Roy Beck -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      sc       Durbin makes false claims about E-Verify... again    Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) last night [10/26/2009] and today [10/27/2009] is once again using his leadership position to make false claims about E-Verify's reliability and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship...

Peter Ferrara -- Fox News      Obama, prepare for a political earthquake    The latest Rasmussen poll shows Chris Christie, the Republican nominee for Governor in New Jersey, beating the incumbent Democrat John Corzine by 4 points, even with a third party conservative in the race drawing over 10 percent of the vote... [See Obama Watch]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix     Iraqi immigrant accused in hit-run fled to Mexico, England before capture    An Iraqi immigrant accused of running over his daughter for being too "Westernized" fled across three countries before he was extradited to the United States and arrested Thursday, authorities said Friday. -- Faleh Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, drove to Mexico the day of the attack and later boarded a plane for London... [See Crime Watch]

Andrew C. McCarthy -- National Review      The Scooter standard    While the most transparent administration in history continues to stonewall Congress on its legal theories for supporting a would-be dictator in Honduras, dismissing a civil-rights case against nightstick-wielding Black Panthers, and flouting the plain language of the Constitution on the D.C... Villafuerte

Associated Press      30 illegals found in semi-truck    San Diego -- Authorities have arrested two men who were allegedly smuggling 30 illegal [aliens] into the United States in a hidden compartment inside a trailer. -- U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that agents inspected a semi-truck at a checkpoint in San Diego County on Thursday and found the driver didn't have a commercial license and the passenger didn't have legal papers...

Politico      Newsom drops California gubernatorial bid    And Jerry Brown stands alone (at least for now). -- Newsom's Friday afternoon statement, confirming rumors that had been buzzing all day: "It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California. With a young family and responsibilities at city hall..." [Note: Forget about RINO Meg Whitman]

Judicial Watch      Arrogant illegal aliens sue ICE over arrests    A group of illegal [aliens] recently spared deportation by a sympathetic Connecticut judge are suing the federal agents that arrested them, claiming their constitutional rights were violated in the raids that led to their apprehension...

Rasmussen Reports      68% oppose cities who give sanctuary to illegals    San Francisco has long prided itself on being a "sanctuary city" that refuses to work with federal authorities to identify and deport illegal immigrants. But now city officials are arguing over how far that policy should go when some of those illegal immigrants are charged with murder and other serious crimes...

San Antonio Express-News      Bill seeks Coast Guard's help on Rio Grande    Texas border lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Coast Guard to expand its operations along the Rio Grande as a way to increase the federal law enforcement presence there, help thwart drug cartels and curb escalating violence...

CNS News      DHS gags local law enforcement to protect illegals' "privacy"    The DHS is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens. -- Under "revised" 287(g) agreements between the DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division and state and local law enforcement agencies... [See Napolitano Watch]

Wall Street Journal     Slump sinks visa program    A coveted visa program that feeds skilled workers to top-tier U.S. technology companies and universities is on track to leave thousands of spots unfilled for the first time since 2003, a sign of how the weak economy has eroded employment even among highly trained professionals... H1B

John W. Whitehead -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Why your representatives should make you mad as hell    ...Imagine a world exempt from parking tickets, where gym membership is free and health care is second-to-none. In order to receive these benefits, you also only have to work two, maybe three days a week-a time period during which you will be shuttled around in a nice car....

Marshallfield News-Herald      Agents arrest 34 illegals in Wisconsin    State and federal agents have arrested 34 people they say are illegal [aliens] across southern Wisconsin. -- Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's office says state Justice Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began the sweep on Oct. 13 and completed it on Friday...

KTVU -- San Francisco      Illegals getting the boot after getting away with it for 17 years    A Guatemalan family that has made the Bay Area home for 17 years is facing imminent deportation Friday, after exhausting all of their legal options. -- Homeland Security officials said the family has had numerous chances to make their case in court, and lost. But the family's advocates say that's precisely why immigration laws must change...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Immigrant violence in France gives ugly glimpse into America's future    In 2007, massive riots took place in a Paris suburb which is populated with North African and Arab immigrants. Over a one week period, more than 100 police officers were injured as the thugs hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails and fired shotguns at them...

Politico      Dems In Trouble: Obama regime takes over Corzine campaign    One of President Barack Obama's key political advisers has become the central strategist in New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's bruising campaign for re-election, a race the White House desperately wants to win to avert the consequences for its own agenda of a Republican winning in a traditionally Democratic state...

Xinhua -- Beijing     Remittances plunge in Mexico: central bank    Mexico, DF -- Money sent home by Mexican workers overseas was 17.5 percent lower in September from a year earlier and 13.4 percent lower in the year to end September from the previous one, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday in a statement...

J. D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      America is turning to socialism    There is an article entitled: "America Moving from Kingdom of Cash to Socialism Slowly but Surely" we recommend you read. You'll find it on Pravda's site. And, YES, we DID say PRAVDA! -- If any organization on the planet should know a socialist state when it sees one, it is Pravda.

San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun      Discredited ACORN, others claim 'racial profiling'    Fontana, Calif. -- Members of two community organizing groups protested Wednesday against alleged acts of racial profiling by law enforcement officers near public schools. -- At Wednesday's City Council meeting, members of ACORN and the San Bernardino Community Service Center said Fontana police officers are targeting illegal [aliens]...

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Carl Braun -- The Examiner      Gang of 100 pushes Obama for amnesty in 2010    Congress seems to have more "gangs" than Los Angeles these days and they are every bit as insidious. They have at least one thing in common with their cohorts in the Latin Kings and MS-13. The "Capitol Devils" Gang (not to be confused with the Hell's Angels) of 100 have a vested interest in seeing another amnesty for illegal aliens come to fruition... [See Amnesty Watch]

Christopher G. Adamo -- GOPUSA.com      Can Republicans pander their way into leadership?    At least when the Trojans of yore brought that confounded wooden horse into their midst, they did so in total ignorance of the danger it represented. It would have been beyond credible, even in a fable, to contend that they might have still accepted it, knowing its sinister contents...

San Diego Union-Tribune     Here's one RINO globalist loser bankrupt California doesn't need    With the San Ysidro border fence as her backdrop, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman spoke out on immigration policy issues yesterday, saying it is "simply not practical" to deport the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants living and working in the United States....

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      Security concerns for Arpaio after TV host shooting scare    Officials with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office say they are closely examining Sheriff Joe Arpaio's security after a recent shooting involving CNN TV host Lou Dobbs. -- Dobbs' New Jersey home was shot at three weeks ago and some say the outspoken host may have been the target of pro-illegal immigration activists...

D.A. King -- Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal      Illegals' invasion tears lives apart on this side, too    Robert Rosas is a name that is sadly unfamiliar to most Americans. It shouldn't be. His tragic story is one of many that represent the "other side" of the illegal immigration "debate" that is routinely avoided by the various anti-enforcement groups and in the media...

Conservative Outpost      Obamaphiles plot media takeover    It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that, should government extend bailout funds to the nation's newspapers, the end result will be the state dictating media content. -- For did not Obama determine the minutest aspects of GM and bank operations when these institutions fell for government wiles...

New Orleans Times-Picayune      Landrieu turns up heat after Vitter's census-citizenship proposal    Republican Sen. David Vitter's ongoing crusade to include a citizenship question on the 2010 Census, and then exclude non-citizens from the reapportionment count, has managed to inflame passions all around. -- And that was before Sen. Mary Landrieu, his senior Democratic colleague, got mad...

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    Naco, Ariz. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped a drug-smuggling attempt when they seized more than 180 pounds of marijuana concealed in multiple secret compartments through out the vehicle. -- On October 25 at about 9:30 p.m., CBP officers were screening travelers when they became suspicious of a 2005 Ford F-150...

KHOU-TV -- Houston      City leaders spar over immigration, 287(g)    The immigration issue hit Houston City Hall today and bounced straight into the mayoral race. It's over 287(g), a partnership between local and federal authorities that gives local law enforcement the power to enforce immigration laws. -- People like Amy Lansrud know the issue a little too well.

CBS News      N.J. court says Americans have no right to buy handguns    A New Jersey appeals court has concluded that Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy a handgun. -- In a case decided last week, the superior court upheld a state law saying that nobody may possess "any handgun" without obtaining law enforcement approval and permission in advance... [See Gun Grabber Watch]