Tuesday - February 27, 2007

Invasion!

Memo to all the burrito-eating bastardos down Mexico way:

If you don’t like my fence then you can kiss my gringo ! And I’ll be damned if I’m going to start being “sensitive to Mexico concerns”. Get your damn people out of my country and keep them out and then we’ll talk about “trespass”, you pathetic asswipes. Just be thankful we don’t build the fence a few thousand miles inside Mexico and run all you into South America.

Mexican Anger Over US Trespass
_{(BBC) - Friday, 23 February 2007, 16:02 GMT}

Mexico’s Congress has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries. Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

The alleged border violation comes ahead of a high-level meeting in the Canadian capital Ottawa. US, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers are to discuss border security and trade issues.

Mexican legislators said they had photographs and video, taken on Monday, of the workers and heavy-duty construction equipment that showed them about 10 metres inside Mexico near the border city of Agua Prieta and the town of Douglas, Arizona.

The Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said she had complained to the US authorities and that the men and equipment had been withdrawn. In a statement, the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said: “The US is sensitive to Mexican concerns… [and] has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil”.

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I’m glad you asked ... because in four years of war in Iraq we have lost 3,157 American soldiers - but over the same time period illegal aliens have murdered over 8,000 American citizens right here at home. Is that what you call “homeland security”? If so, you’re dumber than a rock and I’m about to educate your stupid ass.  Listen up!

Our elected representatives in Washington sit back and watch illegal aliens kill law enforcement officers left and right and then send to prison border guards who shoot Mexican drug-runners operating illegally in our country?

While our politicians twiddle their thumbs in Washington and allow this invasion to proceed unhindered, more Americans are dying at the hands of illegal aliens than are being killed by Muslim terrorists every damned day.

While no government agencies specifically track crimes by illegal aliens, there have been some efforts to quantify the loss. Last December, Mac Johnson set out to investigate the number of homicides perpetrated by illegal aliens. Since the federal government would not provide any useful information, he contacted all 50 statehouses. Three months later, he had fewer than a dozen responses. Only one state, Vermont, provided any useful information.

He then set out to statistically estimate the number of murders by illegal aliens based on available crime data and conservative estimates of the actually number of illegal aliens in the country – which, of course, nobody really knows.

He found that between 1,806 and 2,510 people in the U.S. are murdered annually by illegal aliens. If he’s right, that would represent between 11 percent and 15 percent of all murders in the U.S.

In one study of a sample 55,000 illegal immigrants serving prison sentences in the U.S., it was discovered that they are responsible for over 400,000 arrests and over 700,000 felony crimes.

- WORLDNET DAILY: “Cop murder spotlights crisis of killer aliens”

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   Thursday - February 22, 2007

Bank Of America Defiant

Are you a legal American citizen who works hard for your money, pays your taxes and follows the rules? Do you still have a bank account or credit card with Bank Of America? Why?

Not only are they determined to give credit cards to illegal aliens but they really don’t care what you may think about it. My accounts are all closed and moved to another bank. What are you waiting for?

Bank Of America Defends Immigrant Card Program
_{NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:45PM EST}

Bank of America Corp. is defending its decision to offer credit cards to people who don’t have U.S. Social Security numbers, amid criticism that the program effectively endorses illegal immigration. The bank’s pilot program, revealed last week, focuses on Hispanics in the Los Angeles area.

It has spurred opposition in Congress and from grass-roots groups who say many illegal immigrants could benefit, and that the program might foster identity theft, money laundering and terrorism.

Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis defended the program on Thursday in The Wall Street Journal. This came after some groups called for a boycott of the No. 2 U.S. bank by assets. They say their efforts are bearing fruit.

William Gheen, director of the National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition, said his group has collected hundreds of e-mails from people vowing to cancel accounts and move mortgages. The group said it has more than 11,000 signatures on its petition calling for a boycott of Bank of America.

“What Bank of America is doing is illegal, or should be,” Gheen said. For its part, Bank of America has not seen “any unusual business activity” resulting from responses to the pilot program, spokeswoman Alexandra Trower said.

“Some (customers) are very supportive, while others are not supportive,” she said. “That is why we undertake pilots.” The Pew Hispanic Center estimated there were 11.5 million to 12 million illegal immigrants nationwide a year ago.

That’s up from the Census Bureau’s 8.7 million estimate for 2000. The total population is 301.2 million, the bureau said. Bank of America’s roots date to San Francisco in 1904. That year, Amedeo Giannini, a son of Italian immigrants, founded the Bank of Italy to serve “the little guys,” including immigrants that other banks wouldn’t touch.

In his Thursday opinion piece, Lewis admitted it is not pleasant to be caught a century later in the “heated” national immigration debate, and that he was “feeling the passion.”

Still, he pledged to continue the card program, which he said complies with the USA Patriot Act and other laws. Lewis said illegal immigrants can obtain cards at many U.S. banks and businesses, and that Bank of America requires other identification to open accounts.

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   Tuesday - February 20, 2007

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

LET ALIENS VOTE: ACTIVISTS
_{(NEW YORK POST) - February 20, 2007}

Immigrant-rights activists yesterday renewed their push to allow legal noncitizens to vote in the Big Apple. A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year.

“More than 50,000 adult noncitizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws,” said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today’s special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), the sponsor of the Voting Rights Restoration Act, said that years ago, when immigrants were mostly European, they had voting rights.

“Then when the complexion of immigrants changes, then all of a sudden, the laws change,” he said. Ron Hayduk, a CUNY professor, concurred, saying immigrants voted in national elections from 1776 through 1926.

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   Thursday - February 15, 2007

Banking Games

Republicans in Congress finally decided to go after Bank Of America for their new Illegal Alien Credit Card™ program ("Don’t leave su casa without it!") and guess who’s leading the charge? If you guessed Tom Tancredo (who pisses off Muslim Congressmen by smoking cigars in his office), then your’re right. All in favor of Tancredo for President in 2008, raise your hand!

For the record, I know why BOA is doing this ... greed, pure and simple. You see, I once had an account with the bastards and I closed it for various reasons: (1) they told me there would be no monthly checking fee - then, after I took a contract with a company that didn’t do direct deposit I found out about BOA’s fine print which says there is no monthly fee AS LONG AS YOUR PAY IS DEPOSITED ELECTRONICALLY, otherwise its’ $14 per month; (2) they offered me a Visa credit card that could be tied to my checking account to cover overdrafts - at 23.9% interest AND a $30 charge any time an overdraft was covered by the card; (3) any check that you deposit that is not from your local Bank Of America is automatically held for FIVE DAYS before your account is credited with it - I deposited a paycheck drawn on Bank Of America in Virginia, where my employer’s corporate offices were, into my Bank Of America account in St. Louis and even though it was another BOA branch they STILL held up crediting my account for nearly a week - DURING WHICH TIME THEY WERE DRAWING INTEREST ON THE MONEY. I finally told them to shove it, closed all my accounts and will never do business with them again. Period.

You see, in days gone by banks used to make a profit based on the difference between the interest they charged on loans and the interest they paid on savings. If they made a million in interest on loans and mortgages and paid out half a million in interest on savings accounts and CD’s then they made half a million profit. That wasn’t good enough - starting about 20 years ago they started raising monthly fees and overdraft charges, increased finance charges on credit cards, hidden charges here, there and everywhere as well as earning interest on delayed deposits. They have reached into every loophole on the books to increase profits, which all goes to the fat cats in charge at the top. Banks have always paid their help (tellers, bookkeepers, etc.) the lowest wages they could get away with - that hasn’t changed. Where does all this increased profit go? I’d like someone in Congress to look into that.

As for the Illegal Alien Credit Card program, you can bet there will be a $500 limit, which will probably have to be secured by a $500 deposit in a savings account which will pay 1.9% interest and the Mess-cans will be charged 28.9% interest plus various unspecified finance charges each month. In addition, BOA will move the statement date around and mail out statements only a few days before the due date to confuse the credit card user and cause late fees and other charges.

I know all their tricks. I’ve seen them used - on me and others. Bank Of America isn’t doing the illegal aliens any favors - which they will soon find out. My guess is BOA has to find a new market because most American citizens are on to their trickery and won’t do business with them. That means dropping profits - so it’s time to go scalp a few Mexicans. If Congress really wants to do something right (for a change) they need to kick out the lobbyists from the banking industry and open hearings into bank fraud in this country. Drag a few CEO’s in from Bank Of America, CitiBank, Bank One and a few others and rake them across the coals. If they did that, I might begin to think our Congresscritters are actually on our side - for a change.

GOP Lawmakers Peeved at New Bank of America Credit Card Program
_{WASHINGTON (FOX NEWS) - Thursday, February 15, 2007}

Lawmakers are lashing out at Bank of America Corp. over its new program to offer credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, saying it creates a dangerous loophole for terrorists and illegal immigrants.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., called for a federal investigation of the program on Wednesday, sending Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff a letter requesting a review of the program.

“After September 11, we were told that money was the lifeblood of terrorists, and that we should do everything possible to block their access to financial resources,” Tancredo said in a statement. “Today we are hearing a far different message: Bank of America, it’s everywhere terrorists want to be.”

The program welcomes applicants without a Social Security number and credit history if they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, The Wall Street Journal first reported in Tuesday editions.

Another Republican lawmaker criticized the program, saying it should be stopped to avoid security risks with illegal immigrant members of the program. “If an individual wants to get a credit card, they can get that in their home country,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told FOX News.

“This is something that is of deep concern to me, that Bank of America would choose to market to those that have chosen to break U.S. law to enter this country and then they would give credit to them,” Blackburn said.

Bank of America stands by its program, saying that it complies with all U.S. banking and anti-terrorism laws. Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said a loophole in a Treasury regulation allows Bank of America to act within the law. The program was tested last year at five Bank of America branches in Los Angeles. It was expanded to 51 branches in Los Angeles County last week.

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Border Wars

Meanwhile, down on our Southern border the Mess-cans are throwing rocks at our border patrol agents. I guess they heard that all you have to do is harass our agents until they shoot at you, then you can get the agent arrested and sue the US for millions to boot. How much longer is this screwed-up mess going to go on?

You know ... if we gave our border patrol agents orders to “shoot to kill” and looked the other way, it wouldn’t be long before our neighbors to the South got the hint and left us alone. It worked in 1848. The Mess-cans just need a refresher course in international relations.

Border Patrol Agent Shoots at Immigrants
_{EL PASO, Texas (AP) - February 15, 2007, 12:00 AM EST}

Border Patrol officials are investigating a shooting at the Mexican border that involved one of their agents. Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, said an agent fired at least one shot at a group of would-be immigrants Tuesday night during a confrontation along the border near downtown El Paso.

The agent fired at least one shot after some of the immigrants began throwing rocks at him, narrowly missing the agent’s head, Mosier said. The immigrants ran from the border after the agent fired. Border Patrol officials do not believe anyone was injured, Mosier said.

The shooting is under investigation, though Mosier said initial reports show the agent fired in self-defense. Last month a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican national in Arizona, drawing criticism from Mexico’s president. The Border Patrol has said the agent thought his life was in danger and placed him on paid administrative leave.

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   Tuesday - February 13, 2007

Illegal Banking

I have a question for you all: isn’t it a crime to assist someone else who is in the act of committing a crime? I seem to recall from my younger days watching Perry Mason that that’s what is called an “accomplice”.

Therefore, if a national bank chain starts handing out credit cards and giving loans to illegal aliens and the bank knows they are illegal because they have no social security account ... then why isn’t the US Attorney General frog-marching the entire bunch of corporate officers at the bank off to prison somewhere?

Or is Mr. Gonzales too busy arresting border patrol agents these days to be bothered with criminals on a national scale?

I will never do business with Bank Of America again. Period. I am also getting pretty damn fed up with our government which continues to look the other way while these crimes are being committed. I’m thinking that it is past time for a “redress of grievances” ....

Bank Of America Credit Card Pitch To Illegal Immigrants
_{NEW YORK (CNN) - February 13 2007: 6:15 AM EST}

Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.

The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said. Bank of America tested the program last year at five branches in Los Angeles, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Journal said.

The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year, the paper said. A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment.

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   Friday - February 09, 2007

Ghost Town

I ran across this interesting little story in the pages of the Washington Post this morning and thought I’d share it with you and get your thoughts on the so-called “death” of a small town in Texas. The WAPO seems quite sympathetic to the plight of the illegals it seems to me. Aside from that, I find it interesting that there are two local “barons” controlling everything in this tiny little town, a Mexican and a Vietnamese. This reminds me of the movie “Giant” except the Anglos aren’t the overlords of the plains this time. And while we’re on the subject, what’s up with Swift Co. hiring all of these illegals. My Oscar Meyer weiner wants to know ...

Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton
_{CACTUS, Tex. (WASHINGTON POST) - Friday, February 9, 2007}

The streets of this small, isolated city in the Texas Panhandle are virtually empty nowadays, and “For Rent” signs decorate dilapidated trailers and shabby 1940s-era military barracks that just weeks ago were full of tenants. Sales of tortillas and other staples are down. Money wire transactions to Central America have mostly dried up. The “Guatemalas,” as local residents call them, are almost all gone, and so are a significant number of Mexican nationals. An estimated 12 to 18 children are now living with only one parent since the other was arrested in a massive immigration raid at the biggest employer in town.

On Dec. 12, hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clad in riot gear and armed with assault rifles descended on the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in a coordinated raid of six of the company’s facilities nationwide. The operation was the government’s largest single work-site enforcement operation ever. The plant in little Cactus—a town better known in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and in the department of Quiché, Guatemala, where workers came from, than in Texas—was the largest one raided. Almost a quarter of the 1,282 suspected illegal immigrants arrested in the raids were removed from the Cactus plant.

That an obscure town 600 miles north of the border and in the middle of High Plains country once owned by Anglo ranchers and farmers was a haven for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants was no surprise to anyone here. The draw to Cactus has existed since American Beef Packers opened the meat-processing plant in 1974. Swift’s predecessor company bought the plant in 1975, and it became known as Swift & Co.’s Cactus Beef Plant in 2002.

Although opened with local hires, Vietnamese and Laotian refugees became the dominant workforce by the late-1970s. By the mid-’80s the workforce was overwhelmingly Mexican immigrants, and by 2000 the Guatemalans, speaking the Mayan language of Quiché, had started to arrive. Before the Dec. 12 raid, Swift employed 3,050 workers in Cactus at a starting wage of $11.50 an hour to slaughter, process and package several thousand head of cattle daily.

Work inside the plant is hard, dirty, stinky and dangerous, and it is where Cactus’s biggest business owner and mayor, Luis Aguilar, and Cactus’s largest landlord, Thanh Nguyen, got their starts in the United States. Aguilar, a native of Chihuahua, began working at the plant in 1976 using false identity papers, he admits. In 1986, he was able to legalize his status in the United States, along with 2.7 million illegal workers, under the amnesty program authorized by the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Previously criticized by some local officials who thought he aided and even encouraged illegal immigrants to settle in Cactus, Aguilar took the raids almost personally. He canceled the annual city Christmas party because so many residents, including City Council members, had spouses or other relatives who had been arrested by immigration authorities. Aguilar subsequently lent one of his buildings to be used as a food and used-clothing pantry for residents whose relatives were caught in the raid.

“These are my people,” said Aguilar, 50, who today owns the largest house in Cactus, a nearby 575-acre ranch, a laundromat and the town’s only full-fledged grocery store. About half of his 26 rental units are empty now.

Nguyen and his family, part of the mass exodus of “boat people” who left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, arrived as legal refugees in nearby Dumas, Tex., in 1979 under the sponsorship of a restaurant owner who wanted cheap labor. Within six months, Nguyen and his wife left for the better-paying meatpacking plant in Cactus, said Nguyen’s son Phuong, 37, who is also known as Ben.

Except for the Nguyens, Asian immigrants moved out of Cactus, which is now 99.5 percent Hispanic. Some local officials recently said that 75 percent of the city’s estimated 5,000 residents before the raid were illegal immigrants. Aguilar disputes that, saying it was only 15 percent.

To Ben Nguyen, that number is not important. His father usually offered a few weeks of free rent to immigrants until they got a job at the meat plant and their first paycheck and provided thrift store mattresses and clothes, if necessary, Nguyen said. Now only eight of his father’s 60 rental units are occupied. Some were vacated the day of the raid, but the majority were abandoned within weeks, when frightened immigrants moved away. Since then, vandals have been kicking in the doors of the empty apartments, looking for any items of value that might have been left behind.

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   Wednesday - February 07, 2007

Quote Of The Day

“The administration has for too long turned their back on law enforcement and left them to fend for themselves.”

“These men have been the victims of what the Bush administration’s border enforcement policy has always been.”

“Mr. President, pardon these men now!”

— Tom Tancredo, “Inmates Beat Border Guard in Prison”
• (FOX NEWS) - February 7, 2007

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   Tuesday - February 06, 2007

Border Patrol Agent Beaten

Imprisoned Border Agent Beaten By Fellow Inmates
Justice Department confirms report of assault, Ramos: ‘They kicked me all over the body’
_{(WORLDNET DAILY) - February 6, 2007 3:03 p.m. Eastern}

The Department of Justice has confirmed imprisoned former Border Patrol agent Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos – sentenced to 11 years in the shooting of a drug smuggler – was treated for injuries after reporting he was beaten in a medium-security facility in Mississippi.

WND received a statement issued by the agency citing Charles Smith, spokesman for the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Miss. Smith said that at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, Ramos “reported to staff that he had been assaulted.”

“Mr. Ramos was evaluated by medical staff at the institution who determined he had sustained some bruises and abrasions. The injuries sustained were minor in nature.”

However, Ramos’s wife and father-in-law told WND the former agent said in phone calls to them the assailants “got me pretty good,” explaining he was assaulted by five Hispanic men with steel-toed boots – likely illegal aliens – who cussed him out in Spanish.

“They kicked me in the head, they kicked me all over the body. I’m all bruised and very sore,” Ramos reportedly said, adding he bled from his left ear. Ramos, Smith said, then “was placed in the Special Housing Unit pending a thorough investigation of the incident. He will remain in the Special Housing Unit until the conclusion of this investigation. No further information is available at this time.”

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told WND he received verbal confirmation from the Bureau of Prisons that Ramos was assaulted and sent to the infirmary. Poe was among a number of lawmakers and others close to the case who expressed concerned for the safety of Ramos and fellow agent Jose Compean if they were placed among the general prison population.

Unfortunately, this is not a surprise,” Poe told WND. “The federal government doesn’t do any better job of protecting border agents in jail than it does protecting them on the border.”

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   Tuesday - January 30, 2007

Guest Workers?

It’s already starting in Australia. How long before illegal aliens here in America start taking jobs away from our hard-working girls? This will not do. All you “johns” out there are urged to “buy American.” This message brought to you by your local pimp union.

Backpackers Undercut Legal Brothels
_{QUEENSLAND, Australia - January 30, 2007 11:46am}

Foreign backpackers working as illegal prostitutes are undercutting legitimate operators and damaging the industry, legal brothels say. Queensland Adult Business Association Nick Inskip said the illegal sex industry was undercutting prices and preventing the legal industry from maintaining health and safety standards.

Mr Inskip said many backpackers counted on making extra cash during their visit. “Especially when you go up to northern Queensland, it’s not unusual for them to be working in the illegal escort industry,” Mr Inskip said. “No one asks to see their passports.

“If you go to a licensed brothel the first thing they do is ask for your passport and whether you are here legally.” He said illegal escorts often undercut legal brothel prices because they had fewer overheads and it was difficult for the tax office to track the workers.

“They can charge less because they are not paying GST, staff costs for managers and receptionists, or have a registered business name,” Mr Inskip said. Mr Inskip said the Queensland Police Service’s 20-person prostitution task force was “a very dedicated bunch of people”.

But he said the task force was being frustrated by illegal operators using new methods and technology, such as multiple mobile phones, to hide their activities. “Every time it’s allowed to happen it damages the legal industry and what the Government is trying to do,” Mr Inskip said.

One solution could be allowing legal brothels to operate outcall services, he said. That proposal has previously been rejected by the Crime and Misconduct Commission and the state Government.

Queensland has 23 legal brothels operating in city and regional areas. Police figures show the number of prostitution offences reported in Queensland increased from 362 to 600 in 2005-06.

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   Wednesday - January 24, 2007

A Drop In The Bucket

There are approximately 11 million illegal aliens in the country today and more coming in every day. Of those, 600,000 have ignored deportation orders and 3,000 are sitting in prison for various crimes committed since they invaded - at least that’s the ones we actually know of.

Now the feds have managed to capture 761 of them and actually deport 450 in the last week. ICE is proud of the fact that they have managed to grab 13,192 illegals in the last nine months.

I’m sorry but the numbers just don’t add up. What the hell is our government up to if all they can do is grab a very, very small percentage (0.12%) of the illegals and send them home. It’s a pity the Internal Revenue Service isn’t that “efficient”.

No, I’ve about had it with the feds on this issue. They gave the illegals “amnesty” twenty years ago and 2 million invaders got to stay and become citizens at no extra charge. Now we’re back to square one - except there are more of them this time ... 9 million more than last time.

And what are our politicians doing about it? Well, John McCain and Teddy Kennedy want to grant them amnesty again. Democrats in Congress don’t give a damn because they are concentrating on nothing but driving Bush and the Republicans out of Washington. Republicans are wandering around in circles with their heads up their butts wondering how to get out of Iraq without losing all credibility.

Employers across the country are hiring the invaders with only a bare minimum background check and the invaders then take their pay and funnel it back to outside countries (most notably Mexico) to pay for more illegals to invade. The rich elite from Hollywood to the Hamptons don’t care - as long as they get their cheap maids and gardeners.

That is the sorry state we find ourselves in at the start of the 21st century here in America. Civil war between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, outside insurgents pouring across the border to commit crimes and drain the economy ... the only thing that is missing is suicide bombers and IED’s and we’d be in the same boat as Iraq. Well almost ... at least the Iraqis have our military to help them.

Hundreds Deported After LA Sweep
_{LOS ANGELES - January 24, 2007, 8:46 AM EST}

Hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested over the past week in one of the biggest U.S. stings have been deported, but some are being held for possible criminal prosecution.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday the results of a weeklong series of raids in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that targeted illegal immigrants who had previously been deported for crimes or defied final deportation orders.

Of the 761 people arrested in a five-county region since Jan. 17, more than 450 have already been removed from the country, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

More than half of those arrested in the sweeps were already in jail and are being turned over to federal authorities as their sentences expire, an ICE official said. At least one person, however, was hit with a criminal case instead of being placed in civil deportation proceedings.

Erik Omar Galindo-Vazquez, a Mexican national taken in during the sweeps in Orange County, was charged with illegal re-entry to the United States after felony deportation—a federal crime than can carry up to 20 years in prison.

ICE officials said Galindo-Vazquez was deported in October 2005 after being detained in Arizona and was convicted six years earlier in Orange County for assault with a deadly weapon, a felony charge.

While federal law makes it a crime to enter the country illegally, only a fraction of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants caught every year are ever prosecuted under criminal laws. There just aren’t enough agents, prosecutors and prison space.

So authorities go after serious offenders such as Galindo-Vazquez, whose rap sheets combine past deportations with convictions for crimes such as assault, murder and drug trafficking.

“We have to focus on the worst of the worst,” said Jim Hayes, director of the Los Angeles field office of ICE, whose agents are readying about 12 other cases for criminal prosecution stemming from the sweeps. “We can’t prosecute every single individual we come across.”

The raids made public Tuesday were a major push within Operation Return to Sender, a crackdown that has resulted in 13,192 arrests nationwide since late May. Immigration officials have also identified 3,000 inmates in state and local jails who will be deported.

An estimated 600,000 illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders are still at large, said Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman.

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   Wednesday - January 17, 2007

No Pardon For Border Patrol Agents

WARNING: EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS STORY STINKS!

I’ve been following this story for some time and have yet to understand what is going on. The border patrol agents’ story was kind of flimsy so a jury convicted them, based mainly on the testimony of the illegal alien they shot. Now the President refuses to give them a pardon so at 2:00pm today they will enter the general prison population for 11-12 years. As law enforcement officers they won’t last 11-12 hours in lockup.

Something just ain’t right about this. In fact, nothing is right about this. What say you?

Border Agents Sent To Prison
Angry Republican congressman calls President Bush ‘disgrace’
_{(WORLDNET DAILY) - January 17, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern}

Amid protests and a flurry of last-minute efforts by congressmen, two border patrol agents are scheduled today to begin long prison sentences for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler who was given immunity to testify against them.

In an interview with WND, an angry Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., called President Bush a “disgrace” for refusing to pardon Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who were sentenced to 12 years and 11 years, respectively, in October. With hopes for a presidential pardon dwindling, the lawmakers had requested that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez assist in a motion to keep the agents free on bond during the appeals process. But late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, ruled the men must surrender to federal marshals at 2 p.m. Central Time today.

“This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen,” Rohrabacher said of the president. “It’s shameful this was done by someone who is in the Republican Party. He obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders.”

The California lawmaker charged the Bush administration has been playing a “cruel game.” Initially, he said, officials insisted the agents could not be pardoned because they had not filled out the proper paperwork. But Rohrabacher told WND the White House did not explain to the public that the agents were being required – without justification, he contended – to first admit guilt.

Then, last Friday, presidential press secretary Tony Snow addressed the issue for the first time, arguing that prior to the shooting, the agents did not know if the smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, was an illegal, and they were unaware he had about 750 pounds of marijuana.

Compean and Ramos say the smuggler had a gun, but no weapon was found. The agents, Snow said, “had received arms training the day before; that said, if you have an incident like this, you must preserve the evidence and you must report it promptly.”

“Instead,” Snow continued, “according to court documents, they went around and picked up the shell casings. Furthermore, they asked one of their colleagues also to help pick up shell casings. They disposed of them.”

Rohrabacher argues that if the men did anything wrong, they should have simply received a reprimand, but instead they are being placed in the general prison population among hardened criminals where their lives may be at risk.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 01/17/2007 at 10:02 AM   
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   Tuesday - January 09, 2007

Illegal Perverts

Oh this is just special. Not only do we have a flood of illegals entering our country and our government ain’t doing squat to stop them but the feds are just now discovering that a large number of these criminals go on to bigger and better crimes once they get away with their first crime of invading our country.

I’m not surprised one damn bit. It is just human nature. If a kid can get their hand in the cookie jar and get a cookie while no one is looking and get away with it, before you know it they get the urge to drink up all of daddy’s beer and take the family car out for a spin.

And then we have incidents like this ...

Yep, they’re shooting at our National Guard on the border while they’re running drugs into our country - along with the criminals they’re transporting in. Even worse, several thousand of these new illegal criminals in our country turn out to be child molesters and rapists as you can read below.

We had a similar problem with the Mexicans back in 1846 and Zach Taylor and Winfield Scott had to go give them a stern lesson in staying out of our country. It seems that lesson has worn off. Perhaps we need to load up the boats and head for Vera Cruz again. Sooner or later there’s going to be a reckoning along our Southern border. Count on it.

If our DO-NOTHING GOVERNMENT ain’t gonna fix the problem and protect us from invasion by criminals, American citizens will have no choice. When that day comes, our politicians can either pitch in or stay the hell out of the way.

Sex-Offender Stings Get Thousands Of Illegals
_{(WORLDNET DAILY) - January 9, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern}

More than 9,000 sex offenders have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials through a series of stings called Operation Predator in three years of operation, a 2006 Department of Homeland Security Report says. But some experts are wondering if the efforts are enough to protect innocent American children from being preyed on by returning criminal alien sex offenders.

Foreign nationals account for roughly 85 percent of child sex offenders arrested by the operation, which was launched by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge in July 2003, officials say. And as WND previously has reported, authorities also have linked illegal aliens to a wave of gang-rapes across the U.S.

The program was designed to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, human traffickers and international sex tourists, and in the first year alone, ICE arrested more than 3,200 child predators in the U.S. who committed forms of child exploitation.

But Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, a researcher of violent crimes and criminal profiler who consults with FBI, state and local police, told WND, “Illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes first cross the U.S. border illegally, then gradually commit worse crimes and are continually released back into society or deported. Those who were deported simply returned illegally again. There is a clear pattern of criminal escalation. From misdemeanors such as assault or DUI, to drug offenses, illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes break U.S. laws repeatedly.”

Re-entering the United States after having been deported is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, but many aliens try and do succeed. Schurman-Kauflin estimates nearly 100 percent of deported illegal immigrant sexual offenders will return to the U.S. and molest again.

“Every expert on sex offenders knows that the likelihood of child predators re-offending is extremely high,” she told WND. “Child molesters in general assault many victims before they are apprehended. And if they can return through an open border, it is very likely that they would. Why not?”

In fact, ICE reported a twice-deported child molester from Mexico was arrested with 25 pounds of marijuana and eight firearms in his possession in May 2004. “Nicolas Sandoval-Medina” first entered the U.S. illegally in 1996 and was deported to Mexico in July 1997. He later re-entered the country illegally and had sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Des Moines motel room, and was subsequently convicted on two counts of Lascivious Acts with a Child in December 1999. He was also criminally prosecuted for re-entering the country after deportation, a felony, and was deported to Mexico again in July 2000.

In another case, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who attempted to abduct a 7-year-old girl from a laundromat was one of 25 arrested in a sting targeting criminal alien sex offenders in Los Angeles last August. Four of the offenders, two Salvadorans, a Honduran and a Mexican, previously had been deported from the U.S. A fifth man, Alejandro Rodriguez Villegas, 50, convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, also faces criminal charges but remains on the loose.

Immigration officials and Border Patrol agents match criminal records databases with Megan’s law directories across the U.S. to apprehend alien sexual predators. However, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC’s president, William Gheen, doesn’t believe the efforts are enough.

“I think that what ICE is doing is the equivalent of putting a band-aid on a shotgun blast,” Gheen told WND. “ICE is attempting to target the worst of the worst illegal aliens when, in fact, we can’t just do that,” he told WND. “We’ve got to address illegal immigration holistically. You can’t just hope the computers are going to tell you which ones to deport and which ones to not.”

He adds that despite some long-needed immigration enforcement efforts, immigration officials may still be doing too little too late while illegal alien child molesters return to prey on more victims.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 01/09/2007 at 07:49 AM   
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   Wednesday - December 13, 2006

Manuel Labor

I have a question: if an illegal alien steals my identity and goes to work somewhere, are the social security deductions credited to me? If so, that might be a good thing because it would increase my payout if I manage to reach retirement age, right? Can someone clarify this for me?

Regardless, this problem just gets worse every day. I blame both the American and the Mexican government and it’s a problem that is not going to go away. Have any of you noticed that this problem seems to have been totally lost in the past few months.

Do any of you want to take bets on whether the Democrats will do anything when they assume control next month? I’m giving 10-1 odds they don’t because the Donks don’t want to offend Hispanic voters either. Both they and the GOP are courting the Hispanic voters. As usual, they figure they can screw the rest of us as long as they get re-elected.

Illegal Workers Arrested In 6-State ID Theft Sweep
_{(WASHINGTON POST) - Wednesday, December 13, 2006}

Federal agents targeting illegal immigrants raided meatpacking plants in six states yesterday, arresting hundreds of workers on the uncommon charge of identity theft and shutting down the world’s second-largest meat processing company for much of the day.

About 1,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with search warrants entered plants owned by Swift & Co., of Greeley, Colo., charging that “large numbers” of workers illegally assumed the identities of U.S. citizens or legal residents by using their Social Security numbers to get work, ICE officials said.

Company and union officials said agents, some dressed in riot gear, locked down six beef- and pork-processing plants early in the morning, segregating workers into groups of citizens and non-citizens after questioning. Some illegal workers were bused to detention facilities hours away, labor officials said.

ICE officials would not say how many people were arrested, pending a news conference today in Washington. About 90 percent of Swift’s 15,000 U.S. employees work in three shifts at the plants, company officials said.

Although many illegal workers by definition commit document fraud to get jobs, the government’s use of identity theft charges could reframe the immigration debate for the public and spotlight how sharing Social Security data could fight such abuses, she said.

In a brief teleconference with reporters, Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security for ICE, said that “the signal we’re intending to send here is, ‘We’re serious about work site enforcement, and those individuals who steal identities of U.S. citizens will not escape action from us.’ “ She said the government would also pursue vendors of fake documents, former workers and legitimate residents who sold their Social Security numbers.

Raids took place in plants in Greeley; Grand Island, Neb.; Cactus, Tex.; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn.

ICE spokesman Marc Raimondi said investigators will decide whether those arrested will face immediate deportation, prosecution or detention pending other legal proceedings. U.S. officials noted the participation of the Federal Trade Commission, which routinely shares data on identity theft victims with federal and state law enforcement agencies.

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UPDATE:

The United Food and Commercial International Workers union said it would ask federal judges in all six states to halt the raids. Union spokeswoman Jill Cashen said attorneys were gathering details before filing the requests.

No charges had been filed against Swift. In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice.

Immigration officials last month informed Swift that it would remove unauthorized workers on Dec. 4, but Swift asked a federal judge to prevent agents from conducting the raid, arguing it would cause “substantial and irreparable injury” to its business.

Swift estimated that a raid would remove up to 40 percent of its 13,000 workers. After a closed hearing, a judge on Thursday rejected Swift’s request, clearing the way for the raids.

The six Swift plants targeted Tuesday represents all of the company’s domestic beef processing capacity and 77 percent of its pork processing capacity. Greeley-based Swift describes itself as the world’s second-largest meat processor with sales of about $9 billion.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 12/13/2006 at 10:48 AM   
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