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11-03-2008

Presidential Election and Dual Citizenship

Glenn Beck: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/17567/

"Let me just share the story of 80 year old, Ampara Rico Quintero, who retired from her job as a factory worker in Chicago 18 years ago to go back to live in her home country of Mexico. Now, every four years, she comes back
to the U.S. to vote in our presidential elections. This year, her trip was hard. Last Sunday, she had to take the overnight bus from San Luis de Petosi, all the way to Brownsville, Texas, to get there in time for early
voting. Listen to her sweet words as she boarded the bus back to Mexico after placing her vote..."this year I voted for Barack Obama. He is going to help the Mexican people, and make immigration fair." Isn't that a heartwarming story?"

Edward J. Erler, writing in the July 2008 issue of Imprimis, called Birthright Citizenship and Dual Citizenship  "Harbingers of Administrative Tyranny"

BORDER WAR

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/world/americas/
02mexico.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

November 2, 2008

In Mexico Drug War, Sorting Good Guys >From Bad  By MARC LACEY

MEXICO CITY Many of the mug shots of drug traffickers that appear in the Mexican press show surly looking roughnecks glaring menacingly at the camera. An anticorruption investigation unveiled last week in the Mexican capital, however, made it clear that not everybody enmeshed in the narcotics trade looks the part.

Stockpiling arms in McAllen

http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1006810.html  

 McALLEN — The Mexican Gulf Cartel is stockpiling high-powered weapons and recruiting local gang members on both sides of the border to prepare for possible confrontations with U.S. law enforcement, according to an FBI intelligence report.

 The regional leader of the cartel’s enforcer group, the Zetas, Jaime "El Hummer" Gonzalez Duran, has ordered dozens of reinforcements to Reynosa, Mexico, across the river from McAllen, the report stated.

 "These replacements are believed to be armed with assault rifles, bulletproof vests and grenades and are occupying safe houses throughout the McAllen area," according to the report, which was obtained by The McAllen Monitor.

 The Monitor reported Wednesday that local FBI officials declined to comment on the report.

 Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, also declined to discuss the details of the report but told The Associated Press: "We acknowledge the Zetas are a significant problem in Mexico, and they have the potential to pose a significant problem to law enforcement on this side of the border."

 More resources

On Oct. 17, representatives of the U.S. Border Patrol and the Texas Department of Public Safety, along with the Hidalgo County sheriff, announced the initiation of Operation River Freedom Denial, which will provide more air and ground law enforcement resources and allow more heavily armed deputies to return fire across the Mexican border.

Tension along the border had increased that week with a shootout Oct 16 in downtown Matamoros, Mexico, across the river from Brownsville. Shots were also fired at or near the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico, twice that week. In the first incident, a grenade was lobbed at the consulate, but it did not explode. Also, Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello said, his agents and drug smugglers exchanged gunfire and a smuggler rammed an agent’s truck while escaping.

 Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said deputies patrolling near the Rio Grande would be issued high-powered rifles and authorized to return fire.

 'Project Reckoning’

In September, "Project Reckoning" nabbed more than 175 cartel members and affiliates in the United States.

 Reymundo Guerra, who was sheriff of neighboring Starr County until he resigned last week, has been indicted on conspiracy charges that accuse him of sharing intelligence with the head of a cartel cell operating in his county.

The Rio Grande Valley and its Mexican sister cities have largely avoided the drug war massacre that has plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso. More than 1,100 people have died in the violence there this year.

Governor Perry announced a preemptive $4 million investment in his initiative to combat violent, transnational gangs across Texas. Intended to fund overtime pay for officers dealing directly with these gangs that are working for the Mexican drug cartels, the grants signify the seriousness of the situation in Texas. The Governor will ask the 2009 Legislature for continued border security funding with $110 million for ongoing law enforcement efforts along the border and an additional $24 million to combat transnational gangs that do not hesitate to kidnap, torture or kill in the pursuit of their criminal objectives. To read more about these grants, please follow these two links: http://www.rickperry.org/grant-to-sa-police and http://www.rickperry.org/grant-ntexas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/
stories/110208dnintgivingup.3fc2393.html

Mexico sees 'brain drain' as the brightest go north   11:59 PM CDT on Saturday, November 1, 2008

By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
acorchado@dallasnews.com

For years, Mexico's relatively weak economy has pushed thousands of low-wage workers toward the United States. Now, worries about Mexico's long-term direction are pushing highly educated workers on the same path.

11-11-2008

TODAY IS VETERANS DAY 

 FLY YOUR FLAG!

THANK A VETERAN

Should the American flag be taken down during a rain storm?

According to the Flag Code, most flags sold nowadays are all weather flags. These are permitted to fly during inclement weather.

Abortion, immigration, taxes in mix of initial filings for Texas Legislature 

 Monday, November 10, 2008 - By KAREN BROOKS / The Dallas Morning News  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/
state/stories/111108dntexnewbills.3d26875.html 

Legislature's agenda -- Tuesday, November 11, 2008  - Karen Brooks http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/
state/stories/DN-hotbillsbox_11tex.ART.State.Edition2.4a6521b.html   - 
A look at high-profile issues facing the new Legislature, which begins work in January, and some of the related bills filed Monday:

Taxes
• Let counties hold their own elections on whether to cap property taxes

• Ban more business-tax increases

• Increase homestead exemptions for elderly and disabled taxpayers

Education

• Impose a two-year moratorium on college and university tuition hikes

• Give students who sit on the boards of regents at their schools the right to vote on issues before the boards

• Start pilot programs for public-school vouchers

Immigration

• Allow police to arrest illegal immigrants based on their lack of documentation

• Require identification at voting booths

• Reverse the state law that allows students who are here illegally to pay in-state tuition if they qualify

Abortion
• Require physicians to show an ultrasound to pregnant women two hours before the procedure, including allowing them to hear the heartbeat.

• Allow the state to sell specialty license plates that say, "Choose Life."

Criminal justice

• Create an Innocence Project on wrongful convictions

• Allow the governor to give more than one reprieve in a death penalty case

Legislative Reference Library --- http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/

>From NumbersUSA: Sign their petition asking President-Elect Obama to Reject Amnesty for Illegal Aliens  » Sign petition: http://www.NumbersUSA.com/petition

Building of border fence stops in 3 areas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/
stories/DN-tswbriefs_08tex.ART.State.Edition1.4aa7a08.html

He said his office was told that the project was deferred because of concerns the segments in Rio Grande City, Roma in Starr County, and Los Ebanos in Hidalgo County might lead to more debris in the river and increase the potential for flooding.

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers -
http://www.nafbpo.org

Critica  (Sonora)  10/28/08  Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, Mexico's Secretary of the Economy, said that the Mexican government is ready to receive the approximately three million migrants who could return from the United States due to the financial crisis in that (U.S.) country. The quote: "The government is ready to receive them at home, and let us hope that the economy would work as we have been foreseeing.

Dallas immigration officials say illegal immigrant arrests up 21 percent in 2008
By Dianne Solis
The Dallas Morning News, November 6, 2008
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/
stories/110708dninticearrests.187b286f9.html

The following is from Pat Kennedy - Concerned Citizens Coalition/W.TX

NEWSCHANNEL 5 Investigation: Illegal Immigrants Walk Dangerous Path to Freedom 

 Thursday , November 06, 2008    Posted: 01:01 AM

http://newschannel5.tv/2008/11/6/1000880/

TEXAS BORDER VOLUNTEERS has scheduled a November border watch in S.TX.  If anyone is interested in participating....please contact Linda at fal_air_sofort@hotmail.com ASAP for further information.  

MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE!!

With talk of amnesty by the president-elect....increased traffic of illegal aliens hoping to take advantage of an amnesty is possible....even during cold winter months! 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/us/06immig.html?th&emc=th

November 6, 2008

Large Iowa Meatpacker in Illegal Immigrant Raid Files for Bankruptcy By JULIA PRESTON

 The kosher meatpacking company in Iowa that has been struggling with criminal charges and huge fines for labor violations, a dwindling work force and declining demand among Jewish consumers since an immigration raid at its main plant, has filed for bankruptcy.  

Update from the House Republican Study Committee (RSC)  Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Chairman

Vote Fraud Allegations Escalate

The U.S. Constitution says that, “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members,” (Article I, Section 5, Clause 1).  As accusations of vote fraud around the country continue to escalate, you might find this updated document useful:

http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/doc/pb_102808_votefraud.pdf.

11-12-2008

ACTION ALERT ON PELOSI TO STOP WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT RAIDS BY ICE

House Speaker Pelosi has touched off a new round of fighting over whether the Homeland Security Department should continue to stage controversial raids of worksites around the country. That may foreshadow a dispute that could move front and center when the new Congress convenes in January. Pelosi indicated at a news conference Wednesday that she supports an end to worksite enforcement operations nationwide by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of the Homeland Security Department. She said the urgency of putting together comprehensive immigration reform legislation has been intensified by the raids. "How do we end the ICE raids, have a situation where we can end the ICE raids as we put together the comprehensive immigration reform?" she asked. http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cdp_20081110_4356.php?related=true&story1=null&story2=null&story3=null

The only worksite raids that have taken place in the past year and a half are because they involved American identity theft. These are not just random worksites; they are sites where the Department of Justice knows American identity theft is taking place.

A Pelosi spokesman said the speaker has long expressed concerns that the Raids are ineffective and "unnecessarily divide families at the expense of children."

Well if that is the underlying reason;  Congress should not send soldiers off to war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or any area outside the United States because it   "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children." Congress should place a moratorium on enforcement and punishment on any criminal who has a family because it "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children."  Let’s not just give this benefit to illegal alien thieves.

Millions of Americans are out of work in America. Nancy Pelosi should be calling for increased worksite enforcement in America. We need to make sure the few jobs left, are being done by American citizens and legal immigrants.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should be protecting the tax payer’s jobs so we can continue to bail out Wall Street, Main Street, Auto Row and everyone else they put on the commercial welfare rolls.

Nancy Pelosi should be doing everything to protect Americans from identity theft, and holding criminals accountable regardless of whether it "unnecessarily divides families at the expense of children."

This nonsense has gone on long enough! This Congress continues to decide policy that “unnecessarily divides Americans from their jobs and their hard earned dollars”, No more immunity for illegal aliens stealing jobs and identity.

Call Nancy Pelosi today in her office in San Francisco (415) 556-4862 and tell her what you think about her proposal of stopping worksite enforcement raids! Tell her what you think of her upcoming proposal of amnesty. Make you voice heard!

Enough!

It’s time Americans looked out for other Americans. Send this to everyone on your email list.

 Susan Tully

FAIR National Field Director

(202)328-7004

11-13-2008

Dallas County jails launch new system to check prisoners' immigration status

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - By KEVIN KRAUSE / The Dallas Morning News

kkrause@dallasnews.com

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/
stories/111308dnmetprisonimmigration.1a685a528.html 

The Dallas County jails today became one of the first jail systems in the nation to use a new federal database to identify illegal immigrants during the book-in process.

Link: 'Secure Communities' program

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/secure_communities.htm

Link: Dallas County Sheriff's Department

http://www.dallascounty.org/department/sheriff/sheriff_intro.html

Blog: Crime

Normally, when prisoners are booked into jails, their fingerprints are run through a national database to check their criminal history. Under the new initiative, prisoners’ fingerprints will also be run through a similar database to check their immigration status.

If the computer shows a prisoner is in the country illegally, he or she will be referred to the federal government for possible deportation.

Currently, a prisoner’s immigration status is checked in jails only if they are referred to federal immigration agents. For years, the Dallas County jail, for example, has had a small office for two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who randomly question prisoners in the jail to try to determine their status.

The new database link with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department is a key part of ICE’s “Secure Communities” plan to identify and remove illegal immigrants from local communities.

The goal is to give all local jails in the country a link to the federal government’s databases. By next spring, ICE plans to make this database link available to more than 50 state and local law enforcement agencies.

The Dallas and Harris county sheriff’s departments were the only two Texas counties to take part in a pilot program to test the immigration database link. A total of seven areas nationwide participated.

The immigration status database is the work of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.

http://michellemalkin.com:80/2008/11/12/obama’s-illegal-alien-auntie
-the-rest-of-the-story/

Obama’s illegal alien auntie: The rest of the story
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

I hope Barack Obama remembered to thank George Bush on behalf of his illegal alien aunt this week. The lame-duck Republican president did the Democratic president-elect a generous — and dangerous — favor right before Election Day: Putting politics above homeland security, the Bush administration ordered immigration authorities across the country to halt all deportation enforcement actions until after the campaign season was over.

According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security distributed “an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday’s election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors.”

http://article.nationalreview.com:80/?q=YThkYjNlNzZlY2NiYTE0YTk3YWFlMDEwNzhlZWVkMDg=

‘I’m a Strong Believer You Have to Obey the Law’
A look ahead at Obama’s immigration policy.

By Mark Krikorian

Agent Compean Resentenced - No change

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6108584.html

11-22-2008

November 22, 2008

Fellow Patriots of IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR),

We are in a battle for the life and soul of the State of Texas. This is a war. We know that, just as in a war, people are demoralized and worn out from the years of sustained combat. This is true of many of wonderful patriots who have been faithful to the mission of IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR), and of giving their time, heart, and effort to keep America focused on fairness and the Rule of Law.

We are now asking for the many dues-paying members of IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR) and our IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR) friends to help the weary battle-hardened men and women who now need your help. We need you to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and fight with us!

General Patton once said "No soldier won a war dying for his country. He won by making the other [expletive deleted] die for his". This immigration battle is a war of attrition. The side that blinks first---that gives up in their minds---is the one that will lose. Do you want to lose? Or do you want to win?

Some people don't want us to. Rep. Roberto Alonzo has introduced legislation that would bar Tessa towns like Farmers Branch from enacting laws that check the immigration status of renters.

Several Texas Representatives want ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to stop conducting any raids in Texas and from checking the immigration status of jailed inmates. The latest investigative reporting from the Houston Chronicle has found that 177 illegal alien murderers and rapists have been allowed to get bond and leave the jail, even though ICE was notified that they were in this country illegally. ICE's reply is that they do not have the manpower to check every inmate.

As another result of our state and local officials not upholding the rule of law, bilingual teachers at DISD have been given false social security numbers to remain employed. The school district and the teachers have committed a felony and social security fraud.

There are groups of Texas legislators who are listening to organizations like MALDEF, LULAC, and La Raza and not the citizens of Texas. Many of these legislators have complained for years that the solution to these problems is to go after the EMPLOYERS who hire illegal aliens; now that we are proposing legislation to do exactly that, they are trying to block it. Rep. Leo Berman has submitted an "Oklahoma-like" bill that penalizes employers who hire illegal aliens. Every two years we get a chance to enact laws that make a difference. We tried in 2005, 2007, and now 2009. With the economy and the job situation, we have a serious chance to do something----BUT NOT WITHOUT YOUR HELP.

In this campaign, we need:

1. At the very least, every one of our members to call their state representative and senator and tell them you want them to support Rep. Leo Berman's bill. Contact information is on our website, http://www.IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR)usa.org, click on Be Involved.

2. Call every representative and senator in the State of Texas and ask them to support this bill, especially Democrats who have said they would support employer sanctions in the past.

3. IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR) is a member of IRCOT, the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas (www.ircot.com). Under the umbrella of IRCOT, we are working with several other like-minded groups to have this legislation enacted. One way is by sending our members to Austin right before and during the legislative session. We need you to come with us and talk to as many legislators as we can. They need to hear your voice!

4. We need your participation, but we also need your donations. Please give of your time and your money.

This is not a spectator sport, folks, this is a culture war. This may be our last chance to enact good legislation before we are overwhelmed by millions of illegal aliens who seem to have more clout than American citizens of all ethnicities. Also, the business lobbyists are hoping you won't speak out. They want the cheap labor to continue.

We need you to fight with us. Will you?

Jean Towell
President
IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing" E. Burk

 

11-25-2008

THANKSGIVING

“Wherefore I do recommend that the day above designated be observed throughout the country as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and that the people, ceasing from their daily labors and meeting in accordance with their several forms of worship, draw near to the throne of Almighty God, offering to Him praise and gratitude for the manifold goodness which He has vouchsafed to us and praying that His blessings and His mercies may continue.”

--President Chester Arthur, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1882

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SALUTE SEARS!

Source: FRC, 11/14/08 via Texas Eagle Forum New and Notes, December 2008

By law, employers are required to hold jobs open for any military personnel who are called up for duty. Sears is doing our soldiers one better. To protect their workers from taking a pay cut and losing their benefits when they leave for the front lines, Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits-including medical insurance and bonus programs. A Sears Customer Service rep said, "[We] regard service to our country as one of the greatest sacrifices our young men and women can make. We are happy to do our part to lessen the burden they bear." We salute Sears and other corporations who make their own sacrifices on behalf of America's bravest.

Lawmakers call on Bush for clemency in border agents' shooting case

Sunday, November 23, 2008 - By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-texwatch_23nat.ART.State.Edition1.4ac1179.html 

WASHINGTON – It's a long-standing tradition for presidents to offer clemency as they leave office. Two former Border Patrol agents who shot an unarmed drug smuggler in the backside as he fled are hoping President George W. Bush agrees that two years behind bars is enough.

Lawmakers from both parties formally asked the president last week to commute the sentences.

"It's frustrating. Scooter Libby was pardoned before he even goes to jail. Some turkey's going to get pardoned next week," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, a former judge, said last week. "These two guys are political prisoners."

Collin County health funds also won't cover illegal immigrants' care; one agency has declined award

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-nonprofits_02met.ART.State.Bulldog.36f5a4e.html

Sunday, December 2, 2007 - By ED HOUSEWRIGHT / The Dallas Morning News

ehousewright@dallasnews.com

When Collin County commissioners awarded almost $300,000 in grants to nonprofit health care agencies this year, the money came with strings attached.

Clinics were told they can't spend the money to treat illegal immigrants. They also were ordered to report patients' personal information, such as name, age, address, medical diagnosis and the last four digits of each person's Social Security number

 Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition launches Internet cameras along Mexican border

Friday, November 21, 2008 - The Associated Press

EL PASO – The Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition has launched a new network of Internet cameras aimed at the Mexican border in the latest effort to bolster local border security with live video streaming.

Using a $2 million state grant, the coalition turned on the 10 cameras Thursday afternoon.

Donald Reay, the coalition's executive director, said the one-year contract with BlueServo, a San Angelo-based company that helped with a similar state-run program in 2006, is good through June, when the grant expires.

http://www.blueservo.net/   -  http://www.texasborderwatch.com/about.php

Users watching the camera feeds on the BlueServo Web site will be able to anonymously e-mail law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

Border watch program called waste of money

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau Posted: 11/25/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_11066175

AUSTIN -- A waste of taxpayer dollars that could encourage border vigilantism is what some critics, including an El Paso lawmaker, called the virtual border watch program Texas border sheriffs unveiled last week with help from Gov. Rick Perry.

"This is just not an effective or efficient way of providing security to Texans," said Luis Figueroa, Mexican American Legal and Educational Defense Fund legislative attorney.

Last week, the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition launched the virtual border watch program that Perry has been trying to get off the ground since 2006. With a $2 million grant from Perry, the sheriffs contracted with a private social networking company to launch the site.

By Saturday, the site had already received more than 195,000 hits, said Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle.

Forwarded from WallBuilders 

Thanksgiving 2008

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