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Friday, July 13, 2012

WHITE HOUSE, ACLU CONSPIRACY TO HALT DEPORTATIONS EXPOSED

A Washington watchdog group has discovered evidence implicating the Obama administration AND the American Civil Liberties Union in a joint conspiracy to halt deportations for criminal illegal immigrants. Examiner.com reports Judicial Watch’s findings of conspiracy to suspend the scheduled deportation of illegal immigrants at the ACLU’s request as part of a bigger plan to perhaps eliminate the Secure Communities federal program, which identified the criminal illegal immigrants in the first place.

Judicial Watch, an organization that investigates and prosecutes political and government corruption, suspects further cooperation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General after it announced that its plans to investigate Secure Communities to make sure the program is being applied “equitably across communities.” Judicial Watch also uncovered documents from the Department of Justice revealing the agency worked with the ACLU in mounting legal challenges against Arizona’s immigration law.

MORE SOPHISTICATED DRUG TUNNELS DISCOVERED CROSSING U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

Despite the repeated claims of a secure border by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the border remains just as porous as ever with two drug-smuggling tunnels – complete with lighting and ventilation systems – discovered along our southern border in the last week. Both tunnels were at least 150 yards long and displayed engineering expertise rather than crude digging.

The first tunnel was discovered Saturday in a vacant strip mall storefront in San Luis, Arizona, after state police pulled over a man transporting 39 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle and mentioned the strip mall. Investigators estimate that one tunnel cost $1.5 million to build and was operated by the powerful Sinaloa cartel. The second tunnel was discovered Wednesday by the Mexican Army. It began in Tijuana and was intended to cross the border into San Diego.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

ICE CHIEF: AZ IMMIGRATION PROGRAM ‘NOT A GOOD USE’ OF TAX DOLLARS

CNSNews.com reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton announced Tuesday that the Obama administration’s recent decision to terminate its standing immigration-law enforcement agreements with Arizona was because the programs had not been “a good use of taxpayer sources” when asked about the political timing of the suspension.

Morton would have us believe that the termination of the 287(g) program partnering ICE and state and local law enforcement forces to enforce immigration laws had nothing to do with the Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling upholding Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law even though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended its cooperation with hours of the decision!

House Homeland Security subcommittee on border and maritime security, vice-chairman Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.)questioned Morton:

“The timing is extraordinarily curious,” he noted. “If the task force were not actually operating in the manner that you would have liked or the DHS would have liked, wouldn’t it have been a little bit sooner or maybe even a little bit later? But within hours of the Supreme Court ruling – that’s a very interesting timeline.”

Quayle also asked Morton why the administration appeared to be selective in taking legal action when it came to immigration law enforcement, citing the case of Cook County in Illinois where Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced his plan to prevent law enforcement from reporting illegal immigrants even if jailed in misdemeanor and felony cases.

ROMNEY TELLS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO JOIN OUR MILITARY OR GO HOME

Andrea Saul, the campaign press secretary for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s went on the record in an e-mail saying it is Romney’s policy that “young” illegal immigrants who join the U.S. military should be able to remain in the United States and attain legal permanent residency status, but that all illegal immigrants not doing so must return to their countries of origin.

Saul’s July 6th e-mail to CNSNews.com:

“Governor Romney wants to protect and strengthen legal immigration by ending illegal immigration in a civil and resolute manner. While President Obama has broken his promise and failed to offer any plan on immigration reform during his years in office, Governor Romney has announced a strategy for bipartisan and long-term immigration reform.That strategy included specific proposals to secure our borders, discourage illegal immigration, and fix our nation’s broken immigration system so that it serves the needs of our economy. Governor Romney believes that young illegal immigrants brought here as children should have the chance to become permanent residents if they serve honorably in the U.S. military. And illegal immigrants should be able to register and get in line with other applicants.”

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

OBAMA CLOSES BORDER PATROL STATIONS IN FOUR STATES

Times are tough but Obama is now using his fiscal failure to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, resulting in a wave of backlash from local law enforcement, Congress and Border Patrol agents.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it is closing the nine border stations in order to reassign agents to high-priority areas closer to the border, but critics of Obama’s latest political pandering say the closures will undermine efforts to stop drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The stations set to close in about six months in Texas include: Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Angelo, Abilene and San Antonio. The other three are in Billings, Mont.; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Riverside, Calif.

OBAMA ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY CHALLENGED BY CHICAGO

Obama’s former chief of staff Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced at a news conference on Tuesday that he would propose an ordinance to exclude Chicago from participating in the mandatory federal Secure Communities program, or otherwise barring police officers from handing over illegal immigrants to federal agents if they do not have serious criminal convictions or outstanding criminal warrants.

“If you have no criminal record, being part of a community is not a problem for you,” Mr. Emanuel said, speaking at a high school library in Little Village, a Latino neighborhood. “We want to welcome you to the city of Chicago.”

Emanuel is turning a blindeye to illegal immigration in Chicago as part of his goal to make Chicago the “most immigrant-friendly city in the country.” He also hopes that removing the fear of deportation will encourage illegal immigrants to contact police regarding other crimes considering homicides in the city are up 39 percent from just one year ago.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

5 CHARGED IN BRIAN TERRY’S DEATH, $1M REWARD OFFERED FOR LEADS

After more than a year of not doing so, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment on Monday charging five people in connection with Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s December 2010 death while also announcing a reward up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of the four suspects who remain at large.

Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) praised the DOJ for its announcement but questioned the timing, calling it “another example of using politics over good policy.”

Regardless of the DOJs move, the call on Holder to turn over Fast and Furious documents continues as the questions surrounding how and who allowed the botched gun-running operation that put weapons into the hands of Terry’s murderers remain unanswered.

OBAMA ADMIN RELEASES LARGE NUMBER OF ILLEGAL ALIEN SEX OFFENDERS

Judicial Watch on Saturday released newly obtained information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contradicting DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claims that removing criminal aliens was a “top priority”. Why? Because it contains a laundry list of violent crimes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were told to simply overlook when it came time to decide where or not to deport any illegal immigrant.

The series of internal ICE memos reveal officials were told they could dismiss deportation cases against illegal immigrants convicted of sexual assault, solicitation of murder, aggravated assault, assaulting a police officer, kidnapping and many drug charges.

The memos disclosed due to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit also reveal the Obama administration has been actively working behind the scenes to implement amnesty a la ‘prosecutorial discretion’ nearly an entire year before ICE director John Morton publicly announced Obama’s policy toward deportations.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

OBAMNESTY LIKELY TO RESULT IN MASS FRAUD

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. In the scathing letter, Rep. Smith blasts the Obama administration’s recent amnesty fiat for illegal immigrants brought here as children by their parents or guardians as “an open invitation to fraud.”

Obama's so-called “deferral from deportation” will be granted to illegal immigrants who have been five years or longer in the U.S., in the education system or the military, or under the age of 30. If granted the amnesty measure, more than one million illegal immigrants will be granted protection from deportation for two-years and work permits. Rep. Smith says in his letter that “internal documents” show some illegal immigrants are already being handled under the new policy despite the president saying it would take 60 days to go into effect.

The chairman also sought to add criteria requiring applicants to pass five thresholds to be eligible for inclusion under the policy in order to crack down on fraud. Under Smith’s security measure, applicants would need to: seek relief in person, provide a valid school transcript, have authorities validate each transcript with the issuing educational institution, provide documentary evidence showing physical presence in the U.S. at the time the transcript was issued, and provide documentary evidence of presence in the U.S. for five years.

Smith questioned Morton whether or not illegal immigrants denied eligibility under the new policy will be detained and deported and whether or not the deportation waiver could be applied to their family members for “hardship concerns.’ Smith also asked whether businesses from which applicants submit a record of employment as proof of their eligibility for Obamnesty will be investigated for employing illegal workers.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPING MASS. TEENAGER

Guatemalan national Henry Perez, 34, last week was charged with two counts of aggravated statutory rape of a child between 2011 and 2012 in Marlborough, Mass.

Perez, an illegal immigrant who works as a landscaper, pleaded not guilty to the charges and is hoping to go back to Guatemala rather than stay here and face prosecution. Perez’s attorney, Samantha Gillombardo, requested her client’s bail be set as only $10,000 despite the fact that Perez holds three Guatemalan passports and could easily flee the country only to re-enter under a different alias.

The judge hearing the case set bail at $500,000 and extended the restraining order the victim had in place against Perez at the time of the alleged attacks! Unfortunately, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick continues to implement sanctuary policies harboring illegal immigrants at the expense of public safety.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

DHS TRAINING TELLS BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO RUN AND HIDE

EXAMINER – It was all politics on Saturday when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited Dallas, Texas, to participate in the Annual National Latino peace Officers Association’s (NKPOA) Training Conference.

Sec. Napolitano told conference participants that the DHS is committed to working with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement to combat evolving threats and protect our nation’s communities while failing to mention the Obama administration’s punishment of Arizona by ending its participation in the federal 287g immigration enforcement program. She, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton, presented a posthumous NLPOA Officer of the year Award to the family of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata, who was assassinated in Mexico by members of Los Zetas cartel with at least one Fast and Furious weapon, though no mention of the scandal nor other victims was made.

Border Patrol union officials reported their members are taught in an “Active Shooter” course to “run away” and “hide” if they encounter a shooter in public highlighting the hypocrisy of this administration when it comes to combatting illegal immigration at the border.

During what they call “another nauseating series of Virtual Learning Center brainwashing courses that Border Patrol agents are forced to sit behind a computer for hours and endure,” the Arizona Border Patrol web site states agents learn that "[i]f we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become 'aggressive' and 'throw things' at him or her. We are then advised to 'call [local] law enforcement' and wait for their arrival ,presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered."

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL

EXAMINER – West Valley City, Utah police on Tuesday arrested Antonio Jose Perez, 28, after he allegedly grabbed his neighbor’s 14-year-old daughter and sexually assaulted her after she went outside her family’s apartment to investigate a sound.

According to the police report, Perez tried to drag her back to his own apartment while brutally groping and sexually assaulting her. The young victim was able to break free once, only to be grabbed again before she was eventually able to fend off her attacker and run home.

Perez, who reportedly uses at least 10 aliases, has been charges with aggravated kidnapping, object rape, forcible sexual abuse, burglary and two counts of assault. He is currently being held at the Salt Lake Metro Jail on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer awaiting his next court appearance on July 6.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

STATE IMMIGRATION LAW CHALLENGES TO MOVE FORWARD

Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling overturned three out of four provisions of Arizona’s legislative crackdown on illegal immigration leaving the door wide open for courts to strike down similar laws in other states trying to uphold federal immigration laws.

Although the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing local law enforcement to check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants arrested for other crimes, the Obama administration revoked federal support from Arizona within hours of the ruling and will likely do the same across the country, undermining the ruling of the Supreme Court and the continued enforcement of immigration law.

Challenges to anti-illegal immigration laws passed in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Indiana and Utah will likely move forward now that the Supreme Court has ruled on the issue establishing an important legal precedent.

BODIES OF FOUR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DISCOVERED IN ARIZONA DESERT

U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the bodies of four suspected illegal immigrants who died of heat exposure after illegally entering the United States via the Arizona desert in triple digit temperatures over the weekend.

Three of the bodies were discovered separately in the desert south and west of Tucson on Saturday. The fourth body was discovered on Saturday near Sells, located on the Native American reservation Tohono O’odham Nation, when agents rescued a pregnant, dehydrated Guatemalan woman sitting beside the body of her husband. The couple had been abandoned by their smuggler after crossing the border two days earlier.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents said they rescued 61 illegal immigrants last month compared to 38 during May 2011. Nineteen illegal immigrants died in that time frame this year compared to five in May 2011.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

CA ATTEMPTS TO HALT DETAINING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS… AGAIN

California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s AB1081 is gaining momentum after Barack Obama announced backdoor amnesty for an estimated two million illegal immigrants under the age of 30. If passed, AB1081 will stop California law enforcement from participating in the mandatory federal Secure Communities program by prohibiting officers from holding illegal immigrants who are not yet convicted of a serious felony in jail.

The MANDATORY federal data-sharing program requires all law enforcement officers to submit fingerprints of arrestees to federal officials for an immigration status check. If an arrested individual is discovered to be in the country illegally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement can place a detainer on the individual to be held a local jail until ICE can take custody.

Roughly 50,000 individuals convicted of major violent offenses (such as murder and rape) have been deported through the program from across the country.

KRAUTHAMMER NAILS OBAMA ADMIN FOR AMNESTY FIAT

In his recent op-ed, syndicated journalist Charles Krauthammer nailed the Obama Administration for its blatant violation of our laws, calling Obama’s recent backdoor amnesty memo “naked lawlessness.” He also calls out Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s for sugarcoating the phrase “prosecutorial discretion.”

Krauthammer offers this worthwhile comparison on the “fundamental rewriting of the law”:

“Imagine: A Republican president submits to Congress a bill abolishing the capital gains tax. Congress rejects it. The president then orders the IRS to stop collecting capital gains taxes, and declares that anyone refusing to pay them will suffer no fine, no penalty, no sanction whatsoever. (Analogy first suggested by law professor John Yoo.)

It would be a scandal, a constitutional crisis, a cause for impeachment. Why? Because unlike, for example, war powers, this is not an area of perpetual executive-legislative territorial contention. Capital gains is straightforward tax law. Just as Obama’s bombshell amnesty-by-fiat is a subversion of straightforward immigration law.”

Earlier this year Barack Obama admitted that the tactic of unilaterally granting amnesty is unlawful… but then his poll numbers continued to decline and he did it anyways.

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SHERIFF JOE RESPONDS TO OBAMA’S AMNESTY EDICT

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has gone on the record stating his refusal to enforce Obama’s latest amnesty law in Maricopa County, AZ.

During an interview with Phoenix’s ABC15 the tough-as-nails sheriff said, "I think people from Mexico are now going to feel, 'Hey come on in and we'll get by with it.' But it won't happen in this county. They will still be arrested."

The Associated Press estimates that as many as 800,000 illegal immigrants will no longer have to fear deportation under the Obama administration’s new amnesty law announced this past Friday. The politically motivated law came from the Oval Office in hopes of shoring up the Latino vote in Obama’s favor by giving a free pass to young illegal immigrants brought here by their parents or other relatives.

Mexican President Thanks Obama for Immigration Changes

The Weekly Standard reports that Mexican president Felipe Calderon recently thanked Barack Obama for his Friday announcement to grant backdoor amnesty to 800,000+ young illegal immigrants:

“I would like to thank personally, and on behalf of the Mexican nation, President Barack Obama for his valuable decision by executive order to give an opportunity for young people who were not born in the United States but who arrived in that great nation before they were 16 years of age, or who are studying in university, or who have served in the United States armed forces, for them not to be deported for at least a period of two years, so this is a clear and certain situation for them.

We believe that this is very just. It's a humanitarian action. And it's an unprecedented action in our opinion. And in this sense, Mr. President, we would like to thank you for the valor and courage that you had in implementing this action. I am sure that many, many families in the United States of America are thankful to you as well.”

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Monday, May 21, 2012

138 U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PERSONNEL ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION SINCE 2004

Thomas Winkowski, acting deputy commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), revealed Thursday during a House Homeland Security Subcommittee meeting that since 2004, 138 CBP employees have been arrested for engaging in acts of corruption including drug and alien smuggling. During that same period, more than 2,000 CBP employees – including Border Patrol and Customs agents – have been charged for other criminal acts including off-duty behavior.

Charles Edwards, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general, testified alongside Winkowsi saying that the influence of Mexican drug cartels have reached into the ranks of CBP recruiting and corrupting DHS employees.

“As demonstrated by investigations led by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), border corruption may take the form of cash bribes, sexual favors, and other gratuities in return for allowing contraband or undocumented aliens through primary inspection lanes or even protecting and escorting border crossings; leaking sensitive law enforcement information to persons under investigation and selling law enforcement intelligence to smugglers; and providing needed documents such as immigration papers,” he stated. “Border corruption impacts national security.”

MASS. POLICE OFFICER SAYS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ENCOUNTRED ‘ON A DAILY BASIS’

Milford, Mass. Police Lt. James Falvey recently told Milford Daily News that his department “runs into illegal immigrants on a daily basis” in response to an arrest last week of an intoxicated illegal immigrant driving erratically.

Tigoberto Orellano-Alonso, 25, was only identified after police ran his fingerprints and discovered that he had given a fake name and was in the country illegally (again) after being deported once before in 2002. Falvy also added that identifying the illegal immigrants is not only difficult when they do not carry identification documents, but that if they give you false information, it cannot be classified until later on.

To date, Massachusetts remains a sanctuary state because of Gov. Deval Patrick’s continued defiance of federal immigration law which requires every states’ participation in the Secure Communities information-sharing and illegal immigrant reporting program.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WORKED FOR 20 YEARS AT NJ AIRPORT

Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a Nigerian national, worked undetected for years as a security guard and later a security supervisor of more than 30 guards at Newark Liberty International airport, one of the nation’s busiest airports.

Oyewole assumed the name Jerry Thomas, a New York City murder victim, to hide his status as an illegal immigrant for two decades – his true identity and legal status – was only discovered after a federal report found the Transportation Security Administration’s handling of security breaches at Newark Liberty International lacking. New York police have not said whether Oyewole was a suspect in the July 20, 1992 murder of Thomas and it is not yet known how 54-year-old Oyewole acquired Thomas’ personal information.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reports that Oyewole entered the U.S. illegally in 1989 working under several contractors at the airport ever since. FJC Security, who Oyewole has been working for since 2003, said it conducted a background check on Oyewold as had New Jersey state police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He passed every time and was only caught after an anonymous tip.

CONSERVATIVES HOPING TO CLOSE ABUSED TAX LAW LOOPHOLE

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced Tuesday his endorsement of proposed legislation that would close a loophole in the tax law that allows illegal immigrants to abuse the Additional Child Tax Credit. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration in its 2011 report found that $4.2 billion in the credit meant for lower-income working families was paid to 2.3 million people without Social Security numbers just in 2010.

Due to Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress passed in 2009, more families were eligible for the additional child tax credit and some taxpayers also filed returns for multiple years to obtain the additional child tax credit for prior years. Recent investigations reveal rampant abuse of this credit by illegal immigrants claiming up to 12 children, often times nieces and nephews not even living in the United States.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who is proposing the bill, wants to require recipients of the additional child tax credit to have a valid Social Security number in order to stop rewarding illegal immigrants already here and incentivizing more to illegally enter our country.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

KRIS KOBACH: IMMIGRATION NOT JUST A FEDERAL MATTER

Reuters’ Terry Baynes recently interviewed Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach about the issue of state versus federal authority in immigration matters given the battle in the U.S. Supreme Court next week, when the court will hear arguments for and against new Arizona laws against illegal immigration.

As Kobach points out in the interview, the federal government has primary authority over immigration but “the Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that states have spheres of activity where they can operate to discourage illegal immigration. It’s an area of shared authority.” Kobach then went on to explain that the Obama administration’s argument that federal immigration law is “not designed to ferret out every person unlawfully present in the United States” is false and that the law as written by Congress is very clear and uncompromising. Kobach says, “It calls for enforcement across the board” and that the Obama administration is choosing not to enforce the laws with which it disagrees.

TEXAS MINOR CHARGED WITH 9 COUNTS OF MURDER IN CRASH OF SMUGGLING VAN

A 15-year-old South Texas boy has been charged with nine counts of murder after nine illegal immigrants being smuggled into the United States were killed when he crashed a minivan. The boy was also charged with 17 counts of smuggling a person causing serious bodily injury or death, and one count of evading following last week’s fatal encounter with Border Patrol officers.

The accident only occurred when the boy, who was driving the van, sped off after being pulled over by Border Patrol agents and crashed just a few blocks away. The boy fled on foot, but was arrested two days later at his home. Six people suspected of involvement in the smuggling operation have been arrested on charges related to harboring illegal immigrants and at least four of the six crash survivors were detained as material witnesses, after which they will likely be given a special visa to remain legally in the United States.

A judge will eventually decide whether the boy will be tried as an adult as is hoped by Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

NINE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DIE IN TEXAS WRECK

Eight survivors are now in the custody of immigration authorities following a Texas wreck that killed nine suspected illegal immigrants in McAllen, Texas. The fatal wreck happened after Border Patrol agents stopped the van and some of the passengers immediately sprinted away. As the foot chase unfolded, with one eventually caught, the van sped off and wrecked three or four blocks away with backpacks, water bottles and nine bodies scattered nearby.

The eight-passenger van had been gutted to accommodate all of the passengers on their journey into the U.S. causing the nine deaths as passengers without seatbelts were flung to their deaths as the van rolled. Most of those involved in the crash were from Mexico, including all of those who died.

LITIGATION-LOVING OBAMA WILL NOT USE DOJ TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW

Earlier this week, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle outright refused to hold illegal immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Cook County Jail saying it violates their civil rights.

On average, one hundred illegal immigrants are jailed in Cook County, post bail and are released every month.

The Obama administration has thus far refused to take any legal action against the county.

In November 2011, the Department of Justice sued the state of Utah over the implementation of their new immigration enforcement law which allows police officers to investigate suspects’ legal status in this country.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012


CHICAGO – BOARD PRESIDENT REFUSES TO DETAIN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Chicago-Board President Toni Preckwinkle outright refused to comply with federal immigration laws saying that she would not keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers despite repeated requests from Washington to do so. Every month, about 100 illegal immigrants are arrested for crimes and put in Cook County Jail, where they often bond out and disappear.

Preckwinkle justifies her blatant disregard for the law saying that Cook County will not help in the deportation process, because that would mean granting [illegal immigrants] fewer rights than American citizens. Preckwinkle said, “The last frontier is how we treat the undocumented in this country,” claiming this is a civil rights issue rather than one of public safety.


FEDS TRY TO MAKE BORDER LESS ENTICING TO CROSS

Since last year, the federal government has been using Mexican and Central American television and radio stations and newspapers to warn locals of the dangers of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, including assault, murder and the fact that women are often raped.

Now, the federal government is expanding the program to U.S. cities with large immigrant communities, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta hoping that current illegal immigrants will discourage family members back home from making the treacherous and illegal crossing into this country.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012


OBAMA PLANNING TO SUE SHERIFF JOE FOR ENFORCING THE LAW

The Obama administration said yesterday that it was preparing to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department for racial-profiling violating civil rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos when enforcing immigration law. Obama’s Justice Department claims that officers made unlawful stops and arrests of Latinos, used excessive force against them and failed to adequately protect the Hispanic community in Maricopa County.

Sheriff Joe and his department have firmly stood their ground against the Obama administration’s barrage of attacks that coincidentally (or not) escalated when America’s toughest sheriff announced his plans to open the first-ever criminal investigation of Barack Obama’s eligibility to appear on this fall’s presidential ballots.

TEXAS STATE REP. WANTS MEXICO TO REIMBURSE U.S. TAXPAYERS

Texas State Rep. Lyle Larson wrote in a March 21 letter that his state spends anywhere from $6 billion to $8 billion a year on health care and other costs for illegal immigrants – and he wants Mexican President Felipe Calderon to pay for it. Larson filed a bill during the 2011 legislative session that would have required state agencies and organizations to track the services they provide immigrants (and the expenses incurred) in order to figure out the illegal immigration problem from an “economic viewpoint.”

Amnesty advocates argue that illegal immigrants pay property and sales taxes – one study even suggested they pay more in state taxes than they cost the state in services even though actual costs are hard to pinpoint. At the local level, a study by the Texas Comptroller found that illegal immigrants pay more than $513 million in taxes but cost hospitals $1.3 billion in uncompensated health care and $141.9 million for incarceration, not to mention the cost for other services. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 1.65 million illegal immigrants live in Texas.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

SEATTLE JOINS FIGHT AGAINST ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW

Seattle joined more than 40 cities and counties across the country in a friend-of-the-court filing urging the U.S. Supreme court to strike down Arizona’s infamously successful anti-illegal immigration law. Siding with the federal government, Seattle and others are saying Arizona’s 2010 law cracking down on illegal immigration encourages racial profiling. The cities and counties signing the amicus brief span the country from coast to coast and include New York, Boston, Miami, and San Francisco to name a few. They argue that the provisions of Arizona’s law are impractical, costly, and damaging to relationships between law-enforcement agencies and immigrant communities.

Craig Keller, who leads an anti-illegal immigration group called Respect Washington, despises Seattle’s decision to join the fray saying Arizona only acted because the feds failed to. Keller said, "Arizona's Legislature enacted SB 1070, now challenged by the illegal-alien lobby," Keller said. "This lobby now includes the clowns whose salaries we pay at the City Attorney's Office." We say Seattle should mind their own business.

OBAMACARE MANDATE EXCLUDES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

ObamaCare excludes illegal immigrants from purchasing health insurance through exchanged that the federal government and states are expected to set up through the law even though as a group they are among the worst non-insured offenders for seeking the emergency room for non-urgent care while others turn to free clinics and public health centers. However, about 31 percent of illegal immigrants have insurance obtained through work while only about 16 percent of Americans lack insurance.

According to U.S. Rep. Barletta who voted against ObamaCare, "Illegal aliens will not face any of the financial penalties associated with the law, and they will continue to reap the benefits of their illegal stay in the United States," Barletta said by email. "If we cease providing free health care to illegal aliens, not only would we remove a huge magnet drawing them to the United States, but it would also be one more reason for the millions and millions of illegal aliens already in the country to self-deport."

ObamaCare, if not defeated, will require citizens and legal residents to buy insurance unless they have religious objections, are Native Americans or earn so little that they don’t have to file a tax return. Those who fail to purchase insurance will start incurring penalties ranging between $695 and $2,085 per family, per year, by 2016. Under ObamaCare nothing will stop illegal immigrants from getting free health care at emergency rooms even though all will be barred from paying into the pot through purchasing private insurance or paying penalties AKA taxes depending on which court date you reference.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012


OBAMA’S UNCLE OMAR SURRENDERS LICENSE FOR 45 DAYS
(BUT HE CAN STILL DRIVE TO AND FROM WORK!)

Barack Obama’s Uncle Omar – 67-year-old Onyango Obama – has surrendered his driving license for 45 days after entering a please in his drunk-driving charge where he admitted that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him without pleading guilty. However, he is still allowed to drive to and from his job as the manager of a liquor store.

Uncle Omar is the half-brother of Obama’s late father and the second Obama relative discovered to be illegally present in the United States. He was arrested in Framingham, Mass., in August of last year after a police officer said he made a rolling stop at a stop sign and nearly collided with the officer’s SUV and then discovered to be drunk failing several field sobriety tests with a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit. He also asked to ‘call the White House.’

Uncle Omar, who like the president’s father is from Kenya, is appealing a deportation order that dates back to 1992 after he failed to renew his visa application. Uncle Omar first ‘moved’ to America in 1963 as part of an Airlift Africa project, where Kenyan students were flown to the U.S. to study at American universities.


HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP ACCUSES U.S. OF ABUSES ALONG U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

The human rights group Amnesty International USA recently released a report, titled “In Hostile Terrain: Human Rights Violations in Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. Southwest,” in which they condemn U.S. policing along the Mexican border as discriminatory and contributing to the deaths of illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security disputed Amnesty International’s findings even though the U.S. Justice Department recently accused Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of ‘systemic racial profiling’ in its efforts to enforce immigration law. Homeland Security Department spokesman, Matthew Chandler, said the report was based "almost entirely on either outdated information or anonymous anecdotes that can be neither investigated nor resolved.”

Amnesty International is also urging the U.S. government to suspend all immigration enforcement programs to ensure they do have the “effect of leading to the deaths of migrants” though they failed to make any recommendations for improvement to current border security and immigration law enforcement policies.

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Monday, March 26, 2012


ARIZONA’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POPULATION PLUNGES

Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is near its lowest level in a decade thanks to the tougher enforcement of immigration laws across the state.

The Department of Homeland Security released a report Friday that estimated (based on census date) there were 360,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona as of January 2011 – that’s down 110,000 from one year earlier and down from 200,000 in 2008 when an estimated 560,000 illegal immigrants lived in the state according to 2000 census data.

‘Experts’ at the Department of Homeland Security are saying the decline due to the lack of jobs in the construction and tourism industry, despite reports that tourism to this patriot-state has increased.

According to the report, Arizona now ranks ninth out of the 10 states with the largest illegal immigrant population – last year the state ranked fifth.

ICE RELEASES CHILD RAPIST UNDER OBAMA GUIDELINES

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released Amado Espinoza-Ramirez – an illegal immigrant, who is a child rapist accused of incest – because he has a child who is a U.S. citizen and no prior criminal convictions or immigration violations.

When Amado Espinoza-Ramirez, who was charged with 42 counts of predatory sexual acts, was turned over to ICE on Sept. 2, he was released ON THE SAME DAY. He then escaped his ankle monitor and is now a fugitive roaming free in the United States.

This case is a prime example of how the June 2011 memo from ICE Director John Morton, which put into effect Obama’s “prosecutorial discretion” or backdoor amnesty guidelines, has led to numerous dangerous criminals being released.

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Friday, March 23, 2012


‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ INVESTIGATION REVEALS CHIEF SUSPECT TWICE RELEASED

As revealed in a letter Thursday to Attorney General Eric Holder sent by the two top congressional investigators – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Manuel Celis-Acosta, the prime suspect in the ATF’s botched “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation (who was caught but released at the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2010) was also stopped and released two months earlier while in possession of a Colt .38-caliber pistol purchased illegally under the investigation.

This revelation that officials twice declined to arrest Celis-Acosta shows that agents were keenly aware of his activities yet repeatedly turned down opportunities to charge him with felony offenses and quickly end “Fast and Furious.” Instead, the program dragged on with the ultimate loss of about 1,700 U.S. firearms and resulting deaths on BOTH sides of the border.


FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BANS TERM ‘ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT’

As of March 12 of this year, the First United Methodist Church joined other religious groups making a push to eliminate using the term “illegal” when describing ‘undocumented’ immigrants in sermons, church services, church bulletins or any of its publications.

Rev. Eun-sang Lee said he believed terms like “anchor baby” and “illegal alien” were incorrect and offensive and that using these phrases “violates our faith communities’ understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Just in case you were interested, the Associated Press contends that “illegal immigrant” is the correct term to describe a person who has entered a country illegally or who resides in a country in violation of civil or criminal law, and the wire service style guide warns against using “alien.”

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012


THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DREAM ACT

In his most recently published opinion piece, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) blasts Barack Obama, members of his administration, and liberals everywhere for inaccurately describing the DREAM Act.

For instance, DREAM Act supporters claim that only children would benefit from the bill even though most DREAM Act proposals would extend amnesty to individuals up to 30-years-old, and some proposals don’t even set an age limit! Likewise, supporters of this backdoor amnesty piece of legislation maintain that illegal immigrants can’t go to college without the DREAM Act despite the very real fact that in most states not only are illegal immigrants taking seats in classrooms that would otherwise be filled by equally qualified U.S. citizens, they are doing so on YOUR dime through public-funding, scholarship and in-state tuition rates.

Rep. Smith also points out that the DREAM Act is a magnet for fraud since many illegal immigrants will falsely claim they came here as children or that they are under 30, and the feds have no way to check. After all, two-thirds of all applications for the 1986 agricultural worker amnesty were NOT agricultural workers.

And that’s not to mention it did NOTHING to stop illegal immigration from increasing from 3 million then to roughly 12 million illegal immigrants estimated to be in the United States today.

LIBERALS PRESSING HYUNDAI TO OPPOSE ALABAMA’S IMMIGRATION LAW

More than 2,500 hard-working individuals’ jobs at Hyundai’s manufacturing facility in Alabama are now under attack by the pro-amnesty radicals working in cahoots with Obama union thugs. Illegal immigrant advocacy groups and organizations, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), attended a recent Hyundai shareholders’ meeting in Seoul to argue their case for why the company should oppose the Alabama’s tough new law against illegal immigration.

According to Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights president and CEO Wade Henderson, Hyundai accounts for two percent of Alabama’s GDP though Henderson and his accomplices denied the protests over Alabama’s HB 56 had anything to do with Alabama being a right-to-work state. Dae Joong Yoon of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium called the legislation a “hatred law taking away the fundamental rights of immigrants and forcing our children to cry and live in fear and promoting racial profiling.”

Robert Burns, senior manager of public relations and sales for Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, went on the record saying there is no change in their production schedule at this point in time.