U.S.. Customs and Border Protection         sc     Latest news releases from CBP    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended a Port Angeles, Wash., woman on October 7 who was wanted by the Washington State Department of Corrections on a warrant for escape from community custody in Port Angeles, Wash...

Rasmussen Reports     56% say U.S. government policies encourage illegal immigration    U.S. voters want aggressive action to restrict illegal immigration, but they don't think immigrants should bear the brunt of the enforcement efforts on their own. Most say the federal government and those hiring illegal [aliens] also need to be brought into the discussion...

San Francisco Chronicle      Calif. DMV offices shut in Columbus Day protest    Nine California Department of Motor Vehicle offices were forced to close for at least part of Columbus Day, and services at 17 others were reduced after hundreds of workers skipped work to protest the loss of the paid holiday. -- In February, the Legislature eliminated two of state employees' 14 annual paid holidays... [DMV is a SEIU shop]

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      American taxpayers being forced to support Latino separatist group    In 2006 and again in 2008, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) [also the Tan Klan] was given $15 million in U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and President Bush signed...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    They had been late in coming. In November 2008, after Barack Obama’s exulting victory, a topic by itself due to his profile as a man of color and the first one to reach the White House, it wasn’t just a few who showed their jubilation for the American demonstration of political civility in a nation whose history abounds in xenophobic and racist incidents... [More Mexican meddling]

Sacramento Bee     Field Poll: Approval rating for California Legislature drops to 13%    Could it get any worse? -- A Field Poll released Monday found that only 13 percent of the state's registered voters approve of the Legislature's performance, the lowest rating since the survey group started measuring opinions of that institution in 1983...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif.     City to oversee Mexican Independence Day events    Fall 2010 marks two important milestones for our [crime and corruption-bloated] neighbor to the south: 200 years of independence from Spain and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. -- City leaders – anticipating that thousands of residents will want to partake in local bicentennial celebrations...

CNS News      Scientists rebut the claim that man causes climate change    As the world focused on President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a small group of determined scientists gathered in a Senate office building to present evidence backing their claim that climate change is caused not by man but by nature...

Delaware Online      3 illegals face drug charges in Hockessin    Three [illegal aliens] were arrested early Sunday when troopers found them parked in a lot in Hockessin with drugs in the car, police reported today. -- State police charged Ernesto Alvarado Calamaco, 27, his 24-year-old brother Gaston, and Pedro Pantoja Padilla, 30, all of East Chestnut Street in Coatesville, on charges of cocaine possession... [See Crime Watch]

ABC News      RINO Snowe helps get Baucus' health care scheme passed    The Senate Finance Committee approved Chairman Max Baucus' $829 billion health care bill by a vote of 14-9, paving the way for a joint Senate legislation. -- "Let's enact real reform," Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told fellow committee members. "Now is the time to act."

Cobb County, Georgia Sheriff's Office      Sheriff signs new Memorandum of Agreement with ICE    As a result of an audit conducted by the Government Accounting Office earlier this year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on July 10th that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) would be entering into new uniform agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies...

Racine (Wisc.) Journal Times      Open-borders fanatics indoctrinating high school students    After barnstorming through southeastern Wisconsin talking about health care reform before returning to Washington D.C., Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, is now at the center of the immigration debate back home. -- His appearance last month, along with several other members of Congress, at an event in Washington, D.C. has angered members of a local [illegal alien "rights'] group... [See Amnesty Watch]

WorldNetDaily.com      Plaintiff: Courts must hear eligibility arguments    A plaintiff in one of the cases challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president says federal courts must hear the challenges, because to do otherwise would be treason. -- The claim comes from Charles F. Kerchner Jr., a lead plaintiff in the Kerchner vs. Obama & Congress lawsuit handled by attorney Mario Apuzzo...

Associated Press        sc    Usual suspects head to D.C. for pro-amnesty badger-fest    Boston -- A group of [illegal alien] advocates from Massachusetts and New Hampshire are traveling to Washington to rally and lobby Congress in anticipation of changes in immigration laws. -- The delegation of about two dozen members of the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition was scheduled to board a bus last night... [See Amnesty Watch]

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office -- Phoenix      Arpaio fights back    On Sunday the Arizona Republic editorial board made the lamest attempt in weeks to mislead the public about what is really happening with Sheriff Arpaio's handling of the federal 287G immigration enforcement program. The editorial followed a week that was full of Sheriff Arpaio on national television and radio...

Michelle Malkin      ObamACORN corruptocrats squabble amongst themselves    Grab your popcorn: The dysfunctional ObamACORN family is feuding. NOLA.com reports: Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Louisiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle at the embattled advocacy group...

CBS News      Immigration debate boils over to census    President Obama has yet to take on immigration reform [read: amnesty], but the status of [illegal aliens] in the United States will become a hot topic again soon enough as a result of the 2010 census count. -- Some Latino groups angered by the president's lack of action on immigration reform are calling for a boycott of the census...

Michelle Malkin     SEIU Watch: The continued revolt against Big Labor's home invasion    On October 5, I reported on the parental backlash against the SEIU-led campaign to drag Illinois home health care workers into the union fold. Mom Pam Harris, whose grass-roots activism has inspired folks across the country, continues to spread the word about the state Democratic machine and the unions’ underhanded tactics...

American Border Patrol      Don't trust internet sellers Earlier American Border Patrol reported problems with Brickhouse Security dot com. -- It had ordered a mobile VCR to record video only but it wouldn't. After complaints on the Web, Brickhouse agreed it was faulty. After a long delay it sent a new one but it still didn't work. Turns out they rewrote the manual to exclude the feature that we needed to make it work. Don't trust Internet sellers.

Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com      The affirmative action Nobel    All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: "O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it." -- In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself look ridiculous. -- Consider. Though they had lead roles in ending a Cold War lasting half a century...

Robert Stacy McCain -- American Spectator      Extreme Irony Alert! (Or, springtime for Potok and irony)    Your head might explode if you consider the source of this quote: "Completely false allegations incubate in the fringe and jump within days to the mainstream, distorting any debate or progress we can have as a society." -- That's Mark Potok [of the sleazy SPLC], quoted in today's Washington Post...

Associated Press     ACLU: Ga. immigration program has led to profiling    A 2-year-old program that gives the Cobb County sheriff's office power to enforce federal immigration laws has led to racial profiling and other problems, a civil liberties group said in a report released Monday. -- "Terror and isolation in Cobb: How Unchecked Police Power under 287(g) Has Torn Families Apart and Threatened Public Safety" also claims that... [See ACLU watch]

Jessica Vaughan -- Center for Immigration Studies       An inside look at three sheriff's departments using 287(g)    DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano took a swipe at her erstwhile rival, the popular Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, by unceremoniously yanking his investigative 287(g) program late last week. Since previous audits found no serious problems, DHS seems to be throwing a bone to the many ethnic and civil liberties groups...

WINS -- New York     Rally against 'racial profiling' following terror raids in Flushing     After the recent terror raids in Flushing, Queens, many Muslims of the community say they are being racially profiled by law enforcement officials. -- On Saturday, the Muslim community and supporters held a news conference calling for law enforcement officials to conduct their investigations in a respectful manner...

Kimberly Dvorak      Migrant camps draw ire from residents result in cool response from police    San Diego canyons are teeming with illegal migrant camps, prostitution and numerous fire hazards. A week after a prostitution ring was uncovered, San Diego residents are still complaining about the illegal traffic through local communities...

Warner Todd Huston -- Publius' Forum     Obama Census Bureau to count illegals?    On the website of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) a press release from Obama’s U.S. Census Bureau Director, Robert Groves, can be found. That press release appears to make obvious that the Bureau plans to count illegal aliens in our census. The press release was issued to America’s Hispanic organizations to urge them to help with the coming census...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Obama watering-down immigration enforcement in Northern VA    The Prince William Board of Supervisors is meeting today to discuss and implement a new directive from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The new orders will weaken the very successful 287g program, which gives local law enforcement the power to enforce immigration laws...