Monday, December 17, 2007

Ford Foundation Still At It Funding Open Borders Groups Ford Foundation lackey Robert Bach emasculated he INS. Center for International Policy (Funded by the Ford Foundation) -- December 14, 2007 Losing the War of Ideas, Again In the war of ideas over immigration, liberals are in disarray. Anti-immigration advocates have created the ideological frameworks-security, rule of law, nationalism-that now frame the raging immigration debate. Meanwhile, immigration advocates find that their own humanitarian, economic, and historical arguments supporting liberal immigration flows have little resonance in the public debate. The Ford Foundation helped create the terrible illegal immigration mess. They started MALDEF and the National Council of La Raza. Now they are funding groups like the Center for International Policy and its Americas Program that are fighting to keep the borders open. CIP is joined at the hip with radicals like Derechos Humanos, and other Mexican Reconquistas. Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

Ramos & Compean

Washington Times Editorial Pardon Ramos and Compean now Last week, the White House released a list of 29 pardons issued by President Bush. It included drug dealers, carjackers, a moonshiner, a man convicted of stealing government property and another for receiving kickbacks in military procurement contracts. Conspicuously missing were former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean...

Steven A. Camarota -- North County Times -- Escondido, Calif. Immigration, both legal and illegal, puts huge strain on the country The debate over immigration has become one of America's most heated. In a new report published by the Center for Immigration Studies, we provide a detailed picture of the nation's immigrant population. Our conclusions will probably not surprise most Californians: First, legal and illegal immigration is at record levels.

The Boot

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif. Felons found in police immigration screening Social tolerance was once the hallmark of Costa Mesa, a place where bowls of free soup awaited the poor just as racks of designer shoes awaited the well-heeled. -- The home of South Coast Plaza was also home to a city Human Relations Committee, a job center and a decades-long history of helping the poor, whether immigrant or native-born...

Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald Oconee sheriff asking feds for immigration law training Two years after immigrant rights groups cried foul when deputies rounded up and arrested 30 Hispanic day laborers, Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry says the controversy mostly has quieted. -- Prosecutors late last month dropped local loitering charges against most of the men caught in the raid Dec. 1, 2005, and the sheriff says...

Associated Press Calif. Hmong protest green card delays due to Patriot Act About 1,800 Laotian immigrants, including more than hundred Hmong veterans who fought for the United States against the Vietnamese, protested what they consider the unfair application of certain provisions of the Patriot Act to Hmong refugees. -- State and local officials from the Central Valley heard how Hmong residents...

San Jose Mercury News Meltdown: Schwarzenegger to declare fiscal emergency Facing a projected $14 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said he will declare a fiscal emergency, which will allow the governor and lawmakers to cut spending more quickly and also sets the stage for slashing state services and programs - perhaps by as much as 10 percent. [See: Sinkhole de Mayo]

Danbury (Connecticut) News-Times Immigration cases headed to court Two high-profile immigration cases -- including the case known as the "Danbury 11" -- will come before the courts early next year. -- Both are deportation cases that resulted from arrests made by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city...

Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. -- NewsWithViews.com The North American Union and the larger plan In order to bring about a North American Union (NAU), the public first has to be conditioned to think of themselves as North Americans. In that regard, Thomas Donohue (president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) on June 16, 2006 remarked that "for CEOs, North America is already a single market..."

Column One -- Los Angeles Times A town against the wall Granejo, Texas -- Gloria Garza doesn't have a whole lot. But what she has, she clings to with pride. -- She lives in a simple stucco house with a rustic wooden veranda and a well fashioned from odd stones her husband found around the state. Kittens stretch lazily in the sun beside her porch. Armadillos dart across her backyard...

London Daily Telegraph They don't speak English in England anymore The Daily Telegraph has obtained data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families illustrating the impact of high levels of immigration on the education system. -- In 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, children without English as a first language make up 51 to 70 per cent of all pupils. -- The figures show that in a total of...

Mike Bailey -- Chicago Sun-Times What to do about illegal aliens ...It is the policy of The Courier News to use the term "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant." News outlets are under extreme pressure from activist groups to use terms such as "undocumented worker." That would be like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist." It is intentionally misleading. So is calling everyone -- legal or illegal -- an "immigrant."

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review Mexican invaders indicted for home invasions Three illegal [aliens... criminals] arrested Dec. 5 after a manhunt involving Cochise County deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents were indicted Thursday in connection to multiple home invasions. -- Between the three Mexican nationals, they are charged with more than 40 counts, including kidnapping, first-degree armed burglary and theft...

Barnard R. Thompson -- MexiData.info Mexico proposes an intergovernmental border commission ...Mexico's northern border region is a favored area in order to build a better relationship with the United States of America, "that without doubt is our main partner from the economic point of view," the draft states.  And it notes that good relations with the United States are necessary in order for the border to be seen as orderly and safe...

Poughkeepsie (New York) Journal Invader / rape suspect flees after diving from second-floor window Victims of two rapes in Pawling have not identified a suspected rapist being pursued by police, a 24- year- old illegal [alien... criminal] who is at large after diving from a second-floor window while an officer waited for him to use the bathroom, Dutchess County Sheriff Butch Anderson said Saturday...[More 'family values']

Gilchrist

Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com Gilchrist claims support for Huck is conditional The founder of the Minuteman Project says his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is a conditional one ­ based on a tough understanding of the former governor's "Secure America Plan" to oust all illegal aliens, or put them behind bars...

Dr. Paul

Washington Times Paul's one-day haul a record Rep. Ron Paul of Texas yesterday broke the single-day Republican presidential-campaign fundraising record he set last month, raising about $6 million and giving him almost $18 million for the fourth quarter. -- Mr. Paul's campaign shattered its goal of raising $12 million this fundraising quarter... [Related story]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review Protesters in Naco decry border fence Naco, Ariz. -- Approximately 40 bundled-up protesters and a few of their pets gathered several hundred yards east of the Naco port of entry between the United States and Mexico on Sunday to speak out against the border fence that continues its way west through Cochise County...

Angus Reid Global Monitor High support for immigration crackdown in U.S. Many adults in the US support enacting punitive measures in order to curb illegal immigration, according to a poll by YouGov/Polimetrix released by The Economist. At least 75 per cent of respondents would increase fines for employers who hire illegal [aliens... criminals], require police to report [invaders] to [the] federal government...

Huck

Selwyn Duke -- American Thinker The Huckabee Hustle When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn't know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later.  Today the very same constituency has glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can't help but lament how history truly does repeat itself...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette IDs for aliens draw fire Many Arkansas police departments, banks and businesses are accepting the membership card of a nonprofit organization that works with Hispanic immigrants as a form of valid identification. -- Founders of the organization say the card is helping 3, 000 Arkansas immigrants gain access to important services. -- Critics, however, say illegal aliens are the only immigrants benefiting from the card...

Associated Press Immigration a Big Issue to NH, Iowa GOP At opposite sides of New Hampshire, John McCain faced two corporate audiences in two college towns earlier this month. Only one topic came up in both places when he starting taking questions: illegal immigration. -- The Republican presidential hopeful gets so many questions - sometimes hostile - about immigration...