Immigration on the Southern Border of the USA

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In the last six months, agents in the Tucson, Ariz., sector reported an assault every two days, and nine shootings — twice as many as in the same period last year. And while no agent has been killed, the danger underscores the high-stakes game played out daily on the 2,000-mile Mexican border (search), with millions of dollars on the line.

And with Mexico openly helping its citizens cross the U.S. border, lax U.S. immigration policy (search) encouraging illegals to come and the lure of easy money from drugs, border agents know the problem is one they're going to need to get used to.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148728,00.html

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Is there a hispanic board here ? la cockaroaches ?

American Family Immigration History Center ... 168.4.54 Enter immigrant's name here: First Name(Optional) Last Name Inscribe a name on the American
Immigration Wall of Honor at Ellis Island. Find Out More Join the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island ...
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
[See more pages from this site!] [Sneak-a-Peek]

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Is there a hispanic board here ? la cockaroaches ?

American Family Immigration History Center ... 168.4.54 Enter immigrant's name here: First Name(Optional) Last Name Inscribe a name on the American
Immigration Wall of Honor at Ellis Island. Find Out More Join the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island ...
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
[See more pages from this site!] [Sneak-a-Peek]

Is there a Portugese board there?

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http://www.amren.com/0101issue/C-VIVA!.GIF

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Rancher George Morin, who raises cattle along the Arizona border, has had several run-ins with illegal aliens near his property.

"I woke up real early in the morning, went over to the little dike right here behind the house, and there was about 600 people in the tank there," Morin said. "So I stood there and looked at them and got ahold of the Border Patrol and they actually loaded three Greyhound buses."

"The rest of the people were running off like quail," he added. "It was just insanity."

Morin added that not every run-in has been nonviolent. Two of his dogs were killed by illegal aliens; one had its head cracked open with a stick, and the other one was poisoned, he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150520,00.html

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Many police officials in states along the U.S.-Mexican border say they are fed up with the number of illegal aliens populating American prisons, many of them incarcerated for violent crimes such as murder, rape and robbery.

Almost one in six inmates in Arizona, for example, is a Mexican citizen.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150638,00.html

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Overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration (search), public health care in Los Angeles is on life support.

Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens. More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms because they can't afford to see a doctor.

According to the State Association of Hospitals (search), California's public health system is "on the brink of collapse." In Los Angeles County, patients can wait four days for a hospital bed and up to two years for gallbladder surgery.

"The hospitals are closing because of the totality of the uninsured," said Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, director of the Los Angeles County Health Department (search). "If you're legally a resident in California and you're poor, you have a right to basic services."

But some critics say the taxpayers can't be the HMO (search) to the world. Last year, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured; that's roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150750,00.html

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152557,00.html


American Civil Liberties Union (search) and some Hispanic organizations are keeping an eye on the Minutemen, fearing they will violate the individuals' human rights.

"They're coming into Arizona with guns and they're threatening violence and harming people," said a protester.



TOMBSTONE, Ariz. — More than a thousand Americans have descended on a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border.



Smugglers tell the Mexican press that crossing in the area where the Minutemen are patroling is now impossible and they have to go elsewhere or wait 30 days until the Minutemen are gone.

About 66,000 illegal immigrants were caught last month in one area where the Minutemen were offering back-up patrol. At that rate, the equivalent of the population of Indianapolis would be apprehended over a year.



:add23: And coming soon, passports will be required to enter the United States form Canada, and Mexico...Hmmmmm?

[Alli]

From what I've read (posted an article earlier), the *vigilantes* as Senor bush calls them, are doing their "jobs' in and orderly fashion.

[Cali/Yank]

From what I've read (posted an article earlier), the *vigilantes* as Senor bush calls them, are doing their "jobs' in and orderly fashion.

They have maintained a level of civility, and are just wacthing the border, it is our right. they have done something the Government is to enept to address.

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LOS ANGELES — Department of Homeland Security officials call criminal alien gangs a dangerous epidemic, but cities like Los Angeles have not allowed police officers to ask gang members, even those known to be in the United States illegally, about their immigration status.

"Illegal aliens may not be touched by LAPD officers unless that officer has a federal warrant in hand," said Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute (search).

Other cities have the same policy, so-called "sanctuary laws" that bar local law enforcement departments from enforcing federal immigration law.

"We think the order, as it is, is a guarantee that the civil rights of the citizens and residents of this city are protected," said Salvador Sanabria, of El Rescate (search), a grassroots, non-profit group that provides immigration legal services in Los Angeles.

But Los Angeles and nearby Orange County are now rethinking their policies to allow cops to arrest deported felons who return illegally.
"We're going to be able to take these men and women off the streets for the federal felony of re-entering the United States illegally before they commit another crime," said Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona

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RICO Laws Becoming the Last Resort of American Workers


January 6, 2004

http://www.fairus.org/media/media.cfm?id=2338&c=34


Facing Onslaught of Illegal Aliens in the Work Place
(January 6, 2004 -- Washington, DC) A lawsuit being filed today in Rome, Georgia, against Mohawk Industries Inc., is an indictment of the federal government’s refusal to enforce laws against the employment of illegal aliens as much as it is of the company itself, says the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). With federal enforcement of employer sanctions laws – meant to protect American workers against unfair competition from illegal aliens – virtually nonexistent, American workers are being forced to seek relief in the courts under the RICO statutes.

The suit is being brought by four current and former employees of Mohawk Industries, one of the largest carpet manufacturers in the nation. The plaintiffs contend that Mohawk has engaged in a pattern and practice of knowingly hiring illegal aliens, thereby depressing the wages of thousands of U.S. citizens and legal resident aliens. In accepting documentation they knew to be false, as well as hiring numerous workers using the same name, and rehiring the same workers under different names, the company has violated the letter and spirit of the federal anti-racketeering statutes, claim the plaintiffs.



Posted on Thu, Apr. 14, 2005

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/11396160.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Navy contract workers found to be illegal immigrants

ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press

SAN DIEGO - More than half of a small military contractor's 167 employees are illegal immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. Eighteen men were arrested, all but one of them Mexican.

An audit of hiring records showed 86 employees of Naval Coating Inc. don't have permission to work in the United States, the department said. The company paints ships at Naval Station San Diego. Most of its employees have security badges to enter the base that is home to more than 50 ships.

Agents confiscated eight fake Social Security cards and six phony alien registration cards during pre-dawn raids at the men's homes.

The ink on some of the confiscated cards was smudged and difficult to read, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division.

Some had misspellings. One phony Social Security card read: "Contac your local Social Security office for any other matter regar"

The sting is part of a 17-month-old probe in San Diego and Imperial counties to clamp down on immigration violations at military bases, airports and other sensitive workplaces. Authorities have examined employment records at more than 500 companies and made more than 150 arrests.

Naval Coating is striking because so many of its workers were found to be in the country illegally. The San Diego company has not been fined or charged with any crimes, but Homeland Security said it continues to investigate.

"It raises some red flags," Mack said. "How did so many get by without being detected in the hiring procedures?"

A woman who answered the telephone at Naval Coating said the company had no comment. She declined to give her name or make anyone else available.

Homeland Security began reviewing the company's hiring records about four weeks ago, Mack said. Employers are required to ask for identification and proof of the right to work, but they do not have to verify the credentials with the government.

An alien registration card - or "green card" - is enough proof to get a job. A Social Security card also works if the employee has a government-issued identification card, such as a driver's license.

Capt. Jacquie Yost, a Navy spokeswoman, said contractors are required to follow certain steps to verify employment. She said authorities were investigating whether Naval Coatings adhered to them.

The 17 Mexicans and one Guatemalan arrested will be placed in deportation proceedings or voluntarily return to their countries, Homeland Security said. Two were previously deported, including one who was convicted for smuggling drugs.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153972,00.html

LOS ANGELES — America's borders with Canada and Mexico stretch more than 6,000 miles. Border Patrol agents are often outnumbered by illegal immigrants and smugglers 100 to one.

"What they'll do is sit out there with spotters and observe us with binoculars," said Chuck Albrecht, a Border Patrol (search) agent. "They'll communicate with each other with cell phones and radios and report to each other when they feel the coast is clear to cross the border."

To help even the odds, the Department of Homeland Security (search) has deployed a vast network of cameras and underground sensors that allow technicians to direct field agents to breaches in security.

But a new government audit says the $240 million system is flawed. At any given time, 20 percent of the surveillance equipment simply doesn't work.

"If those cameras are not working, then people and contraband coming over that border are not gonna get caught," said former Border Patrol bureau chief Carey James.

The Connecticut-based contractor that created and installed the system — International Microwave Co., since bought by L-3 Government Services Inc. (search) of Chantilly, Va. — cut corners and overcharged taxpayers, according to the report.

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Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas (United and Active Women), an organization of immigrant women sponsored by the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, protest an immigration raid at the Mediacopy plant in San Leandro. Their sign says "immigration agents out of our workplace."

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Mercedes Sanchez
Mercedes Sanchez, a Mediacopy worker, and her husband at a rally in front of the factory. After a big immigration raid at the plant, she became a leader in the effort to organize a union there, in spite of the anti-union intimidation campaign waged by the company and anti-union consultants. Her sign says "stop the raids."



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http://www.azteca.net/aztec/aztecabook.shtml
Here is today's comment, I hope I find someone who shares this toughts I grew up in Mexico, today I am a naturalized us citizen, every day 3 persons die trying to cross the border trought the desert, this is real people, let's do something about it, the border patrol has minimal guilt in this let's put the blame of this deaths in the mexican" government who pushes its own people to its own death and does nothing to stop it, in the meantime the rich class in mexico enjoys the benefits of the money trough taxes and bribes we the true mexicans sent. any comments on the subject are apprecciated on this great website.

[Ono]

Try this in Mexico:

Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas,
international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care
for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc...

Procreate abundantly.

Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive
behavior with, "It is a cultural United States thing. You would not
understand, pal."

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop,
or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.
Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children
do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a local Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal
rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal, presence
in Mexico.

Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its
officers.

Good luck! You'll be demanding for the rest of time or soon dead.
Because it will never happen. It will not happen in Mexico or any other
country in the world... Except right here... Land of the naive.

If you don't, go ahead and try the above in Mexico.

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LA DEMONSTRATORS BLOCK CAR OF GEN. TOMMY FRANKS

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/125382.php

LOS ANGELES SCHOOL IS SITE OF DRAMATIC CONFRONTATION General Franks, attempting to leave the school in an SUV with tinted windows, was totally blocked by protesters who climbed onto the hood and body of the car and blocked his departure with banners, signs and their own bodies. it remained immobilized in the middle of the street.

DEMONSTRATORS BLOCK CAR OF GEN. TOMMY FRANKS;
LOS ANGELES SCHOOL IS SITE OF DRAMATIC CONFRONTATION
by don white
LOS ANGELES [April 19, 2005] A small but militant
group of anti-war protesters confronted retired Iraqi
war general Tommy Franks this morning as he left a
student assembly at Logan Street Elementery School in
the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
General Franks, attempting to leave the school in an
SUV with tinted windows, was totally blocked by
protesters who climbed onto the hood and body of the
car and blocked his departure with banners, signs and
their own bodies. "War criminal! Murderer of the Iraqi
People!" and other chants were directed at the car as
it remained immobilized in the middle of the street.
Parents and community people, outraged by the
appearance of the general, joined in the direct
confrontation which came as the vehicle was leaving
campus. A father whose son was killed in the Iraqi
war reported after the episode, "I looked Franks right
in the eye and told him he killed my boy." Veterans
of the Iraqi war also reported that they were able to
see into the lightly tinted windows and address Franks
with their comments.
Protesters were nudged by the driver but no injuries
and no arrests took place. Police made an exit route
for the general's car. The protest, called and organized in a three-hour
time frame, came about when parents, teachers and
community members learned of the appearance of General
Franks at the school. The school's administration and
Los Angeles Unified School District officials kept the
appearance a secret from the community.
"We had no idea this was going to happen," a veteran
teacher told reporters. A parent commented, "I didn't
know a military man was speaking to our children
today; we should have been told," she told KNX Radio
News in an interview. Many parents, speaking in
Spanish, told protesters they did not like the idea of
the military being on campus promoting that option to
their young people.
Logan Street is a grade school in a working class,
heavily immigrant community just west of downtown Los
Angeles. The general was brought to the campus by a
non-profit pro-military foundation which arranges
celebrity appearances.
The school was in full lockdown as demonstrators
arrived at 11:00 a.m. No community people were
allowed on campus and signs indicating a press
conference were at main entrances.
About 25 loud and lively demonstrators carried signs
and banners with various messages:
---NO GENERALS TEACHING WAR; TEACH PEACE
---DON'T RECRUIT OUR FIFTH GRADERS FOR THE WAR
---ROTC AND GENERALS OFF CAMPUS
---LOGAN STREET HAS SOLD OUT ITS STUDENTS
and other protest signs. Several organizations in the
peace movement sent representatives and community
people joined the activity. Los Angeles Unified District police threatened to
take one protester into custody if she did not provide
her name and personal information. After a lengthy
exchange she did so under protest. Logan Street
vice-principal had reported, "She twice requested to
come on campus and we are afraid she will disrupt."
The protester denied she did anything illegal or
provocative and a legal observer from the National
Lawyer's Guild said an inquiry would probably be made
at school district headquarters.
The situation grew tense when protesters angrily
confronted administrators at the school for providing
General Franks as a role model for fifth graders. The
event ended shortly after General Franks left the
campus.



CISPES
Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador
8124 West 3rd Street L.A. Ca. 90048
323-852-0721
Founded: 1980 - 25 Years of Solidarity

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Eleventh March for Zapata in East LA
Sunday, April 10th, 2005


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Isn't that special.....

And look there's a Mcdonalds in the background :add09:

[Cali/Yank]

Slow down on the cheeseburgers, Chief...


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[Cali/Yank]

Keep fiddling people, while Rome Burns....
Photograph showing a billboard ad for a Spanish-language TV newscast in L.A. on which the "CA" abbreviation after "Los Angeles" has been crossed out and the word "Mexico" added in its place.


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Thanks to these fine upstanding CEO's we have quality programming for the Mexican National ...Right here in Rivercity ...


Liberman Broadcasting, Inc.1845 W. Empire Ave.
Burbank, CA 91504
Company Web Site Phone: 818-563-5722
Fax: 818-567-1062

If you prefer el radio to emit español, then turn to the Libermans. Liberman Broadcasting owns and operates 16 Spanish-language radio stations and four Spanish-language television stations in California and Texas. The company also owns television production facilities in Dallas, Houston, and Burbank, California. Father-and-son team Jose and Lenard Liberman founded Liberman Broadcasting in 1987 and own more than 95% of the company.




IPO Information
Status: TBA
Filing Date: Feb 12, 2004

Proposed Offer Price: $15.00 to $15.00

Shares Offered (mil.): 11.05
Offering Amount (mil.): $165.80
Post-Offering Shares (mil.): 48.04

Underwriters:
Credit Suisse First Boston LLC; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.; UBS Securities LLC; Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.; CIBC World Markets Corp.; SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2004/08/going_extreme_t.php

Jerry Seper, Washington Times, Aug. 18


A popular new reality TV show offers illegal aliens a chance to win the services of a law firm to gain a “green card”—if the contestants are willing to, among other things, eat a worm-stuffed taco.

With an estimated audience of 1 million viewers, the program—known as “Gana la Verde” or “Win the Green”—has become the second most watched Spanish-language television show by Hispanics 18 to 49 in the Los Angeles area.

Show winners are guaranteed the services of a noted immigration attorney for a year to apply for a government-issued green card, which gives them the right to work and permanently reside in the United States. The show’s producers, Liberman Broadcasting Corp., do not guarantee a card will be issued, only that a law firm will be hired to seek one.

Liberman Broadcasting introduces each show with a video overview of six contestants battling for the green card through a maze of barbed wire along the U.S.-Mexico border, with U.S. Border Patrol helicopters shown overhead.

The prime-time program, which began in July, runs five times a week, during which contestants fight off barking dogs, eat burritos filled with beetles, jump between speeding 18-wheel trucks, are dragged by horses, wash windows on a downtown skyscraper, lie in a sealed plastic coffin with 500 rats and eat worms, including live tequila worms—much like the NBC show “Fear Factor.”

In a recent broadcast, a 24-year-old electrician who identified himself only as Roberto said he had lived illegally in the United States for four years. He tried to cross a narrow wooden beam over grimy, muck-filled water at the Port of Los Angeles. He fell.

“I was here to get my papers,” he said. “But I lost.”

In an Aug. 11 letter to KRCA-TV, the Los Angeles station that airs the program, several groups, including the Southern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the California La Raza Lawyers Association, asked that the show be canceled.

They charged that the program encouraged foreign nationals to enter the country illegally and was exploiting people with “unrealistic expectations.”


http://www.ncavp.org/media/MediaReleaseDetail.aspx?p=1217&d=1277

February 18, 2005

LOS ANGELES - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and a coalition of diverse local and national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organizations today called on Spanish-language media group Liberman Broadcasting Corporation to stop promoting physical violence against and verbal abuse of LGBT people on its television shows "José Luis Sin Censura" and "El Show de María Laria" (which recently stopped production but whose defamatory past episodes continue to be frequently aired by Liberman) and its popular Los Angeles radio show "Los Guapos de la Mañana."

On the TV shows, audience members are allowed to get up from their seats to attack the guests, slap them, punch them, and drag beaten panelists across the stage. The shows also broadcast audience members' use of defamatory epithets such as "puñales," "joto," "maricón" [all three of which translate as "faggot"] and "marimacha" [dyke], and other offensive comments such as "All gays have AIDS." The "Los Guapos de la Mañana" radio program regularly features a transgender female character who discusses celebrity gossip while "Simón," a song about a gay man who dies of AIDS, is played in the background.

To watch clips from "José Luis Sin Censura" and "El Show de María Laria" and to listen to defamatory segments on "Los Guapos de la Mañana," visit here

GLAAD, NCAVP and the coalition are calling on Liberman to immediately stop promoting anti-gay violence and verbal abuse on its programming, and to meet with GLAAD and other coalition members to discuss ways to create fair, accurate and inclusive media representations of LGBT people and issues. The coalition member groups have published a joint Call to Action for their members and constituents to make their voices heard and express their concerns and expectations directly to Liberman.

GLAAD met in August with Miguel Banojian, producer of the two television shows, and José Luis Gonzalez, host of "José Luis Sin Censura," to discuss the show's promotion of anti-LGBT violence and to set up future meetings on the issue. At that meeting, Banojian and Gonzalez promised to eliminate verbal and physical abuse of LGBT people on their shows. Since January, however, the violence depicted on these shows has escalated, and GLAAD has repeatedly requested -- through Liberman Vice President of Corporate Relations Andrew Mars -- another meeting with Liberman executives. Mars and other Liberman representatives have refused to respond to those requests.


Enjoy............

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154961,00.html

WASHINGTON — Thousands of illegal immigrants have obtained driver's licenses in three states, federal authorities said Thursday, highlighting a security hole that the Sept. 11 hijackers exploited.

Three employees of Florida's motor vehicles agency were among 52 people arrested in a bribery scam that put driver's licenses in the hands of at least 2,000 illegal immigrants, officials said. The case, announced Thursday, follows similar arrests in Michigan and Maryland over the past week.

"With a valid driver's license, you establish an identity," said Michael Garcia (search), assistant secretary of the Homeland Security Department (search).

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154957,00.html

DANBURY, Conn. — This middle-class New England suburb is nowhere near an international border but it still has the illegal immigration problems familiar to cities like San Diego and Tucson, Ariz.

Mayor Mark Boughton (search) blames the government for his town's inability to cope with 15,000 illegal immigrants, approximately 19 percent of the overall population.

The mayor says he wants state police officers to be deputized as federal immigration officers — giving them access to a federal database and helping them track illegal immigrants. But Connecticut's attorney general said Boughton needs the approval of the governor and others before that can happen.

Boughton has set up a task force to inspect neighborhoods that have received a lot of complaints about buildings housing illegal immigrants. In one home, the task force found 30 cots in the basement, each one being rented for $5 a night.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154740,00.html

As with the original travel advisory, the repeat warning on Tuesday angered Mexicans. The update blamed the continuing violence in Mexican border cities on turf battles between drug gangs but noted that was in part the result of Mexico's success in locking up cartel leaders.

"Imprecisions and generalizations that hurt the spirit of cooperation in law enforcement and the fight against organized crime should be avoided," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement that also promised to investigate crimes against Americans in the border region.

The U.S. announcement includes a new warning that U.S. citizens have been among the homicide victims.

The warning singles out the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo (search), across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.

More than 30 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped or murdered in the past eight months in that city. Daytime shootouts are not uncommon. And in one case, guns were fired on one of the Rio Grande (search) bridges linking Nuevo Laredo to Texas. In some cases assailants killed U.S. citizens near busy shopping areas and within blocks of those bridges.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.calborderpolice.com/news/read/?id=14518

Immigration hurts American workers, lawmaker says
New arrivals account for all job growth in U.S. from 2000 to 2004, studies report

May 5, 2005
By: Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
San Francisco Chronicle

Washington -- Lawmakers looking to reduce immigration turned their attention Wednesday to the slow job market, highlighting two studies concluding that newly arrived immigrants have filled all net new U.S. jobs created since 2000.

Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee panel on immigration and border security, called the results astounding and said immigration -- legal and illegal -- was hurting American workers.

The study results were sharply disputed by other experts, but even supporters of immigration in both parties found themselves on the defensive over continuing large flows of undocumented workers across the U.S. border with Mexico.

[Cali/Yank]

THE CALIFORNIA BORDER POLICE ACT



SECTION 1 Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the “California Border Police Act.”

SECTION 2 Findings and Declarations

a) The federal government has not succeeded in stopping the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.

b) California is home to almost 3 million illegal immigrants, with thousands more crossing the border every month.

c) The people have a right to expect that our immigration laws will be enforced.

d) Illegal immigration harms both citizens and non-citizen legal immigrants and costs California taxpayers nearly $9 billion every year.

e) Over crowded schools and hospital emergency rooms are two of the byproducts of the failure of the federal government to enforce immigration laws.

f) California’s prisons house approximately 48,000 illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the state, at a cost of almost $1.4 billion annually.

SECTION 3 Article XXXVI of the California Constitution is added, to read:

SEC. 1 (a) The people of the State of California find and declare that illegal immigration poses a grave and imminent danger to the security of the State and its residents.

(b) Therefore, the people of the State of California declare that the influx of illegal immigrants into the state in violation of United States immigration laws constitutes a state of emergency in the State.

(c) The Secretary of State shall, at the first statewide general election falling at least 10 years after the election at which this article was adopted, and at the statewide general election every fourth year thereafter, place upon the ballot a measure to determine whether the state of emergency declared pursuant to this section shall continue in effect. If a majority of the votes voting on the issue at that election vote to maintain the state of emergency, the declaration of emergency shall continue in effect for another four years. If a majority of voters voting on the issue at that election do not vote to maintain the state of emergency, the declaration of emergency shall become inoperative, and this article shall be repealed, on the day after the date of the certification of the election.

SEC. 2. (a) The Division of Homeland Security Assistance, Homeland Security Program, also to be known as the California Border Police, is hereby established in the Office of Emergency Services or its successor, under the direction of the Director of the Office of Emergency Services or his or her successor, or his or her designee.

(b) The California Border Police shall assist the federal government in enforcing the laws of the United States pertaining to immigration within the borders of the State.

(c) In assisting the federal government pursuant to subdivision (b), the California Border Police may arrest any individual in violation of applicable federal immigration laws, and hold any individual who has entered this State in violation of those laws until the federal government takes possession of the individual.

(d) The California Border Police may hire, train, and deploy sufficient personnel to perform its duties.

(e) The California Border Police may utilize any state or local facility, and construct and operate any other facilities, including jails, prisons, or other correctional facilities, that the Director of the Office of Emergency Services or his or her successor, or his or her designee, determines are necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section.

(f) All authority granted to the Office of Emergency Services, or its successor, and to the Director of the Office of Emergency Services, or his or her successor, under state law with respect to the use of state or local resources, or the provisions of services during a state of emergency or otherwise, shall extend to the use of state or local resources for the provision of services under this section.

(g) The Office of Emergency Services, or its successor, shall use existing preparedness or response plans, or devise appropriate plans and procedures, in the most expedient manner necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section. The Director of the Office of Emergency Services, or his or her successor, or his or her designee, shall coordinate the parties to the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aide Agreement, or any successor agreement, and utilize all other resources available through mutual aid agreements, as appropriate to accomplish the purposes of this section.

(h) The authority of the California Border Police and the Office of Emergency Services, or its successor, in implementing these provisions shall be construed as liberally as possible to effectuate the purposes of this section. It is the intent of the people of the State that sufficient resources be devoted to the accomplishment of the purposes of this section.

SECTION 4 If any provision of this Act, or part thereof, or the application of this Act to any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this measure that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this measure are severable.

[Cali/Yank]

February 25, 2005


New Study: Immigrants Cost U.S. $70 Billion


"The net effect of immigration to the United States is a drain on U.S. native workers of about $70 billion per year, according to a new study by two Columbia University professors and the Center for Immigration Studies," the Washington Times reports. "The authors said it doesn't matter whether the immigrants are legal or illegal. They urged further study on the matter, acknowledging there may be other direct or indirect factors not considered by their analysis."




February 25, 2005


Illegal Aliens Use Fake ID's to Get FHA Loans, Guaranteed by the Taxpayer


"More Americans are homeowners than ever before thanks in part to government-backed loans that help young homeowners get into their first house. But with a government system so focused on homes sales, is any agency checking to make sure that undocumented immigrants are prevented from getting such loans? Who is verifying identification?," asks ABC TV in Denver. "How is it that an undocumented immigrant can use a phony Social Security number to get a government-backed loan to buy property in Colorado? 7NEWS Investigator John Ferrugia has been tracking cases involving Federal Housing Administration loans and said the homeland security implications are dramatic. With phony documents, terrorists or drug dealers can launder money, set up sleeper cells, or support smuggling operations in residential communities anywhere in the state. 7NEWS' has found that there is no government agency that has responsibility to verify the identities of anyone buying real estate."

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.saveourstate.org/Images/baldwinpark1.jpg http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=94822

(Baldwin Park, CA) - SaveOurState.org demands that the city of Baldwin Park immediately remove seditious anti-American language (pictures below) from the “Danzas Indigenas” monument located at the Baldwin Park Commuter Rail Station. Taxpayer funded and situated on public land, the monument promotes the radical and militant belief in the “reconquista of Aztlan.” One passage on the monument laments the presence of whites in America by stating, “It was better before they came.” The most offensive passage is a quote from Gloria Anzaldua, which reads:

“This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, And will be again.”

Californians are tired of radical revisionist history and militant separatist rhetoric calling for the return of the Southwestern United States to Mexico as proclaimed by radical organizations like Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). SaveOurState.org proudly stands in opposition to this propaganda.

Californians are tired of watching their communities turn into Third World cesspools as a result of a massive invasion of illegal aliens. Joseph Turner, Executive Director of SaveOurState.org responds:

http://www.saveourstate.org/Images/baldwinpark3.jpg

Baldwin Park Monument Protest Metrolink Station 3875 Downing Ave Baldwin Park, CA 91706

Saturday, May 14th Noon - 2 PM

"Please bring Amerian and California flags. Also feel free to bring some signs, although I will probably have a few to pass out.

The police department, which is two blocks away as I understand it, has been contacted and encouraged to show their presence".

[Alli]

Alien flees after cop dies :mad:
By Valerie Richardson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

DENVER -- An illegal alien from Mexico who worked in a restaurant co-owned by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was the target of an international manhunt yesterday as the prime suspect in the shooting death of a police officer.
Raul Garcia-Gomez, 19, is suspected of shooting two Denver police officers at about 1 a.m. Sunday after they refused to let him re-enter a baptismal party. Detective Donald Young, 44, died at the scene after being shot from behind three times in the back and head.

more (http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050511-113439-9976r.htm)

[Cali/Yank]

http://swarmtheminutemen.com/

Enough is enough.

We reject everything about the minutemen. The minutemen function and exist when the rest of us, the vast majority of us, remain silent. Even in an environment of fear and uncertainty we all know that immigrants are not the reason for America's problems, nor should they be the powerless scapegoat. Because the vast majority of us look upon slavery, japanese interment and manifest destiny as sick, tragic pages in our history, we have no tolerance for these hyper-patriotic bigots, masquerading as virtuous citizens. It is our intention to resist, sabotage, and destroy this project before it gets any farther down this road of organized hate and violence.




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Have a pleasent day.



Pleading the fifth amendment, while openly calling for serious confrontation against people who have not shown any violence, just a concern over a porous border, and the right of a Soveign Nation to live with in it's laws, and councils. If you want bring up Irag start another thread.

And in response to a certain lenghty, email sent to the "MInutemen"


Dear Communist/Anarchist/Criminal Reactionary aka "Randy",

Be advised that such contrived, malicious action will lead to prosecution under the RICO, or similar, statutes. Also, you, and your gang members will be held civilly liable for injuries or damages inflicted upon any Minuteman/woman or child volunteer. Yes, we have lawyers, too. And much to your chagrin, we also have civil rights.

Actually, your threat in itself is an illegal act. The Federal Communications Commission will be very interested in your felonious plans to "jam" United States communication air waves. Also, anti-spamming laws will conflict with your deliberate attempt to bring down a company's fax, telephone, or other communications systems.

Your attempt to deprive Americans of their civil rights proves that racism, bigotry and fascism comes in ALL races, colors and creeds. Are you a member of Al Qaeda? Or, are you just a small-time domestic terrorist?

Thank you for providing me with this information. It is being forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. It is the policy of The Minuteman Project to operate within the law to support enforcement of the law. The rule of law should apply to our adversaries, as well.

James Gilchrist - Founder - The Minuteman Project

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bribes13may13,0,5062731.story?coll=la-home-headlines




U.S. Soldiers, Law Officers Snared in Border Drug Sting
By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer


A brazen conspiracy among U.S. law enforcement officers and soldiers to smuggle cocaine from Mexico was disclosed Thursday by the Justice Department, adding to concerns that public corruption north of the border was growing.

Wearing uniforms and even driving U.S. military vehicles, 16 suspects were caught in a sting run by an FBI-led task force. Eleven entered guilty pleas Thursday in Tucson; the other five have agreed to do so soon.


One federal inspector waved trucks he believed were carrying drugs across the border from Mexico to the U.S., according to the FBI. In another case, a group of the defendants used Army National Guard Humvees to transport 132 pounds of cocaine from a desert landing strip to a resort hotel in Phoenix, where they received cash from an undercover FBI agent.

Justice Department officials describe the case as a "widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy." It is one of the largest public corruption cases along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years.

The defendants "used their color of authority to prevent police stops, searches and seizures of narcotics as they drove the cocaine shipments on highways that passed through checkpoints," the Justice Department said in a statement. The defendants pleaded guilty to transporting 1,232 pounds of cocaine and accepting $222,000 in cash for their activities.

The 16 defendants are or have been employed by a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Army, the Arizona Army National Guard, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the Arizona Department of Corrections, the local police department in Nogales, Ariz., and the immigration and naturalization service.

The three-year investigation, known as Operation Lively Green, was run by the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Tucson police department.

U.S. Atty. for Arizona Paul Charlton has been sounding alarms about the problem of public corruption for several years, and the latest arrests seem to confirm what he and others have been saying.

"It is a problem along the whole border," Charlton said in an interview more than a year ago. "Along the port of entries, custom officials have been paid to assist with smuggling. Some of these people don't have the ability to say no."

In the last several years, almost every segment of the U.S. border with Mexico has had cases of law enforcement, customs and immigration officials, local police and U.S. military personnel prosecuted for bribery, drug trafficking and other federal crimes.

In the last three years, a border patrol agent and his wife were convicted of smuggling illegal immigrants in San Diego, an immigration officer pleaded guilty to charges of helping drug dealers smuggle narcotics in Texas and two Forest Service rangers were convicted of marijuana trafficking along the Arizona border.

As the convictions have mounted, concerns that well-financed drug and smuggling organizations in Mexico could corrupt the U.S. civil service and military along the border has been growing. The FBI set up a public corruption squad in its Phoenix office in 2003. Last year, federal authorities organized a joint meeting to step up efforts to combat corruption.

"Now more than ever, it is critically important that those on the front lines of our nation's borders remain uncorrupted, said acting Assistant Atty. Gen. John C. Richter in a statement. "A corrupted border creates a grave threat to the national security of this country."

One of the biggest emerging concerns is that a corrupted southern border could leave the nation more vulnerable to terrorists who could more easily pass through undetected and possibly join forces with drug interests.

"It is not just the threat of drugs, but the possibility that terrorists will slip through," said Douglas C. McNabb, a criminal defense lawyer who has represented government officials charged with corruption. "We have a huge problem along the border."

Rumors about Operation Lively Green have been circulating among law enforcement officials in Arizona for years, said one federal agent who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The big question in the field was why these guys weren't being prosecuted," he said. "Now, it looks like they were flipped."

Justice Department spokesmen confirmed that the defendants had cooperated with the investigation, which is continuing. The defendants were appearing before Magistrate Judge Charles R. Pyle in Tucson. Each conspiracy charge carries a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Among those pleading guilty were John M. Castillo, 30, an INS inspector, who waved through a truck that he thought was carrying 88 pounds of cocaine on April 12, 2002. A few months later, he sold undercover FBI agents fraudulent immigration documents.

The FBI said all the defendants escorted at least two shipments of cocaine from locations in Arizona to Phoenix and Las Vegas, among other destinations.

Seven of the 17 defendants were in the Arizona Army National Guard, the FBI said. A spokeswoman for the Guard said the organization learned about the guilty pleas on Wednesday night and was trying to determine how they became involved in the conspiracy.

The state's Guard assists federal law enforcement organizations through its Arizona National Guard Joint Counter Narco Terrorism Task Force, but none of the defendants were part of the task force, said Maj. Eileen Bienz, a Guard spokeswoman.

"None of them are assigned to border functions," she added. Four of the defendants are still in the Guard.


An FBI spokeswoman said the Justice Department filed criminal informations on the defendants, which led to the guilty pleas. They also include: Robert L. Bakerx, 43; David M. Bustamante, 35; Joel P. Bustamante, 33; Jorge A. Calzadillas, 22; Demian F. Castillo, 33; Mark A. Fillman, 55; Jimmy L. Ford Jr., 29; Guillermo German, 36; Angel S. Hernandez, 31; Moises Hernandez, 21; Leslie B. Hidalgo, 24; John F. Manje, 36; Gladys C. Sanchez, 24; Angel M. Soto, 41; and Phillip Varona, 22.



http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-explainer13may13,1,3816171.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=2&cset=true

L.A. Home Turf for Hundreds of Neighborhood Criminal Groups
By Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer


The problem isn't new, but gang violence seems to be on everybody's agenda at the moment.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would, if enacted by the Senate and signed by the president, allow some kinds of gang crimes to be tried in federal court. It would also lengthen sentences and create a RICO-like statute to give law enforcers an additional tool with which to attack the problem.

Known Los Angeles gangs Number of gangs Number of members
Hispanic 246 22,309
Crip 113 10,306
Blood 45 4,209
Asian 32 1,106
Stoner** 16 541
White 11 561
Total 463 39,032

Paramount Stoners, a Gang? sheez...........

[Cali/Yank]

Here's another link to give a bad one star rating...hehehe...Prepare for the worse because the war is indeed on our shores.

http://aztlan.net/christina_the_bitch.html


http://www.teamamericapac.org/ta-gg-050523-baldwinpark.shtml

[Cali/Yank]

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[Cali/Yank]

IT HAPPENED ONCE BEFORE

http://www.jameslaxer.com/pancho.htm

By James Laxer

September 11 was not the first time foreign terrorists attacked Americans on U.S. soil and inflicted significant casualties.

It happened when Mexican revolutionary leader and bandit Francisco "Pancho" Villa invaded the United States in 1916. Americans living along the Rio Grande were terrified. During the years of the Villa turmoil, about four hundred American civilians were killed on both sides of the border and property losses totaled nearly $200 million. In the American mind, Pancho Villa was the Osama bin Laden of his day. For them, he was an evil doer, in the pay of malevolent foreign interests, who had an unfathomable ability to stir up hatred against the United States. The parallels between Villa and bin Laden are striking enough to be instructive.

When Venustiano Carranza, after a period of violent struggle, took over the Mexican presidency in 1914, his ablest lieutenant Pancho Villa launched an armed revolt. The administration of Woodrow Wilson decided to back Villa, believing him to be more amenable to American interests than Carranza. During his career as a revolutionary leader, Villa attracted a great deal of favourable attention from Hollywood filmmakers and U.S. newspaper photographers who followed him around northern Mexico, recording his exploits for an American audience. To stay fit, Villa, who avoided alcohol, was an avid runner and swimmer. Famous for dancing all night with female camp followers, he was reputed to have been officially married twenty-six times.

But despite being a U.S. protégé (as bin Laden later would be), Villa was defeated on the field of battle by the forces of Carranza.

The U.S. then recognized Carranza as president and Villa was reduced to the status of a bandit, but a bandit with a large following among the land hungry poor peasants of Mexico. On one notorious occasion, he halted a train at Santa Ysabel, Mexico, took seventeen Texas mining engineers from the train and had them executed in cold blood. In 1916, he launched a series of raids on U.S. border towns. The climax came when Villa and five hundred of his troops attacked the small town of Columbus, New Mexico. Villa told his men that he wanted to attack the town because the Carranza government was selling Mexico to the Americans. Well aware of the frequent American military interventions in Mexico, as well as the seizure of much of their country by the U.S. in the war of 1846-48, his men were not hard to convince. What most infuriated Villa’s troops was the news that two days earlier twenty Mexicans had been arrested by the police in El Paso, Texas. Under arrest the Mexicans were soaked with kerosene, supposedly to delouse them. Either by accident or by design, someone then set fire to the Mexicans, all twenty of whom were burned alive.

At 4.45 a.m. Villa’s troops stormed the town and unleashed a volley of lead at the army barracks, catching the six hundred soldiers by surprise. The marauders fired at houses and shot anyone who came out on the street. When they finally got organized, the U.S. soldiers rode after the fleeing Villa forces killing about one hundred of them. Twenty-four Americans died in the raid. The town of Columbus was burned to the ground.

There is evidence that Villa may have been financed by a German spy who maintained a bank account in St. Louis. The U.S. Department of Justice, tracking down the financial support for this early twentieth century terrorist, discovered that $340,000 had been deposited in the St. Louis bank from a New York bank account in the name of the German government. Historians have concluded that the real purpose of Villa’s assault on Columbus, New Mexico was to provoke the Americans into invading Mexico. This he hoped would create a backlash against the United States among Mexicans and would help him to overthrow the Carranza government in Mexico City.

Villa’s calculation, perhaps not unlike bin Laden’s today, proved at least partly correct. The day after the attack on Columbus, President Woodrow Wilson announced that he would send General John J. Pershing----later to lead U.S. forces on the western front in the First World War---and 6000 men to invade Mexico to get Pancho Villa. Pershing and his men crossed the border and within two weeks they had pushed three hundred and fifty miles into the mountains of Chihuahua. The Pershing expedition featured some of the newest assets in the American arsenal, including trucks, armoured cars, dirigible balloons and airplanes. The U.S. continued to mobilize forces on the border, until it had over one hundred thousand men engaged in operations to counter Villa. One of those involved was a thirty year old Lieutenant, named George S. Patton, to become famous for his brilliant tactics as a general in the Second World War.

For nearly a year, Pershing’s forces chased Villa and his small band of men through the deserts and mountains of northern Mexico, enduring both scorching heat and numbing cold. For all their trouble though, they caught few glimpses of Villa’s men and they never came close to capturing the stealthy bandit himself. Eventually the Wilson administration pulled most of its troops out of Mexico to avoid a war in the south just when it was about to enter the First World War against Germany. This left Villa free to pose as an invincible hero in the struggle against the United States. His popularity soared among the Mexican people, many of whom still revere him today. Villa, who surrendered his troops to a rival Mexican leader in 1920, was ambushed and killed in Parral, Mexico in 1923. Officials in the Mexican government likely ordered his murder.



Much of what led to the raid is shrouded in myth and loosely knit facts. Villa never wrote about it and there are no participant’s journals that adequately explain why this former U.S. ally turned his troops loose on Columbus. Some say he was in a rage because the U.S. government formally recognized a political adversary of Villa's; another story says the raid resulted from a Columbus merchant taking Villa's money and then shorting him on the supplies and ammunition he had paid for. Whatever the reason, he turned his men loose on Columbus!

[Cali/Yank]

Declaration from the day laborer community regarding legalization
The national day laborer community unites itself to the Freedom Ride to demand legalization for undocumented workers and their families. We day laborers declare ourselves in favor of a legalization process that leads to citizenship and to active civic participation. We demand unconditional legalization for everyone.

We the day laborer community, men and women, keep gardens green, homes painted, restaurants open, factories in production, and homes and buildings clean and safe. Day laborers are the hands that build this nation because we take on the dirtiest, most dangerous, and most backbreaking work. And as if our contribution to the betterment of the quality of life for the North American population were not enough, day laborers pay taxes, rent apartments, shop at markets, enrich the culture and take care of our families.

Despite this, current immigration laws are unjust to day laborers because they deny us our rights and keep us in the shadows. We are forced to survive in inhumane conditions. Because of our immigration status, we are frequently abandoned at work sites, we do not receive pay for our labor, and we are exposed to dangerous work without any protection at all. Current immigration laws also keep us apart from our loved ones, as well as vulnerable to civil and human rights violations. We day laborers are not second-class human beings. As the persons that we are, we should enjoy all the rights inherent to our humanity.

Through a national referendum in worker centers, street corners, during local and regional meetings and national assemblies, we the day laborer community declare ourselves in favor of structural reforms to immigration procedures and in favor of an unconditional legalization program that meets the following criteria and elements:

A legalization not to be confused with proposed guest worker programs that already exist or have existed in the past and that do not provide labor and civil rights protections. Legalization and “Guest Worker Program” are two different proposals.

A program that provides legal status for all temporary workers such as day laborers and that does not require sponsorship by employees.

A program that assures justice and equality in immigration policy and that provides access to permanent residence for immigrants of all nationalities that actually live in the U.S. or that have been waiting outside of the U.S. as a result of the unjust manner in which immigration laws have been implemented.

A program of access to permanent residence for new immigrants, including guarantees to their labor, economic, and socio-political rights. We demand the creation of public entities to facilitate or regulate the immigration process in a humane, dignified and just manner so that deaths along the border, and the humiliating situations and abuses that are suffered by undocumented immigrants, are all prevented.

A program that promotes and protects the rights and benefits of immigrant workers including:

A. The elimination of sanctions to employers and the criminalization of the work

B. Adequate resources for the enforcement of labor laws.

C. Freedom to unionize to improve salaries and working conditions.

D. Protections for workers that denounce illegal labor practices.

E. Equality of rights and protections under labor law.

A program that guarantees the protection of human rights in the context of implementing immigration laws, including the military strategies and tactics that are presently being used along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A program that integrates structural immigration reforms, such as the resolution of the backlog of pending applications for citizenship and immigration visas, access to adjustment of immigration status, and end to the separation of families and opportunities for reunification, and an end to the unjust processes of deportation and asylum. Such a structural reform should remove the current obstacles to acquiring and maintaining permanent residence.

A program that directs a larger proportion of the federal budget to improve services to immigrants with less of a focus on the enforcement of immigration laws. Only in this way will applications for permanent residence, asylum, citizenship and other immigration adjustment procedures be processed in a speedier manner.

A program that does not punish immigrants or restrict their access to public services and privileges enjoyed by other social sectors. The most notable among these are, driver’s licenses, university education, health, and other public benefits.

A program that guarantees constitutional processes and just treatment during detention, asylum, and deportation proceedings.

A complete program includes the implementation of fair trade agreements and policies for the sustainable development of each country, as well as other measures that are based on current global economic realities. The phenomenon of immigration would stop if our countries were to enjoy stability and economic, political, social and cultural well-being and justice.

A program that does not set a double standard against immigrants. An immigrant should not have to sacrifice his or her immigration status for a crime that he or she has already been judged and sentenced. If a person commits a crime and has already been punished for it, her or she should not be subject to a new judgment and sentence simply for being an immigrant. Even though deportation is not considered to “punishment” under current immigration law, for the families of immigrants who find themselves in this process or who have already been deported, this is double jeopardy and double punishment for practical purposes. For this reason, the day laborer community declares itself in favor of a legalization program that eliminates all unjust “administrative procedures” that disintegrate immigrant families.
In conclusion, we the day laborer community believe that a program of legalization that includes that aforementioned elements: (1) it recognizes the contribution and the work of immigrants, (2) it facilitates the path toward citizenship and strengthens democratic values, (3) it restores labor protections, (4) it reunifies families, (5) it respects the labor, civil and human rights of immigrants, (6) it improves the quality of life of the North American people, (7) it responds to the structural and global causes that generate the immigration phenomenon, and (8) would bring the justice so long-awaited by one of the most vulnerable groups in society.

Legalization for All!
National Assembly

http://www.ndlon.org/docs/legalizaEN.htm

http://daylaborers.org/assets/images/finger.jpg

[Ono]

Thanks for keeping us aware of what's really going on out there. It seems black is white, day is night.

[Alli]

Minutemen head to Texas
Project has 100 leaders ready to start border activity in Lone Star State

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Posted: June 15, 2005
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The Minuteman Project, the citizen border patrol that virtually stopped illegal crossings from Mexico in a highly trafficked area of Arizona, is taking its activities to another popular spot for entering the U.S. – the Lone Star State.
According to a statement from the organization, the first authorized Texas affiliate of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps will begin training and recruiting for operations this weekend in Goliad, Texas. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Inc. is a new national organization founded by Chris Simcox, co-founder of the original Minuteman Project in Arizona.


story (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44773)

[Cali/Yank]

L.A. Times, June 15, 2005

A16


Hezzabollah Fundraiser Sentenced to Prison......

Mahmoud Yousef Kourani an illegal Lebanese immigrant gets 4 1/2 years.

The Government said Kourani paid a Mexican consular official in Beirut $3,000
for a visa to enter Mexico, then snuck across the U.S.-Mexican border in 2001 and settled in Dearborn, Michigan.

[Alli]

Sad they have to refer to them as 'undocumented', rather than illegal, but either way, good news. Too bad our gov't doesn't have the gnads.

Trespass Law Helps Nab Illegal Immigrants
By KATHY McCORMACK
Associated Press Writer

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Two police chiefs, frustrated by what they claim is the government's failure to pursue illegal immigrants, are taking a novel approach to homeland security: using a trespassing law to arrest undocumented immigrants.

W. Garrett Chamberlain pioneered the tactic in New Ipswich and Hudson chief Richard Gendron enthusiastically joined in. Both say they are helping to prevent another Sept. 11.

"What do you do?" Gendron said recently. "As a law enforcement officer, I have a difficult time with someone who's not supposed to be in this country. If we're really, truly concerned about homeland security, this is one of the areas we have to give attention to."

more (http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/I/ILLEGAL_IMMIGRANTS_TRESPASSING?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME)

[zapcomix]

What is the big deal with coming here through the front door, instead of jumping the fence?

[Cali/Yank]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/komondor/IMG_0002.jpg

Baldwin Park, California. Protest against taxpayers money funding seditous and devisive language. June 25, 2005

Pro-open border protestors.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sos_bp2_5.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/komondor/IMG_0003.jpg

Pro United States, Pro Legal immigration, One Nation United not Divided.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sos_bp2_17.jpg


http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showforum=35

[Cali/Yank]

Forgot this one....Nice people. College is good...TV bad...

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sos_bp2_32.jpg

[Alli]

Immigration enforcement bill offered
Posted: June 28, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A Georgia congressman will introduce a bill tomorrow meant to empower local police agencies to assist federal authorities with immigration enforcement.

The bill, The Clear Law Enforcement for Removal of Criminal Illegal Aliens Act of 2005, or CLEAR, will be introduced by Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga. A similar bill in the 108th Congress garnered 125 bipartisan co-sponsors, according to a statement from the congressman's office.

more (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45023)

[Cali/Yank]

July 16, 2005 thru ?

Campo, California Border Watch (http://mappoint.msn.com/(w133qm55wzguzybf45qfii55)/directions.aspx?&EndName=Campo%2c+San+Diego%2c+California%2c+United +States&EndLocation=32.60644%2c-116.47836&StartName=Long+Beach+Arena+(stadium)%2c+Long+Beach %2c+California%2c+United+States&StartLocation=33.76667%2c-118.18917&DataSetLangID=USA&RouteType=Quickest&RouteUnit=Miles)

You know what? This little interesting tidbit from one of Purple Unicorns articles from Dallas, TEXAS will nicely here.


Big Bend, Texas Coahuila, Mexico

"El Español” is gathering truck drivers with knowledge of truck routes in the United States and explosive experts" in the state of Coahuila, according to the March 11 memo, which originated in the San Diego FBI office and was made available by a U.S. attorney's office. The informant "believes that the activity in Coahuila, Mexico, is terrorist related."

[Cali/Yank]

Counter demonstraters from Los Angeles.

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/132944_comment.php#133015


sonic attacks disrupted minutemen



From our Campo basecamp right on the border on Saturday night, we continued to harass the Minutemen racist border vigilantes through the night. We rolled stealthily upon the racists parked in their cars along ridgelines near service roads along the apartheid wall before bombarding them with sonic blasts, very loud music the racists were sure to hate, our amplified voices and very powerful beams of light. We made sure to keep ourselves at some distance from them because we knew they were likely armed. We recorded all interactions.
This tactic thoroughly confused them. Not used to having the search lights turned on THEM, we at first received the usual death threats. However, as each of our subsequent sonic patrols went out, we encountered fewer and fewer of their vehicles near our basecamp.
With 26 miles of border to "watch" between Tecate and Jacumba, the racists seemed to grow tired of the exposure and moved miles away from Campo.
All night, whenever any of their vehicles was seen apporaching our camp from any direction it was lit up (with blinding light beams of course).
This vigil was kept up until 5:15 a.m. when a racist caravan of 15 cars passed below our lookout point and headed away from the border area.

Author: 1st hand source
Link:
Posted: Sunday July 17, 2005 01:21 PM

[Cali/Yank]

From James Gilchrist

-- PLEASE FORWARD --

Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: BULLETIN! Reinforcements needed in Campo, Ca.


Dear Americans,

Reinforcements are needed in Campo, Ca. immediately to support Jim Chase's California Minutemen, who have deployed for border observation and reporting activities from July 16 through at least August 7 (and beyond).

I visited Jim Chase's group, accompanied with a California state senator and his aides, last Saturday. We witnessed the literal seige of VFW Post #2080 by about 60 belligerant, death-threatening anti-Americans twice during that day. The hate-spewing members of the racist, American-hating organization known as the Mexican brown berets, stormed the VFW Lodge, damaging signs and other property. They were eventually repelled by the late-arriving San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. No arrests were made.

The California state senator and his aides took serious note of the hostilities and violence conducted by the Nazi-like, anarchist brown berets. Americans...these goons are incurably evil and have a history of routinely suppressing the First Amendment rights of Americans through acts of violence and threats of death.

Our First Amendment rights of freedom to peacefully assemble and speak are in serious jeopardy, and it is time a stand is taken to preserve these rights.

The rampage was orchestrated by Armando Navarro, a known anti-American racist, who holds a comfortable, taxpayer funded, tenured position as a professor (of hate and blood-letting?) at the University of California - Riverside, Ca., and who has devoted his life to promoting the Mexican conquest of the seven southwestern US states. He calls for the conquest to be carried out by force, if necessary. Navarro, and his minions whose combined IQ was that of a dead house plant, all appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

One California Minuteman volunteer, Jim Woods, was physically assaulted by a gang of ten of Navarro's thugs as he sat in his car alone at a border outpost. He was physically restrained in his car seat by the brown berets, who threatened to kill him. They stole his keys from the ignition and left him stranded without food or water for several hours. When Jim Woods identified two of the gang members to the Sheriff's Dept. and asked for an arrest, no action was taken by the Sheriff's deputies. One deputy just responded to Mr. Wood's plea for help with "Oh, you just lost your keys," despite repeated pleas to the contrary from Mr. Woods.

I am returning to Campo this week. Volunteers from anywhere in the United States are welcome to join me as soon as possible. Two minuteman groups from Texas have already committed to arrive this week. I am also requesting reinforcements from Chris Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in Tombstone, Az. and from select members of another well-known California border watch group that operates independently from The Minuteman Project.

Navarro's anarchist's attempted to shut down, and trash, the VFW lodge because the lodge allowed thirsty and hungry California Minutemen volunteers to purchase food and water from its restaurant. Their attempts to bring down the U.S. flag were thwarted by Jim Chase's California Minutemen.

Our goals here are twofold:

1. Protect the rights of ALL Americans to freely and peacefully assemble without being physically assaulted, or threatened with violence to maim or kill them by the mindless minions of the Univ. of California's "Professor of Hate", Armando Navarro.

2. Protect America's war veterans at VFW Lodge 2080, in Campo, Ca. from being battered by literal thugs with clubs and to protect the property of that lodge from being destroyed.

3. Simultaneously, volunteers are forming to protest at the Univ. of Ca. - Riverside, demanding the ouster of Navarro from his department at a state funded institution, which Navarro has selfishly turned into a department of tyranny.

The VFW lodge address is 301 Sheridan in Campo, Ca.


Be warned that the roving gangs of adversaries engaging the California Minutemen WILL physically attack you if they outnumber you. I repeat, they WILL physically attack you. Stay in groups, and stay LEGALLY armed with pepper spray...tasers...etc. Sidearms are legal in certain areas in Campo. Confer with Jim Chase on the issue of sidearms. I am remaining unarmed, but will have legally armed body guards with me while I am in Campo.

Remember, remain passive. However, that does not mean you cannot defend yourself against threats to your safety by incoherrent mobs of gangsters who are determined to do you physical harm.

It truly is a sad day in America when the First Amendment rights are preserved only for those who carry the biggest stick. The alternative is to remain a cringing little mouse and forever relinquish your unalienable rights to peacefully speak or assemble.

Good Luck, Americans. May God, patriotism, and country be with you. See you in Campo.

Jim Gilchrist, Founder - The Minuteman Project - Americans doing the jobs Congress won't do.

[Cali/Yank]

http://i.esmas.com/image/0/000/004/149/NT_penal.jpg




According to the State Dept., four Americans have been killed in the Nuevo Laredo area in the past year, while 19 have been kidnapped and 19 others have gone missing.


July 30, 2005
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164177,00.html

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The United States will close its consulate for one week to assess the security of its employees and consulate visitors in this Mexican border town after a shootout between drug gangs using machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher.



http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/11948900.h

Tue, Jun. 21, 2005

Mexico soldiers become cartel hit men

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

Associated Press


NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Zooming around in sport utility vehicles bristling with weapons, Mexican soldiers-turned-drug hit men have taken this border city to the brink of anarchy, infiltrating local police and threatening anyone who gets in their way.

Residents and law enforcement officials say the men are the feared Zetas, former members of a military intelligence battalion sent to the border to fight drug trafficking. Instead, they joined the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's top drug gangs. They adopted the name Zetas - a radio code for a military commander - recruited followers and made the city of 300,000 their home base.

For the past two years, the city of tree-covered plazas and hacienda-style restaurants has lived in a state of siege. Many residents are afraid to leave their homes at night, and few tourists venture over from Laredo, Texas, leaving the city's handful of horse-drawn buggies idle.

Killings and police corruption became so brazen that President Vicente Fox was forced to send in hundreds of troops and federal agents in March, and the only man brave enough to take the job of police chief was gunned down hours after he was sworn in this month.

Since then, soldiers and federal agents have flooded the streets, patrolling in trucks and setting up checkpoints. Still, daytime street killings are commonplace.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151207,00.html

Last year, the Mexican Foreign Ministry (search) published a similar guide, but in comic book form, that angered some U.S. lawmakers.

The newest guide also tells immigrants where to find health care, how to get their kids into U.S. schools and how to send money home — the reason some say Mexico is encouraging people to come to the United Sates illegally.

"This is really the way they keep their corrupt system afloat, by sending their excess workers to the United States and getting billions of dollars in remittances every year ... so for them this is a worthwhile investment," said Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3388

This happening as you read this in North San Diego County, California, USA..

I'm Joaquin of the Cristeros and the maps above were created by me to draw attention to the problem. The maps are accompanied by an article written by a reporter who had witnessed what happened. I had know of the date and time and had informed law enforcement but nothing happened. The reporter used the age 14 because if you believe a girl is younger than 13 and subjected to sexual crimes you are required to report it. Here is a link to it on our website:

CHILD PROSTITUTION AHEAD

In Vista, next to the San Luis Rey River, there was a massive outdoor child prostitution ring using abducted and captive girls as young as 9 years old to be prostituted to the farm workers. This is Peter Landesman's description:

Libertad Latina San Diego Crisis Index

...In Vista, Calif., I followed a pickup truck driven by a San Diego sheriff's deputy named Rick Castro. We wound past a tidy suburban downtown, a supermall and the usual hometown franchises. We stopped alongside the San Luis Rey River, across the street from a Baptist church, a strawberry farm and a municipal ballfield.

A neat subdivision and cycling path ran along the opposite bank. The San Luis Rey was mostly dry, filled now with an impenetrable jungle of 15-foot-high bamboolike reeds. As Castro and I started down a well-worn path into the thicket, he told me about the time he first heard about this place, in October 2001. A local health care worker had heard rumors about Mexican immigrants using the reeds for sex and came down to offer condoms and advice. She found more than 400 men and 50 young women between 12 and 15 dressed in tight clothing and high heels. There was a separate group of a dozen girls no more than 11 or 12 wearing white communion dresses. ''The girls huddled in a circle for protection,'' Castro told me, ''and had big eyes like terrified deer.''

I followed Castro into the riverbed, and only 50 yards from the road we found a confounding warren of more than 30 roomlike caves carved into the reeds. It was a sunny morning, but the light in there was refracted, dreary and basementlike. The ground in each was a squalid nest of mud, tamped leaves, condom wrappers, clumps of toilet paper and magazines. Soiled underwear was strewn here and there, plastic garbage bags jury-rigged through the reeds in lieu of walls. One of the caves' inhabitants had hung old CD's on the tips of branches, like Christmas ornaments. It looked vaguely like a recent massacre site. It was 8 in the morning, but the girls could begin arriving any minute. Castro told me how it works: the girls are dropped off at the ballfield, then herded through a drainage sluice under the road into the riverbed. Vans shuttle the men from a 7-Eleven a mile away. The girls are forced to turn 15 tricks in five hours in the mud. The johns pay $15 and get 10 minutes. I! t is in nearly every respect a perfect extension of Calle Santo Tomas in Mexico City. Except that this is what some of those girls are training for...

For additional information you can go to a series of articles translated by Chuck Goolsby about the child prostitution ring was there and even continues today:
Sex Trafficking of Children in San Diego

This IS continuing. It is out there and many times in nearly the same locations. The federal govt and local officials can do something about it, but they put their resources in other things instead of protecting children. Ultimately, Mexico will have to be brought to terms because it is intolerable to have children being prostitute across border in plain sight. The sad part is that it is commentary on migratory farm workers who can stand by and let it all happen like it has. How can these crimes be lived down and just forgotten?

[Cali/Yank]

Eastern, San Diego County, Califronia.

Oscar Antonio Ortiz, 28, a border patrol officer from the El Cajon Border Station was arrested for charging $300 a person, to smuggle illegal aliens into the country. That's not the whole story though, Antonio is a Mexican National who used forged documentation to get his job with the Border Patrol.

[Cali/Yank]

I am an infiltrator and not a journalist? Whatever happened to Freedom of the Press?

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13080

[Cali/Yank]

Mecha Reconquista Fabled Elite

[Cali/Yank]

Average ? you can put your favorite posters name here.

[NYer]

Hyphenated Americanism

... There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.

Americanization

The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population - no other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens, it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times. None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is to not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them. The policy of "Let alone" which we have hitherto pursued is thoroughly vicious from two stand-points. By this policy we have permitted the immigrants, and too often the native-born laborers as well, to suffer injustice. Moreover, by this policy we have failed to impress upon the immigrant and upon the native-born as well that they are expected to do justice as well as to receive justice, that they are expected to be heartily and actively and single-mindedly loyal to the flag no less than to benefit by living under it.

We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not as a human being. We cannot afford to build a big industrial plant and herd men and women about it without care for their welfare. We cannot afford to permit squalid overcrowding or the kind of living system which makes impossible the decencies and necessities of life. We cannot afford the low wage rates and the merely seasonal industries which mean the sacrifice of both individual and family life and morals to the industrial machinery. We cannot afford to leave American mines, munitions plants, and general resources in the hands of alien workmen, alien to America and even likely to be made hostile to America by machinations such as have recently been provided in the case of the two foreign embassies in Washington. We cannot afford to run the risk of having in time of war men working on our railways or working in our munition plants who would in the name of duty to their own foreign countries bring destruction to us. Recent events have shown us that incitements to sabotage and strikes are in the view of at least two of the great foreign powers of Europe within their definition of neutral practices. What would be done to us in the name of war if these things are done to us in the name of neutrality?

One America

All of us, no matter from what land our parents came, no matter in what way we may severally worship our Creator, must stand shoulder to shoulder in a united America for the elimination of race and religious prejudice. We must stand for a reign of equal justice to both big and small. We must insist on the maintenance of the American standard of living. We must stand for an adequate national control which shall secure a better training of our young men in time of peace, both for the work of peace and for the work of war. We must direct every national resource, material and spiritual, to the task not of shirking difficulties, but of training our people to overcome difficulties. Our aim must be, not to make life easy and soft, not to soften soul and body, but to fit us in virile fashion to do a great work for all mankind. This great work can only be done by a mighty democracy, with these qualities of soul, guided by those qualities of mind, which will both make it refuse to do injustice to any other nation, and also enable it to hold its own against aggression by any other nation. In our relations with the outside world, we must abhor wrongdoing, and disdain to commit it, and we must no less disdain the baseness of spirit which lamely submits to wrongdoing. Finally and most important of all, we must strive for the establishment within our own borders of that stern and lofty standard of personal and public neutrality which shall guarantee to each man his rights, and which shall insist in return upon the full performance by each man of his duties both to his neighbor and to the great nation whose flag must symbolize in the future as it has symbolized in the past the highest hopes of all mankind.


Theodore Roosevelt 1915
From Philip Davis (ed.), Immigration and Americanization (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1920)
http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americanism/

[Cali/Yank]

Truer words, that have been forgotten.

[NYer]

Mexico funds staging areas for illegals

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
August 18, 2005

The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week be bulldozed is among hundreds of similar sites along the border sponsored and maintained by the Mexican government.
Many of the sites are marked with blue flags and pennants to signal that water is available. Others, such as the Las Chepas site that Mr. Richardson denounced, are a collection of old, mostly abandoned buildings or ranch houses where illegals gather for water and other supplies -- sometimes bartering with smugglers, or "coyotes," for passage north.
Las Chepas, law-enforcement authorities said, also is a center for drug smugglers looking to move marijuana and cocaine into the United States.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050818-124840-9453r.htm

[Cali/Yank]

Looks like a central place for jumping off to anyplace along the border.

http://mappoint.msn.com/(htoyqj451epvbq55lv4nriez)/MPSvc.aspx?MPMtd=M&L=USA&C=28.65006%2c-107.233&A=2000&S=405%2c320&PN=1884990885&P=|7efd50|&UA=68&gb=3

[Cali/Yank]

Flying in State of denial.

http://x1.putfile.com/8/22802125145.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

This little ditty is from a citizen in the high desert of Victorville, California,USA?.. It's long but notice how thew American hispanic man tells you what it is, in construction.
And that's the high desert where they're building like crazy.

http://www.unitedstates.fm/video/fire2.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

Maybe a step back in time to view a film? It's potent and full of acronyms. Not sure if acronyms is the right word.

1961

"Viridiana" is a sequel to "Nazarin"(not meant pejoratively):both want to be saints,both are compelled to leave religion(Viridiana is raped by her uncle and cannot become a nun).Both will be laïc saints. So Viridiana receive a bunch of beggars in her home,and tries to educate them by putting them to work.But it's too late,they are rotten to the core,and it's not long before they realize that working is pointless when you have a nice lady to take care of you. In direct contrast with Viridiana,we have his cousin:he's a realist man.For him,Viridiana's charity amounts to nothing.Bunuel proves this right with the memorable scene of the dog:what's the point of saving a poor dog when there are thousands of poor dogs in the world?Viridiana's cousin ,unlike her,does not renounce the pleasures of life and he takes good care of his desirable property. Bunuel reaches in this movie a paroxysm of violence ,satire and grand art.The beggars have a banquet,and Bunuel unleashes his anticlericalism: at the table,the mendicants stand still ,parodying Leonardo's the Last Supper.Then Viridiana is raped while a gramophone is playing ,screaming Hendel's Messiah. Like Nazarin who's got to come back to reality,and who is offered a pineapple (sexual symbol),Viridiana seems to agree to be part of a ménage à trois with her cousin and the servant as she begins to play cards with them. Needless to say,Spain censors were horrified and Bunuel would never make another film in his homeland.

[Cali/Yank]

Greetings From Occupied East L.A. (Southern California)

Listen to the voices (http://www.stolencontinent.org/flash%20movies/citlali_intro.htm)

http://www.stolencontinent.org/images/ASCTONALPOALLIPSTRwithwhite.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.startribune.com/stonline/images/news4/DTI_1737039.l.jpg


Only in America

[Cali/Yank]

Help...?

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=347366#post347366

[Cali/Yank]

Ok, I have to go better prepared next time. This was a spur of the moment decision to try and catch up with the Friends of the Border Patrol watch along the California ? Mexico Border.

After I got home from work Thursday evening, I packed my truck with camping gear and my video gear and headed to Campo to find the Civilian Border watchers. I arrived at midnight at the VFW (Veterans of Foriegn Wars post) Figuring since this is where everyone has been using this as a sort of base camp before staking out there border spots I would find someone to point me in the right direction. No such luck. The nearest town with a motel was forty minutes away so I ended up sleeping in my truck(if you can call it sleeping) at the rest stop in Buckman springs.


Got into town at 7am and started to the VFW again and found two guys with the minutemen watch packing to leave their week shift is over and they are preparing for Octber for the four border states watch. Friends of the border patrol is a different group and I could not find them and Tecate was 28 miles west of campo and Jacumba is 28 miles east and Calexico is 77 miles. And I'm pissed from trying to sleep in my truck and tired so I kept my obligation tto meet with the Border Patrol at 10 am for the interview and skidaddled on home.

Oct. plan is to rent a motorhome a trailer with a Duel use Dirt Bike. Street legal and dirt ready and I'll start from San Diego to Tecate to Campo to Jacumba to Calexico to Mexicali to Yuma.. Hopefully that's the plan.

Here is the rough outline of the interveiw with the San Diego Sector Border Patrol.

[Cali/Yank]

I'm gonna scream....Never ever, listen to myself. I had second thoughts and was going to just drive the 77 miles to Calexico..Someone kick me.
Looks like a long drive tomorrow.

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6780.php

[Cali/Yank]

Get it over already, someone shoot me, 7 hour round trip and all I have is one story of a carhood flying off the car infront of me and narrowly missing me and some beauty shots of the desert. Arrrggghh.

[Cali/Yank]

Arrrghhhh, It happened in San Diego.

Oh well.

[Cali/Yank]

What I missed in San Diego on the 16th.

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2005/09/111095.mov

[Cali/Yank]

Storming the Masonic Lodge Scottish rites Temple, San Diego, California. Sept.16, 2005

[Ono]

Good stuff Cali! Love the video.....maddening!

[Cali/Yank]

From Occupied Anuhacua (Aztlan)

The Shit Hitting the Fan

Read this story in English | Add a translation >>
X | 04.10.2005 20:14

Hasta La Victoria Siempre


This is something I write with a heavy heart. I cannot reveal my identity for I have already paid too heavy a price for doing so in the past. My anonymity will be seized upon as reason to dismiss what I have to say here and yet, though I know this, I will say it anyway for it must be said. I do not know whether this will come as a shock to many Americans, but the United States of America is now under military rule. The actions of the puppet-in-chief over the last several years, continuing today in his most recent pronouncements, are intended to shed a thin layer of legitimacy to what you will come to know in the very near future. The government you believe you know no longer exists. The United States Military now calls the shots in every aspect of our governance. Agents of the military are on the streets in civilian clothes, spying on you, and preparing the new establishment for the day when they will come for you - the dissident, the protester, the free thinker - and intern you in camps.

While the FBI continues to become more aggressive in its repression of dissent, the true force behind the new COINTELPRO is the Defense Intelligence Agency. Since the false flag operation of September 11, 2001, the Defense Intelligence Agency has been waging war on dissent. Your telephone is being tapped by the DIA. You online activities are being monitored by the DIA. If you are a dissident and you are experiencing "Gang Stalking", it is the DIA that is coordinating it. The US Military is actively interfering with the employment of dissidents. The US Military is infiltrating peace groups and dissident movements. It is using poison to effect the health of dissidents (think twice before excepting coffee from someone you really don't know at a protest, it may have iodine in it). The cameras you see pointed at you at protests are often wielded by members of the DIA. During the protests in Washington D.C. on September 24, the Defense Intelligence Agency flew over the protesters and sprayed them with biological agents.

Over the next few months you will see the puppet-in-chief calling for a greater role of the U.S. Military in domestic affairs. Under the cover of assisting in emergencies, he will demand that the Congress legitimize the use of the U.S. Military (i.e. Martial-Law) for a long list of reasons. Since the U.S. Military is already spread too thin, the motivation behind this is none other than to replace the shroud of deception with an acknowledgment of reality: you are already under martial law. What was done with agents wearing civilian clothes will more and more be done with agents in military uniforms.

The puppet-in-chief himself faces a growing crisis. Unless the illusion of civilian control is quickly lifted and replaced with the reality of martial law, he will be tried for treason regarding the outing of a CIA agent, his involvement in the false flag operation of 9/11 and, eventually, put on trial in the international arena for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The only solution to the embarrassment is to destroy the illusion that this is a constitutional republic. The most recent appointments to the Supreme Court are intended to give the coming unveiling of the military dictatorship a fig-leaf of legitimacy. The president installed illegally by the Supreme Court will be handed dictatorial powers by the Supreme Court. There is nothing along the lines of reform you can do about it. The United States of American can no longer be reformed.

This leaves you with two options. You will either go along with the dictatorship and become yet another subject of yet another unjust and repressive banana republic or you will rise up in revolt. I suggest you make your choice and begin preparations.

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/111318.shtml

http://www.friendsoftheborderpatrol.com/video/FOBP.avi

[Cali/Yank]

For Immediate Release

Mexican Protestors Vow Mexican National Guard Will Confront Minutemen on the Border this weekend

San Diego, California- In a rare display of Mexican Nationalism amid border controversy, a group of Mexican/Americans protested the presence of Minuteman Border Watches in the O'Neil Valley today and vowed to return on Saturday with the Mexican National Guard.

Speaking from the Mexican side of the border, the group, made up of Mexican Nationals and US Citizens with dual citizenship told Tim Donnelly, leader of the Minuteman Corps of California, that they would return on Saturday with more than 300 members of the Mexican National Guard to protest the Minuteman October Border Watch. Donnelly has been conversing across the border fence all week with Mexican nationals, one of whom actually holds a position with the Calexico, California city government. Calexico, a border town in the United States of America, flies only the Mexican flag over its town hall.

[Cali/Yank]

Another part of the propaganda machine running for the border.Or away if you take this link seriously.


http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/137616.php

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/5148504/detail.html

Military Helps Out With N.M. Border Protection

The U.S. Border Patrol is getting help from the military to slow illegal immigration along New Mexico's southern border.

Armored vehicles from a reconnaissance squadron with Joint Task Force North is stationed along a 20-mile stretch of New Mexico Highway 9 between Columbus and Playas.

The group is helping to keep an eye out for illegal immigrants. Some of the vehicles are equipped with mounted machine guns and long-range surveillance equipment.

Border Patrol officials say the mission is not unusual and that it was planned last year.



http://images.ibsys.com/2005/1022/5148625_200X150.jpg

Or is something else brewing?

[Cali/Yank]

Los Angeles, Alta California - August 15, 2005 - (ACN) At a press conference Friday at the offices of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (Department of State of the Republic of Mexico), four USA elected officials said that they will be asking the Bush Administration to declare "border vigilantism" against Mexican and other immigrants along the US/Mexico border prosecutable and punishable under the federal hate crime laws. The officials said that the violent activities by groups like the Minutemen vigilantes, the KKK, white supremacy militias and other similar groups are totally unacceptable.

County Supervisor of San Bernardino, California Josie Gonzales, the Mayor of Lynwood, California Ramon Rodriguez, Borough President of The Bronx Adolfo Carrion, and Delaware State Representative Joseph E. Miro held the press conference at the offices of the SRE in Mexico City and directed most of their statements at President George W. Bush. The press release stated in part. "Bush debe declarar abiertamente que está en contra del Minuteman Project, y más agresivamente criminalizar sus actividades, que son motivadas por un sentimiento antimigrante, racista y paranoico". The statement translates as "Bush should openly declare that he is against the Minuteman Project, and more aggressively criminalize their activities, which are motivated by anti-immigrant sentiments that are racist and paranoiac".

http://aztlan.net/hate_at_the_border.htm

[Cali/Yank]

Some pictures of protests, regarding day labor sites in Lake Forrest, California.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/img8000.JPG

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5749

[Cali/Yank]

These shoes were made for migrants to U.S. (illegal Aliens)
Housing compass, map and flashlight, they’re given away free on border.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10081719/from/RSS/
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051117/051117_migrant_shoes_hmed_6a.hmedium.jpg




TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VIII > § 1324

§ 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens



(a) Criminal penalties

(1)

(A) Any person who—

(i) knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

(iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)

(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii),
(iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

(2) Any person who, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever, such alien, regardless of any official action which may later be taken with respect to such alien shall, for each alien in respect to whom a violation of this paragraph occurs—

(A) be fined in accordance with title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; or

(B) in the case of—

(i) an offense committed with the intent or with reason to believe that the alien unlawfully brought into the United States will commit an offense against the United States or any State punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year,

(ii) an offense done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or

(iii) an offense in which the alien is not upon arrival immediately brought and presented to an appropriate immigration officer at a designated port of entry,
be fined under title 18 and shall be imprisoned, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(iii), not more than 10 years, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(i) or (B)(ii), not less than 3 nor more than 10 years, and for any other violation, not less than 5 nor more than 15 years.

(3)

(A) Any person who, during any 12-month period, knowingly hires for employment at least 10 individuals with actual knowledge that the individuals are aliens described in subparagraph (B) shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

(B) An alien described in this subparagraph is an alien who—

(i) is an unauthorized alien (as defined in section 1324a (h)(3) of this title), and

(ii) has been brought into the United States in violation of this subsection.

(b) Seizure and forfeiture

(1) In general
Any conveyance, including any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft, that has been or is being used in the commission of a violation of subsection (a) of this section, the gross proceeds of such violation, and any property traceable to such conveyance or proceeds, shall be seized and subject to forfeiture.

(2) Applicable procedures
Seizures and forfeitures under this subsection shall be governed by the provisions of chapter 46 of title 18 relating to civil forfeitures, including section 981(d) of such title, except that such duties as are imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury under the customs laws described in that section shall be performed by such officers, agents, and other persons as may be designated for that purpose by the Attorney General.

(3) Prima facie evidence in determinations of violations
In determining whether a violation of subsection (a) of this section has occurred, any of the following shall be prima facie evidence that an alien involved in the alleged violation had not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States or that such alien had come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law:

(A) Records of any judicial or administrative proceeding in which that alien’s status was an issue and in which it was determined that the alien had not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States or that such alien had come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.

(B) Official records of the Service or of the Department of State showing that the alien had not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States or that such alien had come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.

(C) Testimony, by an immigration officer having personal knowledge of the facts concerning that alien’s status, that the alien had not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States or that such alien had come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.

(c) Authority to arrest
No officer or person shall have authority to make any arrests for a violation of any provision of this section except officers and employees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws.

(d) Admissibility of videotaped witness testimony
Notwithstanding any provision of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the videotaped (or otherwise audiovisually preserved) deposition of a witness to a violation of subsection (a) of this section who has been deported or otherwise expelled from the United States, or is otherwise unable to testify, may be admitted into evidence in an action brought for that violation if the witness was available for cross examination and the deposition otherwise complies with the Federal Rules of Evidence.


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Welcome to the Wild West 2005, where modern-day cowboys still guard their land from interlopers - but using AK47s and four-wheel drives instead of Winchester rifles and horses.

Mr McCaslin's small mine sits on a knoll of red earth and scrub near the Mexican border. Like his 19th-century predecessors, he is sure there is money in "them thar hills" after a geological survey indicated there may be rich veins of silver.

Today, however, he has other priorities. For the mine also sits in the middle of a network of trails used by heavily-armed Mexican trafficking gangs to smuggle people and drugs into America.

Notoriously porous, the border has reached new levels of lawlessness this year as smugglers, known as "coyotes", have become increasingly brazen, willing to fire on anyone - from border patrols to the likes of Mr McCaslin - who gets in their way.

Mr McCaslin, 50, says US patrols have increased in recent weeks as public pressure has mounted - and as he edged up the track towards his land, a helicopter swept repeatedly over a nearby patch of bush.

Kalashnikov in hand, he strode up to the 1950s-style Airstream trailer home where he stays when working at the mine. He kicked open the door which swung on broken hinges. Clearly there had been overnight visitors: the interior had been ransacked, shelves pulled out, coffee and biscuits scattered across the carpet and the bed torn apart.

Not every day passes without confrontation, however. He recounted several gunfights with the "coyotes", including one occasion when he and his business partner came under fire at dusk as they barbecued steaks.

"They started the war when they started shooting at us. One time, my partner definitely hit one of them. The guy got away, but I doubt he got far. His friends won't have taken him to hospital. They probably just left him out there somewhere," said Mr McCaslin, gesturing to the inhospitable terrain where rattlesnakes and tarantulas add to the dangers.

From his vantage point at the mine, he has watched long lines of illegal immigrants traipsing north through the desert, leaving their detritus as they passed. Discarded everywhere, in disused mines and beneath bushes, are the cheap clothes and bags that they abandon to travel faster and less conspicuously. Empty water bottles litter the landscape.

( Tuesday, 22 November 2005 )
http://www.californiaminutemen.com/cmm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=105&Itemid=15

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/commissioner/messages/agent_george.xml
While on patrol near Ajo, Arizona, Agent DeBates was involved in a single vehicle accident(my guess,ROCKING) and died as a result of his injuries. Agent DeBates, 32, a graduate of the Border Patrol Academy class #403, was assigned to the Casa Grande Station, on detail to the Ajo Station.

Agent DeBates is the fourth CBP Border Patrol agent to die in the line of duty since December 16, 2003 – the only Department of Homeland Security employees to die in the line of duty since the Department was created in March 2003.

His name will be added to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Valor Memorial in Washington, DC, joining the names of 195 officers and agents of the former U.S. Customs Service, the Border Patrol, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, who lost their lives in the line of duty.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?page_id=495

SOS vs. Home Depot 12-10-05

This was the second SOS protest that I attended and I had a bad feeling about this one going in. Home Depot supports a day labor center across the street and that’s why SOS was there to protest them.

Here is the Associated Press report.


Video
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/seperate.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

Fox calls increased U.S. border enforcement 'shameful'

Shameful? hehehe.....and that comes from someone that prints comic book manuals in how to cross the border.


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20051214-1437-mexico-us-migration.html



By Olga R. Rodriguez
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:37 p.m. December 14, 2005

MONTERREY, Mexico – President Vicente Fox on Wednesday criticized the United States' decision to strengthen its border security and complete a wall along the two countries common border calling it "disgraceful and shameful."
"This situation we're seeing, a disgraceful and shameful moment where walls are being built, security systems are being reinforced, and human and labor rights are being violated more and more, won't protect the economy of the United States," Fox said.

[Ono]

Unbelievable!

[Cali/Yank]

Congress says 51 Terrorist Caught At Border

Written by Mike Chase
http://www.borderwatch.us/ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=1
Friday, 16 December 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) today revealed figures which show that since October, 2004, 51 persons who have crossed into the U.S. illegally were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. The figures, part of a Department of Homeland Security response to a inquiry by the Congressman, document the national security risk our porous borders pose on the eve of Congress' first attempt to rewrite immigration law in nearly a decade.

Federal law enforcement coordinates its terrorism efforts through "Joint Terrorism Task Forces" (JTTFs), which include officials from the Justice and Homeland Security Departments. Since October, 2004, JTTFs have kept track of arrested terrorist suspects who are in the U.S. illegally. The JTTF document shows 51 persons were arrested who had "entered without inspection" into the U.S. from countries such as Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Pakistan.

"If this isn't a wake-up call to our lax border security, I don't know what is," said Tancredo. "What scares me is not this list from federal law enforcement-after all, we've already caught those terrorists. What scares me is the potentially hundreds of terrorists who make their way through our porous borders each year and go undetected."

The JTTF document shows that the suspected illegal alien terrorists were arrested on a wide variety of charges from smuggling weapons into the U.S. to illegally wiring large sums of money into the country. Regardless of the particular charge, each illegal alien was flagged by a JTTF because of his or her suspected ties to terrorism.

"This week, the House is scheduled to complete a bill to strengthen our border security and enforce immigration laws throughout the country. Judging by these terrorism figures, Congress is not acting a moment too soon," said Tancredo. "Knowing what we know now, what could Congress say if a terrorist attack occurred that secure borders would have prevented? We've relied on our good fortune for too long-we must protect Americans by stopping terrorists before they get here."

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179021,00.html

The House approved building 700 miles of fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, giving priority for construction in Laredo, Texas. The city is across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where warring drug cartels have been blamed for more than 140 killings this year.

Compared to Compton,California with 68 murders this year.

[Cali/Yank]

"On approximately Feb. 4, 2001, Kourani surreptitiously entered the United States by sneaking across the U.S./Mexico border in the trunk of a car," wrote Chadwell. "He reached Mexico by paying $3,000 used to bribe an official in the Mexican Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, to give him a Mexican visa."

Prosecutors believe that official was Imelda Ortiz Abdala, the one-time Mexican consul in Beirut who was arrested by Mexico in November, according to the Associated Press, "on charges of helping a smuggling ring move Arab migrants into the United States from Mexico"? "They are not sure if that is the person that received the money," said Sandy Palazzolo, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Jeffrey G. Collins of Detroit. "They have information that she worked there during this time frame, but they don't know if that is in fact the person that he did bribe."

In a sentencing memorandum in Kourani's alien-harboring case, Chadwell told the court Kourani's "offense of conviction was part of a continuing scheme to bring illegal aliens to the United States from Lebanon through Mexico."

[NYer]

... warring drug cartels have been blamed for more than 140 killings this year.


According to Reuters, these are insurgents, not criminals.

[Cali/Yank]

According to Reuters, these are insurgents, not criminals.

Then Reuters is also reporting that insurgents in Compton are killing each other over a power grab?:)

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051228_4272.htm?campaign_id=hp_views&campaign_creative=Geri%20Smith

Channeling the Remittance Flood

In 2005, "migrant workers" in the U.S. sent $52 billion back to Latin America and the Caribbean. Now governments are working to leverage that money to promote economic development

[Cali/Yank]

Google Spains fence along it's border to keep out African illegal immigration.
Chavez? joke.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3551212.html

Mexican officials have also asked leaders throughout Latin America and in Spain and Portugal to join the fight against the fence. Heliodoro Diaz Escarraga, a leader of Mexico's House of Representatives, said he feared that the fence and other anti-immigration measures would "criminalize migration," increase racism and trigger new human rights abuses against migrants.

The Mexican campaign against the fence seems to be resonating in Latin America. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, for instance, has praised Mexican officials' tough stand, calling it "worthy of the dignity of the people of Pancho Villa, of Emiliano Zapata, of the Aztecs."

[Cali/Yank]

One of the sites I monitor to get leads for some interesting video's.

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6751


One of our Minutemen stationed along the border near Campo, CA called me last night and said there have been some strange happenings with the Mexican Military patrolling the border. They have been doing surveillance of border fence repairs and there has been a Mexican jet flying the border at about 1000 feet. He said that the U.S. Border Patrol have been traveling in pairs. Normally they travel solo

[Cali/Yank]

Oh yeah!!! Party my brothers, come into the light......



http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4301415&nav=HMO6
Home Depot Attacked In Border Fence Protest

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- Feeling slighted because of a small raise at the Home Depot where he used to work and by U.S. plans to build a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico, police said Ali R. Warrayat carefully planned his revenge.


He wanted to make a statement, and hopefully burn down the Chandler store where he worked before transferring to a Queen Creek Home Depot about six months ago, according to police reports and interviews. Early on Dec. 18, the 24-year-old Gilbert resident and Arizona State University student set his plan in motion.

Warrayat loaded his Quran and a Palestinian flag into the trunk of his car, put his cat and his uncle's pit bull in the front, and hit the gas, according to the reports and interviews. The car accelerated, slamming through the front doors of the store.

He steered the car straight to the paint department, his old job station. Crashing into a counter and scattering flammable fuel everywhere, the car stopped and Warrayat climbed out.

He clambered onto the roof, looked around, then jumped to the ground with his lighter. A flick was all it took. Flames climbed and explosions boomed as employees ran for safety.


Warrayat calmly walked out of the store, leaving the dog to die inside the burning car. The cat has never been found.

Police said they found him calmly sitting on the curb waiting for them and he was at first cooperative. Then he turned belligerent.

The fire was quickly extinguished

Co-workers were amazed at his alleged actions.

He had always been "gentleman-like and respectable with everyone," said co-worker and friend Joaquin Bustamante.

"When I saw him on TV, he did not look like the Ali that I know," Bustamante said. "He was a hard worker and worked circles around everybody, and he was a very private person."

Warrayat was deeply religious and had a Quran hanging from his rearview mirror, Bustamante said.

He talked about his religion with police interrogators, and told them he had a swastika tattooed on the sole of his foot, a mark of disrespect, because his mosque was once defaced with one.

He said he put the dog in his trunk to show it the Quran, but because dogs are "filthy" the animal didn't want to be in the trunk with the holy book.

He called a news conference at the Maricopa County jail to give a statement, then clammed up with the media gathered.

Warrayat, a native of Jordan who holds U.S. citizenship, is being held on aggravated assault and arson charges. The fire caused about $1 million in damage. He is being held without bond at Maricopa County's Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix.


Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[Cali/Yank]

http://la.indymedia.org/

Immigrant rights supporters challenge Costa Mesa City Council
COSTA MESA, Jan 3, 2006 - An estimated 200 immigrant rights supporters demonstrated both outside and inside a meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council this Tuesday night. At issue is a new law passed by the City Council that requires the Costa Mesa Police to enforce federal INS immigration laws, a move that effectively deputizes city employees into federal service. Outside both immigrant rights groups and anti- immigrant groups faced off. While inside the council chambers both groups addressed the council voicing their position on the new law. One arrest has been reported of a speaker addressing the council. Details of the incident are unclear, but it was reportedly caught on video by local TV news crews.


From the Newswire: Report, photos of Costa Mesa city council protest by Jammer CC || Mexican Activist is Beaten & Brutalized by Costa Mesa PD by phuk minutemen || ACTIVIST ARRESTED AT PROTEST IN COSTA MESA by phuk minutemen




This was very entertaining. It amazes me how people can lie with a straight face.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/costamesa/bad_2.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=68871_0_10_0_C


Court documents filed in Exinia’s case make frequent references to his position in the notorious Gulf Cartel. The paperwork also contains details of a December 2004 incident in which he tried to secure transportation for 20 Middle Eastern “terrorists” waiting to enter the United States from Monterrey, Chiapas and Puebla in Mexico.

Recorded telephone conversations authorized under the U.S. Patriot Act and a court order captured the La Feria truck driver referring to the 20 men as “gente de Osama” or “Osama’s people.”

During a Jan. 5, 2005, telephone conversation, Exinia described the men as “Iraqis,” ages 25 to 33, who were willing to pay $8,000 for transportation past Border Patrol checkpoints in South Texas and into the U.S. interior.

Exinia mentioned that eight of the men were coming to Progreso, northwest of Brownsville. He said they were “dangerous” and “really bad people.” They carried guns and made the smuggler that was helping them “afraid.”

Court records show that Exinia tried to employ a pilot — who turned out to be a confidential government source — to fly the men from the Valley to the northeastern United States.





Mexican soldiers defy border
Homeland Security report: 216 incursions into U.S. made by Mexican military
By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer

The Mexican military has crossed into the United States 216 times in the past nine years, according to a Department of Homeland Security document and a map of incursions obtained by the Daily Bulletin.
U.S. officials claim the incursions are made to help foreign drug and human smugglers cross safely into the United States. The 2001 map, which shows 34 of the incursions, bears the seal of the president's Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The document states that since 1996, Mexican military personnel have crossed into the following Border Patrol sectors:

• San Diego County, 17 times

• El Centro, 58

• Yuma, Ariz., 24

• Tucson, Ariz., 39

• El Paso, Texas, 33

• Marfa, Texas, eight

• Del Rio, Texas, three

• Laredo, Texas, six

• Rio Grande Valley, Texas, 28.

White House officials would not comment on the map and referred questions to officials at the Department of Homeland Security.

Kristi Clemens, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, would not confirm the number of incursions, but said Saturday the department is in ongoing discussions with the Mexican government about them.

‘‘We -- the Department of Homeland Security and the CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) -- are determined to gain control of the border and will continue to collaborate with our partners on the border,'' Clemens said.

Border Patrol agents say they for several years have reported sightings and confrontations with Mexican military inside the United States, which the Daily Bulletin documented last year in Beyond Borders, the newspaper's series about immigration.

‘‘We've had armed showdowns with the Mexican army,'' said a border agent who spoke on condition of anonymity. ‘‘These aren't just ex-military guys. These are Mexican army officials assisting drug smugglers.''

In one 2000 incident, more than 16 Mexican soldiers were arrested by border agents in a small town west of El Paso, in Santa Teresa, N.M., after Mexican soldiers fired on the agents, said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing the agents.

None of the agents was injured in the gun battle, and U.S. State Department officials forced the border agents to release the soldiers and return them to Mexico with their weapons, Bonner added.

‘‘If (Mexico) is going to put military across our border to threaten our guys, and if their own government can't control it, then we should be treating this as an act of war,'' he said.

Mexican government officials said they have neither seen the report nor the map, and they dispute the findings, stating that at no time in recent years have military personnel crossed the border into the United States.

‘‘I strongly deny any incursion by the Mexican military on United States soil,'' said Rafael Laveaga, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.

‘‘When it comes to Mexican military on the southern side, I have no reports of them crossing into the United States. That would mean that the patrol got lost or lack of expertise and orientation. This could be smugglers with fake uniforms as a tactic to confuse the authorities.''

Laveaga added that Mexico's law enforcement agencies work closely with the FBI, Office of National Drug Control Policy and other U.S. agencies to assist in the capture of drug cartel members.

Further, Laveaga contended that wealthy smugglers can afford fake uniforms and can camouflage their vehicles to resemble those of the military.

‘‘Some incursions do occur by smugglers both on the northbound and southbound sides of the border,'' Laveaga said. ‘‘Whenever these incidents occur, both governments have a mechanism to communicate with each other to let each other know what's going on.''

In the Tucson sector -- where many border agents reported run-ins with Mexican military -- the U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection formally issued a card to agents with tips on how to deal with incursions by Mexican soldiers. The Daily Bulletin first reported of the card last year.

The ‘‘Military Incursion'' card states that ‘‘Mexican Military are trained to escape, evade, and counter-ambush if it will effect their escape.''

Further, the card asks agents who come across Mexican soldiers to keep a low profile and use shadows to camouflage and hide.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said the numbers show that suggestions for increasing Border Patrol resources or building a fence along the border won't do enough to secure it.

‘‘It is a military problem,'' said Tancredo, who supports immigration reform. ‘‘We should commit the military to the border -- tomorrow. I mean, with armor and weapons.''

Speaking by phone from El Paso, the congressman recalled his own confusion and disbelief when Border Patrol officials first told him of the incursions several years ago.

But the more time he spent at the border, the more he realized how serious the problem is, Tancredo said.

‘‘Down here, there are war stories where you have Mexican military pulling up when drug traffickers are coming across, cocking their weapons, challenging our guys,'' he said ‘‘Shots have been fired. ... This is a problem here. I don't think anybody understands it unless they're here.''

Lt. George Moreno, who has been with the Imperial County Sheriff's Department for 20 years, said that he was surprised to hear about the 22 Mexican incursions reported during 2002 in the El Centro sector, 110 miles east of San Diego.

‘‘I've heard rumors that it's been happening,'' Moreno said. ‘‘A lot of these types of incidents are dealt with at a federal level. It's not brought down to our level unless it really concerns us.''

Border Patrol agents also are the target of the international Mara Salvatrucha street gang, whose members Mexican smugglers plan to bring across the border and pay to kill U.S. agents, according to a confidential Homeland Security alert obtained by the Daily Bulletin last week.

Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project, a civilian volunteer group that has monitored the border since April, said that Congress must address the serious nature of the military incursions.

‘‘That number is 20 times larger than even the Minuteman project organizers are aware of,'' Gilchrist said, referring to the 216 documented incursions. ‘‘But I'm not surprised at that number. There are significant drug and human cargo cartels involving Mexican military threatening Americans at the border. But our Congress has turned a blind eye to it because what the American people don't know won't bother them -- that's how our representatives think.''



Staff Writers Mason Stockstill and Wendy Leung contributed to this report.

Sara A. Carter can be reached by e-mail at sara.carter@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8552.

[Cali/Yank]

The Mexican government says its military is instructed to stay at least a mile away from the border (Washington Times)


http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY/IMAGES/050726-1.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

Kettle about to boil? No opinions?

Armed standoff along U.S. border. Police face Mexican military, smugglers
Daily Bulletin
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3430815
Jan 24, 2006
Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas on Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI. Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department.

Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.

"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time.

"Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border," said Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman with the FBI's El Paso office. "People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across."

Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred inquiries to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE did not return calls seeking comment.

Doyal said deputies captured one vehicle in the incident, a Cadillac Escalade reportedly stolen from El Paso, and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside. The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, he said.

Doyal's deputies faced a similar incident on Nov. 17, when agents from the Fort Hancock border patrol station in Texas called the sheriff's department for backup after confronting more than six fully armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men -- who were carrying machine guns and driving military vehicles -- were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal said.

Doyal said such incidents are common at Neely's Crossing, which is near Fort Hancock, Texas, and across from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

"It happens quite often here," he said.

Deputies and border patrol agents are not equipped for combat, he added.

"Our government has to do something," he said. "It's not the immigrants coming over for jobs we're worried about. It's the smugglers, Mexican military and the national threat to our borders that we're worried about."

Citing a Jan. 15 story in the Daily Bulletin, Reps. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, last week asked the House Judiciary Committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the House Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to investigate the incursions. The story focused on a Department of Homeland Security document reporting 216 incursions by Mexican soldiers during the past 10 years and a map with the seal of the president's Office of National Drug Control Policy, both of which were given to the newspaper.

Requests by Dreier, chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Hunter were made in jointly signed letters.

On Wednesday, Chertoff played down the reports of border incursions by the Mexican military. He suggested many of the incursions could have been mistakes, blaming bad navigation by military personnel or attributing the incursions to criminals dressed in military garb.

Mexican officials last week denied any incursions made by their military.

But border agents interviewed over the past year have discussed confrontations those they believe to be Mexican military personnel.

"We're sitting ducks," said a border agent speaking on condition of anonymity. "The government has our hands tied."

[NYer]

From Bill O'Reilly to Tom Tancredo to Bill Richardson ... many are frustrated and upset over the current administration's failure to act on this issue.

[Cali/Yank]

From Bill O'Reilly to Tom Tancredo to Bill Richardson ... many are frustrated and upset over the current administration's failure to act on this issue.

And still nothing is done. No one will listen, or do anything effective, until the border explodes. I think that's to late.

[NYer]

More Border Hijinx. (http://www.sierratimes.com/06/02/03/12_199_45_176_99185.htm)

[Cali/Yank]

I call BS. Right after the stand off, and refusal by the Mexican government to acknowledge that their troops do cross the line. Looking for the "Zetas" anyone? that's them.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB109/index.htm

"The history of post-war security relations between the United States and Mexico is a tale of frustration on the part of U.S. military officials at their inability to penetrate the Mexican army as they had other allied militaries in the western hemisphere."

Mexico's Defense Secretariat (Secretaría de la Defensa-SEDENA) consistently rejected the swollen grant aid packages of weapons and equipment that the United States offered throughout the Cold War,
It is an institution that has remained resolutely closed to American engagement enabling it to preserve its sense of independence and distance from the colossus to the north.




Press release they respond with ...



Mexican Consulate Response
INVESTIGATION ABOUT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED IN HUSPETH COUNTY, TEXAS

Feb. 1st, 2005 18:00 Hrs.

The Mexican Consulate in Mexico notified yesterday the federal U.S. authorities about the presence in Mexican territory of members of the Mexican Secretary of Defense (SEDENA) and the Federal Attorney's Office (PGR) (http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/trafficking_newsletter/antitraffnews_oct04.pdf) near the banks of the Rio Grande, close to the area commonly known as "Banderas," right in front of Hudspeth County.

The SEDENA and PGR officers are conducting field inspections as part of an investigation regarding the incident that ocurred on January 23rd in that area. This same information was shared directly yesterday at Noon with the Hudspeth County Sheriff, Arwin West, by members of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

The Mexican authorities will keep officers in the area for a few days more to continue the recollection of evidence that could help in the investigation of the incident.



http://tramilnet.sedena.gob.mx/portal/home.htm

[NYer]

Another Cross Border Tunnel Found in San Diego. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5609990,00.html)

An incomplete tunnel was found in the same area where investigators recently found one of the longest passages discovered beneath the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said.

The 3-foot-wide tunnel extended from just south of the border fence in Mexico to a point about 23 feet into the United States, ending at a concrete levee, Border Patrol spokesman Richard Kite said.

[Cali/Yank]

Nuevo Laredo city newspaper, la manana? was shot up on the 8th of febuary.
Reports are comming in that the city is running scared from the degree of military weapons, such as rpg's and ak47's among other munitions that the drug cartels are using in an escalation of violence, that is drawing the attention of Washington lackies. Hopefully.

[Cali/Yank]

"A politician who is poor is a poor politician."

Jorge Hank Rhon the new mayor of Tijuana.

U.S. drug investigators have long suspected that the Hanks' dealings reach beyond crony capitalism. A classified report leaked in 1999 described the Hanks as "a significant criminal threat to the United States." (After objections by the Mexican government and lobbying by the Hanks, the Clinton administration carefully noted that the report was just a draft.)

Suspicion has centered on son Jorge -- the now-mayor -- who was described in the report as "ruthless, dangerous, and prone to violence." Hank moved to Tijuana in the early 1980s, where he conveniently gained the government concession to run the city's famed racetrack, Agua Caliente. Investigators believe he's used it for money laundering. "I think Hank lends himself to that type of work," says one recently retired senior DEA official, who has investigated Hank. "It's not enough to indict him in the U.S. But do I feel confident that he's guilty? Without question."

Talk of Hank's propensity for violence was fueled by the 1988 assassination of a local gossip columnist, who made a habit of hectoring Hank and nicknamed him the "abominable snowman" -- a reference to his purported taste for cocaine. Two gunmen, including Hank's chief bodyguard, eventually confessed to the columnist's murder and admitted they had hid at the racetrack after the killing. Hank, who has reportedly kept the bodyguard on his payroll, denies any connection. (Since then, the dead columnist's newspaper has run a weekly ad "signed" by him, reading, "Jorge Hank Rhon: Why did your bodyguards kill me?")

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10520

[Cali/Yank]

Smugglers Gulch, steps away from Tijuana.

[Cali/Yank]

Mexican incursion confirmed

BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, SUN STAFF WRITER
Feb 23, 2006, 8:51 pm

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http://sun.yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_22573.php

The U.S. Border Patrol has confirmed that a Mexican government helicopter crossed into the United States Tuesday evening.

The unmarked helicopter crossed into the U.S. near San Luis, Ariz., at 6:30 p.m. and traveled along the Colorado River for approximately a half a mile before returning to Mexico, according to a Customs and Border Protection release.

"After proper coordination and verifications with the government of Mexico, they confirmed that the helicopter belonged to the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) and had mistakenly and unintentionally crossed into U.S. airspace," the release said.






http://www.trafficalertusa.com
We all have been guilty of leaving our front door unlocked, years ago when Joey and his friends would just walk in, but then one day we happen to notice the $10 bill missing off the counter.

Well....Joey has gotten older and he now has a helicopter and he's mad because the front door is locked. Well...not entirely locked, but he's showing us that he will continue to check our front door, because one day he will bring the rest of his friends, and he thinks nobody will be home!

During the Cold War, Russian "Bearcat" bombers were always intercepted by U.S. Military jets when they tested our other front door.

On the DMZ that separates North Korea from South Korea, a U.S. military helicopter brazing the DMZ to the north would be shot-down now.

The short right turn into Gitmo's only runway in Cuba has a manned cuban watch tower on the line, and a camera takes a picture of any U.S. aircraft that slightly crosses the line while making the hard right turn to avoid Cuban airspace. When crossed, the U.S. State Department gets a bill for the incursion.

Out of all the charades in the world, the most dangerous border for U.S. security is violated everyday and night, and no U.S. officials will say two cents to the Mexican government for the incursion.

And of course....the Mexican government will say that they are concerned and investigating OUR concerns....but in reality, what in the hell are they actually doing??

Dave Bertrand
www.trafficalertusa.com
02/24/06 @ 16:56

[Cali/Yank]

Helicopter smelly copter..Bigger fish to fry.



Military checkpoints
Fox orders troops to take post at bridges

By MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV
LAREDO MORNING TIMES
NUEVO LAREDO - Acting on direct orders from President Vicente Fox, soldiers took up positions along international bridges from here to Matamoros, searching nearly every vehicle headed into the United States.
At the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge and International Bridge I, the armed soldiers dressed in camouflage fatigues were stopping vehicles according to an undisclosed random pattern.

The searches will be conducted around the clock for an unspecified length of time, and all drivers using the bridges in either direction are asked to slow down as they approach the checkpoints. Identified as the "Frontera Segura" program, it's designed to help curb the drug trafficking that's blamed for the high crime rate plaguing the border.

As of Tuesday afternoon, no major finds had been reported.

Shopkeepers in the block nearest to International Bridge I said the operation began in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, when about 12 soldiers set up a checkpoint at the intersection of Guerrero and 15 de Junio streets.
The soldiers were stopping southbound vehicles coming from Laredo, as well as those heading north to the bridge.

A third contingent was set up at the Columbia-Solidarity bridge.
Fox announced a plan to deploy the soldiers in the Frontera Segura program last year, with an eye toward stopping any attempts to sneak arms, explosives or illegal drugs across the border.
"(Soldiers) were ordered to search depending on the vehicle, driver or passenger," said one official, who asked not to be identified.

Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernández Flores said the federal government and the Mexican Defense Department are reinforcing the México Seguro program along the Texas-Tamaulipas border.
"We support bringing security to the border," Hernández Flores said. "These (soldiers) are respectful. It's possible there may be some inconvenience, but we can feel secure."
The soldiers were polite and quick about their work, and there appeared to be little additional delay getting across the bridge.

Most of the vehicles that were checked belonged to U.S. citizens, who were asked to remain in their vehicle while it was checked. In some cases, soldiers opened trunks.
Soldiers conducting the checks were wearing yellow armbands with the initials PM for policía militar (military police).

Other armed officers stood nearby, keeping guard over the proceedings.
Meanwhile, there was no comment on the operation from the military headquarters here. When reporters asked for Gen. René Carranza, head of the local garrison, officials said he had been reassigned that day to another base.

(Vicente Rangel contributed to this story.)

[Cali/Yank]

2/28/06
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4568111&nav=9qrx
L.A. diocese chief condemns anti-immigration sentiment.






http://www.pww.org/article/view/8536/

Cardinal Mahoney announced that “the Catholic Church and many other organizations and immigrants rights advocates … are banding together to protect the rights of all … to see that it [HR 4437] does not go beyond the Senate,” and that the Senate would be urged to pass measures to increase legalization rights for immigrants. The Senate is expected to take up immigration issues in February. The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy “strongly” supporting its passage in the House.

The cardinal said, “2006 will be a great year of struggle for the rights and dignity of immigrants … and the Church is going to step forward front and center,” mobilizing its base and joining in coalition with others “to influence those who write and vote on the laws.” The cardinal’s remarks came during a special mass on Jan. 14 celebrating National Migrants Week.

[Cali/Yank]

Damn volatile. Personally, my view. CCIR has some shady patronage.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/ccir_1-25-06.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

12:37 p.m. March 9, 2006
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060309-1237-bn09border.html
SAN DIEGO – Two supervising U.S. Border Patrol agents were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling undocumented immigrants in exchange for bribes from a smuggling ring, federal officials said.
Related data:


Mario Alvarez, 44, and Samuel McClaren, 43, both of Imperial, were indicted Tuesday on eight counts that include conspiracy to bring in aliens for financial gain, conspiracy to commit bribery and filing false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.

The indictment said the agents received bribes of approximately $300,000 from members of the Javier Sanchez-Perfino Alien smuggling organization.

They also released, or facilitated the release of, illegal immigrants and smugglers, who were also undocumented, officials said. The immigrants were then turned over to the smuggling organization in exchange for money.

In one instance, authorities say, Alvarez and McClaren drove a member of the smuggling organization in a U.S. government vehicle from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center in El Centro to a Wal-Mart parking lot in Calexico. The ring member was then let go in exchange for $6,000, officials said.

[Cali/Yank]

Bam! Baby, Bam!!

GAO Report Exposes Massive Mismanagement and Corruption at the Agency that Would Administer Proposed Guest Worker Amnesty Proposals

Tony Dolz
March 15, 2006
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dealt the fatal blow to the controversial concept of Guest Worker Amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens now living in the United States in defiance of our laws. The GAO is the Investigative arm of Congress charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds.

In a devastating report released March 14th, the GAO charges the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – this is the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that would be in charge of proposed Guest Worker Amnesty – with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption.

On the eve of debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee of the House passed the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 - HR 4437, the GAO report exposes massive immigration chaos and USCIS corruption. Among the GAO's most alarming findings were that 33 percent of religious worker visas were issued fraudulently. The GAO documents evidence that radical Islamist, with ties to terrorist organizations, have used the religious worker visa category to gain admission to the United States .

The timing of the report mars the hopes of millions of unethical employers that on-or-off their payroll employ 12 million or more illegal aliens and that were counting on lobbying efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other pro-illegal immigration advocates, for influencing passage of a Guest Worker Amnesty Bill in the Senate.

The Government agency that would be responsible for administering the controversial Guest Worker Amnesty that would allow 12 million illegal aliens living and working un-lawfully in the United States is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The Copley News Service reported on March 7 th , 2006, that “Michael Maxwell stepped down last month as Director of the Office of Security at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and sought protection under the federal whistle-blower protection law. He claims that senior agency officials had been retaliating against him for telling Congress about what he described as serious national security vulnerabilities that persisted despite his warnings to those running the agency.”

In addition, Maxwell claims that the agency lacks the resources to handle some 500 allegations of criminal misconduct against agency employees, including allegations of espionage and acceptance of bribes.

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) spokeswoman Angelica Alfonso declined requests for an interview. She released a statement yesterday that said the agency is confident of its processes, and that it takes the allegations seriously.

One of Maxwell's attorneys, Rosemary Jenks, was quoted by the Copley article, saying Maxwell's concerns demonstrate an underlying tension between Citizenship and Immigration Services' dual missions of providing immigration benefits to applicants and of protecting national secur ity.”

Why did the GAO conduct a study on the USCIS?

See Full Report here: (http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/gaoimmbenefits31006.pdfIn 2002)

The GAO report was commissioned by the U.S. Congress and it was part of an investigation that started immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attack.

The GAO report documents that immigration benefit fraud was pervasive and significant and the approach to controlling it was fragmented. Experts believe that individuals ineligible for these benefits, including terrorists and criminals, could use fraudulent means to enter or remain in the U.S. The U.S. Congress asked that GAO evaluate U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) anti-fraud efforts. This report addresses the questions: (1) What do available data and information indicate regarding the nature and extent of fraud? (2) What actions has USCIS taken to improve its ability to detect fraud? (3) What actions does the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) take to sanction those who commit fraud?

Hordes of Immigration Law Attorneys have joined the ranks of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations dedicated to cheapening the wages of American workers through the oversupply of workers through illegal immigration.

Which immigration law firm would not like to have a client base of 12 million desperate illegal aliens that grows at the rate of 2.5 million per year?

In one of the largest labor certification fraud schemes ever uncovered by the GAO, federal investigators found evidence that a single prominent immigration attorney in the Washington, D.C., area submitted at least 1,436 and perhaps as many as 2,700 fraudulent employment applications between 1998 and 2002. According to the sworn testimony of a Department of Labor (DOL) special agent, this attorney and his associates are alleged to have made at least $11.4 million for the 1,400 applications that the agent reviewed, in all of which he found evidence of fraud, and perhaps as much as $21.6 million if all 2,700 applications were fraudulent, as he strongly suspected.

The GAO reports goes on to say, “Some individuals seeking immigration benefits pose a threat to national security and public safety, and white collar and other criminals sometimes facilitate immigration benefit fraud. For example, according to the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS), each year about 5,200 immigration benefit applicants are identified as potential national security risks, because their personal information matches information contained in U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Interagency Border Inspection System, a database of immigration law violators and people of national security interest. Additionally, according to federal prosecutors, immigration benefit fraud may involve other criminal activity, such as income tax evasion, money laundering, production of fraudulent documents, and conspiracy. Also, organized crime groups have used sophisticated immigration fraud schemes, such as creating shell companies, to bring in aliens ostensibly as employees of these companies. In addition, a number of individuals linked to a hostile foreign power's intelligence service were found to have been employed as temporary alien workers on military research.”

Unethical immigration law attorneys should be charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration and in creating an unlawful climate that puts all of us at risk of terrorism. Why? Because o nce one of their clients obtains a temporary work authorization fraudulently, an alien can use it to obtain other valid identity documents such as a temporary social security card and a driver's license; thus facilitating their living and working in the United States. It is important to recognize, in the illegal immigration debate, who butters the immigration attorney's bread.

The GAO found that the USCIS is completely unprepared to handle their present 7.5 million case work load with their 3000 employees. Catching up to with their workload is made all the more unlikely given the management systems shortfalls and the high levels of corruption within the organization. Few if any of the present 500 allegations of criminal misconduct against agency employees will be prosecuted.

The GAO finds the agency as it stands will be unable to handle the proposed Guest Worker Amnesty proposals bandied about by President Bush and a bi-partisan group of Senators influenced by tearful pleads accompanied by campaign contributions from employers who currently employ illegal aliens.

USCIS mismanagement and corruption is all the more menacing given that Donna Bucella , the Director of the federal Terrorist Screening Center said Tuesday that the agency maintains a list of 200,000 people known or suspected to be terrorists. She reported on March 14, 2006, that Police and other government workers in the U.S. have come in contact with terrorists or people suspected of foreign terror ties more than 6,000 times in the past 28 months. In addition, she said, that there have been about 28,000 matches worldwide, many of those from U.S. diplomatic outposts that screen applicants for visas to enter the United States .

Does is seem to you that President Bush is doing all that is possible or necessary to secure our borders and to keep us safe from terrorism by enforcing immigration law? Can we trust the Senate with giving us a Guest Worker Amnesty program that is not tainted by political contributions from illegal alien employers? Can we trust that a Guest Worker Amnesty, if approved, would be adequately administered by the USCIS?

Write and call your Senators and share with them your views on Guest Worker Amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens and 200,000 known terrorists, any one of whom could have already slipped through our unprotected borders, or planning to do so.

It has been four and half years since the findings of the 9/11 Commission. Securing our borders was the number one concern of the Commission. None of its border security recommendation have been enacted, much less even funded. That is why I decided to become a candidate for the California 41st Assembly District. I need and welcome your support and contributions.

The Field Poll of September 2005 shows 81% of Californians are concerned about illegal immigration. The Field Poll of March 2006 shows 57% of registered voters and 71% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of illegal immigration. We can win this race!

Support candidates that stand for border security and immigration law enforcement at every level of government, our nation is in danger.

Tony Dolz
National Security Analyst
Candidate California 41 st Assembly District
Santa Monica, Malibu, Malibu Heights, Topanga, Pacific Palisades, Agoura, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills, Westlake Village and Calabasas
www.dolz.com

[Cali/Yank]

Costa Mesa Dueling protests over city council agreeing to allow city police to check the status of residency of people incarcerated in the city jails.

Jim Gilchrist infront of El Chinaco, Costa Mesa, California. Benito Acosta and Duane Roberts and John Earl in front of city council members restaruant "Monahans" on saint paddy's night...3_17_06

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9370&d=1142869892

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3619785

Border sheriffs plan to unite
Friday meeting in El Paso will aim to form a new coalition

In an act of unity, sheriffs from every southwest border county in the United States will meet Friday in El Paso and pledge to protect the nation from a porous border as well as promise to provide a second line of defense for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents

The Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition also hopes the meeting will result in its organization expanding. The sheriffs coalition, which currently includes 16 Texas sheriffs' departments along the southwest border, wants to create the Southwest Border Coalition at the meeting. The new group would be a combination of all of the sheriffs' departments within the 24 southwest border counties, located from California to Texas.

The Texas sheriffs coalition was formed in response to a lack of federal protection along the border in Texas, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, chairman of the Texas sheriffs coalition, said the federal government has been slow to respond to the dangers and costs assumed by border county law enforcement departments.

The lack of federal response has left the counties with no other alternative than to join forces, he said.

''Basically, we're hoping to organize so we can all speak with one voice,'' Gonzalez said. ''It's true, there is strength in numbers. Instead of fighting each other we are going to work together to protect the American people from what we see as a serious national security risk.''

Gonzalez said that the federal government's abandonment of the nearly 2,000 mile southwest border, has put the lives of residents and law enforcement officials in danger. Further exacerbating the issue is the cost to state and local law enforcement departments that must contend with illegal immigration, human smuggling, environmental damage and narcotics traffickers.

Recently, the Texas sheriffs coalition initiated Operation Linebacker, which was conceived as a means to integrate law enforcement resources to increase both public safety and national security at major entry points along the Texas border. If formed, the new border coalition would likely expand the operation to the entire southwest border.

Representatives from Imperial County in San Diego are expected to attend the meeting and will speak about the growing violence in their communities, Gonzalez said.

Sheriff Larry Dever of the Cochise County Sheriff's Office in southern Arizona and Sheriff Todd Garrison of the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department in southern New Mexico plan on attending the El Paso meeting. Both men provided testimony to House and Senate leaders at immigration reform hearings two weeks ago in Washington, D.C.

Dever's jurisdiction, which was cast in the national spotlight during last year's Minuteman civilian patrols at the border, includes 83 miles of the nation's most traveled corridor for illegal immigrants.

At the immigration hearings, Texas sheriffs spoke candidly to legislators about the increase in armed confrontations with narcotics traffickers and the growing violence against border patrol agents in their communities.

Sheriff Arvin West, of Hudspeth County, Texas, testified that in January his deputies had armed confrontations with men they believed were Mexican military personnel who were assisting narcotics traffickers across the Rio Grande.

Rafael Laveaga, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C., said that investigations conducted by the Mexican government concluded that the January incursion, which was filmed by Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers, was nothing but narcotics traffickers dressed up like Mexican military officers.

So far, Mexican law enforcement officials have not made any arrests in the incident, Laveaga said.

West said the continuous cover-ups by the Mexican government combined with U.S. complacency is creating a dangerous situation for both countries.

''From everything I've seen so far, our legislators are talking a lot but in all reality they're walking around doing nothing,'' West said. ''Our American officials cow down to Mexico because it's lucrative to make money off of Third World countries.''

West added that Mexico has the resources and capability to have a prosperous nation but ''it all boils down to the same thing - drugs and corruption,'' he said.

Last month, a 2005 report released by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime stated that 90 percent of all narcotics enter the United States from Mexico. Corruption in Mexico is widely considered the main barrier curtailing the country's growing strength of narcotics traffickers.

During the March hearings, Senate leaders suggested that local law enforcement officials need to develop relationships with their counterparts on the southern side of the border.

Texas sheriffs attempted to do just that when they returned from Washington, West said.

The sheriffs contacted Juan Carlos Foncerrada-Berumen, the Mexican consul general in El Paso, who promised them, last week, a list of Mexican law enforcement officials working along the southern border.

However, the sheriffs never received the list. Instead, the group received the Magistrates Guide to the Vienna Convention, which warned them to contact the consulates office and report any illegal immigrants arrested by U.S. officials.

''We have no relationships with our Mexican counterparts,'' West said. ''Basically, Berumen was telling us that we have to contact them every time we arrest an illegal immigrant. It was just unbelievable.''

Foncerrada-Berumen could not be reached for comment.

Sara A. Carter can be reached by e-mail at sara.carter@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8552.

[Cali/Yank]

“This bill is wrong because this is a country for everybody who wants to live a better life and this is a free world,” said protester Lionel Vanegas, who owns an accounting firm.

I heard other soundbites that stated. "Noone comes here because they want to."

Whaaaaaaaa?

na·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nshn)
n.


A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.

The territory occupied by such a group of people: All across the nation, people are voting their representatives out.

The government of a sovereign state.

A people who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language; a nationality: “Historically the Ukrainians are an ancient nation which has persisted and survived through terrible calamity” (Robert Conquest).

A federation or tribe, especially one composed of Native Americans.

The territory occupied by such a federation or tribe.





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11442705/

[Cali/Yank]

Lost Angeles 3/25/06

Notice anything?

[Atlas]

mexican flags? US Flag upside down?

Most of the people in the picture appear to be hispanic?

[Cali/Yank]

mexican flags? US Flag upside down?

Most of the people in the picture appear to be hispanic?

American flag upside down. 1 brownie point.

The guy with the bucket went around gathering Mexican flags from people and giving them an American flag.

Mexican American Political Association




"Thanks to Chicago there will be more people interested in our efforts," said Ugarte, the Los Angeles organizer. Ugarte said activists in Southern California were on the phone all day Friday analyzing how well the Chicago march went. She said she was most surprised about how Chicago organizers incorporated men into the rally--women, she said, are usually more inclined to take part in such events.

In Philadelphia, immigrant advocates pored over news footage from Friday's rally for lessons in planning their own rally later this month, said Ricardo Diaz, an organizer with a group called El Paro.

One thing they'd like to avoid is allowing marchers to primarily chant in Spanish, as happened in Chicago, Diaz said.

"It justifies the bad guys in their message that Americans are being trumped by Latinos," he said.

A touch he liked in Chicago was the heavy use of American flags, with traditional Mexican icons playing a smaller role.

"We like the American flags. We're planting American flags all the way through" the march route, he said.

[Cali/Yank]

Spanish channels saying 2 million people?

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151530.php

[Cali/Yank]

Awake Sleeping Giant, Awake!
by VirtualChicano Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006 at 6:50 AM
Aztlan


Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free your children.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free your Mestizo people.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free the little Mestizo playing kickball on the blacktop.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free his father from tyranny.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake to give the Mestiza pride in marrying one of her own.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake so that her mother can rejoice in her Mestizo grandchildren.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake now without vengeance.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake but without violence

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake from your nighmare of colonization.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and lead your people to self-determination.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and give your children education.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and end the wholesale incarceration.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and unite us with our brothers
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and remove the fear from the others.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and curse their wall.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and unite us all.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free us this century.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake for it is our destiny.

http://www.chicanoforums.com/forums/blog/virtualchicano/index.php?showentry=49

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8841


You saw the news. But you had to be there on the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of Nican Tlaca people rejecting European colonial law.

(The cops say it was 500,000 people.
But it sure as hell felt like half the city was there.)


Our people rejecting Anglo culture.

Our people saying this is where we belong
and that we're not leaving.

You may have seen many American flags being waved
but what you didn't see was all the American flags abandoned after the march,
in the trash,
on the streets,
in the garbage dumpsters.

Our people use what we find useful
and then toss it when it no longer serves our purposes.



Today I caught a glimpse of a liberated future
where our people cast off the European colonials who are trespassing on our land,
and it was quite beautiful.

I sure wish the Frist bill would pass,
so our people will really wake up and get even angrier.

But it won't and that's okay.


We're on our way to liberation.

[Cali/Yank]

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151814.php

California is itching to burn.

Tremors and after shocks.

Protests and school walks..

Reason for humane concerns, while the flag they drag is your dead soldier.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?page_id=810

[Atlas]

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29544


:happy_11: :happy_11: :happy_11: :happy_11:

[death2aq]

Here is what's being said today.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189279,00.html

It appears they are creating a loop hole with this guest worker thing instead of calling it amnesty. This is a crock of shit. They should not be bowing to pressure from the illegals. They should be upholding the fucking law already in place. That shit about a mother staying in America because she will not abandon her kid. I say deport the both of them. She got over here to have the kid, so that she could use that loop hole. Hang her ass with that loop hole.

[NYer]

Frist, Specter, McCain, and Sensenbrenner Bills Compared. (http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/SensenbrennerSpecterMcCainFristComparison.pdf)

[Cali/Yank]

It's an issue that needs to be solved by the Frist pkge, and then debated. As it stands now, it's a free for all, jamboree.

More pictures from Southern California area high schools. "Pomona"

[Cali/Yank]

Correction.

The flag flown in distess is at Montebello High.

[Cali/Yank]

If you missed it .. check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIW-BZ8oLrk&eurl=




Patriots:

A brave young man named Josh Denhalter is organizing a protest that will take place outside of his school campus to respond to the vicious anti-American hatred spewed by MECHA and pro-illegal alien protesters at a rally on Monday.

He is fed up with their flying of the Mexican flags and their anti-American rhetoric and wants to fight back. He has attempted to organize a rally on campus but has been thwarted by double talking school administrators who are simply attempting to delay and stonewall to get through the week. The school has Spring Break next week and they are hoping things quiet down.

School officials have told him that he cannot have a rally because they fear for student safety. In other words, a predominantly white gathering of students utilizing their first amendment rights to support America, wave American flags and to support anti-illegal immigration legislation might evoke a violent response from the Mechistas. Nevermind the fact that a white student was jumped by some cowardly Mexican students who hurled racial epithets and spat upon him for uttering anti-illegal immigration sentiments at this Mecha rally the previous day.

Had the school administrators showed any semblance of fairness and equality, they would have allowed this young man to organize his rally on campus and given pro-American students equal time. Instead, they choose to discriminate against these young, patriotic Americans and attempt to cover up a vicious "hate crime" perpetrated against a white student.

Save Our State activists will stand in unity with Mr. Denhalter and his fellow students and support their pro-American free speech. All our encouraged to attend this rally that will take place during their lunch hour.

WHERE:

Jurupa Valley High School
10551 Bellgrave Avenue
Mira Loma, CA 91752
Phone: 951-360-2600
Fax: 951-360-2612

WHEN:

Friday, March 31st
TIME:

11am - NOON

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9052&st=0



This young man talked on KFI 640 talk radio for the evening commute home.
It's a long story, but tomorrow will be another.

[NYer]

Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation. (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/30/223801.shtml?s=ic)

FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.

"This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States,” Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI's budget.

In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee: "That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.”

[Cali/Yank]

:) Nice find NYer, Can always tell the hotspots along the border by the way Google Earth blurs the area.

Brewster County, Texas

[Cali/Yank]

Protest Juraba High school, california. students not allowed to wave American flags.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/mira_loma/beeyotch.wmv

Visiting Senator Feinstien

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=865

[Cali/Yank]

Sum's it up fairly well.


What Bush fails to see at the border
by Ronald F. Maxwell

Washington Times Opinion
April 6, 2006

Dear President Bush,

Perhaps you know me from my work. I wrote and directed the movies "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals." Walking Civil War battlefields, soaking up the letters and diaries of that generation, re-creating the world of our ancestors -- all this has given me a deep appreciation for our country. My dad was with the Army Air Corps in North Africa while your dad was in the Pacific. My French mother was liberated in Tunisia and became a lawful immigrant to the United States. For an American, my story is unique and typical at the same time.

You probably don't need to be reminded of the hostility and animus directed your way by most of the Hollywood community. Then again, I'm sure you don't take it personally. After all, they held Ronald Reagan in equal contempt. As one of the very few directors of major motion pictures who sees you in a different light, I implore you to listen seriously to what I have to say.

What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world. No country at any time anywhere has sustained the influx of tens of millions of foreigners across its borders. A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America. A socialist radical may soon be elected as the president of Mexico, a country which officially encourages its emigrants to vote in Mexican elections, urging them to think of themselves as Mexican first and perhaps only. The eventual outcome is plain for anyone with eyes to see. This is invasion masquerading as immigration.

It may already be too late to avoid a future annexation of the Southwest by Mexico or the evolution of a Mexican-dominated satellite state. This is not to say Mexican people are better or worse than any of God's children. It is to say that millions of ethnically and culturally homogeneous people will seek self-determination in a land they will increasingly feel justified in claiming as their own. Especially when the natural weight of demographic change is accompanied by the soundtrack of radical demagoguery which seeks to legitimize and moralize this phenomenon as a "reconquista." Many pundits claim you will be remembered in history as the president who won (or lost) the war in Iraq. I see it differently. I believe you will come to be seen, in the years and decades to come, as the President who saved (or lost) the Southwest of the United States.

Mr. President, this is a time for candor. Your immigration policy is viewed as captive to the cheap labor -- big business lobby and inimical to the survival of our country. It is splitting the party and draining away support for your presidency. We who understand the vital stakes will not be placated by rhetoric or slogans. The failure to recognize this growing and deep disaffection among Republicans, conservatives, independents and, indeed, many Reagan Democrats, is, in the short run, going to lead to a monumental defeat for your party at the polls in November.
The last two years of your presidency will be plagued with impeachment hearings, with pressures to diminish the war against terrorism, with the cutting off of funds for the war of liberation in Iraq for which so many of our brothers in uniform have paid the ultimate price. The American people will once again be forced to endure a painful repetition of the humiliating withdrawal from Vietnam. We will be dedicating yet another monument to brave men who gave their lives for honor, country and a lost cause.

I understand that in your heart you want to believe that the border should be an open place where goods and people can move freely back and forth for the good of all. I do not question your integrity or the goodness and decency of your motivations. Dear Mr. President, this is a utopian creed, which must be discarded before it is too late.

When I watched the Senate Judiciary Committee's one-day public session on immigration reform (I suppose we should be grateful that Sen. Arlen Specter devoted one whole day out of his busy schedule for the public discussion of a problem regarding 20 million illegal aliens) it was remarkable for the near absence of any senator speaking on behalf of the American people or their own constituents. It seems the overriding concern of most senators of both parties is for the illegal immigrant population. Perhaps these senators should be reminded that they are supposed to represent and defend American citizens, not foreign nationals, illegal aliens or indeed anyone else. Listening to the self-serving and pandering speeches, you'd think the senators were elected in Mexico or any other country on the globe except America.

Where was the concern for American schoolchildren forced to sit in overcrowded classes, for American patients forced to wait in overcrowded hospitals, for American workers whose wages are being undercut, for American drivers forced to sit in interminable traffic jams in over-whelmed freeway systems, for the victims of organized gangs, for the American college students who are turned away from publicly funded state universities, for many African Americans who are being literally displaced from their neighborhoods while being moved figuratively, once again, to the back of the bus, for those environmentalists and conservationists who want to protect open space and slow down urban sprawl, for the American taxpayers who have had to bear the burden of billions of dollars in increased welfare costs, over-burdened prisons, extra police and security and even, adding insult to injury, for bilingual education?

Where was the concern that we as a people are compelled to deal with these "in your face" issues which have been imposed upon us by external forces, instead of focusing our time, energies and capital on our own indigenous, urgent concerns, like for instance, the medical care for our own countrymen and women. Might it be irresponsible to mislead the 20 million illegal foreigners already here and might it be immoral to encourage the yearly arrival of millions more when we cannot even take care of our own millions of poor and sick and hungry and, yes, dare I say it, our unemployed?

Working as I do in Civil War history, I have had to explore the ugly depths of the American institution of slavery, and have been privileged to work alongside civil rights leaders and specialists in African-American history. For this reason it troubles me that we appear today to be importing a second virtual slave class of low-wage workers who are hired to replace or displace less-educated or privileged Americans -- including the very descendants of American slaves.
I agree with you that "no child should be left behind." But that is precisely what immigration advocates are doing to the children of America's working class -- by flooding the market with workers from a desperately poor country, who depress the wages of high school and even college graduates.

Little in the current situation resembles the immigration we knew and cherished while growing up in America prior to the '80s. The new and radically dislocating phenomenon we are enduring is not the old, familiar immigration of yesteryear -- gradual, orderly, assimilating and lawful. The numbers alone are unprecedented. The American people have been made the victims of monumental social engineering perpetuated upon them without their consent and against their will by an arrogant governing elite. Those who try to neutralize their justifiable instincts of self-preservation as a people and a sovereign nation by constantly invoking the mantra of "a nation of immigrants" are trying to pull the wool over their eyes.

The House immigration bill isn't perfect, but it is a firm and realistic place from which to build an effective policy for the survival of our country. The McCain-Kennedy bill looks like it was drafted by bureaucrats at the United Nations, not by representatives of the United States.

To do the right thing, to take the safe course for protecting our country, you will have to endure even more vilification from the left, you will have to watch large and increasingly violent rallies by those who don't want to abide by our laws or the will of the American people -- who think they are entitled -- who believe this country already belongs to them -- who believe the rest of us should just move aside, shut up and smile. To pretend this problem will go away by pandering to the illegal population, or to leave it for the next generation to solve is national suicide.

The moment has arrived. The Senate has already begun its bloviations and self-agrandizing platitudes, its morality play of good and evil wherein they the noble senators are cast as the redeemers of the entire world population seeking only to "live the American dream." We know by their coded words they will do nothing meaningful to really solve the problem or to defend America. If their actions of the past 20 years are a guide, they will only take the pose of pretending to do so. As a movie director I can see bad acting a mile away.

Today there are two Republican Parties. One is now seen correctly by most Americans as responsive first and foremost to the demands of multinational corporations, the agro-business and the Chamber of Commerce. The other, best represented by the embattled members of the House, represents grass-roots America -- we the people. In this debate you have the opportunity to make the party one and whole again, to regain its soul and return it to the service and the sovereignty of the American people.

Dear Mr. President, you must disenthrall yourself from the failed policies of the present. I implore you to rethink this issue and to change course. Millions of Americans, a great majority of your fellow citizens will be with you. Start speaking and doing the sensible, courageous and right thing. You will see your poll numbers turn dramatically around. You will save your country.

Ronald F. Maxwell, a writer and director, is currently working on a satirical motion picture about immigration into America.

[NYer]

Immigration Bill Surprises ...

HOW do you slip legislative poison past a U.S. senator? Bury it on Page 302 (http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/62017.htm) of a bill.

The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders yesterday announced a compromise on an immigration bill - with some details still to be worked out. But details that may continue from the bill passed out of the Judiciary Committee should definitely be deal-breakers.

Like that surprise hidden on page 302 - which would replace the country's entire bench of experienced immigration judges with pro-immigration advocates.

With a few exceptions, today's immigration judges (who serve for life) are dedicated to enforcing the law, and they do a difficult job well. This bill forces all immigration judges to step down after serving seven years - and restricts replacements to attorneys with at least five years' experience practicing immigration law.

Virtually the only lawyers who'll meet that requirement are attorneys who represent aliens in the immigration courts - who tend to be some of the nation's most liberal lawyers, and who are certainly unlikely as a class to be fond of enforcing immigration laws.

It gets worse. Immigration judges are now appointed by the attorney general - whose job it is to see to it that laws are enforced. The Senate bill gives that power to a separate bureaucrat, albeit one directly appointed by the president, making immigration courts more susceptible to leftward polarization.

The second nasty surprise? Just before the committee approved the bill on the evening of March 27, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) offered the "DREAM Act" as an amendment. It passed on a voice vote.

The DREAM Act is a nightmare. It repeals a 1996 law that prohibits state universities from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens. The principle, of course, is that no illegal alien should be entitled to receive a taxpayer-subsidized benefit that out-of-state U.S. citizens can't get. But the committee's bill allows illegals to be treated better than those U.S. citizens on tuition.

The bill also gives an amnesty to the nine states (including New York) that have been flouting the '96 law, two of which (California and Kansas) are now facing lawsuits (I'm a counsel to the plaintiffs in both cases).

The third nasty surprise lies in what the bill fails to do. The measure envisions a massive amnesty for illegal aliens now in the country - but doesn't give the Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) the personnel or infrastructure to implement the amnesty.

In March, the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a scathing report on the CIS's inability to effectively detect immigration fraud.

The last time we enacted a major amnesty, in 1986, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the CIS's predecessor agency) processed some 3 million amnesty applications from illegal aliens. It found 398,000 cases of fraud - and missed thousands more. Now CIS may have to implement an amnesty four times larger.

Yet CIS already faces a backlog of several million applications for immigration benefits. And the GAO found that CIS managers pressure staff into "meeting production goals" by approving applications quickly - which means that fraud goes undetected. Adding millions of amnesty applications can only make things worse. And the latest Senate "compromise" - giving immediate amnesty only to aliens who've been in the country for five years or more - makes the process even more complex and fraud-prone, as illegals use fake documents to "prove" long-term residence.

In 1986, the terrorist Mahmud "The Red" Abouhalima fraudulently got amnesty as a seasonal agricultural worker (in fact, he was a New York cabbie). That status allowed him to travel to Afghanistan for terrorist training - which he later used as one of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.

Terrorists know how to game the system. Janice Kephart, former counsel to the 9/11 Commission, released a study last year on how easily terrorists obtain immigration benefits. Of 94 alien terrorists in the United States, she found that 59 were successful immigration frauds. That includes six of the 9/11 hijackers.

The Senate bill does nothing to address this problem - while throwing a massive new load on the bureaucracy. A new amnesty will almost certainly ensure that more terrorists gain the legal right to walk our streets.

They will no doubt show their appreciation by attacking innocent Americans. And that will be the nastiest surprise of all.

Kris W. Kobach, a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, served as counsel to the U.S. Attorney General, 2001-'03. He was the attorney general's chief adviser on immigration law.

You know what to do. (http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm)

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.chevyapprentice.com/view.php?country=us&uniqueid=21bdeec0-1600-1029-98eb-0013724ff5a7

[Cali/Yank]

Thoughts about unlawful search?

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=913

[NYer]

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8978/grondahl8cj.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

http://media.putfile.com/SOS-at-the-LA-Catholic-Church

Easter Sunday protest.

[Cali/Yank]

Better wake up.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C635200794%2C00.html

"I lived in Mexico 20 years ago," says Timmins, referring to his days as an embassy worker in Hermosillo in the late 1980s, "and during that time I reported without much attention being paid in Washington on the evolving Mexican government policy of passively promoting illegal immigration as part of a deliberate and long-range strategy to regain control of the border and mountain states it lost during the Mexican War of 1847-48."




http://www.elpasotimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060419/NEWS/604190314

Enforcement: Then and now
Work-site arrests:
Year Arrests
1999 2,849
2003 445

Civil notices of intent to fine employers for hiring migrants:
Year Notices
1999 417*
2003 4
*not counting civil settlements.
Criminal indictments, most from national security queries:
Year Indictments
2004 67
2005 140
Source: Government Accountability Office.

Shadow economy


Size: $970 billion, or nearly 9 percent of the goods and services produced by the real economy, Barron's has reported.

Workers: More than one of every four drywall installers and landscape workers, about one in five workers in meat and poultry packing, and about one in six in the leisure and hospitality industry or construction are undocumented immigrants, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

Income: The average family income of undocumented immigrant workers is about $27,400, compared with about $47,700 for documented immigrant or native workers, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10368

POLITICALLY-TIMED IMMIGRATION RAIDS

By Michelle Malkin · April 20, 2006 09:05 AM

I speak regularly with dedicated men and women who work for the Department of Homeland Security, and especially agents from across the country who work for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

I can tell you based on my reporting over the last five years that the Bush administration's belated efforts to look tough on immigration enforcement at worksites amount to a cynical, politically timed effort to salvage the White House's guest worker program dreams and schemes. I'm referring to this story linked prominently today on Drudge and spread elsewhere:

Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials announced. Seven current and former managers of IFCO Systems, which has offices in several states, were arrested and charged in connection with the employment of illegal immigrants, said U.S. Attorney Glenn Suddaby in Albany, New York.

Suddaby said two lower level employees were also charged in the case.

Wednesday's action against IFCO Systems -- an industry leader in the manufacture of wooden pallets, crates and containers -- came as Homeland Security and Justice Department officials prepared to announce steps to toughen internal enforcement of the nation's immigration laws.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other Bush administration officials and a federal prosecutor will appear at the agency's Washington headquarters Thursday. They will announce the new strategy aimed at employers and disclose the results of the enforcement actions targeting IFCO Systems.

Customs officials said agents made more than a thousand arrests in nearly 40 locations including Houston, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Phoenix, Arizona; and Albany, New York.

Well, this is all sounds good and tough...until you look at the Bush administration's record for the last several years. Don't be fooled.

For those covering DHS Secretary Chertoff's press conference today, ask him to explain this:









Via Edwin S. Rubenstein. Sources: GAO, "Immigration Enforcement: Weaknesses Hinder Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement Efforts," August 2005. Figures 3, 4, and 5. (1999-2004.); Dept. of Homeland Security, 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, September 2004. Table 39. (1997-1998); Dept. of Homeland Security, 2001 Statistical Yearbook, Table 61. (1992-1996).

As Rubenstein points out, this means that from 1997 to 2003, worksite arrests under the Bush administration fell by a factor of some 97 percent since 1997--and plunged by another 2/3rds by 2004.

Where have they been all this time?

As for getting tough on employers, Rubenstein also notes these stunning statistics: "[O]f the 3,064 workforce investigations closed [in 2004], fines were imposed in just 3 (three!) of them – one out of one thousand. . By contrast, fines were imposed in about 11 percent of closed investigations in 1997."

Notices of intent to fine employers:

1997: 865
1999: 417
2000: 178
2001: 100
2003: 162
2004: 3

Based on my reporting and interviews with ICE agents, I can also tell you that this week's dog-and-pony show will result in very few of the arrested illegal aliens actually being deported. Despite what the administration claims, "catch and release" is still the order of the day.

Just ask local and federal law enforcement officers in the Galveston, Texas, area, where in January of this year, following a collaborative effort between local police and area ICE agents, some 62 illegal aliens were caught at a day labor site...and released after local open-borders activists from LULAC kicked up a fuss and Washington ordered its local ICE agents to cave in. It happens every day.

More Bush-era catch-and-release background:here and here and here. and here. Must-read from indefatigable deportation analyst Juan Mann here.

You want "comprehensive immigration reform?" Then stop talking about making existing problems worse by piling on a new guest worker/amnesty program.

Clean our own house first.

[Cali/Yank]

ACAPULCO - The decapitated heads of a former police chief and a police officer were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building in this Pacific Coast resort, authorities said.

The heads of Acapulco Preventive Police Commander Mario Nuñez Magaña and Preventive Police Officer Jesús Alberto Ibarra were found at the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement earlier this year, and were accompanied by a sign that warned, "So that you learn to respect."


They were discovered about 3 a.m. in front of the offices of the city´s Finance Department next to black plastic bags apparently used to carry them in, said local Attorney General official Rogelio Quevedo Mendoza.


The bodies of the policemen were later found in a different part of the city, one wrapped in a blue sheet and the other in a green rug. Both were secured with heavy tape, Quevedo said.


On Jan. 27, four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with Preventive Police officers, including Nuñez and Ibarra, in front of the Finance Department, located only two kilometers from the city´s main tourist zone, the state attorney general´s office said.


Colleagues said both Nuñez and Ibarra had been kidnapped by armed men from their homes Wednesday as they were preparing to go to work. But police said they have no information on how or when the men disappeared.


The gruesome discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca, the governor of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, announced that he was investing US$12 million to acquire heavy- duty weapons, new bulletproof vests, and modernized radios for the police force.


"The criminals should watch out because the good weapons are on their way," he told a news conference Thursday.

[Cali/Yank]

As Ace Ventura would say... Oh, Reaaaahhlly

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/14400841.htm

Latino leaders to discuss `Great American Boycott' in Mexico City
BY DIANNE SOLIS AND ALFREDO CORCHADO
The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS - Mexico's government will hold an unusual meeting Monday in Mexico City of U.S. Latino leaders, who expect officials there to urge them to reconsider the call for a May 1 boycott of U.S. businesses.

Latino leaders, including several from Dallas, said the meeting would be a "give and take" on immigrant issues and recent protests. They said the Mexican government was concerned that the proposed boycott would undermine their common efforts to win support for the immigrant cause.

"We're in favor of a more moderate tone," said one Mexican official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The meeting comes as debate rises over whether the May 1 events - called the "Great American Boycott" - might damage attempts to pass legislation that would legalize great portions of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. Protests were ignited around the country because of other proposed legislation that would have made instant felons of the nation's illegal immigrants.

[Cali/Yank]

President Bush is extending his weekend trip to California to speak in Irvine on Monday, April 24th, on the volatile issue of immigration overhauls.

Bush will speak to the Orange County Business Council between 8 and 9 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, 17900 Jamboree Road, according to Myal Greene, spokesman for U.S. Rep. John Campbell, R-Irvine.



:food_11:

[Cali/Yank]

Mexican drug war silences press


NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, April 23 (UPI) -- A drug war in the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo appears to have silenced the press following the murder of three reporters during the past year.

Journalists are so intimidated by the drug lords that they ignored the slayings in broad daylight of four undercover federal police officers last month, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

"I don't mention groups, I don't mention names...I don't want to know anything," one newspaper editor told the Times. He added that his paper will publish only the barest facts of the crime wave that is sweeping Nuevo Laredo.

The war between the Gulf and Sinaloa drug cartels has been blamed for more than 230 slayings in the city during the past 16 months.

Cartel operatives who kidnap reporters and repeatedly phone in threats to newsmen have effectively silenced journalists who would ordinarily report on the violence.


Copyright Political Gateway 2006©
Copyright United Press International 2006

Oh and two more cops in another state of Mexico (Guerroro?)
wound up dead. Can't seem to find that story anymore on the net.

[Cali/Yank]

Protests against GW's open border policy infront of the Hyatt regency Irvine California USA 4_24_06

Featuring Former NFL quarterback Steve Young for the San Francisco 49ers running for the 48th District and Minutemen of color.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/NEWS/060425-UAV-CRASH/UAVCrash.html

The aircraft was the only UAV the Border Patrol owned. It had just been unveiled in September of last year.

Agents say the UAV was extensively damaged. The aircraft itself was worth 10 million dollars.

[NYer]

Minutemen gaining in immigration debate. (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/26/D8H7RCGGR.html)

[Cali/Yank]

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/04/marcos.jpg

April 27, 2006
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleague,

Subcomandante Marcos and the Other Campaign caravan are getting closer to the concrete jungle of Mexico City, the center of the country's political power and home to a quarter of its citizens. On Wednesday, Marcos made a startling announcement from the Mexico City suburb of Nezahualcoyotl. Al Giordano reports:

"Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos was received this afternoon by thousands of urban workers from the rough-and-tumble metropolis of Nezahualcoyotl that borders Mexico City. Street vendors, factory, retail and construction workers, laid off meatpackers, taxi and bus
drivers, teachers, immigrants from Oaxaca and other Mexican states, and former immigrants that returned from working in the United States, plus their sons and daughters from grade schools, junior highs, and high schools - many who flocked directly from class to the afternoon rally in front of City Hall still wearing their school uniforms - gave 'Delegate Zero' a warm and attentive welcome.

"It was there that Marcos decided to drop an information bomb on two governmental powers: the Mexican federal government and 'the Yankee Embassy' of Washington and Wall Street: The May Day workers march, announced last February in Tlaxcala by the Zapatista spokesman, will
assemble in front of that United States Embassy, Monday, at noon, on ritzy Paseo de la Reforma, on the very same day that Mexicans and Mexican-Americans across the U.S. border will march and many will strike from their jobs in protest of repressive measures against them
up North.

"The announcement came one day after Mexican Interior Minister Carlos Abascal sought a meeting with the military commander of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials), which has shunned any and all contact with the federal government for the past five years. Abascal worried aloud during a meeting with Catholic bishops about Marcos' daily vow that the national rebellion he is fomenting 'will topple the federal government.' Today, Marcos answered the top functionary of the administration of president Vicente Fox, saying: 'What we are proposing is to defeat the evil governments.' Referring to Abascal's apparent confusion over what that means, he said: 'I repeat: we will topple the municipal mayors, the state governments and the government of the republic, put them all in jail, kick the bankers, the big mall owners and capitalists out of the country and defeat the capitalist system!'"

Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin:

http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/en.html

[Cali/Yank]

Americans from the twin city of Laredo do not visit the narrow streets or the pretty plazas of the old town any more, even though many have relatives there.

Despite close ties of blood and affection there is only a vague sense of what is really happening on the far side of the Rio Grande.

The anxiety is being fed by an effective media blackout in Nuevo Laredo, following a machinegun attack on the newspaper office there.

Sheriff Flores said his sources spoke of a huge gun battle among the cartels in recent weeks with 15 or so men shot, but said that no word of the battle appeared in print. Diana Fuentes, the editor of the Laredo Morning Times, the American town's lively newspaper, said she too heard rumours of the battle, but could not confirm it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/28/wus28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/28/ixworld.html

[Cali/Yank]

Protest against President Bush in Irvine 4-24-06

Minutemen and various groups of differing opinions..

http://www.vidiLife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=A1DC1EB3-9204-4599-A1C9-4

[Cali/Yank]

This link should work..fingers crossed.

http://streaming4.vidilife.com/vidilife/video/2006/4/28/533312/660967.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, 202-514-2008; 202-514-1888 (TDD); Web: http://WWW.USDOJ.GOV

WASHINGTON, April 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An Egyptian man has pleaded guilty to smuggling nearly 100 individuals from Middle Eastern countries into the United States, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein of the District of Columbia, and Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today.

Ashraf Ahmed Abdallah Bashar, 37, entered his guilty plea today in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson. Abdallah admitted to leading a human smuggling ring that brought 100 or more persons into the United States from April 2001 through January 2002.

According to plea documents filed in court, Abdallah met with and housed these men in Guatemala City where he offered to provide illegal entry into the United States. For up to $8,000, Abdallah arranged land transportation and guides to the United States and organized layovers at safe houses in Guatemala and Mexico. Abdallah also advised the men on how to avoid being apprehended during their journey to the United States. In the end, Abdallah and his co-conspirators successfully provided 100 or more individuals with guided foot-passage across the Southwest border into the United States.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Abdallah could face a four-year prison sentence. His sentencing is set for October 24, 2006, before U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina.

"Providing persons with unknown backgrounds undetected entry into our country is a threat to national security," said Assistant Attorney General Fisher. "The Department of Justice will continue to use all legal means to stop illegal human smuggling and the serious threat it poses to American citizens."

U.S. Attorney Wainstein stated, "Protecting our borders remains one of our top priorities. We will use every tool at our disposal to break up alien smuggling rings and put the operators behind bars."

"Among the ranks of human smuggling kingpins, Abdallah was one of our major targets. The fact that he has pleaded guilty and is no longer in a position to smuggle people into this country is a significant milestone in our efforts to combat human smuggling organizations," said ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers.

Abdallah's arrest and charges against him arose from an international investigation led by the ICE field office in Washington.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Brian Skaret of the Domestic Security Section of the Criminal Division, headed by Section Chief Teresa McHenry; and Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Crabb, Laura Ingersoll and Jonathan Malis of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia .

http://www.usnewswire.com/

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http://www2.americanpatrol.com/06-FEATURES/060413-INVADER-STRIKE-THREAT/060413_Feature.html

LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2006—Whatever mainstream media is saying about divisions in “Latino” leadership around the May 1 Gran Boicot, the real-life version of “A Day Without a Mexican” (and a Guatamalen, and a Salvadoran, and a Korean, and a Muslim, and their supporters) will be happening. The boycott, a call for no purchases, no work, no school, and rallies around the country has taken on a life of its own, and its heartbeat is here in Los Angeles.

The threats of deportation, criminalizing undocumented residency, and increased life-threatening border enforcement now being considered in the Senate have brought together dozens of local organizations in solidarity.

A partial list of area organizations supporting the Huelga General includes Action LA, Alliance for Civil Justice, ANSWER-LA, Barrio Planners, the Committee on Raza Rights, the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles, Hermandad Mexicana, the Immigrant Solidarity Network, the Industrial Workers of the World, the International Social Organization, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the L.A. Latino Muslim Association, Latino Movement USA, Los Angeles Mexican National Brotherhood, Los Angeles Troquero Collective, the March 25 Coalition, the Mexican American Political Association, Mexicans Without Borders, Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, the Muslim American Society - Los Angeles, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Students Association - West, the National Alliance for Human Rights, La Opinion, People’s CORE-CDIR, Radical Women, Students for Amnesty, and Union del Barrio. Apologies to those not included here.

An international protest will take place at the San Diego-Tijuana border, and Vancouver will be rallying. Mexicans are rallying around May 1 as a day to boycott U.S. products.

Today, I talked to Ernesto Nevarez who has organized immigrant troqueros in the Port of Aztlan, as he calls it, to shut down the port on May 1, and maybe for four days following. Ernesto and Rudolfo were holding signs on Washington Avenue today on the boundary between Vernon and the City of Commerce to bring railway drivers into the strike. They called for “Amnistía! Union! Disol!, and dozens of troqueros honked in solidarity as they left the Union Pacific yard.

The troqueros’ support for the general strike is more than show: they have offered to refuse delivery to any company that receives container shipments and fires an employee for striking on May 1. The employee only needs to hold up a sign at the business that calls for “Solidarity—Help!” or “Fired for May 1 Strike,” or, if the troqueros’ strike goes into Tuesday, to come to Banning Park to notify the truckers of the situation, and the troqueros will return all shipments for that company to the loading area.

Ernesto explained that the drivers’ support for the Huelga congealed last week when ICE stopped fifty troqueros at the port and took seven people away for improper papers. “Not El Cucuy or the Cardinal can call it off now,” he added.

The port troqueros are outraged at the selective enforcement of drivers, without going after trucking companies that routinely violate cargo shipping rules. The port troqueros are bringing along line drivers, and now the rail drivers. They’ve brought in LAX taxi drivers in an action that may extend citywide. Using CB’s to spread the word, troqueros in Boston, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore are expected to join the strike. After the ICE raid, the “cowboys”—white drivers—are joining the “Mes-kins,” as Ernie said they call Mexican drivers. Emissaries have gone to Mexico to make sure Mexican drivers stop shipments to the U.S.

WalMart is expediting deliveries in anticipation of the Huelga. They have every cause for concern: Ernesto, who helped lead the 1999 port strike, has joined forces with Armando Gonzales, the leader of the 2004 freeway stoppage, who shut down his rig with other drivers to protest fuel prices. In the 1999 strike, a late-April troqueros’ strike, 4000 troqueros shut down the LA Harbor, ports in Oakland, Tacoma, San Francisco, the Stockton and Sacramento rail lines, and left only 15% of drivers on the road.

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Who loves ya baby.......... First hand account from Santa Ana California May 1, 2006

May take a while for clearance just uploaded to Vidilife hosting.

http://streaming.vidilife.com/vidilife/video/2006/4/28/533312/668439.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

What can you do when it's a free?

Another link, should work.

http://streaming4.vidilife.com/vidilife/video/2006/4/28/533312/668439.wmv

[NYer]

Iraqis entered the US (http://krgv.com/2006/5/1/7497/-Iraqis-entered-the-Valley-illegally-) illegally into Texas over the weekend.

[Cali/Yank]

Thanks Nyer, Hope you're well. Best wishes to you.

I sent the Video of Santa Ana May DAy march, to the Santa Ana Police chief to tell him how impressed I was with the professionalism of their departments that handle the crowds...

I received an email from 27year LEO, thanking me for documenting this "Historic events"

I don't think she gets where I'm coming from on the issue, but that's good, cause I want to show both sides of the story.

Heard later, after sending video, riots erupted after the day turned into night. Now it's rumored of a march of 3 million on Washington.DC.. hehehehe... little mention of the riots in La Mesa or other towns, or what happened in Mexico City and Tijuana..



From the minutemen,SaveourState group that was chanting on the corner in the video.
"Go fix Mexico"




Thanks to all of you that came out to Santa Ana. We had a front row view to a lot of the "low lifes" that our government allows to take over our streets and make demands of us. Thanks for staying on the sidewalk area and not provoking too much trouble. We made it out alive with the help and escort of the Santa Ana Police Department. It is amazing how the media (with the exception of Lou Dobbs) does not show what really goes on. We were there. We know what was really going on. Those people wanted to kill us. If the SWAT Team was not there (and a little help from the hand holders), we would not be alive to tell the tale. When that mob of thousands of marchers came around that corner, they pushed those police officers almost all the way across the street to where we were standing. That of course was after they threw a few eggs at us. None hit us. ha ha! They were trying to get as close to us as they could. It got ugly for a few moments. But then the police got things under control and they just ran their ugly mouths. They were so stupid that they were walking right through the horse shit. That was funny!

Anyway, thanks again for being so brave. I counted about 60 of us at one time so we had between 60 to 70 people total. I look forward to seeing all of you and more at the Irvine Rally.

Four hours of mayhem anyone? Bueller?

http://%5burl=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9145429/detail.html

[Cali/Yank]

"Respect"

[Atlas]

Nothing here a trebuchet wouldn't cure

[Cali/Yank]

Camera video of LA after the march.

http://panasonicyouth.buzznet.com/user/video/play/13965

[American_Jihad]

Interesting read, did not interest R&R
http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showpost.php?p=612271&postcount=1
Make sure to check the URLs.

[NYer]

Uno De Mayo (http://www.onthefencefilms.com/video/unodemayo/)

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame links to a new film by Stuart Browning on the less-savory participants in Monday's marches.

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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/156019.php


Police State and Rebellion after March
by anon Wednesday, May. 03, 2006 at 11:36 AM


Report back from Police State and Rebellion in Mc Arthur Park after Rally.

Shortly after the rally, as the crowds began to head out of Mc Arthur park, the police came into the park and began hassling local vendors, many of them unable to run away from the police in time. (Police and wanna-be cops in purple have been doing this in downtown for sometime now). Hundreds of riot cops rushed into the park, just as the march as left, I heard from some people that there were several people arrested.

Later, as night set in, people all over the city continued walking the streets, driving in their cars with flags hanging out of their windows, and honking. In Pico Union, the protest became more militant, some small fires were set along sixth street as well as some glass broke on one of the bus stops.

I arrived late, after someone had told me that there was a riot going on in Mc Arthur Park. When I arrived I saw the police state in action. Trucks filled with police ran up and down the street, pointing tear gas guns at the apartments and on lookers above them. Smoke filled the air and Ghetto birds circled above. “Get out of the street!” one of the cops ordered over a megaphone as I videotaped them from the sidewalk.

As we got to 6ths street we saw more lines of trucks all packed with riot police hanging off both sides. I joined with other on lookers and protesters on the corner, and all of the sudden two police cars pulled up and started watching us, telling us to move along. We walked down sixth and saw a man being arrested, when we tried to stay and make sure that he was alright, more squad cars came up and pushed us back.

At this point two squad cars began following us as we walked down the street. As we turned on to Alvarado, they turned as well. And when we turned again on Wilshire there were two other cars waiting for us. They were trying to pin us in. At this point our group tried to figure out what to do seeing as we were vastly outnumbered and worried that they would soon arrest some or all of us. A cop car sped up to the corner where we were at and the cops pretended to jump out of the car and yelled racist comments at us. Then, from behind us a group of cops started charging, “get him!” they yelled pointing to one of the more outspoken people in the group. Suddenly cops began running after the man (who was not doing anything but standing on the street). As they chased after him, one of the cops slipped and fell, dropping his baton and sending his walkie-talkie flying through the air. When one of the protesters started laughing, the cop who fell attacked the man who was laughing, ripping his shirt off his chest. At the same time twenty or so cops had thrown the man they picked from the crowd to the wall. Residents looked on from their apartments as the cops told the onlookers and people in the streets to disperse.

When the corporate media arrived they didn’t take any footage, they would listen to witness’ story of the police officer who attacked someone for laughing at them, or of the unwarranted arrest. They left and then later reported that a police officer had been injured in a fall as protestors through rocks at police. And that was the story that was reported over and over again by the racist corporate media.

This isn’t new, this is what happens everyday in communities like Pico Union, Watts, South Central, the list goes on and on. But the message that the police made is clear, “you can march in the street, you can wave American flags, you can plead to be a part of a racist country that exploits you, but don’t think about taking control of your own communities.” So until we move from marching peacefully in the streets to actually taking over our communities, we are still in occupied territory, and the police are an occupying army.

*Update on the person arrested: He has been released, but had to post $2,000 for a 20,000 bail. I’m pretty sure we was abused by the police while in jail as well. Stay posted for ways to support this soldier.




great site for pictures the major media won't show, or are to scared to stick around and report.

[Cali/Yank]

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/156197.php

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Illegal migrant camps in San Diego county, Calif.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1072

These encampments are located in Carmel Valley, CA. It’s a northern suburb of San Diego County. There are many camps in the area but this is one of the larger ones. It’s difficult to say how many illegal aliens live here because they spread themselves out in the hills but I would estimate that there are around 400 in this area. Some work in the nearby tomato fields operated by Leslie Farms, while others seek work as day laborers and hopefully land a gig in construction. The land is owned by Pardee Homes and leased to Leslie Farms.

You follow a side road down into the canyon where they sleep in shacks made of plastic sticks and twine. Many others sleep in their cars. They wash in a little creek that runs through the canyon and defecate wherever they feel like it. Prostitutes are brought across the border to “service” the men and boys in the camp. Some of the prostitutes are underage as well. There is a place in a grove of trees that is littered with condoms. They lay the girls on the ground and take turns on them.

The camp also serves as an outdoor “safe house” for human smugglers, which is why illegal alien activists like Claudia Smith and Enrique Morones adore it so much. There are a lot of ugly things going on here and it’s been going on for over a decade. The local authorities look the other way and claim no responsibility or jurisdiction.

The city councilman in this district is Scott Peters. I have tried to get an on camera interview with him but he refuses. Scott Peters is hoping to use 3 million dollars in tax payer money to build housing for the employees of Leslie Farms. If Leslie Farms was hiring their workers legally with H2-A visa’s they would be required to provide affordable housing and pay a prevailing wage. These workers would live with some dignity. But since we have no workplace enforcement and rampant illegal immigration, Leslie Farms gets away with abusing and exploiting their workers and tax payers will most likely foot the bill for housing. I’ve spoken to Peter Mackoff, the man who runs Leslie Farms on the phone and he admits that all of his workers are illegal.

[NYer]

Illegal Immigrant Comic Book (http://www.dallas.org/node/108)

[NYer]

SOURCES: (http://www.drudgereport.com) BUSH PLANS NATIONAL GUARD ON BORDER...

[Cali/Yank]

I knew you'd catch that one. Now what is he going to say on Monday evening? The border area has basically been a lawless frontier for the last 130 years. Rampant corruption on both sides. Lax in ever aspect of the word. close to 20 million unkown people in our society.. That's being generous.. Not just Mexican Nationals, but every other nationality that has snuck in, overstayed and played the system. Hmmm? Noone addresses the others. Mexicans get the brunt of the abuse because of the small minority (65%) that believe in the stolen land arguement) But the real issue is, we have had no say, or control over anyone coming into this country since Ellis island closed it's doors.

My guess, when the troops(national guard)are deployed, that's when things will turn serious in a heartbeat.

Minutemen activety have been aggressively followed by the feds, and they have found nothing more than elderly veterans on a large scale neighborhood watch.. Vigilantes? Booosh is a moron, and I pity the two party system.

I'm registered non partisan and can only vote for certain partys, but at least I'm still being heard. Stop the greed and focus on the citizens and turn this thing around. Government for the people, by the people...not Home Depot or Enron or Ma Bell or utilities...Cut the corporate cock and shove it...:happy_01:

[Cali/Yank]

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with Mexican National Defense Secretary Gen. Gerardo Ricardo Vega at the pentagon yesterday, and not a word or any clue on what was discussed is popping up anywhere on the web, or in the news. Do you find this strange?

http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/May2006/060512-D-9880W-037_screen.jpg

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (right) presents the Legion of Merit (Degree of Commander) medal to Mexican Minister of Defense Gen. Gerardo Ricardo Vega (center) in the Pentagon on May 12, 2006. Joining Rumsfeld for the presentation is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace (left), U.S. Marine Corps. DoD photo by R. D. Ward. (Released)

Mexico City, Wayne Mann.
In today's (Nov 25) issues of El Financiero and La Jornada, two
of Mexico City's most influential daily papers, it is reported that
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican ex-president and now
member of the board of directors at Dow Jones, along with his
father and brother, maintained extensive joint business operations
with Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's top drug traffickers. In
earlier reports, Mr Salinas' net worth had been estimated at
between $10 and $25 Billion dollars, in spite of his
comparatively miserly $400,000. salary as president.



Mexico City, Wall Street Journal. _Garcia Is Enemy in
Mexican War on Drugs: Cartel Lord Protects Empire With Bribery
and Violence_, by Paul B Carroll and Dianne Solis. Juan Garcia
Abrego is doing from $10 billion to $20 billion per year in
cocaine trafficking. Bribes to officials are millions of dollars
per month, including to Deputy Attorney General Javier Coello
Trejo in 1989 and 1990. Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, former top
narcotics chief in the federal judicial police amassed $6
million. Interestingly, witnesses have now recanted their
stories. As an example of the "gateway theory", Garcia started
by smuggling whiskey, graduated to marijuana, and then cocaine.




Mexico, PNS, by Beatriz Johnston Hernandez. Accused drug
trafficker Juan Garcia Abrego, now awaiting trial in Houston, is
notorious for bribing high-level Mexican officials to help turn
Mexico into a major transshipment point for Colombian cocaine.
Less known is his role in bribing federal officials on the U.S.
side of the border. Information gleaned from drug trials and
gang insiders reveals that Abrego paid out hundreds of thousands
of dollars to Immigration and Naturalization Service agents and
National Guardsmen to drive cocaine and marijuana in their buses
past U.S. customs checkpoints on the road between McAllen and
Houston


Mexico, Newsweek Aug 25, 86, p42; The Courier-Journal, 21
Aug 86, p2. Victor Cortez, DEA agent in Guadalajara was tortured
by 11 Mexican state police officers in an attempt to gain
information on collaborators.

Mexico, Insight, p 37. Murder indictments are handed
down for Manuel Ibarra Herrera, former chief of the Mexican
Federal Police, and Miguel Aldana Ibarra, his deputy and former
Interpol director for murder and narcotics trafficking in the
death of DEA agent Enrique Camerena in 1985. The kidnapping and
torture of Camerena was to find out how US officials had learned
of the ties of members of then-President Miguel de la Madrid
Hurtado's Cabinet to drug payoffs.


USA, "Inside the DEA", Reason, Dec 86, p23-29. A
compendium of DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) corruption
reported by Dale Gieringer, Decision & Ethics Center, Dept of
Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford Univ.

Tuscon, AZ, Reuter via pshe. A Mexican immigration
official has been arrested after crossing the border with 233
pounds of cocaine hidden in his car, the U.S. Border Patrol in
Tucson announced Friday. (Reuter)


Mexico, Time, p33. Jamie Herrera Nevarez, 60, the "Drug
Lord of Durango" Mexico and former policeman, was arrested by
Mexican police for US DEA. He ran $200 million heroin pipeline
into midwest USA.

Nicaragua, CIA Drug Connection, The Christic Institute,
1324 North Capitol Street, NW, Wash DC 20002. (202)797-8106

Lawyers from The Christic Institute were retained by Tony Avirgan
and Martha Honey, reporters wounded in the May 30, 1984 terrorist
bombing in La Penca, Nicaragua. John Hull, CIA contract
operative in Costa Rica, has a ranch which is used as airstrip
for arms and drug running for Nicaraguan contras. The cocaine
was supplied by Columbians Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa,
partners of Carlos Lehder. Francisco Paco Chanes was the
connection on US end. "The Secret Team", including retired Air
Force Maj Gen Richard Secord; Albert Hakim, international arms
dealer; Theodore Shackley, head of covert operations during Vice
President George Bush's term as Director of the CIA; Thomas
Clines, Shackley's deputy; and retired Army Maj Gen John K
Singlaub, backed Vang Pao, a major opium trafficker, in Southeast
Asia, 1965-75, using the resulting money to train Hmong
tribesmen. The heroin connection in USA was Mafia "Don" Santo
Trafficante. The opium business banked with Nugen Hand Bank of
Australia.

American Information Network Newsletter, p2. There is
more on the Bo Gritz/CIA/heroin connection. The operation is
said to have been at its peak in 1975 & 76 under George Bush.
CIA agents Theodore Shackley and Richard Armitage (now Acting
Assistant Secretary of Defense) as The Far East Trading Company
were involved in heroin smuggling with Mao Se Hung. H Ross Perot
found the same drug connections and was told by Frank Carlucci
(National Security Advisor) to stop pursuing the connection to
Richard Armitage. Last year 700 tons of opium were exported from
Burma and this year's crop is 900 tons. There is also a
statement by Lance Trimmer about two trips to the lair of Khun
Sa, opium smuggler and chief of his own 40,000 man private army
in Burma.

Lockerbie, Scotland, Primary source here is from
Barron's, 12/17/90, "Unwitting Accomplices?" by Maggie Mahar.
Lockerbie Pan Am bombing is linked to CIA heroin smuggling.
Monzer Al-Kassar, a Syrian drugs and arms smuggler, had started a
heroin-smuggling operation at the Frankfurt, Germany airport.
Al- Kassar "reportedly received $1.2 million from a Swiss company
controlled by Albert A. Hakim and retired Air Force Maj. Gen.
Richard V. Secord." These folks, in turn, were part of the Iran-
Contra network. More in WORMSCAN.&

NPR. The US military cost last year for its share of The
Drug War was $13billion, mostly spent in Latin America. Gen.
Barry R McCaffrey, head of the U.S. Southern Command
encompassing all of Latin America, said that despite a well
organized and costly counter-drug operation, ``these current
efforts are not achieving their purpose.''


Yuma, AZ, NPR. Yuma, AZ, Sheriff Deputy Jack Hudson shot
and killed two other deputies. All were part of a drug task
farce. Reasons for the executions are pending.


http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/wormscan.html

[Cali/Yank]

http://gringounleashed.typepad.com/gringo_unleashed/2005/03/azteca_america_.html

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.warchick.com/2006/033006.htm

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Rosie Avila who is running for U.S. Congress in the 47th District

In the video she discusses the textbooks that the Mexican Consulates have put into our classrooms and their attempts to teach a Mexican curriculum in our school system with our tax dollars.



http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1155

[Cali/Yank]

On April 7, 2005, the US Justice Department issued a report on criminal aliens that were incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails.

In the population study of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests. Most of the arrests occurred after 1990.

They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.

More than two-thirds of the defendants charged with an immigration offense were identified as having been previously arrested. Thirty-six percent had been arrested on at least 5 prior
occasions; 22%, 2 to 4 times; and 12%,1 time.

Sixty-one percent of those defendants had been convicted at least once; 18%, 5 or more
times; 26%, 2 to 4 times; and 17%, 1 time. Of those charged, 49% had previously been
convicted of a felony: 20% of a drug offense; 18%, a violent offense; and 11%, other felony
offenses. Twelve percent had previously been convicted of a misdemeanor.

Defendants charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. Nine
in ten had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, half had been arrested
on at least 5 prior occasions.

Fifty-six percent of those charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted
of a violent or drug-related felony. By contrast, under half of those charged with
alien smuggling, a third of those charged with unlawful entry, and just over a quarter those
charged with misuse of visas and other charges had previously been arrested. The criminal
histories of these defendants were generally less extensive: more than 70% had been
previously arrested fewer than 5 times.

Sources: US Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Institute, National Association of Chiefs of Police, US Department of Justice

[Cali/Yank]

Ted Hayes and Jim Gilchrist(Minutemen co founder) march through Los Angeles for the Crispus Attuck brigade and civil rights for American citizens.

See this in the news anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5XNhXRHRfE

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/158980.php

[Cali/Yank]

Remember when I said that California is the frontline on this issue?

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1207

[Cali/Yank]

http://media.putfile.com/cityhall-63

[Cali/Yank]

Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
Does Dubya Know About Fox’s Madrid Speech?
As nearly as I can tell, Mexican President Vicente Fox’s speech on “Mexican Foreign Policy in the 21st Century,” delivered in Madrid, Spain, on May 16, was completely ignored by the American media.

The foreign policy discourse was delivered to the “Club XXI” in the “Hotel Eurobuilding” (yes, the Eurobuilding!). You can read it here if you know Spanish.

(Fox went to Europe, by the way, after visiting New York City, where he demanded the U.S. capitulate to his immigration demands or lose the chance for a “privileged relationship” with Mexico.)

There’s something about being in Spain that encourages Fox to speak very bluntly about relations with the United States. Perhaps it’s because he doesn’t expect what he says to be publicized in the U.S. See, for example, his comments last October about Mexican immigrants “exporting” Spanish to the U.S.

But thanks to VDARE.COM, Mr. Fox’s blunt speaking is being brought to your very own computer screen for your own consideration!

The U.S. media continue to call Vicente Fox “pro-American.” I find this rather curious, since I read a lot of Fox statements and the guy almost never says anything positive about the U.S. The contrast with George W. is particularly telling. Dubya gushes on and on, like a lovesick schoolboy, about Fox and all things Mexican. He has even said, “I want to accommodate my friend.” It looks suspiciously like a case of unrequited love on Bush’s part. (I refer the reader as well to my article on the Fox administration’s contradictory and underwhelming response to the 9/11 aftermath.)

Well, anybody who thinks Fox is “pro-American,” or that he is some kind of conservative Republican soulmate, had better heed his words in Madrid.

And for those of us concerned about the loss of American sovereignty and civil liberties in the face of an emerging One-World government - the Mexican president is not on our side.

Fox spoke approvingly in Madrid of the developing “New World Order,” or as he terms it, the “Nueva Agenda”–New Agenda.

Fox said in Madrid that

“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda, such as human rights and democracy, questions of gender and discrimination, the protection of the environment or the war on organized crime and corruption.”

“.... The construction of new rules of international co-existence must continue.... we are actively participating in various forums in the construction of this international architecture.”

Pretty much the same globalist rhetoric that politicians from most nations, including our own, utter at international forums. But don’t worry, Fox gets more specific as he goes on.

Fox boasted about Mexico’s participation in that notorious UN “anti-racism” conference held in Durban. You know, the one where bashing Israel and demanding slavery reparations seem to have been the principal activities. Mexico’s representative at Durban, Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, supported slavery reparations . But he took it one step further–reparations must be paid to the world’s ex-colonies as well. (Presumably not including the U.S.)

In the Madrid speech, Fox spoke of Mexican-European relations, affirming that

“Mexico is closely linked with the European nations for historical reasons and because of cultural affinity.”

That sounds quite reasonable. After all, Mexico is part of the Western World. But when Fox speaks of “Europe” is he speaking of “Western Civilization” or the “European Union?”

Fox continued

“.....it is logical that Mexico approach Europe. We have an identity of values which unites us with the European nations, even more than with our neighbors of North America.”

Hold it right there! Didn’t George W. Bush, in his annual Cinco de Mayo speech, when he said that Fox was “my good friend,” declare that “The United States has no more important relationship than the one we have with Mexico” and that the U.S. and Mexico have “common values and a shared culture”?

But whaddya know? “Good friend” Vicente feels he has more in common with the Eurocrats than with George W. Bush.

Fox went on to recount international issues in which the Fox administration has co-operated with the European Union to advance their shared “identity of values” and "convergence":

Fox mentioned their co-operation in the UN “Human Rights Commission” and the Kyoto Protocol.

Fox and the EU are also strong supporters of the International Criminal Court, in which American citizens could be tried before kangaroo courts (with no jury) on vague, politically-based charges.

The Fox administration also worked closely with the EU at the UN’s recent conference on childhood. (Ironic that the UN, some of whose own aid workers and peacekeepers have sexually abused West African refugee children, still lectures the world on how to treat children.)

The first axis of Mexican foreign policy, said Fox, is a “more intense activity in multilateral forums.” Hmmm. The second axis?

Let Fox explain:

“The second axis of Mexico’s foreign policy has been the construction of a strategic association for prosperity with the United States and Canada....

“The density and complexity of the themes of our bilateral agenda with the United States.... has a particular dimension for the presence of large Mexican communities settled in that country, more than 20 million Mexicans.”

Over 20 million Mexicans in the U.S.? Fox is including American citizens of Mexican ancestry in this figure.

Fox goes on:

“In the last few months we have managed to achieve an improvement in the situation of many Mexicans in that country, regardless of their migratory status, through schemes that have permitted them access to health and education systems, identity documents, as well as the full respect for their labor and human rights.”

What is Fox talking about here?


“regardless of their migratory status” = illegal aliens


“Access health and education systems” = the granting of medical and educational benefits to illegal aliens, courtesy of the American taxpayer


“identity documents” = consular cards to avoid deportations and driver’s licenses for illegal aliens


“full respect for their labor and human rights” = the right of illegal aliens not to be deported.

Fox has more:

“All this has meant, in the past year, an extraordinary conceptual advance on the subject of immigration and in the importance of moving gradually toward the regularization of the migratory situation of our fellow Mexicans in the United States, a number that is estimated at between 3 and 4 million Mexicans."

(This time, Fox is referring to illegal alien Mexicans. Phew!)

“Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as the future prosperity of North America, and the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons."

(I saw this part on Mexican TV- Fox paused momentarily and then put an emphasis on “persons.”)

“The new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union...”

Fox, however, sees one small obstacle to his EU-style vision for NAFTA:

“....we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”

(Gringos dragging their feet on amnesty, Brits dragging their feet on the euro?)

Fox’s conclusion:

“Nevertheless, I believe that with realism we can overcome the obstacles and construct a more prosperous and secure community for our peoples.”

In other words, Fox believes he can overcome American resistance to his globalist New Agenda for their country.

Is that what Americans want?

If not, they’d better speak up soon.

Allan Wall is an American citizen who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1991. Presently employed as an English instructor, Allan has legal permission from the Mexican government to live and work in Mexico under the rubric of an FM-2 migration document. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Frontpage.com articles are archived here. Allan Wall welcomes questions or comments (pro or con) at allan39@prodigy.net.mx

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hahaha.... I love the naysayers and the soothsayers that say we can all just get along...

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_152141129.html

Jun 1, 2006 1:31 pm US/Pacific

Reporter Assaulted After Interview, Loses Tape

(CBS) LOS ANGELES A local radio reporter was assaulted Thursday while leaving a Los Angeles charter school that his station has said imparts separatist ethics, a station official said.

The reporter, Sandy Wells, was not hurt, according to station spokesman Steve Sheldon.

Wells was leaving the campus of Academia Semillas Del Pueblo, 4736 Huntington Drive, after interviewing the principal when a car came around the corner, jumped the curb and the driver tried to run him down, Sheldon said.

Wells managed to dodge the car, but the driver, a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s, got out and tackled him, taking away his tape recorder, he said.

The incident was reported to police, Sheldon said, adding that it is believed to be linked to the station's reporting on the school.

The Los Angeles Unified School District said it would issue a statement on the assault later in the day.

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc.)



http://www.kabc.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=437469&PT=

McIntyre in the Morning has begun an investigation into Academia Semillas del Pueblo, an LAUSD charter school. The website for the K-8 school says it is, "dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities." The school's student body is 91.3% hispanic and 8.7% native / alaskan native. There is not a single white, black, or asian student.

The school receives support not only from the tax payer but also the National Council of La Raza and the Pasadena City College chapter of MeCHA (Movimemeniento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan). In various interviews and actions the school's founder, principal and council trustee secretary, Marcos Aguilar, has shown contempt for racial integration. Like everyone else connected to the school, Aguilar has refused repeated attempts by McIntyre in the Morning for an interview, telling our reporter he only speaks with spanish speaking media and warning the reporter, "I would be very careful before I came down here."

For more of the story, please click on the various links provided on the McIntyre in the Morning home page and listen to McIntyre in the Morning weekdays 5am - 9 am as this story continues to unfold.

Marcos Aguilar, founder and principal of La Academia del Pueblo

http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/dialogue/2/aguilar.html

keep the dream alive.. Aztlan and the MECHA la Raza crew keep showing me they're real. Idiots.

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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The city on the border with El Paso, Texas. In this city and vicinity, 350 women have been brutally murdered since 1993. The primary suspect an Egyptian man, Abdel Latif Sharif 59 was serving a 30 year sentence for the 1995 rape and strangulation of 17 year old student Elizabeth Castro Garcia has died of a heart attack.

Mexican authorities said he was responsible for the deaths of several victims but could not prove it.

LA Times

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http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/44924.html

10:26 am: National Guard troops scare would-be migrants away from border, officials say
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Associated Press
June 12, 2006

SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico (AP) - The arrival of U.S. National Guard troops in Arizona has scared off illegal Mexican migrants along the border as a whole, significantly reducing crossings, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

U.S. authorities said Monday that detentions along the U.S.-Mexico border have decreased by 21 percent, to 26,994, in the first 10 days of June, compared with 34,077 for the same period a year ago.

Along the Arizona border, once the busiest crossing spot, detentions have dropped 23 percent, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The desert region's blistering June temperatures typically drive down the number of migrants, but not so drastically, said Mario Martinez, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol in Washington.

The 55 soldiers who arrived June 3 are the first of some 6,000 troops to be gradually dispatched all along the border as part of U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to stem illegal immigration to the United States.

The soldiers aren't allowed to detain migrants and have been limited to projects like extending border fences and repairing roads, but the military's presence is keeping would-be crossers away from the area, migrant rights activists said.

"Some migrants have told me they heard about the troops on television and, because the U.S. Army doesn't have a very good reputation, they prefer not to cross," said Francisco Loureiro, who runs a migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico, across the border from Arizona.
Loureiro said the shelter was housing about 12 migrants a night, down from about 100.

Jorge Vazquez, coordinator for Mexico's Grupo Beta migrant aid agency in San Luis Rio Colorado, across from San Luis, Arizona, said that before the troops arrived, his agents encountered at least two dozens migrants daily, most waiting for nightfall to begin their trek through the sandy desert.

"There have been days ... when we've found only three migrants," Vazquez said.

Some migrants may be moving to the California-Mexico border, the only stretch of border that saw a spike in detentions, which were up 7 percent to 5,965 in the first 10 days of June.

But it was too early to tell if the deployment would have a permanent effect on migrant routes and crossings of the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) border.

Wearing army fatigues and hard hats, the soldiers have worked on projects such as installing vehicle barriers to help prevent smugglers from driving cars full of migrants or drugs across the border.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has said that 2,500 troops will be stationed in the four U.S. border states _ Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas _ by the end of the month.

The deployment plan has been criticized in Mexico as heavy-handed, and the Mexican government has said it will watch to ensure National Guard troops aren't detaining migrants.

Only the most persistent migrants remained in San Luis Rio Colorado, which sits across from the area patrolled by the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma station, the busiest of the Patrol's 143 outposts.

Migrants in the region walk some 25 miles (40 kilometers) through the scrub-covered desert with summer temperatures often exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius), and then hop on cargo trains to reach their destination.

Laureano Miranda, a 37-year-old farm worker from Mexico's Sinaloa state, said he was trying to get back to a construction job in Los Angeles.

Miranda and six relatives, who were sewing pieces of carpet to their shoes to avoid leaving footprints, planned to wait for nightfall and start walking across the border 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of where the troops were stationed.

Miranda, who earned about US$6 (?5) a day picking tomatoes in Sinaloa, said he had heard about the deployment but planned to cross into Arizona anyway.

"If there are soldiers or not it's the same thing, because it's always been difficult to cross," Miranda said. "Here, we depend on our luck."

Miranda said he made it into the United States on the first try last year, but he expected a more difficult journey this time.

"We've heard that there are soldiers and armed 'migrant hunters' but we have to try," Miranda said. "If we don't make it in three tries, then we'll go back home."

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On the Net:

U.S. National Guard: http://www.arng.army.mil

U.S. Border Patrol: http://www.cbp.gov/

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http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060613/ordeal.shtml

Limestone Deputy Chad Smith in his patrol car Monday. He said Mexican officials told him his badge was fake.

Nightmare
in Mexico
Texas border vacation turns into
costly ordeal for Limestone deputy


By Holly Hollman
DAILY Staff Writer
hhollman@decaturdaily.com · 340-2445

ATHENS — A local lawman has learned about life on the other side of the badge.

Being told not to talk. Spending 12 hours without a drink. Not going to the restroom.

Limestone County Sheriff's Department Deputy Chad Smith said because of that experience, he'll never again cross the Mexican border.

Smith and his friend Jason Sherman went to Texas on vacation at the end of February and first of March. They spent the last day of that vacation in custody.

News of their ill-fated trip made its way through Limestone County as slow as a Sunday driver, and as the story spread, the versions became more outlandish.

'They were being extorted for money'

"To hear it told, they did just about everything illegal you can imagine," Sheriff Mike Blakely said, "when really, they were being extorted for money."

Smith said Sherman drove them across the border in his 2006 Silverado worth about $30,000.

"When we'd go through checkpoints, we'd ask if it was OK for us to go on, and they just kept motioning for us to go," Smith said.

The two spent the night and visited various Mexican cities. The last day of vacation, they drove toward Chihuahua. That's when Smith, who works in patrol, got to see what it's like to spot a cop car in the rearview mirror.

"Jason got pulled over for speeding, but the officer didn't even have a radar detector," Smith said. "I don't think we were speeding. We had trouble communicating with him. He wanted us to follow him."

Blakely said Smith called his cell phone and asked whether they should follow the Mexican officer. Blakely advised them they should.

"Turns out they didn't have a visa to go into the interior of Mexico," Blakely said. "That didn't help."

Smith said the officer took them to an immigration office, where an official who spoke English told them police just wanted to ensure the truck wasn't stolen.

"We were told this would take 30 to 40 minutes," Smith said. "We were also told we'd have to get a medical check for some reason. We were taken to a guy who claimed he was a doctor, then we went to some holding facility to wait while they did their investigation."

Half an hour's wait turned into 12 hours during which Smith and Sherman couldn't drink water, go to the restroom or talk to each other. The authorities found Smith's badge but decided it was a fake.

"A guy who was like a district attorney came and said it would be $6,000 for us to get out," Smith said. "When he came back, that figure went up to $50,000, plus they got to keep Jason's truck."

When Smith reminded the district attorney the first figure he gave was $6,000, the district attorney said, 'Well, now it's $50,000 and the $6,000.' "

Smith asked authorities if he could call his father about raising the money, but he called Blakely instead.

"He wanted to know if he should get his father to raise the money. I said, 'That's bull. They're just trying to get money out of you,' " Blakely said.

The sheriff called U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, who worked with the consulate to free Smith and Sherman.

"The consulate said the officers were being unreasonable, and that this happens frequently with Americans who drive past the border towns without getting their paperwork in order," Blakely said.

Smith said once the consulate got involved, authorities released him. Sherman had to pay what the authorities called "a $4,000 appearance bond," Smith said, and leave his new truck behind. Authorities drove them to the immigration office. There, an official got a taxi to take them to the airport.

"Even if I hadn't known how to get in touch with the sheriff, I probably would have gotten released because I wasn't driving," Smith said. "Jason, however, probably would have been sent to their version of a federal prison because if you don't pay whatever bond they name within 48 hours, that's where they send you."

Smith said Sherman is working with his insurance company to see if it will cover the loss of his truck. The truck had OnStar, a vehicle security system on certain models of General Motors vehicles.

"GM has tried to get a signal, but there's nothing," Smith said. "I'm sure the authorities there have already disabled it."

Blakely said others should learn a lesson from Smith and Sherman's misadventure and research what documentation is needed when crossing the border.

According to the U.S. Department of State's travel page, Americans do not have to have a visa or a tourist card for stays of 72 hours or less within the border zone. That is an area between 20 to 30 kilometers of the border. Citizens traveling as tourists beyond the border zone or entering Mexico by air must pay a fee to obtain a tourist card, also known as an FM-T. Those are available from Mexican consulates, Mexican border crossing points, Mexican tourism offices, airports within the border zone and most airlines serving Mexico.

With the exception of travel to the Baja Peninsula, tourists who travel beyond the border zone with their car must obtain a temporary import permit or risk having their car confiscated by Mexican customs officials.

Smith said he has better advice for potential tourists.

"I don't recommend going to border towns," Smith said. "I don't recommend crossing the border at all. I'll never go back again."

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Mexican Power...

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/graficos/animados/mexican_power.swf

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vandals have been coming out to the water stations, pulling the caps off the tanks and dumping the water out into the desert.

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san Antonio MECha

http://www.accd.edu/sac/clubs/mexa/muniz.html


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There is no escape from the history of our people. Somos una raza unida! The masses of our people have arrived in Aztlan.


http://www.freeramsey.com/Diez.html

Ramsey Muñiz remains a political prisoner incarcerated on false charges. He is serving a sentence of life without parole, which is a death sentence. He and others continue with the formation of the "Sixth Sun," a cultural movement that focuses on ancient history, culture, and spirituality. They do research on the Mexika (me-shee-ka), our indigenous ancestors, with a sincere desire to help people of Mexican descent.


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1970s, Ramsey Muniz ran for Governor on the ticket for the party of La Raza Unida


Tezcatlipoca (Ramsey Muñiz)
9/16/03. Leavenworth U.S.P.

In the dawn of this glorious day of remembrance, I was aroused in the spirituality of Mexicayotl, the same spirits that enable our most recent ancestors to do battle for the possession of our original spirits of land, which is the total essence of our existence and creation on this earth. I’m the indigenous spirit of Aztlanahuac.

For three centuries our forefathers who gave their lives for us today were destined from the day of the invasion. Historically it is written that many would continue to teach and transfer the words of divine wisdom as of August 13, 1521. Today we of the Sixth Sun accept the challenge and proud struggle as mandated by our ancient and past revolutionaries. We are reentering into the same period of enlightenment, professing new principles of social and spiritual organization against the political oppression of America and its institutions, against the racial discrimination of our people, and in favor of popular sovereignty, the rights of humanity, and national independence (Aztlan).

We celebrate this day not because we are free. We are in a period of struggle to break the chains of this oppression. We celebrate the ultimate courage, valor, honor, dignity and the willingness of our ancestors to sacrifice their lives for our freedom.

"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
Jean Jacques Rosseau

Oppression throughout the world has kept the majority of our people in a mode of darkness and ignorance. It is for these reasons that we must share and embrace the history of
September 16th, 1810, and reveal the truth of that revolution with the masses of our people. The events that occurred about 200 years ago are the same existing in the 21st century in all Aztlanahuac. In 1810, movements for independence broke out with extreme velocity and amazing synchronicity, all the way from Mexico. In April of 1810, revolutionaries in Caracas deposed the Spanish captain general. In May of 1810, citizens of Buenos Aires expelled the Spanish Vicero. on September 16, 1810. Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rose with the masses of our indigenous Mexicanos against the Spanish regime in Mexico. And on the eighteenth, the same month and year, the independence movement was launched in far away Santiago, Chile.

The same is transpiring today throughout all Latin America and the world. We are part of that history in the world, and as a people we cannot allow the same oppression, destruction, imprisonment, and genocide to occur once again in the 21st century. Cuauhtemoc, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Zapata, Villa, and many others knew they were to die for liberation, justice, and land. We must learn to celebrate what they stood for – courage, honor, and dignity!

Raza, when you join with others to celebrate this honorable historical day, do not be content in your minds as any other day of unknowing drunkenness. Do not listen to oppressive politicians praising our existence in our barrios and communities. We are not seeking their praise. We are seeking our liberation as a race, and the return of our land. Educate and share with the oppressor and our so-called raza leaders the truth and essence of "El Grito of September 16th." "El Grito" was part of our destiny since the creation of our existence. It is part of our ancient spirituality. It is written on our ancient writings that it was the was cry (revolution) of the golden eagle declaring his victory for his people and our Promised Land of the conquering Huitzilopocohtl. "El Grito" is the cry of freedom – the cry of uprising and struggling for justice and land. Therefore, it must live in our hearts everyday of our lives and must never die.

Celebrate, mi raza from Aztlanahuac, and sanction the oppressor with the fact that on this day, September 16, 2003, you will declare the rights of humanity. On this day, give notice from your heart that you will no longer tolerate the lies and political tricks of our so-called Hispanic / Raza leaders. Reach deep into your hearts and let others hear your grito of total political independence of the existing oppressive parties in America. This so-called nation of the free is practicing and committing the same oppressive actions that the Spaniards perpetrated in our Holy Land of Mexico and all Aztlan.

Even though I’m confined in the dungeon of this oppressor for the remainder of my life, my heart is full of contentment and love for liberation and justice. In the silence of this sea of insanity, I can feel the revolutionary spirits of our ancient heroes because they are present in this mode of darkness sharing the same courage, honor, dignity, and love for our struggle on this historical day. It is our Mexika duty and obligation to pass on the truth of our history and what we must continue to do in the present and future generations. "El Grito" will be a sound so profound this year that the oppressor will become aware that our time in Aztlan is here! Our celebrations will be like no other celebration before, because the evolution of our cultura is reaching the peaks of our golden eagle. The time has come for us to join our sisters and brothers from our Holy Land of Mexico and embrace each other as "one" once again. El Grito is our "smoking mirror." Our history will never be destroyed again, and for that reason we will never be defeated!

In exile,
Tezcatlipoca (Ramsey)
"By now I know how to live with grief, passion, rage, and death."

Jose is a comrade of Ramsey who clearly states above that Aztlan is ready for the taking in kin to the plan of San Diego 1915. Jose as we all know is one of the leaders of the current boycott marches..




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RAZA UNIDA PARTY. The Raza Unida Party was established on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americansqv at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had helped found MAYO (the Mexican American Youth Organizationqv) in 1967, were two of its principal organizers. In December 1969, at the first and only national MAYO meeting, Chicanoqv activists had endorsed the formation of a third party, an idea that Gutiérrez had proposed in establishing MAYO. After RUP filed for party status in Zavala, La Salle, and Dimmit counties in January 1970, it began its eight-year quest to bring greater economic, social, and political self-determination to Mexican Americans in the state, especially in South Texas, where they held little or no power in many local or county jurisdictions although they were often in the majority. Membership in the party was open to anyone who was committed to RUP's goals. The party fielded candidates for nonpartisan city council and school board races the following April in Crystal City, Cotulla, and Carrizo Springs and won a total of fifteen seats, including two city council majorities, two school board majorities, and two mayoralties. In October 1971, RUP held its state convention in San Antonio and voted to organize at the state level over the objections of Gutiérrez, who believed that the party should strengthen its rural standing rather than expend its energy on a state party. Compean rallied enough support for a state organization on the grounds that it would give a boost to the Chicano movement in Texas and repeat the success it had attained in Crystal City throughout Texas.

With the state party apparatus in place, RUP sought a candidate for the 1972 gubernatorial election, first calling upon such well-known Democrats as state senator Carlos Truán, Hector García (founder of the American G.I. Forumqv), and state senator Joe Bernal. All refused to run for the position. The party finally found a candidate in Ramsey Muñiz, a lawyer and administrator with the Waco Model Cities Program. Alma Canales of Edinburg, who had been a farmworker and journalism student at Pan American University, became the RUP candidate for lieutenant governor, although at twenty-four she was too young to take the office constitutionally. Her presence on the RUP slate was considered a sign that women had a crucial role in the party. Although they seemed an unusual match, the two resembled many of the RUP rank and file, who were young and university educated. Like others in the party, they had also been members of MAYO. Besides Muñiz and Canales, RUP ran candidates for nine other state offices, including member of the Railroad Commission,qv state treasurer, and member of the State Board of Education. RUP candidates also ran for local posts in Hidalgo, Starr, Victoria, McLennan, and other counties.

The party, which had spread to many other states, held its first national conference in El Paso on September 1-4, 1972. About half of the estimated 1,500 participants were women, and a large number of elderly people also attended. The delegates formed the Congreso de Aztlán to run the national party and elected Gutiérrez as RUP national chairman. Despite his standing as the party's chief political candidate, Muñiz was not much heeded. As a result, he left the gathering early to campaign in the governor's race. The RUP platform that Muñiz put before voters, while emphasizing Mexican-American community control, bilingual education,qv and women's and workers' rights, bore similarity to the values espoused by the liberal faction of the state Democratic party,qv which supported Frances (Sissy) Farenthold for the party's gubernatorial nomination. In spite of this, Muñiz did not receive strong support from liberals. Ultimately, even Farenthold endorsed Dolph Briscoe, to whom she had lost the nomination, although she had once referred to him as "a bowl of pablum." Muñiz won 6 percent (214,149) of the votes in the November election, thus reducing Briscoe's margin of victory so that the race was the first in the twentieth century in which a Texas governor was elected with less than a majority. Muñiz won heavily in some South Texas counties and had a decent turnout in large cities. Over the next two years RUP solidified its South Texas rural base and racked up more nonpartisan victories in the Winter Garden Region.qv It also achieved political successes in Kyle and Lockhart. Its urban support, though quite strong among university activists and barrio youth and politicians, remained small. This ultimately hurt the party's future, since many Hispanics lived in the state's major urban areas and their support of RUP was necessary for the party to have a larger political impact.

In 1974, RUP was ready for another try at the governor's race, with Muñiz once again its candidate. The party also ran a slate of fourteen men and two women for state representative from Lubbock, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Falfurrias, Crystal City, and other cities. As in the 1972 election, the RUP campaign literature emphasized the party's Chicano foundation; but it also asserted a desire to "ensure democracy for [the] many, not the few" and the need to preserve "human and natural resources." In addition, it called for the prosecution of industrial polluters. In his announcement for the governor's race on January 16, 1974, Muñiz sought to maximize the party's appeal to a broader spectrum of the state's voters, stressing RUP's ideas for new modes of transportation, improved funding of public education, better medical care, and solutions to urban problems. But RUP did not fare well in the 1974 general election. Muñiz got only 190,000 votes and posed no real threat to Briscoe's reelection. In addition, none of the sixteen candidates for the state House garnered enough support to win. The party's sole real victories were in Crystal City, where cofounder Gutiérrez was elected as Zavala county judge and the party successfully defended its dominance of other county offices. Nonetheless, by its numerous victories in South Texas, RUP had achieved Mexican-American political dominance in some cities and altered the state's political life. Several Mexican-American women were significant participants at the state and national level. Evey Chapa, for instance, ensured that RUP's state executive committee provide for a female member; Virginia Múzquiz headed the RUP nationally from 1972 to 1974; and María Elena Martínez served as the last head of the party in Texas from 1976 to 1978. Likewise, Evey Chapa, Ino Alvárez, and Martha Cotera have been credited with organizing Mujeres Por La Raza,qv the women's caucus within RUP.

In the four years after the 1974 election, RUP's fortunes diminished, with activism slowing except in some enclaves in South Texas. Even in Crystal City, its bedrock, RUP lost control in 1977. The party also suffered losses in its membership, and some of its original leaders, including Willie Velásquez,qv allied themselves with new political initiatives, such as the Mexican American Democrats.qv Perhaps two of the biggest blows to party morale were the arrests in July and November 1976 of former RUP gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Muñiz on drug charges. He pled guilty to one count and was sentenced to fifteen years. The party was considerably weakened as it entered the final and fatal 1978 election, when RUP gubernatorial candidate Mario Compean won only 15,000 votes. At the election-day fiasco in 1978, RUP lost state funds for its primary and was effectively eliminated as a party. Some historians have stated that RUP, with its various successes and failures, came at the right moment in Mexican-American history in the state. Writing in 1978 in The Tejano Yearbook: 1519-1978, Philip Ortega y Gasca and Arnoldo De León noted that the establishment of RUP in the 1930s would have been "premature" because violence was still a common response to Texas Mexicans' political ambitions. Nevertheless, the authors also argue that RUP was neither a new phenomenon nor a "radical" one but a continuation of Tejanoqv political initiatives. Nineteenth-century Tejanos had formed various movements, such as Botas and Guarachesqv and special benevolent associations, to defend their interests. RUP was intended to do the same for Mexican Americans in the 1970s.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ignacio M. Garcia, United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party (Tucson: University of Arizona Mexican American Studies Research Center, 1989). José Ángel Gutiérrez Papers, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Raza Unida Party Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin.

Teresa Palomo Acosta


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"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation . . . betrays [one nation] into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter . . .
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded."


-- President George Washington
Farewell Address

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND BORDER STATES

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of
January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Carter) is recognized
for half the time before midnight as the designee of the majority
leader.

Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate being recognized and the
ability to have the chance to address the House this night on the issue
we all know is the most critical issue our Nation faces today, that is
the security of the American borders and the sovereignty of our Nation.

I rise because I am from Texas, and I grew up crossing the Mexican
border with our neighbors from Mexico all of my life. I have even been
several times to the great international celebration in Nuevo Laredo
for George Washington's birthday, a time in which thousands and
thousands of Texans joined their neighbors in Mexico for a great
fiesta. I consider Mexico, my entire life, I have considered them my
friend and our neighbor to the south. I actually went to school in
Mexico. I am very familiar with the country, and I have a warm regard
for the people of Mexico.

However, the world we live in today is not the world I grew up in. I
have had the occasion in the last 6 months to visit Nuevo Laredo with
Congressman Cuellar on two occasions. I have been down there with
Congressional delegations that have visited the border to talk about
the incursions into the United States by literally hundreds of
thousands and millions of people coming out of Mexico across our
southern borders from San Diego to Brownsville.

But the world I know is Texas, and I am going to talk about the Texas
border that I am familiar with. I want to tell you that I sat out in a
pickup truck on the side of the Rio Grande in a mesquite thicket in the
dark with one lone border patrolman and his electronic equipment, which
was a camera that scanned 2.5 miles in either direction, a stretch of
the river, right in the city limits or on the edge of the city limits
of Laredo, Texas.

I got to sit out there on that lonely job with that young man for a
pretty good while and talk to him about what he has experienced. He
says what every rancher and farmer and homeowner that lives on the
border of Texas today repeats: This is not the same bunch of people
that used to come across our border.

They are coming in waves, and they are doing damage and breaking into
homes, and they are stealing things. Whereas they used to come by a
pepper's house with their hat in their hands and the rancher wife would
put dinner out on the back porch for them, today they break into the
house; they have no regard for private property. They have no regard
for anything that is going on in Texas. They just think it is their
right to come into Texas, and they are acting that way.

This young man told me, he said, I asked him, I said, how many
people? The first time I visited was in the wintertime. I said, how
many people will come across? He said, well, it is winter. Maybe a
couple of hundred tonight. But in the summer, maybe a couple of
thousand in my sector that I will turn back on some given nights.

This is a number that way surpasses anything we have ever experienced
in our State, and all the other States along the border are
experiencing this problem.

But, you know, I have been thinking about this, and this is not a
problem that just started last week. I firmly believe that we enhanced
the problem of the Mexican border, especially our southern border, with
the amnesty bill that we passed in 1986. We gave a message, and in that
message, it was clear: Come on in, boys, you are welcome, and in they
came.

Their thoughts were, I can go, most of them came for jobs. But I used
to be able to say, when I was a young man and a teenager, the people
who came over here are coming to work. I am telling you, you can't say
that today. You can't say that every person that crosses that border
comes to work. That border patrolman told me a tale that will chill
your soul. In the El Paso sector in December, they stopped 15 illegal
immigrants, all of whom claimed to be from Mexico, all of whom
voluntarily agreed to return.

So they fingerprinted them and processed them and took them back to
Mexico. They ran those fingerprints through, I think it is NCI or
whatever it is that they use with the Border Patrol, and about five of
those finger prints had previously been recorded by the United States
Government. Those prints came from a cave in Afghanistan. Now those
were not people coming across our border from Mexico to get a job. But
they were blending in with those who were.

We live in the world of 9/11. We live in a time when an enemy has
launched and successfully accomplished the worst attack on the United
States in the history of the United States. We have people we don't
know coming across our border.

We are doing a lot of talk about enforcement. We are doing a lot of
talk about writing new laws. We go, oh, my gosh, let us rush out, and
we have got to come up and figure out how we get a work program. We
have got to come up with citizenship for these people. We have got to
know what to do with these people. Sure, these are problems that we
have to address sometime, and I am sure soon.

But my concern is, we are not analyzing this problem the way the
problems should be analyzed. The legislation we are hearing that is
coming this way from the Senate, and my way of thinking, is a totally
improper way to analyze a problem of the United States.

I spent almost 21 years as a district judge in Texas. I had many,
many, times, where I had a multiple-issue case that I had to choose.
But a jury would use the same analysis to try to figure out a solution
to a problem. So I will use that example. But the same example could be
used for a surgeon in an emergency room.

You have a problem, and you look at that problem, and you say, well,
this problem has multiple issues we have to deal with. We have evidence
to cover these issues. We need to examine those issues, that evidence
closely and come up with a solution to these problems.

But first where is the ongoing harm? Where is the bleeding? You have
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stop the damage that is there right now today before you move on to the
damage that may be coming down the road or to work on other issues to
determine the solution. I would say the bleeding is at the border. We
have got to stop the bleeding.

The surgeon that is at the emergency room when they are bringing
someone, if there is arterial blood flowing, he is not worried about a
CAT scan or an X-ray or whether this man might have cancer or diabetes.
He wants to stop the bleeding.

If we don't go and address the issues on the border as the House bill
has done to stop the bleeding, if we don't do that, we are analyzing
this problem wrong.

You know, we could stand around in this House, and we can talk about
whose fault is it. You know, hindsight is 2020, but the truth is, the
fault lies across the board, and we ought to step up and say so.

From 1986 until the present, we have had both Republican and
Democratic administrations. We can all point the finger and say, you
did it. But as you point that finger, point it back to you. The fact
is, we have not met our duty to the American people.

But now we see a crisis. Ask any American, where is the crisis in
immigration, and something like 90 percent of them will say, at the
border. Before we deal with anything, we have got to stop the flow.
That is why the House bill is so very important that we go forward on
it.

You know, we took an oath in this House. The President of the United
States took an oath. That oath was that we would, to the best of our
ability, perform the duties of the office to which we had been elected
and preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
We took an oath to do our job. Those people we hire to work for us
assist us in doing that job.

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Mr. Speaker, I am very concerned that as we rush to judgment on the
issue of immigration, that we start talking about amnesty and we start
talking about creating a program where people who have broken the laws
of the United States are going to be given special privileges that even
people who are born here don't get. There are things now being proposed
in the Senate bill as to collecting back Social Security, having the
Davis-Bacon Act apply to all of your wages, and unbelievable things
where even every American doesn't have those benefits. Talk to my
teachers back in Texas about some of their missing Social Security
benefits they have been trying to get for, Lord, it has got to be 50
years. And yet we are looking at this and putting patches on it, and
the patches are getting worse and the tire is going flatter.

Mr. Speaker, the executive and those on both sides of the aisle have
failed. When we wrote the law in 1986, we had laws that pertained to
crossing our borders and we didn't enforce them. We had laws that
pertained to employers and we didn't enforce them, and the Congress
failed in its duty to do that also.

I would argue the worst offender of all are the bureaucrats. But all
that is beside us now. We cannot continue on with a system that doesn't
work at the border, where some nights 16,000 people come across that
border.

I went out and pulled up some of the old law books just to find a few
things, because you hear people say well, they are not really breaking
any laws. Shame on you. Somebody wants to make this a felony. I don't
think anybody has ever looked to see what it is. It is a civil, not a
criminal file for the first crossing. But it continues on. Illegal
entry carries a punishment of fine and imprisonment of up to 6 months.
Harboring undocumented aliens carries a fine and imprisonment of up to
5 years. Alien smuggling carries a fine and imprisonment up to 10
years. Those are felonies, 5 and 10 year sentences, in my opinion.

A crime that causes a serious bodily injury to any person, the
penalty is a fine and a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Reentry
into the United States is a felony charge punishable with fines and/or
imprisonment for 2 or more years. If reentry is after a previous non-
aggravated felony, it is up to 10 years. If it is after an aggravated
felony, it is up to 20 years. Now, I would like to know, are we enforcing those laws? I used to sit
in the courtroom and do a jail call every Monday morning. I would call
the jail and we would bring people over and find out who was in jail.
Inevitably, once, twice, three times a month, we would have anywhere
from two to 20 illegal aliens in the jail. Inevitably.

We would call INS and tell them, we got some of your people here. You
need to pick them up. They would say if they are there on Thursday, we
will get them. They would all bond out on Tuesday and be gone.

Now, is the Immigration and Naturalization Service doing the duty
that our laws gave them to do? No. We have failed to enforce the laws
that are on the books today. So we are not in a panic to create laws to
prevent these people from coming in here. We have laws we are not
enforcing. Now the tide has become overwhelming for law enforcement.
This overwhelming of us is what we are talking about. This is where the
bleeding is. This is where the bleeding has got to be stopped.

The bill that we passed through this House, I would like to add
things to it, were I given the opportunity. Hopefully there will be
more resources for our Border Patrol, resources on the border,
electronic surveillance, unmanned drones and all of the other things
that technology provides for us today, to help us stop this invasion.

I use the term ``invasion,'' and I don't take that hesitantly. While
I was there, I saw a film of what now we are being told were drug
dealers coming across the border in what looked like to everybody there
Mexican military uniforms, carrying satchels of drugs with automatic
weapons and vehicles. Now, it has not been resolved as to exactly who
those people are, but, you know, if it looks like the Mexican army, I
wonder if it is? I think we ought to know that. I think we ought to
have an answer to that.

Most of Europe went to war over an invasion in 1939 and it ended up
being World War II. I am concerned about the invasion across our
southern border. I am concerned we are not enforcing the laws.

I am convinced that the solution to this problem is to do our job,
and if we do our job and enforce the laws that are in place and make a
conscientious effort to study the best possible solution for every one
of the multiple problems that exist in this immigration and border
security issue, let's stop the bleeding at the border and then let's
put the good minds in this House on both sides of the aisle to work in
cooperating to come up with real lasting solutions, and not forgetting
that we have laws we can enforce now as we come up with solutions for
these other things.

That is basically the way I view this thing.
I want to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher),
who also would like to address this House on this important issue.

Mr. ROHRABACHER. I thank you very much, and associate myself with
your remarks. I think what is really important at this point is that
every American understands that the massive influx of illegal
immigrants into our country has not been an accident. It is, instead,
the result of an intentional strategy on the part of America's
political elite.

Yes, the laws are not being enforced, just as you said. That is an
intentional decision by someone that those laws are not enforced. The
business community wants cheap labor. The movers and shakers of the
liberal left, consistent with their Tammany Hall traditions want more
political pawns who are dependent on government programs. They got what
they wanted. Bear Stearns estimates that are there are between 15 and
20 million illegals now in our country.

By the way, one area I might disagree a little bit with my friend,
although it is really not a disagreement, it is just not the border. Of
the 15 to 20 million illegals, 4 to 5 million of them are visa
overstayers, people who have come into our country on a visa and just
overstayed their visa and melded right into the population. Many, many
are from Mainland China, for example. And the decision of not having a
visa system in which we check to see if anybody returns once they have
come to the United States has been a conscious decision. We are not
going to correct this problem.

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Well, my own subcommittee held a hearing on that, and it was
demonstrable that over the last two decades we have had a huge influx
of people just overstaying their visa and becoming illegally part of
our country.

The downside of all of this, 15 to 20 million illegals in our
country, is becoming increasingly evident. In education we hear about
overcrowding and the declining quality of our schools. The States are
spending $7.4 billion annually to provide K through 12 education to
people who aren't supposed to be here in the first place.

Without school age illegal immigrants or the children of illegal
immigrants, school enrollment would not have risen at all during the
past decade. So when you hear about overcrowding or the decline of our
education, that is where it starts. Our limited education dollars are
being expended not for our children's benefit, but for children of
foreigners who have come here illegally. That is a crime against
America's youth. Our children are being denied a quality education
because of our cowardice or incompetence to deal with this issue.

Similarly, our health care system is under siege. Illegal aliens
account for 43 percent of those without health insurance in our
country. At least $9 billion then of our scarce health care dollars are
being spent on foreigners who have come here illegally.

Yes, business gets their cheap labor. The rest of us end up with
closed hospital emergency rooms and skyrocketing health insurance
costs, which can be traced, among other things, to the care that is
given to illegal aliens, which is then simply added on to our bill and
sent to our insurance companies.

The effect on our criminal justice system has been no less
catastrophic. Almost 30 percent of Federal prisoners are now foreign
born. That is one out of every three Federal prisoners. In California,
for example, about one out of every four persons in our prisons are
illegal. The estimated cost, of course, of incarcerating an illegal for
a year is $22,517 per year.

And that is only a small price that the American people are paying.
Think of the other price, the price of the theft and property damage
that is traced to these criminal aliens. And who can put a price tag on
the violent attacks, the murders, the rapes, perpetrated by these
foreign marauders?

And less easily recognized, millions of American families are being
robbed of a higher quality of life and a higher standard of living as
wages are bid down by hordes of job seekers who are not even supposed
to be here in our country. A study by Harvard University professor
George Boris shows immigration accounts for the entire decline of real
wages that has affected so many of our countrymen in the past two
decades. Competition from the growing number of illegal immigrant
laborers in the past 20 years means American workers are earning, get
this, an average of $1,700 less every year than they would have
otherwise been earning.

Now, who gets hurt? Well, unemployment among Americans with less than
a high school education is at 14 percent. Fourteen percent of those
Americans who don't have a high school education are out of work, with
no hope. And who is taking their jobs?

Many of our citizens find they have a decline in pay in terms of real
dollars. And who are these people who are mainly finding that their pay
level is going down? It is the people on the bottom end of the scale.
The less fortunate Americans we are trying to help are the ones who are
being hurt the most by illegal immigrants.

So whether we are talking about education, health care, food stamps,
housing assistance, school breakfast and lunch programs, all of which
were intended for struggling Americans, all of these are being drained
to one extent or another by people who have come here illegally, and in
many cases these people have paid little or nothing into the system.

It is estimated that the average illegal alien uses $2,700 or more in
government services more than he pays in taxes. That is coming right
out of the hide of America's least fortunate citizens. This is a crime
perpetrated by America's elite on America's least fortunate people. It
is a betrayal of our fellow Americans for whom these programs were
intended.

Now, we keep hearing we need these illegals. We need people coming in
to do jobs that Americans won't do. Well, that is so much baloney.
Americans will do these jobs. If Americans are paid a decent wage,
Americans will do the jobs.

I was on a TV show recently where a woman said she couldn't find an
American woman to help take care of her children. This was a very
wealthy person who ended up hiring an illegal Mexican woman. Yes, she
hired her probably at about $50. She wouldn't hire the American woman
down the road who would be glad to work for her for $20 an hour while
her own kids are going to school, thus paying her $100 a day.

Who was worse off? The worse off person is the American woman who
would have loved to have worked for that job. Yes, the illegal got a
little money, 50 bucks. Who is really better off? The rich lady who got
that illegal at half the price she would have had to pay an American.
This goes right down the line to so many other jobs.

We say now there are a lot of jobs, for example, in hotels. Yes,
hotels, they say they need illegals to change the sheets in the hotel
rooms. There are lots of American women who would love so help us with
child care and help with changing the sheets in the motel room if we
would pay them a decent wage. But we have hordes of illegals coming
into this country bidding down those prices so those American women
stay at home and have no job at all. Who is being hurt? Regular
Americans are being hurt by this.

The open-borders crowd are now throwing their weight behind the
current Senate bill. Wake up America. This is the same gang that
brought this crisis upon us, and the Senate bill will make the
situation worse.

{time} 2245

Even the bill before us from the United States Senate is not an anti-
illegal immigration bill. It is a pro-immigration, a pro-illegal
immigration bill, because that will be the impact.

The core provisions of the Senate bill around which everything else
orbits is the so-called guest worker program, and the legalization
status of those 15 to 20 million illegals who are now in our country.
The Senate bill changes the status of these millions of intruders from
illegal to legal.

The President does not want to call that amnesty. I call that
amnesty, and there is no other definition I know for it. You are
changing the status from illegal to legal of people who have come here
in violation of our law.

Whatever you call it, if you legalize the status of those who skipped
the line and came here in violation of our country's law, we are
telling hundreds of millions of foreigners who are waiting to come to
this country legally, they are waiting in line overseas, we are telling
them they are a bunch of saps.

We will start a stampede towards America, just like what happened the
last time we legalized the status of people who were here illegally
back in 1986. No matter what is done to strengthen the border, any
benefit from strengthening the border will be overwhelmed by the
dramatically increased pull which is a result of legalizing the status
of these millions of illegals who are in our country.

Now, the rest of the Senate bill. What does it include? It guarantees
in-state tuition for illegals. Your kid has to pay full tuition if he
crosses a border of a State line. These illegals do not. Now that is a
way not to give anybody incentive to come here to our country.

And agricultural guest workers under this bill cannot be fired by
their employers except for what the bill calls ``just cause''. However,
American agricultural workers can be fired for any reason. Oh, well,
that is going to keep them away from our country, isn't it?

The Senate bill will make illegal aliens eligible for Social
Security. Get that, America. Wake up, America. The Senate has voted to
give illegal immigrants Social Security. Hundreds of millions of
desperate people living in poverty throughout the world who have no
pension system available to them now know that the United States Senate
has voted to make them part of America's pension system if they can
just get here.

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This is beyond absurd. This is bizarre. This is horrible. We are
including people who have come here illegally in America's pension
system and expecting that not to attract tens of millions of other
desperate people from around the world. And, of course, Social Security
is not just a pension system for people. It is also a survivor's
benefit program.

So when an illegal works here and then dies, we will take care of his
or her children until they are 18 years old. The potential for
corruption and the gaming of such a system boggles the mind. I can
assure you right now, if this is put in place as the Senate has voted
to do, we will be taking care and there will be payments from our
Social Security system to millions of kids in China, and in Mexico, as
people go back and their coroners claim they have died and their
dependents are waiting for their check to be delivered.

And of course all of this is happening at a time when we are trying
to keep Social Security solvent. Oh, yes, the Senate bill, of course,
gives all employers amnesty too. So now employers are not going to
worry about enforcing the law. Who cares if Americans are being denied
the jobs? Who cares? Because actually employers now can hire people and
these employers are now no longer held accountable for the illegals
that they have hired.

And what is the final result? The insult, of course, is the Senate
bill is providing money for those organizations that are helping
illegals adjust their status. We are actually paying them to help fight
our Government and our efforts to clear up the illegal immigration
situation by sending illegals home.

There are a number of other provisions in the bill that should alarm
small business. For example, this bill, the Senate bill, requires us to
pay illegals the prevailing wage. And then, of course, we are setting
up an entire bureaucracy to determine what that prevailing wage is for
various different professions.

No, this will massively increase the bureaucratic power over our
people and our country, and the private sector already. Illegal
immigration has had a horrible, horrible impact on our way of life.
Kids in my neighborhood do not cut the lawn any more. I used to cut the
lawn. That is what I did for pocket change when I was a kid. Kids do
not do that any more. Kids do not wash the cars any more.

No. What we have done is our values have changed because illegals
have come in and changed our way of life. And we are told we have to
bring them in because, for example, the fruit and the vegetables will
rot in the fields without illegals.

Well, if we pay our American people they will do the job. And if they
do not, we can be creative enough. For example, let us use prisoners to
pick fruit, and pay them so that when they get out of prison, they will
have $10,000 or $20,000 in their pocket and they will have contributed
money to their own incarceration, or for restitution to their victims.

We can come through this without importing millions and millions of
people from foreign countries to come here and do this kind of work. We
can. We can run the United States of America without a massive flow of
illegals or a massive new flow of immigrants into our country.

Now, I support legal immigration. I think legal immigrants, legal
immigrants deserve every right as every American citizen. We have the
most generous legal immigration system in the world. We permit more
legal immigration into America than any other country in the world.

The Senate wants to up that by so much, that if the Senate bill
passed, we are talking about 100 million to 200 million more immigrants
coming into our country over the next 20 years. Read that correctly.

If you put illegal immigration on top of that, we are talking about
hundreds of millions, perhaps 300 million people coming into the United
States of America. Wake up, America. We are losing our country. We
cannot permit this massive flow of illegals to continue.

And we cannot just dramatically increase the number of legal
immigrants coming into our country, which would then overwhelm our
ability to assimilate them. We can be proud of legal immigration. We
should keep it at the level it has been at.

But, no, we have people who are not watching out for the interests of
the American people. That is what we need to talk about right now as we
close this presentation. The American people need to pay attention.
This vote that is coming up on the Senate bill versus the House bill,
which is based on enforcement and trying to stop illegal immigration,
the Senate bill is a pro-illegal immigration bill. The American people
need to look very closely who is watching out for their interests and
who is against them.

Who is on their side and who is on the side of foreigners who wish to
come here? Again, these people who want to came here are wonderful
people. Even the illegal immigrants who come here are wonderful people.
95 percent of them are wonderful people.

Our job is not to take care of every wonderful person in the world,
providing them a pension, providing them health care, providing their
children with education. Our job is to watch out for the American
people.

We accept no apologies for that. We should have no apologies that we
put the American people's interests first. But that is not what has
been happening. There has been some very powerful special interests, as
I say, in business who want cheap labor, and on the left wing and
liberal left wing of the Democratic Party who want political pawns out
of illegals who come here and other people who immigrate here who are
dependent on Government programs.

The American people have the power in their hands to control the
destiny of this country. They must pay attention if we are to succeed
in thwarting this threat to our freedom and to our prosperity. Wake up,
America. It is time to hold accountable your elected representatives.
Study the issues. See who is supporting this program in the Senate to
give away our Social Security, and destroy that system. See who is
supporting actual border enforcement and changing our visa laws so they
can be enforced and protecting us from an overwhelming flow of illegals
into our country, which lowers wages and threatens our way of life.

Hold those elected officials accountable, and kick them out of office
if they are not representing your interests. They are supposed to be
working for you. And with that I yield back.
Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, can I ask how much time we have left?
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Kuhl of New York). Roughly 15 minutes.
Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, at this time I yield to Mr. Gingrey.
Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to join both of my
colleagues, the gentleman from Texas, Judge Carter, who is managing the
hour with the gentleman from California that you just heard from, Mr.
Speaker, my colleague, Representative Rohrabacher, who very
passionately explained what the issue is.

You know, and again, I think as I represent the 640,000 or so
constituents of the 11th District of Georgia, West Georgia, great,
great people. And when I go home, and I am sure Representatives Carter
and Rohrabacher are hearing the same thing from their constituents,
they say and I agree, that this is a country of law abiding people.
And we have to have respect for the rule of law. I was real
interested, Mr. Speaker, this weekend on one of the Sunday morning news
shows, one of our colleagues, in fact, indeed one of my colleagues from
Georgia, Representative Norwood, who is such a great spokesperson on
this issue was debating one of the Senators who happened also to be
from the Southeast, in regard to the Senate bill versus the
Sensenbrenner, very sensible, as the name would have it, the
legislation that we passed in the House before the first of the year
that emphasizes border security and border security first.

And that is what my colleagues were speaking about before me, that
there is all of this talk about, you know, what to do with 11 or 12
million people who are in this country illegally, and what to do about
the fact that there are certain sectors of our economy that are
dependent on a lot of foreign workers.

Unfortunately, a lot of those foreign workers are among the 11 or 12
million that are here illegally. So maybe we need a temporary worker
program. I

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agree with my colleague who just spoke that if the pay and benefit
package and health care and these things that go with those jobs were a
decent wage, I think in some instances, Mr. Speaker, they are, but in
some instances, maybe far too many, they are not.

If they were, then there are plenty of legal aliens, legal
immigrants, United States citizens who are out of work today who would
take those jobs. Now, everybody says, well, golly, we have this low
unemployment rate of 4.5 percent. Well, that is 4.5 percent of people
without jobs. Until it gets to zero percent, I cannot really see where
we necessarily need a temporary worker program.

But what I was saying about that program, Mr. Speaker, that
television news show this past Sunday morning, we are talking about the
rule of law. The Senator incredulously said, well, the law is okay as
long as it is a ``just law''. You know, that is just shocking to me. I
do not know what the Senator's occupation is or profession, I know
there is a lot of lawyers over there in the other body. But our laws
are our laws. If they are not just laws, we have a way in this chamber
and that chamber to change those laws, because after all we are the
ones that make them.

If they are not just laws, then we change them, and we do it in the
right way. We do not just ignore it, if we do not like the law. There
are lots of laws that I do not like. But by golly I abide by them,
whether I am on this Hill, inside the Beltway, or back home in Georgia.
And that is the way my constituents feel, and that is the way my
colleagues who are sharing this hour with me feel.

I am dead set with them on securing our borders first and foremost. The President spoke to the Nation the other night, Mr. Speaker, talked
about putting some National Guard troops, 6,000 I think he said on a
temporary basis, to sort of back up the Border Patrol. We have got what
10,000 or 12,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents on the southern border.

I think we need more. I think my colleague, Mr. Norwood, on Sunday
morning said maybe we need 30,000. But at least we need 18,000 or
20,000. And we are going to get there. And we are going to, according
to the House version of immigration reform to secure the border, we are
going to build facilities and have more bed space so that we can retain
these illegal immigrants that are referred to as OTM, that acronym that
stands for Other Than Mexicans, that we have been catching and
releasing in that catch-and-release program.

{time} 2300

I think the whole point here is history: if you do not pay attention
to it, you are going to repeat it; and you are going to make the same
mistakes over and over again if you do not learn from the past. We can
go back; my colleagues have probably already done that in the earlier
part of the aisle. I may have missed part of that discussion, but that
Bracero program that we had from 1942 to the 60s, dismal failure. That
was a temporary worker program. Dismal failure. And then our great
communicator and one of my very favorite all-time Presidents, Ronald
Reagan, in the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, an amnesty, really
pretty much a blanket amnesty for 3 million people.

Now, that would probably have been okay 19 years ago if we had
secured our borders, but we didn't. There was no border security that
went along with that as a companion. And we estimate and, Mr. Speaker,
do not take my word for it, this is a CRS report that I am reading in
front of me dated May 15, 2006. That is pretty darn recent, I think. It
is talking about the fact that there probably are today 11 to 12
million illegal aliens in this country. If you do the math, that is
about 500,000 a year that are coming through that border which is
nothing but a sieve, and that hemorrhaging continues. And if we grant
any kind of amnesty program today and we do not secure that border, you
do the math. In 20 years from now, we will be talking about 35 or 40
million illegal immigrants, illegal aliens in this country.

My colleagues talked about the stress that that puts on public
education, on our health care system. The fact that we do not know
really that these, hopefully the majority are law abiding. I think they
are, but in this day and time after 9/11 and with the threat of a
global terrorism, how do you know who is coming in this country? Are
they all coming to work? Absolutely not. Some are members of gangs.
Some are involved in drug trade. So it is absolutely imperative.

I commend Chairman Sensenbrenner, Mr. Speaker, and I commend my House colleagues. I commend the Speaker, the majority leader, this Republican majority in this body, this House of Representatives for doing what we did. In fact, the first bill we passed was the REAL ID Act and that was in complete and total lockstep response to what the 9/11 Commission
asked us to do in regard to driver's licenses and this abuse of the
claim of asylum, to be able to in an expedited fashion to get rid of
someone who was allowed to come in this country and then was involved
in terrorist activity. So these things are so important.

I just thank my colleague, my good friend, classmate from Texas, Mr.
Carter, for letting me come and just share a little bit of time with
him because we are compassionate. Everybody talks about the President
and his great compassion. I do not doubt that. I think he does have
great compassion. But I think if he wants to insist on granting an
amnesty program that even comes close to what is happening in 1986, he
is dead wrong on this issue.

I want to work with employers and I think in the House bill we do
that. We are going to provide a biometric tamper-proof identification
card so when we get this combined program done, and we do not have to
do it all in the next 2 weeks, and I think if we can get the Senate to
agree as my great colleague and Senator from Georgia, Johnny Isakson
said, let's get the border secured first. We can do the rest of this
stuff, which is in my opinion sort of cosmetic surgery, once you stop
the hemorrhaging.

If we go back and look at a temporary worker program and what to do
with the 11 million that are here illegally, I personally think, yes,
they should pay back taxes, pay a fine, pass a criminal background
check and then be notified that they have got about a year to make
arrangements to go back home, to go to the border and then get in one
of three lines.

One line would be to stay home, decide that they want to stay in
their country of origin. The second line would be the temporary worker
program. We could even give those who have been in this country for
more than 5 years working and passing all those litmus tests, good
people, we could put them in the front of the temporary worker line; or
if they wanted to come back in this country as permanent legal
residents and get on a track to citizenship, then they could get in
that line.

Maybe it is too simple. Maybe I am a simple kind of guy. That is the
way I see it.

I want to thank the judge for taking the time tonight and giving me a
chance to share my thoughts with my colleagues.

Mr. CARTER. Reclaiming my time, I want to thank my colleague for
joining us here tonight. He is always a very calming influence when he
addresses the House, and I am always fascinated to listen to him speak.

This is my whole premise that I was talking about, Mr. Speaker, is
that it is time that we take a deep breath and address one of the
biggest issues that this House has had to deal with in a long time and
an issue that actually can be, as has been explained here tonight, a
nation-changing issue.

I personally have a great, as I started out saying, have a great
compassion for our neighbors to the south. And I welcome good, honest
legal citizens of this country as does everyone. And no one in this
House is talking about the Trail of Tears massive deportation to the
border. We have issues that have to be addressed. But the problem, the
hemorrhaging, the bleeding is at the border today. That is where we
have got to go and get this slowed down and get it ready. And then you
know I would like to hear quite honestly from my colleagues on the
other side of the aisle. We have never really.

The Democrats' plan for immigration does not seem to be out there
today. I would like to hear their solution to the

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problem. I would like for both sides of the aisle to sit down and say,
let's work this thing out intelligently. And I will give you just one
example, a couple examples not being addressed. One right now, there is
a tremendous backlog on background investigations of people who are
coming and have come into this country illegally to get their visas
extended. They have to have a background check or to get into this
country with a background check. That thing could take anywhere from 18
months and the backlog just once they start processing it, it can take
up to 18 months or longer.

Right now in my part of Texas, our San Antonio office is working on
the years 1998, 1999 and 2000. We are going to take that system in its
present condition and dump 15 million-plus people into that system for
background checks? Or do they get to miss that part that the legal
immigrants have to take?

Health exams have to be done for everyone that comes in the United
States. What are we going to do to examine the health of 15 million
people in this country to make sure that there are not communicable
diseases in this country? This is an issue that is part of our law. It
is required by law. If we are going to process them, that needs to be
here.

Then a question I do not hear anybody addressing is what do we do to
the people who do not join our program? We love America and we think
everybody comes here to be an American citizen. But I can tell you from
personal conversations with people who have come here, I have worked
building fences side by side with folks that, I never asked them, but
since they did not speak any English and they told me they were from
Mexico, I kind of figured they were illegal aliens. I can tell you,
they didn't come here to be American citizens. They came here to work.
And their families were back in Mexico, and they really wanted to go
back there. And they sent 80 percent of their paycheck home because
they were able to live on social services over here so they can afford
to do that.

Now, what about the guy who says, well, that is great, but I do not
want to pay back taxes and I do not want to pay a $200 fine, and I do
not want to get a health check, and I do not want to get a background
check; I will just stay in the shadows. Are we addressing that issue?
Are there going to be consequences to those people who continue to stay
in the shadows? If you care about the people that come in here, do we
want anybody in this country starting their life on American soil under
the cloud of criminal behavior?

But we know that 15 million people crossed our borders and broke the
law. I did not say felony. I did not give a classification. I said
broke the law. We have laws in this country, and it was broken. Let's
be intelligent. Let's be smart. Let's seal the borders, put our
resources there and then study this program and get a system that we
can administer and we can work and we can pay for.

____________________

[Cali/Yank]

Another march Downtown LA
June 17, 2006, 04:23 PM
short video showing American patriots being attacked by Mexican communists in Los Angeles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IJUVOf0ILM

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34498

[Cali/Yank]

3 Officers Among 4 Decapitated in Mexico

Police were responding to a kidnapping report when met by 100 armed men, witnesses say.

By Richard Marosi, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2006


SAN DIEGO — Mexican authorities discovered the decapitated bodies of three police officers and a fourth man Wednesday near an empty lot in the seaside town of Rosarito Beach, about 15 miles south of the border.

The officers had gone missing Tuesday after responding to a report of a kidnapping. Witnesses said that the officers were intercepted by about 100 heavily armed, masked men dressed as Mexican federal agents, said a spokesman for the Baja California state attorney general's office.


The men's bodies showed signs of torture. Their heads were found in Tijuana, several miles away. Authorities said the men were the victims of an organized crime hit, the latest in a string of killings or attempted killings of law enforcement officials in Baja California.

Rosarito Beach, a popular weekend destination for Southern Californians, is also a heavily contested transshipment point for drug traffickers.

One of the victims — Benjamin Fabian Ventura, was the bodyguard of Rosarito Beach's former police chief, Carlos Bowser Miret, who was killed in an ambush slaying last year.

The other dead police officers are Jesus Hernandez Ballesteros and Ismael Arellano Torres. The fourth man was not identified.

[Cali/Yank]

Associated Press
'Railroad Killer' executed in Texas
Huntsville, Texas -- Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night. -- The Mexican drifter, known as the "Railroad Killer," was executed for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton 71/2 years ago.

[Cali/Yank]

ACAPULCO, Mexico — Authorities on Friday found two human heads in front of a state government office in this Pacific coast resort, a day after a similar grisly discovery was made outside the main entrance to City Hall.

The heads were accompanied by a note that read, "One more message, dirtbags, so that you learn to respect." They were dumped in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department where the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in April with a similar note that warned, "So that you learn to respect."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201742,00.html

[American_Jihad]

Woman run off road, raped, beaten by illegals

GROESBECK, Texas — A Central Texas woman was recuperating at a Temple hospital after she reported being run off a rural road, kidnapped and then raped and beaten by her abductors, authorities said.

The 18-year-old woman was in stable condition Thursday following surgery. She had walked and crawled a half-mile to find help after her abductors left her for dead along a highway early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

"She spent more than two hours in hell," Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said.

Wilson said Javier Guzman Martinez, 17, and Noel Darwin Hernandez, 22, both of Mexia, had been arrested for the crime and were charged Thursday with aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping.

The suspects began following the woman late Tuesday night as she left Mexia, about 40 miles east of Waco, where she was visiting friends, authorities said. The suspects did not know the woman.

The woman told investigators she was driving at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday on a state highway toward her home in a Limestone County town when a car rammed her sport utility vehicle and forced her off the road, Wilson said.

The woman told investigators that the men forced her into their car, and then drove around rural county roads while they sexually assaulted, stabbed and beat her, Wilson said.

The woman said the men left her about a mile south of Coolidge in a ditch, where she pretended to be dead until they left, Wilson said. She then found help at a nearby trailer.

Dena Lincoln said the woman, covered in blood, came to her trailer door at about 4:30 a.m.

"I will never, as long as I live, get that look that was on her face out of my mind," Lincoln said. "She kept saying, 'I'm going to die. I'm going to die.' I told her, 'No, honey, you are going to be all right. We are going to get you some help.'"

The woman was flown by helicopter to a Temple hospital with numerous cuts and stab wounds, including an injury that endangered one eye, Wilson said.

Wilson said investigators canvassed the area on Wednesday with the description of the suspects given by the women.

Officers found Martinez at his Mexia residence. Wilson said he confessed to the incident and told officers of Hernandez's involvement. U.S. Marshall's tracked Hernandez to a Waco bus station, where he was arrested Wednesday night.

Martinez was being held in the Limestone County Jail while Hernandez was to be transferred to Limestone County from McLennan County, officials said. Wilson said both men are apparently in the United States illegally and will be held without bond on immigration charges. Hernandez is from Honduras, and Martinez is from Mexico, Wilson said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4014662.html

[shadow_wolf]

Nice boys those Immigrants......

[Cali/Yank]

Protest against the Mayor of Costa Mesa, California and councilman Monahans decision to close the Day Labor site and allow the local police to contact ICE after someone has been arrested if they have no legal right to be in this country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSVV7g-5Uo8&mode=related&search=

[Cali/Yank]

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_189230248.html

Hollywood Calif. 7/8/06

Costa Mesa.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1207098.php

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1480

Hollywood, Kalifornia. 7-8-06

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTmm6kTN0s

7-8-06 Costa Mesa, California

[Ono]

Good stuff. Thanks Cali!

[Cali/Yank]

Sher: “David, thanks again for your time in addressing this vital issue that impacts all of us in the US. I’d like to start by asking you to explain some of the reasons that illegal immigration into the United States has become so uncontrollable over the last 30-40 years. Let’s start with the makeup of the US Border Patrol. You mentioned that the US’ affirmative action programs and the EEOC have been largely responsible in creating a situation, in that fully 70% of the USBP is now comprised of agents holding dual Mexican and US citizenship. Would you elaborate?”


http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16087.html

[Cali/Yank]

The Minuteman Project formed for one purpose: to protect the border, and it has, according to an internal Drug Enforcement Agency report.

The report credits the border watch group with helping to cut down on drug trafficking.

This intelligence report obtained by News 4 says that the Minuteman Project had an impact on drug trafficking in Cochise County in 2005.

DEA officials say bulk loads of marijuana crossing the border dropped siginificantly.

Anthony Coulson, with DEA says, "When you have eyes on the border -- I think any law enforcment will admit this -- you have a great deterrent effect of keeping things away."

The report says that, during April and May 2005, several high-profile operations targeting illegal immigrant smugglng operations may have impacted drug smuggling operations and the usual flow of illegal drugs corss the Arizona and Mexico border.

A graph shows a 20% decrease between 2004 and 2005.
But the Minuteman Project isn't the only reason there was a reduction.

Mexican President Vicente Fox also sent in a significant amount of resources to the area.

Special Agent Coulson says, "Drug organizations didn't want to risk coming up through that area. Things just sat."

Loads of marijuana were warehoused in communities along the Mexican side of the border.

"They just kind of hunkered down, waiting til the Minuteman Project was over and there was a stand-down of the Mexican law enforcement and military presence on the nothern part of their border."

There was also an increased presence of Border Patrol agents during that time, so all that adds up to keeping drugs from coming across.

Minuteman spokesman Al Garza says that's been a mission from the beginning.

"The initial plan was to go after the drug cartels," Garza said. "It's not just about illegal immigration, we are obviously looking into the sealing of the border and we did address the issue of drugs."
He's appreciative that a government organziation would acknowledge the effectiveness of the Minuteman Project.

"We've stood tall, we've meant what we said. We weren't there because we were racists. Just look at the color of my skin. This is not what we're about. Our theme is border security. Been that way all along," Garza explained.

Next year's annual DEA report may give us an idea of what impact the National Guard may have on drug and human smuggling.

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5138629&nav=HMO6HMaY

[Cali/Yank]

SALINAS, Calif. -- Some Central Coast veterans were shocked Wednesday when they found their American flag had been cut down and burned, police said.

The incident took place at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in east Salinas.

Police reported they have not made any arrests but said they plan to see if vandals were caught on surveillance tape.



http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/9511985/detail.html

Near the places that John Steinbeck wrote.

http://www.pelicannetwork.net/national.steinbeck.center.htm

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hollywoodnight

Minuteman of One spots two large groups Minuteman of One spots two large groups at 11:30 PM, reports them at mile marker 32 crossing Wild Horse Rd about 3 miles east of 286.They were rounded up the next morning at 9AM near mile marker 45 Three Points. At 2 miles an hour the traveled 15 miles over that night. 60 IA's deported.


This was two groups of about 60 total I spotted and reported crossing thhe desert under the cover of darkness. They wore ski masks and were traveling in tandem. Border Patrol waited them out for 9 hours and sacked them. I was wonering if they were the coyotes responsible for the dead girl we found stabbed in the kidneys, throat slashed and scalped. Whats it to you?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URFszlJ_gIc



Disclaimer: This is not me. Just found these people on youtube.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2006/07/illegal_immigrants_attack_empl.html


July 18, 2006
Illegal Immigrants Attack Employer
It took the brutal attack of an Ohio construction company owner for federal authorities to finally hit the streets and arrest illegal aliens--many of them violent criminals--in that state.

The owner of a Warren County construction company was recently assaulted and shot at by a group of illegal immigrants simply because he fired one of their buddies who could not provide documentation of his immigration status in the U.S.

Police said the fired man returned for revenge with eight other Mexican men, armed with three handguns and several baseball bats. The owner was viciously assaulted and his truck was severely vandalized before an ambulance took him to the hospital with multiple injuries.

The Department of Homeland Security apparently took note and sent agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to round up 154 illegal immigrants in Ohio. The immigrants had been caught entering the country illegally and were ordered deported but never left and U.S. officials never bothered to find them.

[Cali/Yank]

http://gringounleashed.typepad.com/gringo_unleashed/prop_200/index.html


04 February 2005

"...the European invaders that pompously call themselves 'Americans'"

There are two main Spanish-language weekly newspapers in the Phoenix area. One is the Prensa Hispana ("Spanish Press"), an independent, family-owned paper; the other is La Voz ("The Voice"), which is partially owned by the Arizona Republic, a Gannett paper.

What follows is one of the opinion columns from the latest issue of La Voz. I picked it up off a newsstand this afternoon.

Unlike my previous translations, I am posting the entire column. Due to its nature, I don't want to be accused of selectively quoting from the piece or taking things out of context. Also, due to its length I am not including the original Spanish version, which can be found here.

With that...brace for impact.

157 years after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, we Mexicans continue to be subject to the shoddy interpretation of it by the European invaders that pompously call themselves “Americans.” We continue thus, suffering the effects of our own political inflexibility.

This treaty was signed at the conclusion of the Mexican-United States War, when at that time the invader “smelled” the opportunity to expand and “recognized” the independence of Texas, a state that after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo lost its pretended independence and was annexed to the United States, along with California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Colorado and part of Wyoming.

The treaty established the Gila River and the Rio Grande as the limits between both nations, and the American commitment to protect the civil, cultural, linguistic, and property rights of the Mexicans who decided to stay in the new U.S. territory.

But the U.S. Senate eliminated article 10, which guaranteed protection of the land concessions of the Mexicans, and weakened the reach of article 9, which protected their rights of citizenship.

All this created hostility toward the Mexicans, and eased the violation of their civil rights. In Texas for example, their voting rights were restricted; in California discriminatory laws were passed, and in New Mexico they were frequently victims of violence.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the complete stripping of the lands of the roughly 80,000 Mexican residents in what was formerly northern Mexico was completed. For this there was no compensation, nor explanations or trace of shame on the part of the gringo thieves. They simply followed the commands of their “Manifest Destiny” stipulated in the Monroe Doctrine which demanded “America for the (North) Americans.”

Like Texas, California and New Mexico in their time, now Arizona is the ground where many battles are to be unleashed, by virtue of an anti-immigrant law.

But unlike then, I believe 2005 and coming years are going to offer us a unique opportunity. The future can shine promising if only we will stop genuflecting and reverencing the white bearded man. We have to be ready for dialogue but also for battle. It is no longer possible to continue being weak-hearted in our own house.

In short, we have to affirm our right to live here. Because one can’t be a foreigner on American soil. The only foreigners, the real outsiders, are the gang of pernicious European outcasts from Europe, not we who have been here from time immemorial.

America for the Americans? Agreed. Then all those who can’t demonstrate their American roots, like Randy Pullen and his accompanying creatures, should start packing up their things. These “Americans” can break out their finest dresses to show them off in the English courts that they yearn for so much. Certainly there, in England, only English is spoken.

I hope it’s clear to these pseudo-Americans that in spite of them, and however many “apartheid” laws are passed, we, Mexicans, haven’t come to stay but have always been here and aren’t leaving. No matter what!*

And it's plain to see that, in spite of our colonial past, we Mexicans weren’t transplanted by force from Africa, or expelled from Europe by scoundrels. We are, after all, AMERICANS!

Maybe it's just me, but I think most people would expect to find rhetoric this combustible in something published by, say, the A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd, or on Indymedia, rather than a mainstream newspaper. And I would also suggest that, had this been written in a mainstream English-language newspaper, you would have heard about it before now.

*NOTE: The original Spanish at the end of this paragraph reads, ¡Y háganle como quieran!, , which roughly translated means, "And they can do to it as they want!" My translation reflects my best attempt to get across the author's intent. If you're bilingual and believe you've got a more accurate rendering, the comment thread is open.

[Cali/Yank]

http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=18&ITEM_ID=1887


Called vigilantes by President Bush - but cheered on by millions of Americans concerned over decades of uncontrolled illegal immigration - the all-volunteer Minuteman Project was founded in 2004 by decorated Marine veteran Jim Gilchrist. Armed with only binoculars and cell phones, Gilchrist and his fellow patriots proved that America's porous borders could be successfully guarded, and in the process set off a national debate on an issue the federal government had long ignored.

Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders is a first-hand account from the frontlines, and what it says will shock you. Jim Gilchrist teams up with Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command – the book that derailed John Kerry's presidential campaign – to describe in vivid detail how the nation's southern border has disintegrated into a Wild West of human trafficking, drug smuggling, and violent gangs.


http://immigrationbuzz.com/?page_id=270

FBI Fast Facts
2006 (1st Qtr) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Illegal Immigration.

62% of all “undocumented immigrants” in the United States are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens, working without a green card;

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens;

83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens;

86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens;

75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens;

More than 380,000 “anchor babies” were born in the United States in 2005 were to parents who are illegal aliens; making those 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayer;

More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers;

24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually;

More than 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages

More than 53% of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens;

More than half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border;

More than 43% of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens;

More than 41% of all unemployment checks issued in the United States are to illegal aliens;

58% of all Welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens;

Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in the United States are illegal aliens;

14 out of 31 TV stations in L.A. are Spanish-only;

16 out of 28 TV stations in Phoenix are Spanish-only;

15 out of 24 TV stations in Albuquerque are Spanish-only;

21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish-only;

17 radio stations in Phoenix are Spanish-only;

17 radio stations in Albuquerque are Spanish-only;

More than 34% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

More than 24% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;

More than 39% of California students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

More than 42% of California students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking

In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish;

More than 71% of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by illegal aliens or transport coyotes”;

47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens;

63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens;

66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal aliens;

Less than 2% of illegal aliens in the United States are picking crops , but 41% are on welfare;

Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration;

The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 (latest know calculation. Can you imagine what it must be in 2006? WOW!) was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University];

The estimated profit to U.S. corporations and businesses employing ILLEGAL aliens in 2005 was more than $2.36 TRILLION dollars;

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican ILLEGAL alien is $55,000.00 cost to the American taxpayer in a 5-year span. You, personally, are giving $11,000 every year to ILLEGAL aliens.

[Cali/Yank]

AS THE CL CRACKKKERSHITHEADS HEA VOMIT ON THEIR OWN RABIES...Many of us grunts, Blacks and Latinos, came to hate whitey more than the VC. ... TODAY WE VOTE ALL WHITEY GRINGOS OUT OF POWER! CHICANO POWER! ...
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[Cali/Yank]

Oh, Oh!! the black birds are flying..

http://www.azstarnet.com/ss/2006/07/22/l138994-2.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- July 21 -- CNN
Sylvester: ....U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 75 miles of existing fence has proven effective. Congressman Duncan Hunter referred to San Diego's success.
Hunter: We pulled down the smuggling of narcotics and people by more than 90 percent, and the fence did work.
[....]
Sylvester: And Congress has had opportunities to improve border security over the years but has not appropriated the money. The latest example: Earlier this month, the Senate killed an amendment to provide funds to construct a border fence, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of senators, 83 to 16, voted to build that fence -- Lou.


:mad_01:

[Klaus]

Un bump del thread...


HACE LA CADENA, PENDEJOS!!!!

[Cali/Yank]

Gracias Klaus,


http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1572


The first episode of the FX Network series “30 Days” features Minuteman, Frank Jorge, living with an illegal alien family for 30 days. Immediately after a preview screening Frank Jorge blasted the shows Producers for manipulating the ending. They edited footage out of context, and made it appear that Frank had made a miraculous transformation after 30 days and suddenly supported illegal immigration.

The Producers of the show and R.J. Cutler in particular, have a pro-illegal immigration bias. It was no coincidence that the film crew for this episode held pro-illegal immigration views because they were in fact illegal aliens themselves. The FX Network intentionally broke the law and hired illegal aliens to surround Frank. Their goal was to change Frank’s mind on illegal immigration. When that didn’t happen, they decided to “fix it in post.” Either that, or now television and film jobs are the work that American’s won’t do.

A freelance videographer from Immigration Watchdog.com, with prior approval from FX Network to videotape a July 12th press conference, was forced to turn off his camera after Frank began voicing his displeasure with the programs ending. They even called hotel security and threatened to confiscate the videotape.

After an email written by Frank circulated the internet, the ‘30 Days’ threatened legal action against him in an effort to silence him. Frank Jorge’s unbending viewpoint and outspoken nature forced FX into reworking the ending into at least three different versions. One version is the truth and the other two show a Frank that is in favor of illegal immigration.

Only the Executive Producers at FX Network know which version will air Wednesday, July 26th at 10pm Pacific time.

[Cali/Yank]

"Grapes of Wrath" Illegal migrant camp near San Diego, California.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/healthmobile.wmv

2nd part

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/healthmobile2.wmv

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA8j43gLxko

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/contra_costa_county/concord/15187615.htm


"This year is very difficult. This week, I haven't worked at all," said Huerta last Thursday. "Last summer we had more jobs."

The slowdown started in May, said George Vallejo, manager of the day labor program. The center experienced its worst day of the summer July 24, when employers hired just 13 of its workers. On a good day, about 40 of the 80 day laborers who come to the center every day are sent out to work, he said.

The decline in work began around the same time as the one-day boycotts around the nation, Vallejo said. He and some of the day laborers, including Huerta, feel the protests may have created some resentment and have something to do with employers not hiring as many workers.

The unusually hot weather may also be a factor, Vallejo said.

"(Employers) are afraid something could happen to the workers," he said.

Day laborers in Concord aren't the only ones having a harder time finding work this summer. It's happening around the United States, said Abel Valenzuela, an associate professor of Chicano studies at UCLA who co-wrote a nationwide study on day laborers.

The slowdown is likely a combination of reasons, one of which could be contention surrounding the issue of immigration, he said.

"When people talk about the problems with undocumented immigration, they often paint a picture of a day laborer. But they are a really small component of the undocumented immigrants in this country," Valenzuela said.

In a recent survey of day laborers in Santa Monica, the laborers cited a "more chilled atmosphere with regards to immigration," Valenzuela said. Images of Minute Men protesting at day labor sites also turn off potential employers, he said.

[Cali/Yank]

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5241242&nav=HMO6


Border patrol confirms that it is investigating a possible Mexican military incursion.

News 4 has learned that some time Thursday, two National Guardsmen were refueling a light generator, when they spotted six armed men in military uniforms, on the U.S. side of the border.

The Guardsmen, who were not armed called Border Patrol.

By the time air units could check the area, the men were back on the south side of the border.

Border Patrol is investigating this situation.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.limitstogrowth.org/index.html






Open Borders' Inevitable Result




What is LimitsToGrowth?

Immigration's Many Effects
• Overpopulation!
• Clash of Myths
• Traffic and Sprawl
• Hysteria Endangers Speech
• Balkanized Society
• Impact on Black Americans
• Immigration in the Classroom
• The Terrorist Threat, March 2001
• The Diversity File
• Importing Anti-Semitism
• Remittances
• Rep. Tom Tancredo Speeches
• Public Health Put at Risk
• Unliveable California
• Growth, Lies and Water Supply
• Awakenings
• The Role of the Media
• Pim Fortuyn
• Muslims in France
• Alleviating the Pressure to Emigrate



Mass Immigration's Sponsors
• Vatican Subversion
• Mexican Creative Financing
• Mexico Is Rich
• Mexico's Territorial Desires



See our companion website ImmigrationsHumanCost.org







Competing protests over immigration turn ugly [8/5/06]
This from Fremont, California. American supporters of borders and sovereignty were attacked by gang members and socialists.

For the past three months, a group of seniors, war veterans, blue-collar workers and students has taken to Fremont Boulevard and Mowry Avenue every other Friday night to decry illegal immigration. But the rallies of the East Bay Coalition for Border Security, as the 30 or so people are called, have drawn ire from members of the International Socialist Organization and Green Party -- mostly idealistic 20-somethings who drive in from San Francisco, Berkeley and Santa Cruz to the counter protest.
On a recent Friday, a fight broke out between the two groups. Four men on the border security side ended up with black eyes, chipped teeth and other injuries. A police officer's ear was split and started bleeding. Six people were arrested.
• • •

'Quinceanera': Turning Sweet 15 in Los Angeles's Immigrant Stew [8/4/06]
At the New York Times, a film about a pregnant 15-year-old is cause for celebration, since the girl is a Mexican immigrant. Let the diversity begin!

"Quinceanera," a portrait of a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles, is as smart and warmhearted an exploration of an upwardly mobile immigrant culture as American independent cinema has produced. Set in Echo Park, a working-class Latino neighborhood in the early throes of gentrification, it has a wonderfully organic feel for the fluid interaction of cultures and generations in the Southern California melting pot.
Without pinning smile buttons onto its characters, the film, a prize winner at this year's Sundance festival, takes a benign look at the conflicts and crises of three generations of a resilient family whose principal breadwinner, Ernesto (Jesus Castanos-Chima), operates a storefront church. Illegal immigration is not an issue here, and the film optimistically assumes that newcomers to the country carry with them a surge of vitality.
The central character, Magdalena (Emily Rios), Ernesto's ebullient 14-year-old daughter, is anticipating her Quinceanera, the traditional ceremony that celebrates a girl's official passage into womanhood at 15. [...]
Magdalena's future is thrown into disarray when she suddenly finds herself pregnant by her puppyish boyfriend, Herman (J. R. Cruz), and her father throws her out of the house in a rage. (Her pregnancy comes as a complete surprise because it is a rare instance of a girl's conceiving while remaining technically intact during intense petting.) But when Magdalena insists that she is still a virgin, her father refuses to believe her. Herman's mother, fiercely ambitious for her college-bound son, won't listen to her story and keeps him out of her reach.
Preggers without sex? That's getting into Virgin Birth territory, as in Jesus and Mary -- extreme immigrant worship even by normal Hollyweird standards. Apparently the characters are too precious to have regular sex like hispanic teens do all the time, as shown by latino girls having the highest teen birth rate in America.
More importantly, there is no mention that Mexicans have imported their retro peasant ideas about women to the United States. An American girl of 15 is looking at three more years of high school, followed by college in many cases, while even an "upwardly mobile" Mexo-immigrant of that age is expected to marry and have children ASAP. And they do.
As sociologists have repeated, children who have children are some of the surest poverty propects. That this self-destructive custom should be considered an acceptable aspect of immigrant family values by the New York Times shows that the liberal blinders remain unmoved.
• • •

In Mortal Danger [8/4/06]
Jamie Glasov of FrontPage interviewed Tom Tancredo on the occasion of his new book, In Mortal Danger, being published.
Tom Tancredo will be interviewed about his book on C-SPAN2 this weekend. See the schedule here.

Tancredo: The United States - and Western Civilization itself - seem to be on the downhill side of history because we have lost our ability and desire to appreciate the value of both. In the Vietnam War era, college students would chant "Ho Ho Ho. Western Civilization has got to go."
FP: Now it appears the academic Left is lost in Hezbollah and the Radical Islamists. What do you make of the Left and its clear siding with our enemy in this terror war, whether it be with the enemy in Iraq or with Hezbollah and the enemies of democratic Israel?
Tancredo: As I mention in the book, the cult of multiculturalism really hates America - at least the America that exemplifies any aspect of Western civilization. That hatred spills over into their foreign policy positions.
FP: So expand a bit on the ways you think America is heading down the road to ruin.
Tancredo: Well it is going. Today students are being taught that the word "America" defines the continent/s and not a nation. Western Europe is becoming Islamasized while the US is becoming a bi-lingual nation. The ties that hold us together as a nation are becoming frayed and our ability to assimilate millions of immigrants is severely diminished. Add to this the fact that millions of those same immigrants do not wish to assimilate and you have a prescription for balkanization. If all this were not bad enough, we have are in the middle of a clash of civilizations that pits the West against Islamofascism. We are in mortal danger.
FP: So how do we solve accepting certain immigrants with our tolerance when these certain immigrants are intolerant?
Tancredo: There is no way to square that circle. We cannot allow people into this country - or allow them to stay - if they are committed to its destruction and replacement with a Caliphate.
FP: What is part of your prescription for repairing the damage?
Tancredo: The pathway back from the precipice on which we find ourselves will be found by doing several things including taking back our schools and the curricula therein. Also we must make it difficult to live in this country if you refuse to learn how to speak English and especially if you are here illegally. And of course, we need a President who will challenge us to reaffirm our commitment to the idea of a unique American culture and the sovereignty of the nation state.

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=13512&st=40
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j39/Jalira/team-1.jpg

[Cali/Yank]

http://immigrationcounters.com/

ImmigrationCounters.com

THE #1 Site For Real-time Immigration Statistics
Finally, one site that finds the totals for you. ImmigrationCounters.com provides a single source of totals on the most pressing categories resulting from illegal immigration in America. Using the latest government and private organizational sources available, research and analysis trending data is factored at their individual rates of increase.

This site supports legal immigration and the human rights of all, yet highlights the significant weight of illegal immigration as a result of poor governmental controls. Please support this site with your purchase from one of our affiliate sponsors and by telling others about this site.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1669


In January of 2005, Juan Alvarez parked his Jeep Grand Cherokee on the Metro link railroad tracks in Glendale, CA. He then stood by as an approaching passenger train smashed into it. The train derailed into another train traveling in the opposite direction and 11 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured.

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.worldandi.com/public/1986/july/mt8.cfm

Collision of Cultures:Integration of Mexican Immigrants into Society
BY CELESTINO FERNANDEZ


It is sovereign right of every nation-state to control its borders. This includes the development and enforcement of policies that regulate the flow of persons coming into as well as leaving the country. Theoretically, a wide range of possible responses can be envisioned, from a completely open border where people enter and exit at will to a completely closed border where no one is allowed to enter or leave. In between these extremes, numerous alternatives can be envisioned, such as permitting a particular racial group, religious group, or nationality to immigrate while excluding others.


Likewise, nation-states can take various stances regarding the social, cultural, structural, economic, and political integratio of immigrants. Again, a wide range of responses is possible. One country, for example, may attempt immediately and very systematically to integrate immigrants, while another may formally exclude immigrants from ever becoming part of the nations fabric--for example, by excluding them from the schools, prohibiting intermarriage, excluding them from the political process, and so forth.


The United States has responded with various policies regarding both immigration and integration. Historically, this country has moved from an open border to a practice closely regulating our borders and in some cases to excluding various groups--for example, Chinese, Japanese, and other nationalities. In short, we have not had a consistent policy on immigration. Nor have we had a consistent policy on the integration of immigrants (and Native Americans). We have moved about among the possible policies in a way that appears almost random. I some periods and for certain groups, the United States has made great efforts to incorporate immigrants into the national culture, political system, economic structure, ad so forth. For example, the country focused much attention on southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century in an attempt to bring them into the melting pot or to Americanize them (Gordon 1964). At the same time, the country enacted and carried out legislation to systematically segregates and thus exclude black slaves, for example, from becoming part of the national life. This history of discrimination is well documented and does not need to be restated here. It suffices to say that our policies have varied historically with different nationalists, races, and religions. We must recall our history because, although laws and policies have changed, many of the erroneous perceptions that led to the enactment and enforcement of discriminatory laws are still held by man y people. Japanese immigrants may no longer be perceived as a threat, but other nationalities are-for example, Mexicans. It should also be recognized that historically our policies have not been applied in a consistent manner to an high immigrant group, i.e., Japanese immigrants were first welcomed, later they were completely excluded, and today they are again welcomed into the United States.

[Cali/Yank]

Illegal Loitering Day Laborers

Protest video from Canoga Park California Home Depot.

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15068

[HomesickTexan]

Great videos

[Cali/Yank]

Just wait... August 26th, this group is going to protest outside Maywood, California City Hall. Maywood has been in the news as being a sanctuary city were they have suspended traffic stops and stopped impounding unlicensed drivers cars or DUI drivers, because it is 75% "illegal migrants" who live in the city and it effects their ability to earn a living.

They have openly stated they will not abide by federal law when it comes to the "illegal migrants" community being here undocumented.

[Cali/Yank]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vote_without_papers/


--- In vote_without_papers@yahoogroups.com, "ritenite000"
ritenite000@...> wrote:
everyone has ID checks now...don't the votes get snagged before they
are cast?

The ID check is a joke. I am without papers. I was ask for drivers
license. I said "What, do I need license to vote? What law is say I
need drivers license to vote?" So they say we need two form of
documents to show where you live. They say is good enough to show
utility bill. So i showed them two utility bills and they issue as
voter ID card. The card is sent to address shown on utility bill in
about 1 week later.

Then later I moved to another address in another county and use the
same procedure. Just showed them two utility bills. Now I am register
two places, and have vote in both places. Is not two vote is better
than one?

All we have to do is vote and eventually we will have everything we
want.

[NYer]

Sanctuary! (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/16/D8JHRKAO2.html)

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0405/p01s03-ussc.html

In January, Maywood became the first municipality in California to declare itself a "sanctuary city." The city council, in effect, signalled its displeasure with legislation that had recently cleared the US House, voting to disregard the bill's call to classify illegal presence in the US as a felony and to enlist local police in enforcing federal immigration law.

It also directed the city's police department to stop towing away cars of drivers who don't have driver's licenses - a practice it said unfairly targeted illegal immigrants.

"We did it because people in the community came to us and said we have to take a stand," says Deputy Mayor Felipe Aguirre, who runs a small Mexican art gallery on traffic-clogged Slauson Avenue.

All last year, he says, residents became increasingly agitated about the Minutemen - groups of citizens, sometimes armed - standing watch at the US border to alert officials to illegal border-crossings. Then, in December, the House passed its tough border-security bill.

"The world around us is caught up in draconian ideas to tighten the noose around people who are taking care of their kids, landscaping their homes, making their clothes, picking their food," says Mr. Aguirre. "We believe there is a higher law."



http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hit13jul13,1,2578061.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

Hate Mail, Threats Probed in Maywood
The deputy clerk has been linked to an alleged plot to kill a councilman in the 'sanctuary city' for illegal immigrants.
By Hector Becerra and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
July 13, 2006

After the city of Maywood made national headlines earlier this year for its embrace of illegal immigrants, Councilman Felipe Aguirre and Mayor Thomas Martin began receiving threats in the mail.

Now, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and Maywood police are investigating whether the town's deputy city clerk not only sent some of the hate mail but also tried to have Aguirre killed.

Hector Duarte, 29, was arrested last week by Maywood police officers on suspicion of soliciting to commit murder, said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Kerri Webb. Bail was initially set at $1 million, but he was released July 5, pending further investigation. He has not been charged him with a crime.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Capt. Steve Johnson of the department's Major Crimes Unit said his detectives were consulted on the probe within the last month.

Aguirre said Wednesday that Maywood police first learned of a possible plot when they arrested a man a month ago during a drug bust. The man allegedly said that Duarte had inquired about killing the councilman, he said.

Duarte was relieved of his duties by the City Council on Tuesday night. He could not be reached for comment.


http://www.aztlan.net/tale_of_two_cities.htm

ALTA CALIFORNIA: The Tale of Two Cities
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - January 27, 2006 - (ACN) Recent events at two California cities best exemplify what Patrick J. Buchanan wrote in his book "Death of the West". The cities are Maywood in Los Angeles County and Costa Mesa, located about 25 miles southeast, in Orange County .

In Maywood it was just about three years ago that Police Chief Bruce Leflar and his cops would routinely set up rush-hour roadblocks on the city's two main boulevards to check every driver's paperwork. His primary targets were Mexican undocumented immigrants driving without valid licenses.

The Maywood police dragnets enabled the city to impound the immigrant's vehicles and then auction them off after 30 days. Police Chief Leflar bragged that in one year his cops had confiscated over 1,800 vehicles and had made about $1, 000,000 dollars for the City of Maywood from their share of the vehicle auctions, fees and fines.

Maywood, a city with about 28,300 inhabitants, was founded in 1912 and up to about 1970 it was almost an exclusively "White Oakie" working class community. The demographics of the city started changing dramatically about twenty years ago and today its population is 96.3% Latino and only about 2.6% White. The 2.6% White population or about 739 people are mostly old folks who live in the city's rest homes.

Soon after the Los Angeles Times ran a story concerning the abuses of Maywood Police Chief Lefler, the Mexicano community started to organized politically and last November it elected three new councilmembers of Mexican descent. The new council wasted no time in making changes in how Maywood treated its immigrants. On Tuesday, the City Council voted unanimously to declare Maywood, an "Immigrant Sanctuary".

Felipe Aguirre, the newly elected Vice-Mayor of Maywood, said in Spanish, “Estamos creando un santuario para los inmigrantes, queremos que vengan. Si en otras partes los atacan, como en Costa Mesa y Cypress Park, queremos decirles que aquí pueden sentirse seguros”. Vice-Mayor Aguirre also pronounced the city's unanimity against HR4437, federal legislation that seeks to criminalize undocumented immigrants.

Translation___
We are creating a sanctuary for the immigrants, we want that they come. If in other parts they attack them, like in Coast Mesa and Cypress Park, we mean to them that here they can feel safe

[Cali/Yank]

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/174838.php

Border World
by x Friday, Aug. 18, 2006 at 1:53 PM


Guillermo Eduardo Ramirez Peyro (also known as “Lalo” and by the alias Jesus Contreras) had infiltrated a narco-trafficking organization in Ciudád Juárez that was overseen by Heriberto Santillan-Tabares, whom U.S. prosecutors claim was a top lieutenant in Carrillo Fuentes organization. Between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, while under the watch of DHS agents,

Ramirez helped to operated a House of Death in a residential neighborhood in Juárez

where a dozen people were tortured and murdered by Mexican police who were working under the direction of Santillan.

Murder machine

The murder machine was exposed publicly in mid-January 2004 after a DEA agent and his family were nearly abducted by Santillan’s thugs. In the wake of that incident, DEA was forced to evacuate its personnel from Juarez.

Santillan was later indicted on murder and narco-trafficking charges. However, the fact that the U.S. government’s own informant, Ramirez, was complicit in those murders — with the knowledge of his DHS handlers — gave Santillan’s defense team the leverage it needed to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio — which included dropping the murder charges. (Ramirez’ handlers were federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is part of DHS.)


http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_4199814

Break in Juarez serial killings
Denver arrest made in women's murders in Mexican border city

By Felisa Cardona and Allison Sherry
Denver Post Staff Writers

A Mexican national suspected in the serial killings of at least 10 women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was arrested Tuesday in Denver, Mexican and American authorities said Thursday.

part of a gang of men who raped and murdered at least 10 women in Ciudad Juarez from 1993 to 2003, U.S. Ambassador Antonio O. Garza Jr. said.

has a Colorado criminal record dating back to 2002, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Those records - all considered misdemeanors - show arrests for domestic violence, wrongs to minors, disturbing the peace and making threats over the phone to injure a person. All those arrests were made by Denver police.

The U.S. Marshals Service is helping the Mexican government's task force solve the cases of hundreds of women who were murdered or reported missing by their families in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua.

[Cali/Yank]

Canoga Park, California

Loitering Day laborers at Home Depot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12JOiQc3Ls

[Cali/Yank]

Protest the lawless City of Maywood, California- Sat. Aug 26, 2006
Save Our State
11am to 2pm...

:happy_11:

[Cali/Yank]

Update later, I just got home from Arizona.
For those that have followed the events of illegal immigration you may already know what has happened in Maywood, Mexifornia..

Details and video here..http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14807&st=240

[Cali/Yank]

Flag raising. Maywood, California. United States of what? Federal Post Office..

Happy Brthday Regis.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/176057.php?theme=default

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.americanpatrol.com/06-FEATURES/060829-MAYWOOD-GOONS/060828-Ziegler-KFI-Maywood.wma

[Cali/Yank]

No joke. I've had discussions with Daniel "Virtual Chicano" on {Indymedia} and {Chicanoforums}

He truly believes in what he says. Anyway, how do you call others racists when you want to form your own racially driven nationalistic agenda?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QxkH5yNdYM&mode=related&search=

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1796

[Cali/Yank]

Wilmington, California.
Banning Park.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RCIgudFkM

[MerlboroMan]

I want to build a Wall on the US/Canadian border. I like Mexicans.

[Cali/Yank]

Phineas Banning 1851 founder of Wilmington, California.
Grandfather of General George Patton.

http://www.banningmuseum.org/images/coverspot.jpg





Southern California was a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers during the Civil War; thus, the Union Army billeted a division in Wilmington. Never one to squander an opportunity, Phineas kept the Union soldiers well supplied, increasing his fortune and earning himself a commission after the war as a General in the California State Brigade of the National Guard.

http://www.lafire.com/fire_boats/articles_harbor-incidents/1863-0427_AdaHancockExplosion/18630427_articles_AdaHancockExplosion.htm

[Cali/Yank]

Confrontational video production pushes the limits of the "Corporate" biase, and gutted koolaid, that they; CNN,FOX,NBC,ABC try and sell the public.

National debate on illegal immigration and the masters of the Mecha/La Raza philosophy are begining to be hounded by video detectives forsaking prudence, and telling, instead of asking.

Palm Springs, California 06

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2KMHzFftg

[Cali/Yank]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/5898.shtml


Judicial Watch Uncovers New Documents Detailing Mexican Government Incursions

Records Show 226 Incursions Occurred Between 1996 and 2005




(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that document 226 incursions by Mexican government personnel into the United States between 1996 and 2005. Released to Judicial Watch on August 28th in response to a November 1, 2005 FOIA request, the records consist of annual intelligence summaries of "Mexican Government Incidents," compiled over a nine year period. They were designated as "limited official use" by the DHS, requiring "special protection against unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure."



The intelligence summaries, which can be accessed via Judicial Watch's Internet site, www.judicialwatch.org, provide detailed maps of the incursions, along with descriptions of other documented "incidents" involving Mexican government personnel and Border Patrol agents. The records describe incidents involving shots fired on both sides of the border, unmarked helicopters invading U.S. airspace, drug smuggling, and confrontations between U.S. Border Patrol agents and armed members of the Mexican military. Among the highlights:



MEXICAN MILITARY ENCOUNTER (ARMED/THREATENING) RIO GRANDE VALLEY/BROWNSVILLE - "As the boat proceeded to go down river towards the scene, the Agent on board advised via radio that several Mexican soldiers were pointing their rifles in his direction. The Agent decided for his safety and the safety of the crew to turn back, but advised that the soldiers were still aiming at them." (2005)


MEXICAN MILITARY SIGHTING - TUCSON/DOUGLAS STATION - "The [Border Patrol] Agents were returning to their assigned area when they heard four distinct gunshots coming from Mexico. The gunshots were fired when the Agents were approximately 10 feet away." (2005)


MEXICAN MILITARY SIGHTING (ARMED) LAREDO/ZAPATA: "This boat, which appeared to be a Mexican Military boat, was providing security and escort for the two others that were later found to be transporting 2,716.53 pounds of Marijuana." (2003)
"These documents show the chaotic and dangerous situation at our nation's border with Mexico," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It seems as if, once again, the government is failing to secure our border."


[B]San Diego reporter attacked.
http://video.fox6.com/viewer/viewerpage.php?Art_ID=221003&PreloadContract_DefID=1&Contract_DefID=2&limit=8&tf=xetvviewer.tpl&Category_ID=5

[Cali/Yank]

Augustin Cebada: Brown berat throughback from the 60's, who attacked elderly veterans in 1996 at the federal building in Los Angeles on the fourth of July, explains the details of conquest from Maywood, California. August 26, 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu2MUwwbJ4

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8468067438190399606&q=%22illegal+aliens%22&hl=en

[Cali/Yank]

http://reportanddeport.org/spitonflag.mpg

[NYer]

Headline Summaries: Border Security. (http://www.well-regulatedmilitia.org/TractionControl/?p=181)

[Cali/Yank]

Good one NYer,



Mexico clings to fragile independence
Protestors vow to create parallel government during Diez y Seis
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=72747_0_10_0_C
By SARA INÉS CALDERÓN
The Brownsville Herald

MATAMOROS, September 16, 2006 — The flags are up, the parties are set and the next president has been selected.

Everything’s ready for today’s Diez y Seis de Septiembre celebration, Mexico’s independence day — or not.

Protestors in Mexico City have vowed to establish a parallel government today during a traditional military parade through an area filled with angry protestors could result in a confrontation between them and the military, and the losing candidate says the government rigged the election.

“We all knew it was going to be very close,” said Ken Greene, assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin who has studied Mexican politics, parties and elections for 15 years.

“I’m surprised at how serious things have gotten, surprisingly bad.”



Local California news

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/September/16/local/stories/04local.htm

Politics aside, Watsonville celebrates Mexico's independence
By Daniel Lopez
Sentinel staff writer


Not here," Watsonville City Councilman Oscar Rios said, adding that Sunday's celebration downtown should go off without a hitch.

The plaza on Main Street will dress itself in the green, white and red of Mexico's flag with the tune of mariachi music and the smell of carne asada filling the air.

"Our countries need to resolve their problems internally," Rios said. "The people need to decide their own destiny."




"People fought for democracy. It didn't start when we were born," he said. "We need to share that history with a new generation."

Jose Hernandez, 43, a Mexican immigrant who works as a laborer, said the local festivities remind him of his native land.

"I'm proud to be Mexican, viva Mexico!" he said in Spanish.

The politics, he said, don't matter to him.



The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/ghtreaty/


Its border extended to the Rio Grande rather than the Rio Nueces that Mexicans recognized as the dividing line.

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http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=cbc3b077-0abe-421a-01d3-bb0f2b37bd4e&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf
Colorado-

DOUGLAS COUNTY - The sheriff's office said Wednesday morning they have not yet identified the female victim who was murdered by being dragged behind a vehicle but an arrest has been made.



the suspect, Jose Luis Rubi-Nava, 36 of Glendale, was being held on first degree murder charges. Weaver added that "a detainer has been placed" on Rubi-Nava from Immigration Customs Enforcement because he is believed to be in the country illegally.

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The sleeping giant seems restless.

http://anti-illegalimmigrationevents.com/


Oh, and the family values aspect..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214653,00.html

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http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site557/2006/0922/2006922__news10flag0923.jpg

http://www.lcsun-news.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4384754#


SANTA TERESA — Just across from the Santa Teresa Port of Entry, within sight of the U.S. Border Patrol building, the sand dunes and mesquite don't pay much attention to international borders.

But some of those who work in the area of the Verde Santa Teresa Bi-National industrial park are very aware of the border, and what it means to be on the northern side.

The park, which houses several facilities built to accommodate suppliers, custom brokers and logistics companies that serve manufacturing facilities in Juárez, flies three flags at the entryway — those of the United States, Mexico and the state of New Mexico.

The rub lies in the fact the American flag is flown slightly lower than that of Mexico, Hildegard Reisencheid said.

"I don't think the Mexican flag should be flown higher than the American flag," said the 48-year-old naturalized American. "This is the American side and I just don't think that's right."

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the 14 miles of fence in San Diego, erected in 1996 —- during the no-doubt "extreme" Clinton administration. There, Border Patrol officials report that apprehensions of illegal crossers, an accurate measurement of attempted crossings, has declined by 95 percent. Crime rates —- in areas on both sides of the fence —- have dropped in similar proportions.


:mad_01:





http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06271/725845-84.stm


Grassroots groups boost clout in immigration fight
Thursday, September 28, 2006

By Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal


SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Armed with a computer and less than $100, Joseph Turner two years ago formed a group called "Save Our State." His goal: save California from turning into a "Third World cesspool" of illegal immigrants, he says. The group doesn't have a formal membership, and Mr. Turner counts barely 2,000 people on his email list and message board.

In the network of anti-illegal immigrant activists, few have risen higher or faster than Joseph Turner. He still relishes a moment 12 years ago, when he took the stage at his half-Hispanic high school in working-class Riverside, Calif., to endorse a controversial ballot initiative to ban illegal immigrants from receiving state benefits. The senior drew such a heated response that he was sequestered in a gym afterward until tempers were calmed.

"I believe in the superiority of America and American culture," he says. If the federal government isn't doing its job, he says, direct democracy should provide solutions. He calls for deporting all illegal immigrants, saying, "the net benefit of illegal aliens is negative."

Mr. Turner grew up in Southern California's so-called Smog Belt, which includes San Bernardino and other working-class towns. His biological father, an alcoholic, walked out of his life when he was about eight years old, he says. His mother remarried a Mexican-American, whom Mr. Turner considers his father. He heard a lot of Spanish growing up. Mr. Turner says his mother was a drug addict who spent time incarcerated, and describes his stepfather as a "former gang banger" who abused drugs and was imprisoned. Both have since been rehabilitated, he says. Mr. Turner's mother, Janice Aguayo, confirms his account.







http://www.olathedailynews.com/News_photo/News4.shtml

Owner of Latino stores to be deported
By Sarah St. John,The Olathe News

An Olathe man who owns a string of Latino grocery stores will be deported to Mexico and forced to pay $18,000 as punishment for selling illegal medicine in his stores.

Samuel Morones-Perales, 38, owns Latino Y Punto stores in Kansas and Missouri. The Olathe location is at 217 S. Kansas Ave.

Morones-Perales, an illegal immigrant, was charged in U.S. District Court on June 6 with introduction of an unapproved new drug into interstate commerce, misbranding drugs and receiving drugs that were labeled in Spanish, not English, which is a violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
He was sentenced in federal court Monday.

“Within 30 days, Samuel Morones-Perales must leave the United States,” U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said in a statement Tuesday. “As a convicted felon, he is prohibited from returning to this country.”

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http://www2.nationalreview.com/article/protest1.jpg


http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDQ4ZTc0ZGEyNmFlMjE4NDRjNmMwZGY5OGM5MWJkYjE


The protest displayed a confounding alliance of groups that should have worked against each other, if anybody had taken the time to think about it. And all I could think as I watched the umteenth twist-tied protester get tossed onto the bus was, who’s picking up the tab for this massive police presence out here? Because Lord knows the drive-bys and the holdups across La-La Land aren’t put on hold for the benefit of unionites keen on sitting in the middle of Century Boulevard.

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http://0101aztlan.net/index.html

0101aztlan.net is allied with Yahoo! Groups: US Culture, Chicano, Native Indigenous people, Mexicano and Latino communities for a progressive social agenda. You're welcome to join us, in exploring our web-media networks, our group forums for events, news & commentary, and to our art gallery & library, including our informational links, archives & menu pull-down blogs. You can share your relative news, events & ideas as a participant member/subscriber.

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http://www.vdare.com/bevens/060927_undercutting.htm


“Foreign-born Hispanics had the most job gains in construction (417,000), followed by business and professional services (179,000). Together, those two industries accounted for almost three-quarters (74%) of all jobs gained by foreign born Latinos between 2005 and 2006.”



PC enough?

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Lastest protest at National City, San Diego County, California.
9/30/06

National City declares itself another "Sancuary city"

Jim Gilchrist and Minutemen protest Enrique Morones and his open borders Pro Aztlan movement.


http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.65110.html#