Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Importing Poverty to Washington State Another state Californicated Federation for American Immigration Reform -- October 15     Washington taxpayers foot $2.7 billion annual bill for illegal immigration         A new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration costs taxpayers in Washington State about $2.7 billion annually. The average Washington household headed by a U.S. citizen bears an annual burden of about $970 to cover the costs associated with illegal aliens in the state. Moreover, the costs associated with illegal immigration are about equal to the amount lawmakers had to slash from the state budget to close a projected shortfall.     The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Aliens on Washingtonians examines the cost of providing services and benefits to the state's 275,000 illegal aliens and 104,000 dependent U.S.-born children. The report also looks at the costs associated with the administration of criminal justice and incarceration of criminal illegal aliens.     Among the key findings of The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Aliens on Washingtonians:      The cost of providing K-12 education to an estimated 127,000 children of illegal aliens (including students who are themselves illegal and the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens) amounts to $1.6 billion annually...  Comment on This Feature     Past Features

WTOP -- Washington      Subversive Obama regime threatens to ax 287(g) in county    Woodbridge, Va. -- A program aimed at deporting illegal [aliens] who commit crimes could be getting the ax. -- The initiative, known as 287 (g), allows local police to coordinate with federal officials to determine the immigration status of anyone they arrest. Sixty-two communities participate in the $17 million program, which is facing a cutback for fiscal year 2013. -- Prince William County was among the first communities...

Mary Grabar -- Townhall.com      Wear your Romney / Ryan t-shirt    Vice President Joe Biden, in his debate with Congressman Paul Ryan last Thursday, attempted one of many of the strategies liberals use when debating conservatives. The American public got a great display of advancements in cosmetic dentistry. The Vice President, however, failed to pull off the most popular of liberal debating techniques. -- I should know the liberals' strategies because I work in academia and...

WCBS-TV -- New York     Obama, Romney slam each other's "immigration reform policies"    President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both claimed to support comprehensive immigration reform in the second presidential debate Tuesday, but different in their definitions of what the term meant. -- Romney argued in favor of welcoming immigrants into the country, and said visas should be made more readily available for people who graduate with needed skills...

CIS.org    sc NYC immigration judges favor aliens more frequently    An interesting item was published in the September 27 edition of Capital (a New York-based online publication), which in my view deserves a great deal more attention that it appears to be getting. -- According to the article, "While nearly two-thirds of deportation cases nationwide end in the target's removal from the country, the results in New York City have been starkly different...

Daniel Akst -- Wall Street Journal      WSJ commentator sees the affirmative action -- immigration collision    Affirmative action is in the news again. The Supreme Court is mulling a case involving racial preferences at the University of Texas, and this weekend's Saturday essay in the Wall Street Journal looked at "The Unraveling of Affirmative Action." -- One dimension of this debate that is sometimes overlooked involves the ways immigration and affirmative action interact. The late historian and political scientist Hugh Davis Graham...

Thomas Sowell -- LewRockwell.com      Random thoughts    Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. -- Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with one plain and inescapable fact – "there hasn't been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office...

John W. Whitehead -- LewRockwell.com      America's Schools: Breeding grounds for compliant citizens    For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation's history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America's public schools. -- Once looked to as the starting place for imparting principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, America's classrooms...

Thomas DiLorenzo -- LewRockwell.com      Wealthy white liberal race-hustling scam artists    Charles B. Writes: "Your blog posting today inspired me to go to GuideStar.org and find the latest (2011-06-30) [IRS] Form 990 tax return for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Interesting reading... The entity has almost a quarter billion dollars invested in something not detailed. No list of stocks or bonds or other investments. It has about ten million cash in hand. It spent about one and one-half million for professional fundraisers...

The Blaze      Five things to look for in tonight's debate    Tonight's face-off between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney holds high stakes for both candidates. While Romney is looking to seize upon --- and continue --- his current upward trajectory, Obama is seeking an opportunity to reverse negative press and perceived slumping in the weeks leading up to the election...

Fox News      UNC denies Iraq vet in-state tuition as it mulls giving break to illegals  The University of North Carolina, which is currently considering giving illegal [aliens] in-state tuition benefits, denied an Army sergeant the same break even though she owns a home in the Tar Heel state and only moved away briefly because the military stationed her husband in Texas. -- Hayleigh Perez, 26, hoped to use her G.I. Bill to attend the UNC's Pembroke campus near Fort Bragg, but the young veteran...

Stephen Lendman -- The Intel Hub      Intensified warrantless spying in America    Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald's just published book titled "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars" provide new information on lawless spying in America. -- Eichenwald described "the most dramatic expansion of NSA's power and authority in the agency's 49 year history." It was devised days after 9/11, he said. In fact, it began much earlier...

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Associated Press     Daughter of wanted Mexican drug lord caught trying to enter San Diego  San Diego -- The daughter of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been charged with trying to enter the United States on someone else's passport, U.S. officials said, becoming the latest family member to become ensnared in U.S. courts. -- Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman Salazar, 31, was arrested Friday at San Diego's San Ysidro port of entry...

Associated Press      Obama regime seeks dismissal of Fast & Furious lawsuit    The Justice Department on Monday night sought dismissal of a lawsuit by a Republican-led House committee demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder produce records about the botched law enforcement probe of gun-trafficking called Operation Fast and Furious. -- President Barack Obama has invoked executive privilege and the attorney general has been found to be in contempt of Congress for refusing to...

Rick Oltman of The Immigration Tea Party -- The Examiner   Hillary falls on her sword... but at what price?    Thirty four days after the coordinated military style attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans somebody has finally taken responsibility for it; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is volunteering to take the rap. And, not coincidentally, at the perfect time, too. -- Hillary's sword falling act changes the discussion just in time for the second Presidential debate...

William F. Jasper -- The New American      The United Nations: On the brink of becoming a world government    On October 14, 2009, Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, delivered a scathing refutation of the concept of human-caused global warming at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his presentation, Lord Monckton focused on the UN climate treaty that was being proposed for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that December...