Joe Guzzardi -- VDare.com            sc     On Independence Day, the struggle to regain our classrooms continues    OMG! -- To think I was foolish enough to project into my summer cash flow my low-three-figure California income tax rebate. -- With the state again locked in a budget battle that appears to have no permanent resolution, I now face a dilemma of an altogether different type...

Houston Chronicle      Cops have had enough of Houston's sanctuary city policies    Houston's largest police union, citing the death of six officers during Mayor Bill White's tenure, called on the mayor and City Council this week to hire more officers, restore $14 million in overtime pay and overturn the long-standing policy of not questioning residents about their immigration status... [See Sanctuary Watch]

San Diego Union -Tribune      U.S. agents find shored-up 53-foot tunnel near border    U.S. law enforcement agents investigating an incomplete cross-border tunnel west of the San Ysidro border crossing report that they have found a 53-foot passageway shored up with plywood and equipped with battery-powered lights...

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Anderson Cooper 360°    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Waste is killing California       Although some immigrants are great assets to the U.S., in 2002 alone, according to government data, welfare programs given to legal immigrant families in California cost roughly $6 billion, and illegal families, $850 million!....

KTUU-TV -- Anchorage      Gov. Sarah Palin to resign her office    Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning. -- Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks on Saturday, July 25, Palin said...

Washington Times     Colombian prisoners strain D.C. Jail    Two of the District's top law enforcement officials are warning that dozens of federal prisoners with ties to Colombian rebel groups and international drug rings are a threat to security at the D.C. Jail and pose a risk of escape into the surrounding neighborhood...

Orlando Sentinel     Invader plans to sue Lake County Sheriff over detention    A 24-year-old [illegal alien.... criminal] mother from Honduras who was held in the Lake County Jail for more than two weeks -- rather than the 48 hours allowed under federal law -- plans to sue the Lake County Sheriff's Office. -- Rita Cote and husband Robert Cote filed notices of claim against the Sheriff's...

Heritage Foundation     Obama breaks promise on transparency — AGAIN    You may recall almost immediately after assuming the presidency Barack Obama boldly proclaimed, "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency." -- These types of political proclamations usually mean very little. I recall Bill Clinton promised to run "the most ethical administration in the history of the country" when he took office...

Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters   Welcome to Obamacare theater    The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the Obama administration broadcast another health-care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town hall." -- Chicago consigliere and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett managed the floor and human props for Obama...

KGBT-TV -- Harlingen, Texas      Border Patrol bust illegal smuggling ring    A concerned citizen's call regarding illegal activity takes federal agents to an apartment complex located at the 27-hundred block of mile 17-1/2 near McColl Road. -- "We gained access, we asked for consent, we gained access and we were able to find 20 [illegal aliens] throughout the residence...."

Salinas Californian      Reconquistas say they are tired of waiting for amnesty    ...Wednesday's community meeting in Salinas followed action by the Obama administration which launched investigations of hundreds of businesses around the country as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on employers who hire illegal workers [criminals]...

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

Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner      California is closer to ending illegal "anchor baby" births    San Diego – Californians are one step closer to ending the "Anchor Baby" births by illegals throughout the state. In an effort to close ever-expanding social service programs the California Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010, Initiative 09-0010 has begun the signature process...

American Border Patrol     William Gheen is an idiot     ALIPAC NOTE:  "We warned the nation and all group leaders, including Spencer and Gilchrist, about Shawna Forde many months before these murders." -- SPENCER'S COMMENT: I don’t recall ever hearing anything from ALIPAC about Forde...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Today's NAFBPO update from south of the border    Two anonymous videos showing six presumed members of the "Zetas" expose the alleged relationship between (Mexico's) National Immigration Agency, federal police, people traffickers and that criminal group, known as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel. The first video shows a group of three "Zetas" detained clandestinely...

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.        Obama's census will forever change the course and complexion of America    ...In violation of Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, Mr. Obama has ordered federal border patrol officials to scale down enforcement so that the Census will be artificially swollen by the influx of millions of illegal Latinos. -- Defending Mr. Obama's illegal directive, Deputy Census Director Preston Jay Waite told the press that raids on illegals occurred during the population count... [Alt. link]

Daily Texan     Toll road bills ignite political controversy at special session    Leaders of various political activist groups in Texas lobbied against two bills Wednesday that they say could increase taxes and allow taxpayer money to be used to fund private transportation projects. -- The state Legislature began a special session Wednesday to address three bills concerning the reauthorization of five state agencies before the next regular session.

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix      ICE audits 32 Arizona companies over hiring     Federal immigration-enforcement agents notified 32 Arizona companies on Wednesday that their employment records are being audited to determine whether they are complying with laws aimed at preventing the hiring of illegal workers...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      NAFTA Superhighway returns from the dead     The Trans-Texas Corridor, part of the NAFTA Superhighway projected to link the United States with Canada and Mexico as an integral cog of the North American Union, is back on the agenda after Texas Governor Rick Perry lied in claiming that the proposal was dead earlier this year. -- The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan-American Union...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch      Missouri Republicans continue to question Obama citizenship     Two Missouri state representatives today attended meetings conducted by Orly Taitz in which the California dentist questioned the validity of the presidency of Barack Obama. -- Taitz alleges that Obama’s birth certificate is illegitimate, and even if it’s not, she says, he can’t be president because his father was Kenyan...

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com      The big whorehouse on the Potomac    As Americans celebrate July 4th, they can contemplate that the union of "free and independent states," like the former British colonial power, has evolved into its final manifestation--a complete whore house. While Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with every personal expenditure...

Fox News     Sotomayor helped Hispanic cops challenge promotions exam    Sonia Sotomayor's controversial decision to oppose white firefighters in a reverse discrimination case overturned by the Supreme Court this week was not the first time the high court nominee was involved in a discrimination case involving public safety employees...

Associated Press      Feds could seize Calif. parks if closed by budget    California officials said Wednesday they are trying to avert the federal government's threat to seize six parks that could be closed to help reduce the state's ballooning budget deficit. -- National Park Service Regional Director Jonathan Jarvis warned in a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that all six occupy former federal land that could revert to the U.S. government... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]