Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.    sc     Usual baby-wavers toss tantrum demanding amnesty for scofflaws    ...The event was sponsored by the Orange County Congregation Community Organization. Members say they believe it is a moral imperative to protect the community, and to stop immigration raids and the separation of families. -- The event began with a Mass at 7 p.m., followed by the testimony of three people who are in the country illegally... [See Amnesty Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Havana -- The Cuban daily Granma, the mouthpiece for the governing Communist Party, pronounced today that the deceased Democrat Senator Edward Kennedy supported until his last breath, "the goal of his family: clean up the dirty politics of the U.S...."

KDKA -- Pittsburgh      City Council considers "assault weapons" ban for G-20    As the G-20 Summit nears, Pittsburgh City Council is considering the possibility of instituting an assault weapons ban during the high-profile event. -- According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, city officials are talking about reviving an old law that would ban those types of weapons... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

San Francisco Chronicle      Dufty not swayed by mayor on sanctuary city legislation     Supervisor Bevan Dufty is probably glad to be vacationing in Provincetown on Cape Cod - 3,000 miles away from the hubbub over Supervisor David Campos' sanctuary city resolution, Mayor Gavin Newsom's authorization of a leak of a memo outlining legal problems with it and Supervisor John Avalos' launching of an investigation into the memo leak. You know, just another week at City Hall... [See Sanctuary Watch]

Brittany Fortier -- Campus Reporter Online      Diagnosing illegal immigration    While immigrants comprise 12.5 percent of the nation's total population, they are 27.1 percent of the uninsured, an immigration study group found. In turn, "64 percent of illegal immigrants are uninsured," according to Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies...

Eagle Forum      Town Hall Meetings: Keep an eye on your representatives    Register for Eagle Forum Town Hall meeting alerts so you will always know when your Congressman and Senators are holding an event.

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Border Patrol faulted over I-19 checkpoint    A draft government study found the Border Patrol isn’t measuring how its checkpoints near and along the border affect the quality of life in surrounding communities. -- One of the findings of a Government Accountability Office draft report was that the Border Patrol hasn’t documented how many agents it needs...

Joan Swirsky -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto      Who is behind quashing the birth certificate issue?    Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama's Constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of public awareness, I wrote an article about how easy it was to find my then -92-year-old mother’s birth certificate... [See Obama Watch]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Six men charged with human smuggling    The Sierra Vista Police Department on Friday announced the arrests of six men in connection with a local human smuggling ring. -- Arrested over the course of the past week were Kelley T. Fort, 18; Joshua R. Kleese, 18; Raymon A. Lopez, 21; Jaquary T. Richard, 18; Francisco G. Ruiz, 19; and Dakota J. Sawvell, 19...

Outdoor Life Magazine      Crying Wolf    Baltimore Conservative Examiner Al Ritter in his Aug. 22 blog on examiner.com documents how the Southern Poverty Law Center is, once again, crying wolf to somehow become relevant again. The wolf at the door? Militias, of course. -- "Our dear friends of the Southern Poverty Law Center recently concluded another completely bias research and fact finding report..."

Associated Press     Mexicans complaining again    Mexico, DF -- A Mexican official says discrimination against Mexicans in the United States is growing and is most pronounced in areas where immigration is relatively new. -- Director of Consular Affairs and Protection Daniel Hernandez says that "where we are seeing the most complex, hard and deep-seated discrimination..." [More Mexican meddling]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix      Tempe pastor prays for president's death    A Tempe pastor is raising eyebrows with his prayers that include his pleas for the death of President Barack Obama. -- Steven Anderson, 28, was featured on CNN this week for the content of his sermons, including one earlier this month titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama." An audio of the sermon posted on Anderson's Web site includes...

Public Service News      Oregon open-borders zealots don't want police enforcing the law    ...Although 287(g) has not come to Oregon yet, it expanded to include 19 states this spring. This week, an Oregon advocacy group, Partnership for Safety and Justice, signed a letter to the President protesting the program. Spokesperson Denise Welch says 287(g) promotes racial profiling.

Brent Bozell -- Townhall.com      Remembering Ted Kennedy    Our national media are treating the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy as a historic event, more historic even than the deaths of presidents like Gerald Ford. Is this level of attention warranted? -- We can all grant that Ted Kennedy was a major legislator with his hands in a lot of historic government action...

Associated Press       Texas RINO Rick Perry calls border wall 'nonsense'    In a speech [on August 28] to at the Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Forum, Gov. Rick Perry said he prefers a "technological barrier" along the Texas-Mexico border instead of a physical border wall. -- A spokesman for Perry’s opponent in the Republican primary for governor, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said Hutchison supports a fence... [That's a load of BS]

Numbers USA      Border expert explains consequences of illegal immigration on the environment    Securing our southern border raises interesting environmental issues. But there is no denying the environmental devastation along the border resulting from illegal immigration and our chronic failure to secure the borders. Janice Kephart uses exclusive hidden camera video to tell the story of the negative effects of not stopping illegal immigration across the Mexican border...

Washington Times Editorial      Monsters under the bed    Democrats and liberal activists are going to extreme lengths to portray opponents of government health care as irrational hatemongers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched this theme by denouncing fictitious crowds "carrying swastikas and symbols like that." When reality does not match their script, Democrats misconstrue facts or have acts of hate staged for propaganda purposes...

Wall Street Journal      Mexico investigates passport corruption    Dallas -- Mexican authorities are investigating allegations of corruption and improper behavior at the Mexican consulate here, triggering calls from political leaders on both sides of the border for an ethics review at Mexico's consular offices in the U.S. [See Crime Watch]

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.      Groups mobilize for the next immigration battle    ..."Our direct e-mail list is well over 500 people but beyond that a good many of our direct e-mail lists are group leaders of other groups throughout the nation. It could get up to the thousands," said Barbara Coe, founder of California Coalition for Immigration Reform...

Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's Office     Arpaio wins important ruling    The United States District Court in Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres vs. Arpaio denied the motion to certify the lawsuit for class action treatment against Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. -- The judge determined that the motion failed to present sufficient evidence of the fact that a real and immediate threat of future constitutional injury...

The Examiner     Part I: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Pro-life Movement    If you are involved in the pro-life movement for any length of time, you will encounter the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are many connections between this particular image of Our Lady and the pro-life cause. -- On December 12, 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to an Indian named Juan Diego and requested that a shrine... [Related item]

Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise     28,000 pounds of marijuana seized near Temecula    Riverside County sheriff's deputies seized more than 28,000 pounds of marijuana Wednesday after they pulled over a big rig near Temecula in what was described as a routine traffic stop on the freeway, authorities said. -- Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said deputies stopped the 18-wheeler about 9 a.m. for making an illegal lane change on northbound Interstate 15...