It has been one year since Prince William County, Virginia began its crackdown on illegals. Many have fled to Maryland, a very Blue sanctuary state. Though Marylanders don’t like it, their lawmakers refuse to respond to the problem. The self-deportation by Hispanics from the “Devil’s County,” or as they call it in Spanish, Condado del Diablo, was noted back in March by the Washington Post in a series of stories.
Today’s Washington Post gives us an update in an article entitled “A Hispanic Population in Decline.” Gotta love this first part. It seems not all people fully appreciate the great multi-cultural influences that diversity brings to a neighborhood.
The family that planted corn in the front yard of their $500,000 home is gone from Carrie Oliver’s street. So are the neighbors who drilled holes into the trees to string up a hammock.
Oliver’s list goes on: The loud music. The beer bottles. The littered diapers. All gone. When she and her husband, Ron, went for walks in their Manassas area neighborhood, she would take a trash bag and he would carry a handgun. No more. “So much has changed,” she said in a gush of relief, standing with her husband on a warm summer evening recently outside a Costco store.
Corn stalks and handguns. What a neat blending of cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
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So says the FBI.
And these terrorists are captured in Africa, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iraq, etc. The crimes they committed in the U.S. range from drunken driving, passing bad checks, and traffic violations to immigration law violations, drug trafficking, and assault with a deadly weapon.
How do the feds know this? Fingerprinting.
The fingerprinting of detainees overseas began as ad-hoc FBI and U.S. military efforts shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It has since grown into a government-wide push to build the world’s largest database of known or suspected terrorist fingerprints. The effort is being boosted by a presidential directive signed June 5, which gave the U.S. attorney general and other cabinet officials 90 days to come up with a plan to expand the use of biometrics by, among other things, recommending categories of people to be screened beyond “known or suspected” terrorists.
Fingerprints are being beamed in via satellite from places as far-flung as the jungles of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines; Bogota, Colombia; Iraq; and Afghanistan. Other allies, such as Sweden, have contributed prints. The database can be queried by U.S. government agencies and by other countries through Interpol, the international police agency.
This data base can be used to track individuals, or groups of individuals all over the globe to link them together in a pattern of criminal behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
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I’ve been meaning to blog on this for quite some time, ever since Dennis Prager brought this New York Times article to my attention over 2 years ago.
Take a look at the photo at the top. Is there anything strikingly odd about the photo? What do you see? I see a “ridiculous” little Asian boy pretending to be a cowboy, and proud of wearing the get-up. I say “ridiculous”, because, of course, there weren’t really any Asian cowboys out in the Wild West. If anything, I should be playing the part of an Injun. But back then, at the time, I didn’t feel ridiculous. I thought I looked like Robert Conrad.
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“There is no white America. There is no black America. There is no Latino America. There is no Asian America. There is just the United States of America.”
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Senator Barack Obama
I’m offended by the Candidate of Unity…
I was hoping he’d be a different kind of candidate…one who would be all things to all people. But look here. Do you feel left out of the Hyphe Nation?
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Now that the race is down to Obama vs. McCain we can start analyzing the important issues that will decide the election. Those issues are plain for everyone to see they include oil prices, the war on terror, health-care and that candidates age/experience. I will get to them in a future article, for now I want to focus on one issue that will not be mentioned in this campaign even though the American voters are very passionate about it: Illegal Immigration.
Not long ago illegal immigration looked like it would be one of the key issues in this election cycle. The American people are fed up with the effects of illegal immigration and they have shown their displeasure by passing tough local laws, by forming citizen groups to patrol the borders and by rejecting the McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform act.
Polls consistanly show that between 65% and 81% of Americans want something done to reduce illegal immigration. A border fence is wildly popular among Republican voters.
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Another case of liberals who cannot get want they want via the legislative process trying to get judges to write it for them from the bench.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration’s power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to ignore environmental and other laws and regulations to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. Read the rest of this entry »
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From the New York Times.
President Bush has ordered federal contractors to participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s electronic system for verifying the immigration status of their workers, greatly expanding the reach of the administration’s crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants.
An executive order, signed by the president on Friday and announced on Monday, requires federal contractors to use the system, known as E-Verify, to check immigration status when they hire new workers or start work under government contracts.
And the scope and breadth of the Order is a good start on the employer problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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North Carolina has slammed its community college doors in the faces of illegal immigrants; it’s about damn time someone took a stand. What’s the point in educating illegals when employers must break the law to hire them?
Now, before you rise up against me shouting “racist” (I assure you, I expect no less), sit down, take a few deep breaths and keep reading.
Every time I state my views on this subject, whether it’s at a private gathering or a rally at the capitol, some ignorant, hot-headed people invariably call me a racist and even though I know better, I feel obligated to defend myself. I have been physically and verbally assaulted, as well as spat upon, by people claiming that I’m “hatin’ on the immigrants.”
First of all, I don’t hate anyone; secondly, I believe that LEGAL immigrants are the backbone of our nation. I also believe that, like all criminals, illegal immigrants should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, as should their employers. Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like lame ducks can learn to hunt after all, and their preferred prey are illegals and their American employers.
On May 12, 2008, ICE raided Agriprocessors, Inc. in Waterloo, Iowa, and detained 389 workers. Then the prosecutors took off the kid gloves. The judge sentenced 270 illegal immigrants to five months in prison for working under false documentation. Most of the illegals agreed to deportation after serving their sentences. Read the rest of this entry »
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Michelle Malkin has been out in front of this story for quite some time:
Finally, as part of his commitment to talking with all Americans during this presidential campaign, the McCain presidential campaign announced that John McCain will attend the La Raza Annual Convention in San Diego on July 14, 2008.
Sigh….
I guess we all knew what we were getting in McCain but the reality always bites a bit. The same can be said for Bush. While he is simply outstanding on protecting this country and foreign policy, his immigration policies remain much less then desired. Read the rest of this entry »
Flag-waving and placard-carrying marchers crowd Broadway in downtown L.A.
Absolut vodka drinkers may wish to switch brands!
The following is from an advertising campaign for Absolut Vodka in Mexico:
Hey Mexico: Remember the war of 1848? YOU LOST! Get over it before we send your illegals back for YOU to feed!
From The Star-Ledger
The sixth man in the foiled “Ft Dix Six” jihad attack is sentenced for letting his cohorts (all illegal immigrants) use his firearms for training and possible employment in their attack on the installation. As usual, it is left to the reader to discover that he is an avid fan of Al Qeada’s version of Islam.
A South Jersey man swept up in the alleged plot to attack Fort Dix was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison on weapons charges.
Agron Abdullahu of Buena Vista Township was the only one of the six men arrested last year not charged with conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers.
Instead, he admitted letting three of the suspects who were illegal immigrants use his guns at a Pennsylvania firing range.
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Saman Kareem Ahmad, left, served with then-Capt. Trent A. Gibson. Gibson backs Ahmad’s application for permanent U.S. residence.
Credit: Courtesy Of Saman Kareem Ahmad Photo
By way of Michael Totten:
Saman Kareem Ahmad is an Iraqi Kurd who worked as a translator with the Marines in Iraq’s Anbar Province. He was one of the few selected translators who was granted asylum in the U.S. because he and his family were singled out for destruction by insurgents for “collaboration.” He wants to return to Iraq as an American citizen and a Marine, and has already been awarded the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter and General David Petraeus wrote notes for his file and recommended he be given a Green Card, but the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) declined his application and called him a “terrorist.”
The INS says Ahmad “conducted full-scale armed attacks and helped incite rebellions against Hussein’s regime, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom” while a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
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Politics, ain’t it great?
House Republicans are trying to force action on a Democratic-written immigration enforcement measure, the latest GOP attempt to elevate the volatile issue into an election-year wedge.
Republican leaders hope that by pushing the bill - endorsed by 48 centrist Democrats and 94 Republicans - they can drive Democrats into a politically painful choice: Backing a tough immigration measure that could alienate their base, including Hispanic voters, or being painted as soft on border security in conservative-leaning districts.
Which bill is this? It’s a bill that emphasizing the principles of attrition through enforcement.
The SAVE Act addresses border security by increasing manpower and making needed technological and infrastructure improvements on America’s northern and southern borders, including 8,000 new Border Patrol Agents and provides the infrastructure they need to be effective. Read the rest of this entry »
