Wednesday, November 16, 2005

The Missing Link Border Plan Lacks A Clear Goal Washington -- Nov. 15 -- House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter T. King (R-NY) introduced H.R. 4312, The Border Security and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005. "By failing to set a clear goal, this bill insures the continuation of chaos in DHS," said Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol."The Congress should set a goal and a time table for the Border Patrol. I suggest reducing illegal entries between ports of entry to 20,000 by 2008," he added. (See Border Con Game.) Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Associated Press Six Sailors Charged in N.Y. Marriage Scam Six U.S. Navy crew members looking for quick and profitable marriages to illegal aliens [criminals] face federal charges after being among 10 people caught in an FBI sting operation targeting the sham unions, prosecutors said. -- The six, assigned to the U.S.S. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., were nabbed after the FBI learned...

Associated Press Chinese Immigrants Charged in Data Theft A Chinese-American engineer and two relatives who allegedly conspired to steal sensitive information about Navy warships and smuggle it to China were indicted Tuesday on federal charges, authorities said. -- The grand jury indictment charges Chi Mak, his wife and brother with acting as agents of a foreign government...

Riverside Press-Enterprise Bishop calls on Catholics to assist "immigrants" Catholic dioceses must do more to counter a growing anti- immigration [invasion] sentiment and protect the human rights of foreign- born newcomers, the leader of the Inland region's Catholics told a national gathering of U.S. Catholic bishops Tuesday...

MyWestTexas.com Pledge in English, Spanish sparks anger ...Midland County Republican Party Chair Sue Brannon echoed the letter writer's sentiments. When immigrants come to America, she said they should speak English, come here legally and go through the proper channels. -- "I feel like English is the No. 1 language," Brannon said. "This is our country and if they're going to live here, they need to learn to speak English."

Associated Press Invasion cheerleaders call for open hearings on state policies Denver -- Immigration supporters called for fair and open hearings on Monday after Republican members barred public comment from an informal hearing later this week at the state Capitol on ways to deal with problems involving [illegal aliens... criminals]. -- Kent Lambert, a spokesman for the Republican Study Committee of Colorado, said there would not be time during a daylong hearing...

WorldNetDaily.com NBC painting Minutemen as murderers of illegals? Is NBC accusing the Minutemen, the civilian border-patrol group, of murder? -- That's the charge of the group's president, Chris Simcox, who points to a commercial for tonight's "Law and Order" episode dealing with illegal immigration. Simcox has sent a letter to NBC demanding the network "cease and desist" airing the promo. [See: Propaganda Watch]

What Homeland Security?

Jon Dougherty -- WorldNetDaily.com Lawmaker: Terror war spilling across border A U.S. lawmaker says elements of the war on terror are now spilling across the nation's southwestern border, and that colleagues he's spoken to who have seen the problem first-hand, as he has, say they felt safer "during trips to Iraq than they would have in a pickup truck on our southern border."

Associated Press Hondurans can afford to open aid office, but not to take squatters back? Tegucigalpa -- Honduras on Tuesday said it would open a government aid office in New Orleans to support the more than 80,000 Hondurans who lost their homes or livelihoods when Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. -- The office will help oversee the distribution of US$100,000 (euro 85,500) in donated aid...

Lizcano

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mexican invader suspected of killing cop had arrest record The man accused of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer is an [illegal Mexican alien... criminal] and had been arrested on suspicion of making a terroristic threat, police said Tuesday. -- Juan Lizcano was arrested Sept. 11 and accused of making a terroristic threat... [Dallas is a sanctuary city. Maybe this clown would have been deported if not for that insane policy. See this item.....]

Tucson Sector PIO Press Release BP intercepts over $23M in drugs over weekend Over the Veterans Day weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol Agents seized over 23,460 pounds of marijuana, nearly 141 pounds of cocaine and 16 ounces of heroin, valued at over $23 million. The majority of the 115 seizures occurred along the southwest border...

NBC NBC's 'Law & Order' episode likely to be attack on Minuteman It appears that tonight's episode of NBC's popular show, 'Law & Order', will be an attempt to smear the highly successful Minuteman Project. This show is scheduled to air at 10 pm Pacific time. The above link includes an e-mail received via an American Patrol Report ally. [See: Propaganda Watch]

Miami Herald 3 vicious gangsters rounded up Three men accused of belonging to dangerous street gangs have been picked up by federal agents in South Florida, including one sought on murder charges in the Fort Myers area, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday. -- Pedro Quintero, a suspected Latin Kings member, was picked up Friday...

Coming Up Nov. 21 Orange County, California Fundraisers for Congressional Candidate Jim Gilchrist

Casey Wian

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN More stunning government malfeasance When President Bush signed the agriculture appropriations bill into law last week, few noticed it contained an unrelated provision that exempts religious groups from prosecution if they use illegal aliens as volunteers or missionaries. -- The amendment was added by Utah Senator Robert Bennett at the request of attorneys for the Mormon Church.

Cybercast News Service Immigration, Border Security Bills Introduced in House House Republicans formally introduced two border security and immigration enforcement bills this week, both intended to fix what critics call a broken system. -- Supporters of H.R. 4313 (the True Enforcement and Border Security Act of 2005) said it will "separate those in Congress who pay lip service to controlling our borders and protecting homeland security..."

United Press International Voting rights sought for non-citizens Immigration activists packed a New York City Council hearing to demand non-citizens be allowed to vote in municipal elections. -- The council is considering whether to let residents who have been in the city six months or longer vote in local elections. It's an idea Mayor Michael Bloomberg vehemently opposes, the New York Post said.

Jane Kidd

Athens Banner-Herald Usual suspects bewail anti-invader bill ...State Rep. Jane Kidd called HR 256 "mean- spirited" and "punitive," and said that many Georgia businesses couldn't operate without immigrant workers [illegal aliens... criminals]. -- "If we could snap our fingers and make all the undocumented workers disappear, it would devastate our economy," she said. "It would be horrendous...." [See: Propaganda Watch]

Danbury News-Times Invaders top Boughton's agenda Danbury, Conn. -- Mayor Mark Boughton said he will keep illegal immigration at the top of his agenda as he starts his third term in City Hall. -- In fact, the Republican said his controversial stance on the issue helped win him re-election by a wide margin Tuesday.

Owens

Al Knight -- Denver Post Owens' immigration stand is disappointing It was no surprise last week that Colorado Gov. Bill Owens refused to follow the lead of governors in New Mexico and Arizona who have recently declared states of emergency in order to deal with the effects of illegal immigration. -- Colorado, after all, isn't quite in the same league as those two border states.

Waah! Waah!

Greeley Tribune Ethnic hustlers decry plan to bring ICE office to Greeley The Latino community made its request clear to the Greeley City Council on Tuesday night: reject and discard the proposed resolution to bring an ICE office to Greeley. --- Alonzo Barrón told the council he represented Latino UNC students who are fed up with the way they've been treated. He said they will no longer allow their community to become scapegoats for the community's problems.

El Paso Times Military helps snag invaders Soldiers perched on top of Stryker armored vehicles, scanning the desert with cutting-edge surveillance equipment, led to the capture of 1,802 [illegal aliens... criminals] in one month west of Columbus, N.M., Border Patrol officials said Tuesday. -- The soldiers are helping the Border Patrol spot immigrants and drug smugglers...[Visit ABP for more info]

Investor's Business Daily The Myth Of No-Cost Immigrants Conventional wisdom says immigrants are not a financial burden to taxpayers because they work hard, pay taxes and rarely go on the dole. But it's a myth, and a new study blows another hole in it. -- The University of Florida finds that immigrant families have been costing that state a net $1,800 per household per year...

United Press International U.N. claims U.S. social system violates human rights Problems with U.S. social benefit systems impede people struggling to overcome poverty, the United Nations said. -- High health care costs and lack of low- cost housing exacerbate poverty and this can be seen as a human rights abuse, concluded a mission by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Tuesday.

Mike Bailey -- Chicago Daily Southtown The issue is illegal immigration Several hours before the Minuteman Project organizational meeting in Elgin this month, Dale Asis [shown here], director of the Coalition of African, Asian, European and Latino Immigration of Illinois, called me. -- He had written a letter, he said, and he wanted my newspaper to publish it. -- The suggested headline on the letter began "Minutemen are racists..."

Washington Post Suspected MS-13 gangsters charged in whorehouse robbery Montgomery County police arrested four suspected gang members Monday night after walking in on a robbery at a brothel operated out of a Wheaton apartment, authorities said yesterday. -- Police went to the apartment looking for a carjacking suspect, according to a police document.

Michelle Malkin

VDare.com Homeland Security: Red Alert Things are going from bad to worse at the Bush Department of Homeland Security. -- Do not be fooled by DHS chief Michael Chertoff's tough- sounding rhetoric. -- While the Washington muckety-mucks pay lip service to reforming the nation's broken detention and deportation system, catch- and- release of immigration lawbreakers remains the order of the day...