Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chertoff Silences Sierra Club Silliness DHS Secretary Waives Environmental Laws Illegal aliens trample San Pedro River Riparian area. 19,000 apprehended in FY 2007. See: Battle to Reclaim the Sierra Club Arizona Daily Star -- October 23 San Pedro border fence gets Chertoff go-ahead     Construction of two miles of border fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area will resume following Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's decision Monday to invoke a waiver that exempts border fences from any law. [...]     The Border Patrol made 19,000 apprehensions of illegal border crossers in the area in the recently completed fiscal year 2007, a significant increase from 2006, according to Homeland Security. Note: ABP smuggled "WMDs" through the riparian area. Sierra Vista Herald / Review Local groups react to news of Chertoff's border decision Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

Houston Chronicle Mexican accused in drunken driving death here illegally An accused drunken driver was in the country illegally when he drove onto a sidewalk in southwest Houston last week and fatally struck a toddler walking with her parents, authorities said. -- Gissela Silvestre died from her injuries Oct. 16 after spending two days in critical condition at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital. [More of Bush's amigos]

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...

KTAR -- Phoenix Reconquistas toss tantrum at Phoenix furniture store [Annoying Mexican Reconquistas] were back in front of Pruitt's furniture store near 36th Street and Thomas Road Tuesday morning. -- They claim the owner of the store hired Maricopa County sheriff's deputies to patrol against day laborers last Saturday. -- It appears the sheriff's office believed that protests planned for the site...

Associated Press Tancredo wanted ICE raid of news conference A Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday called for a federal immigration raid at a meeting in the U.S. Capitol hosted by the Senate's No. 2 Democrat. -- No one from ICE showed up [as usual] despite GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado's call, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois said afterward. [Related Commentary]

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...

WXXI -- Rochester, New York Assembly rejects amendment to rescind Spitzer's insanity Assembly Republicans tried to force Majority Party Democrats to vote on a bill to rescind Governor Spitzer's driver's license plan for [illegal aliens... criminals], but Democrats ruled that the amendments were not relevant, and avoided a debate. -- Assembly Republicans, who are out-numbered by Democrats 108 to 41...

American Border Patrol Special photo of the day SUV belonging to Telemundo of Tucson is stuck in the middle of the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona. Driver ignored posted signs that prohibited motorized vehicles from entering the San Pedro Riparian area. Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol took this photo. Details tomorrow.

Washington Times Metro funding Spanish lessons Metro officials are spending nearly $12,000 to teach employees Spanish at the same time the transit agency has proposed increasing rider fares to help cover a budget deficit. -- Agency employees this month began taking basic Spanish as part of a pilot project that aims to fulfill federal requirements mandating better service for customers...

Barbara Anderson -- WebCommentary.com Nightmare on Main Street, USA: DREAM Act is baaaack! The DREAM Act, cherished by supporters of illegal aliens, and once thought to be killed, is at least on life support. Those millions of people who told their legislators they did not want amnesty, no way, no how, had reason to think that the DREAM Act, which was included in the "comprehensive" immigration bill, was dead. However...

Washington Post GOP finds hot button in illegal immigration ...The issue has shifted since concerns about illegal immigrants triggered angry calls for border fences and deportation two years ago. Now, voter anger appears to revolve around the belief that illegal immigrants are unfairly consuming government benefits, a fear that stems more from economic uncertainty than culture clashes...

Cox News Service Should the Census Bureau count invaders? Texas, Florida and Arizona each stand to gain an extra congressional seat in the next Census count because of their large illegal [alien... criminal] populations, according to a recent study. Conversely, states like Ohio, Michigan and Missouri could each lose a seat because they have fewer [invaders].

Dr. Paul

Larry Fester -- USA Daily  Includes Videos Paul, Thompson give different answers to questions about the NAU The silent debate that is going on inside the GOP is a debate over the future existence of the United States vs. the future existence of a North American Union.  It is only silent because other mainstream media outlets, for the most part, refuse to cover it...

Allan Wall -- VDare.com Stop death in the desert -- Build the border wall! The U.S. - Mexico border is a killing field. The Border Patrol reports that, in the past seven years, 2, 994 (at last count) illegal border crossers have perished on the border. About a third of them (1, 133) died crossing into Arizona. -- According to the New York Times, which ran a recent article on border deaths...

American Border Patrol Photo of the day CNN videographer shoots footage of San Pedro Riparian area. Later, Glenn Spencer of ABP flew a CNN reporter and the videographer along the border near Naco, Arizona. CNN is preparing a story about border fencing...

Associated Press About 50 invaders flee fire on Mexican border Fearing for their safety, about 50 suspected illegal immigrants have surrendered to the Border Patrol since Sunday to escape one of Southern California's largest wildfires. -- The Border Patrol says no illegal [aliens] have been reported injured, but agents are scouting a hilly, heavily wooded area east of San Diego for anyone in trouble.

Steven Malanga -- City Journal -- New York Hispanic voting myths The GOP has less to fear from a Latino backlash than some claim. -- When President Bush's immigration-reform bill collapsed this past summer, torpedoed largely by objections from within his own party, open-borders advocates and media commentators warned that the GOP would pay a harsh political price for killing the bill.

Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com Bush gives $500 million to corrupt Mexicans for drug war The White House is announcing the first part of a military assistance program to Mexico to help its military fight drug cartels at the same time the Department of Transportation is pressing ahead to allow 100 Mexican trucking companies run long- haul rigs in the U.S. without restriction.

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Fountain Hills roundup of day laborers nets 4 The Maricopa County's Sheriff's Office arrested four reportedly undocumented day laborers Monday in Fountain Hills in one of many such roundups conducted by deputies in recent months. -- Deputies were responding to complaints of the laborers littering, loitering and disrupting traffic near Saguaro Boulevard and Desert Vista Drive.

Thompson

Miami Herald Thompson to unveil immigration proposal Republican presidential candidate [and reputed CFR member] Fred Thompson on Tuesday plans to announce an immigration policy that will include stripping federal grant money from cities and states that don't report illegal [aliens... criminals]. -- Thompson chose Collier County, which has a large farmworker population...

KOLD-TV -- Tucson 3 suspected bandits arrested, accused of accosting invaders Sheriff's deputies have arrested three men who were accused of kidnapping a group of illegal immigrants at gunpoint. -- Pima County sheriff's spokeswoman Dawn Hanke tells the Arizona Daily Star that 17 illegal [aliens... criminals] were trekking through the desert when the armed men approached.

Robert Robb -- Tucson Citizen Invaders' crimes are business of local police As the debate over whether police should get involved in enforcing immigration laws progresses, it's increasingly clear that local police chiefs don't understand the full function of law enforcement in civil society. -- That's rather startling and distressing. -- According to the police chiefs, their main function is to protect the community...

Tan Klan Antics

Lawrence (Kansas) Journal News NAACP still coming to Kansas City Though NAACP members were critical of Frances Semler's appointment to the city's park board, the group still plans to hold its convention in Kansas City three years from now. -- Mayor Mark Funkhouser's June appointment of Semler, a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to the park board drew criticism from both the NCLR and the NAACP.

Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader More Insanity: Driver's licenses for invaders sought A Lexington commission studying immigration issues will recommend that city officials issue local identification cards to [illegal aliens... criminals] and others. -- The group's report also will recommend that Lexington officials lobby state leaders in Frankfort to allow [illegal aliens... criminals] to obtain Kentucky driver's licenses.

Spitzer Watch

Various Sources Spitzer Watch: Today's links (so far) Senate Votes Against Spitzer's Plan   Spitzer Aide Now Refuses to Testify Editorial: Gov. Spitzer should scrap license plan Why Spitzer's Agenda Is Dangerous for America - Author: Ed Koch Dems: Spitzer steering us toward a crash Drive-By Terror - Investors Business Daily

Bush Country

Patriot-News Editorial -- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Border fence steel should come from U. S. mills Put this down as a classic case of bureaucratic stupidity: The Department of Homeland Security's use of Chinese-made steel pipe in constructing the 854-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants. -- A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Chinese pipe...

Hal Netkin -- Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson Greedy employers oppose new law on invaders Why are Arizona business groups fighting so fiercely against the state's new employer-sanctions law due to go into effect Jan. 1? Is it because they are concerned that legal workers will accidentally be flagged as unauthorized or because they are concerned that discrimination will occur? I don't think so...

KNSD-TV -- San Diego Border officers make pot bust in California U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $800,000 in marijuana at the Otay Mesa port of entry Wednesday. -- Officials said they detained a Tijuana man registered in the SENTRI program around 3:30 p.m. He was driving a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta with Baja license plates. Officers said they became suspicious when the driver...