Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Serendipity Gilchrist's Slip-Up Helped Expose Huckabee's Flawed Plan Mike Huckabee - His touch-back is a fumble. WorldNetDaily.com -- December 18 Minuteman reconsiders Huckabee endorsement     Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist says he will have to reconsider his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee after learning the Republican presidential candidate favors allowing illegal aliens to wait only days to receive documents allowing re-entry into the U.S. [...]     "I'm going to have to follow up on this," Gilchrist said. "I had not seen before anything in Governor Huckabee's plan where repatriation and touch-back could involve only days, not years. We saw it coming. See email Glenn Spencer sent to a reporter on 12/12. The reporter, whose name is whithheld, asked for Spencer's opinion on Gilchrist's move. Past Features   Operation B.E.E.F. Updates

Wilson County News -- Floresville, Texas Roaming invaders scare some local residents Falls City, Tx. -- What started off as a simple suspicious-vehicle call Dec. 9 ended in the roundup of nine [illegal aliens... criminals] west of town. -- First reports indicated that the [invaders] were breaking into area houses to escape arrest, but the Karnes County Sheriff's Department dismissed the reports...

Orange County Register Criminal deportations fuel border crime wave Tijuana, BC, Mex. -- The two men are led out from cells deep inside the basement of "La Comandancia," the city's aging police headquarters. -- They have shaven heads and a shaken look. Police officers order them to lift their shirts and show off their gang tattoos, which indicate they're from San Jose, Calif. Both had just been deported from the US...

Newsday -- New York Experts: NY farms could pay for failure of reform immigration The failure of Congress to ensure that there are enough migrant workers in the nation's labor force could eventually cost New York agriculture hundreds of millions of dollars in lost crops and hundreds of thousands of acres in lost farmland, according to experts Tuesday at an agribusiness conference.

Business Journal of Phoenix Congressional study shows invaders sap tax dollars A study by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday backs up the view that [illegal aliens... criminals] sap more tax dollars than they provide, especially in education, health care and law enforcement. -- The study pulled together reports from the past five years...

Worst

Dr. Laurie Roth -- NewsWithViews.com Mr. President, you are a phony Doesn't it just give you the Christmas cheer! It was announced this week that our President had pardoned 29 more people before the years end. How generous! Now he is up to 149 in his Presidency. It is so nice to see how much giving spirit our President has. Lets see who Santa gave yummy candy to this season.

Huck

ThirdPartyWatch.com Constitution Party of NY rebukes Gilchrist endorsement of Huckabee Burr Deitz, chairman of the Constitution Party of New York, joined the leaders of eighty-one other immigration reform groups in signing a letter of rebuke concerning Jim Gilchrist's endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President of the United States. -- In reaction to Jim Gilchrist's (Co-Founder of Minutemen) lone endorsement...

New York Times Questions on invaders leads to raid on nonprofit's office ...More than a dozen Kevlar-armored agents rushed into the Community Action Agency of New Haven, said Amos Smith, the organization's president and chief executive. The agents, from departments including Health and Human Services, had a warrant demanding all documents from 2003 onward, he said...

Associated Press Nearly two dozen found in drop house raid The Maricopa County Sheriff's office raided a Phoenix home and detained 20 people, five of which are believed to be smugglers. -- The suspected smugglers are accused of violently mistreating the other [illegal aliens... criminals]. -- "They were pistol whipped and abused for the last three days," Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said...

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson Maricopa attorney to focus on invader hiring in '08 When Arizona's employer-sanctions law goes into effect Jan. 1, Maricopa County's top prosecutor will tell investigators to focus on businesses that hire illegal immigrants after the new year. -- The law allows County Attorney Andrew Thomas to delve into an employer's past hiring practices...

Associated Press Court won't rehear challenge of in-state tuition for invaders A federal appeals court Monday denied a request to rehear a challenge of a law allowing some illegal [aliens... criminals] to pay in-state tuition in Kansas. -- A group of students paying out-of-state tuition to attend college in Kansas had challenged the 2004 Kansas law.

Arizona Republic Phoenix chief at odds with Mayor Gordon As Phoenix crafts a more aggressive immigration-enforcement policy, Police Chief Jack Harris on Monday strongly defended the current policy, saying significant changes could cripple the department's efforts to fight violent crime. -- Harris' comments mark his first public statements since Mayor Phil Gordon announced earlier this month that...

Border War

Associated Press Border Patrol's counteroffensive riles Mexico The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico.

Kondracke

Morton Kondracke -- Pasadena Star News Fox News Nut: Dobbs winning would be a disaster There's a two-word answer to Lou Dobbsism, defined as the terror that immigration and free trade are destroying the American middle class. One is "innovation." And the second is "investment." -- Innovation - the continued development of new products and techniques - has been and will be America's opportunity to stay ahead of global competition...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Day laborers reach agreement in suit against city, police Brownsville, Texas -- A group of day laborers and the city of Brownsville have reached an agreement that will allow the workers to continue seeking jobs on city sidewalks. -- "We are happy that an agreement has been reached that preserves the rights of the day laborers while also ensuring the safety of the area," said Nathaniel Norton...

Baldwin

Pastor Chuck Baldwin -- NewsWithViews.com Who are these kooks? According to the Associated Press, "Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term congressman's campaign for the White House." -- The AP report also said, "The [Paul] campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million."

Jim Horn -- Family Security Foundation Illegal Immigration: More than just a 'buzzword' Immigration is a buzzword in America this political season. Actually, the proper term is criminal lawbreaking illegal immigration, one that politicians on the Left avoid like the plague, and certain politicians on the Right shudder at. -- The plot is murky. Our own President seems unwilling to actively control or limit illegal immigration...

Green Valley (Arizona) News and Sun Crime concerns Arivaca residents A meeting will be held at the Arivaca Community Center on Monday evening, hosted by the Pima County Sheriff's Department, to discuss the recent string of burglaries in the area. -- The 7 p.m. meeting will be attended by representatives from the Pima County Sheriff's Department's Green Valley patrol district, its Border Crimes Unit...

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]

Huck

Washington Post A tuition deal for immigrants? Now that he has become a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee is feeling the heat from other Republican candidates, who are scrutinizing his record as governor of Arkansas for evidence of "liberal" or "Democratic" inclinations. One leading rival, Fred D. Thompson, has accused Huckabee of...

NBC4-TV -- Washington Grassroots group dedicated to keeping invaders out A new grassroots organization in Virginia is dedicated to keeping illegal [aliens... criminals] out. -- Save the Old Dominion includes seven organizations: Help Save Loudoun, Help Save Manassas, Save Stafford, the Vienna Citizens Group, the Centreville Citizens Coalition, Help Save Hampton Roads and Help Protect Culpeper.

Shell Game

Washington Times Spending bill shrinks border fence Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California. -- The spending bill, written by Democrats and passed 253-154 with mostly their votes...

Andrew Riley -- All American Blogger The illegal immigration problem Right now in this country we have a flood of people coming across our southern border from Mexico. The majority of these people are honest, decent, hard working folks who want nothing more than to provide for their families and give their children a better life. They are people who aren't concerned with our politics.

Arpaio

Arizona Republic Arpaio prepares for showdown Sheriff Joe Arpaio is preparing for a showdown on Wednesday when immigration rights advocates plan to march in Phoenix. -- Arpaio said "we will have our experts in enforcing illegal immigration laws and if we come across any illegals pursuant to crime we will arrest them."

KY3 News -- Springfield, Missouri Governor wants more Missouri laws to combat invaders Gov. Matt Blunt traveled around the state on Monday to announce four more legislative proposals to fight illegal immigration. He held news conferences in Springfield and Joplin before going to other parts of the state. -- The governor's plan would require all public employers to use a legal worker verification system...