Monday, November 5, 2007

Those Lying Eyes Spitzer says licenses will help ID people when they really won't Eliot Spitzer Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- November 2 Spitzer: The DMV database is perhaps the most important database that we use as prosecutors in order to find out who's who, where is somebody, who are they, where are they, where they have they been.... Michael Amato, Montgomery County, New York, Sheriff: According to the commissioner of the DMV, the information that they harvest from these driver's licenses will not be shared with local law enforcement right now and it's not going to be shared with anti-terrorism or federal organizations. And that's a concern. They have stated that, if we do want this information, we have to file court papers to request it... Pilgrim: The sheriffs are quite concerned, because they say it's so time-consuming for an individual to file all the court papers, if they have an individual in custody. And that's the way they are going to have access to this information. And it's been misrepresented to them. Dobbs: ....When a governor lies to the people of the state, he's got to be called for it....  Watch Transcript Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

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Hot Air Latino lawmaker wants "don't ask, don't tell" for invaders At some point we're going to have to demand that elected officials either uphold their oaths of office, or get out of office, or we just do away with the oaths altogether. The latest in oath breaking for fun and profit comes from New York state. -- Lawmakers who met with Eliot Spitzer about his new driver's license policy...

Ada (Oklahoma) Evening News Local residents voice opinions of state's new immigration law House Bill 1804 is a new state immigration law that went into effect on Nov. 1 and directly targets illegal [aliens... criminals]. Under the new law it makes it a crime to move, transport, or attempt to transport persons know to be illegal aliens within Oklahoma. -- It also makes it a crime to conceal, harbor, or shelter anyone who is an illegal alien.

Fox News Edwards offers alternative to NY invader license scheme John Edwards on Sunday said he opposes a new program in New York to give driver's licenses to illegal [aliens... criminals], but the Democratic presidential candidate offered much the same plan for establishing a licensing system as his chief rival and party primary front runner, Hillary Clinton...

WTOV -- Steubenville, Ohio  Includes Video 150 fake ID cards confiscated from suspected invaders Six suspected illegal [aliens... criminals] were arrested after police said they had 150 fake identification cards. -- Belmont County deputies pulled the van over on Interstate 70 East near Morristown late Friday for a traffic violation. A search of the vehicle yielded 100 fake Ohio identification cards and 50 fake Tennessee identification cards.

CNN Clinton 'broadly supports' states' efforts to license invaders Sen. Hillary Clinton Sunday sought to further clarify her position on New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer's controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal [aliens... criminals], a position which she said she's already made clear on "a number of occasions." -- The issue was brought front and center at Tuesday night's Democratic debate.

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... [Watch this video from the Heritage Foundation]

D. A. King

The Dustin Inman Society Senator Chambliss: Secure the borders first - THEN amnesty again? For those who don't know, Senator Saxby Chambliss was in north Georgia yesterday for "meet and greets" - he will be back. -- I attended his event in Cherokee County yesterday but did not go to Dalton. In Dalton, he apparently talked about border security and illegal immigration in his public remarks...

Los Angeles Times Arrogant church squatter hopes for reprieve from deportation ...Liliana, an illegal immigrant who sought sanctuary at the church in August, is hoping for a legal reprieve that would allow her to live at home without fear of arrest or deportation as she pursues her desire to stay in the United States. -- "I'm a mother, not a criminal," said the slight, soft-spoken woman during a recent interview at the church...

Californians for Population Stabilization HR 3531 would deny funds to sanctuary cities! At long last, the federal government is demonstrating some tepid increase in attempts to provide interior enforcement of our immigration laws. Yet, even these mild efforts are hamstrung by local cities that declare themselves sanctuaries from immigration enforcement... [See Bill Text]

Núñez

Dan Walters -- Sacramento Bee Mixed bag of news for Mexican Reconquista fan Núñez Last week was somewhat of a mixed bag for Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. -- The highlight, from his standpoint, was being selected as one of Governing magazine's nine "public officials of the year." The magazine cited his ability to put together a striking record of legislation in 2006...

Los Angeles Times Immigration detainees are at record levels Aggressive immigration enforcement has led to record numbers of detainees in California and around the nation, prompting the federal government to speed up deportations and increasingly rely on transfers and contracts with local jails and private companies...

Dallas Morning News Texas teens lead nation in birth rate While the national teen birth rate has slowed, Texas has made far less headway, alarming public health officials and child advocates. -- Texas teens lead the nation in having babies. Last month, the nonprofit group Child Trends conferred another No. 1 ranking on Texas. In the latest statistics available, 24 percent of the state's teen births in 2004...

Michael Barone -- Real Clear Politics A watershed moment on immigration October 2007 may turn out to be the month that immigration became a key issue in presidential politics. It hasn't been, at least in my lifetime. -- The Immigration Act of 1965, which turned out to open up America to mass immigration after four decades of restrictive laws, wasn't one of the Great Society issues Lyndon Johnson emphasized in 1964.

Fredrick U. Dicker -- New York Post Eliot puts dying GOP in driver's seat Somber Democrats are privately conceding that Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens has done the impossible by reviving New York's long- moribund Republican Party. -- "He's the best thing for Republicans since Mario Cuomo," one of the state's most influential Democrats angrily told The Post.

UPI Police immigration policies may change U.S. politicians are targeting police don't ask policies that allow illegal [aliens... criminals] to report crimes without fear of deportation. -- The Arizona Republic said Sunday that while most police have found the policies help in the fight against crime, political opponents of illegal immigration have decided the measures are simply too open.

Nancy Conroy -- MexiData.info Why Mexican and US officials downplay border incursions Violent confrontations with drug smugglers along the border increasingly involve spectacular, attention grabbing shootouts.  These border incursions infuriate many Americans, especially when both US and Mexican authorities ignore or downplay these episodes.  But it is not in anyone's best interest to dwell on the border incursions too much...

Compean & Ramos

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher -- Human Events Bush should quickly pardon Ramos and Compean Unjustly convicted Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are currently serving 11- and 12-year prison terms, respectively, for shooting and wounding an admitted illegal alien drug smuggler whom they interdicted while he was smuggling $1 million worth of drugs into the United States...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Invaders now risk jail Arizona could become the first state to prosecute every adult caught at the border crossing illegally from Mexico. -- Authorities in the Yuma sector, in the western part of the state, have been prosecuting people caught at the border since December. The Del Rio sector of Texas introduced the policy a year earlier.

Spitzer

Gotham Gazette -- New York Latest license plans angers almost everyone New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been in the national spotlight since his controversial announcement in September that he would grant undocumented immigrants driver's licenses. In the face of strong criticism from the Republicans and dropping approval ratings in opinion polls, late last month Spitzer offered a new plan...

Ernest Istook -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram The best-kept secret: Enforcement actually works Once again, the states are rebelling against Washington. -- Fed up with dithering in D.C., states are proving that enforcement works. Enforcement can not only prevent illegal immigration but actually reverse it. -- Illegal immigrants by the tens of thousands are leaving states that have adopted tough new laws...

Walter Moore

MooreIsBetter.com Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... [Watch this video released on Nov. 4, 2007]

Spitzer

National Review Editorial Spitzer in the face of law At Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton finally gave her primary opponents something to work with. Asked about New York governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, Clinton articulated a - how shall we put it? - nuanced position on the issue...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix ACLU official says his arrest was unwarranted The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona on Sunday said his arrest by Sheriff's deputies at a weekend protest was unwarranted and occurred only after he identified himself as a high-ranking officer with the organization. -- Daniel Pochoda showed up at a Saturday demonstration in front of Pruitt's furniture store...

The Conservative Voice      Mark Andrew Dwyer Unauthorized husbands The stupidity of sympathizers of illegal "immigration" is beyond comprehension. Their "rationale" for issuing diver's licenses to illegal aliens, ostensibly in order to make us all safer, can only be compared to idiocy of offering free birth control contraceptives and STD preventive training and screening for rapists in lieu of their criminal prosecution.

The Boot

Cleveland Plain Dealer Border closing, immigrant expulsion urged in Italy Rome -- Opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi urged Italy to close its borders to Romanian workers and a conservative ally called Sunday for the expulsion of tens of thousands of immigrants amid public outrage over a wave of violent crimes blamed on foreigners. -- Pope Benedict XVI, adding his moral voice to the debate...

Associated Press Anti-invader law affecting agriculture sector Oklahoma's new anti-illegal immigration law has some farmers and agricultural businesses scrambling for laborers as Hispanic workers fearful of being deported stay away from work. -- The law, which went into effect on Thursday, gives local authorities more enforcement options against [illegal aliens... criminals]...