Arizona Republic -- Phoenix   Arpaio's lawyers to respond to civil rights suit      Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorneys will respond in court Friday to a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that alleges that Arpaio's office carried out a pattern of discrimination against Latinos in its immigration patrols. -- The filing by Arpaio's lawyers will come nearly a month after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit accusing the sheriff's office of racially profiling Latinos and punishing Hispanic jail inmates...

WND.com   DHS derelict in border duties     Washington -- The Department of Homeland Security isn't meeting up to a quarter of service requests for air and marine backup to meet potential homeland security threats, according to the congressional watchdog Government Accountability Office, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is reporting. -- The Custom and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine, or OAM, provides air and marine support at the request of the U.S. Border Patrol...

New York Post   New York school nixes patriotic song... but Canadian Bieber's tune is OK  A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism. -- Her refusal to let students sing "God Bless the USA" at their graduation has sparked fireworks at a school filled with proud immigrants. -- Greta Hawkins, principal of PS 90, the Edna Cohen School, won't allow kindergartners to belt out the beloved Lee Greenwood ballad, also known as "Proud to be an American," at their moving-up ceremony...

NAFBPO   Disturbing photos       Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Culiacan, Sin., Mex. -- A municipal police officer was shot and killed by assassins when he arrived home from work. The 32 year old officer named César Jovany Ochoa Acosta, was killed at about 9:30 pm on Friday. Homicide investigators found 9mm shell casings at the scene. Ochoa Acosta was a supervisor of a group which worked checkpoints...

Miami Herald   Florida county elections supervisors won't resume voter purge   Florida's noncitizen voter purge looks like it's all but over. -- The 67 county elections supervisors --- who have final say over voter purges --- are not moving forward with the purge for now because nearly all of them don't trust the accuracy of a list of nearly 2,700 potential noncitizens identified by the state's elections office. The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered the state to stop the purge...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix   Fake IDs coming from China can fool experts  Not even fake IDs are made in America anymore. -- Overseas forgers from as far away as China are shipping fake driver's license and other IDs to the United States that can bypass even the newest electronic digital security systems, according to document security experts and the Secret Service. -- The new IDs are "an affront to the very sovereignty and dignity of the states that issue them," says David Huff...

American Border Patrol  Starlette bitten by rattlesnake Startlette, one of American Border Patrol's seven German Shepherds, was bitten by a rattlesnake while on patrol this morning with Glenn Spencer, head of ABP. Glenn took her to the vet and she is getting excellent treatment, including anti-venom serum. Wolf killed the snake.

ABC News   RINO Jeb approves of RINO Rubio for VP     Jeb Bush gave an impassioned endorsement of fellow Floridian Marco Rubio, advising Mitt Romney to pick him as his running mate and describing him as 'the most articulate conservative elected official on the scene today,' and even spoke of the 'great pride' he has for the U.S. senator from his home state. -- 'Marco Rubio is my favorite [choice], because we have a close relationship,' the former Florida governor told Charlie Rose...

Intel Hub  70% unemployment for recent high school graduates     A new report by Rutgers John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development published June 2012 titled, Left Out. Forgotten? Recent High School Graduates and the Great Recession details the abysmal state of employment opportunities for the Classes of 2006 through 2011. -- In the spirit of accuracy, a number of excerpts from the report follow...

Fox News Latino   Rangel whines about GOP's stance on illegals     New York Congressman Charles Rangel criticized the harsh tones of the Republican Party toward the country's immigration issue. -- Speaking to Fox News Latino's Juan Williams Thursday in the Capitol Rotunda, Rangel said that Republicans seem to select leaders who don't choose moral issues. -- 'It's amazing I watch the Republican presidential debate and every moral issue you can think of...'

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner  ICE docs contradict agency's claim that it does not provide abortions  On Friday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to block taxpayer-funded abortion services for illegal aliens being held in federal immigration detention facilities. -- Under the provision, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials would be barred from providing abortions to illegal aliens except those sought in the case of rape, incest or when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother...

American Border Patrol New Flag Sign Board Going Up American Border Patrol is building another wall to house this year's Independence Day flags. Last year 10,000 flags were placed on a sign board that read SECURE THE BORDER. This year the sign board will read SAVE THE UNITED STATES. Read more...

John Aziz -- Zero Hedge  Rand Paul just endorsed a man who is deeply hostile to human liberty Perhaps that's Rand's idea of playing politics? Come to the table, strike a deal, get what you can. Trouble is, it's tough striking a good deal when the guy on the other side of the table believes that the government should be allowed to claim --- without having to produce any evidence whatsoever --- that certain people are terrorists, and therefore should be detained indefinitely without any kind of due process...

Bob Webster -- WebCommentary.com   Will Democrats question Obama's birth certificate?    Democrats and their news media allies have made great sport of those who question Barack Hussein Obama's citizenship. Despite Hawaiian officials steadfast refusal to release any official confirmation of his birth in Hawaii, the Left merely accepts his claim, even if it runs contrary to his claims dating to the 1990s that he was Kenyan born. -- The Left pokes fun at "birthers" and others who view with concern...