Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The Strange Case of Lukeville Drug Bust Reveals Open Border And POE Drivers can follow yellow line or take alternate route. American Border Patrol Lukeville Bust - A Shorter Route     On July 31, the Arizona Daily Star reported that the Border Patrol made a drug seizure "at a gas station one-half mile north of the border in Lukeville" The seizure occurred on Sunday, July 29.     The only gas station within 1/2 miles of Lukeville is 200 feet from the Port of Entry manned by the Border Patrol. Yesterday, ABP suggested how the drugs might have entered the U.S. Upon a closer look at a recent ABP photo of the Port of Entry suggests a shorter route - merely driving 500 feet from the border to the gas station. Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

KTAR -- Phoenix Arpaio meets with Valley religious leaders Valley religious leaders met with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for over an hour Wednesday to discuss immigration. -- The leaders expressed their concern about the sheriff's immigrant hotline and said it will result in racial profiling. -- "My concern and I think it's the concern of many of us, as it's presented to us, we feel it's divisive"...

San Diego Union-Tribune Coyotes bring U.S.-bound Cubans, violence to Mexican coast Havana -- The vast majority of Cubans sneaking off the island now enter the United States through Mexico after U.S. relatives pay thousands of dollars to organized crime networks that scoop them off Cuba's westernmost tip in souped-up speedboats. -- The Mexico route is more dangerous than a direct...

Douglas MacKinnon -- Townhall.com Invaders declare war on the United States While the current administration, as well as Democrats and Republicans in Congress, focus on the war on terror and the war in Iraq, a greater real-time threat to our way of life and the rule of law in the United States, is manifesting itself just down the road a bit from the White House and the Capitol building.

VDare.com      Edwin S. Rubenstein Legal immigration - The bigger problem Everyone is against illegal immigration (they say). Problem: legal immigration is actually the bigger problem. -- How many legal immigrants enter the U.S. each year? Let me count the ways they come in! (With apologies to the poet.) -- The 1990 immigration law "capped" legal immigration at 700,000 persons a year...

Wickenburg (Arizona) Sun Murder charges brought against alleged coyote The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office's (YCSO) Criminal Investigations Section last week filed charges on Luis Miguel Beltran Gonzalez in the February 2006 homicides of three men who were found along U.S. Highway 89 south of Congress, near the Weston Concrete plant...

KENS-TV -- San Antonio Dogs are essential tools for Border Patrol agents The Border Patrol is beefing up its forces with thousands of new agents, and for some, that also means training their four- legged partners. -- Dogs play an increasingly important role in border security, and KENS 5 got a look inside the National Canine Facility in El Paso...

KRGV-TV -- Harlingen Dozens of cameras capture life along the river Weslaco -- People living along the Rio Grande River often see illegals crossing the border. -- "All of a sudden you see five, ten, sometimes fifteen, twenty people," says Rosalinda Garza. She's lived along the river all her life. -- She tells us, "They pack them into vans and the vans would just go shoom."

John Nichols -- The Nation The President cannot ignore an impeachment After months of revelations about his ham-handed attempts to politicize investigations and prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys and sections of the Department of Justice he heads, after his repeated refusals to cooperate with Congress and his deliberate attempts to deceive the House and Senate judiciary committees, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...

Denver Post 48 suspected invaders arrested in I-70 patrol sweep Recently trained Colorado troopers arrested 48 suspected illegal [aliens... criminals] in a sweep along Interstate 70 on Tuesday near the Eisenhower Tunnel, officials said. -- "That's a good big number for us," said Jeff Copp, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement district chief based in Denver.

Diaz-Balart

Miami Herald Illegal aliens facing deportation get Capitol Hill support Juan and Alex Gomez, whose fight to avoid deportation started with a few classmates and a laptop computer, have gained a powerful advocate on Capitol Hill: U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz- Balart. -- On Monday, Diaz- Balart introduced legislation that would grant both Colombian nationals American residency...

Bermudez

East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix Reconquista mob urges Hispanics to buy only essentials Immigrants Without Borders, an activist group that has organized protest marches and is asking Hispanics to boycott their jobs during next year's Super Bowl, has launched a new campaign - urging Hispanics to buy nothing but essential goods through Labor Day...

The Dustin Inman Society Invaders using loophole to get cars registered in Georgia? ...Georgia state Senator Chip Rogers worked very hard last session to attempt to prevent unlicensed driver's from registering their cars and getting car tags in Georgia. Many of us called and faxed to get Rogers' bill through the legislature. I went to the Capitol and lobbied in favor of it. Before his bill SB 38 became law...

New Minuteman Project chapter organizing in Ridgecrest, Calif. Long-time anti-invasion activist David Glazer is organizing a chapter of the Minuteman Project in Ridgecrest, California due to an influx of suspected illegals recently. Those interested in volunteering are encouraged to click here for contact information.

Associated Press Mexican officials visit U.S. on immigration fact-finding mission Mexican immigration experts visiting the US to see how this country deals with illegal [aliens... criminals] say the U.S. is not the only country with a porous southern border. --- "It's important to regulate immigration through our country," [Ana Cecilia Oliva Balcarcel, one of the meddlers] said. "We can't put up walls. We're never going to put them up."

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix Crime Without Consequence: Drug runners unprosecuted If you're caught with as little as two pounds of marijuana, you're going to jail for up to seven years. But the rules don't apply if you're part of a drug cartel, muling in hundreds of pounds from Mexico. -- The ABC15 Investigators discover that our federal government has actually set "weight limits."

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

Michael Graham -- Charleston (South Carolina) City Paper Putting pressure on invaders When is "less crime" considered "bad news" by the press? When the crime is illegal immigration. -- The Border Patrol - backed up by large numbers of National Guardsmen - reports a 24 percent drop in arrests along the Mexican border. Now the mainstream media is asking "what went wrong?"

Associated Press Argentine president bemoans U. S. border fence plan A U.S. plan to expand fences along the Mexican border to stem illegal immigration is an insult to all Latin Americans, Argentine President Nestor Kirchner said Tuesday during a visit to Mexico. -- "It's not just an insult to our sister nation of Mexico, but to all the nations of Latin America and all the nations of the world," Kirchner said... [More meddling]

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Tom Fitton -- NewsByUs.com Judicial Watch on the Hazleton case Illegal immigrants and their special interest groups got a helping hand on Thursday from U.S. District Court Judge James Munley, a Clinton appointee, who ruled unconstitutional two Hazleton, Pennsylvania, laws designed to crack down on illegal immigration. The judge issued a permanent injunction preventing the City of Hazleton...

Reuters L.A. grandmother sold heroin with grandkids: police A grandmother accused of selling heroin on the streets of a Los Angeles suburb with her 11- year- old granddaughter as a lookout has been arrested on drug and child endangerment charges, police said on Tuesday. -- Undercover officers watched for two weeks as Martha Gutierrez Novas sold heroin at a bus stop in Long Beach...

Associated Press Kurdish gangs emerge in Nashville Nashville -- A proud enclave of Kurds has lived in this city for decades, starting businesses and soccer leagues, holding down good jobs and blending into the immigrant neighborhoods south of town. -- But now the Kurdish immigrant community has been shaken to see its young people joining a street gang that blends old-world customs...

Delahunt

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif. Democrat calls for agents' commutation A Democratic subcommittee chairman Tuesday added his voice to the calls of Republican lawmakers that President Bush commute the sentences of two former border patrol agents convicted for shooting a fleeing drug dealer at the Mexican border. -- Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., held a hearing before his subcommittee on international organizations...

Ramos & Compean

CNSNews.com Mexico's role in border agents case still in question A House panel Tuesday tried to determine whether the Mexican government had played any role in the politically explosive prosecution to two U.S. Border Patrol agents but was not able to reach any conclusions due to the absence of Justice Department and Homeland Security officials from the hearing.

Glenwood Springs (Colorado) Post Independent Invader accused in Basalt, Colo. shooting Basalt Police Chief Keith Ikeda is feeling some heat from the public over the lack of an arrest in the Basalt 7-Eleven shooting last month, he acknowledged Monday. -- Ikeda said he has been bombarded with e-mails in recent weeks from writers from outside the Roaring Fork Valley who criticized the department's investigation.