The Illegal Alien Crime Wave

[Tori]

Link to entire article (http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html)

What is our president thinking of to offer amnesty to a people which includes law breakers such as these? This is a fairly long but very informative and eye opening article. Use the link to read entire text.

"Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law.

The LAPD’s ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These “sanctuary policies” generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities. "

[Snowden]

This idea of amnesty displays an alarming lack of concern for the laws of the land, not to mention that the people in the US are not "too good" to fill any jobs open.

We really don't want to open our borders to this extent! We know al Qaeda will use this - it shows a lack of common sense as well as a total disregard for the immigration laws, those who have patiently come in by following those laws and those tax payers who will carry the brunt when these people come for the minimum wage and need welfare in order to live.

[edith]

This lack of enforcing the immigration laws is crazy. The cost to society is staggering. I think there must be a grass roots movement to demand change.

[Tori]

You're right Edith. It's my guess that immigration laws and enforcement--or lack of-- might become a huge campaign issue!

In the local discussions here; even the few holdouts are changing their minds because of the daily problems and the financial drain on the state.

[Tori]

Edith I hope this opens up the topic so you can find it.

[edith]

Thanks, Tori. This is the post I was telling you about. Hope you like it.

'Sanctuary' Laws Stand in Justice's Way
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Why shouldn't the police arrest dangerous illegal aliens on sight?
By Heather Mac Donald

Heather Mac Donald is the author of "Are Cops Racist?" (Ivan R. Dee, 2003) and a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, from whose Winter 2004 issue this is adapted.

January 19, 2004

Some of the most dangerous thugs preying on immigrant communities in Los Angeles are in this country illegally. Yet the Los Angeles Police Department cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status.
Dozens of gang members from Mara Salvatrucha, a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang, for example, have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country after deportation is a felony. Yet if an LAPD officer arrests an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is the officer who will be treated as a criminal for violating an LAPD rule.

That rule, Special Order 40, prohibits officers from questioning or apprehending someone only for an immigration violation or from notifying the immigration service (now known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement) about an illegal alien. Only if the person has been booked for a nonimmigration felony or multiple misdemeanors may officers even inquire about his immigration status.

Such "sanctuary" rules, replicated in cities with a high number of immigrants, are a testament to the political power of immigrant lobbies. "We can't even talk about" illegal alien crime, a frustrated LAPD captain said. "People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics."

Police commanders may not want to discuss the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling: 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide in Los Angeles (which total more than 1,200) are for illegal aliens, according to officers. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (which total 17,000) are for illegal aliens. The leadership of the Columbia Li'l Cycos gang, which has used murder and racketeering to control the drug market around MacArthur Park, was about 60% illegal aliens in 2002, says a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted them in 2002.

Good luck finding any reference to such facts in "official" crime analysis. The LAPD and the Los Angeles city attorney recently obtained a preliminary injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood. The injunction targets the 18th Street gang and, as the press release puts it, "non-gang members" who sell drugs in Hollywood on behalf of the gang.

Those nongang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled in by the gang. Cops and prosecutors say that they know the immigration status of these nongang "Hollywood dealers," as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is silent on that aspect. If an officer were to arrest a dealer for his immigration status, or even notify immigration authorities, he would face discipline for violation of Special Order 40.

Likewise, although LAPD officers recognize previously deported gang members all the time, they can't touch a deported felon unless he has given them some other reason to stop him. Even then, an officer can arrest him only for the offense not related to immigration. Yet a deported gangbanger who reenters the country is already committing a federal felony — punishable by up to 20 years.

The city's ban on enforcing immigration crimes puts the community at risk by stripping the police of what may be their only immediate tool to remove a criminal from circulation. Trying to build a case for homicide, say, against an illegal alien gang member is often futile because witnesses fear retaliation. Enforcing an immigration crime would allow the cops to lock up the murderer right now, without putting a witness at risk.

The department's top brass brush off such concerns. No big deal if you see deported gangbangers back on the streets, they say. Just put them under surveillance for "real" crimes and arrest them for those. But surveillance is manpower-intensive. Where there is an immediate ground for arresting a violent felon, it is absurd to demand that the understaffed LAPD ignore it.

The stated reason for sanctuary policies is to encourage crime victims and witnesses who are illegal aliens to cooperate with the police without fear of deportation. This theory has never been tested. In any case, the official rationale could be honored by limiting police use of immigration laws to some subset of violators: say, deported felons whose immigration status police know.

The biggest myth about sanctuary laws is that they are immigrant-friendly. To the contrary: They leave law-abiding immigrants vulnerable to violence. Nor will it do to say that immigration enforcement is solely a federal responsibility. When it comes to fighting terrorism, the LAPD understands that it cannot rely on the feds alone to protect Los Angeles. Similarly, the department should not wait for a few of the 2,000-odd immigration agents, stretched to the breaking point nationwide, to show up and apprehend felons who are terrorizing neighborhoods.

LA Times

[Tori]

This week in Mesa, (a city bordering Phoenix) a police officer noticed a van unloading two people at a time and taking them into a home. When they were done he approached the house and found 34 illegal aliens including women and children and one suspected smuggler inside.

He arrested the suspected smuggler and nothing was done with the illegals.

Also this week, millions of dollars of Marijuana was confiscated in two separate incidents. Both bunches of drugs are suspected of coming in through Mexico.

Cars with large families of legal residents of Mexican Heritage are now being chased and shot at on the freeways by smugglers mistaking them for illegals and attempting to kidnap them to hold them for ransom. So far no one has been hurt, but it's only a matter of time!

Illegals are being found shot, stabbed or beaten, and dumped alongside the road so often it's becoming almost a daily ocurrence!

Ads are airing on TV here against the amnesty program. Is anyone else in other parts of the country seeing them too?

The tide is slowly beginning to turn here. The legal immigrants may yet become our best allies in thwarting the amnesty.

[norman]

I think deep down we suspect why the amnesty idea is being floated. And why even if it becomes a political issue no matter who wins nothing new will happen.

If a survey of 10,000 non government employees was taken & the survey questions were.

1. Do government employees do a good job ?

2. Are they overworked ?

3. Are government offices managed by innovative capable forward thinking people ?

Unless all of those 10,000 lived in a cave, were out of mainstream society, or just plain illiterate the overwhelming response would be NO .

I think during the years when America was prosperous & world competition for goods made here wasn't a concern it was OK to look the other way. Now that times have changed all the niceities in terms of tax paid benefits are beyond the control of any federal or state bureaucracy.

Rather than being able to deal with the flood of illegal immigrants it is politically more expedient to set a plan in motion & let the various bodies of government discuss, conduct investigations, debate & do nothing while all the time claiming to be actively looking for the best possible solution.

Bottom line they don't have a clue as to how to unring a bell that is about to make us go deaf.

[edith]

Great points made, Norman and I agree.

As for
Bottom line they don't have a clue as to how to unring a bell that is about to make us go deaf.
I think they have a clue, but don't have the will. They need to close that border and hold the government of Mexico liable for problems caused here by their citizens.

There is also something that I've heard discussed that sounds rational which might make it unattractive for government. At the same time the borders are closed, a guest worker program be set up with strict documentation. All illegals without the documentation be immediately deported. Yes, it would be expensive, but it is expensive the way things are now.

[Tori]

Norman is correct. It's too late now to do anything about the situation. Political correctness has done us in! It would take every soldier in our Military to put a stop to this pending disaster!
Within the next ten years every American worker will be forced to be bilingual or find themselves unemployable!!!!!

Illegal Aliens' Unstoppable
Third World Crime Wave In US
By Frosty Wooldridge
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Last summer, in Boulder, Colorado, eight illegal aliens raped eight American women. The aliens fled back to Mexico. One was caught. In a nearby city of Longmont, a used car dealer was driven out of business because he suffered so much theft from his lot that he bankrupted. An illegal alien killed a California cop, John Marsh, last year. Robberies and break-ins have become the norm in California. They've become the pattern in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and dozens of other states. But the sobering realities concerning these crimes point to one fact--they are illegal aliens. They are importing themselves into this country with a vengeance. They are deadly, pernicious and organized. They represent the worst of what is common in the Third World.

In her recent scathing report, 'THE ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAVE' by brilliant investigative reporter, Heather MacDonald, our country is being assaulted by a crime wave that grows steadily and viciously.

A full 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide, which totaled 1,500 last year in Los Angeles, pointed to illegal aliens. Soberingly, two thirds of all fugitive felony warrants, totaling a horrifying 17,000, were for illegal aliens. To make matters worse, in 1995 a report showed that 60% of the 20,000-strong 18th Street gang in southern California was composed of illegal aliens. That gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia on drug distribution schemes, extortion and drive-by assassinations. They commit assault and robberies every day of the week. A night of crime to them is like a day of work for American citizens.

How did it come about and why is it spreading? In 1979, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40. Astoundingly, as if insanity took the front row seat in their minds, leaders of dozens of cities from San Francisco to Miami and New York City adopted this special order. This law prohibits police officers from arresting illegal aliens. In reality, it?s a carte blanche invitation for crime to grow in our country, putting citizens at risk for their lives.

"If I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha prison in El Salvador crossing the street in LA, I can't touch him," said a Los Angeles police officer. "I can't arrest him for an immigration felony."

Boulder, Colorado practices the same 'sanctuary' policy for illegal aliens. The mayor of the city openly encourages illegal aliens by making sure the police chief does not arrest illegals. Some of Boulder's immigration lawyers were so bold as to offer publicly announced classes for illegal aliens on how to avoid arrest, detention and deportation by immigration agents. The result in that town shows a tripling of the illegal alien population as well as jobs taken away from citizens and the eight violent rapes.

Not far away in Denver last week, an illegal alien, Javier Cruz-Caballero, purposely ran down police officer, Robert Bryant, while the officer operated a radar gun in a school walk zone. Witnesses saw the Mexican national rev up his engine while taking dead-aim at the officer. Bryant flew 30 feet through the air while suffering a broken leg and head lacerations. He could have easily been killed.

At a greater level, New York's Mayor Bloomberg supports illegal alien crime by maintaining a 'sanctuary policy' in that city. Last year, four illegals raped and killed a New York jogger. That crime was one of thousands of crimes committed by illegal aliens who are protected from the law. But more horrific in impact of this loss of the rule-of-law, former Mayor Guiliana practiced Special Order 40. Several illegal aliens protected by the Order participated in 9/11. The death toll reached 2,800, but the impact on our nation reverberates today. Yet, Special Order 40 continues full force in protecting the estimated 10 million illegal aliens in our country.

However, thousands of them are killing, raping, robbing and driving illegally in our country. Over 400,000 deportees continue walking around free in our country. The ones that commit crimes and are caught make up a full 29% of our prison populations. They cost American taxpayers nearly $1 billion annually to feed, house and care for them in our prisons. And, yet, Special Order 40, continues as if it was a fig leaf for welcoming hardened alien criminals.

These examples of illegal immigrant crime depict a growing menace to our functioning society. While a sleepy American public watches idly and a Congress refuses to enforce our borders while mayors adopt the 'sanctuary policy', we citizens receive an average of 2,200 illegals every 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days per year. Since the Amnesty policy was announced, the invasion intensifies with greater numbers.

Where does that leave you? If you're in California, you're planning on moving to Idaho or Montana because it's already too late. With over 3.5 million illegals, the crime wave is beyond stopping. If you're in Georgia, you're probably stewing under your breath, but you don't have a clue that it's going to get worse. In Chicago, they either take jobs or rob banks or set up drug, prostitution and theft rings. If you're in Florida, it is no longer an American city. Houston is just as bad. It grows worse in every city in America.

It's called THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM.

The key is to understand that in the Third World--corruption, crime, child prostitution, bashing in peoples' heads, torture and worse is the NORM. Why? Because the rule-of-law no longer applies. Today, in America, concerning illegal immigration, our public officials who were sworn to uphold the Constitution have abstained from their oaths of office. We're forced NOT to talk about it via being politically correct, yet we are the victims of our own silence. Because the American public still hasn't figured this crisis out or keeps thinking it will go away on its own.IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE and you or your loved ones will become victims given enough time. With Special Order 40 in your city, another 9/11 can't be far off!

Source: Heather MacDonald, City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, January 15, 2004, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAVE.

Frosty Wooldridge (frostyw@juno.com), (www.frostywooldridge.com) is a teacher and author who has bicycled 100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly. Next book: 'INCURSION INTO AMERICA: IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION - DEADLY CONSEQUENCES' If you have been affected by illegal immigration, write as much of your story as you like and submit it to the author for inclusion into the book. All names and places will remain private.

[Snowden]

By Norman: If a survey of 10,000 non government employees was taken & the survey questions were.

1. Do government employees do a good job ?

2. Are they overworked ?

3. Are government offices managed by innovative capable forward thinking people ?

Unless all of those 10,000 lived in a cave, were out of mainstream society, or just plain illiterate the overwhelming response would be NO .

Right, Norman. The problem really is that once a person is a government worker and in the system, he or she is permanent. You cannot get them out of there. No matter how ineffectual or nasty they are, the only way to get them out of any department is to promote them up into another department.

How do I know this? My husband worked for the government when we were married; he left because he simply could not stand the way they did things. If you keep busy and really do the job or just do nothing, the pay is the same and there is little or no incentive to do anything at all. As a veteran, he had a month or more vacation a year; even so, it was the least rewarding job he ever had and he got out of there and into private industry as soon as he found a job that was interesting.

[edith]

We often hear that "immigrants only come here to work" but that sentimental fluff ignores the obvious truth — that to a crime-minded foreigner, America is the full refrigerator of his dreams. The material riches, combined with many Americans' naivete when it comes to crime, make this nation easy pickings for the lowlifes of the world.

Making alien crime even easier is the refusal of some Americans to recognize national break-in as a problem worth pursuing. Some cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have even given illegal immigration semi-legitimacy under the policy of sanctuary, under which police are not permitted to ask about a person's immigration status. Such foolishness hobbles normal police activity and ignores how serious criminals are sometimes found through traffic checks and other routine acts of everyday law enforcement.

Worth a look is the FBI Most Wanted pages. There is a list of Most Wanted Terrorists, unsurprisingly headed by UBL. The traditional Top Ten List of Most Wanted is there, along with a monthly selection of bad criminals. The proportion of foreigners is certainly above their percentage of the population. The September 2003 list of 18 wanted fugitives includes five Americans, 10 Mexican nationals and three other foreign nationalities (Iraq, Colombia, Somalia).


• _ Angel Maturino Resendez, AKA Angel Resendez, Rafael Ramirez or simply "the Railroad Killer" was one of America's most frightening serial killers because of the random nature of his victims. A railroad hobo, he rode the rails through the central area of America and killed at least nine people as he hopped on and off trains. What is additionally disturbing beyond the brutality of his stabbings and bludgeonings was that he was in police custody several times during his crime spree. But the nonexistent tracking of the INS allowed him to get away with having several identities and use them to keep a step ahead of law enforcement. Resendez was finally apprehended in 1999. The case was so shocking that Michelle Malkin devoted a chapter to it in her book Invasion.

• _ Hesham Mohamed Hadayat went to the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, and proceeded to open fire, killing two and injuring three others. He was shot down by a security guard. Despite the obvious connection between an Israeli airline and a Muslim killer, the government refused to call it a terrorist act. Hadayet was an immigrant from Egypt who lived here illegally for a time and was considered for deportation by the INS, but he later got lucky when his wife won a diversity visa. Not so lucky for his murder victims, however, one of whom was going to get an engagement ring from her boyfriend on the next day. Hadayet's widow apparently refused to accept his guilt for the crime, but if he did do it, then it was the fault of America. "He is a victim of injustice," she said. "In America, they hate Islam and Arabs after Sept. 11."
FBI Update: Curiously, after numerous statements from the FBI and other national law enforcement organizations that Hadayat was not a terrorist, on April 12, 2003, the FBI and Justice Department issued a statement saying that the shooting at LAX fit "the definition of terrorism."

• _ Lee Malvo was evidently the trigger man for the series of shootings in fall of 2002 in the Washington region that killed 10 people and terrorized a huge area for weeks. Young Malvo came to this country with his mother as an illegal alien stowaway, and as such, should have been immediately returned to his native Jamaica according to law. But the INS is often more concerned with saving money on jail costs than protecting the public, so Lee Malvo was released into America to do as he wished. Also, Bill O'Reilly found evidence that a local immigrants' rights group inserted its influence to have Malvo set free rather than be deported. Not that the young man was an obvious candidate to be a serial killer, but with a quarter of federal prisoners being illegal aliens, the problem of alien criminals is serious and often overlooked by sentimental propaganda like, "They only come here to work."

• _ Just how sloppy is America's immigration system? Well, an illegal alien worked in two White Houses. Shown at the left is Salvador Martinez-Gonzalez with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn. (A similar photo of Martinez-Gonzalez with President Clinton also exists.) The Mexican national worked for a company that sets up outdoor social functions at the White House. Everyone who comes into close contact with the President in the White House is supposed to be checked over by the Secret Service. As columnist Mark Steyn noted, CNN's Candy Crowley had to undergo a six-month background check in order to get her White House press pass. In a time of war and terrorism, the idea that an illegal alien is moving freely among the nation's leaders is unsettling, to say the least. Martinez-Gonzalez was indicted in January 2003 on charges of illegal re-entry into the United States and possession of false documents.

• _ Maximiliano Esparza is another violent criminal allowed to run loose in the United States with horrific results — the rape and murder of a nun in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Sister Helen Chaska was found strangled and dead with her rosary beads lodged in her neck. Another nun was raped where the nuns were walking along a bike path. As an illegal alien, Esparza should have been deported in 1992 after serving a prison term for kidnapping and robbery in Los Angeles, however there is no record of the Salvadoran being deported so presumably he was merely released into the community from prison. Esparza was also arrested in 2002 prior to the murders, but was released by the INS in violation of the law which requires that criminal aliens with long rap sheets are supposed to be investigated. One report shows that he used seven different aliases.
Sentencing Update: In early April 2003, Esparza was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The case was a plea bargain, partially to prevent the necessity for the surviving nun to testify.

• _ For a time Ingmar Guandique was considered a possible suspect in the murder of Chandra Levy, because he had attacked women when they were jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park where her body was discovered. In fact, he was easy for police to question since he was already in jail, sentenced to 10 years for the violent attacks on two women plus a home burglary. Interestingly, even though there was a media firestorm over the Levy disappearance with a mind-deadening amount of superfluous detail, the mainstream press did not bother to mention that Mr. Guandique entered the country illegally. Like so many others, he benefited from the willingness of the INS and courts to engage in "catch and release," a practice more suitable to fly fishing than immigrant enforcement.

• _ The case of accused murderer Biswanath Halder brings up questions about legal immigration and whether failed assimilation is creating social time bombs. Halder is a naturalized US citizen, who immigrated from India as a 28-year-old adult in 1969 and became a citizen 11 years later. He was arrested for the murder of student Norman Wallace when Halder entered Case Western Institute of Technology on an apparent mission of revenge against another member of the university community whom Halder believed had hacked into his website. Halder held 140 people hostage in the campus building for seven hours before he was shot and captured by police.
_ _Halder was obviously psychologically disturbed for a long time: Even though Halder had a degree in engineering, he began receiving Social Security checks in the late 1980s for his "disabilities." He sued several companies for not hiring him, starting in 1990. He sued Case University over his website allegedly being hacked by a Case employee, but the suit was recently thrown out of court, a possible motive for the rampage. Was Halder someone with an obvious psychological problem when he originally applied to enter the US and never should have been admitted in the first place? Did a failure of cultural assimilation magnify a personality disorder into something much more dangerous? In 1993, he wrote, "The only thing I had in my mind when I created the Asian Indian Network was to serve my fellow countrymen," hardly the sentiments of an assimilated immigrant. Media interest in this case got up and died as soon as it was discovered that the shooter was not a white gun nut, and these sorts of questions have not been asked.

• _ The case of Juan Manuel Casillas exemplifies everything that's reprehensible about Mexico's refusal to extradite. In 1999 Casillas shot and killed two teenaged cousins on their way to high school because one of the girls, Olivia Munguia, had broken up with him. Casillas easily escaped from Van Nuys into Mexico. Los Angeles County District Attorney' office worked diligently for two years to bring back the killer for trial, even agreeing not to pursue a death penalty. But Mexico refused to cooperate. In frustration and anger, Saul Zavala, the father of the other murdered girl, Jessica Zavala, traveled to Mexico with a gun in his jeans to find his own rough justice.
_ _Finally, the Mexican government tried Casillas and sentenced him to 60 years in jail, just half of what Saul Zavala had hoped. To add to the insult, the father was not notified of the sentencing and found out the result nearly a month later. Worse, there's no guarantee that Casillas will serve his full sentence: Mexico has released other dangerous criminals after just a couple years in jail. For example, a man who killed a 17-year-old boy in Los Angeles was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years in prison. He served only two years and later returned to the area.

[edith]

• _ Israel Cebrera Pulido was found guilty of a particularly heinous crime — brutally murdering Eugenia and Sabato Russo, an elderly couple who owned a popular restaurant in North Hollywood, the Sabatino Italian Bakery. Pullido, described as a Mexican national, had apparently been part of a day-laborer crew that did some floor work at the couple's home. He returned on November 22, 2000, when he proceeded to rob and kill the two in a horrific manner, breaking off a knife blade in the skull of Sabato Russo and caving in Eugenia Russo's head with a wooden closet rod. A juror at the trial said the jury could have found Pulido guilty in five minutes, but examined the defense's arguments for four hours to be fair. In the end Pulido was found guilty of robbery, burglary and multiple murders with special circumstances, and was sentenced to life without parole. This case should be a warning against bringing day laborers into one's home to have some work done cheaply, since the final cost may be very high indeed.

• _ From this man's various aliases, Enrique Alvarez has been the one settled on for the time being. He is a kidnapper who stalked a nine-year-old girl in San Jose, California, and snatched her from her home even though her mother and brother tried to fight off the intruder. The little girl fought back while Alvarez held her hostage and raped her several times. He finally relented after a couple days and released her. Since Alvarez is an illegal alien, it is not yet known whether he has a history of child sex abuse. He physically resisted being fingerprinted by the police, so it's likely that he has a criminal record of some length.
_ _ Trial Update: There was some dispute for a time that the accused rapist, now known as David Montiel Cruz, was insufficiently intelligent — public defender Carl Beatty said Cruz has an IQ of 58 — or was too mentally disturbed to stand trial. But a jury has found him competent enough to be tried. A preliminary hearing held Oct. 24 revealed how much presence of mind the victim, now aged 10, had during the time she was held. She helped police enormously in arresting the suspect because she could describe minute details about her imprisonment, such as the cell phone number used to order a pizza and the number 70 on a violet-trimmed house where she was kept.
_ _ Cruz faces more than 100 years in prison if he is convicted on all charges, which include burglary, sexual assault and kidnapping.

WANTED FUGITIVE _ • _ Armando Garcia is another of the numerous murderers, more than 60 from Los Angeles County alone, taking refuge in Mexico. He shot down LA County deputy sheriff David March in cold blood on April 29, 2002, and then quickly escaped to Mexico. Garcia was a meth dealer who had been deported three times and had attempted murder twice previously. He had sworn to shoot any police officer who tried to arrest him, and he did just that with several shots from a 9mm: David March died a short time later. Teri March, his widow, has been struggling to force the Mexican government to hand over Garcia. But Mexico stubbornly refuses to extradite all but minor criminals because of its objections to capital punishment and life imprisonment. Teri March has a website about the case, with more details about the issue of Mexico's protection of criminals, actions to take and remembrances of Deputy March.

• _ The story of gang-banger Simio, told in the book True Tales from Another Mexico, is instructive to those who wonder about the Mexican gangsters on American streets and how they came to get here. He made the common immigrant pilgrimage from Michoacan to the United States, but Simio did not come here to work, but to rob. Upon arriving in a nondescript Los Angeles suburb, his reaction was, "I saw there were all kinds of chances to steal." He also discovered crack while in the US, which was a good fit with his chosen profession of thief. His normal routine was to rob two houses during the day and one at night which fed his thousand-dollar-a-day drug habit. He returned to Mexico after three months in juvenile detention with exhortations for the homeboys to get more serious about their gangstering. "I woke those boys up," Simio reported. "They were all asleep. They didn't have the urge to rob. They weren't stealing anything." In time, some of those young men would make the journey to America, already trained in thievery, drug use and gang behavior.

• _ Saul Dos Reis is every modern parent's worst nightmare: the 24-year-old Brazilian national contacted a 13-year-old girl, Christina Long of Danbury, Connecticut, in an internet chat room, met her for sex and killed her, supposedly strangling her during rough sex. He then drove around for an hour with her body in his car, finally dumping Long's body in Greenwich. Dos Reis sent her computer a long email the next day to establish an alibi, trying to create the appearance that the sixth-grader was still alive and he expected to see her again.
_ _The internet aspect of this case has gotten a lot of media attention, and rightly so: the dangers posed by insufficiently supervised online activity by children are very real. However, the human carnage perpetrated by criminal aliens has been little considered in the media and by Congress. Dos Reis is a predator who should not have been in this country to pursue children for sex. He was sentenced May 6, 2003, to 30 years in jail. He will be sentenced in federal court in a few months time for the charges of crossing state lines to have sex with a minor.
_ _Incidentally, in researching this story, IHC discovered that prisoner Saul Dos Reis is on the internet again, looking for a pen pal, "a woman with a good heart that loves to write and that is not afraid of being herself." In his list of self-descriptions, he says that he is in jail for "Assault 2nd" — with no mention that he strangled a 13-year-old girl to death.
_ _At his federal court sentencing on September 8, 2003, Saul Dos Reis was handed an additional 25 years in jail for traveling across state lines to engage in sex with a minor.

WANTED FUGITIVE _ • _ Raul Ortiz Gonzalez is another of the many violent creatures let loose on innocent children by border anarchy and permissive interior enforcement of immigration. An illegal alien from Mexico, he is accused of shaking two-year-old toddler Mariella De Luna to death as a result of internal head injuries, specifically hemorrhaging to the brain and retinas. Gonzalez was the unemployed live-in boyfriend of the child's mother. The crime occurred in Franklin, Indiana, demonstrating that violent crimes by illegal aliens are no longer just the problem of southwestern states. Local police have been unable to find Gonzalez and believe he may have escaped to Mexico.

• _ Adrian George Camacho is an accused cop killer, arrested for shooting Oceanside, California, police officer Tony Zeppetella during a routine traffic stop. Camacho is an illegal alien who has been deported several times over the last decade. He got his start in the Mesa Locos gang. Court records show he pleaded guilty to four felonies between 1993-99, including drug and weapons crimes, fleeing from a traffic stop and participation in a drive-by shooting. After shooting Zeppetella in a credit union parking lot, Camacho escaped in the officer's squad car to the house of his ex-wife's parents, where it took a four-hour stand-off for police to arrest the killer. He is being held without bail and could be eligible for the death penalty.

WANTED FUGITIVE _ • _ Samuel Avalos Gallardo is an escaped convict and illegal alien. Driving at three times the legal limit for blood alcohol, he drove in the wrong lane and struck head-on a car driven by 18-year-old Gary Selby, which killed him and severely injured his three passengers. One year later, in 1993, Gallardo was found guilty in the DUI death of Gary Selby and for the serious injury to the other passengers, for which Gallardo was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Because of a terrible mistake by the Nevada Department of Corrections, Gallardo was placed in minimum security incarceration despite being a dangerous criminal and someone who could easily escape to Mexico. He did escape after only six months in jail and remains at large. The Selby family still hopes that he will be recaptured to serve out his sentence to give them some peace of mind.

• _ Priest Kelvin Iguabita is facing a long prison term for the rape of a child. He was convicted of raping 15-year-old Faith Johnston who worked in the rectory of the Haverhill, Massachusetts, Catholic Church, where he served as assistant pastor. Faith has suffered panic attacks and attempted suicide, but she wanted to come forward and speak out openly now that she is 18 to confront the rapist priest and see him stopped. Superior Court Judge Richard Welsh sentenced the man to 12-14 years in prison, a longer term than the prosecutor requested, and remarked to Iguabita, "She comes to you with her problems and you respond with a series of calculated sexual assaults. It's difficult to conceive of a greater abuse of a position of trust." Iguabita will be deported to Columbia at the end of his prison term.

[edith]

• _ Edgar Vasquez-Hernandez is facing only a few decades in prison for destroying a young family, killing father Shawn Marti (24) and baby Sage (5 months), and putting mother Natalie into a coma for two weeks. According to court records, Vasquez-Hernandez was driving drunk and drinking Mad Dog 20/20 wine in his pickup. The degree of intoxication has not yet been released, but it must have been substantial judging by descriptions of the accident: the accident occurred when he drove his truck eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 84, resulting in the horrific head-on crash.
_ _In July, the Idaho Statesman named this case as an example of how criminal aliens are released back into American communities when they should be deported. Illegal alien Vasquez-Hernandez had been jailed briefly for petty theft and was sentenced to 90 days but served only three days, after which he went free. In February 2002, federal agent J. Kent Nygaard warned his superiors that permissive enforcement policies for criminal aliens were endangering the lives of Americans.

WANTED FUGITIVE _ • _ Jorge Lopez-Orozco is on the FBI wanted list for the murder of girlfriend Rebecca Ramirez and her two sons, and the agency has offered a $5,000 reward for him. Evidently she had broken off the relationship with Lopez-Orozco and he reponded by shooting the three to death, then dumping their bodies in a car which he set on fire. Local officials believe that he has escaped to Mexico and traveled there with his wife and three children. The FBI notes that the fugitive should be considered armed and dangerous.
_ _ This case was another cited by federal agent J. Kent Nygaard when he warned INS officials that immigration law non-enforcement was putting Americans at risk. He remarked, "Lopez-Orozco had been incarcerated in the Mountain Home, Idaho, jail prior to the murders, but was released with no intervention from INS because he did not fall in one of the categories of criminals that the INS is interested in."

• _ As lawbreakers go, Adan Morales of Gervais, Oregon, is a lightweight, particularly in comparison to some of the monsters described on this page. However, his story is enlightening in several respects and is worth examining. He came in 1987 (presumably illegally — attracted by the amnesty the previous year?) when he was 18 from Oaxaca where he had never driven. But he was soon driving his relatives to work in the agricultural Willamette Valley with no insurance. He racked up $3,000 in traffic tickets and avoided other fines by giving police a false name. But these days, Morales is an upstanding member of the community, with a wife, children and car insurance. Oh, and he's no longer laboring in the fields: he's a welder now and can afford those annoying insurance payments. He's achieved the American dream with a fair amount of cheating but is now a firm believer in following the law, at least the category pertaining to traffic.
_ _ IHC has noticed that there is a continuing demand for cheap, exploitable agricultural labor and wonders what happened to the people who picked the crops last year. Apparently not all Mexicans are interested in making a career of agricultural labor, so they move on out of those picking jobs when they can, and into more lucrative work, for example the skilled trades like Adan Morales did. A study by the Urban Institute showed that foreign farm workers remain in the fields for an average of 10 years, and further noted that "seasonal farm labor market is best thought of as a revolving door that attracts 200,000 to 400,000 new foreigners each year." The constant influx of foreign workers into construction and other trades has created a predictable downward pressure on wages for American workers, when they can survive with jobs at all.

• _ Bayardo Rafael Chamorro is another terrible example of how the worst criminal aliens are released from law enforcement custody to harm Americans again and again. Chamorro was caught on tape groping a 12-year-old girl in a Sears store in Miami, and a sharp-eyed security guard zoomed the camera in to catch the repulsive detail, which made it clear that the contact was no accidental bump. Chamorro's previous arrests include lewd and lascivious acts on a child via the internet, seven counts of sexual offense against a minor and driving under the influence. At the time of his arrest 7/17/03, the Nicaraguan had been on probation for molesting a child under 16. New stories also note that a "hold" has been placed on him by federal immigration authorities — generally an indication of an illegal alien. So why was this habitual criminal been allowed to remain in the United States to prey upon children?

• _ "Hi! My name is Benjamin Osorio-Santiago and I'm an illegal alien, here to steal an American job!"
_ _ This fellow is obviously pleased with his new matricula identification card which allows him access to banks, libraries and other institutions, both governmental and private. The ID card is part of Mexico's aggressive strategy to transfer millions more Mexicans into the United States, all the better to keep the easy money of immigrant remittances coming in, now the second-highest source of foreign cash in the country.
_ _ Now young Benjamin doen't look like a stone-cold killer, like many of the criminals described on this page, but he breaking the law nevertheless. IHC is guessing that, in addition to violating a federal statute, he may have gotten a job by using a fake Social Security number, a felony punishable by five years in prison.

• _ Honorio Martinez looks a little the worse for wear in this photo. The reason is connected with his crime and apprehension in West Palm Beach, Florida. He hit and killed 3-year-old Armante Williams when the child darted into the street. When Martinez saw the state of the boy he had just struck with his car, he remarked that he had no license and moved to escape. As he drove off, more than a dozen men, friends of the boy's father, ran after Martinez. They caught him in half a block, a proceeded to beat him up.
_ _ Martinez is an example of another problem caused by illegal immigration, increased hit-and-run accidents. For example, Bridgeton, New Jersey, has a high number of illegal aliens, estimated to be 6,000 to 10,000 in a town which has an official population of 22,771. From Jan.1 to August, the community has had 235 traffic accidents, 139 of them hit-and-runs — 59 percent. In California, the percent who flee the scene of an accident is the highest in the nation. Of course, many of the perps run because they are illegal aliens.

• _ It was big news in South Florida when Reynaldo Elias Rapalo was arrested in Little Miami on Sept. 19. After all, the community was anxious to capture the serial rapist who had been eluding law enforcement for a year. Rapalo's victims range in age from an 11-year-old girl to a woman of 79. All of the man's seven victims were home alone when he struck. Rapalo is an illegal alien from Honduras.
_ _ Despite the generous donation of 100 billboards with a police sketch and an advertised reward of $25,000 for the rapist's capture, it was good police work on the part of one cop that caught the man. An officer patrolling Little Havana, Sgt. William Golding, was alerted when a car drove past matching the rapist's vehicle. When the driver averted his eyes, the police officer was sure he had his man and arrested Rapalo. However, the police department had arrested the man several times for fairly serious charges, yet he was released into the community rather than deported. This report reveals that Rapalo originally entered the country on a seaman's 29-day visa in January 2000, and accumulated some documents on the basis of that. Even though Rapalo was held twice in Dade County jail, no one there noticed that he had been illegally in the country for two years. Janelle Hall from the Department of Corrections remarked, "We are in the corrections business — we don't forward names routinely to immigration. That's not our responsibility."
_ _ Also curious is how such an obviously dangerous man was able to slide for so long. Neighbors say he routinely shouted vulgarities at women walking by. He sexually harassed another man's wife. An ex-girlfriend accused him of coming after her with a hammer. He was arrested for fondling a 10-year-old girl. Just how much misogyny is considered normal in Hispanic society?

WANTED FUGITIVE • _ Genaro Espinosa Dorantes is something of a criminal celeb: he is one of the few who make it to the FBI's Most Wanted list, where his mugshot and description first appeared in August 2003. He is accused of burning, torturing and murdering his four-year-old stepson. A Nashville jogger found the child's body where it had been dumped in a local park. Dorantes may be traveling with his girlfriend and the murdered boy's mother, Martha Cano Patlan, who is also sought by authorities in connection with the gruesome killing. Police believe that they may have escaped to Mexico using a network of illegal aliens because Dorantes has worked as a smuggler. A native of Hidalgo, Mexico, Dorantes is considered armed and dangerous; there is a reward of $50,000 offered for information leading to his capture.
_ _ Wanted Fugitive Update: Officials stated in late November that he may be in New Mexico or Texas, and emphasized again how dangerous he is. They say he may still be traveling with his girlfriend Martha Cano and with her 8-year-old daughter Mariana Cisneros and their 15-month old son Edgardo Espinosa.

[edith]

• _ Jaime Saide is not an illegal alien, nor is he even an immigrant, but even so, he deserves special attention on this page because of his willful inflammation of a sensitive issue. The Northwestern University communications student was charged Nov. 17 for fabricating a hate crime, namely felony disorderly conduct for filing false police reports. He told police and university authorities that someone held a knife up to his throat and threatened "Spic, we didn't run away this time" — an event that never happened. Saide also wrote threatening notes of a racist nature and sent them to himself, as well as scrawling "Die, spic" on a wall near his dorm room. He appeared at a campus anti-hate rally as an important speaker. But the hateful experiences he complained about were merely creations of his own mind.
_ _ Saide said that he "wanted to do something to motivate minority students." He also gleaned a lot of sympathetic attention as a victim on campus. At the same time, there are apparently genuine anti-Semitic hate crimes at Northwestern, from which Mr. Saide's little petulance distracted. As Evanston Police Chief Frank Kaminski remarked, "I become real upset when childish pranks divert police resources away from ongoing police investigations. And legitimate concerns regarding public safety in this community." A letter in the campus newspaper calls Saide the real hate perpetrator because his actions conform to Northwestern handbook's definition of a hate crime, that he inflicted emotional damage to a "person or persons because of such person's race" through "an act of conduct, speech or expression to which a bias motive is evident as a contributing factor."
_ _ For an interesting experiment in the prevalence of bogus hate crimes, click on a Google search for
_ _ _ _ "hate crime" fraud OR fake OR hoax
to see how many thousands of files result. The many proven instances of hate crime fraud indicate that each accusation should be considered individually and carefully, with a healthy measure of skepticism. IHC realizes there are many instances of the genuine article, but notes that fraud is by no means a rarity.

• _ Walter Alexander Sorto is another disturbing case of an illegal alien with an obvious propensity toward crime who was not deported by authorities when they should have. Instead, the Salvadoran was allowed to remain and he murdered two Houston women in the interim. Sorto kidnapped, sexually attacked and killed Roxana Capulin and Maria Moreno Rangel who worked waiting tables in an East End restaurant. Police also believe he may have been involved in the kidnapping of 13-year-old Laura Ayala, (see more about her on the crime victims page).
_ _ Sorto was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, but was given 10 years probation instead of jail time even though he was an illegal alien with a prior record then. He should have been deported at the time but was not. He and two other men engaged in a crime spree around Houston for several months: the group was called the "monsters of the barrio" who left at least six dead in their wake. The jury found Sorto guilty and sent him to death row for his crimes. Diane Clements, a crime victims advocate, asked "What if the INS had done its job?"

WANTED FUGITIVE _ • _ Arturo Santos is another of the growing number of illegal alien hit-and-run criminals on the lam. He is accused of striking 77-year-old Lynn Fong in a Reno crosswalk on Nov. 4, knocking the older man 50 feet which resulted in his death the following day. Santos immediately abandoned his truck and fiance in the passenger seat to escape. The fiance later told police that Santos fled because he is an illegal alien.
_ _ Santos is described as a Hispanic male, 21 years old, 5'10" and 150 pounds. His father lives in Quincy, Washington, and his mother lives in Sinaloa, Mexico.
_ _ Nevada is the nation's fastest-growing state, largely fueled by immigration, although quite a number of Californians have fled there to escape Mexifornication. In the previous decade, more than 800,000 people were added to the state, a number higher than its total population in 1980. The INS estimate more than 100,000 illegals reside in Nevada, and immigration-impacted states appear to correlate with high percentages of fatal hit and run accidents.

• _ Jose Guillermo Alvarado pleaded guilty in January 2004 to child molestation in Montgomery County Virginia. In 1998, the illegal alien Salvadoran had been deported from the same place for a similar crime. Sentencing was scheduled for March. He apparently used the Temporary Protected Status available to Salvadorans to remain in the country.
_ _ The Washington Times used Alvarado's case to criticize local governments, e.g. Montgomery County, which allow the use of bogus matricula cards and practice sanctuary policy which is a free pass for crime. "Illegal immigrants are responsible for much of the violent crime in large cities like New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Houston and Austin," the editorial noted. It also quoted from Heather MacDonald's important article, The Illegal Alien Crime Wave, that "in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants are for illegal immigrants."
_ _ The paper recommends the passage of Rep. Norwood's Clear Law Enforcement for Alien Removal Act (CLEAR) to plug the worst loopholes. CLEAR would require that state and local governments provide the Department of Homeland Security with information about illegal aliens whom police apprehend.

• _ These four men (Victor Cruz, Armando Juvenal, Jose Hernandez and Carlos Rodriguez) are illegal aliens and part of a group of about nine men who brutally gang raped a 42-year-old woman for several hours December 19, 2002, in Flushing Meadows, New York, before she was finally rescued by police canine unit. Three had been previously arrested by the New York Police Department and had lengthy arrest histories including crimes like assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses, but were not deported because of the city's sanctuary policy.
_ _ Three of the four men were sentenced in mid-January. The victim was still too distraught to appear and testify, so the court arranged a plea deal where the criminals would receive 21-22 years in prison. The victim sent a letter which was read in court, describing the crime and her struggle with the horrific psychological and physical trauma: "I cannot explain in words and do not know what to say — the tears of pain, not being able to sleep, all my losses, not being able to go back to work and support my family, mourning of a life lost."

[Tori]

Link to a petition we can print out, sign and send in.
It's in adobe acrobat format so very easy to do. Pass it on to everyone you know. Here's our chance to get their attention.

SIGN THIS AND SEND IT IN SO THE MILITARY CAN DO THE JOB OF PROTECTING THE USA BEFORE THE RESPONSIBILITY FALLS TO THE CITIZENS.


More than 100,000 signed copies have already been collected. --- Petitions to be delivered in Tucson, Arizona, on March 6, 2004, the same day Mexican President Fox will be at President Bush's ranch in Texas. (Check back here for details.) Plan to attend. A second petition signed by senior law enforcement officials will also be presented by Bill King, former Chief U.S. Border Patrol Agent.




Petition (http://www.americanpatrol.com/04-FEATURES/040208-BDR-TROOPS-PETITION/ABPatrolRumsfeldPetMarch5.pdf)

[edith]

[i]Originally posted by Tori:
SIGN THIS AND SEND IT IN SO THE MILITARY CAN DO THE JOB OF PROTECTING THE USA BEFORE THE RESPONSIBILITY FALLS TO THE CITIZENS.
I don't like that idea, Tori. The military are not trained for border control, nor should they be. Soldiers are trained to fight wars and that means shoot or be shot. They are not law enforcement officers. We also don't have enough military as it is, thanks to the cuts by Clinton.

I don't like our federal troops operating on our soil. That is for the National Guard who are truly citizen soldiers and they are only used for disasters and things like that. Now, due to the cutbacks inflicted by Clinton, they are having to help beef up the regular forces. There aren't enough of them either.


What should be done is to enforce the laws we already have. Have you read about the judge who is getting flak because he called Immigration about a prisoner in his court? The rest of the judges should do the same and quit equating illegal aliens with racism and refusing to enforce the laws. Law enforcement agencies around the country should be required to deal with the illegals they catch under threat of fines and loss of federal funds. The same should happend with these city councils which forbid their police from calling in INS. The Border patrol should be beefed up...we don't have enough people. They are the one who should have their hands untied so they can go after illegals. The appeals etc for illegals should be cut drastically, if not eliminated completely. Let them go through the hoops other immigrants do.

Mexico should have these people dumped back in their country so they have to come to terms with the problems they are exporting rather than dealing with. They have oil money. Perhaps curtailing the corruption would go a long way toward improving their citizens' lives.

Homeland security should be forced to deal with the illegals because others sneak in with them (see my next post).

[edith]

January 30, 2004
Hizballah entering U.S. through Mexico

Terence Jeffrey has been courageous and virtually alone in pointing out that Islamic radicals are entering the United States through Mexico. Now, he shows that a Hezballah operative entered the country this same way. (Thanks to LGF.)
Politicians serious about preventing another Sept. 11 should listen to the leader of Hizballah, and then read an indictment unsealed this month in Detroit.
"Let the entire world hear me," said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, 2002. "Our hostility to the Great Satan is absolute." . . .

Now, turn to May 3, 2003. That's when FBI agents searched the Dearborn, Mich., residence of Mahmoud Kourani, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Lebanon.
In a statement submitted last week in federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Chadwell revealed words the FBI found on audiotapes there: "You alone are the sun of my lands, Nasrallah! Nasrallah!/. . . your voice is nothing less than my jihad."

"We offer to you Hizballah, a pledge of loyalty," said a tape. ". . . Rise for Jihad! . . . I offer you, Hizballah, my blood in my hand."

Kourani pleaded guilty to harboring an illegal alien. A judge sentenced him to six months. On Jan. 15, a second indictment was unsealed, charging Kourani with conspiracy to provide material support to Hizballah.

"Kourani was a member, fighter, recruiter and fundraiser for Hizballah," said the indictment. "Operating at first from Lebanon and later in the United States, Kourani was a dedicated member of Hizballah who received specialized training in radical *****e fundamentalism, weaponry, spy craft, and counterintelligence in Lebanon and Iran."

"Kourani," Chadwell added in his statement, "is charged with conspiring with individuals at the highest levels of the terrorist organization, including one of his brothers who is the Hizballah chief of military security for southern Lebanon."
Kourani got to America, the prosecutors allege, with the help of a Mexican official.
"On approximately Feb. 4, 2001, Kourani surreptitiously entered the United States by sneaking across the U.S./Mexico border in the trunk of a car," wrote Chadwell. "He reached Mexico by paying $3,000 used to bribe an official in the Mexican Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon, to give him a Mexican visa." . . .

In a sentencing memorandum in Kourani's alien-harboring case, Chadwell told the court Kourani's "offense of conviction was part of a continuing scheme to bring illegal aliens to the United States from Lebanon through Mexico." . . .

Whatever the eventual outcome in this case, simple prudence demands that a question be asked of our political leaders: If they don't secure our borders against illegal immigration, how can they secure our country against Hizballah?

And Hizballah, as Sheik Nasrallah says, seeks "Death to America!"

[edith]

January 8, 2004
Why Immigration Overhaul?

Once again, President Bush is attacking the source of a problem instead of the symptoms. This time, however, I'm not as certain it's going to work as well.

Take terrorism._ When we were attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists who tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, the Clinton administration treated it as a simple criminal investigation._ Find the perpetrators, arrest them, end of story... right?_ As we all know now, that wasn't the end._ Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked us again by exploding a truck bomb at Khobar Towers in 1996. Two years later, al-Qaeda operatives detonated almost simultaneous truck bombs at Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania._ In 2000, al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the USS Cole, docked in Yemen._ All of these and other incidents were treated as individual criminal cases. To explain their activities as separate cases, the Clinton administration invented the myth of a whole new kind of terrorism: small loose networks, operating independently of State sponsorship._

The Bush Administration, faced with multiple terror attacks on 9/11, didn't waste time trying to prosecute the individual groups of terrorists who carried out the attacks in law courts. For one thing, most of the actual perpetrators were already dead._ As I said, instead of treating the symptoms of the disease, the Bush administration went after the cause: the countries sponsoring the terrorists._ Instead of curing the symptoms, President Bush started work on eradicating the disease._ Without State sponsorship, huge, precisely-coordinated terrorist attacks are far less likely to occur.

Now, faced with the problem of corporations moving overseas due to increased globalisation, it looks like he's trying to do something about the root cause of it: overpriced labor._

One of the main reasons manufacturing jobs have been flowing overseas for the last thirty years, and at an accelerated rate since the 1990's, is that it's just too expensive to pay Americans to do those jobs anymore._ Everyone knows this, yet it's like the elephant in the room -- if no one mentions it, it's not really there._ Everyone complains about jobs going overseas, but no one mentions the fact that for what a company has to pay an American worker for a year, it can hire a thousand workers in almost any other country. (That was a real surprise to me)

With an influx of foreign labor desperate for jobs, and willing to work cheaper than union labor, I believe we're going to see a loosening of the death-grip unions have had on American-based companies for over fifty years._ Unions were a great idea when they started, but -- like a lot of good ideas -- became the thing they hated. Today, unions are even more oppressive to the American worker than the corporate barons that inspired their formation._ So, in an attempt to keep corporations from moving their manufacturing facilities overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, the President proposes to bring that labor to them._

It's also sure to increase Bush's votes among Hispanics dramatically in the upcoming election. It might even put a few states that seem to be solidly Democratic back into play as possible Republican states._ California, for instance, has 55 electoral votes (270 are needed to win)._ Over 80% of their population increase since 1990, according to the 2000 census, was due to Hispanic immigration. That's a powerful voting block, for a huge number of electoral votes._ Florida, with a heavy Hispanic population, has 27 electoral votes._ The state of Washington, though it only carries 11 electoral votes, increased its Hispanic population by 106% during the 1990s. New Jersey's 15 electoral votes, may vote Republican as well due to this proposal, due to a staggering 258% increase in the Hispanic population since 1990.

The questions is, are those benefits worth the cost?

It's bad enough that those who have already broken our laws to enter this country will get a free pass. That's an amnesty, whatever the President wants to call it._ The real down side to this proposal is that it would send the message around the world that if you can just get here, legally or not, you'll be treated as a legal immigrant._ That's the wrong message. Also, the proposal make absolutely no provision for tightening our borders, even putting the National Guard there to, well,_guard the nation._ Without tighter border control, we might just as well do away with the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) and border patrols altogether.

I have a feeling, though, a hope_that the President is playing "good cop, bad cop" with the issue. I believe that he's making all the "up side" proposals, and leaving it up to Congress to insert all the "down side" items._ In other words, President Bush is holding out the carrot, while Congress's job is to wield the stick. Have you had enough metaphors in a single paragraph yet?

Before this immigration overhaul goes to the President's desk, Congress will likely have inserted provisions for better border control and (if we're lucky) criminal prosecution and deportation of those who break our immigration laws in the future._ If this isn't done, then this proposal is a HUGE mistake._ The good side of this proposal I haven't yet mentioned is that the immigrants who want to be legal will come out of the woodwork and register, freeing law enforcement from wasting time tracking them down._ They'll be able to devote their time and energy to tracking down the true illegals and criminals... and terrorists._ That's only possible with tighter border controls.

But we have to make sure that our_Representatives and Senators do their job and secure the country's borders._ Make sure you contact them to let them know that you want them to add a provision for border protection to the President's immigration reform_proposal.

Either that, or sign up for a course in Spanish today, amigo

http://guardian.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-1_cy-2004_m-1_d-19_y-2004_o-0.html

[norman]

Edith I noticed you were surprised to find out about the difference in wage between Americans & many other countries.

I read somewhere that the average wage in Mexico is $ 1.69 an hour For figuring out the contrast. The yearly paid working hours are based on 2080 hours a year. Employees here typically get two weeks paid vacation a year after a few years of being on the job. Those two weeks are part of the 2080 paid hours.

Using Mexico as an example A years wage there would be $3515.00 Here an unskilled hamburger flipper gets minamum wage @$5.25 or $10920.00 for a years wage.

Now we look at China @ 67 cents an hour. Thats a whooping $1393.00 a year. Or the average cost of fuel to drive an SUV to work here for a year. Not yet figured into the China equasion is the completion of the Three Gorges Dam. That dam is projected to generate enough cheap hydro electric power to power every industry that wants to build along the Yanhzee river. Imagine the possibilities.

Pakistan & India I believe the well educated technology trained young people there work for about $4000.00 to $6000.00 a year. Those are superior wages there. I don't know what kind of wages a tech here makes but I bet it is far more than min wage.

Really scary is the promise of the democrats to produce jobs. Government doesn't produce jobs Industry does. The taxes paid by industry and the jobs paid working for a product producing industry pay for government emloyees. If the democrats promise jobs then we are headed for a socialist society.

[edith]

Originally posted by norman:
Edith I noticed you were surprised to find out about the difference in wage between Americans & many other countries.
I've read that for years, but this made it sink in: 1,000 foreign workers = 1 American worker.

Nike took hits here in Oregon because it paid workers in foreign countries what seemed like a paltry wage. It turned out that the workers were getting high wages for their area and did well by Nike.

The figures you quote give one pause. What will happen to our standard of living?


Really scary is the promise of the democrats to produce jobs. Government doesn't produce jobs Industry does. The taxes paid by industry and the jobs paid working for a product producing industry pay for government emloyees. If the democrats promise jobs then we are headed for a socialist society.
That is scary. Businesses making profits are the way workers have jobs and the country prospers.

[Shar]

Norman, as usual, a great informative post. Good to see you again.

Edith, I am guessing that much of your informative is feedback from the military on the site you frequent? It would do us all well to know what our soldiers are thinking and concerned about. Thank you.

Tori, I found this article and will post it in its entirety with the below URL.

QUOTE: * Use National Guard resources wisely. National Guard resources should be focused on homeland security and not on missions that are better handled by the private sector or other government agencies. For example, the National Guard should not be guarding airports or the nation's borders. Those responsible for airports should provide adequate security. The same is true for the borders. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) should hire and train the guards it needs to secure America's borders. National Guard members have specialized training and legal standing that gives them a unique role in homeland security that should not be squandered.

CONCLUSION

Americans can no longer assume that their homeland is safe from attack. September 11, 2001, turned the homeland into a theater of war. The National Guard is well-suited to serving as the lead military agency for homeland security; it should receive adequate funding to train and equip its units for homeland security, and to help train state and local officials to respond to a WMD event, while continuing to prepare to support the active forces in a general war.

Because Guard members live and work in a community, they are likely to be the first federal agents to assist local first responders in the event of an attack on the homeland. Indeed, they may well be the first responders. The United States should update the Total Force Concept initiated in the 1970s to assure that the active forces are adequately staffed and equipped to carry out their missions abroad in the event that the National Guard is called up for homeland security missions.

Jack Spencer is Policy Analyst for Defense and National Security in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, and Larry M. Wortzel is Director of the Asian Studies Center, at The Heritage Foundation.
From:www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/BG1532.cfm

Tori, I don't know when this was posted. From the looks of the one that you posted with the form to fill out, it appears the form has the sanction of the Border Patrol. I know that something has to be done. I can remember when Clinton was preparing to use UN troops to guard our borders. They were training in Alamagordo, NM and even though trying to do that quietly, there was an uproar about that. I don't want the UN involved in any emergency because then, I believe, we are on the way to easing into a one world government with the UN as head of it. John Kerry scares me with that idea and is one of the reasons I will not vote for him later.

[edith]

Originally posted by Shar:
Edith, I am guessing that much of your informative is feedback from the military on the site you frequent? It would do us all well to know what our soldiers are thinking and concerned about. Thank you.
I've always felt this way. We do not need federal troops patrolling our borders. They are trained completely differently from law enforcement which includes Border Patrol. The National Guard is trained by the federal military so also isn't qualified to do law enforcement. There isn't enough time or money to dual=train our military and attempting that would dilute their effectiveness in doing their primary job.

There was a case years ago where soldiers were patrolling the Mexican border. A young Hispanic was out hunting on his father's property and shot. That goes back to the training....soldiers aren't law enforcement and handled that in a soldier's way.

I must have completely missed the UN soldiers being trained. That is new to me.

Tori, I found this article and will post it in its entirety with the below URL.

For example, the National Guard should not be guarding airports or the nation's borders. Those responsible for airports should provide adequate security. The same is true for the borders. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) should hire and train the guards it needs to secure America's borders. National Guard members have specialized training and legal standing that gives them a unique role in homeland security that should not be squandered.
Agreed. INS (wasn't it split?) is now under Homeland Security and should do the job it is charged with. There is a need for more people in those agencies who are backed when they do their job. Here in Oregon, the head of the regional INS was vilified when he did his job and checked out the people coming into this country and forced the ones without documentation to leave. This was a couple of years before 9.11.


I can remember when Clinton was preparing to use UN troops to guard our borders. They were training in Alamagordo, NM and even though trying to do that quietly, there was an uproar about that. I don't want the UN involved in any emergency because then, I believe, we are on the way to easing into a one world government with the UN as head of it. John Kerry scares me with that idea and is one of the reasons I will not vote for him later.
I don't recall this. I do remember our soldiers shooting an Hispanic boy though. It would be disasterous to have the UN troops in our country though. Who would be in charge of them? When you look at the UN, most of the countries are not democratic and don't have the history of civil rights that we do.

[Tori]

In the last week, over 150 Illegals were rounded up in a home in an exclusive area of the valley. They were discovered locked in rooms with no food, water or sanitation and not enough room to lay down. They hadn't eaten in over three days. The bathtub sinks and toilets were filled with overflowing sewage. Raw sewage filled the back yard. The neighbors turned them in.

A couple of days later a police officer discovered 25 immigrants as they were being taken into an apartment.

Today, two more groups, each group numbering over 50 were found in the same conditions as the first group. Several of them required hospitalization.

Several suspected Coyotes were arrested and the immigrants were turned over to INS.

They were not all from Mexico!

Does this remind anyone else of the days of slavery? These people are suffering at the hands of slave traders, all in the name of greed!

[edith]

All of this is first, an outrage, and second a cost to taxpayers who must pay the costs of this human misery.

Originally posted by Tori:
Several suspected Coyotes were arrested and the immigrants were turned over to INS.

They were not all from Mexico!
That's come out more and more. Most of the illegals are from South of us, but there are those from other countries.

The coyotes get big bucks from these illegals to guide them into our country.

Does this remind anyone else of the days of slavery? These people are suffering at the hands of slave traders, all in the name of greed!
It doesn't remind me of slavery because most of these people paid money to the coyotes to get here so it was voluntary. They didn't, however, pay so they could be locked away. We can't allow this to continue. We can't allow people to be used and abused like this.

[Tori]

This is just a few wild theories on my part.

Since the president announced the amnesty plan, our papers (Arizona) and news reports have been filled with tales of the inability of border patrols and local law enforcement agencies to deal with the constant flow of illegals through Mexico.

The influx hasn't increased and neither has the manpower to handle the situation so why all the new discoveries and arrests?

Is it possible that the media has finally managed to reach the ears
of those in charge and this is why the increased discoveries of illegals?

Or, as the media themselves has suggested; once they were discovered in the more affluent parts of the area was law enforcement forced to take action?

Or worst case scenario, is it a temporary action to appease the heat that the media has stirred up?

You're right Edith, it isn't quite like slavery since these illegals pay hard earned money to suffer these indignities. They do this in order to come to America and work for minimum wage and live in squalid conditions. I watched a portion of a documentary this weekend about a group of illegal workers in Florida that are each charged $1000 a month for ancient run down trailers. That's worse than slavery!

Perhaps to better understand their motivation we need to visit their country or see a documentary on where these people come from and what makes them so desperate to risk everything, only to exist in situations we view as intolerable!

[edith]

Originally posted by Tori:
Or, as the media themselves has suggested; once they were discovered in the more affluent parts of the area was law enforcement forced to take action?
Frankly, I don't see why the area they were found in should make any difference. It is wrong whereever they are found.

Or worst case scenario, is it a temporary action to appease the heat that the media has stirred up?
That could be. Whatever it takes to make them do the job we taxpayers are paying them to do.

You're right Edith, it isn't quite like slavery since these illegals pay hard earned money to suffer these indignities. They do this in order to come to America and work for minimum wage and live in squalid conditions. I watched a portion of a documentary this weekend about a group of illegal workers in Florida that are each charged $1000 a month for ancient run down trailers. That's worse than slavery!
Interesting they could come up with $1000 a month for housing. I wonder who owns the trailers, who profits, and are there alternatives?

Perhaps to better understand their motivation we need to visit their country or see a documentary on where these people come from and what makes them so desperate to risk everything, only to exist in situations we view as intolerable!
There have been thousands of documentaries aired about these countries. They mainly seem to come down to corruption in the long run or groups struggling for power and to heck with the people. Remember the famine in Ethiopia? After the millions that were raised and sent, it later came out that the wrong people (the opposing armies) got the money and supplies and the people continued starving. Their famine was man-made.

Mexico is a corrupt country and it is profitable for them for their citizens to flood North and send money back to their families. They have no incentive to clean up.