Aug 17, 2010 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: The risk of the federal government suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio has passed — at least for another week — but Maricopa County administrators fear the sheriff's refusal to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation could put the county at risk of losing more than $100 million in federal funds. Representatives for Arpaio and the ...
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Arizona Republic: Companies have opportunities to make sure they aren't hiring illegal immigrants. Prospective hires must show proper identification, and they must submit U.S. government-required paperwork. Under Arizona law, new hires must be vetted by E-Verify, a federal system designed to catch illegal-immigrant workers. But there are many ways for unauthorized workers to slip through the cracks. It's not ...
Continue ReadingAug 16, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related- An Attempt To Replace The State: Mexico’s President Joins Me In My Call To View Mexico As In The Throes Of An Insurgency, Not A Drug War
Continue ReadingAug 16, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NEW YORK (AP) - When Rodolfo Olmedo was dragged down by a group of men shouting anti-Mexican epithets and bashed over the head with a wooden stick on the street outside his home, he instinctively covered his face to keep from getting disfigured. Blood filled his mouth. "I wanted to scream, but I couldn't because of ...
Continue ReadingAug 16, 2010 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: After a Catholic nun's death earlier this month in a drunken-driving crash that police say was caused by a repeat-offender illegal immigrant, a key lawmaker wants the federal government to start detaining and deporting every illegal immigrant who commits a drunken-driving offense. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, ...
Continue ReadingAug 15, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Press TV: Mexico's largest television broadcaster and the largest producer of Spanish language content in the world, Televisa, has come under attack in the northern city of Monterrey.
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2010 16 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related: Border Patrol Agent X Washington Times: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday said the administration has "enough" resources to secure the border now that President Obama signed into law a $600 million border security spending bill, and she said Congress must now act on a larger overhaul of the nation's immigration laws. "This is what we ...
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American Border Patrol Agent X: Grizz And Reloader’s Second SAFE Borders Project Report – With Video
Aug 13, 2010 26 Comments ›› Grizz And Reloader
Still from a video by Pat Dollard We didn't know it at the time, but according to the rancher whose land we were on, the whole time we were at the border fence, we were under the watchful binoculared eyes of very deadly insurgents. The rancher, who I am calling American Rancher X (so pseudonymed ...
Continue ReadingAug 13, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill directing $600 million more to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, a modest election-year victory that underscores his failure so far to deliver an overhaul of immigration law. The new law will pay for the hiring of 1,000 more Border Patrol agents to be deployed at critical ...
Continue ReadingAug 13, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related: “An Attempt To Replace The Stateâ€: Mexico’s President Joins Me In My Call To View Mexico As In The Throes Of An Insurgency, Not A Drug War Washington Times: Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says his county's scandal-plagued, predominantly Hispanic immigrant cities have afforded opportunities for criminal gangs and drug-trafficking organizations and created ...
Continue ReadingAug 12, 2010 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: Two key sheriffs along the Arizona-Mexico border on Tuesday called a planned visit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton a "political stunt" and described as "pathetic" Obama administration attempts to "cover up its inaction in protecting our borders." "The administration blew past their promised Aug. 1 deadline to send 524 National ...
Continue ReadingAug 11, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Hill: The Senate will convene briefly on Thursday for a rare session during its August recess to pass a $600 million border security bill. Just days into its five-week break, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ‘s (D-Nev.) office said the chamber would go back to work at 10 a.m. Thursday to pass the ...
Continue ReadingAug 11, 2010 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Big Journalism: This is a cautionary tale about reporters eagerly attacking other reporters working a developing story. Because it’s not possible to provide evidence as quickly as some might demand it doesn’t mean the story is false. On July 24, Kimberly Dvorak, of the Examiner, and Don Amato, of the blog Digger’s Realm, broke the story ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2010 59 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs as a way of breaking the economic power of drug cartels is stoking debate inside his country and bringing opposition in Washington. One thing most experts agreed on is that the idea is unlikely to prosper without similar moves to legalize or regulate the ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2010 25 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Why should this concern you? Because this Iraq-style insurgency has crossed the border, and started here...and, as you will see below, the U.S. Drug Intelligence Center, an arm of the NIS, describes Mexico's insurgents as "The single greatest threat to the United States" Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Mexico City — Nearly four years after President Felipe ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: Just a few years ago, when the economy was booming, the area around the Home Depot on Thomas Road and 36th Street in east Phoenix was packed with a couple of hundred men congregating on sidewalks and street corners soliciting work as day laborers. Day laborers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, also proliferated in other areas ...
Continue ReadingAug 8, 2010 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Dallas News: As Republican members of Congress press for changes to the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, preventing automatic citizenship for babies born to illegal immigrants, opponents insist the debate is not really about babies. Instead, they say it is about politics and votes – not fixing the immigration system. Still, the debate could resonate ...
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Some 200 federal police officers assigned to fighting organized crime in this violent border city detained one of their superiors at gunpoint Saturday
Continue ReadingAug 6, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO -- Two weeks ago, Mexican soldiers clashed here with drug cartel gangsters in running gun battles that lasted five hours. The outlaws hijacked vehicles, including a bus, for use as barricades and battering rams. Terrified residents scrambled for safety. At least a dozen people were killed, including bystanders. Children were wounded ...
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