It’s a federal crime to rent your house to a human smuggler. You could lose your property. I came across this story about the government choosing not to seize these “drop houses” because there is no equity in the house given the decline in the housing market. I got to thinking about the irony of this situation.
The human who was smuggled in by the human smuggler, i.e., the illegal immigrant, could theoretically have gotten a subprime mortgage to buy the house that was confiscated from the owner because the owner rented to the smuggler who brought the illegal into the country. That whole subprime thing is all broken now so there is talk about coming to the aid of the “victims” of predatory lenders. It is therefore possible that the human who was smuggled in can continue living in the house that was confiscated from the owner who rented to the human smuggler and the erstwhile owner of the confiscated house will pick up the tab for the bad mortgage so the person who was at the center of all the associated crimes can live trouble free in his house.
And gee, I wonder what sort of TB-ridden part-time “worker” spread the disease in the squalid Sanctuary City of San Francisco? A Swede perhaps? Those pesky French?
Kaiser Permanente is contacting 960 mothers whose babies may have been exposed to a health care worker in San Francisco who has an active case of tuberculosis. The worker was assigned to the postpartum unit in the maternity ward of Kaiser’s San Francisco Medical Center to care for mothers and infants. Kaiser officials say the infection risk for patients is very low, but testing will be provided along with treatment if necessary.
Kaiser also is notifying 115 employees who may have been exposed.
960 babies. Sanctuary City policies kill Americans. With horrific events like this and the murders of the Bologna family by an illegal, SF city officials should be arrested on criminal aiding-and-abetting charges.
McCain a little less so than Obama, but just appearing at a convention for a group called “The Race” and whom advocate for an end to the Rule of Law and the sovereignty of this nation is in and of itself pathetic.
Obama spoke to the national La Raza conference on Sunday, managing to differentiate himself from McCain on the immigration issue…by casting border law enforcement agents as terrorists.
McCain picked up the soap for them today, with a message that focused more on economics than on immigration. That was a smart move, but he did end with his usual rhetoric about how once we get the border “secured” (no doubt with another virtual fence that doesn’t work) then he’ll set about to get everyone amnesty and set up the New Slave Class of the Brown People Who Do Work The White People Won’t Do.
His remarks in full are at his official site, but here is his main point about immigration. Listen to Obama’s comments and even though we’re tired of this pandering by McCain, compared to The Messiah calling our law enforcement agents terrorists, McCain sounds practically reasonable.
Let me address one other issue important to all of us. As you know, I and many other colleagues twice attempted to pass comprehensive immigration legislation to fix our broken borders; ensure respect for the laws of this country; recognize the important economic contribution of immigrant laborers; apprehend those who came here illegally to commit crimes; and deal practically and humanely with those who came here, as my distant ancestors did, to build a better, safer life for their families, without excusing the fact they came here illegally or granting them privileges before those who have been waiting their turn outside the country. Many Americans did not believe us when we said we would secure our borders, and so we failed in our efforts. I don’t want to fail again to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. We must prove we have the resources to secure our borders and use them, while respecting the dignity and rights of citizens and legal residents of the United States. When we have achieved our border security goal, we must enact and implement the other parts of practical, fair and necessary immigration policy. We have economic and humanitarian responsibilities as well, and they require no less dedication from us in meeting them.
In fact, the thing that incensed Pat S. the most was this rather remarkable comment to ‘Latinos’ by Obama during his speech. Barry seems to think that a special interest group that caters to law-breaking foreigners will control this election. Let’s make sure he gets a different lesson i November about who is really in charge–that would be Us. In addition to casting American law enforcement as terrorists, he also made note of a few other things:
In his speech Obama spoke about immigration, “the need to stop the hateful rhetoric filling our airwaves” and “bringing the 12 million people here without documentation out of the shadows” to give them a “pathway to citizenship.” Obama accused McCain of abandoning after major immigration legislation fell apart last year.
So, he promised clamp down on Freedom of Speech if it irritates illegal aliens, romaticizing the millions of illegals, while then promising citizenship and amnesty. Terrific!
And Pat’s favorite statement:
“Make no mistake about it: The Latino community holds this election in your hands,” Obama said to cheers. “I am here today to make you this promise: I will be a president who stands with you and fights for you and walks with you every single step of the way.”
That’s funny. I thought it was the American citizen who voted who hold this election in their hands. You know, I think I’m right. let’s indeed make sure Barry gets another lesson in American civics. He recently learned there aren’t 57 states. Now hell learn who’s in charge here, and it’s not “La Raza.”
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The San Francisco Chronicle, in all its liberal haze, gives a big, sloppy French kiss to La Raza and tries desperately to explain why it was okay for Barry to translate “La Raza” to “The People” instead of “The Race.” Get ready for some seriously ridiculous panty twisting here.
(They don’t provide you with the link to the original story referred to in the link above. I have done so here. Apparently while more than willing to defend Barry’s pathetic spinning with some of their own, they don’t really want to make it easy for you to take a look for yourself at their rank bias).
Police say 20 people have been killed in less than three days in this crime-ridden border city’s latest wave of violence.
State police spokesman Cesar Ramirez says a father and son who were killed at their home while sleeping were among the victims. A third victim was a man whose body was cut up in pieces and dumped in an empty lot.
Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her a lift home.
Gonzalez and a group of other women and children–all Indians from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca–have no interest in staying in the United States. All they want to do is panhandle outside El Paso businesses, using the children as lures.
At the end of a productive day, they wait for the Border Patrol to come pick them up and drive them back to the border.
A 37-year-old man is charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who gave birth last month in Idaho.
“St. Anthony Police said they were notified of the young girl’s pregnancy by medical personnel after she went in for treatment at a doctor’s office,” KIFI-TV reports on its website.
One day later, the ABC affiliate says the young mother delivered a 6-pound girl at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho.
KIDK-TV says Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, a suspected illegal immigrant, is being held at the Fremont County Jail. He’s due in court next week to face rape charges.
Execute this beast now!
Oh, I also want to know what sort of parents force a 10- year-old (that’s a fourth-grader folks, 9 when raped) to carry this pregnancy to term. They, too, should be arrested for child neglict and endangerment.
McCain, once again, is more concerned with the votes of Foreign Nationals and their supporters than he is with Independent Conservatives. Yes, there may be 20 million illegals, but at least not all of them will be voting in November, especially with the USSC upholding the constitutionality of voter ID laws. We ICONS, however, will be voting and we also happen to be American citizens. It still amazes me that he feels we will at some point just automatically fall in line.
He’s wrong. When wishing everyone a happy Cinco de Mayo yesterday, he announced a Spanish website for his campaign (and we all know that American citizens don’t know how to speak English, nor should we encourage them to), and his intention to speak at La Raza’s (The Race) conference in July.
McCain reaches out to Latinos for votes
He acknowledged that his party’s image has taken a beating among Latinos as a result of the “tenor” of the illegal-immigration debate during the primaries. McCain said he couldn’t gauge the political impact of Arpaio’s roundups of illegal immigrants and other criminals in largely Hispanic neighborhoods. But he ultimately blamed U.S. government inaction for forcing local officials to enforce the law…McCain never fully abandoned his support for other reforms, saying that the government needs to demonstrate that it can fix the border mess before it can expect the American public to consider allowing in temporary workers and implementing other proposals that are seen as benefits for immigrants.
“I believe that the majority of Hispanics share our view that the border must be secured, and the border must be secured first,” McCain said. “But they also want us to have an attitude, which I think most Americans do, that these are God’s children and they must be taken care of, or the issue must be addressed, in a humane and compassionate fashion. And I will continue to carry that message with the priority that we must secure our borders first.” [...]
Elias Bermudez, founder of the Phoenix-based advocacy group Immigrants Without Borders, is a McCain supporter who believes that, as president, McCain and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill could deliver landmark immigration-reform legislation within the first 100 days of his administration.
As I’ve said, McCain can screw this up, and to remind people like us of his obsession with establishing a new slave class, at the expense of the Rule of Law and this nations’ sovereignty, is the beginning of that screw-up.
And the Feds are sure, just sure, that it’s the fault of the French and the Joooooz! Boy, if that’s not a double-header for both Islamists and Amnesty Shills I don’t know what is! No matter how much they try to avoid it, the truth of the matter is, the flood of people coming in at the southern border are from third-world countries with no national health care of immunization system. As a result, we’ve seen epidemics of mumps and measles and other diseases we thought the civilized world had vanquished. Another perk brought to you by those who want a new slave class, which now saddles your children with a potentially deadly disease.
Measles outbreaks in several states have led to more than 70 cases so far this year, the worst in six years, health officials said Thursday. Most of the cases have been traced to outbreaks overseas and are mainly in children who were not vaccinated for religious or other reasons [Other reasons? Yeah, like the "being from Mexico" reason] or were too young, according to the Centers for Disease control and Prevention. Since measles vaccinations began in the early 1960s, cases have dramatically declined in the U.S.
So far this year, the CDC has confirmed reports of 64 cases in nine states. There were no deaths, but 14 people were hospitalized, said CDC spokesman Curtis Allen…Measles is caused by a virus that normally grows in cells that line the back of the throat and line the lungs. It spreads through contact with a sneezing, coughing, infected person.
Symptoms include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. But about 1 in 5 measles sufferers experience more severe illness that can include diarrhea, ear infections, pneumonia, encephalitis and even seizures and death.
Of the 64 cases reported to the CDC as of last week, 63 were unvaccinated or it wasn’t known if they were vaccinated. At least 54 of the cases stemmed from outbreaks in Switzerland, Israel or other countries, Allen said. [Gee, I wonder what the breakdown is, and what those other 'unnamed' countres are. Hmmm.]
For more information about measles and what you can do to protect your family, visit the CDC.
Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos embraced his wife, Monica Ramos, two days before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison (El Paso Times)
This broke a few days ago but obviously worth noting. The drug smuggler our border agents, Ramos and Compean, who were tried and imprisoned for trying to stop, has plead guilty to multiple drug charges.
The Mexican national who was the star witness in a controversial prosecution that resulted in the sentencing of two Border Patrol agents to more than a decade in prison pleaded guilty to multiple drug charges in federal court Thursday.
On Feb. 17, 2005, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila attempted to smuggle more than 700 pounds of marijuana into the United States along the Texas-Mexico border, in the small town of Fabens, Texas. As he tried to flee arrest on foot, two Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, shot at him. Ramos’s bullet hit Davila in the buttocks.
The incident gained national attention when U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton with the Western District of Texas worked out an immunity deal for Davila if he would return to the United States and testify against Ramos and Compean…
Davila was arrested and indicted last November based on two other drug deals from 2005, and he has pleaded guilty to those crimes. Those crimes, in which he tried to bring illegal drugs into the country in September and October 2005, occurred after he was given immunity for the initial drug bust in February 2005, when he was shot.
Davila was charged with two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
Davila brought those two loads into the United States during a time when the U.S. Justice Department had given him six unconditional border-crossing cards.
But thank goodness we’ve got those two pesky border guards in prison. But there is continued action on their behalf. Here’s news from today as covered by the Dallas Morning News.
Sen. John Cornyn is again calling for presidential clemency in the case of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.
The Texas Republican, joined by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., sent a letter to President Bush on Monday, urging him to commute the sentences of former agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving terms of 12 and 11 years.
Imagine! Having a new slave class and millions in that new victim constituency group, and an end to this nation’s sovereignty all in one swoop. Can’t beat that. And as Tammy Researcher and Level 2 Troublemaker Pat S. notes, “How well will the Bush DOJ defend against this challenge I wonder.”
A National Guardsman surveying the mountain of trash left behind by illegal aliens at the border.
Fourteen House Democrats, including eight committee chairmen, said yesterday that they will file a legal brief supporting a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s plans to finish building 470 miles of fencing and other barriers on the U.S.-Mexican border by the end of the year.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) led the group, which includes the heads of the energy and commerce, transportation, intelligence, education, rules and veteran affairs panels.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club asked the Supreme Court last month to review whether the administration’s decision to waive environmental laws to finish the fence is constitutional. That waiver was approved by the Republican-led Congress in 2005.
“Our responsibility to be stewards of the earth cannot be thrown aside for the sake of an ill-conceived border fence,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.).
Stewards of the earth, huh? Then maybe Bennie and Johnny can get everyone together and go pick up all the human waste, the food wrappers, and other disgusting trash left behind by illegal aliens as they trudge through polluting and destroying the previously pristine desert.
If they need, uh, doggy bags for the more unpleasant cleanups, they can have some of Sydney’s.
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In the event you like Absolut Vodka, you might want to rethink your choice of that delicious beverage. Take a look at their ad for Mexico, presented to you in this shot of a billboard.
Obviously advertising to Mexicans in Mexico is a normal thing for a company to do. To encourage the idea that a part of the United States belongs to Mexico is unacceptable and worthy, IMHO, of never ordering/buying Absolut vodka ever again.
Maynard weighs in:
No need to be negative. Just resolve to buy your vodka from the heartland. Skyy is widely available and quite good, and they tell me ladies like the look of that blue bottle. Lately I’ve favored Tito’s Vodka from Texas, available at Trader Joes ($18) and other places (but it’s cheaper at TJ). For Al Gore, there’s Vodka 360, which claims to be very eco-sensitive in its manufacture. And Blue Ice Vodka is made from Idaho potatoes rather than grains, if you want to be different. Whatever your preferences, you won’t be able to get through this election cycle without drinking a lot of vodka, so please support the home team.
