Secure the Border First – Enforce Our Laws!
by Nicolas Minacapelli | July 3, 2010 | In Immigration, National Security | No Comments
First, let me make clear that I would take any legal immigrant who values the freedom of our great country over any complacent American born fool who clearly has no idea of what it means to be an American. I have tremendous respect for those who have sacrificed to come to our country the legal way. Do not take for granted the many gifts our great nation offers us. For which they come from God not of man. God bless the USA!
“A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation” — Ronald Reagan
Fox News Poll: Secure the Border First
A majority of American voters think the federal government should secure the country’s borders first, before Congress works on new immigration legislation.
The Obama administration wants comprehensive immigration overhaul to come first, while Republican leaders are pushing for improved border security as the top priority. A Fox News poll released Friday asked American voters what should happen first: 59 percent think the government should secure the border first, while 30 percent think the priority should be new legislation.
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Just over half of voters — 52 percent — favor Arizona’s new immigration law. That’s almost twice as many as the 27 percent who oppose it. Another 21 percent have no opinion.
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Arizona’s Closed Federal Parkland is a No-Man’s Land
BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Arizona – The number of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers crossing through this magnificent national parkland in southern Arizona has “decreased significantly” in the last four years, park officials say.
But there’s a dark cloud to this silver lining: To make it happen, the refuge had to close a sliver of this slice of heaven to the quarter-billion American taxpayers who own it — essentially creating a no-man’s-land on which only drug smugglers, gun-runners, human traffickers and the Border Patrol agents who track them down dare to tread.
And with rival Mexican drug gangs gunning each other down less than 50 miles away, the chance that the closed portion of the wildlife refuge will reopen in the foreseeable future appears to be between slim and none. For the time being, officials say, a small portion of this public land will be closed to the public.
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Arizona law’s foes are using the real immigration scare tactics
By George Will – Sunday, May 2, 2010
“Physician, heal yourself,” said the founder of the church in which Roger Mahony is a cardinal. He is the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, and he should heed the founder’s admonition before accusing Arizonans of intemperateness. He says that Arizona’s new law pertaining to illegal immigration involves “reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation.”
“Our highest priority today,” he says, “is to bring calm and reasoning to discussions about our immigrant brothers and sisters.” His idea of calm reasoning is to call Arizona’s law for coping with illegal immigration “the country’s most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law.” He also says that it is “dreadful,” “abhorrent” and a “tragedy” and that its assumption is that “immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder and consume public resources.”
The problem of illegal immigration is inflaming Mahony, who strongly implies, as advocates for illegal immigrants often do, that any law intended to reduce such illegality is “anti-immigrant.” The implication is: Because most Americans believe such illegality should be reduced, most Americans are against immigrants. This slur is slain by abundant facts — polling data that show Americans simultaneously committed to controlling the nation’s southern border and to welcoming legal immigration.
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Obama says politics to blame for immigration delay
WASHINGTON – Hoping to breathe new life into the stalled immigration effort, President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed the delay on recalcitrant Republicans whom he said had given in to the “pressures of partisanship and election-year politics.”
Republicans responded that Obama’s first step going forward must be to secure the border.
In his first immigration speech, Obama took Republicans to task, in particular 11 GOP senators who had backed attempts during the previous Republican administration to tighten the immigration system. He did not call out anyone by name.
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Obama: U.S. Borders Cannot Be Secured With Fences and Border Patrols
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama said today that U.S. borders cannot be secured with fences and border patrols. “It won’t work,” he said.
Obama made the statement in a speech at American University in Washington, D.C. in which he called on Congress to enact a “comprehensive immigration reform” law that would include a “pathway for legal status” for illegal immigrants—or what critics call amnesty.
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Mexican Drug Cartels Issue Threat to Arizona Cops
Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew suspicious and searched the jet.
They found 128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100 million. The stash was supposed to have been delivered from Caracas to drug traffickers in Toluca, near Mexico City, Mexican prosecutors later found. Law enforcement officials also discovered something else.
The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds they transferred through two of the biggest banks in the U.S.: Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp., Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August 2010 issue.
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Wachovia, Wells Fargo caught funding Mexican Drug Cartels – Bank of America also implicated
Brewer to Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough
President Obama speaking regarding our borders
Ariz. Cops Expect Scrutiny of Immigration Law
Laura Ingraham Interviews Ali Noorani On Immigration Reform – 07/01/10
Drug Gang Enforcer Admits Ordering U.S. Consulate Worker’s Killing, Mexico Says
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, federal police said Friday.
Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced on Friday, leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police.
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Rep. Pete Stark Mocks Border Security Advocates: Who Are You Going to Kill Today? – June 29, 2010
Glenn Beck – Rep Pete Stark (D-CA) – June 30, 2010
