LTG: Archive September 2009

LimitsToGrowth Archive

September 2009

Germany: Cerab's Story [9/30/09]
An episode from today's Europe...

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Criminal deportees often fly unescorted [9/30/09]
Public safety is often the last consideration when the legal system deals with illegal aliens, and this report alerts us to another example. The majority of criminal aliens are sent home on the immigrant version of Con Air, but about 15 percent are put on commercial airliners with no supervision.
I'm glad I never fly to Mexico City or Tegucigalpa.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials routinely put illegal immigrants unescorted on commercial flights for deportation, including some who are sex offenders or have other criminal records, according to documents and field agent accounts.
The practice has prompted complaints from a key U.S. senator and ICE union leaders, who contend that putting illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes on commercial airlines unescorted poses a severe public safety risk.
Unescorted deportees have caused disruptions on flights and have absconded after unscheduled stops, including two Peruvian deportees who disappeared from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport in July, according to field agent reports collected by union officials. Internal ICE documents show that illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes involving victims as young as 11 have been allowed to fly unescorted.
"This is an absolute risk to public safety,: said Chris Crane, ICE Council 118's vice president for Detention and Removal Operations. "And it's happening every day."
Of the 27,899 illegal immigrants put on commercial airlines last year for deportation at a cost of nearly $44 million, more than 75 percent flew unescorted, according to ICE data.

Unsurprisingly, unfortunate incidents have occurred.

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US income gap widens as poor take hit in recession [9/29/09]
More ugly stats from the outsourced, immigrated and looted economy.

The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.
The wealthiest 10 percent of Americans Ñ those making more than $138,000 each year Ñ earned 11.4 times the roughly $12,000 made by those living near or below the poverty line in 2008, according to newly released census figures. That ratio was an increase from 11.2 in 2007 and the previous high of 11.22 in 2003.
Household income declined across all groups, but at sharper percentage levels for middle-income and poor Americans. Median income fell last year from $52,163 to $50,303, wiping out a decade's worth of gains to hit the lowest level since 1997.
Poverty jumped sharply to 13.2 percent, an 11-year high.

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12% Say U.S. Should Be World's Policeman [9/28/09]
And 74 percent say not The Rasmussen pollsters have located another major schism between the citizens and the elites...

As President Obama draws America back from the "nation-building" era of his predecessor, George W. Bush, just 12% of U.S. voters continue to believe that the United States should be the world's policeman.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 74% of voters disagree and oppose the United States in such a role. "Being the world's policeman" is a phrase often used to suggest America is the nation chiefly responsible for peace and the establishment of democracy in the rest of the world. Fourteen percent (14%) aren't sure.
Republicans are slightly more likely than Democrats and voters not affiliated with either party to think America should be the world's policeman, although overwhelming majorities of all three groups are opposed. Twenty percent (20%) of conservatives say it's an appropriate role for the United States, a view shared by only five percent (5%) of moderates and three percent (3%) of liberals.

After a week of three terror plots being uncovered, certainly many Americans would prefer our armed forces to be more directly protecting us.

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Terrorist plots uncovered in the US since 9/11 [9/28/09]
You can learn a lot from a list, and a compilation of terrorist activities in this country since 9/11 is highly informative.
If you were to ask Americans on the street how many terror plots they thought had been broken up since 9/11, it's doubtful many would guess as many as 21, since the dinosaur media often does not report failed terrorist schemes nationally.

At least 21 plots to launch attacks on American soil have been thwarted. Here's a chronology.
The three terrorism plots uncovered in the past week join a long list of thwarted attacks on US soil - of varying degrees of sophistication - since the terrible events of 9/11. Some plots were being hatched abroad, but most were being conceived by people living in the United States.
The following list encapsulates 21 cases and their outcomes, in chronological order.

Richard Reid, 'shoe bomber' case - December 2001
Reid, a British citizen of Anglo-Jamaican heritage who converted to Islam in prison, hid explosives inside the soles of his shoes before boarding American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. He was apprehended on board by flight attendants and passengers after trying to light the fuse with a match. In 2003, Reid was found guilty on terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison.

In fact, there are certainly more than 21 plots, including the Somali Nuradin Abdi, who tried to blow up a mall in Columbus, and the two Muslims attending college in Florida, Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed, (pictured above) who drove to South Carolina to set off pipe bombs at a Navy base.

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Chinese illegal immigrants crossing the AZ border [9/27/09]
Very interesting doings down on the border.

Through Aug. 31 of this fiscal year, agents working the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, which covers the majority of Arizona's border with Mexico, have arrested 281 illegal immigrants from China, said agent Alex Gomez, a spokesman for the Border Patrol. That is an 836 percent increase from the 30 illegal immigrants from China arrested during the same period in the last fiscal year. In 2007, the Tucson sector recorded 37 arrests of Chinese nationals, and in 2006, the number was 9.
The huge increase in arrests of illegal immigrants from China comes at a time when border arrests in the Tucson sector are down 24 percent this fiscal year compared with last, Gomez said. Still, the number represents just a fraction of the 226, 344 arrests the Border Patrol's Tucson sector has made this year.
The vast majority of illegal immigrants arrested by the Border Patrol are from Mexico. Of the 226, 344 arrests this year, 10,258 were from countries other than Mexico. That number is also down compared with last year, when the Border Patrol arrested 10,608 people from countries other than Mexico.
So why are more illegal immigrants from China crossing the Arizona border rather than trying to enter on freight ships? There are probably several reasons. One may be that in recent years some Central American countries have made it easier for Chinese to get visas to visit their countries in an effort to boost tourism, said Gomez. That has made it easier for people from China to enter Mexico illegally, where they hook up with smugglers willing to sneak them into the U.S., Gomez said.
The Chinese represent a lucrative market for smugglers in Mexico, Gomez said. The Chinese typically pay smugglers between $20,000 and $40,000 to get them across he border, Gomez said.
In comparison, the smuggling fee for Mexicans is typically $1,500 to $1,800. [...]
[Sheriff Joe] Arpaio said the discovery of the illegal immigrants from China shows how the Arizona border remains porous, which could make it vulnerable to terrorists trying to sneak in.

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S.F. Interfaith call to reform immigration laws [9/27/09]
The open-border fanatics are at it again in San Francisco. It's hard to maintain a charitable view of religious people, since most are hostile to the concept of law and borders.

Below, San Franciscans prey for illegal alien amnesty in St Mary's Cathedral.

When Bridget Byrne and her five children came to San Francisco from Ireland illegally in 1985, they were embraced by the city's robust Irish community. Byrne and one of her daughters eventually got their citizenship, and Byrne's three other children secured their legal residency.
On Saturday, Byrne joined interfaith leaders, city officials and dozens of community members to reach out to other immigrants and call for the reform of immigration laws.
At an afternoon prayer service at St. Mary's Cathedral, Byrne and two of her now-grown daughters spoke to the mostly Latino audience of more than 100 people about their struggles and ultimate successes, and how community support played a huge role.
Earlier, San Francisco Bishop William Justice spoke about the "dignity of each human being and each person's right to be justly and humanely treated."
The event, sponsored by the San Francisco Organizing Project, or SFOP - a faith-based coalition that includes 21 congregations and schools - was aimed at pressuring elected leaders for immigration reform on the federal level, but also had a local goal: On Oct. 5, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider a change to local laws that would make it more difficult for officials to hand over undocumented youths accused of crimes to federal immigration authorities.

Meanwhile in Europe, where most of the immigrants are Muslim... Pope urges Europe to remember Christian heritage.

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U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio [9/27/09]
Ugly numbers here...

Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse.
Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department's latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed.
And even though the pace of layoffs is slowing, many companies remain anxious about growth prospects in the months ahead, making them reluctant to add to their payrolls.
"There's too much uncertainty out there," said Thomas A. Kochan, a labor economist at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "There's not going to be an upsurge in job openings for quite a while, not until employers feel confident the economy is really growing."

There is desperation among the long-term unemployed, yet the President prefers to be stuck on healthcare, even when jobs and the economy are the top concern of Americans.

Interestingly, the New York Times gave this story a top page-one placement above the fold.

For solutions, see my latest VDARE article, Why Are 15 Million Americans Unemployed When 8.3 Million Illegals Have Jobs? Immigration Moratorium Now!.

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Greens say immigration bad for environment [9/26/09]
The good news: environmentalists get honest about immigration-fueled overpopulation and its negative effect on natural systems. The bad news: they're in Australia.

The Government said the population boom was great news because it meant the economy would keep growing.
But some green groups say enough is enough.
Australian Conservation Foundation spokesman Charles Berger said the growing population was on a collision course with the environment.
More people - as outlined in the ABS data - meant more greenhouse pollution, poorer river health and struggling infrastructure.
Every extra million people added 25 million tonnes of greenhouse pollution, Mr Berger said.
He called for migration to be cut to "more sustainable levels".
"We cannot continue to add the equivalent of a city larger than Canberra every year to Australia's population and still expect to maintain the health of our environment and our quality of life."

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California immigrants facing deportation find a friend in Dianne Feinstein [9/26/09]
California Senator Feinstein has a career immigration voting grade of C but her recent score is F. Her state is tanking from the onslaught of illegal aliens, but she is doing less for the law-abiding citizens than she once did. Feinstein has worked on the water issue, and should know that California is very overpopulated, resource-wise, but she has become a cornucopian in her dotage.

On the morning of Jan. 28, federal agents knocked on Shirley Tan's door, showed her a deportation letter and put her in handcuffs.
"I was put into a van with two men in yellow jumpsuits and chains and searched like a criminal in a way I have only seen on television and in the movies," said Tan, 44, a housewife and mother from Pacifica.
But Tan is still in the United States today, and she says there's only one reason why: "the great compassion" of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
People seeking to get around U.S. immigration laws have found a good friend in the state's senior senator, who is going to unusual lengths to help her constituents avoid deportation.
Feinstein, a member of the Judiciary Committee, is the Senate's leader in using "private bills" as a way to keep people in the country who otherwise would be forced to leave.
Private bills - narrowly drawn to affect only one person or a few people - are relatively rare. Only 35 are pending in the Senate this year; 14 of them - or 40 percent - bear Feinstein's name. Thirteen of Feinstein's bills date back to previous sessions of Congress but were reintroduced this year.
The bills usually fail because of their narrow appeal, but deportation procedures are oftentimes put on hold when a member of Congress introduces a private bill.
When Feinstein offered a bill on behalf of Tan, her deportation was delayed until 2011.
Feinstein said her private bills are aimed at helping families or individuals who face exceptional circumstances.
"These are people who, if sent back to their home countries, would face enormous hardship," she said. "These individuals have no criminal backgrounds, they're financially secure, they pay their taxes, their children excel in school. They've truly embraced the American dream."
She acknowledged that private relief bills seldom pass, "and many of my colleagues in the Senate have a policy never to introduce them."

As we environmentalists say, "Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty."

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2nd teen held in North Miami-Dade horse killings [9/25/09]
In August, I wrote about the plague of horse killing in south Florida: Diversity in Miami Now Includes Cruel Horse Slaughter. Now two perps have been arrested, both hispanic of course. (Accused killer Santiago Cabrera is shown.) Americans don't eat horse meat; foreigners do (e.g., ten percent of Mexico's horses are slaughtered for food).

Police have arrested a second teen in connection with the recent North Miami-Dade horse killings that are believed to be fueled by a market for equine meat.
Santiago Cabrera, a 19-year-old from Hialeah, was arrested Monday night and charged with armed burglary, animal cruelty, killing a registered breed horse and breaking or injuring a fence. Last week, police arrested Luis Miguel Cordero, 18, on similar charges.
Cabrera was being held without bond Tuesday at the county's pretrial detention center.
Cabrera and Cordero are believed to be among four people who took part in killing a horse at two different ranches. Miami-Dade police are still searching for two other suspects whose names have not been released.
It is unclear if the two teens are linked to other horse killings in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. At least 17 horses have been slaughtered this year in South Florida.

Below is a Fox report from a month or two back, with no mention of the diversity aspect, which was strongly suspected even before the arrests.

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Muslims hold prayer @ capitol [9/25/09]
Muslims are big on marking territory. Today's event of a prey-in near the Capitol reminded me of similar actions in Italy, where Sons of Allah performed the provocative up-butt salute at the magnificent Milan cathedral and the colosseum. They profess to like America, but only as a future Islamic state. They aren't immigrants; they are colonists working for a worldwide caliphate.

Atlas has photos from later in the day. Presumably all these Muslims are praying for the eradication of the Constitution to be replaced with sharia law. The website advertising the event boldly declares, "Our time has come." A reference to America's Islam-friendly President? Maybe, or perhaps they are merely thrilled with the growth of the Muslim population in the west through immigration and high fertility.

Is this the kind of diversity America should encourage via immigration? These people despise America and our traditions of freedom protected by law.

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Costs of California's business regulations: start with $1/2 trillion and keep counting [9/25/09]
This story made my jaw drop as I listened to it reported on the John and Ken Show yesterday: (AUDIO FILE). Governor Schwarzenegger had kept a damning report under wraps that shows the dollar costs of business overregulation in the state but it was recently released because of the urging of Assembly Member Dan Logue.

The total cost of regulation to the State of California is $492.994 billion which is almost five times the State's general fund budget, and almost a third of the State's gross product.
But wait, there's more:

The figure comes from a just released report, originally called for in a 2006 bill and commissioned by Gov. Schwarzenegger's Office of Planning and Research.

See also the opinion piece by Assembly Member Logue, who successfully lobbied for the release of the study: California Businesses Waterboarded By Governmental Overregulation.

The total cost of regulation to the State of California is $492.994 billion, almost five times the state's general fund budget, and almost a third of our gross state product!

Overregulation in California has cost this state almost 4 million jobs, or a tenth of our state's total population.

The 84-page study exists online in PDF: COST OF STATE REGULATIONS ON CALIFORNIA SMALL BUSINESSES STUDY.

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Obama Kids: Sing for Change (Pyongyang Remix) [9/25/09]
Kiddies sing for Dear Leader!

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'Sell crack or die' case before jury [9/25/09]
Another day in the life of San Francisco the sanctuary city, where crack-dealing criminals get kid-glove treatment.

The case of Rigoberto Valle -- crack dealer, human-trafficking victim or both -- is now before a San Francisco jury.
The panel heard closing arguments today in the drug-dealing case against Valle, the 23-year-old Honduran immigrant who was busted in June for selling two rocks of crack cocaine to undercover officers in the Tenderloin.
Valle testified this week that he was forced -- at the point of a gun and knife -- to deal drugs to pay off the $500 that smugglers demanded for his trip from Phoenix to San Francisco.
Valle said he had made an arduous journey from Honduras to the United States, on foot and by bus and boxcar, with the help of smugglers called coyotes. He got to Phoenix, and after he was held for two days and beaten, his family paid the coyotes $1,500.
Valle said a coyote he knew only as Javier promised to get him work in San Francisco. Near the Bay Area, Javier demanded $500 for the trip on top of the $1,500 that Valle's family had already paid, he testified.
Valle, who had no more money, said Javier and two other coyotes had held him for three days in Oakland before they made him come into San Francisco on the fourth day to deal crack to pay his debt.
The defense attorney, public defender Hadi Razzaq, brought in an expert from Oregon who testified that the alleged threats against Valle turned his situation from one of simple illegal immigration to human trafficking.

The defnse attorney is portraying the crack dealer as a victim. Ri-i-i-i-ght.

Update: Convicted.

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Slain officer's widow sues HPD, City of Houston [9/24/09]
Houston PD Sergeant Joslyn Johnson is a brave woman to be taking on City Hall while she is still working for the Police Department. Her husband Officer Rodney Johnson (pictured) was killed in 2006 by a previously arrested illegal alien. The killer, Juan Quintero, had been deported in 1999 for indecency with a child, but returned to Houston, perhaps because of its kind-to-alien-criminals sanctuary policy.

Joslyn Johnson is suing the City of Houston, the Houston Police Department and Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. Her husband was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant during a traffic stop in 2006. Juan Quintero is serving a life sentence for the murder.
In March of this year, an El Salvadoran national who was in the country illegally shot Officer Rick Salter during a drug raid. Salter spent months recovering. Then in June, a suspected illegal immigrant killed Officer Henry Canales during an undercover sting in southwest Houston.
Joslyn Johnson says these are prime examples of a breakdown in the system that's putting officers' lives at risk, and she hopes her lawsuit will bring changes in the department. [...]
In the lawsuit, which names Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt as the defendant, Joslyn Johnson claims, "The Houston Police Department failed to discover Quintero-Perez's criminal alien status and failed to report him to federal immigration authorities despite detaining him or having him in custody on at least three separate occasions."

The City of Houston still is not serious about the safety of the public and its police force, even after the deaths of two officers and the near-fatal shooting of another, not to mention crimes against citizens like Tina Davila. It has not implemented 287(g), even though a TV station's investigation found around 400 illegal immigrants were charged with crimes in Harris County every month.

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U.S. Taxpayers Pay Millions to Keep Despots Safe at U.N. [9/23/09]
Outrageous expenditures for the gangster clubhouse on the island of Manhattan. Worse is that the U.S. pays 22 percent of the U.N.'s budget so these cretins can insult us.

The cost of keeping the dictators safe? At least $20 million. That's how much New York City forked out during the first two weeks of last year's General Assembly, according to a city official who spoke to FOX News on condition of anonymity.
And $20 million may be just the tip of the iceberg. The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Secret Service, the U.S. Marshal's Service and the New York State Police will also be called in to provide protective details for several of the 138 heads of state expected to attend.

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'Diversity czar' takes heat over remarks [9/23/09]
America is too white, according to some diversity enthusiasts. One Obama czar takes the direct approach.

President Obama's diversity czar at the Federal Communications Commission has spoken publicly of getting white media executives to "step down" in favor of minorities, prescribed policies to make liberal talk radio more successful, and described Hugo Chavez's rise to power in Venezuela "an incredible revolution."
Mark Lloyd's provocative comments - most made during a tenure at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank - are giving fodder to critics who say Mr. Obama has appointed too many "czars" to government positions that don't require congressional approval. They are also worrying to some conservatives who fear the FCC might use its powers to remove their competitive advantage on talk radio and television.

Remember this is the guy with some authority over talk radio.

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U.S. Closes Mexico Border Crossing After Shootout [9/23/09]
Who says that Mexicans don't want to come to the United States any more? They are coming with guns blazing.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. authorities closed the world's busiest land border crossing Tuesday after a shootout between suspected Mexican human traffickers and U.S. agents, U.S. officials said.
"The port is closed and will remain closed for several hours," U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokeswoman Angelica Decima said after the incident at the congested San Ysidro crossing between the Mexican city of Tijuana and San Diego.
The suspected smugglers shot across busy lines of traffic at U.S. agents when they tried to stop three vans packed with about 70 illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States, the officials said.
The agents returned fire, and three people in the vans and a motorist were wounded, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Here's a TV report "Willing Workers" Attempting To CRASH / SHOOT Their Way Into The US

Right on time, the Pew Research Center has polled in Mexico, and found that many Mexes still want to abandon their dirtbag country: Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S.

Facing a variety of national problems -- crime, drugs, corruption, a troubled economy -- Mexicans overwhelmingly are dissatisfied with the direction of their country. With drug-related violence affecting much of Mexico, large majorities describe crime (81%) and illegal drugs (73%) as very big problems, and Mexicans overwhelmingly endorse President Felipe Calder—n's tough stance against drug traffickers. Interestingly, some neighborhoods in the US populated with Mexicans are plagued with drugs and crime; funny how that works. See yesterday's huge bust in Los Angeles of the Avenues gang in which 1200 officers participated.
Continuing with Pew...

The best thing you can find in this survey is that not every single Mexican is planning to "move" here.

You can get the 45-page PDF of the full report: MOST MEXICANS SEE BETTER LIFE IN U.S. - ONE-IN-THREE WOULD MIGRATE.

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Los Angeles: Massive raid in Glassell Park nabs 44 Avenues gang members [9/22/09]
How many heavily armed police does the LAPD send on a big gang take-down these days? How does 1200 sound?
But even with a such huge mobilization, it's just a pruning operation: "The roots of this gang and others like it run so deep that the idea of completely eliminating it is not a realistic goal," said LAPD Deputy Chief Charlie Beck.

Under the cover of darkness this morning, about 1,200 heavily armed officers from the Los Angeles Police Department, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and several other agencies launched a major assault on the Avenues gang, hoping to deal a blow to one of Los Angeles' most notorious criminal groups.
Warrants in hand, teams of officers departed a massive command center in Elysian Park around 3 a.m. and descended on dozens of homes in search of 54 alleged members or associates of the Avenues gang who were wanted on an array of federal charges related to the gang's extensive drug dealing, unsolved murders and other crimes.
Within hours, 44 of the men and women were in custody, according to LAPD Capt. Kevin McClure, who is overseeing the operation. The others remained at large and are being sought. Among the arrested was Tammy Armstrong, a state corrections officer accused of aiding members of the gang currently incarcerated. Several weapons were also confiscated.

The Avenues is a very tough and racist bunch, closely connected to the Mexican Mafia prison gang. They have been practicing violent ethnic cleansing against black Americans in neighborhoods the Mexicans wish to dominate.

Here's a Tube description: Massive police raid against L.A.'s Avenues gang:

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Giving Ramadan a Drumroll in Brooklyn at 4 A.M. [9/22/09]
There are many arrogant immigrants in this country, who think we should rearrange our entire society to accommodate them, but this character is over the top.

A few hours before dawn, when most New Yorkers are fast asleep, a middle-aged man rolls out of bed in Brooklyn, dons a billowy red outfit and matching turban, climbs into his Lincoln Town Car, drives 15 minutes, pulls out a big drum and Ñ there on the sidewalk of a residential neighborhood Ñ starts to play.
The man, Mohammad Boota, is a Ramadan drummer. Every morning during the holy month, which ends either on Saturday or Sunday, depending on geographic location and religious sect, drummers stroll the streets of Muslim communities around the world, waking worshipers so they can eat a meal before the dayÕs fasting begins.
But New York City, renowned for welcoming all manner of cultural traditions, has limits to its hospitality. And so Mr. Boota, a Pakistani immigrant, has spent the past several years learning uncomfortable lessons about noise-complaint hot lines, American profanity and the particular crankiness of non-Muslims rousted from sleep at 3:30 a.m.
"Everywhere they complain," he said. "People go, like, 'What the hell? What you doing, man?Õ They never know it's Ramadan."
Mr. Boota, 53, who immigrated in 1992 and earns his living as a limousine driver, began waking Brooklynites in 2002. At first he moved freely around the borough, picking a neighborhood to work each Ramadan morning.
Not everyone was thrilled, he said. People would throw open their windows and yell at him, or call the police, who, he said, advised him kindly to move along.

Imagine, non-Muslims don't appreciate being awakened at 4 a.m. for Ramadan. Are we diverse enough yet?

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S.F. police try to head off Mission gang war [9/22/09]
San Francisco's Mission District used to be an interesting place. At an earlier time, I went there occasionally to peruse the several good used book stores. Now it's Mexican and violent.

San Francisco police redoubled enforcement efforts in the Mission District today after a pair of shootings on the same street over the weekend left three men dead, including a Norteno gang member who had been repeatedly cited for violating the city's gang injunction.
The fatal shooting of the Norteno member Friday night on 24th Street prompted what police believe was a retaliatory attack Sunday afternoon in a pizza parlor eight blocks away, in which two men were killed. [...]
Homicide Inspector Valerie Matthews said Sanchez had been with a group of men riding around the Mission in a white stretch limousine. Two of the men were celebrating the completion of GED program.
"They were yelling at everybody, drinking," Matthews said. "They were acting like they had never been in a limousine before."

The image of Nortenos gangsters cruising around in a stretch limo celebrating their GED acquisition indicates all too much about America's future.

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U.S. Census Shows Decline in Foreign-Born Residents [9/21/09]
Yowzah! Too bad the country has to be in such crummy shape for greedy foreigners to leave or stay home, but it's a good thing nevertheless. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Good-bye, good luck and don't come back.

The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dimmed America's image as the land of opportunity.
Fewer jobs in construction lured less immigrants from their home countries, especially those from Mexico, according to the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey. From falling home ownership to families moving in with other to couples putting off marriage, the report illustrated the multiple ways that the recession has upended Americans' lives.
About 38 million foreign-born people lived in the U.S. last year, 100,000 less than the year previous, according to an analysis of Census data by William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. The decline falls within the margin of error, but it still represents a significant turnaround from the recent past. Between 2000 and 2006, the U.S. foreign-born population increased by an average 1 million people a year; in 2007, the number fell to about half.

That fine news deserves some celebratory music.

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Muslims mass-producing children to take over Africa, says Archbishop [9/21/09]
It's got to be tough to be a Christian in Africa, particularly Nigeria, where Archbishop Nicholas Okoh must feel like his back is to the wall.

One of the most powerful figures in the Anglican Church believes that Africa is under attack from Islam and that Muslims are Òmass-producingÓ children to take over communities on the continent.
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, 56, was elected Primate of Nigeria last week and his elevation could exacerbate tensions at a time when Anglicans are working to build bridges with Muslims. Dr Michael Nazir-Ali resigned as Bishop of Rochester earlier this year to work in countries where Islam is the majority religion.
Nigeria is split almost half and half between Christianity and Islam. There are about 17 million practising Anglicans in the country, but they face persecution in the north, while the two faiths vie with local religions for supremacy in the rest of the country.
Archbishop Okoh made his controversial comments about Islam in a sermon in Beckenham, Kent, in July. He said that there was a determined Islamic attack in African countries such as Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.

I don't know why these comments should be deemed "controversial"; Muslims residing in Britain have expressed that intention themselves, as I noted in a blog item last year: Muslims Threaten Demographic Takeover Of Britain In Private Meeting.

A transcript of the Archbishop's sermon is here.

It is at times I have had the privilege of travelling in our continent, Africa, a lot and I see, when you talk about Uganda, you talk about Kenya, you talk about Rwanda, you talk about east, west, everywhere, there is a determined Islamic attack. They spend a lot of money, even in places where they donÕt have congregations, they build mosques, they build hospitals, they build anything, with the hope that they will come, and you know what? They come to Africans and say ÒChristianity is asking you to marry only one wife. We will give you four!Ó ÒWe will give you four - donÕt listen to themÓ If it is just about the money to look after the family, we will support you. So evangelism by mass production. That is the type of evangelism they are doing: mass production, so if you have four wives, four children, sixteen children, very soon you will be a village. The Nigerian beer war has always stuck in my mind. Nigeria is split betwwen Muslims, some of whom want repressive sharia law, and Christians, who don't want to live under the bootheel of fascist Islam. So when regular folks wanted to enjoy the noble brew, they were attacked and killed by rampaging Sons of Allah. A kind of low-level civil war has bubbled up occasionally, as Muslims continue their tradition of advancing Islam by the sword.
Finally, the policy fiasco known as the Diversity Visa is welcoming 6,006 Nigerians who got lucky for 2010 in the lottery which picks 55,000 names out of a hat. The 2000 Census counted 134,940 Nigerian-born persons residing in the US.

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Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare: Uncovering the Full Cost of Means-Tested Welfare or Aid to the Poor [9/20/09]
I noticed that Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation is scheduled to appear on C-span's Washington Journal tomorrow morning (9am, EDT), so I checked the Heritage site to see whether there was a new report. In fact, there is a 53-page study that should make any citizen's blood run cold, replete as it is with scary details of Washington spending on crazed auto-pilot off a cliff.
The title link above goes to the complete PDF file of the report, which has a section called Controlling Future Welfare Costs (beginning on print page 26) and contains a couple important points about immigration. (The executive summary may be read here, but it is general and has no discussion of immigration.)

With projected spending in excess of $10 trillion, decision makers should explore ways to slow the growth of future spending. At a minimum, government should take the following nine steps: [...]

Step #3: Reduce low-skill immigration.
High and disproportionate numbers of both legal and illegal immigrants have low levels of education. For example, one-third of current immigrants lack a high school degree. Around 15 percent ($100 billion per year) of total means-tested welfare spending goes to households headed by immigrants with a high school degree or less. Assuming that this ratio remains similar in the future, lower-skill immigrants will receive around $1.5 trillion in welfare benefits in the next decade. [...]

Step #4: Do not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
An estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States. Except for medical care provided in emergency rooms, these individuals are not eligible for federal welfare benefits. Amnesty proposals, however, would offer permanent residence and citizenship to illegal immigrants, thereby opening the entire welfare system to them. Once an immigrant becomes a citizen, it is unconstitutional to deny him eligibility to receive government benefits that are available to all other citizens.
Given that 50 percent to 60 percent of illegal immigrants lack a high school degree, the long-term cost of providing means-tested welfare to this group would be enormous. Amnesty proposals may delay some of these costs by imposing waiting periods before the amnesty recipient can become eligible for welfare benefits or become a citizen, but welfare use is typically spread over a lifetime, so such delays would not greatly reduce total welfare costs. In addition, upon becoming citizens, these former illegal immigrants would have the right to bring their parents to the U.S. as lawful immigrants. Once here, their parents would likely receive large amounts of welfare aid.
Finally, all amnesty proposals provide illegal immigrants with full access to Social Security and Medicare benefits, which would greatly expand future costs in these two non-welfare programs. Providing amnesty would result in some $2.6 trillion in extra spending in Social Security and Medicare alone.

You can see Rector's earlier Congressional testimony focused on welfare costs: Immigration Hearing 5/10/2007 -- Robert Rector (Heritage)

Update: WATCH Robert Rector on Washington Journal.

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That's a Racist [9/20/09]
Here's an update on that great ditty That's Amore (famously sung by Dean Martin).

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Religious leaders seek healthcare for illegal immigrants [9/20/09]
The Catholics believe that healthcare is a "basic human right" and arrogantly demand that we taxpayers therefore should be required to pay for billions of dollars in services for lawbreaking foreign job thieves.

Calling access to healthcare a moral and spiritual imperative, Los Angeles faith leaders held a religious service and launched a phone bank Friday to urge congressional leaders to include illegal immigrants in any healthcare reform plan.
The question of whether illegal immigrants should have access to a government-sponsored health insurance marketplace has provoked heated debate and criticism of President Obama's proposals from both the left and right. Obama's position that his plans do not include illegal immigrants has been attacked as dishonest by some conservatives and as a betrayal by some liberals.
"If we were politicians, this would be definitely political suicide to come out for healthcareÊreform for those who are undocumented," said Father Roland Lozano, pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, known as La Placita, near Olvera Street. "But we're doing it because we believe ... it's what God wants us to do." [...]
The Roman Catholic Church, the nation's largest religious denomination with 67 million members, considers healthcare a basic human right, a position the church has articulated since 1963, when it was included in a papal encyclical by Pope John XXIII. As a result, the church believes that illegal immigrants should be included in any healthcare reform plan, according to Kathy Saile, director of domestic social development with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"If healthcare is a basic right, you canÕt start cutting people out," she said.

So generous with other people's money, these religious posers are.

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White House Transcript: Obama Remarks to the Congressionalal Hispanic Caucus Institute's 32nd Annual Award Gala on September 16 [9/19/09]
This is the speech in which Obama clarified his big picture of healthcare/amnesty, namely that when the millions of illegal aliens get to steal citizenship, they will receive freebie Obamacare on the backs of the American taxpayers.

Now, we face enormous challenges as a nation.Ê Many of those challenges are felt far more acutely by Latinos.Ê But our ability to solve any of the problems we face -- from health care to education, from economic recovery to immigration reform -- depends on our willingness to recognize that our destiny is shared.Ê We've seen this starkly throughout this economic crisis, as fortunes linked the small business owner on Main Street and the bond trader on Wall Street, the young family looking to refinance a mortgage to the large bank whose profits depend on their staying out of foreclosure.Ê But this has always been true, in good times and bad.Ê Our success has long depended on our willingness to see our challenges as ones we have to face together; our willingness to live up to a simple ideal:Ê Todos somos Americanos.Ê We are all Americans.Ê (Applause.) [...]
Now, as you know, there's been a little controversy about who exactly will be covered under reform.Ê I want to be clear:Ê If someone is here illegally, they won't be covered under this plan.Ê That's a commitment I've made.Ê But I also want to make this clear:Ê Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken.Ê (Applause.)Ê That's why I strongly support making sure folks who are here legally have access to affordable, quality health insurance under this plan, just like everybody else.Ê (Applause.)Ê And we certainly should not let this debate on health care -- one so essential to Hispanic Americans and all Americans -- get sidetracked by those looking to exploit divisions and kill reform at any cost.Ê That's what they always try to do.
If anything, this debate underscores the necessity of passing comprehensive immigration reform and resolving the issue of 12 million undocumented people living and working in this country once and for all.Ê That's what I've said from the start.Ê That's what I say tonight.Ê (Applause.)
I've asked Secretary Janet Napolitano to lead the conversation with stakeholders both on and off Capitol Hill.Ê And I know that she's met with many of you.Ê This is a tough issue -- we all know that -- which is why it is so important that we develop the strategy and the policy that's going to get us over the finish line.Ê My commitment is real and so is my desire to get this done.Ê In fact, the changes we've made administratively are already making a difference.Ê The American people did not send us to Washington to ignore problems just because they're tough.Ê They sent us here to solve them.Ê And that's what we can and must do on immigration reform.Ê (Applause.)
On all -- on all these issues you understand what's at stake because you see it, you experience it in your communities every single day.Ê Whether it's health insurance reform or immigration reform, fixing our schools or reviving our economy, it is essential that we put aside the petty and the partisan, that we don't fall prey to arguments that would divide us, that would suggest that progress in America is a zero-sum game.Ê We know the opposite is the truth.Ê We know that here, in America, we can only prosper as one nation, as one people.Ê We know that here in America we rise or fall together.Ê Todos somos Americanos.Ê (Applause.)

Here's a clip of the juiciest payback talk:

Here's a Lou Dobbs report on the subject.

We have record unemployment, yet the Democrat President plans to amnesty millions of job-thieving illegal aliens: Napolitano: Groundwork being laid for immigration bill.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the presidentÕs stated commitment to immigration reform during a speech at New Mexico State University on Wednesday. Although she could not say when such a proposal will come to the forefront, Napolitano said the groundwork is already being laid behind the scenes for an immigration reform bill.

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Countless marijuana plantations went up in smoke with wildfire [9/19/09]
Why isn't there more policing of America's national forests and parks? Those protected lands shouldn't be freebie acreage for Mexican organized crime.

The wildfire that has ravaged a national forest near Los Angeles has burned one plant species that authorities were happy to see go: marijuana, lots of it.
The fire destroyed an untold number of marijuana plantations in the Angeles National Forest, a growing hub for pot-growing operations in California.
Cultivation of marijuana, often by Mexican drug cartels, is rife in California's national forests, and the steep, scrub-covered canyons only a short drive from Los Angeles are no exception. Even before the blaze, authorities had removed record amounts of pot with an estimated street value of more than $2 billion.
In the days the fire was burning most ferociously, several apparent pot plantation laborers were spotted spilling from the forest and walking down highways away from the flames, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Phil Abner.
And it appears they are already starting to return to the forest. [...] Aside from the obvious dangers associated with having armed drug growers roaming the countryside, authorities are also concerned about marijuana plantations' environmental impact.
Barrels of pesticides and herbicides can spill into the groundwater system, especially after a wildfire, and growers leave trash, gasoline and other camping equipment lying around while they spend weeks tending their crop, said Lt. Joe Nunez of the sheriff's narcotics bureau.
They've also been blamed for starting fires.
Marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in Santa Barbara County last month, investigators said. That blaze was sparked by a cooking device left by suspected drug traffickers at an encampment.

See also my recent article, Welcome To Harvest Season -- Mexifornia Style!.

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Man accused of beheading wife to use psychiatric defense [9/19/09]
This being America, the lowlife Muslim immigrant who beheaded his wife after she instituted divorce proceedings will be claiming insanity to weasel his way out.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.
Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is scheduled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan's attorney, who made his plans known during a pretrial conference Friday.
"Extreme emotional disturbance is not an insanity defense," attorney James Harrington said afterward. "It's related to the state of mind of the person at the time."
Muzzammil Hassan had been served with divorce papers a week before his wife's body was found stabbed and decapitated at the offices of Bridges TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, where the couple also lived. Hassan was arrested after walking into the Orchard Park police station Feb. 12 and telling officers his wife was dead.

The sad irony is that Aasiya Hassan urged her husband to start an Islamic television station "to portray Muslims in a more positive light." See Pakistani Immigrant Reverts to Tradition for details.
Robert Spencer analyzed the crime and concluded that the Muslim wearing a suit was not so moderate after all: Muzzammil regarded his wife as property and when she acted like an independent person, he had to kill her: Beheading in Buffalo.

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Colo. Man in Suspected NYC Subway Plot Admits Ties to Al Qaeda [9/18/09]
The "Colorado man" is actually a Pakistani immigrant who plotted to blow up transportation links in New York City, according to authorities.

The man under FBI investigation for alleged ties to a New York subway terror plot has admitted he has ties to Al Qaeda and is in negotiations to plead guilty to a terror charge, FOX News confirmed Friday.
Najibullah Zazi reportedly told officials that he had received explosives training and his possible guilty plea would be part of a deal to cooperate with the government. [...]
Zazi, who authorities have said trained at a Pakistani terror camp, reportedly had bomb-making diagrams on a computer that he carried with him on a visit to New York. Zazi's attorney had denied these allegations.
The laptop was in Zazi's car as Zazi drove from Colorado to New York City, arriving the day before the 8th anniversay of the attacks of Sept. 11.

Naturally, the local Muslim fellows are shocked, shocked: Colorado Muslims shocked by FBI terror probe

Right, bub, that's because Christians don't go around committing murder in the name of their religion, unlike the Sons of Allah.

The Tube below is a couple days old and is full of denials but gives an idea of the investigation.

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California: State jobless rate jumps to 12.2 percent [9/18/09]
With such dismal unemployment rates, wouldn't it make sense to Washington to declare on time-out on legal immigration, which adds around 125,000 new immigrants with work visas every month? The well being of American workers obviously doesn't count for much in the White House or Congress these days.

California's unemployment rate jumped to 12.2 percent in August, up from 11.9 percent in July, as nearly 2.25 million state residents looked for work in vain last month.
But a report issued Friday by the state Employment Development Department also showed fewer payroll job losses and a drop in new claims for unemployment, signs that the statewide recession is easing though the California economy is not yet growing strongly enough to create jobs.
EDD said 12,300 payroll jobs were lost in August compared to 35,800 in July. Nearly 70,000 Californians filed new unemployment insurance claims last month, but that was fewer than the 80,048 who applied in July.
"The recession is ending," said Stephen Levy, with the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "But these are still scary unemployment numbers." [...]
The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.7 percent. California has suffered more deeply throughout this recession because it had one of the biggest housing bubbles in the nation.
In the Bay Area, the metropolitan region made up of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties had a jobless rate of 9.5 percent in August.
Alameda and Contra Costa counties had a combined unemployment rate of 11.5 percent last month.

Meanwhile, the current issue of Time magazine has unemployment as its cover story: Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay?.

America now faces the direst employment landscape since the Depression. It's troubling not simply for its sheer scale but also because the labor market, shaped by globalization and technology and financial meltdown, may be fundamentally different from anything we've seen before. And if the result is that we're stuck with persistent 9%-to-11% unemployment for a while - a range whose mathematical congruence with that other 9/11 is impossible to miss - we may be looking at a problem that will define the first term of Barack Obama's presidency the way the original 9/11 defined George W. Bush's. No mention that Washington is adding 1.5 mllion immigrants to an already overpopulated workforce.

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S.F. crack case highlights immigration dilemma [9/17/09]
San Francisco DA Kamala Harris is looking less plausible all the time in her candidacy for California Attorney General.

A Honduran immigrant accused of selling crack in the Tenderloin went on trial Thursday in San Francisco, with his attorney telling the jury that human traffickers had forced his client to sell drugs under threat of his life.
The case of Rigoberto Valle, 23, puts District Attorney Kamala Harris in a potentially awkward position. On the one hand, she has been vocal about her emphasis on prosecuting human traffickers. On the other, Harris - a candidate for state attorney general - has also been vocal in support of cracking down on drug sales in the Tenderloin.
The prosecution of Valle also raises the volatile issue of illegal immigrants engaged in drug sales. Supporters of the city's sanctuary efforts say many immigrants are the victims of drug cartels and forced to sell once they are brought here.

Unsurprisingly, the weasel defense lawyer tried to portray the would-be job thief as a victim. Attorneys are not very imaginative.

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Obama links healthcare, immigration reform [9/17/09]
Occasionally in Washington, the truth plops out, in this case something we knew all along: when the 20-30 million illegal aliens get amnesty, they will be eligible for Obamacare. They will be rewarded for breaking the law, a bit of politics that 83 percent of Americans rejected in a recent Rasmussen poll.

Healthcare reform is crucial for Hispanic Americans because reforming the U.S. healthcare system is linked to immigration reform, U.S. President Obama said.
"My commitment is real and so is my desire to get this (immigration reform) done," Obama said Wednesday during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 32nd Annual Awards Gala. [...]
Obama told the audience that "probably the proudest moment as president that I've had" was the day Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. Sotomayor, who attended the gala, received a standing ovation.

Obama may be the first African-American President, but he has catered to hispanics and done zero for black citizens as a whole. High unemployment in the latter community could be quickly alleviated by signing into law the SAVE Act, which would help remove the eight million illegal alien workers from US jobs. Which of course would open up employment for citizens of ALL races.

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On IndiaÕs Railways, Women Find New Peace in Commute [9/16/09]
India has faced up to the fact that its males are not going to become gentlemen any time soon.

PALWAL, India - As the morning commuter train rattled down the track, Chinu Sharma, an office worker, enjoyed the absence of men. Some of them pinch and grope women on trains, or shout insults and catcalls, she said. Her friend Vandana Rohile agreed and widened her eyes in mock imitation.
"Sometimes they just stare at you," said Ms. Rohile, 27.
Up and down the jostling train, women repeated the same theme: As millions of women have poured into the Indian work force over the last decade, they have met with different obstacles in a tradition-bound, patriarchal culture, but few are more annoying than the basic task of getting to work.
The problems of taunting and harassment, known as eve teasing, are so persistent that in recent months the government has decided to simply remove men altogether. In a pilot program, eight new commuter trains exclusively for female passengers have been introduced in IndiaÕs four largest cities: New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta. [...]
"It's so nice here," said a teacher, Kiran Khas, who has commuted by train for 17 years. Ms. Khas said the regular trains were thronged with vegetable sellers, pickpockets, beggars and lots of men. ÒHere on this train,Ó she said, as if describing a miracle, Òyou can board anywhere and sit freely.Ó

In Mexico City, women were similarly pleased with buses of their own: Mexican Men Are Fenced OutÉ and Mexican Women Are Thrilled.

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Latino Lawmaker Rips Obama for Making It Harder for Illegals to Buy Private Insurance [9/15/09]
I've been waiting for this shoe to drop, after Joe Wilson's rude-but-true outburst at the President forced the White House and Congress to include citizenship verification in healthcare legislation. No surprise that the Energizer Bunny of illegal immigration Rep Luis Gutierrez is the guy squawking up a storm -- he was the big cheese behind the obnoxious Amnesty Tour earlier this year that was filled with sob stories of families split by law enforcement.

President Obama was blasted by a top Latino ally on Monday for modifying his health-care plan in the face of conservative criticism.
The criticism was leveled in Spanish by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois who was the first Latino member of Congress to endorse Barack Obama for president.
Referring to the Obama administration, Gutierrez said: "Those who should be our friends, our allies, are more and more giving Rep. (Joe) Wilson, R-S.C., exactly what he wants to continue with this prejudice against our community."
Gutierrez, who made his remarks in Washington, D.C., while participating in a panel discussion on immigration reform sponsored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, was incensed by the Obama administration's announcement over the weekend that it was going to bar undocumented workers from participating in the health insurance exchange.
The exchange, as envisioned by Obama, is a marketplace where individuals and small businesses will be able to shop for insurance at competitive prices. As one big group, those in the exchange will have greater leverage to bargain with the insurance companies.
Without access to either the exchange, or employer-provided group coverage, experts think it will be very difficult for anyone to afford insurance. This, in turn, could lead the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to rely more heavily than ever on expensive emergency room care whose costs are then shifted to the government as well as to individuals who have private insurance.

Of course, anything can happen in the Democrat-run conference committee behind closed doors if Obamacare gets to that point.

UPDATE Lou Dobbs report Rep. Gutierrez Is Upset With The President.

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Victims' kin can take San Francisco to court [9/15/09]
Danielle Bologna will get her day in court to hold the city of San Francisco accountable for not deporting the previously arrested illegal alien gangbanger who murdered her husband and two sons. Good.

A federal judge says the family of a man and his two sons who were murdered by an illegal immigrant can take San Francisco to state court.
Tony Bologna and his sons, 20-year-old Michael and 16-year-old Matthew, were shot to death in June 2008. Edwin Ramos, a 22-year-old illegal immigrant, is charged with murdering them.
Ramos, allegedly a gang member, was arrested twice as a minor. Instead of being turned over to immigration authorities, he was sent to shelters.
The federal judge rejected the Bologna family's claim that the city's actions violated the shooting victims' constitutional right to due process.
But she ruled Friday that Bologna's widow and daughter can go to state court with a suit alleging the city is to blame for their deaths for failing to hand Ramos over to immigration authorities.

In August, City Supervisor David Campos (who came to America as an illegal alien) proposed legislation that would reinstitute San Francisco's terrible sanctuary policy of actively protecting lawbreakers from federal authorities. So the radical elements in San Francisco haven't changed a bit, even though the public wants public safety.

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Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers [9/14/09]
Here's a rare instance of honest reporting on the crucial issue of jobs: yes, Americans will do unpleasant work when they can make enough money to support themselves and their families.

When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants.
But the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
That was the most extreme example of what has become an increasingly common result of the raids: "They were very beneficial to American workers," according to Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain.
"Whenever there's an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do those jobs that Americans will supposedly not do," said Swain, who teaches law and political science.

Here's the CIS report, Jobs Americans WonÕt Do? A Detailed Look at Immigrant Employment by Occupation.

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US astronaut says legalize undocumented Mexicans [9/14/09]
Talk about ingratitude.

Spaceman Jose Hernandez said Monday the United States needs to legalize its undocumented immigrants - a rare, public stand for a U.S. astronaut on a political, hot-button issue.
Mexicans have hung on every word of NASA's first astronaut to tweet in Spanish - as Astro_Jose - since the son of migrants embarked on his two week, 5.7-million-mile mission to the international space station that ended Friday.
And they're still listening to him now that he is back on Earth.
During a telephone interview with Mexico's Televisa network, Hernandez pushed for U.S. immigration reform - a key issue for Mexico that has been stalled in Washington amid fierce debate.
"The American economy needs them," said Hernandez, 47, a California native who toiled in the cucumber, sugar beet and tomato fields alongside his Mexican-born parents. "I believe it's only fair to find a way to legalize them and give them an opportunity to work openly, so they can also retire in a traditional U.S. system." [...]
"What surprised me is when I saw the world as one. There were no borders. You couldn't distinguish between the United States and Mexico," he told Televisa.

Brilliant. He should move back to the land his parents left if borders are meaningless.

Tweeters can contact Hernandez here

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Key salmon spawning rivers all but dry [9/13/09]
California is in the third year of drought, and has 38 million residents using up resources, particularly water. The press has mostly emphasized the decreased water allotment to the farms in the central valley where there is genuine pain and the unemployment rate is nearly twice that of the state as a whole.
But the fact that the California salmon fishery is dying gets a far lower level of attention except in the coastal papers where there is still some connection to ocean-based businesses. (Fisherman's Wharf used to have fishermen, and there is still a vestigial memory.) There has been no commercial salmon fishing in California for two years.

"Large areas of the (Scott) River have gone completely dry, stranding endangered coho salmon as well as chinook and steelhead in shallow, disconnected pools of water," said Greg King, president of the nonprofit Siskiyou Land Conservancy, which has fought to protect the salmon runs in the Klamath River system.
"This could be the year that causes the coho to go extinct if they can't get upstream in the Scott and Shasta."

Salmon once abundant
The Klamath River system, historically the third-largest source of salmon in the lower 48 states behind the Columbia and Sacramento rivers, once supported hundreds of thousands of wriggling chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead trout. Chinook once swam all the way up to Klamath Lake in Oregon, providing crucial sustenance to American Indians, including the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath tribes.
The teeming salmon runs were so abundant that old-timers remember being awakened at night by the sound of thrashing fish. Legend has it the big spawners were so crowded together that they could be harvested with a pitch fork during peak season.
Their numbers began declining in the mid-20th century as a result of dams, agricultural irrigation and logging. By the mid-1980s, only a few thousand fish were left - mostly on the Scott and Shasta.

The ag interests and Mexicans who are squawking that water should be redirected to farms should make their arguments against preserving the salmon fishing industry. There is not enough water for all needs during a drought and unpleasant choices must be made. But most media and government officials aren't honest enough about what it means to have a growing population and limited resources.
It may be wiser to let some fields lie fallow and try to save the salmon. I know the issue is more complicated than that, but fishermen are hurting also.

Below, the coho salmon

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"Street fights erupt as Muslims try to defend North London mosque" [9/12/09]
In Britain, a group called Stop Islamification of Europe (SIOE) decided to observe the 9/11 anniversary by protesting the construction of a mega-mosque in Harrow, a suburb of Londeon.
The young Islamist thugs call themselves "anti-fascists" which is pretty funny considering, but the press goes along with it.

Skirmishes broke out between police and Muslim youths in North London last night as large crowds gathered to defend a mosque that had been targeted by anti-Islam campaigners.
Groups of youths, in ski masks and motorcycle helmets, threw bottles and set off fireworks in front of riot police, who used kettling tactics to contain a crowd of up to 2,000 outside Harrow central mosque. Seven people were arrested for possession of offensive weapons including a hammer, chisel and a bottle of bleach. Another man was arrested Òto prevent a breach of the peaceÓ, police said.
Hundreds of Muslim youths and anti-fascist campaigners gathered to confront a fringe right-wing group calling itself Stop Islamification of Europe (SIOE). The group had threatened to hold a rally at the site, where a new five-storey mosque is under construction, but organisers said that they had called off the march at the request of police.

The video below was one of the less bad I could find in terms of MSM obnoxiousness, and where you can see the howling mob of Muslims. The British press Is unaccountably pro-Musilm, despite having had a rather severe Islamic terror attack on 7/7 where bombs killed dozens in London, and a recent trial just convicted a nest of would-be plane bombers who planned to blow up half a dozen passenger planes, Bojinka style.

Harrow Mosque Muslim Riots

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US Muslims: backlash fear builds each 9/11 [9/11/09]
"Backlash" is a favorite topic of the liberal media to advance its agenda of bashing America and squashing any resistance to multiculturalism through intimidation and propaganda. When a Korean college student mass-murdered dozens at Virginia Tech, reporters quickly searched out Korean immigrants to uncover incidents of violence of angry Americans against Koreans in retaliation. Nada. There were none.
(See my various blogs about "backlash".)
In fact, there are so few "backlash" crimes that the media has been forced to report on the "fear" of backlash, as if that were a valid subject for journalists.
Hey, I have a fear that hostile Muslim immigrants will set off a nuke in my city. Anyone over at the Associated Press interested in my deeply felt feelings? No?

We are now observing the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by jihadist Muslims who killed 3,000 people. Loyal Americans use the occasion to reflect on the loss of life and the stubborn enemy we still face. But in AP offices, busy adherants of diversity cooked up a formulaic, emotional propaganda piece about fearful Muslims cowering in their houses because of the backlash from mean-spirited Americans.

There is the dread of leaving the house that morning. People might stare, or worse, yell insults.

People staring and verbal insults? Oh, the horror!

The Muslims interviewed are highly self-absorbed and not interested in the daily carnage racked up by their fellow religionists of the umma. They would rather play the victim, despite their extreme inappropriateness for that role.
Muslim writer Shaila Abdullah mouths the message that the press promotes: "Muslims are a victim of the 9/11 tragedy as much as anyone else because our religion was hijacked that day." [Austin author attempts to convey essence of Islam, post 9/11]
What a disgusting comment from an immigrant living a safe middle-class life in America. She is typical in that she wants all the benefits of this country and none of the responsibility for the flavor of diversity she espouses. The Koran and other Muslim books have plenty of admonitions to slaughter the infidel, which Muslims acted upon during 9/11. But she wants her religion to be regarded as the "religion of peace" -- which it most certainly is not. The website TheReligionOfPeace.com has kept a detailed list and running count of Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 -- now reaching over 14,000.
Forget the bogus complaints, a 2006 FBI survey of crimes against ethic groups found that Muslims were underrepresented as victims, contrary to the propaganda. An IBD piece summed up the findings in Hyping Hate Crime Vs. Muslims:

Unsurprisingly, there's little MSM reporting about Jews' reasonable fears about Muslim attacks on synagogues, even though there's a lot of that going around. (One exception was the recent NY Post item about a kick-ass Second Amendment rabbi: Go ahead, make my high holiday. But that article focused more on a somewhat colorful character than on the danger posed by hostile Muslims.)
Nope, the dinosaur media are stuck on Muslims as victims and is not open to the fact that quite a few of them despise western civilization and won't be happy until we are either dead or brainwashed into their religiously tinged fascism.

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No death penalty for notorious S.F. killings [9/10/09]
Accused murderer and illegal alien Edwin Ramos won't be facing the death penalty for gunning down three members of the Bologna family.
DA Kamala Harris ran for prosecutor as the anti-death-penalty candidate, so this declaration is not unexpected. She didn't pursue the death penalty for a cop killer, even with a lot of pressure from the SFPD and Senator Feinstein, a former mayor.

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will not seek the death penalty for an alleged gang member accused of murdering a father and two of his sons, a prosecutor said Thursday.
The announcement in San Francisco Superior Court means that Edwin Ramos will at most serve life in prison without parole if convicted of the June 22, 2008, slayings of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. [...]
Tony Bologna's widow, Danielle Bologna, "is outraged," said Marti McKee, a spokeswoman for the family. "She feels that the city of San Francisco has let her and her family down."
Danielle Bologna and other relatives have sued the city, claiming that authorities should have turned over Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, to federal authorities for deportation when he was arrested on gang-related offenses as a juvenile.
"She feels that not only did she lose half her family, she lost her home because she was forced to move so she could protect the rest of her family," McKee said. "With this decision, it will just never end." [...]
In the Ramos case, prosecutors have alleged three special circumstances that could have made him eligible for death if convicted - that the Bologna killings were gang-motivated, that they were committed as a drive-by attack, and that the shooter committed multiple murders.

Danielle Bologna, the widow of Tony, called for the death penalty of the killer at the funeral of her husband and two sons, with no result from District Attorney Harris:

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No new sentence for man in crash [9/10/09]
A drunk-driving illegal alien killed a 17-year-old high school student (Paul Watry, pictured) and got only 15 years in prison: see my remarks at the time of sentencing: Hit-Run Killer Alien Gets a Handslap Sentence.
Interestingly, the prosecutor arranged a 10-year sentence in a plea deal, but Sheboygan County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Van Akkeren added five additional years because of the severity of the crime.
A few days ago, the convicted killer's lawyer attempted to get a new hearing to LOWER the sentence. The reason counsel gave was that the illegal immigration status of Eddie Carbajal-Lile was mentioned at trial and the lawyer compared that to racism.
Fortunately, the motion was refused.

A motion for a new sentence by an illegal immigrant sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a Port Washington teen was denied Tuesday. [...]
Carbajal-Lile's motion charged that six references made by the court to his illegal status equated to discrimination on the basis of his race and nationality, calling those references "irrelevant" to sentencing and "an erroneous abuse of discretion."
"My client's position is those references were significant enough that they formed the basis for the opinion," said defense attorney Brett Reetz of Sturgeon Bay. [...]
Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said all the references to Carbajal-Lile's immigration status, his limited use of English and his status with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency were in response to points the defense brought up, part of the discussion of the length of his sentence or victim statements.
"It may be a matter of semantics, but the purported testimony were statements of victims," DeCecco said. "Victims are allowed to state their concerns, emotions and losses to the court at sentencing."

The article's description is a little fuzzy, but it certainly sounds like the lawyer wanted to censor victim statements, particularly regarding immigration status.
And speaking of the victims, the Watry family surely thought the ordeal of the trial was over after the sentencing. But the actions of defense attorney Brett Reetz raised the possibility of a new hearing and going through the pain of losing Paul all over again.
Once again, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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Illegal Immigrant Gets 8-Year Sentence For Double Fatal York Co. Crash [9/09/09]
I held off on posting this, hoping to find a better photo of the victims, Dan and Maureen McKenzie, who were killed by an unlicensed illegal alien driver; what's showing is a screen snap from a tiny video on the page linked above.
This case was another preventable crime caused by open borders and permissive immigration enforcement. The convicted killer, Maria Garcia Sanchez, had been found guilty of driving without a license three times previously.

A deadly York County accident landed an illegal immigrant in prison for eight years.
Witnesses said 29-year-old Maria Garcia Sanchez never hit the brakes and never swerved when she drove across four lanes of traffic and slammed head-on into a pickup truck last spring. In that truck was a Charlotte couple, 58-year-old Dan McKenzie, and his wife, 64-year-old Maureen.
"It was like murder. I think my sister was murdered. This was no accident," said a sister of Maureen McKenzie on Wednesday in a York County courtroom.
Sanchez was before a judge to plead guilty to two counts of reckless homicide in the deaths, but family members of the victims are outraged that she was driving at all.
Sanchez had been convicted three times for driving without a license and once for driving without insurance. Prosecutors said Sanchez never had a license at all or any training on how to drive a car.
"She was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off," said Deputy Solicitor Willy Thompson. "She said she was driving that day because she didn't have a ride to work, but the investigation showed that wasn't the case. She often drove."
The McKenzies were originally from Hartford, Conn., and moved to Charlotte for a job in 2001. On Wednesday, a dozen family members and a neighbor showed up in court to stand up for them and see justice served. For their daughter, Tracy Pentalow, her parents' deaths are even more unfathomable because the woman responsible shouldn't have been on the road at all.
"It's horrifying that they can get away with it, and keep walking away when something like this happens, until two lives are lost," Pentalow said.
In court, Thompson said Sanchez was a woman who simply didn't care about the law and had a clear history of reckless driving.
Sanchez apologized to the McKenzie family through an interpreter because she speaks no English. However, according to her attorney, she does not believe she acted recklessly.

The killer of two believes she did nothing wrong. When the government allows illegal aliens to commit serial crimes with no punishment (unlicensed driving, in this case), they become intoxicated with the idea that their illegal behavior is actually their right.
Drunk and unlicensed driving are considered minor crimes by the legal system, a notion encouraged by the illegal alien boosters like La Raza that fight to keep even dangerous criminal aliens in this country by working against law enforcement strategies that work, like 287(g).
Finally, eight years imprisonment is not an adequate sentence for causing the death of two people. Illegal aliens who kill, even accidentally, should receive a mandatory life sentence.

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The convenient fantasies of President Obama [9/09/09]
Michael Barone has written some naive things about immigration (e.g. that Mexicans are the new Italians), but this item is agreeable.

There is an element of convenient fantasy as well in Obama's health care statements to date. We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it.
The list goes on. We are going to improve health care for seniors by cutting $500,000,000,000 from Medicare. We aren't going to insure illegal aliens, except that we won't have any verification provisions to see that they can't apply and get benefits.

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Welcome to France! [9/09/09]
This is a music video, so don't be put off by the Dutch language around the edges -- the poster is a concerned citizen of the Netherlands. The pictures are more troublesome homever, as they show the not-uncommon anarchy of Muslim immigrants on French streets.

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Go ahead, make my high holiday [9/09/09]
Rabbi Gary Moscowitz is unusually streetwise for a man of the cloth, no doubt due to his years spent as a NYPD cop. Last May's news that local Muslim terrorists planned to bomb synagogues likely increased his caution.
He takes the threat of jihadist Muslims seriously enough to prepare for an attack with weapons training for members of his Queens congregation and fellow rabbis.

It's high noon for the high holidays.
Fearing jihadists will attack synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of badass rabbis has developed a program to turn your average shul-goer into a lean, mean fighting machine.
The group, which calls itself the International Security Coalition of Clergy, was founded by Rabbi Gary Moscowitz, who boasts a black belt in karate, teaches martial arts and was an NYPD cop for nine years.
He's teaching others basic and advanced fighting moves -- how to take down a terrorist by the neck, how to use a table as cover from gunfire and how to execute a nifty running somersault while drawing a gun -- that he says can be used by Jews if they're attacked by terrorists during prayer.
"Jews are not like Christians," Moscowitz said. "If I turn my cheek, I'm coming around to make a kick."
Moscowitz said he doesn't think Muslims in general are a threat, but "extremist groups are."
"We're just worried about the safety of the houses of worship that are being threatened with rhetoric on regular basis and extremism," the 52-year-old rabbi said.
Moscowitz said few people took him seriously until May, when the FBI busted homegrown Muslim terrorists for allegedly plotting to blow up synagogues in The Bronx.
Since then, he said, his phone has been ringing off the hook and he created a 100-hour course for synagogue self-defense.

The characterization of the would-be terrorists as "home-grown" is only partially true: FBI arrest four in alleged plot to bomb Bronx synagogues, shoot down plane.

The suspects - three U.S.-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant - at least three of whom were said to be jailhouse converts to Islam, were angry about the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan, sources told The News. Even though three-quarters of the jihadists could legitimately be called "home grown" it's still the influx of unfriendly Muslim immigrants who bring this violent ideology to our shores to threaten Jews and Christians.

Below is the YouTube version of the Second Amendment clergyman story, Gun Totin' Rabbi. It would probably dissuade all but genuine suicide bombers -- of which there are likely few in America.

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'No safe place' in Juarez [9/08/09]
Mexico used to be a nice country, but you couldn't pay me to go there now. This BBC piece is a reminder of how industrial-strength crime can shred a society.
A priest describes the living conditions in a city right next door to the United States. The next time some Marxican says borders are meaningless, tell him to go live in Juarez.

There is a great deal of fear because the violence could be triggered anywhere - in restaurants, shopping centres, even in churches. Nowhere is safe. The doctors are fearful when injured people arrive because the drug lords could go into the hospital and start shooting in a non-discriminating manner just to 'finish the job'.
Yesterday a man was killed and crucified outside a church. There was a banner saying: "That is the way all the pigs will end up." The drug lords kill with brutality and viciousness. [...]
People leave their houses and you notice they cross themselves, asking for protection from God. They advise their children not to return home late. They are afraid of killings and kidnappings. They also fear their children might be recruited by the drug lords as they recruit young people at the age of 16 or 17.
Most people don't go out at night. It's like living under an undeclared curfew. [...]
This is an industrial area. The automobile industry here was big a few years ago, but now production is closing and many people are leaving. Local people remain without jobs and are struggling to find jobs, like cleaning cars in the streets, or whatever temporary work they can find.
Many people are looking to go to the US. Whoever finds an opportunity to leave - they just leave. People are leaving and families are torn apart because of the violence.

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Liquid bomb' terror plot that changed air travel for ever: How gang of fanatics planned Britain's 9/11 [9/08/09]
The terror scheme that changed the way everyone on earth travels in airplaines ended with convictions for the Islo-perps.

It was the terror plot which changed the nature of airline travel for ever. Three British-born Islamic fanatics planned to use liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks to blow at least seven flights out of the sky and cause carnage to rival 9/11 in the U.S.
The discovery of the plot in 2006 brought chaos to international airports as sweeping restrictions were imposed overnight on how much liquid can be taken on to a plane.
The plot was directed from Pakistan by the Al Qaeda mastermind behind the July 7 suicide bombings in London.
The UK cell was led by 28-year-old Ahmed Abdulla Ali, from East London, who was inspired by Osama Bin Laden and even considered taking his baby son on his suicide mission.
Details of what was called 'the most serious allegation ever made in a British court' included:

Here's a BBC report:

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Attorney General Milgram warns N.J. law enforcement about role in immigration program [9/07/09]
File this item under How Quickly They Forget, particularly about politician promises of public safety.

MORRISTOWN -- The state's attorney general is warning local law enforcement agencies seeking to deputize officers as immigration agents not to ethnically or racially profile people, but one mayor has fired back with an admonishment of his own. [...]
Under [Attorney General] Milgram's guidelines, state, county and local law enforcement officers must not act as immigration officials when patrolling the streets. Deputized officers may question people's immigration status after they have been arrested for serious violations, she said.
Monmouth County and Morristown, along with the Hudson County Department of Corrections, are among 79 departments nationwide that have been accepted into the program, known as 287(g), which was overhauled to allay fears it would be used to target or harass immigrant groups.

It's been just over two years since four promising Newark college students were shot execution style on a neighborhood playground by a gang of mostly illegal aliens, some with previous arrests for violent crimes. Three of the students died and one survived. Both girls were slashed in the face with a machete.
One of the accused, illegal alien Rodolfo Godinez, had been previously arrested in a bar fight where he critically wounded a man by stabbing him in the back. Did authorities keep this obviously dangerous man behind bars? No, they released him. Peruvian illegal alien Jose Carranza had been arrested for raping a five-year-old girl, but he was let go also.
State and local officials made a big deal about increased crime-fighting measures after the murders, but Newark remains a sanctuary city and now the state AG wants to prevent local police from using 287(g), one of the most effect strategies for getting dangerous foreign criminals off the street and out of the country.
The trials of the six accused are supposed to begin this fall. The heartbroken parents are hoping for some sort of closure.

Below, the three college students who were killed.

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83% Say Proof of Citizenship Should Be Required to Get Government Health Aid [9/07/09]
When Rasmussen pollsters ran this poll in early June, the outcome was 80 percent.

The health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats contains many controversial items that divide the general public. However, one area of consensus among the public is the desire to restrict government health care benefits to U.S. citizens only.
Eighty-three percent (83%) of voters nationwide say that people should be required to prove they are a citizen of the United States before receiving government health care subsidies. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 12% disagree and five percent (5%) are not sure.

The people don't want any sort of healthcare "reform" giving even more benefits to illegal aliens on the backs of taxpayers. For an example, check out the earful that John Spratt received back home in North Carolina: Town hall crowd vents wide-ranging anger at Rep. Spratt.

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Health Care Debate Revives Immigration Battle [9/06/09]
I'm guessing this item is what passes for investigative reporting by the New York Times these days. The writer almost admits that the healthcare bill might allow illegal aliens to get free-to-them medical treatment via Obamacare, but doesn't quite go all the way in examining the facts.
The reader learns that Democrat congressmen have been flustered by pesky voters who continue to believe against Washington assurances of the contrary that illegals are covered.

Democratic lawmakers, growing exasperated, have taken to reading directly from the House and the Senate bills at town-hall-style meetings.
"I donÕt know how it could be more clear," said Representative Bruce Braley, Democrat of Iowa, who has read aloud from a section of the House bill with the title "No Federal Payment for Undocumented Aliens."
Republicans argue that some of the voters' concerns are justified because, they say, the proposals before Congress do not spell out procedures to verify the citizenship of those who would receive health coverage.
After testing their ideas with voters during the recess, Republicans said they would press for verification measures when the health care debate picks up again in Washington.
"The language is there, but without the verification you canÕt frankly believe it is serious," said Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, who added that concerns about illegal immigrants were clearly on the minds of citizens he met in his district. Mr. Smith said Democrats "intentionally left gaping loopholes" in the proposals that illegal immigrants could step through.
Broad explanations, not intricate detail, were what voters in Georgia were looking for in recent meetings with Representative Phil Gingrey, a Republican who was a practicing physician in the state for 26 years. Mr. Gingrey said there had been an influx of illegal immigrants in his district in the last decade.
"A lot of their kids are in the school system," Mr. Gingrey said in a telephone interview. "They get a free public education without any question. My constituents don't want the same thing to happen with regard to health care."
Mr. Gingrey said the prohibitions against illegal immigrants in the bills were "reassuring," but he, too, suggested that eligibility verification remained weak. According to local news reports, Mr. Gingrey drew cheers in one meeting when he said he would work to make sure the health plan did not become a magnet drawing new illegal immigrants to the United States.

Times reporter Julia Preston apparently couldn't bother to mention that two genuine attempts by Congressmen Dean Heller and Nathan Deal to require the normal citizenship verification requirements were defeated in committee by party-line votes. For more details, see my blog item, Democrats Insist on Extravagant Medical Giveaway for Illegals of the World.
Instead, Preston pursues the questionable idea that citizenship requirements are "onerous" to American families and the payoffs of such prerequisites are low.
In dollar terms, free-to-them Obamacare for foreigners could easily be the mother of all illegal alien magnets, far worse than the attraction of jobs, because the program would entice the most desperately ill from around the world. As Robert Rector observed in the August CIS healthcare panel:

I believe that under this legislation, we will begin to draw the seriously ill from all over the world to begin to come here to receive free medical treatment.

One appalling example of America's misplaced generosity is the case of Ana Puente, a twenty-something medical moocher who was brought to California as an illegal alien toddler by her illegal alien mother to get healthcare on the backs of US taxpayers. She has received at least three liver transplants at a cost of around $2 million so far, with no end in sight. And that's just one person.

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'FOX News Reporting: Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading?' [9/06/09]
Tucker Carlson hosted a special focusing on textbooks, with segments showing various issues in particular the inculcating of young people with liberal and other ideologies.

We spoke to the author of "The Language Police," education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children's textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed offensive. [...]
And in Fairfax County Virginia, questions remain about what textbooks are used in the private Islamic Saudi Academy. The ISA teaches about 1000 students each year pre-K - 12. Questions have been raised about its textbooks at least since 2006.
This summer, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, ISA's 1999 valedictorian, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2002 Al Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush.
The ISA is wholly owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and teaches students from textbooks, which according to a report by a Saudi scholar interviewed by FOX News, continues to "propagate an ideology of hate to the unbeliever." FOX News Reporting obtained some of their current 2008-2009 textbooks which were supposed to be purged of inflammatory language. We found proof otherwise.
We tracked down two American college professors who were paid by the ISA to review these textbooks. They signed a letter obtained by FOX News that the ISA's 2008-2009 textbooks "do not contain inflammatory materialÉ" One of them sat down for an interview; the other refused.

One of the best segments was the one concerning textbooks slanted to be pro-Islam and against Judaism and Christianity.

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SF police shoot knife-wielding man [9/05/09]
There was an unfortunate -- and probably preventable -- shooting in San Francisco earlier today of a recent Chinese immigrant who should have been kept out of this country.

A knife-wielding man believed to have a long history of mental illness was shot and killed in his home early this morning by a San Francisco police officer, authorities said.

Why is Washington admitting immigrants with "a long history of mental illness"? Immigration ranks high on the stressor scale, and is not recommended for persons already on the edge psychologically.

recent immigrant

At least there were no innocent bystanders killed in this case, unlike many other instances of immigrants run amok. But the disturbed Chinese man would have been a lot better off living in his own culture rather than being in a foreign place, a situation that surely magnified his problems.
For more on immigration as a stress-multiplier leading to violence, see my article The Binghamton Massacre -- Latest Case Of Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome.

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Unemployment rate jumps to 26-year high [9/04/09]
Forecasts of a "jobless recovery" are looking sadly correct.

Reporting from Washington - The nation's jobless rate unexpectedly jumped last month to a 26-year high of 9.7% from 9.4% in July, the government reported today, as employers shed 216,000 jobs over the month.
The August job cuts were smaller than the decline of 276,000 in July, continuing a trend of moderating payroll losses since January, when employers slashed 741,000 jobs.
Still, the unemployment rate rose higher than most analysts' projections of 9.5% for August. And it provided the latest sign that the labor market remains grim despite recent indications that the broader economy is on the mend.
By the government's count, more than 14.9 million Americans are jobless on this Labor Day weekend. The unemployment rate last month for adult men hit 10.1%, and it edged up to 7.6% for adult women. Jobless rates rose to 15.1% for blacks and 13% for Latinos.

Seeing such wrenching joblessness, a responsible government would institute a moratorium on legal immigration (now on automatic pilot at a rate of 125,000 additional foreign workers with visas every month) and would sign into law the SAVE Act to remove millions of illegal workers from unlawful employment.
Sen. Mark Pryor is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act and issued a press release on July 23.

Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act

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EDITORIAL: Obama panders to Islam (again) [9/04/09]
Did you miss the Ramadan dinner the President hosted at the White House? It was not widely covered in the Obama-swooning media, for some curious reason.
The Washington Times castigated the President properly, I thought...

Muslims are what make America great, if President Obama is to be believed. At a White House interfaith dinner honoring Ramadan on Tuesday, he said that "the contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country." We would be intrigued to see that long list and to learn more about how Muslims have been part of the woof and warp of America.

This remark is straight from the jihad playbook, specifically the argument that Islam was the source of much that is wonderful in western civilization. As if. One item of the propaganda war is the goofy idea that Shakespeare was a Muslim; another that Columbus' navigator was a Muslim, an unfounded fable that has actually been spread by the State Department.

You can read President Barack Hussein Obama's Remarks at Iftar Dinner.

Below, Obama's official Ramadan message.

Say, did I miss Obama's Presbyterian message on the occasion of John Calvin's 500 birthday (July 10, 2009)? Calvinists and Protestants in general were far more important in the shaping of this country than the demanding newcomer pests. (The BBC 4-hour doc The Protestant Revolution is informative.)

In other Islam-in-America news, the sons of allah are planning a massive pray-in on September 25 next to the halls of political power (More info on Creeping Sharia. The activity appears to be a form of marking territory, similar to but a big escalation over the airport "prayers" of the flying imams.
The group's website asserts, "Our time has come" -- a reference to Muslim-friendly Obama? There's no indication. Maybe they are just hopeful that Americans will cower as easily as Europeans.

Here's another image from the same bunch. Is it a sharia handshake symbolizing the overthrow of the Constitution?

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Tulsa: Arrest made in fatal bicycle crash [9/03/09]
Illegal aliens are overrepresented among the people who commit hit and run. Many would rather let an innocent person die by the side of the road than stop to offer assistance and maybe get nabbed by La Migra.
Beverly Duffield, the woman killed as she rode her bike in this preventable tragedy, was an amazingly active 74-year-old clinical psychologist. It is remarkable that she was a well known person among the local cyclists.

Todd Swain, manager of Bicycles of Tulsa, said he had known Duffield about 13 years. He said she frequently rode in the area where she was hit.
"She was an awesome lady, full of life. She was a firecracker," Swain said.
Adam Vanderburg, who owns Lee's Bicycles and the Trek Bicycle Store, said she was a longtime customer.
"Cycling was in her blood," he said. "I think it was kind of her own therapy."
Malcolm McCollam, an attorney and member of the Tulsa Wheelmen bicyclists association, said he often saw Duffield riding and that she usually rode alone.

The accused killer, Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres, was quickly arrested and booked into jail for negligent homicide, leaving the scene, driving with no license and failing to have insurance. He admitted to police that he hit Duffield.

Here's a local news report: Suspected Illegal Alien Runs Down Tulsa Woman

The Tulsa World published an article of remembrance: Cyclist hailed as 'a good person'

Of course, if the government had been doing its job of enforcing the borders and immigration law, Beverly Duffield would not have been struck down by illegal alien Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres because he would not have been here at all.

UPDATE: Suspected Illegal Immigrant Has Criminal History.

Was this dangerous character deported? Apparently not.

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Pot 'Plantations' on the Rise [9/03/09]
'Tis the season! End of summer means Mexican marijuana harvest stories, particularly in America's public lands. This article from the Wall Street Journal has a nice graphic showing the spread of industrial pot operations, which are mostly run by Mexican cartels.

Operators of RV parks and campgrounds near public land have taken to warning vacationers to be cautious in the woods. Stockpiled food or trash of any type might be an indication of a prolonged campout linked to a pot farm, officials said. They advise hikers who spot such signs to retreat and call authorities.
The pot farms are not fly-by-night operations. Growers cut down trees and terrace canyons to create plantations big enough for tens of thousands of plants. They apply pesticides and herbicides -- some not approved for U.S. use. They dam or divert streams and hook together miles of PVC piping to build irrigation systems, some rigged to sophisticated timers.
Each camp is typically tended around the clock by guards who may be equipped with assault rifles, night-vision goggles, walkie-talkies and radios to monitor law-enforcement chatter.
"It seems like every year, they step it up a notch," said Michelle Gregory, a special agent with the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.
So far this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, federal agents have raided 487 pot farms on forest-service land, where they destroyed 2.6 million marijuana plants, seized 138 firearms and made 369 arrests on felony drug charges. [...]
Pot growers may also find this a good time to expand because cash-strapped states and counties have cut patrols. California's marijuana task force, which includes local, state and federal agents, has reduced aerial surveillance and eliminated overnight stakeouts and overtime missions, according to Ms. Gregory.

For more, see my article from last year, Mexican Gangsters Converting America's National Parks Into Gigantic Marijuana Patches.

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Fear and Loathing in Waldorf, Md.Ê [9/03/09]
Here's a first-person account of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's town hall meeting about Obamacare. Nice that the crowd understood the scam the Ds are running to give healthcare to illegal aliens:

Easily the most animating issue of the night was illegal immigration. Hoyer repeatedly assured that the bill would not pay for health insurance for illegal immigrants. Again, the crowd didn't buy it, screaming at Hoyer that the bill did not require verification of citizenship to participate in the public plan. Hoyer responded that his Christian faith meant that health care should be provided to illegal immigrants in emergencies. Aside from the fact that this wasn't on point - emergency medical care is a small part of the equation - one imagines what the reaction among Democrats would be if religion were cited as a reason to pass a highly partisan piece of legislation.

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Taxi drivers revolt at Paris airport over 'brutal' arrest [9/02/09]
Paris had a little diversity riot at de Gaulle Airport that shut a terminal down for several hours. Like some other instances of unrest in immigration-foolish France, the behavior followed an allegedly rough arrest of a member of a certain ethnic group, vaguely referenced in the article.

Until a decade ago, taxi driving in Paris was an almost exclusively male, middle-aged and white profession. But many women and men from immigrant backgrounds have bought or rented taxi badges and drivers say that tensions with the 70-strong police taxi unit sometimes have racial undertones. The police deny the claim and say they have been trying to persuade the drivers to return to Paris and comb the streets for fares rather than allow their cars to pile up in excessive numbers of up to 300 at the airport.

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L.A. County jails to begin checking immigration status of inmates [9/01/09]
It is unforgivably late for deputies to just now be checking prisoners for citizenship, particularly in Los Angeles where there is so much illegal alien crime. One preventable death that comes to mind was the murder of young Jamiel Shaw II by an illegal alien gangbanger one day after the criminal had been released from jail.

All inmates booked into jails throughout Los Angeles County will have their immigration status checked beginning today, but federal officials said they don't have the resources to deport all illegal immigrants with criminal records who are identified.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will prioritize illegal immigrants with past convictions for violent crimes, including murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery. Though immigration officials plan to assess every case individually, they said some with less serious criminal records may be released back into the community.

"Less serious criminal records" -- what does that mean? Serial drunk drivers? Murder is certainly more serious than theft, but any alien with a criminal record should be punished and then deported -- not released onto American streets.
What's not serious at all is the intent of law enforcement to protect the public.

An even worse example of the release trend is the idea that government could save money by deporting illegal alien prisoners to their home countries now rather than after they have served their sentences. The former New York City Mayor Ed Koch is one who thinks the authorities should release illegal alien prisoners to ICE for deportation ASAP (Ed Koch Commentary: Illegal Aliens Now in Federal and State Prisons and Municipal Jails Should Be Deported To Their Countries of Origin Immediately).
A far more sensible opinion piece on the topic of foreign criminals was written by Congressman Elton Gallegly (R-CA): We shouldn't give illegal immigrants a get-out-of-jail-free card.

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Police attacked by Bury Park mob [9/01/09]
Britain continues to disintegrate rapidly into a pile of mush. In this case, the police of one town were upset when their fawning behavior toward hostile Muslims was not appreciated.

A mob of 200 youngsters from Luton's Asian community defied a ban on mass public gatherings on Sunday to attack policemen drafted in to protect them from far-right protestors.

Presumaby, "far-right protestors" are patriotic English people defending their country against their government, but I am making an educated guess.

What a raving fool. He sounds like an advanced graduate of multicultural sensitivity training. At least in America, most of the police are patriotic and not overcome by diversity brain-rot.

The riot behavior exhibited in Bury Park, Luton - Muslim Riot 30-08-09 is yet another illustration of why Islamic immigration is a big, big mistake. The video is some footage of the unpleasant Muslim thugs swearing at the police and yelling Allah-akbar. You can't have a good Muslim riot without lots of Allah-akbar. England used to be a nice country until they stupidly welcomed the enemy of western civilization, even giving the Muslims welfare so they don't have to work. Incredible.

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