ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISUES
Refugee numbers so far this year
Posted by acorcoran on February 19, 2010
We are 4 months into the 2010 fiscal year. The Obama Administration is aiming to resettle 80,000 refugees by September 30th. Check out the numbers here. So far we have brought into an economy in recession 22,502. Top sending countries are as follows:
Burma: 3,859
Bhutan (really Nepal): 3,849
Iraq: 3,639
Somalia: 1,111
For those concerned about Muslim immigration. Most of the Iraqis are Muslims, all of the Somalis are Muslims and a smattering of the Burmese are Muslims. The Worldwide Refugee Processing Center keeps track of the religions of all refugees entering the US, but they won’t release that information to the public. Indeed the general public cannot access this site.
http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/refugee-numbers-so-far-this-year/
Recent Media On Capturing Hispanic Vote Misses That Most Hispanics Think Immigration Too High
By Roy Beck, Thursday, February 25, 2010, 2:45 PM EST – posted on NumbersUSA
Highly paid PR firms for the open-borders lobby have gotten stories in many major newspapers this month suggesting that the only way to attract the Hispanic vote is to favor a comprehensive amnesty and also an increase in foreign workers. But a massive Zogby poll shows Hispanic views to be quite different.
If 56% of likely Hispanic voters (according to Zogby) think immigration already is too high, and only 7% think it is too low, why would a politician push for a jump in immigration? Not only would it apparently satisfy only 7% of likely Hispanic voters, but it definitely would turn off the majority of other voters concerned about high unemployment.
Several former Bush allies are working overtime to keep elected Republican leaders from helping unemployed Americans by importing less foreign labor.
Basically, what they are saying is that even if high immigration hurts U.S. workers, the Republicans should do the wrong thing in order to attract more Hispanic votes.
They aren’t just wrong morally, they are wrong in their counting. If few Republican candidates ever get more than 35% of the Hispanic vote, why would they think they can attract more by pushing for higher immigration when 56% of Hispanic voters want less?
Other open-borders consultants are pushing Democratic leaders to force a vote on amnesty this year as the only way to get Hispanics to come to the polls and vote for Democrats. But when Zogby gave likely Hispanic voters the choice between making illegal immigrants go home over time through better enforcement and giving them a path to citizenship, they favored attrition through enforcement by 52% to 34% over amnesty.
The one thing the consultants have right is that it makes a difference how politicians oppose amnesty and oppose foreign labor importation. Obviously, if the rhetoric is aimed at opposing Hispanics specificially, that is going to hurt with the Hispanic vote. But both Democrats and Republicans need to constantly remember that immigration policy is not about ethnicity but about numbers.
It is nice to have Zogby’s confirmation that likely Hispanic voters look for a practical numerical immigration policy in about the same way as the rest of U.S. voters.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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States Pass E-Verify Laws
Overview
Several states have passed legislation requiring employers to use E-Verify. E-Verify is an employment verification tool managed by the Department of Homeland Security that uses information from the Social Security Administration and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to determine an applicant’s eligibility to work.
Related Issues
188,358 Businesses Using E-Verify – Generating 5 Million Inquiries Since October
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:03 PM EST – posted on NumbersUSA
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security reveals that 188,358 businesses are using E-Verify at nearly 700,000 worksites. More than 50,000 businesses have signed up for E-Verify in the last six months and the number of worksites has almost doubled since January of 2009.
The number of inquiries since October of 2009 is 5.1 million. There were approximately 6 million total inquiries in all of 2008.
Arizona has the largest number of businesses using E-Verify with 33,110 businesses at 58,871 worksites. Arizona requires all businesses – public and private – to use E-Verify. Mississippi and South Carolina also have mandatory E-Verify laws in place for all businesses and have 3,039 and 4,346 businesses registered, respectively.
California has the largest number of worksites using E-Verify with 15,320 businesses using the system at 71,033 worksites. There have been 642,912 inquiries in California, second most in the nation. Missouri businesses have run 890,701 inquiries since October of 2009, most in the nation. Missouri requires all state agencies and contractors to check new hires through E-Verify.
See a map of states with mandatory E-Verify laws in place.
Conservative Leaders (not activists) Cold-Shoulder The Jobless By Ignoring Immigration
By Roy Beck, Sunday, February 21, 2010, 8:46 PM EST – posted on NumbersUSA
Most of the spotlighted conservative leaders at the giant CPAC convention this weekend showed that they are far more interested in the feelings of Republican Party major donors than in offering help for 25 million Americans who can’t find a full-time job.
Americans might have hoped that finally at this meeting there would be a sign of true leadership in stopping the massive importation of new foreign workers during a jobs depression. But on that topic, hope was as scarce as at the Obama White House.
But reports from those at the convention (I wasn’t there) indicated that the thousands of (mostly young) conservative attendees seemed to have a much better grasp of what the country needs on immigration.
They exploded into a standing ovation when a freshman congressman on Saturday finally broke the taboo and stated emphatically:
We need to lock down the border and enforce visas, reject amnesty and enforce our current laws, get rid of our rewards and incentives to be here illegally, mandate E-Verify . . . .
– Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)
For three days, one star speaker after another from Congress, from the media, from the conservative pantheon and from potential presidential hopefuls glaringly avoided immigration when given the microphone in the big room. (See P.S. about a couple of exceptions.)
The mood for the convention had been set even before the opening of the annual extravaganza for conservative activists when some of the inside leadership of the convention made a big news splash with the argument that conservatives should stop talking about limiting immigration (and should support some kind of amnesty) if the Republican Party is to have a decent chance at winning elections in the future.
I’ve got news for those kinds of conservatives: The political independents of America — who are deciding one key election after another — are not going to be attracted to the same Big-Business-As-Usual, Country-Club Republicanism of the Bush era that always put immigration ahead of struggling American workers and their families.
And the many eye-witness reports from the conversations in the hallways and exhibit areas suggest that immigration-avoidance doesn’t sell well with the rank-and-file conservative activists, either.
There were a couple of excellent break-out sessions where small audiences could actually hear the immigration issue discussed as if it demands an urgent response. But it seems there was a pent-up desire to hear immigration tackled in a forthright way in the Big Room. There was a satifying release of emotion when Chaffetz finally violated the immigration blackout.
All the potential presidential hopefuls could have had the adultation Chaffetz received as their own if they had only dared to speak the obvious truth that came during Chaffetz’ address on foreign policy:
If we are going to have an effective foreign policy that is true to our convictions then we need to address illegal immigration.
No longer can we ignore the immigration problem. I believe it’s highly immoral and very exploitive.
Remember that Chaffetz is the young upstart who challenged incumbent Congressman Chris Cannon in the Republican primary of 2008 and beat him because the voters wanted an alternative to Cannon who was the House Republican leader for amnesty.
Cannon had represented the approach to immigration advocated by the only CPAC leaders who spoke up on immigration this year (for amnesty). Chaffetz broke the taboo in Utah just as he broke it at CPAC.
Cannon stood for the cheap-labor business lobbyists and campaign contributors. Chaffetz stood for the unemployed Americans.
The conservative and Republican stars who spoke in the Big Room decided not to take sides between the Cannon and Chaffetz approach. They just decided to ignore immigration. And that meant ignoring 25 million U.S. workers who want a full-time job and can’t find one, in part because immigration policy gives out 160,000 permanent and temporary, new and renewal work visas EVERY MONTH.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
P.S. Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) brought the room down on immigration in break-out session. And California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner in the Big Room (on the topic “Saving Freedom from the California Model”) said the state magnets for illegal immigration have to be cut off “once and for all” and the borders have to be secured by National Guard if necessary.
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Numbers USA
February 22, 2010
From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Sunday 21FEB2010 11 p.m. EST
CPAC convention shows that cheap-labor GOP controlling conservative stars
THERE ARE ALWAYS IMMIGRATION ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE FOR FREE AT www.NumbersUSA.com.
DEAR CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF NUMBERSUSA,
It looks like even the conservative national leaders are pulling back from doing anything about immigration.
Most of the spotlighted conservative leaders at the giant CPAC convention this weekend showed that they are far more interested in the feelings of Republican Party major donors than in offering help for 25 million Americans who can’t find a full-time job.
Americans might have hoped that finally at this meeting there would be a sign of true leadership in stopping the massive importation of new foreign workers during a jobs depression. But on that topic, hope was as scarce as at the Obama White House.
But reports from those at the convention (I wasn’t there) indicated that the thousands of (mostly young) conservative attendees seemed to have a much better grasp of what the country needs on immigration.
They exploded into a standing ovation when a freshman congressman on Saturday finally broke the taboo and stated emphatically:
“We need to lock down the border and enforce visas, reject amnesty and enforce our current laws, get rid of our rewards and incentives to be here illegally, mandate E-Verify . . . . ”
– Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)
For three days, one star speaker after another from Congress, from the media, from the conservative pantheon and from potential presidential hopefuls glaringly avoided immigration when given the microphone in the big room.
The mood for the convention had been set even before the opening of the annual extravaganza for conservative activists when some of the inside leadership of the convention made a big news splash with the argument that conservatives should stop talking about limiting immigration (and should support some kind of amnesty) if the Republican Party is to have a decent chance at winning elections in the future.
Read the rest of my blog at this link.
Friends, the old-time elites of the Republican Party have shown over the weekend that they are gaining control of the Tea Party movement message (more about that tomorrow) and have already largely gained control at the CPAC conservative leadership. They are determined to keep conservative citizen movements from pushing for immigration reductions.
If you are concerned about this trend, I hope you will forward this email to all of your conservative lists and friends.
And remember, that there are always immigration actions you can take for free at www.NumbersUSA.com.
THANKS,
Californians for Population Stabilization
February 17, 2010
America stands virtually alone among first-world democracies in granting automatic citizenship or birthright citizenship to babies born by women illegally in this country. Our latest CAPS Issues piece, “American Jackpot: The Remaking of America by Birthright Citizenship,” produced in cooperation with NumbersUSA and U.S., Inc., explains how and why the incorrect interpretation of the 14th amendment has been exploited to our detriment and what can be done to end it.
Having a U.S. citizen baby is a lure to illegal entrants, to legal immigrants and to “birth tourists” who come here from many parts of the world.
American Jackpot: The Remaking of America by Birthright Citizenship
By Mark Cromer, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow
Birthright Citizenship
There is something sublimely grand about the term itself, evoking the notion that the most fundamental civic right an American can possess-citizenship-through which access to virtually all other constitutionally enshrined rights and protections pass, is bestowed to all who are blessed enough to take their first gasp of earthly air on American soil. It is held among our people’s core beliefs as something that is intrinsically American, an iconic reflection of the generous character of the American spirit that delivers on the Statue of Liberty’s plea to send her those huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Indeed, the United States today stands virtually alone among power-house industrial democracies in granting unequivocal birth citizenship. The notion of being an instant American if born on United States soil has been so romanticized at critical junctures in our evolving popular culture it is now seen by many as a fundamental characteristic of the American identity. Consequently, the growing calls to end the practice are viewed by some as a heretical departure from what makes this country a beacon of hope to so many around the world.
So there’s no small amount of irony in the fact that the policy of granting birthright citizenship in America has become a core gravitational ‘pull factor’ that has resulted in the largest sustained wave of mass human migration ever witnessed in the history of the nation-state; a human tsunami that has played a critical role in the rapid erosion of the quality of life that so many immigrants seek on these shores. It also increasingly poses a non-consensual makeover of the culture that American citizens had neither voice nor vote in unleashing.
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Numbers USA
February 17, 2010
DEAR FRIENDS,
The liberal Democratic impulse seems to have moved the Obama Administration to make some good decisions in reversing Bush Administration rules for temporary foreign agricultural workers.
We put a fax on your Action Board corkboard yesterday that you can send to all from your state who sit on the U.S. House and Senate committees that oversee and fund the Labor Department which will see that new rules are implemented.
ACTION: Send this fax.
An Associated Press report on the new Obama regulations states that they will:
- require growers to make a greater effort to offer their crop-picking jobs to legal immigrants and U.S. citizens already in this country
- mandate that jobs be posted on an electronic registry to more widely publicize jobs to U.S. workers
- increase the minimum wage for the foreign workers by about a dollar an hour
I haven’t had a chance to see a full analysis of all the rule changes, but my first inclination is to say bravo, bravo and bravo to the Obama Administration.
At the end of the Bush Administration, it had issued new regulations to make it easier for growers to bring in foreign labor and to pay them less.
Unions and other liberal groups howled that the rules would further disadvantage some of the most vulnerable workers in America just because giant business lobbying groups had the power to do it.
The liberal impulse has been just right on this immigration issue.
” . . . labor and immigrant rights groups claimed the Bush administration regulations had the effect of depressing wages and made it harder for domestic workers to apply for the jobs.”
– Associated Press, “Labor Dept reverses Bush-era regulations on seasonal foreign farm workers” by Sam Hananel, 11FEB2010
The labor and immigrant rights groups — which usually are our opponents on immigration issues — are making the point we always make about importing foreign labor, whether permanently or temporarily:
When you increase the supply of labor in an occupation, you lower the value of labor which depresses wages and especially disadvantages the U.S. workers who already are in that occupation.
The changes reflect the administration’s commitment ” to providing fair wages and strong labor protections for the most vulnerable groups of workers.”
– Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
The rules “restore some protection against employers that would like to hire cheap foreign labor.”
– Bruce Goldstein, executive director of Farmworker Justice
AP noted that the Bush administration had responded to pressure from the growers to loosen the H-2A visa rules which they claimed were so time-consuming that farmers sometimes had to let crops rot in the fields because they couldn’t find enough workers at harvest time. AP stated that the new rules would retain some of the efforts to streamline processing times, “but not enough to satisfy growers.”
NumbersUSA has never been able to validate the claims of widespread “crops rotting in fields.”
But NumbersUSA has had some sympathy for the growers’ complaints about needless red-tape and delays in the H-2A program. (By the way, there is no limit on how many foreign workers any grower can bring through the H-2A program.)
- We advocate a process that is vigorous in posting job openings on the internet for all domestic unemployment offices and job placement organizations to use with ease.
- We favor a pre-approval process of foreign workers in their home country so that when a grower is short-handed even three days before harvest it will be possible to engage contract-labor companies which will be able to notify and transport the foreign labor to the farm in time for the harvest.
- But the H-2A program should always be the last resort.
Every major study of ag work has found that U.S. citizens and legal immigrant farmworkers in this country do not get nearly enough hours of work during the year. In fact, the studies find, the U.S. tends to have a surplus of farmworkers (who disproportionately are foreign born) who lack good systems for placing them in available jobs when they open up.
I don’t know about you but I really don’t want to feel guilty every time I sit down to eat, thinking that my food has been provided in part by farm workers who are paid poverty wages and kept in a peasant status. Various studies have suggested that the hourly pay for field workers could be DOUBLED without raising our prices at the supermarket by more than 5%.
I say that wages and working conditions in the fields should be whatever it takes to fill the jobs with domestic labor. Why should we expect any job in America to pay less than an American wage at less than American working conditions.
Some spokesmen for the growers claim that higher wages will force them to cease producing certain crops (which will have to be grown in other countries) and switch to different crops. I don’t see the harm in that. The farmers will still be working their land and making money off it. But they will be doing so with crops that don’t require impoverished workers who depend on taxpayers to provide for most of their needs.
As long as the H-2A visa provides the ability of a grower to procure foreign labor in just a few days in case of an emergency, the Obama idea of providing more pressure to find domestic workers who will be earning a better livelihood seems great to me.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF DECENT TREATMENT OF AMERICAN AG WORKERS,
DHS Estimates 1 Million Fewer Illegal Aliens
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 8:00 PM EST – posted on NumbersUSA
A new DHS reports estimates that the population of illegal aliens living in the United States declined by nearly 1 million from the start of 2008 to the start of 2009. The report says that 11.6 million illegal aliens resided in the country in January of 2008, but they estimate a drop to 10.8 million in January of 2009.
From 2008 and 2009, the illegal alien population increased by 27%. The new 10.8 million estimate is the lowest since 2005 and the first time there has been a decrease since 2000 (although DHS did not estimate the illegal alien population from 2001-2004).
Of the 10.8 million, 8.5 million are from North America with an overwhelming 62% coming from Mexico.
California continues to have the largest illegal alien population with more than 2.6 million illegal aliens living in the state. More than 1.6 million reside in Texas with 720,000 residing in Florida.
In 2008, the year of the cited decrease, the United State conducted some of its largest worksite immigration enforcement actions in history. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials arrested 600 suspected illegal aliens at a Mississippi electrical plant, more than 300 at a poultry plant in South Carolina, and close to 400 suspected illegal aliens at a Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa.
Half of Immigrant Families on Welfare! SIGN PETITION to Suspend Future Unneeded Immigration
LET’S REALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS IMMIGRATION WELFARE DRAIN
TODAY, IT IS A PETITION CAMPAIGN
Yesterday, I gave you some opportunities to contact your own Members of Congress demanding that they stop importing poverty and importing pressure for more government by adding 23 million people to immigrant households each decade.
Today, we’re starting a petition campaign to the 3 leaders who pretty much run Washington — Pres. Obama, Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid.
This petition is based on one fact:
HALF OF IMMIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN
COLLECT WELFARE BENEFITS!!
If you are outside Pelosi’s District or Reid’s state, a petition is a better way to get to them than our usual fax system.
It also is an easier way for you to get new people involved in fighting for more sensible immigration policies.
Every friend or relative who is concerned about skyrocketing federal budget deficits or the growth in government is likely to be disturbed by this.
Yes, HALF of all immigrant families are using welfare, especially food and Medicaid welfare! This includes illegal AND legal immigrants. Amazing. See my blog to read the whole ugly story.
With Pres. Obama pledged to reducing our deficits, isn’t this a good time to send hundreds of thousands of petitions to him, Reid and Pelosi suggesting a suspension of most immigration that is driving those deficits up?
Let’s reach out to as many American voters as possible to sign the petition (full text below).
In this time of spiraling deficits and government cutbacks, the nation’s top elected officials are all calling for MORE immigration and even AMNESTY for illegal aliens.
Please sign the petition here ask for the opposite policies.
Petition Campaign to Obama, Reid and Pelosi. (See text below.)
Text of petition
Half of all immigrant households with children are on welfare. HALF! These are supposed to be people doing “jobs Americans won’t do.” Sounds more like they’re collecting government benefits U.S. citizens can’t get!
President Obama, Senate Leader Reid, and Speaker Pelosi, we call on you to SUSPEND all future non-essential immigration.
The federal budget deficit$1.4 Trillion and rising can’t afford to pay out Medicaid and food stamp benefits to more poor immigrants that America obviously does not need.
And yet, all of you are calling for INCREASED immigration and even an AMNESTY for illegal aliens! Your judgment is badly flawed! Higher immigration and amnesty will cause taxes and deficits to rise.
It’s time for you to admit that your ideas about immigration are out-of-date and destructive. Suspend non-essential immigration now!
That’s the petition.
Friends, can’t you find 10 people to sign that petition because they are horrified that half of all the immigrant families brought into the country each year require welfare?
Please sign the petition here. Then fill in a bunch of referrals.
1/2 immigrant households use welfare — 23 million added to immigrant households each decade
ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT AND THE FEDERAL DEBT?
NumbersUSA doesn’t take a stand on whether government should be smaller or bigger. But we are amazed at the national Republican leaders who criticize Pres. Obama for bloating government but then they do nothing to reduce immigration.
In fact, we have learned that GOP leaders in Washington are telling their colleagues that they don’t want Congress to do anything about immigration during this election year.
They don’t want to deal with immigration even though government data shows that ONE-HALF of all immigrant households with kids use the welfare system — while federal immigration policy adds 23 million people to those households every decade!
ACTION: If at least one of your 3 Members of Congress is a Republican:
You should find a fax to send them here telling them how disgusted you are that Republican leaders don’t want to reduce immigration and its gigantic cost to government.
ACTION: If you have taken our Interests Survey and indicated you are an Independent or Swing Voter, you should find two faxes to send:
(1) Fax to Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, telling him that he is wrong to tell Congress not to try to fix immigration this year because most Independent voters are holding their votes for politicians who will reduce deficits by getting rid of unnecessary costs like immigration.
(2) Fax to Republican leaders of the Senate and House, and give them the same message you are giving Steele.
ACTION: If your U.S. Representative is one of the few good guys and gals who is actually working to reduce immigration this year, you will find a fax here to cheer them on.
ACTION: If all of your Members of Congress are Democrats:
Look on your customized Action Board for other faxes that need sending.
Friends, it appears that national Republican leaders believe they can win back Congress by just letting the Democrats mess up while the Republicans do nothing to try to help protect Americans from the burdens of radically high immigration levels.
It is up to all of us to let them know that this behavior is not acceptable and will not be rewarded.
READ MY BLOG FOR DETAILS ON MASSIVE WELFARE DRAIN
OF LEGAL & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
I hope you will click for a quick read of my blog explaining this issue and what congressional leaders are ignoring.
Here are a few of my points:
“For those of you whose primary political interest is stopping the growth of government or even shrinking it, you have to contend with national leaders who say they agree with you but who refuse to deal with immigration. They say immigration is a “social” issue that isn’t related to government spending and deficit issues. They couldn’t be more wrong.”
“With one-half of immigrant households with kids being poor enough to use the federal, state and local welfare systems, is there anybody blind enough to think that adding 2.3 million people a year to immigrant households is not driving huge increases in government?”
“Republican leaders may say they want to shrink Big Government, but not if it gets in the way of pleasing their cheap-labor corporate donors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”
“The intent of the Republican leaders is to ensure that 23 million people continue to be added to the heavily welfare-using immigrant households each decade. That is one form of bigger government that the Republican leaders love.”
“Minutemen Prepare, Its Coming here!”
Juárez Students Massacred
MEXICO CITY – A gangland death squad killed at least 13 people, all but two of them high school students, and wounded as many as 17 others in an attack early Sunday in the bloody border city of Ciudad Juárez.
A squad of gunmen stormed a party shortly after midnight in a working class neighborhood on the city’s east side, a few minutes’ drive from the city’s police headquarters. The party was to celebrate a championship soccer game between two high schools and one student’s birthday. While some of the attackers barricaded access to the residential street with their cars, others went room to room inside a small concrete house firing into the crowd of some 60 partygoers, witnesses said. Some students escaped by jumping over garden walls or taking refuge in neighboring houses. Others were gunned down as they fled.
“They went directly into the house and started shooting,” an unnamed neighbor told El Diario, a Juárez newspaper. “Some people ran, and they chased them down.” Police and soldiers didn’t arrive at the scene until well after the attack ended.
Photographs of the scene, published online by Juárez media, show several rooms of a humble concrete house riddled with bullets, with large pools of blood on the floors and on the sidewalk outside. Police recovered 200 bullets from the scene. Police didn’t immediately provide names and ages of the victims, but said most were between 15 and 20. Local media reported that Adrián Encino, 17, who recently had been honored by the state governor for academic achievement, was among those killed.
“He died in my arms,” said the boy’s sobbing grandfather, who’d rushed to the site.
A couple working a small stand selling snacks to the teens also were shot, the man killed and his wife severely wounded. Several of the wounded students were reported in very serious condition, and police warned the death toll could rise.
Such massacres have become alarmingly frequent since President Felipe Calderón launched a crackdown on Mexico’s criminal gangs more than three years ago. The gangland violence has killed more than 16,000 people since then, about a quarter of them in and near Juárez.
More than 2,600 people were slain last year in the city of 1.3 million people. Officials said one of the slain students recently testified about another gangland killing in Juárez. Sunday’s atrocity capped a violent month in Juárez in which at least 220 people were murdered, including 10 on Saturday. Across Mexico, gangland violence killed more than 800 people last month, according to a tally by Mexican media.
Also on Sunday, as many as 20 suspected gangsters attacked a police station with assault rifles and grenades in the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas. A policeman and two civilians, who were at the station to pay a fine, were killed. And in Sinaloa, the Pacific Coast state considered the cradle of Mexico’s drug gangs, gunmen ambushed a car carrying a state police official, killing him, another man and three women.
The bound bodies of seven men were dumped Saturday in Iguala, a small city southwest of Mexico City. Notes left with the corpses warned that the men’s fate awaits all “thieves, kidnappers and corrupt lawyers.” By DUDLEY ALTHAUS – Houston Chronicle. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/13_teens_adults_killed_at_party_on_Mexican_border.html
In a recent article published by Al Garza, President of Patriots Coalition called; Bloody Borders, defines the horror south of the border.
“The viciousness of the Mexican cartels has been beyond belief. The Stanford Review indicated that between 2007-2009 at least 6800 people were murdered in “drug-related crimes”.
One officer of an elite army squad was killed in Tabasco, and the cartel gunman also killed 11 members of his family, including 6 children. Drug-related murders, decapitations, rapes, tortures, and human trafficking have been rampant the last few years. The cartels use those as means to terrorize the populace and to “suppress opposition”. Over 28,000 weapons were captured last year in Mexico. The Aztecas cross-border street gang had a hit-man member, Antonio Mendoza Ledezma, who confessed to police he had killed 140 people and had ordered the murders of another 60 since 2002. The cartels are in the business of selling illegal narcotics and trafficking human beings. They will do whatever it takes to gain the filthy lucre that those two enterprises bring.”
“Remember, If We Don’t Stop Amnesty, Drug Criminals Will Become U.S. Citizens!”
Jim Gilchrist – Founder and President of the Minuteman Project, Inc.
You must READ MORE……
News Flash
Letter From the Border
Deborah (Waters) Craig writes: I enjoyed returning to my hometown, for the recent anti illegal immigration rally, however I was disappointed to see my hometown newspaper, The Signal, perpetuating uniformed, disproved, negative stereotypes of Minutemen, especially, a with letter sourcing, of all people, George Bush. Is the Signal still waiting for the weapons of Mass Destruction to be found in Iraq?
My husband and I are members of the Original Minuteman Project founded by Jim Gilchrist. For the past five years we have worked at the Mexican Border in Campo CA. Like Mr. Gilchrist, and many other Minutemen, my husband is a Purple Heart Veteran who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, which he continues to do to this day.
In additional to calling in countless of numbers illegal border crossers and drug runs, the Minuteman at Campo have removed tons of trash left on Public Lands by Illegal Border Crossers. My husband attended a Civilian Border Watching Program run by the Yuma Border Patrol and the United States Department of Homeland Security. He was the sole civilian witness to the assassination of Border Agent Robert Rosas by Illegal Border Crossers over the summer. We also monitor and photograph the building of any fencing.
With the the complete disintegration of the Law and Order in Mexico, especially in the border towns, the security of our Border is more crucial than ever.
Here a photo I took of a group of heroic Minutemen, standing at the place were Border Agent Robert Rosas was assassinated by an illegal border crosser.
Deborah Craig – Minutewoman
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Dear Minutemen, Please forward this Minuteman Alert to at least 7 friends today. It is time to spread the word and protect our beloved nation. Make this your mission and help bring awareness to this critical issue.
Thank you,
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Immigration January 31, 2010
FAKE I.D. MILL SHUT DOWN IN VIRGINIA
BY: Minuteman Michael Cutler
ALERT: As you may remember, the findings of the 9/11 Commission determined that the 19 terrorists on 9/11 used dozens of false identities and variations of their true identities in furtherance of their terrorist objectives, paving the way for the Real ID Act.
The Virginian-Pilot article reports on the success of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in an investigative effort that involved the infiltration of a criminal organization that specialized in cranking out false identity documents. According to the article, three suspects have been arrested and charged and all three are identified as being illegal aliens. The article did not report on the nationalities of the defendants, but it is to be presumed that they are citizens of a Latin American country.
The article also notes that for just $150, a person could create a brand new identity for himself. The article then makes the point that these documents would enable an illegal alien to seek employment in the United States. This use of such false identity documents, in and of itself, certainly represents a crime. However, while the article failed to mention it, I will: The use of false identity documents in order to establish a phony identity is also a tactic that is used by criminals and terrorists.
One of the first things a law enforcement officer does when he arrests a suspect is to fingerprint that suspect in an effort to determine the identity of the person he has in custody. Often job applicants are fingerprinted, especially if the prospective employee is to be bonded or work in an area that involves sensitive issues. Anyone who holds a security clearance is required to be fingerprinted to ascertain the identity of the employee to whom sensitive information may be provided.
To a criminal or terrorist, the truthful answer to one of the most commonly asked questions, “Who are you?” could uncover their malevolent intentions and unravel a criminal enterprise or terrorist attack. The use of false identity documents should be thought of as camouflage that conceals the identity and, potentially, the intentions of the person using the false documents.
I have seen arrest records that required extension sheets just to deal with the myriad false identities used by some of the criminals I have investigated and/or arrested as an INS special agent. Yet the title of the article simply addresses the use of false identity documents by “illegal immigrants.”
Fraud can take two forms - the manufacture of false or altered identity documents and schemes by which aliens are provided with lawful status or even United States citizenship by concealing material facts that would, if known, disqualify that alien from receiving immigration benefits. In some cases, the scheme involves marriage fraud, labor certification fraud or political asylum fraud. In addition, these tactics can and have been used to secure visas from U.S. consular officials at American consulates and embassies in foreign countries.
All of these efforts to produce counterfeit or altered documents or defraud the immigration system or the visa issuance program create a true nightmare for our nation and literally open the door to the entry and embedding of criminals and terrorists in addition to those illegal aliens whose goals are limited to securing illegal employment.
In May of 2004, I testified before the House Subcommittee on Border Security and Claims, at the behest of contacted by the subcommittee’s then-ranking Democrat, Sheila Jackson Lee. The subject of that hearing was “Pushing the Border Out on Alien Smuggling: New Tools and Intelligence Initiatives.” The focus was the issue of “traditional” alien smuggling in which aliens are assisted in running our nation’s borders, as well as the issue of visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud.
Consequently, I am certainly happy to see successes in combating those who would provide false identity documents but in the interest of clarity it is important to understand that these documents can be used for far more nefarious purposes than simply facilitating the employment of illegal aliens in the United States. It is also important to understand that these sorts of false documents were a real problem when our government na?vely implemented the amnesty of 1986. Back then, false rent receipts, pay stubs and other such “supporting documents” were cranked out at “warp speed” with the then crude tools available to such document mills that were purchased by aliens who sought to substantiate false claims to having resided in the United States for the requisite period of time in order to qualify to apply for amnesty.
The fraud rate back then was astronomical and today, with sophisticated desktop publishing available for relatively low costs, these document mills would easily provide millions of illegal aliens with credible-looking supporting documents that illegal aliens would, no doubt use to defraud the immigration system if our government is sufficiently inept and corrupt to enact another amnesty under the aegis of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”
In conjunction with the investigations conducted by the 9/11 Commission, 94 terrorists were identified as having operated in our country in the decade leading up to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Of those 94 individuals, 59 were determined to have used immigration fraud as a means of entering the United States and/or embedding themselves in communities around the United States.
The creation and use of false identity documents represents no less than a threat to national security. It is incomprehensible and unforgivable that there are but a mere handful of special agents at ICE who are dedicated to uncovering these fraud rings and putting them out of business. It is also hard to comprehend how a news report on such a document ring would fail to consider how such false identity documents represent a huge threat to the security of our nation and the safety of our citizens.
January 29, 2010 – Michael Cutler – FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michael Cutler is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a recognized authority who addresses the implications of immigration on national security and criminal justice. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org – www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5383/pub_detail.asp
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NEWS FLASH
LETTER FROM THE BORDER
Deborah (Waters) Craig writes: I enjoyed returning to my hometown, for the recent anti illegal immigration rally, however I was disappointed to see my hometown newspaper, The Signal, perpetuating uniformed, disproved, negative stereotypes of Minutemen, especially, a with letter sourcing, of all people, George Bush. Is the Signal still waiting for the weapons of Mass Destruction to be found in Iraq?
My husband and I are members of the Original Minuteman Project founded by Jim Gilchrist. For the past five years we have worked at the Mexican Border in Campo CA. Like Mr. Gilchrist, and many other Minutemen, my husband is a Purple Heart Veteran who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, which he continues to do to this day.
In additional to calling in countless of numbers illegal border crossers and drug runs, the Minuteman at Campo have removed tons of trash left on Public Lands by Illegal Border Crossers. My husband attended a Civilian Border Watching Program run by the Yuma Border Patrol and the United States Department of Homeland Security. He was the sole civilian witness to the assassination of Border Agent Robert Rosas by Illegal Border Crossers over the summer. We also monitor and photograph the building of any fencing.
With the the complete disintegration of the Law and Order in Mexico, especially in the border towns, the security of our Border is more crucial than ever.
Here a photo I took of a group of heroic Minutemen, standing at the place were Border Agent Robert Rosas was assassinated by an illegal border crosser.
Deborah Craig – Minutewoman
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January 30, 2010
Reaction to Pres. Obama’s address — And try out our NEW state faxing system
FEDERAL OFFICIALS WILL DAWDLE, BUT YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS CAN PUSH ILLEGAL ALIENS OUT OF JOBS AND GIVE THEM TO UNEMPLOYED CITIZENS!
(See my specific analysis of the President’s comments on immigration below.)
Friends, the State of the Union Address tonight made it clear how unlikely it is that federal politicians care enough about unemployed Americans to end immigration policies that fill millions of U.S. jobs with foreign workers.
So, NumbersUSA tonight is starting a nationwide effort to contact all 7,000-plus elected members of state legislatures to persuade them to require E-Verify to kick illegal foreign workers out of an estimated 7 million construction, service, manufacturing and transportation jobs.
Click here to send faxes to your own elected officials in the state House and Senate. .
We have invested a large amount of time, money and effort into duplicating our unique congressional faxing system so it can be used for citizen pressure on 50 state captitols.
We are rolling out this potent new activism weapon tonight.
THIRTEEN states have already passed laws mandating E-Verify for state government contractors or for all employers. Your state could do this, too.
PRES. OBAMA APPEARED AFRAID TO MAKE HIS SUPPORT FOR AMNESTY CLEAR TONIGHT
Pres. Obama’s obtuse sentence on immigration in his address to the nation revealed a great fear of how the American people would react if he directly called for more foreign workers and for permanent jobs for the estimated 8 million illegal foreign workers.
He seemed to be trying to signal to the supporters of amnesty and “comprehensive immigration reform” that he was still behind them but in words that the voters watching on TV wouldn’t understand.
Click here to read the President’s exact words and the rest of my blog that analyzes them.
If the President really believed that putting Americans back to work were an emergency that called for tough measures, he would have announced a suspension of most new immigration of foreign workers and mandated E-Verify verification to keep illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs.
But we aren’t hearing much better out of congressional Republican leaders.
Friends, shock your state legislators the rest of the week with the level of faxing support for a state mandate for E-Verify.
This is a new system. If you have any difficulty, click here and let us know your problem
THANKS,
State Faxing is Up and Running
Most of us know our House Rep and two Senators by name. We at NumbersUSA regularly set up faxes for you to send, thanking them for something they’ve done or urging them to do something better. But do you know who represents you on the state level?
In the coming weeks, you’ll become a lot more familiar with their names with the introduction of our state level faxing. It’s something that Roy’s been wanting for a long time, and the system made its official launch on Wednesday night after Pres. Obama’s State of the Union Address. Thousands of you have already sent faxes to your state leaders, and we’re hoping this new feature helps them hear the support or feel the pressure on immigration issues.
If you haven’t sent the new state fax, check your Action Board now, and learn the name(s) of your state leaders (if you don’t know them already)! We hope this new system will help us motivate local lawmakers into protecting jobs and your communities by mandating E-Verify for all businesses, initiating or supporting a 287(g) program or by putting an end to sanctuary policies. Most state legislatures convene over the next few months, so this is our best chance to make something happen on the state level.
After you’ve sent the fax to your state leaders, be sure to check out Roy’s blog and video response to Pres. Obama’s State of the Union address. Pres. Obama mentioned immigration, but it was more of an afterthought thanks to your activism and message of high immigration’s negative impact on American workers.
Thanks,
Chris Chmielenski
Website Content Manager
Poll: Mexicans say Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty to Mexico Over U.S.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Adam Brickley
Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is seen from Mexico’s side of the San Ysidro port of entry guarding vehicles involved in a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, Sept. 22, 2009. Four people were injured in a gun battle involving an attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico at the busiest border crossing in the U.S., authorities said. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Border Patrol Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling confirmed this week–as I first reported in my column yesterday–that his agency is planning for a net decrease of 384 agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1.
A Department of Homeland Security annual performance review updated by the Obama administration on May 7 said the Border Patrol “plans to move several hundred Agents from the Southwest Border to the Northern Border to meet the FY 2010 staffing requirements, with only a small increase in new agents for the Southwest Border in the same year.”
Easterling said on Tuesday that in fiscal 2009, 17,399 Border Patrol agents have been deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border. In fiscal year 2010, the Border Patrol plans to decrease that by 384 agents, leaving 17,015 deployed along the Mexican frontier. At the same time, the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Canada border will be increased by 414, from a fiscal 2009 total of 1,798 agents to a fiscal 2010 total of 2,212.
The Border Patrol is responsible for securing a total of 8,607 miles of border, including the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S.-Canada border from Washington state to Maine, and sectors of coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Each year, the Border Patrol sets a goal for “border miles under effective control (including certain coastal sectors).” “Effective control,” as defined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, means that when the Border Patrol detects an illegal border crosser in a particular area of the border the agency can be expected to succeed in apprehending that person.
In the May 7 update of its performance review, DHS said the Border Patrol’s goal for fiscal 2009 was to have 815 of the 8,607 miles of border for which the agency is responsible under “effective control.” The review also said the Border Patrol’s goal for fiscal 2010 was to again have 815 miles of border under “effective control,” meaning DHS was not planning to secure a single additional mile of border in the coming year.
However, Acting Deputy Assistant Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Todd Owen told a House committee in July that the Border Patrol already had 894 miles of border under effective control as of May 31 of this year. These 894 miles, Owen said, included 697 miles on the Mexican border, 32 miles on the Canadian border and 165 miles in the coastal sectors.
Easterling said this week that as of now the Border Patrol still has the same 894 miles of border under effective control that it had under effective control as of May 31. He also said the agency would not relinquish control of any of these miles in the coming year. After the beginning of the new fiscal year, he said, the Border Patrol would reevaluate the situation and set a new goal for border miles under “effective control” for 2010 that would at least equal, and might exceed, the 894 miles currently under effective control.
“The intention is to take back the border incrementally, and make gains that we can keep,” Easterling said. “We do not intend, nor will we give back, miles that we have gained control over.”
Easterling said the Border Patrol would be able to maintain the current number of miles under effective control on the Mexico border with fewer agents deployed there thanks to “force multipliers,” including new fencing, roads and other infrastructure that has been built in recent years. He also cited the assistance the Border Patrol receives from local police and sheriffs departments and community watch groups.
But even if the Border Patrol is able to maintain or marginally improve on the current level of security on the U.S.-Mexico border, most of the border will remain effectively open to smuggling both contraband and persons.
The entire U.S.-Mexico border is 1,954 miles long, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission. While 697 of those miles are now under “effective control,” according to the Border Patrol, 1,257 miles are not under “effective control.”
Reports from other government agencies paint a vivid picture of the massive drug and alien smuggling that takes place in these uncontrolled expanses and the national security problem created by unsecured border lands.
Each year, the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center produces “drug market analyses” for each of 32 regions of the country that the NDIC describes as “high intensity drug trafficking areas.” Five of these areas sit along the U.S.-Mexico border. These include the California border region, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas and South Texas. The latest reports, released in March and April of this year, use candid language in portraying the U.S.-Mexican frontier as wide open to drug smuggling and even vulnerable to penetration by potential terrorists.
The California-Mexico border, the NDIC said, was “easily breached” on both foot and in vehicles.
“The vast border area presents innumerable remote crossing points that traffickers exploit to smuggle illicit drugs, primarily marijuana, into the country from Mexico,” said NDIC. “These areas are easily breached by traffickers on foot, in private vehicles, or in all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) as they smuggle drugs between POEs [ports of entry], particularly the mountainous areas in eastern San Diego County and the desert and sand dune areas in Imperial County.”
Arizona’s border was judged to be open not only to drug smugglers but also aliens with “extensive criminal records” and from “special interest countries,” which are defined as “countries that could export individuals who could bring harm to the United States through terrorism.”
“Some criminal organizations smuggle aliens and gang members into the United States,” said NDIC’s report on Arizona. “These particular individuals typically have extensive criminal records and pose a threat, not only to the Arizona HIDTA [high intensity drug trafficking area] region but also to communities throughout the United States. Alien smuggling organizations reportedly also smuggle aliens from countries other than Mexico, including special-interest countries.”
“Special-interest countries are those designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals who could bring harm to the United States through terrorism,” said the NDIC report.
The NDIC described the Arizona-Mexico border as “largely underprotected” in the areas between official ports of entry.
“Large amounts of illicit drugs are smuggled into the area from Mexico, and bulk cash is transported from the area into Mexico,” said NDIC. “These trafficking activities are facilitated by several factors unique to the region, including the continuing economic and population growth in Arizona’s two primary drug markets (Phoenix and Tucson), the highways that connect major metropolitan areas in Arizona with major illicit drug source areas in Mexico, and a remote, largely underprotected border area between Arizona’s ports of entry (POEs).
“Vast stretches of remote, sparsely populated border areas are located within the HIDTA region; these areas are especially conducive to large-scale drug smuggling,” said NDIC. “By the end of January 2009, 108 miles of the 262-mile shared border between Arizona and Mexico will have some type of fencing. However, few physical barriers exist in border areas between POEs, particularly in the West Desert area of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Tucson Sector, to impede drug traffickers, chiefly Mexican DTOs, from smuggling illicit drug shipments into the United States from Mexico.”
Part of the New Mexico border was described as “an ideal smuggling corridor.”
“Southwestern New Mexico—specifically Hidalgo, Luna, and Dona Ana Counties—shares a 180-mile border with Mexico,” said NDIC. “More than half the length of this border is desolate public land that contains innumerable footpaths, roads, and trails. Additionally, many ranches are located along the border. These factors and minimal law enforcement coverage make the area an ideal smuggling corridor for drugs and other illicit goods and services— primarily alien smuggling into the United States and weapons and bulk cash smuggling into Mexico. Mexican DTOs smuggle multihundred-kilogram quantities of illicit drugs through this portion of the HIDTA region annually.”
Like the California border, the South Texas border is also “easily breached,” according to the NDIC.
“The combination of vast stretches of remote, sparsely populated land and extensive crossborder economic activity at designated ports of entry (POEs) creates an environment conducive to large-scale drug smuggling,” said NDIC. “Few physical barriers exist between POEs to impede drug traffickers, particularly Mexican DTOs, from smuggling illicit drug shipments into the United States from Mexico. Along many areas of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, the Rio Grande River can be easily breached by smugglers on foot or in vehicles, enabling Mexican DTOs to smuggle multikilogram quantities of illicit drugs, primarily marijuana and cocaine, into the United States.”
In the West Texas sector, the NDIC again raised the possibility that terrorists could exploit the border to enter the country.
“Moreover, the region’s location along the U.S.-Mexico border poses national security and law enforcement issues for the region, such as alien smuggling, weapons transportation, and terrorist entry into the United States through and between ports of entry,” said NDIC.
While the U.S. government may be failing to exert effective control over most of the border, identical language in the NDIC reports for Arizona and West Texas said that drug trafficking organizations have set up “gatekeeper” operations that control smuggling into the U.S. and levy taxes on the smugglers they let through.
“Gatekeepers regulate the drug flow from Mexico across the U.S.-Mexico border into the United States by controlling drug smugglers’ access to areas along the border,” said the Arizona and West Texas NDIC reports. “Gatekeepers collect ‘taxes’ from smugglers on all illicit shipments that are moved through these areas, including drugs and illegal aliens. The taxes are generally paid to the DTO that controls the area; the DTO then launders the tax proceeds. Gatekeepers sometimes resort to extortion, intimidation, and acts of violence to collect taxes from smugglers. Gatekeepers also reportedly bribe corrupt Mexican police and military personnel in order to ensure that smuggling activities occur without interruption.”
“Gatekeepers generally operate at the behest of a Mexican drug trafficking organization (DTO) and enforce the will of the organization through bribery, intimidation, extortion, beatings, and murder,” said the reports.
A Government Accountability Office report released on August 31 pointed out that the Border Patrol’s top priority is to stop terrorists and weapons of mass destruction from entering the United States and revealed that three person’s “linked to terrorism” and hundreds of aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints in fiscal 2008. These checkpoints, which act as a final line of defense for the U.S. border, are typically set up on highways 25 to 100 miles north of the Mexican border.
“CBP reported that in fiscal year 2008, there were three individuals encountered by the Border Patrol at southwest border checkpoints who were identified as persons linked to terrorism,” said GAO.
“In addition, the Border Patrol reported that in fiscal year 2008 checkpoints encountered 530 aliens from special interest countries, which are countries the Department of State has determined to represent a potential terrorist threat to the United States,” said GAO. “While people from these countries may not have any ties to illegal or terrorist activities, Border Patrol agents detain aliens from special interest countries if they are in the United States illegally and Border Patrol agents report these encounters to the local Sector Intelligence Agent, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations, and the CBP National Targeting Center.”
The GAO also said one illegal alien detained in West Texas had come from Iran.
“For example,” said GAO, “according to a Border Patrol official in the El Paso sector, a checkpoint stopped a vehicle and questioned its three Iranian occupants, determining that one of those occupants was in the United States illegally. The individual was detained and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further questioning.”
There has been much discussion in the past week about whether President Barack Obama will heed the advice of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to increase the U.S. troop deployment there. The administration, however, has already decided to decrease by 384 the Border Patrol agents deployed on our own southern frontier.
Chicano Group Plans Protest Against Minutemen ProjectBrown Berets de Atzlan are part of the “reconquista” movement to takeover parts of the Southwestern U.S.
By Associated Press
A protest is planned for Friday in downtown Tucson against the “Minuteman” border watch group.
| From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA |
| Date: Tuesday 22SEP09 10:30 am EDT |
| House vote tomorrow could stop much border enforcement in Arizona |
| DEAR FRIENDS OF BORDER SECURITY,We need your immediate phone calls to prevent a radical threat on Arizona border security in a vote on the U.S. House floor expected on Wednesday.CALL YOUR REP AT 202-224-3121Also, find a phone note for this with talking points on your Action Buffet.HERE’S THE SCOOP FROM OUR CAPITOL HILL TEAM
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Arpaio sent subpoenas to the local chapter and national headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, asking for a wide array of records he says will connect the organization to a racial profiling lawsuit he is challenging in federal court.
David Horowitz and Jim Gilchrist meet in LA Leaders of the Brown Berets de Aztlan said they plan to demonstrate outside Pima County Superior Court.
San Diego-area Brown Beret leaders say the Chicano nationalist group is coming to Arizona to protest not only against the Minutemen, but against the killings of an Arivaca man and his daughter May 30.
Authorities have accused a woman who led a small border-watch group of being the ringleader in the home-invasion killings.
Minuteman Project Founder Jim Gilchrist said “Minutemen all over the United States should be proud of their diligence in following and supporting the law of the land in our nation. To allow people who are not only illegal aliens in our nation to protest the law, but advocate overthrow of our government, shows just how over-tolerant some in law enforcement are when facing illegal activity in their own city.”
Gilchrist commented further, “Tucson, Arizona needs Joe Arapaio as its Sheriff it seems.”
Arpaio sent subpoenas to the local chapter and national headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, asking for a wide array of records he says will connect the organization to a racial profiling lawsuit he is challenging in federal court.
David Horowitz and Jim Gilchrist meet in LA Leaders of the Brown Berets de Aztlan said they plan to demonstrate outside Pima County Superior Court.
San Diego-area Brown Beret leaders say the Chicano nationalist group is coming to Arizona to protest not only against the Minutemen, but against the killings of an Arivaca man and his daughter May 30.
Authorities have accused a woman who led a small border-watch group of being the ringleader in the home-invasion killings.
Minuteman Project Founder Jim Gilchrist said “Minutemen all over the United States should be proud of their diligence in following and supporting the law of the land in our nation. To allow people who are not only illegal aliens in our nation to protest the law, but advocate overthrow of our government, shows just how over-tolerant some in law enforcement are when facing illegal activity in their own city.”
Gilchrist commented further, “Tucson, Arizona needs Joe Arapaio as its Sheriff it seems.”
Arpaio sent subpoenas to the local chapter and national headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, asking for a wide array of records he says will connect the organization to a racial profiling lawsuit he is challenging in federal court.
David Horowitz and Jim Gilchrist meet in LA Leaders of the Brown Berets de Aztlan said they plan to demonstrate outside Pima County Superior Court.
San Diego-area Brown Beret leaders say the Chicano nationalist group is coming to Arizona to protest not only against the Minutemen, but against the killings of an Arivaca man and his daughter May 30.
Authorities have accused a woman who led a small border-watch group of being the ringleader in the home-invasion killings.
Minuteman Project Founder Jim Gilchrist said “Minutemen all over the United States should be proud of their diligence in following and supporting the law of the land in our nation. To allow people who are not only illegal aliens in our nation to protest the law, but advocate overthrow of our government, shows just how over-tolerant some in law enforcement are when facing illegal activity in their own city.”
Gilchrist commented further, “Tucson, Arizona needs Joe Arapaio as its Sheriff it seems.”
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With two more victories this week, the momentum is clearly shifting our way! Thanks to all of our members, the House 
Date: Wednesday 23SEP09 5 p.m. EDT
Your phone calls won the day!!!! Border security amendment passed 259-167
BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU!
You won!
And everybody on all sides in the U.S. House was surprised. You caused what may have been a watershed vote today. Thanks to every one of you who made phone calls as we requested the last two days.
You handed the open-borders leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives a huge defeat today. And what a margin!
259-167!
H.R. 324 (the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Act) late this afternoon was amended to ensure that nothing about the designation would affect the ability of the Border Patrol to carry out its enforcement duties. Without that language, there was a huge loophole that very well might have been used to block efforts to stop the movement of illegal aliens across that huge Arizona area.
Republicans voted unanimously 174-0 in favor of the pro-enforcement change. Even the usually-open-borders Republicans felt compelled to vote for it.
But Republicans can’t make anything happen on their own. And they almost never persuade the necessary 40-45 Democrats it takes to win on anything the last three years.
But the Republican leadership won today because it rallied behind an immigration-enforcement measure that the public would overwhelmingly support.
This change of language won because your barrage of phone calls yesterday and today caused 85 Democrats to know that their constituents really care about border security, that they are paying attention to even obscure legislative happenings and that they very well might punish them if they continue to vote with the open-borders leanings of their Party leadership.
85 Democrats voted with us.
Go to our home page to see how your Reprentative voted. The Vote Tracker will be up soon.
BREAKING OPEN-BORDERS ARROGANCE
One reason this vote was so important is that it may have sent a message to Speaker Pelosi and all her team that they cannot afford to continue to be on the wrong side of the immigration issue on any bill they care about.
Pelosi’s response to concerns about illegal aliens and the federal health plan was to demand that those concerns NOT be addressed. The result — thanks to incredible work of NumbersUSA activists and others throughout August — was that those concerns became a huge public negative on the health bill. Even Pres. Obama had to dissassociate himself from Pelosi’s position.
THE INSIDE STORY OF YOUR VICTORY
It is always good to savor a victory. The NumbersUSA culture for 13 years has been to roll around in the victory, and then start fighting the next battle the next day.
Enjoy.
In committee, Rep. Bishop (R-Utah) expressed a concern about the H.R. 324 Arizona bill undercutting border security efforts, the leadership suspended the rules and refused to even allow a vote on a Bishop amendment.
Tuesday morning, we learned from Rep. Bishop that he was going to take on an uphill battle to persuade the House Rules Committee to allow his amendment to come up for a vote on the House floor Wednesday. There once was a time under both Parties that Members of the House were given lots of opportunity to amend and perfect a bill on the floor. Now, very few amendments are ever allowed unless the House leadership favors them.
We mobilized our members across the nation Tuesday mid-day, and within an hour had phones ringing throughout the House, asking that the Bishop pro-enforcement amendment be allowed a vote.
By Tuesday evening after hours of phoning that raised this issue to top visibility on the Hill, Rep. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was ready to tell the Rules Committee that he would offer to change his bill to have language to meet the concerns of Bishop and the phone callers. We appreciated his new-found sensitivity.
By Wednesday morning, Rep. Bishop saw that the new Grijalva language was too loose but that the addition would preclude the Rules Committee from letting the Bishop amendment come to a vote. With the high visibility that your phone calls were giving this issue, Rep. Bishop was able to get the attention of Republican leadership which agreed to mobilize all the Republicans behind the one tool still available to the minority — the Motion to Recommit.
At mid-Wednesday — once we knew we had the Republican votes because of leadership support — we mobilized NumbersUSA’s members to phone Democratic Members to try to persuade 40 to vote for the Motion to Recommit (which generally is seen as a slam against the majority Party’s leadership).
Frankly, when the voting started late Wednesday afternoon, we assumed we would lose by 10-25 votes. Early voting suggested we were right.
I think Bishop and the Republican leadership primarily hoped to make a statement, not to actually win.
But with only about 20 votes (mainly Democratic) still out, we had a basically tied vote at around 205-205. At that point, 37 Democrats were voting YES. Our experience is that Speaker Pelosi allows as many politically vulnerable Democrats as possible to vote with us but pressures others to either vote the other way or hold their votes until the end and then vote based on what will eek out a one-vote victory for the Speaker. So, we prepared ourselves for the Democratic vote staying just below the 40 it looked like we would need.
Suddenly just before the end of the voting, we saw that two or three Democrats who had voted NO were switching their votes to YES.
Then, all but three of the rest of the Republicans arrived and cast YES votes.
The Democratic tally went up to 40.
And then the dam burst, with the rest of the Democrats finally casting their votes, with most of them voting YES! Several more Democrats who had voted NO earlier now saw that the amendment was going to pass anyway and switched to YES because they knew their constituents would prefer a YES.
In those final frenzied minutes of voting, the tally went from around 205-205 to 259-167. A total of 38 Democrats changed from NO to YES. The number of Democrats voting for pro-border-enforcement went from 37 to 85. (I know what you are asking and the answer is that I don’t know a way to find which 38 of the 85 YES-Democrats changed their votes after first voting NO.)
After our victory in approval of the Motion to Recommit, Rep. Grijalva accepted the language to guarantee no prohibitions on border enforcement and to make permanent a key highway checkpoint. After a series of quick parliamentary procedures, the bill came up for a vote and passed quickly, with the strong language intact. He could have avoided the whole controversy by allowing a vote on Rep. Bishop’s amendment in committee. Rep. Grijalva claimed that the amendment was not needed and did not change anything about the bill. Perhaps sponsors of bills in the future will decide that it is just easier to accept our side’s language that essentially verifies that what is promised on enforcement actualy happens.
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership at the last minute messed up the original deal which had the Motion to Recommit being only about immigration. It added a small amount of language about another issue and ruined our ability to score the vote as a clear immigration vote on our Grade Cards. That is why you won’t see the vote showing up in the individual records or the Members.
WHAT DID WE LEARN AND ACCOMPLISH?
First, we escaped a potential disaster in which much of southern Arizona would be largely off-limits to intense Border Patrol activity — while becoming more and more ON-limits to drug trafficers and human smugglers.
Second, we sent a clear message to the Pelosi regime that it can’t count on its Democratic Members to deliver majorities to the open-borders agenda.
I don’t believe for a minute that Pelosi isn’t able to continue to arm-twist, threaten and make promises to keep a lot of those 85 Democrats in line. But we learned today that 85 Democrats definitely want their constituents to see them on OUR side.
I also think most of the first 37 Democrats who voted YES not only need to be seen with us for political reasons but are philosophically with us. They WANT to be with us or they NEED to be with us so badly that they aren’t going to be taking any dives for Speaker Pelosi.
For those entities trying to force Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid to bring comprehensive amnesty up for a vote, their job got a lot harder today. How does Pelosi get a majority for an amnesty when 85 Democrats wouldn’t hold with her on an obscure issue that was getting ZERO media attention today?
Finally, we learned a lot about all of you in the NumbersUSA membership. This was a situation in which NONE of our allied organizations got involved in this brief 30-hour battle. NO talk radio show joined in the mobilization. NONE of the Members of Congress took to the airwaves to promote this Motion to Recommit.
THE ONLY ENTITY MOBILIZING AND PUBLICLY PROMOTING PASSAGE OF THE MOTION TO RECOMMIT TODAY was NumbersUSA’s army of committed volunteer citizen activists.
THANKS,
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is seen from Mexico’s side of the San Ysidro port of entry guarding vehicles involved in a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, Sept. 22, 2009. Four people were injured in a gun battle involving an attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico at the busiest border crossing in the U.S., authorities said. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Border Patrol Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling confirmed this week–as I first reported in my column yesterday–that his agency is planning for a net decrease of 384 agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1.
A Department of Homeland Security annual performance review updated by the Obama administration on May 7 said the Border Patrol “plans to move several hundred Agents from the Southwest Border to the Northern Border to meet the FY 2010 staffing requirements, with only a small increase in new agents for the Southwest Border in the same year.”
Easterling said on Tuesday that in fiscal 2009, 17,399 Border Patrol agents have been deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border. In fiscal year 2010, the Border Patrol plans to decrease that by 384 agents, leaving 17,015 deployed along the Mexican frontier. At the same time, the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Canada border will be increased by 414, from a fiscal 2009 total of 1,798 agents to a fiscal 2010 total of 2,212.
The Border Patrol is responsible for securing a total of 8,607 miles of border, including the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S.-Canada border from Washington state to Maine, and sectors of coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Each year, the Border Patrol sets a goal for “border miles under effective control (including certain coastal sectors).” “Effective control,” as defined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, means that when the Border Patrol detects an illegal border crosser in a particular area of the border the agency can be expected to succeed in apprehending that person.
In the May 7 update of its performance review, DHS said the Border Patrol’s goal for fiscal 2009 was to have 815 of the 8,607 miles of border for which the agency is responsible under “effective control.” The review also said the Border Patrol’s goal for fiscal 2010 was to again have 815 miles of border under “effective control,” meaning DHS was not planning to secure a single additional mile of border in the coming year.
However, Acting Deputy Assistant Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Todd Owen told a House committee in July that the Border Patrol already had 894 miles of border under effective control as of May 31 of this year. These 894 miles, Owen said, included 697 miles on the Mexican border, 32 miles on the Canadian border and 165 miles in the coastal sectors.
Easterling said this week that as of now the Border Patrol still has the same 894 miles of border under effective control that it had under effective control as of May 31. He also said the agency would not relinquish control of any of these miles in the coming year. After the beginning of the new fiscal year, he said, the Border Patrol would reevaluate the situation and set a new goal for border miles under “effective control” for 2010 that would at least equal, and might exceed, the 894 miles currently under effective control.
“The intention is to take back the border incrementally, and make gains that we can keep,” Easterling said. “We do not intend, nor will we give back, miles that we have gained control over.”
Easterling said the Border Patrol would be able to maintain the current number of miles under effective control on the Mexico border with fewer agents deployed there thanks to “force multipliers,” including new fencing, roads and other infrastructure that has been built in recent years. He also cited the assistance the Border Patrol receives from local police and sheriffs departments and community watch groups.
But even if the Border Patrol is able to maintain or marginally improve on the current level of security on the U.S.-Mexico border, most of the border will remain effectively open to smuggling both contraband and persons.
The entire U.S.-Mexico border is 1,954 miles long, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission. While 697 of those miles are now under “effective control,” according to the Border Patrol, 1,257 miles are not under “effective control.”
Reports from other government agencies paint a vivid picture of the massive drug and alien smuggling that takes place in these uncontrolled expanses and the national security problem created by unsecured border lands.
Each year, the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center produces “drug market analyses” for each of 32 regions of the country that the NDIC describes as “high intensity drug trafficking areas.” Five of these areas sit along the U.S.-Mexico border. These include the California border region, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas and South Texas. The latest reports, released in March and April of this year, use candid language in portraying the U.S.-Mexican frontier as wide open to drug smuggling and even vulnerable to penetration by potential terrorists.
The California-Mexico border, the NDIC said, was “easily breached” on both foot and in vehicles.
“The vast border area presents innumerable remote crossing points that traffickers exploit to smuggle illicit drugs, primarily marijuana, into the country from Mexico,” said NDIC. “These areas are easily breached by traffickers on foot, in private vehicles, or in all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) as they smuggle drugs between POEs [ports of entry], particularly the mountainous areas in eastern San Diego County and the desert and sand dune areas in Imperial County.”
Arizona’s border was judged to be open not only to drug smugglers but also aliens with “extensive criminal records” and from “special interest countries,” which are defined as “countries that could export individuals who could bring harm to the United States through terrorism.”
“Some criminal organizations smuggle aliens and gang members into the United States,” said NDIC’s report on Arizona. “These particular individuals typically have extensive criminal records and pose a threat, not only to the Arizona HIDTA [high intensity drug trafficking area] region but also to communities throughout the United States. Alien smuggling organizations reportedly also smuggle aliens from countries other than Mexico, including special-interest countries.”
“Special-interest countries are those designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals who could bring harm to the United States through terrorism,” said the NDIC report.
The NDIC described the Arizona-Mexico border as “largely underprotected” in the areas between official ports of entry.
“Large amounts of illicit drugs are smuggled into the area from Mexico, and bulk cash is transported from the area into Mexico,” said NDIC. “These trafficking activities are facilitated by several factors unique to the region, including the continuing economic and population growth in Arizona’s two primary drug markets (Phoenix and Tucson), the highways that connect major metropolitan areas in Arizona with major illicit drug source areas in Mexico, and a remote, largely underprotected border area between Arizona’s ports of entry (POEs).
“Vast stretches of remote, sparsely populated border areas are located within the HIDTA region; these areas are especially conducive to large-scale drug smuggling,” said NDIC. “By the end of January 2009, 108 miles of the 262-mile shared border between Arizona and Mexico will have some type of fencing. However, few physical barriers exist in border areas between POEs, particularly in the West Desert area of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Tucson Sector, to impede drug traffickers, chiefly Mexican DTOs, from smuggling illicit drug shipments into the United States from Mexico.”
Part of the New Mexico border was described as “an ideal smuggling corridor.”
“Southwestern New Mexico—specifically Hidalgo, Luna, and Dona Ana Counties—shares a 180-mile border with Mexico,” said NDIC. “More than half the length of this border is desolate public land that contains innumerable footpaths, roads, and trails. Additionally, many ranches are located along the border. These factors and minimal law enforcement coverage make the area an ideal smuggling corridor for drugs and other illicit goods and services— primarily alien smuggling into the United States and weapons and bulk cash smuggling into Mexico. Mexican DTOs smuggle multihundred-kilogram quantities of illicit drugs through this portion of the HIDTA region annually.”
Like the California border, the South Texas border is also “easily breached,” according to the NDIC.
“The combination of vast stretches of remote, sparsely populated land and extensive crossborder economic activity at designated ports of entry (POEs) creates an environment conducive to large-scale drug smuggling,” said NDIC. “Few physical barriers exist between POEs to impede drug traffickers, particularly Mexican DTOs, from smuggling illicit drug shipments into the United States from Mexico. Along many areas of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, the Rio Grande River can be easily breached by smugglers on foot or in vehicles, enabling Mexican DTOs to smuggle multikilogram quantities of illicit drugs, primarily marijuana and cocaine, into the United States.”
In the West Texas sector, the NDIC again raised the possibility that terrorists could exploit the border to enter the country.
“Moreover, the region’s location along the U.S.-Mexico border poses national security and law enforcement issues for the region, such as alien smuggling, weapons transportation, and terrorist entry into the United States through and between ports of entry,” said NDIC.
While the U.S. government may be failing to exert effective control over most of the border, identical language in the NDIC reports for Arizona and West Texas said that drug trafficking organizations have set up “gatekeeper” operations that control smuggling into the U.S. and levy taxes on the smugglers they let through.
“Gatekeepers regulate the drug flow from Mexico across the U.S.-Mexico border into the United States by controlling drug smugglers’ access to areas along the border,” said the Arizona and West Texas NDIC reports. “Gatekeepers collect ‘taxes’ from smugglers on all illicit shipments that are moved through these areas, including drugs and illegal aliens. The taxes are generally paid to the DTO that controls the area; the DTO then launders the tax proceeds. Gatekeepers sometimes resort to extortion, intimidation, and acts of violence to collect taxes from smugglers. Gatekeepers also reportedly bribe corrupt Mexican police and military personnel in order to ensure that smuggling activities occur without interruption.”
“Gatekeepers generally operate at the behest of a Mexican drug trafficking organization (DTO) and enforce the will of the organization through bribery, intimidation, extortion, beatings, and murder,” said the reports.
A Government Accountability Office report released on August 31 pointed out that the Border Patrol’s top priority is to stop terrorists and weapons of mass destruction from entering the United States and revealed that three person’s “linked to terrorism” and hundreds of aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints in fiscal 2008. These checkpoints, which act as a final line of defense for the U.S. border, are typically set up on highways 25 to 100 miles north of the Mexican border.
“CBP reported that in fiscal year 2008, there were three individuals encountered by the Border Patrol at southwest border checkpoints who were identified as persons linked to terrorism,” said GAO.
“In addition, the Border Patrol reported that in fiscal year 2008 checkpoints encountered 530 aliens from special interest countries, which are countries the Department of State has determined to represent a potential terrorist threat to the United States,” said GAO. “While people from these countries may not have any ties to illegal or terrorist activities, Border Patrol agents detain aliens from special interest countries if they are in the United States illegally and Border Patrol agents report these encounters to the local Sector Intelligence Agent, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations, and the CBP National Targeting Center.”
The GAO also said one illegal alien detained in West Texas had come from Iran.
“For example,” said GAO, “according to a Border Patrol official in the El Paso sector, a checkpoint stopped a vehicle and questioned its three Iranian occupants, determining that one of those occupants was in the United States illegally. The individual was detained and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further questioning.”
There has been much discussion in the past week about whether President Barack Obama will heed the advice of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to increase the U.S. troop deployment there. The administration, however, has already decided to decrease by 384 the Border Patrol agents deployed on our own southern frontier.
Harvad Extends Invitation to Minutemen Project
Jim Gilchrist to speak for all of us!
“Jim Gilchrist – America ’s Minuteman” needs your help. On October 17, Jim Gilchrist, the founder and president of the Minuteman Project will be answering tough academic questions at Harvard University and taking a stand for immigration law enforcement advocacy, but he can’t do it alone.
Believe me, in these turbulent times many are looking for answers to the illegal immigration chaos. Not just the man on the street, but all the way up through the nation’s Ivy League schools.
Furthermore, millions march on Washington ; town hall meetings erupt into shouting matches; citizens across America demand NO HEALTH-CARE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS. America has questions.
Just as America listened to one voice in the past, that voice is ready to speak for America today. Jim Gilchrist, America ’s Minuteman.
Jim Gilchrist is stepping forward and stating to America : “The Minutemen, once again, must lead the way.” Jim has accepted an invitation from the Harvard University Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC) to appear on behalf of the Minuteman Project.
He will participate in Harvard’s first annual Public Interest and Law Conference scheduled for October 17 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , a historic event!
Here is where we need your help.
We must bring the message of the Minutemen to all the Ivy League Schools! We MUST have “Jim Gilchrist – America ’s Minuteman” stand tall, not small, at America ’s most renown University and declare the same message brought forth in 1776, the message of the Minutemen, which is Freedom, Liberty , and the Rule of Law.
It is more than just arriving and speaking. Jim’s appearance is a statement for America, powerful words need to be spoken at a time so critical in America, no doubt a historic event.
“Jim Gilchrist – America’s Minuteman” will not be beholden nor accept any honorarium from Harvard University, he will owe them nothing! He will not be owned, nor will he “walk on egg shells”. He must speak at Harvard University without constraint and without predisposition.
The only way this can happen is for you to underwrite this historic trip to Harvard for Jim. “Jim Gilchrist – America’s Minuteman” must speak for you, without restraint! Time for America is short.
Now, here’s the next step. You must be part of “Jim Gilchrist – America ’s Minuteman” and his noble stand for all of us as he faces unknown academic foes and possibly angry crowds.
Quite simply, as little as $ 50.00 will go a long way in sending Jim to Harvard. Give for those who can’t give during this time of social unrest. Give like the future of our beloved nation depends on it! (And it does.)
The fact is, we need your response by October 1st, so bookings, arrangements, and security can be arranged.
“I am looking forward for those tough academic questions and speaking for the American people. Just like I didn’t back down in Vietnam , serving my nation in the Marine Corps, I will not back down.”
-“Jim Gilchrist – America ’s Minuteman”
Go to: https://www.minutemanproject.com/organization/contribute.asp
Thank you Patriot, God Bless America .
FAIR Exposes Tactics Of Anti-immigration Reform Advocates
October 12, 2009 by Personal Liberty News Desk
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has released a report detailing what it calls “the unscrupulous methods” used by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to discredit organizations advocating enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
The report, entitled Guide to Understanding the Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Immigration Debate, also examines the SPLC’s financial motives that it says fuel its increasing attacks.
“The SPLC is an opportunistic outfit, seeking to raise money by smearing mainstream groups and moderate Americans who simply want order restored to our nation’s dysfunctional immigration system,” says Dan Stein, president of FAIR.
He also adds that SPLC has “no record of offering constructive solutions to our immigration problems.”
FAIR was founded in 1979 and is the country’s largest immigration reform group. Its goal is to promote the idea that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve the environment, and establish a rule of law that is enforced.
The organization says it hopes the new publication will encourage journalists, legislators, students and others researchers of immigration issues to judge independently, and stated that it “proudly stands by its 30-year record of advocating for reforms to our immigration policy that are supported by the majority of the American people.”
Date: Monday 12oct09
Please help educate the nation’s church leaders to stop lobbying for more foreign workers
DEAR FRIENDS,
With only one major exception, virtually all Christian denominations now have national leadership calling for more foreign workers in the U.S. — even though U.S. workers (including those in church pews) are unemployed by the millions.
This is becoming a real problem here on Capitol Hill.
You can help. See below.
At this moment, every single religious lobbyist speaking to Congress is calling for an amnesty and an increase in our million-a-year green card level for permanent foreign workers.
Friends, only the 920,000-member volunteer force of NumbersUSA can slow down this misguided religious crusade that will leave millions of Americans unemployed as a result.
I really do believe you can cause some of these religious leaders to have second thoughts about whether they have been hood-winked by the open-borders forces’ call for giant increases in permanent foreign-worker permits while Americans are suffering a jobs depression.
HERE IS WHAT I ASK OF YOU:
(ALL OF YOU)
Come back to your NumbersUSA Action Board every day this week and look for faxes and other actions provided for you. We will be adding faxes during the week.
(FOR YOU WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE PRO-AMNESTY DENOMINATIONS LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS EMAIL)
Please contact your national office and explain why you think your national church leaders are wrong. (You can also see the full list of denominations and contact info here.)
(MEMBERS OF ANY LOCAL CONGREGATION)
Forward my blog on Church Leaders’ War on Jobless Americans to your local pastor. It is important that local clergy know about the jobs issue that their national leaders are avoiding.
(IF YOU ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY CHURCHES) Please consider phoning or emailing the national church offices, identify yourself as an outsider and express your disappointment that the churches have banded with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in flooding the labor markets.
(IF YOU HAVEN’T TAKEN OUR INTEREST SURVEY)
Please Religion Survey> click here to indicate your religious affiliation so you can see actions specific to your faith group.
Believe it or not, all these denominations are moving forward on the basis of their claim that illegal immigration occurs because we don’t allow enough permanent legal immigration to deal with U.S. labor shortages.
That’s right LABOR SHORTAGES!
As you can see, the church leaders have been hoodwinked by the open-borders business groups into thinking that we have a labor shortage in the middle of this deep recession!
Seriously, the church leaders need your factual help. I hope you will choose parts of the statistics below and in my blog to emphasize in all your communications with local and national church leaders.
Following are excerpts from my blog today. I hope you will read the blog in its entirety so you are better equipped with the arguments against religious leaders siding with exploitative employers in favor of foreign labor importation.
DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS TALK OF LABOR SHORTAGES AMIDST ‘U-6′ UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF 17%
Now — except for the Southern Baptist Convention — all the country’s substantial Mainline Protestant, Catholic and Evangelical denominations are endorsing huge new increases in permanent work permits for foreign workers. (Read my blog on the National Association of Evangelicals’ latest dive into the pro-amnesty coalition.)
Accepted by progressives and conservatives alike as the best measure of suffering, the U-6 Unemployment Rate for everybody in the U.S. had risen to nearly 17% by mid-summer! It counts not only those actively looking for a job but discouraged workers who have recently given up looking as well as people involuntarily forced into part-time work.
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS PREFER ILLEGAL ALIENS OVER IMMIGRANTS ALREADY HERE
Even though the church leaders constantly talk about being kinder to the immigrants already living among us, their constant push for more and more new foreign workers to compete is harming the existing community which has a U-6 Unemployment Rate of 20%.
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GRADS
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER YOUNG LESS-EDUCATED AMERICANS
The effect of church leaders’ high-immigration advocacy is even worse for young adults trying to enter the labor market. These are the people most likely to be starting families. Hurting them means especially being just plain mean to young struggling families.
The U-6 Unemployment Rate for U.S.-born high school graduates who are between 18 and 29 is an incredible 30%.
Almost one of every three young adults with a high school degree who wants to work CAN”T FIND A FULL-TIME JOB! But the church bishops and presidents and executive directors want millions more permanent work permits for citizens of other countries — including illegal aliens.
The inability to get a job, to hold a job or to earn a decent wage and benefits contributes heavily to low marriage rates, high rates of children without fathers in the home, to the joining of gangs and to other criminal and dependency pathologies during these formative years.
But our national church leaders ignore the mounting hardship of our young, non-college adults, lobbying for more foreign workers to compete in their occupations. The people in this high school graduate category who are hurt most by church leaders’ lobbying are:
U.S.-born Hispanics (33%)
Black Americans (37%)
CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born high school drop-outs (over age 18) is 33%.
The people in this high school dropout category who are hurt most by church leaders’ lobbying are:
U.S.-born Hispanics (37%)
Black Americans (42%)
CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER AMERICAN TEENAGERS SEEKING A JOB
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
In communities with high immigration, adult foreign workers typically take most of the jobs in fast-food, lawn care and other service jobs where teenagers traditionally have first learned a work ethic.
The percentage of teenagers working at all has never been lower.
The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born teens (age 16-17) is 41%.
The people in this teen category who are hurt most by church leaders’ lobbying are:
U.S.-born Hispanics (48%)
Immigrants already here (55%)
Black Americans (67%)
CHURCH LEADERS HAVE ABANDONED BLACK UNDERCLASS
* * * * * For more detail, read today’s blog.
Do the church leaders know that the latest government data indicate that while the economy eliminates hundreds of thousands of jobs a month, the feds are issuing around 160,000 new permanent and temporary work permits each month?
NumbersUSA since last November has advocated cutting the 160,000 as close to zero as possible. THAT would create a little more opportunity for a just society as repeatedly advocated in the Bible.
Please protect the nation’s religious leaders from acting out the folly that results from their ignorance of the issues at hand. Millions upon millions of Americans without a job or barely holding on to their job are at danger if the religious crusade for amnesty and more foreign labor importation continues.
THANKS,
Demonstrators unveil a ‘human billboard’ at La Placita Olvera area in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, May 1, 2009 during a march and rally for immigration law reform. Sign reads ‘Workers First.’ (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
The in-person poll, taken during August and September, sampled 1,004 Mexicans across the country on subjects related to illegal immigration and amnesty in the United States.
When asked “Should the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans be to Mexico or to the U.S.?” 68.8 percent of respondents in Mexico said that it should be to Mexico, while only 19.7 percent said it should be to the United States. Another 11.5 percent of respondents said they were not sure.
Steven Camarota, director of research at the CIS, told CNSNews.com that the Spanish phrase translated as “Mexican-Americans” (“los estadounidenses de origen mexicano”) was carefully selected to ensure that respondents knew that it included those born in the U.S. He particularly stressed the Spanish word ‘estadounidenses.’
“It means ‘United States-ian’ — (that’s) how it translates,” he said, “and it’s understood by everyone in Mexico to include, clearly, people born in the United States of Mexican ancestry.”
Camarota also told CNSNews.com that just over one-third of respondents (36 percent) said that they would come to the U.S., if they could. Of that group, 68 percent said they think that Mexican-Americans owe loyalty to Mexico over the United States.
The data shows that the percentage of potential illegal immigrants who hold that belief is nearly identical to the percentage among the general Mexican population, Camarota said.
Other poll results centered on how Mexico itself would react to an amnesty in the United States — which was the reason for the poll, according to Camarota.
“How an amnesty would be perceived or received in that country is important to think about if you’re arguing for legalization,” he noted. “That’s the number one reason we did it.”
The results clearly showed that illegal immigration tends to encourage more people to emigrate in the future. he said.
“In Mexico, Mexicans overwhelmingly – especially those who have family here (in the U.S. )– overwhelmingly say that it (amnesty) would encourage illegal immigration in the future.”
In fact, 56.2 percent of respondents did indeed answer “more likely” when asked, “If the U.S. gave permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants (migrantes indocumentados), do you think it would make your friends and family members more likely or less likely to go to the U.S. as indocumentados, or would it make no difference?”
Just over 16 percent said that it would make them less likely to come to the U.S., while 19.6 percent said that it would make no difference. Another 7.6 responded that they were not sure.
Camarota was careful to note the limitations of the poll.
“It doesn’t tell us what Mexican-Americans think, it tells us what the expectation of Mexican-Americans is among Mexicans,” he said.
Nevertheless, the poll does have its uses, he added.
“(It) tells us what kind of society Mexican immigrants came out of, what the expectation is for those who go here,” Camarota told CNSNews.com.
He also said that, when asking which nation Mexican-Americans should be loyal to, “If you’re asking the question in Mexico, you don’t have to worry that people will give a guarded answer.”
Calls to Mexican-American and immgration groups were not returned.
Tea Parties Against Amnesty Nationwide November 14
Although NumbersUSA is not involved in organizing the Tea Parties Against Amnesty, we are forwarding information to our active members who may want to create their own rallies or attend planned events.
Dear friends:
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is spearheading an effort called Against Amnesty
NumbersUSA Local Power Team
The way to get involved directly with NumbersUSA events is to create or join your Local Power Team
Local Power is the grassroots division of NumbersUSA that meet with Representatives and Senators at the local level. The Local Power Team connects, activates, and organizes members in the congressional districts.
Local Power has three specific goals with the 111th Congress:
1. Stop Amnesty
2. Get E-Verify Nationwide
3. Promote Constituent Pressure
Local Power is a multi-departmental marketing and communications effort using the entire spectrum of tools available from e-mail to phone calls, fax to facebook, coffee to twitter, conference calls to handwritten letters, and many more.
To inquire about your Local Power Team today e-mail Charles Breiterman charles@numbersusa.com or Chad MacDonald chad@numbersusa.com
Follow us on Twitter @ NumbersUSA and join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NumbersUSAforLowerImmigrationLevels
Thank you for your continued support!
Van Esser
Chief, Membership Services
NumbersUSA
Poll: Nearly 75% Want Illegal Immigration Decreased
Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:52 PM
By: Dave Eberhart
A new national poll by CNN/Opinion Research Corporation indicates that nearly three-quarters of all Americans would like to see a decrease in the number of illegal immigrants crossing the nation’s borders.
According to CNN, 73 percent of the survey responders wanted a drop in the number of illegal immigrants — with 22 percent saying the number should remain the same.
In other poll findings:
- 3 percent stated that there should be an increase in the number of illegal immigrants.
- 37 percent wanted to see all illegal immigrants deported.
- 23 percent said that the number of illegal immigrants in the country should be decreased significantly.
“Support for deporting all illegal immigrants is highest among older Americans and people who live in rural areas. It’s highest in the South and Midwest and nearly as high in the Northeast, but only one in four Westerners think that all illegal immigrants should be deported,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
CNN also advised that the 73 percent figure was the highest recorded since the question was first asked four years ago.
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Although NumbersUSA is not involved in organizing the Tea Parties Against Amnesty, we are forwarding information to our active members who may want to create their own rallies or attend planned events.
Dear friends:
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is spearheading an effort called Against Amnesty to promote rallies against amnesty for illegal aliens on November 14. They are seeking organizers and attendees for events in every state in the nation. As of this writing, 14 Tea Party rallies are planned and over 700 people have indicated they will participate.
If you are interested in holding your own rally on November 14, or attending one of those planned, start by visiting www.AgainstAmnesty.com and filling out a supporter form on the homepage. You can view existing event locations on the web site and easily sign up to register your own rally. The web site allows you to contact others about this effort. It also has a “Contact US” page if you have any questions.
NumbersUSA Local Power Team
The way to get involved directly with NumbersUSA events is to create or join your Local Power Team
Local Power is the grassroots division of NumbersUSA that meet with Representatives and Senators at the local level. The Local Power Team connects, activates, and organizes members in the congressional districts.
Local Power has three specific goals with the 111th Congress:
1. Stop Amnesty
2. Get E-Verify Nationwide
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Smart Job Creation
The deporting of illegal aliens, penalizing the employers who hires them and strengthening small businesses will reverse the collapsing economy while building the infrastructure of our U.S. workforce. The new American currency is not the dollar but jobs! It is the ability to create, sustain and expand the job market, which powers this great land and empowers the world economy. American ingenuity is the catalyst of industry, from this base, policy and taxation stems. The key to the revival of the American economy, and therefore, jobs is not as complex as some may portray.
America must follow a model that promotes entrepreneurialism and expands the number of jobs created. Because of the expansive employment by the government, the job market is cannibalized creating a multiplication effect. As big government expands its employment base a repercussion results, thereby many more jobs are lost, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophesy and economic decline, hence a recession is unavoidable.
The largest employer in America is still small businesses. Realize a whopping 8.1 million small businesses employ up to 100 employees each, while mid-size businesses, those who employ 100 to 999 employees, account for only 93,000 businesses. Then Businesses with 1,000 or more employees number approximately 8,000. Do the math.
Small Businesses Are the Answer As They:
•Represent more than 99.7% of all employers
•Employ half of all private-sector workers and 39% of workers in high-tech jobs
•Provide 60% to 80% of the net new jobs annually
•Pay 44.3% of total U.S. private payroll
•Produce more than 50% of nonfarm private gross domestic product, or a GDP of roughly $6 trillion
•Are 3% franchises
Therefore, it only makes sense to stimulate the greatest employer, that is, small business. By the stimulation of small businesses, employment would increase dramatically and in turn augment the GDP. The components to the stimulating of business cannot be contained in this brief article; however, there are 3 main backbone components for a rapid and strong recovery, not only addressing the unemployment dilemma facing America, but also the increase of domestically driven GDP.
Small Business Administration Expansion
Component Number One. Empower the Small Business Administration. The SBA for decades has been a major government-lending instrument to infuse secured funds into businesses for expansion.
a.B.I.G. This method will be a big help for small business. Big is an acronym, which stands for Business Incentive Grants. These B.I.G.’s would fund up to $ 100,000 and be granted to small businesses assisting them in the greening of American Enterprise. The grants would help businesses convert to green and alternative energy as well as utilizing recycling as a sensible economic means to operate their businesses. This in turn would satisfy government emission standards and further expand the employment base. The demand for this emerging industry capitalized through the SBA in the form of the B.I.G. program will have a positive effect on the unemployed as well as on the GDP.
b.B.I.G. Plus – These grants would fund consultants to actively assist businesses in making the transition to green and/or alternative energy and recycling methods.
c.Reduce the security qualification for SBA loans. As per a qualification scale, every new secured loan written by the SBA would include grant provisions for employee expansion.
Restructure the Schedule “C” filing to build a tax driven reward system
Component Number Two. Restructure the Schedule “C” of the I.R.S 1040 reporting of self-employed income.
The model used is similar to the standard deduction now in place on every 1040. The business standard deduction would be for ONLY schedule “C” filers and would allow $ 10,000 of exempted gross income be excluded from the top of the gross income as reported from any sole proprietor or any schedule “C” filer, but with the limitation that the Schedule “C” filer must have at least 1 employee.
This method will stimulate individuals to start businesses, expand by hiring at least 1 employee and reward those who have entrepreneurship thereby, creating more tax dollars by stimulating business at the small business level.
The Mom and Pop shop would flourish giving more opportunity to hire from within a family or a community. It would also provide for the taking of more profits from a business, putting more dollars in circulation, thereby creating a greater GDP with a growing domestic base.
Business Tax Credit for hiring a new employee
Component Number Three. New Employee Tax Credits to Businesses
The next 3 years any business with 100 employees or less can take advantage of the full dollar tax credit and apply it directly to their 1120 Corporate tax return. By deploying this method, a business that employs 1 to 100 employees will be eligible to receive a full tax credit of the salary earned by the new employee up to a total of $50,000 or an aggregate of that amount. Therefore providing for the hiring of more than one employee until the $50,000 maximum is reached.
This tax credit to businesses of a maximum of $50,000 per year extending for a period of three years, will allow the national employee base to expand at near zero cost to the employer and thereby shifting the employee’s salary away from employer’s liability. The tax credit will not include the social security, state disability or other mandatory state and federal taxes or fees, thereby leaving the net pay earned by the employee eligible for the tax credit to the employer.
The approaches outlined here are just a starting point for discussion, but extol the benefits without much expense or hard cost to either the employer or the federal or state government. The benefits will be the hiring of millions of new employees, the use of Business Incentive Grants also including the infusion of monies into businesses all of which will produce an immediate National benefit.
The repowering of the American people through the careful use of Business Incentive Grants, Standard Schedule “C” Deductions and Business Employment Tax Credits will go a long way in solving the unemployment issues facing America today. Furthermore, by empowering small businesses in these matters will have a positive psychological impact on the working class and the business owner placing back into their hands the ability to use existing government credits and funding to rebuild, empower and grow their businesses.
“The greatest power on earth is not the splitting of the atom, but the coalescence of the American people into a powerful workforce, being empowered to operate from an underpinning of revenue and once again being the envy of the world.” Dale Robertson – Founder/President – Tea Party
1. www.entrepreneur.com/sbe/glance/index.html Large firm of 1,000 Entrepreneur Journal
2.Source: SBA, “Small Business by the Numbers,” June 2004
3.Source: SBA, “Small Business Economic Indicators for 2003,” August 2004
| The Pews Fight Back | |
| Last week, we told you about a new Zogby poll that revealed the differences between church leaders and the people sitting in the pews. (Watch Roy’s appearance on Fox & Friends) Well, NumbersUSA Members are fighting back, and in the last three days, you’ve sent 129,989 faxes to Members of Congress telling them how you feel.But on Thursday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops upped the ante, launching a campaign urging Congress to pass a mass amnesty bill. The campaign includes a series of websites and the sending of 1.5 million post cards to congregations hoping parishioners will sign them. So despite your tremendous response to the poll this week, the fight has just begun.“We remain committed to moving immigration reform as soon as possible,” Bishop and chairman of the USCCB John C. Webster said. “We hope to make sure that our federal legislators are committed to that goal as well.”As the Zogby poll pointed out, there is a huge disconnect between you and the leaders of your various denominations. The best thing you can do is explain to your clergy your concerns that a mass amnesty and high immigration numbers would have on 15 million unemployed Americans. If you haven’t already done so, complete our short religion survey, and then check your Action Board for specific faxes you can send.
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| GOP & DEM freshmen in Congress introduce NO-AMNESTY resolution | ||||
| DEAR OPPONENTS OF AMNESTY — GREAT NEWS!A group primarily of first-term Members of the House of Representatives — 10 Democrats and 12 Republicans — has just now introduced a House resolution that would commit the chamber to oppose any mass amnesty.H. Res. 1026 The Chaffetz/Kratovil No-Amnesty Bill Please go to your Action Board now to send a fax to your own U.S. Representative. You will find a fax that either thanks your Representative for co-sponsoring the anti-amnesty resolution or that asks your Representative to sign on. (However, those of you with a Representative who has already co-sponsored a pro-amnesty bill won’t see a new fax.) Until this resolution, voters have not been able to know which Members of Congress they can count on to oppose a mass legalization of some 12 million illegal aliens. We have been able to know the hundred or so Members of Congress who aggressively are pushing an amnesty because they have co-sponsored amnesty bills. But when a Member who hasn’t co-sponsored an amnesty says he/she is against an amnesty, we haven’t really known what that means. NOW, THOUGH, WE CAN LOOK TO THIS ANTI-AMNESTY RESOLUTION (H. RES. 1026) TO FIND THE NAMES OF THE MEMBERS WE CAN TRULY TRUST TO VOTE ‘NO’ ON ANY AMNESTY. This is a great immediate followup to the election of a no-amnesty Senator from Massachusetts who is filling a seat that has promoted amnesties and foreign-worker increases for 45 years. This effort is being led by two freshmen, Rep. Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Rep. Kratovil (D-Maryland). Other Democrats who are original No-Amnesty co-sponsors are Reps. Nye (Va.), Kagen (Wis.), Murphy (Pa.), Barrow (Ga.), Bright (Ala.), Taylor (Miss.), McIntyre (N.C.), Shuler (N.C.) and Childers (Miss.) Other Republicans signing are Reps. Hunter (Calif.), Jenkins (Kan.), Luetkemeyer (Mo.), Olson (Texas), Fleming (La.), Lummis (Wyoming), Coffman (Colo.), McClintock (Calif.), Posey (Fla.), Roe (Tenn.), Harper (Miss.). The filing of this resolution means that no Member of Congress can stay on the fence on amnesty now. Either the Members sign on to this No-Amnesty bill, or they signal that they are keeping open the possibility that they will vote FOR an amnesty if one comes up. BILL INCLUDES MANDATORY E-VERIFY AND BORDER SECURITY The short bill has three parts that commit the House of Representatives to:
The precise language can be read in the story on our home page. The language about amnesty is simply: “. . . any immigration reform proposal adopted by Congress should not legalize, grant amnesty for, or confer any other legal status condoning the otherwise unlawful entry or presence in the United States of any individual.” Here is the statement of Rep. Kratovil (D-Maryland): As a former prosecutor, I am committed to the rule of law. I came to Congress to fight for a common sense approach on immigration reform: enforcing the rules already on the books, punishing those who knowingly choose to violate them, and opposing any plans that reward or incentivize illegal behavior at the expense of those who are trying to play by the rules. This bipartisan resolution recognizes the critical role that legal immigrants have played in our society and lays out the principles that should guide any discussion of immigration reform. I am pleased to join Representatives Chaffetz, Nye, and Hunter as a lead on this important measure. Statement of Rep. Chaffetz (R-Utah) who got to Congress by defeating the pro-amnesty Republican leader Rep. Cannon in a primary election: Our government has a duty and responsibility to make our first immigration priority the enforcement of existing laws by ensuring that illegal behavior is punished, not rewarded. Any discussion of comprehensive immigration reform must begin with a renewed commitment to enforce our immigration laws. We need to remove the incentives that encourage illegal behavior if we expect to get immigration under control. OK, fellow Americans, let’s get your Representative signed onto this bill! THANKS, |
EYE ON THE BORDER
Crime Will Be Legalized If Amnesty Wins
Gilchrist Points To The Undefended U.S. /Mexican Border
“…….one of the ring members hit Trevi?o’s ankles and wrists with a hammer. The kidnappers are accused of using a rifle to hit Cepeda’s genitals.”
KIDNAPPING VICTUM ‘cooked’ IN MEXICO
A kidnapping ring is accused of taking its Rio Grande Valley victims to Mexico where they were tortured, held for ransom and in one case — killed. The trial for alleged kidnapping ring member Luis Alberto Avila-Hernandez started before U.S. District Court Judge Randy Crane in McAllen on Tuesday.
Several witnesses have testified against Avila-Hernandez, including the relatives of victims and his co-defendant Gerardo Zamora-Espinoza. The Associated Press reported that Zamora-Espinoza testified that the kidnappings where committed on the behalf of the Mexican Gulf cartel’s enforcers. Zamora-Espinoza told jurors that the body of kidnapping victim Daniel Ramirez, Jr. was “cooked” on a ranch in Mexico.
Court records show that Ramirez was kidnapped from his Country Village Store outside off FM 88 and 13 Mile Line north of Weslaco in August 2008. A criminal complaint filed against Avila-Hernandez shows that the kidnapping took place because Ramirez refused an offer to work with the Gulf Cartel.
Avila-Hernandez acted as lookout outside the store and helped drive Ramirez to a ranch in Mission where he was held before being taken to Mexico.The Associated Press reported that Zamora-Espinoza’s nephew ran the kidnapping ring.
Zamora-Espinzoa testified that his nephew told him they were “cooking the body” of Ramirez at a ranch in Mexico. Ramirez was killed even his father had paid $40,000 out of a $100,000 dollars ransom. But court documents obtained by Action 4 News show that Ramirez was not the only victim.
The group is also accused of kidnapping Antonio Gonzalez in August 2008 where they demanded $30,000 dollars and a vehicle for his release. The ring also accused of kidnapping victims Sergio Cepeda and Adrian Trevi?o in September 2008. The men were held at a home in Mission where one of the ring members hit Trevi?o’s ankles and wrists with a hammer. The kidnappers are accused of using a rilfe to hit Cepeda’s genitals. They held Cepeda for ransom for $40,000 dollars and two vehicles.
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=404432
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EX-BORDER AGENT RAMOS SEEKING NEW TRIAL
‘I know I’m rolling the dice … but it’s important for me to be cleared’
One of the two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose cases have been covered in hundreds of WND reports has confirmed he will seek a retrial to overturn his felony convictions.
The sentence for Ignacio Ramos – along with the sentence for fellow former agent Jose Compean – was commuted by President Bush as he was leaving the presidency. The two border agents were convicted of various charges that stemmed from firing their service weapons at a fleeing drug smuggler, and they were given prison terms of more than a decade.
Ramos, who has relocated with his family from El Paso to the Houston area, told the Houston Chronicle he will seek the new verdict.
“I know I’m rolling the dice,” Ramos said. “We don’t go into it blind. We talk about it, and we both know the risks. And it’s hard knowing what the possibility is. But it is important for me to be cleared.” While Bush commuted the prison sentences – releasing them for time served – a pardon was not granted, leaving the felony convictions on their records.
The original case stemmed from the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of Oswaldo Aldrete-Davila. The two officers said they thought Aldrete-Davila was armed and made a threatening move. Ramos and Compean were charged under the “wrong law,” U.S.C. Section 924(c) that imposes a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence on a person using a weapon in the commission of a federal crime.
Aldrete-Davila was granted immunity for his drug smuggling by federal prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against the agents. He crossed the Rio Grande and picked up a marijuana-loaded vehicle near El Paso. After a car chase in which he fled from the officers, he abandoned the vehicle and ran back across the border on foot. He was shot in the buttocks as he ran.
The petition collected more than 40,000 signatures by the time President Bush commuted the agents’ sentences. The letter campaign produced more than 3,000 FedEx letters to the White House. WND sent copies of some of the news stories and commentaries to the agents in prison. When Compean learned about the petition and FedEx campaign, he sent a letter to WND from the Federal Correctional Institution in Lisbon, Ohio.
“Although our case received attention before we reported to prison, I truly believed people would forget all about us,” Compean wrote at the time. “Once we reported to prison, I was very happy to see how wrong I was. I have received thousands of letters from people all over the country. I have also received letters from other countries such as Italy and even a few from soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Joe Loya, Ramos’ father-in-law, also said at the time he was thankful for the in-depth coverage. “We can only thank Joseph Farah, Jerome Corsi and the staff at WorldNetDaily because from the beginning you have been with us and you never gave up on the case,” he said at the time of the commutation. “Your reporting had a lot to do with the decision today by President Bush to commute the sentences.”
The Chronicle reported in the 11 months since Ramos was freed, he’s moved from El Paso to Katy, Texas, obtained a job, and reassembled his life. However, he said he still feels he’s the victim of wrong. “Even though there are people that believe in you, and there are people helping you, it’s not easy to live with. It’s very hard,” he told the newspaper. “Because if you didn’t know the story, … if you just look at what’s left on my record, you’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t leave my kids around this guy, or I can’t be around this guy. This guy is dangerous.’”
Characterizing Ramos and Compean’s incarceration as a “political prosecution,” Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, earlier called for a congressional investigation into alleged prosecutorial misconduct by Sutton under the direction of Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Poe also called for an investigation into the alleged role of the Mexican government in demanding that Ramos and Compean be prosecuted. The U.S. Supreme Court later declined to hear an appeal of the original case. WND is the resiurce to part of this article. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=122344
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