Real Clear Politics            sc      Napolitano admits she hasn't read Arizona law but says she wouldn't sign it    Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano admits she hasn't read the Arizona immigration law, but passed judgment on it anyway. "That's not the kind of law I would have signed," she declared. "I believe it's a bad law enforcement law. I believe it mandates and requires local enforcement and puts them in a position many do not want to be placed in," Napolitano said...

American Border Patrol Who Will Tell You? If they put the National Guard on the border, who will tell you how many are there and how they're being used? The media? Hardly. The only organization equipped to bring you the truth is American Border Patrol, but they can't do it without your help. Go here to play your part.

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The day designated as "A day without Mexicans" called for by the National Chamber of Commerce in Guaymas, Sonora, in protest to the Arizona law didn't have the convincing response hoped for. While the flow of Mexicans crossing through the ports of entry into Arizona was diminished, it was nevertheless steady...

Las Vegas Review-Journal     ICE accord resulted in deportation of 1,897     Federal officials have deported almost 1,900 illegal [aliens] under a partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department, according to recently released figures. -- The partnership, which allows specially trained officers at the Clark County Detention Center to identify immigration violators and place "immigration detainers" on them, began in November 2008....

Center for Immigration Studies         Latest news headlines from CIS    Arizona's controversial new immigration law raises questions about who pays to bring the cases to trial, how defendants will be tried and how authorities will ensure they actually make it to court. -- Senate Bill 1070 and House Bill 2162, which fine-tuned the law, define three new crimes. The bills, signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer, make it illegal to...

Ben Smith -- Politico      Apologizing for Arizona    A State Department official's expression of regret in human rights talks with China over Arizona's new immigration law has sparked sharp protests from conservatives, but a State Department spokesman didn't respond to a request to comment on the concession... [See Obama Watch]

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner     Border Patrol agents blast Obama administration     While the politicians and activists in Washington, DC and throughout the nation condemn the Arizona immigration enforcement law (SB1070), the news media has failed to cover the reaction of the people who patrol U.S. borders on a daily basis...

Warner Todd Huston -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto      sc        Enemies of our nation in the classroom    These "frail racist white people" better beware of La Raza "forefront of the revolution," at least so says Mexican racist and hatemonger Ron Gochez. Ordinarily we would all just roll our eyes at yet another half-wit, violence pusher that wants to destroy the USA and everything it stands for. But Mr. Gochez is not just any prosaic left-wing hatemonger...

American Border Patrol       Challenger II to be on display at June 5 rally in Phoenix    American Border Patrol's Challenger II border surveillance airplane will be on display at the Phoenix Rising rally on June 5. The rally will be held to support Arizona and SB 1070. Speakers will include Tom Tancredo, Russell Pearce and Joe Arpaio...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Asylum granted to Obama's illegal alien aunt... reason remains a secret     Attorneys for Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, just announced that a U.S. immigration court has granted her political asylum, a move which allows her to remain in the country legally. -- However, the reason for her asylum remains a secret and apparently will not be made public...

Fox News      San Diego faces own medicine as Arizona residents cancel travel    Arizona tourists are biting back against San Diego for its city council's decision to boycott the Grand Canyon State over its immigration law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last month. -- Would-be tourists have notified the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau and some hotels that they are canceling their scheduled travel...

KVOA-TV -- Tucson     Miss USA runner-up asked about Arizona's immigration law    Arizona was a topic of discussion at the Miss USA Pageant Sunday. -- Miss Oklahoma USA, Morgan Woolard, was first runner-up after handling a question about Arizona's new immigration law. She said she supports it...

Guy W. Farmer -- Nevada Appeal      In defense of Arizona's immigration law    Are you as sick as I am of the mainstream media campaign -- aided and abetted by President Obama and congressional leaders -- to glamorize illegal immigration and to demonize Arizona's tough new immigration law? What part of "illegal" don't they understand?

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      MCSO: 69 arrested after cockfighting event raided (illegals included)    Tonopah, Az. -- Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies are conducting an investigation into an alleged cockfighting operation west of the Valley after nearly 70 people were arrested Saturday. -- Sheriff's Deputy Lindsey Smith said the investigation began at the property near Wintersburg and Baseline Roads after they received a report of an organized cockfighting event...

One Old Veteran      AFL-CIO admits it's working against America & American workers    In a desperate move to counter the increasingly popular Arizona law the Union Movement has sunk to a low not seen since the days the commies ran the unions in America. -- I am NOT anti-Union. I was a chapter president of one of the largest public sector unions in America...

Rasmussen Reports     56% still want to repeal health care law, political class disagrees     Some things never change, and voter opposition to the recently passed national health care law appears to be one of them. -- The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% favor repeal of the law, while 39% are opposed. Support for repeal is unchanged from a week ago... [See Obama Watch]

CNN      Outrageous!: Judge rules Obama's aunt can stay in U.S.    President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt can stay in the United States, a U.S. immigration judge has ruled, ending a more than six-year legal battle over her status. -- Judge Leonard Shapiro made the decision Friday, court officials told CNN. Two government sources confirmed Monday that the ruling will give legal status to Zeituni Onyango...

KSAZ-TV -- Phoenix      Palin supports Arizona immigration law    Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Saturday told President Barack Obama to secure the nation's borders as she appealed for the people of America to support Arizona's controversial illegal immigration law, NECN reported...

Los Angeles Times      For Poizner and Whitman, the battle grows heated    So it has come to this: Two Republicans who said they would bring cool business acumen to the governorship are, in the last weeks of their primary race, locked in a screaming match over [illegal] immigration and welfare and the hot insult "liberal."

Associated Press      4 decapitated bodies found in northern Mexico    Piedras Negras, Coah., Mex. -- Four young men have been found decapitated in northern Mexico. -- Durango state police say the heads were found on the hood of a pickup truck left in a shopping center parking lot in the city of Gomez Palacio late Saturday...

Jay Nordlinger -- National Review      Disgraceful: Obama Admin. apologizes to China for Arizona immigration law    ...I hope I have read that incorrectly, or am interpreting it incorrectly. Did we, the United States, talking to a government that maintains a gulag, that denies people their basic rights, that in all probability harvests organs, apologize for the new immigration law in Arizona? Really, really? [See AP item] [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Rasmussen Reports      58% in Pennsylvania favor immigration law like Arizona's    Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Likely Pennsylvania Voters favor a law like the one recently adopted in Arizona that authorizes local police to check the immigration status of individuals they stop, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose such a law...

Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Obama Administration: Goldman Sachs from top to bottom     ..."At a time when Congressional hearings are set to call testimony from some Goldman Sachs employees, it is vital to understand how widespread that institution's ties are to the Obama administration. This diary shows the pervasive influence of Goldman Sachs and Goldman created institutions, employees and influence peddlers in the Obama administration," FDL wrote on April 27.

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson      New Arizona law: Firms have no legal duty to have translators     A Glendale optometrist's yearlong legal fight over what services he had to provide for a Spanish-speaking customer has translated into new protections for other businesses. -- Gov. Jan Brewer has signed legislation affirming that nothing in state law requires businesses to provide "trained and competent" interpreters...

Hot Air      How is that "hope and change" BS treating you?    A new pair of billboards protesting the Barack Obama presidency and the Democratic agenda have appeared in Minnesota, sponsored by the same group that brought us the reminder of Ronald Reagan. This time, one of the billboard companies (CBS) required an identification...

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas      Gunmen kill eight at bar in northern Mexico    Piedras Negras, Coah., Mex. -- Authorities in northern Mexico say gunmen opened fire on a bar in the city of Torreon. Eight people are dead and 20 wounded. - Coahuila state prosecutors say at least six gunmen arrived before dawn Saturday at a bar that was being inaugurated in the city of Torreon and started shooting...

Associated Press     Candidates threatened in local Mexico elections    Mexico, DF -- One candidate was gunned down with his son inside his business. Another is missing after assailants torched her home. In some towns near the U.S. border, parties can't find anyone to run for mayor. -- The violence is intensifying fear that Mexico's drug cartels could control July 4 local elections in 10 states...

Ethel C. Fenig -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash.      Why Russell Pearce wrote Arizona's common sense illegal immigration law    Not that it will matter to -- or be understood by -- the closed minded progressives, but Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R) clearly spells out in Front Page Magazine exactly why he authored Arizona's SB1070, otherwise known as the law dealing with illegal [aliens]...

Charles Heatherly -- The Examiner      Arizona immigration law sparks boycotts across the state of Colorado    ...A curious thing about these rush-to-boycott cities is that they are themselves sanctuary cities, places where, as former Denver mayor Wellington Webb liked to say, all immigrants are equally welcome. City policy forbids police from asking questions about immigration status. These sanctuary cities have the most to lose if the Arizona law were to spread to other states...

San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun      Pomona College graduation protest rips immigration policy    Claremont, Calif. -- Nick Gerber wanted to make it clear as he graduated from Pomona College that he opposed commencement speaker Janet Napolitano and her policies on immigration. -- The group was calling for an end to what they claim are discriminatory immigration enforcement policies in her department...

Palm Springs Desert Sun     Usual suspects target Lakers playoff game following Jackson remarks    [Open-borders zealots] plan to picket the NBA Western Division title game at Staples Center Monday evening, because Lakers coach Phil Jackson said he has no problem with Arizona's controversial new illegal immigration law. -- Jackson criticized the Phoenix Suns players for unanimously voting to wear jerseys that said "Los Suns''... [See Crackpot Larry Lopez Watch]

KIRO-TV -- Seattle      Seattle considers Arizona boycott    Seattle city leaders will consider an official boycott of Arizona. -- Monday, the Seattle City Council will hear public comment and then vote on a boycott of Arizona in protest of that state's new immigration law. -- The immigration law allows Arizona police to ask suspects for proof of their immigration status...

Washington's Blog      The bailout of big American banks has cost trillions more than we've been told   Granted, the $700 billion dollar TARP bailout was a massive bait-and-switch. The government said it was doing it to soak up toxic assets, and then switched to saying it was needed to free up lending. It didn't do that either. Indeed, the Fed doesn't want the banks to lend...

Tim Inwood -- Buckeye Firearms Association -- Delaware, Ohio      Civil rights and double standards: Gun owners are forced to "show papers," but media say illegal aliens shouldn't have to    I've been watching with some interest the fallout over the new Arizona law dealing with illegal aliens. I hear the news media moaning that the new law "makes it a crime to be an illegal alien." I'm not joking, that is exactly how they phrased it on several networks and cable news shows...

Ken Blackwell -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.     The tomb of the unknown lawyer    Watching Attorney General Eric Holder as he testified recently before the House Judiciary Committee was a disheartening experience. -- Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) tried repeatedly to get the general to acknowledge that "radical Islam" was a motivation for three of the recent attacks on the homeland - Nidal Hasan's murderous Fort Hood attack...