DHS Works to Subvert Border Control Outrageous Cost Claims "The Department of Homeland Security is working to undermine the security of the homeland," said Glenn Spencer of ABP. Chicago Tribune- November 17 Border 'fence' cost questioned Washington -- Electronic monitoring and other steps for enhancing surveillance along the southwestern border could cost 15 times the initial $2 billion estimate, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general says. Comment: A 1,000-mile four-lane highway along the border would cost about $5 billion. A fence would be a lot cheaper. Chertoff Openly opposes fence Made phony claims of border control Made phony claims of UAVs Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

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Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader Mexican invader suspect in murder case busted in Branson An [illegal alien... criminal] from Mexico arrested in Branson on Nov. 11 is wanted for murder in South Carolina, immigration agents discovered after running the man's prints through a fingerprint database. -- Isaias Diaz- Gutierrez had been using an assumed name when he was arrested by Branson police and charged with resisting arrest.

Myrtle Beach Sun Smithfield, NC plant operating despite walkout Charlotte, NC -- Operations slowed at a Smithfield Foods Inc. slaughtering plant in North Carolina on Friday after hundreds of workers, mostly Hispanics, walked off their jobs to protest the recent firing of immigrants for allegedly providing false documents [read aliens... criminals].

Vang

Associated Press Hmong mass-murderer files appeal Madison, Wis. -- The man serving life prison sentences for murdering six deer hunters in northern Wisconsin in 2004 disagrees with his attorney that there are no grounds to appeal his convictions, authorities said Friday. -- Chai Soua Vang mailed eight pages of handwritten documents from a prison in Iowa to the state Court...

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

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Associated Press Mexicans say U.S. agents shot them with air guns Yuma -- The mayor of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico said U.S. Border Patrol agents shot two city workers with pepper ball guns early Wednesday. -- Mayor Ruben Espino condemned what he termed "aggressive actions of elements of the Border Patrol" and complained about the incident to Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was in Mexico...

Arizona Daily Star Open- border fans discuss invasion at Phoenix soiree A week after an election that included sharp rhetoric about illegal immigration, experts and policymakers met here to try to boil the issue down to its core facts and forecast its political future. -- For roughly 100 attendees at Thursday's National Symposium on Immigration, held at the state Capitol, it meant putting aside political differences...

New York Times A new push to raise cap on H-1B visas A coalition of business and education groups is making a renewed push to persuade Congress to raise the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the United States this year. -- The coalition, which calls itself Compete America and whose members are drawn heavily from the technology industry, sent a letter to every member of Congress...

Allan Wall -- The Conservative Voice Mexico's next president and the invasion Will Felipe Calderon, scheduled to become Mexico's president on December 1st, be as obsessed with emigration as President Vicente Fox has been for six years? Fox was obsessed with the emigration question and allowed it to gobble up valuable time and political capital, which would have been better spent working to improve Mexico's economy...

KOLD-TV -- Tucson Suspected baby-killer has fled to Mexico Phoenix police say they've confirmed that a suspect sought in the death of his girlfriend's one- year- old daughter in Phoenix is now in Mexico... that he had crossed the border before the crime was reported. -- Police say Abraham Penaloza- Serrano's girlfriend left for work Wednesday morning... [aliens... criminals]

Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry -- National Review The Amnesty Fallacy -- Arizona ain't what they say it is Little did voters know it, but last week they were delivering a mandate for amnesty for illegal immigrants. Most of them probably thought they were voting on the Iraq War or on corruption, but elite opinion-makers have decided that they also were panting for a laxer immigration policy...

Naples News 17 arrested in immigration, gang initiative Thirteen gang members with aggravated felony convictions were arrested in Collier County Wednesday night, federal authorities said. -- The 13 gang members and four immigration violators were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents and officers with the Collier County Sheriff's Office.

KTHV-TV -- Little Rock Citizenship of former Arkansas student revoked A former University of Arkansas graduate student from the Middle East lost his U.S. citizenship Thursday and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. -- Arwah Jaber was previously acquitted of an aiding- terrorism charge but convicted of lesser offenses, including obtaining his citizenship fraudulently.

McCain

New York Times GOP punished for not being more like RINO gasbag? Senator John McCain said Thursday that Republicans had lost the midterm elections because 'we abandoned our principles' on fiscal policy and government restraint, inviting a backlash from Americans over what they saw as widespread hypocrisy... -- One of Mr. McCain's political tasks as he considers a presidential campaign...

Steven Malanga -- City Journal -- New York The right immigration policy We Americans are having the wrong immigration debate, couched in the wrong terms. Those who oppose open borders, and especially unlimited flows of low- skilled workers from Mexico, are accused of being anti- immigration. Anyone who doubts that it's good for America to have an amnesty for illegal [aliens... criminals]...

Associated Press CBP busts Mexican sex fiend at Canadian border Sweetgrass, Mont. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the port of entry here apprehended a Mexican national wanted in California on sex charges. -- Israel Rosales- Garcia was held Tuesday after being refused entry into Canada at the adjacent Canadian port of Coutts, Alberta, CBP said in a news release. [More family values]

North County Times -- Escondido Activists to protest squatter camps North San Diego County -- Anti-illegal immigration activists and their supporters plan to camp Saturday near migrant camps in McGonigle Canyon to protest illegal immigrants living in the area. -- The event was widely promoted earlier this week by radio talk-show host Rick Roberts, on Web sites and via e-mail by the San Diego Minutemen...

Onslaught

TIME Magazine Taking aim at invasion in Texas With the Democrats in charge in Washington, conservatives in Texas are wasting no time on a pity party. Republicans, after all, are still in the majority here, controlling every statewide office and the Legislature as well as the top courts. To press that advantage, conservatives plan to put their imprint next year on a variety of issues...

Mike Cutler -- Family Security Foundation The new congress may fail us on border security too Our nation is suffering, in my humble opinion, from a severe lack of leadership and resolve. It has been said that democracy is the most inefficient way to run a country but it is far better than any other method yet devised. Democracy involves debate, consensus and ultimately compromise.

Allan Wall

VDare.com Give me your poor, your tired, your middle-class Mexicans Who are today's Mexican immigrants? -- Are they the poorest people from Mexico, the most destitute, from the absolute bottom socioeconomic level of Mexican society? -- Certainly most Mexican immigrants are poorer than Americans, and Mexico is a poorer country...

American Border Patrol ABP spots Predator UAV in unusual place American Border Patrol reports sightings of what it believes to be a U.S. Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying at night along the border in Southeastern Arizona. "If we are right," said Glenn Spencer of ABP, "then the Predator was flying in Mexican airspace."

Kingman Daily Miner Minutemen call for city ordinance Kingman, Az. -- Mayor Les Byram met with members of the Mohave County Minutemen Monday afternoon. The Minutemen have asked the city councils of Bullhead City and Kingman to adopt an ordinance passed by Hazelton, Pa. -- Hazelton is a small mining community in eastern Pennsylvania. The ordinance would allow the city to penalize...

The Denver Channel Mexican invader gets light sentence in infant's death Brighton, Colo. -- A former baby sitter is being ordered to serve ten years in prison for the shaking death of an infant girl nearly three years ago. -- A district judge handed down the sentence Thursday to Ana Rosa Garay, described as a poor illegal immigrant who'd suffered severe depression while growing up in Mexico. [More family values]

San Diego Union-Tribune Judge puts Escondido anti-invader law on hold Escondido's illegal immigrant housing ordinance was handed a stinging rebuke yesterday when a federal judge barred the city from enforcing the law. -- U.S. District Judge John A. Houston issued a temporary restraining order against the ordinance, which would punish landlords for renting to illegal immigrants.