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02-02-2009

TRIP TO AUSTIN

Due to the icy weather, we were unable to make our trip to Austin on Jan 28th. We are now set for a 'go' on Feb. 11th. Our van is filled and several are driving down on their own. If you would like to join us at the Capitol, email Robin at rb@dfwapts.com  Include the names of your representative and senator. Feb. 6th is the final date to respond to have a packet made for you. You are still welcome to meet us in Austin if you don't respond by the 6th, but a packet will not be prepared for you.

You will receive, via email, time and place to meet at the Capitol, instructions and preparation documents. The preparation  does require study. Remember that organizations like LULAC, MALDEF, LaRaza, Texas Business Association and the  ACLU are going to be there prepared.

Are you willing to do less?

Action Committee 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FEB. 12TH

6:45pm Meet and Greet - 7:00pm Meeting

Farmers Branch Recreation Center

14050 Heartside Place - Farmers Branch TX 75234 - Mapsco 13K

Rusty Fleming, author & film maker of the documentary, Drug Wars - "Silver or Lead" will be our guest speaker and will show a 20 minute version of the documentary.

Join us to hear a first-hand account of the narcotic war along the Texas/Mexico border. Rusty has traveled the border investigation and interviewing actual people in the drug cartels and working with law enforcement on both sides of the border.

Sen. Hutchison Introduces Border Law Enforcement Legislation
Would Establish DOJ Grant Program with Focus on Border Communities

http://hutchison.senate.gov/pr012809a.html

http://hutchison.senate.gov/pr011209b.html

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), today filed The Border Law Enforcement Relief Act of 2009, S. 339, which would create a grant program at the U.S. Department of Justice to help border communities combat narcoterrorism.

The Border Law Enforcement Relief Act of 2009, which was cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D- N.M.), will create and authorize $100 million in federal grant funding for each fiscal year from 2009 – 2013. Two-thirds of the funding will be designated for border communities within 100 miles of the northern and southern borders. The remaining one-third will go to law enforcement agencies nationwide that are affected by border-related criminal activity.

This grant funding may be used to obtain equipment, upgrade technology, hire additional personnel, and cover overtime and transportation costs associated with criminal activity along the border.

The National Sheriff’s Association pledged its support of the Border Law Enforcement Relief Act.

From Nextgov.com: E-Verify contractor rule delayed againBy Gautham Nagesh

The Obama administration has postponed until May a rule that would require federal contractors to check the immigration status of newly hired employees.

. . .The rule originally was scheduled to become effective on Jan. 15, but five business interest groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, filed suit to delay implementation until Feb. 20.

. . .New Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, however, told The Washington Post she believes in E-Verify and the delay will be used to determine if the system is capable of handling the surge in workload that would result from the new rule.

Full story: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=41940&dcn=e_gvet

Texas House Speaker doesn't know how long it will take to appoint committees:

According to a news item in the Kronberg report, House Speaker Joe Straus doesn't know how long it will take to appoint the committees.

Call the speaker at 512.463.1000 and urge him to assign HB 266, that calls for the use of E-Verify, to the appropriate committee.

In the 2007 legislative session, all the immigration bills were assigned to a committee whose chair was hostile to immigration legislation.

This is a good article to read for talking points  when you contact your state representative and senator about passing a photo voter ID bill.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123327839569631609.html?mod=djemEditorialPage#printMode

Voter ID Was a Success in November

Turnout was higher in states that took a simple step to prevent fraud.

...The plaintiffs in every unsuccessful lawsuit filed aganst such state requirements could not produce a single individual who didn't either already have an ID or couldn't easily get one.

Another assault on the American worker

http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_bi_ge/bailout_foreign_workers

Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.

The dozen banks now receiving the biggest rescue packages, totaling more than $150 billion, requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers over the past six years for positions that included senior vice presidents, corporate lawyers, junior investment analysts and human resources specialists. The average annual salary for those jobs was $90,721, nearly twice the median income for all American households.

-snip-

Foreigners are attractive hires because companies have found ways to pay them less than American workers

02-09-2009

Friends,

Since Senators Hutchison and Cornyn oppose the "stimulus" scheme, let's remember to say THANK YOU! Let's also direct our calls where they matter most. Gary Bauer has identified them and I share his list with you. 

Cathie Adams, Texas Republican National Committeewoman

Call Your Senators Now 

There will be a crucial vote in the Senate today on Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar bailout of Big Government. Please call your senators right now at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote No. 

Over the weekend, a deal was struck with three Republican moderates to give Harry Reid the votes he needs to shut off debate, stop conservative amendments and ram the so-called “stimulus bill” through the Senate with 60 votes. Thirty-eight of 41 Republican senators remain opposed to the massive spending binge, but all Senate Democrats are supporting it. 

If you live in the following states, your senators especially need to hear from you. Call and tell them to stop the spending. 

ARKANSAS: Blanche Lincoln, (202) 224-4843; Mark Pryor (202) 224-2353 

INDIANA: Evan Bayh, (202) 224-5623 

LOUISIANA: Mary Landrieu, (202) 224-5824 

MAINE: Olympia Snowe, (202) 224-5344; Susan Collins, (202) 224-2523 

MISSOURI: Claire McCaskill, (202) 224-6154 

MONTANA: Max Baucus, (202) 224-2651; Jon Tester, (202) 224-2644 

NEBRASKA: Ben Nelson, (202) 224-6551 

NORTH CAROLINA: Kay Hagan, (202) 224-6342 

NORTH DAKOTA: Kent Conrad, (202) 224-2043; Byron Dorgan, (202) 224-2551 

PENNSYLVANIA: Arlen Specter, (202) 224-4254; Bob Casey, (202) 224-6324 

SOUTH DAKOTA: Tim Johnson, (202) 224-5842 

VIRGINIA: Jim Webb, (202) 224-4024; Mark Warner, (202) 224-2023 

Recently, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the plan will actually harm the economy over the next ten years, since the massive government debt will demand higher taxes and crowd out private investment. The last thing we need is a trillion-dollar “stimulus” that hurts economic growth! Call Capitol Hill now and tell your senators to oppose Obama’s spending bill. 

02-12-2009

ABC News Video -- Phoenix Now Kidnapping Capitol of the World -- Texas Seeing Same Pattern -- Cartels & Mexico

02-13-2009

Officials fear Mexican drug cartel violence could reach Dallas-Fort Worth

Friday, February 13, 2009 - By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News

jtrahan@dallasnews.com

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/
latestnews/stories/021309dnmetcartels.4061fd5.html

North Texas law enforcement authorities are bracing for what they fear could be an escalation of violence bubbling up from the years-long battle among Mexican drug traffickers.

While the beheadings, kidnappings and daylight shootouts common in parts of Mexico haven't become rampant north of the Rio Grande, the discovery of military-grade weaponry closer to the U.S. border and in some cases in Texas are signs that the relative calm here might not hold.

Most recently, U.S. investigators have linked a grenade used in an attempted attack in South Texas with other weapons in Mexico thought to belong to the Zetas, the Gulf cartel's enforcement arm. No grenades exploded in an attack on a bar in Pharr, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande, last month.

The Gulf cartel has long controlled cocaine trafficking into Dallas, which is a distribution hub to various points throughout the U.S., authorities say.

So far, the only thing that has kept the Gulf cartel from using its brazen tactics in Texas is a fear of attracting too much attention, said James Capra, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Dallas.

"The propensity for violence in dealing with these trafficking groups is huge," he said. "We hear daily about things like beheadings, heinous torture, that we are not used to seeing domestically. Are we going to start seeing that here? That's the fear."

Also of concern was the November discovery of the largest cache of drug cartel weaponry ever seized in Mexico – just south of the border. In Reynosa, across the river from McAllen and Pharr, Mexican authorities found 540 assault rifles, more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 14 cartridges of dynamite, 98 fragmentation grenades, 67 bullet-proof vests, seven .50-caliber sniper rifles and an anti-tank rocket.

That's a sign of the cartels' intent, said Fred Burton, an ex-State Department counterterrorism agent now with the private intelligence firm Stratfor in Austin.

It is no great leap for killers to switch from using relatively low-power guns to kill enemies in the U.S. to choosing to lob a grenade into a car full of people or into a meeting of cartel bosses, he said.

Local law enforcement authorities are hoping they can avoid the rash of drug-related kidnappings that have besieged Phoenix. Last year, police in that city logged more than 300 kidnappings– more than any other U.S. city, according to published reports. Most are thought to be related to drug trafficking, authorities say.

Dallas recorded eight kidnappings last year, and has so far had none this year, said Dallas police Lt. Edwin Ruiz-Diaz. He said none of those are believed to have been drug related and most were related to family violence.

"We keep hearing 'It's coming, it's coming,' but it hasn't gotten past San Antonio," he said. "And hopefully it stays that way."

Violent crime, drug related and otherwise, is down in the city, said Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle.

"I don't think that we've seen examples of cartel-related kidnappings or murders or violent crime within the last year to year and a half," he said.

He noted that some of the crime categories that showed the biggest decreases last year were with Hispanic homicide victims, homicides that could be linked to drug activity and homicides that happened outdoors. About half as many Hispanics were killed in the city last year.

Still, police in Dallas routinely find homes or apartments packed with cash, or victims smoldering in vehicles, that have clear connections to drug use or trafficking.

But investigators differentiate between drug-related and cartel-related, the latter involving upper-echelon players. Dallas has its share of these, authorities say, and they and their cohorts make up the majority of large-scale, multi-defendant narcotics trafficking conspiracy cases filed in federal court.

Prosecutors have noted that that traffickers use everything from 18 wheelers to Mexican tour buses to electric utility trucks as they transport drugs up from Laredo to Dallas. The millions in cash ferried back south into Mexico finances more violence, authorities say.

The last local high-profile drug kidnapping occurred in spring 2007, authorities say. It began when attackers snatched a dealer from his home in Richardson and demanded money and meth from his family.

The next day, the abductors agreed to pick up the ransom payment in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Bullets began flying, and FBI agents killed one suspect before the victim was rescued. Burton said he's skeptical that Phoenix alone is being besieged by drug-related violence, particularly kidnappings.

"I would argue that there's more violence occurring, but it's illegal-on-illegal, police reports aren't taken, or victims aren't coming forward," he said.

If and when cartel violence surges here, it will probably be a result of the rush to fill the power vacuum created by several successful takedowns of high-level Gulf cartel capos.

Last fall, the DEA and other federal agencies scooped up 175 Gulf cartel members – including more than a dozen in the Dallas area – as part of Project Reckoning, an international crackdown that also revealed the cartel's links to Italian organized crime.

In all, authorities arrested more than 500 people, or about a third of the cartel's membership worldwide, and the operation is ongoing.

Capra says that operation's success owes much to the cooperation between Mexican and U.S. law enforcement.

"The Mexican people, the Mexican government and the Calderón administration are saying 'enough is enough,' " he said, noting that Mexico is extraditing drug criminals to the U.S. in record numbers now.

"We're starting to see that pushback from the cartels," he said.

02-17-2009

IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR)/IRCOT TRIP TO AUSTIN:

Thirty-eight people traveled to Austin on Feb. 11th  where they met with their own elected officials and then fanned out to visit other legislators. A handout was prepared pointing out the economic costs of illegal aliens and giving reasons why HB 266, that would require the use of E-Verify, needed to be passed.

Reports from the participants on their reception were favorable with just a few non-favorable - ranging from  polite but not in favor of to very negative.

Also, included in the discussion was the Voter Photo ID legislation that has been filed. All indications is that this legislation has a very good chance of being passed, but your action is needed. (action item below )

If you haven't contacted your legislator to ask them to support HB 266, please do so now. Capitol Switchboard is 512.463.4630.

Action Item on Photo Voter ID

The following is from Mona Bailey - IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR)-Ft. Worth, This is the information gleaned as a result of our trip to Austin.  Act upon it.

Two years ago, the Photo Voter ID bill passed the House and then went to the Senate.

 Lt. Gov. Dewhurst sent a call out to the Senators one morning to show up on the floor within a certain time frame -- about 15 minutes or so, quickly -- and they were called on to vote on the Photo Voter ID.  It passed.  Then some Democrat showed up who had not been there, and insisted that because the vote had been done so quickly that it wasn't fair.  He insisted that the vote be taken again, and then it lost.

 This year, the Senate can rectify what happened before. 

In my visit yesterday to one of the Tarrant County Representatives, I was told that the Speaker is probably going to wait for the Senate to pass the Photo Voter ID first, before it is ever brought up in the House, because of what happened before.  Once it passes the Senate, then it will come to the House, but not before.

 Therefore, we must make sure that Lt. Gov. Dewhurst hears from us the importance of this bill to the citizens of the State of Texas.

Lt. Governor David Dewhurst
Capitol Station
P.O. Box 12068
Austin, Texas 78711

512.463.0001 - Fax 512-463-0677 (FAX)

 www.ltgov.state.tx.us

http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1197198.html

40 custodians at Mansfield schools out of jobs over Social Security irregularities

By TRACI SHURLEY  tshurley@star-telegram.com

Forty custodians at Mansfield schools have lost their jobs or resigned since August after an internal audit found that the Social Security numbers they had given the district were incorrect or invalid, school officials said Tuesday.

The district began verifying the Social Security numbers of the 269 employees in the custodial department after receiving an employee tip that some might be false, according to district spokesman Terry Morawski.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/health/New_testing_discloses
_a_deadly_danger_is_in_Bexar.html

New testing discloses a deadly danger is in Bexar By Don Finley- Express-News

For a disease that begins with a bite from the deceptively sweet-sounding kissing bug, Chagas disease is a major killer in some parts of the world.

The bug deposits a parasite that can lurk silently in the body for decades before causing the heart to enlarge — and sometimes the colon or esophagus as well.

Chagas, which afflicts millions in Latin America, was long thought to be largely confined there. But a recently approved test to screen blood donors has identified hundreds of cases across the United States — including eight in Bexar County.

Minutemen Civil Defense Corps Border Security Rally - February 23, 2009

Organizer: John Watkins, TX Chapter Director & Event Organizer

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Where: Austin TX Capitol south steps.

Sponsor: Leo Berman (R-Tyler)

Conduct & dress:

Everyone attending must present an image of serious concerned citizens and must focus on border security. No other detraction or side issues please.

Period dress, banners with any racial overtones or confederate battle flags should NOT be utilized and are not welcome.

Please RSVP to John E. Watkins III, johnwatkinsiii@sbcglobal.net  214-708-6560 if you plan to attend or have invited an organization to attend.
 

http://wnd.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88994

¡Adios! Personal banker quits over Mexican IDs
Employee acts to take America back, refuses to help illegals
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A personal banker in Arlington, Va., is quitting his job after Chevy Chase Bank, one of the largest and best-known banks in the Washington, D.C., region, announced it will begin accepting consular cards from customers who many suspect are illegal aliens.

"Accepting the Matricula skirts that issue," Bankers Online reports. "Many Mexicans who work in the United States do so in order to send money back to their homes in Mexico. FDIC says about $18 billion is wired annually from the U.S. to Mexico. Many U.S. banks have welcomed the IDs as a way to get a cut of this activity by profiting from the handling charges on the wires and increased deposits."

02-20-2009

 http://www.quorumreport.com

February 19, 2009      4:40 PM

SHAPLEIGH QUIZZES MCCRAW ON BORDER SECURITY EFFORTS

Asks for documentation on proven corruption cases

Sen. Eliot Shapleigh (D-El Paso) was looking for less talk and more action from the Governor’s Office on Texas-Mexico border security at yesterday’s inaugural meeting of the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee.

Steve McCraw, the governor’s point person on homeland security, launched into a broad explanation of the imminent danger of transnational gangs along the border at yesterday’s committee hearing, talking about the powerful and ruthless organized crime cartels and their death squads. More than 5,700 deaths in Mexico last year were attributed to the organized crime gangs, said McCraw.

The threat of those violent gangs – with their tactics of terror -- had metastasized, spilling into communities across Texas, McCraw said. Corruption has become an issue. More and more, law enforcement officers were being bribed on both sides of the border to ignore criminal activity. That’s led to an increased number of “boots on the ground” and a new strategy to combine the resources of the Texas Rangers and Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office to aggressively target law enforcement corruption on this side of the border, McCraw said.

“It’s not going to be tolerated,” McCraw said. “This is a rule of law country, and it’s not going to be tolerated.”

The rest of the story, subscribers only

Wildlife areas on border let in outlaws
By Sara A. Carter
The Washington Times, February 17, 2009
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/
17/conservation-zones-a-hotbed-for-outlaws-along-us-m/

Heavily armed outlaws are threatening national parks and other public lands along the Mexican border, where terrain and environmental concerns limit the range of U.S. Border Patrol agents and are complicating efforts to build a barrier ordered by Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security has allocated about $50 million to counter the ecological impact on land managed by the Interior Department and other government agencies.

But environmentalists, energized by the Democratic leadership of Congress and the White House, are pushing for additional conservation measures that Border Patrol agents fear will make it easier for Mexican gangs to operate.

Border fence crawls to end
Cost, design issues vex construction
By Sandra Emerson
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA), February 16, 2009
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_11719975

Construction on the fence along the United States and Mexico border is wrapping up, but the work has not been warmly received by some.

More than 600 miles of the proposed 670 miles of fencing are expected to be finished by May, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.

Concerns about the work include construction delays, increased costs, poor planning and a lack of all-weather roads.

'Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff did not label this a national-security project, so as a result you had construction delays due to lack of materials, and the purchase and use of steel imported from Red China and Mexico,' said Andy Ramirez, chairman of Friends of the Border Patrol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

February 15, 2009

U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship

By JULIA PRESTON

Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months.

Immigrants who are permanent residents, with documents commonly known as green cards, have long been eligible to enlist. But the new effort, for the first time since the Vietnam War, will open the armed forces to temporary immigrants if they have lived in the United States for a minimum of two years, according to military officials familiar with the plan.

Recruiters expect that the temporary immigrants will have more education, foreign language skills and professional expertise than many Americans who enlist, helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.

02-25-2009

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4684&print=1

State of War

By Sam Quinones

Mexico’s hillbilly drug smugglers have morphed into a raging insurgency. Violence claimed more lives there last year alone than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq. And there’s no end in sight

http://www.foxnews.com:80/story/0,2933,491964,00.html

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=q7_GIbvTE3A

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2009/02/66649.php

Texas State Senator, Dan Patrick, was on FoxNews February 19th (and the Glen Wooley show) where he announced that . . .The Texas State Legislature had been trying very hard to get the Obama Administration to respond to a critical situation on the Texas Border. The Administration had not gotten back with Texas as of last night. So the State of Texas told Washington D.C. basically they could go jump, and "we'll take care of Texas!". As of last night... the Texas National Guard has been put on High Alert!!! This is the first time in history! Texas tried, desperately to get Washington's approval... but when they could not get it... they
acted on their own.

Reynosa Gun battle clip

(clip is in Spanish but you will not have a problem understanding what is happening)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jag1RMi2E4&feature=haxa_popt00us02Time
Subj: Fwd: Reynosa Gun battle clip

Sender of this clip said that: The locals do not any longer venture into Reyonosa, Progresso or any other Mexican Border Towns. . .  Get ready, millions will run for Texas , New Mexico, Arizona and Calf. in just a time span of days. .. . . There are(was) some very nice and affordable American owned restaurants in these towns. Pharmaceuticals were bought on every corner pharmacy for 1/5 th the cost we fools pay here.. .

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/23/
justices-hearing-key-id-theft-case/

Justices hearing key ID theft case   Monday, February 23, 2009

Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision. After working under an assumed name for six years, he decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony identification numbers for another.

The change made his employer suspicious, and the authorities were called in. The old numbers were made up, but the new ones he bought happened to belong to real people. Federal prosecutors said that was enough to label Flores-Figueroa an identity thief.

-snip-

The case hinges on how the justices resolve this question: Does it matter whether someone using a phony ID knows that it belongs to someone else?

The government, backed by victims-rights groups, says no. The "havoc wrecked on the victim's life is the same either way," said Stephen Masterson

Hint from a IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR) friend:

I have Yahoo as my opening browser.  I have several tabs that open upon start-up.  One of them is http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ so that everytime I am on the computer I can send the following email to our current president:

“No amnesty, no guest workers, no anchor babies, no sanctuary cities, renew E-Verify, and enforce all our immigration laws.” 

I hope you will pass this idea around.  Maybe if he is bombarded with such emails everyday he will start listening to his people and not big business.

Attrition through enforcement!

02-28-2009

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions/opinions/50abbott/op/2009/pdf/ga0695.pdf

Texas attorney general: Law sanctioning firms that hire illegal workers would hold up

Friday, February 27, 2009 - By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News choppe@dallasnews.com

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/
legislature/stories/DN-immigbills_27tex.ART.State.Edition1.4a8d5d3.html

AUSTIN – A law suspending the licenses and tax permits of businesses in Texas if they knowingly hired an illegal immigrant would probably be constitutional, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated in an opinion released Thursday.

http://www.kxan. com/dpp/news/ politics/ Undocumented_ workers_lobby_ against_bill

Undocumented workers lobby against bill  - Biggest concern is the new driver's license rule

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Dozens of undocumented workers got a quick lesson in lobbying Thursday. Coming from all parts of the state, they gathered at the State Capitol with immigration activists.. .

Gov. Perry wants U.S. troops guarding border - Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso  02/25/2009 http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11779431

Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed his concerns on the issue of Texas' Border Security Strategy at the Chamizal National Memorial and the Bridge of the Americas as a backdrop.

EL PASO - Gov. Rick Perry said he wants 1,000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border, and for the U.S. to fund strong security measures to fight the Mexican drug cartels that have spread violence and fear in Mexico, including Juárez.

Latino lawmakers rev up a new strategy for easing the path for an immigration reform bill
By Suzanne Gamboa The Associated Press, February 25, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-immigration-new-approach,1,353435.story

Washington, DC (AP) -- Latino lawmakers and advocates are taking a new approach to the push for changes in U.S. immigration policy, making a humanitarian appeal to Americans to support fellow citizens who have relatives living in fear of detention and deportation.

First up: community meetings at churches in 17 cities, with the first set for Friday in Providence, R.I.

'We are going to focus on families and put this in a biblical, moral perspective,' said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., who created the model for the campaign with meetings in Chicago and New York.

http://www.cis.org/December2008Unemployment

Unemployment for Immigrants and the US-Born: Picture Bleak for Less-Educated Black & Hispanic Americans

By Steven A. Camarota   February 2009

http://wnd.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89967

Home mortgage relief for millions of illegals
Obama's program provides $275 billion to assist homeowners facing foreclosure

Border Patrol building tunnel barrier
By Rebecca Taylor
The KVOA News (Tucson, AZ), February 16, 2009
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9854112&nav=HMO6

Border agents are working to stop smugglers in their tracks. It's called the Remediation Project.
The goal is to stop smugglers before they can get drugs and illegal migrants across the border and into the United States. Within the past four months, nine tunnels have been discovered. Last fiscal year, 14 tunnels were found.

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