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Gunbattles paralyze Mexican city across from Texas - Yahoo! News

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets paralyzed a border city, sound of gunfire alarmed Texans on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

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Immigration is Abandoned, Not Broken | NewsReal Blog

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Michelle Malkin

Club Fed for illegal aliens by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2010

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"Ensuring humane treatment of detainees is one thing. This, on the other hand, is beyond ridiculous. Detention centers should be clean, safe and temporary way stations for illegal immigrants on their way out the door. These proposals turn the immigration detention centers into permanent Dave & Buster’s-style comfort zones for illegal aliens biding their time until the next amnesty. Dancing lessons? Game halls? This is an invitation for abuse — and a recipe for exploitation by smugglers and drug cartels. Open-borders and civil liberties activists will end up endangering DHS/ICE workers — and the rest of us — under the guise of “immigrant human rights."

Cleaning Up

Latest Farmers Branch Rental Ordinance Struck Down | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

A common sense approach--someone has to do the job the feds are shirking. Too logical for the liberal judge.

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Good. But, hey! You're missing something!

Let's send Mexico's citizens back home, too.

God Bless 'em...Build the friggin' fence!

 In 2008, the U.S. Border Patrol caught about 705,000 illegals trying to cross the border, and California alone spent $14 billion in social services for illegal immigrants. But with the current drug war raging in Mexico, the Border Patrol is finding more than just men, women and children trying to cross into the United States — in particular, criminals.

   Six U.S. Border Patrol Agents have lost their lives due to conflicts, and thousands have been injured since 2000. Night poses the greatest risk for agents because of a higher rate of violence after dark, when a majority of the ranch burglaries, assaults, and murders take place along the border.

   MS-13, a gang from El Salvador, is considered the most dangerous violent gang in the U.S. It has been known to smuggle drugs and guns across the border, but more recently they are being linked with drug cartel leaders. Some say they’ve been working with Hamas and Al Qaeda.

   Reportedly, prayer rugs, the Koran, and terrorist-linked documents have been left behind on land south of the American border. The Department of Homeland Security is briefing Border Patrol agents on anti-terrorism tactics, and the private Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and Border Patrol Auxiliary have brought in a terrorist expert to lecture members on how to identify a possible terrorist threat.

  “We do what our government won’t. We believe in our country and the United States Constitution,” said Minuteman Kate Hilton.

  

 

 

WAAAH!

Just be grateful you're here and give what you can. A lot of native-born Americans feel the same way about many situations dealing with minorities ruling the majority. When a nonhispanic American dares to say so, it only makes the press in the context of painting the speaker as hateful.

Finally...

Some good sense in the matter.

Still think the May Day rally is not about illegal immigration? From CAUSA's own website:

May Day 2009

"May 1st Unity March & Rally in Salem 

"In commemoration of International Workers' Day, on Friday May 1st, Immigrant and Labor Rights advocates will march and rally at the Oregon State Capitol to call on elected leaders to:

Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform NOW

Stop ICE raids and End the Detentions

Restore Drivers' License access to All Oregon Residents

Protect and Support Workers' Rights & Just Wages

"Watch CAUSA's latest PSA for the May Day Unity March and Rally.

"Signs are on the horizon that millions of undocumented immigrants will finally have a path to legal status and citizenship."

Interesting that the downtown roads are closed for illegal immigration rally parking--how many were closed for tea party rally parking? Answer: zero. CE

This has been on my mind, too--when bad stuff comes into the US, we should stop allowing it. Like, yesterday.

"I’ve blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the U.S. as a result of uncontrolled immigration. We’ve heard for years from reckless open-borders ideologues who continue to insist there’s nothing to worry about. And we’ve heard for years that calling any attention to the dangers of allowing untold numbers of people to pass across our borders and through our other ports of entry without proper medical screening — as required of every legal visitor/immigrant to this country — is RAAAACIST.

9/11 didn’t convince the open-borders zealots to put down their race cards and confront reality.

Maybe the threat of their sons or daughters contracting a deadly virus spread from south of the border to their Manhattan prep schools will."

Michelle Malkin

Some of these things are not like the other...it will be too late to reverse the damage when the majority of B.Hussein's followers finally wake up

Michelle Malkin:

" We have lost our war footing. Welcome back to the Sesame Street school of national security. Feel safer? Me neither."

$600 a MONTH for food and it will INCREASE to nearly $700??

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 signed by President Obama will award $47.4 million in food stamps in Oregon to increase the benefits families are receiving, said Lauri Stewart, a spokeswoman for Oregon Department of Human Services. Federal allocations for other benefit programs such as cash-assistance grants or food assistance for women, infants and children still are being calculated.

Families could begin seeing an increase in their monthly food stamp allotment by April 1 lasting through Sept. 30, Stewart said.

A family of four could see an increase of $80; a monthly food stamp allowance would increase from $588 to $668.

$700?? My family of 3 (two growing teens) eats for a month on about $300, accounting for groceries only--we won't count the fast food frantics on busy nights. What the heck are they buying--salmon and fillet mignon? Walmart, Target, and Winco are great for saving money, and I buy almost all our lunch snacks at Big Lots--I just bought 2 month's worth for $20 at their big sale last Saturday.

I was on food stamps and government housing while a full-time student a few years ago. At the time I got $300 a month and was hard-pressed to spend it all--even got letters saying if I didn't, they'd reduce benefits. Admittedly, it's a lot easier to buy salmon, fillet mignon and big brand stuff when the money is "free." It also would have been easier and a lot less expensive if I'd quit school and stayed in our government housing, eating off the backs of taxpayers. I'm debt up to my eyeballs in student loans, trying to get debt free and struggling. Why bother? Why not just sit back and let the guv take care of me? $700 a month??

I guarantee a majority of food stamps are going to illegal aliens--every time I went in to recertify, I was the only native English-speaker in the room. I guarantee most are buying food for others, a clear violation of the "rules." Yes, I bought the food when we had a family gathering or holiday and needed crudite. Why not? It's FREE!

When will it stop? When do we put down our feet and end this collectivist state? We talk about raising the bar for students, raising expectations, and whine that our kids are dumb. Is it any wonder? We hold hands and baby anyone who is diverse just for the sake of diversity, give handouts to the mostly lazy (I'm willing to bet everyone else living in my government housing 5 years ago is still living in government housing--why get out? It's FREE!).

This ridimulous money is merely going to keep recipients on the dole. Very few are getting off government aide even when they have jobs available. It is NOT going to create any new workers.

Tuesday morning rant, disgusted, unedited...I have to go to WORK.

Alert! B. Hussein announces amnesty!

President Obama has reiterated his support for an amnesty for illegal aliens. His White House website announces his intention to "bring people out of the shadows" and "support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the  opportunity to become citizens." Of course, we know that granting this amnesty means that those who have broken our laws will move to the front of the line, bypassing those who did not cheat.

CLICK HERE to tell President Obama you are opposed to amnesty!

Robert Reich: repetitive, racist regurgitation.

"...the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most — women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed — will be shut out."

[Hmmm...I wonder why "white males dominate construction trades." Could it be that they have worked hard to rise to the top of the trade industry? Could it be they are legal US citizens, show up every day, work hard, and do their best to provide for their families without government handouts?]

AND

"...I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers…I have nothing against white male construction workers, I’m just saying there are other people who have needs as well.”

[Umm...so? If the highly skilled professionals are...well...highly skilled and professional...and if the white male construction workers happen to be there to...umm...work...then what, Mr. Reich? We push them aside in favor of skill-less "colored" folk? Illegal immigrants who have no licenses, training, or education? This is the era of CHANGE??]

As Michelle Malkin says, "So much for 'post-racialism.' So much for 'setting aside childish things.'"

Thank God for common sense!

Compean and Ramos' ridiculous sentences commuted!

Buy a house, win US citizenship!

The purchase of a piece of property in America, a single-family house, a PUD (planned unit development) or a condo (flat within a condominium) will guarantee you and your family a green card. This is one of the extreme measures implemented to help stall the meteoric fall of the United States economy in light of the economic crisis, Bulgarian weekly Stroitelstvo Gradut reported on January 15.

Thirty-five accredited investors will have the opportunity to acquire real estate in the south-eastern state of Florida – by purchasing a house – they will be granted a green card for permanent residence and right of employment for the buyer himself and his/her entire family.

Naturalization Ceremonies imbibed with judges' indoctrination

In one district with a large Spanish-speaking population, the judge administered the oath ceremony (introductions, directions, speech, artistic presentations, etc.) entirely in Spanish, with the exception of administering the oath itself in English and Spanish. A USCIS official polled the audience, by show of hands, to determine if every applicant present understood Spanish; despite the fact that several persons raised their hands indicating they did not speak Spanish, the presiding judge proceeded in Spanish.

Ecological Footprint Television Ad Campaign

The TV spots point out that when immigrants settle in the U.S., their energy use quickly becomes Americanized. As a result their carbon emissions skyrocket.  The result is a quadrupling of immigrants’ carbon footprints compared to the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home countries.

The TV spot is based on a Center for Immigrations Studies (CIS) report about U.S. immigration and carbon emissions.  While the CAPS TV spot is focused more on future carbon emissions, the CIS study looks at current carbon emissions.  Currently, US immigrants produce an estimated 637 million metric tons of CO2 annually or the same amount of carbon emissions currently produced by Great Britain and Sweden, combined. CAPS' TV campaign is running as America faces the largest population increase in its history. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau projections, U.S. population will jump from 305 million today to more than 400 million by 2040. That's a 33 percent increase yielding an additional 100 million more people in just the next thirty years. It’s an increase equivalent to adding another entire Western half of the country. According to Pew Research, 82 percent of that growth will be a result of immigration and births to immigrants.

Bailout Bills, Illegal Aliens, and Weird Lending Practices

From openmarket.org:

Posted by Hans Bader

The proposed $700 billion bailout is “dangerous, inflationary, unnecessary, and unconstitutional,” funds left-wing special-interest groups, ignores less costly ways of propping up financial markets, and fails to consider regulatory reforms that might reduce the need for a bailout.  It’s not clear why we should trust federal officials with $700 billion to buy up bad loans, without any clear standards or judicial oversight, given that governmental incompetence and government regulations (such as affordable housing mandates) helped spawn the mortgage crisis.  Many economists oppose the proposed bailout.

But some lending practices are hard to explain.  Why did so many lenders make loans to illegal aliens without steady jobs, who are now defaulting by the thousands, as Michelle Malkin notes?  Is it because of the societal (and governmental) obsession with diversity?

When I and my wife, a legal alien, bought our house, the mortgage company told me that if my wife were an illegal alien, rather than legal, we would have qualified for certain loan programs with big banks.  But because she was a legal alien waiting for her green-card (which she had recently applied for), we didn’t qualify.

November vote for English only education

In November, voters in the state will be asked to decide on an initiative that would limit the amount of time English-language learners can be taught in their native tongue.

The initiative has attracted people from both sides of the bilingual education aisle and has even divided the Hispanic community.

"This is not against Hispanics," Bill Sizemore, who crafted the initiative, said about the petition. "It's not anti-immigrant in any way, in fact, it's the opposite."

He said the initiative was needed to help stop school districts from sidelining immigrant students in six-year bilingual courses, rather than teaching the students English so they can succeed in this country.

Such warehousing of students prevents them from learning English and from getting well-paying jobs, which forces them into lower-paying jobs such as entry-level fast-food positions because they can't speak English, Sizemore said.

"It's an insult to Hispanic people," he said.

"My Immigrant [Body Part] is Angry!"

Yeah, well, my legal [body Part] is angry that you think you're owed any sPecial treatment or Privileges--either because you're ILLEGALLY living here and benefiting from my tax dollars or just because you're FEMALE. Disgusto.

PRICELESS! ARIZONA KICKS 'EM OUT, SONORA IN SHOCK

SEE-DUBYA GUEST POST ON MICHELLE MALKIN.COM:

L.A. Times explains how well illegal immigration enforcement worked in Arizona, and how awful that is for America

FAIR: Having Lost the Debate, Amnesty Advocates Are Attempting to Stop the Debate

The American public spoke loudly and clearly in 2007 when they overwhelmingly rejected the idea of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and opening the floodgates to millions more foreign workers. Despite the best efforts of the Bush White House and the Senate leadership to avoid one, we had a debate about what needs to be done to regain control of our immigration policies. After hearing all sides, the American people said no to amnesty and no to more guest workers.

The American public said yes to the policy proposals offered by FAIR and others advocating sensible immigration reform driven by the needs and concerns of the American people. They said yes to border enforcement, worksite enforcement, local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and an end to family chain migration, but unfortunately the Bush Administration and the Senate leadership insisted that those policies be held hostage to the demands of illegal aliens and cheap labor employers.

Having failed to convince the American people of the wisdom or fairness of granting amnesty to millions of people who broke our laws, the illegal alien advocacy network has now launched a vitriolic campaign to try to discredit everyone and anyone who stands in their way. Immediately following the defeat of the Bush-Kennedy bill last summer, the coalition of groups promoting amnesty for illegal aliens began ascribing their loss to a “wave of hate.” For example, one of the principle web sites attempting to quash free speech about immigration wildly charges that 40 million Americans are members of groups that promote “hate” against immigrants merely by advocating that laws against illegal immigration be enforced.

Labeling just about every argument in favor of enforcing U.S. immigration laws as “hate speech,” this coalition has been waging a relentless campaign to curtail free speech. Along with talk radio — which played a prominent role in informing the American public about what was being proposed in Washington — and high profile TV news personalities like CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck, FAIR has found itself squarely in the crosshairs of this very nasty campaign.

Led by the National Council of La Raza, a corporate-funded ethnic interest advocacy group, a coalition of self-described civil rights organizations have launched web sites and met with media executives in an effort to get them to keep FAIR from appearing on news programs. They are also urging the networks to muzzle some of their own most outspoken critics of current immigration policies and efforts to institute amnesty, such as Dobbs and Beck.

As Americans who believe that sound immigration policies are critical to our nation’s future success, and who have chosen to work with FAIR to help bring about sensible immigration reform, you deserve to know that FAIR is responding vigorously to the baseless charges that are being leveled against our organization and millions of concerned citizens. FAIR has prepared a comprehensive response to these attacks against our organization which can be found on our web site, www.fairus.org.

What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America ?

This is an email I received--usually I won't forward such things, but this one makes a lot of sense and seems legit.

 
Tina Griego, journalist for the   Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament" --10/25/07

She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy   groceries, buy clothes...What happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?"

That's a good question - it deserves an answer.

Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal   migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America ?

The answers may surprise you!
 
In California , if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico ,
it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school   systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.

In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grandkids would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.

 
Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.

Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado .
 
Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
 
In Florida,1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English.
 
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more  crime-free experience.

If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home', the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.
         

No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. 

 

Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.

We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.

In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the ' 18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft   from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
 

Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded
highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving   American deaths by illegal aliens!
 
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home
countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America 's economy, which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
 
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California , Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.
 
Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country--brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
 
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma--illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.
 
Over one million of Mexico 's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, "colonias" or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation.

  The New York Times reported them to be America 's new "Third World" inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona;  it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico .
We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.
 
Interesting Statistics.  Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
 
          1. $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens.  http://tinyurl.com/zob77
 
          2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance
programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal   aliens.  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
 
          3. $2.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
 
          4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html    
 
          5. $17 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the
  American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
 
          6. $3 Million Dollars PER DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html  
 
          7. 30% percent of all federal  prison inmates are illegal aliens.
  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
 
          8. $90 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for
  welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html  
 
          9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are
  caused by the illegal aliens.
  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html  
 
          10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .
  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html  
 
          11. During the year 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.
  http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
 
          12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of
  mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation
 
          13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.  http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
 
          14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!"
  http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
 
The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   


  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mickey Kaus: The Katrina of All Fences

Today we learn, from WaPo, that the "virtual" fence "did not work as planned" and has been delayed for three years by Chertoff's department.

The border fence saga can be confusing, filled with subtle twists, turns, and feints.** But here is my brief potted history. Please explain where I've got it wrong:

1) Border control advocates want an actual physical fence.

2) Respectable Bush comprehensivist types like Chertoff want to substitute a sophisticated hi-tech "virtual fence" for the crude actual physical fence.

3) Border control types say the "virtual fence" won't work.

4) Respectable Bush comprehensivists like Chertoff in fact cut back on actual fencing, choosing the "virtual fence."

5) Where it's installed, the actual fence works.

6) Where it's installed, the "virtual fence" doesn't work .

7) Chertoff feels sorry for himself ("I thought I heard myself getting roundly criticized ... as squishy and soft").

Then you can explain to me why Chertoff still has his job.

Student wins battle over free speech--even in public school--even for a politically incorrect opinion!

Inside the First Amendment   BY GENE POLICINSKI GANNETT NEWS SERVICE   February 26, 2008 News happens, on occasion, even when something doesn’t happen — as in a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to consider an appeal involving a California high school student’s editorial writings on immigration. The decision not to decide leaves intact a California court holding on basic principles about free speech, and particularly speech that some, many or even most of us would prefer not to hear. Andrew Smith was a senior at Novato High School, in Northern California, when he wrote a newspaper editorial published in 2001 that, in part, said immigrants who could not work legally might earn money through “drug dealing, robbery or even welfare. Others prefer to work with manual labor while being paid under the table tax free.” Smith also wrote that it “seems to me that the only reason why they can’t speak English is because they are illegal.” After the editorial appeared in the school’s newspaper, The Buzz, school administrators at Novato High School and the school district received complaints from some parents, who said they felt insulted and angered. School officials later said in a letter to parents that the editorial should not have been printed because of local policies on maintaining an orderly school environment, and they apologized for the hurt caused by publishing Smith’s views. Smith — via his parents — challenged school officials. He said his free-speech rights were violated because administrators attempted to confiscate any remaining copies of the paper, because they told parents the editorial should not have been published, and because of delays in publishing a later essay. A state court supported school officials, holding that the immigration editorial was not protected by the First Amendment because it ran afoul of school regulations prohibiting material that was insulting, derogatory and disrespectful to an ethnic group and incited violence. But a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal disagreed, saying that Smith’s editorial — albeit, as the court said, written in an “unsophisticated and disrespectful manner” — is speech that is protected by California law, which affords even more protection to student speech than federal law under the First Amendment. The three judges said Smith made no direct threat or attempts to incite violence, and in fact ended his essay with a call for tougher laws regarding immigration. There’s no denying that the editorial angered and hurt some students and parents. Smith himself later said he was injured in a fight with a student as a result of his words. But, as the appeal court noted, the incident also had positive effects. The school system held several meetings with parents and students to hear views on the dispute. The school newspaper published a later edition exploring racism that included both a second essay by Smith and a counter-view from another student. Noting the wide debate over the editorial and school response, the court concluded, “it is likely that, viewed as a whole, the publication of ’Immigration’ resulted in a useful exchange regarding how different persons and communities might view the sensitive topic of illegal immigration.” Conflict is not the only way to discuss controversial issues. But the nation’s founders realized that important issues often involve strong passions — and that speech that challenges majority views frequently will tempt censors, even well-meaning ones. In this instance, we are reminded that one justification for protecting free speech is that by hearing views we don’t like, we may be moved to speak out ourselves as advocates for our views — the kind of “vigorous public debate over issues” that the founders envisioned and democracy requires. Concurring in Whitney v. California (1927), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth.” Brandeis added: “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” From the California appellate court’s opinion: “Even if Smith or the most belligerent protestors learned little from the process, it is likely that the school community gained understanding of the issues. For example, following publication of ’Immigration’ some students formed a group called Todos Unidos (Everyone United), in order ’to help our students understand the meaning of different cultures.”’ That’s free speech and the First Amendment in action — and reaction. Gene Policinski is vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209; firstamendmentcenter.org. Send e-mail to gpolicinski@fac.org.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Just doing the police impersonation work no one else will do

Female Fox 12 anchor tailed by illegal alien impersonating a police officer at 2am uses good common sense and 911 to catch the criminal.

MC-INANE LIES AGAIN ABOUT SHAMNESTY

FROM MICHELLE MALKIN:

McClatchy reporter James Asher has a new piece out detailing how DHS is clearing massive application backlogs by skipping the background checks. Before we get into the meat of that story, let me refresh your memories about a few things.

During the shamnesty debacle, we were told to shut up about our national security concerns because McCain and company were going to guarantee that all illegal alien guest-workers would get thorough background checks. We were told to calm down about the proposal because there was nothing to worry about. But the background check process was a fraud.

MORE HERE

IT WOULD SURE BE A LOT EASIER TO ATTEND POLITICAL EVENTS IF THEY WEREN'T SCHEDULED FOR DAYTIME WORK HOURS. I'M NOT SURE WHETHER I ENVY THOSE WHO CAN ATTEND OR QUESTION THEIR EMPLOYMENT STATUS. IF YOU CAN, SIGN IN AND SHOW SUPPORT!

What: Oregonians for Immigration Reform will collect signatures for proposed Initiative 112, which seeks to prohibit noncitizens from voting and obtaining an Oregon driver's license, and to allow local, county and state law enforcement agencies to report undocumented people to federal authorities.

When: Monday

Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: State Capitol, 900 State St. NE

NEW OREGON LAW REQUIRES PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP--BUT REALLY, WHAT'S THE FUSS ABOUT?

According to the astoundingly astute Statesman-Journal:

The following steps outline the process for obtaining an Oregon driver's license for people ages 16 or older or permit for those age 15. Beginning Feb. 4, the documents required to show proof of identity and date of birth will change slightly.

If you're an Oregon resident getting a permit or first-time driver's license:

1. Bring proof of identity and date of birth:

Before Feb. 4: Two primary documents, such as a U.S., Canadian or U.S. Territorial government-issued birth certificate and a valid U.S. passport, U.S. military documents or immigrant visa issued by the U.S. Department of State; or one primary document such as a U.S. birth certificate, and two secondary documents such as a valid U.S. or foreign passport and a U.S. Department of Homeland Security document.

After Feb. 4: A verifiable Social Security number and at least one other document such as a current driver's license, learner's permit, U.S. passport or birth certificate.

2. Bring proof of an Oregon address:

Acceptable documents include mortgage papers issued in recent year; utility hook-up work order; or credit card bill, which must contain actual statement, not just the envelope.

3. Pass the knowledge and vision tests:

Pay $5 fee for knowledge test for first-time driver's license

Pass knowledge test, based on the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services driving manual

Pass vision screening (no fee required)

4. Pass the driving test:

Must make appointment with DMV by phone.

Pay $9 fee for permit or driver's license driving test.

Pass driving test in passenger vehicle; must have proof of insurance.

5. Pay fees:

Permit/license/renewal fees:

Pay $18 fee for first-time instruction permit application. Permit valid for two years.

Pay $54.50 fee for first-time driver's license. License valid for eight years.

If you're an Oregon resident renewing your Oregon driver's license:

1. Bring license and be prepared to tell them your Social Security number.

2. Pay $34.50 fee for license renewal, which is valid for eight years.

If you're moving to Oregon, with a valid out-of-state driver's license:

1. Bring proof of identity and date of birth using valid out-of-state driver's license.

2. Pay knowledge test fee of $5.

3. Pass the knowledge and vision tests.

4. Pay driver's license fee of $54.50.

NOTE: No driving test needed, must surrender out-of-state driver's license. (If you do not have a valid out-of-state driver's license, you will need to go through the first-time driver's license documentation process above.)

SOURCE: Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division

So truly, why is anyone protesting this? If it was so easy before, it will be easy now. What is so scary about this new system? Frankly, I'd rather see stricter measures, but I'm not even sure what that would be. Social Security cards will be faked, too.ce 

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR ME TO SKIP PAYING TAXES. IT IS ILLEGAL TO STEAL MY NEIGHBOR'S COMPUTER. IT IS ALSO ILLEGAL TO LIVE AND WORK IN THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT PROPER DOCUMENTATION.

Headline in the Statesman-Journal this morning: Do Migrants Help or Hurt? Migrants? Hmm, let's see...migrants have established our country from the outset. Our pasts are all traced to migration of some sort. Reporter Thelma Guerrero-Huston tiptoes around the fact that she really does not mean migrants, she means ILLEGAL ALIENS. By avoiding the "offensive" language, she attempts to create the impression that those of us against a free pass to citizenship and benefits are simply worried about minor "hurt" to our state economy.

Immigration long has been a source of controversy, roiling politics and public policy for years. [Immigration? No, Thelma. Not immigration. ILLEGAL ALIENS.]

With Congress' failure to enact immigration reform last year, states have been left to themselves to consider their own measures, such as cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

[How about: With the Leftist Congress' failure to pass Shamnesty with free passes to tax dollars and citizenship (headed by McCain, by the way), states might have to actually take a ballsy stand and enact their own consequences aimed at those who illegally employ ILLEGAL ALIENS.]

In Oregon, the debate has attached itself to driver's licenses and the necessary documentation needed to get one. Thousands of Latinos and migrant workers -- many of them without documentation to show whether they are here legally -- fear the new rules will prevent them from getting licenses and getting to their jobs in the agriculture, construction and hospitality industries.

[There should not even be a debate here. No citizenship=NO DRIVER'S LICENSE! These people are "without documentation to show whether they are here legally" because, guess why? THEY ARE NOT HERE LEGALLY! That makes them ILLEGAL ALIENS! They SHOULD fear getting licenses and jobs in respectable industries--they're breaking the law of the United States of America!]

During an interim legislative session next month, lawmakers will revisit proposals that call for proof of legal presence to get an Oregon's driver's license or identification card.

Supporters of a crackdown on undocumented [ILLEGAL] immigrants argue that American workers would benefit if illegal immigrants were to leave the state because employers would be forced to raise wages to attract a work force of legal residents.

But critics of that approach say the loss of illegal immigrants would hurt the state's economy, adding that undocumented immigrants do jobs that native-born workers won't do.

[No, they do not. They do jobs that are created by the influx of ILLEGAL ALIENS and they take jobs that our youth no longer have access to. Do you know how few jobs are available for teenagers anymore? I submit it's because of illegal, probably under the table employment of ILLEGAL ALIENS. Not only that, but if we have legal citizens unwilling to work, we need to kick them off the payola trail--no more food stamps, welfare, government housing. Quit giving handouts, and people will work]

...Nationally, nearly 12 million unauthorized  [ILLEGAL] immigrants are estimated to be living in the United States, according to 2005 Census figures.

It's difficult to pinpoint the number of undocumented [ILLEGAL] people in Oregon. Estimates have run from 75,000 to 600,000. It's even harder to determine how many undocumented [ILLEGAL] immigrants are in the work force.

In 2005, the Oregon Employment Department estimated that 70,000 to 88,000 illegal immigrants [aha, you finally got it, Thelma!] were working or looking for work. Of those, the OED estimates that between 63,000 to 83,000 could be employed.

...Oregon's mild climate makes it an ideal place for farmers to grow myriad crops that fill dinner tables and is a big draw for people from south of the border. [English teachers across the country, altogether now: yucko sentence!]

Toiling each year under the Oregon sun [Okay, now this is one I never thought I'd see--Oregon sun...hehehehe], farmworker Jose López, a Mexican immigrant who lives in Independence, says he doesn't think he's taking jobs from U.S. workers.

Okay, here's the thing. Jobs, no jobs, that isn't even the issue. We would find the necessary workers and maybe some companies would take a hit in the pocket book, but who cares? If you deal in evil, you pay in evil. We've been riding on the backs of underpaid, under represented ILLEGAL ALIENS for too long. Similar arguments were made for keeping slavery. Sometimes the right thing to do is painful, but it is the right thing to do.

More importantly, the state and federal resources used by these MILLIONS of ILLEGAL ALIENS far out number any "helpful" benefits they bring. Add together the cost of public education, health care, food stamps, government housing, welfare, student grants and loans (how often are they defaulted?), prison incarceration, the cost of extra police officers, the emotional and physical cost of crimes, etc, etc, and all for people who do not care enough about the United States or themselves to complete the appropriate channel to LEGAL citizenship.

I can't count how often I've heard from high school students that they do not have to stand during the National Anthem because "I'm not an American and I don't care!" In my opinion, such attitudes do not deserve the free education and constitutional rights they despise, yet espouse the minute it suits them.

Migrant issues? No, Thelma, ETHICAL and CRIMINAL issues.

COULTER GIVES US MORE GOOD REASONS TO AVOID JOHN MC-INANE: THERE IS A REASON THE LIBS LIKE HIM!

...McCain angrily denounces the suggestion that his "comprehensive immigration reform" constituted "amnesty"--on the ludicrous grounds that it included a small fine. Even the guy who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy didn't fall for this a few years ago.

...McCain's amnesty bill would have immediately granted millions of newly legalized immigrants Social Security benefits. He even supported allowing work performed as an illegal to count toward Social Security benefits as recently as a vote in 2006 -- now adamantly denied by Mr. Straight Talk.

...McCain keeps boasting that he was "the only one" of the Republican presidential candidates who supported the surge in Iraq.

What is he talking about? All Republicans supported the surge -- including Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. The only ones who didn't support it were McCain pals like Sen. Chuck Hagel. Indeed, the surge is the first part of the war on terrorism that caused McCain to break from Hagel in order to support the president.

...McCain started and fanned the vicious anti-Bush myth that, before the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign made phone calls to voters calling McCain a "liar, cheat and a fraud" and accusing him of having an illegitimate black child.

...Seeking even more favorable press from The New York Times, McCain launched an unprovoked attack against the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, calling them "agents of intolerance."

...To ensure he would get full media coverage for that little gem, McCain alerted the networks in advance that he planned to attack their favorite whipping boys. Newspaper editors across the country stood in awe of McCain's raw bravery. The New York Times praised him in an editorial that said the Republican Party "has for too long been tied to the cramped ideology of the Falwells and the Robertsons."

Though McCain generally votes pro-life -- as his Arizona constituency requires -- he embraces the loony lingo of the pro-abortion set, repeatedly assuring his pals in the media that he opposes the repeal of Roe v. Wade because it would force women to undergo "illegal and dangerous operations...."

No, friends---Mc-inane is not our man.ce

MICHELLE MALKIN DOESN'T BELIEVE MIKE HUCKABEE

He’s an open borders drag queen, and he’s piling on the make-up and jewels again to disguise his pro-illegal immigration record in time for the South Carolina primary. The Washington Times reports that he has signed a NumbersUSA pledge to oppose any new shamnesty measures and reduce illegal immigration through attrition

ARIZONA'S TOUGHER IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE MAKING PEOPLE ANGRY

I SAY IT'S ABOUT TIME!

AND, AS MICHELLE MALKIN SAYS, WHOSE PROBLEM IS IT, ANYWAY?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: NO HARM, NO FOUL? WHAT ABOUT THIS EVIL PIECE OF HUMAN WASTE? MY DAUGHTER IS RIGHT IN HIS FAVORITE AGE RANGE. HE'D NOT HAVE A CHOICE OF WHERE TO LIVE IF HE TOUCHED MY BABY.

 

Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in Phoenix on 25 counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and trespassing in connection with the assaults that began in June 2006, police announced at a news conference. They said the most recent attack linked to the case occurred June 8 on a 14-year-old girl.

Police had been searching for months for a man who raped four girls and attempted to assault two others in the Chandler area.

 

All of the victims have been girls between the ages of 12 and 15, according to authorities.

 

Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said Aceves is an illegal immigrant who was deported twice for drug charges in California in 1999 and 2003.

DEPORTED TWICE FOR DRUGS? HERE HE IS AGAIN, USING OUR RESOURCES, PAID BY OUR EMPLOYERS, (PROBABLY UNDER THE TABLE, AVOIDING TAXES), AND OH, YEAH--RAPING OUR BABIES. ANYONE WANT TO ARGUE FOR ILLEGAL SHAMNESTY NOW???

OH, I KNOW THE ARGUMENT THAT WE HAVE LEGAL RAPISTS, TOO. THAT'S BAD ENOUGH. BUT, IN ESSENCE, WE ARE INVITING CRIMINALS INTO OUR BACKYARDS WHEN WE ALLOW ILLEGALS TO STAY. WHY WOULDN'T THEY COME HERE? WHO WOULD STAY IN MEXICO TO COMMIT CRIMES, WHEN LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER AND VICTIMS ARE SO MUCH MORE AVAILABLE HERE?  WE NEED TO GET A BACKBONE, KICK OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, MAKE THEM FOLLOW OFFICIAL CHANNELS TO GET HERE, BUILD FENCES AND GRAB A HANDFUL OF CHUTZPAH TO KEEP OUT THE REPROBATES. CE