Arizona Republic -- Phoenix    Phoenix mayor seeks national spotlight on Arpaio's tactics    Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon escalated his feud with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday, saying he intends to call on the national media to come to the Valley and observe the sheriff's crackdown on illegal immigration. -- Criticizing the sweeps as heavy-handed and abusive, Gordon, said he intends to call a news conference at the National Press Club here in September.

Californians for Population Stabilization    Calif. AG asked to take action against sanctuary cities    Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) President, Dr. Diana Hull, in a letter to California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday, called for the California Department of Justice to "take action to protect the public safety and ensure that California’s laws are enforced." [Click here for more information]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix        sc         Mesa police find 22 at suspected drop house    Neighbors were surprised to see a parade of police cars and black Suburban's roll down the quiet streets of their west Mesa neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. -- Police received a 911 call that led officers to the home in the 500 block of South Visalia, said Detective Diana Tapia, a police spokeswoman...

Herb Denenberg -- Philadelphia Bulletin   Pull up our anchors to discourage illegal immigration    Contrary to popular opinion, current practice, and the conventional wisdom, children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. should not receive automatic citizenship. These children, sometimes called "anchor babies," have been thought to deserve automatic or birthright citizenship in accordance with the Constitution...

El Paso Times    Agent not negligent in death of 19-year-old illegal Mexican alien    A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the U.S. Border Patrol was not negligent in the 2003 fatal shooting of 19-year-old [illegal alien] Juan Patricio Peraza near Downtown El Paso. -- Peraza's parents, Cesar Peraza Barraza and ex-wife Ramona Irene Quijada Soto, sued the federal government seeking unspecified damages...

American Border Patrol     Photos of the day    Glenn Spencer sent these photos from California. He had just landed after flying an Operation BEEF mission. He has much to report but thought the people might like seeing this large group getting ready to jump over Mr. Chertoff's "fence."

Graham (Texas) Leader         sc        Six illegals nabbed after wreck    A two vehicle accident Monday morning turned out to be a lot more than law enforcement personnel expected. While there were no injuries in the accident, one vehicle turned out to be packed full of illegal [aliens]. -- While heading north on Highway 16 South just south of FM 1191, Juan Piceno, 28, driving a white Ford 350 pulling a flat-bed trailer...

Christians Reviving America's Values    Decision upholding Ramos and Compean convictions a farce    The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has completely mishandled the Appeal Case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean when they upheld the conviction of these two Border Agents. They are serving 11 and 12 year sentences for the shooting of an illegal alien drug smuggler as he fled back into Mexico...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix    Latino neighborhood slowly disappearing in central Mesa    Family by family, business by business, a central Mesa neighborhood is vanishing. -- Already struggling with blight, the Reed Park area near Gilbert and Broadway roads is taking another hit as undocumented immigrants leave the neighborhood, pressured by the state's employer-sanctions law, stricter immigration enforcement and a sagging economy...

Harrisonburg (Virginia) Daily News Record   Illegal alien guilty of making fake IDs    Jose Gutierrez-Ramirez will spend at least two years in a federal penitentiary for his role in a counterfeit identification ring. -- On Monday, Gutierrez-Ramirez, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty to two felony charges: aggravated ID fraud and identity fraud conspiracy...

Island Packet -- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina    Audit: Illegals using stolen, fake IDs to steal jobs    There's a lot of evidence that illegal immigrants are using counterfeit documents and stolen IDs to get jobs in the area, according to the Beaufort County administrator. -- Gary Kubic said Monday that the county has conducted hundreds of audits of businesses and their hiring practices over the last several months...

KPIX-TV -- San Francisco   Police: SF slaying victims mistaken gang targets    San Francisco's chief homicide investigator said Monday that a man and his two sons were gunned down last month by a suspected gang-member because of mistaken identity and not road rage as originally suspected. -- [Illegal alien.... criminal] Edwin Ramos is accused of gunning down the three at an intersection...

Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph. D. -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto   We want justice for agents Ramos and Compean!    This week I thought I would lose my mind when I heard of the horrifying decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals against Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. So many of us who had followed this case for the last few years were hoping that once all the evidence had finally been heard, unlike with the first trial that justice would be done. Wrong!! Justice was not done!!!

Daily Record -- Parsippany, New Jersey    Usual suspects gather for 'reform vigil' (aka pro-amnesty tantrum)    A vigil took place on the Green Monday evening where participants called for comprehensive immigration reform and the need to recognize the dignity of [illegal aliens'] labor and identity. -- Some 40 people attended the vigil that was organized by Wind of the Spirit, the local immigrant resource center...

Boston Globe  Judge refuses to reinstate R.I. cleaning contracts    A cleaning company whose workers were caught up in a federal immigration raid has lost it bid to keep more than two dozen state contracts. -- The Providence Journal reports Tri-State Enterprises asked a Superior Court judge for a temporary restraining order blocking the administration of Gov. Don Carcieri from canceling the contracts...

Californians for Population Stabilization      Tragedy in San Francisco from sanctuary policy!    You may have seen the recent news reports from San Francisco about the apparent triple homicide by an illegal alien gang member who had already been convicted of violent felonies, but was shielded from federal immigration authorities by the city's sanctuary policy....

Vail (Colorado) Daily    Illegal alien arrested in sex assault, police say    An Avon man was arrested for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman while she was sleeping, Avon police say. -- Rigoberto Ruelas Ledezma, 20, who is in the country illegally, was charged with felony sexual assault and misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact, said Lt. Greg Daly with the Avon Police...[More of Bush's pet fiends]

KOIN-TV -- Portland, Oregon   New driver's license ID rules have dramatic effect    Salem -- In February, a new law required drivers license applicants to present a verifiable social security number. -- In July, they were also required to show some proof of citizenship. -- Since those ID rules went into effect, there has been a dramatic decline in the number of applicants who take the knowledge test in Spanish.

Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com    Father of NAU scheme concedes dream 'is dead'     The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community. -- "The new president will probably discard the SPP," Pastor wrote...

KTAR -- Phoenix    Tip leads police to drop house, 50 in custody    Approximately 50 illegal immigrants were taken into custody during a drop house bust in Maryvale Tuesday morning. -- A citizens tip led police to the home near 56th Avenue and Thomas Road around 2 a.m. -- The say 15 to 20 people in the group are women and children...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest news from south of the border    The deceleration of remittances from US sources is worrying experts at the World Bank who consider these resources a “lifeline” for a large number of Mexican families. In may of this year, Mexico received 2.18 billion dollars compared to the 2.26 billion last year for the same period, a decrease of 3.4% (sic)...

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Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los Angeles     Villaraigosa embroils L. A. in losing lawsuits     You and I, as taxpayers, will be paying dearly for Villaraigosa's inability to pass the bar exam -- despite four tries. -- He keeps adopting unconstitutional and unfair policies that embroil the City of Los Angeles in litigation and deter employers from trying to do business here...

Federation for American Immigration Reform Legislative Update   Open-borders zealot Menendez blocks E-Verify     Congress let another week pass without any effort to reauthorize E-Verify. With House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) sticking to his target adjournment date of September 26th and Congress also set to recess for most of August and part of September, less than 25 legislative days remain to conduct business...

Associated Press    NC to review illegal alien community college ban in August    Raleigh -- North Carolina's community college system said last week it would continue to bar illegal [aliens] from enrolling until officials can review a federal opinion that could allow it to drop the policy. -- The policy will be reviewed at the board's next meeting Aug. 15, said system spokeswoman Chancy Kapp...

NJ.com   Morristown rally urges "tolerance" of illegals    Sixteen men, women and children stood in the Morristown Green tonight with pieces of a collective message stamped on their chests. -- The group, wearing white T-shirts with a single letter imprinted on the front and back, formed a human chain to display their collective statement: "No Human Being Is Illegal."