Monday, April 11, 2005

No Child Gets Ahead The destruction of Los Angeles schools is now complete This chart, prepared by VCT in 1995, shows what happened. Has Illegal Immigration Ruined Los Angeles Public Schools? Alan Favish - Frontpagemag.com The fate of the Los Angeles Unified School District is a tragedy that is spreading across the country. To understand what is in store for America I offer my story about the LAUSD and why I abandoned it. As you will see, the cause is our toleration of illegal immigration from Mexico. American Patrol - As we have been saying for ten years, illegal immigration destroyed LAUSD and it will destroy your school unless we stop them at the border. (See story in today's L.A. Times) Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Help Netkin Make Sure MEChA-Boy Doesn't Become Mayor L.A. activist Hal Netkin is fighting an uphill battle against the PC mainstream media to expose former MEChA leader and current mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa (shown at left) for the anti-American scoundrel that he is. Visit MayorNo.com and help support his efforts, and also to find out what a menace former union goon/ACLU lackey Villaraigosa really is. Remember... your city could be next.

Eastern Arizona Courier -- Safford Invaders picked up by the hundreds in county Battered, low-riding vehicles are pouring into Graham County from the south, many of them laden with more than a dozen undocumented aliens. -- The vehicles stand in rows at the impound yard on Discovery Park Blvd., each with the impound date and number of arrested aliens scribbled on the windshield...

Arizona Daily Star House panel OKs bill allowing cops to enforce immigration laws Phoenix -- A House panel voted Monday to unleash state and local law enforcement officers to begin enforcing federal immigration law. -- Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said many communities have what are, in effect, "sanctuary policies" where people who are here illegally need not fear police.

Windsor-Hights Herald One of Bush's 'hard working folks' comes to visit Washington -- Police on Monday tackled and dragged away a man with two suitcases who stationed himself in front of the west side of the Capitol and asked to see the president. -- The man refused to say anything else to an officer who tried to talk with him, authorities said...

Windsor-Hights Herald Anti-invasion group kicked out of diner Hightstown, NJ -- A group known for fighting against illegal immigrants was asked to leave a Washington Township diner while a Hispanic civil rights conference took place in the borough on Sunday, Washington police said. -- The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights and the Mercer County Hispanic Association sponsored a civil rights conference for Hispanics on Sunday...

Associated Press Mexico investigates allegations against Minutemen Mexican authorities are investigating reports that 13 migrants may have been apprehended by U-S civilians guarding the Arizona- Mexico border against illegal crossers [criminals]. -- Mexican Deputy Foreign Secretary for North America Geronimo Gutierrez says he's received reports that 13 Mexicans were "detained and referred to the Border Patrol" by the volunteers. [Good!] [Related item]

Arizona Capitol Times GOP lawmakers visit Minutemen A handful of Republican lawmakers who traveled to Tombstone on April 1 to lend their support to the Minuteman Project volunteers said the experience was a positive one. -- "We can't just give them lip service," said Rep. Russell Pearce, R-18. "I felt we needed to make that trip down there and show our undying support for these patriots. They are the heroes."

FAIR Act Now to Defeat Senate Passage of AgJOBS Amnesty Several senators have threatened to attach amnesty and other immigration liberalizing amendments to the emergency war supplemental bill being considered by the Senate this week. Debate on the bill begins TODAY (4/11) - your immediate action is crucial to defeating these open-border amendments!

MichNews.com Latest Totalization Agreement Threatens Social Security One need not be an expert in fiscal spending nor have access to the inner circle of Capitol Hill to know that Social Security needs a boost in funding in order to sustain itself for more than the next two decades. -- As President Bush has traveled throughout the country for over two months now, citing his plan to privatize Social Security...

Statesman-Journal -- Salem Mexicans rapidly colonizing Oregon ...Mexican Consul General Fernando Sánchez Ugarte: "In the last few years, the Mexican community has grown faster than the general population in the state. This is reflective in the fact that the Mexican community is younger than the state's population. In fact, the average age in the Hispanic community is 24 years of age ..."

Robert Bonner

Arizona Capitol Times Feds Making 'Full-Court Press' On Arizona Border A stepped-up initiative assigning 534 additional border agents in Arizona is "nothing less than a full-court press" toward increasing control of the state's border, a key homeland security official said. -- "We are increasing resources and we are ratcheting up our level of enforcement activity here in Arizona, and we will gain control of this, what is the weakest part of our border with Mexico," said Robert Bonner...

Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D. -- MichNews.com 'Minuteman' Newsbeat Shuns The Word "Illegal" In their reporting on the Minuteman Project, the following nationwide newspaper headlines exhibit a remarkable commonality. What do they all have in common? Not ONE of the headlines, had the 'guts' to print the words 'illegal aliens' or use the adjective 'illegal' in conjunction with their nouns! It is a national disgrace...

Mens News Daily In Defense of the Minuteman Project Much of the media coverage and virtually all of the 'government' comment on the Minuteman Project has been negative. -- Despite measurable success, the Main Stream Media and bureaucrats of all stripes continue to denigrate what is proving to be a good thing. A good thing however that personifies those who don't want to be confused with facts...

American Border Patrol Citizens assaulted by possible people smugglers American citizens were driving east on Hereford road in Hereford, Arizona, 3 miles east of SR 92 this morning at 11:05 am when they observed two vehicles on the side of the road. One was a blue pickup and the other a silver SUV. The citizens observed people jumping over a fence toward the vehicles and began to call the Border Patrol....

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Border security now -- not mañana Since the federal government proposes phasing in its new passport policy by 2008 -- and since it is designed to further secure our borders after 9/11 -- why wasn't it proposed on 9/12? -- Or in 1999? -- The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is as reassuring as it is troubling about this nation's commitment to defend itself from foreign terrorism.

Steven Sisson -- Augusta Free Press Cheap labor, cheap excuses Illegal-immigration economics should be a huge concern to all Americans, but it's not. -- The Blue Dog's congressional source, Dry Throat, said, "Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest." -- "Illegal aliens are benefiting from Americans by stealing from them."

Glendale News Press Protesters rip Home Depot Protesters angry with Home Depot demonstrated in front of its Glendale store Saturday, alleging the home improvement retailer aids and abets illegal aliens by contributing to the day laborer center across the street. -- Members of the organization SaveOurState.org came to Glendale from as nearby as Los Angeles and Arcadia...

Congressional Quarterly Costly air deportation of Mexican invaders may resume The DHS is thinking about resuming a program to transport illegal aliens back to their hometowns in Mexico, rather than the present practice of expelling them at the Arizona border. -- The main clue that it might renew a program that was tried out last year was an unheralded notice...

Victor Davis Hanson

National Review The Bush Dilemma ...After the first four years, even the president's critics expect him to take on tough issues and offer controversial solutions. Calling for bipartisan efforts to cap federal spending and balance the budget, craft an energy policy involving more alternative and traditional domestic fuel sources (coupled with conservation and nuclear power), and close the borders to illegal immigration, fine employers who break the law...

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KPHO-TV -- Phoenix Another suspected drop house busted in Phoenix Dozens of suspected illegal immigrants are found inside a valley home at 43rd Avenue and Dobbins. -- Newshawk 5 was over that home Monday morning. We're told one of the people inside that home got out and got a neighbor to call for help. -- When police arrived, they found 40 suspected illegal immigrants inside.

KVBC-TV -- Las Vegas DMV Employee Arrested For Making & Selling Fake ID's She was supposed to be making driver's licenses, but the DMV says one of their own workers has been busted for selling fake ID cards under the table. Tonight the woman is behind bars and some are wondering how she slipped through the cracks to get hired in the first place. News 3's Alex Savidge is live at the DMV office...

Money-Grubbers

Cox News Service Businesses promote 'guest worker' [amnesty] plan Washington -- A variety of business interests, from hotels to farms to restaurants, are lobbying Congress to enact President Bush's proposal for a "guest worker" program for immigrants [illegal aliens... criminals]. -- Although they worry that the program may bring fees and excessive paperwork, businesses say they need the workers...

Axis of Weasels

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Immigration strengthens Mexico's link to U.S. It's uncommon for foreign heads of state to play a role in making U.S. policy, but that didn't stop President Bush from meeting several times with Mexican President Vicente Fox while crafting his plan for a temporary worker program that would allow certain immigrants to travel freely between the two nations.

Liberty Post Citizen's report on Minuteman Project: Day Ten Nine days of blockade has begun to result in desperation. -- We believe 500-700 illegals and their coyotes are bottled up in the Huachuca Mountains at present. They are running out of food and water. We have also figured out the system used here for putting out food and water caches and have been routinely using them to add some variety to our dogs' diets.

Washington Times Illegal aliens dodge sentinels along border Naco, Ariz. -- Minuteman Project volunteers, manning outposts along a 20-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, have managed to block a major corridor used by migrants headed north. -- Those intent on illegally entering the United States, however, found new routes east and west of here.

Washington Post GSA sees problems in border monitors Washington - A critical network of cameras and sensors installed for the U.S. Border Patrol along the Mexican and Canadian borders has been hobbled for years by defective equipment that was poorly installed, and by lax oversight by government officials who failed to properly supervise the project's contractor...

Fresno Bee Immigration issues seek a ride on Iraq bill Washington -- Chesslike maneuvering will shape the fate of competing immigration bills on Capitol Hill, even if the end games won't be played for a while, as now seems likely. -- The next crucial turns will come Tuesday, when the Senate is scheduled to take up a supplemental Iraq spending measure.