Saturday, December 23, 2006

Democrat Governors Against the Governed Patrick and Vilsack Fight Immigration Law Enforcement Patrick set to rescind plan for troopers Opposes use to arrest illegal immigrants -- Call for Apology from Vilsack, Harkin Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 22 Mitt Romney: This program is not a highway program. The state troopers aren't going to stop people on the highways. They're not going into people's homes. This is, instead, during the investigation of crimes and that kind of circumstance, having this additional authority is something, which I think makes a great deal of sense. Tucker: Massachusetts Governor-elect Patrick doesn't think so. Even as he's promising to end the cooperative agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, officials in the Hawkeye State are threatening to no longer cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Even as he's promising to end the cooperative agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, officials in the Hawkeye State [Iowa] are threatening to no longer cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.    Watch: Govs / Goode / Pardon Transcript Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

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Associated Press No more 'catch and release?' Au contraire! Omaha -- Dozens of illegal [aliens... criminals] arrested in last week's meatpacking plant raids have been released for humanitarian reasons pending immigration hearings, a government official said Friday. -- She wouldn't specify what other criteria the agency used to determine whether workers should be released for humanitarian reasons.

Associated Press Squatters forced out of San Diego canyons For 20 years, many of the illegal [aliens... criminals] drawn by jobs in tomato fields have worshiped at an outdoor church, a concrete altar in a canyon where they slept under the shelter of plywood and plastic tarps and bathed in a stream. -- Today, however, McGonigle Canyon is overshadowed by multimillion- dollar homes...

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Cybercast News Service Critic: CAIR has mastered the victimization game The Republican lawmaker who sparked a storm with comments about Muslims and the need to tighten immigration laws is the latest target of an Islamic advocacy group's "victimization game," a political analyst said Thursday. -- It's a game that the Council of American- Islamic Relations (CAIR), has "mastered," Daniel Pipes...

Knoxville News Sentinel Invaders in limbo over "driving certificates" Nashville -- When the state Legislature began allowing immigrants living in Tennessee to obtain driving certificates, regardless of whether they were in the country legally, Alicia Leon jumped at the chance. -- Then last February, after several high-profile cases of fraud that delivered driving documents to illegal [aliens... criminals]...

Froma Harrop -- Real Clear Politics Illegal Immigration: A Rich American's Game There's a popular game in America that goes, I'll cut your wages, but you don't cut mine. And the outsourcing of your factory job to China is a good thing, because it makes my paycheck go further at Wal-Mart. We hear this theme a lot in the debate over illegal immigration...

American Border Patrol Year-end tax deduction time An Arizona rancher took advantage of its special tax status and donated a road grader and an ultra-light aircraft to American Border Patrol. "You'd be surprised what ABP can use," said Glenn Spencer of ABP. Spencer says there is still time for others to take advantage of this tax benefit status...

Waterbury Republican American Woman faces up to 330 years in prison A Waterbury woman who worked as an examiner for state Department of Motor Vehicles has been convicted of participating in a scheme to sell hundreds of driver's licenses to illegal [aliens... criminals] and felons. -- Janette Rodriguez- Roman collapsed into sobs as the verdict was announced Thursday in Bridgeport Superior Court.

Denver Post Phoenix's woes grow with city Pete Biddle swings his big Buick between slouching stucco buildings and moves a loaded .45 from the floor onto his lap as two men loitering around a garage shoot a menacing look. -- It's 11 a.m. and this is the only way - a pistol at hand - that the 60- year- old retiree will go down this alley...

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

Los Angeles Times Delivering dual benefits ...Many illegal [aliens... criminals] who might otherwise shy away from government services view care associated with childbirth as something they can safely seek, a protected right. -- "I wasn't afraid at all," said Andrade, who came to the United States with her daughters on a tourist visa and stayed here with her boyfriend after it expired.

Associated Press Texas landlords sue over immigration law Farmers Branch, Texas -- The owners of three apartment complexes in this Dallas suburb asked a federal judge Friday to declare unconstitutional a new law that bans renting to illegal [aliens... criminals]. -- Their lawsuit also seeks to keep the city from enforcing the ordinance on Jan. 12, when it is scheduled to go into effect.

'The Boot'

Washington Times Agents remove 2,300 invaders in two weeks U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents removed more than 2,300 illegal aliens from the country in the past two weeks on 35 flights to the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia and Africa -- one of the busiest periods of the year for ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations.

Associated Press Religious leaders want immigration raids halted Religious leaders from Omaha and Grand Island called Thursday for a moratorium on immigration raids until the federal government enacts sweeping reform. -- Their plea was in response to last week's raids at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in six states, including Nebraska.

Indianapolis Star Mexican invader held in deaths of 2 in grain wagon crash New Castle, Ind. -- An illegal [alien... criminal] faces reckless homicide charges in the deaths of two motorists killed when their car struck the back of a grain wagon without working taillights that had stopped on a state highway. -- Ernesto M. Reyes was preliminarily charged after Wednesday night's fatal crash...