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Monday, September 29, 2008
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Score One for Western Civilization
Austrians Fighting Back
New York Times -- September 29
Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Parties Make Gains in Austrian Elections
Berlin, Germany -- Austria's anti-immigrant, far-right parties benefited from the severe discontent among citizens of that small Alpine nation, winning almost a third of the vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
The country's two mainstream parties suffered significant losses, though they received the most votes and could rebuild their fractious, unpopular coalition. The Social Democratic Party led the voting with 30 percent, followed by the conservative People's Party with 26 percent; they slipped by roughly 6 percentage points for the Social Democrats and 9 percentage points for the People's Party. [...]
Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiments have been powerful forces in European politics in recent years, and rising discontent over globalization and higher prices has helped fuel populist sentiment, benefiting right-wing groups that place the blame for economic woes squarely on immigrants and foreign competition. |

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WAVY-TV -- Portsmouth, Virginia sc
Holding facility for illegal aliens planned
Farmville, Va. -- Construction of a $21 million holding facility for illegal [aliens] is expected to begin in mid-October in Farmville. -- The 1,040-bed holding facility will be run by ICA-Farmville and will employ almost 200 people. Construction is expected to be completed by June 30, 2009...  |
Mount Pleasant (Iowa) News
Friends of immigration focus on anti-illegal alien groups
Representatives from the Center for New Community, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that advocates for diversity [read: a bunch of radical left-wing kooks], met with locals Friday night to discuss the growth and recruitment strategies of national groups they called "anti-immigrant..." |
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Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los Angeles
Matching funds update and correction
Let's start with the good news: as of this moment, we have now raised $155,426. -- Now the bad news: it turns out that, contrary to my earlier announcement, we have not yet qualified for matching funds, because the rules do not treat all contributors and contributions alike... |
San Antonio Express-News
Border wall sparks big debate in small town
Presidio, Texas -- This tiny border city in the Chihuahuan Desert has steered clear of international political controversy since the Mexican Revolution nearly a century ago, when Pancho Villa set up his headquarters in Ojinaga, across the Rio Grande, after capturing the town in a bloody assault...  |
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Freedom Folks -- Chicago Outstanding Segment on the Taxpayer Shakedown
Latest V-burst from Blogs 4 Borders
...Vigilance Dispatch: Everyone is talking about the massive bailouts. How has illegal immigration fed into the financial crisis that Washington plans to fix using our taxpayer dollars? |
Associated Press
1,100 arrested in California immigration sweep
Santa Ana, Calif. -- U.S. immigration authorities said Monday they arrested more than 1,150 people in California in a three-week sweep, the state's largest of its type since 2003. -- The sweep targeted immigration violators including those who have ignored deportation orders or returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported...  |
York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record
Hit-and-run illegal alien faces jail time
An illegal immigrant who struck a Hanover woman with his vehicle then fled to Mexico will spend up to two years in prison after pleading guilty in York County court. -- Alejandro Aleman, 35, whose last known address was in the 100 block of Lincoln Way East in New Oxford, was charged after police said he struck 69-year-old Esther V. Rodgers...  |
Daily Breeze -- Torrance, Calif.
LAX worker to be arraigned on smuggling charges
A longtime city employee is set to be arraigned Monday in federal court for allegedly smuggling [illegal aliens] into the country through restricted areas of Los Angeles International Airport. -- Roberto Amaya Canchola, 53, of North Hills, was charged Sept. 12 by a federal grand jury with three counts of making money from immigrant smuggling... |
Daily Californian -- Berkeley, Calif.
Students march for DREAM Act
Protesters from around California marched in Sacramento Friday to encourage Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign legislation that would allow [illegal alien] college students to be eligible for financial aid. -- Nearly 2,000 people gathered for the protest, including around 100 students from UC Berkeley and Berkeley High School... |
American Patrol Report
Bailout bill stalls
At 11:04 AM PDT the final vote was 207 yeas and 226 nays. The Wall Street bailout bill has failed. Click here for updates from CNN. |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Arpaio confident about re-election
Maricopa County voters are familiar with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. -- His title is plastered on county facilities and equipment throughout the Valley. Arpaio's face is regularly seen on TV and when it's not, there's always footage of his detractors available, and the sheriff's name comes up in stories in the Arizona Republic more than 850 times in a given year...  |
Rachel Alexander -- Intellectual Conservative
Bailout scheme rewards risky, greedy investments by big businesses
The Republicans are becoming more like Democrats than the Democrats. -- The proposed bailout of failing financial institutions has the Republican and Democrat Parties looking like they are about to switch roles again as they did at the turn of the last century. In a sweeping move toward socialism...  |
KNXV-TV - Phoenix
Caught on camera: Border patrol agents attacked by rocks
Border patrol agents in the Tucson sector said the 262 miles along Arizona’s border with Mexico can be downright dangerous for them. -- Surveillance cameras show people on the Mexican side of the border hurling rocks over the fence at agents...  |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Immigration violation results in prison, deportation for Mexican
A Mexican man and illegal alien was sentenced to two years in prison for violating federal immigration laws. -- U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab sentenced Ignacio Rivera-Vazquez, 22, to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He will be deported...  |
Steve Sailer -- VDare.com
Karl Rove -- Architect of the minority mortgage meltdown
Whose fault is it? -- Last week, the mainstream conservative punditry finally picked up an idea I had first put forward in August 2007 (and developed with more detail last June): that an underestimated factor the financial crisis set off by the mortgage meltdown is our reigning ideology of multiculturalism and diversity...  |
Phoenix Business Journal sc
Sheriff’s immigration tip line ringing off the hook
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is seeing an upswing in calls regarding businesses allegedly hiring illegal [aliens]. -- The Sheriff’s Office has tip lines for the public to call about unlawful employment of illegal immigrants; drop houses where migrants are kept after entering the U.S. from Mexico; and day laborers looking for work.  |
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle
Immigrant database at risk of expiring
Columbia, SC -- In a few weeks, South Carolina's new, bitterly fought immigration law could be largely stripped of its usefulness. -- The South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act, signed into law by the governor this summer, relies on a federal database called E-Verify to check Social Security numbers of employees to make sure they belong to legal residents or citizens...  |
Frontera NorteSur -- New Mexico State University -- Las Cruces, New Mexico
Narco 101
The news from Mexico does not cease to startle, with the latest story seemingly outdoing the previous one. Two dozen execution victims are found slain in a rural field. Grenades are tossed into crowds celebrating the country’s Independence Day in Morelia, Michoacan, a colonial city designated a world heritage site... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Business owner warns of Arpaio raids' effects
The president of the latest business raided over the hiring of illegal workers said the sweeping actions by the Sheriff's Office may create a chilling effect on Chandler and other East Valley companies. -- Mike Garrison said he was alerted just before 7 a.m. Wednesday that Maricopa County deputies were serving a search warrant on his Chandler business...  |
Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal
Hispanics and police
Scott Cunningham, Winston-Salem's new police chief, made a bold and needed move last week when he told local Hispanics that his department's primary responsibility is protecting residents and arresting criminals -- not enforcing federal immigration laws...  |
New York Times
Challenges to a sheriff, both popular and reviled
Phoenix -- Joe Arpaio, a cherished figure in the movement against illegal immigration, is running for a fifth term as the Maricopa County sheriff. But a referendum on his contentious approach to law enforcement and the growing challenges to it is already under way in the public arena...  |
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