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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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CNN
Mexico's corruption fight reaches civil workers
More than 11,500 public servants have been suspended or fined for corruption during the past two years, the Mexican government said. -- "We have made an important effort to oversee the good use of public funds," said President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday. "We have broken up networks of corruption in Pemex...." |
NewsMax.com
Blagojevich Scandal: What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wanted “something big” from the Obama administration in return for naming its preferred candidate to fill Obama’s Senate seat — and he delivered an expletive-filled tirade when Obama’s representatives apparently refused to go along... |
Christian Science Monitor
California running out of money
California lawmakers just got a Henry Paulson-like ultimatum from state officials: If they don't act, the state could be forced to suspend road, bridge, and other public-works projects as early as next week. Come March, California will be out of cash for even day-to-day operations... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
Associated Press
ACLU probes local immigration actions
Hagerstown, Md. --The Maryland chapter of the ACLU said Wednesday it is investigating whether local immigration policies that have sparked protests in some areas are being applied fairly and constitutionally. -- The Immigrants Rights Project could lead to lawsuits against jurisdictions where the ACLU concludes public officials have illegally discriminated against [illegal alien] groups... |
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American Border Patrol
Border Fence Survey Report
The U.S.-Mexico border has been under private aerial surveillance for the past two years. Every sixty days a specially equipped aircraft has flown along the border from Texas to the Pacific Ocean, documenting the construction of the border fence and vehicle barriers... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Parents of illegal alien shot by agent file suit
The parents of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the agent Tuesday. -- The lawsuit, the impact of which could be felt along the entire border, comes a month after an Arizona jury deadlocked for the second time in the prosecution of agent Nicholas Corbett on murder charges. |
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Californians for Population Stabilization
ALERT! Ask your Senators to pass E-Verify this week!
The E-Verify program will expire in March if the Senate does not reauthorize it. Congress is in session this week to consider the auto bailout so we must use the opportunity to attach E- verify to the bailout bill.... |
San Francisco Chronicle sc
Economy may trump Obama's pledge on immigration
The nation's economic crisis could make it tough for President-elect Barack Obama to deliver on his pledge to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, some analysts predict. -- With unemployment rising, foreign workers are less welcome, say immigration restrictionists, who have vowed to oppose offering legal status to the nation's estimated 12 million [illegal aliens]. |
Los Angeles Times
Hussein Obama talks border policy, among other things
...Q. - Will you support the build-out of the [border] fence and its continued construction? -- BHO: You know, one of the things I want to do -- and I'm very pleased with [Arizona Gov.] Janet Napolitano as the next head of the Department of Homeland Security, because nobody has more experience on these border issues than she does... |
Associated Press
Officials arrest 23 in credit card fraud, ID theft scheme that cost $1.5M
State and federal authorities said Tuesday they arrested nearly two dozen people, many with ties to Eastern Europe, in a credit card fraud and identity theft scheme that cost Las Vegas businesses and consumers about $1.5 million. -- The arrests were the first for a Eurasian organized crime task force based in Las Vegas... |
USA Today
Economy forcing many Mexicans to leave United States
When her 3-year-old son begs for pizza, or when her family is shivering through a subfreezing night in the Mexican highlands — those are the moments when Rosario Araujo misses America the most. -- Three months ago, Araujo and her husband, José Zavala, were still living comfortably, though illegally, in a suburb of Phoenix... |
Chicago Breaking News
Suspected illegals arrested at area refinery
Federal agents today arrested 15 janitorial workers at a BP Whiting Oil refinery plant in Indiana suspected of being in the country illegally, officials at ICE said. -- The workers, all but one from Mexico, were employed by United Building Maintenance in Carol Stream, Ill., officials said. A company official there declined to comment. |
Chicago Tribune
Barack Hussein Obama plans to reach out to Muslim world
Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital. -- And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama... |
NewsMax.com
Blagojevich Scandal: What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wanted “something big” from the Obama administration in return for naming its preferred candidate to fill Obama’s Senate seat — and he delivered an expletive-filled tirade when Obama’s representatives apparently refused to go along... |
Hays (Kansas) Daily News
Kaweah 'grand chief' faces fraud sentencing Friday
The leader of a group that claims to be an American Indian tribe could get years in prison at his sentencing Friday for defrauding immigrants with false claims that tribal membership gave them U.S. citizenship. -- Malcolm Webber, also known as Grand Chief Thunderbird IV, was convicted by a federal jury in August on six felony charges... |
WorldNetDaily.com
Campaign to contact Electoral College voters takes off
It took just hours for some 1,800 WND readers to jump aboard a new campaign to contact members of the Electoral College who are expected to vote Monday on sending Barack Obama to the White House. -- Following up a campaign that sent more than 60,000 letters by overnight delivery to the U.S. Supreme Court... |
Sand Mountain Reporter -- Albertville, Alabama
New city law targets illegals
The Albertville City Council passed a resolution Monday targeting contractors who employ "unauthorized aliens." -- The move comes just one month after the new mayor and council took office, signaling a more serious tone regarding illegal immigration... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Chandler official's fiery comments lead to disclaimer policy
...The new policy came after commission member and former City Council candidate Tracy Buelna drew criticism for a Sept. 10 guest column in The Chandler Republic in which she called for a tougher stand on illegal immigration and an end to the community's "sanctuary city" status... |
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border
The main article on last Thursday’s “El Universal” is horrifying. 150 thousand soldiers have deserted in the last eight years, of which more than one thousand 500 come from elite corps. -- The prior day, this daily pointed out that a year ago Sedena (read: Mex. Dep’t. of Defense) sent the nation’s Congress an SOS ... |
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Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los Angeles
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...  |
Lynn Stuter -- NewsWithViews.com
America's rogue usurper-in-chief
Over the past several days a number of people have sent me e-mails listing out all the records that should exist on Barack Hussein Obama. It's a laundry list, chief among those records are his vault copy birth certificate — that would show where he was born; his school records... |
Hispanic Business
Reconquista leader decries "anti-Hispanic bias"
Building a border fence, tougher immigration laws and resources that could allow local law enforcement agencies to target immigrants are all symptoms of a bias against Hispanics that must change, Rosa Rosales, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, said in El Paso this weekend... |
NewsMax.com
Rezko tie Links Obama and Blagojevich
President-elect Barack Obama’s ties to arrested Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich run primarily through Chicago slum lord and felon Tony Rezko. -- Rezko served as the political godfather for both Blagojevich and Obama, helping both to rise in Chicago and Illinois politics... |
El Paso Times
Texas license rules irks non-citizens, grousing ensues
Edwin Palacio feels marked by his new driver's license. -- For the first time in the 15 years since he fled the Philippines in fear for his life, Palacio said his new license with the words "TEMPORARY VISITOR" in bold red letters across the top has him worried he could be sent back. |
Gideon Rachman -- Financial Times -- London
And now for a world government
...A "world government" would involve much more than cooperation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. |
Face the State -- Denver
Tancredo to Obama: A 'New Deal' on the border fence?
On the heels of abysmal job projections released Monday by the University of Colorado, outgoing Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, is asking President-elect Barack Obama to consider creating new jobs by adding to the workforce required to build "the congressionally mandated fence between the United States and Mexico." |
The Hill -- Washington
Kennedy move deals blow to amnesty scheme
Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) allies on immigration reform regard his departure from the Judiciary Committee as a withering blow to their cause and are searching for a new champion on the controversial issue. -- Many are interpreting his decision to focus on healthcare as a setback to legislation that would put millions of illegal [aliens] on a path to citizenship... |
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