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Taken For a Ride
Taxpayers Shell Out $51 Million for Mexican Air Taxi
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson -- August 10
U.S. is out $51M for flying 64,000 illegals to Mexico
The flights are intended to break the smuggling cycle and reduce the desert death count. But evidence shows the binational Interior Repatriation Program has not made any substantial difference in border smuggling or desert deaths. And the principal beneficiary is a Mexican airline contracted to operate the twice-daily flights out of Tucson, critics say. [...]
"Why can't we use U.S. carriers?" asked Glenn Spencer, president of the Cochise County-based American Border Patrol, a non-governmental organization that keeps tabs on the Border Patrol. "Probably Mexico won't let us. So, they are profiting off of our nonsense."
...The money could have built as many as 20 miles of fencing on the border or bought camera systems that watch the border, both of which would be more effective deterrents, said Spencer, of the American Border Patrol. The deaths and continued traffic show that the flights don't stop illegal immigrants from trying again, he said.
The problem, he said, is that the Department of Homeland Security doesn't measure its own performance. |
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Oliver Hagley -- BorderFireReport.com sc
There will be blood
...The American people have repeatedly informed our leaders that we want an immediate end to and reversal of illegal immigration. We want the federal government to secure the borders and deport the illegal aliens from our midst, as soon as possible....  |
Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram
Security tight at festival
A day after a security guard killed a gunman who wounded three people at the Samoan Flag Festival in Carson, sheriff's deputies increased their presence at the Victoria Park event, but canceled all of its night activities. -- Except for allowing about 80 people to watch pivotal cricket and rugby matches Thursday... |
Mark Andrew Dwyer
See the future of multi-culti idiocy
It must come as a shocking news to all those who preached, "We are one global community now. We are all the citizens of the world. As freedom and democracy are spreading all over the globe, there will be wars no more..." |
Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram
Security tight at festival
A day after a security guard killed a gunman who wounded three people at the Samoan Flag Festival in Carson, sheriff's deputies increased their presence at the Victoria Park event, but canceled all of its night activities. -- Except for allowing about 80 people to watch pivotal cricket and rugby matches Thursday... |
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American Border Patrol
Border cameras up and running again
American Border Patrol reports that after a few days of downtime due to storm damage Operation Virtual Vigilance's thermal camera was at work again last night and aided in the apprehension of at least twelve illegal aliens. After the action a Border Patrol agent called the volunteer and thanked him for his help. |
McClatchy Newspapers
Mexico's drug traffickers set their sights on top officials
Mexico, DF -- Mexican Congressman David Figueroa already had survived two assassination tries when federal intelligence officials passed the news to him: They'd heard that another attempt soon would be made. -- Figueroa took it seriously. He dropped out of the race for governor of Sonora state... |
Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram
Suspect in fatal San Pedro hit-and-run is arrested after 16 years
A man sought for 16 years in the hit-and-run deaths of an elderly couple in San Pedro was captured Friday as he tried to flee the country, police said. -- Cristian Faustino Lopez Herrera, 36, who had been living under the alias Oscar Lopez Herrera... |
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Did agency use illegal workers in state?
Three years ago, Doris Ruiz was a champion of matching businesses desperate for workers with immigrants desperate for jobs. -- Her Minneapolis-based Olen Staff Co. was placing hundreds of mostly Mexican-born workers with employers from Ashland, Wis., and Blackduck, Minn., to the Twin Cities... |
Chicago Tribune
Mexican drug wars are fought with U. S. weapons
Sierra Vista, Az. -- High-powered automatic weapons and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into Mexico, fueling a war among drug traffickers, the army and police that has left thousands dead, according to U.S. and Mexican officials... |
Allan Wall -- VDare.com
Diversity is strength! It's also... Mexican bad driving
The body count in the drug cartel war here in Mexico continues to mount. A July 18th estimate by Reforma calculated that, as of July 18th, the death toll from cartel-related violence had surpassed 2,300 thus far, in calendar year 2008... |
New York Post
Lost sovereignty
There's a new land grab starting in America. -- Foreign money, which up to now has focused its attention on investing in iconic commercial real estate - like Barneys New York and the Chrysler Building - is now moving to scoop up tens of thousands of discounted foreclosed homes across the country... |
Washington Times
Agents unevenly deployed on border
Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where illegal immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. -- Some critics see politics at play... |
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American Border Patrol
Photos of the day
According to the Arizona Daily Star, the recent incursion into the United States by Mexico occurred within view of the new steel vehicle border barriers. American Border Patrol has studied its data from a recent aerial survey and discovered a hole in the barbed wire fence... |
Laura Armstrong -- Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal
ICE raid points out illegals problem
...Having been on the front lines as an INS agent and member of an elite drug enforcement task force for 30 years, Cutler has seen it all and is an expert on the absolute necessity for better border security. Like our friend D.A. King, he's targeted by open border activists who call him a hater or worse, but he writes of his empathy for workers who suffer at the hands of those who profit off them. |
Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los Angeles
Game Show: "Are you smarter than an L.A. City Council member?"
"Jeopardy!" is my favorite game show, but it's pretty hard. -- "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" can pose some pretty challenging questions, too. -- I think we need a game show that makes us all feel like geniuses, so I'm pitching "Are you Smarter Than An L.A. City Council Member?" |
Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Daily News
Repeat illegal immigrant prosecutions up
Pittsburgh -- The U.S. Attorney's Office says federal prosecutions of repeat illegal-entry defendants in Western Pennsylvania have increased from two in 2000 to 170 over the past four years. -- This week, a federal judge in Pittsburgh sentenced one Mexican man who was detained in June to time served and ordered that he be removed from the country... |
KCBS -- San Francisco
Sanctuary city a federal matter
Federal investigators are looking into San Francisco's sanctuary policy which sent illegal juvenile offenders back home, or in some cases to Southern California group homes, backed by city funds. -- “Very close to it,” says United States Attorney for Northern California Joseph Russoniello when asked if San Francisco is harboring fugitives. |
KPHO-TV -- Phoenix
Arpaio to launch new crime sweep on Wednesday
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said his next crime suppression sweep on Wednesday will be a lot different from all the others. -- But he stopped short on Saturday explaining how the latest crackdown will vary from the others. And he didn't announce which community he will target... |
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