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Category: Illegal Immigrants

  • Proposed Stimulus for Mexico’s Southern Border?!?

    Incredible. There’s a $1.4 Billion proposal by President Bush called the Merida Initiative, which includes a $550 Million allocation to assist Mexico with the security of their southern border. Â

    What. The. Hell. Over?

    This partnership would support coordinated strategies to:

    *Produce a safer and more secure hemisphere where criminal organizations no longer threaten governments and regional security; and
    *Prevent the entry and spread of illicit drugs and transnational threats throughout the region and to the United States.

    To achieve these goals, President Bush has requested $550 million as part of a multi-year program to provide:

    *Non-intrusive inspection equipment, ion scanners, canine units for Mexican customs, for the new federal police and for the military to interdict trafficked drugs, arms, cash and persons.
    *Technologies to improve and secure communications systems to support collecting information as well as ensuring that vital information is accessible for criminal law enforcement.
    *Technical advice and training to strengthen the institutions of justice – vetting for the new police force, case management software to track investigations through the system to trial, new offices of citizen complaints and professional responsibility, and establishing witness protection programs.
    *Helicopters and surveillance aircraft to support interdiction activities and rapid operational response of law enforcement agencies in Mexico.
    *Initial funding for security cooperation with Central America that responds directly to Central American leaders’ concerns over gangs, drugs, and arms articulated during July SICA meetings and the SICA Security Strategy.
    *Includes equipment and assets to support counterpart security agencies inspecting and interdicting drugs, trafficked goods, people and other contraband as well as equipment, training and community action programs in Central American countries to implement anti-gang measures and expand the reach of these measures in the region.

    Link: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/oct/93800.htm

    Our government is giving a country, known for invading our southern border, the resources to secure their own?

    Hey George, couldja maybe fork over some money for a U.S. border wall, increased border patrol, guard towers, machine guns, trenches, motion sensors….you know, protection for us for a change?

    Meanwhile, the efforts to secure our own border are languishing:

    The government plans to add 11 miles of border fence in Arizona this year, far fewer than what was built last year.

    For months the government has been mum about much of its plans, but details emerged in recently released environmental assessments. Those documents, the first step in fence-building, reveal officials’ plans to add 7 miles of fence east of Nogales and 4 miles along the Colorado River, using a combination of pedestrian fence, vehicle barrier and access road improvements.

    The effort is being criticized by two sides.

    Environmentalists say the Department of Homeland Security is threatening endangered animals by ignoring environmental laws to build barriers across their habitats.

    “I’m really now very concerned about an ecological disaster by blocking off this border,” said Kim Vacariu, western director of the Wildlands Project.

    Like this, Vacariu?:

    bordertrash.jpg

    That’s a snapshot of just a fraction of the filth left behind by south-of-the-border slugs traipsing into the U.S.

    Pro-fence activists, on the other hand, accuse the DHS of backing off its obligations by not building enough pedestrian fencing and not double-layering it.

    They say more fence is critical in a state that remains the most active pot- and human-smuggling route on the entire U.S.-Mexican border.

    Glenn Spencer, founder of American Border Patrol, says the government cares more about open borders and amnesty for illegal immigrants than building the fence.

    “Where the smuggling is really serious, they’re not building anything,” Spencer said.

    Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0210fence-enviro0.html

    Naturally, Mexican president Felipe Calderon, an avid illegal immigration pimp, weighed in on the controversy:

    On his first trip to the U.S. as Mexico’s president, Calderon said he is working to combat anti-Americanism in Mexico and to improve job prospects there to reduce migration. He said he hopes that Americans resist anti-Mexican sentiments.

    “The worst thing that happened in this country is this anti-Mexican or anti-immigrant perception of people. We need to contain this,” Calderon said after a speech at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    “I need to change in Mexico the perception that the Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy,” he said. “We are neighbors, we are friends and we must be allies.”

    Link: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080212/D8UOH1CG2.html

    Calderon goes on to spew his demands for our money:

    Calderon also appeared to reject any added conditions on a proposed $1.4 billion U.S. anti-drug aid package that had been negotiated with American officials, saying, “I cannot accept any submission or subordination.”
    The proposal by the administration of President George W. Bush, dubbed the Merida Initiative, is meant to give Mexico aid, training and equipment to fight drug trafficking, which U.S. officials see as an American national security problem.

    It still awaits approval in Congress, and some U.S. legislators have suggested the program may need safeguards to prevent corruption or human rights abuses by Mexican military and law enforcement personnel.

    “I need that technology,” Calderon said. “Give it to me. And give it to me without conditions.”

    Calderon also criticized U.S. involvement in Iraq, saying U.S. leaders were “spending Americans’ money and putting the government into debt to finance their military adventure, and that is squeezing out private investment.”

    http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/05/news/Mexico-US.php

    Fuck you, pendejo. There’s this little U.S. Federal Statute called U.S. Code Title 8. Throwing the race card in the face of our laws will not give you credibility. ILLEGAL immigration is the contention. This is not the United States of Mexico, it’s the United States of America, amigo. And notice his hissy fit over the fact that we dare to divert money into fighting Islamofascists on their turf on behalf of our national security; money that he feels is rightfully his.

    Bubba Clinton bailed out Mexico to the tune of $50 Billion, and you can bet your last Peso it went for Vincente Fox’s palace.

    This Mexican blood sucker expects us to pour even more tax dollars into his corrupt-laden cesspool, without stipulations. He’s even more of a pompous, arrogant jackass than his predecessor, and I didn’t think that was possible.

    Americans are already footing the bill for the millions of illegals who already snuck in and haven’t yet been deported by our apathetic government.

    The most insidious thing about this push-through legislation is that our elected officials are ignoring the will of the American people. We want a secure, monitored border, well-regulated immigration, and protection of our sovereignty. With George Bush we’ve gotten very little of that.

    Just think what will happen if/when John McCain gets elected.

    His record on border security is even worse.

  • Secure our borders! Yesterday!

    In this morning’s Washington Times, Sara Carter (quickly becoming one of my favorite reporters over there) writes that “US Foes target Latin America”

    Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are working together against the U.S. by undermining democracy in Latin America, allowing trafficking of illegal drugs and creating safe havens for extremist groups, intelligence officials said.

    Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday, National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said that influence from the three countries — led respectively by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez — has spilled into Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador, which “are pursuing agendas that undercut checks and balances” of democratic governments.

    She goes on to write;

    “We’ve known for some time that Islamic extremists groups were gaining momentum and exploiting the region,” said one U.S. federal law-enforcement official, on the condition of anonymity, who worked drug operations in Central America. “Iran is no exception — now with Cuba and Venezuela, the door is open.”

    Web sites advocating Hezbollah and other Islamic extremist groups in Central America are used to recruit members and espouse extremist ideology.

    On one Web page — now removed from the Internet — “Hezbollah Latin America” displayed photographs of members, with their faces covered and weapons raised. The Web site contained links to Hezbollah group members in Venezuela, El Salvador, Argentina and as north as Chiapas, Mexico.

    Regular readers of this blog will remember the link to Jungle Mom that I’ve posted several times over the past several months referring to Hezbollah influence among the indigenous people of Venezuela’s interior after Chavez forced Christian missionaries out of the country.

    Unless we build the wall and start enforcing border securing, these Latins influenced by terrorist organizations will have the ability to blend into our own population and strike without a bit of hinderance.

    If that’s not terrifying enough for you, try this;

    In 2005, Venezuela became a major transient route for South American — predominantly Colombian — cocaine destined for the U.S. market and it continues to grow, U.S. intelligence officials said.

    Mr. Chavez’s lack of counterdrug cooperation “undermines efforts by other countries, particularly Colombia, by giving traffickers access to alternative routes and transit points Chavez is likely to remain unengaged on the counternarcotics front unless the drug trade is perceived to damage his international image or threaten his political longevity,” Mr. McConnell said.”Military cooperation between Tehran and Caracas is growing,” Mr. McConnell testified. “There are growing signs of anxiety among Venezuela’s neighbors about this military buildup.”

    Coca-chewing Chavez and crackhead Ahmadinjad supplying our own drug addicts with druga and using the money against us (where are all of those Libertarians who say that drug use is a personal preference and don’t harm society).

    But any war against drugs must be prefaced with secure borders. It’ll be up to the next president since this one has been a bit out-to-lunch on that one. And it’ll take a sturdily-spined Congress to force the next Administration to do what needs to be done.

    As it stands now, the only people willing to stand up to Chavez and his cronies seems to be Exxon-Mobil.

  • Way to shut the door, Congress

    Apparently the House of Representatives tried to reduce the rebate amount of my taxes so they can pay illegal aliens (Fox News link);

    Members of the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill Wednesday they say will fix a loophole in the House-passed economic stimulus package that allows some illegal immigrants to qualify for tax rebate checks.

    The fix requires that anyone eligible for a rebate envisioned in a House-passed $161 billion stimulus package must have to have a valid Social Security number, rather than an Individual Tax Identification Number.

    The stimulus plan overwhelmingly passed the House on a suspended vote, meaning no amendments were included on the initial legislation. A mini-brushfire broke out in the Capitol Wednesday as members realized that the decision to refund tax payments to ITIN holders meant illegal immigrants could possibly benefit.

    Michele Malkin quotes Tom Tancredo;

    “This package will stimulate one thing for certain: more illegal immigration,” said Tancredo. “It’s just the latest unfortunate example of American workers footing the bill for illegal aliens.”

    […]

    “Worse, a large portion of this money will just be sent back to the home countries of illegal aliens,” concluded Tancredo. “So it might stimulate someone’s economy – just not ours.”

    But, it’ll buy some illegal votes for the Democrats, and that’s all that really matters isn’t it?

  • Andres Oppenheimer; clueless drivel

    In today’s Miami Herald is an opinion piece by Andres Oppenheimer entitled Five Myths of Anti-Immigration Talk. The typical east coast liberal drivel, summed up in one phrase; anti-illegal immigration talk is really xenophobic and racist – so throw open the doors.

    Point-by-point; (more…)

  • “No woman is illegal,” Clinton said, to cheers.

    Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton, in a trip to Las Vegas, to pander to illegals and their supporters, answered with “No woman is illegal,” after a man shouted that his wife was an illegal. Afterwards, she slammed Obama’s record

    “He was a part-time state senator for a few years, and then he came to the Senate and immediately started running for president,” she said. “And that’s his prerogative. That’s his right. But I think it is important to compare and contrast our records.

    OK. Lets.

    Mrs Bill Clinton’s record includes hiding Rose Law Firm records, firing people that she had no right to (travelgate) shady land deals (whitewater) dubious investments (cattle futures) being cheated on by a notorious and unashamed Bill, running for the US senate in a state she had only visited before (They used to call that carpet bagging…)and immediately beginning to run for president.
    Yeah, her record is markedly different than Obama’s. Obama’s record doesn’t include carrying water for a philandering spouse or adopting the pose of a dutiful wife and mother.
    Hillary ought to use BOHICA as a campaign slogan

    Las Vegas Review Journal article

  • 68% of Mexican Immigrants Illegal

    Brace yourself, there are bound to be shrieks of racism.

    In an AP story, in the IHT A report funded by the Mexican government has determined that SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT of Mexicans who immigrate to the US do so illegally, 55% of those using smugglers to get in.
    More than two-thirds of the Mexican immigrants here are criminals. Wow.

  • It is a Spade, Damn It!

    With todays obsession with never, ever offending anyone, our world gets worse. Political correctness has been around for years and all it has done is hide the truth and obfuscate facts.
    DNC Chairman Howard ‘YEARRRRRRGH!’ Dean has pontificated that in the most recent debate, Republicans used “outrageous phrases like ‘illegal aliens.’ ” He urged the candidates to “have some morality and some humanity.”
    Excuse me? Using the proper legal terminology is now outrageous? What is moral or humane about condoning crime? The democrats’ continued efforts to make illegal immigration flatly ignores several important facts:
    The problem isn’t with Hispanics, it is with criminals.
    Criminal is not now, nor has it ever been a race.
    Not all Illegal Aliens are Hispanic, to suggest that they are, is racist.
    The Republican presidential candidates should NEVER have participated in the Univision debate. There are far more people in this country who do not speak Spanish and to pander to those who do is an insult to the rest.
    To claim that the term illegal alien is outrageous is so stupid as to be laughable.
    Dictionary.com defines illegal as:
    1. forbidden by law or statute.
    2. contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.:
    and alien is defined:
    1. a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished from citizen).
    2. a foreigner.
    3. a person who has been estranged or excluded.
    4. residing under a government or in a country other than that of one’s birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.
    So, then an Illegal Alien would be properly defined as:
    (My definition)A person residing in a country, not of their birth, in a manner contrary to or forbidden by law or statute
    Dictionary.com’s definition:
    1. a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country’s authorization.
    2. a foreigner who enters the U.S. without an entry or immigrant visa, esp. a person who crosses the border by avoiding inspection or who overstays the period of time allowed as a visitor, tourist, or businessperson.
    That’s odd, I didn’t see anything in any of those definitions about Hispanics, or Mexicans, or about speaking Spanish… Why is it then that politicians are compelled to kiss up to the Hispanic population? Oh, I see, they do that because the single largest group of illegal aliens are Hispanics who happen to be from Mexico. That doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t matter a bit. Where they criminals were born or what language they speak doesn’t have anything to do with the crimes they commit, unless you are a racist…

  • Court upholds immigration laws in VA

    Earlier this year, Prince William County, VA passed legislation that would require anyone to prove they’re legal residents of the county before they participated in any county programs. Seems reasonable doesn’t it? Well, not according to the illegal residents of Prince William County (surprise), so they took the County to court. 
    They were handed their collective ass yesterday in court, according to Seth McLaughlin of the Washington Times;

    A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Prince William County’s [Va.] new ordinance denying services to illegal aliens. 
    Judge James C. Cacheris said during a brief hearing at U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the resolution passed earlier this year by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

    Judge Cacheris said he will issue a written ruling at a later time detailing his decision. 
    The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund filed the lawsuit last month on behalf of plaintiffs who included illegal aliens and the Woodbridge Workers Committee, an organization of day laborers in Prince William County.

    But county attorneys argued that the plaintiffs could not demonstrate they had suffered any harm under the measures, which have not been fully implemented. 
    “This is a big win,” said Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. “This is the best shot that some of the best litigators in the country can throw at our resolution against illegal immigration. I think that is very telling.”

    So what’s the result going to be? Well, I wrote back in October that Ike Leggett, Montgomery County (Maryland) Supervisor (across the Potomac River from PW County) has already accepted the inevitable – instead of passing similar laws that would prevent illegal immigrants from invading Maryland and draining us of our resources (the resources that we pay for with our tax dollars) Leggett just criticized Prince William County instead;

    “When one jurisdiction tries to force people to move around, they don’t leave,” Leggett said. “They either shift the burden from one community to another, or they go underground. That’s why this is not a solution.”

    The result will be expanded services for illegals in Montgomery County, Maryland at the expense of legal residents because Maryland legislators are more interested in appearing humane to the world than protecting their own citizens.

    (Crossposted at Red Maryland)