Border Angels: Aiding and Abetting Criminals

This flier landed in my inbox and it got me to thinking.  On one hand, we don't want people to die or needlessly suffer.  On the other hand, Border Angels aids and abets criminals by not notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement about their contact with suspected trespassers. 

I suppose the best of both worlds would be for Border Angels to give food and comfort to criminal trespassers while waiting for ICE to arrive.  If we had enough eyes on the border in the first place to catch trespassers as they climb over the fence, there would be VERY few criminal trespassers wandering and dying in the U.S. deserts and very little need for Border Angels. 

Border Angels, however, believes it is completely acceptable for criminal trespassers to enter the U.S.A. without permission, use our educational system, healthcare system, legal system, as well as the rest of our infrastructure.  Their website is clear that they pay taxes which, in Border Angels' opinion makes it all ok.  The problem is that the wealthiest 1% pay for the majority of the services they use.  And then their are those reports that they contribute to Social Security.  It is impossible for them to LEGALLY contribute unless they have a work visa, green card, or are otherwise allowed to work in the U.S.A.  Therefore, if criminal trespassers are paying Social Security or income tax, they are also committing tax fraud and quite likely identity theft.  The burden is real and growing as long as we continue to give away our way of life simply to be politically correct. 

We can be good humanitarians AND respect our lawful sovereignty. 

California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo

California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo


By Joshua Rhett Miller

- FOXNews.com
Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas -- garments the school officials deemed "incendiary" on Cinco de Mayo.

The path from Cite and Release to Federal Detention Centers in Orange County

Arizona Law Enforcement

Meg Whitman strays from conservative values and shows us her true colors

"...Arizona is taking the wrong approach to illegal immigration..."

So, tell me Meg, what is the right approach?  The feds aren't doing their job.  What should Arizona do?

Fact Sheet for S.B. 1070, Arizona

ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Forty-ninth Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1070

immigration; law enforcement; safe neighborhoods

Purpose
Requires officials and agencies of the state...

George Will: A law Arizona can live with

"WASHINGTON "Misguided and irresponsible" is how Arizona's new law pertaining to illegal immigration is characterized by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She represents San Francisco, which calls itself a "sanctuary city," an exercise in exhibitionism that means it will be essentially uncooperative regarding enforcement of immigration laws. Yet as many states go to court to challenge the constitutionality of the federal mandate to buy health insurance, scandalized liberals invoke 19th-century specters of "nullification" and "interposition," anarchy and disunion. Strange. Read more.


I can't say I ever agreed with George Will before reading this, probably because I never paid much attention to him.  However, after reading his articulate view of the situation, I will read his future editorials. 

The Peasants' Revolt, May-June 1381

by Sir John Froissart (borrowed from "The Mammoth Book of Eye Witness Britain" edited by Jon E. Lewis)

(Background: Caused largely by the Poll Tax of 1379 and the Statute of Labourers of 1381. The latte fixed maximum wages in the wake of the Black Death.)

(after subduing the revolt) "This whole day the King passed with his mother, and a proclamation was made through all the streets, that every person who was not an inhabitant of London, and who had not resided there for a whole year, should instantly depart; for if any of a contrary description were found in the city on Sunday morning a sunrise, they would be arrested as traitors to the King, and have their heads cut off. This proclamation no one dared to infringe, but all instantly departed to their homes quite discomfited.

"John Ball and Jack Straw were found hidden in an old ruin, where they had secreted themselves, thinking to steal away when things were quiet; but this they were prevented from doing, for their own men betrayed them. With this capture the King and his barons were much pleased, and had their heads cut off, as was that of Tyler's, and fixed on London Bridge, in the room of those whom these wretches themselves had placed there.

"News of this total defeat of the rebels in London was sent throughout the neighbouring counties, in order that all those who were on their way to London might hear of it; and as soon s they did so, they instantly returned to their homes, without daring to advance farther."

King Richard II, 1367-1400 A.D.

John Ball, 1338-1381

Wat Tyler, 1341-1381

Jack Straw, ?-1381 

CBSNews.com: Arizona Immigration Law Fight Far From Over

"Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a divisive measure intended to curb illegal immigration, but the fight over the legislation is far from over."


The only reason SOME feel it is "divisive" is because the law expressly demonstrates the will of the majority of Arizona voters which leaves illegal immigrants running. There is a huge market for those who pander to the illegal immigrants. Some sell food and goods. Others sell newspapers and advertisements. Some offer various services like immigration assistance. The problem is that they are all aiding and abetting the continued illegal occupation of the U.S. for their own personal and financial gain. So, go ahead and boycott Arizona. Don't visit the Grand Canyon or Lake Havasu. With trespassers deported and their sympathetic supporters pouting, we can all enjoy the southwest in peace. Arizona citizens will finally be free from harassment at The Home Depot and able to get a construction job or two.

Maybe it's time for me to raise the Arizona State Flag over my house...

OC Register: Racism, Illegal Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Bill Hunt

The OC Register just can’t get enough of Bill Hunt. From the looks of the headlines, Hunt just might be the best thing that’s happened to the failing media company in a long time. It seems that protestors and allegations of racism no matter how patently false are great gimmicks to sell papers. Indeed, they are right up there with sex.

First, we have the OC Register story bearing the headline “Protesters rally outside O.C. Sheriff candidate’s event” http://www.ocregister.com/news/hunt-245737-arpaio-sheriff.html

The story takes you down the path of the newly minted immigration law in Arizona and then to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. OCR: "He helped pass this ridiculous, awful, mean-spirited bill," Maureen Shrubsole said of Arpaio. "Everybody in this country is from somewhere else originally."

It seems Shrubsole forgot that citizens pledge their allegiance to the United States Constitution. So whether you are a new citizen or your family has been here for 350 years, we all must do the right thing and uphold all of our laws including those of immigration. It is our civic duty.

The OC Register makes the protestors outside of the event the headline story rather than the reason for the fuss. No, Arpaio isn’t the reason for the angst, although the protestors and news paper will have you think he is. The real story being missed is that of U.S. citizens who are burdened by immigrants who have trespassed into the U.S.A. Those who bring their poverty north of the border hoping to strike it rich and return south someday with their pockets lined in greenbacks are displacing legitimate workers, suppressing wages, and collapsing our hospitals. This is the story the OC Register misses time and again.

But that’s not all we got from the OC Register this weekend…

Our next OCR headline is “Arpaio takes immigration victory slow”. http://www.ocregister.com/news/arpaio-245704-sheriff-hunt.html?cb=1272292126

What kind of headline is that? The author assumes that Arpaio doesn’t (or didn’t) have the appropriate authority to tackle some of the immigration issues. That isn’t true.

“Under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal law is the supreme law of the land. State and local governments are “preempted” from enacting legislation in areas where Congress has asserted its exclusive authority or that would conflict with federal legislation. In the immigra¬tion field, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized three tests to determine whether federal law preempts a state or local law: 1) constitutional preemption, 2) field preemption, and 3) conflict preemption. A state or local law related to immigration that fails any one of these three tests is preempted by federal law and therefore unconstitutional and invalid.” http://www.ncacc.org/annualconf/2008-b1_lawbulletin.pdf 

Therefore, Arpaio can enforce many of the federal immigration regulations as well as Maricopa County Ordinances and his own policies. Most importantly, he can screen for immigration status when the prisoners are incarcerated for other crimes.

My favorite quote from these stories is from Arpaio:

"Ten guys in a trunk. I would think that's reasonable suspicion," Arpaio said. He proudly announced that his department just arrested 22 illegal immigrants at a fast-food restaurant. "I just opened 22 jobs for people here legally."

Common sense.  And that is why Sheriff Joe Arpaio is liked by many and hated by liberal lefties.

 
 

CBSNEWS.COM: Mexico Drug Gangs Attack Army Garrisons

CBSNews.com is reporting an Associated Press story that the Mexican Army was attacked by gunmen from the Mexican drug cartels.  The attacks appeared to be well planned and the gunmen well prepared with armored vehicles and military weaponry.

 

"(AP) Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.

The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases - part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states - appeared to mark a serious escalation in Mexico's drug war, in which cartel gunmen attacked in unit-size forces armed with bulletproof vehicles, dozens of hand grenades and assault rifles.


While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom target army bases, and even more rarely attack in the force displayed during the confrontations Tuesday in the border states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon - areas that have seen a surge of bloodshed in recent months."

With these attacks in mind as well as kidnappings of U.S. citizens in the U.S. for ransom by cartel-related groups, what does 2010 candidate for Orange County Sheriff, Bill Hunt, plan to do to keep us safe from the Mexican Drug War struggles?

Bill Hunt: "The escalating violence of Mexican drug lords is another reason we can no longer afford to elect public officials who turn a blind eye to illegal immigration enforcement and pay lip service to securing our nations borders. The invasion of illegal aliens coming from our southern border is crippling our criminal justice system, our schools and our health care systems. America is struggling financially at the federal, state and local levels and branding those who defend our nation's immigration laws as racist will not end this threat to our nation's security and prosperity. Now more than ever, it's time for honest debate and strong, principled leadership at every level of government on this important issue that impacts us all."

And that's why I'm voting for Bill Hunt!