October 2007
Christmas should be 'downgraded' to help race relations says Labour think tank [10/31/07]
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11 of 18 in burn unit undocumented: UCSD cases put focus on who pays for care [10/31/07]
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The Global Poverty Trap [10/31/07]
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Londonistan Calling [10/30/07]
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AIDS invaded U.S. in 1969, study finds [10/29/07]
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Evil Exposed: Holy Land Trial Shows Charity's Hamas Ties [10/29/07]
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Waupaca County man hopes bilingual signs ease hunting tensions [10/28/07]
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Illegal Alien Tracking System [10/28/07]
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New U.S. citizenship test gets to the heart of things [10/28/07]
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Thompson: Immigration stance defines me [10/28/07]
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Latin America's Five Deadly Sins [10/27/07]
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Many states seen facing water shortages [10/26/07]
See a more detailed version, Water Supply: Where the Overpopulation Rubber Hits the Road
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Mexicans Miss Money From Relatives Up North [10/26/07]
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Frustrated legal immigrants mobilize at a grassroots level to get lawmakers' attention [10/25/07]
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The Future Is Drying Up [10/24/07]
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Oklahoma lawmakers object to donated Qurans [10/24/07]
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Lou Dobbs voters' will decide '08 [10/23/07]
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New Fear Leads Both Legal, Illegal Latinos To Leave Pr. William [10/22/07]
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No Backup if Atlanta's Faucets Run Dry [10/21/07]
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L.A. summit is urged on racial violence [10/20/07]
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Migration 'causes pressure in UK' [10/19/07]
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Trafficking Case Exposes Child Servitude [10/19/07]
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Germ Warfare [10/18/07]
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Members of Latino gang charged with race-motivated crimes [10/17/07]
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... But editorial was wrong on illegal immigrant laws [10/17/07]
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Border Cop Bungles [10/16/07]
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Al-Qaida associates in N.J. [10/15/07]
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Woman gets maximum sentence in ASU hit-run [10/15/07]
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Protestors Tear Down Vicente Fox Statue [10/14/07]
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Chinese corruption 'astonishing' [10/14/07]
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In Quincy, politicians try appeal to Asians [10/14/07]
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Driver sentenced in crash that killed 'Christmas Story' director [10/13/07]
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Sharia by the Inch [10/13/07]
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Charlie Rose talks to Silicon Valley leaders about political protectionism [10/12/07]
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U.S. may send Mexico $1.4 billion in drug war [10/12/07]
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The Islamist Trojan Horse [10/11/07]
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Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holiday [10/10/07]
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Father of Murdered Girl Questions Bush's Support to Halt Killer's Execution [10/10/07]
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Democrats meet with Mexicans on aid package [10/10/07]
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Ex-Mexico Prez: Racists Stop Immigration [10/9/07]
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Al Qaeda Still 'Most Serious and Dangerous' Terror Threat, White House Report Says [10/9/07]
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Migrants waiting to see how employer sanctions law plays out [10/9/07]
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A Dutch Retreat on Speech? [10/8/07]
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Refugees from Myanmar may be next wave for Minnesota [10/8/07]
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Muslim medical students get picky [10/7/07]
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Hispanics in Irving feeling disheartened [10/7/07]
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Centralizing immigrant resources [10/6/07]
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Illegal immigrant blames his robbery on new employer sanctions law [10/6/07]
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Guess Who Came to Iftar for Dinner? [10/5/07]
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The Future Politics of Immigration [10/5/07]
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'Desperate Housewives' apology over Philippines slur [10/5/07]
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Nunez travels the world like a high-roller [10/5/07]
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Activists urge Congress to ban horse exports for slaughter [10/5/07]
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Global Opinion Favors Immigration Limits [10/4/07]
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Ramadan added to school's holidays [10/3/07]
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Oak Lawn Schools Cancel Holiday Traditions [10/2/07]
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Giuliani Visits Cheesesteak Stand [10/2/07]
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© 2007 Brenda Walker All rights reserved.
In Britain, voluntary grovelling toward hostile Muslims took another step toward destroying British culture and dragging Christmas down in the process.
Christmas should be downgraded in favour of festivals from other religions to improve race relations, says an explosive report.
In the words of Winston Churchill, an appeaser believes that if he feeds the alligator enough, "the alligator will eat him last."
Labour's favourite think-tank says that because it would be hard to 'expunge' Christmas from the national calendar, 'even-handedness' means public organisations must start giving other religions equal footing.
Right on cue, a British school went all out: Teachers ordered to dress up as Muslims.
Teachers at a primary school have been ordered to dress up as Muslims to promote multi-culturalism.
Get that last bit? Hard-won women's rights, particularly equality and safety, are the first thing to be sacrificed under multiculturalism.
The West Midlands school is belatedly celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid and told its pupils and teachers to don traditional Muslim dress for the day.
All 257 pupils, most of whom are Christians, and 41 teachers - two of whom are Muslims - dressed up.
A morning assembly was held to mark the event and an afternoon party was strictly for women only, because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.
We've been to the illegal alien destruction of our healthcare system before. Jose comes to America "to work" and gets injured in some way and ends up in the hospital on the taxpayer's tab. (In fact, some Mexicans admit they come for the free medical care mandated by Washington as well as to deliver their meal-ticket jackpot babies.)
During the recent devastating wildfires, numerous Mexicans lurking in the San Diego hills did not heed the warnings of their consulate to flee. On the Mexican side coyotes recommended the fire emergency as a good time to cross because of all the confusion.
The upshot is that a lot of taxpayer money will pay for the long-term medical care of illegal alien Mexicans in the burn unit.
The fact that 11 of the 18 wildfire victims lying in UCSD Medical Center's burn unit are illegal immigrants with no apparent health coverage highlights the daunting financial challenge hospitals face in providing long-term, intensive care for all those who need it.
What a ridiculous thing to say, particularlly since Dr. McAfee gets money to provide care for illegal foreigners. He directly benefits from the current system that has cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year.
"These are the most expensive kinds of cases, but we don't look at these patients and say, oh, because they aren't legal residents, we'll stop providing care or stop changing their bandages,Ó said Dr. Thomas McAfee, UCSD's physician-in-chief. ÒIt's part of our ethic to continue to provide this care no matter what."
Burn care requires ventilators, multiple surgeries, round-the-clock intensive care and grafts from human cadaveric skin. McAfee said grafts can be grown from patients' own skin to minimize tissue rejection at $500,000 per patient.
See also a YouTube clip of San Diego news coverage on HotAir, in which the cost is estimated to be "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Last year, the average cost of treating a burn patient at UCSD was $45,000 for an average 15-day stay.
While on the subject of large sums of money, consider also that southerly remittances from the county are huge: S.D. County remittances to Mexico hit $1.1 billion
The amount of money that workers in San Diego County send to Mexico has ballooned - reaching $1.1 billion last year from $800 million in 2004, according to a new estimate by the World Bank.
If Mexicans have that much spare cash rattling around, they are obviously not being taxed enough. As I wrote in a 2002 Washington Times op-ed, taxing remittances at the point of transfer could raise money to ease the burden on the American healthcare system.
VDARE.com version, Wildfire Costs Include Expensive Healthcare for Illegal Mexicans.
Columnist Robert Samuelson takes up the subject of the cultural cause of poverty, as studied by Tufts Professor Lawrence Harrison and more recently author Gregory Clark.
Clark suggests that much of the world's remaining poverty is semi-permanent. Modern technology and management are widely available, but many societies can't take advantage because their values and social organization are antagonistic. Prescribing economically sensible policies (open markets, secure property rights, sound money) can't overcome this bedrock resistance. [...]
What distinguished England, he says, was the widespread emergence of middle-class values of "patience, hard work, ingenuity, innovativeness, education" that favored economic growth. After examining birth and death records, he concludes that in England -- unlike many other societies -- the most successful men had more surviving children than the less fortunate. Slowly, the attributes of success that children learned from parents became part of the common culture. Biology drove economics. He rejects the well-known theory of German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) that Protestantism fostered these values.
Clark's theory is controversial and, at best, needs to be qualified. Scholars do not universally accept his explanation of the Industrial Revolution. More important, China's recent, astonishing expansion (a fact that he barely mentions) demonstrates that economic policies and institutions matter. Bad policies and institutions can suppress growth in a willing population; better policies can release it. All poverty is not preordained. Still, Clark's broader point seems incontestable: Culture counts.
Here's another hint that continuing Muslim immigration is a bad idea. Recent investigations in Britain have found more evidence of jihadist propaganda being spread via mosques.
The problem, as a report by Britain's Policy Exchange think tank shows, is that British mosques have a surprising amount of extremist hate literature that they make available to worshippers.
How hateful is it? The think tank fanned out across the U.K., visiting 100 places of worship for the country's fastest-growing religion, Islam. (More people in Britain attend mosque each week than services for the Church of England, Britain's official state religion.)
Of the mosques visited, 25% had hate literature. Investigators found 80 pamphlets and books preaching violence, intolerance and outright hatred of anyone not Muslim.
The ultimate public health crisis has been AIDS, which has killed more than 25 million and infected 40 million worldwide. It turns out the disease got its start in America from an immigrant.
The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.
Michael Worobey, a University of Arizona evolutionary biologist, said the 1969 U.S. entry date is earlier than some experts had believed.
The timeline laid out in the study led by Worobey indicates that HIV infections were occurring in the United States for roughly 12 years before AIDS was first recognized by scientists as a disease in 1981. Many people had died by that point.
There has been little MSM coverage about the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas which prosecuted the Islamic charity for funding terrorists. The case should have been a teaching moment for Americans about the dangerous Muslim fifth column in our midst. But media inattention has left citizens with a false sense of security and little knowledge about the hostile sons of Allah who have infiltrated this country via foolish immigration policies.
The trial of four key figures with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development ended last week with a hung jury. Holy Land's defenders and allies are trumpeting the mistrial as a huge victory. Yet the defendants remain in legal jeopardy, with a new trial almost assured - and the prosecution has, at a minimum, closed a lucrative funding channel for the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
See also Rod Dreher's column, Holy Land trial revealed a covert Islamist agenda.
Prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas deserve praise for bringing this case in the first place. The trial record conclusively demonstrated that Holy Land and several of its unindicted co-conspirators - including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) - grew out of Hamas. Moreover, it showed that they spent the better part of 15 years deceiving government agencies and the media, hiding their true goals under a mask of work for charity and civil rights.
But the trial Ð which, don't forget, did not produce an exoneration for most defendants Ð was by no means a wash. Despite the absence of verdict, what emerged was highly valuable and deeply damaging evidence that the radical Muslim Brotherhood is the guiding light behind the U.S. Muslim community's leadership. It is impossible for any intellectually responsible person to regard as positive or even benign organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim American Society or others who presume to speak on behalf of all American Muslims.
As Douglas Farah, the former Washington Post reporter who now works as a counterterrorism consultant for the nonprofit Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation, put it after the Holy Land verdict, the evidence shows "definitive proof that CAIR, ISNA, ICNA and all the Muslim Brotherhood groups in this country came here with a markedly different purpose from what they claim, and they have gone through decades of deceit to conceal their true identities and purposes."
This time of year, Wisconsin hunters start to think about deer season, which begins Nov. 17. But memories of the mass murder by Hmong immigrant Chai Vang of six Americans are still present, as shown by the sales of English-Hmong language signs warning of private property. (More sign information is available at Ezotic Hunting Signs.)
A Waupaca County man is selling signs that alert hunters in English and Hmong to land that is closed to public hunting in an effort to avert tragedies blamed on racial conflict and misunderstanding.
It appears that Wisconsin hunting licenses are available to legal immigrants with Social Security numbers, so citizenship (including presumable ability to speak English) is not required.
"That's where you run across problems," said Eric Humbert of Ogdensburg, who said his bilingual signs will help eliminate the language barrier.
Humbert had "No trespassing without permission" signs translated with the help of a Hmong co-worker. He had 500 polyethylene signs manufactured and has distributed 350 for $4 each.
In addition, the signs assume that Hmong can read their own language; however a Wisconsin study found 70 percent of Hmong had little or no literacy in their native tongue. In addition, 94 percent of Hmong living in America do not speak English at home. Perhaps signs utilizing a symbol would be more appropriate.
Click the link to see a map of the United States with current illegal alien activity and crimes. Throbbing symbols show up on the map and a running events feed allows you to pull up individual items of interest and read about them.
The author of Americans No More: The Death of Citizenship, Georgie Ann Geyer, is upbeat about the revised text that immigrants will take to become naturalized, beginning next October.
If you look at the old test and the new, you can readily see the changes. "What is the Constitution?" becomes "What does the Constitution do?" "Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?" is changed to "What did Martin Luther King Jr. do?" My horrid question about reasons to become a citizen has gone from naming the benefits of being a citizen to "What are two rights only for United States citizens?"
A real test requires failure, something the quiz-writers probably sought to avoid.
In short, if you look at all the changes, you see that the test has moved away from memorizing specific historical facts into the realm of attempting to grasp the fundamental meaning of being an American.
That does not mean it is exactly a Harvard, Yale or Northwestern test; a lot of it is still simplistic -- but it is definitely a welcome change. For above all, Americans are today living in an era when few truly know the answers to the questions of "Who belongs? Where? To whom? And, above all, to what?"
Poll after poll and survey after survey show that Americans feel betrayed by what they see as a social compact dissolving before their eyes, that they fear that the much-touted "globalization" has meant a loss of the American spirit and that market forces alone are not enough to hold the nation together.
Fred Thompson's immigration enlightenment may have occurred on the road to Damascus (or Des Moines, as Tom Tancredo has quipped about Republicans new to the issue), but it is welcome. His position paper is the one of the strongest among the Repubican candidates, except for Tancredo and Duncan Hunter of course. But it shows that Fred knows what the people want and is willing to update his conservative politics to the vital issue of the day -- saving America.
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson today discussed his new immigration proposal which, he said, distinguished him from his key rivals on the hot-button issue.
ÒThis does draw a distinction between myself and others,Ó Thompson said in a Des Moines Register interview before attending the Iowa GOPÕs annual Ronald Reagan dinner in Des Moines.
Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, said he would end the policy of sanctuary cities, where illegal immigrants can obtain government benefits without fear of deportation.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also is seeking the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, has been criticized by some Republican candidates for New YorkÕs status as such a city during GiulianiÕs term in office.
The failure of Latin America's cultures to make any progress at all against poverty and other symptoms of social malaise have been addressed by scholars like Sam Huntington and Lawrence Harrison in books and papers. Prof Harrison thoughtfully analyzed the differences between progress-prone and progress-averse cultures, simply expressed in a chart.
In 2005, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression was pubished. Its author Alvaro Varga Llosa was a co-writer of the 1997 book, Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot which famously took on many sacred cows of Marxist Latin belief. The more recent book follows along the same line,
according to this reviewer.
Whether the political winds shift left or right, patterns of behavior in Latin America are still guided, according to Vargas Llosa, by Òfive principles of oppression:Ó corporatism, state mercantilism, privilege, wealth transfer, and political law. Of the five, political law, defined by Vargas Llosa as Òpower over the truth,Ó makes all the other principles possible. In Latin America, the interests of men always seem to trump the impartiality of the law.
These aspects of culture should be another reminder that America should not even consider a political marriage with Mexico.
Vargas Llosa claims these principles began during the Stone Age empires of the Aztecs and the Incas and were reinforced by the Golden Age empire of the Spanish. Their theological foundations were honed during the age of absolutism. No political movement in Latin America, not even the liberal republicanism of the early nineteenth century, has succeeded in eliminating them. Indeed, the republican tradition quickly gave way to the caudillo tradition, the rule of the strong, which in turn made the state illegitimate in the eyes of most. Even ÒinstitutionalÓ revolutions, like that of Mexico in the early twentieth century, only ended up consolidating these Òfive deadly sinsÓ by confiscating property and imposing other statist policies.
How much sense does it make to add millions of immigrants to America's population when we don't have enough water for the 303 million citizens and residents already here?
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture is critically clear -- the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.
Below, Arizona's essential Lake Powell shows the effects of years of below-average rainfall.
The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess.
Who doesn't like free money? The nation of Mexico is addicted to the stuff, specifically the billions of dollars in remittances that have kept the lid on social unrest.
Elites around the world have taken note that last year "migrant workers worldwide sent more than $300 billion to developing countries - almost twice the amount of foreign direct investment." That statistic may convince them to spend less domestic investment in necessary services and infrastructure, since Pedro and those like him are picking up the tab for building projects that should be the responsibility of government.
Estrella Rivera, a slight 27-year-old in this stone-paved village in Guanajuato state in central Mexico, was hoping to use the money her husband, Alonso, sent back from working illegally in Texas to build a small clothing shop at the edge of her garden.
The slowing of remittances and return of some Mexicans to their homes may have more to do with a shrinking US economy than increased immigration enforcement.
But a month ago, Mr. Rivera returned home. His hours at a Dallas window-screen factory were cut and rumors spread that he would inevitably have to produce a valid Social Security number. Now, he works odd jobs or tends cornfields. Mrs. Riveras shop is indefinitely delayed, a pile of bricks stacked on the grass.
A theme of the open-borders boosters is their generosity of "immigrants" and America's thoughtless ingratitude: foreigners from around the world come with love in their hearts, their only wish being to serve us. The Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, is famous for his speech declaring,
Besides improving our cleanliness, better educated foreigners believe America's complicated gizmos would fall apart without auslanders keeping them operating with their special skills (sold at bargain-basement rates). Immigrants from the subcontinent apparently overrate their importance, particularly about who built Silicon Valley. The indian fellow shown in the photo (an activist from ImmigrationVoice) has a sign reading "We Gave You Google" -- does he think the useful search engine was created in India?
In fact, half of the founding inventors of the vastly successful Google is Sergey Brin, who was born in Moscow, not Bangalore. So the "we" is a little squirrelly, to say the least. But the appeal to guilt is palpable.
Chandrakanth Vemula was frustrated with trying to get an employment-based green card.Ê He paid his taxes, was a law-abiding legal resident and contributed to the countrys economic growth and development.
Ahem. An H-1B Visa is admittance for a temp job, with no guarantees: you are here to be exploited, Sanjay.
Vemula, 31, got into a predicament back in 2005, when he was laid-off from his job as a software analyst at a consulting firm in Atlanta.Ê He was in the sixth year of his H-1 visa, a document granted to highly skilled workers.
U.S. immigration law permits six years for an H-1 work visa, through the sponsorship of an employer.Ê The visa can be extended however, if a green card application for permanent residence has been pending for more than a year.Ê
But with the lay-off, Vemulas green card application was essentially terminated.
Nobody was giving me proper guidance -- it didnt seem like anyone cared, said Vemula.Ê
But anyway, shouldn't all these warm-hearted folks be expressing their love of humanity and service closer to home? Just a thought.
The issue where the rubber meets the road on domestic overpopulation is water. Droughts are a normal part of nature (though they are apparently worsening), but the demands on supply are skyrocketing due to immigration-fueled population growth.
As mentioned here earlier, northern Georgia will run out of water in three months if the rains don't come. The state has doubled in population in just forty years, but MSM does not discuss such sensitive topics. Americans are supposed to suffer quietly as the most basic components of their quality of life are sacrificed so millions of foreigners can move here.
The New York Times Magazine recently described the dire situation that exists in the water supply for large parts of the nation.
In the Southwest this past summer, the outlook was equally sobering. A catastrophic reduction in the flow of the Colorado River which mostly consists of snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains has always served as a kind of thought experiment for water engineers, a risk situation from the outer edge of their practical imaginations. Some 30 million people depend on that water. A greatly reduced river would wreak chaos in seven states: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. An almost unfathomable legal morass might well result, with farmers suing the federal government; cities suing cities; states suing states; Indian nations suing state officials; and foreign nations (by treaty, Mexico has a small claim on the river) bringing international law to bear on the United States government. In addition, a lesser Colorado River would almost certainly lead to a considerable amount of economic havoc, as the future water supplies for the Wests industries, agriculture and growing municipalities are threatened. As one prominent Western water official described the possible future to me, if some of the Southwests largest reservoirs empty out, the region would experience an apocalypse, an Armageddon.
Lou Dobbs reported (10/22) on the severity of drought around America:
MARK SVOBODA, NATIONAL DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER: In any given year, you typically expect to see around 10 percent to 15 percent of the United States in some form of a drought or another. This year we have over 40 percent of the United States in drought.
Every time I read these horror stories of water shortage, I recall that last year the Senate was ready to welcome over 100 million foreigners over the next couple decades until Robert Rector crunched the "comprehensive" legislation's effects in terms of population. Fortunately the American people rose up in fury and got elite Senators' attention, with the result that the bill was defeated.
WIAN: Droughts bring serious economic consequences. California water officials say wildfires are the most costly. From 1960 through 1999, wildfires burned an average of 3.5 million acres in the United States each year.
But, since 2000, the average number of acres burned has doubled to more than seven million. One reason, according to a 2006 "Science" magazine study, the average length of the annual fire season has increased by 78 days since the mid-1980s. Fire season used to last from June to October.
Now it stretches from April through November. Report concludes climate change is the main reason. Another factor, land use patterns, including declines in grazing and logging that have provided more fuel for firestorms.
Outstanding honesty on the part of some Oklahoma legislators!
OKLAHOMA CITY - A gift intended to promote diversity in Oklahoma is generating controversy instead.
Several state lawmakers are returning copies of the Quran to a state panel on diversity after one lawmaker claimed the Muslim holy book condones the killing of innocent people.
In a letter to colleagues, state Representative Rex Duncan says "most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology." At least 17 other legislators have notified the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council that they too will return the gift.
This is a decent article, considering the source (Politico.com), which generally recirculates the accepted views of the Beltway. There's no accusation that Dobbs is a "populist" or "protectionnist" (the biggest calumnies from the globalist elites), but instead explains his views rather fairly.
CNN anchor Lou Dobbs may be the most important person in the 2008 presidential election aside from the candidates themselves. The bundle of concerns that Dobbs and his audience have about globalization, trade, diminished American sovereignty and immigration will be ignored by politicians at their own peril.
The elites of the Democratic and Republican parties dont realize the deep political vein Dobbs has struck. In fact, they tend to be quite scornful of him. Nevertheless, the presidential candidate who pursues and captures the Lou Dobbs voter will win the 2008 election. [...]
Dobbs is also highly critical of U.S. immigration policy. It isnt just that the lawlessness of mass illegal alien migration offends him but that Washington and Wall Street elites are allowing immigration (and trade) policies to undermine Americas own political, economic and cultural institutions.
Dobbs is an American who prefers his own nation to multinational and supranational political institutions he is not a globalist, and neither are American voters.
The fact that the Beltway establishments full-court push for immigration amnesty was defeated twice this year by an alternative-media-led populist rebellion indicates the political power of these issues. It isnt just about immigration.
Middle-class families are deeply concerned about the impact of globalization i.e., nonreciprocal arrangements for open borders allowing people and goods into the U.S. on their ability to survive economically.
The politics of the Lou Dobbs voters are still fluid, because neither party has moved to gain their support. The Democrats are too busy kowtowing to immigration interest groups as they look to import future voting blocs, and the Republicans are too beholden to big business globalists, trade ideologues and open-border libertarians.
Here's another example of the attrition strategy working very well. Virginia's Prince William County adopted a simple measure that would require police to check the status of persons arrested for crimes. You would think storm troopers were on the march to hear all the whining about what is really basic law enforcement.
"Even after they passed that July resolution, I had hope that [the supervisors] would change their minds," said Diaz, 37, who has legal status but worries about relatives who do not.
Who knew that ruffling sensitive feelings would make so many pack up and leave? Oh and Americans are "ungrateful" -- what boo hooey.
Now, she noted bitterly, "I'll be selling [the townhouse] at a loss. But I don't care. I no longer have any affection for this place that treats us this way. I just want to get out." [...]
"I feel like when this county was growing, when they needed us, they welcomed us Latinos with open arms," [Jose Ventura] said. "But now that the county is all grown up and times are hard, it's totally turned its back on us. They are so ungrateful."
Droughts are a normal part of nature's cycles. But when population growth is pursued with no thought to the future consequences given the limits of the natural world -- particularly the availablility of water -- bad things can happen.
Atlanta and north Georgia may actually run out of water completely in three months. But the governor and other officials are complaining about the Army Corps of Engineers and environmentalists for insisting some years back that water be allotted to keeping species alive downstream. The governor won't state the real problem, so an average citizen was left to do it...
"It's amazing that things have come to this," said Ray Wiedman, owner of an Atlanta landscaper business. "Everybody knew the growth was coming. We haven't had a plan for all the people coming here?"
No, there was no resources plan for Georgia's rapid population growth, which was exploded from fewer than 4 million residents in 1960 to more than 8 million now. In other words, the state has more than doubled in population in 40 years, but no one making piles of money on development wanted to mention that additional water would be necessary for all those people. See the state's growth stats here
It's good to see more attention paid to the gang violence in Los Angeles, but a session of kumbaya declarations of peace and love will not accomplish anything. What's needed first and foremost is an end to Special Order 40, the local sanctuary policy which protects Mexican gangsters.
On Tuesday, the U.S. attorney's office announced a sweeping indictment of Florencia 13, accusing the Latino gang of waging a "cleansing" campaign to rid the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of African American rivals.
Florencia 13 and the East Coast Crips, a black street gang, have been fighting for years over control of the area's drug trade.
Prosecutors allege that Florencia's actions stem from a 2004 order issued by a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, which has warred with blacks inside the prisons for decades.
In 2005, there were 41 homicides in the working-class community north of Watts, authorities said. Last year, homicides dropped to 19, but the level of violence remains high; many victims have had no gang affiliation.
"I wish there was more outrage," said Luisa Prudhomme, who was among those who joined Ali at a news conference at City Hall to decry racial gang violence. Her son, Anthony, was killed by Latino gang members in Highland Park in 2000.
In Britain, immigration has been an unhappy process, despite the bloviations to the contrary of the elites who benefit from cheap labor. One worker in eight is foreign born. There have been too many foreigners too fast, not to mention all the hostile sons of Allah blowing people up.
(The photo shows Muslims accosting London worshippers as they left Westminster Cathedral in September 2006.)
Almost every UK region has difficulties in housing, health, education and crime because of increased migration, according to an official report.
Keep in mind that as a member of the EU, Britain has no control over the number of Europeans who may enter. As a result, more than a million Poles have immigrated to the island in search of a better ife.
But Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said migration on the scale Britain was currently facing was having a "huge impact" with "little economic justification".
A couple weeks ago, the Pew Foundation released a poll showing the people around the world have a negative view of immigration:
He added the government must look at cutting the numbers of migrants from non-EU countries.
"You cannot do anything about the eastern Europeans because they are members of the EU and their numbers are likely to decline as the level of these economies come up," he said.
"Three quarters of migrants come from the rest of the world."
In both affluent countries in the West and in the developing world, people are concerned about immigration. Large majorities in nearly every country surveyed express the view that there should be greater restriction of immigration and tighter control of their country's borders.
And in another example of unhappiness, one of the major bastions of liberal immigration, Canada, is questioning multiculturalism just a little bit ('Them' and 'us' split spreading nationwide, federal officials warn):
"There is now a sense of urgency to more clearly define and explain the principle of reasonable accommodation, as alarming shifts regarding the split between 'them' and 'us' may occur," the briefing says. "This is of particular concern in Quebec, at a time when the government is putting programs in place to close gaps affecting minority groups."
For today's meditation on diversity, let's consider the Haitian practice of child slavery of mostly girls called "restavek." It has become a problem in south Florida and any place where numbers of Haitian immigrants have encamped.
"Restavek" is a Haitian Creole word meaning "one who stays with." The term applies to an estimated 300,000 poor children in Haiti, mostly girls, who are given or sold by their parents to wealthier families, or taken from orphanages.
The children work in exchange for food, shelter and the promise of school, but often end up victims of physical and sexual abuse, according to the U.S. State Department's annual report on human trafficking.
Some sneak into the United States when their host family emigrates, then hide in a Haitian-American community, which is often loath to discuss the practice with outsiders.
Haitian-American advocates recall about 30 instances that have come to light since 1999, when a 12-year-old came forward with an appalling story about being a Broward County couple's household servant and a sex slave for their son.
But authorities believe those examples are probably just a small fraction of the actual number, because so few cases are reported.
When a citizen flew while knowingly infected with TB a few months ago, it was a huge scandal. But Mexican doing far worse, in terms of numbers of trips made in which he could infect others, is protected from condemnation by Washington.
We all know the case of Andrew Speaker, the 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer who contracted a highly infectious form of tuberculosis and was able to slip back into the U.S. from Europe via Canada, putting at risk those he flew and came in contact with.
See the Washington Times report, which broke the story; also a Youtube clip where reporter Audrey Hudson noted that part of the scandal is the cover-up. And Congress wants to investigate.
The case became the subject of congressional hearings in June over how such an individual could fly into the U.S. undetected and unimpeded.
Speaker did it once. Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya, a businessman from Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, did it 76 times with the full knowledge of the Mexican government and, apparently, our own. He did it while infected with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a highly contagious form of the disease resistant to the two most commonly used drugs to treat it.
As I've noted before, Mexican gangs are practicing systematic ethnic cleansing in Los Angeles against black citizens.
The term "ethnic cleansing" is not a phrase of blogger hysteria over ugly crime statistics, but describes accurately the situation as determined by a Los Angeles court of law: From the Los Angeles Times, 8/2/06, 4 Los Angeles Latino Gang Members Convicted of Anti-Black Conspiracy...
The jury finds that the defendants terrorized African Americans to try to drive them from the Highland Park neighborhood.
Today's news emphasized the gang-on-gang violence, where innocent bystanders have become victims as well. But the racial animus is obvious.
Four members of a Latino gang in Highland Park were found guilty Tuesday of unleashing a barrage of assaults and killings to push African Americans out of the predominantly Latino community in northeast Los Angeles.
Federal prosecutors today charged members of the Latino Florencia 13 street gang with racially motivated crimes against African Americans, including several attempted homicides.
The hideous graffiti from some Mexican gangster artiste is a visual assault and territory-marking device. And another example of Mexican criminal diversity.
Authorities said the gang specifically tried to eliminate rival African American gangs in South L.A. and the Florence-Firestone area in an effort to "cleanse" the neighborhood. In doing so, they mistakenly harassed and attacked innocent African American residents, according to the indictment.
Members of Latino gang charged with race-motivated crimes LA Times 10/16/07]
For powerful supplementary reading, see la Times' city homicide blog.
A few days ago it was reported that a Zogby report had come up with some controversial data regarding the town of Hazelton Pennsylvania which has been in liberal crosshairs for passing legislation restricting illegal immigrants.
Zogby International, through founder John Zogby, blind-sided Hazleton's effort to diminish the number of illegal immigrants living or working in Hazleton. Zogby International conducted the poll it was contracted for, but also provided Mr. Zogby's unsolicited personal ''commentary and criticism'' of Hazleton's exercise of local democracy.
It must be mentioned that John Zogby's brother James is the head of the Arab American Institute, which promotes immigration of all kinds, but particularly Middle Easterners.
Mr. Zogby asserts that Mayor Barletta's efforts, on behalf of those who elected him, must be "challenged on every front" because the mayor has "set back" Hazleton by driving out the labor force and making Hazleton unattractive to businesses that might otherwise locate there. [...]
And, isn't Zogby the first ever Senior Fellow at the Catholic University of America? And, isn't the Catholic Church pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants and a plaintiff against Hazleton in federal court?
In 2003, James Zogby testified before Congress and said, "Detaining large numbers of undocumented Arab and Muslim immigrants will not aid our efforts to combat terrorism, and might actually harm them."
Get the drift of the family's politics?
The hits just keep coming from Washington's incompetent cretins who are supposed to protect us. The latest is reported by attorney and blogger Debbie Schlussel.
JULIE Myers, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Cus toms Enforcement agency (ICE), is set to deliver tonight's keynote address in Dearborn, Mich., to a group that honors lax judges - including ones who interfere with enforcement of our immigration laws. What's worse, the head of the group - the Michigan American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - is a suspected former terrorist who repeatedly violated U.S. immigration laws, then used political ties to avoid deportation.
The venue: a place known to local cops and federal agents as "The Hezbollah Social Club." Yes, Dearborn, Mich.'s Bint Jebail Cultural Center is named after the village in south Lebanon that sheltered the terror group's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, during last year's Hezbollah-Israel war. Rockets are shot from Bint Jebail into Israel even today.
The Dearborn center has hosted many pro-Hezbollah rallies featuring fiery anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-American speeches. (At one rally I attended last year, Haj Mohammed Turfe, the center's founding chairman, won raucous applause for saying he looked forward to Armageddon because "only a few thousand Jews will survive.") Federal agents tell me it has also been the site of gatherings of Hezbollah agents and money launderers.
Another reason to end immigration from terror-promoting states, which all happen to be Muslim, except for North Korea.
The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida, but that agents have quietly "disrupted" their activities and even deported a few.
These glimpses into North Jersey's war on terrorism, from a series of interviews with task force leaders, come on the heels of revelations last summer that Bin Laden's terror network had regained strength. But that rebuilding was thought to have taken place overseas.
This is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that FBI counterterror officials have revealed an al-Qaida presence in North Jersey. [...]
Task force investigators have discovered that every major terrorist group in the world, including Hamas and Hezbollah, has at least one North Jersey contact. The lone exception is Afghanistan's ultra-fundamentalist sect, the Taliban.
The task force is currently conducting more than 400 counterterror investigations. These range from probes into Bin Laden's network to neo-Nazis to environmental terrorists.
When you think of illegal alien drivers who kill, you don't generally think of women. But Yesenia Angulo-Gastelum is a vile creature who ran down a man on a bicycle early in the morning and left him to die, because she didn't want to be deported.
She actively covered up her crime and only came to justice because her boyfriend ratted her out to police. Her sentence was less than four years in prison.
Angulo admitted in court on Aug. 20 to leaving the scene of a collision that killed 37-year-old Micheal Boulden, the ASU Foundations former chief of staff.
The man she killed was 37-year-old Michael Boulden shown below, chief of staff with the ASU Foundation, a non-profit which supports Arizona State University. He had a three-year-old daughter, Maya.
He was riding his bicycle east on Pinnacle Peak Road at 6 a.m. on Feb. 18 when Angulo, who was also driving east on her way to work, struck Boulden.
Boulden was later pronounced dead at the scene.
By the time police caught up with her, Angulo had repaired her broken windshield and tried to repair some of the other damage.
The opposition in Mexico is getting frisky. Click on the link to see a mob of Mexican leftists pull down the statue and disrespect it.
Opposition protesters have torn down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox, just hours after it was erected this morning.
Workers put up the commemorative 10-foot statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.
But by midmorning a crowd of about 100 angry protesters began egging the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground.
Many were members of the centrist Revolutionary Institutional Party, which governed Mexico for much of the 20th century until Fox (of the conservative National Action Party) won a presidential election in 2000.
The news is full of the ways that corrupt Chinese businesses are poisoning us with their toxic products which we unknowingly purchase from our local stores.
Now even the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has noticed, although the think tank's concern is more for China's well being than for American children ingesting lead.
A report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace says it costs the Chinese economy $86bn (£ 42bn) a year.
Meanwhile, those globalists who have touted economic success as the key to political reform in China has been proved wrong: Report: China Repression Worsening.
The report says bribery and theft by officials are rising and cost China more than its annual education budget.
And it says the problems will continue because the ruling Communist Party, due to begin its five-yearly congress next week, is unlikely to reform the system.
The [Congressional-Executive Commission on China] veered from its central focus to such recent issues as food and product safety, which also affects foreign consumers of Chinese exports. The report praised Beijing for reforms, but complained of "inadequate and inconsistent implementation, corruption and a lack of regulatory incentives." Worse, the government discouraged consumer organizations and harassed people for reporting problems with consumer products. Likewise, environmental reforms have been hampered by uncooperative local authorities and official suppression of green activists and the free flow of information, the report said.
See the report's General Overview and full study in PDF.
Human rights came in for the toughest criticism. Despite a 2005 pledge to "provide relief" for its political prisoners, Beijing continued to detain and imprison democracy activists as well as those attempting to organize workers in labor unions not approved by the government. Police routinely detain people for days without formal charge or more justification than to avoid protests or "social unrest," it said.
Diversity intensifies in Massachusetts...
When Quincy mayoral and City Council candidates appear for a debate at North Quincy High School today, they'll be bringing something they have never had to have before: Each has been asked to bring a translator who can repeat their words in Cantonese.
Naturally, the politicians are happy to pander by using Chinese rather than English.
To reach them, the campaigns of Mayor William J. Phelan and his challenger, Thomas Koch, have distributed letters and campaign materials in Cantonese, the Chinese dialect spoken by the vast majority of Quincy's nearly 17,000 Asian immigrants. Campaign signs for Phelan hang in several businesses owned by Asians, and Chinese characters on kelly green bumper stickers urge voters to support him.
Keep in mind that Theodore Roosevelt warned against just this sort of insanity.
"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities..."
The sentence received for the deaths of two people -- a mere six years -- is pathetic. It's another weak plea agreement made for the convenience of the District Attorney's office and the courts. The people of the state of California and the family of Bob and Ariel Clark are not getting justice with this hand-slap sentence.
The killer was a drunk-driving illegal alien, inebriated at three times the legal limit.
Hollywood veteran Bob Clark, 67, who directed "A Christmas Story" and "Porky's," and his son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed early April 4 while driving on Pacific Coast Highway.
Hollywood has been notably quiet on this subject, presumably because the millionaires in the film community enjoy the cheap labor costs of their illegal alien household help.
Minutes after Clark left his Pacific Palisades condo to drive his son home to Santa Monica, their southbound 1997 Infiniti sedan was struck head-on by the northbound 2007 GMC Yukon driven by Velazquez-Nava, police said.
Authorities said Velazquez-Nava, a native of Mexico who was in the U.S. illegally, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.24, three times the legal limit. He suffered minor injuries in the crash.
As mentioned here earlier (10/10), the foolish people at the Empire State Building agreed to light the structure green in honor of Islam's holiday of Eid. Have they forgotten?
Investor's Business Daily has it right:
Six years ago, Islamic terrorists screamed "Allah is Greatest!" as they slammed fuel-laden jumbo jets into two other New York skyscrapers. Six years ago, New Yorkers were worried about the Green Menace.
The opinion piece also lists the many ways in which Americans have caved to Muslim demands for various special treatment, from pre-prayer footbaths in public airport restrooms to a mosque for West Point cadets (!).
Now, for the first time, New York's remaining famous skyscraper will be aglow in green the color of Islam to mark the end of Ramadan, a month of intense Islamic renewal. Officials say it'll be an annual event, in the same tradition of the yearly skyscraper lighting for Christmas and Hanukkah.
Six years ago, Islamic terrorists screamed "Allah is Greatest!" as they slammed fuel-laden jumbo jets into two other New York skyscrapers. Six years ago, New Yorkers were worried about the Green Menace.
Now, for the first time, New York's remaining famous skyscraper will be aglow in green the color of Islam to mark the end of Ramadan, a month of intense Islamic renewal. Officials say it'll be an annual event, in the same tradition of the yearly skyscraper lighting for Christmas and Hanukkah.
Meanwhile in Memphis, Muslims celebrated by dancing around with knives.
See also my recent VDARE.com article, "What Would Franklin Roosevelt Do?" which pays attention to Bush entertaining questionable Muslim leaders in the White House.
Funny how the elites and the media have made "protectionist" and variations thereof to be a negative term. Wouldn't protecting America and its economy be a good thing?
Not when there are billions of dollars to be made from globalization, from outsourcing to open borders.
[Cllinton economic advisor Laura] Tyson projected current globalizing trends into the future and onto the map - which today is marked by national borders that may be less relevant in a 24/7 networked world.
See, people who want our nation-state to continue are flatlander retro types -- the latest version of luddites.
"Over the next 50 years, a much more multilateral or cooperative global government" could arise, she speculated, because cross-border economic agreements will make more sense than "flat governments."
A major drawback is that democracy will be sacrificed to create the one-world economy. As Czech President Vaclav Klaus remarked in 2003, "You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state."
See the VDARE.com version of this, One-Worlder Economy Celebrated
The price tag keeps going up on Congress' little foreign aid package to the crack house next door. When I wrote More American Money Headed South two days ago, the number quoted in the Financial Times was a straight one billion dollars. Now we learn of $400 million tacked on to that.
The writer here notes that Mexico's corruption may well be a concern for legislators. But why would we send money to Latin America's wealthiest nation? They can afford to run their own drug war.
But some have criticized the package as money down the drain until Mexico weeds out endemic police corruption.
Oh, and Mexicans want us to give up our Second Amendment rights.
"The U.S government needs to do more in reducing the drug consumption, and it needs to do its part in the equation of stopping the flow of cash and weapons," said [Attorney General Eduardo] Medina Mora in a recent interview. "The U.S. law is too flexible, too permissive when it comes to gun possession, and unfortunately many of those guns, particularly high-power assault weapons, too often end up in the hands of ruthless drug cartels."
To rewrite Bill Clinton's favorite line about the economy, "It's the immigration, stupid." In 1960, there were only an estimated 100,000 Muslims living in the United States. Now they are immigrating here at record high numbers and the American people are put in danger as a result because immigration is now war by other means. Why is Washington welcoming potential enemies?
"We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here" has become a hymn for the American right and an abominable lie to the left. But drowned out by all the noise is the fact that "they" are here already, having landed a long time ago and gotten very busy indeed constructing the American wing of jihad.
See also Hugh Fitzgerald's remarks about this article over at Jihadwatch.
Have you watched the Arabic Channel, also known as TAC, which serves the New York region? Probably not, as most New Yorkers neither understand nor speak Arabic. But if you are among the estimated 1 million viewers legal and illegal, new and old Arabic-speaking immigrants to the tri-state area who tune in daily to Channel 507 on Time Warner Cable, this is what you can get:
• A daily dose of Islamic jurisprudence from an Egyptian sheik, Amr Khaled, who comes direct from Cairo as TAC's prime advocate of "peaceful jihad," on how the duty of every Arab-American is to become first, second, and only a member of the Muslim Ummah.
• A nightly helping of Syria's CNN-style digest of the world, sent fresh from a Damascus studio where the Iraq war is nothing but an American butchery of Arabs, and the Zionist regime in Jerusalem is just biding its time until it gets what it deserves.
Islam's Trojan Horse is also to be seen in the Pentagon. There are within it American generals who have their Muslim aides. There are Saudi generals -- you know, the kind who have never held a rifle in their lives, but are connected to the Al-Saud and thus to the arms buying that is the only way, or the easiest way, the Americans can think of to recycle those petrodollars.
The Trojan Horse can be seen in Congress, where Ellison (of Minnesota) and Meeks (of New York) and Eddie Johnson (of Texas) introduced and got passed a resolution to get the members of Congress to "commend" the world's "1.5 billion" (!) Muslims for their celebration of Ramadan, phrasing the thing so that some Congressmen, if it came to a vote (it is now in committee) would undoubtedly simply sign it, thinking its easier to do so rather than not, and of course what's the harm in praising, they will think, the "celebration of Ramadan"?
Stupid New Yorkers welcome hostile invaders. Such foolish acts of multicultural "tolerance" are seen as weakness and submission by the Osamas of the world. The idea that this appeasement would occur in the city that lost 3,000 persons to Islamic terrorism just six years ago is breathtaking.
New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
Fundie Islam is a political fascist movement with the aim of worldwide conquest, disguised as a religion. Kumbaya appeasement to enemies never works: it merely demonstrates to Osama types that their program of demographic warfare (invasion via immigration) is working.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.
Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.
Is there nothing that Bush won't do to protect his beloved people south of the border?
Cliff Kincaid says that the President puts "Foreign Interests First" which is true up to a point: Bush is a dedicated one-worlder who supports diminished sovereignty in order to aid his pals who run global corporations. But as I illustrated in my 2004 article, The Mexichurian Candidate?, Bush has consistently chosen Mexico's interests over America's.
The immediate point in this case is that two devastated families will not receive justice if Bush gets his way, and the execution of illegal alien Jose Medellin is overturned. The father of Jennifer Ertman was recently interviewed on Fox News. (The other victim pictured is Elizabeth Pena, on the right.)
The father of a 14-year-old Texas girl who was raped, sodomized and then strangled with a belt and shoe laces, wants to know why President Bush supports halting the execution of the Mexican national who confessed to killing his daughter and her friend.
More about the victims here and here.
"Our daughters are just pawns in a game that we have no control over," Randy Ertman, father of Jennifer Ertman, told FOX News. "What can I say to the president of the United States or the Supreme Court that would make any difference?"
In addition, the case has huge implications for the rule of law and American sovereignty. If a foreign tribunal can overturn the decisions of citizen juries, then we are far down the road to unelected global government. Too bad our "conservative" president is supporting this garbage. He took the extreme step of ordering Texas courts to review ALL capital cases of Mexican nationals. But as President, he has nothing to say over what the judicial branch does, as many critics have noted.
The administration's position is that the president's declaration that the ruling should be enforced is reason enough for Texas to grant Medellin a new hearing. "Obviously, we feel the president's determination here is a critical element," U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement said.
On cue, President Bush celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House today.
But Justice Antonin Scalia reacted skeptically to that idea.
"You're telling us we don't need Congress. The president can make it domestic law" on his own, Scalia said.
Texas courts have said the international court ruling has no weight in Texas and that Bush has no power to order its enforcement.
[Bush, Texas at Odds Over Death Case]
For the VDARE.com version, see Bush Crushes Justice for Victim Families.
Congress and the President think it would be a swell idea to give Mexico 1 billion American taxpayer dollars to help out in Calderon's drug war. And it sounds like the beggers are getting pretty choosy.
A handful of Democrats traveled to Mexico at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure an anti-drug package the Bush administration is negotiating is acceptable in Congress.
Reading the tea leaves suggests that Washington fears a more decisive failure of the Mexican state than the slip-sliding of recent years: Homeland Security chief: Crime gangs threaten Mexican government:
The Democrats met with Mexican lawmakers from several parties late Sunday and early Monday to get their views and details on the aid package that is expected to be announced in coming weeks. [...]
Plans of U.S. aid to Mexico triggers wariness among many Mexicans who are concerned the U.S. could use the assistance to interfere with Mexico's sovereignty.
"I have nothing but good things to say about the approach that President (Felipe) Calderon has taken to dealing with organized crime in Mexico, which is a very serious threat to the authority of the government and law enforcement in parts of Mexico," Chertoff said.
Translation: Calderon's attempt to re-establish law and order in Mexico is not doing so well.
Now I agree with Washington that a failed state of 100 million people on our southern border would be a security disaster for America. (See Is Mexico About To Fall Apart? Brenda Walker Says Yes.) It would only be a matter of time until al Qaeda found a friendly cartel willing to do business -- if they haven't already.
But American taxpayers shouldn't be forced to spend more money from our overextended credit card (now 9 trillion in the hole) in order to help a neighbor that has always been an enemy at heart.
And Mexico is a very wealthy country and can easily pay for its own police work. Vicente Fox just bragged on Larry King that it is the seventh largest trading nation on earth.
Former Presidente Vicente Fox has pried himself away from his deluxe digs and is roaming the US bookstore circuit, hawking his new book. Naturally he is full of trash talk about Americans who foiled his open-border scam.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday that the United States is letting racism dictate its policies, especially when it comes to immigration.
Did he forget about his countrymen in La Raza ("The Race" in Spanish), AKA the "tan klan" which is noted for its reconquista goals? In addition, a court of law determined last year that Mexican gangs conspired to drive black Americans out of northeast Los Angeles.
"The xenophobics, the racists, those who feel they are a superior race ... they are deciding the future of this nation," he said, without naming names, in an interview with The Associated Press.
Vicente revealed more than he probably cared to during an interview on Larry King (read the transcript). Not only did he affirm that he and George Bush colluded on the North American Union, including the Amero becoming US currency, he bragged on how wealthy Mexico is:
Mexico's seventh largest trading economy in the world. Mexico trades more products and services than all of Latin America together, including Brazil, Argentina and all of them.
Say, if Mexico is doing so well, then why are millions of its citizens fleeing illegally to the north where they are unwanted and despised?
Watch a YouTube clip of Fox explaining his North American Union agreement with George Bush.
Osama is apparently eyeballing America's open borders. Big surprise.
Al Qaeda is believed to be intensifying efforts to smuggle operatives into the United States to launch possible attacks, likely using safe havens in Pakistan as a spring board, the White House reported Tuesday.
The countdown in on in Arizona, where Mexicans are watching the calendar and the courts in order to decide whether to stay or leave for home. One Mexican talk-show host says that some of his listeners are thinking about self-deporting (though not in those terms).
Carlos Flores Vizcarra, the consul general of Mexico based in Phoenix said he doesn't believe a large exodus of immigrants has yet materialized. There is ample evidence, however, that many are preparing to return to Mexico or move to other states.
"What I am seeing is an increasing number of Mexican nationals coming to the consul to get documents," Flores Vizcarra said. "This is what I would call a process of preparation. They are getting ready to leave, some of them."
Immigrant advocates said many want to see whether two lawsuits aimed at blocking the sanctions law are successful while other want to see how it will be enforced.
If a large scale exodus does happen, it probably won't occur until December, just before the law takes effect Jan. 1, say religious leaders and others.
It's sad to see a western nation respond in such a cowardly manner when basic freedoms are challenged by fascists. But the left has never been particularly strong when things like free expression are under attack. It also doesn't help that the United States has provided free protection for Europe over the last 60 years: Europeans have become dependent children, even as they despise the benevolent father.
The situation here is the refusal of the Dutch government to provide security for Ayaan Hirsi Ali against the Islamic fascists who would murder her in a minute, just as they did to her film collaborator, Theo van Gogh, in 2004.
The case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch-Somali politician and writer, is different [from Salman Rushdie]. Hirsi Ali has been under Dutch police protection since 2002, when her public comments about mistreatment of women in the Dutch Muslim community and references to herself as "secular" led to death threats in Holland.
See Hugh Fitzgerald's remarks over at JihadWatch.org and also Leon de Winter's recent Spiegel article, 'We Are Making Fools of Ourselves in the Eyes of the World'
Though encouraged to remain in the country -- and promised security protection -- by the government then in power, the mood in Holland changed in 2004. That year, a fanatic named Mohammed Bouyeri infamously murdered Theo Van Gogh, the director of a film about the oppression of Muslim women -- and then thrust a knife bearing a note threatening Hirsi Ali, who wrote the film's script, into the victim's chest.
Dutch society became, and remains, bitterly divided in the wake of the Van Gogh murder. Some of Hirsi Ali's compatriots decided it was time to address the issues of women, Islam and integration head on. The Dutch writer Leon de Winter, a defender of Hirsi Ali, talks openly about his country's failure to integrate Muslim immigrants, attributing the problem to the Dutch "guilt complex": "As soon as we let people from the Third World come here to work in our rich country, ... we... somehow saw them as sacred victims."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has become the Salman Rushdie of the new century.
Christopher Hitchens believes the United States should step up to the plate and protect a unique and courageous person.
There are exactly five people that the Dutch government has to protect against death threats from radical Islamists.
This sort of protection is expensive. Society bears the costs because freedom of opinion, a cornerstone of our culture, is on the line. The extremists, for their part, are prepared to risk their own lives to kill those under government protection.
The costs of protection are completely disproportionate to the outcome: the continued existence of our values and norms.
In case you didn't know, the Bush administration has increased the number of refugees admitted to the United States to 80,000 annually, even though the program is filled with fraud.
One unlucky place is Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is receiving a passel of refugees from southeast Asia, including members of the Karen tribe (some of whom are known for elongated necks).
More and more arrive every day - as many as 40 a week now, officials say.
Minnesota in general has been deluged with diversity. St Paul police have had to learn phrases in Somali like: "Booliis baan ahay" which means "I am the police."
Just 3 percent of the so-called "primary arrivals" in Minnesota were Myanmar refugees as recently as last year. But since July, they've jumped to 23 percent of the refugees settling in Minnesota in 2007. They're now second only to Somali arrivals, according to Sara Chute, a refugee consultant with the Minnesota Department of Health.
The foreign-born population of Minnesota in 2004 was only 6.1 percent (less than half the national average), but the state must rank high up on the most tribal scale with its communities of Laotian, Cambodian, Ethiopian and others:
According to reports from local immigrant communities, Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States [estimated at up to 50,000]. The Twin Cities area is host to the largest Hmong community in the world outside of Asia [60,000].
In Britain, the Sons of Allah are arrogantly refusing to abide by western standards of medicine, complete with their usual sexism and hypocrisy.
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity.
A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient.
It's interesting how the argument for open borders has lately been getting all warm and cuddly: we sovereigntists are making hispanics (even legal ones, apparently) feel bad and "disheartened." We who favor strong borders are accused of lowering their self-esteem, as if that were the worst thing imaginable.
For 20 years, Ruben and Martha Carranza saw Irving as a melting pot of cultures.
If citizens feel discrimination and bad vibes, that's unfortunate. But that attitude is the result of open borders and the fact that the majority of hispanics who have entered the US in the last little while are indeed illegal.
Here, they were encouraged to live out their version of the American dream building a respectable life as they worked and raised their children.
"I always felt Irving was a friendly place and was just a wonderful city," Mr. Carranza said.
But in just a few short weeks, that peace and comfort has dramatically dissolved. A firestorm of controversy surrounding the Police Department's use of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program placed Irving in the national spotlight. In the last year, the program has turned over for deportation proceedings more than 1,600 people more than any other city in the nation, officials believe.
The solution is more enforcement. Then Americans won't correctly assume anyone with a Mexican accent is likely to be an illegal alien. (According to the Christian Science Monitor, "Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.")
The Denver school system is diving in to refugee education by creating an entrance school designed to give newcomer children the intensive study of English that they require.
One refugee student at Fallis Elementary had been living in a tent in the African desert, another had almost been kidnapped in war-torn Liberia and many never had seen a light switch - let alone a traditional school.
Actually the intensive, separate approach is probably better for the foreign children and certainly is superior for American kids, whose education is not ruined by being stuck in a classroom dumbed down for non-English speakers.
Teachers at the southeast Denver school say the challenge to educate non-English-speaking children who recently immigrated to the United States has been daunting.
"It's not an easy job," said Zoya Master, who has used pantomime and any other technique she can think of to teach the struggling English learners. "But when you see these kids start talking, you forget how hard it is." [...]
In a 5-mile radius around Place in southeast Denver, more than 700 students in 38 schools speak 81 languages other than English or Spanish, according to DPS.
Many live in federally subsidized housing. Some children continue to wear the traditional clothing of their native lands. And sometimes when the kids play soccer on the playground, their national allegiances surface, Kazin said.
However, there is no pricetag mentioned on the planned school.
This Arizona case may mark the beginning of a new kind of illegal immigrant sob story -- "Enforcement drove me to crime!" Any problem is always America's fault.
The accused robber, Ruben Aragon Parra, must not have any known children or he would be waving them around trying to evoke sympathy. He certainly didn't get an appealing mug shot.
Two illegal immigrants have been indicted on charges of armed robbery, theft and aggravated assault in Maricopa County.
The Arizona law requiring employers to verify a worker's eligibility with a federal database does not take effect until January 1, 2008.
One of them blames his crime on Arizonas new employer sanctions law.
Ruben Aragon Parra and Salvador Antonio Monreal-Camargo are accused of stealing a truck on Sept. 13 and later robbing a man in a park.
The second victim chased the suspects in his own car and pounded on the windshield of the stolen truck with a shovel before they were arrested.
Parra told police he needed money after being laid off as a result of Arizonas new employer sanctions law.
Doesn't time fly? This year President Bush is hosting his seventh celebration of Ramadan. The occasion is the end of the religion's month of fasting, which is noted by a special feast known as Iftar.
The President normally invites some number of A-list Muslims, who are hopefully not under indictment. As Dianna West observed, the White House has done poorly in choosing guests who support America and the Constitution. In fact, she characterizes the event as a "sharia supper."
Take Talal Eid. In 2006, Eid gave the blessing at the White House Ramadan dinner, and this year Bush appointed him to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. As Robert Spencer has reported, Eid is a Wahhabi-trained imam certified by the anti-American Muslim World League who has actually called for the establishment of Sharia courts in the United States to regulate the family affairs of American Muslims.
Incredibly, even after the recent and continuing arrests and trials of Muslim terrorists, the President droned on with his usual ridiculous platitudes about the "religion of peace."
Is a proponent of Sharia in the United States someone the leader of the Western world should be honoring?
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Please be seated. Ramadan Mubarak. Laura and I are pleased to have you here for our seventh Iftaar dinner. Tonight we celebrate traditions of Islamic faith, which brings hope and comfort to more than a billion people. For Muslims around the world, the holy month of Ramadan is a special time of prayer and fasting. It is a time for charity and service to those less fortunate. It's a time to celebrate Islam's learned and vibrant culture, which has enriched civilization for centuries.
Also chalking up recent dhimmitude points are the armed forces (Pentagon observes Muslim holy month) and the legislature (U.S. House Passes Historic Ramadan Resolution).
Ramadan is also a good time for Americans of all faiths to reflect on the values we hold in common -- including love of family, gratitude to the Almighty, devotion to community, and a commitment to religious liberty. The freedom of worship is central to the American character. It's the first protection in the Bill of Rights. It holds together the fabric of American society -- supporting every individual's right to practice his or her beliefs without fear.
Listen online to four panels of pro-borders experts discussing current issues. Speakers include John Fonte, Robert Recgtor, Steve Camarota, Mickey Kaus, Mark Krikorian, Steve Sailer, Peter Brimelow and others. Great stuff.
The latest cultural complaint of hurt feelings is from Filipinos, here and at home, because of a one-liner in a cheeseball television program.
The complainers are yapping racism, but no one has said that Filipinos are stupid, just that their medical schools may not be up to US standards. Isn't that why everyone on the planet wants a medical degree from an American university, because they have the reputation as being better than all the rest?
MANILA - Makers of the hit US television series 'Desperate Housewives' have apologized for a slur against Filipino medical workers that caused uproar here.
A San Fransisco member of the state Senate, Leland Yee (of multicultural plant fame) has taken the Filipino side, saying "I am disheartened to see that these stereotypes continue."
The apology was sent to Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN's bureau in the United States and aired here Thursday by its cable news channel, ANC, following protests by the Manila government. [...]
The apology was made a day after President Gloria Arroyo's office said it considered a portion of the dialogue in an episode aired last weekend as a "racial slur."
The episode showed actress Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Mayer, asking during a medical consultation to check "those diplomas because I want to make sure that they're not from some med school in the Philippines."
That Filipino medical schools as not as good as American ones?! Oh, the horror.
Meanwhile, a story getting less attention is an active terrorist connection with the Phillipines, where al Qaeda has a definite presence: Judge: No bail for San Jose man charged with aiding terror plot.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that San Jose resident Rahmat Abdhir poses a threat to the community where he has spent 17 years with a wife and four children who are all U.S. citizens because he knowingly sent money and military gear to his brother, a high-ranking member of an al-Qaida off-shoot.
La Times sounds shocked to find that California Speaker Fabian Nunez is living high on the hog as a perk from his government job.
As leader of the California Assembly, Speaker Fabian Nunez has traveled the world in luxury, paying with campaign funds for visits to some of the finest hotels and restaurants and for purchases at high-end retailers such as Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Perhaps Fabian is merely expressing his cultural roots from Mexico, where extreme corruption is the norm. (The average Mexican family spends 14 percent of its income annually in bribing officials, for example.)
It is not clear how these activities have related to legislative business, as state law requires, because the Los Angeles Democrat refuses to provide details on tens of thousands of dollars in such expenditures.
Incidentally, Speaker Nunez maintains a high level of attachment toward his cultural homeland, as shown by his 2005 salute of the Mexican flag.
As I wrote in "They Kill Horses, Don't They? (Mexicans, That Is.)", 10 percent of Mexico's stock of horses are slaughtered for food. In America, all horse slaughterhouses have been closed, but business is booming in Mexico.
The photo shows how horses in Juarez are stabbed in the back until the spinal cord is severed, after which they are hoisted up and their throats are slit.
Animal rights activists launched a major campaign Thursday to pressure Congress for legislation that would prohibit the export of horses to Mexico and other countries for slaughter.
See the Humane Society's coverage about the cruelty of Mexican stockyards: Investigation Reveals Inhumane Treatment of Horses Shipped to Mexico for Human Consumption. The organization supports the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S.311/H.R. 503), which would prevent the export of US horses for slaughter.
The campaign, months in the making, includes grisly video of horses crammed into cattle trailers and hauled to a Mexican plant where they are slaughtered with knives.
"This is not how Americans want their horses treated," said Nancy Perry, a vice president with the Humane Society of the United States.
According to a Pew Foundation poll, people around the world want to maintain their national cultures and not be overrun with alien persons.
The findings came from a poll conducted this spring in 46 countries, plus the Palestinian territories, that was overseen by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, a Washington-based research organization. It included countries from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
For more details, including the full report in PDF, see Pew's World Publics Welcome Global Trade -- But Not Immigration:
Only in South Korea and the Palestinian territories did most people express opposition to tighter immigration policies, while in Japan they were evenly split. Support for stronger restrictions was dominant everywhere else. It generally was greatest in Africa and South Asia, including about nine in 10 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Ivory Coast and South Africa.
"In many parts of the world, people see immigration as destabilizing" and a threat to their cultures, said Andrew Kohut, Pew president and director of the study. "And they worry about jobs."
In both affluent countries in the West and in the developing world, people are concerned about immigration. Large majorities in nearly every country surveyed express the view that there should be greater restriction of immigration and tighter control of their country's borders.
Interesting that 71 percent of Mexicans believe that their government should "further restrict and control immigration."
One Illinois school district has surrendered to Islam in the name of diversity and inclusion. Choruses of "Kumbya!" resound all around among those who believe that holding hands with America's enemies will solve the problem of Islamic hostility against western civilization.
The controversy began when a Muslim mother demanded that Ramadan be observed at her children's school. The school board responded by ending all holiday celebrations, except for "fall" and "winter." The community outrage following that decision ended up with the school board
The debate, which has raged in the community for weeks, was sparked by a parent, Elizabeth Zahdan, who asked that stars and moons be displayed in schools in honor of Ramadan. She was denied and told that schools couldn't partake in religious celebrations.
The difference is that Islam is a fascist political philosophy masquerading as a religion, so "tolerance" is not recommended. (As Thomas Mann remarked, "Tolerance becomes a crimes when applied to evil.")
"I want everyone to be equally acknowledged. I never demanded that no one can celebrate. I never said take Christmas away," Zahdan said at the meeting before the board went into a closed session. [...]
Bernard Beck, sociology professor emeritus at Northwestern University, said such problems are common in areas of demographic shifts.
"When you get changes in society or in the population, it creates new situations," he said. "What people are used to and take for granted suddenly comes into question."
He said religious tolerance in America is constantly being renegotiated.
In other dhimmitude (surrender to Islam) news, Islamic footbaths will be installed in New York, Islam Gains a 'Foot'hold at NYU, and the House of Representatives voted yesterday to affirm the "deepest respect" toward Muslims in America and throughout the world, U.S. House Passes Historic Ramadan Resolution -- what are the Representatives smoking?!
And in Canada (where the Islamic invasion is more advanced), a Toronto imam is telling the obedient little people to avoid contact with the dreaded infidel, Mosque says to avoid Western holidays:
A Toronto mosque is telling Muslims not to say "Happy Thanksgiving" or invite friends into their homes for turkey dinner on the holiday weekend.
The Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque says to "avoid participating" in dinners, parties or greetings on Thanksgiving because it is a kuffaar, or non-Muslim, celebration.
In Illinois, one Muslim parent complained about traditional celebrations of Christmas and Halloween, so the school district responded by ending all observances, except for seasonal ones. The problem stems from inappropriate immigration.
There was some heated discussion between parents outside Columbus Manor Elementary School in Oak Lawn on Friday. The thought of no more traditional holiday celebrations has many parents really upset.
For now, children in Ridgeland School District 122 will celebrate fall festival instead of Halloween and winter festival instead of Christmas.
Brenda Elvidge said, "It's not fair to our kids. This is America and that's an American tradition." [...]
The district has a 30 percent Arab-American population, many of whom practice Islam. The superintendent says the reason for the change in tradition comes after one parent wanted Ramadan decorations put up inside Columbus Manor Elementary. They were taken down.
Candidate Rudy Guiliani recently visited Joey Vento's famous Philadelphia cheesesteak eatery. Joey got a lot of attention for putting up a sign in his window reading, "This is America: When ordering, please speak English."
Rudy is trying to act like he cares about immigration enforcement. But like many already ensconced in Washington, he would simply expand legal immigration to make up for the millions kept out by protected borders.
Yet as mayor of New York, Giuliani often spoke positively about illegal immigrants, telling The New York Times in 1994, "If you come here, and you work hard, and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city."
Giuliani denied changing his view on immigration.
"Immigration is wonderful," Giuliani said. "Immigration is the best thing we have going for us. We need new people. We need people who are going to inform us, give us new ideas, but it has to be legal.
"Illegal immigration is a bad thing."
