Family Security Matters:
Marine Corporal Brian Mathews was home on a three-day leave for the 2006 Thanksgiving holiday. He had finished an eight-month tour of duty in Iraq and was planning to leave the military in June, 2007. Corporal Mathews, 21 years old, had enlisted in the Marines on his 17th birthday.
Brian’s mom, Trudy, had been [...]
CNS News:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”
“A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status will mandate that illegal immigrants meet a number of requirements—including [...]
The Hill:
The illegal immigration issue is emerging as the biggest threat to passing healthcare reform in the House.
Congressional Hispanics have threatened to vote against the bill because of a last-minute threat from within the Democratic Caucus to bolster the House bill’s immigration restrictions to match those included in the Senate Finance bill.
And they’re also fighting [...]
Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats began readjusting strategies as they sifted through the results of Tuesday’s off-year elections for clues about how to gain ground in next year’s nationwide Congressional campaigns.
In the meantime, the debate in Washington on issues such as health care, climate change and immigration could be affected by the way [...]
CNS News:
The Department of Homeland Security is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens.
Under “revised” 287(g) agreements between the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division and state and local law enforcement agencies, any information about local police efforts to enforce federal immigration law [...]
Un-God-Damned-Fucking-Believable
Free Republic:
SAN FRANCISCO-CA — In 2007, the last reporting period. the California Highway Patrol (CHP) reported 28 pedestrians fatalities, 440 cyclists injured, a total of 52 people killed in traffic accidents in San Francisco.
Now, it’s reported today that the city will no longer enforce the law for first time offenders of driving without a license. [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — The city’s Board of Supervisors gave final approval Tuesday to a measure that would keep law enforcement from turning over minors to immigration authorities unless they have been found guilty of a felony.
The move pits the panel against Mayor Gavin Newsom and law enforcement by reversing his policy of turning over youths [...]
Dallas News:
Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.
Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.
The tentacles of “La Familia” extend coast to coast and deep into America’s heartland, with arrests announced Thursday in 38 [...]
CNS News:
Suprise, Ariz. - An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose sweeps have led to [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS
Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano excluded Arpaio from a joint federal program that gives local law enforcement agencies the power to dragnet for illegals. In other words, only Arpaio is not allowed to arrest illegal
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked Target stores and a costume company to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants.
The costume features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with “illegal alien” written across the front.
Angelica [...]
Fox News:
A firebrand Arizona sheriff known for his hard-line immigration enforcement is vowing to press ahead with an illegal immigrant sweep Friday, defying a revised Department of Homeland Security policy that takes away his federal authority to make such arrests.
“I’m not gonna stop,” Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in an interview with FOXNews.com. [...]
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration.
You’ll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it’s easy to set up, and if you’d rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up [...]
Washington Post:
It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama will probably hurt him among some of his fellow citizens.
His opponents are describing the award as premature. The deeper problem is that the Nobel will underscore the extent to which Obama is a cosmopolitan [...]
