Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Desperate Military HANDS OUT CITIZENSHIPS to Illegals!

I'm delighted that there are illegals that wish to serve. Although it may be more of a case of looking for a job. Unemployment (the real figures) in Los Angeles is 25%.

Here's what gets me.

The BUSH CORPORATE MOBSTER FAMILY --- think CARLYLE GROUP, HALIIBURTON, BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL, has started two (2) wars against Saddam to protect this Nation's real enemy over there THE SAUDIS who invaded us 9-11, and then went on, along with BIG BUSH OIL, to fuck us over since.

To protect BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL, in these war against "terrorism" we have squandered thousands of American lives, and trillions of dollars. These Muslims would slit our throats, and do, without provocation any day.

MEANWHILE BACK ON THE UNDEFENDED AND OPEN BORDERS RANCH...

There are 12 Americans murdered daily by ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO. Mexican terrorist have lopped off more heads on our undefended borders than even these Muslims over there. In fact, there have been 2,000 Californians murdered by MEXICAN ILLEGALS that fled back over the border to avoid prosecution.

Recently I was in the 99CentOnly store on Wilshire at Fairfax. This is a chain of 250 stores that openly hires illegals. Some of these illegals can't speak enough English to answer a simple question as to where something is. One young man working there, probably an illegal, said he was about to join the army. But when the other cashier he was chatting with ask him why he'd want to go to Iraq, this young man made it clear he was thinking about joining the MEXICAN ARMY.

We should all be vigilant as to the many, many devices the LA RAZA DEMS use to bring about BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY!

California is already so Mexican that you can drive from the bottom to the top and not hear English anywhere. Even Mexicans that were born here loathe this country, our language and culture to such a racist extent that they only grunt in English when they absolutely have to. But no one says they HAVE TO!


latimes.com
Military offers a path to citizenship
Immigrants without a green card but who have specific language or medical skills get a big incentive to enlist. The Army has recruited more than 100 people in Los Angeles under the pilot program.
By Alexandra Zavis

September 16, 2009

Looking more like a student than a soldier, the young Indian in jeans and a T-shirt snapped his heels together and stood at attention in front of an American flag. He raised his right hand and pledged to defend the United States against all enemies.

The enlistment ceremony earlier this month at a military center near Los Angeles International Airport took less than five minutes. With that, he became the 101st person in Los Angeles to join the Army under a program that significantly increases the number of immigrants eligible to serve.

"I think I'm in seventh heaven," he said, grinning.

Until recently, the 25-year-old with a master's degree from Purdue University in Indiana would not have been permitted to sign up. He had come to the U.S. on a student visa, and only citizens or permanent residents who carry green cards were eligible to join the armed forces. That changed in February when the Army started taking applications from foreigners with specific language and medical skills who are here on temporary visas or as refugees or asylum seekers.

Although all military branches are meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals, they have struggled to find individuals with critical skills needed in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, officials said. In exchange for their service, the foreign recruits -- who offer skills it would take years to teach -- get an expedited path to citizenship.

Since the pilot program began in New York, expanding to Los Angeles in May, the foreign recruits have included 34 healthcare professionals and 385 people who speak languages such as Arabic, Polish and Swahili.

More than 69% of them have at least a bachelor's degree, compared with just under 10% for the Army as a whole.

"These are really accomplished individuals," said Naomi Verdugo, the Army's Pentagon-based assistant deputy for recruiting.

More than 200 slots remain for recruits with language skills in the Army's pilot program, as well as more than 260 for healthcare professionals.

On Aug. 31, Army recruiters in Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas also began taking applications from qualified foreigners proficient in any of 35 languages. (Spanish is not on the list.) Healthcare workers can apply at any Army recruiting station in the country. An additional 110 slots are earmarked for other military branches. The Navy, which is taking applications only for medical posts, signed up its first recruit last month in Houston.

The pilot program has raised concerns among some veterans groups and advocates for tighter immigration controls, who worry that the policy shift could pave the way for large numbers of foreigners, including ones who may not have entered the country legally, to join the armed forces. Still, Army officials say they have not encountered the resistance some had anticipated.

"People seem to recognize that these are folks who want to serve, and I think people respect service," Verdugo said.

Defense officials underscore that the program is open only to foreigners who have lived legally in the U.S. for at least two years. Under a wartime statute invoked in 2002, those who serve can apply for citizenship on the first day of active duty. But to continue the program in peacetime would require a change in existing laws.

The military has long struggled to compete with the private sector for skilled healthcare workers, officials say.

The Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion signed up its first medical recruit in August, a nurse. The pilot program has attracted more than 7,200 applications for language skills, compared with about 1,500 medical applications. So far, the Army has signed up only 34 medical recruits, Verdugo said, in part, because it takes months to verify credentials.

Response has been greatest among certain Asian communities. The Army has enlisted 112 Korean and 108 Hindi speakers. Applicants with those languages are now going on a waiting list.

By expanding the pilot program, the Army hopes to reach more people with languages spoken in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other countries. Only 14 of those enlisted so far speak Arabic and one speaks Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. None of them have tested in Afghanistan's other official language, Pashtu, Verdugo said.

Los Angeles' 101st recruit, Abhinab, tested for Urdu, an official language in Pakistan. The Army requested that his full name not be published because it might put him or his family members who live outside the U.S. at risk.

Abhinab arrived in the U.S. three years ago and decided that he wanted to stay. He had already enrolled in a doctorate program at UC Berkeley when friends told him he could become an American if he joined the Army. Abhinab didn't believe them at first, but headed to the nearest shopping mall to find a recruiter.

"In my childhood, I always used to love 'GI Joe,' " Abhinab said. "The U.S. Army is the most technologically advanced in the world, so being part of it is really exciting."

His parents in India, however, worry that he will be deployed to a combat zone.

"They were crying on the phone," said Abhinab, who leaves for boot camp in January. "But I have a younger brother. I am not the only son."

The chance to become a U.S. citizen is the main draw for most applicants. The Army has immigration officials at four of its five basic training centers who can process applications in as little as 10 weeks. Eight of the recruits have already been sworn in as citizens.

The Navy, however, has received a number of inquiries from people who do not want to become Americans because it would mean giving up the citizenship of their birth, said Mass Communication Spc. Senior Chief Tom Jones, a spokesman for the Navy Recruiting Command in Millington, Tenn. These individuals do not qualify to enlist.

The pilot program will run until Dec. 31 or until all 1,000 slots are filled. But Army recruiters say they hope it will be extended.

"Bottom line, we have certain skills that we need," said Lt. Col. Somport Jongwatana, commander of the Army's Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion. "We are at war."

LA RAZA Luis Guterrez threatens OBAMA - OBAM IS NOT HISPANDERING ENOUGH!

NO AMERICAN SHOULD EVER DOUBT THAT OBAMA WILL NOT SELL THEM OUT! IT'S ALL HE'S DONE!

THE ORDER FOR SELLOUT IS:

1.) BANKSTERS ALWAYS!

2.) DRUGSTERS NEXT!

3.) LA RAZA DONORS, THE FORTUNE 500, INCLUDING LA RAZA DONORS WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA

4.) U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE, front for the CORPORATE INTERESTS BENT ON KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED BY FLOODING THE COUNTRY WITH ILLEGALS.

5.) LA RAZA.... "The Race", the virulently racist Mexican supremacist party for EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE.

When Barack Obama was running for the White House, and did a campaign stop in Los Angeles, he could not HISPANDER ENOUGH! He kissed so many illegals' ass that salsa was dripping out of his mouth. Then he went to SAN DIEGO and told his audience how great LA RAZA, the racist Mexican supremaicst party was. ANYTHING TO GET THE ILLEGALS' VOTES! Both Reps. Linda and sister Loretta Sanchez of nearby Orange County won their seats with the votes of illegals. La Raza endorsed FEINSTEIN, BOXER, and PELOSI all fight for the expansion of the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, along with NO ID TO VOTE, NO ENGLISH ONLY, NO E-VERIFY, and free health care for illegals.

ALL THE LA RAZA DEMS WILL WORK BEHIND OUR BACK WILL GIVING LIP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS THEY BETRAY.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT "CHEAP" MEXICAN LABOR. SO "CHEAP" THAT LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUST PAY OUT $50 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS MONTHLY.

AND THEN THERE IS THE MEXICAN CRIME WAVE AFTER WAVE.

When OBAMA was in Los Angeles, nothing came out of his HISPANDERING MOUTH about the MEXICAN GANGS MURDERING IN COLD BLOOD AFRICAN-AMERICANS ROUTINELY! IN LOS ANGELES 50 TO 1,000 MURDERS A YEAR ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS. MORE HOMIICIDE THAN THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN UNION.

AS SOON AS THINGS COOL DOWN FROM OBAMA'S WHOLESALE SELL OUT TO HIS BANKSTERS,AND FOR BRINGING IN THE DRUGSTER LOBBYISTS TO WRITE THE HEALTCARE "REFORM", IT'S THEN ON TO AMNESTY FOR 38 MILLION MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS.

THERE SIMPLY WILL NEVER BE UNEMPLOYMENT HIGH ENOUGH TO STOP THE LA RAZA DEMS OR THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS FROM FLOODING THIS ONCE GREAT NATION WITH MEXICANS.


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Obama takes heat from other side of immigrant healthcare debate
He suggests that those here illegally be kept from taking part in an insurance exchange set up by the government. Some on the left say that's bad policy that panders to the likes of Joe Wilson.
By Peter Wallsten

September 16, 2009

Reporting from Washington

Trying to quell a conservative uproar over his healthcare agenda, President Obama has proposed barring illegal immigrants from a possible government-arranged health insurance marketplace -- even if the immigrants pay with their own money.

The move has surprised some of Obama's fellow Democrats and infuriated immigrant advocates, who on Tuesday attacked the position as political pandering and bad policy.

The White House revealed its stance Friday, after a renewed debate over illegal immigration that was triggered when Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) heckled Obama on the issue during the president's televised address to Congress.

Wilson yelled out, "You lie!" when Obama said that illegal immigrants would receive no benefit from his healthcare proposals.

But some on the political left say that the White House -- wary of more damaging battles with the right -- has given in to Wilson and other conservatives.

Wilson "acted like a buffoon, and everybody criticized him -- but then at the end of the day he sort of got his way," said Brent A. Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

"It rewards bullying in a way that begets more bullying," said Frank Sharry, who directs the pro-immigrant group America's Voice and has been advising the White House and congressional Democrats on broader immigration issues.

After a sharply partisan debate Tuesday, the House voted 240 to 179 to formally rebuke Wilson for his outburst.

A White House official said that Obama's stance barring undocumented immigrants from participating in the insurance marketplace did not reflect a change of heart after Wilson's outburst -- only that the specific question had just come up in recent days.

"The president has been clear since the campaign that he does not intend for health insurance reform to cover undocumented immigrants," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity while discussing official White House policy.

But several White House allies said Tuesday that the policy was a shift designed to position Obama to the right of his critics.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), an early Obama ally, said Tuesday that members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus were reevaluating their support for the healthcare overhaul.

Wilson's outburst, Gutierrez said, was "said in a mean, ugly way. And what the president did was create an even meaner, uglier public policy to accompany it."

Congress is working on plans to give low- and moderate-income people subsidies to buy health insurance in an effort to reduce the number of uninsured in the country.

None of the measures would allow illegal immigrants to receive subsidies.

Obama's proposal, circulated in an e-mail to reporters, would go further, barring undocumented immigrants from an insurance marketplace designed to make it easier for consumers to find coverage.

As they can today, undocumented immigrants still could buy insurance in the private market. But the White House e-mail noted that if the Democratic legislation passed, private insurers could be expected to sell more insurance through the so-called exchange and less coverage outside of it, leaving the private market to shrink over time.

The White House also has embraced a verification system to validate that people buying insurance were in the country legally. That idea had been rejected by House Democrats, who cited studies showing that such systems were costly and prone to mistakes.

The White House has not, however, proposed changing the law that requires emergency rooms to treat people who need care, including illegal immigrants.

Immigrant advocates said Tuesday that the insurance issue could be a political headache for the White House if members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, after hearing from their constituents, felt pressured to vote against the healthcare legislation.

Some said they intended to organize activists in the coming days to push the White House and Democratic leaders to make the bill more favorable to illegal immigrants.

Obama's policy statement, some activists said, was motivated by politics -- an effort to build credibility with conservatives and defuse criticism that the president was soft on illegal immigration.

Latino leaders and immigrant advocates aired their concerns during a meeting Monday at the White House. Administration officials said that the insurance coverage restriction was needed for the sake of clarity, according to several meeting participants.

One official, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, assured the group that Obama supported allowing legal immigrants to participate in the insurance exchange. Advocates said they presumed that meant legal immigrants would be eligible for subsidies.

Conservative critics have said that allowing illegal immigrants to participate in a government-run system rewarded lawbreakers. Moreover, they said, any ban on subsidies to illegal immigrants would be ineffective without an enforcement mechanism, such as requiring consumers to show that they were in the country legally.

But others have argued that imposing hurdles on illegal immigrants who want to buy insurance forces those people to hospital emergency rooms and raises taxpayer costs. And because illegal immigrants tend to be younger and more fit, some say their participation in insurance risk pools could actually drive down costs.

Leighton Ku, a health policy professor at George Washington University, said that immigrants' healthcare costs about half as much as citizens' care.

"They're low-risk people," Ku said. "It's advantageous to have low-risk people in insurance pools."

It was unclear how the policy would affect families in which parents were in the country illegally and the children were citizens, or how it would affect illegal immigrants who get their insurance through their employers, if the employers choose to participate in the new insurance exchange.

Experts said Tuesday that the dust-up over immigration amid the broader healthcare fight underscored the political challenges that await the White House later this fall and next year, when Obama has said he hoped to overhaul the immigration system.

Obama has said he supports creating a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. But some say that his new restrictive policy violates the spirit of that old pledge.

"It's a contradiction in terms," Gutierrez said, "to say that people live in the shadows, that they live in a constant state of exploitation -- and then to push public policy that simply pushes them further into the shadows, further onto the periphery of society."

MEXICAN CRIME SPILLING OVER OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS

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MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
One Mexico border city is quiet, maybe too quiet
Mexicali seems an oasis from violence, but some U.S. officials suspect that the peace comes at a high price.
By Richard Marosi

September 16, 2009

Reporting from Mexicali, Mexico

In Tijuana, schoolchildren get lessons on how to duck during gangland shootouts. Ciudad Juarez cops patrol with military escorts, and the morgue there is spilling over with gunshot victims.

But here in Mexicali, people fear the desert sun more than drug hit men. The city of 700,000 has a homicide rate comparable to that of Wichita, Kan., and one of the biggest police deployments is Operation Beat the Heat, in which officers haul blocks of ice to shantytown residents.

There hasn't been a bank robbery in Mexicali in 18 months, or a reported kidnapping in a year. Mexicali is considered so safe that top law enforcement officials from Tijuana raise their families here, and are seen visiting restaurants and movie theaters without the phalanx of bodyguards that usually follows them everywhere else.

But is Mexicali an oasis of tranquillity, or just a mirage?

Across the border in California's Imperial County, U.S. authorities believe the Baja California state capital has become the major staging ground for drug trafficking into the U.S. The Calexico port of entry now leads the nation in cocaine seizures, with a 64% increase in overall drug seizures for the period from October 2008 through July 2009 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

U.S. law enforcement agencies have dismantled at least half a dozen trafficking operations since 2007, each of them a key link in a pipeline pumping tons of cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs to cities across the U.S.

Some U.S. authorities suspect that the fire-free zone in Mexicali comes at a cost: a cozy relationship between Mexican law enforcement and the country's most powerful organized crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is believed to have shifted trafficking through the city to avoid gang battles in other border areas.

"We should be seeing huge numbers of narcotic arrests and seizures. . . . I don't see it," said Ernie Limon, a supervisor with the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. "They don't have a lot of law enforcement presence or commitment."

Mexican authorities deny any relationship exists, saying the calm indicates that major traffickers have been driven out of the city. Mexicali's director of public security, Alonso Mendez, who oversees the 1,800-member municipal police force, said authorities arrest organized crime members from Sinaloa before they get established.

Indeed, the city of wide, treeless boulevards offers little evidence of narco-extravagance or violence. Mexicali's conservative population of civil servants and agricultural laborers has tended to frown on ostentatious displays of wealth. Outsized mansions are few. And narco-culture staples such as roadside "death saint" shrines haven't spread here, as they have in Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo.

"It's not easy for [organized crime groups] to take root here," said Mendez, a young, burly former narcotics intelligence officer. A corrupt police department, he added, would create dysfunction and upheaval, the exact opposite of the current situation. "We'd be seeing cops dying and fighting and being arrested, and we're not," Mendez said.

Officials in Mexico and the U.S. have suspected government ties to the Sinaloa cartel since a videotaped confession of a cartel gunman surfaced two years ago, alleging that former state Atty. Gen. Antonio Martinez Luna was taking payoffs. Martinez Luna has vehemently denied the accusation.

A federal police commander and one of his officers pleaded no contest this year to drug-related charges after being arrested in a West Covina home where police seized $630,000 in alleged drug proceeds.

The federal government, which leads anti-drug efforts in Mexico, has only about 20 agents in Mexicali, which in itself has raised eyebrows among U.S. law enforcement officials.

But some Mexican authorities say the U.S. is partly to blame for not improving its border defenses in adjacent Calexico, the third-busiest U.S.-Mexico port of entry, which handles about 40,000 pedestrian and car crossings daily. U.S. authorities acknowledge that the 35-year-old facility doesn't meet modern security standards. One recent undercover investigation suggests that U.S. inspectors may be stopping as few as one in 40 shipments through the 10-lane crossing.

Traffickers have boasted publicly about how easy it is to slip drugs into Imperial County. "I was great at it. I had never lost a car in the border. [Drug-sniffing] dogs never hit it or nothing," convicted smuggler Carlos Cuevas Jr., the leader of a large trafficking organization, testified last year.

The layout of the Calexico port offers an advantage to smugglers. The facility sits only about 30 yards across the U.S.-Mexico line, giving canine units limited space, and limited time, to conduct preliminary checks before vehicles reach the inspection booths. And the cramped secondary inspection area provides little room to use the mobile gamma ray machines that can penetrate steel and help detect contraband. Newer facilities lie farther inside U.S. territory.

"There are lots of infrastructure constraints," said Billy Whitford, the port director. "The small footprint limits our ability to conduct our border security mission."

Those obstacles were illustrated in a recent California state investigation in which an undercover officer penetrated a Mexicali-based ring. The eight-month probe revealed that traffickers sent about 40 loads across the border. Inspectors detected only one of them, according to Limon, the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement supervisor.

Beyond the border crossing, smugglers face relatively few obstacles. Unlike in San Diego, where they must run a gantlet of local law enforcement, only a handful of Calexico cops and Imperial County sheriff's deputies patrol downtown streets, including Imperial Avenue, the north-south thoroughfare leading to Interstate 8.

Drug enforcement duties have fallen to a task force operating at a bunker-like compound in nearby Imperial. Several wiretap probes, among the largest undertaken in recent years by the Drug Enforcement Administration, have exposed the Sinaloa cartel's vast distribution network sprouting from the Calexico crossing.

A 2007 case against a Mexicali-based ring resulted in the arrest of more than 400 people in the U.S. Two years later, more than 700 suspects from Los Angeles to Maine were linked to six distribution organizations in Mexicali.

The trafficking rings seem to regenerate quickly. So far this year, the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement has filed indictments against two more Mexicali-based organizations, and several investigations are underway.

That's no surprise to Calexico Police Chief James Lee Neujahr, who has seen his city of about 30,000 turn into a stash-house haven and recruiting center for smuggling groups needing drivers to move drugs across the border.

Standing at the palm-lined gateway to the city, the chief pointed to the "Welcome to Calexico" sign at Friendship Park, where cartel lookouts report on the progress of drug shipments coming through the crossing at 1st and Paulin streets.

A steady stream of northbound cars turned onto downtown streets, including one driven by a middle-aged woman. "She could have 200 pounds of dope," he said. "You can't stop and search every car."

Neujahr believes smuggling groups long ago figured out that Imperial County lacks resources, a neglected status reaffirmed this year, he said, when the Justice Department issued $8.7 million in Southwest border crime grants. Communities as far away as San Mateo County in the Bay Area got funding, but not Imperial County.

"This is kind of a no-man's land," Neujahr said. "Until [drugs] get farther up the road, nobody deals with it."