Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WOAI The debate in Washington on immigration reform has had no political impact, but the debate is having a major impact on south Texas, 1200 WOAI news reports. Officials say the number of people entering the U.S. illegally is way up and, tragically, the number of undocumented immigrants who have been found ...
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Apr 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from KRGV BROWNSVILLE- At least 12 undocumented immigrants once detained by federal authorities are now being released in the Rio Grande Valley. Several undocumented immigrants were found at Brownsville's bus terminal Sunday. CHANNEL 5 NEWS spoke with some of the undocumented immigrants at the terminal. They said they were from countries like Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador ...
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Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS Several prominent Republican senators accused their GOP colleagues of "secretly" negotiating a sweeping immigration overhaul, urging them to open up about the details by next week. The letter from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee marked the latest flare-up in the GOP caucus over the immigration plan, which has not yet been ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JUDICIAL WATCH While the Obama administration insists the Mexican border is secure, a sophisticated airborne radar system created to track Islamic terrorists shows that less than half of the migrants and smugglers crossing into the United States get caught. This alarming security gap obviously means that the southern border is far from secure, but rather ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG PEACE Immigration and Customs Enforcement union president Chris Crane told reporters on Wednesday that the Mexican drug cartels’ influence inside the United States has been “almost completely absent” from the immigration reform debate but needs more attention. “I mean, if these folks coming over here taking work, we know that the drug cartels’ troops ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has testified before Congress that, “Our borders have, in fact, never been stronger.” But a new internal Border Patrol report shows that, “Border Patrol agents apprehended fewer than half of the foreign migrants and smugglers who had illegally crossed into a 150-square-mile stretch of southern Arizona,” according ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Brandon Darby's new piece in Big Government: News coverage of the assassinations of Kaufman County, TX Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, District Attorney Mike McLelland, and McLelland's wife Cynthia has turned to the alleged involvement of a group named the Aryan Brotherhood (AB). Considering McLelland was part of a task force that ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL: As illegal immigration picks up with rumors of amnesty on Capitol Hill and as Customs and Border Protection reconsiders cutting manpower and patrols at the border, Townhall has obtained exclusive footage of dangerous and illegal activity in the Arizona desert close to the border with Mexico. First, footage dated March 7, 2013 from ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL: As the immigration reform Gang of Eight inside the Beltway prepares to announce a deal later this week, claiming border security will come before a path to citizenship for millions of illegals, Border Patrol agents have seen illegal border crossings double and warn the cutting of agent work hours will only result in ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: CHICAGO — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the US border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize ...
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Mar 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: Former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Sunday said the president saw the issue of immigration reform as a “legacy item,” and was fully committed to pushing lawmakers to pass a bill. Axelrod on NBC’s “Meet the Press” dismissed GOP suggestions that President Obama was not serious about immigration reform and sought to use ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: A California border patrol agent pled guilty Thursday to taking bribes in exchange for letting illegal immigrants into the U.S. According to court records, Hector Rodriguez confessed that from 2010 until his arrest on July 13, 2012 he received bribes such as cash, luxury vehicles and the use of an apartment for allowing ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE/AP: — In a bizarre incident, hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: According to a new Pew Research poll, a majority of Americans, 55 percent, oppose granting citizenship to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. An even bigger majority, however, 71 percent, believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally. Perhaps most surprisingly, no demographic is more supportive of granting ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW: John McCain, on a visit to the border town of Nogales, Ariz. with colleagues Chuck Schumer, Michael Bennet and Jeff Flake, bore witness, firsthand, to one of the challenges Congress will face as it attempts to craft immigration legislation: securing the border. Standing at the country’s Southern border, McCain tweeted: Just witnessed a ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The union representing immigration enforcement officers is urging Senate negotiators to include them in talks on an immigration reform package, complaining that their agents are apparently "not welcome" in the discussions even as business groups and "amnesty" advocates get a seat at the table. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council is speaking ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
The bodies of seven men arranged in chairs are pictured in Uruapan, in the Mexican state of Michoacan, March 23, 2013. The bodies of the seven men were found arranged in chairs on a street early Saturday, local media reported. The men were shot in the head with threat messages nailed to some of their ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., said Monday he won’t stop using the term “illegal immigrant,” when asked at a Phoenix town hall to stop using “the ‘I’ word.” A 25-year old “dreamer” asked McCain to instead use a phrase like “undocumented immigrant,” the Arizona Republic reported today. “Someone who crosses our borders illegally is here ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent union says that he has no confidence that the Obama administration would step up its border control efforts as part of any immigration reform agreement. Chris Crane, ICE officer and National ICE Council president representing 7,000 ICE agents, officers, and employees, expressed concern ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has granted uniform contracts to VF Imagewear, Inc., an apparel company that relies on manufacturing sites in Mexico for a “significant percentage” of its occupational garments. The latest contract with the company was awarded on Dec. 20, 2012, to make “uniform and insignia items” for the ...
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