I had no idea what that was

I woke up and fell asleep again..

11-25-05 - DREAM #2 - I was working in an office fora man who seemed to be an attorney I once used to get a divorce.

It was about 11:30 am and I was working in my own office and my boss walked in and asked me where his morning mail was. I told him I had already given it to him. 

He saw a small stack of blueprints on my desk that I was going to send out a letter with to another company to purchase the item featured on the blueprints.

He picked it up and told me there was an error on it. So he called upstairs and asked the engineer who had drawn the original blueprint.

At this point, I knew it was my job to prevent a California Junta from happening and I didn't know how I was going to do that when I didn't even know what it was.

I had to leave my office for a few minutes to attend to another secretary who came in late, and when I came back to my office, my boss wasn't there and the engineer was squatted down on the floor in front of my radio which was blasting loudly about something I wasn't understanding.

The engineer complained about the radio making strange crackling noises and I looked at the lighted dial and it was obvious to me that he had messed with the tuning and it was way off the frequency it was supposed to be at.  So I quickly turned the dial so it was on the correct frequency again and the words were again clearer and there was no crackling again.  I also turned the sound down a bit thought it was still plenty loud.

My boss then came back into the office and I left again, but I was close enough to overhear the two men talking about seeing the other tampering with the plans.

Only the engineer could have done that and I wondered then again, about the California Junta and how I was going to prevent it from happening.

NOTE: Before posting this information, I considered what one person can do in any given situation and then considered what a difference one person can make if they don't participate at all.

Junta

• In Spanish, junta, literally "joint (meeting)", is used for various collegial bodies.
  • During the Habsburg rule, junta was used for various regular administrative bodies in Iberia and other European countries (including the Low countries) ruled -in personal union- by the Spanish crown, and even was maintained in some cases after those were divided in territories brought under the imperial Austrian branch of the dynasty
  • In the Napoleonic era, junta was also the name chosen by several local administrations forming in Spain during the Peninsula War as a patriotic alternative to the official administration topped by the French invaders.
  • In Spanish America, the Creole juntas were formally loyal to Ferdinand VII of Spain, but in the power void, they became actually independent, preparing the independence of Spanish America.
  • In modern Spain Juntas exist in some of the reatively recent autonomous governments of Spain
    • Junta of Andalusia
    • Junta of Extremadura
    • Xunta (Galician form) of Galicia

• For the Hindi designation for the people or the common populace, see Janata.

• Junta is also a board game designed by West End Games.

• In music:
  • Junta is an album by the popular US band Phish (though pronounced jun-tah as if it were originally an English word).

• "Jet Set Junta" is a song by the influential, though little known, UK band The Monochrome Set. As in the Phish album, the word is pronounced phonetically.

Illegal Immigration Facts and Figures

• 10.4 million illegal aliens reside in the United States.
  (source: Pew Hispanic Center)
• Every year, 500,000 additional illegal aliens enter the United States
  (source: Pew Hispanic Center)
• California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $9 billion each year
  (source: Federation for American Immigration Reform)
• Illegal aliens cost the federal government $10 billion more annually than they pay in taxes.
  (source: Center for Immigration Studies)
• Taxpayers pay $750 million annually to house the 18,000 illegal aliens in California prisons.
  (source: US Govt. Accounting Office)

It's time to stop complaining about Washington not doing its job.
It's time to ENFORCE THE LAW and PROTECT OUR OWN BORDER...

Facts About The California Border Police Initiative:

• The California Border Police will be a state police force (like the CHP) established in the state constitution and under the authority of the Governor.
• California Border Police officers will be authorized to patrol the border and enforce all federal immigration laws statewide, including laws against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
• The California Border Police Initiative will save state taxpayers at least $10 for every one dollar it costs.
• The California Border Police will be sworn and trained police officers, not volunteers.
  

FROM: http://www.calborderpolice.com/

Who are Californians Against Illegal Immigration?

Californians Against Illegal Immigration is a non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting our state's economy and security from the continued invasion by illegal aliens who defy the laws of immigration. The Chairman of Californians for Illegal Immigration is Escondido City Council Member Marie Waldron.

We support the enforcement of our borders and a crackdown on illegals already in the state. Coupled with tougher penalties for firms that employ illegals, we can promote a healthy and legal immigration trend in California. This is in the best interest of the citizens of California, law abiding immigrants and neighboring states and countries.

What is an Illegal Immigrant?

An immigrant may be illegal if they:

• Cross the border without authorization
• Overstay their VISA
• Illegally enter the US and then proceed to give birth or marry a citizen*

* Recently, INS now merely fines the immigrant and allows them resident alien status.

FROM: http://www.stopillegals.org/

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Bush to tackle immigration on Mexico border

Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:24 AM ET

By Patricia Wilson

WACO, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Monday tackles the thorny problem of illegal immigration on the Mexico border with his own Republican Party split over whether undocumented workers already in the United States should be allowed to stay.

Fueled by fears of terrorists slipping into the country, escalating violence and drug smuggling, Americans have become increasingly worried about illegal immigration. More than three-quarters think the government is not doing enough to control the borders, according to a CBS News poll last month.

In Tucson, Arizona, on Monday and El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, Bush will focus on border security, portraying his temporary worker program -- which some Republicans say rewards lawbreakers -- as a way to relieve pressure on enforcement by bringing illegal immigrants "out of the shadows."

"He'll talk about additional resources and the use of technology to secure the border, and discuss it in terms of national security and the economy," the White House said.

Bush has a fine line to walk between playing to the demands of his conservative base for tougher enforcement and the Republican Party's desire to court the votes of Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority in the United States. The issue is expected to play a major role in congressional elections in many states next year.

His guest worker proposal offers the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States the chance to register and work -- mostly at low-skilled jobs Americans don't want -- for up to six years. They then have to return to their home countries for a year to apply for a new work permit.

Supporters say it creates incentives for legal immigration, serves national security interests by identifying who is in the country and boosts the economy. Republican critics call it a "backdoor amnesty" program and prefer to crack down on illegal immigration with beefed up border patrols, the military and fences.

"Enforcement alone doesn't work," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said in a letter to Bush. He called on the president to "stand up to the right wing of your party and stand up for what is right."

Each year, more than 1 million undocumented migrants try to slip across the rivers and deserts on the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border in search of work in the United States. Almost half of them come through Arizona and hundreds die attempting the dangerous trip.

The problem reached such epic proportions in the summer that Arizona and New Mexico declared states of emergency, saying tens of thousands of illegals were endangering border security. That allowed the governors to use millions of federal dollars to shore up their borders.

Angry residents have formed armed teams called Minutemen to watch over the border and a movement has sprung up among conservatives to wall off its entire length with a high-tech fence. More than two dozen members of the U.S. Congress have signed on to the idea.

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

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Border Agents Brave Extremes to Prevent Illegal Entry

NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005

DULZURA, Calif. - Immigrant smugglers once avoided the rugged, chaparral-covered canyons east of San Diego for easier crossing points - but now the Otay Mountains are one of the busiest areas along California's border with Mexico.

As smugglers try to stay a step ahead of the law, the U.S. Border Patrol has followed with its only unit of agents who are ferried around in helicopters and then set out on foot in search of illegal immigrants.

The Border Patrol formed its Air Mobile Unit in 2003 to monitor remote parts of western California, where tens of thousands of immigrants cross each year.

Increased enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, has squeezed border crossers into less hospitable corridors, including deserts where hundreds die each year. The Otay Mountains are not the deadliest point along the 2,000-mile border, but they are treacherous.

Dehydration threatens as summer temperatures race past 100; hypothermia is a danger during winter. Broken wrists and twisted ankles are common and it's easy to get lost on the lattice of trails.

Given their outdoor office, the agents must be fit.

Mark Cary, a former Marine, once took nine hours to trek seven miles from the dilapidated border fence to the nearest major road, California Route 94. Migrants typically take two days to cover the same route, he says.

One recent evening, two of the agents broke thick sweats as they sped downhill over granite boulders and branches burned during California's 2003 wildfires.

It was hardly more than an hour before they found what they were looking for.

One agent pointed excitedly to the right, stepped off the narrow trail, clutched his rifle and peered through the dense brush. Within moments, 14 Mexicans were in U.S. custody.

The agents' shift began shortly before sunset at San Diego's Brownfield Municipal Airport, where nearly every night Black Hawk helicopters take agents into mountains where one canyon is known among migrants as "La Espina del Diablo" - the devil's spine - and trails are named Dead Cow and Tequila Draw.

Though flying saves time, noise from choppers hovering ahead can alert smugglers to hide.

Just outside Dulzura, a hamlet about 25 miles east of San Diego, Cary and fellow agent Jeff Mielke struck out on one of the countless footpaths blazed by migrants.

Words were few and flashlights kept off to avoid drawing attention. After hitting a plateau midway down the canyon, the agents found the 14 migrants resting on rocks near one of the makeshift shrines scattered along the border.

"You're all illegals?" Cary asked in Spanish, as he emptied backpacks of tuna cans, water jugs, pills and prayer cards and frisked each person for weapons. Several nodded yes. Cary said everyone was under arrest.

Jose Ambrosio Ruiz, a 23-year-old construction worker who was headed to Los Angeles, said the group had been waiting near the shrine for four hours.

"I'm tired," said Ruiz, who flew the night before from southern Mexico to the border city of Tijuana, where he spent the night in a hotel.

The agents used white, plastic bands to tie the wrists of 11 men into pairs or threesomes to prevent them from running. A 41-year-old woman and her teenage daughter and son were allowed to walk untied.

With one agent leading and the other behind, the migrants walked six hours over moonlit rocks and scrub. They trekked briskly through the oak-lined canyon floor and past a rusted cattle fence about 30 yards north of the unmarked border. During their only rest stop, an agent passed around beef jerky and water.

As the migrants turned uphill on a switch-back trail around 10 p.m., the 13-year-old boy began to limp. He collapsed on the trail every five minutes, muttering "I can't" in Spanish.

Cary sighed in exasperation.

"You play soccer. ... You walk to school," he told the boy. "This is nothing."

Another group of agents in the same canyon called periodically by radio to report their arrests - first a group of 15, then eight, finally two.

At midnight, the agents converged near three paddy wagons, which took the migrants to a Border Patrol station for interviews and processing.

All told, the two teams arrested 64 people, adding to the unit's total of about 16,000 to date.

Typically, nearly all migrants return voluntarily to Mexico without facing charges. This night is no different.

One Mexican had been deported three times before. Another said he was a foot guide for the smugglers and was to be paid $200 a person. Neither met federal prosecution guidelines.

"That's what's so demoralizing," said Chuck Albrecht, the Air Mobile Unit's field operations supervisor. "You know a lot of them are just going to try again eight hours later."

© 2005 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

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Debate Over California Border At Capitol

Overall the event remained peaceful, but police arrested three people.

The Minuteman Project also sponsored similar rallies in Florida and Texas Saturday.

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LOCKDOWN NATIONAL SECURITY FASCIST POLICE STATE: PENTAGON WARMONGERS
EXPANDING ITS DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITY / FEARS OF POST 9/11
TERRORISM SPUR PROPOSALS FOR NEW NAZI-LIKE POWERS! –    
By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, November 27, 2005;

The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.

The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago.

The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts -- including protecting military facilities from attack -- to one that also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.

The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.

The proposals, and other Pentagon steps aimed at improving its ability to analyze counterterrorism intelligence collected inside the United States, have drawn complaints from civil liberties advocates and a few members of Congress, who say the Defense Department's push into domestic collection is proceeding with little scrutiny by the Congress or the public.

"We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a recent interview.

Wyden has since persuaded lawmakers to change the legislation, attached to the fiscal 2006 intelligence authorization bill, to address some of his concerns, but he still believes hearings should be held. Among the changes was the elimination of a provision to let Defense Intelligence Agency officers hide the fact that they work for the government when they approach people who are possible sources of intelligence in the United States.

Modifications also were made in the provision allowing the FBI to share information with the Pentagon and CIA, requiring the approval of the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, for that to occur, and requiring the Pentagon to make reports to Congress on the subject. Wyden said the legislation "now strikes a much fairer balance by protecting critical rights for our country's citizens and advancing intelligence operations to meet our security needs."

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the data-sharing amendment would still give the Pentagon much greater access to the FBI's massive collection of data, including information on
citizens not connected to terrorism or espionage.

The measure, she said, "removes one of the few existing privacy protections against the creation of secret dossiers on Americans by government intelligence agencies." She said the Pentagon's "intelligence agencies are quietly expanding their domestic presence without any public debate."

Lt. Col. Chris Conway, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said that the most senior Defense Department intelligence officials are aware of the sensitivities related to their expanded domestic activities. At the same
time, he said, the Pentagon has to have the intelligence necessary to protect its facilities and personnel at home and abroad.

"In the age of terrorism," Conway said, "the U.S. military and its facilities are targets, and we have to be prepared within our authorities to defend them before something happens."

Among the steps already taken by the Pentagon that enhanced its domestic capabilities was the establishment after 9/11 of Northern Command, or Northcom, in Colorado Springs, to provide military forces to help in
reacting to terrorist threats in the continental United States.

Today, Northcom's intelligence centers in Colorado and Texas fuse reports from CIFA, the FBI and other U.S. agencies, and are staffed by 290 intelligence analysts. That is more than the roughly 200 analysts
working for the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and far more than those at the Department of Homeland Security.

In addition, each of the military services has begun its own post-9/11 collection of domestic intelligence, primarily aimed at gathering data on potential terrorist threats to bases and other military facilities at
home and abroad. For example, Eagle Eyes is a program set up by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which "enlists the eyes and ears of Air Force members and citizens in the war on terror," according to the program's Web site.

The Marine Corps has expanded its domestic intelligence operations and developed internal policies in 2004 to govern oversight of the "collection, retention and dissemination of information concerning U.S. persons," according to a Marine Corps order approved on April 30, 2004.

The order recognizes that in the post-9/11 era, the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity will be "increasingly required to perform domestic missions," and as a result, "there will be increased instances whereby Marine intelligence activities may come across information regarding U.S. persons." Among domestic targets listed are people in the United States who it "is reasonably believed threaten the physical security of Defense Department employees, installations, operations or official visitors."

Perhaps the prime illustration of the Pentagon's intelligence growth is CIFA, which remains one of its least publicized intelligence agencies. Neither the size of its staff, said to be more than 1,000, nor its budget is public, said Conway, the Pentagon spokesman. The CIFA brochure says the agency's mission is to "transform" the way counterintelligence is done "fully utilizing 21st century tools and resources."

One CIFA activity, threat assessments, involves using "leading edge information technologies and data harvesting," according to a February 2004 Pentagon budget document. This involves "exploiting commercial
data" with the help of outside contractors including White Oak Technologies Inc. of Silver Spring, and MZM Inc., a Washington-based research organization, according to the Pentagon document.

For CIFA, counterintelligence involves not just collecting data but also "conducting activities to protect DoD and the nation against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, assassinations, and terrorist
activities," its brochure states.

CIFA's abilities would increase considerably under the proposal being reviewed by the White House, which was made by a presidential commission on intelligence chaired by retired appellate court judge Laurence H.
Silberman and former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.). The commission urged that CIFA be given authority to carry out domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against potential threats inside the United States.

The Silberman-Robb panel found that because the separate military services concentrated on investigations within their areas, "no entity views non-service-specific and department-wide investigations as its primary responsibility." A 2003 Defense Department directive kept CIFA from engaging in law enforcement activities such as "the investigation, apprehension, or detention of individuals suspected or convicted of criminal offenses against the laws of the United States."

The commission's proposal would change that, giving CIFA "new counterespionage and law enforcement authorities," covering treason, espionage, foreign or terrorist sabotage, and even economic espionage.
That step, the panel said, could be taken by presidential order and Pentagon directive without congressional approval.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the CIFA expansion "is being studied at the DoD [Defense Department] level," adding that intelligence director Negroponte would have a say in the matter. A Pentagon spokesman said, "The [CIFA] matter is before the Hill committees."

Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a recent interview that CIFA has performed well in the past and today has no domestic intelligence collection activities. He was not aware of moves to enhance its authority. 

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has not had formal hearings on CIFA or other domestic intelligence programs, but its staff has been briefed on some of the steps the Pentagon has already taken. "If a member asks the chairman" -- Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) -- for hearings, "I am sure he would respond," said Bill Duhnke, the panel's staff
director.
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Staff writer Dan Eggen contributed to this report.

© 2005 The Washington Post Company

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600857_pf.html

Civilian Border Watchers Quit In San Diego

Organizers Disappointed By Turnout

Monday, November 21, 2005

DULZURA, Calif. — Immigrant smugglers once avoided the rugged, chaparral-covered canyons east of San Diego for easier crossing points — but now the Otay Mountains are one of the busiest areas along California's border with Mexico.

As smugglers try to stay a step ahead of the law, the U.S. Border Patrol has followed with its only unit of agents who are ferried around in helicopters and then set out on foot in search of illegal immigrants.

The Border Patrol formed its Air Mobile Unit in 2003 to monitor remote parts of western California, where tens of thousands of immigrants cross each year.

Increased enforcement in San Diego and El Paso, Texas, has squeezed border crossers into less hospitable corridors, including deserts where hundreds die each year. The Otay Mountains are not the deadliest point along the 2,000-mile border, but they are treacherous.

Dehydration threatens as summer temperatures race past 100; hypothermia is a danger during winter. Broken wrists and twisted ankles are common and it's easy to get lost on the lattice of trails. In the last year, 23 migrants have been reported dead in the Border Patrol's San Diego sector, which includes Otay (pronounced OH-tie).

Given their outdoor office, the agents must be fit.

Mark Cary, a former Marine, once took nine hours to trek seven miles from the dilapidated border fence to the nearest major road, California Route 94. Migrants typically take two days to cover the same route, he says.

All but two of the Air Mobile Unit's 54 agents are men. All but one is under 40 years old — and he's a supervisor with a desk job.

One recent evening, two agents broke thick sweats as they sped downhill over granite boulders and branches burned during California's 2003 wildfires.

About an hour later, one agent pointed excitedly to the right, stepped off the narrow trail, clutched his rifle and peered through the dense brush. Within moments, 14 Mexicans were in U.S. custody.

The agents' shift began shortly before sunset at San Diego's Brownfield Municipal Airport, where nearly every night Black Hawk helicopters take agents into mountains where one canyon is known among migrants as "La Espina del Diablo" — the devil's spine — and trails are named Dead Cow and Tequila Draw.

Just outside Dulzura, a hamlet about 25 miles east of San Diego, Cary and fellow agent Jeff Mielke struck out on one of the countless footpaths blazed by migrants.

Words were few and flashlights were kept off to avoid drawing attention. Midway down the canyon, the agents found the 14 migrants — abandoned by their guide — resting on rocks near one of the makeshift shrines scattered along the border.

The shrine — a cave-like boulder formation just over a mile from Mexico that can fit one squatting adult — contained three burning candles, dozens of extinguished candles and hundreds of prayer cards. One card bore Santo Toribio Romo, the Mexican patron of migrants.

"You're all illegals?" Cary asked in Spanish, as he emptied backpacks of tuna cans, water jugs, pills and prayer cards and frisked each person for weapons. Several nodded yes. Cary said everyone was under arrest.

Jose Ambrosio Ruiz, a 23-year-old construction worker who was headed to Los Angeles, said the group had been waiting near the shrine for four hours.

"I'm tired," said Ruiz, who flew the night before from southern Mexico to the border city of Tijuana. He was to pay his smuggler $1,500 when he arrived in Los Angeles.

The agents used white plastic bands to tie the wrists of 11 men into pairs or threesomes to prevent them from running. A 41-year-old woman and her teenage daughter and son were allowed to walk untied.

The Mexicans walked quietly, occasionally cracking jokes but mostly keeping to themselves.

With one agent leading and the other behind, they walked six hours over moonlit rocks and scrub. During their only rest stop, an agent passed around beef jerky and water.

As the migrants turned uphill on a switch-back trail around 10 p.m., the 13-year-old boy began to limp. He collapsed on the trail every five minutes, muttering "I can't" in Spanish.

Cary sighed in exasperation.

"You play soccer. ... You walk to school," he told the boy. "This is nothing."

Another group of agents in the same canyon called periodically by radio to report their arrests — first a group of 15, then eight, finally two.

At midnight, the agents converged near three vehicles, which took the migrants to a Border Patrol station for interviews and processing. Back at the airport hangar, the agents calculated that they walked 4.2 miles over eight hours, dropping 2,900 feet in altitude and then climbing 200 feet.

All told, the two teams arrested 64 people, adding to the unit's total of about 16,000 to date.

Typically, nearly all migrants return voluntarily to Mexico without facing charges, escorted in vans to the main border station at the Tijuana-San Diego crossing. This night is no different.

One Mexican had been deported three times before. Another said he was a foot guide for the smugglers and was to be paid $200 a person. Neither met federal prosecution guidelines.

"That's what's so demoralizing," said Chuck Albrecht, the Air Mobile Unit's field operations supervisor. "You know a lot of them are just going to try again eight hours later."

FROM: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176202,00.html

Illegal Immigration: California Border Police Plan Draws Throngs

• In excess of 10 million illegal Mexicans reside in the United States. A full three million swamp California. Estimates show another 10 million from 100 countries around the world live and work in the United States contrary to federal law. (source: US Census Bureau)
  
• Every year, three million illegal aliens enter the USA. (source: Time Magazine, September 12, 2004) *California’s three million illegal aliens cost taxpayers $9 billion annually. (source: Federation for American Immigration Reform)
  
• Illegal aliens cost the federal government $10 billion more annually than they pay in taxes. (source: Center for Immigration Studies)
  
• Taxpayers suffer $1.4 billion annually to house 48,000 illegal aliens in California prisons and over $1.6 billion annually for aliens in federal prisons. (Federation for American Immigration Reform)
  
• 11,000 MS-13 Gang members, all illegals, operate in 33 states and distribute $128 billion in drugs from Mexico annually. (source: Newsweek)
  
• $400 billion annually goes uncollected in IRS taxes from illegal aliens working off the books. (source: Bears and Sterns report 2005)
  
• 1.5 million illegal alien children create language havoc in schools across the country with ESL. Over 350,000 anchor babies annually gain free medical services at a cost of millions of dollars to Americans. (source: FAIR report)

• The California police will be established under a law passed by Congress in 1996 that specifically authorizes states and local government to enforce federal immigration laws.
• California Border Police officers will be authorized and trained to patrol the border and enforce all federal immigration laws statewide, including laws against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
• The California Border Police Initiative will save state taxpayers at least $10 for every one dollar it costs. Estimated annual cost: $400 million. Estimated annual savings $5 billion.
• The California Border Police will be sworn and trained police officers, not volunteers or frustrated citizens.
  

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His latest book. ‘IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION—DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.’

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Volunteers set for California border vigil

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 15, 2005

Volunteers will man observation posts along the U.S.-Mexico border in California beginning tomorrow to spot illegal aliens and drug smugglers with plans to stay until they are relieved by U.S. Border Patrol agents or National Guard troops, an organizer said yesterday.
    The vigil, timed to begin on Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16, was called to highlight what Friends of the Border Patrol, which organized the event, said is the failure of Congress and the White House to secure the U.S. border.
    "Our borders are not under the operational control of our government. Instead, they are controlled by alien and drug smugglers," said Andy Ramirez, head of the California-based Friends of the Border Patrol. "Our mission is to provide a safe living environment for our local citizens until the U.S. government provides the security for which it is responsible."
    More than 200 civilian volunteers, including former Border Patrol agents, retired police officers, military personnel and pilots, initially will participate in the patrols, building to as many as 3,000 as the vigil continues. They are expected to establish observation posts near Calexico, Calif., and at the Border Field State Park, north of Tijuana, Mexico.
    The California border protest has been endorsed by the Minuteman Civil Defense Project, which plans its own patrols along the Mexican border from California to Texas in October. The Minutemen, however, will not participate with the Friends of the Border Patrol in their effort.
    Mr. Ramirez said the California volunteers want to call attention to the "real plight of those who live along the border who are being overrun by illegal aliens and drug smugglers."
    The pending patrols are not without controversy, as several civic and community groups have condemned the volunteers. Numerous immigration-reform organizations and others also plan to picket the volunteers. The Calexico City Council voted unanimously last week to condemn the presence of civilian volunteers in their city.
    Some groups have accused the volunteers of being racists -- a charge Mr. Ramirez denied.
    Border Patrol Agent Chris Bauder, who serves as president of Local 1613 of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents San Diego-area agents, said the volunteers would "just push [the illegal alien] traffic to other areas of the border."
    "Everybody is talking about controlling the border, but you can't control the border until you control the source of the problem, and the source is the employment issue," Mr. Bauder said.
    Mr. Ramirez said his organization has been operational since July, when it began background investigations and a series of training sessions.
    "For those who may stand in opposition to our border watch, they need to realize that this is about America and putting the most important special-interest group of all in our top priority and that is supporting and defending the American people," he said.
    "Both parties know that the Southwestern U.S.-Mexican border is a mess," he said. "Citizens volunteering to defend our nation in time of war and crisis is a time-honored American tradition."
    
FROM: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050914-102127-7765r.htm

More Confrontations With Minutemen Reported

George Putnam
Friday, May 27, 2005

We know of the Herculean efforts of the Minutemen and, more recently, the Friends of the Border Patrol. A proposed ballot measure would establish a new state police agency, the California Border Police, that would patrol the border and crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants. The agency would be created by the California Border Police Act and is being pushed by California State Senator Ray Haynes and Rescue California, a group advocating tougher border enforcement.

All of these organizations and many more are performing as modern-day Paul Reveres: "The invaders are coming!"

These past few days Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has called for the resignation of Michael Nicely, agent in charge of the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol, after a dozen Border Patrol agents confirmed that he ordered them to reduce the number of arrests of illegal aliens crossing the border. Eight congressmen signed Tancredo's letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff calling for Nicely's resignation.

Ten congressmen signed a separate letter by Tancredo, which calls for the House Judiciary Committee to initiate an investigation into the "stand down" orders. "Any government official that seeks to thwart the law is derelict in his duty to the American people. Mr. Nicely must take responsibility for his actions and turn over his post to someone who is willing to enforce the law," says Tancredo.

A dozen Border Patrol agents told the Washington Times they had been instructed "to 'stand down' from arresting illegal aliens near where Minutemen protesters had patrolled the border in April." The agents understood that an increase in arrests would in fact prove the effectiveness of extra manpower on the border and would credit the Minutemen's approach. Several sources, including the president of the National Border Patrol Council, have confirmed this report.

Tancredo has called for a congressional investigation into this matter. In a post-9/11 world, it is critical that we send the message that we are serious about border security. "A congressional investigation must get to the bottom of such troubling and dangerous practices," says Congressman Tancredo. "If Mr. Nicely was acting on orders from officials higher up in the border bureaucracy, more heads should roll. Congress must exercise more active oversight of our border security."

So, there you have it! The Minutemen, Friends of the Border Patrol, and now a proposed new state police agency known as the California Border Police. It's only the beginning, my friends. Patriotic citizens nationwide are determined to bring a halt to this invasion by illegal aliens and the violation of our nation's sovereignty.

At this moment, patriots across America are gathering in Las Vegas under the leadership of Mark Edwards, who shouts, "It's time to wake up, America!" Mark has long been informing Americans about the illegal alien invasion on his "Wake Up America" radio show on KDWN, Las Vegas, Nevada. (See An Interview With Mark Edwards. His Web site is www.wakeupamericafoundation.com.)

Mark Edwards, as one Marine to another: "Semper Fi!" And as my friend Ezola Foster says: "It's a sad day in America when the lawmakers side with the lawbreakers AGAINST the law-abiding citizens."

Editor's note:
 Illegal immigration threatens our security and tears at the fiber of America – Click Here!

FROM: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/27/22450.shtml

By JONATHAN FREEDMAN
Voice Guest Columnist
Monday, May 23, 2005

America's borders are out of control. Every year, 500,000 new undocumented aliens come to California. The cost to California taxpayers is billions of dollars for food stamps and other un-reimbursed services. The economic benefit of hiring cheap, exploitable labor is a bonanza for California agribusiness, and a boon to families. But the human cost of maintaining a system of American apartheid is incalculable.

When the federal government fails to take responsibility for enforcing borders, the people will do so. A group of self-appointed Minutemen are patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border.

But self-declared patriots who take the law into their own hands are nothing more than "vigilantes." So says President George W. Bush, who ought to know one when he sees one.

If vigilantism is ruled out, what's our poor little state to do?

"Why not set up a state agency that could enforce these (immigration) laws … with trained police personnel in a comprehensive and uniform manner," says Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta. These cops will be on the border, in neighborhoods and on street corners. "It will cost about $200 to $300 million dollars, but it could save us $5 billion," claims Haynes, who authored a bill to establish the California Border Police. Simultaneously, a well-heeled group is circulating petitions to put the California Border Police Initiative on the state ballot.

"If it qualifies, (Haynes) proposal will probably be approved," predicts political analyst Daniel Weintraub, of the Sacramento Bee.

Does California, or any state, have the authority to carry out federal immigration enforcement? Apparently so. Section 133 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 authorizes state agencies to arrest undocumented aliens and turn them over to federal authorities, according to the initiative's supporters. Opponents disagree, saying it usurps federal power. Most likely, it would wind up in the "liberal-leaning" Ninth Circuit Court.

Assemblyman Haynes of Murrieta must have conceived the California Border Police while meditating on moonbeams in the Murrieta Hot Springs. In order to empathize, I asked my house servant, Pepe, to fire up my hot tub and mix me a strawberry margarita, fresh picked by Oaxacans sleeping in spider holes in the sunny fields of Oceanside. Luxuriating in my Zen garden, tended by my Chinese gardener, Xi Kung, I conjured up the result of this border cops thinking.

The California Nanny Patrol will lurk at playgrounds, parks and neighborhood school yards, waiting for nannies to roll in with their charges. Then, with infants sleeping soundly in their strollers, agents will nab those dangerous nannies. If working parents complain that their beloved children were abandoned to local coyotes, they will have no one to blame but themselves for hiring immigrants.

The California Garden Patrol will tie gardeners by their green thumbs, seize lawnmowers, blowers, and hedge clippers and auction them off to the highest bidder. We can use the proceeds to buy lariats for the California Student Patrol to lasso young scholars caught in the act of learning, and drag them from classrooms.

The California Bedpan Patrol will sweep retirement communities and convalescent homes. Then the California Elder Patrol will escort seniors to the homes of their children and grandchildren, so busy Americans can care for their aged at home.

The California Taxpayer Patrol will purge the tax rolls of aliens who pay withholding taxes but never receive benefits. Maybe not -- we need their money to subsidize our government.

An estimated 3 million undocumented immigrants currently live in California. They are farm workers, nannies, housekeepers, gardeners, students, day laborers, hotel maids, car washers, eldercare workers, students and mechanics whose hard work for little pay keeps California running. This same group is made up of small business owners, engineers, investors, doctors, scientists, inventors, musicians, artists and technicians who are leading California's technological and cultural advances. A small minority are criminals, but the vast majority are decent, hard-working people with strong families.

Do we really want California Border Police (and their $300 million dollar price tag) arresting window cleaners on our doorstep, pulling children out of schools, snatching nannies while pushing strollers?

Before creating a new state bureaucracy with profiling powers, let's put humanity back into the equation.

Jonathan Freedman is the author of an upcoming novel, CANYON OF THE DEAD, about an American journalist accused of murdering an illegal alien in a canyon near the border. Freedman was awarded a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for editorials advocating immigration law reform.

FROM: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=312131&ct=877011

May 13, 2005

California Border Patrol

Though the federal government should be spearheading the issue of illegal immigration, California Assemblyman Ray Haynes is attempting to re-form the line that ought to be protecting our state from alien invasion. Assemblyman Haynes has proposed a state constitutional amendment that would create a California Border Patrol to perform internal enforcement of federal immigration laws (internal, as opposed to enforcement that only happens at the border). The amusing thing is that notoriously wasteful California Democrats are objecting to the proposal based on cost.

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said if a new police force required "spending more state dollars, I think we have to take a second look at that because we do have to be fiscally prudent."

Yeah, the same Fabian Nuñez who attempts to get illegal immigrants driver's licenses every single year -- but he doesn't immediately call the plan "racist", which raises some interesting questions. Personally, I'm in favor of creating a CBP, and I think we should send the tab to DC. Furthermore, the CBP would pay for itself.

A state border patrol, which would be a first, would cut the costs to taxpayers from an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants in California, [Dave] Gilliard [the measure's political strategist] said: "We estimate it would to save $5 billion to $7 billion (annually). California currently spends $9 billion to $10 billion for services, or for incarceration costs, on illegal immigrants."

The new state police agency, allowed by 1996 federal law, would employ more than 2,000 officers at a cost of $300 million to $400 million annually, Gilliard said. "Because they gave the states the authority to do this, there is no reason California shouldn't do it on its own," he said.

Eric Hogue at CRO thinks he knows why the plan isn't being denounced as "racist": because of Republican triangulation. (Here's the link to the post at his radio station blog.)

Why are the Dems not ranting over this new initiative? Because it has them trapped with their constituency.

The Democrat's 'union supporters' do not like illegal worker taking up ALL of the jobs in the state. When Member Haynes states that this is an initiative to reinforce our laws, he is messaging safely and placing the Democrats on the 'hot seat'...the unions want to 'limit' the flow of competition into the state and this Border Patrol addresses their concerns.

The Border Patrol will limit the flow of illegal immigration and work force competition, and it will also create more public employee, peace officer jobs for the state and the union - and the unions like the additional jobs and the additional union dues for political purposes.

Kevin Griffith at California Mafia interviewed Assemblyman Haynes and has posted some of the responses he received.

This raised my next question, what would the focus of the CBP be?

Assemblyman Haynes said that the CBP would have the ability and the authority to "go where they can be most effective" - however, whether that would be the border itself, ports and airports, or else where would be left to the head of the agency once it is in place. However, Assemblyman Haynes pointed to the employment aspect of the illegal immigration as a place where the CBP would likely be active.

I was a bit concerned about the bill taxpayers would get because of this new agency. Especially since we face such a major structural problem here in California when it comes to the budget. I asked the Assemblyman if part of the bill would go to the federal government.

Assemblyman Haynes assured me that the State would push to get the federal government to pay as much as was possible for the agency. He also pointed out that one of the major problems we face is that the State is currently losing several billion dollars a year right now because the federal government is not reimbursing the State for welfare, medicare/medicaid/medical payments and other several government programs that illegal immigrants are using. He further, pointed out that "we could pay for half the cost of the agency if we eliminated state employment services for illegals."

Don't forget the cost of educating both legal and illegal children of illegal immigrants.

On the other side, Bob Morris at Politics in the Zeros (which is a pretty cool name for a blog) thinks the idea is hypocritical because law enforcement rarely goes after the corporations who hire illegal immigrants.

Well, when your polls ratings are sinking alarmingly, what better route for a lunkhead governor to take than to mobilize his hard right racist core by attacking the defenseless. It's what former Governor Pete Wilson did when he was behind in a race with Kathleen Brown - and he won. Now some in California want to get another Prop 187-like initiative on the ballot, this time to create a California border patrol of 1,000-2,000 police. It's all so cynical. Businesses who hire such immigrants are rarely prosecuted and California agriculture would stop if not for immigrant labor - but they're defenseless, so let's attack them to boost our political ratings.

"First they came for the immigrants and I did nothing because I was not an immigrant ..."

I wasn't aware that California has a "hard right racist core", but I'm certainly not a part of it. However, I do think our immigration laws should be enforced, and I do think that companies who hire illegal immigrants should be prosecuted. Would Mr. Morris be satisfied with additional immigration enforcement if it targets the corporations doing the hiring in addition to the illegal immigrants themselves?

As for his final thought, "they" are coming for illegal immigrants, and the distinction is quite important. Once again, I've got no problem with immigrants. However, I don't like people who ignore our laws for their own convenience and then enrich themselves at our expense. That's called theft, and it's no different than walking into our homes and stealing our stuff. If we want a more open immigration policy, then let's vote on it. As it stands, existing laws should be enforced until and unless they are changed by the democratic process.

FROM: http://www.mwilliams.info/archives/005685.php

An anti-illegal immigration group, Rescue California, is helping to promote the measure, which is titled "California Border Police Act."

Promoters say a federal law passed in 1996 authorizes states to enforce federal immigration law. The little-known law allows local officers to be trained to enforce immigration law under agreements negotiated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Included in the enforcement would be action against employers who hire illegal aliens.

"The initiative is comprehensive, statewide and uniform," Haynes told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "It addresses the supply and the demand side, both the employers who support illegal immigrants and the illegals who come across the border."

According to the proposal's website, the initiative would save state taxpayers "at least $10 for every one dollar it costs" to fund the new law-enforcement agency. It has been estimated that California taxpayers pay several billion dollars every year to fund services used by illegal aliens.

Besides rounding up illegal immigrations and cracking down on employers, the new force would be authorized to build prisons especially for apprehended aliens.

Calling the tide of illegal aliens into California an "emergency," the proposition places the new agency under the office of Emergency Services.

States the initiative: "The Division of Homeland Security Assistance, Homeland Security Program, also to be known as the California Border Police, is hereby established in the Office of Emergency Services or its successor, under the direction of the Director of the Office of Emergency Services or his or her successor, or his or her designee."

Art Torres, the state Democratic Party chairman, said enforcement of the border and illegal-immigration laws should be left to the federal government.

"To hire a whole new law enforcement doesn't make sense from a cost perspective or a jurisdictional perspective," he told the San Diego paper.

The new agency, one organizer predicted, would have 1,000 to 2,000 law-enforcement officers.

FROM: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44224

FROM: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/30/GOVERNOR.TMP

Question: What's the second-largest city in Mexico?

Answer: Los Angeles.

The bill, signed into law last Friday in a pathetic act of desperation by soon-to-be-ex-Governor Gray Davis, directs the California Department of Motor Vehicles to accept Mexican government documents as valid forms of identification from driver's license applicants, and repeals the requirement that applicants present proof to the DMV of their legal presence in the United States.

Strangely, Davis vetoed a similar bill less than a year ago, saying at the time that the bill contained insufficient safeguards against the possibility that terrorists would obtain licenses to drive. He would support an amended bill, he said, if it contained "certain common-sense protections" such as a provision for background checks. But even those few protections that were in the earlier bill were stripped from the one he signed Friday, demonstrating just how malleable the governor's convictions can be with his political hide on the line. If Osama bin Laden himself were to sneak into the country (and what's stopping him?) he could stroll right into a DMV office and sign up for his very own driver's license when the bill takes effect next January 1.

Sadly, LAPD Chief William Bratton and other local police honchos supported the measure, illustrating why it's best to be skeptical whenever a new law or a candidate is said to be "supported by law enforcement." There is often a wide chasm between what is supported by the brass and what is supported by the troops, and the folks down at my level think this new law is a joke. (Bratton also recently hosted a news conference in front of the LAPD headquarters building, at which citizens were encouraged to support the extension of the spurious "assault-weapons ban." Also attending were Gray Davis, Dianne Feinstein, and several less-recognizable-but-no-less-liberal politicians, people with whom the average cop on the street has little in common.)

Bratton's rationale for supporting the new law was that it requires the DMV to institute a "biometric database," i.e. fingerprint records, to ensure that no one fraudulently obtains a second license under a new identity. With this provision, argued Bratton and others, the DMV will have a database accessible to police officers conducting investigations, and with every applicant identified by a fingerprint, solving crimes will be that much easier.

But not so fast, Chief. Written into the law, down there in the pesky fine print, is a provision that "prohibits the DMV from selling, transmitting, exchanging, matching, or otherwise providing to third parties including, but not limited to, federal, state, or local governmental agencies, any biometric identifiers, or data containing the biometric identifiers, in DMV's possession." Currently, a detective investigating, say, a murder, can query a DMV database and obtain photographs, addresses, and vehicle information on possible suspects. But under the new law, that detective will be required to obtain a subpoena or a search warrant if he wants to compare a fingerprint in the DMV's database to one found at a crime scene. Pressed for time as they already are, detectives will be loath to jump through this extra hoop, so the law isn't the boon to cops it's proponents claim. Another glaring defect in the law is the following, taken directly from an analysis on the California state senate's website:

In order for a biometric system to be effective, all the fingerprint records in DMV files must be digitized. Those records currently on file are not of a high enough quality to be used for this purpose. Hence, a fully digitized database will not be available for at least five years, assuming all current licensees are required to renew in person when their current licenses expire (creating yet another administrative expense and burden for DMV). If those eligible to renew-by-mail continue to be allowed to do so, a fully digitized database will not be available for at least 15 years. Additionally, assuming the bulk of the estimated 2 million individuals who are expected to seek licensure under this bill do so fairly quickly after its enactment, their applications will have been processed well before the biometric system is likely to be operational. Thus, their fingerprints will have the same deficiencies as those already in DMV files and will not be available for digitization and crosschecking.

Proponents also point out that even without licenses these illegal aliens are already driving, and that granting them legal status as drivers will allow them to obtain insurance for their cars, thus cutting down on the hit-and-run accidents that have become endemic in Los Angeles and other cities where illegal immigrants are concentrated. Well, sure, some will buy insurance and obey the law, but some won't. And it's hard to predict how many will or won't when their very presence in the United States reveals a willingness to disregard our laws in the first place.

I was once on the witness stand here in Los Angeles, in a case against a young man from across our southern border who had committed some outrage or other against the commonweal. To his credit, he confessed his crime to me (after being duly advised of his Miranda Rights, of course), and I was testifying to this effect when I was challenged by the defense attorney. He questioned me on voir dire as to my ability to speak Spanish. I testified that I had taken Spanish in both high school and college, and that I had spoken it daily for years, both as a police officer and in my former job. "Well," he said, "have you ever lived anywhere where Spanish is the primary language?"

"Yes," I said, "for a long time."

"And where was that?"

"Los Angeles," I said.

Yes, the passage of this law brings California ever closer to becoming what Victor Davis Hanson labels "Mexifornia," and that's welcome news to those who would see California and the entire Southwest returned to Mexican rule one way or another. But it's more than a little strange to see people espouse this political shift from America to Mexico while every day hundreds and thousands of their kinsmen leave everything behind and risk their very lives to go the other way.

— Jack Dunphy is an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. "Jack Dunphy" is the author's nom de cyber. The opinions expressed are his own and almost certainly do not reflect those of the LAPD management.

FROM: http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy090903.asp

By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX

Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday ordered more National Guardsmen posted at the Mexican border to help stop illegal immigrants and curb related crimes.

National Guard troops have worked at the border since 1988, but Napolitano signed an order authorizing commanders to station an unspecified number of additional soldiers there to help federal agents.

Once the funding is approved, the troops will monitor crossing points, assist with cargo inspection and operate surveillance cameras, according to the order.

"They are not there to militarize the border," the governor said. "We are not at war with Mexico."

About 170 National Guardsmen are already posted at the nation's busiest illegal entry point, where they assist with communications, fence construction and anti-drug efforts.

Napolitano did not say how many additional troops would be stationed at the border and referred questions to the National Guard, which did not immediately return a call.

The Democratic governor proposed sending troops to the border more than two months ago. Her critics in the Republican-led Legislature then introduced a bill requiring her to do so and providing $10 million for the project.

The bill won final approval Wednesday in the House and was headed to the governor, but she promised to veto the measure, saying it infringes on her constitutional powers as commander in chief of the Arizona National Guard.

Napolitano has asked the military to pay for her plan, but said she would commit state dollars if necessary.

The governor declared an immigration emergency last summer in Arizona's four border counties, citing security shortcomings by the federal government.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

BEGINNING OF THE END FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS?
Posted November 23 2005

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Government works in strange ways.  Sometimes they pass major bills, send out press releases, create extraordinary situations to make national news.  Mostly, it operates in the dark, quietly and you have to look at small news items and then put them together to see a pattern.

1.  The Feds closed down 13 motels in Phoenix that harbored illegal aliens--then started legal proceedings to take them over.
2.  The Feds raided a Wal Mart warehouse in Illinois and arrested 125 illegal aliens, shut down the project--costing Wal Mart lots of money.  At the same time numerous other Wal Mart's were raided, with dozens arrested.
3.  The Feds ended the "catch and release" of illegal aliens from nations other than Mexico.  While the tens of thousands are not much in comparison to the numbers coming from Mexico, it is a good start.
4.  Several cities are now refusing to create "Labor Centers"--fancy term for employment office for illegal aliens.
5.  A leading Member of Congress promoting illegal aliens, Cong. Jim Kolbe of Arizona (GOP) announced he will not run for re-election.
6.  Simi Valley is finally using the health and zoning laws to close down houses that have 15-25 people living in them.  Other cities could do the same.
7.  The Minutemen movement is catching the attention of citizens who want the government to act.

I could mention more examples, but we are finally moving in the right direction.  Voters are asking the tough questions about this.  Candidates for Congress that voted for drivers licenses for illegal aliens, supported Matricula Consular cards, in state tuition for illegal aliens to go to state colleges, etc. have had to apologize, claim it was all a mistake, ask forgiveness and promise never to do that again.

The pressure needs to continue.  We should be asking our local officials to enforce the health, safety and zoning laws.  We need to stop the funding of government run centers to hire illegal aliens.  Counties need to close down Home Depots, Costco's and other locations that illegal aliens use to get hired.  Close the stores for a few days as "crime scenes" and see how quickly this practice ends.  All of this can be done without a single new piece of legislation.  It is just the enforcement of the laws.

We need to enforce out banking laws.  Every loan to an illegal alien discriminates against honest immigrants and citizens.  Wells Fargo, Bank of America and the rest of the industry are concentrating on illegals are a profit center--hence helping drive up the cost of housing as well.

Lastly, the Census Bureau need to fix its system of counting.  Illegal aliens should never be counted for the purpose of the census.  This gives illegal aliens representation in Congress, taking away fair representation from honest citizens and immigrants.  We have time to ask our Congressional delegation to get those rules fixed.

But, there is no doubt we are finally seeing progress.  Victory can not be declared, but we are on the right road.

This is FRANK DISCUSSION NOT LECTURE FOR CONSERVATIVES.  This is your opportunity to be heard by the media, elected officials and activists.  Do not email me with your comments.  Post them directly on the web site at www.capoliticalnews.com Go to the topic, which is in blue, click on it, go to the bottom, read the other comments and write, then post your own.  Join the debate.

Thanks.

Steve Frank  
 
Responses

916 - Posted by Playa Pete on 2005-11-23 04:41:03

Illegal aliens are just that, ILLEGAL! They are not undocumented, they are here ILLEGALLY! They only stay because someone hires them. List those who hire them, and begin a boycott against them. It's so simple!!!

917 - Posted by Mike Sciutto on 2005-11-23 04:44:59

The items you mention are all good news of a sort but they really don't address the easiest way to stop illegal immigration. The reason the illegals come here is to be able to send money back to the homeland. You want to stop illegals, stop the money! We have plenty of laws on the books on money laundering, start applying them! Anyone wishing to wire money out of the country should be required to show proof of citizenship, no ID, no currency transfer. In addition to enforcing the law against employers that hire illegals, just follow the money! If it's earned here it stays here unless sent out of the country by a citizen. Any citizen consistently sending large somes of money out of the country should get investigated. If they have legitimate, legal reasons, no problem, otherwise arrest them, seize their assets and apply them to the national debt! Two problems solved!!! Sadly, all the legal tools needed to address the current problems are already on the books, our politicians are getting paid off or scared off of fulfilling their responsibilities. We need to elect better leaders!!!

918 - Posted by Brian Ashurst on 2005-11-23 04:51:02

As an immigrant myself, I had to jump through all the hoops to get here--and I have an American wife! Once here, I did not take a penny of public assistance but paid my own way, starting with quite menial jobs. Obviously I believe the law must be enforced. However the question of public policy is another matter entirely. Every Western country has a falling birthrate (thanks in part to abortion--that's why the US is short 20+ million workers). I believe immigration quotas should be much more generous, both here and elsewhere, but that every immigrant should have to pass the usual tests and no illegal immigrant should be allowed to stay. Companies needing foreign workers should be allowed to sponsor them under the new more generous arrangements and would face heavy penalties for circumventing the law. If this policy was agreed and enforced rigidly, I would accept almost any arrangement for illegals here today as a reasonable price to pay.

919 - Posted by MS on 2005-11-23 05:01:26

Playa Pete, Good idea on the list the employers and boycott them thing. Sadly it would be most of the food/agriculture businesses and the boycott wouldn't hurt them. Better to fine and/or jail the owners. In the short run food prices might rise but in the long run we should see a reduction in other "societal" costs. We'll need to watch the politicians closely since they'll find other ways to spend the emergency room or school money that is no longer being spent on illegals. Like any "big" project, reversing the illegal trend will take time and will but we can do it! We are also going to have to take a hard line with the Mexican government. They depend on illegals dollars to fund the corrupt Mexican system and to absorb the excess population that might just have to stay home and start a revolution against all that government corruption!

920 - Posted by bohica on 2005-11-23 06:01:13

They are still tOo light on people coming in from all point of entry. All points of entry need to be closed for the next ten years. Then we should hunt each illegal down as if they were a dog. One we get enough to fill a C-131 we should then give them a one day school on how how to do a HALO jump with an automatic deploying chute. Then it time to take them over the jump zone and send them home by air mail. This is for all men , women and children. Then and only then will they get the message...

921 - Posted by S.A. Long on 2005-11-23 07:23:07

Great ideas are given here; let’s implement them all! If workers are needed, let’s develop guest worker programs that work, without amnesty. This country has come to the place where those who are here illegally receive more “free” benefits/rights than the legal citizens who pay for them!! Let's list the bennies: free medical care (they just don't pay the bill), walk-in job placement centers, fee Spanish to English interpreters (as needed), free K-12 education (with bi-lingual teachers/administrators to assure good communication and parental involvement!!), immediate citizenship for every child born on US soil (with the likelihood that the illegal parents will not be deported because we would not send their “legal” children with them), free ESL classes, and a slew of politicians and activists lobbying for their "rights." Our unemployed legal workers’ are not even entitled to such services! What starving family or gold digging individual in his right mind would not try to enter this coutry anyway possible??? With an estimated 1.1 million illegals entering the US annually is it any wonder hospitals, school districts, municipalities, and the federal government are near bankrupt? This is insanity!

922 - Posted by Al Johnson on 2005-11-23 08:21:53

We lived on the CA/Mexico border for years and saw pregnant woman come across to give birth in order to receive U.S. citizenship and medical, etc. benefits free. This law also needs to be changed. If the mother is not a citizen, then the child has no right to citizenship.

923 - Posted by Al Johnson on 2005-11-23 08:21:53

We lived on the CA/Mexico border for years and saw pregnant woman come across to give birth in order to receive U.S. citizenship and medical, etc. benefits free. This law also needs to be changed. If the mother is not a citizen, then the child has no right to citizenship.

924 - Posted by greg lang on 2005-11-24 10:05:49

This seems to be a very good, albeit late, start with this very serious issue. Illegal means just what the word says...against the law. Closing stores for a few days doesn't do a thing. We have to cost these companies serious money in fines, which means going to the tops of these companies, even if that means, jail times, lose of jobs, personal fines, etc. In the long run, shareholders and the public, i.e.: you and me, will benefit. As far as continualing to allow immigration to our country, I agree that we should close our borders to all immigration for at least ten years. No more "free" health care, no more allowing the obvious fifteen people living in one house, no drivers licenses for illegal alliens, and very strict enforcement of deporting those who are here illegally. That would include children born here of illegal parents. Our schools are already overburdened by people who don't know English and have no thoughts of learning the English language. This tactic of bi-lingual teaching is absurd. Anywhere else in the world, when one goes/lives there, they are expected/demanded to learn that language. Why not here. In my area I see signs not bilingual but in a foreign language only-maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that was against the law. Anyways, lets keep up and encourage enforcement of current laws and enact new stricter laws defending our country.

925 - Posted by Ray, Red Bluff on 2005-11-24 12:22:39

The Feds closing down and starting confiscation proceedures on the 13 motels in Phoenix, is a good start. But has a mimimal effect. When they start closing down and confiscating businesses and the large corporate farms that hire the illegals, the borders will automatically close. If they dry up the job market there will be no more incentive for illegal immigration. As long as there are more than twelv million American citizens unemployed there is no reason or excuse for any kind of guest worker program.

926 - Posted by Debbie on 2005-11-24 08:18:43

We could end this invasion very simply if we change just one word in the Constitution! The word "person" to the word "citizen." We could end all the freebies for them. They cannot exist here with their six and eight kids on minimum wage. They always have several in the family getting AFDC, welfare, food stamps, WIC Program, etc., etc. But if that one word were changed, we could very easily refuse them all those freebies. They'd quit coming in a heartbeat! No one can support a family of eight on minimum wage! By the way, ALL that money that they send back to Mexico is usually earned "under the table," too. They aren't even paying taxes in most cases! I know many right in my own community who are lying about their yearly income and are collecting all the freebies -- and no one ever checks! If we'd just change that one word in the Constitution (person to citizen), we could refuse them all of it -- the free education, the free medical care -- all of it!

927 - Posted by dick on 2005-11-25 10:50:41

Forget Guest Worker programs there is no shortage of workers in this contry, only people who will not work for starvation wages.

928 - Posted by Michael A. Jackson on 2005-11-26 07:02:35

We do not have a worker shortage; we have businesses that want a free ride. In the free market, if you cannot hire sufficient employees at the pay you are offering, then you have to raise the pay, not get taxpayer subsidized workers. If you cannot provide your services paying the wages that are sufficient to attract legal workers, you should not be subsidized with taxpayer money; you should modernize or go out of business. Slave owners had similar arguments for picking cotton, yet amazing without the slaves they had to modernize and the cotton still made it to market. When California ended their guest worker program, the tomato industry developed a better tomato and tomato picking machine, they would not have done that with a guest worker/willing worker/temporary worker program in place. Enough codling of industries that in the long run are destroying California with failing schools, closing emergency rooms, and ever increasing congestion.

929 - Posted by Tom Andres on 2005-11-26 08:51:15

Brian Ashurst writes: “As an immigrant myself … Obviously I believe the law must be enforced. However the question of public policy is another matter entirely. Every Western country has a falling birthrate ... I believe immigration quotas should be much more generous, both here and elsewhere, but that every immigrant should have to pass the usual tests and no illegal immigrant should be allowed to stay. " It is said by experts that the US already takes in more immigrants than all other 200 or so nations in the world combined. That this is still thought insufficient by mass immigration apologists shows how untenable is their policy position. This terrible “falling birthrate” problem of Western countries (The US has been overpopulated for many years, and its population was just about to level off this century when we started in on our current immigration binge beginning in ‘65-70) assumes that we are such economic prisoners of never-ending growth that even when we reach the population level of China or India, we still must continue to grow in numbers. All this would be a disaster enough if it were just numbers, but add to that the political and media elite’s religion of "multiculturalism," and it is a nightmare. Teeming multiculturism, made ever worse by mass legal and illegal immigration, will be the death of the West, and the good things that the immigrants came here to share, as France is beginning to find out. It has nothing to do with being against individual immigrants, like the admirable poster, who I welcome, or being "anti-immigrant," as so many who want to keep the flood gates open as wide as possible charge.

930 - Posted by Tom Belvin on 2005-11-27 06:36:49

Tom Andres speaks the truth and I would add; look at the immigration rare of 1930!The illegals will not stop till the economy gets that bad. Our military's job is to protect our country! Bring most of them home to guard the borders and search the ships & trucks. Illegal drugs do far more damage than bombs. Indeed, lets enforce the laws we have. They get enforced on me!

947 - Posted by Jamie on 2005-11-30 09:28:13

One change in the law that needs to be made is the citizenship of children born to illegal or even temporary legal mothers. If you are born in other countries, you are entitled to "dual citizenship". That means you are legal, but the parents are not. If you want to return once of legal age, you will be admitted by right of citizenship. The baby doesn't get to act as an automatic passport or permanent entry for the parents. I suppose if they wanted to leave the baby behind when returning the home country, they could, but not too many couples would choose that option.

Population growth is a major problem. Steps must be encouraged now to reduce population world wide. Corporations seeking profits need to change their models from constant growth to constant improvement of old products to new that raises living standards world wide. Since 1800 the world has gone from 1 billion to 6 billion with 9 billion expected by 2050 if nothing changes. That is a recipe for economic and environmental disaster. China has taken the horrid drastic step of the "one child" policy. The West needs to do this voluntarily in order to avoid abortions of unwanted children. It will still take 150 years to steadily decrease down to the 3 billion people that the earth can support with food and water for all. We simply may be running out of time.

Illegal aliens are just that "illegal". The only way to stop it, is by fining and/or jailing employers that hire them. The price of lettuce may go up because employers will be forced to pay living wages to their employees in order to attract people to do the jobs, but costs will go down in medical care, welfare, prison costs etc. that are currently supported by taxpayers. The current system encourages employers to pay the lowest wages and undercuts the American middle class and steadily divides Americans into the haves and have nots, again a recipe for disaster as taxpayers pick up the tab of the "safety net".

Our educational system is falling farther and farther behind the rest of the world in the sciences that then leads to more importation of workers from the rest of the world and again undercuts the wages of those citizens who do get advanced degrees in these fields.

While I welcome legal immigrants (my father was one), we need a moratorium on immigration until some of the vast numbers we have are absorbed. Even France has figured this one out from the recent riots: Shut down immigration until the current population is educated and absorbed into the economic life of the country. We need to encourage the second and third generations or the immigrants we already have to become Americans and that means fully educated, English speaking with a stake in America's history and values. This doesn't mean destroying their heritage, that can be celebrated in their own communities just as past immigrants have their German, British, Italian etc. holidays, but don't cater to it in a PC fashion that separates them from the whole of what it means to be American.

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