KTVK-TV -- Phoenix            sc     Illegals taken into custody after police chase lands vehicle in backyard pool     Phoenix -- A Department of Public Safety officer trying to stop a vehicle on the Loop 101 overnight Saturday leads to a chase. -- Officers chased the vehicle into a neighborhood near 103rd Avenue and Indian School Road. -- The suspect car ended up in a backyard pool...

Heritage Foundation      Get Ready to be Outraged: 50 examples of government waste    The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that the U.S. government ended its 2009 fiscal year with a deficit of $1.4 trillion, the biggest since 1945. -- Washington will spend $33,932 per household in 2009–$8,000 per household more than last year. Following President Barack Obama's budget, Washington will be spending $33,000 per household...

Birmingham (Alabama) Star      Fencing request for US/Mexico border stymied in Congress     Members of the US Congress have decided to defeat a provision which was intended to equip the US/Mexico border with 300 more miles of tall fencing [you call this 'tall fencing?']. -- The Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill was intended to stop illegal [aliens] and smugglers from being able to get though about 700 miles of border...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      County Attorney attributes crime dip to immigration control     Phoenix -- County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Sunday new numbers bolster his support for efforts to curb illegal immigration. -- "The crackdowns on illegal immigration are working. They have been controversial. I have taken a lot of heat for them, so has the sheriff, but they are working," Thomas said Sunday...

Bloomberg      California's budget suffers 'major blow' as debt sales loom     California's revenue collections trailed its forecasts by $1.1 billion during the first three months of the fiscal year, showing new deficits are emerging in the budget Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed July 28. -- Revenue was 5.3 percent less than was assumed in the $85 billion annual budget... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Shreveport (La.) Times      Vitter pushes for citizenship question on census    With the census less than six months away and immigration reform stalled, U.S. Sen. David Vitter proposes requiring that the once-a-decade survey include a question about a person's citizenship. -- "Illegal immigration is a very real and significant concern for our country," the Louisiana Republican says in a statement...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- TheRealityCheck.Org      Obama administration investigates hero cop    Secretary Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security reportedly stripped Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- also known as "America's Sheriff" by many admirers who hail him as a hero -- of his federal authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status...

Coming Up October 12 Dustin Inman Society -- Marietta, GA -- 10 AM EDT D.A. King Media Event

Joseph Klein -- NewsReal      Do illegals have a constitutional right to health insurance?    The O’Reilly Factor had the Fox News senior judicial correspondent Judge Andrew Napolitano on the show last night. He claimed that it would be unconstitutional for Congress to ban illegal aliens from participating in any health insurance plans, particularly the public option... [See Plyler vs Doe and Proposition 187] [Related item]

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas      APF plan to run Hardin jail terminated, arrest of Hilton possible     The saga of American Police Force and its plans to take over a $27 million dollar detention facility in Hardin Montana came to an end last night with the announcement that the deal was terminated, as the Governor of Montana slammed local officials for becoming "part of the conspiracy" by continuing their dealings with known criminals and con men such as Michael Hilton...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial     'Sanctuary' absurdity    The fact that debate about San Francisco's "sanctuary city" ordinance centers on when to report juvenile illegal aliens' felonies to federal officials, not on scrapping "sanctuary" outright, shows just how ridiculous and misguided that ordinance is... [See Frisco Watch & Sanctuary Watch]

Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com      The political persecution of Cory Voorhis    The federal government's continued persecution of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, agent Cory Voorhis should alarm all Americans. Voorhis has been targeted for removal from his job because he dared to blow the whistle on politicians who were scheming with ICE bureaucrats to help criminal aliens avoid deportation – hundreds of them...

Simon Johnson -- The Daily Beast      Timmy's telephone travesty    New revelations about Tim Geithner's phone records show an appallingly small Wall Street circle. With a probe likely, Simon Johnson says the Treasury secretary needs a bailout -- from Larry Summers. -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner faces a major public-relations problem. His phone records and broader calendar...

Dr. Walid Phares -- International Analyst Network      Nobel Committee pulls oil plug on democracy     ...Months and few short years from now, supporters of the "new direction" in U.S. foreign policy as well as academics will frame Obama's Nobel as a consolidation of a new world order, while the media outburst following the granting declaration will be forgotten...

Micheal E. Hill      Gutierrez to toss another pro-amnesty spectacle in D.C.    Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL), who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' Immigration Task Force, is working on a comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty] bill. He is expected to unveil what he calls "the core principles" that will be included in his bill on Tuesday... in front of thousands of pro-[illegal alien zealots]... [Related item] [See Amnesty Watch]

Micheal E. Hill -- MicEvHill.com      Vote may occur Tuesday on census/immigration status amendment   The Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday on a proposal that would require the 2010 decennial census to inquire about the immigration status of every person living in the United States. -- Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Robert F. Bennett (R-UT) offered the census proposal as an amendment to Senate Appropriations Committee-reported version of H.R. 2847..

KPHO-TV -- Phoenix           Valley sees 2 violent kidnappings in 1 week    Some unusually violent kidnappings occurred in the Valley this week. -- Tuesday night, Phoenix police were called out to the Maryvale neighborhood after a victim escaped from his captors. -- The victim, Renan Beltran-Leon, told officers that his kidnappers bound his wrists and ankles with duct tape and held him captive...