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Category: Illegal Immigrants

  • Border Patrol Agent Down in Arizona

    From AZ Central:

    A Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on Tuesday night near Rio Rico after encountering several suspects, federal authorities said Wednesday.

    Agent Brian Terry was killed just 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, north of Nogales. Four suspects are in custody and one is being pursued, according to a press release from Customs and Border Protection.

    The area around Nogales is probably the worst part of the US-Mexico border. There are no natural barriers that impede movement like the Rio Grande in Texas and it has gotten less attention from the Feds in the past than the California and Yuma sectors. This is also the same area where rancher Robert Krentz was murdered.

    RIP Brian Terry.

  • 9th Circuit strikes again

    The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Arizona law that required voters to prove that they are American citizens in order to vote according to the Associated Press.

    Tuesday’s decision by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law requiring voters to prove their citizenship while registering is inconsistent with the National Voter Registration Act. That federal law allows voters to fill out a mail-in card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but doesn’t require them to show proof as Arizona’s law does.

    Since every state requires adults of voting age to have either a state driver’s license or picture ID, and require such a stringent layers of hoops to propel yourself through to prove you’re eligible for those, what’s the damn problem with using those to prove you’re eligible to vote.

    The Left’s argument that it reminds them of the “poll taxes” of the the first half of the last century is just stupid. Since there are millions of criminals running around this country who aren’t eligible to vote and the government isn’t willing to round them up, someone should do something to insure they don’t pollute the results of our political process with their perverse sense of justice.

  • Illegal immigrants in the election process in WA

    What has brought us to this point in our history? According to the Washington Times, illegal immigrants who aren’t ashamed to admit as much, are canvassing for votes for Democrats door-to-door in Washington State;

    The 42-year-old [Maria Gianni ] is one of dozens of volunteers — many of them illegal immigrants — canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.

    Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can’t vote.

    “Immigrants really do matter,” Ms. Jayapal said. “If we can’t vote ourselves, we’re gonna knock on doors, or get family members to vote.”

    So far the illegal immigrants going door-to-door aren’t meeting opposition.

    Yeah, illegal immigrants do matter…they are emblematic of how far this country has slid off its rails as a nation that was established as the first born from laws.

    While illegals are influencing the vote in Washington, the Democrats, right before the election, roll out their immigration reform bill to give Hispanic voters hope that Democrats, who have had four years in Congress to reform immigration policy, but wait until they’re hurting in the election polling to do anything.

    Hey, it worked on Blacks for forty years, maybe the Democrats can get Hispanics back on their plantation.

  • Poor immigrants deported for voting illegally

    Poor little ignorant Joseph E. Joseph was winding his way home from work one day in 1992 and decided it was time for him to vote so he registered and voted every year since. Problem is that Joe E. Joe was a registered alien and not a citizen, so now the government wants to deport him. Of course, he claims ignorance of the law and the lawyers (and the New York Times) are on his side (what a surprise);

    “It really annoys me that they’re just trying to do their civic duty for no pecuniary gain at all, yet they wind up in removal proceedings,” said Jeffrey N. Brauwerman, a lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., and a former immigration judge, who has represented four immigrants that the government tried to deport for registering to vote.

    What really annoys me it that everyone thinks that they can ignore laws that they don’t think relate to them with no expectation of any consequences. The heritage Foundation says that voting by ineligible residents may more widespread than we think;

    In a 2008 report, Hans A. von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the foundation, wrote: “Lax enforcement of election laws permits individuals who have not entered the American social compact or made a commitment to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and the U.S. cultural and political heritage to participate in elections and potentially change the outcome of closely contested races.”

    I wonder how many Americans vote in foreign elections and what the consequences of that might be.

  • VoteVets want illegal immigrants to commit suicide

    Hey, I can put two unrelated subjects together and make stuff up, too.

    dicksmith tried to put round pegs in square holes by explaining why immigration reform belongs in the Defense Authorization Bill;

    Currently, these undocumented immigrants do not have the ability to serve in the Armed Forces. Again, these are American high school graduates who came here as minors, brought by their parents and often have no memory of their home country. They did not willingly violate the laws of the United States, and are Americans in all but paperwork. For those who wish to serve, the DREAM Act would allow them them that opportunity. You see, the DREAM act doesn’t just give these immigrants a pass. It only gives them legal resident status for six years, in which time they must obtain a degree of high education or serve in the United States Armed Forces.

    Clearly, the Armed Forces is the better option.

    dicksmith has been on-and-on about the suicide rate in the military and despite actual math and facts declares that military service causes military members to kill themselves. So I can extrapolate that to mean that VoteVets is upset that more illegal immigrants of military age aren’t committing suicide. See how easy it is to be a frontpager at VoteVets?

    dicksmith continues;

    This isn’t a partisan issue, or one of pandering for votes. The military wants the DREAM Act passed.

    When VoteVets declares that something isn’t partisan or pandering, put your money on partisan and pandering.

    I’d like to know how he knows that the entire military wants the immigration reform passed. He quotes a “Strategic Goals” paper which also says, besides the desire for the DREAM Act, they’d like to recruit from previously medically restricted members of the population. It sounds like the Pentagon is taking cues from their political masters by endorsing their policies. But to dicksmith that means the whole military is ready to help criminals join the military.

    This is exactly like VoteVets multi-million-dollar support of the Energy bill. Everything is related to the military, if you pay Jon Soltz enough money.

  • Reid lards up defense bill with immigration reform

    Reid tries to sneak immigration reform measures through the Senate by adding them to the upcoming defense bill, according to CNN;

    Reid called the DREAM Act “really important” and said it should be passed because it provides a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military. DREAM is an acronym for Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act.

    “I know we can’t do comprehensive immigration reform,” Reid said at a news conference. “But those Republicans we had in the last Congress have left us.”

    Many Hispanic voters are angry with Democratic leaders for not doing more to pass an immigration overhaul. The decision by Reid to add the DREAM Act now could help soothe that anger.

    And, of course, when Republicans vote against the immigration reform, VoteVets will write a piece on Vets Voice about how Republicans voted against funding the troops. Reid is only doing this to earn himself some votes in Nevada.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • Guardsmen on the border

    The Federal Times says that 420 Guardsmen from their respective States are either on the Mexican border or training for the mission. That’s about a 1/3 of the 1200 who were promised to begin the operation last month.

    “We’re seeing plenty of volunteers,” Harrison said in a news conference call from the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va.

    All 524 Guard members assigned to the Arizona-Mexico border will be volunteers from the Arizona National Guard, said Lt. Valentine Castillo, a spokesman for the Arizona guard.

    In Arizona, none of those troops are at the border yet, said Lt. Valentine Castillo, a spokesman for the Arizona National Guard.

    But, ya know, this administration promised troops on the border, so if they show up or not isn’t particularly important – their heart was in the right place.

  • MALDEF and ACLU sue NE town

    In the Washington Times this morning, Rachel Duke writes about a lawsuit brought by Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union against a Nebraska town which voted to make illegal the hiring and renting homes to illegal immigrants.

    The lawsuits claim Fremont’s ordinance is at odds with the constitutional mandate imposing a uniform federal immigration-enforcement system. They also accuse the ordinance of violating the federal Fair Housing Act and the equal protection and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

    “Divisive ordinances like these tear communities apart,” said Jennifer Chang Newell, staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. “It’s time to stop promoting discriminatory policies like these so that we can come together to find a national approach to immigration.”

    Would someone tell me where I can find a copy of “a uniform federal immigration-enforcement system”. And tell me what is the harm in profiling when most of the law breakers are of a certain persuasion?

    Lemme think about this for a second. It seems to me that it takes like 20 seconds to fish your immigration card or your driver license from your wallet to prove you are in this country legally. It takes a quarter of a second to decide not to go to that one small town in Nebraska in the first place, if you’re illegal. You can even go to a more vibrant and welcoming sactuary city instead. But I guess that wouldn’t keep a couple of ACLU lawyers employed.