as one of the most visited Web sites in the country. The source of the "hate" label is Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center. When confronted by members of the media to present his evidence, Morris Dees has shrunk from the task.

WorldNetDaily.com Fear of racial offense putting flyers in peril ...Sept. 11, 2001, only spurred Norm Mineta's Department of Transportation to heighten its sensitivity to ethnicity, threatening airlines with stiff penalties if they selected more than three passengers of the same ethnicity for additional scrutiny on a flight. -- This "incoherent system," [Heather] Mac Donald contends, fails to acknowledge the 9-11 commission's assessment that the "enemy is not just 'terrorism,' [but] Islamist terrorism."

Yeh Ling-Ling

Washington Times Hold leaders accountable (Scroll down to last item) -- Your article "Republicans warn of party split over immigration" (Nation, Friday) prompted me to respond. -- First, political leaders, liberal and conservative, who oppose including the provisions to secure our borders in the intelligence bill should be held accountable if in the future Americans are killed by terrorists or illegal criminal aliens.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner

NewsMax.com Sensenbrenner speaks Out on 9/11 Report House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James , Jr., R-Wis., issued the following statement regarding legislation responding to the 9/11 Commission recommendations: "I am pleased that the chain-of-command issues Chairman Duncan Hunter has raised have been resolved so that our war-fighters will not be put at risk. Unfortunately, even with these improvements, the current bill is woefully incomplete and one I cannot support.

San Francisco Examiner -- K. Lloyd Billingsley Shakedown suits live on (MALDEF, other mobs) The victory of Proposition 64 does not mean that shakedown lawsuits have disappeared. They continue to thrive, as a recent case involving Abercrombie & Fitch confirms. -- The retailer will pay out $40 million, a hefty $10 million of it in attorney fees, as part of a settlement of three lawsuits charging that the company discriminates against women and minorities.

NewsMax.com 9/11 Report Urges Drivers License Reform Contrary to the claims of many in Congress who say the issue of drivers license reform is an immigration issue that has nothing to do with the 9/11 Commission recommendations, the Commission report specifically urges new federal standards for drivers licenses. -- On page 390 the Commission report states...

Los Angeles Times Bush scores intel 'victory' - America loses President Bush on Monday won crucial backing for a bill to put the nation's intelligence agencies under a single director's control, setting the stage for congressional passage this week. -- The White House secured the support of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter by changing the bill's language to ensure that the military's access to intelligence from satellites...

Human Events No Driver's Licenses for Illegals: Will Congress Back 9/11 Commission's Recommendation? As the House and Senate moved closer to a vote Tuesday on legislation restructuring the U.S. intelligence community, a key immigration provision that would effectively bar illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses is missing from the bill...

San Diego Union Tribune Four men linked to immigrant smuggling arrested in county Federal officials here say they have busted an immigrant-smuggling ring that specialized in shuttling people from Eastern Europe through California's border crossings with Mexico and then on to the East Coast. -- Four members of the ring ­ including its leader ­ were arrested yesterday in San Diego County, they said. A fifth man, from New Jersey, remains at large.

Lexington Herald-Leader 2 plead not guilty to selling fake IDs Two men pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal court to charges that they passed on fraudulent identification cards to illegal workers. -- Arrested last month, Jose Maldonado-Ramirez and Angel Gomez-Ventura were snagged in a sting operation that was set up by U.S. Immigration and Customs officers and the Kentucky State Police...

Associated Press Cops temporarily blocked from arresting day laborer pests A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the city of Redondo Beach from arresting day laborers who solicit jobs on the street [thanks to the intervention of MALDEF barnacles]. -- Dozens of day laborers were arrested during a sting operation in October. About 30 workers filed suit against the city Nov. 16, alleging their First Amendment rights of free speech were threatened. [Involved is U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall, a Carter appointee]