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Monday, September 21, 2009
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Crossing the Border in Plain Sight
"Rocket Scientist" Exposes DHS Deceit
American Patrol Report -- September 21
Hidden in Plain Sight --The Reason for Border Enforcement Failure, explains in simple language how the government goes about keeping the truth about the border from the American people, and why.
"Hidden in Plain Sight" shows how, over the years, the government has gone to great lengths to avoid being graded on border enforcement. "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it," Spencer says, "and the government does not really want to enforce our borders."
Glenn Spencer, author of the report, goes into his background in rocket engine analysis and in systems engineering to show that he is qualified to comment on the issue of assessing Border Patrol performance.
Recently the GAO exposed the failure of DHS to systematically evaluate the impact of new border fencing. (See Scathing Report on Border Security Issued NY Times
Spencer describes Operation Plain Sight, a project to show it is possible to count the people who cross the border illegally. "They cross in plain sight," Spencer said.
Read the Report |

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National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers sc
Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border
The Honduran Chancery reported yesterday that, as of Sep. 10th, 18,207 Hondurans who were illegally in the United States have been deported back to Honduras this year. Another 19,960 arrived after being returned by Mexico and/or Guatemala. These numbers are consistent with last year's figures, when the total reached 57 thousand men, women and children... |
We Get E-Mail
Tucson School Board goes even further insane
The [Tucson school] board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else. -- With the goal of creating a "restorative school culture and climate" that conveys a "sense of belonging to all students..." |
Michelle Malkin
The White House, the NEA, and more do-it-yourself vetting
Last month, Big Hollywood's Patrick Courrielche broke news on how the NEA was rustling up artists to help "serve" the White House political agenda. -- Big Government's Mike Flynn and John Nolte have a follow-up here... |
Center for Immigration Studies
Daily news from CIS
None of his wealth could protect Mexican entrepreneur Pierre Oliver Gama Valdes from organized criminal gangs threatening his family for money; if anything, business success put a bull's-eye on his back. -- But wealth did help Gama, who said he has started businesses that employ 500 people, get him and his family a ticket out of Mexico's line of fire, fast... |
Cal Thomas -- Indiana (Pa.) Gazette
The racism card
When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of civil rights for so many years to African-Americans. It is never "racism" to vote for someone because... |
Salt Lake Tribune
Worthless feds refuse to give 287(g) authority to Davis County, Utah
The Davis County Sheriff's Office was ready to pitch in and help enforce federal immigration law at its county jail, detaining undocumented arrestees and beginning the process to deport them. -- No thanks, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau recently said, a response that has incensed Utah politicians... |
Nerissa Young -- Register-Herald -- Beckley, West Virginia
Resolution of disapproval: Liar, liar, Congress' pants on fire
It's been a busy week in Congress. Former President Jimmy Carter ended the work on health care by proclaiming the nation racist. Problem solved. No need to waste more time there. -- Instead, members voted this week to restrict the First Amendment and expand the Second Amendment. That is probably a noble way to celebrate Constitution Week -- by violating it... |
Patrick J. Buchanan -- Human Events
Race and stupidity
God save me from my friends -- I can take care of my enemies. -- So President Obama must be muttering today. -- Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps. -- He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out his health care plans, confront the "demagoguery" of critics who had resorted to "distortion," "misinformation" and "tall tales..." |
KDBC-TV -- El Paso / Las Cruces / Cd. Juarez
Suspect tried to run over Border Patrol Agent
State Police, the Border Patrol, EPSD and Santa Teresa Police were involved in a high speed chase this morning after a suspect allegedly tried to run over an agent multiple times. -- Officials say the chase started around I-10 in Las Cruces near the Border Patrol checkpoint. The spotted a green Tahoe on a dirt road usually used by drug dealers and human smugglers... [See Crime Watch] |
Michael Kerr -- Red Country
White House "employs" NEA recipients to revive failing agenda
The White House is pulling out all the stops to try and drum up support for its quickly fading health care agenda. However, their latest efforts appear to be a monumental abuse of power that includes the use of the NEA to campaign for the support of Obamacare... |
Robyn E. Blumner -- St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
An ACORN gets shelled
ACORN's leaders must have missed Liberal Advocacy 101, which teaches the Ralph Nader lesson: To point a finger at powerful interests one needs clean hands. -- In 1965 General Motors wanted to debilitate Nader, then a young public interest lawyer making hay about the carmaker's unsafe vehicles... |
John Fund -- Wall Street Journal
ACORN Who? -- Obama heads for the high grass
Only one of the five television networks that interviewed President Obama for their Sunday shows bothered to ask him about ACORN, the left-wing community organizing group whose federal funding was cut off last week by an overwhelming vote in Congress. -- "Frankly, it's not something I've followed closely," Mr. Obama claimed... [Related video] |
Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.
Cut off ACORN's seed money
Last Friday the Census Bureau decided to cut ties with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the controversial community and political organizing group. On Monday the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 to exclude ACORN from funding under the Housing and Urban Development... |
Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.
Nearly 1.4 million Californians settle for part-time work
The number of Californians who have settled for part-time work when they would rather have a full-time job jumped nearly 70% in the last year to 1.355 million, reports the state Employment Development Department. -- These people who are working part-time for economic reasons made up 8.1% of the workforce in July... |
Jim Byrd
I warned you about Obama's illegal alien health insurance plan
Exactly one week after Barack Obama's speech to Congress (the infamous Joe Wilson "you lie" speech), Joe Wilson has been vindicated. Those two words, "you lie," have prophetically become, perhaps, the two most profound and legitimate words to be uttered by a Congressman. Joe Wilson encapsulated, with two words, Obama's entire resume, and is causing great distress on the Left... |
John McClaughry -- Family Security Matters
Ten growing threats to our liberty
...Obama and the liberal Democrats are eager to legalize 12 million illegal [aliens] already in the country, and let in millions more from abroad, especially from disintegrating Mexico. They'll cheerfully provide millions of these illegals with welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid and come around to collect their votes every two years... [See Amnesty Watch] |
Michelle Malkin
Inside SEIU president Andy Stern's culture of corruption
On Friday, SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern published a screed titled, "Working Women and Men Will Not Be Silenced by Right Wing Attack Dogs; We Will Win the Change America Needs." He carped about "an insidious and coordinated effort on the part of the extreme right to target individuals and grassroots community groups..." |
Michael Webster -- The Examiner sc
Corrupt US official illegally operating with Mexican cartel for profit
As an ICE official he invested cash in global drug deals endangered the lives of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement by selling secret U.S. Government information to Mexican Drug Cartels (MDC's) and ran huge cocaine shipments to Spain via US ports. Feds say he joined cartel full time after he retired from ICE... |
Rev. Ted Pike -- National Prayer Network
Five "hate bills" surge forward in Congress
The Christian/conservative right is bruised by hate bill victory in the House/Senate and distracted by healthcare debate; the Jewish Anti-Defamation League is losing no time pushing four more of its freedom-destroying, pro-homosexual hate bills. This antichrist legislation is intent on banning criticism of... |
Boston Globe
Here's Your 'Change': Even housekeeping jobs are being outsourced
When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations. -- On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer. All of them were losing their jobs... |
Politico
Obama edges away from amnesty scheme timeline
President Barack Obama said he's not backing off of his commitment to immigration reform, but edged away from his promise to have a bill he strongly supports in Congress by the end of his first year in office. -- "Now, whether that bill gets introduced on November 15th or December 15th or January 15th, that's not really the issue," Obama said in an interview with Univision... [See Amnesty Watch] |
Fox & Friends -- September 21
ACORN and housing for illegal aliens
John Fund, WSJ: I think for the last few years in at least seven cities, including New York, ACORN has been helping illegal aliens get housing and real houses. Now of course illegal aliens don’t have Social Security numbers normally, so ACORN helpfully provides them with a taxpayer identification number. (WSJ.com to expose White House links to ACORN today.) -- Watch |
Deseret News -- Salt Lake City
Drug peddling probe leads to arrest of 4 illegals
An investigation into a drug-dealing operation ended in a search of three homes, four arrests and the discovery of $65,000 in drugs Thursday. -- The investigation began eight months ago, after investigators received information about a drug-dealing operation being run out of an Ogden home... [See Crime Watch] |
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