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Monday, October 22, 2007

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors -- and Sense
New Mexico Pedestrian Barrier is Paying Off

East end of pedestrian barrier near Columbus, New Mexico. (See ABP New Mexico survey map.)
Kansas City Star -- October 21
Low-tech effort on U. S. - Mexico border appears to be paying off
"Statistics suggest as much. Border Patrol apprehensions in New Mexico in the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, are down about 44 percent from fiscal 2006, when there were 73,518 apprehensions of illegal immigrants. Cocaine seizures have dropped from 1,175 pounds in 2006 to 408 pounds this year through Aug. 31."
Double fence in San Diego cut border crossers by 95%.

Red DotPast Features   Red DotOperation B.E.E.F. Updates

New York Daily News
'Immigrant groups' boycott over transfer fees
Western Union denies claims it charges too much for wire transfers and does little for communities it serves. -- When Elizabeth Mendoza wires cash to her mom, she shops around for low fees so as much of the money as possible makes it to Mexico. -- That frugality has the Sunset Park, Brooklyn, woman joining a group of immigrants...AP Internal Use Only


Spitzer
Albany (New York) Times Union
Suit filed over driver's licenses going to invaders
Troy, NY -- Rensselaer County Clerk Frank J. Merola said he has sued the state Department of Motor Vehicles and Commissioner David Swarts to stop Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal [aliens... criminals]. --- "The governor is not listening to the people; perhaps he may listen to the courts," Merola said.AP Internal Use Only


A Classic
American Border Patrol
Get a T-Bird, Help ABP
Get a T-Bird, help ABP. Glenn Spencer is selling his 300 HP, 1964 T-Bird Landau. It is in excellent condition. Everything works (A/C, power windows, etc.) Clean as a whistle. Total firm price $14,000. Glenn will donate all proceeds to American Border Patrol...AP Internal Use Only

Washington Times
TB flight rules cited as 'faulty and limited'
Government claims that a Mexican businessman infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis posed no serious public health risk by taking numerous domestic flights are based on faulty research and limited data, said a top Harvard physician who specializes in disaster medicine and infectious disease. AP Internal Use Only


Idiot Spitzer
Newsday -- New York
Senate GOP strikes back at Spitzer's invader license scheme
The Senate's Republican majority moved Monday to try to block Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to make it easier for illegal [aliens... criminals] to receive driver's licenses. -- The bill to reverse Spitzer's order drew some of the most heated and personal attacks seen in years on the state Senate floor, pitting upstate and downstate politicians against each other. AP Internal Use Only

Californians for Population Stabilization
Alert! The DREAM Act amnesty is still alive!
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are still trying to pass their DREAM Act amnesty, either as an amendment to other legislation or the stand-alone version of the bill, S 774. -- Their latest threat is to add it as an amendment to HR 3043, the Labor-Health & Human Services appropriations bill...AP Internal Use Only

Reuters
U.S. says Mexico border fence to proceed in Arizona
The Bush administration waived environmental and other laws on Monday and ordered construction to proceed on an environmentally sensitive section of the border fence between the United States and Mexico. -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff issued the waiver, which bypasses a federal judge's temporary restraining order...AP Internal Use Only

Tulsa World
Federal judge dismisses challenge to HB 1804
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Hispanic groups seeking to block implementation of House Bill 1804, a state law aimed at illegal immigrants. -- U.S. District Judge James Payne ordered the case dismissed because he found that none of the plaintiffs in the case had been injured by the law, so they do not have standing to file the suit.AP Internal Use Only

Eagle Forum
Tell your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!!
Just this week, the United States Supreme Court gave us an important look into what kind of global power grabs we face if the Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). On October 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Jose Medellin, an illegal alien rapist-murderer now on death row in Texas...AP Internal Use Only

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Latino separatists disavow march
..."Nobody knows where he came from," said Teodoro Maus, former consul general of Mexico in Atlanta [who instantly turned into an obnoxious pro-invasion agitator and remained in the US after he retired in 2001]. "We can't hurt the cause by following a nut." -- Petersen hopes to see 400 people in front of the First Presbyterian Church...AP Internal Use Only


Dan Sheehy
Hazleton (Pennsylvania) Standard-Speaker
United States in an immigration crisis, author says
America is being erased, according to American author Daniel Sheehy. -- That was the message he gave at Top of the 80's on Thursday night. While some in attendance found the information surprising, Sheehy seemed at home in detailing the main points of his controversial findings.AP Internal Use Only

Ruben Navarrette Jr. -- CNN
Chicano Propagandist: Cops shouldn't enforce immigration law
The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law. -- As the son of a retired cop who spent 37 years on the job, and someone who has seen firsthand how much havoc this policy can wreak, let me be clear...AP Internal Use Only

Tucson Citizen
Sheriff's border unit makes presence felt
Tearing through the desert at 100 miles per hour on a twisty, rural road south of Tucson takes courage and a strong stomach. -- Great-horned owls rising out of the roadside brush look like ghosts in billowing robes. Deer dart across the road and grasshoppers crunch under the tires. Lurching and bouncing over washes turn the stomach. AP Internal Use Only


Bratton
New York Times
Bratton endorses Spitzer insane license scheme
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who has been trying to build support for his unpopular plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, announced today that William J. Bratton, the former New York City police commissioner who is now chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, had endorsed it.AP Internal Use Only

KCUR -- Kansas City   Audio Report
'Tan Klan' leader tries to explain KC soiree bailout
This weekend, the board of the National Council of La Raza, a leading [Mexican Reconquista] organization, decided to move its scheduled 2009 conference away from Kansas City. The cancellation will cost La Raza 70,000 dollars in fees, and it will cost Kansas City some 5 to 7 million dollars in tourism revenue. AP Internal Use Only


Spitzer
New York Post
Dems: Spitzer steering us toward a crash
Top Democrats fear that Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens has endangered their party's candidates across the state -- and even threatens the presidential prospects of Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Post has learned. -- A half-dozen senior Democrats told The Post that Spitzer's licensing plan...AP Internal Use Only


Nuñez
Michael Ackley -- WorldNetDaily.com
Fabian 'Big Spender' Núñez
"Middle Class" gained new meaning this month when Democrat Fabian Núñez, California's assembly speaker, applied it to his "lifestyle," which includes spending tens of thousands of dollars on travel, meetings and gifts. -- A lovely story by Nancy Vogel of the Los Angeles Times cited Núñez spending including...AP Internal Use Only


Tan Klan Antics
Mike Hendricks -- Kansas City Star
Funkhouser's stand on principle helps KC's reputation
When the National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan] pulled its convention this weekend over Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser's refusal to remove Frances Semler from the parks board, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver had this to say: "In case there are those celebrating this as some kind of victory, let me be clear..."AP Internal Use Only

Jim Kouri, CPP -- American Chronicle
Feds, locals work together to grab criminal invaders
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement representatives today presented a proposed statewide partnership plan to the sheriffs in attendance at the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association's fall meeting. This is the first in many conversations between federal and local officers aimed at affording every area of North Carolina increased use of...AP Internal Use Only

CBS11-TV -- Dallas  Includes Video
Mexican Reconquistas threaten toothless boycott
Hispanic activists are calling for a city-wide shutdown in Irving [Texas]. -- On November 15, Accion America said they would like to see all Irving businesses closed for the day. They are urging everyone, including students, to participate. -- The group will also hold a massive public meeting at Irving City Hall that day... AP Internal Use Only

Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com
Feds outsource Mexican truck safety
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delegated key inspection requirements for Mexican trucks to a non-governmental trilateral trade association, whose goal is to impose North American standards on all commercial motor vehicles operating in Mexico, Canada, and the United States...AP Internal Use Only

Star-Ledger -- Newark, New Jersey
Newarker's cargo was eight Brazilians
The former manager of a popular Newark restaurant was arrested this month by federal immigration officials who say they caught him trying to smuggle eight Brazilians into Florida from the Bahamas by speedboat. -- Darlei Jung was arrested Oct. 4 after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped a 20-foot Hydrosport vessel...AP Internal Use Only

American Border Patrol
Photo of the Day
Danny Smith leads line of American Freedom Riders into the Palominas Trading Post on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Group rode from Benson to Palominas, Arizona, to show support for the United States Border Patrol. Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol was one of the speakers.


Spitzer
Washington Times 
New York opens driver licenses to illegal aliens [criminals]
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has started a major political fight over immigration by ordering state officials to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens, prompting at least one county legislature to defy the executive order and pushing toward a showdown in court. -- The embattled governor's order has drawn some acerbic commentary...AP Internal Use Only

Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Immigrants" find way into economy through staffing agencies
Williams-Sonoma, a high-end retailer of everything from candlesticks to mahogany dining tables, produced $3.7 billion in sales last year. Christina Arce, an illegal [alien... criminal] from Mexico, says she helped generate some of that revenue. -- For years, Arce says, her life revolved around her job at one of Memphis' huge warehouses...AP Internal Use Only


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