Twin Cities Daily Planet      Usual suspects protest increased immigration detentions    ...Minnesota's Advocates for Human Rights, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and Interfaith Coalition on Immigration called attention to the national Year One Report Card: Human Rights & the Obama Administration's Immigration Detention Reforms. The national coalition, which includes the Detention Watch Network, Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center, and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights...

KOLD-TV -- Tucson      Arpaio gets new lawyers for records lawsuit    Phoenix -- The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has hired new lawyers to defend it in the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit that seeks records from the police agency. -- The case was delayed by two weeks so the sheriff's office could find new lawyers after county officials terminated the contract attorneys who were previously representing the agency...

Infowars.com      Exclusive Paul Craig Roberts Interview: Decline of the American Empire     A special never before seen interview with economic expert Paul Craig Roberts. [See Obama Watch and NWO Treason Watch]

El Universal -- Mexico, DF      Quito Declaration: Globalism on steroids    The 4th 'World Social Forum on Migrations' closed Tuesday the 12th in Quito; it dealt with issues such as "the global crisis and migratory flows; human rights and migrations; diversity, coexistence and socio-cultural transformations; new forms of slavery, human exploitation and serfdom."

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Obama has been quietly imposing amnesty for illegal aliens in Houston    The number of deportation cases being dismissed by Houston immigration judges, has risen more than 700 percent since July. -- According to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, 217 cases were dismissed in August, with another 174 dismissals occurring in September. In July, there were only 27 deportation cases dropped by U.S. immigration courts in Houston... [See Napolitano Watch - Morton Watch - Obama Watch]

CNS News      U.S. spending at least $18.6 million per day to incarcerate illegals   U.S. taxpayers are spending at least $18.6 million per day to house an estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal [aliens] who are incarcerated and eligible for deportation from the United States, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)...

KTVK-TV -- Phoenix      sc   3 dead, 3 injured including girl after SUV fleeing Border Patrol rolls     Three people are dead and another three are in serious to critical condition following a Border Patrol pursuit. -- The driver of an SUV fleeing from Border Patrol agents Wednesday afternoon crashed into a wall. Among those seriously injured is a 9-year-old girl...

Houston Chronicle      John Morton's Antics: ICE detainees play Wii video games  The Chronicle was leaked some photos from inside ICE's Stewart Detention Center in Georgia showing detainees playing Nintendo Wii video game systems. The Wiis are only available to detainees who have no criminal history and are housed in a recreation room. Detainees can sign up to use them for 30 minutes at a time... [See Morton Watch]

Walter Moore -- Los Angeles     Black Hawk Down 2: Mexico is the new Somalia    I know you're not supposed to point out your friends' faults, but how much longer are we going to keep pretending that Mexico is still a nation-state? How much Mexican territory must be taken over by war-lords before we acknowledge the country on our border is no longer a country, but is instead anarchy?

Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald Editorial     Regents give immigrants a fair break    Confronted with an intractable problem, Georgia's University System Board of Regents arrived at a reasonable solution with its vote last week to refuse admission to the state's top colleges to prospective students who can't prove they are legal residents of the United States...

Tom Tancredo for Colorado Governor Road to Victory Money Bomb

The Hill -- Washington      Conservative group launches TV ad hitting "MEChA Boy" Grijalva     Conservative groups smell blood in Arizona's 7th district. -- Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), headed by Grover Norquist, has launched a TV ad hitting Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) for calling for a boycott of the state. The 30-second ad ends by urging viewers to "vote no" on Grijalva...

Rudi Stettner -- IndyPosted.com      Amnesty pushed through back door in Houston federal courts    As voters and candidates debate the issue of illegal immigration and immigration amnesty, a sharply increasing number of illegal immigrants are getting "amnesty" not through Congress but in the courtroom. The Houston Chronicle reports an increase of more than 700 percent in dismissals of immigration violation charges... [See Napolitano Watch - Morton Watch - Obama Watch]

Energy Publisher     Human trafficking begins to eclipse drug trade in Mexico    The "War on Drugs" as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting just drug trafficking; now they must do battle against the rising trafficking of sex. Over the past decade there has been a dramatic rise in violence linked to the drug trade within Mexico...

American Border Patrol        Photo of the day    This happened this morning. These illegal aliens are in the process of being rounded up by the U.S. Border Patrol. They are in the front yard of a friend of American Border Patrol. The location is Hereford, Arizona...

J.D. Longstreet -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga.      Tea Party terrifies the mainstream media     In less than three weeks Americans go to the polls determined to change the federal government back to a responsive, responsible, government, which actually HAS the consent of the governed. -- The Mainstream Media is flat-out "hacked-off" by this unparalleled behavior by the people they, too often in the past, have counted as sheep...

Long Island Wins      Vehement open-borders zealot Velazquez promises another push for amnesty  Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez told an audience of nearly 500 people in Flushing on Thursday night that she will continue to push for immigration reform [amnesty] in Congress during the post-election lame duck session. The head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus told the cheering audience at the MinKwon Center for Community Action...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor     Private detective: 'Zetitas' killed Hartley    Edinburgh -- While Mexican officials have put the search for McAllen man David Michael Hartley on hold indefinitely, a local man believes he has many of the answers to the mystery of the disappearance. -- Hartley, 30, is widely presumed dead after what his wife, Tiffany Young-Hartley, has described as an attack by cartel "pirates"... [Video: Mexican Authorities Suspend Search For David Hartley Indefinitely]

Michael Cutler -- News Blaze      Arizona under siege by Mexican drug cartels    I have provided you with a news report, "Mexican assassins headed to Arizona", that was written by Jerry Seper, the investigative editor for the Washington Times that appeared in that newspaper yesterday, 15, October and should be of great concern to all Americans and, hopefully, to all of our nation's leaders.

Rasmussen Reports     Tancredo moving up    Is independent Tom Tancredo now becoming the de facto Republican candidate for governor of Colorado? He's now moved to within four points of Democrat John Hickenlooper to turn the race into a toss-up. -- The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Colorado finds Hickenlooper with 42% support...

Phil's Stock World     Here's Your "Change": The coming collapse of the real estate market    Yesterday I wrote about how positive feedback loops lead to collapse. Welcome to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets. As I have documented here numerous times, the entire U.S. mortgage market has already been socialized: 99% of all mortgages are backed by the three FFFs -- Fannie, Freddie and FHA... [See "Hope & Change" Watch]

Breitbart.tv      The illegal alien-coddling Jerry Brown hasn't changed a bit    "We have enough wealth to continue to have a great university and get every kid into this school that can qualify. Now when I say every young man and young woman, I mean everyone – whether they are documented or not. If they went to school, they ought to be here." [See Nightingale for Governor]

Coming Up OCTOBER 18 Antlers Hilton Colorado Springs -- 2:00 PM MT Tancredo Unity Rally with Michelle Malkin

Capital News Service -- Annapolis, Md.     Washington County adds jail beds, eyes ICE program    Washington County stands to become the second Maryland jurisdiction to join a controversial immigration program when it completes its planned jail expansion next year. -- Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore said the county is eying the 287(g) program...

PJTV      How to take down a RINO one e-mail at a time    Tea Party activist David Kirkham talks about RINO hunting in Utah. Sometimes the best weapons in the RINO hunter's arsenal are emails and a simple knock on the door. Hear more about how Kirkham and other grass roots organizers defeated U.S. Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT) in the Utah primary.