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An estimated 304,000 criminals in prisons throughout the United States are eligible for deportation ICE head Julie Myers recently stated. Myers estimates that each year there will be between 300,000 and 455,000 criminal immigrants in prisons that can be deported and that for the foreseeable future it will remain at that level.

I’m no fan of Julie Myers and in the article below she states that it would cost $2 billion a year to find and deport them. Some representatives question her numbers, the inflated costs and the relatively long timetable of Myers’ plan.

I personally have a couple questions on deporting criminals. What is going to stop them from just coming right back, since we have no border security? As for those who would balk at spending $2 billion a year, how much does illegal alien crime cost us a year in damage and victim suffering?

NY Times

This week, Ms. Myers presented a plan to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security intended to speed the deportation of immigrants convicted of the most serious crimes by linking state prisons and county jails into federal databases that combine F.B.I. fingerprint files with immigration, border and antiterrorism records of the Homeland Security Department.In an interview on Thursday, Ms. Myers said the plan would bring “a fundamental change” by streamlining deportations of foreign-born criminals.

The fact is we need to keep these criminals from getting here in the first place. Once here they must be treated harshly, as any foreign invader who goes into another country and commits criminal acts should be.

As for Julie Myers, it’s criminal that she even still holds a position. Since taking office as the head of ICE, illegal immigration has ballooned even further.

by Juana M. Gyek and Jeffery Gautreaux, Sun Staff

Yuma Regional Medical Center doesn’t turn away anyone in need of care, and given its proximity to the border, some of its patients are illegal immigrants.

But illegal aliens represent only a small portion of the unpaid care the hospital provides in a year, said Pat Walz, YRMC chief financial officer

Unpaid services cost YRMC an estimated $2 million each year, he said, but care of illegal aliens is only 1 to 2 percent of that total, according to the hospital. YRMC’s total operating budget is $200 million

YRMC does not know the number of undocumented patients cared for because it is prohibited by law to verify the patients’ citizenship or legal status when providing medical care, said Machele Headington, YRMC spokeswoman.

“The entry point is the emergency room,” Walz said.

The only way the hospital can tell if a patient is a Mexican resident or is possible an illegal alien is at the time of billing, when they see that the address is in Mexico or another country, Headington said.

YRMC issues a bill in an attempt to collect, and goes to a collection agency if that doesn’t work.
“Most of the time they’ve got false papers or no papers,” Walz said.

The impact YRMC sees is as significant as any other city that is located close to the border, said Headington.

“It’s geographically driven.”

“We see a high volume of patients and that equates to more charges and cost,” she said.

Walz said between May 1, 2005, and the end of the YRMC fiscal year Sept. 30, 2005, the hospital provided $600,000 in care to suspected illegal aliens. For the first time, hospitals were able to seek reimbursement from the federal government for this care. Walz said YRMC received $90,000 from the federal government.

“They give you what they give you,” he said. “It’s not a negotiation.”

To receive reimbursement, the hospital has to fill out extensive forms to show that patients were likely illegal aliens and did not pay their bills with information mostly based on their billing address, said Headington.

While the hospital cannot ask someone if they are in the country illegally, after care has been provided, the hospital can request an address.

The process entails “very strict guidelines of what you can submit for,” said Headington.

The rate of reimbursement doesn’t normally cover all the charges and expenses the hospital has incurred but “those dollars help the hospital,” said Headington.

If an illegal alien is in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol when they come in to the hospital, the Border Patrol will reimburse costs for some of the care.

YRMC operates as a nonprofit organization and works to stay on the cutting-edge. Walz said hospital costs have risen for all kinds of reasons - shortage of doctors and nurses, costs to recruit hospital staff, expensive technology, the high cost of pharmaceuticals and other reasons - but he does not think illegal entry is one of the most important ones, even for a border community like Yuma.

Walz doesn’t expect the situation to change anytime soon. “Unless you provide universal health care, and that has it’s own downsides,” he said. “I don’t see a panacea out there.”

BY MARK RANDALL, SUN STAFF WRITER

To Yuma County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Leon Wilmot, illegal immigration really comes down to a quality of life issue.

“When you have people that go out to dump their trash in the trash bin and they open it and find there is an illegal hiding there, or when you have them running through your back yard, or dumping trash in your citrus grove, that’s a quality of life issue,” Wilmot said. “There is just a whole gambit of problems associated with illegal immigration.”

Wilmot said people in Yuma County expect and deserve to have their property protected and to feel safe. They shouldn’t have to deal with having their cars stolen and being used to smuggle illegals. They shouldn’t have to deal with having their farm tractors stolen and driven across the levees into Mexico.

Every time a group of illegals is robbed by border bandits, or they find a body in the desert, or they have to recover a stolen vehicle, is time spent off the streets protecting the citizens.

“Every day we take two or three cases directly related to illegal immigration,” Wilmot said. “And it takes my officer off the road to have to go and respond where they can’t be out doing proactive patrols.”

If Border Patrol arrests a group of illegals and they are in a stolen vehicle outside city limits, it’s YCSO that has to respond and recover the vehicle.

If Border Patrol picks up illegals who have been robbed on the U.S. side of the Colorado River, it’s YCSO that has to send a deputy down to the scene and interview and list everyone in the group as a victim.

“Anything that we end up responding to as a result of border crimes, we have to take our manpower off the street. And it affects quality of life issues out there,” Wilmot said.

Illegal immigration puts a tremendous strain on law enforcement budgets that are already stretched to the limits.

Five years ago YCSO saw millions of dollars of farm tractors being stolen and driven across the Colorado River into Mexico.

It got so bad that YCSO had to apply for a grant to install gates along the levees to put a stop to it.

And then there are the costs to jail illegals. Every year Yuma County pays about $2.2 million to lock up illegals who have committed crimes.

YCSO is only reimbursed ten cents on the dollar by the federal government.

Wilmot said crimes associated with illegal immigration are only getting worse.

The numbers tell it all:

60 stolen vehicles in 2005
49 vehicles recovered suspected of being used in border crimes
6 stolen license plates
11 accidents as a result of border crime
31 deaths in the Yuma desert
23 illegals arrested on warrants
1 rock throwing incident
1 incident where a weapon was pointed at one of their deputies

Overall in 2005, YCSO had 204 illegal cases reported to the Border Patrol.

“That’s just 204 cases,” Wilmot said. “That could be anywhere from one to 20 in a group.”

And the statistics don’t even take in to account the number of cases of reports of trespassing or criminal littering.

“Just go down the list,” Wilmot said. “And it is escalating. It is not getting any better.”

When taken as a whole, last year law enforcement agencies in all of Yuma County recovered 1,388 stolen vehicles suspected of being used in a border crime.

When Sheriff Ralph Ogden first started out in law enforcement back in 1975 there were two Border Patrol agents in the Wellton office.

Today there are over 300.

The illegal immigration picture has completely changed over the years.

Back then, as most long-time Yuma County residents will tell you, most undocumented aliens were adult Hispanic males.

They worked for a season in the fields then would return home across the border once they made a little money.

“Now we have reverted to a group where Yuma and Arizona is sort of a pass through station where people come in and move on to the cities where they can get a job,” Ogden said.

Things have also gotten more dangerous for law enforcement, he said.

Years ago when a deputy would come across an illegal immigrant, they would stop if you told them to halt.

Today, YCSO deputies have had guns pointed at them by bandits, and illegals as a whole are becoming more aggressive.

“We’ve also had border bandits point guns at our search and rescue members that do the patrols in the desert, looking for people who may be in trouble,” Ogden said. “They have actually had a group of ten charge them where they had to back away. And they are out there on the humanitarian aspect of it. So we’re seeing more and more violence.”

Ogden said the reason the border has become more dangerous is because illegals crossing today are more desperate. They have gone through a lot to get here and don’t want to be stopped or slowed down.

The number of illegals in the Yuma sector has rapidly increased over the last five years as a result of tighter enforcement at spots that used to be popular crossings. Places like San Diego; El Paso, Texas; Brownsville, Texas; and Tucson are more secure today.

“When they closed everything down, it just forced them our way,” Ogden said.

The successes in those border cities only strengthens Ogden’s belief that illegal immigration is a federal problem and one that is solvable.

“The federal government needs to take the money and put however many border patrol agents it takes,” Ogden said. “They have been able to do it in Brownsville, Laredo, and San Diego. They are now doing it in Tucson. It’s Yuma’s turn. Put the resources here and solve it.”

Ogden has been very vocal about his opposition to state plans to give local law enforcement agencies the power to apprehend and detain illegals.

“Our officers have got enough to do without being border patrol agents,” Ogden said.

YCSO already has a terrific working relationship with the Border Patrol.

In most cases, Border Patrol responds to their calls in under 30 minutes.

It’s a view that is also shared by Yuma Police Chief William D. “Robby” Robinson.

“It is a federal issue,” Robinson said. “Yuma Police Department is extremely busy. To add another responsibility on top of what we are already doing, to be immigration officers, has got some real bad side effects. It would be a real difficult stretch for us. To put this back on state and locals is not an answer in my opinion.”

YPD has also see its share of illegal immigrant related crimes increase over the last five years.

Through March, YPD has already turned 286 illegals over to Border Patrol, made 34 warrant arrests, had 12 assaults and reported 110 stolen vehicles related to illegal immigrants.

“Things have increased measurably,” Robinson said. “It’s an impact on the department. It’s an impact on the taxpayers. And it is a very major issue.”

Robinson said YPD officers are getting in more chases with smugglers and also seeing more drop houses inside the city limits.

Car thefts are also on the rise.

“We’re losing about two cars a day,” Robinson said.

Like Ogden, Robinson said these increased calls are also straining his resources and taking officers away from their normal police work.

“It is a drain on services,” Robinson said. “It’s a time where our officers are not available to handle other emergencies or do investigations.”

Both would rather see these problems go away, but realize, until the federal government gets a handle on securing the border, these types of incidents aren’t going away any time soon.

“It would be nice if we didn’t have the problem so we could get out and patrol the neighborhoods and know people by name and help make sure their property is safe,” Ogden said. “The good thing is that we do have a president that is coming here and realizes the problem and realizes a big part of the problem is in the Yuma area.”

CALIFORNIA - AB 1758 introduced by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) would repeal the current law which allows in-state tuition for illegal aliens. In turn, it would also provide members of the California National Guard free tuition at state colleges and universities.

Diamondbackonline

Chanting “let immigrant children earn the right to learn,” nearly 50 students and advocates rallied on McKeldin Mall yesterday in a show of support for two state bills that would allow children of illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition.

The bills, which have raised controversy among lawmakers and system officials alike, would add Maryland to a list of 10 other states that allow undocumented youth who have spent two years in the state school system to pay in-state tuition - more than $7,000 less per semester than out-of-state tuition. Despite the controversy, university officials have remained mum on the bills.

Ann Wylie, university President Dan Mote’s chief of staff, said that the university would not take a stance because “it’s a Board of Regents decision. We have no authority to make judgments of who gets in-state and who gets out-of-state tuition.”

If students feel strongly enough about the issue, they can raise it in the University Senate, she said. If the senate votes on the issue, Mote will take it seriously, she said.

Students of the university and surrounding colleges, along with local middle and high school students, arrived by way of crowded vans provided by Casa De Maryland, a non-profit organization that provides services to illegal immigrants and helped organize the protest.

Wielding signs that read “education not deportation,” “justicia” and “your kids deserve an education,” the protesters shouted personal testimonies and political pleas for what they see as a just law.

“It is unbelievable that in a country that is a voice of democracy, we hear every day in the voice of the president that [immigrants should not be accepted],” said a priest in his opening remarks in Spanish. “Before we are Christian, we have to be human.”

Prince George’s District 2 Councilman Will Campos and University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan have both testified in Annapolis in favor of the bills. Opponents of the legislation have introduced their own bill, which would explicitly prohibit the children of illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition - a measure Kirwan said is redundant because federal law already prohibits this.

In a February interview, Sen. Andrew Harris, the opposition bill’s sponsor, said he views in-state tuition as a scholarship - a privilege he does not want to award to undocumented youth.

Student Regent Richard Scott and Student Government Association President Andrew Friedson also support the bills.

“According to the bill, they will have resided in the state for a significant period of time and will have paid taxes in the state,” said Friedson. “The reason why people get in-state tuition is because you’ve paid taxes to support the state. The same premise would hold true - it seems to me to make sense.”

But for high school students who just want an affordable education, the politics of the situation seem irrelevant.

“We already know what we want to be; I want to be a graphic designer,” said Edda, a child of an illegal immigrant who is undocumented herself. “I’m here to help people … who want to come to college.”

Edda, whose last name is not disclosed because she is a minor, said she arrived in the U.S. three years ago. The Montgomery County high school freshman spent five years in Guatemala without her parents before they could afford to fly her and her siblings to Maryland.

“My mom was a big example to me because she would study and go to college,” said Edda, who has a B average in school. “It’s an example for me to keep trying and go to college.”

Campos, who was an immigrant himself, echoed Edda’s views with a touch more sophistication.

“Stay the course. Keep fighting,” he told protesters. “This law will eventually pass, if not this year, then the next.”

March 10 , 2008

NEWS RELEASE

Los Angeles, Calif. - A name partner and an attorney at one of the West Coast’s largest immigration law firms were sentenced today for filing fraudulent employment visa applications on behalf of foreign nationals, including more than a dozen of the law firm’s own workers.

Daniel E. Korenberg, 58, of Encino, a partner and founder of the law firm formerly known as Korenberg, Abramowitz & Feldun (KAF), was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release with a condition that Korenberg serve an additional 6 months in home detention with electronic monitoring, and a fine of $750,000. Korenberg pleaded guilty last fall to two counts of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud.

A second attorney, Steven James Rodriguez, 41, of Thousand Oaks, a senior associate at KAF, was sentenced to three years probation with the condition that Rodriguez serve 6 months of home detention with electronic monitoring and perform 200 hours of community service. Rodriguez pleaded guilty last fall to one count of making false statements to federal agents.

Both men were sentenced by United States District Judge Percy Anderson.

Korenberg and Rodriguez were charged in a 33-count indictment handed down in February 2007 following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, and the California Employment Development Department. According to the indictment, beginning in 2000 and continuing through at least February 2003, the defendants filed fraudulent employment-based visa petitions on behalf of foreign nationals seeking temporary work authorization or permanent residency in the United States. At least 19 of the aliens who benefitted from the visa fraud scheme were KAF employees.

“These sentences are stern reminders about the consequences awaiting those who conspire to compromise the integrity of our nation’s legal immigration system,” said Jennifer Silliman, deputy special agent in charge for the ICE Office of Investigations in Los Angeles. “Disturbingly, the defendants in this case used their expertise in immigration law not for the greater good, but to undermine the system and enrich themselves.
KAF, which is now known as ASK Law Group, is based in the San Fernando Valley community of Sherman Oaks, and the firm maintains offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas.

“These sentences successfully conclude the investigation and prosecution of two attorneys who filed false documentation for personal gain, facilitating the illegal entry of foreign nationals into the United States,” said Gordon Heddell, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). “We will continue to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to protect the integrity of the DOL’s foreign labor certification program.”

The other named partner at KAF, Phillip Abramowitz, 54, of Agoura Hills, a former equity partner at KAF, pleaded guilty to two counts of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 24.

Court papers filed in the case detail how KAF hired foreign nationals without work authorization for a variety of support positions, including paralegal jobs. The defendants then allegedly applied for fraudulent work visas for those employees and paid them “off the books” in cash until the visas were approved. To support the visa petitions, Korenberg and others created documents making false claims about the aliens’ work experience and offers of employment. Korenberg and others made false statements to the U.S. government in connection with immigration and labor petitions filed on behalf of KAF employees. Rodriguez and others made false statements to the U.S. government in connection with immigration petitions filed on behalf of KAF clients.

In addition to the law firm, the probe targeted two Los Angeles-area employment agencies, Job Seekers International and Employmasters International. The investigation revealed that the employment agencies identified employers, both real and fictitious, to attest that the aliens seeking the work visas were being recruited for highly skilled jobs that, in most instances, did not exist. In 2005, the three owners of those employment agencies and one of their employees pleaded guilty to visa fraud and conspiracy charges.

Those four defendants are awaiting sentencing.

The other defendants charged in the case are:

• Heidi Poepping, 45, of Moorpark, a paralegal at KAF, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit visa fraud and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 21, 2008 ;
• Arturo Valencia, 56, of Walnut, the owner of Job Seekers International, pleaded guilty two years ago to one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 12, 2008;
• Maria Theresa Resurreccion, 40, of Anaheim, an employee of Job Seekers International, pleaded guilty to one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced May 5, 2008;
• Arnel Dizon, 36, of Corona, a co-owner of Employmasters International, pleaded guilty to one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 28, 2008; and
• Marlyn Rodriguez Dizon (Arnels wife), 44, of Los Angeles, a co-owner of Employmasters International, pleaded guilty in May 2005 to one count of visa fraud and one count of conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 14, 2008.

If Canada understands the sheer cost of illegal immigration to the fate of the United States, why is it so difficult for our own government to grasp what is logical?   

Canadafreepress 

Why Illegal Immigration is a Threat to the United States and How Local Communities are Fighting Back.

by Tom Deweese, Wednesday, March 12, 2008

n June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President’s guest worker amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services to illegals stopped.

Most Americans understand that new laws are not needed to stop illegal immigration. What is necessary is repeal of some laws granting taxpayer-financed services to illegals along with enforcement of existing laws. These two acts would be enough to stop the migration. In simple fact, they are called “illegal” because they are breaking the law.

In truth, the battle over the Senate’s guest worker-amnesty plan is really a battle over attempts to open the border as called for in programs such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Both plans call for open borders and economic integration of North America. Open borders are required to fully implement the plans.

The Bush Administration and those promoting illegal immigration were frankly stunned at the force and determination of U.S. citizens to reject the Senates immigration plan. Proponents played a very heavy hand in attempting to force the scheme on a resisting citizenry. Such powerful forces are not used to losing. Today they continue to seek new ways to work around the opposition and pass the legislation, as a whole or incrementally.

However, the anti-illegal fervor refuses to abate and in fact, dramatic new developments are taking place in local communities across the nation that may well stop the unpopular Federal schemes.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to weaken the resolve of opponents, they are called fringe fanatics. A common tactic employed by immigration proponents is to accuse opponents of racism. They charge that opponents want to deny a new breed of immigrant the chance to become Americans as many of our immigrant forefathers did. They paint a Norman Rockwell-type picture of honest, hard working immigrants, planting gardens, working in fields, doing the work “no Americans want to do.”

So, in town after town across the nation the battle rages. And that is really the point. Illegal immigration is not just a border issue. It is a national issue affecting every large city and almost every small town. It must be understood that illegal immigration is not just a matter of some unhappy peasants hoping to seek a better life. It is a $300 billion a year industry, combining the interests of multinational corporations with those of drug cartels and Latino street gangs. Caught in between are American communities and the American way of life. Some cities, especially those along the points of entry at the border have become dangerous no-mans lands, where no property is safe, no American citizen is able to leave their home unarmed and some politicians turn a blind eye as they profit under the table. As a result American civilization is beginning to break down. That is why so many Americans refuse to back down on the issue, continuing to demand a crack down, no matter what name calling they must endure.

THE ECONOMIC COST OF ILLEGALS

Federal law (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) mandates that all hospitals with emergency-room services must treat anyone who shows up - including illegal aliens. In most cities across the nation, illegals now use the emergency rooms as free primary care. And the hospitals have to keep taking them.

Health Care

The annual cost for uncompensated emergency care to Mexican Border States (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas) is $200 million. California taxpayers paid $79 million for illegal alien health care. Four major Los Angeles hospitals were bankrupted and shut down in 2004. Texas paid $74 million. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for 64,000 unpaid doctor visits in 2002. Cochise County, Arizona spent 30% of its annual budget on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. University Medical Care in Tucson, Arizona spent $10 million on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. 77 hospitals in the four Border States now face financial emergencies. Legal citizens are forced to fly emergency patients to other cities for treatment. Taxes are going up to compensate.
Meanwhile, as a result of the Federal Emergency Medical Act, Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care in Mexico to facilities in the United States. The ambulances are driving through unguarded potions of the border with “little resistance” at the instruction of Mexican officials.

Education

Federal laws and a Supreme Court decision mandate that schools cannot deny free education to illegal aliens. Over 300,000 pregnant women enter the nation illegally every year. Taxpayers pay for food, housing medical care and school. The average annual cost per child for education is $7,161, totaling $109 billion to educate illegal aliens annually. The average cost of bilingual education is $1,200 per illegal student. U.S. schools annually educate 1.1 million illegal children. Schools have become over crowded and unruly. Teacher shortages (especially those who speak Spanish) are a growing problem for local school districts.

One teacher has reported what it is like in the classrooms in schools where federal tax dollars pay for free medical, free baby sitters for student mothers as young as thirteen, and free breakfasts (where “the waste of food is monumental, with trays and trays of being dumped in the trash uneaten”), new computers are “carved with graffiti by students.” “I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than three months who raise so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” (whores) and throwing things that the teachers were in tears” she reports. Such is the atmosphere in today’s schools which are overrun by illegal aliens who speak no English and there is no ability to control or discipline.

Moreover, state run colleges and universities are being forced to allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition discounts that are supposed to be reserved for residents of that state. In California, a law, (Assembly Bill 540) allows undocumented high school graduates who have been in residence for three years to enroll in community colleges and the California State University and University of California systems without paying nonresident tuition. The same is true in many other states across the country.

The Jobs Americans Don’t Want

In 2003, illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion, while American college and high school students can’t find summer jobs in yard care, landscape, fast food or service jobs – because illegal aliens work those jobs at a third of the wage – often under the table.

Crime

Crimes committed by alien criminals, such as rape, murder or drug distribution costs U.S. taxpayers $1.6 billion in prison costs alone. The figure doesn’t include the cost of lost property, medical bills of the victims, time lost from work to recover, higher insurance costs, etc. Today, illegal aliens make up twenty nine percent of the U.S. prison population - or 500,000 illegals.

Latino gangs like Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS13) constitute most of the crime from the ranks of the illegals. They originated in El Salvador and today their U.S. leadership still comes from there. They steal cars and use them to run drugs over the border. They terrorize local citizens with violence. They are the chief source of drug sales for the cartels. And they are racists.

MS13 is the largest and most violent of all gangs in the US today. They have overtaken the Crips and the Bloods both in size and violence. MS13, which began its operations in Los Angeles has now moved east and is prominent on the East Coast.

In Los Angeles, Mexican gangs declared “ethnic cleansing zones” in specific parts of the city. They kill whites and blacks. In New Jersey, recently, MS13 gang members killed three college students in execution style.

NO MANS LAND AT THE BORDER

No legal citizen of the United States of America, living under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights should have to live as those who reside near the U.S. / Mexican border. Here there are no property rights, no ability to be safe in their homes, and no peace. One dare not go to the movies, the grocery or visit a relative without carrying a weapon for protection. Through out the community the streets are teaming with drug dealers, loiterers and gangs bent on violence.

The illegals flood across their property having just crossed the border. As they pass over the ranches and private property they leave a trail of trash, human waste and dead farm animals and pets. Found in the trash that is dropped all along the trail are pieces of paper containing contact phone numbers. Also found are Korans dropped by obvious Muslims who have made their way across the border.

Sometimes the illegals walk right in to the living rooms and steal what they want. Many homes on the border are now little more than prisons for the residents, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, with loaded guns at the ready.

The Tucson, Arizona area is one of the prime crossing points for illegals. The organization for transporting illegals is almost a precision military operation. On the Mexican side of the border is a landing strip where planes fly in on a regular basis with their cargo. Some of it human; some drugs. It’s all the same to those providing the transportation.

The planes land and the cargo is loaded onto busses with the windows whited out. Young girls prepare for the trip by taking birth control, for they know what awaits them on the trip across the border from their “travel assistants” - rape. It’s just part of the price for crossing the border into the promised land of America.

The busses drive to a specific location on the border. Here the cargo is unloaded and the process of walking across the border begins. Each of the human cargo is given information on what to do once they reach the other side, including a phone number of someone to call. The number is not necessarily a local number. It may be a location in Virginia, or Maine or Utah. Anywhere in the U.S. The person on the other end gives instructions on how to gain transportation to their location where they will be brought into the illegal community in that city.

And so the journey across the border begins. Somewhere in the middle, between Mexico and the U.S. is a tree. From the branches of that tree hang women’s panties. It’s called the panty tree. Why? Trophies from the raped women of previous journeys. It’s just the cost of doing business with the “Coyotes,” the murderous thugs who run the illegal immigrant trade. They don’t care who lives or dies. These are the ones who will leave illegals locked in trucks without food or water or ventilation. They charge enormous fees – up front. To them the cargo is all the same. They carry the drugs with the humans. They make deals with terrorists for the same trip. They rape, maim and kill. And go back for another load. Business is booming.

Once the cargo is inside the U.S., more buses are there to pick them up and transport them to drop off points. Here the phone calls are made for arrangements of more transportation across the nation. And in that highly organized manner, illegal aliens make their way into American cities.

Some are “Sanctuary Cities” where politicians have decided it’s good for the community to encourage illegals to live. In such communities no one can ask for the country of origin, even if a crime as horrible as murder is committed. The sanctuaries permit 20 million illegals, drug smugglers, child sex rings, ID forgery networks, and an assortment of run of the mill criminals to live lawlessly inside the United States. They are provided with income, identification, driver’s licenses, credit, housing, education, and medical care at taxpayer expense.

As stated, it’s a $300 billion a year industry. That buys a lot of politicians. Along the Border States no one talks about it. And, no surprise, a lot of politicians do nothing to stop it. Our fear and their greed are destroying the American dream.

MEANWHILE IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY…

How a community treats the illegals is key as to how many come there. The main magnet is the establishment of a day labor center. The nation-wide illegal network knows where to send them. If a community opens its arms, of course they flock there. If a community stands up to them, they leave.

But that is easier said than done. First, federal laws or lack of enforcement hampers efforts against the illegals, no matter the sentiment of the community. Federal courts strike down local laws, such as just happened in Hazleton, Pennsylvania when a federal judge degreed that laws the community had passed to crack down on illegals were unconstitutional. Federal agencies say it is illegal for local police to ask if anyone is an illegal. The federal government argues that immigration is a federal issue and for local communities to take action interferes with U.S. foreign policy.

On the local level too, there is great pressure on elected officials to do nothing. Strong lobbying arms protect the illegals. The ACLU, of course, threatens lawsuits. But many Americans would be surprised to learn of the Hispanic forces behind much of the pressure applied to their local officials.

Many immigrant groups are joined together through the La Raza movement. These are the groups which organized the massive demonstrations in cities across the nation last year. It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of those demonstrations and the extent to which our nation is at risk to the La Raza movement.

One of the most prominent Hispanic organizations pushing for “immigrant rights” is the National Council of La Raza – the Council of “the Race.” The mainstream media and most members of Congress depict La Raza as little more than a Hispanic Rotary Club. In 2005, La Raza received $15.2 million in federal grants, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions including lobbying for open borders and amnesty for illegals. Had the Senate’s immigration bill passed, several million more dollars were budgeted for La Raza.

Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement. This radical agenda, pushed by secondary groups contains the reasons behind the demonstrations and the strong lobbying efforts in our communities.

Key among those secondary groups is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Astlan (MEChA). MEChA seeks to carve a racist nation out of the American West. MEChA opposes assimilation into American society. MEChA is a leader in the effort to “Reconquista” or reconquest our western states.

MEChA’s founding principles state: “In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny…Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and no to the foreign Europeans…For La Raza to do. Fuera de la Raza nada.” That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”

These words don’t come from a fringe radical element. These come straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country.

Another leading Hispanic group involved in community organization, promoting the pro illegal position is Mexicanos Sin Fronteras. The translation of the name means “Mexicans Without Borders.” This group is active throughout the country and many times works with the “Zapatista Army of National Liberation.” These groups seek to radicalize the Latino community. The official website of the Mexicanos Sin Fronteras states that it is “anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist in the capital of the most terrorist country of world-wide history” (Washington, DC). It goes on to say it pledges its support to “other campaigns” of the radical illegal Hispanics with material and financial assistance.

In Manassas, Virginia the Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation are the two most prominent “pro-Hispanic” voices. In fact, these two groups are spearheading the illegal alien lobby in Prince William County, where Manassas is located. This is the “mainstream opposition” to efforts to curb illegal immigration in that community. Together, these groups are holding rallies and calling for boycotts and even the violent overthrow of the United States. Again, these groups are not fringe radicals. They are the most prominent voices for the illegals.

The photo on this page is of a meeting in Mexico with many of these groups. It is interesting to note that speaker in this picture, with his face covered, is Arnoldo Borjas a member of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras and a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia. He is one of the main leaders in that local movement. Further, in Prince William County, there are several candidates running for local office as well as the state legislature who are closely aligned with these two radical organizations.

FIGHTING BACK

While Congress fiddles and the Bush Administration issues meaningless pronouncements on “get tough” programs it never intends to enforce, local communities and state legislatures are beginning to fight back. And they are meeting with success.

State Legislatures, forced to deal with the failure of the federal government to fix the immigration laws, have considered 1,404 immigration bills this year and enacted 170 of them. These laws are aimed at curbing employment of illegals and making it more difficult to obtain state identification documents like driver’s licenses.

In May, Oklahoma passed the “Taxpayer and Citizen protection Act” which denies illegals state identification, and requires all state and local agencies to verify citizenship status of all applicants before authorizing benefits.

On the local level incredible success is being achieved in Northern Virginia. Last year two residents of Herndon, Virginia, with no prior political experience, began an effort called Save Herndon. The issue was the establishment of a day labor center in the community. The center would give illegals a gathering place in the community to help them get jobs, identification and benefits from the community.

The two began a campaign that at once made a major issue out of the establishment of the center. When the mayor and the city council moved forward and voted to establish the center over the objections of a majority of the citizens, Save Herndon began a campaign to assure these representatives were not re-elected. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, helping to out the mayor and everyone on the city council who voted for the center.

Now the movement is growing across the Northern Virginia area. There is now Help Save Manassas, Help Save Loudoun (County), Help Save Fairfax, Help Save Virginia and Help Save Maryland. Together these purely grassroots movements have succeeded in enacting legislation in Loudoun County (the nation’s fastest growing county) and in its neighbor, Prince William County which stops county tax-payer services to illegals. Incredibly, under challenge from federal and state officials, the members of county commissioners are holding tough behind the laws.

The key, as stated earlier, is the day labor centers. If your city has one, then the message has gone out to the illegal infrastructure that your community welcomes them. Get rid of it and send the message that they are no longer welcome. If faced with lawsuits from the ACLU and La Raze, welcome them. Tell them you will gladly have a news conference to discuss their suit in front of the cameras. Do not be afraid.

Here are a few guidelines to help organize locally and face the coming onslaught of charges of racism.

DON’T express anger at what is happening to your community. DON’T express annoyance because illegals refuse to assimilate into your community or abide by your customs. DON’T make the issue economic and safety issues. Overcrowded housing and commercial vehicle zoning violations or that specific individuals are illegal aliens.

The pro-illegals will try to tell the public that there is uncertainty as to who is illegal, creating doubt. They will talk about how impossible it is to check everyone’s legal status. It will be easy to charge racism.

Instead, make the issues about the abrogation of law. Focus your efforts against the individuals, businesses and politicians who create this problem and cheat honest business owners and workers by allowing illegal hiring practices under the table. In short, make the issue about enforcement of the law, cost and corruption. It’s working in Virginia.

Today, we have the chance to not only stop the flood of illegal aliens, but in the process, deflate the size and power of the federal government in the process. It’s time to organize Help Save America.

PHOENIX — Illegal immigrant sex offenders sneaking across the Mexican border into the desert Southwest revealed a problem with the way criminals are being deported, a CBS 5 investigation uncovered.

When an illegal immigrant commits a crime in Arizona he or she is sent to jail or prison and then deported back to Mexico. However, 5 Investigates uncovered that instead of dropping the offenders deep into Mexico; they are being dropped off right at the border.

5 Investigates videotaped an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van carrying two illegal immigrants, who just finished serving prison, to the border.

Upon arriving at the border, the offenders stepped out, were handed their belongings and set free.

Investigates interviewed the men on what they planned to do next; one man said he planned to turn around and attempt to go back to California where his family lives.

Federal officials, such as Katrina Kane from ICE, said they face difficulties as their ways of deportation are limited.

“It’s not the only way that we’re deporting them. It’s one of the ways we are deporting, you know, individuals to Mexico,” said Kane.

Others disagree and believe there are better ways to ensure people charged with sex crimes do not re-enter society.

Scott Berkowitz of RAINN, an organization that lobbies Congress of behalf of rape victims, said he believes prison may be the best way to deal with those charges with sex crimes.

“The best thing we can do is keep them in prison for a much longer time,” Berkowitz said.

Border Patrol agents report seeing illegal immigrants every night attempting to cross the border, many of them sex offenders.

Last year, on a small sector of thoroughfare near Nogales, Border Patrol caught nearly 400 offenders trying to sneak across in this one area alone.  (And this doesn’t unnerve our Government and American citizens why?)

Border Patrol Agent Mike Scioli revealed to 5 Investigates just how frequent these convicts enter back into the country.

“Within just the last week, we caught three major sex offenders and it was anything from lewd acts with a minor to child molestation; I believe one was a rape victim or sexual assault,” Scioli said.

Agents said they identified sex offenders from North Carolina, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa and California that were deported to Mexico and then turned around and re-entered the U.S. at the Arizona border.

Police said the Chandler rapist was one of these offenders.

The Chandler rapist is an illegal immigrant who was deported twice from California to Mexico.

Sex offenders and other ex-cons caught re-entering the U.S. face new prison terms up to 20 years.

However, the convicts 5 Investigates interviewed said the consequences of getting caught will not stop them from attempting to re-enter the U.S.

Finally someone is saying what has been said and known among anti-illegal organizations for years. Illegal aliens are a expensive burden to American’s and our Government.  Our Federal Government is shirking their own responsibilities and tip toeing around the subject worse then Tiny Tim did through tulips. In the meantime the American workers who already are suffering financially are being demanded to pick up the tab.  One can’t say they are being asked to, as they already have made their voices heard loud and clear and were basically told to sit down and shut up.

Bush’s plan to cut payments protested

WASHINGTON – The next time a San Diego sheriff’s deputy arrests a man who tries to steal a car, hauls him to a county detention center, starts asking questions and discovers he’s in the country illegally, here’s what will happen:

The tax-supported district attorney’s and public defender’s offices will handle his case, a tax-supported judge will preside if it goes to trial, he’ll spend an average three weeks in the local jail at $100 each day, a state prison could house him for years at $121 a day, and tax-funded probation officers will follow his progress.

Only after that will he be deported.

For years, the White House and border communities such as San Diego have argued over who should pay for all this. As a group of border states yesterday unveiled a report on the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants linked to crimes, President Bush is again trying to eliminate all federal reimbursement for the task.

The recurring battle over this reimbursement – known in Washington parlance as the “State Criminal Alien Assistance Program,” or SCAAP – has a predictable rhythm: For six years, the Republican president has axed the money from his budget plan, lawmakers from border states have howled, and budget writers have held press conferences, hearings and behind-door talks to put some money back in.

Still, those reimbursements have declined steadily during the 14 years the program has been in place.

“Gov. Schwarzenegger believes the federal government should live up to its responsibility and secure the border,” said spokesman Bill Maile. “Cutting back the program would be unacceptable and a serious hit to our state.”

Congress approved the reimbursement program in 1994, and it helped counties, cities and states that were struggling to provide not only jails for illegal immigrants, but also funding for prosecutors, public defenders, translation services, courtrooms, judges, probation services and juvenile detention.

“They’re a burden to everybody’s system, not only here but statewide,” said San Diego Sheriff’s Lt. Phil Brust, who says one of every 13 inmates in local jails is undocumented. “It costs money to provide medical care, housing and food.”

The federal reimbursement program provides only minimal relief to cities and counties that apprehend illegal immigrants and to the states that imprison them. One study released last summer found that illegal immigrants cost the San Diego County law enforcement system about $75 million a year. The county received just under $2.5 million in federal reimbursements in fiscal 2007.

The Border Counties Coalition yesterday released its report showing that from 1999 to 2006, border counties – including San Diego – spent $1.2 billion in law enforcement costs on illegal immigrants. The report can be viewed online at bordercounties.org.

“Our goal is to show the federal government just what the impact was,” said Isaac Reyes, a lobbyist for the coalition. “The fact that (the White House is) proposing to add new border patrol agents is welcome, but that doesn’t mean they should get a free pass from paying the cost that our local counties have to absorb.”

There are also separate costs to cities and to the California state prison system.

California, which has more illegal immigrants that any other state, spends about $1 billion a year incarcerating the immigrants, who make up from 11 percent to 14 percent of the population in the state’s 33 prisons. SCAAP payments tend to be less than 25 percent of that cost, and sometimes have been as low as 12 percent.

For San Diego County, payments have dropped from a high of $8 million in 1999 to $2.5 million last year. For California, they went from $237 million to $151 million.

Whether the border counties’ report will have much impact on the White House is doubtful. Bush championed federal reimbursement for illegal immigrants when he was Texas governor. Once he got to the White House, he argued that because Washington sends millions to states to enforce the borders, it is the states’ responsibility to deal with those who cross over illegally.

“Funds currently dedicated to the SCAAP Program could be put to better use helping to control the border and improving immigration enforcement,” said U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Erik Ablin, noting that Bush is proposing $100 million to improve enforcement along the nation’s southwest borders.

I can’t help but comment on this recent “bleeding heart” Associated Press article.  More and more it seems the Associated Press is pushing for illegal immigration then for American citizens and rule of law.  A day barely goes by before yet another “poor illegal” story is issued by them.  My thoughts are in BOLD.
Associated Press 

ROGERS (AP) Hispanic immigrant workers who toil on red-clay construction sites and cut flesh from bone on poultry plant lines in northwest Arkansas, helping to fuel the region’s economic growth, say they’ve become targets for local police who are conducting raids once left to a few federal agents stationed here.

Those here legally have only their fellow illegal aliens to thank for this hardship. It was them that made this mess that needs to be cleaned up in the first place.  Perhaps by discouraging rather then supporting illegal immigration, those here legally would not be subjected to such issues they are facing currently.

After changes in state and federal law, local police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers throughout Arkansas can help enforce federal immigration laws. Recent raids in northwestern Arkansas rounded up a handful of illegal immigrants but even those with a legal right to be in the United States face questions.

If they are here legally, why not be for these raids, which could provide law enforcement with names of those in this country legally, so they know automatically that those individuals are welcome in this country? 

“It feels like it is dangerous to be Hispanic,” activist Jim Miranda said.

Hispanic no, illegal alien aka illegal immigrant aka undocumented worker, yes.  Dangerous no, only if you consider deportation dangerous, but then if you are here illegally, you already broke the country laws and should be treated as such. 

And police acknowledge that some legal residents will wind up temporarily detained.

“Through these investigations, there’s going to be collateral damage,” said Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder. “If there’s 19 people in there who could or could not be here illegally, they are going to be checked. Although those people who might not be conducting criminal activity, they are going to get slammed up in the middle of the investigation.”

Exactly, though the support of illegal immigration, the innocent get caught up in the mess as well. The only way to avoid this issue is to not support illegal immigration and discourage it in the first place.  One must consider illegal immigration like the dog in the old saying “one can not lie down with a dog without expecting to wake up with fleas”.
Through the 1990s, Arkansas’ Hispanic population grew at the nation’s second-fastest rate. Fewer than 17,000 people of “Spanish origin” lived in Arkansas in 1980, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures, but the total today is at more than 141,000 about 5 percent of the population. Most of the state’s Hispanics live in northwestern Arkansas, home to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tyson Foods Inc. and trucking company J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.

Healthy corporate bottom-lines offered new jobs for those already living in the region and opened jobs in poultry plants and on construction sites for newly arrived Hispanics.

Yep they hire them whether legally or illegally in the country, much against the federal laws stating this is an unlawful act. These employers should not be supported at all for their actions, they are stealing from American’s through stealing of American jobs.  It is as bad as if they were digging directly into pocket books, which would have ALL American’s shouting and screaming then. 

“They are good workers, they work hard for the most part,” said Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson. “Hispanic people are just like any other nationality of people. You’ve got the good and you’ve got the bad.”

The bad caught the attention of Rogers Mayor Steve Womack. He said the shooting of an undercover Rogers police officer while serving a warrant on an illegal immigrant spurred him to push for inclusion in the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s 287(g) program. The program, named after the section of law it occupies, allows local and state police officers to perform immigration checks and take part in operations in the field.

Good for Mayor Womack, to bad it took a act of violence to actually wake him up to the problem this country is facing by unprotected borders and unenforced immigration laws. 

Interest in the program grew as political remedies to illegal immigration failed in Congress. More than 30 police agencies take part in the ICE program, in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

ICE began 2008 with 90 additional requests, including one from the Arkansas State Police. Legislators here authorized troopers for immigration work in 2005, but state police only recently applied to join the program.

The cities of Rogers and Springdale, along with Benton and Washington counties, sent 19 officers to several weeks of training last year and Helder says the Hispanic community has noticed tougher enforcement. Illegal immigrants suspected of drug trafficking or falsifying identification documents bail out of homes after officers show up for a “knock and talk” before pursuing warrants, Helder said.

Further avoiding and snubbing the laws of this country, which they have no respect for already. 

“What have seen is a recognition by that community we are serious about this task force,” Helder said. “By the time (the officers) get back, there’s nothing left in the house but swinging hangers.”

Those arrested go through a process that takes more than four hours at a time, including having their fingerprints and a photograph scanned into a computer. An interview follows and officers create a packet of papers to be given to a judge. An inmate’s fingerprint dot the bottom right-hand corner of every page in packet, which includes aliases, addresses and supporting affidavits of arrest.

Helder said Washington County had seen more than 70 arrests from the task force through January. Benton County jail officials said they processed more than 100 illegal immigrants in the same period.

Miranda, an immigration activist who lives in Bella Vista, said the advertised goal of the task force changed once the officers began making arrests.

“This program was sold to us as targeting serious crime,” Miranda said. However, he said, police seem to be intent on “crippling” Hispanic business owners, noting immigration raids on Mexican restaurants in December. ICE agents said they arrested 23 people during the raids, fueled by criminal complaints signed by the head of the immigration task force.

Miranda said restaurants and groceries stores aimed at Hispanic customers suffered a drop in sales after the raids.

“It’s really throwing this community into turmoil,” he said.

Then stop pandering to illegal aliens, put your foot down and say NO to illegal immigration. Begin discouraging the practice and stop advocating for what you know is against U.S. Code of Law.  Until that time, deal with and expect what you get for pandering to law breakers. 

But the concerns don’t stop with the task force. In December, police say a man beat and kicked a Hispanic man to death in Lowell after his nephew spoke Spanish to his girlfriend. The nephew said he had only cooed at the woman’s infant

In Bentonville, officers say another man burned down a hotel under construction in November after he saw Hispanic workers there. Police say the man told detectives he decided to burn down the hotel after seeing a Hispanic man pull $20 out of a coin-pusher arcade game the Hispanic man had just played.

People are angry and tired.  They have repeatedly been snubbed in their efforts to uphold the laws of this country from the top down.  While no one condones these actions eventually there is a breaking point for everyone, and many American’s are rapidly reaching theirs.
As far south as Little Rock, radio announcers on Spanish-language stations caution listeners against driving at night. Police stress they will not racially profile Hispanic drivers, noting how the city of Rogers settled a lawsuit by Hispanic motorists who claimed racial profiling by police in 2003.

On New Year’s Eve, Benton County sheriff’s deputies arrested 14 illegal immigrants at a sobriety checkpoint on New Year’s Eve. Deputies said only four had been drinking while the rest didn’t have driver’s licenses.

Miranda said a recent meeting among business owners resulted in $22,000 in promised money toward the legal and education fund for minorities in northwest Arkansas. Miranda said some of that money likely would go to help defend those arrested in the recent restaurant raids.

Still, the fear that pervades the community touches Miranda as well. Miranda showed three unsigned greeting cards he received at his home since speaking out at civic meetings. Each card holds police blotters listed with Hispanic names and newspaper articles mentioning his name.

“Obviously, the message is we know who you are, we know where you are and we don’t like what you’re doing,” he said. “It is worrisome.”

Perhaps the message is, these are the individuals you are supporting, they have committed a crime and you are encouraging others to do the same. This is not acceptable in this nation.”