Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Shoot 'em up at the San Ysidro POE What Was So Important to the Coyotes? Rick Oltman -- CAPS -- September 23 Shooting victim about to be transported      What was so important that there had to be a shoot 'em up at the San Ysidro check point on Tuesday?     Did the smugglers actually think that by running the port of entry with three vans that one would actually get through? Did they expect that even one vehicle would make it far enough to disgorge its illegal alien cargo in an era of border cams, pursuit vehicles and helicopters? Three cowboys went off the hook and decided to give it a shot?     As clichéd as the saying is, think outside the box for a moment.     Call them criminals, call them brazen, but don't ever call smugglers stupid. Their extraordinary success rate of accomplishing approximately 4 million illegal entries a year along our southern border should dispel any notion of their incompetence.     So, the question I asked myself the second I heard the news report was, "Why the big diversion?"     Three vans, 74 people, careening vehicles, shots fired, agents scrambling, injuries. Sounds like a massive diversion to me, requiring everybody on the shift to respond to the scene.... Read More...  Watch KNBC Report Past Features

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection     sc     Latest news releases from CBP    Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales, Ariz. ports of entry wrapped up a busy weekend with a narcotics seizure, an arrest of a wanted fugitive and discoveries of a stolen auto and numerous immigration violations...

Marie Parente -- Milford (Mass.) Daily News      The ambiguous 14th Amendment!    Recently, while in a local coffee shop fellow customers asked about the "anchor baby" issue. -- An anchor baby is defined as an offspring of an illegal immigrant or other non-citizen, who under current legal interpretation of the 14th Constitutional Amendment becomes a United States citizen at birth....

Numbers USA      H.R. 324: A big congratulations to all of you!    You won! -- And everybody on all sides in the U.S. House was surprised. You caused what may have been a watershed vote today. Thanks to every one of you who made phone calls as we requested the last two days. -- You handed the open-borders leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives a huge defeat today. And what a margin!

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Congressman Luis Gutierrez is to introduce an immigration reform bill in the House of Representatives sometime in the next few weeks. -- The announcement was immediately welcomed by Sheila Gleeson, executive director of the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Although the influenza epidemic continues to be given extensive media coverage in Mexico, "at least" 20 deaths are caused by drunken driving in Mexico for each one due to the flu virus. Roy Rojas Vargas, consultant for both the Pan American Health Org. and the World Health Org...

Numbers USA      H.R. 324 Vote: MEChA-Boy Grijalva unable to hinder border enforcement    The House voted, 259 to 167, to include an amendment to allow the Border Patrol to continue their normal operations in the area. More later when available... [Related action alert]

Connie Hair -- Human Events      More Dem censorship on healthcare debate    George Orwell call your office. Again. -- Was it only two months ago that Cong. John Carter (R-Tx) and a few other conservatives were protesting the Democrats’ censorship of their constituent mailings? -- Yes, it was. When Judge Carter tried to describe Obamacare as "government-run healthcare" the House Franking Commission told him...

Washington Times Editorial    sc    Worst foreign policy ever -- Obama is tripping all over the world stage    Tomorrow, President Obama will chair a special nuclear-disarmament meeting by the United Nations Security Council. The White House bills this as a historic first, but it is typical of Mr. Obama's emphasis on style over substance. He will appear before the body with the weakest foreign-policy record of any new U.S. president in recent memory...

Kathleen Parker -- The Herald News -- Fall River, Mass.       Interview with an apostate, 09-23-09    ...By now most Americans are familiar with the acronym, ACORN — the un-pithily named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — and all its attendant problems: charges of voter registration fraud, embezzlement, tax arrears, corruption and, now, accusations of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, prostitution, tax evasion and child abuse... [Obama is a big fan of ACORN]

KTRK-TV -- Houston      Slain officer's widow sues HPD, City of Houston    The widow of a murdered Houston police officer says police don't have access to important information that could keep dangerous criminals in jail and off the streets. -- Joslyn Johnson is suing the City of Houston, the HPD, and HPD Chief Harold Hurtt. Her husband was shot and killed by an illegal [alien] during a traffic stop in 2006....

L. Brent Bozell III -- Human Events      Omnipresent Obama    Following his usual mantra that "to watch me is to love me," Barack Obama appeared on five Sunday interview shows and since that wasn't enough, then the David Letterman show on Monday night. He remains convinced that the more he plays dust speck in the national eye, the further he'll get in passing his leftist agenda...

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...

Steve Lopez -- Los Angeles Times      Dark charges from Mahony's inner circle    If you've got rosary beads handy, please say a prayer for the leader of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Last week was not a good one for Cardinal Roger Mahony, and there may be no letup in weeks to come if a certain monsignor continues to testify in a deposition being taken as part of a civil case against Mahony and the diocese...

San Francisco Chronicle     SF school board weighs in on sanctuary city policy    The San Francisco school board jumped into the city's illegal immigrant debate Tuesday night, officially chastising city officials for reporting [illegal alien students] to immigration and customs officials. -- The approved resolution, sponsored by board President Kim-Shree Maufas and board member Jane Kim... [See Sanctuary Watch]

Andrew Walden -- Front Page Magazine      Taking Islamism to the streets    "Our Time Has Come," say Islamists planning to lead "at least 50,000 Muslims" to Capitol Hill Friday, September 25. Organizers -- including several tied to the 1993 World Trade center attack -- boast "the Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill...."

Stein Report      Is ICE trying to steer cops away from 287(g)    Davis County, Utah, deputies have been denied enrollment in the 287(g) program. The denial comes after a year of waiting from the initial application. "They didn't give us a reason for the denial, but we're thinking it's money," said a spokesman for Davis County...

Judicial Watch      DOJ grant to empower illegal aliens    The U.S. Department of Justice has given a public university a special grant to help illegal immigrants in the Midwest and teach their employers, primarily in the meatpacking and construction industries, how to curb discrimination against foreign-born workers...

Associated Press     It appears that Joe Wilson was spot on when it comes to Obama    Congress' chief budget officer on Tuesday contradicted President Barack Obama's oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn't see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul. -- The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, told senators that seniors in Medicare's managed care plans could see reduced benefits under a bill in the Finance Committee...

Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner      Symptoms of illegal border crossings include a Rape Tree    For those seeking to reach the promised land, the trek is rife with many perils, including a Rape Tree on the U.S.-side of the border near Campo, California. In the dead of summer, the throngs of illegal border crossers face heat exhaustion, long distances without hydration and a Rape Tree...

Congressional Quarterly      Reid rejects GOP call for ACORN hearings    Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuffed a Republican request that he call Senate hearings and an investigation into recent allegations against the scandal-tainted community organizing group ACORN. -- Reid said Tuesday that he would not ask the Senate committee chairmen or Congress "to do anything that would distract from efforts to address" health care, climate change [and other Obama scams]

Chuck Baldwin -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      It's going to be a rocky road    Let's face it: most Americans live in a world of false security. This is somewhat understandable, given the fact that the majority of the U.S. population was born after 1945. Few remember the dangers and hardships of World War II; fewer still remember the Great Depression...

Charleston (SC) Post & Courier      Did Wilson toughen Obama?    [Illegal alien] advocates said Monday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst earlier this month led to a "change of attitude" by President Obama. -- Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a [handful of open-borders zealots and cheap labor pimps], said that the South Carolina congressman's "You lie!" comment...

Jim Harper -- Cato Institute      Tech Law Journal on Genachowski's 'Net neutrality' speech    ...Genachowski gave a policy speech. The prepared text of his speech says nothing about where the FCC would derive statutory authority to promulgate the rules which he proposes. Nor did he address what would be the FCC's strategy for evading and surviving judicial review of any new rules... [See Obama Watch]

Newt Gingrich -- Human Events      Turning the Senate into the Chicago City Council    "Using the budget reconciliation process to pass health reform and climate change legislation... would violate the intent and spirit of the budget process, and do serious injury to the constitutional role of the Senate." -- These are not the words of a Republican or a conservative activist.... [See Obama Watch]

Victorville (Calif.) Daily Press      Private company plans illegal alien prison in Adelanto    Adelanto -- A private prison operator has plans to build a 2,200-bed detention center that holds illegal immigrants on 51 acres near two other local prisons. -- City Council will decide on Wednesday whether to approve the GEO Group Inc.'s development plan and conditional use permit to construct a new correctional facility...

D.A. King -- Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal      Mickey Mouse a 'racist hater'? Yes, say illegals' allies    Along with many others, Jimmy Carter has accused Americans who disagree with the president's policies - including Obamacare - of "racism." In reaction to Rep. Joe Wilson's public "you lie" observation, and in an obvious reference to whatever remains of the vile KKK, Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson said...

Tom Tancredo -- Rocky Mountain Foundation      Obama's Radicalism and the GOP    Eight months into the Obama presidency the Republican Party is suddenly thriving by virtue of the patriotic reawakening generated by Obama's radicalism. But the Republican revival may be short lived if it does not listen to the voice of the new citizen activists...

David Boaz -- Cato Institute      Obama Administration: Taking over everything    "My critics say that I'm taking over every sector of the economy," President Obama sighed to George Stephanopoulos during his Sunday media blitz. -- Not every sector. Just... *health care *energy *local schools *banks *insurance companies *automobile companies *compensation at financial firms *newspapers *the Internet...

Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer -- Lake Country Reporter -- Hartland, Wisc.      Humana "called out" by the Obama Administration    Chicago thug politics are alive and well in the Obama White House. In an effort to squelch any and all opposition to Obama's attempts to take over the entire health care system, the Health and Human Services Department is targeting Humana. Humana, one of the largest major health insurance providers, is geared mostly towards senior citizens... [Related item] [See Free Speech Watch]

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    (Tuesday, 9/22) -- Leaders of the largest Hispanic Christian organization in the nation expressed their concern Monday over the anti-[illegal alien.... criminal] rhetoric within the current debate on health care reform. -- Though lawmakers have yet to find a way for millions of [illegal aliens] to become U.S. citizens while also strengthening border security...