LTG: Archive December 2007

LimitsToGrowth Archive

December 2007

Muslim group irked by columnist's book [12/31/07]
Muslims in Canada are highly miffed that writer Mark Steyn quoted them accurately in his recent book, America Alone. Steyn has been at the forefront of explaining demographic warfare, specifically that hostile immigrants with high birth rates will destroy European civilization.

Mr. Steyn, whose syndicated columns appear in The Washington Times, writes that rising birthrates in Muslim countries and the declining number of babies in Christian and Westernized countries represent a long-term security threat. [...]
The U.S. magazine Human Events published its own account of the Maclean's article, highlighting this passage:
"There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades."

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Murders motivated by race [12/31/07]
Black Americans living in Los Angeles are being randomly murdered by hispanic gangsters for no other reason than their skin color. This practice is not new (see Mexican GangsÕ Ethnic Cleansing of Black Americans in Los Angeles from last March), but it's good that the situation has not been completely forgotten by the MSM.

In a murderous quest aimed at "cleansing" their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles CountyÕs most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldnÕt be located, said: "Well, shoot any black you see," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.

"In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person," Baca said.
Authorities say there were 20 murders among more than 80 shootings documented during the gang's rampage in the hardscrabble Florence-Firestone neighborhood, exceptional even in an area where gang violence has been commonplace for decades. They donÕt specify the time frame or how many of the killings were racial.

The worsening relations among races and ethnic groups in southern California is another nail in the coffin of utopian diversity ideology, particularly with so many foreign gangsters murdering innocents. Even so, there is no widespread call to end Special Order 40, Los Angeles' own sanctuary law that protects illegal alien gangsters from normal policing. (To see how diverse murders are in Lost Angeles, check out LA Times' Homicide Blog.)
See also an update from the Harbor Gateway community, where 14-year-old Cheryl Green was killed a year ago (photo shows Cheryl's mom holding her picture): Fear lingers in L.A. community.

Black residents of Harbor Gateway told reporters that the 204th Street gang terrified them. Gang members shot at them, yelled racist insults and sprayed racist graffiti on walls, they said. Since 1997, roughly one black person a year has been killed in what appears to be a race-related crime, police say. The police crackdown since the Cheryl Green murder has improved conditions on the surface, but many fear the gangsters have merely been driven underground until the heat is off.

"It's like a weed," said Charlene Lovett, Green's mother, who has since moved. "If you don't get it from the ground and uproot it, it's going to regrow."

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Amid drought, Georgia is lining up tankers and bottled water, but still has no long-term plan [12/30/07]
Atlanta is close to recording the dryest year in its history. But even if rainfall over the next couple days rescues the city from that unfortunate statistic, Georgia and the general area is facing "exceptional" drought conditions. (Pictured is Lake Lanier, a dratically reduced source of water for Atlanta, currently 20 feet below normal.)
In October, I wrote about how the state of Georgia had no plan of what to do if the unthinkable catastrophe happened and the water were to run out (Water Supply: Where the Overpopulation Rubber Hits the Road). (See also No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry.)
Georgia's Governor famously held a prayer service to pray for rain (Perdue asks crowd to 'pray up a storm'), where he blamed Georgians for wasteful consumption patterns. "We have not been good stewards of our land. We have not been good stewards of our water," he said. The Governor might better have blamed Washington for its policy of endless population growth, against all reason.
Now Georgia has at least a plan for the short term, although the sight of people lined up with buckets to get water from a tanker truck like some third world country may be deeply unsettling to Americans. Particularly if the National Guard must be called up to deliver water to a major city.

The state of Georgia said it has lined up contracts with vendors to bring in bottled water and tanker trucks that could dispense water into jugs, jars and buckets.
"Are we going to get to that point? I don't know. But the most important thing is to be prepared," said Buzz Weiss, spokesman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
But the state, the city of Atlanta and the Georgia National Guard, which could be called into action by the governor to deliver water in an emergency, have yet to work out the details of exactly where the water would be distributed and how, saying it is too soon to say where it might be needed.
In any case, those are just emergency measures for supplying people with the water they need for drinking, cooking, bathing and flushing the toilet. Atlanta and other communities have yet to settle on a long-term solution if the water runs out.

The skunk at the garden party here is immigration-fueled population growth. Georgia has mushroomed to double the population it had 1960, from 4 million then to over 8 million counted in the 2000 Census. So not only has the supply of water decreased (droughts are a normal part of nature) but the demand has increased enormously.
VDARE.com version: 2008: Will Drought-Stricken, Overpopulated Georgia Need Water Trucked In?.

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An Immigration Illness [12/30/07]
Illegal immigration is destroying Texas' medical system, endangering the health and lives of citizens.

The state-funded University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston might soon have to curtail some potentially life-saving services, such as cancer treatment, because it can't cope financially with an overload of illegal-immigrant patients. Similarly at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and numerous other county-funded medical facilities, budgets are at the breaking point, largely because of demand from illegal immigrants and other uninsured patients. [...]
Our diagnosis: UTMB and Parkland exhibit symptoms of chronic immigration-stress syndrome. We've already seen epidemic proportions of it in our schools. This condition develops when public services reach the breaking point due to a persistent lack of attention to immigration reform by our leadership in Washington. [...]
• 82 percent of births at Parkland Hospital are Hispanic, and 40 percent of their parents are illegal immigrants.
• Unreimbursed state Medicaid expenditures for illegal immigrants in 2000: $18.1 million; in 2005: $38.7 million. That's an increase of 114.3 percent.

This opinion piece from the Dallas Morning News sees the symptoms clearly enough, but the prescription of "comprehensive reform" including a "pathway to legalization" is completely wrong-headed. We have endured a Washington-induced state of immigration anarchy for decades, and the answer is not to reward the perps.
To continue the medical analogy, say you had overindulged on whiskey for years and destroyed your liver. A responsible doctor would not tell you to reduce your consumption, but would insist that you stop drinking, period, because if you don't, you will die.
In the same way, America has binged on open borders and immigration lawlessness for decades and now must go on a serious program of restriction.

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2007 DMN Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant [12/29/07]
The Dallas Morning News shamefully honors the illegal alien, with no clue about history, economics or psychology.
The paper makes the same immoral arguments as pre-Civil War slave owners: "Who will pick the cotton?"

We can't seem to live with him and his family, and if we can live without him, nobody's figured out how. [...]
Especially here in Texas, his strong back and willing heart help form the cornerstone of our daily lives, in ways that many of us do not, or will not, see. The illegal immigrant is the waiter serving margaritas at our restaurant table, the cook preparing our enchiladas. He works grueling hours at a meatpacking plant, carving up carcasses of cattle for our barbecue (he also picks the lettuce for our burgers). He builds our houses and cuts our grass. She cleans our homes and takes care of our children.

Furthermore, this line of specious reasoning confuses addiction to cheap labor with economic necessity.
In many cases, cheapskate editors simply prefer not to pay citizen wages to have their household chores done. Behind much of newsroom faux-noble liberalism of the newsroom is plain greed.
By the way, there are many parts of America with less alien invasion where business carries on very well. Citizen workers make hotel beds, wash restaurant dishes and mow homeowner lawns.
Most readers are not pleased with the DMN, incidentally, judging from the comments section.

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Virginia Tech Massacre Voted Top Story [12/29/07]
America's editors and news directors voted on the year's top ten list of most important events, with the terrible campus murders getting the nod. Also noted was the amazing grassroots victory against of Bush's amnesty monstrosity.

1. VIRGINIA TECH KILLINGS: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, who had avoided court-ordered mental health treatment despite a history of psychiatric problems, killed two fellow students in a dormitory on April 16, detoured to mail a hate-filled video of himself to NBC News, then shot dead 30 students and professors in a classroom building before killing himself. It was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

9. IMMIGRATION DEBATE: A compromise immigration plan, backed by President Bush and Democratic leaders, collapsed in Congress due to Republican opposition. The plan would have enabled millions of illegal immigrants to move toward citizenship, while also bolstering border security. The issues remained alive in the presidential campaign.

But wait! The Virginia Tech mass murder was absolutely about immigration: the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, was a Korean legal immigrant with severe assimilation problems, who expressed his inability to adjust socially in the most horrific way.
The Virginia Tech case additionally showed just how politically correct the educational establishment has become. Cho was a disturbed young person, but no teacher or counselor was willing to insist that he be held to account for criminal actions. He was cut far more slack than an American kid stalking co-eds would have been, apparently out of misplaced tolerance toward an immigrant.
VDARE.com version here: Immigration Story #1 for 2007 (the Hard Way).

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500,000 fewer Britons in work following influx of Eastern Europeans [12/28/07]
Just what did the British government think would happen when they opened the country up to hundreds of thousands of Poles willing to work cheap and be exploited? Honestly!

Half a million fewer Britons are in work following the unprecedented influx of migrants from Eastern Europe, it was disclosed last night.
MPs said the figure demolishes the Government's claim to be providing 'British jobs for British workers'. [...]
Earlier this month, the Statistics Commission said 1.4million workers born abroad had taken jobs in Britain since 1997 Ð up to 81 per cent of the 1.7million new jobs for people of working age.

See VDARE.com version, Britain: Shock at Job Displacement.

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Mexican trucks to keep rolling in U.S. [12/28/07]
Mexican trucking was the part of the NAFTA scam trade agreement that was left until last because it was so clearly objectionable, particularly because it is dangerous to have substandard Mexican vehicles allowed to drive anywhere within the United States.

The Bush administration will continue to operate a controversial, cross-border trucking program despite language in the $555 billion appropriations bill signed by President Bush yesterday aimed at eliminating the program's funding.
The administration's move, while not unexpected, sparked outrage from Democratic and Republican members of Congress who have fought to kill the three-month-old pilot program, which allows long-haul Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States.
ÒThe administration seems to believe that the law doesn't apply to them,Ó Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., the author of the appropriations bill amendment that sought to cut funding for the program, said in a statement.

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An Ambassador Warns: The Suicide of Europe [12/27/07]
Funny how former ambassadors are a lot more honest than the currently serving ones. Christian Lambert has been translated from the French on Brussels Journal.
Europe's welcome of more than a million immigrants annually is absolutely a slo-mo suicide, since most of those newcomers are not friendly to western civilization. At best, they come for the money, period. At worst, they hope to spread jihad and their brutal culture by whatever means necessary.

The Brussels administration admits officially that each year some 550,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and China, plus South America, enter the European Union. In reality the figure is twice that, in other words, more than a million. [...]
Italy wins the prize right now. For this to become known, a young Italian girl had to be raped and murdered by a Gypsy. Then Rome was forced to reveal that Italy, a country even more poorly governed than France, which is saying a lot, now has 3.7 million immigrants (the official figure), that 700,000 new arrivals were recorded in 2006, and that 560,000 Gypsies have settled there. More than 100,000 of them arrived in the ten-month period after January 1, 2007.
More than 50% of the crime in Italy is due to these "Rumanians". In addition, every year some 60,000 immigrants from Tunisia and Libya (where even Colonel Qadhafi admits that his country is invaded by Sub-Saharians waiting to get into Europe and certain to succeed in their goal) arrive in Italy via the island of Lampedusa. In general, it is easy to enter Europe through Italy where the administration is "lax"...
In Greece, it's worse and Cyprus is one of the great doors of entry into Europe.
In France, nothing has changed. It can be assumed that 350,000 new arrivals enter our country each year, 70% of them from Africa. The number of visas granted has not lessened. It is still more than 2 million Ð 2,038,000 in 2006 Ð which proves that the fight against massive immigration is, like all the rest, purely verbal.
While I'm on the topic, I should note in passing that the town of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis, has just experienced 4 days and nights of street fighting between gangs of "Afro-Maghrebins" and the police, according to the press itself. At Villiers-le-Bel, Val d'Oise, it is even more serious. The police, attacked with rifles, proved to be impotent. In order to quell these riots military units specializing in street fighting are now necessary, especially since stockpiles of war weapons from the Balkans are being stashed in the suburbs.

Read the whole thing to get the bad news country by country, if that word can be used within the borderless European Union.

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Immigrants: Illegal, But Not Irrational [12/27/07]
Investor's Business Daily explains attrition-based self-deportation in its usual clear and concise style. Illegal immigration is not some irrevocable force of nature -- it is people who have seen a lack of punishment on the part of Washington for a criminal, profitable act.

Contrary to what the open-borders lobby claims about the impossibility of stopping millions of illegals from crossing the Rio Grande, a new seriousness about enforcing immigration laws has started to turn the tide.
In Arizona, a particularly tough law set to take effect Jan. 1 sanctions businesses that knowingly hire illegals. Business licenses will be suspended for 10 days on the first offense and revoked on the second.
Harsh, yes, but it's not the only place. In Carpentersville, Ill., and neighboring towns, local officials appealed to the U.S. government for help in enforcing immigration laws. Now they are seeing an exodus of illegals well before the federal cavalry arrives.
In the resort towns of coastal Massachusetts, the realization that there will be no amnesty for lawbreaking has given illegals reason to also pull up stakes and head home Ñ in this case, to Brazil.
In every case, it's the ramrod insistence on rule of law from communities in the U.S. that is forcing illegal immigrants to confront hard decisions about their futures.

Illegal aliens may be illiterate but they are not stupid. When foreigners cannot earn money -- the reason they came in the first place -- they will pack up and leave.

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Census Bureau Projects Population of 303.1 Million [12/27/07]
The Census Bureau is looking ahead a few days to America's population as of New Years...

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New YearÕs Day 2007.
In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.
Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.

Don't miss the important detail of growth -- there are nearly 3 million more people residing in America in just one year's time.
Happy early New Years, fellow bean counters!

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Who Is Killing Mexico's Musicians? [12/26/07]
How curious that Time magazine has noticed the high mortality rate of Mexican singers of narcocorridos -- songs celebrating the drug trade as a noble enterprise, conducted against Americans and other authority figures trying to keep Mexicans down. (See Really Tough Music Critics in Mexico about the 2006 murder of narco-crooner Valentin Elizalde, shown in the photo.)
Apparently, the death count has increased enormously since then...

Elizalde's murder is not an isolated incident. Singers have not just been chanting about the bloody drug violence ravaging their country; they have also been among its most prominent victims. At least 13 musicians have been killed Ñ gunned down, burned or suffocated to death Ñ since June 2006. The violence gained international attention earlier this month when three entertainers were killed in a week: a male singer was kidnapped, throttled and dumped on a road; a trumpeter was found with a bag on his head; and a female singer was shot dead in her hospital bed. (She was being treated for bullet wounds from an earlier shooting.)
The Mexican public was particularly shocked by the slaying of singer Sergio Gomez, who founded his band K Paz de la Sierra while he was an immigrant in Chicago. He had scored a recent hit with Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or "But You Will Have Regrets," a love song so catchy that half the country was humming it. Gomez was abducted after a concert in his native Michoacan state, beaten and burned and then strangled with a plastic cord.

Unsurprisingly, no one has been charged in any of the 13 Mexican musician murders.

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"The undocumented hesitate to enter a less-alluring U.S." [12/26/07]
What a typical LA Times headline -- "The Undocumented," etc. The newspaper of a major American city is a hopeless supporter of open borders.
Never mind the BS journalism though, Mexicans are apparently beginning to question whether America is still a full trough of goodies for them. The news doesn't get much better than that, except if the idea occurs to them to demand political and economic reform in their wealthy country.

• A recent survey by Mexican authorities shows that fewer Mexicans say they are planning to seek work outside the country. In the third quarter of 2007, about 47,000 said they'd be packing their bags. That's down nearly one-third from the same quarter a year earlier.

However, la Times has a funny way of looking at statistics: it's the old reduction-of-increase trick (used often in Congressional budget propaganda): the speed at which spending of some sort is not expanding at the earlier rate, so therefore the sky is falling. Wrong. Mexico is still getting over $20 billion annually in remittances, a sum made possible by American taxpayers being forced to pay for illegals' welfare.

dwindled to a trickle

As I wrote in Financial Bloodsucking Update, even a top Mexican banker now recognizes that the easy money of remittances has turned the country into a national welfare queen, too lazy to invest in its own endeavors. Why spend Mexican pesos on educating the kiddies, Mex elites figure, when they are more profitable as illiterate expats, sending back billions of dollars?
See the VDARE.com version, Freeloaders Experience Second Thoughts.

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"Navidad lejos de casa: Christmas away from home" [12/25/07]
What's Christmas without a holiday sob story, with even more complaints than even the usual outpouring from "immigrants"?
Here's a little tear-jerker from Minneapolis-St. Paul that leaves out any mention of immigration status -- apparently the writer doesn't want to distract from the emotional narrative. There is a hint though, when the story reveals "it takes lots of money to bring her kids, and although Maria has a good job, she has not been able to save enough."
Save enough for a coyote fee? And if Maria were legal, she likely wouldn't be considering a return to her beloved Mexico.

"In Mexico, when I was with my parents and my children, we had wonderful Christmas. Even when we didnÕt have much to eat - just beans and vegetables; even when we didnÕt have money for buying gifts. We had parties with our neighbors. They'd bring tostadas, atole and tamales. We had a nativity scene. Somebody was elected to be the Godparent of Baby Jesus. We prayed the rosary. It was fabulous. Here it is different. Here I feel cold, not because of the cold weather, but because when you are away from family, there is no warmth." [...]
"Here, I donÕt do anything for Christmas," Maria says. "It is like another workday. I miss the noise of Christmas at home, the children blowing little whistles, sounding like little birds, the firecrackers, the posadas, the church songs.
"My Christmas wish is to be with my family soon. This is my wish for all: that we can all be with our loved ones every Christmas. I wish that we become better human beings, that we live like brothers and sisters without difference of race or social class, that we are not separated by borders."

My Christmas wish is also that all Mexican families be together soon -- in Mexico! Other nationalities too: best wishes for rapid repatriation with accompanying family unity.
There's another gem in the Orlando Sentinel (12/24/07): Orlando churches work to accommodate multinational cultures at Christmastime.

"I encourage leaders of multiethnic congregations to embrace the concept of accommodation and not assimilation, especially at Christmas,"

[Rev. Mark] DeYmaz

In terms of a segment of American society that acts against our common culture, the churches definitely hold their own against strong showings by business ("Press One for English") and media ("undocumented immigrants").
For another example, check out the 12/25 story in the San Francisco Chronicle extolling multiculti, A pause from shopping to reflect on Christmas' true meaning.

Because the Tenderloin parish is so multicultural, with Vietnamese, Filipino, Latino, African-American and Caucasian parishioners, Hernandez has encouraged each group to incorporate its traditions, from gospel singing to Filipino caroling, into the Christmas celebration.

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Immigrant Crackdown Falls Short [12/25/07]
The next time some politician says that Washington has done a good job in workplace enforcement and it is therefore time for (fill in the blank) more worker visas, amnesty for the 20-30 million illegals, etc., pull out this report.
In short, only a relative handful of illegal workers were arrested in 2007 (after years of virtually no enforcement at all), and worse, hardly any employers saw legal sanction. Even so, the estimate of "7 million unauthorized workers" seems egregiously low, considering the Bear-Stearns paper using data from 2004 and earlier put the number at 12-15 million workers out of 20 million total foreigners.

Fewer than 100 owners, supervisors or hiring officials were arrested in fiscal 2007, compared with nearly 4,900 arrests that involved illegal workers, providers of fake documents and others, the figures show. Immigration experts say the data illustrate the Bush administration's limited success at delivering on its rhetoric about stopping illegal hiring by corporate employers. [...]
But even though DHS has ratcheted up its enforcement effort, this year's 92 criminal arrests of employers still amount to a drop in the bucket of a national economy that includes 6 million companies that employ more than 7 million unauthorized workers, several analysts said. Only 17 firms faced criminal fines or other forfeitures this year.

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Where Boys Were Kings, a Shift Toward Baby Girls [12/24/07]
It's quite a stunning cultural reversal for South Korea to refute the terrible misogyny of Asia (particularly China and India), where tens of millions of women and girls are "missing" because of sex-selection abortion and infanticide. The surplus of males is considered by some researchers to create a dangerous social instability because of the absence of family formation. Young males at loose ends are apt to get involved in trouble ranging from gangs to military adventures.
For example, the millions of unemployed males in Red China could be militarily focused into anger against an imaginary outside threat for their unhappiness rather than toward Beijing. One alarming statistic: the PRC needs to add 17 million jobs annually just to keep up with population growth. A Time magazine cover story in 2006 noted 19 million unemployed in China's cities.
So the change in Korea is very good news indeed.

In South Korea, once one of AsiaÕs most rigidly patriarchal societies, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding. And that has led to what seems to be a decrease in the number of abortions performed after ultrasounds that reveal the sex of a fetus.
According to a study released by the World Bank in October, South Korea is the first of several Asian countries with large sex imbalances at birth to reverse the trend, moving toward greater parity between the sexes. Last year, the ratio was 107.4 boys born for every 100 girls, still above what is considered normal, but down from a peak of 116.5 boys born for every 100 girls in 1990.
The most important factor in changing attitudes toward girls was the radical shift in the countryÕs economy that opened the doors to women in the work force as never before and dismantled long-held traditions, which so devalued daughters that mothers would often apologize for giving birth to a girl.

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Children miss school to learn holiday customs of Mexico [12/24/07]
What's more important to Mexicans residing in the United States -- learning in school or whacking a big pinata and marching around in a posada in the beloved homeland with all the Raza?
To ask the question is to answer it.

Sabina Zapien, who was born in Mexico, wanted her son to know firsthand about her hometown's Christmas traditions even if it meant he'd miss school.
"I can teach him to read (here)," Zapien said. "But I can't teach him what it's like to be with (his grandmother) and her way of life. That's only something she could do."

Right. Mom will teach him to read. That'll happen.

But parents see the travel as another form of education, a nontraditional method of teaching their children about family values, religion and cultural traditions. It further opens children's minds to see that a world outside their neighborhood exists, parents say. Nice culture these Mexicans have! Family values, particularly the sort associated with celebrations and parties, are more important than education or responsibility. No wonder just 9.6 percent of fourth-generation Mexican-Americans have a post-high-school degree, compared with 45.1 percent of Americans as a whole, according to Prof Sam Huntington.
Here's an unoriginal idea: if Mexican culture is so darn important, then why not stay in Mexico. Everybody wins!
In addition, see Parapundit's report of how local schools have adopted a longer Christmas break to accommodate Mexican children, forcing American kids to return to class in August a week before the traditional Labor Day back to school date.

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Omnibusted: The Top 10 Worst Problems with the Omnibus Spending Bill [12/23/07]
Remember when Speaker Pelosi promised the Democrat-run House would work five days a week and run the place with a new seriousness? Forget about it! Both houses of Congress just passed a 3417-page omnibus spending bill without the proper vetting of committees and open floor debate. That's how they sneak through their most nefarious schemes, in particular gutting the border fence (see Congress Delivers Coal to AmericaÕs Christmas Stocking).
Anyway, the Heritage Foundation put together a list of the worst aspects of the rotten legislation.

3. Border security is threatened.
While superficially providing additional funding for a border fence, the omnibus threatens border security by making a fence more difficult to build. The bill creates 15 bureaucratic hurdles that must be overcome prior to construction, including a requirement that interest groups and environmental groups be consulted about the impact the fence would have on "quality of life." In so doing, the omnibus makes securing the border more difficult. [...]

9. Misplaced priorities are rife. Comparing items that Congress did not fund to those that it did calls into question Congress's priorities. For instance, funding for security projects such as nuclear weapons modernization (for which $89 million was requested) was cut, while money was given to such projects as:

See? There is plenty of spare change rattling around for all kinds of unimportant things, but no border fence to protect Americans from invasion and terrorists.

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Groceries on the Computer, and Immigrants in the Cold [12/22/07]
I wouldn't want to suggest that illegal aliens (or their left-wing supporters) are less than bright, but just what is the meaning of a giant rat with a sign reading "Who would Jesus deport?" Is the rat supposed to represent Jesus, or the illegal foreigners? Or the nation in which they say they want to live?

Anyway, it should read "Whom would Jesus deport?"

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Islam For Dummies [12/21/07]
Investor's Business Daily comments upon the latest Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) media initiative to fool Americans into believing islam is no problem, particularly as an immigrant group. The organization has $50 million in Middle Eastern money to spread its BS "islam is the religion of peace" propaganda.
For example, when a Muslim immigrant near Toronto murdered his daughter for becoming too westernized in a blatant honor killing, CAIR characterized the crime as a "domestic violence incident."
Polling shows that American citizens are not comfortable with growing numbers of Muslim immigrants who often show little interest in assimilating. A Pew poll revealed that only 28 percent of Muslims residing in the US consider themselves Americans first, and around 100,000 believe suicide bombings against non-Muslim civilian targets are acceptable. (See Muslim Fifth Column Polled.)

"Islamophobes" weren't the only ones repulsed by the story of an Islamic court sentencing a Saudi rape victim to 200 lashes for violating Shariah law, which CAIR's leaders are on record hoping will one day replace the Constitution. Or the Muslim father who strangled his daughter to death in Canada for refusing to wear her veil.
Or the young Muslim who drove an SUV into a crowd of University of North Carolina students, explaining later to a judge: "Allah demands of believers to retaliate violently against persons responsible for attacking them or their fellow believers around the world. (Quran 2:178-179, 5:45, 8:72, 9:38, 9:71, 42:39-42, 49:10)."
Nor did critics of Islam misquote the Ayatollah Khomeini when he bellowed: "Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! There are hundreds of other (Quranic) psalms and Hadiths (sayings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad) urging Muslims to value war and to fight."

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Crackdown has illegal immigrants leaving Arizona [12/21/07]
Here's another item for the "Enforcement Works" file. When the trough of goodies is removed, particularly the jobs magnet, Mexicans will leave on their own, with no upsetting deportations required.
The day of judgement is getting very close in Arizona, when the state's tough enforcement legislation kicks in on January 1, 2008. As a result, increasing numbers of illegal Mexicans are packing it in and heading home.

"The situation in Arizona has become very tough," Jorge said minutes after driving into a Mexican immigration and customs checkpoint south of the border on Mexico 15. [...]
The couple said life for them in Arizona began to unravel earlier this year when Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The collapse caused the Francos to give up hope that Congress would pass a legalization program anytime soon. Then, Gov. Janet Napolitano signed Arizona's employer-sanctions law.
The law threatens to suspend or revoke business licenses from employers caught knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. It also requires employers to use a federal computer program to electronically verify the employment eligibility of new hires. [...]
The Francos tried getting other jobs but were turned down every place they applied.
"Everyone wants a good Social Security number now," Liliana said.

Meanwhile, back in the southerly climes, Calder—n pledges help to deported Mexicans. Does that include the self-deported?

See also Do-It-Yourself Deportation Expands in Arizona.

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More flee state than move in [12/20/07]
California is becoming less American and more a flophouse for Mexico and the rest of the Third World.

The annual study by the Department of Finance showed that 89,000 more people moved out of California than moved here from elsewhere in the United States. California's population did grow in fiscal 2007 -- but the growth rested on births and the arrival of more than 200,000 immigrants from other countries. [...]
In Los Angeles County alone, nearly 115,000 fewer residents came from other states and California counties than moved to other states and counties. The county ended up with a total increase in population thanks to 91,000 births and an influx of 70,000 residents from foreign countries. (The county now has roughly 10,294,000 residents).
Since 2000, about 500,000 more people have left Los Angeles County than have moved here from other parts of the U.S. and California, the figures show.

the John and Ken radio show also considered this topic (12/20), and invited listeners who planned to leave to call in.

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The Cubans Are Coming [12/20/07]
Foreign Policy has a list of Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2007, and mass quantities of Cuban boat people is one. They keep coming, after all these years, and in increasing numbers, in part to take advantage of America's silly policy left over from the Cold War, that if a Cuban makes it to land, he gets to stay ("wet foot, dry foot").

Most recent media attention on Cuba has focused on the health of long-time leader Fidel Castro. But while everyone has been reading the tea leaves in Havana, more Cubans have been quietly fleeing to the United States than ever before. According to a report by the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, nearly 77,000 Cubans crossed into the United States in 2006 and 2007. That's more than twice the number of refugees who arrived on Florida's shores during the summer of 1994, whenÊmore than 38,000ÊCubans fledÊthe island afterÊCastro opened the ports to all who wished to leave. If the current trend holds, the United States will have received 267,000 Cuban immigrants this decade. That's more than any other decade since Castro took power in 1959.
The current flow from Cuba is not due to political persecution, as in years past. Surprisingly, it's the country's surging economy. Although the country's GDP grew at an impressive 11.1 percent last year, the boom hasn't translated into real employment opportunities on the ground. Younger Cubans, in particular, are disillusioned by the prospect of economic change under Ražl Castro, Fidel's brother and heir apparent. "These are, in many cases, professional Cubans--teachers, doctors, or young people who see no future on the island, and don't see Raul Castro being able to deliver soon enough," says Hans de Salas-del Valle, author of the report. Today, there are no television images of refugees desperately clinging to rafts in the Florida straits. Instead, refugees are paying thousands of dollars to smugglers who will get them out, a few people at a time.

For an amusing look at Cuban mechanical ingenuity in turning cars into sea-going vehicles, see photos and commentary about the Floating Cubans. Very colorful, but more Cubans these days are coming through Mexico: Mexico: Cuban-Americans Fund Smugglers.

In a new trend, nearly 90 percent of all undocumented Cubans who make it to the United States now travel overland rather than reaching U.S. shores by boat, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. See also the New York Times reportage, Fleeing to U.S., CubansÕ First Stop Is Often Mexico.

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A Midnight Service Helps African Immigrants Combat Demons [12/20/07]
When some Africans get together for spiritual renewal, a main event is dealing with witchcraft by casting out demons and other diverse practices.

WASHINGTON Ñ At an hour when most people here are sleeping or sinning, the worshipers of the Spiritual Warfare ministry gather in the cold sanctuary of a neighborhood church to battle evil.
The students, taxicab drivers, homemakers and entrepreneurs, all Christians, mostly from French-speaking Africa, attend a midnight service four nights a week to seek deliverance from lust, anger, fear and sadness. [...]
Founded by a Congolese couple, Spiritual Warfare is one of many ministries and congregations in the growing African diaspora in the United States and abroad grappling with witchcraft. In most other churches, Ms. Sangamay said, you could not even raise the issue, let alone pray to combat its effects.

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UNICEF Photo of the Year: Child Brides [12/20/07]
In many places on this planet, women and girls have no more rights than a pet dog. This 11-year-old Afghan girl was sold by her parents to be the wife of a middle-aged man. It's slavery.

HeÕs forty, sheÕs eleven. And they are a couple Ð the Afghan man Mohammed F.* and the child Ghulam H.*. ÒWe needed the moneyÓ, GhulamÕs parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in AfghanistanÕs Ghor province know better: ÒOur men donÕt want educated women.Ó They predict that Ghulam will be married within a few weeks after her engagement in 2006, so as to bear children for Faiz.
During her stay in Afghanistan, it consistently struck American photographer Stephanie Sinclair how many young girls are married to much older men. She decided to raise awareness about this topic with her pictures. Particularly as the official minimum age for brides in Afghanistan is sixteen and it is therefore illegal to marry children.
Early marriages are not only a problem in Afghanistan: worldwide there are about 51 million girls aged between 15 and 19 years who are forced into marriage. The youngest brides live in the Indian state of Rajasthan, where 15% of all wives are not even 10 years old when they are married. Child marriages are a reaction to extreme poverty and mainly take place in Asian and African regions where poor families see their daughters as a burden and as second-class citizens. Already in their younger years, girls are given into the ÒcareÓ of a husband, a tradition that often leads to exploitation. Many girls become victims of domestic violence. In an Egyptian survey, about one-third of the interviewed child brides stated that they were beaten by their husbands.

Muslims regard marriage to little girls as perfectly acceptable since Mohammed married 6-year-old Aisha and the prophet is considered the ideal man to be imitated in every way.

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Nearly 7 in 10 Mexican Migrants Enters U.S. Illegally, Says Mexico [12/19/07]
It's hard to imagine any Mexicans entering the United States using the legal process, actually...

The Mexican government reported the results of recent studies on Tuesday showing that 68 percent of Mexicans who migrate or try to migrate to the United States do so without documents and 55 percent of them hire immigrant smugglers.
The report, timed to coincide with the U.N. International Migrants Day, also noted that the Mexican-born population living in the United States increased from about 800,000 in 1970 to more than 11 million in 2006.
The majority of Mexicans now living in the United States Ñ 6.2 million Ñ are undocumented, according to the report, which was based on surveys of migrants and information from the government's National Population Council.
Almost 30 million people in the United are direct descendants of Mexico migrants, the report stated.

It's not like Washington will take the basic steps to keep them out. Funding for the border fence was stripped from the omnibus spending bill just passed by the House. Plus, Homeland Security is given more discretion about how and where any fence will be built, so it's obvious Bush and the Democrats just want to strangle it.
Below, the border in Arizona is just a few strands of barbed wire (or nothing) in places.

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Programs Focus on Illiterate Immigrants [12/19/07]
With all the problems facing this country, why does Washington continue to welcome people who will never in their lifetimes become self-supporting or be able to assimilate to any meaningful degree?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Ñ Before Bob Jansen can teach English to the adult immigrants in his lowest-level class, he has to show about a quarter of them how to hold a pencil.
Adult education teachers like Jansen are finding themselves starting from scratch as uneducated immigrants and refugees from conflict regions of Africa and rural areas of Mexico and Central America flock to the United States.
An estimated 400,000 legal and 350,000 illegal immigrants are unable to read or write even in their native language, according to a July 2007 report from the Migration Policy Institute, an independent Washington think tank. [...]
One hand of the government is letting preliterate people come here as refugees," said David Holsclaw, director of Don Bosco Community Center's English as a Second Language Program, which serves about 2,500 students a year. "And another hand of the government is making it hard to serve them because they want to tie our funding to testing."
It's easy to understand why immigrants struggle if they aren't literate in their native languages, said Barbara Van Horn, co-director of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Pennsylvania State University.
"They haven't made the connection between their oral language and the fact that what is printed, those letters represent sounds that are used to make up words," she said. "They don't have that basic understanding of what literacy is about."

For a more snarly version, see Pre-Pencil Immigrant Diversity

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Chicago priests call for change [12/18/07]
Meddling Vaticrats are at it again. Churches pay no taxes, yet priests act with impunity against the wishes of the American people who want their immigration laws enforced.

Responding to what they perceive as anti-immigrant rhetoric from presidential candidates, dozens of Roman Catholic priests on Tuesday used the religious message of Advent to express support for immigrants and call for legislative reform.
The priests, most of whom lead congregations of Latino or Polish immigrants, gathered at Holy Name Cathedral to deliver a pastoral message and explain how the Catholic Church is responding to a recent rise in arrests and deportations. Similar events took place in the dioceses of Los Angeles; San Antonio; San Jose, Calif.; Trenton, N.J.; and Newark, N.J.
"We are deeply and profoundly troubled by the almost daily harsh and demeaning anti-immigrant rhetoric of media and press pundits," said Rev. Marco Mercado, pastor of Good Shepherd church in Chicago. "For these reasons, we stand in solidarity with our undocumented brothers and sisters to have hope and draw strength in this season when family unity and family love is so precious."
With the defeat of the comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up enforcement and raids. Immigration has also become a flash point in the presidential campaign.

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NY Couple Convicted in Slavery Case [12/17/07]
Haven't foreigners heard that the United States abolished slavery in 1865 They think that because America is "free" they can do any damn thing they want, particularly if the immigrants in question are wealthy, which these are. (See perp pix in BBC coverage.)

A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, were each convicted of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude, and harboring aliens.
Prosecutors said the women were subjected to repeated psychological and physical abuse and were forced to work 18 hours or more a day.
The Sabhnanis, who have four children and operate a worldwide perfume business out of their Muttontown home on Long Island's Gold Coast, could face up to 40 years in prison, although attorneys predicted the punishment would be considerably less. He is from India, and she is from Indonesia, but both are naturalized U.S. citizens
One of the couple's daughters, Dakshina, collapsed in the front row as the verdict was read, prompting the judge to clear the courtroom while medical personnel attended to her.

I do hope someone captured that last little bit of courtroom theatrics with their cellphone camera.
See also Slavery Diversity in the USA and Saudis Say Jump, Colorado AG Complies for information about the Saudi case in Araphoe County.

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"Where Anti-Immigrant Zealots Like Lou Dobbs Get Their 'Facts'" [12/17/07]
This is a standard-issue hit piece from Heidi Beiriech of the deeply corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center. According to Heidi, we citizens who reasonably want immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced are "nativist" and worse.

The forces seeking to sharply reduce the number of immigrants coming to America won a stunning victory last June, when nativist anger at an "amnesty" for the undocumented scuttled a major bipartisan immigration reform package backed by President Bush. Many members of Congress were completely unprepared for the flood of angry E-mails, phone calls and faxes they received -- an inundation so massive that the phone system collapsed under the weight of more than 400,000 faxes.

In the usual ploy, legal and illegal immigration are treated as the same issue, which they most certainly are not. Plus, there's lots more of the same old lies about FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) and John Tanton.
What's interesting is that the choir is not obediently following the lead of the choirmaster on this far-left website; that is, the comments section is less than entirely in agreement with Beirich. Even some moonbats understand the problem...

sailor50

Liam
As a Leftist I cannot understand these supposed "progressives" who cannot understand all the implications of the total loss of control by "our" government of U.S. borders. They call names because they have no argument - they fail to look at history (we are not living in the 1890's)-we are a country and culture in decline on all fronts and need to "Come Home America" to repair the mess that has been created over the last 40 years since Vietnam and Reagan started the destruction of the working class and American Middle Class. Why does the author think Bush supported "comprehensive "reform" on immigration? It was just another way to undercut the American Working Class - Gawd! Get real people!!! The writer of the article is the best friend the Global Capitalist have in their effort to crush the working class in this country. Dobbs has good points for discussion and I have never seen one "racist" statement in any FAIR publication I have read. AND Thom Hartmann on Air America has had the President of FAIR on his program several times. Hartmann also sees the problem for what it is - "an illegal employer problem" - put the people in jail that hires illegals and literally steal from citizens. You won't have to "round up" anyone - they will go home because there will be no jobs.
The "Liberals" are setting the Democrats up for defeat in 2008(almost an impossible task you would think) because 80% of American know their position on illegals in this country is stupid and harmful to all Americans. To call people concerned about our out of control ill

Of course, the real racists are the open-borders types who believe that the little brown people of the world cannot successfully organize their societies and must be rescued by the civilized First World via immigration.

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For Gangs, Tattoos Out; College Look In [12/16/07]
The styles they are a-changing in Guatemala. Young gang-banger trend-setters are no longer pursuing the once fashionable tattoo-all-over look. Nope, that makes them too identifiable to the police, army and citizen vigilantes who want to kill them.

CHIMALTENANGO, Guatemala (AP) Ñ Tattoos, baggy pants and tank tops are out. Smart blazers and university recruits are in. It's an extreme makeover for Central America's gangs. Facing harsh crackdowns by government security forces and citizen vigilante groups, they are trying to lower their profile.
The Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs are known throughout Central America and the U.S. for their brazen tactics, including beheading their enemies and covering entire buildings and even their bodies with gang symbols.
Now, according to anti-gang operatives, these traditionally uneducated and aimless youth have begun recruiting high school and college students, and are expanding their criminal repertoire from minor robbery to large-scale extortion, prostitution, car theft and kidnappings. [...]
Setting themselves apart by tattooing themselves head to toe with threatening symbols and hanging out in large crowds on street corners, their goal was to intimidate law-abiding citizens and rival gangs alike, experts say.
That has changed recently, after El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras adopted tough anti-gang policies, including graffiti-removal campaigns and harsh punishments for gang-related crimes. Many youths have been arrested or killed, allegedly in operations by police or citizen's groups.

Sorry I couldn't find any before-and-after pix of the Mara boys. But the collegiate look did wonders for the parent-murdering Menendez brothers. There's nothing like a Shetland sweater to soften up the appearance of a stone-cold killer.
In other Central American crime news, a four-hour-long gun battle between police and a gang of thieves in Guatemala City ended with eight dead: Guatemala shoot-out kills eight.

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Finding greener pastures at home, Asian scientists leaving America [12/16/07]
For years, industry has thought it was swell to bypass American kids by importing foreigner workers and college students on the cheap. Plus, no annoying taxes for K-12 education.
But now that economies are perking up in China and India, immigrants are taking their skills learned in American universities and businesses back to the old sod. They were only here for the money, so no surprise that they would skedaddle for more greenery in their wallets.

Frustrated by stagnating federal funding for research and clampdowns on visas, Asian scientists are increasingly returning to their homelands. One-quarter of the 700,000 students who left China between 1978 and 2003 have gone back, China's Ministry of Education has reported.
Most of those left the United States recently, with more than 20,000 a year returning to China in the past five years, according to the ministry.
In countries with blossoming economies, such as China, South Korea, India and Singapore, governments have identified biotechnology and other high-tech industries as a way to expand beyond basic manufacturing. They are spending billions to underwrite companies, build high-tech parks and help startup businesses cut through red tape.

See also my 2006 blog Temps Decamp to Glorious PRC Homeland.

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Mexican company launches beer in honor of unofficial drug saint [12/16/07]
As I have written numerous times, Mexican culture extols criminal values and treats certain categories of perps like rock stars. See Really Tough Music Critics in Mexico about a famous singer of narcocorridos (ditties celebrating drug smuggling) who was murdered for singing the wrong tune.
Today's news concerns how Mexico's honored narco-saint Jesus Malverde is being further recognized by a beer being named after him. There is already a shrine erected to Malverde in Sinaloa, where drug smugglers come to leave an offering which they hope will lead to a successful enterprise.

MEXICO CITY Ð Jesus Malverde is considered a Mexican Robin Hood and the patron saint of drug lords.
On Wednesday, he got his own beer.
A Mexican brewery in the western city of Guadalajara began selling the Malverde beer in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, long considered one of the country's main drug strongholds.
Malverde is believed to have been a construction or railroad worker who was hanged in 1909 in Culiacan, Sinaloa's capital. He later developed a reputation as someone who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, although the details of his life remain unclear. [...]
Minerva Brewery decided to use the late outlaw's name because it wanted a new beer to market in northwest Mexico, marketing director Juan Carlos Banda told The Associated Press.
"We were looking for a character from Mexican folklore, a graphic representation of local culture," he said.

Now righteous drug mules will have a new liquid for the toast: "Jesus, drink up, you're behind!"
On VDARE.com, Mexican Beer Diversity Gets Saintly.

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Woman Married To 10 Men At Same Time [12/16/07]
Somehow, this story of immigrant fraud made me think of the old Mickey and Sylvia tune...

Lo-o-o-ve, love is strange
Lots of people take it for a game.

But it was just another foreigner stealing America blind. (To be precise, perp Eunice Lopez is a legal resident from Cuba.)

Perhaps a better song choice would be "What's Love Got to Do with It?".

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Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad [12/15/07]
Do you think that a President Hillary would want to offend Saudis who spent $10 million on Bill's library by pursuing a policy of energy independence? The Saudis have shoveled a lot of cash at Washington politicians, while whispering in their ears, "Don't worry about energy -- your dear friends in Arabia will take care of that." Right.
At least Rudi told a Saudi sheik to take his big check for a similar amount and stuff it after the 9/11 terror attacks (Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince ).

Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.
The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.

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Schwarzenegger, Speaker reach tentative deal on health reform [12/15/07]
Arnold continues to pimp for his Mexican pals, and screw the rest of us.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez have agreed on most aspects of a $14 billion health reform measure that would expand coverage to nearly 3.6 million uninsured Californians and force nearly everyone to buy health insurance. [...]
According to an analysis by Nunez's office, the proposal would cover about 70 percent of the estimated 5.1 million uninsured Californians by expanding public programs and requiring everyone to have health insurance.
All children, regardless of their immigration status, would be eligible for subsidized coverage as long as their families did not earn more than 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $62,000 a year for a family of four.

Foreign children will just be the proverbial camel's nose under the tent, with adults to follow. Mexicans and others will seriously ill children will flock to California -- as they already do to other states known to be a soft touch for handing out illegal alien freebies -- see Mexico Yanks DenverÕs Chain.
Even the open-borders Denver Post admitted, "Hundreds of Mexican illegal immigrants are in Colorado not just for work but also for free medical care they say they can't get back home," as noted in the 2006 article, Ill Mexican nationals go home (a rather misleading headline):

These foreigners come with serious medical conditions that are incredibly expensive to treat, such as kidney failure requiring regular dialysis. A bone-marrow transplant can easily cost $250,000 in the US.

This turn of event in California is particularly disturbing with the recent news that the state is in bad shape financially, Schwarzenegger says he will declare fiscal emergency.

$14 billion shortfall

But the illegal alien kiddies will get their taxpayer-subsidized healthcare if Arnold's plan goes through!

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Migrant policy debated at raucous town hall [12/14/07]
Mexican invaders were out in force in Phoenix on Thursday because the Mayor has announced he is planning to end the city sanctuary policy. An immigration lawyer apparently threatened riots in the LA style if normal law enforcement is employed in the city.

"Don't let Phoenix become the next Watts, the next LA riots," Alex Navidad, an immigration lawyer, said in an impassioned plea to the panel. "That's what's going to happen. A community that's fearful, with loads of police, can only lead to tragedy."

A community of illegal aliens should be more than fearful; they should be terrified that police will come to deport them at any moment.
Don't the Mexicans want a free ride home for Christmas?

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DUI Inmates Don Pink in Ariz. Chain Gang [12/14/07]
Just when you think that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio can't get any cooler, he comes up with another great idea.

A sheriff known for housing inmates in old military tents has a new idea -- a chain gang of drunken driving convicts wearing pink shirts and performing burials of people who died of alcohol abuse.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he wants the chain gang to act as a deterrent to potential drunken drivers. He has already used the color pink on inmates -- he issued them pink underwear.
"Maybe this will warn people -- knock it off, don't drink and drive," Arpaio said. "You'll end up in pink underwear on the chain gang."

Of course, many (but by no means all) of the drunk-driving prisoners in Arizona are illegal aliens, since hispanics drive intoxicated at higher rates than Americans.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has become acclaimed for his tough but fair treatment of illegal alien prisoners in his charge. (See Let a Thousand Arpaiovilles Bloom.)
Incidentally, those pink undies are becoming popular. A man was recently arrested for stealing some boxers upon his release from jail: Inmate admits stealing jail's pink underwear

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"71% Pak males justify beating women" [12/13/07]
Here's a little reminder of the knuckle-dragging nature of many foreign societies. You wouldn't want to be born female in Pakistan, where women and girls are second-class citizens according to Islam, custom and the government.

A recent survey on violence against women in Pakistan has found that 71 per cent males consider slapping and beating women as justifiable.
According to the survey, 80 per cent of women are victims of domestic violence in society.
Addressing a seminar on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day at the Punjab Law College (PLC) here, participants said that sustained and collective efforts were needed to end domestic violence in Pakistan.

I won't be holding my breath for that human rights thing to happen any time soon for women in Pakistan.

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2007 National Survey of Latinos: As Illegal Immigration Issue Heats Up, Hispanics Feel a Chill [12/13/07]
A new Pew Hispanic poll has found a lot of that tribe are feeling sorry for themselves. Boo hooey.

Hispanics in the United States are feeling a range of negative effects from the increased public attention and stepped up enforcement measures that have accompanied the growing national debate over illegal immigration.
Just over half of all Hispanic adults in the U.S. worry that they, a family member or a close friend could be deported, a new nationwide survey of Latinos by the Pew Hispanic Center has found. Nearly two-thirds say the failure of Congress to enact an immigration reform bill has made life more difficult for all Latinos. Smaller numbers (ranging from about one-in-eight to one-in-four) say the heightened attention to immigration issues has had a specific negative effect on them personally. These effects include more difficulty finding work or housing; less likelihood of using government services or traveling abroad; and more likelihood of being asked to produce documents to prove their immigration status.
However, when respondents were asked about changes in the overall situation of Latinos in this country in the past year, no consensus view emerged. About one-in-three say things have gotten worse, about one-in-four say things have gotten better, and about four-in-ten say there has been no change. Despite their concerns about the impact of the immigration debate, Hispanics are generally content with their own lives and upbeat about the long-term prospects for Latino children. Nearly eight-in-ten respondents, for example, say they are very (45%) or somewhat (33%) confident that Hispanic children growing up now will have better jobs and more money than they have.

Furthermore, more than half of the hispanics polled believe Illegal immigrants help U.S.
Yes, and slavery was a fine way to save money on labor costs!
Even I don't believe hispanics are that stupid, to believe that massive exploitation is an acceptable business practice. But I could be wrong.
On another polling front, the data from a Quinnipiac University survey show citizens in important Presidential battleground states (Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio) understand what must be done (Immigration: Not Just a Border Issue).

On average, 70 percent favored stronger enforcement while 21 percent favored integrating illegal immigrants into American society.

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US minorities don't trust each other [12/13/07]
The whole diversity ideology has not been working out so well in actual practice. Many proponents believed that blacks could join hands with ethnic immigrants like Mexicans to overcome whitey.
In fact, hispanics have been better enemies than allies to American blacks. In LA, random blacks are targets of hispanic hoodlums: Mexican GangsÕ Ethnic Cleansing of Black Americans in Los Angeles. An innocent 14-year-old girl, Cheryl Green, was murdered by a couple of Mexican gang-bangers looking to be tough guys.

The three main minorities in the United States -- blacks, Hispanics and Asians -- have little trust for each other and hold prejudiced views about Americans of different ethnic origins to their own, a poll showed Wednesday.
"This extraordinary poll reveals some unflattering realities that exist in America today," said Sandy Close, head of new America Media (NAM) which sponsored the poll together with ethnic media groups.
Forty-four percent of Hispanics and 47 percent of Asians are "afraid of African-Americans because they are responsible for most of the crime," the survey of 1,105 adults drawn from the three ethnic groups showed.
More than half of black Americans polled and 46 percent of Hispanics said Asian business owners do not treat them with respect.

Anyway, the kumbaya vision of diversity will never happen because human beings are tribal in nature, and strongly prefer to associate with others who share their values. Of course, a national community can and does include members of various races. But the poll does show in yet another way that America is becoming overwhelmed by immigrants who are only here for the money, and care zip about becoming an American.
For that reason alone, Washington should end immigration for a couple decades at least, if not permanently, to allow the process of assimilation to take hold again.
See also the NAM's reporting on its own poll, Ethnic Media Take On Race Challenge. They believe their little newspapers can re-educate their readers into politically correct views of diversity -- how arrogant.
A link to the poll information is here. For the Executive Summary in PDF, click here.

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Refugees finally find home - in Sioux Falls [12/12/07]
It's sad to see heartland America saddled with the blowback of Washington idiocy, in particular the moronic refugee policy. If refugees from primitive tribal societies are so wonderful, then why aren't they resettled in Georgetown?
We know the drill, and have heard it all before...

"I think that diversity brings richness to a community. We learn from those around us," said Donna Magnuson, director of the refugee and immigration center at Lutheran Social Services, which works with government to help refugees with housing, work, English-language classes and cash assistance.
Magnuson said 650 refugees have resettled in Minnehaha County in the past three years; almost all of the arrivals in the past 12 months have come from African nations.
Multi-Cultural Center Director Qadir Aware estimates the Sioux Falls area now has more than 4,000 residents from Sudan and countries in the Horn of Africa.

The article includes some sobering facts about the newcomers, e.g., only 20 percent of adults are literate and the standard work experience is farming.
According to the CIA Factbook, Burundi's population growth rate is 3.6 percent, which makes sense when you read that the average woman has 6.5 children (TFR).
So even if Washington doesn't import many more Burundians, there will likely be lots more like them in North Dakota. (And there are already 12,000 refugees and immigrants in Sioux Falls, from 94 countries and speaking 124 languages.)
The current batch are happy not to be in a miserable African refugee camp, and hope all their relatives can come to live in stupid-generous America.

Still, their thoughts often turn to the hundreds of thousands that remain in refugee camps nine time zones away.
"There are so many still there, and they suffer a lot, too," Ndirariha said. "We would really like to see them relocated to Sioux Falls."

See the VDARE.com version Sioux Falls Gets Burundians.

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Cops: Worker attempted rape to get deported [12/11/07]
Another illegal alien Latin male shows his family values by breaking into a home and trying to rape a child in order to get a free ride to Guatemala. Maybe he wanted to be home in time for Christmas.

Drunk and missing home, construction worker Juan Carlos Franco stripped naked, broke into an house and tried forcing himself on a young girl so he would be deported back to Guatemala, police say. [...]
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Tuesday granted him $57,500 bail. He was still jailed Tuesday afternoon.
According to an arrest report, the girl was in her parent's bedroom when she heard strange noises. She noticed her bedroom light turn on. Armed with a pair of scissors, she investigated -- and saw Franco emerge from her bedroom, the report said.
Franco said "he had been watching her for some time and that it was OK, that he was not going to hurt her," according to an arrest report. He "grabbed his genitals and tried to approach the victim."

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Lou Dobbs Transcript [12/11/07]
Mexico Presidente Felipe Calderon is turning out to be as bad as his predecessor in terms of meddling in American affairs. He is demanding open borders, just like Vicente Fox.

WIAN (voice-over): Last week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said U.S. presidential candidates are competing "to see who can be the most swaggering macho and anti-Mexican". He also accused the American public of quote, "hostility toward Mexicans". Sunday he announced plans to visit the United States in February.
FELIPE CALDERON, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): I am convinced that the worst error we can commit is to make each other feel like the enemy. We have to rescue the idea and rescue it quickly that there will not be progress in either country if there is not progress in change in the other.
WIAN: Those his words were more conciliatory, Calderon's agenda remains clear; securing illegal alien amnesty and unconditional U.S. military aide to battle drug cartels. Calderon's visit is scheduled for the same month as Super Tuesday when 24 states hold presidential primaries. One political analyst says continued anti U.S. statements by Calderon would only help Republicans.
GEORGE GRAYSON, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY: They have had a more law and order posture with regard to illegal immigration than have the Democrats. The Democrats have in fact been doing back flips to ensure the Mexicans that they favor either amnesty or a broader guesswork or program or more visas or all of the three.

Furthermore, Washington is foolishly considering sending $1.4 in military aid to help Mexico fight its drug war. (See More American Money Headed South.) However some cooler heads have noted that it is crazy to ship cash to the corrupt narco-state.
Calderon's arrogant demands are over the top -- he wants free money from American taxpayers and he wants it now [Mexican president rebukes U.S. candidates, AP].

"I need that technology," Calderon said. "Give it to me. And give it to me without conditions."

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S.F. Housing Authority sued over failure to protect Muslim tenants [12/10/07]
In San Franciso, a family of Pakistani Muslim immigrants is suing the City because they say the housing agency refused to protect them from hate crimes. The couple and their seven children were receiving taxpayer-subsidized housing, but are going for the big payoff via a lawsuit. The agency offered to move them to another residence but the Pakistanis refused.
There are a lot of fake hate crime complaints to get money and for political reasons, so the whole thing may be made up. The Koran desecration is very suspicious -- most Americans wouldn't even think to do that. But Muslims are obsessed with the specialness of their book, and go ballastic at the thought of someone messing with their Koran.

A family of Pakistani immigrants living in San Francisco public housing was improperly denied an emergency transfer to another apartment after someone broke into their home, desecrated their Quran, defaced their passports and shredded their traditional clothing, according to a federal court lawsuit.
After the August 2005 incident - which took place during a time of intensified anti-Muslim sentiment in the country and while the San Francisco Housing Authority was under court order to better protect tenants from hate-motivated crimes - agency officials ruled that the break-in at Ashan Khan's apartment was a simple burglary and didn't qualify the family for an emergency apartment transfer, the family says.

The comments section was not as sympathetic to the Paks' plight as you might have expected in San Francisco...

VDARE.com version, Welfare Muslims Lob Lawsuit against San Francisco

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A Wealth of Kindness Among Somalia's Poorest [12/10/07]
Ever wonder what happens when first-world do-gooders don't manage to swoop in and rescue the downtrodden in the poorest third-world countries?
People help themselves. People in clan-based societies like Somalia can turn to their extended family and expect to receive aid, however modest.

MARKA, Somalia -- After she escaped the urban battleground of Mogadishu, walked 20 days in the blasting heat, slept in the sand, dreamed of explosions and watched her four children get sicker and skinnier, Asiya Ali arrived one recent evening at this unfamiliar seaside town.
There was no international relief effort to greet her, only the setting sun and a town full of people already strained by the worst crop failure in recent memory. And so, scared and tired, Ali said, she turned to the only resource she had left: her clan.
"I'm Bimal," she told anyone she found wandering the soft sand streets of Marka, a process that led her to Fatima Mohamed, a distant relative she had never met.
"She cooked tea for us, gave sugar for the children, gave us tomatoes and bread," Ali recalled. "She said, 'Welcome.' "

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Small Towns Grapple with Diseased Immigrants [12/10/07]
Does Washington perform adequate public health screening on refugees from primitive tribal cultures that it deposits in communities across the country? Certainly not.

The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American communities.
In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia, Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the facility's 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Local officials say the case represents only a small part of the growing problem of foreign-born, unassimilated communities with high rates of communicable diseases such as TB and HIV. Many say they need help from Washington, which has been silent on the issue for too long. [...]
The U.S. government has agreed to resettle more than 12,000 Somalis who fled their war-torn country in the past decade. Many have been living in refugee camps in Kenya prior to coming to America.
Mandatory health screenings are frequently put off for several months after the immigrants' arrival. Those who blend into the secretive, tight-knit Somali community often do not resurface to be tested for communicable disease, officials complain.

The Kansas case of TB showing up in refugees is not the first instance of inadequately screened newcomers: Hmong Immigrants and TB in Fresno.
For hopeful news about what can be done to fight the Refugee Industrial Complex, see Patriot Activists Fight Off Refugee Invasion In Hagerstown, MD.

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Bilingual tutors help students adjust [12/09/07]
If you were thinking about moving to Alaska to escape Mexifornication and other unwanted diversity, forget about it.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Walk through the halls of the city's public schools and it's easy to see how diverse the community is becoming.
The Anchorage School District is officially a 50/50 district, meaning 50 percent of students are of an ethnic minority. More than 4,000 of these students speak a language other than English at home.
William Tyson Elementary in Mountain View has the highest percentage of bilingual students in the district. The school also employs the most bilingual tutors, who teach the languages that will be key to these students' success in the future. [...]
In all, more than 200 students speaking 17 different languages at William Tyson Elementary depend on these tutors. The parents of those students rely on ESL instructors, whose jobs include after-school work.Ê[...]ÊÊÊ
Spanish is the most widely-spoken language in the district, with more than 1,200 speakers. Samoan and Hmong follow Spanish, with around 700 speakers each.

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How the Subprime Mess Hit Poor Immigrant Groups [12/09/07]
The Wall Street Journal analyzed how members of one Brazilian immigrant church in South San Francisco became involved in buying homes for which they were not financially qualified.

Naira Costa, a 27-year-old housekeeper, met her husband at Message of Peace, an evangelical church that is a spiritual and social haven for Brazilians in the Bay Area. When the couple considered buying a house a few years ago, the church's head deacon, Soario Santos, ministered to that need, too.
Mr. Santos, a fellow Brazilian, served the Pentecostal church on nights and weekends. During the day, he worked as a loan officer at a mortgage brokerage owned by a Brazilian immigrant. Mr. Santos and other church officers also working at the same real-estate business routinely approached churchgoers to encourage them to buy homes.
Weak credit and low wages weren't barriers, Ms. Costa recalls. "He told us that a house easily would appreciate $100,000 in a year," enabling the owner to refinance, says Ms. Costa. "We trusted him implicitly. Everyone at the church was buying houses from him."
Today, Ms. Costa and other former Message of Peace parishioners claim that Mr. Santos was a key part of a mostly Brazilian ring that allegedly conspired to defraud people by persuading them to buy homes they couldn't afford. Ms. Costa, the housekeeper, secured a $713,000 sub-prime mortgage. In another instance, a Brazilian baby sitter borrowed $495,000. Now, the home buyers are beset by foreclosures and additional stains on their already-tainted credit.

On Dec 6, LA radio guys John and Ken talked about how many illegals got subprime mortgages (listen online). Several loan officers phoned in and said they saw numbers fudged on applications and a policy of giving mortgages to unqualified minorities, including illegal aliens.
The subprime crisis and other forms of illegal banking practices have been bubbling up to the surface for years. In 2005, Lou Dobbs was already reporting about loan fraud.

As Willie Sutton said when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is."

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Tancredo: Why I won't do Spanish debate [12/08/07]
Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo is alsolutely right to refuse a debate to be conducted in Spanish. Every small step into "bilingualism" shreds the fabric of the American community. Furthermore, candidates have no assurance that their words will be translated accurately.

I declined the invitation to participate in the Spanish-language Republican presidential debate on Sunday because I do not want to endorse the further Balkanization of American political life.
The debate is being sponsored by Univisi—n, the country's largest Spanish-language network, and the candidates' answers will be translated into Spanish. Spanish-language news broadcasts and public-affairs programming is an expression of our First Amendment freedoms. I have given many interviews to Univisi—n as well as local Spanish-language stations. However, a Spanish-language presidential debate is a different animal altogether.
The question of bilingualism is not new to American politics. A former Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, once spoke about the importance of new immigrants giving up their old languages and allegiances in order to become equal partners in American democracy:
"We freely extend the hand of welcome and of good fellowship to every man, no matter what his creed or birthplace, who comes here honestly intent on becoming a good United States citizen like the rest of us. . . . Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction and purpose, not of creed or birthplace. The politician who bids for the Irish or German vote, or the Irishman or German who votes as an Irishman or German, is despicable, for all citizens of this commonwealth should vote solely as Americans."
Can anyone imagine Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft having a Republican primary debate in German or Italian in 1912? Of course not. Indeed, I believe Teddy Roosevelt's admonition applies today. I do not believe it is proper to appeal to the "Hispanic vote" or the "Asian vote" or the "Black vote." I believe we must appeal only for American votes.

Interestingly, Tancredo was the only Republican candidate to appear at the NAACP convention in July.

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Maine - the Sanctuary State [12/08/07]
Rich Cebra, a state representative from Maine, describes another example of "If you build it, they will come"...

Maine is the only full-blown sanctuary state in the nation, so it has become a popular destination for welfare recipients both legal and illegal.
Then, last year, there was a new twist to the story. Illegals began to be bussed into Maine from New York and other places on quick trips to get a driver's license. Advertisements in foreign language newspapers recruited people who could not get a license where they lived because they did not have Social Security numbers. These were like package tours, bringing illegals into Maine just long enough to get a license, then taking them back home. [...]
A license today is much more than a piece of plastic saying that you are a legal driver. Licenses have become basically national ID cards, good for everything from renting a video to boarding a flight. The September 11 hijackers had 16 driver's licenses and 14 state-issued ID cards. Having those key documents enabled them to rent cars and apartments, open bank accounts, take flying lessons and otherwise blend into American society while they planned their attacks. Some of them were actually registered to vote.
The fact is that an illegal alien with a license will be able to vote, because no one would challenge the license. Do we want our elections decided by illegal immigrants?

As Adam Smith wrote, "...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent..."

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Lou Dobbs Transcript (Dec 6) [12/07/07]
Presidente Calderon is becoming more troublesome and demanding, as noted on Lou Dobbs. Part of the problem is his insistence that American taxpayers fork over a truckload of cash with no questions asked. (For background, see More American Money Headed South.)

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mexican President Felipe Calderon hammered U.S. presidential candidates Wednesday, telling the local radio station, quote, "The only theme in the U.S. electoral campaign is to compete to see who can be the most swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican."
Calderon also accused the American public of a total lack of understanding, incitement and hostility toward Mexicans and he warned the U.S. against imposing anticorruption safeguards on a proposed $1.4 billion military aid package to help Mexico fight drug cartels. Reacting to concerns the military hardware could wind up in the hands of the same drug lords it targets, Calderon said, "I need that technology. Give it to me. And give it to me without conditions."
From criticisms of more border fencing to demands for illegal alien amnesty, Mexico is increasing its efforts to intervene in U.S. domestic policy. Analysts said Mexico would never tolerate similar U.S. interference in its domestic affairs.
PROFESSOR GEORGE GRAYSON, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY: The outcry that we would hear, it would break the sound barrier. Nonetheless that's exactly what is happening in reverse. And unfortunately, President Calderon is doing nothing to quiet this outlandish rhetoric.

Mexico is a wealthy country (albeit one with many poor people) and can afford to buy equipment, not insist that we give it to them.

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Child Rapist Sentenced To Three Consecutive Life Sentences [12/07/07]
Antonio Rosales is a very dangerous man and has just been convicted of kidnapping and raping a 10-year-old girl. The good news is that the illegal alien from Guatemala is being imprisoned permanently in Florida at the least: he may still get the death penalty for a murder he allegedly committed in Arizona.

An illegal immigrant, convicted Thursday of raping a 10-year-old Seminole County girl, was sentenced Friday to three consecutive life sentences. Antonio Rosales' sentence was handed down less than 24 hours after he was found guilty. [...]
A judge sentenced the illegal immigrant from Guatemala to three consecutive life sentences for the crimes of kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual battery on a 10-year-old girl in Casselberry four years ago. Investigators said the attack was frighteningly similar to a murder he's accused of committing in Arizona.
"There was choking, strangulation and then, ultimately, the sexual assault," explained prosecutor Lora Horan.
Horan and others in the courtroom saw a glimpse of Rosales' violent nature during closing arguments. On Wednesday, he slammed a computer and knocked over a desk before deputies tackled him to the ground. [...]
Rosales also served time in a Guatemalan prison for murdering a woman there.

Notice that last item? Legal immigration is designed to keep out criminals -- particularly convicted murderers -- but open borders invite the violent scum of the world.

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Undocumented customers disappear from businesses [12/07/07]
Here's a two-fer -- a sob story combined with more proof that enforcement works. It seems that Mexicans and other illegals are pulling up stakes with the tough Arizona employer law about to take effect in just a few weeks.

"We have many illegal (customers) around this area and all of them have left for Mexico, Guatemala, New Mexico," said Teresa Quintero, who owns Quintero Jewelry & More, inside Plaza del Sol shopping center near Arizona Avenue and Galveston Street. "Now we can't even pay half our (store's) rent."
The new hiring law, signed by Gov. Janet Napolitano in July, is aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration in Arizona by pulling the plug on the job magnet that has drawn undocumented immigrants to the state by the tens of thousands over the past decade.
It is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, but business groups have asked a federal judge to toss out the law, arguing it is unconstitutional and invites racial profiling. They favor a federal solution that allows foreign workers to enter legally to fill gaps in the labor market.

Tortilla sales are down? Oh, my.

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