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04-29-2008
Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting
NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal April 28, 2008
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to
produce photo identification without violating their constitutional
rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana's strict photo ID
requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter
poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said
the law was needed to deter fraud.
Please read the attachment that is from ALIPAC. ALIPAC suggests three
actions to take on May 1 when illegals and their supporters march.
There is a march in downtown Dallas. CFIR would like to recommend that
our organization concentrate on Action #1. .
Tactic 1. Leading the political backlash.
Governor 1-800-252-9600 comment line - 512.463-2000 -
www.governor.state.tx.us
US Congressional Representative - Toll Free Number 1-866-340-9281 -
2 US Senators - Toll Free Number 1-866-340-9281 - Hutchison - Local:
214.361.3500
www.senate.gov - Cornyn - Local: 972.239.1310 -
www.senate.gov
State House Representative - 512.463.0100 - Fax 512.463.0695 -
www.senate.tx.us
State Senate Representative 512.463.0845 - Fax 512.463.5896 -
www.house.tx.us
City Council Representative -
http://www.dallascityhall.com/pdf/phones/mayorand.pdf
Dallas County Commissioners -
Judge Foster - 214-653-7555
Maurine Dickey - 972-247-1735
Mike Cantrell - 214-589-7060
John Wiley Price - 214-653-7057
Ken Mayfield - 214-339-8381
Friends of ALIPAC,
The illegal aliens and their supporters are
planning massive marches again on May 1. Some of their supporters claim
they will have over 1 million people in the streets in over 200 cities.
On May 1 of 2006, they took to the streets and
made a huge strategic mistake. When America saw crowds of illegal aliens
in our streets carrying Mexican flags, the backlash was huge! ALIPAC
experienced our biggest new member and donor day on May 1, 2006.
While the major affiliates broadcast false
information that the 2006 protests had concluded without incident, there
were three major clashes between protesters and police in Southern
California. Thanks to the ALIPAC Action Network, of which you are part
of, we were able to get the news out to many Americans about these
clashes.
The backlash was so severe, despite organizer's
efforts to replace Mexican flags with American flags in subsequent
marches, that they were unable to muster many people at all in May of
2007.
Now, the illegal alien supporting groups feel
they have momentum again and are taking to the streets.
While some counter protests are being arranged by
good groups like our friends Voice of the People USA in Hazleton, PA.
some other more fringe and less trustworthy groups are trying to
organize counter protests in other cities. If you are approached about
attending a rally, please check in with us to see if it is being
arranged by a well organized and trusted organization or not, before
attending.
ALIPAC's Game plan for May 1, 2008
We need your help to make our countermeasures for
May 1, 2008 a success. May 1 would be a good day to take off of work, if
you can to help with the counter measures.
3 Tactics to use
Tactic 1. Leading the political backlash.
We need each of you to make a list of the names,
phone numbers, and e-mails of each of the following.
Your...
Governor
US Congressional Representative
2 US Senators
State House Representative
State Senate Representative
City Council Representative
County Commission Representative
When news coverage of the illegal alien marches
begins on May 1, we want you to pick up the phone and call all 8 names
on your list to complain by phone and e-mail.
We then want you to try your best to get any
friends, family members, or neighbors to do the same.
We also need you ready to flood talk radio shows
across America with complaints about the marches and calls for
enforcement of our existing immigration laws. You can tune in to and
call into your favorite local and national shows, or you can use our
national talk radio directory.
WE NEED YOUR VOICE ON THE AIR!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-76263.html
ALIPACers are going to light up the phone lines
and e-mail inboxes of lawmakers from top to bottom across the US, to
communicate our displeasure that illegal aliens are flaunting the lack
of immigration enforcement and border security in America, by marching
down main street and making demands.
While our opposition is strong in the street, we
are strong on the net, on talk radio, and in the offices of lawmakers
where we still hold an advantage.
Tactic 2: Document with Video!
We need a small army of volunteers to deploy on
May 1 with camcorders to film these protests.
We want each of you to practice a high degree of
safety. You should go dressed like the media, which is casual attire
with nothing that identifies you as opposition.
We need you to document the flags present at the
marches, the signs and messages, the speeches of their leaders, and any
violent or destructive behavior that erupts.
Many of our top bloggers are known to the
opposition. People like Jake and MJ of Blogs for Borders, Brook of
Immigration Watchdog, and OceanSide Gang Buster are known to our
opposition, we need people they do not know to pose as interested
civilians.
We cannot count on the Main Stream Media to tell
the true agenda of these marches so it is up to us.
The best strategy is to go film the marches with
a backup person, which keeps their distance while filming you, and with
a cell phone handy to call authorities if needed.
The material captured on video by activists for
our side has been very valuable.
In situations where opposition cameras were
present but our cameras were missing, terrible things can happen like
what happened in McArthur Park last year. Many LAPD officers lost their
jobs because our side was not represented in gang land McArthur Park!
McArthur Park video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCWNe0pBTI
Our online activists are preparing a list for you
to spot the protests nearest to you at this link...
List of illegal alien protests on May 1, 2008
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-672268.html#672268
Tactic 3: Monitoring Communications
On the morning of May 1, ALIPAC will go into high
alert with our core activists monitoring police scanners, blogs, and
Internet chat areas to gather information about what is happening out
there. We will need all the help we can get to electronically monitor
law enforcement and opposition groups.
If violence breaks out, it will be up to us to
carry the news to the nation.
You will receive a coordination link on May 1
where you can post the information you pick up or the video you gather
along with questions and details of your call efforts.
Let us prepare to do our part on May 1!
The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us
04-28-2008
Carrollton, Farmers Branch accepted for immigration enforcement program
06:17 PM CDT on Friday, April 25, 2008 By JEFF MOSIER / The Dallas
Morning
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042608dnmetimmiglaw.9c70c6e8.html
Carrollton and Farmers Branch are among the first Texas law enforcement
agencies accepted into a program to give local officers federal
immigration enforcement training, according to a press release Friday
from U.S. Rep. Kenny Marchant.
Dallas Mayor Leppert says illegal immigration should be left to federal
authorities
April 23, 2008 - By DAVE LEVINTHAL /
The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-imeleppert_23met.ART.State.Edition2.463acd8.html
Illegal immigration continues to rank among the nation's most
contentious issues, but Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert said it should remain
just that – a national issue.
Labor leaders meet to discuss Mexican immigrant workers' rights
April 24, 2008 - By DIANNE SOLÍS /
The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-ime_24met.ART.West.Edition1.46743be.html
It's a critical time in the U.S. with an enthusiasm for politics unseen
in decades, and that's given muscle to the Latino vote, said a U.S.
labor leader Wednesday at a conference of Mexican immigrant leaders.
Clemency sought for Border Patrol agents who shot smuggler
Dallas Morning News
April 23, 2008
WASHINGTON -
Sen. John Cornyn is again calling for presidential
clemency in the case of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a
Mexican drug smuggler.
The Texas Republican, joined by
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
sent a letter to
President Bush
on Monday, urging him to commute the sentences of former agents Jose
Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving terms of 12 and 11 years.
Government scrapping 'virtual fence' on Arizona-Mexico border
April 23, 2008 -
Associated Press
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN
-virtualfence_23tex.ART.State.Edition1.46b0453.html
TUCSON, Ariz.
– The government will replace its highly touted "virtual fence" on the
Arizona-Mexico border with new towers, radars, cameras and computer
software, scrapping the new $20 million system because it doesn't work
sufficiently, officials said.
The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff officially accepted the completed fence from
Boeing Co.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/15/ldt.01.html
Lou Dobbs
on Cornyn--Increase in H-1B's Interview
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Headlines/Default.aspx?id=77596
Arizona sheriff stirs furor with crackdown on illegals
Jacques Billeaud - Associated Press Writer - 4/25/2008 2:15:00 PM
GUADALUPE, Ariz - The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has
been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up
illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities' mayors and
other community leaders.
While Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has legal authority to enforce
the law in cities within his county, politicians and activists are
accusing him of grandstanding and, worse, racial profiling.
A total of 150 people - 73 of them illegal immigrants - were arrested by
Arpaio's deputies in the raids on heavily Hispanic sections in late
March and early April.
04-22-2008
Experts: Immigration overhaul could remove edge for families
http://www.yumasun.com/news/immigration_41030___article.html/system_family.html
BY BRIAN
INDRELUNAS/CRONKITE NEWS SERVICE
April
14, 2008 - 4:35PM
For
years, immigration law in the
United States has given an edge to families.
Those who can show that they have family members in this country make up
the biggest percentage of those who are given permanent-resident status.
But if immigration laws ever get a serious overhaul - something that
Congress hasn't been able to do for years - the advantage for families
divided by borders could be diminished, experts say.
In recent months, policy makers and public officials have talked
seriously about scrapping the long-standing system that gives green
cards, or permanent-resident status, primarily to immigrants who show
they have close relatives in the
United States or employers who want to sponsor them. They suggest a new
system that would award points to foreigners who speak English, are
educated and have certain job skills.
U.S. economic slowdown likely
to bring Mexican workers north
That's
the fear of many workers here, where the slowdown in the
United States already has cut production at
manufacturing plants whose output is largely sold in the United States
.
"If
it's bad there, it will be worse here," said Bartolo Juarez , 35, who
makes jeans for
Levis and Guess at a Teziutlan factory and already has discussed moving to the
United States if his job here vanishes.
His 12-year-old daughter, Gabriela, has broken down in tears more than
once after hearing her parents talk about her father leaving for the
States, her mother said.
"It's
a sacrifice. I don't want to go, but I know I can get a good-paying job
in
San
Antonio
," even in troubled economic times,
Juarez
said. It's always easier to find work in the United States than in
Mexico
, he added, and for five times more money.
http://www.fairus.org
Calderon,
Harper, and
Bush
to Meet in
New
Orleans; Border Security on
the
Agenda
Early
this week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon will make his first visit
as the Mexican head of state to
Louisiana and Texas. On Monday, Calderon will
meet in New Orleans with U.S. President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper. The agenda for the meeting has not been released, but
news reports indicate it will include discussions about the Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP), border security, and developments in Cuba.
(The Times-Picayune, April 18, 2008; AFP, April 18, 2008).
Among the protesters set to descend on the city are labor unions from
the Canadian, Mexican and U.S. energy sectors, who will hold a separate
conference to highlight the energy and environmental consequences of the
SPP's multinational corporate liberalization efforts, and to announce a
joint effort supporting a "right to energy" and "energy sovereignty." (CNW
Telbac, April 17, 2008)
RHODE
ISLAND
GOVERNOR GETS SERIOUS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
executive order 08-011 on March 27
to address the 20,000 to 40,000 illegal aliens in
Rhode Island,
which is "more than the population of 32 of
Rhode Island's
39 cities and towns." The order requires the Department of
Administration and any business doing business with the State of Rhode
Island to use the federal government's E-Verify program and the Rhode
Island State Police to secure a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with ICE
(Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to receive training necessary to
assist ICE with the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
It also orders the Department of Corrections to secure a MOA with ICE to
"combat illegal immigration issues" at the Adult Correctional
Institution and the Parole Board to work with ICE personnel to deport
"criminal aliens."
04-17-20088
The following articles
were in the Dallas Morning News today, Thursday April 16th.
We need letters to the
paper, calls and emails to Mayor Leppert
Please read the articles
carefully and think carefully about what you will write, email and how
you will express yourself when you call the Mayor's office.
The following are some
thoughts. The articles are full of points that may appeal to you more.
The main thing is to be active. Even if your letter is not accepted in
the DMN, they do keep count of the many letters received on a subject.
- Give a thumbs up to
ICE for enforcing the laws and standing up for citizens who have
suffered identity theft instead of those who have broken our laws.
Also, give credit to Pilgrim's Pride who cooperated and is using the
E-Verify system.
- Ask Mayor Leppert to stand
up for Texas and the U.S. as he continues his talks about trade with
President Calderon. Ask Mayor Leppert to remind Mexico's president
that we are jealous of our sovereignty as is Mexico and our rule of
law is not subject to any country. It is Mexico's responsibility to
take care of their own citizens!
Jean Towell
President - CFIR
Dallas City Hall
1500 Marilla Street,
Room 5EN
Dallas, TX 75201-6390
Main Phone:
(214) 670-4054
Fax: (214) 670-0646
Email to Mayor
http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/forms/mcc/mayor_mail_form.htm
Dallas Morning News
letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041708dnmetcalderon.317260a.html
Mexico's President Calderon to speak on
immigration in Dallas
08:37
PM CDT on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By ALFREDO CORCHADO
/ The Dallas Morning News
acorcado@dallasnews.com
MEXICO CITY – In his first trip to Texas as
president, Mexico's Felipe Calderón will make a brief stop in Dallas on
Tuesday to talk about an issue that has become more and more contentious
in recent months – immigration.
. . . not a president
who likes to see Mexicans leave the country, because every immigrant who
leaves Mexico represents a loss, a family without a father, a son
without a good father," he said at Harvard University in February. "I
don't relish migration."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/dmn/stories/041708dnmetice.6c9184cf.html
Immigration
agents arrest nearly 300 at Pilgrim's Pride plants -
11:53 PM CDT
on Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By DIANNE SOLÍS and ALEJANDRO MARTÍNEZ /
The Dallas Morning News
dsolis@dallasnews.com;
amartinez@aldiatx.com
Federal immigration officials on Wednesday
arrested more than 280 workers employed at Pilgrim's Pride poultry
plants in five states, including Texas, on suspicion of committing
identity theft. The crackdown is part of a widening criminal
investigation involving workers at the world's largest poultry
processor.
"This case is a good example of our
efforts to prosecute identity theft that harms credit and the good name
of U.S. citizens," said Julie
Myers, assistant secretary for the U.S. Homeland Security Department, in
a telephone interview from Washington,
"This shows how illegal immigration can
affect the American public, people like you and me," Mr. Chakwin said.
04-16-20088
http://www.seniorsleague.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2839&Itemid=96
Bush Takes Action To Give Legal Status To Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers
TSCL Continues To Fight Social Security Based On Illegal
Earnings
Legislation
to give legal status to illegal immigrant farm workers failed
last year. But the Bush administration recently took action
that does not require Congressional approval. The Department
of Homeland Security proposed new rules that would encourage
farmers, who now rely primarily on illegal immigrants, to hire
more immigrant “guest workers” under an existing 20-year-old
farm worker visa program.
The proposed new “guest worker” rules appear to make it easier
for illegal farm workers to gain new legal work authorization
and, with it, access to Social Security.
Loopholes in current law allow illegal immigrants who later gain
valid work authorization to claim Social Security benefits if
they work long enough to become eligible. Currently, the
Social Security Administration counts all their earnings toward
entitlement, even for the time non-citizens worked here
illegally.
The Labor
Department estimates that about two-thirds of the U.S.
agricultural work force, some 800,000 persons, are illegal.
Farmers have avoided using current visa program because it moves
so slowly. It currently supplies only 75,000 foreign farm
workers. The proposed rules would loosen many of the former
strict requirements, and it would be easier for employers to
hire immigrants, including those who worked illegally.
It’s a
common misconception that illegal immigrants workers are paid in
cash “under the table.”
This is not the case. Both the IRS and the Social Security
Administration have estimated that employers report wages for
about half of all illegal immigrants, an estimated 6 million.
These wage reports (W2s) are what the Social Security
Administration uses to calculate the initial retirement benefits
when a retiree files a claim.
“Unless
Congress first acts to ban Social Security credit for illegal
earnings, our government will pay hundreds of billions in Social
Security to people who broke our laws,” says Shannon Benton,
Executive Director of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). If 6
million illegal workers were added into the Social Security
System in 2008, it would cost $2.6 trillion by the year 2041
according to an estimate TSCL released earlier this year.
“Government
economists are saying we have already promised more in Social
Security than the system can pay,” Benton notes. “Yet to
date, the Bush Administration has not produced any
publicly-available estimate of the long-term cost to Social
Security and Medicare of legalizing illegal immigrant workers,”
she adds.
TSCL
supports the “No Social Security For Illegal Immigrants Act”
(H.R. 736) introduced by Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA).
The legislation would ban Social Security credit for earnings
from illegal work, and wages from unauthorized work could not be
used to determine entitlement to benefits.
Sources:
“Farm Worker Plan Aims To Curb Illegal Hires,” John McKinnon and
Miriam Jordon, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2008.
“White House Moves To Ease Guest Worker Program,” Julia Preston,
The New York Times, February 7, 2008. “The Impact Of
Unauthorized Immigrants On The Budgets Of State And Local
Governments,” CBO, December 2007. “The Cost To Social Security
Of Illegal Work,” Mary Johnson, TSCL, January 20, 2008.
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/
Fight
over border fence environmental waivers could reach Supreme Court
11:37
PM CDT on Monday, April 14, 2008By
DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the waiver of
about three dozen enviornmental laws to expedite construction of the
border fence in Texas and Arizona on April 1.
Fourteen House Democrats, including Homeland Security Chairman Bennie
Thompson, D-Miss., and several other committee chairmen then said they
would file friend-of-the-court briefs asking the Supreme Coiurt to take
up the lawsuit on whether the department had overstepped constitutional
limits.
U. S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, disagrees, saying continued illegal
immigration and violence is a greater "risk to good conservation
policies. For far too long, the border fencing project has been
hi-jacked by bureaucratic red-tape policies that fail to make our border
any safer or cleaner, he said. " ...I fully support Secretary Chertoff's
decision to prioritize the security of our nation over procedural
preferenceds and the rule of law over regulatory roadblocks."
Thanks to a rider attached to the Real ID act enacted in 2005, Congress
gave Homeland Security almost unlimited power to waive any laws
necessary to build the fence.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/vitindex.html
Lamar
Smith: Why not use the immigration tools Congress already passed?
06:35
AM CDT on Monday, April 14, 2008
For
over 200 years, immigrants coming to our nation have found hope at their
first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. The words written at its base,
"give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free," capture the American identity.
That
is why the debate over immigration is so important to the American
people. It strikes at the heart of what our nation stands for – freedom,
equality and opportunity for all.
But in order to preserve these ideals, we must put an end to illegal
immigration.
Texans
may understand this better than anyone else. As a border state, we
experience the immediate impact of illegal immigration in our schools,
our hospitals and our communities. We
also understand what many elected officials still don't – rewarding
lawbreakers with amnesty only encourages a new flood of illegal
immigrants.
Nearly
half a million people come illegally to the U.S. each year. Add that to
the 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants who are currently living
here and you have a city twice the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Clearly this is a growing problem that Congress must address.
And in
fact, we did address it – more than 10 years ago. In 1996, Congress
passed comprehensive immigration reform to put an end to the growing
problem. Unfortunately, both Republican and Democratic administrations
refused to enforce the law. So Congress spent the past decade passing
more laws to try to quell the flood of illegal immigration. These too
remain largely unenforced.
For
example, in 2006 Congress called on the administration to secure
one-third of the border with a fence. The Secure Fence Act authorized
the Department of Homeland Security to build more than 700 miles of
fencing along the southwest border. To date, only 167 miles of fencing
have been constructed.
Congress also gave the administration the authority to put an end to the
job magnet that draws illegal immigrants.
And although that law was enacted in 1986, 7 million illegal immigrants
are working in the U.S.
In
1996, Congress prohibited public colleges from giving preferential
treatment to illegal immigrants. The law required colleges and
universities that offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants to also
offer in-state rates to all U.S. students. But to date, the Department
of Justice has not filed a single suit to stop the 10 states that
violate this law.
American taxpayers foot the bill for public education. If anyone
receives the benefit of in-state tuition, it should be those who pay for
it.
These
are just a few of the many tools Congress has given the administration
to enforce immigration laws. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter
how many laws Congress passes if the administration simply disregards
them. And it doesn't matter how many tools we give, if Homeland Security
refuses to use them.
America has the most generous immigration policy in the world, admitting
one million legal immigrants every year. These individuals follow our
laws and wait in line as they anticipate their chance to live the
American dream. But in order to sustain such a high level of legal
immigration, we must first curb the flood of illegal immigration.
No new tools are required. No new laws are needed. We simply need the
administration to enforce the immigration laws that Congress has already
passed.
U.S.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, is the ranking member of the House
Judiciary Committee and former chairman of the House Subcommittee on
Immigration. His e-mail address
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Have any of you noticed that so many of the proposed visa increases
lately are now being called national emergencies? First, we had the
massive de facto H-1B increase that the DHS approved to extend the
Optional Practical Training time period. Now we have a bill introduced
by Sen. Cornyn that he says is "emergency relief" for employers. Why
doesn't Cornyn feel that his constituents need emergency job creation?
Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) introduced "Global Competitiveness Act of 2008" in
the Senate (S. 2839). The text of S. 2839 has not yet
been released, but the immigration lawyers seem to have all the
information (see below). Of course that's probably because they wrote
the bill.
Cornyn's bill has three co-sponsors. The are:
Sen. Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]
As of this writing, there are 3 House Bills and 2 Senate bills to expand
H-1B and employment based (EB) green cards. I predict that the massive
number of foreign students that get OPT extensions will be used to
justify
these bills. There is extreme danger that Congress could meet in
conference and ram one of these increases through simply by putting one
or two of the bills together in some kind of bi-partisan coalition.
The Cornyn bill contains what may appear to be a restriction on how
bodyshops use H-1B visas. Don't be fooled -- bodyshops aren't the most
important issue -- the number of visas available is far more important.
Cornyn was very clever to insert this provision into the bill in order
to split the opposition. It won't stop bodyshops from operating in the
U.S. but it might inconvenience them a little since they will have to
change how they bill their work.
Cornyn's bill also has some verbiage to enforce the law against fraud.
As I have explained before, fraud isn't a major problem in the H-1B visa
program, so the provisions he is offering will do nothing to help
American
workers against the huge onslaught of foreigners he wants to import.
NumbersUSA has a fax to oppose this bill. I would highly recommend you
send it out.
Action Item: Please call Cornyn's office
either in Dallas: 972-239-1310 or in DC
202-224-2934 and let him know what you
think of this idea--we don't need any more workers (H-1Bs or
otherwise)..we have millions of Americans who would like to have a
chance.
04-14-2008
Florida Sheriff's confirm 287 (G) saves local governments money
immediately.
Florida
Sheriff's departments that have signed up for 287 G, report decreased
prison populations as illegal aliens are arrested and deported.
Jurisdiction after jurisdiction report dramatic reductions in costs
related to incarceration and the courts systems immediately after they
implement the program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RDlxswlLo
04-09-2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004332022_mexicodeport07m.html
Across the border, "a
humanitarian crisis" is brewing
Published:
Apr 7, 2008
It's a
message that welcomes Mexican compatriots driving or flying back
to
Mexico
for holidays or to visit family and friends.
They aren't just empty words but part of the government embrace of its
citizens abroad who remain connected — and financially committed — to
the country. At airports and border crossings, the returnees are given
information on staying safe and reporting any government corruption they
encounter.
But for
those Mexicans unceremoniously returned home —
those deported and dropped off by
U.S.
immigration in Mexican border towns such as Nogales, Tijuana and Juárez
— there is no such welcome.
"The money
being sent back to
Mexico
exceeds any U.S. foreign-aid package,"
said Walter Coleman, pastor of the Adalberto week. From there they are
taken by bus to the border and delivered to Mexican immigration
authorities, who verify their nationality.
At the same time, border officials are apprehending and sending back
hundreds of thousands of others who sneak across the border each
year. And violence has escalated, at least one police chief recently
sought asylum in the
U.S.
Once on Mexican soil, some make their way home. Others don't have the
money to get themselves back.
Overall, most are biding their time, hoping to find a way to re-enter
the
U.S., knowing there's little for them back in the towns they had fled,
where spouses and children depend on the money they sent from the
states.
"It's a humanitarian crisis ... ," said Irasema Corenado, an associate
professor at the
University
of Texas at El Paso.
But it's a
crisis that is the responsibility of the Mexican government, not the
U.S., immigration officials say.
"These are
Mexican nationals that are being returned,"
said Neil Clark, Seattle-based field director for Immigration and
Customs Enforcement. "If there is trouble in the border towns ... . The
U.S.
can't be responsible for everything. We're doing as much as we feel we
have to."
Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, which favors tougher policies, points out that while
Mexico is
always quick to assert its sovereignty, "with that comes
responsibility."
"The migration flow is often the result of conditions that
Mexico
created and allowed to fester, and the consequences of that are theirs
to deal with." Mexican officials call deportation a "huge challenge of
great proportion."
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 http://www.bibdaily.com
Cost of
immigration enforcement bill (SAVE ACT) could deter Blue Dog
support
By Mike
Soraghan
Posted:
04/07/08 07:46 PM [ET]
A
Democratic-sponsored immigration enforcement bill supported by
Republicans could add $40 billion to the deficit over the
next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said
Monday, a figure that could scare off fiscally conservative
Democrats being pressed to support it.
Republicans have initiated a discharge petition to move Rep.
Heath Shuler’s (D-N.C.) bill, which is opposed by House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Their targets are mostly Blue Dog
Democrats who hail from conservative districts more likely to
support tough measures against immigration.
But
Blue Dogs are also opposed to adding to the federal deficit, so
the cost of the bill could make them think twice before getting
on board. Democratic leaders believe the high cost will deter
more Blue Dogs from signing on. So far, 185 members have
signed on as co-sponsors. The most recent Democrat was Rep. Paul
Kanjorski (D-Pa.) on March 31. “You need more Democrats
and Republicans to get to 218. This report doesn’t help you get
there,” said a Democratic leadership aide.
But Republicans say the money is not
the point. They point out that the Democrats they’re targeting
have already signed on to the bill. “Democratic leaders are
trying to avoid the fact that there’s a bipartisan consensus in
support of a real border security bill without amnesty,” said
Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner
(R-Ohio). “Somewhere in a $3
trillion budget we can find the money to secure our border.”
The
Democratic aide stressed that the centrist Democrats who signed
on to the bill originally did so
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Analysis: What’s really at stake in the English curriculum
debate by William Lutz
Eight Democratic Chairmen Provide Notice to File Brief in U.S. Supreme
Court; Case Concerns Constitutional Challenge of Waiver Authority to
Bypass Laws for Border Fence Construction
Monday,
April 07, 2008
Today,
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on
Homeland Security led a group of 14 Members of Congress, including eight
Committee Chairmen, in submitting a notice of intent to file an Amicus
Curiae brief in the Defenders of Wildlife case against the Department of
Homeland Security (No. 07-1180). The brief, which will be filed by the
end of the month, pertains to Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff’s use of questionable waiver authority to skirt numerous
federal laws in order to construct fencing along the southwest border.
04-04-2008
Remember our
meeting on April 10th at Fellowship Bible Church - 7pm
9330 N. Central
Expressway - East side of Central - Park Lane
Oklahoma State
Senator Randy Brogdon
Subjects:
Trans-Texas Corridor, NAFTA Superhighway, immigration, border security
and our sovereignty
White House
to bypass red tape, complete border fence
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 4/3/2008 10:00:00 AM
Border fence advocate Colin Hanna is pleased the
Bush
administration is willing to take a bold step to complete construction
of nearly 700 miles of fencing along the border with
Mexico, as directed by Congress.
Hanna, president of
WeNeedaFence.com
<http://www.weneedafence.com/>
, considers it a positive sign that federal officials say the
administration intends to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an
effort to complete 670 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border by
the end of the year, as mandated by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
Congress has authorized the legal waivers to cut through bureaucratic
red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way
of the Department of Homeland Security building 267 miles of fencing in
California,
Arizona,
New Mexico, and
Texas.
Hanna says the Bush administration made the right decision. "The whole
idea [is] that when there is a serious conflict between national
security interests and environmental interests ... the national security
interests should trump the environmental concerns. It's a perfectly
sound concept," he
argues.
And Hanna believes the American people have been heard. "There's simply
no question about the breadth of public support for serious efforts at
border security," he offers. "The
fence isn't the only thing that's needed for border security, and border
security isn't the only thing that's needed to solve the immigration
problem -- but a fence is an essential component of achieving real
border security."
Another point of view by Grassfire:
The truth is, this is not a double layered fence that was promised and
signed into law.
This is pedestrian fencing and vehicle barriers that have been proven
ineffective. Illegal aliens easily and frequently cross these types
of barriers. .
++DHS has lied to us about the amount of border fencing.
They have claimed 302 miles as of 2/6/08, however, this
"fencing" consists of 145 miles of vehicle barrier, 78
miles of old railroad tie-fencing that was already in
place, and 79 miles of pedestrian barriers.
Less than 10 miles of the promised double-layered
fencing has been erected!
More Iraqis showing up in Mexico
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
Visit our website:
http://www.nafbpo.org
Sign up for our report at
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El Informador
(Guadalajara, Jalisco) , La Jornada (Mexico City) 4/3/08
Six adult male Iraqis were arrested yesterday (Wed.) in Tapachula, state
of Chiapas, while attempting to reach the Distrito Federal of Mexico and
to proceed to the United States from that point. In their preliminary
declaration, the six said they entered through Central America, reached
Guatemala and that there they purchased the false passports from Greece
and Holland which they initially presented to Mexican officials when
arrested. They also claimed they crossed the
Suchiate River
(bordering Mexico
and Guatemala) on
a raft. Local officials are investigating area taxi drivers as being
accomplices in the matter of their transit through Tapachula.
The names on the phony passports were Hristov Eroslavov Dobromir, Mirian
Sitkinas, Carlos Harden, Stevan Bergian, Vasileios Venetis and Vasilev
Martinov Georgi.
According to the "INM" (Mex. Immigr.) twenty-nine Iraqis were arrested
in 2007 in Chiapas after
entering from Guatemala.
Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling
By
David Francis
The San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/31/MN8MV94C7.DTL
Agua Prieta, Mexico -- At the Center to Aid Migrants in Exodus shelter,
would-be immigrants to the United States shared stories of violence at
the hands of human smugglers working for drug cartels.
As U.S. border
security has tightened, Mexican drug cartels have moved in on coyotes,
the common moniker for human smugglers who are paid to bring illegal
immigrants into the
United States. The traffickers now use
their expertise in gathering intelligence on border patrols, logistics
and communication devices to get around ever tighter border strictures.
They
are slowly gaining control of much of the illegal passage of immigrants
from Mexico
to the United States,
U.S.
border officials say. U.S. Border Patrol Special Agent
Joe Romero and other law enforcement officials say the Mexican drug
cartels have even merged human smuggling with drug trafficking,
forcing immigrants to act as 'mules' in transporting drugs as the price
of passage.
Mexicans deported from U.S. will get free ride home
Program to provide additional services
By Sandra Dibble
The San Diego Union Tribune, April 1, 2008
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20080401-9999-1m1assist.html
Tijuana, Mexico -- Mexicans who are deported from the United States or
leave voluntarily after being apprehended are being offered free trips
back to their hometowns under a pilot program launched yesterday.
The
Tijuana program, dubbed Humanitarian Repatriation, will also ensure that
returning Mexicans receive shelter, food, emergency medical care and
temporary employment upon their return to Mexico. President Felipe
Calderón announced the program in December, and federal
officials hope to expand it to other communities along Mexico's northern
border.
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Watchdog: Homeland Security behind schedule on foreign visitor tracking
component
By Gautham Nagesh
gnagesh@govexec.com
April 1, 2008
A federal tracking system for foreign visitors who exit the country by
air is not ready for prime time, despite a looming deadline, the
government's watchdog agency said.
The details of an integral component of the Homeland Security
Department's foreign visitor and immigrant status tracking system still
haven't been hammered out, even though DHS promised to deliver that
capability by the end of 2008, according to a March 31
report from the Government Accountability Office. The department
hasn't figured out yet how it plans to track foreigners who leave the
country on airplanes through its U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status
Indicator Technology program, prompting a GAO official to call a 2008
deadline meaningless.
"It's void of information," said Randy Hite, GAO's director for
information technology architecture and systems. "DHS claims this
capability will be in place by a certain date [end of 2008]. It's just a
date thrown out there. There's absolutely no reason to believe that the
date is grounded in any type of reality."
US VISIT is Homeland Security's ambitious program that uses biometric
and biographic information to control and monitor the pre-entry, entry,
status and exit of foreign visitors. The program uses a strategic
approach comprised of two parts: the unique identity component, which
uses fingerprints, photos and other biometric information to track all
individuals who interact with immigration or Border Patrol; and the exit
component, which tracks the air departures of all foreign visitors from
the United States.
Full story:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39676&dcn=e_gvet
04-02-2008
Members and Supporters:
Rep. Brian Bilbray, Chairman of the
Congressional Immigration Caucus, reported today on Fox News that 41 of
the Representatives who have signed on as co-sponsors of the SAVE Act
(H.R. 4088) are now refusing to sign the Discharge Petition that will
bring the SAVE Act to the floor which will allow the bill to bypass the
committees.
It is easy for politicians to say they will
sign onto things all the while knowing that when push comes to shove,
they are not going to do anything to help the legislation along. Rep.
Bilbray also reported that the leadership has told those 41 to block the
legislation.
Please go to
http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html#s2 and see if
your representative is on the Discharge Petition list. If not, you know
the drill - contact them and tell them that since they signed onto the
bill, that you expect them to go the whole way and sign the Discharge
Petition. Toll free number is 1-866-340-9281.
If your representative has signed the list, them
know you are very glad they have chosen to keep their word to support
this legislation.
Please pass this along to your email lists.
03-31-20088
Drug cartels operate
training camps near Texas border just inside Mexico
05:01 PM CDT on Saturday,
March 29, 2008
By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
acorchado@dallasnews.com
CAMARGO,
Mexico – The ranch near this border community is isolated, desolate and
laced by arroyos – an ideal place, experts say, for training drug cartel
assassins.
Mexican
drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in at least
six such locations in northern Tamaulipas and Nuevo León states, some
within a few miles of the Texas border, according to U.S. and Mexican
authorities and the printed testimony of five protected witnesses who
were trained in the camps.
Also Online
Cartel training camps copy pattern set by international terrorists
The camps near the
Texas border
and at other locations in Mexico are used to train cartel recruits –
ranging from Mexican army deserters to American teenagers – who then
carry out killings and other cartel assignments on both sides of the
border, authorities say.
"Traffickers go to great lengths to
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