Thursday, October 26, 2006

Bush Signs Fence Bill Hurray for Lou Dobbs Trust but verify. The open borders crowd will try to stop it. Support ABP as it reports on progress - or lack of it. CNN Bush signs border fence bill President Bush today signed an immigration bill into law that authorizes construction of nearly 700-miles of fence along parts of the U.S. border with Mexico. The fence will cover one-third of the 2,100-mile border. It's cost is unknown, but a spending measure Bush signed earlier this month makes a $1.2 billion down payment on it.    Watch Broken Borders - Lou Dobbs tour-de-force from San Antonio Dobbs outdid himself in this show of journalistic excellence. Here are the segments of the show:    Segments: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 Transcript  Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

POLL	Dobbs: Question on Border Security | Current Results

Navarrette

Jim Gilchrist -- CNN Gilchrist responds to "Harvard Chicano" screed On October 12, Ruben Navarrette Jr. penned a pompous commentary for CNN.com. His litany of name- calling and bogus accusations against The Minuteman Project membership places him solidly in the category of propagandist journalists who "spin" their stories to suit their bias -- valid facts and objectivity be damned.

New York Post Editorial Columbia University: A dubious neighbor More than three weeks have passed since Columbia University hosted one of the most brazen attacks on free speech and academic freedom in recent memory. Since then, not a word of apology has been offered to those whose rights were trampled, nor an ounce of punishment meted out to the offenders...

Coming Up October 28 Garden Grove, Calif. - Noon -- Nguyen for Congress -- | Other Events Meeting to Support Embattled Candidate Tan Nguyen

Agape Press Spokesman: Borderless continent objective of alleged union A coalition is attempting to bring attention to what it calls a "stealth plan" to merge the U.S. with Mexico and Canada to create a "North American Union." -- The group, known as the Coalition to Block the North American Union, announced on Wednesday that it is supporting a House concurrent resolution opposing a NAFTA super-highway system...

Ninth Circus Court of Appeals

Arizona Daily Star Court rules against deportation of criminal immigrant Federal immigration officials can't use the domestic violence conviction of a Tucson man to deport the legal immigrant, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. -- In a split ruling, the judges acknowledged that Jose Fernandez- Ruiz was convicted three years ago of the state crime of domestic violence.

Coming Up October 30 Salem, Oregon -- 11 am to 3 pm Pacific -- | Other Events Lars Larson Live at the State Capitol

Bill Handel Show - KFI - Los Angeles Mexican reconquistas running the show in Sacramento? The Bill Handel Show found the letter the Secretary of State sent out to the 14,000 registered voters in the Tan Nguyen scandal. Look at the documents in this mailing (PDF file) and note the logos of the anti- American NCLR (aka the Tan Klan), MALDEF, and NALEO on official California state stationery. [Related Audio Clips]

Paul M. Weyrich -- National Ledger Drawing 'A Line in the Sand' Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) recently declared the debate over securing America's borders extends beyond the issue of illegal [aliens... criminals] and jobs. "Securing our borders will also stop illegal commercial activities, such as human trafficking and drug and weapons smuggling ­ the three most lucrative illegal commercial activities in the world.

Fighting Immigration Anarchy - by Daniel Sheehy "This book is not just informative but inspiring. Readers will want to join up." Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation and editor of VDare.com | Review

Running Africa -- Lawrenceville, Georgia New Georgia law causing invaders to flee As the year 2006 slowly moves towards oblivion, there are increasing signs that thousands of illegal immigrants residing in Georgia will have to relocate from the state to avoid encountering what most described as the toughest immigration law due to go into effect in June of 2007...

David Romero -- SANE La Inmigración, sí - Americanización, no Will America remain American ­ with roots, culture, and language reaching back to Anglo Saxon Europe -- when millions of legal Mexican Americans and illegal Mexican immigrants want to be and remain Mexican? With midterm elections approaching, this question will more than likely escape America's attention as the nation's ruling elite...

James P. Pinkerton -- Newsday -- New York Border, energy security are priorities Our political word of the day is "tough." And what we need today is a tough Homeland Security Party. -- In times of war and danger, when our national security is threatened, toughness is the right response. When confronting killers and invaders, we don't need compassion; we need to fight back with tough measures, including walls, if need be...

San Diego Union-Tribune Invader smuggling ring's leaders arrested by authorities Federal agents said yesterday they have arrested the leaders of a criminal organization that smuggled thousands of illegal [aliens... criminals], bribed Border Patrol agents and raked in millions of dollars. -- At its peak, the organization was moving 60 to 80 people a day through the Imperial Valley, each of them paying at least $1,500, federal officials said.

What Homeland Security?

John Fonte -- National Review Immigration is no joke In 2006 something extraordinary happened in immigration politics. As Al Gore might put it, the people defeated the powerful. The much- maligned Republican 109th Congress passed immigration- enforcement legislation to build a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, without including an amnesty for illegal [aliens... criminals].

Duncan (British Columbia) News Leader Economic ties to U.S. riding super highway A month ago, at the luxurious Banff Springs Hotel, Stockwell Day, John P. Manley, Gordon O'Connor, Peter Lougheed, and Anne McLennan - all past and present ministers in Canadian governments - met a couple of dozen high-ranking government and corporate officials from the U.S. and Mexico to discuss the formation of a North American Union.

Rep. Gallegly

Ventura County Star Gallegly running against Latino minister After a health scare in March and what he called "the most difficult four or five days of my political life," Rep. Elton Gallegly said that if voters decided in November to send him back to Washington, his next term in office would be his last. -- But now Gallegly is back on the campaign trail and dropping hints...

San Bernardino County Sun Report: Agents 'out to shoot Mexicans' Department of Homeland Security officials told four House members last month that two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler admitted to supervisors that they were "out to shoot Mexicans" the day of the shooting, but have yet to provide proof the agents made such statements.

Randy Graf

Christian Science Monitor Voters on immigration: Action, please Benson, Arizona -- Much of America hit the pause button this fall on the flaming debate over illegal immigration, once it became clear Congress would not act before the election. But not Arizona. -- Here in a state where the wave of border crossers is so great that it washes over every aspect of life, illegal immigration is a flash point...

Ramos & Compean

Jon Christian Ryter -- NewsWithViews.com Border Patrol agents railroaded for open borders On Feb. 17, 2005 drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete- Davila loaded up his van with 743 lbs of marijuana and headed for the US border where he expected to deliver his illegal cargo to waiting drug dealers in the United States. Within 48 hours, Aldrete- Davila believed his marijuana would be in the distribution pipeline...

American Border Patrol ABP works with Texas Border Volunteers Early this month, ABP personnel had the great fortune to be able to meet and work with a fantastic group of patriots called the Texas Border Volunteers. We were very impressed by their professionalism, organization, and capabilities. ABP members flew a night mission and provided air cover for the Texas Border Volunteers as well as joining them on the ground for terrestrial operations.

American Border Patrol Photos of the Day These photos were taken from the Border Hawk M on Oct. 25 at about 3:15 pm (PDT). The top two photos show the Simcox fence on the Hodges Ranch in Arizona. Poles have been erected on about half of the fence line...

Jim Gilchrist

WorldNetDaily.com Gilchrist to speak at terrorism confab Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist will join a line-up of distinguished speakers at a symposium, open to the public, addressing the threat of radical Islam. -- Also on the roster for the Nov. 10 and 11 event in Las Vegas ­ titled "Understanding the Threat of Radical Islamist Terrorism" ­ is Hamid Mir...

Vancouver Sun Minutemen mark first anniversary Abbotsford, BC -- The Minuteman Civil Defence Corps made headlines in Abbotsford about a year ago, when its members started a Washington-based chapter of its civilian border patrolling organization. -- To mark the one-year anniversary hundreds of members from Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho...

BBC Bush signs Mexico fence into law US President George W Bush has authorised 700 miles (1,125km) of new fencing along the US-Mexico border. -- Supporters of the plan say it will be key to tackling illegal immigration, likely to be a key issue in next month's mid-term elections. -- But Mexican officials have opposed the fence, with outgoing President Vicente Fox...

Casper Star-Tribune Cops crack meth ring involving mostly invaders Denver -- Authorities broke up an aggressive northern Colorado drug ring that shipped methamphetamine from California hidden in an Elmo doll and other toys, drug enforcement agents said Wednesday. -- The alleged ringleader was among 19 people in custody, authorities said...

Radio Iowa Minuteman Project looks at chapter in Sioux City A group known for its efforts to try and stem the flow of illegal immigrants on the U.S./Mexican border wants to organize a chapter in Sioux City. Craig Halverson of Council Bluffs is a spokesman for the "Minuteman Project" which plans to hold a meeting in Sioux City Saturday. Halverson explains the group's goals.

Onslaught

Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion Ledger State has highest percentage increase in immigrants If anyone thinks immigration is going away as a political issue on the federal or the state level anytime soon, he or she obviously hasn't been watching the numbers. -- The Center for Immigration Studies has produced a study that puts a clearer perspective on the genesis of immigration as a major political issue...

D. A. King

Marietta Daily Journal Amnesty would follow Democratic win "During 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens. Federal law enforcement estimates that 10 percent to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually apprehended - therefore, in 2005, as many as 4 to 10 million illegal aliens crossed into the United States." - from: "A Line in the Sand...

San Diego Union-Tribune Mexico gets support of 27 nations on U. S. border fence tantrum Mexico, supported by 27 other nations, made a declaration at the Organization of American States on Wednesday, slamming U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fence on its southern border. -- The declaration, read out at the OAS headquarters in Washington, said the barriers would not solve the immigration problem...