U.S.. Customs and Border Protection        sc   Latest news releases from CBP    A U.S. Border Patrol traffic stop on Interstate 15 in Temecula, Calif. yesterday resulted in the arrest of two men for suspicion of cocaine smuggling. -- Border Patrol agents were patrolling the interstate at 11:45 a.m., when they spotted the two suspects traveling northbound in a Ford Freestar...

Sultan Knish -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      White House takes a chokehold on the media    Even as the White House preaches tolerance toward Muslims and Sikhs, it is practicing intolerance, signaling that anyone who challenges the leaders of an embattled America is cynical, political and -- isn't this the subtext? -- unpatriotic... We should dread a climate where the jobs of columnists and comedians are endangered by dissent...

Iowa Politics     Polk County Sheriff wants amnesty for illegals    As Congress prepares to take up immigration reform in early 2010, leading police executives from states as diverse as California, Iowa, and Texas will join a telephonic press conference on Thursday, October 22nd, as part of a growing chorus of law enforcement leaders calling for comprehensive immigration reform [read: amnesty]...

Ways & Means Republicans      Here's Your "Change": 49 out of 50 states have lost jobs since "stimulus" scam    The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available)... [See Obama Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    ...Nearly 275 Africans are detained in immigration housing facilities in Central America, but the number could be higher because there is no precise official tally. Of the total, most are from Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana and Somalia, but also included are citizens of Afghanistan...

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office      Arpaio continues enforcing the law    Phoenix -- Several recent televised interviews of the Sheriff have mischaracterized and confused the context of the explanation he has given of his office's practices and procedures. This should set the record straight. -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio has continually stated that his deputies have never initiated contact with anyone solely based on their nationality...

Michelle Malkin      Culture of corruption: DOJ watch    What do you expect from a crime-coddling crony Attorney General? Real justice and equality under the law? Ha: Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate...

Houston Chronicle     Flaws found in options for illegal alien detention    Nearly one in five suspected illegal [aliens] who went through an Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensive monitoring program absconded while under supervision during the past five years, newly disclosed records show...

South Florida Sun-Sentinel           Students toss tantrum, demand release of detained illegal aliens    Pompano Beach, Fla. -- A Miami-Dade College student stood outside the Broward Transitional Center on North Powerline Road Monday afternoon. He has no desire to see the inside of the building. It's a detention center. They put people there until their immigration status is determined, or until they're deported... [See Amnesty Watch]

WTVF -- Nashville      287(g) program approved by Metro Council    Nashville, Tenn. -- Metro Council voted to allow Sheriff Daron Hall to keep the 287(g) program. How the vote was carried out on Tuesday, created controversy of its own. -- A vote to nix a council discussion on the 287(g) program prompted a hasty exit by the anti-side, and an explanation from one council woman about how the system had failed them...

Fox News      Immigrant runs down daughter for becoming too 'Westernized'    Peoria, Az. -- Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values. -- Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday...

Roger Pilon -- Cato Institute    sc     Obama's fall offensive    ...Obama is losing it. His increasing moves to marginalize his critics, richly detailed this morning at Politico, mark him as an amateur. America is not Chicago. Nor are those who oppose his agenda synonymous with the Republican Party. They're far more numerous than that, and their numbers are growing....

KOLR-TV -- Springfield, Mo.     Area law enforcement to train as immigration officers    Some area law enforcement officers will soon be trained to act as immigration officers. -- It's all part of a new agreement between the state of Missouri and the Department of Homeland Security. -- The Highway Patrol and 66 other agencies around the state agreed to continue to check people's immigration status when they're arrested...

Jim Hoft -- First Things      State-run media now openly using vile "teabagger" term to describe conservatives    "This Week's" George Stephanopoulos and his guest openly discussed the "Teabagging Movement" this past Sunday. -- They didn't even bat an eye when as they used the offensive sexual term to describe fiscal conservatives...

Jeffrey H. Anderson -- National Review      Post Poll Should Cause ObamaCare Opponents to Take Heart    The headlines from the Washington Post-ABC News poll say that support for a "public option" and an insurance mandate have increased from their low-point this summer. But the poll's actual questions and answers look a lot different than the headlines...

Phoenix Business Journal      Survey shows strong support for immigration raids    Just under two-thirds of Americans want see more raids on businesses who hire illegal [aliens] and to see those illegal workers arrested. -- A national survey conducted earlier this month by Rasmussen Reports found that 64 percent support police conducting surprise raids on businesses suspected of hiring illegal [aliens]...

Michelle Malkin      The "vapor bill" materializes, but don't spend too much reading it    Transparency my foot. -- In its typically bass-ackwards way, the Democrat majority has released the 1,500-plus Baucus health care bill... a week after passing it in committee. -- But don't invest too much time reading it. -- Because in its typically non-transparent way, it'll be melded, molded, and amended behind closed doors....

Associated Press      Lawyer says Mexican official not seeking asylum, but U.S. won't release him    El Paso - A Mexican human rights official detained by U.S. immigration officials as an asylum-seeker doesn't want U.S. protection and just wants to return home, his lawyer says. -- But Gustavo de la Rosa is being held indefinitely at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement jail in El Paso while the U.S. decides whether to grant him asylum...

Newark Star-Ledger      Honduran illegal alien admits sexually assaulting 8 year old    Wharton, NJ -- An [illegal alien from Honduras], whose bail became the subject of a New Jersey Supreme Court case earlier this year, pleaded guilty today to sexually-assaulting a 8-year-old girl. -- Manuel Fajardo-Santos, 31, admitted today to sexually assaulting his girlfriend's younger sister in Wharton on Aug. 24, 2008... [More of Obama's pet fiends]

WorldNetDaily.com      D.C. Muslim group's shocking al-Qaida ties    The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations' ties to terrorism are not limited to Hamas and cross over to al-Qaida, America's No. 1 enemy, a top-selling new book alleges. -- In just one of several shocking and previously unreported findings, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" details a secret meeting...

Long Island Wins      SPLC fear monger Potok, others to testify at Suffolk meeting    Mark Potok [this notorious liar of whom Lou Dobbs speaks] is scheduled to testify tonight at the Suffolk [County, NY] Legislature before the Suffolk Hate Crimes Task Force. This is the first time he will be speaking about the SPLC's report on Suffolk's Climate of Fear since its release in August... [Guide exposes SPLC weasels]

Associated Press      Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty    The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. -- A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government's official figure...

Fox News      Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker event at university cut short as crowd turns nasty    Philadelphia -- mid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing "stealth jihad" that threatens democracy and free speech...

Terence P. Jeffrey -- Human Events      Can Obama and Congress order you to buy broccoli?    Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want?

Bruce Drake -- Politics Daily      Four in 10 Americans fear Obama will ban gun sales    Sales of guns and ammunition soared when Barack Obama became president because of fears that he and the Democratic-controlled Congress would pass anti-gun legislation, and that concern still shows up in a Gallup poll conducted Oct. 1-4... [See Gun Grabber Watch]

XETV -- San Diego / Tijuana     Busy Weekend for Federal Agents at the Border    Federal agents working at ports of entry at the U.S.- Mexico line in California over the weekend seized 1,125 pounds of illegal narcotics, confiscated nearly $84,000 in undeclared cash and caught 10 fugitives wanted for various crimes, officials reported Monday...

Washington Times      Here's Your "Change": Watchdog says TARP repayment 'unlikely'    The auto industry, AIG and other struggling recipients of the government's $700 billion Wall Street bailout will make it "extremely unlikely" that taxpayers will receive a full return on their investments, says a new report by the Treasury Department's independent watchdog... [See Obama Watch]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review      Border agents have busy weekend    Tucson -- With an average of more than 700 illegal [aliens] apprehended each day over the weekend, some were found to have significant previous arrests, according to a spokesman for the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol...

Michelle Malkin      Americrooks: The volunteerism scandal Hollywood won't be broadcasting    Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won't be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, of course.) Creeped out? You should be....

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The Mexican government is offering support for 13 [illegal Mexican aliens] arrested by deputies of the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, over the past weekend. The Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) regrets the actions taken by the deputies...

Carl Herman -- The Examiner      2009 US economy: largest transfer of wealth to financial/political elite in global history    Political “leadership” of the two oligarchy parties spin their economic policy as being for the public benefit. Professional economists increasingly cast economic policy in unprecedented harsh criticism, even calling for public demonstrations against what they claim as gross violations of financial law...

Pat Buchanan -- VDare.com      Middle Americans alienated & radicalized    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."