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August 30, 2010

Hugh Hewitt: Seventy percent of Americans know they’ve been conned

By: Hugh Hewitt
Examiner Columnist
August 29, 2010

Minimum estimate of Saturday’s crowd on the Mall: 300,000 Maximum estimate: One million people.

Meaning of the crowd: An enormous upheaval in the emotions of average Americans is coursing through the country, with a certain significance for November’s elections. It will have a lasting, profound impact on America’s political direction.

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin provided an occasion to glimpse this undeniable phenomenon. Of course, the interpretations of what the phenomenon is and what its consequences will be will keep the chattering class busy for weeks, if not years.

Some on the left are trying, with increasing desperation, to use old and new media to brand this surge in public participation in politics as sinister, even though it was preceded by a surge from the left of people and energy into President Obama’s campaign.

The new tools of communication and the ease of movement have unleashed a tumultuous era of politics driven by the demand that elites not attempt to speak for, or condescend to, average citizens. They will not quietly or passively be lectured to, or insulted by, the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg or any anchor on any network, any columnist in any paper, or any blogger on any Web site.

The people on the Mall and the millions more who watched the gathering with satisfaction rather than fear are quite simply sick of the left, and of its vast sneer toward the traditions, values and, yes, faith of the American middle class.

The American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur Brooks has quite accurately described America as a 70/30 nation, with the 70 percent presently massively underrepresented in the federal government, the Manhattan-Beltway media elite and academia.

The 70 percent is appalled by the placebo economics practiced by the president and the Congress over the past two years, shocked by its profligacy with the wealth of the republic, and sickened by the looting of the next generation’s opportunities.

The 70 percent did not want Obamacare, but it has been thrust upon them.

The 70 percent did not want federal judges to declare “game over” in the complex discussion of what marriage is and means.

The 70 percent want a fence on the border that works, and do not want their concern over unregulated immigration dismissed as nativisim.

The 70 percent are not ashamed of their belief in God, deeply resent being labeled bigots because they view ground zero as land that ought not to be exploited for “messaging” of any sort by any group, and are enraged by the scorn which they encounter everywhere in media except Fox News and talk radio.

The 70 percent believe that the federal government is remote and clueless, and that the Constitution’s principles of enumerated and limited powers and the sovereignty of the states are vibrant, important core values to the republic.

The 70 percent think Iran is in the grip of an evil, theocratic fascism, and that Israel is our true friend and ally deserving of our full-throated support.

We are in the middle of a perilous economic passage to a new competitiveness across the globe. We are watching other countries across the globe respond to the new demands of competitiveness by shrinking the public sector and encouraging private-sector growth. But American education is crippled by bureaucracy and burdened by the inability of a political class to demand reform of the practices and pensions of the public sector. Children have been hostages of this countrywide collapse of common sense for a generation, despite wave after wave of “reform”.

Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers, career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates — but for disaster in the real world.

The people on the Mall were saying much more than “this far and no farther.” They were saying “rewind and restart.” They will hold that thought and that purpose as they peacefully, but with great passion and purpose, insist on real change come Nov. 2.

Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.

ONE OF OUR OWN FROM PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY PREE GLENN GRAVES MADE THE NEWS DURING THE HISTORIC “RESTORING HONOR” EVENT BY THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.

Pree can be seen about 2 minutes 30 seconds into the video.

Reason TV   http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/28/reasontv-what-we-saw-at-the-gl

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THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAS RELEASED AN EMBARRASSING REPORT WHICH WAS SENT TO THE UN ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE U.S.  AMAZINGLY THE REPORT MENTIONS THE LAWSUIT IN ARIZONA!  YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/146379.pdf

CASA EVENT TONITE IN BALTIMORE

Hate crimes common theme is hate, not race
August 27th, 2010 4:04 pm ETA town-hall meeting has been scheduled for
6 p.m. Aug. 30, Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) of
Maryland’s Baltimore City offices. It will be conducted in Spanish and
will address concerns from the community and discuss crime prevention
tips. Spanish-speaking police officers also will be present.

Martin Reyes, 51, was beaten to death Aug. 21 by a mentally unstable
19-year-old man who reported that he committed the crime because he
hated Mexicans. The alleged killer, Jermaine Holley, had been ordered to
appear in court on charges that he violated his probation from a June
2009 drug arrest and conviction.

On July 13, District Court Judge L. Robert Cooper issued, and then
rescinded, a warrant ordering Holley’s arrest, according to the
Baltimore Sun.

“When elected officials use hateful language to describe immigrants,
we should not be surprised when criminals understand that as a
declaration of open-season on my people,” said Gustavo Torres,
CASA’s executive director. “We weep today for Martin Reyes, a
friend of CASA who was murdered for being Latino, and commit in his name
to eradicating the hatred and violence affecting Latinos,
African-Americans, and other city residents.”

Activists attending the press conference blamed the lack of an explicit
policy banning police cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement making immigrant residents unlikely to come forward and
share information with law enforcement.

Reyes was a member of CASA. The group held a press conference Aug. 24
two-blocks from where the murder took place.

“I frequently speak to parishioners who are victimized or witness a
crime yet do not feel comfortable calling the police,” said Father Bob
Wotjek, who pastors a majority-immigrant parish in Baltimore.
“Unfortunately, every immigrant knows of a case where someone was
stopped by the police for a minor traffic infraction and ended up in
immigration custody and if I were able to point to an explicit policy
whereby Baltimore police did not collaborate with ICE except for serious
crimes, it would be enormously easier to convince people to come
forward.”

Hating someone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, faith
or lack thereof, or anything else is a terrible thing. It destroys the
hater inside and sometimes destroys victims as in the Reyes case.

But where was CASA when Robert Krentz, an Arizona rancher, was murdered
by an illegal in March? Okay, that is an Arizona crime and CASA is a
Maryland group.

So where was the solidarity association when Lila Meizell was beaten,
then burned alive, by immigrants in Montgomery County? Immigrants she
had employed who thanked her by attempting to bilk her out of about
$7,000.

Where was press conference for Carlos Millian or Tai Lam when they were
murdered by Hispanics in the Washington suburbs?

Murder has one thing in common—hate. The challenge is to educate and
love. Calling people names and refusing to debate, as CASA does, is not
part of a constructive solution. It is time for the group to consider a
change in policy

http://www.examiner.com/immigration-in-washington-dc/hate-crimes-common-theme-is-hate-not-race-1

Any politician who refuses to work to secure our borders and create an immigration system that has integrity is either corrupt or too dumb to keep his (her) job.  Any politician, irrespective of party affiliation who favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the outrageous betrayal that this would represent given the national security implications that this program would have, should be shown the door at the next election!

M. Cutler

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August 29, 2010

Frederick to Debate Tough Immigration Bill By MARK STEPHENS AP Updated 11:31 PM EDT, Thu, Aug 26, 2010 Lawmakers in Frederick County will introduce a bill inspired by Arizona‘s tough illegal immigration law. “We’ve drafted a proposed Maryland law that is very similar, but not identical, to the Arizona law,” said John “Lennie” Thompson, a Frederick County Commissioner. The bill would require state, county and local law enforcement officials check people’s immigration status if they’ve been pulled over for a crime. It’s being sponsored by Thompson, Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins and Maryland Delegate Charles Jenkins (R – Frederick and Washington counties). The three men say they’re are fed up with what they call the “federal government’s lack of dealing with illegal immigration.” The bill will be introduced at the Frederick County Commissioner’s meeting at Winchester Hall next Tuesday. If passed, it will go on to the Maryland General Assembly for consideration in the 2011 session.

The War on Arizona

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union.

Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama’s war on Arizona is not a war of necessity. It is a war of choice — an unprovoked war, undertaken not to defend constitutional or civil rights, but to pander to his party’s left and Hispanic voters.

New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson, himself Hispanic, gave the game away. At the Boston governors conference, he assured colleagues, nervous over the administration attacks on Arizona’s immigration law, that “Obama is popular with Hispanic voters, and this is going to be a popular move with them nationally.”

Eric Holder fended off criticism of his Justice Department suit against Arizona that alleges the state usurped federal responsibility by saying he has not ruled out a second suit for “racial profiling.”

Rather than work with Arizona to secure the border and send the illegals home, the Obamaites are taking Mexico’s side against Arizona, and against the faithful execution of U.S. law.

In a shocking and telling episode in the Rose Garden, Obama stood by mute as Felipe Calderon attacked the Arizona law as “discriminatory.” The next day, Democrats in Congress, with Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano joining in, cheered the Mexican president’s slander that Arizona introduced “racial profiling to law enforcement.”

There was a time when such an insult to a state of our union, on U.S. soil by a foreign ruler, would have produced a diplomatic crisis, if not pistols at dawn.

Some of us recall Ike walking out of a Paris summit with Nikita Khrushchev rather than apologize for sending U-2s over Russia, and JFK, after the Bay of Pigs, retorting to Khrushchev that the United States did not need any lectures on intervention from people “whose character is forever stamped on the bloody streets of Budapest.”

Democrats cheer as Arizona is attacked by a Mexican leader whose country treats illegal entry as a felony and illegal aliens with a brutality no American would tolerate.

And what exactly is at the heart of the Arizona law?

Simply this: Being in this country illegally is now a misdemeanor in Arizona, as it is in U.S. law. And as a 1940 U.S. law requires resident aliens to carry their green cards or work visas at all times, Arizona will require police to request such identification if, in a “lawful contact” — a traffic violation or altercation — the officer entertains a “reasonable suspicion” the individual may be here illegally.

Is this really Nazi Germany? Does this really justify the hysteria? And if this is the Gestapo, why did Holder not make this feature of the law the grounds for his Justice Department suit?

Answer: Calderon and Obama notwithstanding, racial profiling is prohibited by the Arizona law. Nor is there any evidence racial or ethnic profiling will be condoned by Arizona. The law has not even taken effect.

Unlike San Francisco and other towns that declare themselves to be “sanctuary cities” and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities, Arizona is not challenging or usurping U.S. law, but trying to assist the U.S. government in enforcing the immigration laws.

Why is Arizona under attack for simply trying to help enforce our immigration laws? Because the Obama administration cannot, will not or does not even wish to see those laws enforced.

The U.S. government is today derelict in its constitutional duty.

And this is approaching an existential crisis for America. For there are in Arizona 450,000 illegal aliens, a population of law-breakers in a single state approaching the size of the entire U.S. Army.

Though we have 15 million Americans unemployed, near 10 percent of our workforce, with a higher share of African-Americans jobless, we have 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs. And last year the administration handed out over a million green cards and work visas to foreigners to come and take jobs that would have gone to American citizens.

In communist countries in the Cold War, all understood that the government did not represent the people. The state was at war with the nation.

That idea is taking root in America — the idea that our government no longer seeks to represent us. And as one watches Obama and Congress take the side of a foreign leader attacking an American state, and the government refuse to do its duty and defend the borders or send the illegals back home, questions arise.

In this ongoing invasion of the United States that has brought 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens into our midst, whose side is the government on? Ours or theirs? What is the reason for the refusal to secure our border?

Why do Democrats insist that the illegal aliens be put on a “path to citizenship”?

Is the real objective the abolition of the old America we grew up in?

My View | Tired of demagoguery

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 2010
By Denise Dunbar

A couple week’s ago at a Washington Nationals baseball game was absolutely the last straw for me. My family and I were at Nationals Park with about 20,000 other people, enjoying a Stephen Strasburg start on a pleasant afternoon. Strasburg had pitched five innings and batted for himself in the bottom of the fifth when it happened. First a young man, then a young woman, then two more youths ran onto the field, interrupting play. The game was stopped for at least 10 minutes — long enough to pull the star we came to see, Strasburg, from the game — as overweight security guards tried unsuccessfully to apprehend the elusive young people. The disruption was all part of a planned protest.

The Nats, you see, were playing the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Yes, that Arizona. The state that had the nerve to pass a law saying it was OK for their police officers to apprehend people who had broken the law. Sunday’s Nats game was delayed because a handful of people thought making a political statement was an appropriate thing to do at a baseball game. It wasn’t. And if I were sitting on the fence on this issue, it would have made me less sympathetic to their cause rather than more.

I am personally tired of people on the left and the right resorting to demagoguery on hot-button political issues. The name-calling and demonizing comes from both sides on issue after issue. Though one may be pro-life, iro-choicers should never be called “baby killers.” In the lead up to the Iraq war, those who raised doubts about the wisdom of military action were labeled “unpatriotic.”

But in recent years the left has made an art of demagoguery. Delegitimizing those who dare to voice opinions that run contrary to the gospel according to the left is favored tactic number one. Why debate the facts — especially when many pesky truths get in the way of your favored position — when you can simply shoot the messenger? Thus, those who oppose gay marriage are “hateful” and “intolerant.”  Those who are against illegal immigration, even if they favor greatly expanding legal immigration, are called “xenophobic” and “racist.”

The rhetoric surrounding illegal immigration, the hottest current topic, is especially infuriating. Getting lost in the name-calling is the fact that this is a really complex issue that crosses many political boundaries. Thus, though they won’t say so publicly, many owners of businesses large and small rely on the cheap labor that illegal immigrants provide. (Minimum wage laws have done away with the supply of cheap, legal labor.) Conversely, an awful lot of Democrats in Arizona, who have been personally affected by the swarms of people crossing illegally into their state, side with Republican Governor Jan Brewer on this topic.

It is possible to have a civilized conversation on this and other issues, but the name-calling makes it more difficult. I personally think that legal immigration is what our country was built on and it is essential to our future. We absolutely need people from all over the world with all levels of skills and education coming into America, giving us a fresh infusion of perspective. But, in this age of terror and murderous bombings, I also believe that national security is the most important issue and the primary purpose of government. We must be able to control who comes into our country for security reasons.

But security is not the only reason that I believe illegal immigration is wrong. It’s also an issue of fairness. Why do some people have to play by the rules, while others don’t?  To allow people from Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras free access to America but deny that access to people from Nigeria or China or Poland is discriminatory and it’s wrong. Whatever happened to diversity? Isn’t it better to have a multicultural society rather than a bicultural one?

So, agree with my views or don’t. Love the Arizona law or hate it. Let’s talk it out. But leave the demonizing and the name-calling on the playground — and don’t bring it onto the baseball diamond ever again.

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The writer is editorial page editor and managing partner at the Alexandria Times.

JUSTICE DEPT. OUT OF CONTROL, SAY GROWING NUMBER OF AMERICANS

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
August 29, 2010
© 2010 NewsWithViews.com

When Attorney General Eric Holder should be prosecuting terrorists, he is wasting time manufacturing baseless lawsuits against patriotic sheriffs such as Joe Arpaio and harmless pro-lifers. This [latest] action by the Attorney General is an abuse of power and an example of misplaced priorities, according to a growing number of Americans.

With terrorists lurking throughout the nation, illegal aliens preying on American citizens, and government corruption a daily occurrence, the U.S. Department of Justice is embroiled in a legal battle against a pro-life advocate in Florida.

A public-interest legal group affiliated with Liberty University, has agreed to represent Mary Susan Pine, a sidewalk abortion counselor, who is being sued by the politically motivated U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder.

Using the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) federal law and seeking the maximum fine of $10,000, Holder alleges that Pine “obstructed” a car entering a Florida abortion clinic nearly a year ago, on November 19, 2009. The suit is entitled Holder v. Pine.

Holder’s lawsuit acknowledges that Pine frequently appears at the Presidential Women’s Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Pine herself has had an abortion and for the past 20 years has counseled women about the tragedy of abortion.

The suit alleges only one act on November 19, 2009, in which Holder claims Pine obstructed a car by stepping in front of the vehicle when it entered the clinic. Pine never obstructs anyone and denies she ever obstructed any vehicle.

Notwithstanding, Holder’s suit alleges Pine is a threat and must be fined the maximum of $10,000. Holder’s complaint is only 3½ pages. Since the passage of FACE in 1994, this case is the first time anyone has been sued in Florida under the law.

In the Liberty Counsel case of Cheffer v. Reno, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that FACE can only be applied to actual physical force or threat of force. Based on the erroneous allegations in Holder’s complaint, the Attorney General has no case, say legal experts.

Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “This lawsuit by Attorney General Eric Holder is politically motivated and patently frivolous. It is designed to intimidate pro-lifers. We will not allow the Attorney General to push around little people and intimidate them for their pro-life beliefs.”

“When Attorney General Eric Holder should be prosecuting terrorists, he is wasting time manufacturing baseless lawsuits against harmless pro-lifers. This action by the Attorney General is an abuse of power and an example of misplaced priorities,” he said.

Holder Protects Illegal Aliens, Attacks Patriots?

U.S. Justice Department attorneys met last Tuesday with representatives of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, as they look into allegations of civil rights violations in his department’s treatment of illegal aliens.

Justice Department investigators say that they gave the sheriff’s lawyers over a week to turn over documents and cooperate with their inquiry.

Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing his more than one year investigation into whether Arpaio’s policies and law enforcement sweeps discriminate against illegal aliens.

The popular Arpaio, who is called “America’s toughest sheriff” by millions of supporters across the nation is known for his opposition to criminal aliens who are committing crimes in his jurisdiction.

His supporters — many whom work in law enforcement — say the Justice Department’s civil rights probe and its separate criminal investigation are politically motivated.

“This is an empty-suit attorney general [Eric Holder] wasting taxpayers’ money on an investigation of a law enforcement chief who cares more than Obama’s minions about the safety and security of Americans. This is a federal government that’s out of control,” says a former police commander now an owner of a New York City security firm.

Meanwhile, Arpaio’s lawyers reject claims that he is uncooperative. The attorneys contend the Justice Department may not require documents simply to see if they can find something to support their suspicions of discrimination.

According to Fox News homeland security correspondent Catherine Herridge, Sheriff Arpaio has been open and transparent about his department’s operations including it’s jail policies and procedures. He appears regularly on news programs and openly explains his department’s activities to reporters, said former police detective Mike Snopes.

Recently, in an effort to bypass the new media’s “liberal filter,” a mass mailing from the man known as “America’s Sheriff” circulated on the Internet to give Americans the unadulterated opinions of the lawman’s lawman.

While the pleas from American citizens in Arizona and other states fell on deaf ears in Washington, DC, the violence and crime at the U.S.-Mexico border continues unabated. And instead of offering support for Arizona’s initiatives to combat criminal aliens and their violence, the Obama Justice Department and Democrats in his own state decided to target Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio because of his tough immigration enforcement policy.

When the legal director of an influential national group La Raza — The Race — that represents day laborers called Arizona’s immigration law an “unconstitutional, unwise and odious bill” created by “demagogue leaders” who have become folk heroes for “white supremacists” throughout the country, many within the elite media appeared to choose Arizona law enforcement to vilify.

“I cannot compete with the local and national media machines that distort my record and the job I’m doing to protect this country. And, I don’t have the personal resources to defend myself from these vicious attacks,” said Arpaio

“You… probably saw that a federal judge blocked the toughest parts of law before it was set to be enacted on July 29th. I still support this law 100%. Even before this law was passed and the judge blocked parts of it, I was the only law enforcement official in this state enforcing all the laws that our federal and state legislatures put in place to combat illegal immigration and human smuggling,” said the popular law enforcement official.

“Because I have taken the lead over the years by enforcing existing state and federal laws against illegal immigration, I have become the target of attack by radical, left-wing, open-borders extremists,” said Arpaio.

When asked about the people coming to Arizona to oppose immigration law enforcement — commonly referred to as “carpetbaggers,” Arpaio said, “I’ve been sued, picketed, burned in effigy and even had the Reverend Al Sharpton come to Phoenix – TWICE! – to march on my headquarters. Some have even gone so far as to call for my assassination! Now, the Mexican Drug Cartels have issued a “hit” on me.”

“One of the local newspapers printed a political cartoon of me and our Governor wearing Nazi uniforms and performing the Nazi salute,” he laughed. Showing he gives little credence to the neo-Stalinist tactics of the far-left.

“What these extremists really want is a Sheriff who will look the other way, be silent and allow the charade to continue, while ignoring the laws of our land. That, I promise, will never happen,” said Arpaio.

“I won’t back down. I won’t surrender to politicians, thugs or drug dealers!”

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Calls at rally follow recent uptick in violence against Latinos, weekend killing
By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun

9:32 AM EDT, August 25, 2010

Latino activists, clergy and civil rights leaders called on city officials Tuesday to implement a written policy barring police from asking the immigration status of those who call for help, a move they say would reduce crime and help bridge the gap between officers and immigrants.

The demand came during an emotionally charged news conference at Patterson Park, where Latino and black community leaders gathered to rally against violence, not far from the spot where police say a 51-year-old Honduran man was fatally beaten by a mentally disturbed teen who professed to hate “Mexicans.”

The Rev. Robert Wojtek, pastor of St. Michael’s and St. Patrick’s, a Southeast Baltimore Catholic parish with a large Spanish-speaking congregation, called for police to issue a document “clarifying the fact that they are not here to enforce unjust immigration laws but rather to address criminal issues and violence.

“This policy has to be clear, written, and communicated, so that the violence will end and the real crime statistics in this city will be revealed,” he said.

Police Chief Frederick H. Bealefeld III said a written policy was unnecessary in Baltimore because officers do not ask about immigration status. City officials skirted the issue, but said residents should trust police to focus on fighting violent crime, not enforcing immigration laws.

“I’ve been here for three years in this role, and you haven’t heard one utterance on enforcement of immigration laws,” Bealefeld said to the crowd of about three dozen gathered on a grassy corner of the park. “You don’t see us sweeping through the neighborhoods asking for immigration status,” he said.

Dozens of other jurisdictions, including Albuquerque, N.M. and New Haven, Conn., have enacted policies that prevent police from asking whether people are in this country legally, according to Kimberly Propeack, a spokeswoman for CASA of Maryland, a Latino advocacy group.

The Pittsburgh police chief recently declared that officers would no longer check immigration papers, according to news reports. And Maine passed a law in 2004 preventing any state employee from requesting immigration information from people seeking services.

The city’s Latinos have experienced an uptick in violent crime in recent months, although many attacks go unreported because immigrants fear that they will be deported if they call police, according to Propeack.

Three Latinos have been killed in five attacks in Southeast Baltimore in recent weeks, and residents say all were natives of Honduras. The most recent victim, Martin Reyes, was clubbed and beaten with a wooden stake early Saturday, according to police. His nephew, Juan de Dios Hernandez, was fatally shot last month.

Several members of the Reyes family stood in a knot near Tuesday’s gathering. His son-in-law, Pedro Concepcion-Diaz, with whom he shared an apartment, comforted a female relative who sobbed quietly.

After Reyes was killed, Spanish-speaking officers fanned out through the area, knocking on doors to reassure residents that they would not be reported to immigration officials if they reported a crime, Bealefeld said.

When Bealefeld and City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young were asked to clarify their position on a written policy, Councilman James B. Kraft grabbed the microphone.

“Putting something in writing doesn’t make a difference,” said Kraft, who represents Southeast Baltimore and describes himself as a strong advocate for immigrant issues. “It puts us in the middle of the national immigration debate. We’ll get crazy people from all over the country coming here to find out if Baltimore is going to have a written policy or not.”

Young did not directly address the question at the news conference, but a spokesman said later that the council president would back a written policy if it did not conflict with state or federal law.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did not attend the event because she was on vacation, and a spokesman declined to say whether she would support a written policy.

Rawlings-Blake wants police “to be focused on reducing violent crime; the federal government is responsible for enforcing immigration law,” spokesman Ryan O’Doherty said in an e-mailed statement.

Rawlings-Blake’s office has arranged a town hall meeting for Latinos and police officers for Monday night at CASA de Maryland’s office on Fayette Street.

A Maryland lawmaker who has advocated for tougher immigration laws – as well as making English the official state language – was incensed that city police do not ask about immigration status.

“It’s a blatant violation of federal law,” said Del. Pat McDonough, a Republican who represents parts of Harford and Baltimore Counties. “Federal law clearly states you can’t aid or abet people here unlawfully.”

McDonough said he plans to introduce a bill next year that would make the state’s immigration laws identical to those in Arizona – which enable police to detain anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant – and a bill that would allow citizens to sue elected officials who do not adhere to federal laws.

But the crowd gathered in Patterson Park focused on making city residents safe, regardless of immigration status. Leaders pledged solidarity with the Latino victims and urged residents to be vigilant in reporting crime.

Young praised the family of Jermaine R. Holley, who has been charged with Reyes’ murder, for turning in the 19-year-old.

“We need not condone the ills of our children,” said Young. “If they do wrong, we need to turn them in. Enough is enough.”

As he spoke, Concepcion-Diaz, the son-in-law of the man who had been killed, quietly accepted donations in a white cardboard box. The family is seeking funds to send Reyes’ body back to the quiet rural town in Honduras where he was raised.

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ICE Won’t Arrest Illegal Aliens Caught In Traffic Stops
Judicial Watch ^ | 8/24/2010

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:44:55 PM by markomalley

In its latest surreptitious effort to protect illegal immigrants the Obama Administration plans to prohibit both federal and local law enforcement officers from arresting undocumented aliens discovered as a result of traffic violations.

It marks the third time this month that a covert plan to shield illegal aliens from deportation gets exposed. A few weeks ago the administration ordered authorities to halt the removal of some 700,000 illegal immigrants who are students while lawmakers craft legislation to officially spare them from expulsion. Weeks earlier an internal Homeland Security document revealed that the president has a secret backup plan to grant illegal immigrants amnesty in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it.

This week’s plan du jour is to shield illegal immigrants who break U.S. law by operating a vehicle without a license or driving recklessly, possibly endangering innocent Americans. A draft policy issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that agency Chief John Morton intends to prohibit his agents as well as local law enforcement officers from detaining illegal aliens stopped during traffic violations.

The three-page ICE memo was made public this week by a research organization dedicated to studying immigration issues. Even police departments that participate in the local-federal partnership known as 287(g) will be prohibited from apprehending or reporting an illegal alien in the course of a traffic stop. Federal agents will be forbidden from issuing what’s known as an immigration detainer unless the illegal alien has committed a separate criminal violation.

Morton is implementing the new measure in response to the “many concerns” of immigration enforcement critics (i.e. open borders, La Raza movement) who believe local police abuse their authority to arrest “innocent” illegal aliens in order to have them deported. That’s according to an ICE political appointee who discourages cooperation between local and federal authorities.

Never mind that local police across the country regularly encounter unlicensed illegal immigrants operating unsafe vehicles, smuggling other undocumented aliens or plotting serious crime sprees. Two of the 9/11 hijackers (Ziad Jarrah and Nawaf al-Hazmi) had been stopped for speeding by police in separate states but were not detained even though they were in the U.S. illegally.

Jarrah was ticketed by a Maryland State trooper just days before he boarded United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field, and al-Hazmi, one of the 9/11 masterminds, got pulled over in Oklahoma around eight months before he crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) AGENTS JOIN U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENTS IN REJECTING OBAMA APPOINTEES! Customs agents vote ‘no confidence’ in Obama appointees August 25, 2010 Washington Examiner Editorial Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol have long complained that they are barred by edicts from the Department of Interior against entering federal wilderness areas along the Mexican border. As a result, millions of federally owned acres adjoining Mexico have in recent years become a veritable no man’s land infested with drug and human traffickers, and a host of other criminals. Now career employees of another federal agency at the center of immigration enforcement are accusing Obama political appointees of preventing them from doing their jobs. Officials representing 7,000 members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), National Council 118, in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unanimously voted “no confidence” in ICE Director John Morton and ICE Assistant Director Phyllis Coven, who heads the agency’s Office of Detention Policy and Planning. Council 118 President Chris Crane said in a statement that Morton and Coven “have abandoned the agency’s core mission of enforcing United States Immigration Laws and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their attention to campaigning for programs and policies related to amnesty and the creation of a special detention system for foreign nationals that exceeds the care and services provided to most United States citizens similarly incarcerated.” As a result, according to Crane, ICE “engages in the large-scale release of criminals back into local communities &hellip and refuses, for political reasons, to request the additional manpower and resources needed to adequately operate the [Secure Communities] program.” Union officials claim ICE officers are prohibited from making arrests outside of jail settings, creating an “amnesty through policy,” while senior ICE officials continue to mislead the public about the effectiveness of their criminal enforcement programs. Violent felons (the only kind of criminals ICE picks up) are sent to “resort-like” detention facilities that provide “bingo nights, dance lessons and hanging plants,” Crane said. Once there, many of the inmates “openly brag to ICE officers that they are taking advantage of the broken immigration system and will be back in the United States within days to commit crimes, while United States citizens arrested for the same offenses serve prison sentences.” Perhaps predictably, the union claims ICE employees who complain are subject to retaliation. But these are career federal employees, not anti-immigrant activists seeking political gain or media attention. The public deserves to know the full truth about the accuracy of their claims. If Congress is serious about fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, this is as good a place as any to get started.

LETTER TO EDITOR

Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010

There’s a sleeping giant awaiting November

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I heard recently that Casa de Maryland opened its new $31 million multicultural center while celebrating their 25th anniversary on June 19. Present and grinning were Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski, along with U.S. Reps. Steny Hoyer and Chris Van Hollen. Of course, county executives Isiah Leggett and Jack Johnson were there with these other left-wingers, for their photo ops and (more importantly) votes. Remember these names in November.

This Hugo Chavez-subsidized group ($1.5 million grant a couple of years ago) along with donations from the far left and our tax dollars from Montgomery County, continues to be a thorn in the side of tax-paying, law-abiding citizens, while our government workers celebrate pay freezes and furloughs. Is there something wrong with this picture?

How fitting that the center is housed in the former McCormick-Goodhart mansion in Langley Park. In a recent article in the Washington Post, it was indicated that Maryland is the most friendly state to illegal immigrants and that Langley Park is now the new “Ellis Island” to these sneaking-over-the-border criminals that send their money back home. Isn’t home the place you reside in these United States?

As our budget woes increase and the flood of illegals are welcomed with open arms by our officials, I wonder who is going to pay the bills when they are treated for free at our hospitals and their children overflow our schools while tax-paying citizens pay for it? On top of that, they will later take the jobs of law-abiders since they will get first crack for job openings. Part-time jobs for high-schoolers or college kids during the summer? Forget it unless they speak the language or have English interpreters available. I also wonder who is going to pay your bills when you are hit in a vehicle operated by an illegal alien with no driver’s license or insurance?

As I travel in lower southeast Montgomery County, I sometimes wonder what does “MS 13″ mean scrawled on the bathroom walls or in the parking garages that I’m afraid to go into at night? I also wonder what “multicultural” means? Doesn’t that mean that something’s there for all rather than those rapidly arriving from elsewhere sneaking into our country? How come the only people I see at the job trailers are from those same areas at our expense, while our legal workers are laid off, furloughed or get no pay increases?

I’m also wondering, what is the official language of Montgomery County?

Maryland citizens have no problem with immigrants that come here legally. These legal immigrants want this to be their country and have no problem supporting it with their taxes. A recent poll indicated that the 66 percent of Marylanders would like to see an “Arizona-type anti-illegal immigration law enacted and enforced in our state. Of course, this will be ignored because votes count more to our politically-correct, elected officials. The will of the people? Forget it.

As November rolls around I’m predicting that something will change. There’s a sleeping giant awaiting.

Thomas B. Pinckney, Gaithersburg

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 22, 2010

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Get tough on drunken-driver illegals

The Washington Times 7:24 p.m., Thursday, August 19, 2010

The silence from Maryland’s political leadership was deafening when the news broke that Carlos Montano, an illegal alien, was arrested in Virginia for crashing into and killing an innocent Catholic nun while driving under the influence (“Suspect in fatal accident an illegal,” Page 1, Aug. 3).

Politicians in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, which are known sanctuaries for illegal aliens, are quite aware of the dangerous arrest-and-release policies used for drunken-driving and related cases involving illegal aliens. For counties that pride themselves on public health and safety issues such as cigarette-smoking bans, trans-fat elimination, fireworks restrictions, motorcycle and bicycle helmet requirements and severe drunken-driving regulations, this revolving-door policy for illegals stands out like a sore thumb.

A careful review of Montgomery County’s outstanding criminal and traffic warrants posted online reveals hundreds of alcohol-related arrests of illegals. In Prince George’s County, the problem is even more pronounced, with outstanding warrants numbering in the tens of thousands. Why does the solid bloc of Democratic politicians in both counties assume that illegal aliens cited for drunken driving and related automotive violations (such as driving without a license or insurance) would actually show up in court for their crimes?

These fugitives already broke the law getting to our state and have no respect for our system of justice. We all know too well that automobiles can be killing machines. For the safety of Maryland residents, it’s time to tighten immigration-enforcement restrictions to include all driving violations.

BRAD BOTWIN

Director, HelpSaveMaryland.com

EVENT IN DC AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL, SATURDAY AUGUST 28, 10AM – 1PM

RESTORING HONOR RALLY FAQ
8.28.10 – Washington, DC

Looking for a bus? Click here to see our bus map. (updated daily) Attention buses traveling to DC for 8/28 – Please read…

Where is the Restoring Honor event located??
The event stage will be located on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Several video screens and sound towers will be placed along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and on the grounds of the Washington Monument. Remember that these monuments are located in a National Park and are open to the public as well as attendees of our event. Safety for all is our primary concern so please follow all rules posted and be respectful of all in attendance.

What are the hours of the Rally?
Official hours are 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

Is the event free of charge?
Yes, the event is free of charge. No tickets or pre-registration required with the exception of buses. All buses traveling to the event will need to register (also free of charge). You can register your bus here.

How can I get to the Rally site?
It is recommended that everyone take Metrorail to the event. Car parking is free on Saturdays at all Metrorail stations in the outlying suburbs.

The closest Metro stop to the event is Smithsonian on the Orange and Blue Lines. The walking distance from the Smithsonian Metro Station to the event site is almost one mile
You can also take Metrorail to Foggy Bottom-GWU, Farragut West, Metro Center and Federal Triangle stations, all on the Orange and Blue lines. Metro Center also connects to the Red Line.

To learn more about the Metrorail system or to plan your route check out the WMATA website.

On August 28th, what is the Metrorail schedule?
Metrorail will operate on a regular Saturday schedule, 7:00 AM – 3:00 AM (on Sunday morning). Please visit www.wmata.com for detailed information. Entrances to the Smithsonian Metro Station close at 10:00 PM.

Where can our Bus Park? Can buses drop us of close to the event site?
Buses will not be permitted to drop anywhere near the Lincoln Memorial. Buses can drop at Union Station or at RFK Stadium and attendees can take the Metro from there.

Bus parking is available at RFK Stadium for groups. RFK Stadium is adjacent to the Stadium Armory Metro Rail station on the Orange & Blue Rail lines. Walking distance from the bus parking area to this Metro is approximately 0.7 miles. The RFK Stadium Armory station connects to the Smithsonian Metro Rail Station, approximately 1 mile from the Lincoln Memorial event site.

All buses traveling to the event will need to register (free of charge). You can register your bus here.

Where can I find a bus leaving from my hometown?
You can post a message on our FaceBook page or send us an email at serve@glennbeck.com. We’ll do our best to help you but you should explore your options locally too.

What if I want to drive to the event?
We do not recommend that you bring your car into DC for this event. Parking at or near the Rally site will be EXTREMELY limited and traffic will be restricted and backed up due to walking participants. If you must drive, double your expected travel time to arrive into DC. The closest parking garages are about a one-mile walk from the event site and could cost up to $25 for the day. Check Saturday closing times on all garages. Remember, street parking meters operate on Saturdays.

Will a taxi drop me off close enough to the rally?
Taxis will be very hard to find because of the volume of people coming into the city for this event. Taxis will be allowed to drop only as close as the police grant vehicle access to the site, and that is unknown at this time. You might have to walk a distance so be prepared.

We’re coming with a motorcycle club. Where can we park?
Motorcycles are able to park in any legal parking space along the Mall or in downtown DC but are subject to the same rules and meter regulations as cars. Parking is extremely scarce around the Mall.

I’m riding my bicycle to the rally. Will there be bike racks?
Visit the National Park Service’s website for more information.

What considerations are being made for persons with disabilities?
All metro stations are ADA accessible. The National Mall and the event site are accessible to wheelchairs. Unfortunately however, we are not permitted to allow buses to drop off people at the Rally site. The closest drop off points are Union Station and RFK Stadium. If you travel from RFK stadium you can take the Metro, which is ADA accessible to the Smithsonian station on the Orange and Blue Lines. The distance from the Smithsonian Metro Station to the event site is almost one mile.

Who are the speakers?
The speakers include representatives from SOWF, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Dr. Alveda King and Marcus Luttrell. Jo Dee Messina will be performing as well.

What can I bring?
You can bring small umbrellas, bottled water (plastic bottles only please), bag lunches, snacks, lawn chairs, cameras, blankets, small coolers, backpacks, and flags. Also, we advise that you bring hats and sunscreen.

What can I NOT bring?
As a security precaution, the following items will be prohibited from the event sites:

• NO signs (political or otherwise) as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington.
• Firearms (either real or simulated)
• Ammunition
• Explosives of any kind (including fireworks)
• Knives, blades, or sharp objects (of any length)
• Mace and/or pepper spray
• Helium balloons
• Sticks or poles
• Pocket or hand tools, such as “leatherman”
• Packages
• Large bags (anything larger than a backpack)
• Duffle bags
• Suitcases
• Weapons of any kind
• Aerosols
• Laser pointers
• Animals other than service/guide dogs
• Structures (i.e tents)
• Alcoholic beverages
• Other items that may pose a threat to the security of the event

Will the public be allowed to camp out on the Mall?
It is against the law to camp out on the Mall. That means no sleeping bags, tents, or other erected structures are permitted on National Park Service (NPS) property which includes the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.

What are the average temperatures for Washington DC in August? How should I dress?
According to the National Weather Service, the normal temperatures in Washington DC range from the low to mid 80’s to the low to high 90’s. We expect it to be very hot and humid so please bring sunscreen, water and wear comfortable, lightweight clothes. Rain is also unpredictable that time of year, so keep your fingers crossed, but pack a small umbrella or poncho to be safe!

Is it permissible to sell any merchandise on the National Mall grounds?
Please direct all vending inquiries to the DC Dept of Regulatory and Consumer Affairs, Sam Williams, 202-535-2973. Absolutely no products are to be sold on the National Mall (which includes the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument grounds).

Are there any other Restoring Honor events happening on or before August 28th?
SOWF and Glenn Beck are only organizing the Restoring Honor breakfast and event on 8/28. All other events happening around this time are unofficial and coordinated by private citizens.

How can I volunteer?
The best way is to help us spread the word about the rally. Please hand our flyer out to your family and friends, and make sure your community is aware—whether that’s your neighborhood, church, school, office, etc.

For more information email us at serve@glennbeck.com

NEED HELP GETTING TO THE RALLY?

Check out these great resources for more information.

Traveling by Bus…

Buses must display the proper permits in order to cross into the District of Columbia and must adhere to the District’s rules for drop off, pick up, idling and parking. Buses will not be allowed to drop anywhere on the National Mall or Lincoln Memorial except for specifically designated areas.

We ask that all groups travelling to the Rally register their buses and vehicles (don’t worry it’s FREE!).

Register your bus today!

Need to reserve a bus for your group? Fill out our transportation request form and we will help get you to the rally.

Bus Quick Links:

• I am a group coordinator looking to register my bus
• I am a group coordinator looking to reserve a bus
• I am an individual looking to reserve a bus for a group I am going to organize
• I am an individual looking to join a group. Check out the regional discussion boards on our Facebook page or send us an email at serve@glennbeck.com.

Traveling by Metro…

Metro stations open at 7:00 am on weekends. The closest Metro stations to the Lincoln Memorial are Foggy Bottom-GWU, Federal Triangle and Smithsonian on the Orange and Blue lines and Metro Center on the Red Line. Visit the Washington Area Metro Transit Authority site to find locations for all the stations adjacent to the National Mall and to plan your trip.

Traveling by Car…

This is not recommended! DC has very little parking around the Mall and much of it will be limited by mall construction projects, tour bus drop off or media truck access. DC has some 2-hour metered parking nearby which is monitored regularly and enforced. Check the hours on parking garages since some close early on Saturdays. We recommend you come to the rally by bus or by Metro.

Drop-off and Pick-up

For safety reasons, The National Park Service and DC Metropolitan Police will not permit buses to drop anywhere downtown with the exception of RFK Stadium. Attendees can then take the Metro from the Stadium-Armory stop on the Orange and Blue lines to the Smithsonian or Federal Triangle stops on the same lines. Attendees can then walk to the Restoring Honor Rally site at the Lincoln Memorial, approximately a one-mile walk. Check back to this page as the date approaches for updates to this plan.

Questions About D.C.?

Check out this official Visitor’s Guide.

Questions? Email Us.

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD Help us spread the word about the Restoring Honor Rally by hanging the official rally poster in your community. Download our General Information Packet EDUCATIONING VOTING CITIZENS: WHAT THREE DIFFERENT CANDIDATES FOR MD STATE SENATE SAY ABOUT CASA OF MARYLAND AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – YOU DECIDE Chris Shank – Washington County – Detailed breakout of his position http://www.shankforsenate.com/issues.htm Victor Ramirez – Prince George‘s County - No discussion regarding his views on illegal immigration & CASA of Maryland.  Must not be an issue in PG County! http://www.victorramirez.com/issues/ Saqib Ali – Montgomery County – No discussion regarding his views on illegal immigration & CASA of Maryland.  Must not be an issue in Montgomery County! http://www.ali4senate.com/index.php?page=issues

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

Mexican visitor’s lament

THIS IS AN INTERESTING VIEW OF WHAT HAPPENS IF ALL THE ILLEGAL ALLIENS SHOULD BE DEPORTED

By Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News

wrote a column titled, “Mexican visitor’s lament”

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

That’s a good question – it deserves an answer. Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers may surprise you!

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

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

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

Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop out/flunk out rate via thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado.
Denver ‘s four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.

In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law and English.

In Chicago IL, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.

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

No more push ’1′ for Spanish or ’2′ for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must content with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.

We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country. In cities like L.A, 20,000 members of the “18th Street Gang” would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!

Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gri dlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!

Drain on America ‘s economy; taxpayers harmed, employers get rich:

Over $80 billion annually wouldn’t return to their home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America ‘s economy – which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.

At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupted out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn’t suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.

Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the “progressives” on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.

Over one million of Mexico ‘s poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville TX to San Diego CA in what the New York Times called, “colonias” or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas

resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation. The New York Times reported them to be America ‘s new ” Third World ” inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I’ve seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it’s sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico .

High integrity, ethical invitation:

We invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico . We invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation.

It’s time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.

WE MUST GET OUT AND VOTE THIS NOVEMBER!!!!!

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 19, 2010

Further confirmation that radical groups like CASA of Maryland and La Raza do not speak for the Latino Community!

GARCIA: Rovian immigration fallacy

There is no upside to amnesty for illegal aliens

By Tom Garcia

The Washington Times

7:20 p.m., Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Throughout his partnership with President George W. Bush, Karl Rove argued that a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens would be a political winner for the Republican Party. His argument, so it went, was that because the so-called Hispanic segment of the population was growing faster than other parts of the body politic, it would be foolish to block amnesty for illegal aliens that those voters wanted. Furthermore, so his logic contended, this growing minority would punish Republicans for not going along with the Democrats’ amnesty proposals. In other words, the Republican Party should itself co-opt these proposals for amnesty and make them their own, thereby eroding the Democrats’ share of this voting public.

But on what premise is this theory based?

First, it assumes that all U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent favor a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, whether those aliens come from Malaysia, Ireland, Kosovo, Somalia or Russia. While it obviously is true that the leftist, top-down, unelected leadership of the ethnocentric advocacy organizations La Raza, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the League of United Latin American Citizens, as well as their organized masses of illegal alien street marchers, are boisterous in their clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform,” it isn’t equally clear how many ordinary, everyday U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent share those passions.

Illegal immigration impacts Hispanic-American communities first and foremost, because foreign nationals from south of the border naturally congregate in already-established enclaves. Those communities therefore sustain the brunt of crime; gang infestation; and competition for already scarce jobs, housing, education and social services. While it may be true that some Hispanic-Americans might nurture a solidarity with their more recently arrived ethnic cousins, is this where their own true interests lie? Are their real-world interests associated with the illegal arrival of millions of neighbors from their old countries or with their fellow American citizens, with the old world they left behind or the new society of which they are a part? Isn’t the ethnic demagoguery associated with the so-called “pathway to citizenship” in effect a pathway to Balkanization?

Instead of descending into a competition with Nevada Sen. Harry Reid in a watered-down imitation of liberal Democrats’ pandering for the votes of “Amnesty-Hispanics,” wouldn’t it be more prudent as well as more respectful to Hispanic-Americans for the Republican Party to offer a clear alternative, to appeal to their American patriotism and their own real self-interests as U.S. citizens? Why lump the entire Hispanic-American community, with ancestors from a host of Latin American countries, with a diversity of histories, cultures, traditions, languages and interests, into one homogeneous group as if they all marched to the same drummer? How about offering this vibrant cross section of American citizens an option other than blind obedience to La Raza and the Democrats?

Second, Mr. Rove‘s theory rests on the assumption that newly amnestied voters will remember that the Republican Party helped pave their pathway to citizenship and reward the party with future support. But let’s look at the facts. The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens have less than a high school education, and many are not even literate in their own languages. This doesn’t mean they aren’t good people, but it does mean they are natural recipients of the welfare state. Once they receive citizenship in the United States, will they be more likely to favor the big-government, wealth-transferring, multiculturalist nanny state promised and promoted by the Democrat Party or the smaller-government, self-reliant, lower-taxing, entrepreneurial, assimilative society championed by the Republican Party?

What’s more, the tens of millions of newly amnestied citizens legally would be able to bring in their next of kin through chain migration, swelling the overall number to potentially more than 50 million within a decade of the amnesty – constituting a permanent Democratic majority.

We’ve become fond of Mr. Rove‘s cable-TV chalkboards. Here’s a four-liner he hasn’t shown us yet:

c If 12 million-20 million illegal aliens are amnestied, it can be estimated conservatively that a majority of these new citizens will vote Democrat.

c If there is no amnesty, none of these illegal aliens will vote, period.

c If there is an amnesty, current U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin will vote as they have been voting anyway.

c If there is no amnesty, current U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin will vote as they have been voting anyway.

A majority of U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin (with the exception of Cuban-Americans) have consistently voted Democratic. Many of those within this voting population who ardently support amnesty will blame the Democrats for not getting one because the Democrats will be the ones who did not push through an amnesty when they had the political power and the unprecedented opportunity to do so. So where is the political upside for the Republican Party to support an amnesty, in either the short or long run?

Had there been an amnesty in 2006 or 2007, as Sen. John McCain and the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy proposed, millions more would have entered the country illegally since then, as, in fact, they have anyway. The border wasn’t secured before the amnesty votes and hasn’t been secured since those votes. Visa violators continued to remain illegally in the country before those votes, and many more recent arrivals have continued illegally to do so since those votes. The federal government under Mr. Bush and President Obama contented itself with cosmetic measures and halfhearted initiatives, abdicating its responsibility to enforce existing immigration law effectively and to secure our borders. Even with the successful passage of McCain-Kennedy in 2006, we would be debating anew today whether to provide amnesty for the 4 million to 5 million illegal aliens who have entered since. And if an amnesty were enacted tomorrow, five years from now, Congress would be debating what to do with the additional 5 million who would have entered by that time.

If the history of past amnesties has taught us anything, it is this: Talk of amnesty, the promise of amnesty – especially the enactment of amnesty legislation as in 1986 – simply encourages more and more illegal immigration. Limited or general, amnesties act as flashing green lights to the likely hundreds of millions on earth who would like to move to America.

Until the borders are really secured, workplace laws are really upheld and the benefits of the welfare state are restricted to U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, any consideration of amnesty is a perilous venture into a fantasyland of false promises, unrealistic expectations, the abrogation of the rule of law and the perpetuation of an immoral, systematic exploitation of unending waves of cheap labor from Third World countries. We already have federal laws in place to get the illegal immigration fiasco under control. Congress has not abdicated its responsibility by failing to enact new laws favored by open-borders utopians. No such laws are required, comprehensive or otherwise. The problem is with the executive branch and the Obama administration, which has turned itself into the greatest collection of scofflaws in the country.

The way to increase the percentage of American-Hispanics voting for the Republican Party is (1) To raise their standard of living (and everyone else’s) by a return to free-market principles; (2) by an open appeal to their shared American patriotism and (3) by clearly and unapologetically stating the unequivocal rejection of amnesty in any guise, shape or form. U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin don’t love the rule of law less than other Americans and understand that the United States already has the most generous legal immigration policy on earth. Given a clear choice and a positive appeal, many will rally.

These positions won’t get Republicans a majority of these voters right away, but they will diminish the Democrats’ share of the vote in the short run and hasten the integration of the Hispanic-American community into the great melting pot that is America. A time will come in the not-too-distant future when hyphens matter to Hispanics no more than they do to any of the immigrant groups who preceded them. It is the best path for America and the only practical path for the survival of the Republican Party as a majority party worthy of the electorate.

Tom Garcia is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida‘s 24th Congressional District.

More Radical Madness

LatinoJustice PRLDEF has joined a coalition of civil rights groups to file a lawsuit against the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce (who oversees the Census Bureau) for discriminating against nearly 100,000 Latinos, Native Americans, and African Americans who applied to be temporary Census employees.

The complaint argues that the Census Bureau illegally screened out applicants for census jobs who had decades-old arrest records for minor or un-convicted offenses such as unlawful assembly and loitering. The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission had earlier warned the Census Bureau that this hiring method could “have a racially discriminatory impact in Violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.” The method was never changed. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits “discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Because Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans are often unfairly profiled and targeted by police, they often have higher rates of arrests. Those arrests often do not result in convictions.

RALLY AT BASEBALL GAME

Despite the rainy start and presence of Marxist/Socialist hired protesters outside the game, dozens of HSM members and friends enjoyed the Nats win & received good coverage from WTOP, WMAL, Washington Hispanic and the Washington Post. Many citizens attending the Nats vs Arizona game were upset and angry at these pro-illegal alien thugs for hire with their fancy printed signs outside the stadium, with most giving the thumbs up and verbal support to HSM sign/flag carrying members.

Best was when the protesters marched and chanted in Spanish about moving the 2011 All-Star out of Arizona. Excellent marketing ploy!  Conversations with some of the leaders of this ragtag collection of losers, day laborers and deadbeats confirmed my notion that they were truly “out of left field”.  And all this was strangely under the control of some pseudo-sports writer who shadows these hired zombies from stadium to stadium.  Clearly he received his journalistic training from the Fidel Castro School of Sports Writing.

I’m not sure what I enjoyed more during the game, my Ben’s Chili Bowl half smoke with chili & the works or watching 4 protesters run on the field during the 5th inning only to be arrested by stadium police. These half wits were so incompetent they were unable to unfurl their anti-Arizona banner before the cops confiscated it!  It was quite amusing. The crowded roared when these pathetic domestic terrorists were carted off the field.  Yet another example of the La Raza-CASA of Maryland-SEIU-ACLU types disrespecting our laws, culture and nation.

Amnesty and Citizenship for this bunch?  Enforce the law and send these folks packing.

THE PROPOSED MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO

This morning, Debra Burlingame, Keep America Safe Board Member and Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s remarks about the Ground Zero mosque.

“Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.

“Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a ‘deeply traumatic event,’ it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit.

“We are stunned by the president’s willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11–a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in a barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike any this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace.

“We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent.”

Debra Burlingame
Board Member
Keep America Safe

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 8, 2010

GAZETTE COVERS PLANNED HSM RALLY AT NATS GAME SUNDAY AUGUST 15

Friday, Aug. 6, 2010  The Gazette of Politics and Business

Reporters Notebook: Politics pervading America’s pastime

Brad Botwin will head down to Nationals Park on Aug. 15 and show his support for Arizona.

Not the Diamondbacks baseball team — who will take on the hometown Nats during a three-game weekend series — but the state’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

“It’s as close as we can get to Phoenix without buying an airplane ticket or driving out there,” he said last week.

Botwin is director of Help Save Maryland, a vocal anti-illegal immigration advocacy group whose foes include Casa of Maryland and La Raza.

But a ballpark stand?

The immigration issue and the national pastime have become intertwined with Phoenix hosting next year’s All-Star Game. Immigration advocates have called on MLB to move the game in response to the controversial law, and protests have been staged at stadiums around the country.

At a Nationals game earlier this year attended by President Barack Obama, a group of fans in the outfield managed to sneak a huge banner past security and unfurl it before the start of the eighth inning. The sign, which read “MLB: Boycott AZ, Move the 2011 All-Star Game,” was quickly confiscated.

Botwin said last week’s ruling by a federal judge that rejects some of the most controversial elements of the Arizona law only adds more fuel to the fire.

He’s encouraging attendees to bring Gadsden flags or Arizona’s banner — poles aren’t allowed inside the stadium — and hopes to generate some media attention at the game. He plans to invite Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl and the state’s governor, Jan Brewer.

But Botwin wants to make one thing clear: He may support Arizona in the political arena, but his heart is with the hometown club on the field.

He doesn’t expect players on either team to weigh in.

“We want them to do what they are paid to do, which is play baseball,” Botwin said. “We want to go out and have a good time but show our support for this very important issue of supporting Arizona and the rule of law.”

— Alan Brody

Brad Botwin, director of Help Save Maryland — a vocal anti-illegal immigration advocacy group — is urging citizens to bring Gadsden flags (shown here) to the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Washington Nationals game Aug. 15.

THERE IS STILL TIME TO GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THE SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 1:35PM ARIZONA VS WASHINGTO NATIONALS BASEBALL GAME.  HSM RALLY AT 12 NOON BEFORE GAME.

SEE WWW.HELPSAVEMARYLAND.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION.

YET ANOTHER FRIGHTENING STORY ON FORMER CASA OF MARYLAND OFFICIAL TOM PEREZ, HEAD OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION

Obama’s zealous civil rights enforcer gets busy

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
August 6, 2010

“I love this job,” said Thomas Perez, the hard-charging head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a speech last December to the liberal legal group American Constitution Society. “We have a very broad, a very ambitious vision. It’s a very exciting vision, and I wake up every morning with a hop in my step.”

There’s no doubt Tom Perez is hopping a lot these days. Of all the transformations that have taken place in the Obama administration, perhaps none is so radical as that within the Civil Rights Division. Under Perez, it is bigger, richer and more aggressive than ever, with a far more expansive view of its authority than at any time in recent history.

Perez is playing a leading role in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona‘s new immigration law. He is promising a huge increase in prosecution of alleged hate crimes. He vows to use “disparate impact theory” to pursue discrimination cases where there is no intent to discriminate but a difference in results, such as in test scores or mortgage lending, that Perez wants to change. He is even considering a crackdown on Web sites on the theory that the Internet is a “public accommodation” as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

To do all this, Perez has come up with some novel ideas. For example, in a recent lending discrimination case, he forced the defendant — who settled the case without admitting any wrongdoing — to pay not only the alleged victims but to funnel $1 million to unrelated “qualified organizations” to conduct social programs.

Perez is pushing just as hard on smaller issues. In a little-noticed move last year, he threatened several universities because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks. At the time, the Kindle was not fully accessible to blind students, and under pressure from Perez the schools agreed not to offer the e-reader to any students until it was fully accessible to all.

Perez is pursuing his goals with a lot of muscle, powered by a major appropriations increase in President Obama’s 2010 budget. “I am going to be calling each and every one of you to recruit you, because we’ve got 102 new positions in our budget,” Perez told the liberal lawyers last year. “One hundred and two people, when added to a base of 715 people. … that’s a real opportunity to make a difference.”

Heading the Civil Rights Division is the opportunity of a lifetime for Perez. A former aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, he was an activist and later a councilman in Montgomery County, Md., where he made a name for himself pushing in-state tuition and drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants. Now, he’s on a much bigger stage.

But his across-the-board activism troubles some who have a more restrained view of the role of federal prosecutors. Perez and his team “view civil rights enforcement from a perspective that they are doing ‘justice’ in a broad sense unrelated to the laws on the books,” says Bob Driscoll, who served in a top position in the Bush Civil Rights Division. “They are advancing the cause of historical victims of discrimination, as well as new classes of people who are disfavored by some in society.”

As if to prove Driscoll’s point, Perez sometimes speaks emotionally about the vast scope of his responsibility. The job of the Civil Rights Division, he says, is to bring light to Americans “living in the shadows.” There are “our Muslim-American brothers and sisters subject to post-9/11 backlash” and “communities of color disproportionately affected by the subprime meltdown,” and “LGBT brothers and sisters … forced to confront discrimination” and “all too many children lacking quality education.” And many, many more.

That’s a very big portfolio, especially when not all the problems in the world can be solved by a federal lawsuit. To Driscoll, the new Civil Rights Division is acting “more like a government-funded version of an advocacy group such as the ACLU or the NAACP Legal Defense Fund than like government lawyers who apply the facts to the law.” At some point in the future, Perez’s critics believe, Congress and the courts will rein in the division for overreaching and bringing unwarranted cases, as happened during the Clinton years.

But that will come later, especially if Republicans win the House or Senate and can subject Perez and the Justice Department to serious oversight. For now, Thomas Perez is just getting started.

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 7, 2010

SUPPORT ARIZONA AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

CITIZENS RALLY 12 NOON & BASEBALL GAME 1:35PM

AT NATS STADIUM SUNDAY, AUGUST 15

Radical, anti-American groups like La Raza, CASA of Maryland and the ACLU continue to threaten Arizona citizens and Major League Baseball.  Using their illegal alien clientele as protesters (see link) they are demanding the 2011 Baseball All-Star Game be moved out of Phoenix, Arizona as part of their state-wide boycott.

http://act.presente.org/go/movethegame_post/136?akid=158.106904.tB_LUv&t=4

It’s time for the citizens of Maryland and the Greater Washington Area
to fight back!

On Sunday, August 15, 1:35pm, the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Washington Nationals at Nats Park in DC.  Let’s use this game to show our support for Arizona‘s crackdown on illegal aliens and increased border security!

Bring your U.S., AZ, and Gadsden flags (no poles), poster or sign (no wood backing) supporting AZ’s tough immigration law!

No Amnesty! Enforce the Law!

Purchase a ticket to the August 15 game through the website link below. Tickets for this event are located in two nearby sections of Nats stadium so we can all sit together.

www.nationals.com/rockvillebaseball

RALLY BEFORE THE GAME AT 12 NOON!

MEET ON THE SIDEWALK OPPOSITE THE NAVY YARD METRO

STATION EXIT

HALF STREET SE, BETWEEN M & N STREETS

MARCH TOGETHER TO THE STADIUM FOR THE GAME!

Help Arizona in the fight against illegal immigration and support local Maryland youth baseball at the same time. The Nationals will make a donation to Maryland baseball for each ticket sold through this link.

For further information contact HSM Paul Mendez at paul.mendez@erols.com

ARIZONA DEFENSE FUND -  Unite against this violation of our rights and liberty!  Fund has Topped $1.2 Million.

Do Your Part to Help Preserve AMERICA!
www.keepazsafe.com

THE FEDS JUST WON’T STOP HARASSING AMERICANS WHILE LETTING ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS WALK OUR STREETS TO KILL & MAIM!

Justice Gives Arizona Sheriff Deadline in Rights Case

Published August 03, 2010

| FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON  – The Justice Department says an Arizona sheriff known for his efforts against illegal immigrants

has refused to cooperate with a civil rights investigation and the department is threatening to sue.

Since March 2009, the U.S. Justice Department has been investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office in Phoenix for alleged discrimination and for unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio says the inquiry is focused on his immigration efforts.

In a letter, assistant attorney general Thomas Perez (FORMER CASA OF MARYLAND OFFICIAL!!) gives the sheriff’s office until Aug. 17 to turn over documents first requested last year in what the department calls an inquiry into claims of discrimination based on national origin.

PINAL COUNTY AZ SHERIFF ASKS FOR DONATIONS TO PAY FOR DEPUTY RIFLES TO COUNTER MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS

Stay tuned on how you can help with your donation!

Brad Botwin, Director, Help Save Maryland

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 3, 2010

SUPPORT FOR AZ GOVERNOR BREWER GROWS

“Jan Brewer has the cojones that our President does not have to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonans, but all Americans, in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration to help build this country, as was the purpose of immigration laws.  If our own president will not enforce a federal law, more power to Jan Brewer and 44 other states who are in line to help support Jan Brewer in state laws, state efforts, to do what our president won’t do”   Sarah Palin

SEND A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO THE PRESIDENT

http://happybirthdayfromaz.com/

ILLEGAL ALIEN IN VIRGINIA KILLS NUN WHILE DUI

What a horrible story of a needless death at the hand of an illegal alien.  Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, an illegal from Bolivia was a known illegal in federal custody ready for deportation.  Weak enforcement of the law and selective prioritization of so-called more dangerous illegals allowed Montano out on the street again to kill.  A Catholic nun paid the ultimate price because of the unwillingness of our politicians to enforce the law.

Montano had multiple false names and multiple Social Security numbers, but that’s not important enough to get this Hispanic criminal off our streets and out of our country.  Instead he was allowed to do his work “gig” , taking a job, income and public services from unemployed Americans.

Does this story sound familiar? Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and his Police Chief Tom Manger allow Hispanic illegal alien criminals out on the street without running their names through ICE.  A number of illegals have murdered others after being released on DUI or other so-called minor crimes.  And there are hundreds, maybe thousands of other illegals that have been in MoCo Police custody but let out free without their names being checked with ICE.  Hundreds and hundreds of “Montano” types on our streets.  Horrific crimes waiting to happen.

See the thousands and thousands of outstanding warrants for Montgomery County.  Check the names and crimes.  You Decide!

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/poltmpl.asp?url=/content/POL/districts/ISB/majorcrimes/Warrants/index.asp

Leggett and Manger won’t do their job, but you can do your civic duty come early November.

Driver in fatal Va. crash had previous DUI violations

By Jennifer Buske and Paul Duggan

Washington Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080205264.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

Barbara Hollingsworth: CASA de Maryland’s expands its political advocacy arm

By: Barbara Hollingsworth

Local Opinion Editor

August 3, 2010

CASA de Maryland has decided to start a political action committee so it can endorse pro-Hispanic candidates who promise to defend its politically untouchable stream of public funds. CASA has been using the money to beat back any citizen challenges to Maryland‘s current sanctuary status.

The CASA in Action PAC will build upon CASA’s past success in making Maryland taxpayers pay to watch their state and local officials fall all over each other to provide the most services to people with no legal right to be in the United States. So this latest venture into partisan politics is hardly new. The PAC just makes it official.

Since 2005, the open-borders group has hauled in at least $7.6 million in the form of outright subsidies, community development tax credits, government-issued bonds, grants and heavens knows what else. It’s used tax dollars to fund day laborer sites, organize a protest against Arizona‘s new immigration law, and even file a lawsuit against a Frederick County sheriff for arresting a woman wanted on a deportation warrant.

Even while they were staring at a $2 billion budget deficit earlier this year, state legislators defeated, by a lopsided vote of 47-89, an amendment offered by House Minority Leader Anthony O’Donnell, R-Calvert, to strip CASA of yet another $200,000 the group was allocated from the state’s capital budget.

CASA in Action has already raised $45,000 from 5,000 dues-paying members, according to Kim Propeack, director of community organizing and political action. CASA organizers say they hope to harness the “enormous unrealized potential of the Latino vote” in Maryland, where, thanks in large part to political pressure from CASA, local elections officials cannot demand proof of citizenship and election judges cannot even demand to see a voter’s ID.

The PAC’s current agenda includes issuing Maryland driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, fighting efforts to make English the official state language, lobbying for more funding for nonprofits like CASA, and stopping raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Evidence of CASA’s political clout was recently on display. Despite deep budget cuts that forced some county employees to take unpaid furloughs, the Hyattsville-based group was miraculously spared.

It received $2.1 million from local governments ($1.3 million from Montgomery County alone) even though its other sources of revenue include deep-pocketed billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute and Citgo, Venezeula’s state-owned oil company.

The October 2008 grand opening of CASA’s $13.8 million Multicultural Service Center in a restored mansion in Langley Park (“a casa for CASA”) was attended by a long list of Democratic bigwigs, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Prince George’s, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, state Comptroller Peter Franchot, Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett. “I do everything [current CASA President] Gustavo [Torres] tells me to do,” Maryland House Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Sheila Hixson, D-Montgomery, said only half-jokingly.

Not surprisingly, former CASA President Thomas Perez, a former aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy who is now head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, took the lead in preparing the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law. While head of CASA, Perez demanded in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and opposed enforcement of deportation orders. The group even pressured Montgomery County Public Schools officials to offer academic credit to students who attended a pro-illegal-immigration rally in D.C.

More recently, Torres unilaterally declared that the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has “absolutely no right to ask for people’s Social Security number or immigration status to get a drivers license” — in direct contradiction of the federal Real ID Act. No elected public official has yet had the temerity to set him straight.

Who needs a political action committee when you already tell everybody in the state how high to jump?

Barbara F. Hollingsworth is The Examiner’s local opinion editor.

Immigration frustration

Originally published August 02, 2010

By Hardy Stone, Frederick News Post

I want to express my frustration. Frustration caused by ignorance, inactivity and typical community isolationist thinking. We say: “It’s not my problem — it’s someone else’s. It’s not affecting me directly.”

Out of sight, out of mind, but the bottom line is that the problem is indeed affecting Frederick County citizens — we just don’t care or don’t know what to do about it.

The last column I wrote, on illegal immigration (“Press two for English?”), was received with some controversy and emotional response. Most agreed that illegal immigration is affecting our language, our social unity and our culture. Some readers, however, had other opinions. I received an e-mail in Spanish stuffed with words not fit for printing. Hey, amigo: Gracias por leer mi columna y por su soporte.

Have a look at www.helpsavemaryland.org . It’s calculated that the cost of illegal immigration to Frederick County taxpayers will exceed $56,587,264 next year. This figure is based on public information provided by the Maryland Department of Planning and the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Let’s say this figure is high. Even if it’s $40 million, those dollars could go toward raises for our teachers, charitable enterprises, the county Health Department, nursing homes, homeless shelters, public funding of creative arts, toward maintaining the infrastructure of our county.

Instead, we fork over our treasure for the cost of educating, providing “emergency” health care services and incarcerating illegal immigrants. The good news is that if we clean up this mess we’ll have millions of dollars to supplement our local social programs.

Hiring illegal immigrants happens everywhere, all the time. Day labor centers are locations where anyone with a strong back can find work — cash is king, and there’s no record of money made and no contribution to Frederick County, Maryland or the United States.

But that’s just the obvious fraud. Many of our favorite restaurants thrive on workers who are in this country illegally. Fast-food restaurants are notorious. Employers pay “undocumented workers” far less than minimum wage, which is despicable — because they can, and any edge you can get in business is the edge you take. These employers should be deported to Greece.

But here’s the personal irony I struggle with: If I were a citizen — skilled or unskilled — of another nation, trying to feed my family on bread and water, I’d cross the border in a New York heartbeat if I could. I’d keep a low, low profile and seek out employers willing to pay cash with no questions asked. I’d mail most of it to my wife and four kids back home. Plenty of cash left over for rent here in Frederick County (after the 15 friends living with me, who are also here illegally, pitch in their share).

The more we enable illegal immigration, the more we’ll pay. We’ve got to stop opening our wallets to people who come here illegally.

Is this bigotry or patriotic social preservation? People who believe that illegal immigrants deserve the same rights as true American citizens are not true American citizens. But we can try to make a difference. In the upcoming county and state elections, know where the candidates stand on this.

I guarantee that more states will check their balance sheets and tilt favorably toward Arizona‘s illegal-immigration bill.

Frustrated? You bet I am … when I see my family, friends and neighbors being ripped off …

… in times like these …

Bluepoint1@comcast.net

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

August 1, 2010

The piece below should dampen the festivities underway by radical Hispanic legislators, Illegal Alien support groups (La Raza, CASA of Maryland, SEIU, ACLU), lawbreaking illegal aliens and their pandering politicians/Justice Dept lawyers.

Arizona and the American people will prevail. No Amnesty!  Enforce the Law!  Free right of passage to all illegal aliens and their families who want to return home without fear of arrest and incarceration.

Arizona can prevail on immigration law

By Michael Hethmon, Special to CNN 7/30/10

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Judge’s ruling treated as big defeat for Arizona immigration law, says Michael Hethmon
• He says the claims are overblown and much of the law has gone into effect
• He says judge’s ruling gave state some avenues for appeal and ways to amend the bill
• Hethmon: Ruling won’t stop other states from passing similar legislation

Editor’s note: Michael Hethmon is a public interest lawyer and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal affiliate of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He helped draft Arizona‘s SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.

Washington (CNN) — A district judge on Wednesday preliminarily barred the enforcement of two sections and two subsections of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070.

As was the case with the public reaction after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law on April 23, we are again seeing wild claims about the matter — in this case, about Judge Susan Bolton’s order.

Commentators are making overblown statements about the judge’s order without having actually read it. As a lawyer who supports the enactment of state laws that promote comprehensive immigration enforcement, I offer this initial analysis to the beleaguered voters of Arizona:

First: The judge lives in Arizona, likes Arizona and its people and sympathizes with your struggle to fight “rampant immigration, escalating drug and human trafficking crimes, and serious safety concerns.” That’s from the first sentence of her order.

Second: The judge agrees that Arizona has a right to express its intent that “attrition [of the number of illegal immigrants entering the state] though enforcement” be the state policy. The judge rejected the administration’s request that she find that SB 1070 is unconstitutional as a whole.

She clearly didn’t buy into the claim that states are barred from enforcing our nation’s immigration law. Bolton wrote that SB 1070 is not a “unified statutory scheme” that contradicts federal law and let it stand.

Third: Bolton upheld the anti-sanctuary provisions, including the provision allowing citizens to sue local governments (but not their police officers) that harbor and encourage illegal immigration. Bolton also approved of the tough new state felony laws that “mirror” federal immigration crimes such as smuggling, transporting, sheltering, harboring and inducing illegal aliens to remain, even if they do not follow the federal statute word-for-word.

This is bad news for cities such as Los Angeles or New Haven, Connecticut, that claim they can pick and chose which federal laws they will observe.

Notably, Bolton tossed two far-left theories advanced by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. One is that the Arizona criminal “mirror” statutes were a pre-empted “regulation of immigration,” the theory used to sabotage California’s Proposition 187 back in 1996. The other is that prosecuting alien smugglers in state courts somehow interferes with interstate commerce.

Fourth: Bolton zeroed in on the second sentence of Section 2 and held that the sentence should be broadly read to require that “every single person arrested” must be detained until federal agents definitively determine their immigration status.

That state policy, she wrote, would “burden” lawfully present aliens with prolonged detentions. Outside of sanctuary cities, police officers nationwide already have discretion to query a person’s immigration status during a traffic stop or similar scenario, if the officer reasonably suspects the person is unlawfully present.

However, Bolton wrote Arizona couldn’t require such queries by police by statute, taking at face value administration claims it would overload the federal government with requests for verification.

This reasoning has at least two problems.

Congress clearly required Homeland Security to respond to police requests for the immigration status of legal as well as suspected illegal aliens. The federal anti-sanctuary statute, 8 U.S.C. 1373(c), requires the federal government to verify state and local police requests regarding “the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any person …”

Moreover, in constitutional challenges brought before a law is implemented, the Supreme Court expects federal judges to uphold state laws unless they would be unconstitutional in every case. These are important points for appeal.

Fifth: Bolton preliminarily blocked enforcement of the new state misdemeanor of failure by aliens to register with the federal government (as in sneaking over the border) or to carry their registration documents in their personal possession.

The judge relied on a 1940 Supreme Court case, Hines v. Davidowitz, to conclude that Congress had “completely occupied the field” of alien registration. The problem with that theory is that the federal statute behind the Arizona law wasn’t enacted until 13 years later, in 1952.

Even if the judge’s theory survives appellate review, the easy fix is to drop the state penalties and instead simply prohibit restrictions on state police enforcing the federal alien registration law, a procedure that has been upheld in every federal appellate court to consider the question.

Sixth: Bolton upheld the constitutionality of punishing aliens who stand in public streets to solicit day labor. She had no choice. Several weeks ago, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a similar law from California, finding it was a reasonable public safety measure that didn’t infringe on the First Amendment right to free association.

Bolton did block the related provision making it a state crime for an illegal alien to solicit or perform work. I think this is the one area where there is an arguable legal dispute. What did Congress intend when it enacted the employer sanctions laws in 1986? But that important question is already before the U.S. Supreme Court, which just weeks ago agreed to review Arizona’s 2007 law requiring statewide use of the E-Verify online work authorization verification system.

Seventh: Bolton also delayed implementation of the section of SB 1070 that confirms police authority to arrest without warrant aliens who are deportable under federal law. The judge said that if the provision were given the broadest possible interpretation, legal immigrants might be wrongly arrested by local officers. Only federal immigration judges can decide to remove legal immigrants.

Here again, the judge hinted that if the law were amended to clarify that the narrow interpretation was the proper one — that local officers can detain criminal aliens convicted or wanted for deportable crimes in other states — it would pass muster.

All the other provisions of the SB 1070, including the improved evidentiary standards for Arizona’s E-Verify law, and the provision authorizing the impoundment of vehicles belonging to illegal aliens, passed muster and will be implemented.

When the order was issued, I was in a meeting with East Coast legislators from one of many states considering SB-1070 laws. They were concerned by the first news reports. But after we read the order together, their confidence was restored.

They resolved to include Bolton’s technical corrections in the bill they’re drafting and go forward with this vital program for protecting citizens’ rights and the rule of law.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Hethmon.

CASA continues their anti-American approach on issues related to jobs, housing, and community funding.  Why should the citizens of Montgomery and Prince George’s County have to continue funding an organization that undermines law and order.   CASA even crossed the line with MoCo Councilman Marc Elrich, a long-time CASA cheerleader, by demanding special ethnic centric support and jobs.  Elrich actually told CASA NO!  Too bad the Prince George’s County Council did not recently  tell CASA no when they demanded and received free taxi vehicle licenses for an ethnically target immigrant group, a decision which will hurt Black taxi drivers in PG.

Hispanic Illegal aliens do deserve the special attention CASA is demanding.  But that attention should be provided by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, not taxpayers in Montgomery and Prince George’s County.

Please make an effort to report any and all of CASA’s anti-American activities to HSM! Citizens First!

CASA pushes for rent control near Purple Line

By: Brian Hughes
Examiner Staff Writer
August 1, 2010

Maryland’s largest pro-immigrant group is pushing Montgomery County leaders for laws that would keep rent from rising in a Hispanic enclave in Silver Spring near planned construction of the light rail Purple Line.

In a letter obtained by The Washington Examiner, CASA de Maryland implores Montgomery County Council members to develop affordable housing, along with employment guarantees for minorities that would keep residents in the overwhelmingly Hispanic Long Branch community from being uprooted.

Without protective measures taken by the council, CASA officials say the Purple Line, a light rail route expected to connect Bethesda and New Carrollton, would cause housing prices to soar and essentially displace Long Branch residents.

Among the “demands” issued by CASA: requiring no net loss of existing affordable housing, more local funding to keep housing prices down, and recruitment of minorities and individuals from pre-identified training programs for construction jobs tied to the Purple Line.

“Because the Long Branch community is the county’s most diverse, displacement in that community would adversely affect the county’s level of diversity overall,” wrote CASA staff attorney Zorayda Moreira-Smith. “Increase in rent for the existing community is not a viable option.”

There are 3,500 apartments in the Long Branch area and more than three-quarters of residents are minority, according to CASA figures. The median household income is nearly $60,000.

Councilman Marc Elrich, D-at large, a vocal supporter of rent control, said he also has concerns about displacement but that rent control would require an unrealistic amount of new construction in the area. And he balked at the job demands.

“I’m not interested in tailoring jobs for any one race of workers,” he said. “Jobs should go to people who need jobs, period.”

The council last week approved a functional plan for the Purple Line and trains could start running in 2016.bhughes@washingtonexaminer.com

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July 29, 2010

EDITORIAL: Judicial activism against Arizona

Judge bucks precedent to keep immigration floodgates open

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – The Washington Times

7:25 p.m., Wednesday, July 28, 2010

U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton miscalculated when she blocked critical aspects of Arizona‘s immigration enforcement law. Her decision will further intensify efforts by states to find solutions to problems posed by the Obama administration‘s unwillingness to take command of this pressing issue.

The decision is certain to inflame the illegal immigration debate, and it doesn’t bode well for the president or his party. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, 55 percent of Americans back the Arizona law and 58 percent disapprove of Obama immigration policies. A Pew Research Center poll shows 63 percent think immigration reform is very important, and only 36 percent back the Justice Department‘s suit against Arizona. The presumed political benefits of the administration‘s stance are not materializing. According to Gallup, President Obama’s approval ratings among Hispanics have dropped from 68 percent in April to 55 percent in the latest weekly poll.

Judge Bolton ruled, “It is not in the public interest for Arizona to enforce preempted laws,” but this is a deceptive statement. If Arizona had passed a law that defined U.S. citizenship, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has disingenuously suggested, federal supremacy would apply. However, the case at hand doesn’t deal with pre-emptive law but with parallel enforcement. Arizona‘s law does not define who has broken immigration laws; it deals with what to do when police apprehend these criminals.

The relevant precedent is in Gonzales v. City of Peoria (1983), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit – which includes Arizona – held that “although the regulation of immigration is unquestionably an exclusive federal power, it is clear that this power does not preempt every state activity affecting aliens.” The court stated flatly that “federal law does not preclude local enforcement of the criminal provisions” of federal immigration law, and that “concurrent enforcement is authorized” when they “do not impair federal regulatory interests.”

In the same case, the court noted that federal injunctions against state law enforcement actions should be undertaken only in the most extreme circumstances and should generally exercise restraint “based on principles of equity, comity and federalism” and “consistent with these principles, federal courts may not intervene in state enforcement activities absent extraordinary circumstances that threaten immediate and irreparable injury.” The notion that the federal government would be immediately and irreparably harmed by Arizona identifying previously detained illegals is unsustainable.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, hailed Judge Bolton‘s decision, saying, “Arresting people based on their appearance and holding them until you can investigate their immigration status is patently un-American and unconstitutional.” This is a willful misrepresentation of the Arizona law but typical of the race-baiting politics of the left.

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in Muehler v. Mena that police could question suspects detained for other crimes about their immigration status even if they had no reason to believe they were illegals. In this, the court specifically overturned a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court that such questioning constituted a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The high court rejected as a “faulty” premise that police even needed reasonable suspicion to ask questions about immigration status, and countered citing previous precedent that “even when officers have no basis for suspecting a particular individual, they may generally ask questions of that individual.” Under the logic in Mena, Arizona doesn’t even need a special law for state and local police to make inquiries regarding immigration status.

Judge Bolton‘s judicial activism is out of step with the law, out of step with politics and out of step with the good of the country.

HELP SAVE MARYLAND MEMBER JOEY PEREZ SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiYQMp3JAE

JUDGE BOLTON INVALIDATES PART OF ARIZONA‘S IMMIGRATION LAW

By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of “The Rise of Tyranny“
July 29, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Judge Bolton’s Decision Invalidating Parts of New Arizona Immigration Law Should Be Overturned

The central premise of Judge Bolton’s decision enjoining four parts of Arizona’s immigration law rests on the faulty premise that the state law violates the doctrine of federal pre-emption. The law, however, is in aid of federal immigration law and neither obstructs nor increases penalties for immigration law violations. Moreover, it does not attempt to alter the standards used by the federal government in determining who is legally resident in this country. Indeed, the Arizona law is in aid of domestic law affected by illegals in Arizona who are contributing to drug and human trafficking and other serious crimes within the state.

The Judge held the following four parts of the statute unlawful encroachments on federal immigration law, based on the doctrine of pre-emption:

(1) the requirement that an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained, or arrested on other grounds if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is unlawfully present in the U.S. and that a person arrested be required to show proof of lawful immigration status prior to being released (Part of Section 2 of SB 1070);

(2) the creation of a new state crime in support of federal law that requires application for and carriage of alien registration papers (Section 3 of SB 1070);

(3) the creation of a new state crime in support of federal law that prohibits an unauthorized alien from soliciting, applying for, or performing work (Part of Section 5 of SB 1070); and

(4) the authorization of warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States under federal immigration law (Section 6 of SB 1070).

The Judge operates on two assumptions, that the Arizona law (1) will impose substantial burdens on lawful immigrants, exposing them to inquisitorial practices and police surveillance and (2) will impose a significant increase in costs on federal authorities contacted concerning suspected illegals detained, thus distracting the federal government from pursuing other immigration law enforcement priorities. She had no specific proof in the record to support either of these hypothetical propositions and yet throughout the decision presumes them to be true.

The suit brought by the Obama Administration against the law is a pre-enforcement or facial challenge. Because the challenge occurs before the law is implemented, the Supreme Court has required that “the challenger must establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the Act would be valid.” United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987). In particular, the Court is not to base its decision on hypothetical or presumed cases.

We certainly can conceive of instances in which each of the four provisions would be validly enforced and, so, the pre-enforcement challenge standard has not been satisfied. It is counterintuitive to assume that a person detained on probable cause of the commission of a crime, like, for example, murder, who is found not to be in this country lawfully would through his arrest either unduly burden lawful immigrants or impose undue burdens on federal authorities, particularly because just such a person is removable from this country under federal law. Rather, legal immigrants, like all Americans, are best protected when such individuals are prosecuted.

It is counterintuitive to assume that a law focused on enforcing the federal requirement that alien residents file applications for, and carry proof of, alien registration is somehow burdensome to lawful immigrants or to federal law enforcers who are supposed to be implementing that very legal requirement. Indeed, we have to stretch our imaginations in a mighty way to presume that such a law would be wrongly applied to a legal immigrant or would generate such an enormous quantity of referrals to the feds that they would be overwhelmed by them (particularly because the feds now routinely ignore state referrals on all manner of illegal immigration issues; there is nothing requiring them to take the new referrals any more seriously).

It is counterintuitive to assume that a state law that supports federal law prohibiting employment of illegal aliens would harm lawful immigrants or burden federal law enforcers. The state law on its face aims at illegal aliens, thus only a wrongful application of it would reach a lawful immigrant. Moreover, the feds are burdened only if they choose to implement federal law (but that is their pre-existing duty and should not be considered cognizable as a new or added burden).

It is counterintuitive also to assume that a law that makes it a crime to commit an offense that makes a person removable from the United States under federal immigration law either burdens lawful immigrants or federal law enforcers. It is in aid of federal law enforcement, and the feds have the final say so under this state law concerning whether the person is removable. It is entirely within federal discretion to deem a person not removable, or to ignore the state request for a determination.

The decision tacitly presumes that states do not presently aid federal law enforcement through referrals of suspected illegal immigrants and in support of federal government actions against illegal aliens involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking, or smuggling of illegal goods. They do, every day. In this environment, the Arizona law is neither new nor exceptionally burdensome. It certainly does not obstruct federal immigration law.

Finally, nothing in the law authorizes or condones racial profiling or discrimination against legal immigrants. This new law is comparable to many others that aid federal law enforcement, only now due to political pressure from President Obama has the Department of Justice chosen to single out the Arizona law for strained arguments that it obstructs or modifies federal immigration law. It was a mistake to buy into those arguments without either a basis in fact or logic to support them and with ample examples of enforcement that would not be unlawful.

In the end, whether this law exists or not, the ultimate test of discriminatory enforcement of the law lies not in a facial challenge but in proof in an individual case that police have abused their discretion and violated an individual’s rights. Undoubtedly there will be, as there have been in the past, instances where local police will violate the rights of the innocent, abuse them, and do so based on motives that are reprehensible in any civilized society. The law must punish such police severely and provide ways to compensate victims for the harms, recognizing that compensation can never restore fully the respect for autonomy and the dignity they deserve. Nevertheless, we cannot presume in the middle of a crisis where innocent victims of crimes spawn by alien drug traffickers and murderers have become daily headlines that law enforcement will violate the rights of innocents in their pursuit of those who threaten lives and property.

Faced with a monumental emergency, Arizona has taken prudent steps to equip its law enforcement officers with authority to help stem the tide of illegal immigration into the state. It has done so where that illegal immigration involves additional illegal acts—the area of greatest threat to the lawful inhabitants of Arizona, legal immigrants and people born in the United States. By enjoining four key provisions of the Arizona law, Judge Bolton has hampered reasonable efforts to protect the lawful residents of Arizona from crime and abuse.

We should hope that on appeal the Ninth Circuit overturns this decision. If it does not, however, you can be sure that Governor Jan Brewer will push for new laws to enable state law enforcement to protect Arizona’s citizens against crimes spawn by illegal immigrants and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will continue his efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigration.

© 2010 Jonathan W. Emord – All Rights Reserved

KEEP IN MIND

“Comprehensive Immigration Reform is a classic example of the cure being far worse than the disease!

Any politician who supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform is working against the security of our nation and the well being of our citizens.

Any politician who refuses to work to secure our borders and create an immigration system that has integrity is either corrupt or too dumb to keep his (her) job.

Any politician, irrespective of party affiliation who favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform should be shown the door at the next election!”  MC

HELP SAVE MARYLAND

July 28, 2010

CLINTON APPOINTED JUDGE BACKS ILLEGALS

In a shocking but not surprising ruling, US District Judge Susan Bolton today halted implementation of the main portions of the Arizona law enforcing the law against illegal aliens.  WTOP reported that Bolton, appointed by former President Clinton (D), halted portions of the law including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also delayed parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places, a move aimed at day laborers (good news!). In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.

“Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked,” Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in her decision.

AZ Governor Brewer is expected to appeal the decision of this lawless, open borders judge, so the battle for America is far from over!

One again, Elections DO Matter, so please be prepared to vote in upcoming primaries across Maryland in the coming weeks and the general elections in the fall.

SUPPORT ARIZONA AND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

RALLY AT NATS STADIUM SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 Radical, anti-American groups like La Raza and CASA of Maryland continue to threaten Arizona citizens and Major League Baseball.  Using their illegal alien clientele as protesters (see link) they are demanding the 2011 Baseball All-Star Game be moved out of Phoenix, Arizona as part of their state-wide boycott.http://act.presente.org/go/movethegame_post/136?akid=158.106904.tB_LUv&t=4 It’s time for the citizens of Maryland and the Greater Washington Area to fight back! On Sunday, August 15, 1:35pm, the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Washington Nationals at Nats Park in DC.  Let’s use this game to show our support for Arizona’s crackdown on illegal aliens and increased border security! Bring your U.S., AZ, and Gadsden flags (no poles), poster or sign (no wood backing) supporting AZ’s tough immigration law! No Amnesty! Enforce the Law! Purchase a ticket to the August 15 game through the website link below. Tickets for this event are located in two nearby sections of Nats stadium so we can all sit together. www.nationals.com/rockvillebaseball Help Arizona in the fight against illegal immigration and support local Maryland youth baseball at the same time. The Nationals will make a donation to Maryland baseball for each ticket sold through this link. For further information contact HSM Paul Mendez at paul.mendez@erols.com

ARIZONA DEFENSE FUND -  Help AZ prepare for the next round in court.  Defend America from lawless politicians, illegal alien support groups and the Government of Mexico.

www.keepazsafe.com

ANOTHER SHOCKER, THIS TIME IN MARYLAND

As part of HSM’s Education and Outreach initiatives, we periodically report on the position of various political parties in Maryland with regard to their stance on illegal immigration.

In a recent letter to members of the Maryland Republican Party, President Audrey Scott released a multi-page announcement openly denouncing illegal immigration in our state.  Strong words were also used to condemn the practices of CASA of Maryland, the illegal aliens non-profit of choice.

Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:30pm-9:00pm

County Executive Candidate Forum hosted by friends of the Laurel Boys and Girls Club

Laurel Boys and Girls Club

701 Montgomery Street

Laurel, MD

Contact Ellen Berhane for more information:  301-953-9340  ext. 27

Find out where these candidates stand on illegal immigration, Amnesty, E-Verify, Secure Communities and more!

Errors in the 7/23 HSM Newsletter

In comparing Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger to Frederick Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, I stated that Manger never met an illegal alien he did NOT want to detain, arrest and support.  My apologizes to Chief Manger as nothing could be further from the truth. Manger refuses to openly work with federal authorities to enforce the law against illegal aliens. His shoddy police work is a major reason why Montgomery County has thousands of outstanding warrants for wanted criminal illegal aliens.

Let me also apologize in comparing Manger to Mayberry Deputy Barney Fife. Despite his limitations, Deputy Fife did try to the best of his abilities to enforce the law.  Manger could learn a few things about honesty and duty from Deputy Fife.