Monday, November 19, 2007

Home Based Minutemen Texas Renews American Border Patrol-pioneered Concept American Border Patrol was the first to demonstrate the feasibility of operating border cameras over the Internet. Houston Chronicle -- November 19 Border Web cams go online again Perry says he's found the funds to have virtual watch up and running as early as January     Keeping watch over the border may once again become as easy as logging onto the Internet.     Gov. Rick Perry has identified $3 million in federal funding to restore a short-lived but highly publicized "virtual border watch" program that allows Internet users to access video feeds from cameras set up along the border. Historical note: Sept. 2005 ­ ABP announces test of border Web cams June 2006 ­ Texas governor announces test of remote border Web cams Also see: ABP Has More Powerful Border Web Cameras Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

POLLS

Question About the Election and the Mexican Invasion Poll on Presidential/VP Candidates

American Border Patrol Photos of the day A media group, along with U. S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, was found trampling the San Pedro River riparian area today. Grijalva had arrived with a group that violated the law and drove their vehicles onto the area. Grijalva and environmentalists were at the river to talk about the impact of building a fence to stop illegal aliens.

Associated Press Kansas lawmakers targeting invaders Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Kansas are drafting separate bills targeting illegal immigration amid fears about a potential influx of illegal [aliens... criminals] from neighboring states that have already started cracking down. -- Across the nation, at least 127 cities and states have passed or are considering local laws...

Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum Bad new plans to rewrite the U. S. Constitution Let's face it. Some people, especially liberals, just don't like our United States Constitution. Every few years, they come up with wild or devious plans to make major changes. -- The would-be rewriters of the Constitution do not merely propose amendments to remedy a problem, as allowed for in Article V...

J. Stan McCauley -- Hartford (Connecticut) Courant Police must enforce law wherever job takes them I believe that the Hartford Police Department acted responsibly in working with [ICE] agents in trying to apprehend a criminal who, if his aim were better, would have killed the man he shot on Oct. 2. -- The recent appearance of ICE agents in the Parkville section of the city as part of the criminal investigation may lead to the discovery of...

William Gheen -- ALIPAC Invaders: Why McCain and Hillary will never be president The next round of polling data will show a dramatic drop in support for the candidacy of Hillary Clinton for President. We know this because of the precedent set by John McCain and Senators Harry Reid, Lindsay Graham, and Trent Lott who all experienced massive drops in their support levels after making the mistake of...

Pest Nest

Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald Oconee to pursue day laborer charges nearly 2 years later Watkinsville, Ga. -- Formal charges are coming for a group of Hispanic day laborers two years after the Oconee County sheriff netted them in a high-profile arrest, the attorney prosecuting the case said. -- A statute of limitations on the case will end Dec. 1, the second anniversary of the arrests, and attorney Eric Eberhardt said Friday he still is working out...

Kucinich

New Hampshire Union-Leader -- Manchester Yeah, they're illegals: Mislabeling lawbreakers Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, got some big applause Thursday night when he challenged CNN's Wolf Blizter's use of the word "illegal" to describe immigrants who snuck into the country without going through the proper legal channels. -- "I take issue with your description of people being illegal immigrants. There aren't any illegal human beings..."

Steven Malanga -- City Journal -- New York What the driver's license debate ignored During the debate over Governor Eliot Spitzer's now-defunct plan to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, most discussion centered on the scheme's national-security implications. But few people asked an obvious question: Why does New York State, nearly 2,000 miles from the Mexican border, have so many illegals in the first place?

John Fund -- Wall Street Journal Mi casa, sue casa It's been less than a week since New York's Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Eliot Spitzer had to climb down from their support of driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English.

Christian Science Monitor Immigration issue could make or break presidential candidates America's rugged, porous southern border has come to symbolize a broken immigration system, spawning a political debate especially fraught with perils. Nowhere is that more evident than in the presidential primary races. -- The highly charged immigration issues have tripped up veteran politicians such as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

Newsday -- New York Fight breaks out at anti-invader protest A Riverhead man was arrested for disorderly conduct after fighting with a man protesting [illegal aliens... criminals] in Hampton Bays, Southampton Town police said. The New York Patriots, an anti-illegal-immigration group, were picketing outside Hampton Bays United Artists on Montauk Highway near a bus stop Saturday...

Rep. Tancredo

Brenda Walker -- VDare.com Tancredo confronts heckler on Sharia (Islamic law) Recently Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reminded America in Churchillian fashion of the still active threat from Islamists to destroy Western civilization. For Tancredo's trouble, his ad was called "fear mongering" and worse. -- Did these critics sleep through 9/11? Did they not notice the follow-up attacks in London, Madrid, Beslan...

Los Angeles Times Vote nears for ID card plan in San Francisco The Board of Supervisors in this famously liberal enclave is expected to give final approval Tuesday to an ordinance that would be controversial nearly anywhere but here. -- Only one other American city... has taken such a bold step: mandating that ID cards be made available to all local residents whether they are in the country legally or not.

Aldrete-Davila

Bobby Eberle -- GOPUSA.com Guess what happened to Ramos and Compean's accuser? Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, two former Border Patrol agents, are each serving more than a decade in federal prison for shooting an illegal alien as he was fleeing to the Mexican border. The illegal alien, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, was smuggling approximately a million dollar's worth of marijuana into the U.S...

Californians for Population Stabilization SAVE Act will control immigration, protect the environment! The SAVE Act (Secure America with Verification and Enforcement Act) is an important, bi-partisan attempt to remedy our immigration crisis by enforcing our immigration laws. HR 4088, by Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC) has over 90 co-sponsors, equally divided by Democrats and Republicans...

Des Moines Register Proposal seeks banning raids on invaders in Des Moines A proposal to prohibit local law enforcement officials from conducting raids on illegal [aliens... criminals] in Des Moines was presented to at least one City Council member recently. -- Councilwoman Christine Hensley said Sunday that she spoke about six weeks ago with representatives of two [invader]- 'rights' groups that presented a plan...

Wall Street Journal Immigration is the question Chariton, Iowa -- Barack Obama had just ended his stump speech before a friendly audience in this tiny southern Iowa town when Stephen Scott's hand shot up with a question. Would Mr. Obama, as president, have signed last summer's failed "amnesty bill" for illegal immigrants, Mr. Scott, a local landscape painter, asked testily...

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]

Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal Invaders, Invader Pals to Sheriff: Stop violating our "rights" Marietta, Ga. -- Immigrant leaders said this week that Cobb Sheriff officials are violating the civil rights of the county's Latino residents. -- Leaders of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) wrote to sheriff's officials insisting that the county create a committee to monitor potential rights violations...

Allan Wall

VDare.com Randy Terrill's future plans for Oklahoma After a great triumph for Oklahoma and the nation against the forces of illegal invasion, Randy Terrill, author of H.B. 1804, has more plans. -- According to a report in the Oklahoma media : When the Legislature returns in February, Terrill said he plans to file what he is calling the "son of HB 1804."

Los Angeles Daily News License issue a rocky road for Arnold "You don't need a stethoscope to hear the heartbeat of the public on this one. There are some moments where emotions are simply too hot." --- Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York --Remember those words. Arnold Schwarzenegger surely will. -- Those words tell you all you need to know about why Schwarzenegger is not going to touch the issue of...

National Terror Alert Response Center Tucson TV station broadcasts terror threat report KOLD News 13 Tucson is currently running a special report focused on a urgent FBI report outlining a possible terrorist threat in southern Arizona. It speaks specifically to Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. -- The document gives no timetable or explanation of how the threat will be carried out...

The Boot

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Cobb jail seeks federal status on invaders Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren has asked the federal government to certify his jail as a detention center for illegal [aliens... criminals]. -- The sheriff has been housing illegal inmates under an oral agreement for reimbursement. -- Federal immigration agents inspected Cobb's jail last month...

Calderon and Puppet

Barnard Thompson -- Mexidata.info Some in US fuming after head Mexican blowhard spouts off In mid-November, at the Foreign Ministry complex in Mexico City, mainly expatriate members of the Advisory Council of the government-sponsored Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME) gathered for the organization's Tenth Ordinary session.  The inaugural ceremony... was presided over by President Felipe Calderón...[More Mexican meddling]

Ramos & Compean

Sara A. Carter -- Washington Times Agents' pardon urged of Bush Top conservatives have joined ranking House leaders in their bid to pressure the president to pardon two Border Patrol agents imprisoned for the nonfatal shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler in El Paso, Texas, in 2005. -- In a letter that was delivered today to the White House, 31 major conservative petitioners joined a campaign...

Spitzer

Gary Krasner -- American Daily Spitzer and the backlash heard around the world Governor Elliot Spitzer learned this week that even a rich boy - who's daddy bought him the election - must respect the voice of the people. -- Spitzer snubbed the legislature and held no hearings on an issue that affected virtually every citizen in New York State. We are sovereigns of the states we reside in.

Reuters "Hispanic firms" hurt by Arizona invader crackdown Until a few months ago, Ben's Barber shop in central Phoenix was filled with Mexican, Salvadoran and Guatemalan clients seeking haircuts, tints and highlights. -- Now barber Benjamin Portillo and his hairdresser wife Guadalupe stand behind the cash register in the empty shop waiting for customers walk through the door.

American Border Patrol ABP has more powerful border web cameras American Border Patrol reports that it has installed more powerful web cameras on its Arizona ranch and is seeking support to place them on the Internet. The cameras are based on the Motorola Canopy wireless system that has a range of up to forty miles.

Michael Cutler -- Family Security Foundation Suspected Hezbollah mole began as illegal alien in US There is cause for great concern about the case of Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese citizen who managed to game the immigration bureaucracy to acquire United States citizenship.  By marrying fraudulently, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming a resident alien after she had gained lawful entry into the United States as a student...

The Progress-Index -- Petersburg, Virginia Illegal alien issue draws crowd ...John Kwapisz, legislative director for the Virgina Council for Immigration Reform, said his organization supports beefed-up restrictions. He said state and local governments are bearing the brunt of paying for services for illegal immigrants. -- Many speakers at the hearing faulted the county's immigration study.