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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Strategic Bullsh*t Initiative (SBI) Fails
Just As We Predicted
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"I have personally witnessed the value of this system.." Chertoff said.
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Glenn's As I See It - 2/23/08
I would have rather heard him say, "We have tested this system on a 28-miles segment of the border over a two-month period and it detected, tracked and aided in the apprehension of 90% of border crossers." |
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Washington Post -- February 28
'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed
U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Pilot Project Fails
The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday.
Jerry Seper - Washington Times -- February 28
U.S. unable to judge 'fence'
The Department of Homeland Security spent $20 million on a "virtual fence" to better secure 28 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona but has no way to measure its effectiveness and never consulted with the field agents who will use the system before it was installed, two House subcommittees learned yesterday. |
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WGCL-TV -- Atlanta
House passes illegal alien car bill
Police would have the power to seize cars from illegal immigrants stopped in a traffic accident or cited for driving violations under a plan approved Thursday by the Georgia House. -- The proposal faced fierce criticism from Democrats who feared the measure could run afoul of state and federal law, but...  |
KNBC-TV -- Los Angeles
Half of suspected illegals in van escape
A sheriff's deputy stopped a van loaded with suspected [illegal aliens] Thursday near Lake Elsinore, but about half the two dozen people got away, a sheriff's investigator said. -- The deputy stopped the van in the area of Lime and Orchard streets in the Sedco Hills community shortly after 2 p.m., said Jerry Franchville... |
United Press International
More violence at U.S.-Mexican border
A crackdown on drug and human smuggling rings at the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked an increase in violence against border patrol agents. -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials say the number of assaults is up this fiscal year after more than doubling between 2004 and 2007, USA Today reported... |
San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune
Residence with underground tunnels, cells declared off-limits
Valinda, Calif. -- County officials Wednesday sealed a dilapidated home, which had underground tunnels and fortified rooms that might have housed illegal [aliens]. -- Authorities cited several building code violations for the home's closure, including insufficient plumbing, exposed electrical wires and gas lines... |
Statesman-Journal -- Salem, Oregon
Immigration rules target employers
Businesses in Oregon and across the nation that knowingly hire [illegal aliens] soon could face steep penalties under new rules being rolled out by the federal government. -- One of the rules, which takes effect March 27, will increase some fines by as much as $5,000. The increases are the first since 1999. |
Denver Post
Colorado may hire Mexican farm workers
...Frustrated with the federal bureaucracy and Congress' failure to pass immigration reform [aka amnesty], two Colorado lawmakers have proposed taking over a large part of the application process and opening offices in Mexico to find people who can arrive in time to pick the state's crops and run cattle... |
El Paso Times
1,200 hear George Lopez back Obama
..."It is the time of the Latino, your time to step up, your time to take this country over," Lopez said, eliciting applause. "But si se puede doesn't mean anything unless you go out and make it happen." --- Lopez also spent a few minutes chatting with students after making his formal pitch for Obama. |
Indianapolis Star
Immigration vote today puts House in spotlight
State lawmakers are poised to cast a historic vote today on illegal immigration reform, and all eyes -- from small-town voters to big-time lobbyists -- will be on the Indiana House of Representatives. -- "I am very much following this bill. Hopefully, it will pass with some teeth in it," said Phil Stephens... |
WTVF -- Nashville
Poll: Immigration extremely important to Tennesseans
A new poll released Wednesday reveals how some Tennesseans feel about the illegal immigration issue. -- Researchers at Middle Tennessee State University polled hundreds of Tennesseans. -- The poll found that almost 60 percent of people across the state believe that... |
Wichita (Kansas) Eagle
Tuition for illegals is hot topic at hearing
Kansas should not be giving in-state tuition to people here illegally, supporters of a Senate bill on illegal immigration told lawmakers Wednesday. -- "How in good conscience can the state of Kansas charge a U.S. citizen from another state higher out-of-state tuition rates while granting in-state rates to someone who is here illegally?" asked Ralph Snyder... |
Highland Radio -- County Donegal, Ireland
Foreign Meddling: McHugh appeals to US candidates over illegals
Donegal North East TD Joe Mc Hugh has written to the three main U.S. Presidential candidates urging them to introduce immigration reform. -- The Fine Gael TD called on Hillary Clinton, John Mc Cain and Barak Obama to commit themselves to introducing measures to regularise the status of an estimated 50,000 [illegal alien] Irish... |
News 14-TV -- Raleigh, North Carolina
Police identify MS-13 standoff suspect
Police have identified the man who they say forged DMV documents and is responsible for a standoff Wednesday in northwest Charlotte. -- Officers were called to the home on Langston Mill Road to serve a warrant on Rafael Rivas. When they suspected Rivas was an illegal immigrant and possibly... |
California Political News and Views
Democrats: Medi-Cal for illegal aliens
Democrat Senator Lou Correa on February 22, 2008 submitted SB 1540. -- It clearly allows a "pilot" program" in Orange County that would end the requirement to prove you are in this country legally to qualify for Medi-Cal. What he forgets is that if the Democrats in Sacramento pass this legislation.... |
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American Border Patrol
Photo of the day
Photo taken by American Border Patrol this morning along the Mexican border west of Naco, Arizona. Mexican military seems to be giving ride to two migrants. |
KELO-TV -- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
ICE targeting illegals in Worthington
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents caused a stir again Wednesday when they returned to Worthington, Minnesota. They say they're doing targeted enforcement operations in Worthington, Minnesota, and it comes more than a year after agents raided the Swift meat packing plant.... |
Washington Post
Big rise in number of criminals placed for deportation
Immigration officials are increasingly scouring jails and courts nationwide and reviewing years-old criminal records to identify deportable immigrants, efforts that have contributed to a steep rise in deportations and strained the immigration court system... |
Yale Daily News
Illegal alien tuition stirs debate
In a time of ever-increasing college tuition costs, state lawmakers will debate — once again — whether Connecticut residents who are [illegal aliens] should be allowed to pay the same reduced in-state tuition as other residents. -- Last year, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a measure calling for... |
CBS11-TV -- Dallas
N. Texans suing feds for violating immigration laws
Three North Texas residents accuse the federal government of violating immigration laws. -- The men are from the Middle East and are now suing, claiming their applications for naturalization have been delayed for years. -- Aymen Alasad, a native of Jordan who now lives in Arlington, accuses the federal government of... |
Yakima (Washington) Herald
Two faces of immigration debate square off at CWUS
... Jim Gilchrist, founder of the ?border-watching Minuteman Project, and Michael Cutler, a retired federal immigration agent, spoke Tuesday night at Central Washington University before a crowd of more than 300 that included some sign-waving critics of each side. |
Border Fire Report
Illegal alien serious crime escalating
Phoenix -- [Illegal] aliens, mostly from Mexico and Central America, now total 1953 inmates in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s jail system. -- That number represents 21 percent of the overall inmate population of men and women housed in the nation’s third largest jail system. |
Associated Press
McCain retools immigration stance
John McCain faces a dilemma on immigration as he works to persuade conservatives he's tough enough on the issue without erasing his historic appeal to Hispanic voters. Once a crusader for offering the nation's roughly 12 million [illegal aliens] a way to get legal status, McCain now says his first priority is fortifying U.S. borders. |
Canada Newswire -- Toronto
Harper should join US call to pull the plug on NAFTA, says Council of Canadians
Ottawa, Ont. -- Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's announcement yesterday that the Harper government would allocate $29 million toward "a stronger North American Partnership" is out of step with growing calls in Canada, the United States and Mexico to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Move to recall Arpaio, Thomas ends
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas held a joint press conference Wednesday to celebrate the failure of a recall campaign against both of them. -- A group named Arizonans for the U.S. Constitution and Recall of Joe Arpaio announced in November that they were gathering... |
Daily Pilot -- Newport Beach / Costa Mesa, Calif.
Rohrabacher finds Bush too sneaky
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher lashed out at the Bush Administration during a congressional speech Tuesday, saying the president’s contempt for congressional oversight was the rule, not the exception. -- “When I hear my friends on the other side of the aisle accusing this administration of stonewalling, of cover-ups, or of thwarting investigations..." |
Salt Lake Tribune
More charges in illegal alien raid fallout
Three men who were arrested during an immigration raid at a Lindon metal factory earlier this month have been charged in federal court with re-entering the country after previously being deported. -- A grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday against the men, who could face two years in federal prison... |
Freedom Folk -- Chicago Video Report
Blogs 4 Borders Weekly V-Burst
Does America “owe” the citizens of foreign nations jobs and money? And…NAFTA, was it really a bad thing? -- Plus, our interview with Phyllis Schlafly. -- 100% Preventable! American citizens continue to suffer and die due to open borders! When will the madness end? |
Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) Sun
Viers chosen for panel to work on immigration
State Rep. Thad Viers, who wrote more than a dozen immigration bills in the past two years, was appointed Tuesday to the conference committee that will work out differences in House and Senate versions of immigration reform. |
Hot Air
“Virtual Fence” goes back to the drawing board; real fence delayed
Five days ago Chertoff said that Boeing’s Sauron-tech is already partially online and busting waves of illegal immigrants, and the rest of it would be fired up this summer. -- Now, in a whiplash-inducing reversal, it’s going to take three years to get it working. You could blame Boeing, you could blame Chertoff, or you could blame the Politics of Shamnesty... |
Associated Press
Nogales drug tunnel figures get prison terms
Four alleged drug traffickers have been sentenced to up to 16 years in prison for digging and operating a drug tunnel between Nogales, Son. and Nogales, Ariz., Mexican federal prosecutors said Wednesday. -- Rigoberto Gaxiola Medina, who authorities say is linked to the dangerous and powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was sentenced to 11 years... |
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