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Illegal immigrants go free; some offered work permits

The arrest of 28 illegal immigrants at a small engine plant in Bellingham in February has ignited a national political firestorm over work-site raids carried out under the Obama administration. The last of the workers have been released from custody and offered work permits.

From FAIRusa.org

DREAM Act Introduced in the House and Senate

As the latest move intended to flex their legislative muscle, amnesty supporters in Congress last week re-introduced the DREAM Act (also known as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act). Authored by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) (S.729) and Congressman Howard Berman (H.R.1751), the DREAM Act grants amnesty to a broad range of individuals who meet certain minimal educational requirements and broad definitions relating to student status.
Read the full article

Loophole Angers Illegal Immigration Foes
KPHO Phoenix ^ | January 9, 2009 | Staff Writer

PHOENIX -- A loophole in federal law is enabling hundreds of illegal immigrants to live in homes subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, while thousands of others linger on waiting lists to get into those same units.

Those waiting lists are so long that most of them have been frozen for years, meaning people can't even submit an application for public housing. In Arizona, hundreds of those units are occupied by people who aren't even U.S. citizens.

The Salazar family has lived in a four-bedroom Phoenix public housing apartment for the past six years -- all 10 of them

Sen. Lieberman Bill Ramps Up U.S. Border Protection

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:00 AM

Citing the "exploding" threat posed by Mexican drug cartels, US lawmakers pushed Tuesday for ramping up efforts to dam up the southward flow of guns and money to the syndicates from US sources.

Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman and Republican Senator Susan Collins introduced legislation to channel another 550 million dollars for more federal agents, investigators, and technological improvements.

Tea Parties:

Check websites for information

Dallas Tea Party - . http://www.dallasteaparty.org/

Collin County Tea Parties - different locations

 http://www.collincountygop.com:80/

04-04-2009

Elections Committee Public Testimony, April 7th.

If you haven't already, contact Rep. Todd Smith, Chair of the Elections Committee, and tell him he is wrong to want to delay implementing  Voter Photo ID until 2014.

Tell him you are for HB 125, which is the closest to the successful Indiana law that withstood a challenge before the Supreme Court. The author of HB 125 is Rep. Betty Brown who is a member of this committee.

Rep. Smith's number is 512.463.0522, Fax is 512.463-9529

Other members of the committee are:

Rep. Aaron Pena - 512.463.0426
Rep. Alma Allen - 512.463.0744
Rep. Rafael Anchia - 512.463.0746
Rep. Dwayne Bohac 512.463.0564
Rep. Betty Brown - 512.463.0458
Email: firstname.lastname@house.state.tx.us

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Regarding the article about illegal immigrants going free and being offered work permits, here are the numbers of Dept. of Homeland Security for you to express your thoughts.

DHS numbers:  Comment line:    202-282-8495
                           Voice:                   202-282-8000
                           Fax:                     202-282-8402

WE TAKE OUR STAND ON THE CONSTITUTION, NOT INTERNATIONAL NORMS!

April 1, 2009 – Harold Koh, the former dean of the Yale Law School has been picked by President Barack Hussein Obama to be the legal adviser to the Department of State. Koh will represent America at the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

Koh is an outrageous transnationalist lawyer who believes that American law should be interpreted according to international “norms” instead of our U.S. Constitution.

In 2007, at a speech before the Yale Club in Greenwich, he claimed that he didn’t see why Shariah law couldn’t be applied to govern cases in the United States.  Do people not realize what this means?????  Shariah law is a ruthless Islamic legal system that calls for stoning of women who are victims of rape; for cutting off heads and hands of adulterers; and death for anyone who leaves Islam for another religion.

TAKE ACTION: Contact your two U.S. Senators and ask that they oppose the confirmation of Harold Koh to the Department of State or any other post in the government.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison - Local: 214.361.3500, D.C. 202.224.5922, Hutchison@senate.gov

Senator John Cornyn   Local 972.239.1310 -  D.C. 202.224.2934, Cornyn@senate.gov

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan, 40^th President of the United States

Sen. Hutchison Cosponsors Measure to Provide $550 Million in Border Protection Funds

Bipartisan Amendment Would Fund Local Law Enforcement and Anti-Smuggling and Gunrunning Efforts

April 1 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – After receiving a commitment from the amendment sponsors to include funding for local law enforcement along the border, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Texas’ senior Senator, today signed on as an original cosponsor to the Lieberman-Collins amendment to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Budget.  More

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6353961.html

Defendants may have to swear citizenship  DA Lykos aims to stop plea deals for those in country illegally 

Harris County District Attorney’s office proposal to bar illegal immigrants from receiving plea deals sparked questions Wednesday — including some from longtime prosecutors in the same office — about the legality and practicality of such a policy.

04-09-2009

Original Message -----

Sent: 2009-04-09 07:57

Subject: SENATOR HARRY REID ANDSENATOR DICK DURBIN GOING TO DO THE DREAM ACT NEXT FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY.

A Dose of Reality Turns DREAMs into Nightmares

By Rosemary Jenks, Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 9:58 AM

ROSEMARY JENKS is the Director of Government Relations for NumbersUSA

EDITOR's NOTE: A line-by-line analysis of the DREAM Act (as introduced in the U.S. Senate) reveals no end to the nightmares. (1) The amnesty applies to illegal-alien "kids" up to age 35; (2) aliens merely need to make a "claim" that they are qualified for the amnesty -- they don't have to provide any proof that the claims are true; (3) but the feds have to perform costly, time-consuming investigations to prove the claims are false in order to deny an amnesty to anybody; (4) the parents who broke the law to bring these "kids" here can get U.S. citizenship; (5) DREAM would remove the federal ban on in-state tuition for future illegal aliens.

Proponents of the DREAM Act insist that the purpose of the bill is to ensure that the children of illegal aliens—who were brought here illegally through no fault of their own and shouldn't be penalized for the sins of their parents—have an opportunity to go to college. After all, shouldn’t every child have a chance to better himself by getting a good education?

What its supporters don't tell you, though, is that the DREAM Act would award amnesty to virtually any illegal alien under the age of 35 who first entered the United States before the age of 16, has been in the country for at least the last five years, and has earned a high school diploma or GED in the United States. While the age limit of 35 seems excessive, at least it sounds like a relatively well-defined population, right? Here's the kicker: Illegal aliens only have to submit a petition in which they claim to meet these requirements. There is not a single provision in the DREAM Act that requires the aliens to provide proof that the claims are true. In fact, once an illegal alien submits this required petition, the only way the alien can be denied amnesty is if DHS proves that the claims are false.

Think what would happen if, say, half a million amnesty applications (an extremely conservative estimate) are dumped on an agency—US Citizenship and Immigration Services—that already has over three million applications pending. How many amnesty applications are likely to be denied when every denial involves additional time to track down proof that the statements on the application are false, versus an approval that takes only the stroke of a pen? Past experience shows that the answer is frighteningly close to none, so the potential for fraud is virtually unlimited.

On top of this, the incentives created by the bill make massive fraud a certainty. For example, once an illegal alien files a petition for amnesty, regardless of whether the alien actually meets the requirements or not, DHS is prohibited from deporting that individual for any reason until the petition is granted or until DHS has found proof that the alien does not qualify and so denies the petition. There are no exceptions to this. So, as long as an illegal alien files an amnesty petition before he flies a plane into the World Trade Center or goes on a killing spree in the local shopping mall, we are stuck with him for as long as it takes an already backlogged agency to consider his application for amnesty.

Rest assured, though, that no illegal alien with a criminal record can qualify for amnesty – unless the criminal record only involves one or two misdemeanor convictions like DUIs or domestic violence, or it only involves violations of immigration laws or crimes committed to achieve an immigration-related goal like document fraud. Terrorists don’t qualify for the DREAM amnesty either—at least not those we have listed on a watch list and who use their real names to apply for amnesty.

The fact that there is no deadline by which all DREAM-amnesty applications must be filed means there is plenty of time for illegal aliens (those already here and those planning to come) who don’t actually qualify to fabricate or purchase their eligibility. No doubt the Mexican drug cartels and other criminal enterprises already are developing the “DREAM Set”—a prepackaged set of documents, utility bills, high school diplomas, and so on to ensure that every illegal alien gets a slice of the American DREAM, for the right price.

Of course, the bill specifically requires DHS to move all amnesty petitions to the front of the line—ahead of the millions of people who have been waiting for years to come to the United States legally—so it shouldn't take more than six months or so to decide any one application--unless amnesty is denied, in which case the illegal alien could extend the process for several years by appealing the denial. And what will happen in the rare instance when an illegal alien is denied amnesty? The illegal alien “shall return to the immigration status the alien had immediately prior” to applying for amnesty. Well, of course! We will simply ignore the fact that the alien had to admit to being in the country illegally on his amnesty petition and pretend we do not have his address, occupation, or any other information about him! We can’t let pesky details like the fact that, in order to deny amnesty, DHS has to prove that the alien committed fraud on his petition, is not “of good moral character,” has been convicted of a deportable offense, or is a terrorist, human smuggler, or international child abductor, to get in the way.

Let’s get back to the purported purpose of the bill, though: higher education for the children of illegal aliens. Obviously, the amnesty is limited to children (up to age 35) intending to pursue a higher education, right? Well, not quite. In order to be rewarded with a green card with no strings attached, an alien must complete one of the following:

1. A degree from a U.S. institution of higher education, or at least two years toward such a degree;

2. At least two years of military service and, if discharged, was honorably discharged; or

3. A list of each high school the alien attended in the United States. That’s right: instead of going to college, an alien can submit a list of the U.S. high schools he or she attended! Wow! What a country! Such lofty goals for the folks Speaker Pelosi recently suggested are “tak[ing] responsibility for our country’s future.”

The DREAM Act sets no numerical limits on how many illegal aliens may be granted amnesty, and they cannot be counted against the current annual green card limits. Furthermore, once granted permanent resident status, beneficiaries of the DREAM amnesty can become U.S. citizens and sponsor their relatives—the parents who brought them here illegally, any siblings left in the home country, and then aunts, uncles, cousins, and so on—for legal immigration to the United States under current chain migration laws. So all in all, this little bill to ensure that children can get a good education would quickly begin to rival the "one-time-only" amnesty of 1986, under which some three million illegal aliens and their spouses and children were given green cards, along with countless extended relatives.

Finally, just in case illegal aliens who come in the future feel left out, the DREAM Act has benefits for them, too (and there WILL be lots of future illegal aliens since amnesties always result in more illegal immigration and this bill does absolutely nothing to deter it). The DREAM Act would retroactively repeal the federal law that prohibits state colleges and universities from giving illegal aliens in-state tuition rates. The repeal would have two results: First, it would mean that each state would be free to decide whether to give in-state tuition slots to illegal aliens instead of to U.S. citizens and legal residents (after all, there is a set number of in-state tuition slots, so giving one to an illegal alien means one less for a citizen or legal resident). Second, it would nullify the various lawsuits that have been filed challenging those states that already have violated federal law by giving illegal aliens in-state tuition, so those states would get away with breaking the law with impunity. Now, there's a lesson we all want our children to learn, right?

For NumbersUSA's full analysis of the DREAM Act, see our Fact Sheet.

You can also visit the Proposed Bills page and look under Amnesty for updates on the DREAM Act.

For most of you, there are faxes on your Action Buffet to send to your Representatives urging them not to support the DREAM Act.

We knew it was coming!

http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=7560

Obama to Push Immigration Reform Bill

President reportedly plans to address the thorny issue of immigration reform this year, including searching for a way for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official says.

04-11-2009

Citizens for Immigration Reform

http://www.IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR)usa.org

We hope we can fill the van on both trips and that many of you will be able to come on your own.

Read attachment from IRCOT about the two hearings.

Trip # 1 - April 15th - Sanctuary City and suspension of licenses for business who knowingly hire illegal aliens legislation hearing in Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee.

This is a two for one trip: One of the Austin Tea Parties will be held on the Capitol steps at twelve noon. We can join the party!

• A 15 passenger van will be rented
• The cost will be $25 - We need a minimum of 10 riders
• Meeting place will be at Sam's parking lot at Coit Road and George Bush. We will leave the parking lot PROMPTLY at 6:00 a.m. (time may be adjusted)
• Reservations must be made no later than April 14th 9:00 a.m.
• RSVP to Q Coleman @ EventNet@verizon.net

Trip #2 - April 21st: House State Affairs Committee hearings:

• A 15 passenger van will be rented
• The cost will be $25. We need a minimum of 10 riders.
• Meeting place will be at the Farmers Branch Recreation Center
  • 14050 Heartside Place - Farmers Branch 75234
• Time of departure to be forthcoming
• Reservations must be made by Saturday, April 18th
• RSVP to Robin at  rb@dfwapts.com

04-12-2009

Time of Departure April 15th Trip Has Changed!

DEPARTURE TIME WILL BE PROMPTLY AT 4:30 A.M.

WE WILL NOT WAIT FOR LATE COMERS

Meet at Sam's Parking Lot at Coit Road and George Bush. 

Respond to Q Coleman at  EventNet@verizon.net 

to reserve your seat & for further information.

Reservations must be made by Tuesday, April 14th - 9:00 a.m.

$25 per person  We must have a minimum of 10 people

Do not reply to this email with your RSVP 

CAUTION:

The word is that ACORN operators will be at all Tea Parties to get signatures which they will give to Obama stating that the signatures are in support of his policies.  

If you attend a TEA party, BE CAUTIOUS THAT YOU  DO NOT sign anything you haven't read thoroughly.  Other groups masquerading as TEA party advocates will offer petitions but they are a ruse to find out just who is protesting against the government's wasteful spending bills. 

Homeland Security Secretary Can’t Say If Illegal Aliens Will Get Stimulus Money
(CNSNews.com) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday could not say whether $100-million in additional funding for a program that helps hungry and homeless people throughout the United States would be used to provide services to people who are in the country illegally. The Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which is receiving $100 million in stimulus funds, is a nationwide social service program created by Congress in 1983.

Advocate predicts immigration overhaul in speech at Southern Methodist University

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-muimmig_10met.ART.State.Edition1.4ab9a3d.html

By DIANNE SOLÍS / The Dallas Morning News
dsolis@dallasnews.com

An overhaul of the nation's immigration laws will gain renewed traction this fall but probably will be stripped of a temporary worker plan, predicted a veteran immigration-rights advocate in a speech at Southern Methodist University on Thursday.

Sheriff Arpaio:

"The more they come after me, the more illegal aliens I'm going to lock up" !!!

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=4245261&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRev
Url=http://www.foxnews.com/yourworld/index.html

04-14-2009

Tomorrow, Wednesday April 15th, the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee will hear Senator Dan Patrick's legislation that addresses:

• SB 357 -  the suspension of business licenses of those who knowlingly employ illegal aliens and
• SB 358 - the validity of state law that would compel sanctuary cities to comply with federal laws prohibiting such practices.

Both of these bills were given favorable opinions by the Texas Attorney General.

Please contact the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee Members and urge them to pass Senator Dan Patrick's legislation out of committee.

Chairman: John Corona     Tel 512-463-0116   Fax 512-463-3135

 Kirk Watson           512-463-0114      Fax   512-463-5949

Wendy Davis          512-463-1100      Fax   512-475-3745

Rodney Ellis           512-463-0113      Fax   512-475-3745

Joan Huffman         512-463-0117

Robert Nichols        512-463-0103

Florence Shapiro     512-463-0108       Fax  512-463-7579

Eliot Shapleigh       512-463-0129

Jeff Wentworth       512-463-0125       Fax  512-463-7794

Committee Office Number -  (512) 463-0067

email: firstname.lastname@senate.state.tx.us

Capitol Switchboard 512.463.4630

If the links do not work,  please copy and paste the web links  into your browser's address bar

DISTURBING REPORT: Department of Homeland Security Document

http://images.logicsix.com/DHS_RWE.pdf 

 http://www.worldnetdaily.com:80/?pageId=94803

WASHINGTON – A newly unclassified Department of Homeland Security report warns against the possibility of violence by unnamed "right-wing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty and singles out returning war veterans as particular threats.

(Mike Gallagher, talk show host on KSKY 660 am said this morning that the White House is trying to distance themselves from this report.)

04-16-2009

State Elections Committee Hearing - April 20th

Call the Committee Members and urge them to vote out of committee the following bills:

HB 208 relating to the cancellation of voter registration and to the eligibility to vote of persons who are deceased or not citizens of the United States.

HB 835 relating to requiring a candidate for public office to provide proof of citizenship

Office Committee number is (512) 463-0772

Capitol Switchboard: (512) 463-4630 

Committee Members are:

Representatives Todd Smith (Chairman), Alma Pena, Rafael Anchia, Dwayne Bohac, Dennis Bonnen, Betty Brown, Linda Harper-Brown, and  Joe Heflin

April 21st - 2:00p.m. House State Affairs Committee Hearing:

(see list of bills below)

Departure Time:  9:30 a.m.

Farmers Branch Recreation Center on Tuesday

14050 Heartside Place - Farmers Branch 75234

We need a minimum of 7 people to rent transportation

Cost will be determined based on rider response

We need to have reservations by Sat. the 18th - 12:00 p.m..

RSVP to Robin at  rb@dfwapts.com

If you can't go for the hearing,  call the members and urge them to vote these bills out of committee:

Capitol Switchboard - (512) 463-4630

Committee office - (512) 463-0814

Committee Members:

Rep. Burt R. Solomons,   Rep. Jose Menendez,   Rep. Byron Cook,   Rep. Tom Craddick,  

Rep. David Farabee,   Rep. Pete Gallego,   Rep. Charlie Geren,   Rep. Patricia Harless,  

Rep. Harvey Hilderbran,   Rep. Delwin Jones,   Rep. Eddie Lucio III,   Rep. Diana Maldonado,  Rep. Rene Oliveira,   Rep. David Swinford,   Rep. Sylvester Turner

HB 48
Relating to the suspension of certain licenses held by employers for the knowing employment of persons not lawfully present in the United States. - Rep. Debbie Riddle
HB 276
Relating to the requirement that state agencies report the cost of services and benefits provided to unlawful immigrants - Rep. John Zerwas

HB 404
Relating to the enforcement of state and federal laws governing immigration by certain governmental entities.  Rep. Patricia Harless - companion bill to Senator Dan Patrick's sanctuary city legislation that had a hearing on Wed., April 15th.

HB 1061
Relating to the requirement of citizenship or lawful presence in the United States for issuance or renewal of certain occupational licenses, driver's licenses, and identification certificates.

Rep. Jim Jackson

Notice of Public Hearing:

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/schedules/html/C4502009042114001.HTM

04-24-2009

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1334099.html

Euless rep says voter ID bill will prevent fraud, boost voter participation

AUSTIN — After hearing hours of testimony and poring through reams of research, House Elections Committee Chairman Todd Smith says he is crafting a voter identification bill designed to both strengthen protections against potential voter fraud and increase voter turnout.

The bill, which the Euless Republican said he plans to unveil in the next week or two, is likely to track a key provision of a Senate-passed bill, which would require voters to present either a photo ID or two forms of a non-photo identification, Smith said

http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov:80/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=122943

Rep. Culberson Seeks Cosponsors for a Resolution Expressing Disapproval of a Totalization Agreement between the United States and Mexico


 

Washington, Apr 20 - Since 1978, the U.S. has entered into 20 totalization agreements with other countries, which allow the U.S. Social Security program to coordinate with comparable programs in other countries.  On June 29, 2004, the Social Security Administration signed a totalization agreement with Mexico.  The agreement is now being reviewed by the State Department and the White House.  Once approved, Congress will have 60 days to vote for or against the agreement.  If Congress does not act within 60 days, the agreement will automatically become law.  Because Mexicans represent a large share of non-citizens in the U.S., this immeasurable cost could place an unbearable strain on our Social Security system.

http://www.bibdaily.com

ICE nominee: I’ll focus on employers, not immigrants
"President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to target unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants by stepping up prosecutions and civil fines against them — rather than the people they hire. John Morton, a career federal prosecutor, said in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that the administration also plans to eventually require mandatory use of the online E-Verify database to enable employers to check the immigration status of new hires." Houston Chronicle, Apr. 22, 2009. 

04-27-2009

TEXAS LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

HCR 50 - Passed out of Committee
Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.

HB 263 - Ways and Means Committee Hearing:

Relating to the imposition of a fee for money transmissions sent to certain destinations outside the United States.
4/29/2009 H Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Fee for money transmissions to certain destinations out US  - Berman

Senate OKs bill cracking down on gang activity

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/DN-gangs_25tex.ART.State.Edition1.4a8681a.html

AUSTIN – Legislation aimed at cracking down on criminal street gangs in Texas – covering everything from graffiti to firearms smuggling – was approved Friday by the Senate and sent to the House.

http://www.amarillo.com/stories/042709/new_news12.shtml

Eye on Austin: Voter-ID debate nears head

Sometime this week Texas House Elections Committee chairman Todd Smith expects to send a voter-identification bill to the chamber's Calendars Committee, the panel that decides what bills go to the House floor for a vote.

IRCOT funded a study (released last week) to update the cost to Texas for our illegal alien population.  It  was featured in the latest edition of the online newsletter, TexasInsider and can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=8243  Please forward and consider making comments!

Houston Chronicle's article about the IRCOT study

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6390276.html

Please forward this article to your lists and ask them to read it and then log on to comment on the Houston Chronicle web page.   

Our opposition made the expected FALSE statements: 
They don't access public services;
They pay enough income tax to offset services they receive;
They offset costs of services they receive due to payment of taxes via rent;

IN REALITY: 

They daily access entitlement programs intended for citizens due to their use of fraudulent documents AND most of the people in charge of authorizing their access to such programs allow them to use it without adequate documentation;

Most of them pay little (if any) income tax and most receive EIC payments;

The biggest burden to taxpayers is through payment of property taxes to fund education &  the inclusion of "renters" in the rebuttal is really a pathetic reach. 

Rebecca Forest
President
Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas (IRCOT)
www.ircot.com

 http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3793

U.S. Senate hearing on CIR
"Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?” - Senate Judiciary Committee; Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship; hearing will be webcast; DATE: April 30, 2009; TIME: 02:30 PM (Eastern) 01:30 PM (Central)

U.S. House of Representatives

The House is expected to vote on H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, this coming Wednesday, April 29th

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) attempted to offer an amendment to the hate crimes bill during its markup in committee this week.  His amendment would have designated crimes committed by illegal aliens against American citizens as “hate crimes.”  Unfortunately, the Democrat majority would not allow consideration of the amendment.

Should Congress pass the 'Dream Act' to help children of illegal immigrants?

http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/1161045.html

http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=4056884

Arrests of border agents on the rise

By RICK JERVIS April 24, 2009

A rising number of border enforcement officers are being arrested on corruption charges as Mexican drug cartels look to bribes as a way to get around tougher enforcement, border officials say.

Investigators arrested 21 Customs and Border Protection officers on corruption charges in the fiscal year that ended last September, up from eight in the previous 12 months, according to CBP. This year, 14 have been arrested.

Since 2004, 84 officers have been arrested and 62 were convicted, says James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner for internal affairs at CBP, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. That number represents a small fraction of the more than 52,000 people employed by the agency, which enforces U.S. law along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.

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