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That's Glenn Spencer's header,....

He does not mince words,......I say Here, Here !

And here's a good example,......this is not getting air time,...MSM won't touch it.


Congress needs to clean up waste on fence project

Published on Saturday, September 20, 2008

To the Editor:

As reported by the Herald/Review last Sunday, Customs and Border Protection claims that as of Aug. 29 it had built 190 miles of pedestrian fence along the border. As you accurately stated, American Border Patrol challenged this figure, saying that as of July 29, there were only 108 miles of DHS-built pedestrian fencing in place.
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In a Sept. 10 report, the Governmental Accountability Office says that as of Aug. 22, DHS had added 109 miles of new fencing, in essence agreeing with the ABP number. At $7.5 million per mile, the DHS is claiming that it has built more than 80 miles of fencing or $600 million worth, than the facts support.

The GAO report goes on to show than more than half of the $2.7 billion was wasted on a misguided �virtual fence� system and a bloated bureaucracy.

Congress should fund the completion of the fence, but it should also expose the waste and mismanagement that brought us to this point in the first place.

Glenn Spencer

President, American Border Patrol

Sierra Vista

From NAFBPO,

ROUGH times in Old Mexico,.....VERY rough,

Link: http://m3report.wordpress.com/2008/...ces-to-mexico-will-decrease-5-this-year/

Mexico: Education dropout and delinquency rate of school age children highU.S. Chamber of Commerce economist Deborah Riner tells Mexican news media that individual monetary remittances to Mexico will decrease 5% this year
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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 9/19/08

- Deborah Riner, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was interviewed by Notimex (Mex. news agency) and said she anticipated that individual monetary remittances into Mexico will decrease 5% in 2008, while in 2007 they increased 1%. She acknowledged that it is surprising that the drop is not larger. �It continues to be an amount over 20 billion dollars, (and) it exceeds direct foreign investment.� Though she acknowledged it is a considerable amount, �one has to realize it cannot be expected to keep growing at the rate of 10, 15, 20 percent each year.�

- A Mazatlan, Sinaloa, police officer who had participated in the detention of four �Zetas� was himself later forcibly abducted a couple of days ago by a black clad armed group of seven men. Now, his cut-off head was tossed out in front of a public building in Mazatlan. A handcuffed cadaver wrapped in plastic was also found there.

- Mexico and Macao have signed a mutual visa exemption accord which will allow citizens of Mexico and residents of the ex-Portuguese enclave of Macao to enter and stay in those areas for up to 90 days without need for a visa. Macao, part of Chinese territory, is said to be self-governing.
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Reforma (Mexico City) 9/19/08

Amidst unleashed violence, President Calderon today heads a meeting to evaluate the progress from the National Accord for Security, Justice and Legality which was signed a month ago. In those thirty days, though the capture of kidnappers increased, murders at the hands of organized crime also went up such as, for instance, the 12 beheaded in Yucatan, the 24 executed with a coup de grace in the state of Mexico and the 7 civilians dead from grenades tossed in Morelia during independence holiday celebrations.
During this period more than 482 persons are reported as executed, among them 66 police and 3 military; at least 72 were tortured and 39 others decapitated.
Further, one week after the summit, large cloth signs were hung in eight states suggesting the army protects the Joaquin �El Chapo� Guzman and Ismael �El Mayo� Zambada cartel. Two weeks after the meeting, Roberto Campa, head of the National Public Security System, presented his resignation.
And while this goes on, under-utilization is reported in the funds allotted for security in the country�s states and municipalities.
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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 9/19/08

Mex. navy personnel are guarding the Veracruz registry shrimp boat �Juan Alejandro� at Puerto Madero, Chiapas. The incomplete report states that the shrimp boat was seized Wednesday when found to be transporting �several tons� of cocaine. Six subjects, all Mexicans, are in custody.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 9/19/08

- A front page article features a schematic showing the areas in Culiacan where money has been seized from drug cartel �safe houses�; there�s also a tally of other seizures, all part of the Culiacan-Navolato-Guamuchil Operation.
- May 22: $ 5,777,980 (all figures in U.S. dollars)
- June 4 : $ 5,293,293 (sic)
- Aug. 17: $ 1,800,000
- Sep. 14: $ 26,202,176 (The very latest, believed to belong to �El Mayo�)
Also: 569,000 kilos of weed and 106 of its seed, plus 326 firearms, 314 vehicles, 314 buildings (sic) and 202 detainees,

- Two men and a woman were the targets of gunfire by a canal in Culiacan. All three victims had their hands and feet held with duct tape and one of the men was also cuffed. Sixty four shell casings - almost all from assault rifles - were found at the killing site.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez ed.) 9/19/08

The headline reads: �5 are executed in less than 3 hours� The article then goes on to describe the times, locales and events surrounding the latest murders in Ciudad Juarez.
But a front page update has an article titled �Two more are murdered during the night.� (A reading of that item makes clear that these last two victims are not part of the five originally reported.)
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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 9/19/08

An abandoned vehicle has �just� been found by police in the Gonzalez Ortega section of Mexicali. There�s a human head and a human hand inside. Next to the human remains there is a message saying: �for fingers (read: informants), balconies (note: unknown slang term) and rats.�
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 9/19/08

- ( Following are the first 3 paragraphs of an op/column by Carlos Corvera titled �We have to win this war� )

Roberto Pombo, director of the Colombian newspaper �El Tiempo� reminded us yesterday about what is established by the terrorists� manual regarding attacks with explosives against the population: the first bomb is the terrorists� fault; the second one also; but the third one is the Government�s fault.
We are all asking ourselves the same thing: What is happening ? Have we reached bottom or is the bloodiest part of the fight against crime just beginning?
Wherever you look, the problems assailing the country are numerous. The main one, of course, is insecurity. We have barely finished digesting a horrendous event when the next one already begins. In a few days they kidnap and execute the Marti boy (note: this refers to the 14 yr. old Mexico City boy whose body turned up in the trunk of a car after his family had already paid for his ransom); and right afterward 12 decapitated turn up in Yucatan, then 24 executed ones show up in La Marquesa and when we were still in a state of shock for this massacre, two grenades exploded, killed seven persons and left a hundred-some wounded in the middle of national festivities in Michoacan�s capital, an unheard of and vile act of terrorism without precedent.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey Nuevo Leon) 9/19/08

(Digest from Antonio de Mendieta�s �Miscellany� op/column)

The bombings, the executions and decapitations were not carried out by second class hoodlums. This is a strategic plan to destabilize Calderon�s weak government ; at its base is a white collar organized crime group about to turn into a guerilla and to attempt to wrest political control of the country. We are one step away from civil war. Calderon is losing the war; he needs to combat the mafia with intelligence, attacking money laundering and corruption at all levels of government.
Calderon, the chiefs of organized crime are all around you, saying yes to you, Yes, Mr. President. Next to you, shaking your hand.
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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 9/19/08

Before dawn today an armed commando group fired AK47�s and launched fragmentation grenades at the Preventive State Police Hqs. in Cayaquitos, Papanoa, state of Guerrero. The building later evidenced hundreds of gunfire impacts. A news blackout followed. (This is a beach area some 75 mi. up the coast from Acapulco)
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La Prensa (Mexico City) 9/19/08

More than 11 thousand 700 unescorted Mexican children attempted to cross the border into the United States and were repatriated to Mexico in the first seven months of this year, according to Mex. immigration officials. Another 503 unaccompanied children of other nationalities were also intercepted in various parts of Mexico.
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The attachment to this report is a cartoon which appeared in a couple of publications. The newspaper a man is holding has these headlines: �Calderon calls for unity�, � Innocent ones massacred�, �Civilians murdered�, �Youths are killed�, �The kidnapping victims are dead�. A man to the side comments: � Now we Mexicans are really divided. On one side are the murdered ones and on the other are the survivors.�
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Sounds like Mexico is getting pretty close to civil war.
Not on a political basis but for control.

The "Debate" outlined herin, is almost "Perfect" ,....in describing the "Paradox" ,.....wages vs available skilled labor.

The responses to this article are interesting, ....and poignant,
worth reading , for sure.

David Crockett must be smiling,....either way, he always was up for a hair pull.

Link: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=64089&provider=top

County considers blocking construction jobs from undocumented workers
Jake Jost Updated: 9/19/2008 7:44:27 PM Posted: 9/19/2008 2:24:30 PM
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It seems only fitting that Jeff Hunter and his construction crew spent Friday working on a new funeral parlor in Morristown.

For the past year or so, he'll tell you, the construction business has been just about dead.

"Well it seems like it's awful slow," Hunter said.

One group in Hamblen County says part of that economic pain could find some relief if companies would hire legal citizens like Hunter instead of undocumented workers.

"I don't know that that's the answer," Hunter said. "It's not so much companies that are at fault in my eyes. It's more of our government that's allowing it to happen."

"It's not fair for these people to compete with United States citizens, it's just not," Wayne Dollar, a spokesman for the group Tennesseans for Immigration Reform and Education (T-FIRE) said.

T-FIRE is urging Hamblen County to take care of the small piece of economy they have power over: the projects they pay for with tax dollars.

Thursday night they presented a resolution that the commission has now taken into committee consideration. It says the county will no longer do business with construction companies or contractors who won't verify their employees are legal citizens. Dollar says the city of Morristown has already adopted a similar policy.

The plan calls for companies to use the program E-Verify to confirm a worker's citizenship and status.

Many groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and immigrants' rights groups say the program has many flaws that lead to more harm than good. They argue E-Verify has tested as unreliable and in some cases, a false background check has cost a legal citizen their job.

Still, some states like Arizona have adopted the program.

""We'd like to see the fine significant enough, even with the threat of canceling a contract to make it a deterrent," Dollar said. "If these people find it hard to find jobs in this country, you don't have to load buses up and deport them. They will self-deport."

One construction company owner who spoke on the condition of anonymity says it all comes back to the issue of available workers. He said the county does not have an ample supply of workers and it'll be tough to find workers.

T-FIRE argues if the jobs paid well enough, there would be a line at that construction companies door.

"The wages are low and the costs are still there and we're paying it. Hamblen County citizens are paying it."

T-FIRE says the extra costs of having the undocumented workers is taking it's toll on everyone.

According the US Census, the hispanic population in Hamblen County has multiplied by nearly 30 over the past two decades. Census takers don't ask about citizenship status so there is no way to tell how many of the hispanic population are documented citizens.

While Hunter doesn't know if T-FIRE's local plan is the answer, he does say take issue with some of the undocumented workers who are here illegally.

"You're going to punish businesses for hiring illegals when a lot of their documentation is so authentic, we don't have the training and stuff like a federal agent to pick up on that," Hunter said. "It does take away jobs from those of us who are here trying to do the right thing and I don't see how they get all this aid and help when they're here illegally."











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A group of Hamblen County residents is urging the county commission to use only documented workers for county building projects.

The group is called TFIRE, Tennesseans for Immigration Reform and Education.

TFIRE members have gone before the Hamblen County Commission, urging them to award county contract work only to construction companies will to verify all their employees are legal citizens of the United States.

TFIRE has suggested contractors use the government program E-Verify, which, while not foolproof, has come into widespread use.

Owners of construction companies in Hamblen County have mixed feelings on the idea.

Some say it would cut into the work force available to them.

Others say it will make them more competitive when they bid, because everyone will be paying over-the-table.

Kink: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=64089&provider=top

That sounds like a good idea to get the county commission to require that contractors use documented folks to build county buildings. Hope they can enforce it, remember the bid goes to the lowest bidder. They'll try and cut costs where ever they can.

Davy Crockett was from Greene Co. not Hamblen Co., close but no cigar. He later lived in Lincoln and Franklin Co's before going to Texas, and you know the rest of the story.

I thought for just one moment taht I'd heard something,....than I smelled a fart-like odor........

Being suitably corrected by "Monitors" ,.....and loony tune nit-pickers.

I think Davidcould lead me,...and that he might just promote me......

Gettin' past Fart / troll - stink,....THIS REALLY stinks,...

Link: http://www.americanpatrol.com/MISCNEWS/2006-UP/BP/080921-AgtPoisoned.html

National Border Patrol Council Local 2544 -- Tucson

9-19-08

We are saddened to report that it appears as if a Border Patrol agent may have been intentionally poisoned with a pesticide. We are not going to elaborate because there is an ongoing investigation.

The agent has a family to support, and they are facing an extremely tough time ahead. He has been incapacitated by the toxins in his body, and is not expected to fully recover. We hope and pray that he can make a miraculous recovery.

Note to agents: Please be careful where you eat when you are on duty. As you know, there are plenty of sick individuals that would love to harm you. We have had previous incidents here where agents' food was tampered with. It is not that uncommon.

The following statement was submitted by Agent Moberly on September 13, 2008:

"Brothers and Sisters in Arms,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank every one for the great amount of support I have been given during my time of crisis. This includes phone calls, cards and letters, prayers, words of encouragement, visits, transportation, meals, leave donations and monetary donations. I am honored to have such a band of brothers.

I am currently getting worse every day and I can no longer walk. My speech is getting worse and my pain level is incredible, however I am keeping the faith and will fight to the bitter end, what ever that will be. Again, thank you all for everything you have done for me.

Though I walk through the shadow of the Valley of Death I fear no evil, for Thou art with me.

Sincerely,

Agent Denton Moberly"

Funny,....Like "Farts in a Spacesuit",

................This rag , Tucson Daily Star, has been known in the rural areas forever as the "Red Star",.....a pillar / forum for Lib whack.

.........'bout the time they start printing this sorta' editorial work,......

I says get your gear organized,....and hang on.

..........Paranoia has never been one of my strong suits,.....I don't cleave to the lifestyle that promotes that,

Az,....get your Chit together,...this upcoming Winter looks ROUGH.

But than,....you could always go with indeterminate " Pew research" data,.....and eat Granola.

Link: http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/258617

Tucson Region
Some illegal immigrants commit other crimes, but 'data terrible'
By Josh Brodesky and Kim Smith
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.21.2008
advertisementYou've heard it from pundits and read it online: Illegal immigrants are clogging our legal system. They may come with the dreams of work and a better life, but they bring increased crime and strife.
Many of those coming here illegally do end up in court � some for being here without permission, others for property, financial, drug or violent crimes.
But it's anyone's guess how many illegal immigrants enter the justice system, and how much it costs taxpayers. Neither the state nor the federal courts formally keep track.
The lack of hard numbers makes it nearly impossible to know whether our immigration policies are working � even as taxpayers spend tens of millions of dollars a year to house and defend illegal immigrants arrested in the Tucson area.
"The data (are) terrible, and lead to entirely different conclusions," said Steven Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports tighter immigration controls. "No one has made it a priority. No one has ever wanted to know."
Camarota said everybody talks about the combination of illegal immigration and crime, but "nobody ever does anything about it."
Federal policies targeting illegal immigration also skew the picture. Although the number of people arrested in the Tucson Sector for illegal immigration has actually declined in recent years, the push is on to prosecute more illegal-entry cases, most recently through "Operation Streamline," which aims to prosecute 100 illegal immigrants a day.
The emphasis on illegal immigration has overwhelmed Tucson's federal prosecutors to the point that they have declined to take on a number of serious drug-offense cases in recent years. To keep up, the U.S. Attorney's Office recently hired 22 more prosecutors and has converted a courtroom into a makeshift holding area for illegal immigrants waiting to see judges.
Illegal immigration made up half the felony sentencings in federal court here last year, but no one can say � beyond estimates � how many other federal crimes are tied to illegal immigrants.
It's a similar scene at Pima County Superior Court. Officials there agree that cases involving illegal immigrants put an extra burden on judges and attorneys � but no one knows how big a burden.
Estimates of the share of Pima County criminal cases involving illegal immigrants range from 3.5 percent to 11 percent.
Financial estimates are only slightly more specific. At a minimum, taxpayers spend about $80 million per year on cases involving illegal immigration that are processed through Pima County and the federal court in Tucson. But that doesn't include the cost of lawyers to represent and prosecute illegal border crossers charged with more serious federal crimes. Those costs are not tracked.
And it doesn't sort out those non-citizens in the court system who are here legally.
Still, Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall is confident that the effect is small. "The illegals we see are only an itty-bitty, tiny fraction of the illegals who are in Pima County and Arizona," LaWall said.
"Their presence here has a huge impact, but they are not driving the crime rate," she said. "Ninety-seven percent of the folks we prosecute are homegrown criminals."
Soft statistics
It's clear that illegal immigrants do affect our court system, but getting an accurate count of cases is nearly impossible.
At the federal level, cases that involve only illegal entry are easy to identify, but tracking more serious crimes by illegal entrants just isn't done.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office prosecutes the cases based on whether a federal offense was committed," said Lynnette Kimmins, chief assistant U.S. attorney who heads the Tucson office. "We don't keep track of a person's citizenship unless a lack of citizenship is an element to the crime."
To do that, Kimmins said, would require a change in the computing system used in all U.S. attorneys' offices, not just those in Arizona.
Still, Kimmins estimated that 90 percent of all the criminal cases prosecuted by her office had some kind of tie to the border, a connection that includes citizens and non-citizens. Most of those cases are either immigration- or drug-related.
Just over half of Arizona's 4,700 federal felony sentencings in 2007 were for immigration violations, said a U.S. Sentencing Commission report. Nationally, immigration made up about a quarter of all felony sentencings.
Felony cases include those involving people with multiple illegal-entry convictions and people here illegally who commit another serious crime. Most people arrested only for being here illegally are deported without being charged, or they're charged with misdemeanors.
"We are just one of nine sectors along the Southwest border, but our sector last year accounted for 380,000 arrests for people being here illegally and nearly a million pounds of marijuana being brought across the international border," said Chief U.S. District Judge John M. Roll of Tucson.
"That represents about half of all the marijuana seized along the Southwest border," Roll said. "It represents about 44 percent of everybody arrested for being here illegally."
Less clear is the role that illegal immigrants play in other types of criminal cases, such as those involving drugs, guns or fraud.
Nationally, non-citizens accounted for about 30 percent of all drug felony sentencings, 8 percent of firearms sentencings and 20 percent of fraud sentencings. That includes people here legally and illegally.
"I know that a very high number of our defendants in drug and gun cases are deportable," Roll said, referring to the Tucson Sector. "I'm sure a very high percentage of our defendants are deportable."
Other federal officials offered similar experience-based estimates but no hard figures.
"A majority of our arrests are not U.S. citizens. For trafficking, at least more than 50 percent," said Anthony Coulson, Drug Enforcement Administration assistant special agent in charge of the Tucson District Office.
"Drug trafficking doesn't know any nationality or whether you have papers or anything like that. That's immaterial to the whole game," Coulson said.
At the county level, there are conflicting statistics on illegal immigrants in the system.
LaWall, the county attorney, said 3.5 percent of people with open cases in her office have an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold on them, meaning the federal agency is investigating their legal status while they are held in the county jail.
No tracking in Pima County
Presiding Superior Court Judge Jan Kearney, however, said 11 percent of suspects with pending criminal cases in Pima County Superior Court have acknowledged that they are in the country illegally.
It's unclear how that compares with Pima County's population of illegal immigrants, because no one is really tracking it. Most estimates are either statewide or for Phoenix.
Varying estimates from 2006, the most recent available, placed the state's population of illegal immigrants at about 450,000 to 500,000, said Jeffrey Passel of the non-partisan Pew Hispanic Center. The Urban Institute, a non-partisan research group, estimated most of those illegal immigrants, about 350,000, lived in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Similarly, the Arizona Department of Corrections knows that 13 percent of its 39,000 inmates are Mexican citizens, but it doesn't know how many came here illegally, said its spokes-man, Nolberto Machiche.
Whatever the number, LaWall and Kearney said the immigration debate is more a product of a change in people than any change in the issue.
"The level of immigration, both legal and illegal, has been enormous for the last 20 years, but nothing has really changed," Kearney said. "There is just more public attention and concern now. It's how the laws have changed that have had an impact. It's not the illegals who have had an impact."
Prosecution discretion
LaWall has made a decision not to prosecute suspected illegal immigrants for being in the country illegally, unlike Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who believes they are guilty of a crime, the same as the "coyotes" � people smugglers � who bring them into the country.
If LaWall opted to prosecute people whose sole crime was entering the country illegally, "we would not be able to prosecute murderers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers and drug dealers," LaWall said. "The feds do prosecute thousands and thousands of them every year, and has it had a deterring effect? No."
The most recent federal effort to deter illegal immigration is known as Operation Streamline, a so-called "zero-tolerance" approach to illegal immigration. Its goal is to prosecute 100 illegal immigrants a day, although prosecutions so far have hovered at 40 to 70 on most days. On some days, there are no prosecutions.
Part of the challenge has been a lack of prosecutors � a problem that is being addressed with the new hires, who are to start this fall.
But there is also a lack of space. With nowhere to put Operation Streamline defendants, one courtroom had to be turned into an ad hoc detention center. Defendants meet with their attorneys in the morning for about 20 minutes, and then they're prosecuted in the afternoons.
Heather Williams, first assistant federal public defender in Tucson, said her office can provide two trial attorneys daily, each representing roughly six illegal-entrant defendants. The rest are represented by contract attorneys who are paid $100 an hour.
Williams estimated that taxpayers spend about $8,000 a day on attorney costs for Operation Streamline. That troubles her, because almost all the defendants have been arrested solely for illegal entry.
"Their priority seems to have been with charging first-timers," she said. "That is, people who have no prior criminal arrests in the U.S. and no prior immigration history."
Customs and Border Patrol officials credit Operation Streamline with drastically reducing recidivism rates in Southern Arizona, but Williams disagrees. Immigration arrests already were declining, she said, and factors such as the weak economy and the time period the Border Patrol was studying could distort statistics.
In a recent statement she gave to the U.S. House of Representatives, Williams called Operation Streamline "one of the least successful but most costly and time-consuming ways of discouraging entries and re-entries."
In the federal system, taxpayers spend roughly $100,000 a month on gas and time for attorneys to travel to and from Florence, where illegal immigrants are held.
The U.S. Marshals Service spent $71 million in the last year housing defendants specifically from Tucson in Florence � most of whom were illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, Tucson's federal court, saddled with one of the highest caseloads in the country, has asked for more judges.
"I believe it can be very difficult for the border courts to get the resources they need," District Judge Roll said, noting that there are only five border courts in four states. "There's another 46 states who don't have the problem we have."
Williams said she's concerned that the increase in prosecutors will result in public defenders handling more Operation Streamline cases while more serious criminal cases are farmed out to contract attorneys, ramping up costs to taxpayers.
To some degree, county officials are feeling the strain, too.
Pima County residents pay about $8 million a year to house and defend suspected illegal immigrants accused of non-immigration-related charges, county officials estimate.
There were 1,211 Pima County jail inmates released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement last fiscal year, said Assistant County Administrator Lindy Funkhouser.
County and federal officials are working together to reduce the time defendants spend in the county jail before being released to federal officials, Funkhouser said. They also hope to reduce the number of cases that go to contract defense attorneys � now about a third of the cases involving suspected illegal immigrants. Contract attorneys are paid more than public defenders.
No matter what they do, illegal immigrants will always be brought to the jail, because the Pima County Attorney's Office must have time to review their cases to decide what charges, if any, should be filed against them, Funkhouser said.
The role of policy
Although Superior Court does not handle immigration cases, illegal immigration is affecting things there, too.
Judges are required to determine within five days of a suspect's initial appearance whether that person is in the country illegally. Under Proposition 100, approved by Arizona voters in 2006, illegal immigrants accused of committing certain felonies are ineligible for bond.
While Pima County's Pretrial Services division has been asking certain suspects to disclose their immigration status for at least 10 to 15 years, a formal determination hadn't been made before, said Rick Peck, Pretrial Services director.
There are five to 20 Proposition 100 hearings every week, all of which require police officers, attorneys and Pretrial Services employees to take time away from their other duties.
The hearings are often postponed, something that studies have shown drives up the cost of the criminal justice system, County Attorney LaWall said.
Meanwhile, the debate on immigrants and crime continues.
"There is no evidence linking illegal immigrants with crime," said Passel, of the Pew Hispanic Center, citing a handful of recent studies that support his contention. "There is plenty of data out there, and people don't pay attention to it."
But Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, has a different view.
"The bottom line is, some data suggest it's low, and some data suggest it's high," he said. "We simply don't know."

This carries Water,........

it's about Game Cameras,.....very craftily placed by them bloodthirsty deer hunters,.....thanks, guys.

Some years not all that long ago back,.......there were daily mobs drinkin' outta Garden hoses in broad daylight,....all through the post residence / quarters area.

Than things got tightened up just a mite,.....after a bunch broke into the Post Commander's digs,....drank all the booze,....ate everything in the fridge,....and split with all his nice clothes.

Anyhoo,.....

More Chinese caught sneaking into the United States
A reliable source reports that according to a fairly senior officer at Ft. Huachuca at Sierra Vista, Arizona, is experiencing an increase in illegal aliens crossing the Army Base, both day and night. According to the report the Army is seeing more Chinese nationals in the flood of aliens. U.S. Army personnel are not allowed to detain the aliens but must await support from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Fine thing about a 2 party ( or more) system,.......

gotta love these S. Dems,......sometime, regardl;ess of their candidates.

FWIW ,.....all of the Railroad iron used for the "Vehicle Barriers" in our district was basically FREE,.....other than lifting it off the old roadbed from Paul spur to Benson,......

A signifigant savings,....nonetheless, some wildly inflated pricing is evident,......for symplistic ( and very ineffective) product .


Stealing Our Line
Congressman Calls Border Security "BS"

Axcessnews.com -- September 22
"Strategic Bullsh*t Initiative" � Our feature on 7/5/06

Border fence hits wall, GAO investigators say
The government pays an average $7.5 million for each mile of fencing, nearly double the $4 million per mile figure the department originally estimated. Vehicle barriers cost an average $2.8 million per mile, up from $2 million. Members of the House Committee on Homeland Security criticized the department for the cost increase and construction delays.
"I was in business for a long time, and it seems to me this is really off the page," said Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., of the mounting costs. [...]
Congressional investigators testified they were concerned the department hadn't estimated how much the fence would cost to maintain.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, told the committee he would refer to border security as "BS" when he addressed the subject.
"I'm not sure if we've had a lot of BS, some BS or no BS at all, but we're clearly dealing with BS," Green said, prompting laughter from the audience. "At some point, we have to take a look at how much BS we can stand."

A promising evolution,.....

Outcry,......Sob!

Link: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_10352124

Checkpoints evoke outcry from Richmond Latinos
By Karl Fischer
West County Times
Article Launched: 09/01/2008 06:36:10 AM PDT


Aqui Derecha!

Juan Reardon, standing on the corner of 23rd Street and Barrett Avenue in Richmond on a hot Monday afternoon, strongly suggests you turn right. Particularly if you speak Spanish. Particularly if you lack a driver's license or drive an uninsured vehicle.

Just know that police wait ahead at a checkpoint to ask for that paperwork, and to tow cars.

"We have a law that mandates you to have a driver's license, but at the same time prohibits you from getting one," said Reardon, fronting a group of placard-waving locals. "And the Richmond police, by implementing these BS policies, are ... directly targeting the Latino population."

Every month, Reardon protests in front of a driver's license checkpoint somewhere in Richmond. More often these days he's not alone � and in an election year, the city's political establishment has taken notice.

Public attitude about the checkpoints may factor into several City Council campaigns as law enforcement and elected officials grapple with enforcing state traffic safety laws that an increasingly active voting constituency considers discriminatory.

With its burgeoning population of Latinos, including many immigrants, Richmond has grown highly sensitized to immigration policy and laws that penalize undocumented residents. While most of those laws originate in state or federal government, it falls to local government to enforce them.

Therein lies the pressure.

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target illegal driving that really does compromise the safety of everyone," Richmond police Chief Chris Magnus said. "We are trying to perform law enforcement and public safety activities as separately as we can from political influence."

That has grown increasingly difficult of late. Mayor Gayle McLaughlin last week sent an extensive information request to Magnus seeking data about citations and tows, as well as clues to the ethnicity of cited drivers.

"At this point, the mayor has no statement," said Marilyn Langlois, McLaughlin's aide. "We'll have a better sense ... after we review the information."

Reardon, not currently employed by the mayor, served as McLaughlin's campaign manager during the 2006 election. That connection fuels speculation about the mayor's interest, both within the Police Department and among City Council hopefuls.

Candidates Corky Booze and Chris Tallerico, both strong checkpoint proponents, turned out to watch last Monday as police funneled traffic through orange cones on 23rd, the main business arterial for the region's Latino community.

"Driving is not a right. It's a privilege," Tallerico said. "If this provides us with a safer city, more power to it. I don't understand why the mayor's campaign manager is shouting in the middle of the street."

Booze went further, challenging Vice Mayor John Marquez to a public debate about where his loyalties lie.

"I want to know why (Marquez) isn't down here right now, educating his people about the law," Booze said.

Marquez, one of the city's first Latino politicians and the council member most closely identified with the Latino business community, also is chairman of the council's public safety subcommittee. He joined in a unanimous vote in the winter to support checkpoints and also clamored for the California Highway Patrol to temporarily supplement the local police force.

The CHP officers mainly performed traffic enforcement, which wound up angering 23rd Street merchants, who said their aggressive work drove away customers. Marquez found himself asking police to ease off the effort he initially led.

"It is a dilemma, and until the (state) Legislature approves a bill that solves the problem, I don't know what the answer is," Marquez said.

Richmond police, like those in neighboring cities, regularly stop traffic at checkpoints along major arterials to ensure that all passing through carry licenses, insurance and registration. Culling unlicensed drivers and impounding their cars helps cut down on hit-and-run crashes, Sgt. Andre Hill said, a growing problem in the city.

Police attribute the rise in part to a rise in unlicensed drivers, who invariably face stiffer penalties than licensed drivers when caught at the scene of a crash.

Richmond police have held monthly checkpoints for about two years, each time visiting a different part of the city. Protesters, particularly those who direct traffic away from checkpoints, seriously sabotage them, Hill said.

"We might tow 25 cars at a typical checkpoint," said Hill, who supervises the department's traffic unit. "But lately, that number has been in the teens."

Activists consider that good news, as losing a car can cripple a family. State law requires police to impound the cars of unlicensed drivers for 30 days, Magnus said, though his department sometimes shortens that term or declines to tow altogether.

Passions run high when the fleet of tow trucks appears in a neighborhood. Police do not announce in advance where they plan to set up shop, mostly to curtail the placards. And in the spring, Magnus disciplined an officer who lost his temper and confiscated a sign while Reardon peacefully protested in front of a checkpoint.

"This is a policy that affects kids and mothers. It's a stupid policy," Reardon said as a worker from a nearby fast-food restaurant walked over and picked up a sign. "It's at odds with the reality."

Looks like digging tunels under the border is risky business.
( El Universal)

Those of us who've read "Reaper's Line" will remember "The Well of Death"...........where the Miners that dug the Douglas tunnel were dumped by their employers.

Link: http://m3report.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/crime-and-unrest-in-mexico-and-central-america-on-the-rise/

Crime and unrest in Mexico and Central America on the rise
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

(Guadalajara, Jalisco) & El Universal ( Mexico City) 9/20/08

An elite force of a thousand Guatemalan soldiers has been deployed along Guatemala�s border with Mexico to reduce the operational area of drug smuggling by land, rivers and even by air. The force is supported by tracked and armored vehicles, helicopters and other aircraft. The area involved is in the Peten Department across vital areas for the smugglers facing the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco and Chiapas.
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Saturday 9/20/08
El Informador



El Universal (Mexico City) 9/20/08


- A 13 year old child became the eighth victim to die as a result of the September 15 bombing in Morelia, Michoac�n. The youth died in a hospital of complications from multiple injuries suffered in the explosion.


- Morelia�s hometown criminal gang known as �La Familia Michoacana� has joined the protests against the bombing there by placing placing seven banners throughout the city with messages blaming their rival gang, �Los Zetas,� for the attacks on the people of Micnoac�n. One of the banners read, �The pain of the Michoac�n people overwhelms us. No more crimes against innocent people. You will pay for your terrifying acts Zetas.�
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El Debate (Sinaloa) 9/20/08


An update on the results of Joint Operation Culiac�n-Navolato-Guam�chil was released:
-Drug destruction: Marihuana - 569,908 kg; Marihuana seed - 106 kg.
-Arrests: 202
-Seizures: Arms - 326; Vehicles - 314; Money - $38.7 million US.
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 9/20/08

The U.S. Coast Guard reported last night that it intercepted a �submarine type vessel� carrying seven tons of cocaine some 640 kilometers south of the border between Mexico and Guatemala. The vessel was sunk after it was deemed to be too unstable to tow into port. This come just four days after another similar vessel was found, also carrying tons of cocaine. That one was towed to a Costa Rican port.
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La Hora (Guatemala City, Guat.) 9/20/08

�More than� 150 agents of Guatemala�s �Policia Nacional Civil� have been captured and arrested so far this year because of involvement in �illicit deeds.� The very latest detainees were part of a house burglary gang. Some of the causes for this are said to be low salaries & low agency�s budget as well as members� low educational levels and failure to screen applicants.


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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) (extracts from indicated dates of publication follow)

Sep. 6 �08 : 57 Ecuadorans (11 women, 46 men) , deported from the U.S., arrived yesterday.
Sep. 9 �08 : A group of 63 Ecuadorans deported from the U.S. arrived at 16:30 hours yesterday at the Guayaquil Airport. �The migratory authorities of the United States carried out the final order of deportation for these citizens because they were in that country without documents evidencing their regular status.�

Sep. 20 �08 : 53 deported Ecuadorans were to arrive at the Guayaquil Airport from the United States, where they were as �undocumented.�
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Sunday 9/21/08


El Provenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n) 9/21/08


- Federal Police arrested 14 municipal police from Torre�n, Coahuila for connections with organized crime. The arrests came after a confrontation between the Federal Police and an armed group when it was observed that the city police were helping the criminals. Two federal agents were wounded in the encounter.


- The Mexican justice department (PGR) in Allende, Nuevo Le�n arrested Manuel Iv�n �El Tony� Cavazos Aguirre, for the purpose of extradition to the US. The subject is alleged to be a member of a drug gang smuggling and distributing methamphetamine to the US and is wanted by the DEA.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 9/21/08

The �American Dream� of thousands of Hondurans fails to come about. Those who have seen their goal of reaching the United States �by irregular means� add up to 22,300, according to data from Miguel Osorio, immigration official at the Toncontin Airport of this city.
Little by little, the number of deportees comes closer to that of last year. In 2007 there were 29,222 fellow citizens who were returned from that country because of their irregular status.
The monthly average of returnees to date is 2,477, while during 2007 it was 2,439 deportees. (The article was accompanied by a photo showing a large group of younger men walking away from a passenger plane)
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 9/21/08


In Canc�n, Quintana Roo, federal agents arrested nine presumed members of a cell of the crime group �Los Zetas.� This cell is believed to be linked to those responsible for the 12 decapitation murders in Yucat�n, August 28. Seized from the house in which the nine were arrested were fireharms, grenades, cell phones and radio equipment.
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Monday 9/22/08
El Universal (Mexico City) 9/22/08


- Three men arrested by city police in Morelia, Michoac�n following the September 15 bombing have been released by the state Attorney General as having no connection with the crime. They had been arrested because they met the description offered by people attending the Independence Day gathering. The AG�s office added that ten police officers who had been assigned the security duty of infiltrating the celebrating crowd dressed as civilians did not show up for work that evening. They are being investigated. A lengthy video released by El Universal shows the chaotic scene following the explosions. The captions criticize the crime scene being �replete with people who were not helping.� It was clear from the video that there had been no attempt to secure the crime scene and remove spectators who were wandering about at will, taking photos and getting in the way of the removal of the victims.


- The execution murders of 24 people found in a park near Mexico City September 12 is now thought to be connected with the construction of a narco tunnel �in the north,� [Mexicali, Baja California] which had been discovered a few weeks before. [M3 Report 9/2/08] The Mexican department of justice (PGR) issued the �hypothesis� that some of those murdered had participated in the tunnel construction. Some of the itinerant brick masons who had lived in a poor community in the state of M�xico are considered innocent victims. The murders are believed to have been in reprisal for some of the laborers revealing their �special work� during several months in the north. The discovery of the tunnel is considered a major blow to organized crime since much time and money had been spent on the unfinished project. Milenio (Mexico City) also contributed to this story.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n) 9/22/08



- The Mexican justice department (PGR) released information that the shrimp boat seized last Wednesday off the coast of Chiapas [M3 Report 9/19/08] was carrying more than 3.3 metric tons of cocaine. Six crew members were arrested.
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El Diario en Linea (Chihuahua) 9/22/08


- The use of bodyguards in the state of Chihuahua has increased 300% due to the number of kidnappings of businessmen for ransom. According to the Mexican Employers Association (Copamex), there are few business leaders who can afford personal escorts. The solution, they maintain, is not personal security, but state and federal strategies to combat kidnapping. Hotel services in Ciudad Ju�rez now include security escort service and armored car rentals.


- The powerful crime organization �La Familia Michoacana� has reached such levels in the past two years that it now operates in 77 municipalities in the state of Michoac�n, over half of the 133 incorporated communities.
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Cuarto Poder (Chiapas) 9/22/08


In a story to which many border agents might relate, 50% of the vehicles used for smuggling that are seized by Mexican authorities are auctioned off. However, many owners reclaim their vehicles arguing ignorance [apparently of the vehicle's improper use].
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Jeez, Tom,.....can't you be Pres,....just for a coupla' years ?

Can only wish, and hope,.....

This rivals,....NAY,...surpasses that letter he sent to the N.Y. "Gov. Type" that's in all the trouble for the fiscal shennanigans.

Link: http://tancredo.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1387

Press Releases :: September 23, 2008

T.Q. Houlton 202-225-7882


Tancredo Tells United Nations to Get Out
Legislation will seize U.N. property amid continual anti-American, anti-Jewish sentiment


( WASHINGTON, DC ) � U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly.



�The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators � while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,� Tancredo said. �The U.N.�s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for this ineffective organization to pack its bags and hit the road.�



The United Nations is hosting dictators from around the world this week, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran�s brutal dictator. His speech has drawn thousands of protestors in New York City.



Tancredo�s bill, dubbed the U.N. Eviction Act, would direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to initiate condemnation proceedings against all United Nations properties within the United States, and sell the property to the highest bidder on the open market. The proceeds will be given to the Treasury Department to pay down the national debt. The bill would also bar the future purchase of property in the United States or U.S. territories by the U.N. or any of its agencies, and revokes the diplomatic privileges and immunities that U.N. officials and representatives currently enjoy.



�I refuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to host Islamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so they can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks from Ground Zero,� Tancredo continued.



The United Nations, an organization known for its bureaucracy and conciliatory actions, has become a showcase for anti-American dictators like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and, of course, Ahmadinejad. The organization has also become little more than a rubber stamp for Chinese and Russian foreign policy initiatives � blocking membership by the democratic nation of Taiwan in the world body, and failing to take any meaningful steps to halt the ongoing genocide in Sudan or the illicit nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.



�If the U.N. is so keen to accommodate the foreign policy demands of rogue nations and dictatorships, perhaps the world body might be more comfortable relocating to one,� concluded Tancredo. �I�m sure Ban Ki-Moon will have no trouble securing a new location in downtown Pyongyang or Tehran.�

This does not look real good,.....

Kyl, and Napolitano are both on track,.....

......a better place for "Bailout $$$$$$" methinks


Link: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/126412

September 22, 2008 - 6:39PM
Napolitano wants Medicare funds reauthorized
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Mary K. Reinhart, Tribune
Arizona stands to lose $32 million next year in federal funds used to compensate local hospitals, ambulance companies and emergency room physicians for care provided to illegal immigrants.

In a recent letter to congressional leaders, Gov. Janet Napolitano urged reauthorization of Medicare funding, due to expire when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

"Failure to offset these costs will result in additional tension in our health care safety net through overburdened emergency departments and additional costs passed on through the health care system," Napolitano wrote.

The money comes through the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which provided $1 billion over four years. One-third of that is divided among the six border states. Arizona hospitals and health care providers got about $45 million this year - second only to California.

Congress isn't likely to take action anytime soon, given the recent economic meltdown and the election just six weeks away. But the state has a $77 million unspent balance that can be tapped in the meantime.

"Anything having to do with immigration is viewed as a hot potato," said John Rivers, CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Health Care Association. "So there hasn't been a great amount of political will to get this thing done."

Federal law requires emergency treatment for anyone who needs it. Uninsured and undocumented patients last year cost Arizona hospitals $317 million in uncompensated care.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., helped push the funding through Congress, but hospitals were initially slow to apply for the money, which covers emergency services and a "stabilization period" of two days.

Banner Health hospitals in Arizona incurred nearly $100 million in uncompensated care during 2006-07, and got roughly $6 million that same year to help cover care of illegal immigrants.

If the funding isn't reauthorized, Banner spokesman Bill Byron said the care won't change.

"We're still going to treat patients, but we'll have to absorb the costs," Byron said.

What does the US Rep. Tancredo story about the UN, have to do with the border??

Farts,...in a baggy,

or ....?

GTC

You are quite frankly,...just too stupid to ignore.

It must be the mischievious little boy, in this aging MAN,...that can't resist tormenting you,....like a wounded snake.



Whoooo,...Ho

I better go look at a map,.....

I'll get back to you pronto,...

Einstein

GTC

If one wereto factor in the Berjillion dollar figures being tossed around,.....( Trillons ?)

....The 4 Million discussed here doesn't seem to be that hard to swallow.

OVERSIGHT,...in your districts,.....find those "Missing Miles" often enough,....they'l quit misplacing 'em.

Link: http://www.themonitor.com/articles/funding_17622___article.html/additional_approves.html

Congress approves additional border fence funding
Comments 4 | Recommend 1
September 22, 2008 - 7:34PM
By Kevin Sieff
Members of Congress will not stand in the way of the border fence's construction, despite the project's rising costs.

The Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee approved a reprogramming request worth nearly $400 million, allowing construction of the barrier to continue in South Texas. Rising costs of raw materials exhausted funding allocated for the project.

"This committee will not stand in the way of (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's) efforts to construct fencing by the end of the year solely because of funding shortfalls, even though I have serious doubt about its ability to accomplish its stated goals," wrote Subcommittee Chairman David Price, D-NC, in a letter to DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Price, who voted against the border fence in 2006, expressed his concern about the barrier's construction, urging DHS to "walk the line" in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, and to limit the duration of contracts to February 2009. But the appropriations request was approved with few concrete stipulations.

The money will be redirected from a number of DHS accounts, including $214 million from planned technology investments and $35 million from U.S. Border Patrol. Technology improvements on the border will now be shifted into 2009 or 2010, Price said.

Congress' decision was greeted with derision from the barrier's opponents.

"The Texas Border Coalition (TBC) is disappointed that Congress has approved the reprogramming of $400 million in fiscal 2008 funding to cover the cost overruns for the border wall," said TBC Chairman Chad Foster. "TBC is convinced that the border wall is a waste of taxpayer funds - it won't work, it is lethal to people and wildlife and eventually will be torn down."

With its funding problems resolved, the federal government must now settle more than 200 pending lawsuits before the fence can be constructed in parts of South Texas, including Cameron County. Only 341 miles of the proposed 670 miles of new fencing have been constructed to date.

In response to recent legal and financial holdups, DHS now states that the barrier will be under contract, rather than completed, by the end of 2008.

Arrested a DOZEN,,,,,,12 times,....prior to making his kills.

"Due Process" at it's lamest.

Link: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10538808



Lawmakers consider immigration enforcement audit
By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 09/23/2008 03:55:11 PM MDT


Francis Hernandez, 23, appeared in court to hear charges against him. More charges may be coming. (George Kochaniec Jr., pool photo )Related
Sep 24:
Probe to track handling of immigrantSep 16:
More charges filed in triple fatality at ice-cream shopSep 12:
Goodbye to much-loved womanSuspect in triple-fatal faces up to 80 yearsSep 11:
Service held for 3rd victim of fatal crashCharges filed against driver after triple fatalDeath of "little guy" hits hardVictim remembered for her warmth and loveSuspect always had carA poem for a friend, Marten KudlisSep 10:
Tot's funeral 'a parent's worst nightmare'Playing the car-crash blame gameSep 9:
Aurora, ICE at odds on suspect-status inquiryA legislative panel took the first steps today toward launching a probe into how an illegal immigrant accused of causing a traffic accident that killed three people was allowed to remain in the country despite his criminal record.

The Legislative Audit Committee voted to authorize State Auditor Sally Symanski to do preliminary research on conducting such an audit. Symanski expected that the inquiry would look at how state and local law-enforcement agencies and the judicial system interacted in the case of Francis Hernandez, 23, an illegal immigrant who had been arrested more than a dozen times in the previous five years and served jail time but was never deported.

Hernandez is accused of driving a vehicle that earlier this month in Aurora struck a pickup, killing two women as well as a 3-year-old boy who was in a nearby ice-cream shop.

"This is a topic that involves every level of government," Symanski said during the audit committee's meeting today.

She noted that her office has no authority to audit federal agencies and only limited authority to audit local governments.

State Reps. Morgan Carroll and Karen Middleton and state Sen. Suzanne Williams, all Aurora Democrats, requested the audit.

State law requires police to tell federal authorities when they have detained a suspect believed to be an illegal immigrant.

While Aurora police reported Hernandez to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in April, ICE never came to pick him up, and he was released from jail.

But committee member Sen. David Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, said the state has a role to play in restricting illegal immigration too.

"We don't have to just say the federal government is the sole problem," Schultheis said. "There's a lot we can do."

Symanski will report back to the committee at its November meeting, where members will decide whether to proceed with the audit.

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We should confine our activities to Fishing, Hunting, Wrangling,...and such,

let smart ladies do thinkin',...I sure like this one.

another long read,......suck it up /it's worth the time

Link: http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter126.htm

THE CONTINUING SAGA OF THE "POOR" ILLEGAL ALIEN



By Lynn Stuter

September 24, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

Earlier this spring I wrote a series of articles � "Seattle Times Soft on illegal alien criminals," Part 1 and Part 2; and "The cost of illegal immigration" � with the spotlight shown on Ana Reyes, the Mexican illegal alien who was picked up in 2007 in Burien, Washington, outside Seattle, and deported back to Mexico along with her illegal alien sons Christopher and Carlos Quiroz, and her live-in lover Arturo Hernandez, and his brother Luis Hernandez. In the 17 years Ana Reyes resided illegally in the United States, primarily in Washington State, she bore two daughters, one by her husband, one by her live-in lover. Because these children were born on American soil, they are considered Americans even though their parents are illegal aliens.

After Ana Reyes� deportation, her story was picked up by the Seattle Times. Lornet Turnbull wrote extensively about poor, poor, poor Ana Reyes and all she was going through. Of course, the fact that Ana Reyes chose to enter the United States in violation of existing law; the fact that Ana Reyes had registered to vote in the State of Washington, a federal felony; the fact that Ana Reyes, her sons, her lover and his brother all had alleged extensive criminal records somehow escaped the write-ups Turnbull did on Reyes� behalf.

An Edmonds, Washington, real estate investor named Joe Kennard took up the cause of Ana Reyes earlier this year. While he claimed this to be his Christian duty, Kennard�s taking up of the illegal alien cause probably has more to do with his mother having been a Mexican national. Kennard moved Ana Reyes, her two illegal alien sons, and her lover to a rented house about 10 minutes from the US/Mexican border in Juarez, Mexico. Her two American children would live with a minister and his wife in El Paso, Texas just across the border from Juarez, Mexico. There they would be home schooled to bring them up to grade level.

It wasn�t long, however, before that arrangement fell apart and Ana Reyes ended up back in Mexico City and her daughters were no longer living with the El Paso minister and his family. Her older son was picked up a month or so later in Benton County, Washington, held on an outstanding drug paraphernalia charge, and deported again. Her younger son, Carlos, was subsequently caught at the border trying to use Christopher Quiroz�s Washington Driver License to re-enter the U.S. illegally.

8 USC, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, makes it a federal felony to hire, transport, house, or assist an illegal alien. Mr Kennard, in moving the Quiroz brothers to Juarez, Mexico, within 10 minutes of the border, when they had made it very clear they would attempt re-entry if the opportunity arose, aided and abetted their conduct. What has been done to Mr Kennard? Nothing. Not one thing. Why? Because he has money? Quite likely. If that were you or I, we would be in the pokey right next to the illegal aliens we aided and abetted. Equal justice as required by the Bill of Rights? Hardly. This is more of the discriminate enforcement of the law we see more and more of as America is transformed from a constitutional republic (rule of law) to a democracy (rule by man according to his passions, opinions and prejudices). And, of course, nothing was done to the hotel owner who employed Ana Reyes in western Washington. The hotel owner joins a laundry list of employers who have employed illegal aliens, paying them �off the books� at a lower wage than would be paid to an American. When caught, the government deports the illegal aliens but does nothing to those who employ them. Again, discriminate enforcement of the law.

Kennard has started a group called Organization to Help Citizen Children. The home page of this website states, as its purpose: �The Organization to Help Citizen Children seeks to protect children born in the United States from the trauma of being banished because of the immigration infractions of their parents.� Really? Then why is the largest section of this website titled �Immigration Myths�? What has that got to do with the plight of American children born of illegal aliens? Quite obviously, this group isn�t really about the plight of American children born to illegal aliens; it�s about supporting the illegal alien cause for all Kennard�s claims to the contrary. And in going through the supposed �myths�, it becomes obvious that the real issues concerning the illegal alien population are not addressed; that these supposed myths are nothing more than an attempt to reframe the debate.

In all reality, what kind of parent bears a child knowing that they, the parent, could be deported? A very irresponsible, uncaring parent, that�s who; a parent who had a child for the express purpose of using that child to try and stay in the United States after entering the United States illegally. The term �anchor baby� came about because of that practice.


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Ana Reyes has been held up as the epitome of the illegal alien. That being the case, it behooves us to look at what that means.

1 - Ana Reyes crossed from Mexico into the United States in violation of United States law 17 years ago. In doing so, she became a criminal the moment she set foot on American soil.
2 - Ana Reyes never made any effort to become a United States citizen in the 17 years she was here illegally. It is obvious she never intended to become a contributing citizen; that she had no problem with filching off Americans.
3 - Ana Reyes bore two children while on United States soil; undoubtedly at American taxpayer expense.
4 - Ana Reyes bore one child out of wedlock and while committing adultery.
5 - Ana Reyes had an extensive criminal record.
6 - Ana Reyes committed a federal felony by registering to vote in the State of Washington.
7 - Both Ana Reyes� illegal alien sons had extensive criminal records.
8 - Ana Reyes� live-in lover had a criminal record.
9 - Ana Reyes� live-in lover�s brother had a criminal record.

Yes, she truly is the epitome of the illegal alien that Joe Kennard, Lornet Turnbull and the advocates of the invasion of America hold up as a shining example.

Taking up the cause of the approximate 38,000,000 illegal aliens residing in the United States is the Southern Poverty Law Center located in Alabama. The SPLC has a long and nefarious history of hate-mongering, race-baiting and name-calling in pursuit of filling its coffers. The notion that the Southern Poverty Law Center is there to help the poor in need of assistance to attain equal rights and equal justice is a misnomer. While Morris Dees was raised in poverty, he has long since forgotten that �poor with integrity� is far better than �rich with privilege.� When Morris Dees filed suit against Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, it was hard to discern who was worse, Dees who left no opportunity vacant to get his face on television or Butler who liked nothing better than to see his face on television. As disgusting as Richard Butler was, at least he made no bones about what he was; Dees, on the other hand, is a charlatan of the first order, claiming to be what he is not. A man who makes no bones about what he is certainly has more integrity than a man whose modus operandi is deception.

In pursuit of their deceptive agenda, the SPLC calls Americans opposed to the invasion of their country by criminal illegal aliens �nativists.� That alone should clue Americans to the real agenda of the SPLC; that the SPLC seeks to destroy the �nation-state� of America, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, in pursuit of global government.

In the recent past, the SPLC has targeted Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, a group assisting the U.S. Border Patrol in thwarting the illegal alien invasion of our country. In August, Sonia Scherr of the SPLC published an invective hate piece, speciously called an �intelligence report,� aimed at the Grassroots Granny, known to freedom-loving Americans as Jackie Juntti of the Washington Grassroots Electronic Network (WGEN). In that invective, Scherr not only slandered Jackie Juntti but Scherr impeached any credibility she might have ever had by making claims that were outright lies as well as applying what appears to be her journalistic trademark: twisting the truth to fulfill the hate-mongering and race-baiting agenda of the SPLC.

In preparation for writing this article, the following e-mail was sent to Scherr:

Dear Ms Scherr,

I am currently doing research on an article concerning the Southern Poverty Law Center. I would like your comment on the following:

1 - the SPLC is a communist front organization that uses race baiting to fund its activities;
2 - the SPLC hires people who will be witting dupes in its goal of taking away the rights of the American people;
3 - the head of the SPLC is a man who committed adultery on his wife; tried to molest his step-daughter; and has had same-sex relations.

Interestingly, while Ms Scherr obviously contacted Jackie Juntti hoping that Ms Juntti would give her something she could twist to her purposes, Ms Scherr did not respond to either this e-mail or a second request for her comment. It seems that when the shoe is on the other foot and it is the deceptive agenda of the SPLC that is being exposed, Ms Scherr has nothing to say.

To get around the rule of law, groups like the SPLC claim anyone who opposes the illegal and criminal invasion of the United States by aliens to �hate� or be part of a �hate group.� The tactic is intended to move the debate from the cognitive domain (fact, rule of law) to the affective domain (emotion, how one feels). As anyone who has tried to reason with an emotionally charged person knows, logic and the ability to think are clearly on vacation. This is why the SPLC and like groups never deal with fact, reality, the cognitive domain; they appeal strictly to the affective domain to invoke fear, hate and enmity.

In the same vein, propagandists are very aware that if one wants to incite people, one must appeal to the emotions. And propaganda to achieve their agenda is what the SPLC and like groups are all about.

And in all the hate-filled psycho-babble spewing forth from groups like the SPLC, the one aspect of the illegal alien crisis they carefully avoid is the fact that existing United States law requires that illegal aliens be returned to their country of origin. That an estimated 38,000,000 illegal aliens now reside in the United States makes it very evident that the United States government, charged with the task of removing illegal aliens from this country, has failed to do its job. That failure has cost the lives of countless Americans, damaged and destroyed the lives of Americans victimized by illegal alien criminal activity, taken jobs from Americans, brought diseases into America eradicated in America long ago, caused American health care facilities to close, and cost the American taxpayers billions. Who has benefited are those who hire illegal aliens, pay them under the table, and line the pockets of politicians to do nothing about the illegal alien invasion of this country.



If the SPLC and like groups don�t like the United States, they most certainly can leave. No one who loves this country, our Constitution and Bill of Rights will be sorry to see them go. Any country they go to, however, will not be nearly so tolerant of their hate-spewing invectives which are protected in the United States by the First Amendment to the very Constitution they are working diligently to destroy. Were it that these people alone would reap what they sow, such would be their right and their just due. But the course they are pursuing is intended to destroy the rights of every American which means they don�t have that right.



The SPLC and Sonia Scherr have been called upon to remove the inaccurate, deceptive, hate-filled invective aimed at Jackie Juntti from their website, and to apologize. While the First Amendment guarantees free speech; that guarantee does not include the right to slander.

And while groups like the SPLC fight to keep illegal aliens in this country, the pitched battle described in this Arizona Daily Star article could be coming to your neighborhood very soon.

� 2008 Lynn M. Stuter -

" Doing jobs that Americans won't do "

I guess,.....we're not inclined to treat dumb animals like that,.....

Link: http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_10548718

Calif. beef plant worker sentenced in abuse case
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 09/24/2008 04:16:02 PM MDT


CHINO, Calif.�A former slaughterhouse worker was sentenced Wednesday to jail and probation after being seen abusing sick and injured cattle in a secretly taped video that prompted the largest beef recall in U.S. history.
Daniel Ugarte Navarro pleaded no contest in June to two felony counts of animal cruelty and two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to downed animals.

The Humane Society of the United States shot the video at Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. in Chino, leading to a federal investigation and the recall of 143 million pounds of beef in February.

The video shows the workers dragging sick cows with metal chains and forklifts, shocking them with electric prods and shooting streams of water in their noses and faces.

Navarro's attorney, Ruben Salazar, has said that his client was following orders and that prosecutors overcharged Navarro to appease an angry public and animal rights activists.

Navarro, 49, can serve his nine months of jail time on weekends and must undergo counseling, the San Bernardino County district attorney's office said. The jail has discretion to use electronic monitoring, spokeswoman Susan Mickey said.

County Judge Gerard Brown also placed Navarro on three years of felony probation.

Another worker, Rafael Sanchez Herrera, pleaded guilty in March to three misdemeanor counts of illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal and was sentenced to six months in jail.