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Wall Street Journal -- December 6
Concerns
Raised on Border Fence
Lawmaker Seeks To Delay Handover Of the Boeing
System
The
House Homeland Security Committee's chairman is pressuring federal
officials to delay acceptance of Boeing Co.'s high-tech border-surveillance
system because he isn't confident it will work as promised on
the Arizona-Mexico border.
In a letter sent late yesterday to Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D.,
Miss.) cited continuing concerns by the committee that problems
with the virtual-fence system known as Project 28 aren't fixed.
The committee also is concerned that the effort doesn't give
agents the technological advantages Boeing has promised.
Further delay of a project already almost
six months behind could set back the credibility of both the
effort and of Boeing. It also signals a determination by lawmakers
to keep a sharp eye on how Homeland Security buys from the defense
industry. |
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Washington
Times
U.S.
not offsetting costs of invaders, report says
Illegal aliens are a net drain on state
and local governments, according to a new report by the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office that found the federal government
does not do enough to help offset those costs. -- "The tax
revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and
local governments do not offset the total cost of services..." |
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The Times-News
-- Burlington, North Carolina
Sheriff's
Department reports stopping van full of invaders
An Alamance County Sheriff's deputy stopped
a van on Interstate 40/85 Thursday night that was carrying 12
people allegedly living in this country illegally. -- The deputy
stopped the Ford van because of an "unsafe lane change"
at an exit near Mebane for a motor vehicle violation at about
9:48 p.m., said Randy Jones... |
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Charlotte
Sun -- Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Mother
of thrown-away baby arrested
Lake Placid, Fla. -- The mother suspected
of throwing her newborn baby out with the trash Nov. 23 has been
arrested by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. - Silvia Zanchez,
of Lake Placid, was charged with identity theft and improper
possession of an identification card... |
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Washington
Times
Iraqi
officers go missing in U.S.
Numerous Iraqi military and law-enforcement
officials brought to the U.S. as part of special intelligence
and training programs have run away and are seeking asylum in
this country or disappeared altogether, The Washington Times
has learned. -- Intelligence officials who spoke on the condition
of anonymity, say nearly a dozen Iraqis fled... |
Huck |
Arkansas
Times
Huckabee:
"Immigrants'" friend
Mike Huckabee's star may fall as precipitously
as it rose in the presidential stakes, but it is time to ask
if something mysterious but important is happening in the electorate
or if his rise is only evidence of a field of fatally vulnerable
candidates. -- In the six months between the beginning of the
debates and the Iowa caucuses... |
Crackpot Coates |
Tulsa World
Senator
rips 1804 author, says Terrill is a 'mad scientist'
Sen. Harry Coates on Thursday called
fellow Republican Rep. Randy Terrill, author of Oklahoma's controversial
immigration legislation, "a mad scientist and Oklahoma is
his laboratory." -- Coates said Terrill, who has recently
proposed even stricter immigration legislation, is getting "wackier
and wackier..." |
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American
Border Patrol
Apple
Computer stiffs customer
Apple Computer has informed American Border Patrol
that the part needed to repair its G5 computer (under warranty)
will not be available until December 31. Glenn Spencer uses the
G5 to process Operation B.E.E.F. data stored on a RAID array
that can only be accessed by the G5... |
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Newsmax.com
Feds,
Arizona agree on border license deal
A deal between Arizona and the government
Thursday will mean new and more secure state driver's licenses,
including one for use as ID at border crossings as early as next
year. -- Arizona becomes the fourth state to sign up for a federal
program intended to offer an enhanced version of a driver's licenses
as secure as a passport... |
Ramos & Compean |
Washington
Times
Bush
urged to commute ex-agents' sentences
President Bush should immediately commute the
prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted
in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, says the chairman
of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. -- Rep. Bill Delahunt,
Massachusetts Democrat who heads the subcommittee on international
organizations... |
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Rev. Robert
Vinciguerra -- OpEdNews.com
Phoenix
mayor right to crack down in invaders
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon a Democrat
is coming under fire from people in Phoenix, from within
Arizona, and from across the country for ordering his police
officers to check the legal status of criminals after they've
committed a crime. But what's so wrong about that? |
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Phyllis
Schlafly -- WorldNetDaily.com
How
the feds discourage immigrant assimilation
Are you tired of anonymous voices on
the phone telling you to "Press 1 (or sometimes 2) for English"?
The ability to speak and communicate in English is the litmus
test of whether immigrants are assimilating into U.S. culture.
-- To become a naturalized U.S. citizen, the law states that
the immigrant must demonstrate... |
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Family Security
Foundation Peter Gadiel
Are
you ready for a 'Violent Invader Criminal Empowerment Act'?
I've recently written two columns in
FSM illustrating that the tide of battle has shifted against
those who support illegal immigration and open borders. In October
I described how, through their increasingly violent behavior
and falsehoods, the members of the Open Borders Lobby (OBL) are
revealing that they themselves recognize this fact. |
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Chicago
Tribune
Day
laborers sue city over arrests
A group of day laborers filed a federal
lawsuit Wednesday against Chicago police alleging false arrests
and harassment, the latest confrontation between the immigrant
workers and city officials facing a growth in street-corner hiring.
-- The workers accused police of various schemes they argue were
meant to chase them off... |
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Washington
Times
Anne
Arundel County goes after illegals
Annapolis -- Anne Arundel County has
taken the lead in Maryland on cracking down on illegal aliens.
-- County Executive John R. Leopold, a Republican, has already
required Anne Arundel agencies to check the documents of contract
workers and is now working with federal immigration officials. |
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] |
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The State
-- Columbia, South Carolina
Immigration
key issue for Legislature in 2008
Immigration reform is at the top of many
state lawmakers' lists, and reform appears likely during this
year's session. -- Wednesday marked the first deadline for lawmakers
to pre-file bills for the upcoming session that begins Jan. 8.
-- Bills for the S.C. Senate were available online Wednesday.
House bills won't be available until today. |
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Los Angeles
Times
Illegal
immigration irks Iowans
People born in Iowa Falls live and die
here. Strangers are rare. In this town of 5,000, fewer than 50
were born outside the U.S. Last year's census showed that 97
percent of the residents described themselves as "white."
-- Yet, to many here, immigration was the top issue in the presidential
race. To them, it's about fairness and jobs. |
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Mac Johnson
-- Human Events
Criminal
aliens not sent home
What if you had to choose whether to release
a child molester into your neighborhood, or else release a murderer.
Which would you choose to unleash on your neighbors? What if
the choice were a kidnapper versus a rapist? One of them must
be given permission to live among the innocents in your town,
and you're the one who must choose... |
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Washington
Times
DNC
chairman admonishes GOP over illegals
Democratic National Committee Chairman
Howard Dean yesterday said Republicans are targeting immigrants
and told the Republican presidential candidates that the tone
of their debates on the issue has become "outrageous."
-- "Stop scapegoating immigrants and stop using immigration
as a wedge issue..." |
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John Birch
Society
Urge
Congress to seek pardon for Ramos & Compean
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony
on the prosecution of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean on July
17, 2007. -- The sentencing of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos
and Jose Compean to prison for 11 and 12 years, respectively,
for their attempted arrest of a drug dealer on the U.S./Mexico
border is a terrible travesty of justice. |
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WNBC-TV
-- New York
Convicted
sex predators rounded up in NY
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
rounded up nearly two dozen convicted sex offenders who are in
the country illegally Thursday. Investigators said many of the
felons were out on parole or probation. Agents said given the
suspect's illegal status and criminal records, they could be
deported in the next 30 days. |
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Carey Roberts
-- Intellectual Conservative
Dems
ignore white men at their peril
Representing 38% of all voters, white
men represent the second largest block in the American electorate,
after white females. It is these 97 million white males to whom
the Republican Party owes it electoral success in five out of
the last seven presidential campaigns... |
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