I. Border Enforcement and Smuggling Costs on the Southwest U.S. Border

Border enforcement is intended to prevent and deter the illegal movement of goods and people across a country’s border. The intensification of border enforcement activities creates impediments to illegal entry that increase the costs incurred by migrants when crossing the border. Increased costs may include additional time investment, physical hardship, and higher fees charged by smugglers who assist migrants across the border. The impact of enforcement on illegal immigration depends on how enforcement affects migration costs and how migration costs affect the decision to migrate. Our goal in this paper is to estimate the impact that enforcement has on the price smugglers charge to bring illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border.

A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state of Arizona against President Barack Obama in a case with election-year political ramifications for him and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

In its second-biggest case this term, the court - fresh from hearing the Obama healthcare overhaul case - will consider on Wednesday whether a tough Arizona immigration crackdown strayed too far into the federal government's powers.

A pro-Arizona decision would be a legal and political setback for Obama, who has criticized the state's law and vowed to push for immigration legislation if re-elected on November 6.

A decision against Arizona would deal a blow to Romney, who has said the government should drop its challenge to the law.

Americans generally support immigration laws like Arizona's and are ambivalent about the federal and state roles at the core of the case, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found.

About 70 percent of those surveyed favored state laws that let police check a person's immigration status and make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to work in the United States; about 30 percent opposed such measures.

On the question of who has responsibility for immigration laws, the core of the Supreme Court case, 59 percent said immigration was a national issue and laws relating to it should only be made by the federal government; 55 percent said individual states had the right to make such laws, too.

The oral arguments on this essential point set the stage for a rematch of the attorneys in last month's healthcare battle.

Paul Clement, a solicitor general during Republican George W. Bush's presidency, will represent Arizona.

Donald Verrilli, a former White House lawyer and solicitor general under Obama, will represent the federal government after what some deemed a lackluster performance in March.

"One million Mexicans said they returned from the US between 2005 and 2010, according to a new dem-ographic study of Mexican census data. . . . One prominent sociologist in the US has counted 'net zero' migration for the first time since the 1960s."

Of all the issues Congress confronts, the most solvable and the one that would do the most to help our nation grow and prosper — with the possible exception of energy — is immigration reform.

Judd Gregg

The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez's stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her three-month-old daughter from her arms....

By: LAUREN GILGER, CHARLES GORRA, and BRIAN ROSS - ABC

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The explosive issue of immigration is poised to creep back into the Republican primary battle as the candidates prepare to barnstorm South Carolina, one of a handful of states being sued by the federal government for their illegal immigration crackdowns

Published : Friday, 06 Jan 2012, 8:19 AM MST

PHOENIX - Parents at Arcadia High School get a letter from the school, and now the school is working with Phoenix police to investigate something that was posted on YouTube and Facebook

WARNING: Video Inappropriate: Graphic Content

“This law is about the new law that just passed in Arizona legislature for you f****** illegals to go back to your homeland. Yeah, so grab your burritos and get the f*** out of our country, because you make our life a living hell.

"Go back to f****** Mexico. Get your f****** green card like everyone else and then come back. You f****** morons. It’s not that hard. Let me get a green card. Let me hop the fence, you retard. How about this -- teachers not holding the rest of the class back because they're teaching these a******* how to speak English. It’s obvious that you are not an American citizen. Otherwise, you would have learned English first.”

By Kevin Leininger

of The News-Sentinel

What's the difference – if any – between the tea party and “Occupy” movements in Fort Wayne and other cities?

If this month's poll by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics is any indication, the distinction is at least in part determined by age and politics: Vagabonds in parks are more appealing to kids and Democrats than to Republicans and adults.

Who could have guessed?

A far more meaningful insight appeared on the front page of The News-Sentinel's Thanksgiving Day edition, which reported that the nation's various Occupy protests have cost taxpayers at least $13 million since the movement began two months ago.

The reason for that is obvious to anyone willing to take an honest look at both movements – one of which seeks political change through peaceful legal means while the other seeks economic redistribution through social disruption, mayhem and, if necessary, lawbreaking.....More in article.

Another quote from article,,

"It is ironic, and perverse, that many of the same people who defend the occupation also support illegal immigration"

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have promised to complete a nearly 1,950-mile fence. Michele Bachmann wants a double fence. Ron Paul pledges to secure the nation's southern border by any means necessary, and Rick Perry says he can secure it without a fence - and do so within a year of taking office as president

by Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer

NOGALES, AZ (KPHO) - CBS 5 News is kicking-off a 5 Investigates special: "24 Hours On The Border," with reports from Tammy Leitner and Morgan Loew.  Here's the first of their reports:

The new border fence cost roughly $16 million per mile, but law enforcement officials say it is worth the price as an improvement over the prior fence. Still, smugglers are already finding ways around and sometimes through the new fence

By:  Morgan Loew and Tammy Leitner

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's camp kicked off another day with yet another attack against Rick Perry, whacking him this time for "promoting liberal policies that encourage illegal immigration."

By:  Seth McLaughlin

Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney had an "unintentionally revealing moment" regarding illegal immigration during Tuesday's night's GOP debate, David Axelrod, President Obama's chief re-election campaign strategist, said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show."

(AP)  SACRAMENTO, California - Illegal immigrants can now apply for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities in California after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he has signed the second half of a legislative package targeting such students

(The Wall Street Journal) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano fired back at critics of the Obama administration's immigration policy in a combative speech Wednesday at American University

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been a battletested advocate for immigration enforcement for more than a decade in one of America’s most conservative states. Now, in what would have seemed implausible just a few years ago, the rising Republican star is in a fight  to...

CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit.........

An illegal immigrant from Guatemala who directed a "drop house" where other immigrants were abused with cattle prods and other electrical devices was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison, authorities said.

"In Arizona, where immigration put the state in the national spotlight, local businesses felt that attention has been an attack on Arizona’s image, Bolton said".

“We needed to do something to repair it,” she said, but those businesses that did step up faced a backlash from the public."

"She said many members experienced such a backlash — with some even receiving death threats — when the chamber became involved in discussions on immigration legislation in 2007."

"She said it also paid off in the form of a letter from the Mexican consulate thanking the chamber for “standing up and doing something.” Mexico is one of Phoenix’s biggest trading partners."

There has been a dramatic decrease in the past three years in illegal immigration into the United States -- but the same years saw a dramatic increase in illegal immigration from one country: India; in May, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee that at some point this year, Indians will account for about 1 in 3 non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught in Texas; experts say that at least one reason is that, beginning in 2009, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua no longer require Indians to obtain a visa before entering any of the four Central American countries, making it easier for smugglers to bring Indians there, and from there to the United States

"The Maryland referendum will really give lawmakers at the state and federal level a gauge for how American taxpayers feel about extending taxpayer benefits and subsidies to illegal aliens who are not taxpayers themselves," said..........

PHOENIX - Arizona officials are gearing up for a July 20 launch of a website to accept donations to pay for construction of additional fencing along the state's portion of the U.S.-Mexico border....

With great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an "undocumented immigrant" this week. "Undocumented" my you-know-what. In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes -- er, Times -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned illegal-alien activist spilled the beans on all the illegal IDs he amassed over the years. He had documents coming out of his ears.
        
The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas' fake document trove -- including a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko's. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.
        
Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.

WASHINGTON - A group of Arizona students went door-to-door
asking friends and businesses for funds to help them take a message
to Congress: Th…

In Texas, a Republican lawmaker has run afoul of the political correctness police. They're calling him ignorant and intolerant, after he bluntly criticized an open-border's activist opposed to legislation outlawing sanctuary cities.

Phoenix - They are working using a U.S. citizen's ID at a job that could have gone to an unemployed U.S. citizen.  They try to tell us that they only take the jobs that no U.S. citizen would take.  Truly unbelieveable!

You have got to be kidding! This has to be the best lawsuit that has ever hit Washington, D.C. An illegal immigrant suing the U.S. Federal Government?

Pima County, AZ. -- Yes, straight out of the old wild west where wild mustangs are rounded up, tamed by prisoners in Colorado; then assist the US Border Patrol.

This sophisticated operation moved drugs, guns, smuggled illegals through the obscure southern part of the Tohono O'dham Indian Reservation in Arizona.

So many guns in that home, and the mother thought they were all "toy" guns. She didn't even check them out to determine if they were real! It turns out that the grandfather is an illegal alien.

I watched this "so called" speech about immigration reform given by Obama, and was appalled at how little he knows personally of the illegal drugs, sophisticated tunnels, etc. This was nothing more than a politcal move in order to satisfy the Hispanic community.

We will get a fence built with or with the federal government's blessing. This will be a privately funded project, and with prison labor. We are tired of all the political games being played by Washington. This WILL be built.

Funding for the National Guard being deployed to the US-Mexico Border runs out in June. Once again, this is becoming a political football game. Who will catch it this time?

You have got to be kidding!! You don't stand a chance of winning. You need to clean your own house before you take on our firearm industry.

It is about time that employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and don't withhold anything, instead pay them under the table get their just due! How sweet prison will be for them, their just dessert.

Someone please tell us what really is going on? Too many questions not being answered lately.

"A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that wants to restrict immigration, says that immigrant households with children in Arizona use welfare programs at a higher rate than in any other state."

"The report also found that households headed by illegal immigrants used welfare programs more often than households headed by legal immigrants, 71 percent compared with 52 percent."

"State Rep. Virgil Peck, a Republican, declined to talk to a CNN en Español journalist who was waiting for him at his office Thursday. On Monday, Peck made headlines when, during an appropriations committee meeting, he made a reference to an agricultural program that controls the state's feral hog population by shooting them from helicopters".

"Looks like to me, if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a (solution) to our illegal immigration problem," Peck said.

Go figure. Sheriff Joe Arpaio gets tough on illegals, and they flee those jobs that liberals claimed Americans were "unwilling" to do. And now, lo and behold, LEGAL Americans (one with a Master's degree in this clip, even) are waiting in line to get those left-behind jobs that pay around 8 bucks an hour.

The truth is that the only "unwilling" folks out there who think they're above a job washing dishes are the ones who buy into the entitled mentality that's become a cancer in this country.

You go ON, Sheriff Joe.

Workers have been leaving Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc in the nation's capital and Virginia since getting notice that U.S. immigration officials are auditing restaurants in the area.

An undocumented immigrant who allegedly killed a nun while driving drunk in Prince William County had been released by immigration authorities after two other convictions because he had demonstrated that he was not a flight risk, according to a Department of Homeland Security report released Friday.

Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano, a Bolivian who entered the United States with his family as a child in 1996, had two prior convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as a string of other encounters with police, before the Aug. 1 accident last year.

Two state lawmakers running immigration reform bills were e-mailed perceived death threats over the weekend and Utah Highway Patrol authorities confirmed Monday they are investigating the matter and taking it "very seriously."

Reps. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, and Chris Herrod, R-Provo, were the only two state lawmakers to receive the one-and-a-half page letter, confirmed top state law enforcement officials, who said they were too early in the investigation to determine the severity of the threat.

Utah Public Safety Commissioner Lance Davenport, who oversees the UHP, said in the wake of the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in Tucson, as well as "living in a post-9/11 world," even veiled language needed to be scrutinized.

"We don't want to overreact, but at the same time, we don't want to risk not taking it seriously," Davenport said. "Because the world we live in now is the way it is, we want to do the right thing and protect our legislators."

"Opponents of Harris are saying he inflated Phoenix's kidnapping numbers to land nearly $2 million in federal funds."

"If there is anybody in this community that does not believe we have a kidnapping/home invasion problem in this community, they either just got off the bus today or they have been living under a rock in this community for the last several years," said Harris."

"Some 300 kidnappings were reported in 2008 and were used to obtain a $1.7 million grant from the federal government.".....more in article.

"Pearce said safety concerns led to the change."

"Police arrested six people at the Senate last week, four of them were accused of disrupting a news conference."

"Due to recent events within the Senate building that directly impacted the safety of the public, members and staff,"

The Indiana senate passed a sweeping immigration bill that echoes Arizona's tougher measures on illegal immigrants and despite opposition from some of the largest employers and business groups in the state.

The measure, passed on Tuesday night by a vote of 31-18, would allow state and local police to ask a person stopped for infractions like traffic violations for proof of legal residency if the officer has a "reasonable suspicion" they may be in the country illegally.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc fired about 450 workers in Minnesota after an audit by U.S. immigration officials flagged questionable worker eligibility documents, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday

Today I had to stand by and watch as a bunch of children used and abused their own Hispanic parents; it was enough to make a normal person sick to their stomach, at the act’s that some low life people will stoop to.

The place was the Arizona State Capital building; the people, a group of Illegal Immigrant supporters protested and used their own children to help them carry signs of their protest. Most of these children appeared to be 3 to 8 years of age. Their heads filled with lies and hate about the United States by their own parents. . These children are far too young to have any grasp of what they are even protesting other than what their own low life parents put into their minds, as most didn’t even look old enough to read yet.

What kind of Monster involves and uses their own toddler to adolescent child in their own political fight? I think I can answer that a Coward.

With the recent violence that has taken place at a "Congress on Your Corner"talk event, no sane person would take a small child into a “political charged demonstration”. Let alone make them carry a protest sign.

I have spoken with both the Police and the Department of Child Protective Services on this type of action by Hispanic Illegal Immigration supporters involving and using their toddler children in this kind of protest. Both have stated that while they view this as a bad idea, they cannot do anything as far as arresting the Parents till one of the children would be hurt or injured.

What was being protested against was something that is allowed the American people and Our leaders under the Constitution of the United States, the “Right” to look into changing a Constitutional Amendment (the 14^th Amendment). The 14th Amendment has been changed twice before by our Leaders and the American people once on Aug. 18, 1920 and again on July 1, 1970.

Today State leaders were looking into a law that they hope will set in motion a plan to actually change the 14th Amendment to make it were it can no longer be used as a weapon against the United States by people that illegally invade Our Country. We are not alone other States and the United States Congress are also looking into the same plan.

Below is a Poll in which you may express your feelings on what happened today.

A few months ago, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said publicly that the claim that illegal aliens are working construction jobs in Nevada (17 percent of those jobs) is "absolutely without foundation."
However, on Tuesday, The Pew Hispanic Center released a report which shows that illegal aliens make up 10 percent of Nevada's workforce. That is up from 2009, when illegal aliens accounted for 9.4 percent of those working in the state.
It is no coincidence that Nevada also has the nation's highest rate of unemployment. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the state's unemployment rate is now 14.5 percent.
Of course, Nevada is not the only state in which U.S. workers are being replaced illegal aliens.
In 2007, the Fiscal Policy Institute released a study revealing that there were 374,000 illegal aliens employed in New York City, accounting for 10 percent of the city's total workforce.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: The state with the most illegal alien workers also has the highest unemployment - National Immigration reform | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/the-state-with-the-most-illegal-alien-workers-also-has-the-highest-unemployment#ixzz1DK85cxdI

Pamela Anderson may be more famous for slow motion running down the "Baywatch" beaches in the 90's, but the now mother of two teen sons and animal rights activist has another issue she is passionate about: illegal immigration.
The Canada-native recently penned her thoughts on a vast range of politically-driven topics in Playboy magazine, and published the unedited version on her website. In the transcript, she expresses her views that those seeking refuge in America need to respect the country and do it by the books.
"I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work. The American Dream is seductive, but there is a legal way to do it and there would be more jobs here for people if it was honored," she wrote. "There is something about the process that has to be honored—and respected."

Our lawmakers sure are busy. Quite a contrast being heard, from guns to babies........

ABC and reporter John Quinones on Thursday stretched the bounds of journalism, hiring an actor to play a racist security guard as a way of testing how the people of Arizona would react to the state's "anti-immigration law."

Previewing the network's "What Would You Do?" segment for Friday's 20/20, Quinones explained the undercover concept: "So, I go undercover, pretending to be someone who is about to be arrested and deported, simply by the way I look."

The piece featured a cartoonish "security guard" harassing Mexican actors in Tucson, Arizona. Presumably, ABC chose a security guard because impersonating a police officer is illegal. The actor walked into a restaurant and spewed, "I'm just looking to make sure these guys are legal citizens. And if they're not legal citizens, they shouldn't be here. They should be deported. They look Mexican."

"Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days."

"A gunbattle is all but certain, Babeu told The Arizona Republic, because his deputies and members of a regional SWAT team are now routinely working to stop smugglers from pushing cargo through Pinal."

" Babeu said. "In the event that any of them decide to point their weapons at our deputies . . . my directive is there had better be rounds going downrange to neutralize that threat."

A few days before Thanksgiving, I went to a Mexican store in Provo. I noticed business was slow and asked the manager if he had an idea why. He replied, "I don't really know why but people stopped coming," and then added, "It almost feels like people are afraid to go out and buy things."

He said business dropped off three to four months ago. I asked him if he thought it had anything to do with the unauthorized release last summer of 1,200 names of purportedly illegal immigrants receiving government assistance.

"Yes! That must be the reason why," he said. "People used to come and cash their food stamps. This was great business for me. Now, many have lost their entitlements from the state and this has affected my business, too."

The man explained how some of the people who frequented his store would tell him how they beat the system.

It's not hard to tell Arturo Morales-LLan is proud to be an American: the evidence is plastered all over the walls of his Orem home. In a over-sized portrait hanging above the stairs, his four children, dressed in red, white and blue, stand in front of an American flag. His shelves are full of books about the Constitution. His desk is cluttered with Americana paraphernalia.

"I take my citizenship very seriously," said Morales-LLan in a rolling Spanish accent. That's why — despite his own Mexican ancestry — he has stepped up to publicly condemn illegal immigration and lend his support to Rep. Stephen Sandstrom in the quest to outfit Utah with an Arizona-style law. In collaboration with about 25 other immigrants, he recently started the lobbyist group Legal Immigrants for Immigration Law Enforcement.

In some ways, Morales-LLan is an illustration of a national trend. Hispanics are becoming increasingly divided over the issues surrounding illegal immigration, according to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center. In a 2007 survey, 50 percent of Hispanics said the growing number of undocumented immigrants had a positive effect on the community. In 2010, only 29 percent said the same thing.

"This issue is just as heated for Latinos as it is for the rest of the population," said Tony Yapias, director of Proyecto Latino de Utah.

Perhaps even more so.

As the debate on illegal immigration rages in Washington and state capitals, it's troubling to see both sides rely on emotional rhetoric to the detriment of facts. The impact of illegal immigration on public education is a case in point.

No one can deny that increasing numbers of children of illegal immigrants attend public schools in the United States and that U.S. taxpayers pay the costs. Those sympathetic to illegal immigration tend to remain silent about these costs, while illegal-immigration opponents often fall short on specifics. In the interest of more informed discourse, here are the numbers.

According to a study released last year by the Pew Hispanic Center, as of 2008, 11.9 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States, more than triple the 3.5 million who lived in the country in 1990.

Among the states, California has the largest number of illegal immigrants with 2.7 million, nearly double the 1.4 million in Texas. California's illegal-immigrant population has swelled by 1.2 million since 1990, while Texas has added a million. A large proportion of illegal-immigrant households are families.

During the President's 2011 State of the Union speech, Obama said: "I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration. I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows."
Of course, Obama is the president and as such can order the active duty military to our border with Mexico (with orders to actually stop illegal crossers) at any time. If there is an immediate threat to this nation, the president can order as many troops and equipment as is needed to confront that threat.
The invasion of this country by the violent Mexican drug cartels and the hellish life they have created for those Americans living in the American Southwest presents a clear and present danger, and is one that only the U.S. military can adequately answer.
Futhermore, federal law already dictates that we "protect our borders." However, we have simply not had a U.S. president who has chosen to actually carry out that order and enforce immigration laws in 50 years, since President Dwight D. Eisenhower did so.

I would like to see these kidnapping kingpins spend the rest of their lives in prison, without parole.........

Riley Black, 8 months old, began to cry after dropping her bottle on the floorboard of the family's Nissan Altima.

Her mom Stephanie Mason was driving on Highway 41-A to visit family in Clarksville. Lorne Black, Riley's father, unbuckled his seat belt and turned around to find the bottle.

Suddenly, Mason screamed Lorne's name. A white truck veered off the road, overcorrected and came toward the car that held Black, Mason, their daughter and 2-year-old son Tristen.

"I saw the truck coming." Mason said. "I tried to go to an opening on the side of the road. I jerked the wheel. I slammed on my breaks. But I didn't make it. ... It was bad."

The truck caught fire. The driver was severely burned and Lifeflighted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Black almost died. He spent 26 days in the hospital with his eye sockets crushed, 28 fractures in his skull, a shattered jaw and a split knee cap.

The driver of the truck was later identified by Immigration Customs Enforcement agents as Geremias Morales-Martines, now 31. He did not have a social security number, driver's license, registration or insurance.

He had a job, though. Morales-Martines worked at a tobacco farm in Cheatham County. It is still unknown if he had the proper documents to work there.

States have pushed their way to the forefront of immigration-related lawmaking in recent years, citing the absence of federal legislative reform, and the tenor of their efforts is expected to intensify this year.

The number of such bills in 2011 probably won't increase over past years', but immigration experts said the proposals will be more confrontational in nature. The measures include a campaign to remove automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants, efforts to replicate a controversial Arizona law and creation of state guest-worker programs.

The most divisive bills, if they become law, would likely provoke lawsuits or other action from Congress, the White House or the U.S. Supreme Court.

"They are reflecting Congress' inability to move" on the issue, said Ann Morse, program director for the National Conference of State Legislators.

"Some Ofiicers are worried that they will be accused of "Racial Profiling in the future !"

"The Dallas Police Department is now requiring officers to answer a question on the traffic ticket that reads "Race known prior to stop?" The patrol officer has to check yes or no when he stops the traffic violator."

"Dallas police spokesman LT. C.L Williams says, "New state law requires us to collect the information. We have no idea how the state plans to use it." According to Williams, the information is not being collected to use against the patrol officers. The DPA president isn't convinced."

more in article....

"Phoenix and other parts of Arizona may becoming "less brown" every day, but according to the latest U.S. census data, Aztlán could become a reality. "The Southwest will become part of Mexico by the year 2060," says MEChA professor Luis Maldonado. However"

"California has pretty much been given back to Mexico. There are several Latinos in Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico who believe in the Latino homeland of Aztlán. These people are producing children at a rate four times as much as those of other races and educating their children about the stolen lands. All these people will vote"

Today's release of 2010 Census data reveal that the U.S. population grew by more than 27 million during the last decade – representing a nearly ten percent increase in our population in just ten years. The single largest factor in this enormous, and unwelcome, increase was excessive legal and illegal immigration.

If Harry Reid wants to invest in our country's future, and the armed forces were looking for a recruiting tool, then re-instate the draft.

DREAM Act students vow revolution after act fails in the Senate
"This is war!" claims Phoenix student Aldemar Cruz. "Republicans may have stopped the DREAM Act, but they won't prevent La Reconquista from happening. "White people, watch out!"

"Olivia Perez, Latinos need to fight back. We need to march. We need to scream. If necessary, we need to riot."

The Senate just voted down the Dream Act. In a vote for cloture the Dreamers went down in flames as 41 Senators chose not to grant a back door amnesty to the children of illegal aliens.

The law would have given the children of illegals the right to go to college on the American Tax payer's dime. They would have been eligible for Stafford loans which are paid for by tax dollars and they would have been eligible for work/study positions. This law would give those children, who are also here illegally, up to 10 years to earn two years of college or to complete two years of military service with no stated recourse against them if they failed.

Many advocates in their arguments for the passage of this Bill touted the CBO report that estimated that by allowing the Bill to pass, it would reduce the National Debt by $1.5 Billion dollars over the first 10 years of the program. However, those same Advocates do not mention the fact that the same CBO report estimates that the Bill will add in excess of $2-3 Billion dollars to the deficit over the following 10 years.

Some other facts the advocates for Dream leave out is that the CBO estimates that over 50% of these "best and brightest"will drop out of the program after the first five years. The CBO also estimates that only 15% of these "kids" will default on student loans even though the National default rate for student loans in two year colleges is over 31%. These Dream Advocates also overlook the fact that this Bill would have allowed the illegal alien parents of these children to benefit from their original crimes of breaking the immigration laws of the United States. The law applies to all children 12 years to 29 years of age., the parents of the younger children would have been allowed to stay due to their children needing supervision and a place to stay at least until the age of 18.

There are several other problems with this Bill including the fact that Janet Napalitano, the Chief of Homeland Security, had the power to waive many of the requirements in the Dream Act and that applicant could have up to three misdemeanor convictions and still be eligible.

This vote should put an end to any hope for this back door amnesty program especially since the face of the House of Representatives will change so much after the New Year and the Democrat majority in the Senate will be much smaller. With several of the States lining up with anti-illegal immigration laws, like Arizona's SB1070, the Congress may be forced to actually enforce the immigration laws on the books and deport all detained illegals instead of deferring action for years.

"This latest episode took the life of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry. Details are sketchy as of now, but it appears Terry came upon a group of presumed smugglers at Peck Wells, which is part of Peck Canyon, when the shooting occurred.
The Border Patrol's public-information office in Tucson confirms that at least four suspects are in custody, and one more is being pursued. A massive manhunt is underway as Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies try to apprehend the suspect, believed to be trying to flee into Mexico."

"Janet Napolitano—who keeps telling us the border is just fine, nothing to see here, move along—should be put under hot lights over the Terry killing.
She needs to explain why she thinks it's safe for American citizens to venture onto this Coronado National Forest land. Would she go there herself? Would she take her family, her dog? Or would she go only with a heavily-armed security detail?"

From his ranch headquarters this morning, David Lowell says: "I feel bad about the really lousy job our government is doing—not Border Patrol, but the politicians. If the same Border Patrolman had shot first and killed the (presumed) Mexican that killed him, he'd probably have a ticket to go to prison. It's a really dumb way to try to protect our southern border.

As part of the county's participation in a local-federal partnership called the 287(g) program, which officially began in November 2009, 18 sheriff's deputies were trained to enforce certain federal immigration laws. Inmates suspected of being in the country illegally are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after their cases are disposed of. ICE then will initiate deportation proceedings against them. The detainees still have the opportunity to go before an immigration judge to plead their case.

MIAMI – The illegal immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012, even though they'll likely be too old to benefit if the law ever passes.

The measure that passed in the House on Wednesday is unlikely go anywhere in the Senate, and the House is unlikely to revisit the issue once the new Republican leadership takes over.

Groups like The National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic and immigrant advocacy groups know the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform are dim for the time being. So they've turned their attention to a measure that they believe will spark more sympathy from most Americans, bringing with them a coalition of labor groups, the Conference of Catholic Bishops and even Defense Secretary Robert Gates. And come 2012, advocates say, Spanish-language media will be filled with ads slamming lawmakers who voted against the Dream Act.

A bit of good news is better than no news at all on this..............

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the following from the article about Police busting a "Drop House" for Illegals here in Phoenix Az.

"Police said they were working to reunite the children with their families."

I dare that the Police/ICE return these children to known "Child Abusers"! The Police should not put these inocent children right back into the hands of the very people (the Families) that put them in harms way to start with !

These so called parents involved their children in a criminal felony, they put their own child's life at great risk during that felony crime, they purposely payed dangerous felony's to transport their children. These so called parents are what most would call and by definition of the Laws of this Country are "Child Abusers".

Under the Laws of this Country any American parent that did any of these things to their own child would be charged with Felony Child Abuse, and rightly so, and locked away for a very long time in a prison.

These so called parents should be hunted down like dogs for what they did to their own children and put in prison for the Max sentence for Child Abuse, after which time they should be deported, and hopefully never allowed to be around any child again !

The quote mentioned in this article was from a msnbc article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40487648/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

I first wrote about illegal alien murder suspect Ingmar Guandique's possible role in the Chandra Levy case in 2002. Justice has been long delayed for the Levy family.

Today, a jury convicted Guandique on all felony counts of first-degree murder.

More:

A jury on Monday found an El Salvadoran immigrant guilty of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy.

Jurors deliberated four days before finding Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty in the 2001 disappearance and killing of Levy.

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[Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda] Haines said Levy's death fits a pattern of two other attacks committed by Guandique on female joggers in Rock Creek park in May and July of 2001. Guandique was convicted in those assaults and is serving a 10-year sentence.

The North Carolina News Network is reporting that;

The City of Durham has become the first municipality in North Carolina is approve a policy of accepting identification issued by the Mexican government as legal ID. The Durham City Council voted 5-2 in favor of police accepting what is known as the Matricula Consular as a valid form of identification.

On June 26, 2003, Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI, testified before The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims on Consular ID Cards, the following; (the entire testimony can be read here)

...there are two major criminal threats posed by the [Consular ID] cards, and one potential terrorist threat.

Today in Arizona the War on Illegal Immigration got a brand new tool ! The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Joe Appaio swore in 56 of it's first new armed Posse to deal soley with Illegal Immigration. These New armed Posse member have under went many hours of training in weapons, Law Enforcement procedure, detention training and tactic's, as well as enforcement of Illegal Immigration Law.

These newly sworn in Posse members will aid and assist Sheriff's Deputies in the transportation of suspected Illegal Immigrants and handling any demonstrators that try to interfere with immigration patrols. The new posse member seem to come from many different backgrounds and jobs, and freely donate their time to helping the Sheriffs office. Luo Ferrigno (the Incredible Hulk) as well as Steve Seagal also serve as Posse members already.

Current Posse members numbers are at around 3,000 volunteers, and aid the Sheriffs office in a variety of different tasks from crowd control, ride along with Sheriffs Deputies to search and rescue of lost or injured hikers and missing children. And Patrol in donated planes and choppers to off road vehicles.

To see people come forward to donate their time and lives to help us fight the War on Illegal Immigration is a wonderful sight, it shows just how much Americans will contribute to the defense of their Country even as civilians.

"Thank You" to all of the newly sworn in Posse members !

From: "ArizonaBill"

While I have often joked about being the "Self Appointed Head Illegal Immigration Opponent" of Arizona,,

I in no way side with these people ! Sorry guys but a line must be drawn.

While I do not in any way support Illegal Immigration or anti-American hate groups (in my opinion) like LaRaza, or Chicanos Unidos.

I also do not support people that seem to hate based only on a person's Race ! I do not want or need their help.

I would hope that my brothers also speak out about this as we are against Illegal Immigration ,,Not against the color of a person skin !

Time to stand and be counted brothers !

The below article is the one ArizonaBill is responding too, from Chl 10 Fox News in Phoenix Az.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/neo-nazis-protest-in-downtown-phoenix-11132010

"PHOENIX - The National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States, has been marching and rallying against illegal immigration in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Court Building in downtown Phoenix since about 12:45 p.m. Saturday. But it's the counter-protesters who have been receiving negative attention from law enforcement.

The NSM members, carrying American flags that have been partially covered in swastikas, have been chanting nearly unintelligible rhetoric protesting the gutting of SB 1070 inside the police-protected area near the courthouse at 401 W. Washington St." Read more at the Link above.

Los Angeles police are defending their handling of a raid at a downtown hostess club -- an operation that resulted in dozens of arrests of illegal immigrant workers -- after an advocacy group charged that the vice operation violated Special Order 40, a policy governing how officers interact with immigrants.

Advocates from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles said the LAPD officers violated that policy in arresting 81 women and seven men Friday at the 907 Club on Hill Street. The advocacy group said most of those arrested were "honest, hard-working immigrants" who might themselves have been victims of abuse.

A new study suggests there may be 100,000 fewer Hispanics in Arizona than there were before the debate over the state's tough new immigration law earlier this year.

Luis Guerra swore he had nothing to do with any murder, that whoever picked him out of a lineup was wrong. Still, he was held at the Rikers Island jail for more than a year before the charges were dropped.

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Merely being at Rikers put him on the radar of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau, said Guerra, 21, who's trying to get a college degree while awaiting word on his future. City authorities made "a mistake, and now I'm paying for their mistake," he said. "I was living a normal life before."

Police at Kennesaw State University northwest of Atlanta stopped the political science major March 29 in a car on a campus parking lot. There was little dispute Thursday over facts as prosecutors and Colotl's defence both agreed she was in the driver's seat and didn't present a valid license at the time.

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"I don't agree with it, but I have to follow the verdict," Colotl said.

Now the illegal immigrants have a train to bring them into the United States illegally. No longer need to walk all night and survive the desert and those pesky border patrol agents.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/04/5406576-border-ride

Democrat Attorney General Chris Koster -- a Democrat who used to be a Republican -- gave a hint in a news release this morning.

Koster is joining 12 other states in filing a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court backing Arizona's controversial law over illegal immigration, a law opposed by many Democrats.

In his news release, Koster pointed out that the Arizona law in some ways is very similar to Missouri's law passed when Gov. Matt Blunt was in charge.

HAMILTON, OH (FOX19) - Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones is looking for help in filing a lawsuit against the Mexican government.

Jones calls it a "novel idea," saying Mexico should help pay for the cost of jailing illegal immigrants and tracking drugs that come across the border.

Well this is something, the United Nations warning America about violating Illegal Immigrants rights ! Wonder why they didn't warn those countries that many of the Illegals come from like Mexico and others about violating peoples Rights !

Of course it was the Obama administration that sent a report a few months back to the United Nations that Arizona was violating peoples Rights and started all the Lies about Arizona and the SB1070 law before he took the time to Read It ! Which Obama and Eric Holder both admitted to later.

Now the United Nations comes out with their own brand of Lies about an America State and claims that we passed a law that allows people to be Stopped and Searched because they are suspected of being Illegal immigrants. I would guess that the people at that U.N. haven't or can't read the SB1070.

Had they read it or had someone read it to them they would know that SB1070 does not say anything like that. I mean what does a Illegal Immigrant look like ? Truth is anyone could be an Illegal as they come in all colors and genders.

If they are trying to say people will be stopped as Obama suggested because they are "Brown, (before he read SB1070, then later dropped the point). Again had they read it they would have found that SB1070 specifically says "that a person's Race can not be used for making a stop" ! The United Nations might be shocked to find out that there are a few other Laws in the United States of America that also forbid that too.

The Truth is that SB1070 only is used after a legal Stop has been made because of something that a Law Enforcement officer saw or supected you of doing. It basically allows for an Officer to ask you if you are a citizen if you do not have any ID.

It seems that some Hispanics feel that they should not have to carry ID like the majority of American citizens do, and to show it to a Law enforcement when asked, like other American citizens do.

Many legal resident immigrants also do not feel that they should have to carry their "Visa or Green Card" as they agreed to do when they signed for their Visa or Green Card and like the Federal Laws requires they Must Do.

I was shocked when sitting down to watch the Sunday Night Football game. And saw the two teams playing were the “Jets de Nueva York” and “Dolphins de Miami” ! And that the game now was going to be called “Futbol” !

I guess it was either NBC or the NFL's call to insult the American game of football and many of the American Fans, by putting the names of the two teams that played on Sunday night football up at every commercial in Spanish ! And calling the game “Futbol Americano” !

The name of the game NBC is “Football”, not “Futbol” as you so ineptly kept calling it !

And to post the names of the two American teams in Spanish on the games scorecard was an insult to the Teams as well as the Fans. Note to NBC and the NFL this is America and Football is an American Game and Americans read English, not Spanish/Mexican.

So if the NFL and NBC don't like America or the American people go broadcast your stinking game in Mexico Only and see how much money you make.

Well this is America and if NBC or the NFL can't remember that then I guess it's up to the American Football Fans that respect their Country, their Team, and Our Language to let NBC and the NFL know about it !

As for this Fan,,there will be no more Sunday night Football watched, and I am calling on All American Football Fans to boycott Sunday night Football games on TV.

Remember NBC and NFL, this is America and the Game we play is called Football ! If you don't like this Country and Our American Game or Our English language then both NBC and the NFL should go down to Mexico and watch Mexican Futbol !

Seems the United States is not alone when it comes to the problem of Illegal Immigration. This is an enlightening article of just how unchecked illegal immigration can upset the balance of a Nation and drain it resources. It also seems the voice of the people concerning Illegal immigration is being heard in other Countries just like here in the USA !

"The Sweden Democrats stunned political observers at the weekend, winning seats for the first time and placing them in the position to give voice to their anti-immigration platform."

Federal agents in San Diego County have arrested 39 people for immigration-related offenses, more than half of them felons convicted of crimes ranging from domestic violence to car theft and drug-related offenses, authorities said.

This is a commentary by ArizonaBill in reply to the AP Article that can be read in full text by clicking on the link below

"Border governors call for US immigration reform"　

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39278873/

First lets clean up this story's rather misleading opening line of ;

"U.S. and Mexican border governors called Monday for reform of U.S. immigration policies"
As the only American Governor there was;

"Bill Richardson was the only U.S. governor to participate along with the governors of six Mexican states."
Yea Calf. sent their Lt. Governor but that possibly could been seen as kind of saying We don't want to play your little game either.

So this next line is also a bit misleading as well;

"U.S. and Mexican border governors called Monday for reform of U.S. immigration policies"
Actually it was Six Mexican Governors that were calling for Immigration reform, as only One US Governor was present.

Then we have the Fantasy line, or the let's try to fool the crap out of the American public line;

"legislation should include tougher enforcement against businesses that hire illegal immigrants as well as a path to legalization for immigrants who learn English, pay back taxes and a fine."
Well let's look at that line, "Learn English", we have Illegals that have been living here for 5, 10, 15 or more years already and they have not learned English. How would we enforce this wonderful new law,,Deport people if they hadn't learned English in a given time period ? Oh yea that would happen, well we could just deport them now as they haven't learned it in 5, 10,15 yrs. they are not going to learn it ever.

And the next and funniest part "make them Pay back Tax's". Really now just how would we determine how much a person that has lived here Illegally for 5, 10, 15 yrs Owes ? And if we did hit them with 15 yrs. of back Tax's how the hell would they ever be able to repay it ? Of course we could always look at that the Mexicans have long used, Have Babies like rabbits and you won't own any Tax's, in fact you can collect a bunch of Government (Tax Payer) Dollars. Mexicans are very good at Math and learned long ago that "X number of kids = X number of Dollars and Assitance that can be collected"

No, we do not need Immigration Reform, what we need is to put Military Troops on the Border and Secure it. And to Enforce the Laws we have already. That is how you correct the problem of Illegal Immigration in a way that is Fair to the United States people, and to the people that broke the law in coming here Illegally to start with.

Let's not get fooled again !

"This is a civilian border," Napolitano said during a lunch Friday with reporters in Washington, responding to a question about sending more U.S. National Guard troops to beef up border security."

"Napolitano, who was Arizona's governor before joining the administration, had rather blunt retort to Perry; if he wants more Guard along the border, he can send them there from Texas himself. "
"He always has the ability, in a way, to bring up National Guard, if he's willing to pay for them. That's always an option available to a governor," Napolitano said"

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/08/12/20100812napolitano-on-border-troops-civilian-border-politico.html#ixzz0zttUOWDv

Pinal County, AZ - They are now living in caves complete with bincolulars, walkie talkies, food, etc. peering down on the residents of Silverbell, AZ., and spotting for the smugglers......

Sorry folks - this is getting way too outta hand.

The title should more correctly read " To faces Challenges from Illegal Immigrant supporters". As it is mostly the people that back the Illegals that do not want the 14th Amendent change. So that the people invading America across our Southern border can use it against America.

"For years, Arizona lawmakers have targeted illegal immigrants. In their next session, legislators will focus on the children of illegal immigrants.
Two prominent lawmakers want to change the way those children are granted citizenship.The pair plan to introduce legislation that targets the children, possibly by adding notation on their state birth certificates that would identify them as children of illegal immigrants." Read more in the article.

A drop house used by a human-smuggling operation was raided by federal immigration agents, who found 37 undocumented immigrants crammed into a locked bedroom, living in squalid conditions.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents searched a home in the 1800 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Riverside on Tuesday afternoon, the immigration enforcement agency said in a news release.

Inside, they found the 37 immigrants, all stripped of their shoes to keep them from running away, living in a room with the windows boarded up and the door locked from the outside, the agency said. Some of the immigrants told agents they had not eaten in days.

As Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck defended the fatal shooting of a day laborer and officials called for calm, protesters and officers clashed Tuesday night in Westlake near the site of the incident.

About 300 demonstrators gathered at the LAPD's Rampart Station. Some in the crowd hurled eggs at police cars and others threw objects at the station windows, prompting officers in riot gear to push the throng along 6th Street.

Border agents arrested 20 illegal immigrants Tuesday morning who were attempting to enter the country by sea at Calafia State Beach in San Clemente.

When the small craft the immigrants were riding in land landed, the occupants attempted to flee. Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol arrested 17 men and three women, all from Mexico.

"MEXICO CITY - The U.S. government punished Mexico on Friday for human-rights abuses in its war against drug cartels, cutting $26 million from an upcoming $175 million aid payment, and demanded that Mexican soldiers be tried in civilian courts.
It is the first time the U.S. State Department has withheld funds over human-rights abuses since launching the $1.4 billion Merida Initiative aid program in 2008".

"This is the first time the State Department has blocked any money. On Friday, the agency said it was releasing $36 million in previously budgeted funds even as it imposed the 15 percent penalty on future funds.
Human-rights groups gave mixed reactions to Friday's announcement, applauding the $26 million penalty but saying the State Department should have withheld the $36 million as well."

More than four out of every 10 illegal immigrants deported from San Bernardino County under the federal government's new Secure Communities program did not commit additional crimes before being kicked out, according to figures released by immigration officials.

That's well above the state average of 25 percent and the 21 percent rate in Los Angeles County