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The Border Patrol as Illegal Alien Taxi Service

Your tax dollars at work.

Border Patrol Lets Some Illegals Go -- Over and Over Again

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.

Posted by Tammy · May 13, 2008 11:03 AM · Permalink · Comments (2)
Border Security | Corruption | Crime | Incompetence | Just Plain Stupid

Signs of the Times

A (sign)post by Maynard

Which one of the four Adopt-A-Highway signs pictured above was removed because some people found it offensive?

Although the KKK sign troubled many people, the ACLU fought for the Klan's rights and won.

Tha Nazi Party signs, put up at a cost to taxpayers of $500, merely "draws ire".

The NAMBLA sign "is a matter of personal taste and has nothing to do with legality." (A subsequent report opens the possibility that NAMBLA did not itself apply to adopt the highway, but a prankster put the NAMBLA name on the application. So these signs apparently came down on a technicality.)

However, a group that advocates enforcement of immigration laws must be silenced.

Posted by Maynard · May 10, 2008 02:10 PM · Permalink · Comments (5)
Border Security | Freedom of Speech | Hypocrisy | Maynard Post | Political Correctness

Hey McCain: Here's the Latest Open Borders News

What are the odds McCain will discuss this lovely piece of news when he speaks at the La Raza conference in San Diego in July?

10-year-old gives birth in Idaho; Suspected illegal immigrant charged with rape

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 Begins Pathetic Pander for Illegal Alien Vote

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.

Michelle: Top 10 reasons McCain should repudiate the National Council of La Raza

Posted by Tammy · May 6, 2008 09:50 AM · Permalink · Comments (11)
Border Security | Immigration | Incompetence | Politics

Warning of New Measles Outbreak

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.

CDC: Measles cases in US top 70, highest in 6 years

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.

Posted by Tammy · May 3, 2008 05:48 PM · Permalink · Comments (3)
Border Security | Health & Fitness | Politics

Ramos and Compean Drug Smuggler Pleads Guilty

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.

Drug Smuggler in Border Agents Saga Pleads Guilty

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.

Clemency sought for Border Patrol agents who shot smuggler

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.

Posted by Tammy · April 23, 2008 03:08 PM · Permalink · Comments (2)
Border Security | Death of Right and Wrong | Justice/Judiciary

Dems Fight to Stop the Border Fence

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.

Democrats Challenge Plans to Finish Border Fence

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.

Take my walkie baggies, please.

Posted by Tammy · April 7, 2008 07:15 PM · Permalink · Comments (7)
Border Security | Politics

Time to Choose a Different Vodka

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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.

Posted by Tammy · April 5, 2008 05:45 PM · Permalink · Comments (26)
Border Security | Food/Drink

Bush Admin Suddenly Scrambles to Build Border Fence

A section of the unfinished U.S.-Mexico border fence, near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego.

What sort of fence we're dealing with remains to be seen, but it looks like a majority of actual physical fence. Yes, believe it or not, the Bush admin announced they will waive certain rules and regulations to get another 267 miles of the fence built, by the end of the year.

I certainly don't think this is coincidental to the fact that the conservative base is still cold to McCain, to the point where there's a realization that we will not "get with the program" and support McCain until we see some indication that the Fed takes our border concerns seriously. Building a large part of the fence at least addresses a small part of our concern. But make no mistake: this is only happening because you stood firm. There is more work to be done but at least this is a start. Funny what they can get done when they want something, isn't it?

Rules to Be Waived for Border Fence

The Bush administration plans to use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday.

Invoking the two legal waivers — which Congress authorized — would cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way of the Homeland Security Department building 267 miles of fencing in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, according to officials familiar with the plan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the waivers had not yet been announced.

The move would be the biggest use of legal waivers since the administration started building the fence, and it would cover a total of 470 miles along the Southwest border. Previously, the department has used its waiver authority for two portions of fence in Arizona and one portion in San Diego...

Residents and property owners along the U.S.-Mexico border have complained about the construction of fencing. In South Texas, where opposition has been widespread, land owners refused to give the government access to property along the fence route.

The government has since sued more than 50 property owners in South Texas to gain access to the land.

Environmentalists have also complained about the fence because they say it puts already endangered species such as two types of wild cats — the ocelot and the jaguarundi — in even more danger of extinction. They say the fence would prevent them from swimming across the Rio Grande to mate.

Hahahahahahaha! So the Moonbats are now concerned about ocelot anchor babies! Somehow I think nature will find a way...

We're Funding and Building the Border Fence!

'Virtual' Border Fence Scrapped

SF Chronicle: Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling

Posted by Tammy · April 1, 2008 11:11 AM · Permalink · Comments (4)
Border Security | Fed Incompetence

Uranium Seized From Terrorists in South America

No Reason To Build the Physical Fence #17,539.

Just a little bit of Under- or Not Reported At All News about uranium being seized from South American terrorists. Yeah, I wonder if the New and Improved and Maybe Will Work Virtual Fence, set for maybe being up in 2011, will be able to take pictures and sniff out uranium. Because, after all, an actual physical fence might actually prevent transport of materials for a nuclear or dirty bomb into this country, or at least make it a tad more difficult. But keeping that all-too-necessary new slave force, er, Guest Workers, from getting in is apparently just too high a price to pay.

Colombia says it found uranium linked to FARC

The seizure of up to 66 pounds of low-grade uranium linked to the FARC rebels adds weight to the evidence found in a captured rebel laptop that the guerrillas were interested in buying and selling the material, according to the Colombian Defense Ministry...The Colombian government has used details of an alleged deal, to buy up to 50 kilos of uranium at $2.5 million a kilo, found in emails on Reyes' computer to prove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was planning to enter the international terrorism trade from its sanctuary set up in the jungle about one mile from the Colombia-Ecuador border...

One of the computers contained a Feb. 16 e-mail discussing a deal to buy uranium, which can be used to make dirty bombs in which conventional explosives disperse radioactive materials. The emails suggested that the rebels may have intended to sell the uranium to a third party, rather than use it themselves.

Gee, I wonder who else would be interested?

Posted by Tammy · March 27, 2008 12:42 PM · Permalink · Comments (2)
Border Security | Terrorism

We're Funding and Building the Border Fence!

For Egypt. (HT Pat S.)

US To Help Egypt Build Border Fence

The United States has announced that it is planning to help Egypt build a border fence along the Gaza-Egypt border. Washington transferred $23 million worth of special aid to the North African nation as part of its assistance in locating smuggling tunnels...

The planned fence between Egypt and Gaza will employ technology directed at preventing the fence from being damaged. This is in response to Palestinian militants who blew a hole in the current wall between the two nations that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flock into Egypt late January and early February.

The American Army Corps of Engineers plans to send teams to Egypt to help push forward the border fence plans. While building the wall, the Americans also hope to help Egyptian security forces locate and destroy smuggling tunnels into Gaza...

I knew the political elite had contempt for us, but this completely jumps the shark.

So, funding, a physical fence and technology. For the Egyptians. It's amazing isn't it? We can't get 28 miles of a pilot project up involving just technology but we will manage to build a pretty darn good fence for Egypt. That's called, for lack of a batter term, getting screwed. Oh, this also means we're sending Army Engineers to the Gaza Border, you know, where the terrorists live. Lovely.

Hey, they built the Pyramids, they can build their own damn border fence.

"Hahahahahahaha!"

Related Link:

'Virtual' Border Fence Scrapped

Posted by Tammy · March 22, 2008 05:25 PM · Permalink · Comments (10)
Border Security | Corruption

'Virtual' Border Fence Scrapped

After wasting $85.5 million dollars, the Feds have finally admitted the ridiculous 'virtual' border fence is a complete and utter failure. Not surprisingly, the Amnesty Feds have announced they won't have a working 'virtual' fence for at least another three years, toward the end of the next president's term. No matter who the winner, this now gives them more than enough time to resurrect the amnesty bill while keeping our nation's border wide open. I'm simply speechless at the overwhelming incompetence and BS surrounding this entire debacle.

'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed

The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday.

Technical problems discovered in a 28-mile pilot project south of Tucson prompted the change in plans, Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told a House subcommittee.

Though the department took over that initial stretch Friday from Boeing, authorities confirmed that Project 28, the initial deployment of the Secure Border Initiative network, did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol...

Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term...

But officials said yesterday that they now expect to complete the first phase of the virtual fence's deployment -- roughly 100 miles near Tucson and Yuma, Ariz., and El Paso, Tex. -- by the end of 2011, instead of by the end of 2008...He added that the system was developed with "minimal input" from Border Patrol agents, resulting in an unworkable "demonstration project" instead of a operating pilot system. He blamed the DHS for acting too hastily in trying to deliver a working pilot by last June.

A nongovernment source familiar with the project said that the Bush administration's push to speed the project during last year's immigration debate led Boeing to deploy equipment without enough testing or consultation...With more time, the source said, equipment and software will be tested more carefully and integrated with input from Border Patrol agents in three remote locations. "Doing it this way mitigates all kinds of risk," said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Those running the project "basically took equipment, put it on towers and put it out there without any testing as such" because of the tight deadline.

Posted by Tammy · February 28, 2008 12:42 AM · Permalink · Comments (10)
Border Security | Fed Incompetence | Immigration | Moronic Convergence

The Repubs Worry About A 'Hispanic' Voter Backlash

I would think McCain had better start worrying about how to keep independent conservatives from leaving the GOP. Typically, though, he once again is more concerned with what illegal aliens and their mouthpieces think. Wrong priority and big mistake.

McCain May Keep Latinos From Leaving GOP

For Democrats, 2008 was supposed to be the year of the Mountain West, when three years of relentless Republican attacks on undocumented immigrants would fuel a backlash among Hispanics that would change the playing field in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, and perhaps alter the landscape of presidential politics for a generation.

But the emergence of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as the likely standard-bearer for the GOP may have scrambled the equation, cooling a potential political revolt among Hispanics and sending Democrats in search of a new playbook.

"It completely screws it up," said Charles Black, a senior McCain adviser. "We nominated the one person who will not suffer that backlash." [...] Even as McCain moves to heal intraparty wounds on the immigration issue, Democratic community organizers in the West say his past battles with other Republicans over a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants left an imprint on the Latino community that will not quickly fade.

McCain and his team had better get their act together and realize it's independent conservatives he should be concerned about. He can shift his priorities now, or he's going to find out the hard way what we think on November 4th.

Posted by Tammy · February 20, 2008 11:59 PM · Permalink · Comments (1)
Border Security | Corruption | Fed Incompetence | Politics

Yeah, Let's Keep That Border As Open as Possible

A, not The, Little Rooster

With friends like these, who needs al-Qaida?

Mexican drug hitmen kill singer near U.S. border

Drug hitmen have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, the latest murder among musicians who sing "narcocorrido" ballads glorifying drug traffickers.

The body of Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as "The Little Rooster," was one of six that turned up tortured, murdered and pinned with threatening messages for Mexico's army last week in the border town of Tijuana near San Diego...

The official was referring to Tijuana's main drug smuggling cartel, which is fighting a gory turf war with traffickers from Mexico's Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by the country's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.

Alfaro, a regular act at Tijuana's biggest bars and music halls, was found covered in a blanket in wasteland on the edge of the city with rope marks around his neck, suggesting he was tortured before he was shot in the head, the attorney general's office said.

And in other news from the border...

Clinton Needs Texas Latinos to Rescue Her Embattled Candidacy

Oh brother.

Today's Picture Message To Mexicans

In our ongoing effort to bring reality and truth to the world of illegal aliens, and since words don't seem to work very well, here's a picture message to Mexicans:

I think this gets the point across. Maybe we should also send a copy of Juan McAmnesty, just as a little reminder.

Posted by Tammy · February 19, 2008 09:57 AM · Permalink · Comments (9)
Border Security

No Reason For That Wall...

Beast.

No reason whatsoever. After all, it's not always about keeping criminals out. Sometimes it would be nice to make it a little more difficult for fleeing rape and murder suspects to get out.

FBI: Marine slaying suspect likely in Mexico

The FBI suspects that Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, sought in the slaying of a pregnant fellow Marine, has fled to his native Mexico, an FBI spokeswoman said Wednesday.

A warrant has been issued for Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, who's been charged with murder in Lauterbach's death. "At this point in time we strongly suspect but have not confirmed that Laurean fled to Mexico," said Newsom Summerlin, FBI media representative in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Laurean, 21, is a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, and a naturalized citizen who lived in the Las Vegas area before joining the Marines. The FBI said it is working with Mexican authorities to find and arrest Laurean if he is in Mexico...

Laurean faces murder charges in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, who had accused Laurean of rape and who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared in December. Her charred body and a fetus were found buried behind Laurean's house near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, last Friday.

If he is in Mexico what this means, of course, is that he is immune from from the death penalty. Considering the depravity if his crime--the 8-month old fetus would have been alive inside the womb when this beast set his victims' bodies on fire--Mexico will not extradite a criminal unless we promise to not seek the death penalty. Another indication of how the United States continues to allow depraved nations in the world (China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico...) to control our country.

Posted by Tammy · January 16, 2008 12:45 PM · Permalink · Comments (8)
Border Security | Crime

McCain: The Angry Old Man

Lettuce Head

With Iowa boosting McAmnesty considerably, here's an article that may remind you who we're really dealing with here. It shocks me, after everything we went through this past summer with the amnesty debacle, that Republicans would seriously consider a man worse than Bush on the issue of our sovereignty and respect for the American people in general. Just stunning.

Angry Old Man

As truly horrific as it would be for the liberal and unethical Mike Huckabee to win the Republican presidential nomination, many Republicans still believe it would be almost as difficult to stomach the nomination of John McCain.

Huckabee, of course, would utterly destroy the old Reagan coalition, as even his campaign chief Ed Rollins has acknowledged. Huckabee's bizarre propensity for letting criminals return early to freedom, combined with his utter cluelessness about foreign policy, also means that he would get absolutely crushed by the Democrats in a general election contest.

But McCain's problems are almost as great, which is why reports of a comeback by the Arizona senator have so many conservatives scratching their heads.

McCain is, and looks, more than two years older than Ronald Reagan was when Reagan was elected president, and a poll last year showed that 42 percent of respondents said they would not vote for somebody who is 72 years old. That is a far higher percentage than that of people who would not vote for a Mormon (24 percent), a woman (11 percent), or a black person (5 percent).

McCain is not a tax cutter in a party that has made tax cuts one of its most basic tenets for nearly 30 years. Not only did he vote against President George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 -- cuts that clearly are responsible for the booming economy of the past four-plus years -- but just last week he told National Review's Rich Lowry that he was correct not to vote for those tax cuts.

Then, of course, there is the large and passionate segment of the Republican electorate that wants to get tough against illegal immigration, and they have good reason to consider John McAmnesty to be not just against them but a highly disagreeable archenemy.

Obviously, read the whole thing.

Posted by Tammy · January 3, 2008 07:12 PM · Permalink · Comments (3)
Border Security | Politics

Today's Illegal Alien Moments: Attempted Murder and Child Rape

Notice in this first story that only the illegal alien drug smugglers were shooting. The federal and border patrol agents apparently did not. Not did they catch their car-stealing, drug-smuggling attempted murderers. After all, if you go after people like that, you just might end up in jail like Ramos and Compean.

Pot smugglers fire on helicopter near border

YUMA — Smugglers who abandoned two truckloads of marijuana along the Colorado River after crossing into the United States fired shots at a helicopter carrying federal agents but missed, authorities said...As a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter carrying Border Patrol and CBP agents flew nearby to help agents on the ground, a number of shots were fired at the aircraft, apparently from across the river, agents said.

The Border Patrol said neither agents nor the chopper were hit and that the pilot moved the aircraft to safety. Agents seized 175 bundles of marijuana that weighed almost 2,300 pounds from the two vehicles that were left behind. The pot has an estimated street value of more than $1.8 million, the Border Patrol said. Both vehicles had been reported stolen.

In the meantime, border patrol agents did arrest someone--a convicted child rapist walking back into this country.

Border agents arrest convicted child rapist

Jose Cruz-Garcia, a 32-year-old Mexican citizen, was taken into custody on a charge of rentry into the country by an aggravated felon after agents spotted him in the desert west of Nogales, said Border Patrol Agent Dove Haber. Cruz-Garcia had been convicted of rape of a child in 1998 in Washington and was sentenced to a year in jail, Haber said...He is being held in a federal detention facility awaiting formal removal proceedings in a federal court, Haber said, adding a judge could order his removal or deportation.

Under removal he could not apply for permission to re-enter the United States for 10 years. If he is deported he could not apply to re-enter the country for about 20 years, Haber said.

LMAOROTF! "Apply" for reentry?! Hahahahahahahahah!! Oh, and what part of hell did we visit when we decided that rape of a child is worth only one year in jail? If you touch a child you should be executed. Plain and simple. One year in jail. 10 years ago and we catch him in 2007 coming back over. The number of times he's been back and forth, and the children he's raped in the last ten years, is a number we probably don't even want to contemplate.

Yeah, no reason whatsoever for a physical fence. All it would do is keep drug-smuggling vans from being able to drive across the border and it just might make it a tad more difficult for child-raping beasts to stroll on over.

Posted by Tammy · November 1, 2007 07:45 PM · Permalink · Comments (4)
Border Security | Crime | Fed Incompetence

Amnesty Is Back, Bit by Bit, Including $25 Mil for La Raza

A message from Pat S.

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The message from the American people was border security first and it doesn't make one damn bit of difference to these politicians! The trouble with conservatives is they think once the point has been won, it's over. Remember all the glee about this won't be back for at least two years? We have to battle every single day!

The L.A. Times story says the central conflict in the failed comprehensive bill was a path to legalization for illegals. That's because we kept harping on amnesty which to me was a secondary matter. The central issue is border security. Nothing else should be considered until that is accomplished. Crackdowns and deportations, even though only for show, are useless without a secure border.

By the time Congress is done with piecemeal legislation, every conceivable life condition will make an illegal eligible for legal status. The magnet isn't just jobs. Freebies are increasing. Chris Dodd wants to give La Raza $25 mil just for Hispanics. Republicans and Democrats will get into a bidding war with our money to win over the Hispanic vote.

What will it take to stop this? This issue should be a guaranteed win for a Republican in '08.
Congress quietly returns to immigration [This article requires a log-in to the L.A. Times. If you want to bypass compulsory registration for that site or the multitude of others that require it, go to www.bugmenot.com for anonymous registrations.]

Three months after Congress failed to pass a broad immigration overhaul, lawmakers are quietly returning to the hot-button issue, discussing narrower measures that address illegal immigrants and low-skilled laborers.

Deported criminals slip back into U.S.

Thousands of previously deported criminals are caught trying to slip back into the United States, and it's likely thousands more return unnoticed. Those caught are eventually kicked out again, making for a revolving door of lawbreakers.

Tarrant County to consider giving immigrants indigent care

Now the Tarrant County Hospital Board of Managers is considering whether to allow illegal immigrants to receive free or low-cost nonemergency medical care. The board is expected to debate the issue and possibly decide Tuesday.

And last but not least, $25 million dollars for La Raza.

S. 1923: SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE FOR RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND.

Posted by Tammy · September 17, 2007 10:31 AM · Permalink · Comments (7)
Border Security | Corruption | Immigration

Mexican Drug Hit Squads Stationed in Laredo

No reason for a wall. None whatsoever.

Drug cartels put hit squads in Laredo

The scrawny young man at the defense table was only 17, and had only a peach-fuzz mustache in his mugshot. But authorities say he was already a seasoned assassin in the U.S. for some of Mexico's drug lords...Mexican drug lords locked in a bloody fight for control of a pipeline that runs from Mexico to Dallas and up through middle America have brazenly stationed hit squads and reconnaissance teams in Laredo.

In the past two years, rival cartels have killed at least seven people in Laredo, including a victim stalked and killed near his job site and a man gunned down in the parking lot of a popular restaurant, U.S. authorities say.

Posted by Tammy · August 27, 2007 01:20 PM · Permalink · Comments (3)
Border Security | Corruption | Crime | Drugs | Fed Incompetence

Americans Fed Up-Majority Want Comprehensive Illegal Alien Crackdown

A new Rasmussen poll illustrates that Americans had have enough of the social, cultural and economic chaos brought by illegal aliens. Super majorities favor a cut of federal funding to "Sanctuary Cities" as well as ID cards and tracking for 'foreign visitors' in general, and we want that damn physical fence. Not a virtual one of cameras, and motion detectors. We want a real F-E-N-C-E. Which, btw, would not only make it more difficult for illegals to get into the country, it would also make slipping across the border back into Mexico, by fleeing mass murder suspects as an example, a tad more difficult as well.

71% Favor Requiring Foreign Visitors to Carry Universal ID Card

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for “sanctuary cities” that offer protection to illegal immigrants. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 29% are opposed. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney proposed such a plan earlier this week.

By a 71% to 16% margin, voters also favor a proposal that would require all foreign visitors to carry a universal identification card as proposed by another GOP Presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani. Seventy-four percent (74%) also favor the creation and funding of a central database to track all foreign visitors in the United States.

By a 56% to 31% margin, voters want the government to continue building a fence along the Mexican border.

I do have a feeling, however, that Bush will not be discussing this sentiment of the majority of Americans when he meets with Harper and Calderon in the next few days. That's fine, let them waste their time as they wallow in their own little world. Bush is more than welcomed to spend his last 18 months in office fighting us abut whatever he wants. And we will win just like we did last time when the fate of our nation hung in the balance.

Posted by Tammy · August 18, 2007 01:21 PM · Permalink · Comments (4)
Border Security | Immigration | The New American Revolution | democracy

More Arrests in Newark Massacre

And more illegal aliens are in custody.

More suspects arrested over fatal shooting in N.J. schoolyard

Authorities arrested two more suspects Saturday in the slayings of three college students who were shot execution-style in a schoolyard, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to five.

The two additional suspects were found in suburban Washington, authorities said. A spokeswoman for the mayor of Newark, where the killings occurred, said the pair were brothers.

Rodolfo Godinez, a 24-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant, was arrested in Oxon Hill, Md., just north of the I-495 Beltway near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge connecting Maryland to Virginia. An unidentified 16-year-old was arrested in the Woodbridge, Va., area. Both were awaiting extradition to New Jersey, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Sorukas said...

The search team, which included the FBI's Fugitive Task Force, staked out the address in Maryland where Godinez was staying after receiving a tip that he was there and was planning to make his way to Texas and then into Mexico, according to James Plousis, a U.S. Marshal who is responsible for New Jersey...Nearly 10 other people, Sorukas said, were arrested for immigration violations in the operation.

Another one of the little perks illegal aliens have--the ability to simply flee this nation after raping her and murdering her citizens, and go back "home," to a country in chaos where they can easily disappear. Bounty hunting is illegal in that Narco-Nation, and murderers of Americans are protected because of Mexico's opposition to the death penalty. And while these freaks have been caught, that's not the usual state of affairs. Most of the time this scum does indeed make it back "home" leaving their carnage behind.

UPDATE:

Just to give you a total here of where things stand: five suspects are under arrest, and one is still at-large. Let's hope that beast hasn't made it across the border yet.

Posted by Tammy · August 18, 2007 11:11 AM · Permalink · Comments (0)
Border Security | Crime | Death of Right and Wrong | Immigration

NAFTA/SPP Meeting with Bush, Harper and Calderon

It's set for August 20-21 in Montebello, Canada. The euphemisms for what will be discussed are priceless. Things like the "Western Hemisphere travel initiative." And I wish I could be a fly on the wall when George tries to explain to Felipe how that amnesty/open borders initiative (or should I say 'travel initiative'?) he no doubt promised him, failed.

Yeah, perhaps they'll have a little talk about the difference between a monarchy and a democracy, especially that pesky part where "the people" get to decide such issues, not a so-called singular "Decider."

Bush talks to Canadian leader ahead of summit

US President George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday discussed bilateral ties and relations with Mexico ahead of a three-way summit next month, the White House said.

Bush, Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon will meet in Montebello, Canada on August 20-21 in the third such summit in six years, spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.

"The meeting agenda will include security and prosperity partnership. The leaders also will have time to discuss bilateral hemispheric and global issues. It will mark the president's fourth trip to Canada," said Snow. In the telephone call, Bush and Harper "reviewed a range of bilateral issues, including the issues with softwood lumber and implementation of the Western Hemisphere travel initiative," said the spokesman...

Human Events: Bush Administration Fast-Tracks Formation of North American Union

Posted by Tammy · August 8, 2007 07:21 PM · Permalink · Comments (2)
Border Security | Homeland Security

Drug Partner of Smuggler in Border Agents Case Gets Plea Deal

The latest in this miscarriage of justice involves the partner of the drug smuggler Ramos and Compean were trying to apprehend has "struck a deal" with federal prosecutors. The agreement, strangely for a case like this, has also been placed under seal. This is now beginning to sound like we're in Bolivia instead of the United States of America.

Smuggler's Partner Pleads Guilty in Border Agents Case

The owner of a "stash" house who allegedly worked with a Mexican drug smuggler shot by Border Patrol agents has struck a deal with federal prosecutors.

Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana. Cybercast News Service reported last month that Ortiz-Hernandez owned the stash house where Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico made drug shipments in October 2005.

Ortiz-Hernandez' plea agreement comes after members of Congress criticized a federal prosecutor for granting a "humanitarian" pass for Aldrete-Davila to enter and exit the United States unescorted. Aldrete Davila, already given immunity for one drug charge, reportedly smuggled more marijuana into the country to be stored at the home of Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez. Terms of Ortiz-Hernandez' plea agreement are sealed. The sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 2.

Posted by Tammy · August 7, 2007 07:50 AM · Permalink · Comments (5)
Border Security | Corruption | Crime | Drugs

No Reason To Close Our Border

None whatsoever. Thank goodness details like this didn't muck up all that 'Grand Compromise' Amnesty work the senate was doing.

FBI: Iraqis Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande

The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing "Iraqis and other Middle Eastern" individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year.

Border Patrol officials in the area said they were unaware of the specifics of the FBI's report, and federal prosecutors in New Mexico told ABCNews.com they had no current cases involving the illegal smuggling of Iraqis.

Of course they don't. It's called "incompetence." But thank goodness we've got Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean still in jail. I feel so much safer now, don't you?

Posted by Tammy · July 18, 2007 12:04 AM · Permalink · Comments (1)
Border Security | Fed Incompetence | Terrorism

Iraqis Caught in Mexico with Fake Passports

**I posted this story originally in January, but considering the Amnesty Bill fight, I think it appropriate to bump up as a reminder of why Bush's Open Border agenda is not only absurd but increasingly dangerous**

In the meantime, as we're arresting and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting border patrol agents, Mexico has detained nine Iraqis, with fake passports, trying to board a plane bound for California.

Mexico Holding 11 Iraqis With Fake Papers

Eleven Iraqis carrying false passports and heading to California were arrested at Monterrey's airport, immigration officials said Monday.

Nine men, a woman and a two-year-old girl traveled from Madrid, Spain, to Monterrey, where they were detained Saturday, an immigration official said on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly about the arrests.

They say they're Christians fleeing oppression in Iraq. Funny thing, they arrived from Madrid, where Christians are treated pretty darn well. But now, apparently, fleeing from persecution requires landing in California. Yeah, and I'm Jayne Mansfield. Well, I suppose I am a little, but not completely.

Oh yeah, and there apparently very few women Christians who need to 'flee' Iraq. This group of 11 had one woman among them (caring for the baby). For a bunch of male Iraqi 'Christians,' it's amazing how they have no women in their lives.

Posted by Tammy · June 23, 2007 10:20 AM · Permalink · Comments (5)
Border Security | Homeland Security | War on Radical Islam

RNC Donations Crash on Amnesty Anger

Your outrage over this issue is not only being felt by individual Senate Moneys, but also by the Republican National Committee. Senate Republican leader (now that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one) Mitch McConnell revealed his contempt for you when he declared last week that the amnesty bill...

...[W]on't cost "a single member of either party'' at the polls next year and predicted the bipartisan compromise will win Senate approval next month..."This is a divisive issue'' for both parties, said McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. But, he said, "I don't think there's a single member of either party next year who is going to fail to be re-elected over this issue.''

Funny enough, the backlash is already affecting the GOP, in one of the more serious ways--financially. In a surprising act revealing how dire the situation has become, the RNC has called off its entire phone solicitation program, letting go all of its 65 phone solicitors, and shutting the entire effort down.

RNC fires phone solicitors

The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.

Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee's chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times...

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