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Category: Illegal Immigrants

  • Life of Duty; the Interceptors

    The NRA and Brownells present another in their Life of Duty series of videos “The Interceptors” about the folks who enforce the law near our border with Mexico in Pinal County, Arizona;

  • AZ ABA prosecutes DA and blogger

    John Hawkins at Right Wing News writes about the Arizona Bar Association’s prosecution of Maricopa County’s attorney, Andrew Thomas and two of his deputies, including Right Wing News blogger Rachel Alexander.

    Apparently, Thomas is trying a novel approach to illegal immigrants in Maricopa County – he’s actually prosecuting and then tossing them out of the State for the crime and AZ ABA don’t like that. And it seems that the ABA isn’t enamored with Alexander’s blog.

    Blogging while conservative is not a crime. Fighting against illegal immigration and corruption is not a crime. However, misusing the justice system for purely political purposes is absolutely despicable and the more sunlight that shines in on this issue in Arizona, the more the cockroaches who are persecuting conservatives will start to scatter.

    It seems to me that an association of lawyers would be more interested in enforcing laws than taking political shots, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in Maricopa County among squishy liberal lawyers.

  • In case Ya Missed It?

    There was a massive rally in Charlotte, NC this week.

    At Tuesday’s rally, nearly 200 participants gathered at Central Piedmont Community College’s central campus to protest policies that they say discriminate against undocumented immigrants. The protesters blocked traffic, at the intersection of Kings Drive and Fourth Street, while chanting “education not deportation” and “undocumented and unafraid.”

    Law Enforcement was on the job… The local LEOs anyway.

    Mecklenburg jail officials said Wednesday they determined that 10 of 15 protesters arrested at an immigration rally Tuesday are in the country illegally.

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    In a statement released Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office said that in keeping with the jail’s policy to screen all arrestees, the 15 people arrested at Tuesday’s rally were fingerprinted, photographed and screened to determine whether they are in the country legally.

    Jail authorities also did criminal background checks on the protesters, Rush said, and found that none of them had criminal records.

    “Per Immigration Customs Enforcement, any arrestee charged by CMPD during the protest was not to be given detainers, but released on their own recognizance,” the Sheriff’s Office said.

    I must admit a certain grudging respect for the protestors. They are merely pointing up the feckless, and reckless, nature of our immigration policies. Drawing easy parallels with the lunch-counter protests of decades ago has some merit.

    IS  illegal immigration simply a civil rights issue?  Where do we, as a nation, draw those lines? Is ANY lawbreaker just an oppressed minority yearning for freedom?

  • Need a tax break? Be illegal.

    The Washington Post reports that the IRS forked over $4.2 billion in tax breaks to illegal aliens in 2010;

    “The disconcerting findings in this report demand immediate attention and action from Congress and the Obama Administration,” [Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)] said in a statement.. “With our debt standing at over $14.5 trillion and counting, it’s outrageous that the IRS is handing out refundable tax credits…to those who aren’t even eligible to work in this country.”

    Wage earners who do not have Social Security numbers and are not authorized to work in the United States can use what the IRS calls individual taxpayer identification numbers. Often these result in fraudulent claims on tax returns, auditors found.

    Their data showed that 72 percent of returns filed with taxpayer identification numbers claimed the child tax credit.

    The audit recommended that the IRS seek clarification on the law and check the immigration status of filers with taxpayer indentificaion numbers.

    Really? They needed an audit to tell the IRS to check the immigration status of tax payers?

  • Obama illegal alien uncle arrested for DUI

    VTWoody sends us a link to an article about President Obama’s “Uncle Omar” who was arrested in Massachusetts for DUI and nearly hitting a police car;

    After the near crash, Onyango Obama, 67, told Officer Val Krishtal that Krishtal should have yielded to his Mitsubishi SUV, according to a report filed yesterday in Framingham District Court.

    Krishtal said he and another driver had to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting the SUV, which rolled through a stop sign and took a quick left turn.

    Obama said he doubted the officer slammed on his brakes because he did not hear the tires squeal, the report says.

    Stand With Arizona” makes the connection to the President;

    Onyango Obama, 67, is the “Uncle Omar” mentioned in the president’s book, “Dreams From My Father.” He is also from from Kenya and is the brother of Zeituni. And last week, “Uncle Omar” Obama was arrested in Framingham, Mass. for DUI and nearly colliding with a police car.

    According to the MetroWest Daily News there were several federal warrants issued on Uncle Omar which were ignored, apparently.

  • Mexico wants to try Fast and Furious officials

    Fox News reports that the mexican government thinks it has jurisdiction over US officials who presided over the policy known as Fast and Furious;

    “I obviously feel violated. I feel my country’s sovereignty was violated,” Mexico Sen. Rene Arce Islas told Fox News. “They should be tried in the United States and the Mexican government should also demand that they also be tried in Mexico since the incidents took place here. There should be trials in both places.”

    While my first reaction was that, yes they should, if that were to happen, then Mexico should turn over the Mexican officials who’ve violated my country’s sovereignty by aiding and abetting the millions who have invaded this country – but then it would become too expensive as we’d probably jail almost every Mexican in government service. Not to mention the Mexican government officials who have been pocketing money from the cartels over the last few decades.

    They should feel lucky it was only a few thousand guns that crossed the border and not a few million weapons of mass destruction in human form.

  • The difference ideology makes

    Remember yesterday that I wrote about Elisha L. Dawkins, an Army Iraq veteran and currently a Navy Petty Officer who was arrested for checking the wrong box on a passport application? And remember how ICE said he was going to have to defend his presence here in this country? Well, apparently, that doesn’t happen to everyone who shows up on our shores and lives here contrary to our laws;

    Venezuelan Henry Velandia came to the United States almost a decade ago to dance. The 27-year-old salsa dancer met American Josh Vandiver five years ago. The New Jersey couple legally married in Connecticut less than a year ago.

    In 2009, with the support of a sponsor and before his marriage, Velandia applied for a green card. But instead of obtaining legal residency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started a deportation process.

    “I thought my world was crumbling,” said Velandia. His spouse, Vandiver, said “the only reason the federal government was not recognizing the marriage was the Defense of the Marriage Act.”

    Well, it seems that ICE dropped the case against Henry.

    “We are celebrating the future we just got now that my deportation was stopped,” said Velandia. “We had this enormous burden over us that my husband of less than a year would be taken away from me and we’d be torn apart. Now we are celebrating that we get to be together indefinitely in this country,” added Vandiver.

    You didn’t have to be torn apart, Henry…you could have gone to that workers paradise in Venezuela. or maybe you wouldn’t have been accepted there, either.

    Meanwhile Elisha L. Dawkins, the soldier who served his country is still facing hearings while Henry has the charges dropped. I guess ICE could drop the Dawkins case, but Henry and Elisha are separated by an ideology of service to this country. Elisha paid any debt he might have owed, while Henry just expects us to bow down to his needs.

    Thanks to VTWoody for the link.

  • Iraq vet gets deal in passport case

    A few of you sent me a link the other day about Elisha L. Dawkins, an Army veteran and currently a Navy Petty Officer who was arrested for checking the wrong box on a passport application. I figured there was more to the story than what was being reported and I was right (New York Times link);

    Petty Officer Dawkins was brought to the United States from the Bahamas as a baby and was raised in Miami believing he was a United States citizen, said his lawyer, Clark Mervis.

    He was indicted in Miami while he was stationed at Guantanamo and arrested soon after his return for falsely checking a box on his passport application that wrongly stated he hadn’t applied for a passport in the past. Now it seems he was, unknown to him, an illegal alien as well.

    But the prosecutor has taken into account that he served in the Army in Iraq and holds a security clearance with the Navy and offered him a term of probation in exchange for dropping the charges.

    Of course, ICE, who won’t deport regular illegal aliens who haven’t done a thing for this country, is being a bureaucratic dick;

    Dani Bennett, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Tuesday that Petty Officer Dawkins did not have an immigration hold on him, meaning he would be free to leave the federal detention center if he agreed to the pretrial diversion program. Once his criminal case is resolved, he will have to fight a separate battle to sort out his immigration status.