Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram     sc    Mexican drug ring broken up in Paramount sting    Authorities broke up a drug distribution ring linked to a notorious Mexican cartel after snatching traffickers who agreed to buy 160 pounds of cocaine in a Home Depot parking lot on Alondra Boulevard, officials said Thursday. -- The bust involved an investigation into a Sinaloa, Mexico-based drug ring with ties to Los Angeles, Imperial and Riverside counties... [See Crime Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Cancun, QR, Mex. -- The State Secretary of Public Security, the Director of Tourist Police and the State Attorney General are being interrogated by the Federal Department of Justice (PGR) regarding their presumed relationship with Los Zetas, the armed enforcement branch of the Gulf Cartel. These arrests join those of the first and second in command of the PGR in the state...

Pat Buchanan -- VDare.com      Health care distortions... or truths?    We should have "an honest debate" on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, "not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions." -- Among the "phony claims" made against the House bill, says the president, are that it provides funding for abortions, guarantees coverage for illegal aliens..

Reuters     Unemployment rate rises to 26-year high    U.S. employers cut a fewer-than-expected 216,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate rose to a 26-year high, the government said on Friday in a report showing a still fragile labor market. -- The Labor Department said the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent after dipping to 9.4 percent in July and the decline in payrolls was the smallest in a year...

Wall Street Journal      Pot 'plantations' on the rise     Marijuana growers, many believed to be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels, are aggressively expanding their illegal farming operations in the U.S., clearing land to plant pot in dozens of national forests from coast to coast. -- Illicit cannabis farms on public land first sprang up in California more than a decade ago and remain a serious problem in that state... [See Crime Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Thursday's NAFBPO update from south of the border    The Chiapas State Police, in coordination with federal officers, arrested three presumed members of the Sinaloa Cartel, driving luxury vehicles, at a traffic checkpoint on the highway between Tuxtla Gutierrez and San Fernando. Two of the suspects were from Veracruz and the other from Sonora...

Stein Report      Jeb Bush's CFR report in favor of mass amnesty    The Council on Foreign Relations is touting its new report calling for "legalization" of the 12+ million illegal [aliens] currently in the U.S. The Council says that "no enforcement effort will succeed properly unless the legal channels for coming to the United States can be made to work better," and calls for expanded legal immigration... [See Amnesty Watch]

Alan Caruba -- Family Security Matters     Obama's Communists    “Tailgunner” Joe McCarthy, a 1950s U.S. Senator who lent his name to any effort to expose America’s enemies, was right. At the height of his fame, he said the U.S. government was shot through with communists, many of whom were participating in a vast espionage effort orchestrated by the Soviets... [See Obama Watch]

Fontana (Calif.) Herald-News      Protesters oppose 287(g) program    ...To try to prevent any more "unfair" deportations, more than 500 community, labor, faith, and civil rights organizations from around the country held events on Aug. 28 to urge government officials to eliminate the program, which allegedly causes civil and human rights violations, including racial profiling...

Fox 5 TV -- Atlanta          Teen's text message halts sexual attack by suspected illegal alien    A Gwinnett County man was in jail Thursday without bond, accused of attacking a teenage girl. Authorities said the attack could have been much worse had the girl not sent a text message to one of her friends asking for help. -- Jose Hernandez-Ruiz was charged with sexual battery, kidnapping. The victim in the case is 16-years-old... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

WorldNetDaily.com      Website for U.S. mission to U.N. scrubbed    Historic position statements were scrubbed and the U.S. flag image deleted from the website for the United States U.N. mission as the organization unveiled its new and "improved" Internet presence. -- The move already is stirring controversy in diplomatic hallways... [See Obama Watch]

Tea Party Express stops in Reno, Nevada

Connie Hair -- Human Events     Healthcare mumbo-jumbo    One of the biggest tools the President and congressional Democrats are using in the health care debate is the fact that the bill -- H.R. 3200 -- is written in such loose language that they can claim critics are lying about its terms, when all the critics are doing is reading the bill's provisions as the bill allows them to...

Sierra Sun -- Truckee, Calif.    Feds arrest 12 in immigration raid at Lake Tahoe    Kings Beach, Calif. — Federal immigration officers arrested 12 suspected illegal [aliens] after stationing near a recent DUI checkpoint on Lake Tahoe's North Shore, a California Highway Patrol officer said Thursday. -- Sgt. Steve Bryan of California Highway Patrol said federal ICE officers stood by a highway patrol DUI checkpoint Friday... [See Crime Watch]

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.

Numbers USA      New video discusses impact of immigration on the environment    President Obama has set multiple guidelines to protect our land for future generations. Somehow the politicians who are most vocal about protecting our environment often do not want to address how current immigration policies are detrimental to this goal...

Associated Press      Mexican sentenced for repeated immigration violations    Arizona authorities say a Mexican man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for multiple immigration convictions. -- Prosecutors say 39-year-old Miguel Angel Valenzuela-Valenzuela, of Sonora, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix to 98 months in prison... [See Crime Watch]

Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger      Lt. Gov. candidate Guadagno blasts N.J. AG Milgram on 287(g)    Chris Christie's running mate accused state Attorney General Anne Milgram of "hate mongering" in a letter released today. -- Kim Guadagno, the Monmouth County sheriff, said Milgram had spread inaccurate information when she cautioned local police departments interested in enforcing immigration law against illegally profiling residents...

KSN-TV -- Wichita, Kansas      Illegal alien charged in sister's murder    A Garden City man has been formally charged with first-degree murder in the death of his sister. -- Police say 52-year-old Luis Montoya stabbed his 55-year-old sister Maria with a kitchen knife in their mobile home last month after the two had been arguing over household chores... [See Crime Watch]

Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum     Un-American and unlawful White House projects    The Obama Administration brags that Cash for Clunkers was a success because it revived the suffering auto industry. But who really benefited from this $3 billion program? -- The majority of cars bought with taxpayer-paid incentives of $3,500 to $4,500 each were foreign cars. Toyota and Honda were the big winners...

Washington Post      ACLU helping likely illegals again    Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia filed paperwork in the Prince William County court system Tuesday, requesting that loitering charges be dropped against three Latinos who were gathered outside their apartment complex...

Fox News POLL Should Van Jones keep his job?

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson      Overflow crowd greets Giffords on health care    A boisterous crowd of at least 2,200 showed its passion for the national health-care debate at Tucson's Sahuaro High School on Tuesday night. -- The two-hour event, the second one of the day after an earlier one in Green Valley, was billed as a listening session by its host, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz...

Transport Topics Online      DOT Inspector General says more needed on Mexican truck safety    The Department of Transportation said more work is needed to ensure the safety of Mexican trucks and buses awaiting permission to drive on U.S. roadways, the Associated Press reported. -- DOT’s inspector general's latest report on Mexican truck safety said some states are not consistently reporting traffic convictions of people driving in the United States with Mexican driver’s licenses...

Roll Call -- Washington      Becerra thinks ObamaCare scheme will pass    House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.) returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday "raring to go" on health care reform and brushing off the idea that Democrats took a beating on the issue over the August recess. -- "I think all the news about the town halls has made me more energized. We’ve got to make it happen..." [See Obama Watch]

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      Border Patrol targets I-40 for illegals     As they track illegal immigrants, U.S. Customs and Border agents are now targeting the Interstate 40 corridor between Needles, Calif., and Kingman. -- During a three hour operation Wednesday, agents arrested 19 people, seized seven vehicles and even confiscated two chickens...

WGN-TV -- Chicago      Quincy school district won't show Obama education speech due to complaints    Officials in the Quincy School District say they won't show President Obama's speech on education to students next week after dozens of parents called to protest. -- Superintendent Lonny Lemon says his office got about 40 calls that "hit like a load of bricks" Wednesday afternoon...

American Patrol Report      SPLC still at it on Long Island    Nine years ago the New York Times reported on Glenn Spencer's appearance in Suffolk County, New York, to speak about illegal immigration. -- Even then, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center was attacking him. Yesterday the Epoch Times reported that problems still remain in Suffolk County and the SPLC is still at it.

Daily Record -- Parsippany, NY      Cresitello: State AG can't tell us how to run immigration program    Morristown, NJ -- Mayor Donald Cresitello says he knows well that the 287(g) immigration enforcement program is not intended for random crackdowns on [illegal aliens], and emphasized Wednesday that New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram is not in a position to tell Morristown or anyone else how to run the program...

CNS News      Health Care Bill gives Obama even more power    The health care bill under consideration in the House of Representatives would give President Obama the authority to name a new federal "Health Choices Commissioner" who would have sweeping power to govern the health insurance plans offered in a so-called "exchange" where millions of Americans would get their health insurance if the bill is enacted...