Thursday, December 16, 2004

Tonna Says Legalize the Planet Open the Floodgates to Stop the Flood Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 15 Paul Tonna: Suffolk County, New York, legislator. (Home of Farmingville) - Contact this guy Dobbs: You both agree that if we had proper border security... Tonna: No no no. Dobbs: No? Tonna: If we had proper immigration laws. Dobbs: Can you have proper immigration laws without enforcing the borders? Tonna: They go hand-in-hand. Dobbs: No no no. Before you get off on the nuance. Here's the real deal. Let's cut through all of the nonsense. You cannot have immigration laws that work, no matter how liberal or conservative if you cannot enforce the security of your borders. Tonna: I would say if you had proper functional laws you would be able to do a much better job with border security. Dobbs: What is your resistance to border security Paul? Tonna: Because there is a total denial that there is a huge need for this pool of labor...if people could come back an forth we would have better border security. Watch Windows Media Player Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

¡Viva México!

Reuters Ghastly case of cannibalism in... where else?: Mexico Read at your own risk -- Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days. -- Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling rotting human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen... [Other recent Mexican antics: Acapulco bus killing | Mob burns cops to death]

Nogales International More carnage on the Arizona/Mexico border One man was wounded and at least three others assassinated in a bad situation gone horrific. -- On Tuesday evening, U.S. Border Patrol agents, working west of the Mariposa Port of Entry, found an undocumented alien who said he had been shot, and that three of his companions were still out in the desert, said Jim Hawkins...

El Paso Times Money, property seized in El Paso drug busts U.S. and Mexican federal agents seized luxury cars and machine guns and made several arrests in a crackdown last weekend targeting part of the Juárez drug cartel, the FBI said Wednesday. -- Four unidentified people were arrested in El Paso, where agents seized a $350,000 home and $1.6 million as part of an investigation stretching from Juárez to New York, the FBI said in a news release.

Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune Another marvelous Mexican gets 2 five year jail terms An illegal alien is headed to prison on felony drug charges more than a year after a Boone County sheriff's deputy fired two shots at his fleeing car. Inocente Pedroza of Mexico City was sentenced Monday by Circuit Judge Gene Hamilton to two five-year terms in prison on two counts of distributing a controlled substance...

Dump Bratton

KABC-TV -- Los Angeles Bratton not interested in being DHS parrot for Bush Not interested. That was L.A.'s Police Chief William Bratton's reaction Thursday to speculation that he might be a candidate to replace outgoing DHS Secretary Tom Ridge. -- "At this particular time in my life, I'm enjoying what I'm doing and I've got three years to go on the first (police chief) term. And, hopefully, they might consider me for a second term," Bratton told KNX... [God help us]

Pioneer Press Hmong demand cheaper housing One man attending Mayor Randy Kelly's Streetbeat community meeting with the Asian community Wednesday night was a Hmong refugee from a camp in Thailand who is now living in a two-bedroom apartment with eight other family members. -- He and most of the people who spoke at the forum at Arlington High School asked the city to address the shortage of large, affordable housing units to accommodate the new refugees...

Robert Klein Engler

American Daily Illegal Immigrant Workers Do More Harm Than Good Many employers mistakenly believe there is nothing wrong with hiring illegal immigrants to work in the U. S., especially illegal immigrants from Mexico. These employers contend that, "Illegal Mexicans are hard workers and they improve our way of life." This argument may be based on personal experience, but it is not the greater truth based on facts...

D.A. King

MichNews.com Dear Mr. Tonna - A letter from Georgiafornia Mr. Tonna, I saw you on Lou Dobbs last night, and have today watched a replay [Thursday, December 16]. From here in Georgiafornia you seem to be an open-borders, un-American, Hispandering tool of the radical illegal alien lobby. -- I have made it my life's work to fight people like you.

Donald A. Collins

Washington Dispatch National Intelligence Reform Act Erodes Civil Liberties ...Wells Fargo Bank, a major banking force in America's West, and many other banks now can continue to accept Matricula Consular cards which allow these aliens to open bank accounts and gain in effect usable ID, while eleven states still allow illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. Now, as thousands continue to cross our borders daily...

Tucson Citizen Grand jury indicts Mexican on rape, smuggling charges A Mexican man is accused of smuggling a brother and sister into the United States and raping the woman, who became pregnant and had his child. -- A federal grand jury last week indicted Timoteo Santos Ramos on five smuggling charges, according to a news release yesterday from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Houston Chronicle Illegalize illegals: Time for showdown in open frontier The new intelligence law, courtesy of 9/11, is mystifying because it does not face directly what is the most prominent threat to homeland security. It is: inimical action by non-Americans. All the people who participated in 9/11 were foreigners, here under various auspices...

El Jefe Bratton

L.A. Daily News Useless L.A.P.D. Chief Bratton for Head of DHS? U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday that either Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton or Sheriff Lee Baca would be qualified to replace him, and Bratton said he might be interested in the job. -- "If the president comes knocking on your door, you naturally have to take him seriously," Bratton said. Bratton said the Bush administration has not approached him about the position.

Muskegon Chronicle Illegal Chinese alien pleads guilty; faces deportation A Hart Chinese restaurant owner has pleaded guilty to charges of trying to bribe state officials to help obtain driver's licenses for his illegal immigrant employees. -- And whenever Hong Yuan Li is done with his sentence for that, his troubles won't be over...

MS13 Gang

Washington Post RICO Act: Northern Virginia gangsters indicted Two members of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on racketeering charges that included the slaying of a Herndon teenager, drawing federal authorities deeper into Northern Virginia's struggle against gangs. -- The use of federal racketeering statutes, originally designed to combat more traditional organized crime...

Issa

Sacramento Bee The Next Prop. 187: Issa may help ballot measure The California congressman who bankrolled signature gathering for the recall of Gov. Gray Davis has taken a first step toward financing a constitutional amendment that would deny benefits to illegal immigrants [criminals] in the state. -- Rep. Darrell Issa, through the Rescue California Leadership Committee, is mailing letters to every voter who circulated a petition last year to recall the Democratic governor.

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L.A. Times More on latest race riot at Rialto school Officials at a new high school in Rialto on Wednesday closed the campus for the rest of the week in response to Tuesday's lunchtime brawl between black and Latino students, the second such fight in less than a week. -- The melee at Wilmer Amina Carter High School started after the groups of students lined up and faced each other, and one student allegedly threw a water bottle.

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -- Ontario, Calif. ACLU sues Border Patrol over inland sweeps The American Civil Liberties Union sued the government Wednesday in an effort to obtain records involving Border Patrol arrests this summer in Southern California's inland areas, including Ontario. -- The ACLU said it filed the suit in federal court in Los Angeles because the U.S. Customs and Border Protection... not comply with its requests for information in July. [Related nonsense]

Rep. Gallegly

Ventura County Star Intelligence reform bill isn't tough enough, Gallegly says U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly's fingerprints are all over the newly passed intelligence reform bill that President Bush has promised to sign into law. The Simi Valley Republican inserted provisions into the bill dealing with everything from stolen passports to foreign terrorists. -- But when Congress approved the bill last week, Gallegly voted against it.

San Antonio Express-News Americans are disappearing in Mexico Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mex. -- While noting most visitors here never get hurt, the U.S. Consulate is warning of an unusual spike in kidnappings or disappearances of Americans since mid-August. -- The 21 known victims include young men with no jobs but nice cars, leading some local officials to believe it's a matter of who they rubbed shoulders with in this city...

What Homeland Security?

USA Today Intelligence bill also an anti-terror catchall ...Aiming to strengthen security along the nation's notoriously porous borders, Congress authorized the DHS to hire 2,000 more border agents and 800 more Customs and immigration agents each year for the next five years [but didn't provide funds to do it]. -- "We could use the help," says T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. "We're getting our butts kicked out there."

San Bernardino County Sun Repeat Mexican invader gleans $77K from taxpayers A Mexican citizen who accused a Riverside County sheriff's deputy of abuse last year has received a $77,000 settlement from the county. -- "The important message isn't the amount of money,' said Gregory Moreno, one of the lawyers who represented Francisco Padilla. "This establishes a precedent. The fact is that there is protection for the Mexican community when there are violations of human and civil rights.'

David Mullenax

Augusta Free Press Our nation's disease The U.S. Congress recently passed a 9/11 Intelligence Reform bill, and it is being heralded as legislation that will "help protect America and all Americans." -- However, the bill far from protects anything the politicians are saying it does in terms of protective measures or symbolism. -- In an attempt to hoodwink the American people, members of both the House and Senate are declaring that the creation of an intelligence czar...