Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A Wakeup Call from Mexico What All Americans Need to Know  American Patrol Report -- October 20 Up to 250,000 people a year were sacrificed in Central Mexico Wakeup Call From Mexico       As America faces chaos in Mexico and a political class that seems to want to ignore the threat, Wilson Beck, an expert on Mexico, and a self-described Mexicophyle, puts it all together in "Wakeup Call From Mexico."     This week the American Patrol Report will provide a detailed review of Beck's book. Today we summarize Chapter III – Mexico's Collision with Europe. In it Beck describes in detail the horrific condition of the Mexican culture as Cortes stepped ashore, and the ensuing struggle between him and Montezuma.     "This was a culture, a society, an entire subcontinent which had evolved without human spirit," Beck writes. "There were no gods. There were only idols. The offering of blood to the idols was a sham. Everyone came for the meat, the arms, and the legs... When an Aztec warrior went off to battle he was going to a barbecue. A review of Chapter III can be seen here. Past Features

Michelle Malkin        sc    ACORN Watch: Fight the thugs    ACORN is a criminal enterprise. It took decades to build up its massive coffers and intricate web of affiliates across the country. -- It will take months and years to untangle the entire operation. -- And it will take time, money, and relentless sunshine to dismantle the government-subsidized, partisan racket. It can't be "reformed." It is constitutionally corrupt...

Reuters      Sorry, no jobs. This is California    If you're looking for work, don't look in California. -- The world's eighth largest economy is still finding its feet after suffering multiple economic shocks, including a housing slump, mortgage crisis and recession. -- Employers in California, the most populous U.S. state, are expected to keep cutting staff in 2010 as the wider U.S. jobs market recovers... [See Cal Meltdown Watch]

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Asked about the GOP's plan for immigration reform during an interview that aired Sunday on Univision, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele offered a distilled version of his party's views. -- 'I can sum it up for you this way. The party as I said is always…the party of assimilation,' he told the news show 'Al Punto.'

Michelle Malkin     Home health providers reject SEIU, AFSCME power grab    Over the past two weeks, I've reported on the grass-roots revolt by home health providers against the SEIU and rival AFSCME in Illinois. -- SEIU-endorsed Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order in June approving collective bargaining by...

Micheal E. Hill      Washington update   The Senate has cleared for the President's consideration a compromise version of the fiscal year 2010 bill that funds the nation's border enforcement, interior immigration enforcement, and immigration services functions. The Senate acted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, clearing the measure for the President's expected signature...

KTVU-TV -- San Francisco      Pathetic: SF supes move to amend sanctuary law    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved legislation to amend the city's sanctuary policy to allow city employees to refer [illegal alien] youth accused of serious crimes to federal immigration authorities only upon conviction. [See Sanctuary Watch and Frisco Watch]

Guy Benson -- National Review       sc   The White House vs. Fox News: It's about control    The president of the United States — a man who successfully campaigned as a post-partisan healer who abjured the partisan backbiting that he said characterized Washington's politics — has either ordered or permitted a hyper-political PR blitz against a major news outlet, Fox News... [See AG Watch]

Edmonton (AB) Sun      76 "migrant workers" locked up in Vancouver, B.C.    Seventy-six apparent migrant workers were locked up in Vancouver yesterday after a vessel carrying them was seized by authorities off the coast of Vancouver Island Friday. -- An inspection of the ship, displaying the name Ocean Lady, turned up 76 males who told officials they wanted to come to Canada...

USA Today      'Illegal Alien' mask flap spooks retailers as usual suspects squeal    Richard Zagone, a Chicago mask designer, says he was trying to be ironic when he and his brother came up with the "Illegal Alien" Halloween mask, a space alien with a droopy black mustache. -- "We wanted to call it 'Lou Dobbs' Worst Nightmare,' " after he heard the CNN anchor speak about health care for illegal [aliens], Zagone says... [Dobbs talks about this ridiculous sniveling]

Stein Report      Census debate intensifies over counting illegal aliens    Senators David Vitter of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah, both Republican, want to change how the Census does its count so that illegal aliens are counted. Sen. Vitter points out that Louisiana lost a congressional seat in 2000 thanks to illegal immigration, which unfairly inflated the population of several states...

Personal Liberty Digest      Report: US controls only 10 percent of its border    The Department of Homeland Security's Annual Performance Report suggests that out of 8,607 miles of America's land borders, the government effectively controls only 894 miles, which is a bit more than 10 percent. -- As a result, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has blasted the government...

La Opinion -- Los Angeles      Open-borders rag laments fact that 287(g) hasn't been banned    The new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract with local authorities to detain [illegal aliens] is a major disappointment. At first glance, implementation of the 287(g) program, which lent itself to numerous abuses against immigrants and Latinos in particular, will continue without major changes...

Greeley (Colo.) Tribune      Usual suspects set to throw pro-amnesty tantrum today    A group called Reforming Immigration Policies will hold a rally at 4 p.m. today at Lincoln Park in downtown Greeley. -- The group is taking a stand against what it calls injustice in the treatment of illegal [aliens.... criminals] in the United States... [See Amnesty Watch]

Marc Morano -- Human Events      RINO Lindsey Graham's climate dance with the Democrats     Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has turned his back on the latest science, economics, the Republican Party, and American national security, by announcing his new partnership with Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) to find "the winning formula" to pass global warming cap-and-trade legislation...

Greeley (Colo.) Tribune      Usual suspects set to throw pro-amnesty tantrum today    A group called Reforming Immigration Policies will hold a rally at 4 p.m. today at Lincoln Park in downtown Greeley. -- The group is taking a stand against what it calls injustice in the treatment of illegal [aliens.... criminals] in the United States... [See Amnesty Watch]

Denver Post      Colorado insurers say health care bill would lead to "system collapse"    Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care reform throughout the past year, are now warning that current proposals could cause a "system collapse." -- At issue are what insurance companies consider absurdly low penalties for people who choose not to buy health insurance... [See Obama Watch]

The Herald-News -- Joliet, Ill.      Feds raid Grundy slaughterhouse    Kinsman, Ill. -- In the wake of a Sunday afternoon raid on a former meat-processing plant, residents of this town of 100 have questions but few answers. -- Was an al-Qaida cell lurking in the Grundy County village about 20 miles west of Morris, residents asked? Was the building at 6260 S. Kinsman Road housing illegal [aliens]? Was meat slaughtered there done illegally?

Patrick J. Buchanan -- WorldNetDaily.com      Traditional Americans are losing their nation    In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," tea party activists and town-hall dissenters. -- Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? -- Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are "either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia."

Kimberly Dvorak -- The Examiner      Pro-amnesty groups push for illegals to be counted in 2010 Census    Let the counting begin. In a few short months, the U.S. government will begin its accounting of the American people and illegal immigration activists want to make sure the count includes those here illegally. -- In an effort to curtail funding and add additional state legislators, Senator David Vitter-R LA has proposed an amendment...

D.A. King -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution      Should local public safety units enforce immigration laws?    Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which expands the authority of local law enforcement agencies to enforce U.S. immigration laws, has proven far too successful for the powerful lobby that has taken an "amnesty again, enforcement never" stance...

Federation for American Immigration Reform      Call your senators NOW!    The Senate is currently considering the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 spending bill for the departments of Commerce, Justice, and certain federal science programs. As FAIR has reported, much of the debate concerning this so-called "CJS" spending bill has centered on an amendment...

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office      Crime suppression operation concludes    This weekend's crime suppression operation conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office netted the arrest of 66 suspects, 30 of which were suspected of being in the country illegally. -- As the operation was getting underway, Sheriff Arpaio stated at a news conference Friday that...

Chicago Public Radio     Arrogant Mexican invader leaves 'sanctuary'    A Mexican [illegal alien] has moved out of a church on Chicago's West Side where she lived almost two years in defiance of a deportation order. -- A statement from Flor Crisóstomo says leaving Adalberto United Methodist will make her [illegal alien.... criminal "rights"] activism more effective...

Behavioral Health Central     Jail hosts job fair for inmates    With unemployment in California at its highest rate since 1940, the men who filed into the recreation yard Thursday at the Todd Road Jail outside Santa Paula might have seemed like unlikely prospects for local employers...

Derail Amnesty          Has illegal immigration been good for the San Fernando Valley?    Has illegal immigration been good for the Valley? Did the 1986 Amnesty make it a better place to live?

Politico     White House singles out two Fox shows    White House press secretary Robert Gibbs singled out specific shows on the Fox News network for criticism... -- Tuesday morning, continuing a public feud between the White House and the cable network that gained new momentum over the weekend. -- Meeting with reporters in his office for an off-camera question-and-answer session...

Christian Post      NAE deals with criticism after immigration statement    Leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals have issued several clarifications on the group's stance on immigration reform in the days since it released its resolution on the issue. -- Over the past week, various groups – Christians as well as secular – have criticized the NAE's decision to take a strong stance in favor of [illegal aliens] already in the country.

American Patrol Report     Train wreck Aztec terrorism?    A 2005 Glendale California train wreck that killed eleven people was deliberately caused by Juan Manuel Alvarez. He was sentenced to eleven consecutive life sentences for murder. -- Early rumors that this was a terrorist attack were dismissed as...

One News Now      Poll: Amnesty = more illegal immigration    A conservative author and commentator says a new public opinion poll of Mexican nationals is further evidence that granting amnesty to illegal aliens encourages more unlawful border crossings by "wage thieves" who steal American jobs...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The mutilated bodies of nine people and their decapitated heads were found in front of a clinic in the Mexican town of Tlapehuala, state of Guerrero. According to local authorities, there has been an intensification of organized crime violence in that region....

Wall Street Journal      Lawmakers battle on Census question    A measure gaining traction in Congress would require the 2010 Census to include a question about citizenship, a change that would cost millions of dollars and possibly derail a full count. -- Two Republican senators, David Vitter of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah, have offered an amendment to a spending bill that funds the Department of Commerce...

Micheal E. Hill      Congress quietly changing illegal alien smuggling laws    The full House of Representatives this week is scheduled to take up a measure reauthorizing funding for the operations of the U.S. Coast Guard. Contained within the measure is a set of provisions that would increase penalties for alien smuggling...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Mexico is remaking the U.S. in its own failed image    The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data which shows that the United States population has reached 300 million. Illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, and the rate at which they are giving birth in this country is fueling the population explosion...

Federation for American Immigration Reform      FAIR legislative update    As President Obama teamed up last week with former President George H.W. Bush to encourage Americans to perform more community service, FAIR's staff has discovered that a search for "immigration" volunteer opportunities on the administration's Serve.gov website – which describes itself as "your online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own" – has a distinct bias in favor of organizations that support amnesty.

Coming Up October 23 Constitution Party National Committee Mtg. -- Phoenix -- Noon MST Dr. Chuck Baldwin Speaks

Galen Institute       New poll shows Americans overwhelmingly opposed to Obama health scam    Alexandria, Va. -- The Galen Institute today released new survey results showing overwhelming opposition to the individual mandate and other key components of health reform legislation Congress is considering. -- "These findings illustrate strong opposition to fundamental aspects of the bills moving through Congress," said Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner... [See Obama Watch]

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    Brownsville, Tex. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers over the weekend at the Brownsville port of entry discovered and seized nearly $1.2 million in cocaine, marijuana and rock cocaine; four men were arrested in connection with these enforcement actions...