Irish Central -- New York        sc      'No chance' of deal for illegal alien Irish in America    There’s little hope for a bi-lateral deal between Ireland and the U.S. for the approximately 50,000 [illegal alien]  Irish workers in the States, according to a leading American congresswoman in Dublin Tuesday. -- In talks between the "Friends of Ireland" congressional group and Ceann Comhairle...

Associated Press      Obama administration allegedly seeking volunteers for border duty    The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday. -- The plan is a stopgap measure being worked out between the Defense Department and the Homeland Security Department...

Orange County Register      State might not be able to avoid issuing IOUs    With the clock ticking down on the current fiscal year, lawmakers and the governor appeared Monday like they might not be able to cut a deal to address California's $24.3 billion deficit before the state is scheduled to start issuing IOUs this week... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

KONP Radio -- Port Angeles, Wash.     Local Border Patrol talks with business leaders    Local border patrol agents are continuing checks for illegal [aliens] on the north Olympic Peninsula. -- And they're doing it by working with other local law enforcement agencies. -- Port Angeles Border Patrol station supervisor Christopher Dyer says a day seldom goes by when he's not working with other law enforcement agencies...

Coming Up JULY 11 Mower County Courthouse -- Austin, Minn. -- 2 PM CDT Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally

The Examiner      Democrats play word games on immigration    On June 24, Sen. Charles Schumer gave a remarkable speech on immigration. Preparing the way for the Obama administration's expected push for comprehensive reform, Schumer seemed to adopt a newer, tougher-sounding tone as he promised that a bill would be passed during "this Congress."

KCBS-TV -- Los Angeles      California likely to run out of money at midnight    A midnight deadline loomed Tuesday as California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dueled over ways to cut into a $24.3 billion budget deficit or face having to issue IOUs to cover the state's bills. -- Democrats lawmakers, the majority in both houses, tried two approaches Monday but both failed... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Associated Press       sc      Minnesota court rules for ultra-liberal Franken in Senate fight    The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race. The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling...

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      US Border Patrol makes two significant arrests    U.S. Border Patrol agents in Douglas made two significant arrests of illegal [aliens] over the weekend, according to a press release. -- They arrested a Guatemalan national, and criminal records inquiries during processing revealed a conviction for sodomy... [See Crime Watch]

Associated Press      Ailing California economy could prolong US recession    California faces a $24 billion budget shortfall, an eye-popping amount that dwarfs many states' entire annual spending plans. -- Beyond California's borders, why should anyone care that the home of Google and the Walt Disney Co. might stop paying its bills this week? [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Gerald Celente -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Obamageddon — 2012     Empire America is on the verge of collapse. Its social, economic and political systems are failed and failing, observes Trends Research Institute Director, Gerald Celente, in the Summer Trends Journal. -- "The measures taken by successive governments to save the politically corrupt, morally bankrupt, physically decrepit giant from collapse have served to only hasten its demise...." [See Obama Watch and NWO Watch]

Stein Report      Illegals grouse about not having unemployment insurance    MSNBC takes a human-interest angle in reporting on how illegal [aliens] facing prolonged unemployment in the U.S. are starting to return home. The man they profiled says he doesn't want to return to Mexico, and now his family is crammed into a house with a dozen other people...

Mike Cutler -- Family Security Matters       Why local law enforcement must work with immigration officials    When it comes to crime and illegal aliens, it is absolutely essential that local law enforcement work in close cooperation with ICE. -- I speak from experience, having spent ten years as a senior special agent of the INS assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)... [See Crime Watch]

Washington Times      Parties spar over how Obama's doing    The accomplishments of President Obama and his allies in Congress over his first six months in office are — depending on whom is asked — either tackling the recession and heralding a new era of progressive reform or bankrupting the nation with unprecedented speed...

San Diego Union-Tribune     U.S., Mexican authorities looking for border tunnel    U.S. and Mexican authorities searched Monday for a tunnel used to transport drugs or [illegal aliens] to the United States beneath the border fence at Smugglers Gulch. -- About 6 p.m., Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gathered around a manhole on the U.S. side of the border...

KRIS-TV -- Corpus Christi       Border Patrol bust approximately $4 million in pot    Border Patrol agents made a multi-million dollar drug bust down in Hebbronville over the weekend. --They found more than two and a half tons of marijuana hidden inside an oil field service tank when the driver hauling it was stopped at an immigration checkpoint south of town... [See Crime Watch]

Southeast Missourian     Invader charged for allegedly threatening to blow up courthouse   A man faces charges for allegedly threatening to blow up the Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Police Department and the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Federal Courthouse in retaliation for a police officer notifying immigration authorities about him, according to Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle...

Kenric Ward -- Vero Beach (Fla.) Press-Journal      Ignorance is no excuse for identity theft    What’s the definition of fraud? Evidently, the U.S. Supreme Court has one for illegal immigrants, and one for the rest of us. -- The astounding, unanimous decision that overturned the conviction of a Mexican migrant worker flipped logic on its head and stripped one more tool from immigration agents...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    The government of Peru extended the state of emergency for 60 days in two districts and three provinces of the jungle in view of the threats of narcotraffic and terrorism in these localities, according to a regulation published today in the national gazette...

MSNBC      "Immigrants" fighting hard to stay in U.S.    Elkhart Co., Ind. ...Hispanic immigrants, chiefly those here illegally, are particularly vulnerable as the recession lingers. Without proper documentation, those out of work can’t access unemployment and other government benefits, increasing the pressure to pull up stakes and look for opportunity elsewhere...

WBRZ-TV -- Baton Rouge      Two Guatemalans arrested in slaying    New Iberia, La. -- The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Department arrested two people in the death of a 28-year-old Guatemalan national. -- The man was identified as Felipe Cogom Cortez, according to media reports. -- Authorities reported the homicide occurred early Saturday morning in the 2900 block of Jerome Road...

Financial Times -- London      Deficit forces California to issue IOUs     California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red. -- Once the US’s richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

San Francisco Chronicle      Bologna Case: Judge orders vicious illegal alien tried on 3 murder counts    A San Francisco judge ordered a 22-year-old alleged gang member Monday to stand trial in the daylight slaying of a father and his two sons, citing the testimony of a surviving family member who said he got a good look at the defendant's face as he opened fire on an Excelsior district street...

KGBT-TV -- Harlingen, Texas      Invaders caught in Brownsville sewer    Two men faced a judge after they allegedly led a group of illegal immigrants in a failed smuggling attempt through Brownsville’s sewers. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Agustin Sanchez-Cruz and Ramon Acosta Hernandez on federal immigrant smuggling charges this past Thursday...

Center for Immigration Studies      ICE Adopts Catch and Release for 287(g)    According to news accounts, earlier this month ICE issued a directive to one of the most productive 287(g) jurisdictions to cease holding many of the illegal aliens arrested by the sheriff’s officers, and instead release them back into the community. Just like in the commercial, where the mean guy in the suit takes away...

Wall Street Journal      ACORN role in census challenged    Some Republican members of Congress want the U.S. Census Bureau to end a 2010 Census partnership with Acorn, the community organizing group that was hit by accusations of voter-registration fraud in the 2006 and 2008 elections. -- Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, signed up...

Prison Planet      Red Alert: The total takeover of America enters its final phase     The wholesale looting of America and the transfer of wealth and power over to a private banking elite who are setting up a world government, along with the complete obliteration of any remaining freedom to protest, resist, or even speak out against this agenda, is now entering its final phase...