Pinal County Sheriff: Mexican drug cartels now control
parts of Arizona
Posted: 06/11/2010
CASA GRANDE, AZ - Two men shot
earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican
drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.
Pinal County investigators say
an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's
border to metro Phoenix.
The area , once an area for family
hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug
and human smugglers.
Night vision cameras have
photographed military armed cartel members delivering drugs to vehicles along
Highway 8.
"We are three counties deep.
How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully
automatic rifles. How is that okay?" asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul
Babeu.
Babeu said he no longer has control over
parts of his county.
"We are outgunned, we are out
manned and we don't have the resources here locally to fight this," he
said at a Friday news conference.
Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll
was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.
Sheriff Babeu said the ambush
mirrored military tactics.
Even more disturbing, Babeu said the
man who called in to 911 operators for help seemed to know a lot about the
sheriff deputy's case.
"He told operators they could
find him where the deputy was shot and talked about our search helicopter.
Things that were talked about on the news," Babeu said.
When operators asked the fatally
wounded man how he knew the area, he claimed he sold cantelope near mile post
150.
Both men were found dead several
hours later.
Detectives say next to them was a
Bushmaster automatic rifle used by police officers for patrolling. It does not
appear to be stolen.
Investigators also revealed that an
autopsy showed strap marks on one of the men that likely came from hauling
heavy loads, they suspect were drugs.
One of the men, deputies say, was
voluntarily deported seven times.
Babeu said he doesn't believe the
drug cartel problems will not be solved when SB 1070 becomes a law, or with
President Obama's promise of 1,200 troops spread out among four border states.
"It will fall short. What is
truly needed in 3,000 soldiers for Arizona alone," Babeu said.
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S HISPANDERING
FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
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.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose
Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 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.
How's
that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama
has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably,
making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally,
and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a
"reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome.
But what choice did Arizona have?
The
state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling
and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in
services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain
is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police
officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been
kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly
high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at
risk.
If
Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens
will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already
fleeing California.
A country that cannot control its
borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What
we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into
ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot
control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The
tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right,
the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona
has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their
job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the
president of the United States.
Why
is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by
punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20
million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
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OBAMA
THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
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Because
he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby
that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of
Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced,
the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair
enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the
"path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty -- that the 2007 plan of
George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al
Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new
Arizona law. Let him go.
JOBS?
NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE!
Let
us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million
jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children,
will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the
heaviest price.
Last
year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government
-- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to
come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only
four other years in our history.
What
are we doing to our own people?
Whose
country is this, anyway?
America
today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws,
countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless,
under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and
punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This
is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can
anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing
the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she
described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the
administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to
serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and
workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In
Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under
“effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of
immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard
to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything,
the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of
future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re
printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Plus drug cartel violence is spreading across our border with Mexico further into the United States. Mexican drug cartels are increasingly being linked to crimes in this country. Joining Lou tonight, from our border with Mexico is the new “border czar” Alan Bersin, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Plus drug cartel violence is spreading across our border with Mexico further into the United States. Mexican drug cartels are increasingly being linked to crimes in this country. Joining Lou tonight, from our border with Mexico is the new “border czar” Alan Bersin, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
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Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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“According
to a report President Felipe Calderon gave to Congress this month, just 12% of
criminal investigations under his administration have ended in convictions.
Government figures obtained by The Associated Press earlier this year show that
three-quarters of the drug suspects arrested since Calderon took office in late
2006 have been freed.”
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http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?6272-Mexican-Army-corrupted-and-now-largest-Drug-Cartel-in-Mexico
Mexican Army corrupted and now largest Drug Cartel in Mexico
Mexican Army corrupted and now largest Drug Cartel in Mexico
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CALDERON,
LIKE ALL MEXICANS, LOVE TO RANT AND BLAME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR HIS NATIONS’
STAGGERING CORRUPTION, AND FAILURES. THE ONLY THING MEXICO HAS EVER SUCCEEDED
AT IS THE WHOLESALE TRANSFER OF THEIR POOR, CRIMINAL AND PREGNANT OVER OUR
BORDERS FOR FREE BIRTHING, WELFARE AND OUR JOBS! THAT CALDERON IS GOOD AT.
CALDERON
BLAMES THE U.S. FOR ORGANIZED CRIME, WHEN, LIKE A TYPICAL MEXICAN, HE’S LETTING
THE CRIMINALS OUT THE BACK DOOR OF HIS PRISONS!
WHO DOES
THIS DRUNK THINK HE’S KIDDING? OTHER THAN HIS LA RAZA PARTNER FOR OPEN BORDERS,
BARACK OBAMA?!?
Organized Crime in
Mexico Jeopardizes Prosperity of North America, Mexico’s President Says
A man is reflected in
a bullet riddled window of a gym in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday Feb. 28, 2011.
According to police at the scene, a man was shot to death by unknown gunmen
inside the gym while he was working out. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Washington
(CNSNews.com) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon, during his visit to
Washington, D.C., this week, said that organized crime in Mexico threatens the
“future prosperity” of the entire North American region.
“Now more than ever we
cannot ignore the fact that organized crime is a trans-national problem,” he
said on Thursday at a forum sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. “It has its origins on both sides of
the border. It’s a clear and present danger to all our citizens.
“It’s clear to me that
the solution must come from both sides of the border,” he said. “We have found
renewed cooperation to face this problem in the Obama administration, but
there’s no doubt that more must be done and very soon.”
“Make no mistake, the
future prosperity of Mexico, the U.S., and the North American region is at
stake,” he added. “Mexico is fully committed to doing our part.”
The Mexican leader
said that the United States must do more to curtail its demand for drugs,
dismantle the financial operations of criminal groups, and put a stop to the
“uncontrolled sale of assault weapons to criminals,” which, Calderon said, are
being used against citizens and law enforcement from both Mexico and the United
States.
Calderon highlighted
the death of Jaime Zapata, a U.S. special agent who was allegedly killed in
Mexico by members of a drug cartel, as an example of the mortal toll that is
part of fighting organized crime.
“As we anticipated,
the fight against organized crime takes time. It costs money, and suddenly
human life as well, such as the case with Special Agent Jaime Zapata who died
recently [in Mexico] at the hands of merciless gunmen while helping to make
North America a safer place,” said Calderon.
He pointed out that
many members of the Mexican military and police force have also lost their
lives to combating organized crime and keeping drugs out of Mexico and the
United States.
The public forum that
was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars followed
Calderon’s visit with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders.
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30 GULF
CARTEL SUSPECTS CAPTURE IN MEXICO… PROBABLY LET OUT OF JAIL TO WAITING
LIMOUSINES ALREADY! VIVA LA RAZA!
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30 Gulf
cartel suspects captured in north Mexico
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — Mexican marines captured 30 suspected Gulf cartel members and
seized an arsenal of weapons during two days of raids in a northern border
state torn by drug gang battles, officials announced Wednesday.
The
marines, acting on intelligence obtained by the navy and other agencies,
conducted the raids in Matamoros and Reynosa, two cities across the border from
Texas in the state of Tamaulipas, Rear Adm. Jose Luis Vergara said.
The
troops seized more than 50 guns, two shoulder-fired rocket launchers, 21
grenades and ammunition.
The 30
suspects, including one woman, were paraded before reporters at an air base in
Mexico City, handcuffed and flanked by masked marines in black-and-white combat
gear. They were lined up in front of a helicopter, the arsenal of weapons laid
out in front of them.
Despite
the display, the navy gave no indication of how significant the arrests were in
the government's efforts to destroy the Gulf cartel, which is waging a bloody
turf war in Tamaulipas with its former ally, the Zetas gang of hit men.
Vergara
said all 30 are believed to belong to the Gulf cartel but gave no details on
their alleged roles in the gang. He took no questions.
Parading
drug suspects in front of the media is a near-weekly ritual in Mexico that has
come under increasing criticism from human rights groups.
Last
week, opposition politicians grilled Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna
about the practice during a congressional hearing, calling it propaganda meant
to deflect the public's concerns over the power of drug gangs.
According to a report President
Felipe Calderon gave to Congress this month, just 12% of criminal
investigations under his administration have ended in convictions. Government
figures obtained by The Associated Press earlier this year show that
three-quarters of the drug suspects arrested since Calderon took office in late
2006 have been freed.
Drug-gang
violence has claimed 28,000 lives since December 2006, when Calderon deployed
thousands of troops and federal police seeking to wrest territory from the drug
lords.
Since
the split between the Gulf and Zetas gangs this year, Tamaulipas and
neighboring Nuevo Leon state have seen some of the most horrific attacks,
including the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate and several mayors and
the August massacre of 72 migrants.
In the
latest violence, attackers threw an explosive at city hall in Matamoros early
Wednesday, injuring three people, the federal Attorney General's Office said.
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Obama
Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
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Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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By Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic
On May 9, a 15-year-old girl walked into Arizona through the San Luis port of entry,
near Yuma, with 5 pounds of marijuana strapped around her belly, Customs and
Border Protection records show.
She was busted by
customs officers.
Later that day, a
16-year-old boy tried the same thing with 2 pounds of cannabis taped to his
legs. He, too, was arrested.
The marijuana, with a
combined street value of $72,000, was confiscated.
The juveniles — both
U.S. citizens — were turned over to police, but others keep taking their place.
In the past two years,
Homeland Security officials have witnessed a disturbing development along the
Mexican border: kid smugglers.
"It's going
up," said Michael Lowrie, a public-affairs agent for the U.S.
Border Patrol. "Not a whole lot, but more than we've seen in, well, pretty
much ever."
The Border
Patrol
does not keep data on juvenile drug runners caught trying to sneak into
Arizona. Customs and Border Protection records show 130 minors were caught
attempting to bring drugs through entry ports from Sonora into Arizona during
fiscal 2009, an 83% increase over the previous year.
Teresa Small, a Customs
and Border Protection spokeswoman in San Luis, said narcotics organizations are
recruiting American teens with claims that they won't face major punishment if
caught.
"Drug-trafficking
organizations lead them to believe they will not have a substantial
sentence," Small said. Prison terms are not uncommon for teen smugglers.
The problem escalated
last year to a point where federal and local authorities created programs to
warn Yuma County students about the dangers and consequences of drug smuggling.
The federal campaign includes a presentation by border agents.
Judge Maria Elena Cruz
said she has noticed a surge of young smugglers who are stunned when she orders
them incarcerated.
Small said most of the
youthful offenders are Americans with family members in Mexico. She said port
officers generally refer suspects to local authorities for prosecution under
Arizona law, rather than to the federal justice system.
"One thing for
sure: They will get the hardest punishment possible," Small said.
Still, the cases pile
up.
On June 24, Customs and
Border Protection reported, a 16-year-old American boy was arrested at the San
Luis port of entry with cocaine taped to his leg.
"They think they're
going to get away with it or get a slap on the wrist," Lowrie
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KEEP
THIS IN MIND AS YOU WITNESS OBAMA AND HIS LA RAZA HISPANDERING ADMINISTRATION’S
ENDLESS ASSAULT ON THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA FOR MORE “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS, KNOWN
TO HIM AS “UNREGISTERED VOTERS”.
Gov. Brewer: Most border-crossers are drug
'mules' for Mexican cartels
Expanding on comments
made at a candidates' debate, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said today she believes
that most illegal immigrants crossing the border are "mules" carrying
drugs for Mexican cartels.
"I believe today,
under the circumstances that we're facing, that the majority of the illegal
trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction
and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in," Brewer told the Associated Press.
"There's strong
information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then
they are accosted and they become subjects of the drug cartel," she said.
During the June 15
Republican debate she said she believed that most illegal immigrants did not
enter the United States for work. She then associated illegal immigrants with
drug smuggling, drop houses, extortion and other criminal activity, according
to AP.
The state law she signed
making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally will take effect next month.
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THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF AMERICA BY LA RAZA
“THE RACE” MEXICO:
http://www.mexica-movement.org/ They claim all of North America
for Mexico!
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Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon started his crackdown on drug cartels and corrupt law enforcement two years ago, more than 4,000 people have been killed. The death toll among law
enforcement has topped 500. Kidnappings and violence are spreading across the border, and now the AP reports Mexican cartels have green-lighted hits against targets in the U.S. We’ll talk to Phoenix police about becoming the kidnapping capital of the nation and the rapid increase in other crimes linked to Mexico the city is coping with.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon started his crackdown on drug cartels and corrupt law enforcement two years ago, more than 4,000 people have been killed. The death toll among law
enforcement has topped 500. Kidnappings and violence are spreading across the border, and now the AP reports Mexican cartels have green-lighted hits against targets in the U.S. We’ll talk to Phoenix police about becoming the kidnapping capital of the nation and the rapid increase in other crimes linked to Mexico the city is coping with.
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Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Monday, June 16, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tonight, we’ll have all the latest on the
devastating floods in the Midwest and all the day’s news from the campaign
trail. The massive corporate mouthpiece the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding
a “North American Forum” to lay out its “shared vision” for the United States,
Canada and Mexico – which is to say a borderless, pro-business super-state in
which U.S. sovereignty will be dissolved. Undercover investigators have found
incredibly lax security and enforcement at U.S. border crossings, according to
a new report by the Government Accountability Office. This report comes on the
heels of a separate report by U.C. San Diego that shows tougher border security
efforts aren’t deterring illegal entries to the United States.
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Lou
Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang
members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our
Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to
import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert
joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why
he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug
gangs.
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EVEN
AS THE MEX DRUG CARTELS POUR OVER OUR BORDERS, OBAMA HAS TAKEN HUNDREDS MORE
GUARD OFF SINCE SEPT 2009! AND THE OBAMA DECLARES “BORDER SECURITY” IS THE
HALLMARK OF HIS PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP!
Lou
Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF
TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO
CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO
NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests
of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama,
according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative
arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all
fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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From the Los Angeles
Times
Less cocaine on U.S. streets, report says
The National Drug Threat
Assessment cites increased drug seizures on smuggling routes and Mexico's war
on organized crime.
By Richard Marosi
December 16, 2008
Reporting from San Diego — Mexican drug trafficking organizations are expanding their control of U.S. markets but appear to be struggling to keep cocaine and other illegal drugs on American streets, according to a government report released Monday.
Cocaine remains the leading drug threat, though marijuana is the most commonly abused illegal substance, according to the National Drug Threat Assessment report. Profits from those drugs, along with methamphetamine, heroin and others, range from $18 billion to $39 billion for Mexican and Colombian trafficking groups.
Cocaine availability continued to decline in many cities, a trend the report attributed to Mexico's ongoing battles with traffickers and to increased seizures by U.S. authorities. The shortages have pushed the price of cocaine up 41% since 2006, from $87 to $123 per gram, the report said.
Meanwhile, some methamphetamine production appears to be shifting back to the U.S. after successful efforts by Mexico to crack down on the precursor drugs needed to produce the drug there, according to the report.
The study, along with a recent survey by the University of Michigan showing drug use as reported by high school students had declined 25% since 2001, was cited by the Bush administration as evidence of progress in curbing drug availability and use.
"There will be more work done after I'm out of here," President Bush said last week after a meeting on drug use reduction, "but we have laid the foundation for a successful effort against drug use, drug supply and helping those who have been addicted."
Critics say the administration's strategy has failed to curb America's enormous appetite for drugs, through prevention and treatment. In 2008, the federal government spent $13.6 billion on drug control, with 64% going toward law enforcement. About 36%, or $4.9 billion, was aimed at treatment and prevention.
"At the very best it's containing the problem, not solving it," said Mauricio Cardenas, director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. "Focusing entirely on supply and eradication is not taking us too far. We have to bring demand and consumption into the picture."
From 2003 to 2007, cocaine production in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru increased from 790 to 865 metric tons, the report said. Less cocaine reached America's streets in 2007 in part because of several exceptionally large seizures of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific route, the report said.
The Mexican government's offensive on organized crime appears to be disrupting traditional trafficking routes, with cartels increasingly moving drugs through California rather than Texas, according to the report. Cocaine seizures in 2007 at California ports of entry exceeded the totals in Texas for the first time since 2004, according to the report.
Marijuana continues to be America's illegal drug of choice; levels of marijuana use are higher than any other drug. Meanwhile the average potency of marijuana increased in 2006 to the highest levels ever recorded, in part because of improvements in cultivation techniques, the report said.
December 16, 2008
Reporting from San Diego — Mexican drug trafficking organizations are expanding their control of U.S. markets but appear to be struggling to keep cocaine and other illegal drugs on American streets, according to a government report released Monday.
Cocaine remains the leading drug threat, though marijuana is the most commonly abused illegal substance, according to the National Drug Threat Assessment report. Profits from those drugs, along with methamphetamine, heroin and others, range from $18 billion to $39 billion for Mexican and Colombian trafficking groups.
Cocaine availability continued to decline in many cities, a trend the report attributed to Mexico's ongoing battles with traffickers and to increased seizures by U.S. authorities. The shortages have pushed the price of cocaine up 41% since 2006, from $87 to $123 per gram, the report said.
Meanwhile, some methamphetamine production appears to be shifting back to the U.S. after successful efforts by Mexico to crack down on the precursor drugs needed to produce the drug there, according to the report.
The study, along with a recent survey by the University of Michigan showing drug use as reported by high school students had declined 25% since 2001, was cited by the Bush administration as evidence of progress in curbing drug availability and use.
"There will be more work done after I'm out of here," President Bush said last week after a meeting on drug use reduction, "but we have laid the foundation for a successful effort against drug use, drug supply and helping those who have been addicted."
Critics say the administration's strategy has failed to curb America's enormous appetite for drugs, through prevention and treatment. In 2008, the federal government spent $13.6 billion on drug control, with 64% going toward law enforcement. About 36%, or $4.9 billion, was aimed at treatment and prevention.
"At the very best it's containing the problem, not solving it," said Mauricio Cardenas, director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. "Focusing entirely on supply and eradication is not taking us too far. We have to bring demand and consumption into the picture."
From 2003 to 2007, cocaine production in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru increased from 790 to 865 metric tons, the report said. Less cocaine reached America's streets in 2007 in part because of several exceptionally large seizures of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific route, the report said.
The Mexican government's offensive on organized crime appears to be disrupting traditional trafficking routes, with cartels increasingly moving drugs through California rather than Texas, according to the report. Cocaine seizures in 2007 at California ports of entry exceeded the totals in Texas for the first time since 2004, according to the report.
Marijuana continues to be America's illegal drug of choice; levels of marijuana use are higher than any other drug. Meanwhile the average potency of marijuana increased in 2006 to the highest levels ever recorded, in part because of improvements in cultivation techniques, the report said.
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THAT
SUCKING SOUND. THE LOOTING OF AMERICA BY THE MEXICAN OCCUPIERS
LEGISLATORS
FROM MEXICO STATE ANGRY AT INFLUX OF MEXICANS RETURNING TO THEIR HOMELAND
Posted
by Kim Priestap
Can you
believe the nerve of these people? Nine state legislators from the Mexican
state of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona's new employer
crackdown on illegals from Mexico. It seems many Mexican illegals are now
returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government
are ticked. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on
Tuesday to say Arizona's new employer sanctions law will have a devastating
effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora
- Arizona's southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle
the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican
workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money. The law, which
took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don't
have valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include
suspension or loss of a business license. They're teed off because their own
citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a huge burden on their state
government. They want to tell them how the law will affect Mexican families on
both sides of the border 'How can they pass a law like this?' asked Mexican
Rep. Leticia Amparano- Gamez, who represents Nogales. 'There is not one person
living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,'
she said in Spanish. 'Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous
problems' it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending
money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said. '
We are one family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora
and Arizona. Wrong!!! The United States is a sovereign nation and its states
and its citizens are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico's citizens. It's
time for the Mexican government to stop parasitically feeding off of the United
States and start taking care of its own citizens. Too bad all the states don't
pass a law just like it. Maybe that's the answer since congress will not do
anything.
MEXICAN
LOOTING... THAT SUCKING SOUND
“I know
that many aliens who come here to work want to remain here, yet all too many
come to the United States with a "looter" philosophy, giving the lawful
immigrants who want to share in the “American Dream” a bad reputation.”
Recently I wrote a commentary about the movement of cash out of the United
States through remittances and other methods by illegal aliens who came here
with the single-minded focus of securing illegal employment to send money home
to assist their family members. The amounts of money that are consequently
drained from our economy are huge and do not include the other costs our nation
incurs because of the 40 million illegal aliens who are estimated to be
residing and working in our country illegally. This article, originally
published in the Christian Science Monitor, focuses on the impact of the
reduction in the value of the dollar on the illegal aliens who are draining
billions of dollars out of our nation's economy – but nothing is said about the
impact of this loss of money on the economy of the United States and on the
ability of the average American to meet his expenses. So-called "man in
the street" interviews of lottery ticket purchasers (that broadcast
journalists frequently conduct when lottery jackpots soar into the
stratosphere) often include a person with a distinctive foreign accent (not
necessary Spanish) and the question is asked, "If you win the $120 million
prize what will you do?" In so many of those cases, the answer is quick
and to the point, "I am going home to my country!" In my former INS
experience, it was not uncommon for the illegal aliens I arrested to make it
clear that they were here for one purpose: to make as much money as possible as
quickly as possible and send it all home. I know that many aliens who come here
to work want to remain here, yet all too many come to the United States with a
"looter" philosophy, giving the lawful immigrants who want to share
in the “American Dream” a bad reputation. Part of the problem is that the
relationship that businesses have with the United States is one of greed. These
companies couldn't care less about the damage that they do to this country or
the average working American. They are happy to exploit the illegal aliens and
in so doing, get a lucrative piece of the action. And the bankers and money
wire services like Western Union have become the silent partners of the illegal
aliens. Of course, if the American dollar plummets far enough many illegal
aliens will probably just head home, leaving this country in financial
disarray. But when you read about the amounts of money being sent out of the
United States that is lost to our economy, you must realize that the money you
are reading about is not being earned by Americans or by lawful immigrants,
because they have been displaced by illegal aliens who are willing to work for
substandard wages. Unfortunately, Congress has just passed what has been billed
as an "Economic Stimulus Package." This bill will undoubtedly be
signed into law by the President and will call for taxpayers to be mailed
one-time rebate checks that (it is hoped) will be used to spend on consumer
goods that – get this – for the most part are not even produced in the United
States. A large part of the problem we are having right now is that Americans
are not saving enough money. Our citizens have been cashing in the value of
their homes with second mortgages and huge credit card debts and now, the value
of most of those houses has fallen into the basement! There is an utter lack of
fiscal responsibility in abundant evidence in Washington and around kitchen
tables across the United States and meanwhile, the front runners in the
Presidential elections are eager to provide amnesty and thus more incentives
for still more illegal aliens to drain still more money out of our economy.
They will do this through remittances and other means of sending money back
home. They will do this when they show up in the emergency rooms of hospitals
across our nation demanding medical treatment without medical insurance. The
criminal element of this massive influx of illegal aliens will injure and kill
more victims in our country, destroying lives and the lives of family members of
the victims of those crimes. Some of the crimes will also result in property
losses and in fraud. Identity theft is the fastest growing white collar crime
in America today and is often motivated by organized rings that sell these
stolen identities to illegal aliens seeking illegal employment. The
Congressional Budget Office has recently done a study that concludes that
contrary to the assertions of the open borders / pro-amnesty crowd, illegal
aliens represent a net drain on the economy. Finally, the attacks of September
11, 2001, in addition to the death and destruction they wrought, hammered our
economy and the economies of other countries. Trade suffered, travel and
tourism suffered – yet the travel and hospitality industries are pushing a
program known as "Discover America" wherein they are attempting to
have the United States government expand the Visa Waiver Program beyond the
current 27 participating countries to as many as 39 countries.
THE
AMERICAN WORKING POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS SHOULDER THE GREATEST BURDEN OF OPEN
BORDERS
In the
end, the United States and its working poor and middle class that is
shouldering the greatest burden of the open borders and cash movement mess.
Interestingly, with all of the interviews that were conducted in the article linked
above, not a single interview was conducted to find out what the impact of the
decline of the dollar has had on the average American family. ................
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MOVE TO END MEXICAN OCCUPATION and
WELFARE STATE
Arizona and Indiana Move Forward
With Immigration Enforcement Bills
Faced
with rising unemployment and the federal government’s refusal to enforce our
immigration laws, state legislatures are moving to address these issues on
their own. Last week, senate committees in Indiana and Arizona voted to move
forward with two enforcement-oriented bills.
On
January 20, 2010, the Indiana Senate Committee on Pensions and Labor passed
Senate Bill (SB) 213 by a unanimous vote of nine to zero. (Roll
Call Vote # 6791, January 20, 2010). Sponsored
by State Senators Mike Delph (R-Carmel), Phil Boots (R-Crawfordsville), and
Dennis Kruse (R-Auburn), SB 213 would require all state agencies,
municipalities, and employers that contract with state and local government
entities in Indiana to use E-Verify. SB 213 would also require the
state’s Department of Labor to verify citizenship before determining
eligibility for unemployment benefits and prohibit the enactment of sanctuary
ordinances throughout the state. (Senate
Bill No. 213; Bill
Summary; and Press
Release, January 6, 2010). The bill will now
move before the Senate Committee on Appropriations for further consideration. (Committee
Report, January 21, 2010).
Also
on January 20, the Arizona Senate Committee on Public Safety and Human Services
approved SB 1070 by a vote of four to three. (Committee
Meeting Video, January 20, 2010). Entitled
the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” SB 1070 would
prohibit Arizona police departments from adopting sanctuary policies that
prevent officers from asking individuals about their immigration status. SB
1070 would also establish a new state trespassing statute that would make it
illegal for any person to be present on any public or private land in Arizona
in violation of federal immigration law. The bill, which has drawn support from
the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association and the Arizona Police Association,
must now pass the State Senate’s Rules Committee before receiving consideration
before the full Senate. (The
Arizona Republic, January 21, 2010). A similar bill
passed the Arizona State Senate last year, but stalled in the House. (KSWT, January
20, 2010).
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ARIZONA
– MEXICAN KIDNAPPING CAPITAL of U.S.
California
Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so
intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists – those
involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug cartels that are
sweeping Phoenix – are overlooked.
"Those
[criminals], for the average Californian or the average America, may be a more
immediate threat to their well being," Brown said.
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Kidnapping
Capital of the U.S.A.
Washington
Too Concerned With al Qaeda Terrorists to Care, Officials Say
By BRIAN
ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and ASA ESLOCKER
February
11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous
and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital
of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of
Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say
Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is
happening in their own backyard right now.
Wave of
abductions hit Phoenix. Is Washington paying enough attention?
"We're
in the eye of the storm," Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News
of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico's drug cartels
that have expanded business across the border. "If it doesn't stop here,
if we're not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across
the nation," he said.
California
Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so
intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists – those involved
with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug cartels that are sweeping Phoenix
– are overlooked.
WATCH:
Phoenix: Kidnapping Capital of U.S.
U.S.
Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?
"Those [criminals], for the average
Californian or the average America, may be a more immediate threat to their
well being," Brown said.
In fact,
kidnappings and other crimes connected to the Mexican drug cartels are quickly
spreading across the border, from Texas to California. The majority of the
victims are either illegal aliens or connected to the drug trade.
An ABC
News' investigation uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and
heads when a victim's family doesn't pay up fast enough.
"They're
ruthless, so now they're ripping each other off, but doing it in our
city," Anderson said.
To try
and combat the crime wave, the Phoenix police have created a special unit to
handle the kidnappings called the Home Invasion Task Force, which has pulled
more than a dozen officers off other assignments. The crimes are occurring
across the valley and in all types of neighborhoods, authorities warn.
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Stolen identity. It’s all part
of the Mexican invasion!
Report: E-Verify misses half of
illegal workers
Employee-screening
system often thwarted by stolen IDs
103
commentsby Daniel González - Feb. 26,
2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
The Arizona Republic
Two
years after Arizona began requiring all employers to use a federal online
program to ensure a legal workforce, a new study indicates that illegal workers
are slipping through the system more than half of the time by using stolen identities.
Fifty-four
percent of the illegal workers whose names were run through the program
nationwide were wrongly found to be authorized to work, according to the report
by Westat, a Maryland research company hired by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security to evaluate the system, known as E-Verify.
The
system's high inaccuracy rate for illegal workers using stolen identities has
greatly alarmed business groups in Arizona.
The
state's 2008 employer-sanctions law mandates that employers use E-Verify and
gives authorities the power to close down businesses found to be knowingly
hiring illegal workers.
"Arizona
employers are relying when they sign up for E-Verify that this is an accurate
program," said Glenn Hamer, president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of
Commerce and Industry. "If the system is busted, it's obviously unfair to
punish employers."
In
2008, Arizona became the first state in the nation to require all employers to
use E-Verify. Since then, more than 33,000 Arizona businesses have signed up
for the program, the highest number of any state, according to U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, which oversees E-Verify.
Maricopa
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has raided 30 businesses under the employer-sanctions
law and has arrested hundreds of workers accused of using forgery, fraud and identity theft
to gain employment illegally.
In
November, County Attorney Andrew Thomas also filed a complaint against a
custom-cabinet and -furniture business, the Scottsdale Art Factory.
And,
in December, Thomas announced sanctions against a water park, but the sanctions
never took effect because the park closed after it was raided. The water park
has since reopened under new management.
State
Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, who co-sponsored Arizona's sanctions law,
said he is disappointed E-Verify has such a high inaccuracy rate for illegal
workers, but he defended the program.
"It's
disappointing to know that the best tool available is not that effective, but
it's better than no tool," he said.
"It
also shows the need to improve the system," either through enhancing photo
checks or introducing biometric checks, such as fingerprint scanning.
Arizona's
sanctions law spurred other states to pass similar laws as part of an effort to
crack down on illegal immigration. Eleven other states now require at least
some, if not all, businesses to use E-Verify.
The
program is voluntary in other states. A total of 188,358 businesses out of
about 7 million employers have signed up to use E-Verify nationwide. However,
some members of Congress are pushing to make E-Verify mandatory nationwide.
E-Verify
allows employers to use an online program to run a worker's information against
Homeland Security and Social Security
databases to check whether the person is authorized to work in the U.S.
The
Westat report, which studied data from September 2007 to June 2008, found that
93 percent of the workers checked by employers were accurately deemed
authorized to work. The system wrongly flagged less than 1 percent of legal
workers as being unauthorized.
About
6 percent of the people run through the system should not have been authorized
to work, the report said, but nearly 54 percent of them were wrongly deemed
authorized. That 54 percent amounts to about 3.3 percent of the total workers
run through the system.
The
accuracy checks are estimates based on federal records and interviews with
employers, workers and federal staff.
Last
fiscal year, about 8.5 million queries were run through the system.
Bill
Wright, a spokesman for the CIS in Washington, said the Westat report shows
that overall, E-Verify is effective at preventing illegal immigrants from
getting jobs, but he acknowledged the system has problems screening out those
using stolen identities.
"I
don't mean to trivialize it. Certainly, it's an issue," he said.
The
government recently added a tool aimed at cutting down on the number of illegal
workers who slip through E-Verify using stolen identities by letting employers
match photos on green cards against photos in government immigration databases,
he said.
The
government also wants to work out agreements with states that incorporate
driver's-license databases into the E-Verify system to further screen out
illegal workers using stolen identities.
Marc
Rosenblum, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a
research group in Washington, D.C., said the fact that 54 percent of illegal
workers are slipping through E-Verify shows that the program is not an adequate
tool.
"That's
a pretty bad success rate," he said. "The bottom line is we can't
expect E-Verify to solve the problem by itself."
Jim
Harper, director of information-policy studies at the Cato Institute, said the
study shows E-Verify is not only ineffective but that the program likely has
spurred more illegal immigrants to use stolen identities to circumvent the
system.
"The
chances are very strong that is what happened," Harper said. The institute
is a libertarian group in Washington, D.C., that favors increases in legal
immigration over enforcement measures to solve illegal immigration.
In
the past, illegal immigrants mostly used fake documents with invented Social
Security numbers to get jobs. But recently, law-enforcement
officials in Arizona have seen an increase in identity theft involving Social
Security numbers and other information belonging to real people.
"We've
probably arrested 30 individuals (since November) that all had to do with
identity theft involving real (Social Security numbers)," said David Lugo,
a detective who
investigates document fraud for the Arizona Department of Transportation.
The
increase in identity theft comes as the state's ability to investigate such
crimes has been diminished. In November, the Arizona Fraudulent Identification
Task Force made up of investigators from several law-enforcement agencies was
eliminated due to budget cuts,
said Lugo, a former member.
Republic
reporter JJ Hensley contributed to this article.
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latimes.com
Immigration
law ignites fear in Arizona
A
new state law requires public workers to report illegal immigrants who apply
for benefits they aren't entitled to. The attorney general will decide the
law's scope.
By
Nicholas Riccardi
January
1, 2010
Reporting
from Tucson
Cristina,
an illegal immigrant living in South Tucson, recently went to a government
office to sign up her children for a state-run Medicaid program.
The boy and girl, ages 7 and 3, respectively, are U.S. citizens and entitled to the benefits. But Cristina, who spoke on condition her last name not be used, was fearful. She'd heard of a new state law requiring public workers to alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement when illegal immigrants apply for benefits they are not legally entitled to.
So when workers asked Cristina, 32, for identification, she fled. She now says she has no way to treat her daughter's liver problems or her son's asthma and impacted tooth.
Cristina, a single mother and part-time house cleaner, is even reluctant to take her children to a hospital emergency room. "I feel so alone," she said.
The new law has terrified the immigrant community here, leading to agonized discussions at schools, churches and community meetings about whether it is safe to get government help in Arizona. The author of the law, state Sen. Russell Pearce, is happy about that.
"I have a hard time having compassion for criminals," Pearce said. "It's about time people started being afraid."
Pearce contends that a large number of illegal immigrants improperly receive public benefits, and his law makes it a misdemeanor for a public worker to fail to report one. The law also allows citizens to sue public agencies if they believe immigrants are receiving improper benefits.
"I want the law enforced," he said. "Every time you pass something it becomes a toothless tiger." He acknowledged that his bill is not supposed to apply to people like Cristina's children, who are legally entitled to federal benefits.
The law took effect in late November, and it is not yet clear what government services it applies to. Some fear it could mean libraries and fire stations are obligated to report illegal immigrants, an interpretation Pearce said is silly.
He said the bill applies only to a range of welfare, Medicaid and other government aid programs that are not already guaranteed to illegal immigrants under federal law.
But many Arizonans are awaiting an opinion from the state's attorney general on the law's scope and which government workers are obligated to report illegal immigrants.
Critics of the law say it creates fear and uncertainty over a problem that doesn't exist.
"It's already the law in Arizona that we cannot give benefits to people who are in the country illegally," said Ken Strobeck, executive director of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns, which unsuccessfully sued to halt the law's implementation.
Experts on both sides of the immigration debate agree that illegal immigrants rarely receive government benefits illegally. Many economists have found that immigrants pay for benefits they receive through taxes, though some studies show a net loss to government.
The main cost to taxpayers comes from the use of public schools or emergency medical care -- benefits guaranteed illegal immigrants under federal law.
Also, children of illegal immigrants who are U.S. citizens are eligible for the same benefits as those of any other citizen, such as food stamps.
"There's not much that Arizona can do about it," said Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which favors restrictions on immigration. "The only solution is for us to have fewer illegals and fewer U.S.-born children" of illegal immigrants, he added.
Camarota estimated that families headed by illegal immigrants receive public assistance at about the same rate as families of native-born citizens who lack a high school education. A 2002 study by the Urban Institute found that illegal-immigrant families used benefits at a far lower rate than native-born ones -- for example, 11% of illegal-immigrant families in Los Angeles County used food stamps, compared with 33% of low-income native-born ones.
Randy Capps, who worked on the Urban Institute study and is now at the Migration Policy Institute, said illegal immigrants shy away from government aid. "When you're in an anti-immigrant, hostile environment, like in Arizona, the message is clear that you put yourself at risk with any contact with the government," Capps said.
In 2004, Pearce, a Republican, helped write a ballot initiative that required state workers to report illegal immigrants who receive benefits. But Arizona Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard, a Democrat, interpreted the measure narrowly so the law applied to only a couple of obscure programs.
This year, as the state struggled to address its budget deficit, Pearce inserted language in the budget bill reiterating those requirements. Many immigrant advocates and local officials were unaware of the move until the law took effect. Its impact was swift.
Jennifer Allen, executive director of the Border Action Network here, said the group has been swamped with calls from terrified parents, like Cristina, fearful of seeking benefits for their U.S. citizen children.
"It's sent a shock wave of fear through immigrant communities," Allen said.
The state Department of Economic Services, which administers welfare benefits, has referred to federal authorities more than 750 people who applied for benefits without proof of legal residency. Officials at ICE have not said whether they have taken action on those cases, but stressed that their priorities in deportations lie with violent criminals.
On a recent morning, a group of immigrants sat in the modest offices of the Border Action Network, sharing stories of fearful trips to apply for benefits. Sofia Machado, an English teacher and volunteer at the group, said one of her neighbors had been deported after seeking Medicaid for her U.S.-born children.
Just as Machado finished telling the story, her cellphone rang. The caller's daughter was three months pregnant and had started bleeding, but the caller feared taking her to the hospital. Machado tried to reassure the caller that hospitals should not be checking immigration status.
"There's a lack of information and a panicked ignorance," she said afterward. "Look at the disaster these people have created."
The boy and girl, ages 7 and 3, respectively, are U.S. citizens and entitled to the benefits. But Cristina, who spoke on condition her last name not be used, was fearful. She'd heard of a new state law requiring public workers to alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement when illegal immigrants apply for benefits they are not legally entitled to.
So when workers asked Cristina, 32, for identification, she fled. She now says she has no way to treat her daughter's liver problems or her son's asthma and impacted tooth.
Cristina, a single mother and part-time house cleaner, is even reluctant to take her children to a hospital emergency room. "I feel so alone," she said.
The new law has terrified the immigrant community here, leading to agonized discussions at schools, churches and community meetings about whether it is safe to get government help in Arizona. The author of the law, state Sen. Russell Pearce, is happy about that.
"I have a hard time having compassion for criminals," Pearce said. "It's about time people started being afraid."
Pearce contends that a large number of illegal immigrants improperly receive public benefits, and his law makes it a misdemeanor for a public worker to fail to report one. The law also allows citizens to sue public agencies if they believe immigrants are receiving improper benefits.
"I want the law enforced," he said. "Every time you pass something it becomes a toothless tiger." He acknowledged that his bill is not supposed to apply to people like Cristina's children, who are legally entitled to federal benefits.
The law took effect in late November, and it is not yet clear what government services it applies to. Some fear it could mean libraries and fire stations are obligated to report illegal immigrants, an interpretation Pearce said is silly.
He said the bill applies only to a range of welfare, Medicaid and other government aid programs that are not already guaranteed to illegal immigrants under federal law.
But many Arizonans are awaiting an opinion from the state's attorney general on the law's scope and which government workers are obligated to report illegal immigrants.
Critics of the law say it creates fear and uncertainty over a problem that doesn't exist.
"It's already the law in Arizona that we cannot give benefits to people who are in the country illegally," said Ken Strobeck, executive director of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns, which unsuccessfully sued to halt the law's implementation.
Experts on both sides of the immigration debate agree that illegal immigrants rarely receive government benefits illegally. Many economists have found that immigrants pay for benefits they receive through taxes, though some studies show a net loss to government.
The main cost to taxpayers comes from the use of public schools or emergency medical care -- benefits guaranteed illegal immigrants under federal law.
Also, children of illegal immigrants who are U.S. citizens are eligible for the same benefits as those of any other citizen, such as food stamps.
"There's not much that Arizona can do about it," said Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which favors restrictions on immigration. "The only solution is for us to have fewer illegals and fewer U.S.-born children" of illegal immigrants, he added.
Camarota estimated that families headed by illegal immigrants receive public assistance at about the same rate as families of native-born citizens who lack a high school education. A 2002 study by the Urban Institute found that illegal-immigrant families used benefits at a far lower rate than native-born ones -- for example, 11% of illegal-immigrant families in Los Angeles County used food stamps, compared with 33% of low-income native-born ones.
Randy Capps, who worked on the Urban Institute study and is now at the Migration Policy Institute, said illegal immigrants shy away from government aid. "When you're in an anti-immigrant, hostile environment, like in Arizona, the message is clear that you put yourself at risk with any contact with the government," Capps said.
In 2004, Pearce, a Republican, helped write a ballot initiative that required state workers to report illegal immigrants who receive benefits. But Arizona Atty. Gen. Terry Goddard, a Democrat, interpreted the measure narrowly so the law applied to only a couple of obscure programs.
This year, as the state struggled to address its budget deficit, Pearce inserted language in the budget bill reiterating those requirements. Many immigrant advocates and local officials were unaware of the move until the law took effect. Its impact was swift.
Jennifer Allen, executive director of the Border Action Network here, said the group has been swamped with calls from terrified parents, like Cristina, fearful of seeking benefits for their U.S. citizen children.
"It's sent a shock wave of fear through immigrant communities," Allen said.
The state Department of Economic Services, which administers welfare benefits, has referred to federal authorities more than 750 people who applied for benefits without proof of legal residency. Officials at ICE have not said whether they have taken action on those cases, but stressed that their priorities in deportations lie with violent criminals.
On a recent morning, a group of immigrants sat in the modest offices of the Border Action Network, sharing stories of fearful trips to apply for benefits. Sofia Machado, an English teacher and volunteer at the group, said one of her neighbors had been deported after seeking Medicaid for her U.S.-born children.
Just as Machado finished telling the story, her cellphone rang. The caller's daughter was three months pregnant and had started bleeding, but the caller feared taking her to the hospital. Machado tried to reassure the caller that hospitals should not be checking immigration status.
"There's a lack of information and a panicked ignorance," she said afterward. "Look at the disaster these people have created."
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
“The principal
beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire
immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George
Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed
wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”
Christian Science Monitor
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high
cost of illegals
Arizona’s
illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers even more than
once thought -- a whopping $2.7 billion in 2009, according to researchers at
the public interest group that helped write the state's new immigration law.
Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.
FAIR’s cost estimates – compiled for a comprehensive national immigration report it plans to release next month – include several new cost areas, including welfare and the justice system, that weren’t in previous reports.
FAIR admits that the cost to implement the new law in some of those categories, such as incarceration, will add to the economic strain on the state. But overall, it says, the loss of immigrants either from the deterrent effect of the law, voluntary exodus or from mass deportations, will help the state financially.
Also, the savings to the state will far overwhelm any fallout from boycotts (estimated at between $7 million and $52 million) being threatened in the wake of the law's passage, according to FAIR spokesman Bob Dane.
FAIR's new breakdown shows that illegal immigrants take $1.6 billion from Arizona's education system, $694.8 million from health care services, $339.7 million in law enforcement and court costs, $85.5 million in welfare costs and $155.4 million in other general costs.
The organization concedes that enforcing Arizona SB1070, the new law that allows local police to ask for immigration documents and arrest those who don’t have them, will increase the state’s incarceration costs, police training budgets and prosecution expenses -- but it says those numbers can’t yet be estimated with certainty. Also, it says, some of those costs will be offset by revenues from fines levied against businesses charged with knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, as well as from immigrants themselves who might be charged with minor crimes and fined before being deported.
But the Immigration Policy Center, a major opponent of the new law, says FAIR's data do not accurately portray SB1070's potential outcome. “They count the costs and don’t look at the benefits. We tend to look at the benefits more closely,” said Council spokeswoman Wendy Sefsaf.
“It is like having a roommate and counting how much they cost in toilet paper and incidentals without looking at the benefits of having help with the rent,” she said.
“Overall, every comprehensive study has shown that immigrants are a net benefit to states. If you add their children, they are a very great benefit.”
The Center’s cost crunching found that "if all unauthorized immigrants were removed from Arizona, the state would lose $26.4 billion in economic activity, $11.7 billion in gross state product and approximately 140,324 jobs,” -- a disaster for the Grand Canyon State.
But FAIR’s numbers tell a far different story.
(Because of the polarizing nature of the debate and the lack of solid figures on everything from the number of illegal immigrants in the state to how to accurately figure their share of the costs, there are no numbers either side agrees on or has not challenged.)
Jack Martin, the chief researcher on the report, says his data, in fact, do include benefits like the estimated $142.8 million in taxes paid by an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants, and he says the Council’s numbers are unrealistic.
“They assume every illegal alien will leave right away," Martin said. "That is not going to happen.”
He said FAIR'S new estimates far exceed the report he wrote in 2004, which helped gain support for the passage of the Arizona law. In 2004, he said, he estimated that illegal immigrants cost the state $1.3 billion -- less than half the new estimate.
He said the new numbers put a reliable cost estimate on the economic impact of illegal immigration -- not just in Arizona, because the debate there largely ended with the passage of the immigration law, but nationally, as the debate spreads across the country.
”The numbers just keep growing,” Dane said.
Both Dane and Martin said that among FAIR’s most important findings was an estimate that tax revenues to the state will actually increase if illegal immigrants leave.
“We discovered after looking at places where big raids were made that salaries went up after the raids because employers now had to pay competitive wages to Americans.” Martin said. “And that will mean more money for the state.”
Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.
FAIR’s cost estimates – compiled for a comprehensive national immigration report it plans to release next month – include several new cost areas, including welfare and the justice system, that weren’t in previous reports.
FAIR admits that the cost to implement the new law in some of those categories, such as incarceration, will add to the economic strain on the state. But overall, it says, the loss of immigrants either from the deterrent effect of the law, voluntary exodus or from mass deportations, will help the state financially.
Also, the savings to the state will far overwhelm any fallout from boycotts (estimated at between $7 million and $52 million) being threatened in the wake of the law's passage, according to FAIR spokesman Bob Dane.
FAIR's new breakdown shows that illegal immigrants take $1.6 billion from Arizona's education system, $694.8 million from health care services, $339.7 million in law enforcement and court costs, $85.5 million in welfare costs and $155.4 million in other general costs.
The organization concedes that enforcing Arizona SB1070, the new law that allows local police to ask for immigration documents and arrest those who don’t have them, will increase the state’s incarceration costs, police training budgets and prosecution expenses -- but it says those numbers can’t yet be estimated with certainty. Also, it says, some of those costs will be offset by revenues from fines levied against businesses charged with knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, as well as from immigrants themselves who might be charged with minor crimes and fined before being deported.
But the Immigration Policy Center, a major opponent of the new law, says FAIR's data do not accurately portray SB1070's potential outcome. “They count the costs and don’t look at the benefits. We tend to look at the benefits more closely,” said Council spokeswoman Wendy Sefsaf.
“It is like having a roommate and counting how much they cost in toilet paper and incidentals without looking at the benefits of having help with the rent,” she said.
“Overall, every comprehensive study has shown that immigrants are a net benefit to states. If you add their children, they are a very great benefit.”
The Center’s cost crunching found that "if all unauthorized immigrants were removed from Arizona, the state would lose $26.4 billion in economic activity, $11.7 billion in gross state product and approximately 140,324 jobs,” -- a disaster for the Grand Canyon State.
But FAIR’s numbers tell a far different story.
(Because of the polarizing nature of the debate and the lack of solid figures on everything from the number of illegal immigrants in the state to how to accurately figure their share of the costs, there are no numbers either side agrees on or has not challenged.)
Jack Martin, the chief researcher on the report, says his data, in fact, do include benefits like the estimated $142.8 million in taxes paid by an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants, and he says the Council’s numbers are unrealistic.
“They assume every illegal alien will leave right away," Martin said. "That is not going to happen.”
He said FAIR'S new estimates far exceed the report he wrote in 2004, which helped gain support for the passage of the Arizona law. In 2004, he said, he estimated that illegal immigrants cost the state $1.3 billion -- less than half the new estimate.
He said the new numbers put a reliable cost estimate on the economic impact of illegal immigration -- not just in Arizona, because the debate there largely ended with the passage of the immigration law, but nationally, as the debate spreads across the country.
”The numbers just keep growing,” Dane said.
Both Dane and Martin said that among FAIR’s most important findings was an estimate that tax revenues to the state will actually increase if illegal immigrants leave.
“We discovered after looking at places where big raids were made that salaries went up after the raids because employers now had to pay competitive wages to Americans.” Martin said. “And that will mean more money for the state.”
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It's high time somebody
pointed out the real racists in this controversy. And yes, that would be many
of those making the charges of racism.
THE
REALITY OF THE MEXICAN INVASION OF ARIZONA!
"I live in a Tucson
neighborhood that is a major drug corridor. In the last four months there have
been over 24 violent home invasions resulting in a number of deaths. It's
harvest time now for marijuana in Mexico and Central America. We expect the
number of deaths to increase.
"One of the other
tragedies is human trafficking. 'Coyotes' bring vans overfilled with illegal
immigrants across the border, and because the load is more than the vehicle is
designed for, the vehicle will often roll, or go off the road, killing the
innocent people on board."
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DOES
ANYONE DOUBT THAT IN MEX OCCUPIED GANG AND WELFARE CAPITAL OF LA RAZA LAND, LOS
ANGELES THAT ILLEGALS TAKE PRIORITY? THEY DO IN JOBS! 47% OF THOSE WITH A JOB
ARE FREAKING ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!
Gregory Kane: Do Latinos take priority
over whites in Arizona?
America's open-borders crowd didn't just play the race card in the
nation's latest immigration debate. This bunch whipped out an entire deck.
We have none other than the Revvum Al Sharpton himself -- who no
one has described as "Mr. Racial Harmony" -- weighing in with these
gems.
"The Arizona immigration bill is an affront to the civil
rights of all Americans and an attempt to legalize racial profiling."
That one was from the April 25 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
The following one is from Reuters:
"I am calling for the resignation and removal of Sheriff
[Joe] Arpaio. Harassment based on color is nothing short of racial profiling,
which many of us helped to fight to make against the law."
Sharpton was referring to the sheriff of Maricopa County in
Arizona. What's Arpaio's offense, in the good revvum's view? Why, taking our
nation's immigration laws seriously, of course, and rounding up those who
violate them. Here's more of Sharpton continuing his anti-Arpaio rant, taken
from the Reuters story:
"Arpaio needs to be confronted. He needs to be removed. We
also need to suspend the law that he is using. We must stand with our brown
brothers and sisters."
Sharpton lives nowhere near Arizona. If you're wondering where he
found the chutzpah to dredge up with this "we" stuff, you're not
alone.
Sharpton isn't alone either, not when it comes to making spurious,
knee-jerk charges of racism in the wake of Arizona passing a law that allows
cops to question those legally stopped about their immigration status.
It's high time somebody
pointed out the real racists in this controversy. And yes, that would be many
of those making the charges of racism.
Frankly, I suspect much of the reaction comes from those who are
worried about how their lawns are going to be cut if there's a mass deportation
of illegal immigrants. (A word of advice: cut 'em your darned selves.)
Don't non-Hispanic Arizonans get any consideration? (Actually, I
suspect that many of the reported 70 percent of Arizonans who support the law
are Hispanic, which makes the racism of those screaming racism even more
obvious and egregious.) One of those non-Hispanic Arizonans is a woman named
Elisabeth Grey, who posted this comment in reaction to the Wall Street Journal
story:
"I live in a Tucson
neighborhood that is a major drug corridor. In the last four months there have
been over 24 violent home invasions resulting in a number of deaths. It's
harvest time now for marijuana in Mexico and Central America. We expect the
number of deaths to increase.
"One of the other
tragedies is human trafficking. 'Coyotes' bring vans overfilled with illegal
immigrants across the border, and because the load is more than the vehicle is
designed for, the vehicle will often roll, or go off the road, killing the
innocent people on board."
What Grey is telling us is that, in Arizona, the illegal immigrant
problem is now also a public safety problem. And police are allowed to make
stops -- of people on the street and in vehicles -- when crime reaches an
outrageous level. If those stopped in vehicles don't have proper
identification, then any competent police officer will ask those people a
string of questions to determine who they are.
Here's what the opponents of Arizona's new law are saying, and
it's the most outrageously racist thing of all: Police should be allowed to ask
anyone legally stopped about their identities except Hispanics.
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and
opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the
Sudan.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Do-Latinos-take-priority-over-whites-in-Arizona-92865714.html#ixzz0nm76p5ea
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“On Wednesday, Senate Democrats rejected a GOP amendment
banning the use of federal funds to participate in any litigation against the
new Arizona immigration enforcement law.”
Michelle Malkin
The Democrats' War on
the West
"Why do they hate us?"
It's a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers,
small-business owners, farmers, and Rocky Mountain oil and gas industry workers
suffering under punitive Democrat policies. Eighteen months into the Barack
Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing.
The first battlefront: immigration. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats rejected a
GOP amendment banning the use of federal funds to participate in any litigation
against the new Arizona immigration enforcement law.
"Our federal government should
be doing its job to secure our borders rather than trying to bully and
intimidate the people of Arizona," argued Republican amendment sponsor
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. "We should not be suing and really
hassling the people of Arizona for doing what we should be doing here, and
that's protecting the citizenry."
All but five Senate Democrats
(Indiana's Evan Bayh took a pass and didn't vote) sided with the anti-Arizona
Obama administration -- and against not only a majority of Arizonans, but a
majority of Americans who support the state's effort to restore order on the
chaotic southern border and protect American workers facing double-digit
unemployment.
Several House Democrats have
actively lobbied to boycott Arizona and crush its economy -- most notably,
southern Arizona's own Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva, who urged civic, religious
and political groups to take their convention dollars elsewhere.
"Do not do business with this
state," Grijalva told open-borders zealots bent on punishing law-abiding
citizens to "send a message."
For its part, the Obama Justice
Department's Civil Rights Division has targeted Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff
Joe Arpaio for more than a year over his strict enforcement policies against
illegal alien criminals. The hell-bent Civil Rights Division is helmed by
veteran illegal immigration advocate Thomas Perez, who has lobbied for driver's
licenses, in-state tuition discounts and blanket amnesty for millions of
border-jumpers, visa overstayers and deportation fugitives.
Arizona's neighbor to the north,
Utah, is under fire by a different set of left-wing bureaucrats. When Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar isn't busy destroying jobs through his radical offshore
drilling moratorium, he's been blocking onshore development and wreaking havoc
on the Beehive State's energy industry.
Last week, Salazar defended pulling
77 oil lease contracts granted in the final days of the George W. Bush
administration. Salazar's inspector general concluded that there was no
evidence of any rush to auction off the parcels -- as baselessly claimed by
environmental groups and Salazar himself. In fact, the leases were granted only
after seven full years of rigorous study and debate.
That makes two Salazar job-destroying
bans based off bogus eco-claims. (Remember: Loathsome cowboy Salazar was behind
the shameless doctoring of a scientific report to bolster the Obama
administration's devastating offshore drilling ban.)
Uintah County, Utah, officials have
sued the Interior Department over the rescinded leases, which have cost the
state untold millions of dollars and countless jobs in a tough economy. Not to
mention the court expenses, legal morass and regulatory uncertainty.
Other Western states are reeling as
a result of the Democrats' eco-radicalism -- and the rest of America is paying
a high price, too. Salazar was a leading opponent of oil shale development when
he served in the U.S. Senate for Colorado.
There are an estimated 800 billion
barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone -- enough
to potentially free us from Saudi oil dependence. Yet as Obama's interior
secretary, Salazar has wielded his power to halt plans to lease oil shale
rights in the West. In addition, Obama's Bureau of Land Management is dragging
its feet on more than $100 million in unissued oil and gas leases in Wyoming.
These resources remain untapped thanks to militant greenies who pay lip service
to energy independence while blocking all practical means of achieving it.
At a partisan rally on Monday to
crusade for endless unemployment insurance benefits extensions, President Obama
lectured Republicans to "stop holding workers hostage to politics."
Speak for yourself, pal.
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Administration Caught Arming Mexican Illegal Alien Rebels
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OUTSIDE
OF MEXICO CITY, THE LARGEST NUMBER OF KIDNAPPINGS IS IN PHOENIX.
EVERYDAY
THERE IS A KIDNAPPING BY A MEXICAN IN PHOENIX!
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illegals vs crime
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime.html
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/bratton
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/08/local/me-jail8
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/bratton
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/08/local/me-jail8