Thursday, October 4, 2007

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Americans Resist Spitzer Insanity Growing Opposition to Illegal Alien Licenses New York Governor Spitzer gets his own Matricula Consular card. Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- October 3 Sensenbrenner: ....there's a provision in the real I.D. Act that allows states to issue driving permits to illegal immigrants, which are not valid for I.D. Now, if the governor wants to prevent people who are legally here with New York drivers' licenses from getting passports or other things, then he ought to use that part of the real I.D. Act and issue illegal immigrants a driving permit that very clearly states on the face of the permit that is not valid for federal I.D. purposes. [...] Spitzer : As we've seen, 9/11 has been the excuse for so much bad policy. Yet some have called on it one more time to strike fear in the public consciousness. [...] Sensenbrenner: Well, of all the people who shouldn't be criticizing that decision, it should be the governor of the state that suffered the biggest losses in 9/11.  Watch Spitzer / Fence Transcript Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

POLL	Should invaders in NY get driver's licenses?

Rick Oltman of Californians for Population Stabilization Now, get local law enforcement involved This type of immigration law enforcement is proper and we need more of it. In fact, it is exactly the kind of law enforcement that local police and sheriffs should be directly involved with. Our nation will never have enough federal agents to round up the 600,000 absconders... [Also see this item]

Legal News Line Nixon wants ballot battle over illegals, credits: foes Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon wants no more state tax credits given to a St. Louis-area property development he claims has been partly built using [illegal alien... criminal] labor. -- Nixon, a Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Gov. Matt Blunt for a second term in 2008, announced yesterday his office...

Georgie Anne Geyer -- UExpress.com Groups fighting the invasion have reason to cheer Since the late '70s, I have attended the annual fall meetings of a group called FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Although small and not well-known, it is the major citizens' group fighting illegal immigration, and its meetings have been instructive of how public opinion was moving...

USA Today Invaders issued ID cards Illegal [aliens... criminals] are getting driver's licenses and identification cards in cities and states that are bucking the national trend to take official documents and public benefits away from them. -- New Haven, Conn., began issuing municipal ID cards in July to all residents, including illegal [aliens]. [See Glenn Spencer's letter to USA Today]

Steve Gill -- Nashville City Paper Cheap labor proving to be very costly Those who favor continuing to allow illegal aliens to flood into the U.S. regularly tout our supposed need for "cheap labor" as the primary justification for ignoring our immigration laws. Unfortunately, for U.S. taxpayers this "cheap labor" is proving to be incredibly expensive.

Yeh Ling Ling

Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America A message for activists at the Latino National Congreso Convention According to the November 2006 Rand Corp. study, health care provided to illegal adult migrants alone costs about $6.4 billion a year nationally and that 68 percent of illegal migrants are uninsured. If another amnesty were adopted, tens of millions of newcomers, U.S.-born and foreign-born relatives of illegal migrants...

El Paso Times Texans push for river levees instead of fence Beefing up neglected levees on the Rio Grande could help resolve a dispute over the planned U.S. Mexico border fence, South Texas officials said Wednesday. -- Rio Grande Valley officials say restored levees could give agencies a better perch for monitoring illegal crossings and protect U.S. residents from floods caused by levee breaches.

Coming Up October 21 Benson, Arizona -- 11 AM | Other Events American Freedom Riders - Ride to Secure the Border

American Border Patrol DHS extends Naco fence American Border Patrol reports that the DHS has begun grading a road just east of the San Pedro River in an apparent move to extend the border fence right up to the river. "This is an important move as this is a major crossing point," said Glenn Spencer of ABP. Spencer said ABP will continue to report on the progress of the fence as part of Operation B.E.E.F.

D. A. King

CNN   Video Report D. A. King discusses the "New Sanctuary Movement" Video includes commentary by church representative who appears to be extremely confused on the law. Video lasts about 5 minutes. D. A. is with The Dustin Inman Society.

Asbury Park Press Another venue refuses immigration rally At this point she'd opt for the surreal rather than continue down the path of organizing a rally that in the last few months has given her a crash course in reality checks and false hopes. -- "PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME THIS IS A DREAM!!!!!" she wrote in the subject line of a mass e-mail to a reporter and dozens of supporters...

KCRA-TV -- Sacramento March, rally planned in support of 'California Dream Act' Students and immigration rights activists are planning to march through Sacramento to the state Capitol in support of a new bill. -- They want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the "California Dream Act." -- The bill would allow students who entered the United States illegally... [Tell Schwarzenegger to veto SB 1]

The Stein Report The case for no-match enforcement Today's Washington Times editorializes in favor of the new no-match policy currently being challenged in federal court. "Critics claim increased enforcement measures will place undue financial burdens on employers, especially small business owners. This is a fallacious argument. Employers have to follow the law...

Spitzer

New York Press Poll: Spitzer license plan a bad idea No matter how enamored the governor thinks everyone is with his plan to give drivers licenses to illegal [aliens... criminals], a new poll finds a majority of New Yorkers oppose the measure. -- According to the Zogby polling group 58% of all State residents think Governor Eliot Spitzer's plan... [See this feature item]

Washington Times Hillary touts bill to unite invaders' kin Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as president she would push an immigration bill with a path to legalization that unites families. -- "We've got to deal with immigration to be sure that we're going to get back to doing what is right and smart in America," she told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Arpaio

Business Journal of Phoenix Arpaio defends illegal alien tip line Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is defending his office's illegal immigration tip line saying it is helping to catch drug traffickers and human smugglers. -- Arpaio said Wednesday that the telephone line led to the arrest in Mesa of Antonio Tapia Ortiz, who was detained after being found with 1 pound of cocaine and other illegal items.

Rep. King

AM New York Congressman aims for meeting of minds on LI immigration raids A congressman is stepping in to try to resolve a dispute between federal immigration agents and a Long Island police chief. The chief has said the immigration agents ran roughshod over local officers in recent raids and the officers won't cooperate in the future.

Houston Chronicle 'Immigrant' children withdrawing from Irving schools The superintendent of the Irving (Texas) school district said some immigrant parents have pulled their children from school over fears that they or their families will be deported. -- Jack Singley said about 90 children have withdrawn from 33,000-student public school district in the last week.

Ventura County Star Simi Valley asking Chertoff to intervene in church stand-off The Simi Valley City Council is calling for the secretary of Homeland Security to personally end a stalemate between the city and a local church sheltering an illegal [alien... criminal]. -- Mayor Paul Miller sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary Michael Chertoff detailing a conflict between the city and the United Church of Christ...

Californians for Population Stabilization Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to veto SB 1! The ever-increasing cost of higher education is squeezing California's middle class families, yet the state legislature has voted to give scarce financial aid dollars to illegal alien students. SB 1 by state Senator Gil Cedillo would take us a step further in blurring the lines between those who are here legally and those who broke our immigration laws...

Dallas Morning News Mexico to bolster defense of their invaders in U. S. The Mexican government is giving its consulates in the U.S. wide latitude to ramp up a campaign to toughen their defense of immigrants and plans to give them more resources as well, officials familiar with the strategy said. -- The move comes as deportations reach an all-time high in the toughest crackdown in decades...