Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The SAVE Act: Stopping the Border Fence? Saving the Democrats? This pedestrian barrier serves as a vehicle barrier in the desert. [See larger photo]     The American Policy Center has read this legislation and is issuing this alert AGAINST the SAVE Act. Here's why: The SAVE Act does not fund the existing fencing requirement authorized, but not funded, last year by Congress. The SAVE Act only authorizes "additional fencing (aesthetic fencing in business districts) in urban areas of the border." The SAVE Act, instead of fencing, proposes to strengthen the rest of the border with "vehicle barriers.  Watch SAVE Act / Licenses / Agents Transcript Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

The Daily Sentinel -- Scottsboro, Alabama Combatting illegal immigration Scottsboro and Jackson County law enforcement officers said they were pleased with a meeting they attended in Huntsville on Monday with U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer concerning illegal immigration. -- Scottsboro Police Chief Ralph Dawe said it was a very informative meeting and he believes it was a "very important step in the right direction" to assist...

Dallas Morning News Outrageous!: Feds tell city to back off on reporting some invaders ICE officials told Irving city officials this week to stop referring illegal [aliens... criminals] who have been arrested for Class C misdemeanors, according to a memo Irving officials provided to The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday. -- The move is expected to dramatically alter which North Texas arrestees are interviewed by ICE...

Ramos & Compean

Investor's Business Daily Editorial Bordering on insanity He's not as famous as Barry Bonds, but the indictment of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila is a reminder of why there should be an asterisk alongside U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's name as well. -- Normally the indictment of someone arrested for smuggling drugs into the U.S. would be of little note. But the arrest of Aldrete-Davila...

Joel Mowbray -- Washington Times A real travesty Despite using a sham marriage to fraudulently obtain citizenship and having multiple personal connections to a suspected Hezbollah financier, Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old illegal alien from Lebanon, rose quickly through the FBI, then later the CIA. -- While at the FBI, Prouty conducted unauthorized searches to see what law enforcement had...

Hogwash

Ruben 'Harvard Chicano' Navarrette, Jr. -- CNN Foes run over "sensible N.Y. license plan" Score one for the knee-jerk naysayers. You know the type: those who find it easier to criticize proposed solutions to tough problems than to propose solutions of their own, which then could be criticized. -- Faced with the problem of what to do with thousands of illegal immigrants who drive on state roadways every day to go to work for people...

Dan Sheehy

Fighting Immigration Anarchy YouTube: Sheehy addresses crowd at anti-SPP/NAU event Approximately 300 flag-waving patriotic Americans participated in a march and rally on November 17 in West Los Angeles, where we protested the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" (SPP) and planned merger of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The event was organized by Save Our State and was one of nine...

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...

Aldrete-Davila

Washington Times Smuggler was tricked to return for drug arrest The man shot by two Border Patrol agents who later were sent to prison in the incident was lured back to the U.S. last week and arrested by federal agents on drug charges. -- Unbeknown to Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, the admitted drug smuggler whose testimony last year helped convict former agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean...

Gerry Masuda -- The Canadian -- Toronto How to stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPPA) was signed in secret and is being implemented in secrecy and stealth by bureaucratic regulatory changes. SPPA is another important stepping stone leading to North American Union (NAU). The others are the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...

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]

Des Moines Register Editorial City action no answer to immigration mess The Des Moines City Council should not pursue the idea of prohibiting local police from conducting raids on illegal [aliens... criminals] in Des Moines. -- America's immigration crisis is a national problem that Congress and the White House must address. Their failure last summer to pass comprehensive reform has made matters worse...

CNS News Service Mexicans stroll unchecked through border ports A video made during an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows a stream of Mexicans strolling through the border into the U.S. as federal Custom and Border Patrol agents sit staring at "information on computer screens." -- On another of the videos recorded at eight entry points across the country...

The Spectrum -- St. George, Utah Groups push to crack down on immigration Several Utah groups are pushing ahead with efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, both statewide and at the local level. -- Sen. Bill Hickman, R-St. George, has proposed an illegal immigration bill that would prevent illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses, getting in-state tuition, deny them public services and benefits...

WMDT-TV -- Salisbury, Maryland Raid at Glen Burnie bar nets nine invaders Anne Arundel County police say a three-month investigation into fights at Glen Burnie bar led to the arrests earlier this month of nine illegal [aliens... criminals]. -- Police and immigration agents made the arrests November 11th during an after-hours raid at Viva La Raza.

State Journal Register -- Springfield, Illinois Two receive sentences for hiring of invaders A former supervisor and an ex-employee of the Quality Service Integrity Inc. operation in Beardstown were sentenced Monday to 38 months and 10 months in prison, respectively, for hiring illegal aliens, according to the U.S. attorney's office. -- Gerardo Dominguez- Chacon and Maria Del Pilar Marroquin both had pleaded guilty...

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review Border disharmony: Congressman, TV newsmen inspect river During one portion of the tour, [U. S. Rep. Raul] Grijalva also made a stop along the San Pedro River. Glenn Spencer, a neighboring landowner and president of American Border Patrol, a nonprofit border-watch group, came by and announced that it was against the law for the motor vehicles to be in the sensitive riverine area...

FastCasual.com No-match reprieve could be short lived Although the Social Security Administration won't be sending out no-match letters to employers this year, it's only a matter of time before the issue resurfaces, immigration lawyers say. -- The Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration had originally planned to start sending no-match letters...

WorldNetDaily.com North American Union 'a couple years away' The next giant step toward world government will be integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in European Union-style merger in the next few years, says the author of a best-selling book on the power of shadowy international organizations promoting the move. -- "I would say [it's just] a couple of years away," reports Daniel Estulin...

Sutton

Michael Cutler -- Family Security Matters Bush crony Sutton misrepresents circumstances of BP agents' case Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, a Mexican citizen who has been charged with conspiracy to distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana in the US between June 2005 and November 2005, has been arraigned on numerous smuggling charges in federal court in El Paso, Texas.  What makes this seemingly routine matter anything but routine...

Chattanooga Times Free Press House seeks worker checks on legal status About 100 House members will attempt to do what the Senate could not do this year: pass an immigration reform bill. -- The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act, recently introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., would require employers to verify that their workers are here legally...

Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com Gunshot precedes anti-North American Union marches Protest rallies against the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America were held successfully in nine U.S. cities, marred only by a drive-by shot fired without causing injury into the home of the organizer of the Atlanta march. -- Organizer Jim Stachowiak of Freedom Fighter Radio explained...

Associated Press Invader draws light sentence in in death of teens Virginia Beach, Va. -- An illegal [alien... criminal] who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a car crash that killed two teenage girls was sentenced Monday to 24 years in prison. -- Police said Alfredo Ramos' blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit on March 30 when his vehicle plowed into a car carrying...

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]

Houston Chronicle Harris DA investigator surfaces in fed's probe of ICE leak An investigator for the Harris County District Attorney's Office allegedly accessed a confidential law enforcement database for a Texas private investigator on the Colorado Republican Party's payroll, according to records filed in federal court. -- Much of the documentation outlining the alleged misuse of the NCIC database...[Also see Cory Legal Defense]

Inter Press Service Mexicans jittery about U. S. raids, deportations Panic has taken hold of the six million Mexicans who live in the United States without residence permits, because of the ongoing crackdown on "illegal aliens" [criminals], which has involved an increasing number of raids and deportations. -- The Mexican government has announced measures in defence of its citizens...

RINO Rudy

Associated Press Giuliani promotes virtual fence Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani pushed the idea of a "virtual" rather than a real fence along much of the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, an issue that's controversial in the Rio Grande Valley where many people oppose construction of a physical fence to stop illegal immigration.