Archive for April 2010

With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.

Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America’s immigration laws.

“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” said Gov. Jan Brewer. “But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation.”

We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

He has denounced Arizona as “misguided.” He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona’s sheriffs and police do not violate anyone’s civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
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The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama’s express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.

Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to “young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.”

Turning out those so-called “surge” voters — who turned out for the first time to back Obama, but who sat out gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia last year — has become the Democrats’ central pre-occupation for the midterm elections, and the new Democratic effort to nationalize the election around Obama and his agenda mark an attempt to energize those voters.
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Video linked here.

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Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies arrested an illegal immigrant after they say he stole a deputy’s identity to get a job.

According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Leobardo Estrada-Robles, 31, used the identity of a deputy, including his Social Security number, to work in the United States illegally.

A deputy told the sheriff’s Employer Sanctions Unit that the U.S. Social Security Administration claimed he owed $2,354 for employment at two separate construction companies in the Valley where he had never worked.

After a short investigation, Employer Sanctions Unit detectives confirmed that Estrada-Robles was working at both companies using the deputy’s identity.
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John McCain

This is certainly a fine time to be an Arizona voter. First there is the pride in the state’s leadership in dealing with a vexing problem that elites want left as is, namely the open borders that provide a dependable glut of exploitable alien labor.

In addition, voters can enjoy the entertaining gyrations of candidate John McCain, who is hopping around like a bug on a hot skillet, at least as far as his position on immigration anarchy goes.

He’s now against it, in case you hadn’t heard. Yep, border enforcement and the safety of citizens (particularly voting constituents!) are his new favorite things. And he hopes voters will forget his energetic pursuit of amnesty for millions of lawbreaking foreigners against the will of the American people.

How the mighty have fallen. The Presidential candidate of 2008 is now in danger of losing in the Republican primary to a real friend of borders and sovereignty, JD Hayworth. So Senator McCain now goes hat in hand to convince voters that he isn’t running a con job on them with his election year conversion.

Immigration dominates McCain town hall, Arizona Daily Star, April 24, 2010

Several in the crowd said they support the new law and expressed frustration about the lack of enforcement.

Bob Foy, a 68-year-old retired lieutenant in the Los Angeles sheriff’s department, said holes in border enforcement are allowing the free flow of narcotics and weapons into the country. “We’re in such imminent danger that we don’t have another 100 years to get this straight,” he said. The new law, while “not the perfect answer, is an answer,” he said.

One woman said she lives near the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, which is being “trashed” by border crossers. Another said her daughter’s boyfriend is an illegal immigrant who has been in prison three times and keeps coming back.

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“Those who think the Department of Immigration and Citizenship [DIAC] is too preoccupied with Christmas Island asylum seekers to look for illegal workers have been misinformed,” a departmental spokesman said.

“The results rebut any suggestion immigration compliance officers are ‘putting their feet up’ due to recent transfers of some asylum seekers into mainland detention facilities.

“Our Melbourne compliance team located seven illegal farm workers in country Victoria late yesterday.

“Six are expected to be removed from Australia shortly. The seventh – who was on a visitor visa that has now been cancelled for working in breach of its conditions – has an air ticket and plans to depart voluntarily.”

The spokesman said following the compliance operation in the Robinvale area, all of the unlawful non-citizens were taken to Melbourne’s Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre. Five of the illegal workers – four Philippines nationals and a Philippines-born United Kingdom national – were located at a residential address in Lake Powell.

The others – a Thai couple – were located at a residential address in Robinvale. They had overstayed their visitor visas and were also working illegally on nearby farms. The husband and wife are now in detention in Melbourne pending their removal to Thailand.

“All employers need to be aware it is a criminal offence to employ or refer a person for employment where that person is not entitled to work in Australia,” the spokesman said.
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You can’t make this stuff up:

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David Rico Jr. (left), Irene Mena (center) and David Rico (right) are members of the Brown Berets de Aztlan.

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego neighborhood of Barrio Logan celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Chicano Park on Saturday. The park is under the on-ramp to the Coronado Bridge near downtown San Diego. It’s considered a legacy of the Chicano Power movement. A group called the Brown Berets has been a big part of that movement since the 1960s.

Maintenance crews trim the grass of Chicano Park. Bright, colorful murals adorn concrete pillars that soar up to the freeway up above. Mothers stroll by holding children and shopping bags.

Before the 1960s, rows of houses stood here. They belonged to working class Latino families. But the families were pushed out and the homes were torn down to make way for a freeway and the Coronado Bridge.

City officials wanted to build a police substation on the remaining parcel of land – that’s when the people of Barrio Logan united.

“My name is Irene Mena. I’m 81 years old. I am the mother of the Brown Berets.”

The Brown Berets served as the paramilitary arm of the Chicano Power movement in Barrio Logan during the 1960s and 1970s. Mena and her sons helped preserve what was left of the community. She still wears her brown beret despite some moth holes. As a youngster she saw her family being ordered to move.

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