Immigration & Borders

The Washington Times | The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

FOX News | But the reason for our visit to Fort Huachuca isn't about natural history. It's about a different, but equally dangerous species that calls the Sonoran Desert home - the Customs and Border Protection Predator B.

CNSNews.com | Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law – a ruling that is now being appealed.

CNSNews.com | Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., is issuing an invitation to President Barack Obama: If the president will come and spend a half hour with Babeu in Arizona, the sheriff says, he will convince the president he can succeed in securing the border and thus make himself a hero who transcends partisan politics.

By Jim Kouri | Examiner | Aug. 18, 2010

n the heels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' 258-0 "vote of no confidence"  against their superiors, U.S. Border Patrol agents are slamming President Barack Obama's administration especially Attorney General Eric Holder.

 | On the heels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' 258-0 "vote of no confidence"  against their superiors, U.S. Border Patrol agents are slamming President Barack Obama's administration especially Attorney General Eric Holder.

RawStory.com | Sheriff Joe Arpaio is at it again. A lawyer for the rogue Arizona sheriff who's staked his position as one of the most vociferous defenders of Arizona's new draconian immigration law now says his client will not comply with a request from the Feds to turn over documents related to a civil rights investigation.

PhilBrennan.org | In the United States of America there is an unholy political movement within the illegal immigrant community to radicalise them and to spark off a race war between the Hispanic immigrants and the Naturalised Americans, both black and white. It started in the late 1960s with the Southwest Council of La Raza being formed with direct funding of the Ford Foundation. In 1968 La Raza was given $600,000 USD by the Ford Foundation, and in 1969 a further $545,717 USD.

WND | A state agency in Colorado has disobeyed a state law because officials in the Department of Labor & Unemployment thought the mandatory verification of the immigration status of unemployment benefit recipients would slow down their process of delivering checks to applicants.

Numbersusa.com | A new study released by the non-partisan Pew Research Center reveals that 8% of all children born in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of illegal alien parents. Of the estimated 4.3 million births in the United States in 2008, approximately 340,000 babies had parents who were in the country illegally.

NewsWithViews.com | "If there is no battle and millions of Americans cowardly head for safer areas such as Montana or South Dakota, you will watch cities in the United States transform into poverty, misery, gangs, drugs, lawlessness and unending masses of Third World poor. Think Bombay, Calcutta and Mexico City within the United States. In fact, think of Detroit, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles today." -Frosty Wooldridge

Washington Times | Two key sheriffs along the Arizona-Mexico border on Tuesday called a planned visit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton a "political stunt" and described as "pathetic" Obama administration attempts to "cover up its inaction in protecting our borders."

Washington Times | America's front-line defenders against illegal immigration want to do their jobs, but they say the Obama administration is practicing unilateral disarmament. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council and its affiliated local councils, which represents rank-and-file ICE officers, unanimously approved a no-confidence motion on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven. A letter announcing the 259-0 vote said that ICE leaders are pursuing "misguided and reckless initiatives" and that ICE managers "abandoned the Agency's core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their attention to campaigning for policies and programs related to amnesty."

Numbersusa.com | I'm just back from my annual week of leading teenagers in building homes for poor Americans.  And I find that my former profession of journalism has gone a little wacky while I was gone, concerning reporting on the issue of birthright citizenship.

Infowars.com | A 2002 annual report breaking down money doled out by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals the foundation provided a grant to National Council of La Raza. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is arguably the largest “charitable” organization in the world.