Los Angeles Times      San Ysidro border entry point closed after gunfight     U.S. authorities have closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry on the border with Mexico after a gunfight there early Tuesday. -- San Ysidro is the nation's busiest border crossing. Roughly 40,000 vehicles cross there daily from Mexico. -- Three vans loaded with suspected illegal [aliens] tried to speed through the crossing Tuesday afternoon, drawing gunfire from at least two U.S. agents, authorities said...

Sibel Edmonds & Philip Giraldi -- American Conservative          sc        Who's afraid of Sibel Edmonds?    Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002...

Los Angeles Times      L.A. council clamps down on a crowing problem: roosters    Hoping to quell the amount of crowing across the city, the Los Angeles City Council passed a law today limiting the number of roosters that each household can own. -- In a 12-0 vote, the council agreed to allow only one rooster per property unless such birds are part of a "permitted and licensed commercial, agricultural or industrial business" -- and on a street with the proper zoning...

Chuck Norris -- Human Events      Don't tread on me!    Sept. 12 was an amazing day, as thousands marched on Washington seeking to unite Americans and make a stand against tyranny and oppression. At the same time, the Tea Party Express escorted a number of patriots to the U.S. Capitol to culminate its cross-country rallies. -- But what's next? I have an idea....

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, right across the Rio Grande River from McAllen, Texas, was the scene of a half hour shootout Sunday between federal and military personnel versus unknown subjects. Preliminary reports indicated that at least eight persons were wounded...

Caroline Rushing -- Human Events      How the Left really deals with diversity    If you are straight, white, and male, please stand up. Congratulations, you are more privileged than you probably ever realized. Because of your blessed birth, you are responsible for the victimization of thousands of your underprivileged peers. You may not be aware, but implicitly you hate, resent, and distrust everyone who does not look like you...

Reuters     Mexican cartels kidnap, kill migrants headed to U.S.    Tecate, BCN, Mex. -- Mexico's violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.      Reconquista Larry 'Nativo' Lopez to fight voter fraud charges    A settlement agreement between prosecutors and [illegal alien "rights"] activist Nativo Lopez – who faces four felony charges of voter fraud – could not be reached today and the case is expected to go to trial. -- Lopez, who is national president of Mexican American Political Association and national director of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, said the charges against him were groundless...

Phoenix Business Journal      Maricopa sheriff examining Wilcox's airport restaurant financing    The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office investigation into County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her business’ restaurant lease at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport focuses on whether Wilcox’s restaurant met minority-owned business standards, her statements to the city-owned airport on that status, and financing of the restaurant venture...

Associated Press      L.A.P.D. moves against notorious Latino gang    A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a coordinated assault by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday. -- Local police working with federal agents carried out a string of early-morning raids seeking key members of the Avenues street gang... [Related Item]

KVIA-TV -- El Paso / Las Cruces       sc      Man and woman lead BP agents on chase, abandon vehicle at border    Santa Teresa, NM -- Border Patrol agents' attempts to stop suspected drug smugglers developed into a high-speed pursuit ending along the U.S.-Mexico border. -- At about 9 a.m. Monday, U.S. Border Patrol officials said an agent tried to stop a vehicle along a desert road near the I-10 checkpoint west of Las Cruces...

Californians for Population Stabilization       Obama's solution to health care for illegals -- give them amnesty!     A tsunami of opposition to including illegal aliens in any health care plan has caused even President Obama to declare that no one in the United States illegally would receive benefits under a health care overhaul...

Associated Press      French bulldoze illegal alien camp    Calais -- French police razed a squalid camp used by illegal [aliens] in scrubland near the English Channel port of Calais on Tuesday, using backhoes and buzz saws to clear away the precarious dwellings of a fragile population, mostly Afghan minors, who were led away stunned and sometimes sobbing...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      The Bigger Scandal: Catholic church funding of ACORN    Federal funding of ACORN is not just a Democratic Party or Obama Administration problem. As a chart produced by House Republican Leader John Boehner shows, most of the federal money going to the organization was provided under President George W. Bush [another avid globalist].... [Obama is a big fan of ACORN]

Tim Dunkin -- Renew America      The amnesty race card     A few weeks ago, I wrote about the fact that the Democrats can't really be as crazy as they seem. There has to be a method to their madness, an ulterior motive that drives an agenda that otherwise appears senseless to the outside observer. This would seem to be true with the Left's latest lunacy...

Numbers USA       'MEChA Boy' Grijalva bill threatens border security    We need your immediate phone calls to prevent a radical threat on Arizona border security in a vote on the U.S. House floor expected on Wednesday...

Seattle Times      No prison for business owners in illegal alien-hiring case    Two owners of a Bellingham, Wash., company won't have to go to prison for hiring undocumented workers, but the business must pay a $100,000 fine. -- A guilty plea was entered Monday in U.S. District Court on behalf of Yamato Engine Specialists 1990 Ltd...

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com      The economy is a lie, too     Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over...

Edwin S. Rubenstein -- VDare.com     Soaring poverty -- the unreported immigration dimension    The U.S. poverty rate climbed to 13.2 percent last year, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s annual report released last week. The report also documented a decline in employer-provided health insurance and in coverage for adults...

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents working at the Veterans International Bridge apprehended a Mexican male wanted on outstanding warrants from Harris County, Texas for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and injury to a child...

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson      Nationalist Chicanos plan Friday protest here     Members of a Chicano nationalist group with little presence in Southern Arizona are planning a protest in Tucson Friday morning. -- The Brown Berets de Aztlan plan to demonstrate against the Minuteman border-watch groups at 9 a.m. at Pima County Superior Court....

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Obama's public health option, amnesty, illegals, and the Aztlan movement    Settle in for a long read... There is NO way to do this topic justice in a column length article. But there is NO more important topic to cover today! -- South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson became Democrats' public enemy #1 when he recently shouted out "YOU LIE!" at Mr. Obama...

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com       Get ready! Here come the energy police    Google is developing an Internet-based power monitor designed to monitor energy usage inside homes. As a result, the meter will provide utilities and any government regulators access to data on a household's energy footprint and carbon footprint, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports...

Associated Press      Annoying globalist Fox spouts off in U.S. again    ...Asked why U.S. taxpayers should support spending on improvements in Mexico and Canada, [Vicente] Fox said taxpayers already are paying to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and for security forces. -- "It should be explained to U.S. taxpayers that what they are investing in that wall is not going to work," Fox said... [More Meddling Mexicans]

Bennington (Vt.) Banner      Mexican illegals found in national forest    The Winhall Police on Saturday received reports from concerned citizens about a group of suspicious males "cutting trees and camping" on Green Mountain National Forest land off French Hollow Road in Winhall. -- Officer Mark Heberts, of the Winhall Police and Rescue Department, found that the men were all from Mexico...

Rowan Scarborough -- Human Events      Buying health insurance? Only if he likes it    The House Democrats' huge health care bill bestows immense powers on one Washington bureaucrat who it authorizes to regulate every step of insurance buying and to collect any data on the American people the czar deems necessary to do the job...

Associated Press      Students warned to prove Texas residence or leave    Students living in northern Mexico have skirted residency requirements to attend U.S. public schools for generations, but when the superintendent in one Texas border town got word that about 400 school-age children were crossing the international bridge each day with backpacks but no student visas, he figured he had to do something...

Michelle Malkin      Pray for the Inspector Generals probing ACORN    I said last week that the ACORN funding cut-offs on the Hill were just the beginning. -- Good news: The ball is rolling. -- DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine has launched an internal probe. -- I covered Fine’s extensive work on immigration enforcement lapses during the Clinton and Bush years...

Andrea Peters -- World Socialist Web Site      Unemployment in California reaches 70-year high     Official unemployment in California, the most populous state in the US, has reached a new historical milestone. At 12.2 percent in August, it is now at the highest level since 1940. It has risen 4.6 percentage points over the course of the last year alone... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]