Friday, February 12, 2010

PEOPLE MOVE TO END MEXICAN OCCUPATION IN COLORADO - Mayor DEPORTED!

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GREELEY, COLO. — Mayor Tom Selders sent packing!

“Now signs in City Hall are bilingual. One in 5 Greeley elementary school students needs help speaking or reading English. Critics blame illegal immigrants for part of the $36 million a year in uncollected bills at the local hospital, and a 73% rise in violent crime since 2000.” (WHERE THE MEXICANS OCCUPY SO SURGES THEIR CRIMES)

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“He and Clark estimated that 10% to 15% of the crimes in the town were committed by undocumented immigrants.”

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“After beating Selders, Clark said: "I have seen over the years a growing presence of Mexican nationals and illegal immigrants that are starting to join the gangs here. I'm not going to let this take root.”

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"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."

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COLORADO MAYOR SENT PACKING BECAUSE HE DIDN’T SEND THE ILLEGALS PACKING.

HERE IN CA, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, PELOSI, LOFGREN, HONDA AND WAXMAN WANT THEM TO GET QUICKIE NO-STRINGS AMNESTY AND RUSH THEM INTO THE VOTING BOOTHS BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CATCH ON TO THE STAGGERING COST AND DEVASTATION THE 38 MILLION ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO HAVE COST THIS ONCE GREAT NATION!



Colorado mayor's sympathy for immigrants costs him his job

Tom Selders spoke out against a raid at a meatpacking plant, and the town spoke in the voting booth by turning him out of office. By Nicholas Riccardi Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

November 27, 2007

GREELEY, COLO. — Tom Selders is still baffled at how quickly the city he served for years turned on him.

The two term mayor of this conservative farm town had been a political fixture for nearly two decades. A businessman who prided himself on bringing efficiency to city government, Selders infuriated his constituents after jumping into the national debate over illegal immigration. In May he spoke at an open forum in Washington about the effects of last year's immigration raid on a meatpacking plant here, which led to the detention of 262 undocumented workers.\

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292 UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN GREELEY. IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY THE 99 CENT ONLY STORES !ONLY! HIRE ILLEGALS FOR THEIR 249 CHAIN OPERATION. HOW MANY EMPLOYEES PER STORE X STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.

LATINO POPULATION HAS NEARLY TRIPLED SINCE 1980.

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The reaction in Greeley, whose Latino population has nearly tripled since 1980, was swift and furious. Selders, who was seeking a third term as mayor, was overwhelmed with angry calls. He became a regular target on local talk radio. A mailer linking him to illegal immigrant gang members flooded mailboxes.

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WHERE THE MEXICANS INVADE, THEY BRING THEIR GANGS! PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK THE MEXICAN PROBLEM IS SOMEWHERE ELSE. IT’S EVERYWHERE!


Earlier this month Selders was ousted from the nonpartisan post, losing to a retired police officer by a 3 2 margin.


"I really feel betrayed by my community," said Selders, 61. "There's a big contingent of people in this community who are just full of anger and hate about illegal immigration, and that anger and hate has been transferred to me."


What happened to Selders, a lifelong Republican, is a cautionary tale of the politics of illegal immigration. To some, it shows how a good man trying to do the right thing was taken down by the forces of intolerance. To others, it shows what can happen to elitist politicians who dismiss voters' frustrations over unchecked illegal immigration. "A lot of people in Weld County remained silent" as people like Selders criticized the December 2006 raid, said County Dist. Atty. Kenneth R. Buck, who supported Selders' opponent. "They don't want to be called racist, they don't want their business to be boycotted. . . . There were a lot of people who were waiting to be heard in their anonymous way."

The more prosperous western side has subdivisions with names like "Promontory" or "Glen Meadows." The largely Latino eastern side consists mainly of weathered Victorians, mobile homes and trailers. Looming over these working class neighborhoods is the massive Swift & Co. meatpacking plant.

As an agricultural hub, Greeley has long had Latino residents. But the Latino population soared in recent decades as the meatpacking industry shifted to an immigrant heavy workforce. Latinos now make up about one third of the city's 90,000 residents.

Now signs in City Hall are bilingual. One in 5 Greeley elementary school students needs help speaking or reading English. Critics blame illegal immigrants for part of the $36 million a year in uncollected bills at the local hospital, and a 73% rise in violent crime since 2000.

"Businesses are shutting down, our professional people are leaving to find a better place," said Joy Breuer, an opponent of illegal immigration who runs a shelter for the homeless. "This town used to be one of the most beautiful places to live in Colorado."

On the morning of Dec. 12, 2006, Selders was in his home office when the city manager called federal immigration agents were raiding the Swift meatpacking plant. The workers were accused of stealing or buying identities and Social Security numbers to secure jobs.

His challenger was Ed Clark, a former police officer who works as a school security guard. Clark hammered Selders on the city's crime rate, which he tied to illegal immigration. In August, Buck, who supported Clark, held a forum on the need for an ICE office, drawing several hundred people who heard him speak of the link between crime and illegal immigrants. He and Clark estimated that 10% to 15% of the crimes in the town were committed by undocumented immigrants.


After beating Selders, Clark said: "I have seen over the years a growing presence of Mexican nationals and illegal immigrants that are starting to join the gangs here. I'm not going to let this take root." Selders was partly the victim of an anti incumbent wave in Greeley. Another council member was defeated and a third survived by a few dozen votes. But even Selders' backers said crime and illegal immigration led to his downfall.

"People are angry enough with all the gangs in town, and they feel Mr. Selders didn't do much to stop that," said Jan Boedigheimer, an underwriter who voted for the former mayor. She knew he would lose, and termed his trip to Washington "career suicide."



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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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YOU THOUGHT OBAMA WOULD PROTECT US FROM MEXICAN TERRORIST?
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
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FBI DIRECTOR:
"The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia. MS-13, has a significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said. "The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force."
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YOU THINK THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION HAS SLOWED DOWN SINCE 2006?

INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
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83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
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86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
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75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
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53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
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50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
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71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes".
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47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
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63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens
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66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.
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BIRTH STATISTICS 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens.
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97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers
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ARE YOU WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO PROTECT YOUR HOME, JOBS AND LIFE FROM THE MEXICAN INVADERS?
LIKE WHO? YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WORKING FOR OPEN BORDERS, “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICANS, OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, NO E-VERIFY, NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS!
THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN THIS COUNTRY IS MEXICO’S LA RAZA! “THE (MEXICAN) RACE”… 90 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE MEMBERS. THEY ARE THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS.
LA RAZA DEMS FOR AMNESTY ARE OBAMA, CLINTON, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, LOFGREN, ESHOO, WAXMAN, BACA, FARR, BECERRA, AND THE TWO MEXICANS ELECTED WITH THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS, SISTERS REP. LINDA AND LORETTA SANCHEZ!
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and CRIME, By James R. Edwards, Jr. 2004

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ILLEGALS AND CRIME – MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND RACIST PEOPLE IN THIS HEMISPHERE. THEY ARE NOT HERE TO BECOME AMERICANS, THEY ARE HERE AS OCCUPIERS. THEY LOATH OUR PEOPLE, CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND FLAG.

CALCULATE WHAT THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE HAS DONE TO THIS NATION SINCE THE DATE OF THIS ARTICLE IN 2004. CALIFORNIA ALONE SPENDS A BILLION A YEAR JUST TO KEEP SOME OF THE MOST VIOLENT MEXICAN CRIMINALS BEHIND BARS!

Illegal Immigration and Crime

By James R. Edwards, Jr.

Posted November 22, 2004
Immigrant criminality represents perhaps the worst abuse of the liberty aliens enjoy in the United States. Increasingly, the government closest to the people either finds its hands tied or cravenly abrogates its responsibility to fellow Americans within its jurisdiction. Moreover, the illegal element exacerbates the economic and other burdens caused by legal immigration.
The current high rate of sustained, mass immigration—more than one million legal immigrants plus half a million illegal aliens every year—forces many states and localities into turmoil. The illegals certainly live outside the obligations that those who live under the "consent of the governed" owe to each other: While the principles of the Declaration of Independence guarantee all human beings certain natural and unalienable rights, only parties who have consented to our government deserve the full rights of citizenship. Illegal immigrants are not part of the social contract giving legitimacy to this government. American citizens have not given their consent to higher taxes, crowded schools, jammed emergency rooms, clogged roads, unlawful turning of single-family homes into hotels or apartments into tenements, forced multicultural amenities such as bilingual education and multilingual ballots, or welfare and other services subsidizing poverty-prone immigrants. Above all, they never consented to higher crime rates.
While anyone who decries illegal immigration is required to distinguish it from legal immigration, the effects of legal immigration should first be noted. Robert Samuelson recently wrote in his Washington Post column that "Hispanics account for most of the increase in poverty" since 1990. "Compared with 1990, there were actually 700,000 fewer non-Hispanic whites in poverty last year . . . . Meanwhile, the number of poor Hispanics is up by 3 million since 1990. The health insurance story is similar. Last year 13 million Hispanics lacked insurance. They're 60 percent of the rise since 1990." And of course a growing proportion of the Hispanic population is immigrants poorer than their predecessors. Samuelson remarks that the black poverty rate in this period has actually dropped, from 32 to 24 percent.
To add to Samuelson's observations, consider the reports from the Center for Immigration Studies by its Steven Camarota and Harvard's George Borjas detailing the negative economic impact of recent immigrants on native-born wages and employment. Illegal immigrants impose an even greater burden, because they pay few taxes and they drain public services such as health care, education, and other benefits of the welfare state. While many federal programs deny assistance to illegals, many state and local programs and privileges are open to them. The National Academy of Sciences found in a 1997 landmark study that immigrantheaded households in 1994-1995 placed a net annual fiscal burden on California native-born residents of $1,178 per native household.That is, each American family in California subsidized that state's immigrant population by nearly $1,200 a year.
The NAS report also said fiscal impacts tend to benefit the federal government and drain state and local government resources. "Much like anyone else in the population, immigrants use services that are costly to provide, or that others can use less freely—so-called congestion costs. Examples include services from roads, sewers, police and fire departments, libraries, airports, and foreign embassies." Therefore, having a much larger immigrant population (29 percent of the U.S. foreign-born, a fourth of the State's population) bloats California's budget significantly.
The national government has exclusive power over immigration, and it has mandated certain public benefits for immigrants, legal or illegal, such as public education (see the 1982 Supreme Court case, Plyler v. Doe). States and localities then bear the costs and consequences of all immigration. And they respond differently, with differing consequences for their people.
The Florida legislature rejected a bill issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Kansas state legislators voted to give illegal aliens instate college tuition. Alabama and Florida state police work closely with federal immigration enforcers. New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago have "sanctuary" policies that keep city employees, even police, from asking about immigration status. An Idaho county commissioner billed Mexico for the $2 million illegal aliens owe for county services.

The impact is seen particularly in crime: Record-high auto thefts in Arizona, drug trafficking in Salt Lake City, human smuggling rings in Los Angeles, D.C. sniper Lee Malvo, money laundering, prostitution, gang murders, and even slavery. Immigration authorities estimate that 84,000 state inmates are aliens, though state and local figures on foreign-born prisoners are hard to come by. At least three quarters of these immigrant state inmates are in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas—the top immigrant destinations.
Police officers at the local or state level are the law enforcement officials most likely to encounter illegal aliens. Local residents are the crime victims of these aliens. Local, county, or state jails house many of the foreign criminals. Local, county, or state criminal justice systems try these lawbreakers. And local, county, and state taxpayers pay the costs of law enforcement and criminal justice associated with the crimes that immigrants, legal and illegal, commit.
Figures for 1999 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program compensation show claims of $1.5 billion in documented costs incurred by state corrections and local jails for covered aliens. County governments face a special burden, a 2001 report by 24 Southwestern border counties calculated. They spent, from general funds, $894 million on law enforcement and criminal justice in fiscal year 1999. Many of the costs that criminal aliens impose on all state, county, and municipal jurisdictions are not represented in such figures. To cite just one California example, San Diego now spends $50 million a year to handle illegal criminal aliens.
The underworld network built up by millions of alien lawbreakers, who by and large have no fear of capture or of being held accountable, enabled the September 11 terrorists to operate undetected. Latino illegal aliens in Northern Virginia helpfully showed several of the terrorists the ropes on how to secure Virginia driver's licenses fraudulently.
The advancement of "political correctness" and multiculturalism has caused politicians to be less willing to challenge limitations on their authority over resources. Local and state politicians in heavy immigrant-receiving areas have instead expanded immigrant eligibility for public benefits, welfare, assistance programs, health care programs for those without private insurance, and driver's and other licenses. Some states and localities have begun to accept the Mexican matricula consular ID card, though it has been determined to pose a great risk to U.S. national security. Even before the recently reported crossing of 25 Chechens into Arizona, authorities knew that the illegal aliens pose a national security problem.
Dealing with current levels and quality of legal immigration is an immense problem by itself. But it is clear that until alien criminality of every kind is punished, swiftly and surely, Americans who must live with the consequences will continue to suffer higher taxes, lower quality of life, higher threat and fear levels, and less actual safety.
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TUNNELS UNDER OUR BORDERS - The Gringo Joke of HOMELAND SECURITY

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SPECIAL ENTRANCE FOR DRUG CARTELS. THROUGH OUR SEWERS, WHERE THE LA RAZA DEMS ARE THERE HANDING THEM REFRESHMENTS, FRAUDULENT I.D.S, MAPS TO WELFARE LINES, OUR JOBS, VOTING BOOTHS, AND FREE BIRTHING AT OUR HOSPITALS. VIVA MEXIFORNIA! VIVA LA RAZA DEMS.

'Tunnel Rats' Patrol Border Storm Drains
Smugglers 'Constantly' Burrow Between Mexico and Arizona
By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
NOGALES, Ariz. -- They call themselves the Tunnel Rats. Trained in close-quarter combat, psychologically certified to work in confined spaces and armed to the teeth, these four-member teams of Border Patrol agents monitor an elaborate underground warren of dark and dangerous storm drains that crisscross these twin downtowns along the border.
Lately, the Tunnel Rats have been busy.
In the past nine months, they have discovered 16 new tunnels dug by smugglers in Nogales to move drugs, migrants, cash and weapons between Mexico and the United States. The number of tunnels sets a new record. A Border Patrol official calls the burst of subterranean activity "startling."
"It's Swiss cheese under there," said Brooke Howells, a supervisory Border Patrol agent and a tunnel teams leader. "They're constantly burrowing. If you are a smuggler, a working tunnel can be a very lucrative enterprise."
The digging has become so extensive beneath Nogales that the southbound traffic lane through the international port of entry collapsed.
"Before that, the parking lot at the customs office caved in," Howells said. "They collapse all the time."
The tunnelers pop up all over town. Border Patrol agents report that it is not uncommon to see a manhole cover suddenly lift during rush hour and men run out of the hole.
The passageways come up through rental house floors, in abandoned stores and in back yards. Agents have found exits near a taco stand, a Chinese restaurant and the local Burger King.
A tunnel team leader, supervisory Border Patrol agent Tom Pittman, gave a rare tour beneath the streets. A few feet from the port of entry on the U.S. side of downtown, Pittman lifted a manhole cover, turned his flashlight on and climbed down a ladder. "Hold on a second," he said. "Let me see if anybody's down here first."
After a few minutes, he whistled all-clear. This was the Morley Avenue storm drain, which moves water from Mexico to the United States. The drainage is dank and moist. It smells like bats. "You hear them?" Pittman asked. Nogales is ideal terrain for tunnelers, the agent said. The two Nogaleses, one in Arizona, the other in the Mexican state of Sonora, are built on steep ravines and separated only by a tall fence that runs through the middle of a shared downtown. Beneath both cities lies a network of large storm drains constructed to handle the gully-washing monsoon rains that come in the summertime. Without the storm drains, Nogales would experience disastrous flooding.
The Morley drain is big enough to drive a truck through, and until the Border Patrol recently secured the exit with a grated swing gate, that's what some smugglers did -- they drove through.
Hundreds of smaller drainpipes made of corrugated metal -- as wide around as a man's shoulders -- feed into the main drains. Alongside, the illegal burrowers dig side tunnels. To find the illegal passageways, the Border Patrol agents have to wiggle into the drains. "You never know what you'll find," Pittman said.
One time, he found a teenager with an AK-47 guarding a bale of marijuana. He has encountered bandits armed with knives to rob Mexicans trying to sneak into the United States.
Smuggling underground in Nogales dates to the Prohibition era in the 1920s. Tunneling has also been a well-used technique for years, but Border Patrol officials say activity appears to be increasing.
The latest tunnel, found two weeks ago, was 83 feet long and had ventilation tubes, wooden beams and plywood ceilings. It was just down the block from the port of entry manned by hundreds of U.S. agents.
The Border Patrol discovered the tunnel after a concerned citizen reported hearing suspicious scratching, hammering and digging.
"They're digging another one someplace right now," Pittman said. "I can almost guarantee it."
Staff writer Travis Fox contributed to this report.

MEX DRUG CARTELS LURE TEENS AS MURDERERS

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Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers
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OBAMA’S NEXT SELLOUT IS TO THE ILLEGALS HE HISPANDER TO BEFORE THE ELECTION. 38 MILLION MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS.

DO WE REALLY WANT UNDEFENDED BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX, AND THEN SQUANDER TRILLIONS OVER IN MUSLIMLAND TO PROTECT THE FILTHY BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL FUCKERS???

ARE YOU GETTING TIRED OF PAYING FOR THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE THAT WAS CREATED TO DEPRESS WAGES?

HAD ENOUGH OF THE STAGGERING MEXICAN CRIME WAVE AFTER WAVE AFTER WAVE THAT HAS NOW IMPACTED ALL OF THE UNITED STATES?

WANT TO HEAR ENGLISH AGAIN?

EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS. THERE HAVE BEEN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY MEXICANS THAT THEN FLED BACK OVER THE BORDER INTO NARCOMEX.

FIGHTING FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO ENGLISH ONLY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE, MUCHO TAX DOLLARS FOR LA RAZA, THE RACIST MEXICAN POLITCAL PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY ARE:

BARACK OBAMA!

FEINSTEIN
BOXER
REID
PELOSI
WAXMAN
LOFGREN
ESHOO
HONDA
HARMAN
BACA
FARR
BECERRA

IN FACT, CAN YOU NAME EVEN ONE DEM THAT HAS NOT SOLD US OUT TO EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE TO DEPRESS WAGES FOR THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS?????





June 23, 2009
WAR WITHOUT BORDERS
Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
LAREDO, Tex. — When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond, he said.
“I like what I do,” he told the police in a videotaped confession. “I don’t deny it.”
Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous assassins of the Gulf Cartel, law enforcement officials say. He was one of a group of American teenagers from the impoverished streets of Laredo who was lured into the drug wars across the Rio Grande in Mexico with promises of high pay, fancy cars and sexy women.
After a short apprenticeship, the young men lived in an expensive house in Texas, available to kill whenever called on. The Gulf Cartel was engaged in a turf war with the Sinaloa Cartel over the Interstate 35 corridor, the north-south highway that connects Laredo to Dallas and beyond, and is, according to law enforcement officials, one of the most important arteries for drug smuggling in the Americas.
The young men all paid a heavy price. Jesus Gonzalez III was beaten and knifed to death in a Mexican jail at 23. Mr. Reta, now 19, and his boyhood friend, Gabriel Cardona, 22, are serving what amounts to life sentences in prisons in the United States.
Other young Americans in their circle who the police say worked for the Zetas have also ended up in prison, have fled into hiding in Mexico or have disappeared in the permanent way that people wrapped up in the Mexican drug trade tend to go missing.
In the minds of many Americans, the Rio Grande divides Mexico, a corrupt land where drug cartels often seem to have the upper hand, from the United States, a nation of law and order, where the authorities try to keep criminal gangs in check.
But the reality on the border is much more complex. The Mexican drug cartels recruit young men from both countries and operate their smuggling and murder-for-hire rings on both sides of the divide, though under slightly different rules of engagement.
That complexity was reflected in the short but bloody careers of Mr. Reta, Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Cardona, who are linked to crimes in both countries, according to trial transcripts, court documents and interviews with detectives and family members.
While working as hired guns in 2005 and 2006, the three Americans lived in a house rented by their employers on Hibiscus Street in Laredo, according to testimony at Mr. Reta’s trial. Another crew of three assassins, all from Mexico, were also camped out there, awaiting orders, law enforcement officials said.
The Mexican government has been trying to crack down on the drug cartels, an effort that has left more than 10,000 Mexicans dead in the last 18 months. Some deaths are the result of shootouts between the cartels and the authorities, with both sides heavily armed. But the assassinations of drug dealers involved in turf battles and of police officers and army personnel who get in the way — the kind of work Mr. Reta, Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Cardona did — also accounts for thousands of bodies.
The two teams of assassins took direction from Lucio Quintero, or El Viejon, a capo in the Zetas across the river, trial records show. They received $500 a week as a retainer and $10,000 to $50,000 for each assassination, and the triggerman was given two kilos of cocaine.
Detective Roberto A. Garcia Jr. of the Laredo Police Department said they all worked for Miguel Treviño, the leader of the Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican city across the river from Laredo, who goes by the name El Cuarenta, which means Forty. (Many Zetas identify themselves by a number.)
In addition to their retainers, the assassins received perks. At one point, Mr. Reta was given a new $70,000 Mercedes, for a job well done. Family members described how the young men would go to parties hosted by cartel capos. To keep up morale, the drug leaders would raffle off automobiles, firearms and even dates with attractive women, the family members said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
‘They Just Seduce You’
Most of the American youths were recruited in a discothèque, the Eclipse, on the main square of Nuevo Laredo just across one of two bridges that connect the two towns. It is a darkened dive where teenagers go to drink, dance and flirt while reggaetón thunders. But cartel members lurk there, too, watching for possible recruits, the police say.
“The cartels — they just seduce you,” said Detective Garcia, who with his partner in the Laredo Police Department, Carlos Adan, broke up the ring. “They wave that power, that cash, the cars, the easy money. And these kids all have that romantic notion they are going to live forever.”
Detective Garcia described Mr. Cardona as the ringleader of the American cell of assassins, a savvy, brash young man who orchestrated at least five murders in Laredo of people connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.
In a deal with prosecutors, Mr. Cardona eventually pleaded guilty to kidnapping two American teenagers — one of whom had drug-gang connections — in March 2006 at a Mexican nightclub, taking them to a cartel safe house and stabbing them to death with a broken bottle. Investigators say he had collected the victims’ blood in a glass and toasted La Santa Muerte, a personification of death worshiped by some Mexicans. A federal judge sentenced Mr. Cardona to life in prison in March.
His mother, Gabriela Maldonado, a home health worker, said Mr. Cardona had grown up with an abusive, alcoholic father, but had done well in school through eighth grade, when his father abandoned the family.
Then Mr. Cardona began to skip classes and hang out with drug users on Lincoln Street. Soon he was sent to juvenile prison for aggravated assault, and after that he moved out of the house. Overnight, it seemed, he appeared to have a lot of cash and showed up in different cars, his mother said. At first, he told his mother he was “a soldier,” then later he said he had become “a commander.”
“He was so intelligent — I don’t know what happened to him,” she said. “He always said when he was young that he wanted to be a lawyer.”
If Mr. Cardona was the brains of the group, Mr. Reta was the keenest to become a professional assassin, Detective Garcia said. In July 2006, Mr. Reta told detectives in a videotaped confession that he had participated in at least 30 killings in Mexico, a statement that the authorities there could not confirm.
Mr. Reta told Detective Garcia that he was 13 the first time he killed a man. He said he was asked to prove his loyalty by doing it in front of Mr. Treviño, and he told the detective that he had used a .38 Super pistol to shoot the man as he was being held down in a chair at a safe house in the state of Tamaulipas.
After that, killing became addictive, Mr. Reta told Detective Garcia, and he compared the feeling to the allure of candy to a small child. “There were others to do it, but I would volunteer,” Mr. Reta said in the taped interview with the police. “It was like a James Bond game.”
“Anyone can do it, but not everyone wants to,” he added. “Some are weak in the mind and cannot carry it in their conscience. Others sleep as peacefully as fish.”
Mr. Reta also told the police that he had attended a training camp in Mexico for six months, where he learned to shoot assault rifles and engage in hand-to-hand combat. One of his instructors, he said, was an Israeli mercenary. Mr. Reta was also proud of his marksmanship.
“If I cannot hit you in the forehead from a distance,” he boasted in his interview with the police, “I will kneel down in front of you and put my forehead against the muzzle of your gun. I will look you in the eyes while you kill me.”
No Longer a Good Boy
Family members say Mr. Reta grew up with nine brothers and sisters, living in a tiny wood house, propped up on cinder blocks, in a yard devoid of grass. His father worked construction; his mother was a hairdresser. Before the age of 12, he was a well-mannered boy, respectful of his elders, who did tolerably well in school and spent most afternoons playing ball in a nearby park.
But puberty changed him. Mr. Reta ran away from home, living for a time at a girlfriend’s house. He also began to get in trouble with the law. He was picked up for marijuana possession and spent a year in a juvenile prison for firing a gun in public. He also became fascinated with commandos and dreamed of joining the Navy Seals, a person familiar with his life said.
On frequent trips to Mexico, he was also becoming involved with the Zetas, a family member said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from drug dealers. On trips home, Mr. Reta described killings in Mexico that he had witnessed and, in some cases, participated in. “He sounded so excited when he talked about all these things he was doing,” the family member said.
Now Mr. Reta lives in a cramped cell at the Robertson Unit, a state prison in Abilene, Tex. Despondent over being sentenced to 70 years for two killings in Laredo, he paid a fellow prisoner to tattoo flames and horn shapes on his face, giving him a demonic look.
As he talks, his countenance shifts back and forth, from the deadpan of a street tough with emotionless eyes to the oddly innocent laugh and smile of a 19-year-old boy for whom everything is a lark. His voice is soft and melodic, even when his words are menacing.
Mr. Reta declined to comment on his career as an assassin in Mexico, though he neither denied nor recanted his previous statements to the Laredo police. He did say he was innocent of taking part in one of the two killings he was convicted of in the United States and predicted his name would be cleared on appeal. “Not everything they say about me is true,” he said.
Speaking of his upbringing, he said that to him and his friends, growing up in ramshackle houses on dirt lots, the narcotics traffickers were heroes. The poorest counties in America lie along the Rio Grande, and Mr. Reta recalled stealing gummy bears from a local candy shop with Mr. Cardona when they were children.
“You know, here, all the little kids that are young, they say, ‘I want to be a firefighter when I grow up,’ ” Mr. Reta said, “Well down there, they say, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a Zeta.’ ”
“You know, it’s the money, cars, houses, girls,” he said, pausing, “and you know that ain’t going to last a lifetime, that its going to end.”
A Botched Assassination
It is unclear precisely how many killings in Mexico Mr. Reta had a role in. The Mexican authorities arrested him on charges that he was one of four men, led by a former commander of the Nuevo Laredo municipal police, who in May 2006 attacked El Punto Vivo Bar in Monterrey with grenades and rifles, killing 4 and injuring 25.
Afraid a rival gang would murder him in a Mexican jail, Mr. Reta called Detective Garcia and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Chris Diaz, shortly after his arrest pleading to be extradited to the United States, where he was wanted for the murder of Noe Flores in January 2006.
Though he claimed he did not shoot Mr. Flores, he admitted to the police that he had driven the getaway car. Mr. Cardona did the shooting, he said, after Mr. Gonzalez got cold feet, sat in the backseat and watched the killing take place in the front yard of a house.
That confession was eventually excluded from the evidence against him, forcing a second trial, at which he was convicted on other evidence, including his fingerprints found on a cigarette case in the getaway car. His lawyer has appealed the conviction.
According to testimony at Mr. Reta’s second trial, the crew botched the assassination. The group had intended to kill Miguel Flores, but shot his brother instead. A woman working for the cartel had spotted the Floreses at a Laredo bar and called Mr. Treviño, who in turn telephoned the assassins.
Mr. Flores was not the three assassins’ first victim on American soil, the authorities say. The same crew, prosecutors say, shot and killed Moises Garcia, a reputed drug dealer and member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, outside the Torta-Mex restaurant on Dec. 8, 2005, while his wife and child looked on. In March, Mr. Reta pleaded guilty to being the triggerman in that killing and was sentenced to 30 years.
Detective Garcia said Mr. Reta’s phone call from a Mexican jail was not the first time he had called. While investigating the Flores killing, Detective Garcia used evidence found in the getaway car to track down a tattoo artist who could identify Mr. Reta, Mr. Cardona and Mr. Garcia. Frightened, the tattoo artist tipped off the teenagers, who fled to Nuevo Laredo.
Mr. Reta then called Detective Garcia’s cellphone, getting the number from the calling card the detective had left with the tattoo artist.
“He said ‘You better stop the investigation into these murders,’ ” Detective Garcia recalled. “He threatened me and my family.”
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"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
And now Mexican gangs have spread all over the state and country. In the San Jose bay area there recently was a gang bitch that repeatedly knifed a fellow schoolmate. In neighboring Saratoga, cops found a large Mexican drug farm. The below is in nearby Mountain View.
If you thought the staggering Mexican crime wave was only in Los Angeles, you’re wrong. In Los Angeles Mexican gangs are murdering African-Americans to “ethnically cleanse” their drug markets.
NANCY PELOSI, who hires illegals for her winery, has vowed AMNESTY and NO WALL. She is joined by FEINSTEIN, BOXER both working to get illegals registered to vote and for LA RAZA amnesty.
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A NEW WAY TO HELP TEENS AVOID GANGS??????? HERE’S AN EVEN BETTER PLAN: CLOSE OUR UNDEFENDED BORDERS! PUT EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISON WITH THE MEXICAN CRIMINALS! PUT THE LA RAZA DEMS IN MEXICAN JAILS!

A NEW WAY TO HELP TEENS AVOID GANGS

A new way to help teens avoid gangs
By Jessie Mangaliman
Mercury News
08/14/2008 01:31:55
Mountain View Police Officer Katherine Comesana spoke about the... (MARIA J. AVILA /
Mountain View police officer Katherine Comesana held up a picture of a drug-damaged brain to a classroom of 33 seventh-graders.
"This is a picture of a brain on meth," she said. "My sister was a meth addict."
It was the last day of a two-week gang-prevention program at Mountain View High School, and Comesana's startling personal preamble certainly grabbed the attention of the restless middle-schoolers.
The other adults in the room - officer Ronald Cooper, youth counselor Nicole Gwire - nodded approvingly as Comesana described the ills and dangers of drug use.
The officers have something else to celebrate: the city's first Youth Services Unit, a permanent part of the Mountain View Police Department dedicated, in police parlance, to "gang prevention and suppression."
Comesana is assigned full time to the new unit and she will visit high schools year-round, conducting similar gang-prevention programs.
Worried by the recent spate of assaults between rival gangs, the Mountain View City Council approved the new unit in May. Unlike previous anti-gang efforts, it will be a permanent part of the police department, with partial state funding.
"We need to work at this consistently," Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga said. "Now it will be concentrated and continuous."
In the past, gang "prevention and suppression" was a kind of seasonal work. "It ebbed and flowed," said Sgt. Michael Ecdao, the city's first anti-gang officer, appointed in 1995, and recently named to lead the new unit.
When gang-related violence rose, the city upped the ante. Eight officers spent part of their time going on high-profile patrols, visiting gang members and their families.
Police and youth outreach workers have known for some time that prevention programs like "Dreams and Futures" at Mountain View High work. Gangs are recruiting younger and younger members, so programs for those as young as fourth grade will be an important part of the new unit's work, police and city officials said.
"Creating a permanent unit on this work says the city cares," said Cooper. "These are the kids we might end up dealing with on the streets five or six years from now."
On a recent Wednesday morning at the high school's football field, Cooper and Comesana played a vigorous soccer game with the boys. The girls were nearby, gathered in a circle "girl talking" with Gwire, a counselor with the local non-profit social services agency, Community Health Awareness Council, or CHAC.
For Gwire, the new partnership between CHAC and the police department is the best change yet in outreach to youth. Counseling is now paired up with police work.
"It's a wonderful change," said Monique Kane, executive director of CHAC. "It gives us a lot of positive feeling of hope."
Sharing her personal story about an addicted sister, Comesana said, "helps kids see us as having life experiences like theirs."
"That's when they break down their walls and learn to share things," she said. "They can open up. They can reach their goals and dreams."
Fourteen-year-old Nicky Gutierrez, who will be an eighth-grader at Crittenden Middle School, has attended "Dreams and Futures" for the past four summers.
"It's pretty cool," he said, still huffing from the soccer game. "I've learned about respecting others and not to get involved in gangs and drugs. And I've made friends here."
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80% of meth smuggled into the US comes from MEX (well, at least we export stolen cars to MEX...... unfortunately they’re our cars stolen from us!)
U.S. policy on immigration is a tragic joke
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U.S. crackdown sends meth labs south of border

Mexico inherits a problem that was long California's.

By Richard MarosiTimes Staff Writer

November 26, 2006GUADALAJARA — The methamphetamine laboratories that once plagued California's hinterlands and powered a national explosion of drug abuse have been replaced by an increasing supply from Mexico, U.S. law enforcement officials say.Methamphetamine production has surged south of the border, from Baja California ranches to the highlands of Michoacan to the industrial parks here in Mexico's second largest city, where authorities in January busted the largest laboratory ever discovered in the Americas. The fortress-like compound ringed by high brick walls housed 11 custom-designed pressure cookers that could produce 400 pounds of the drug per day. It dwarfed anything ever found in California, where the standard cooking tool is a 23-quart beaker and a 20-pound batch is considered a good production day."It was the mother lode of mother lodes," a U.S. law enforcement official said. The boom in Mexican methamphetamine production stems from successful efforts in the U.S. to control the sale of chemicals used to produce the drug, including the cold medicine pseudoephedrine. Drug traffickers, some of them ex-convicts and fugitives from the United States, including a former chemistry professor from Idaho arrested last month, authorities say, have resettled in Mexico because of the easy access to pseudoephedrine and other chemicals. The largest share of the chemicals is believed to be shipped to Mexico from factories in China and India and routed through Hong Kong. China has emerged as the top concern for U.S. authorities. Like traffic in heroin and cocaine, the methamphetamine economy has become a global phenomenon. So too is the battle to control what most U.S. law enforcement authorities consider the country's greatest drug threat. 'A new ice age'" The cliche is coming true: We've entered a new ice age," said Misha Piastro, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration who has worked on the U.S.-Mexico border, referring to the smokable form of the drug called ice.The trend began surfacing about two years ago as a crackdown on the bulk distribution of ingredients cut off producers from supplies in the U.S. and, later, Canada.The rural fringes of California metropolitan areas, including the Inland Empire, which once were centers of methamphetamine production, remain important distribution hubs. But the number of "superlab" discoveries in California has dropped from 125 in 2003 to 12 through mid-October this year, according to the DEA. Nationwide, the numbers have dropped from 130 to 19 during the same period. Superlabs are operations that can produce more than 10 pounds of methamphetamine per cooking cycle. Authorities now estimate that 80% of the methamphetamine on U.S. streets is controlled by Mexican drug traffickers, with most of the supply smuggled in from Mexico. Methamphetamine seizures at the U.S.-Mexico border jumped 50% from 2003 through 2005, from 4,030 to 6,063 pounds. Mapping the methamphetamine production network is difficult in a country of remote ranchlands and under-patrolled metropolitan areas. Few law enforcement authorities are trained to recognize the signs of a drug lab, including the fumes and pollutants that pose significant environmental hazards. Nonetheless, the number of labs discovered by Mexican authorities nearly tripled from 2002 to 2005, from 13 to 37, and methamphetamine seizures more than doubled, to 2,169 pounds, during the same period. U.S. authorities believe the numbers are a fraction of actual activity, as signs of an extensive production infrastructure have surfaced in the last year or so. Among those signs: Mexico's importation of cold medicines jumped suddenly in recent years, from 92,000 tons in 2002 to 150,000 tons in 2005. Though recently imposed restrictions have cut legal imports by about half this year, U.S. authorities believe significant amounts are still being smuggled through corruption-ridden Mexican ports. Last December, Mexican authorities at the Pacific Coast port of Manzanillo found 5.1 million pseudoephedrine tablets hidden in a cargo of ceiling fans from China. The cache would have been enough to produce about 3 tons of finished product, authorities said. Last November, China toughened its reporting and licensing requirements for those manufacturing, shipping, trading and exporting bulk chemicals such as pseudoephedrine, a step welcomed by international drug enforcement officials. But Beijing did not impose limits or reporting requirements on end users. Smugglers are still free to buy millions of cold tablets, hide these in Chinese export products and ship them to Mexico or other destinations, as seen with the ceiling-fan discovery. China also faces problems similar to those in Mexico — budget constraints, corruption, turf battles and inadequate detection and monitoring equipment. Public health problem. In Mexico, meanwhile, drug lab discoveries have spanned the country. In Mexicali, several labs have erupted in flames. In Michoacan, authorities have discovered large production operations and believe lab activity is rife in the state's rural areas. Producers also have flooded the Mexican domestic market with the drug, creating an epidemic of methamphetamine addiction and drug-related crime in many cities."It's a grave public health problem of enormous dimensions," said Victor Clark Alfaro, a border expert and director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana. Guadalajara, capital of the western state of Jalisco, has emerged as a production hub for methamphetamine, authorities say. Lab activity is easily camouflaged in the metropolitan area of 4 million people, which encompasses isolated ranchlands, industrial areas and densely packed urban neighborhoods where exhaust and sewer smells mask the fumes of superlabs. The ease of operating in Guadalajara was vividly illustrated in October, officials say, when authorities acting on an anonymous tip arrested Frederick Wells, a former Idaho State University professor who was allegedly running a superlab in his pink stucco home half a mile from the U.S. Consulate. Wells, 57, who fled the United States in 1998 after being charged with operating a drug lab in his university office, had only to walk down the street to purchase industrial chemicals at a storefront business in Guadalajara. Authorities say Wells told them that neighbors in the quiet area of neat homes never noticed the smells during the nearly two years he operated the lab. The enormous lab discovered in January was in a gritty area of chemical plants, small ranches and cornfields outside the city."We smelled things but didn't know what it was. There are lots of factories around here; you never know what you smell," said Armando Murillo, who lives behind the former lab on a small ranch where he raises goats and sheep. Murillo's property was transformed into a campground for about 150 soldiers who guarded the lab for weeks. The suspects, a trio of chemists and former classmates at the University of Guadalajara, left behind more than 1,000 pounds of powdered methamphetamine in three barrels, and enough precursor chemicals to produce another 1,000 pounds, authorities said. After the arrest of one suspect, authorities found four more super-labs they said were tied to the group. Another suspect is believed to have been killed by a local paramilitary-style gang, which is charged with burying alive five men at a ranch, one of them an ex-convict from Riverside County who had moved to Jalisco to get into the methamphetamine trade, a U.S. law enforcement source said.Two other ex-convicts — one from Riverside County, the other from Phoenix — were arrested in August on suspicion of operating a lab at a ranch where Mexican authorities discovered 220 pounds of methamphetamine. The migration south of fugitives and ex-convicts worries authorities who say it coincides with the release from U.S. prisons of many drug traffickers who have finished serving sentences dating from the early era of the methamphetamine trade. Scarce resourcesWith narcotics-related violence flaring across the country, experts say Mexico is ill-prepared to open another front against methamphetamine production. The DEA has donated equipment and begun to teach their Mexican counterparts how to find drug labs, but resources for a wide-ranging enforcement effort are scarce. Authorities in Guadalajara, for instance, delayed dismantling the lab in January because the nearest lab truck, filled with protective suits and equipment to safely dispose of chemicals, was five hours away, in Mexico City."The problem is too new," said Marcos Pablo Moloeznick Gruer, a political science professor at the University of Guadalajara. He said Mexican law enforcement was not "aware or concerned enough" about the rise in methamphetamine production.
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Border surge
As the number of methamphetamine "superlabs" in the U.S. has dropped, the amount of the drug seized en route from Mexico has increased.Superlab seizures2003- California: 125- U.S.: 1302004 - California: 43- U.S.: 552005 - California: 29- U.S.: 352006* - California: 12U.S.: 19*Through Oct. 15Methamphetamine seizures at U.S.-Mexican border (in pounds)2003: 4,0302004: 5,3352005: 6,063Source: Drug Enforcement AdministrationCalifornia

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By Lou Dobbs
Special for "The Republic"
Aug. 28, 2005 12:00 AM
There is a common front in our illegal-alien crisis, the war on drugs and the global war on terror. That front line is easily defined as our nation's borders, airports and seaports. And Arizonans know only too well the pain and problems of living and working on the front line of our border with Mexico. South of that border is a corrupt and ineffective government run by President Vicente Fox, who has no apparent incentive to control the flow of drugs being shipped from Mexico into the United States and every incentive to continue the exportation of illegal aliens into this country. This year, in fact, remittances back to Mexico from the estimated 20 million Mexican citizens living in the United States, most of them illegally, surpassed oil as Mexico's No. 1 source of foreign revenue.
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SOME FIGURES FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO START PAYING ON NOW
Subject: From the L.A. Times Newspaper 1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County (L. A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. Los Angeles County reports 2 billion dollars in the underground economy is lost. 2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. There have been 2000 Californians murdered by illegals who then fled back to Mexico to avoid prosecution. 3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. 4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. 5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. (Currently they’re letting out felons early due to the jail overcrowding. Many immediately commit crimes.) Los Angeles County spends millions in jail cost for illegals still actively drug trafficking. To solve this problem, the county dispersed the Mexican drug dealers to jails over the states. This only propagated the drug dealers operations. The County spends millions in fighting Mexican gangs which have spread all over the United States. The County also spends millions on graffiti abatement. 6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. 7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. It’s assumed the vast majority of the other half are Mexicans living here legally. 8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. 9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking. They united Mexicans in protest demanding “rights” they presume to be entitled to. (They seem to have one program. Convince the Mexican invaders this country actually belongs to the Mexicans. ) 10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L. A. County). ( How many Mexicans do you know that have contempt for the English language?) Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. (Los Angeles County spends $750,000 on social services to illegals. No wonder there isn’t enough money for education.) Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

San Jose MEXIFORNAI - MEX GANG STAB TO DEATH 18 YEAR OLD

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SEVEN ARRESTED AFTER FATAL STABBING IN SAN JOSE

Seven arrested after fatal stabbing of San Jose man, 18, in Sunnyvale
By Scott Duke Harris
7-12-09
MERCURY NEWS
A San Jose teenager died from stab wounds and seven youths were booked on murder charges early Sunday after a late-night brawl in a Sunnyvale residential neighborhood.
Officers responded at 12:25 a.m. to a report of a fight involving from 15 to 20 people in the 900 block of Bluebell Way, police said. They soon discovered an 18-year-old man lying on the sidewalk with multiple stab wounds to his upper torso. And witnesses reported a car fleeing the scene.
Paramedics took the victim to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity was withheld until his family could be notified.
At 12:35 a.m., police stopped a car matching the description of the vehicle that fled the scene. Officers "determined through witness statements and physical evidence that the five people inside were connected to the attack," the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said in news release.
The car's occupants were all placed under arrest on suspicion of murder. They were identified as Luis Orozco, 20, of Mountain View; Alberto Villareal, 18, of San Jose; Timothy Segovia, 20, of Mountain View; and two juveniles whose names were not released.
Also arrested on murder charges in connection with the incident were Jerome Aguilar, 25, of San Jose, and Charlotte Rapuet, 23, of Mountain View.
"It's undetermined what the motive was," said Sunnyvale officer Casey O'Hara. "But some of the suspects and witnesses have gang affiliations."
Police said they are seeking information about a white sedan, possibly a Cadillac, that was also seen leaving the scene of the brawl. Anyone with information about the incident or the whereabouts of the car was asked to contact detective Jim Choi at 408-730-7120.
Contact Scott Duke Harris at 408-920-2704.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
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MEXICAN CRIMINALS - REPEATE OFFENDERS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN

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How many times have you heard the Mexicans ranting “We just want to work!” No one can deny they just want our jobs, how about the crime wave they bring with them?
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"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
ILLEGALS AND RE-ARRESTS – ILLEGALS HAVE CONTEMPT FOR OUR BORDERS, LANGUAGE, LAW, AND SURE AS HELL, LAWS!

Audit looks at migrant re-arrests
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Jan. 9, 2007 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON - Some illegal immigrants are being released from prison only to be arrested on new charges despite government efforts to deport them and keep them out of the country.
The findings are part of an audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine that suggest authorities are still struggling to deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes, even though most state and local authorities are notifying immigration authorities of the imminent release of prisoners.
Fine's office analyzed the cases of 100 immigrants who had served time in prison and found 73 of them were rearrested after being released.
On average, each immigrant was rearrested six times, ranging from traffic violations to assault.
Fine's office couldn't determine how many illegal immigrants had been rearrested overall because immigration authorities don't keep track.
If the sample was any indication, "The rate at which released criminal aliens are rearrested is extremely high," the report said.

Last year, Homeland Security's inspector general said immigration authorities expected that most of the 300,000 illegal and legal immigrants eligible to be deported would be released.
Federal officials said they would need 34,000 additional beds at a cost of $1.1 billion to detain and remove all of them.
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Some Illegal Immigrants Have Been Arrested and Re-Arrested 6 Times
Some Illegal Immigrants have been arrested and Re-Arrested 6 Times - Illegal Immigrants arrested for being in the United States illegally may have been charged up to six more times, for more serious crimes, after they were released by local authorities. Additionally, the number of illegal immigrants deported after being declared a felon is on the rise.
The Justice findings by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine examined the criminal histories of 100 illegal immigrants arrested and then released by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. Of the sample group of 100, according to the audit, 73 immigrants were later arrested a collective 429 times - on charges ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.

The data suggest "the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted. The report, parts of which were redacted, was required by Congress in 2005 and looked at how local and state authorities that receive Justice Department funding are working with the Homeland Security Department.

For years, the government was forced to release thousands of illegal immigrants who were caught in the United States because of not enough jail space and other resources. But last fall, with immigration as a key election-year priority, Homeland Security declared it would detain 99 percent of non-Mexican illegal immigrants until they could be returned to their home nations. The policy generally does not apply to Mexicans, who are almost immediately returned to Mexico after being stopped by Border Patrol agents.

The Justice audit, however, only looked at immigrants who were arrested and released by local and state authorities before they could be turned over to Homeland Security to be detained or deported. In all, 752 cities, counties and states participating in the program received $287 million in 2005, the audit noted.

Five states - California, New York, Texas, Florida and Arizona - received the bulk of the money, together pulling in more than $184 million.

Assistant Attorney General Regina B. Schofield, who oversees the Office of Justice Programs that controlled the funding, declined comment on the audit, noting that it does not contain any recommendations.

A separate report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University showed that the number of immigrants who were deported as "aggravated felons" doubled over the last 15 years, from 10,303 in 1992 to an estimated 23,065 in 2006.

But TRAC, which obtained the data from the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review, noted concerns that some of those immigrants never committed felonies.

"An individual can be declared an aggravated felon on the basis of a conviction on misdemeanor charges such as shoplifting," the TRAC report concluded.
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NEW YORK TIMES

July 26, 2009
Debate Intensifies Over Federal Deportation Policy
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
HOUSTON — The Obama administration is vastly expanding a federal effort begun under President George W. Bush to identify and deport illegal immigrants held in local jails. But here in the city where the effort got a trial start eight months ago, people on each side of the immigration debate have found fault with it.
Under the effort, known as Secure Communities, local officials check every set of fingerprints taken at jails against those of people who have had a brush with federal immigration authorities; in the past, they could check only for a criminal history in the F.B.I. database. If a person turns out to be an illegal immigrant, the case is turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation proceedings in addition to the criminal charges.
The Obama administration considers the trial program successful enough to pledge $195 million over the next year to expand the effort with an eye toward establishing it nationwide by late 2012, when it is projected to cost about $1 billion a year. It is now under way in 70 counties across the country, including those containing the cities of San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Miami and Durham, N.C.
“Before we had no idea who was deportable,” said Sheriff’s Deputy Gwen Carroll of Harris County, where Houston is located.
But the trial program’s experience here has raised difficult questions about its goals, critics say, and serves as a stern reminder of the political and practical challenges facing the larger rollout.
Federal officials say that while they are pleased with their new ability to identify illegal immigrants, they do not have enough agents to deport all of those identified. Over all, only a third of those identified in the first seven months of the program as foreign nationals — which includes people with visas and temporary residence cards as well as illegal immigrants — have been deported.
“We do have a limited amount of resources,” said David J. Venturella, the director of the federal program. “It’s our priority to focus on the more serious offenders.”
Proponents of stricter enforcement of immigration laws complain that by concentrating on people who pass through the jails, the government is letting too many other illegal immigrants off the hook. On the other side, advocacy groups for immigrants complain that the program has created a climate of fear and paranoia among Hispanics, hampering the police.
Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who favors stricter immigration enforcement, has said the focus on criminal offenders “will create a de facto amnesty” for the millions of illegal immigrants who do not have criminal records.
“We can prevent many of these crimes by deporting illegal immigrants before they have committed them, instead of waiting until after the fact,” he said, echoing the views of many hard-liners.
But Maria Jimenez, a longtime advocate for immigrants in Houston, said the Secure Communities program, along with a second federal program that allows certain local law enforcement officials to act as federal immigration agents, has done just what Mr. Smith and other conservatives want. “In casting the net so broadly,” she said, “it will be a de facto immigration enforcement program by local police.”
While federal officials say the purpose of the effort is to identify serious and violent criminals, immigrant advocates complain that the great majority of people deported so far under the trial program here were arrested for misdemeanor and nonviolent crimes.
In the first six months of the trial program in Harris County, the automatic fingerprint checks led to the deportation of 94 people accused of the highest level of felonies and 1,624 people accused of misdemeanors and various property crimes, federal officials said. In all, there were 5,300 matches with the immigration database.
“People are getting deported for even minor offenses like not having an ID or a driver’s license,” said Cesar Espinosa of America for All, a group that helps immigrants in Houston.
But what constitutes a minor offense is a matter of debate.
Sheriff Adrian Garcia of Harris County says he regards most of the people tagged for deportation as criminals, including those arrested for drunken driving and drug possession. Fewer than one in 10 have been charged with traffic offenses and other “Class C” misdemeanors under state law, Sheriff Garcia noted.
“We are taking people off the streets of Houston, off the streets of Harris County, who have indicated they are not interested in following the rules around here,” he said.
Support for deporting immigrants with criminal records grew in Houston after a city police officer, Rodney Johnson, was killed in 2006 by a felon who had been deported but returned. Last March, that sentiment reached a peak when a second officer, Rick Salter, was critically injured by an illegal immigrant with a criminal record.
On a recent morning, one young man who was arrested on charges of failing to provide information to the police slouched on a bench in the Harris County jail, while on the other side of a grate, Sheriff’s Deputy Sammie Rinehart scanned his immigration record.
A year ago, Deputy Rinehart said, it would have been nearly impossible to find out if he was in the country illegally because he had given officers a phony name. But after his fingerprints were taken using a computerized scanner and run through the government’s immigration database, they told a different story. He was really Carlos Bringas Nimrod, 22, of Mexico.
“I find about 10 to 12 names he’s used,” Deputy Rinehart said. “He’s got immigration charges — illegal entry. Most of his crimes have always been illegal entry.”
Mr. Bringas Nimrod was one of about 10 illegal immigrants the local police had locked up on misdemeanor charges that afternoon. One was Celio Velásquez, a 23-year-old construction worker from Honduras, who was accused of drunken driving and running over a volunteer firefighter with a car, making it necessary to amputate his legs.
Another was Jaime López, a 48-year-old Mexican citizen with a bloody bandage over one eye. He had been arrested on aggravated assault charges for the second time.
Jay K. Aiyer, a Houston immigration lawyer, said few people here disagree that dangerous criminals should be deported. But Mr. Aiyer said he had handled several cases in the last eight months in which illegal immigrants faced deportation proceedings after the state had dropped criminal charges.
But John T. Morton, the assistant secretary of homeland security in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, does not see the roundup of relatively harmless immigrants as a flaw.
“We are interested in identifying and removing all offenders if we can,” Mr. Morton said in an interview. “But we have limited resources, and in a world of limited resources we are focusing on violent serious offenders first.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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YOU THOUGHT OBAMA WOULD PROTECT US FROM MEXICAN TERRORIST?
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
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MEXICAN GANGS Part of Los Angeles County $2 BILLION UNDERGROUND ECONOMY!

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LOS ANGELES STREET GANG OPERATES UNDERGROUND BARS – NOTE THE TAX- FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS CALCULATED TO BE $2 BILLION A YEAR. WHILE LOS ANGELES IS IN MELTDOWN, IT IS PAYING OUT $50 MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS.

LA street gang operates underground bars
Saturday, July 25, 2009
(07-25) 09:46 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --
Authorities say raids at illegal after-hours bars and nightclubs in Los Angeles have led to the arrests of 34 gang members on local and federal charges.
The Los Angeles Police Department and federal agents say the 18th Street gang operated the underground establishments, using them as bases for various criminal enterprises. LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese says the locations have been connected to homicides, shootings and drug trafficking.
The arrests are the culmination of an 18-month probe into so-called casitas concealed at homes and shuttered stores in South Los Angeles.
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According to the HERITAGE FOUNDATION.org, the Mexican invasion will cost us 3.7 trillion ABOVE what the illegals put into the economy.
New FBI Statistics on Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens
The Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta is a real place. They did a real study. These are the real results. 'Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.'

FBI DIRECTOR: GANGS 2006

"The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia. MS-13, has a significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said.

"The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force."

INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
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83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
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86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
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75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
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29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
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53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
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50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
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71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes".
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47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
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63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens
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66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.
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BIRTH STATISTICS 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens.
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97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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SAN JOSE California - INNOCENT CHILDREN MURDERED BY MEX GANGS!

Eduardo Cristobal gang member 18, arrested for shooting 12 year old, and stabbing 13 year old trick-or-treators.
YOU THOUGHT MEXICANS GANGS WERE ONLY IN ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA’S MEXICAN INVESTED LOS ANGELES?
MEXICAN GANGS HAVE SPREAD ALL OVER THE STATE AND COUNTRY AND ARE THE LARGEST CRIME WAVE THIS NATION GRAPPLES WITH.
So, why do Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Lofgren, Honda, Farr, Baca, Becerra, Sanchez, Reid Waxman, and BARACK OBAMA want amnesty and open borders?

San Jose police arrest fourth suspect in Halloween attack on middle-school students

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
11/05/2009
San Jose police on Wednesday arrested a fourth suspect in the shooting of a 12-year-old and stabbing of a 13-year-old who were trick-or-treating on Halloween night.
Eduardo Cristobal, 18, of Milpitas is being held on attempted murder charges. Tuesday, police arrested a 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old boys in the case.
Saturday's violent attack left the 12-year-old in critical condition. The 13-year-old was treated for his wounds and released. The two Lee Mathson students were trick-or-treating about 10 p.m. when a group of suspected gang members accosted the pair, police said. Friends of the victims told the Mercury News that the younger child had been wearing Nike Cortez shoes — a style preferred by gang members — and that the gang suspects may have mistakenly thought the victims belonged to a gang. Police said the two victims were not gang members.
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REPORT ILLEGALS TO: 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.
http://www.ice.gov/ ICE, ice, ICE

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Report Illegals & Employers Toll Free... (866) 347-2423
INS National Customer Service Center Phone: 1-800-375-5283.
http://www.reportillegals.com/
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You can contact President Obama and let him know of your opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security's Hotline for reporting suspected illegal employees and employers: 866-347-2423 (YOU MAY BE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. HISPANDERING OBAMA SELECTED LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO TO HEAD “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” FOR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS)
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Immigration Enforcement Group Defends Against Amnesty Push

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us

Here is the Department of Homeland Security's Hotline for reporting suspected illegal employees and employers: 866-347-2423
http://www.numbersusa.com
http://www.capsweb.org
http://www.fairus.org
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com

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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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YOU THOUGHT OBAMA WOULD PROTECT US FROM MEXICAN TERRORIST?
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
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Daily City, Mexifornia - GANGS MURDER IN COLD BLOOD

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MEXICAN GANG TERRORIST IN DAILY CITY, CA. CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION

2 arrests, 3rd suspect sought in SUV death

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 12, 2010

(02-11) 11:33 PST DALY CITY --
Two suspected gang members have been arrested and a third is being sought in connection with a fight at a Daly City pizzeria that turned deadly when a man was deliberately run over, police said Thursday.
Rene Castro, 22, was arrested early Thursday at his home on Vienna Street in San Francisco. Horacio Vega, 22, of San Francisco was arrested Wednesday.
Both are suspected members of the Norteño gang and are being held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, participating in a criminal street gang and being an accessory to the slaying of Jessie Wiley, 21, of South San Francisco, Daly City police Lt. Jay Morena said.
A third suspect, Matthew Sean Mouton, 20, of San Francisco is being sought. Police believe Mouton was behind the wheel of a black GMC Yukon Denali that struck and killed Wiley.
The incident began about 8 p.m. Sunday when Wiley and his friend got into an argument with all three suspects at the Little Caesars Pizza near the corner of King Drive and Callan Boulevard, authorities said.
The confrontation began when one man bumped into another, Morena said. "Looks were exchanged," he said, and the fight was on.
Punches were thrown inside and outside the pizzeria, Morena said. Once the group was outside, Mouton climbed into the SUV and deliberately ran down Wiley, police said.
Mouton is Latino and has a tattoo reading "gutta mob" on the left side of his neck, police said. He is being sought on charges of murder and participating in a criminal street gang.
The SUV had a California license plate of 6FSU426. Anyone with information is asked to call police at (650) 991-8119.
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"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."

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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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YOU THOUGHT OBAMA WOULD PROTECT US FROM MEXICAN TERRORIST?
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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"Gang members do not heed borders," he said. "Gang members move here but do not cut their ties."
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR "LOS ANGELES IS MEXICAN GANGLAND of AMERICA"

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PROMISE AND PERIL IN SOUTH L.A.
Living the American dream, with a gang twist
Some members of Florencia 13, one of L.A.'s largest gangs, live a suburban, settled lifestyle with good jobs. But they are proud of their ties to the gang, which they call 'the neighborhood.'
By Scott Gold
December 31, 2009
In a working-class neighborhood east of the Los Angeles city limits, Roberto Becerra ducked under the eave of the Spanish-tile roof he recently rebuilt for his mother and stepped into the RV parked in the driveway.

He's been working on the camper for months now. New carpeting. A TV on a swivel. Little houseplants on the bookshelves, tied to the wall so they don't fall over. The thing's got some years on it; the sunset-style paint job screams 1970s. "But it's coming along," he said, brushing his hand along the new drapes.

Becerra's is a thoroughly suburban American life. Sort of.

He's nuts about hockey and Oktoberfest. He works as a foreman on high-end construction sites. He's got a kid on the way, and when he has time he jots a few words in a baby book. When asked to describe his reaction when he learned of the pregnancy, he wrote: "Daddy told every one of his employees."

Look closer, though, and you'll find a curious key chain hanging from a nail on one wall of the house. It's the hand of a skeleton, the fingers contorted to form the letter "F."

There's another "F" next to Becerra's right eye. Another on the hockey jersey he bought his girlfriend recently. Another on the bill of the hard hat he wears at work -- reminders, everywhere, of his allegiance to one of the largest and most confounding gangs in the metropolis: Florencia 13.

In recent years, Florencia has been subjected to mass arrests and one of the largest federal indictments of a California street gang. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office set aside a prosecutor to exclusively handle homicides committed on Florencia's turf.

Once gangs evolve into full-fledged criminal enterprises, authorities often saddle them with court injunctions that limit their movements and activities. Florencia has three such injunctions.

But according to law enforcement officials and gang members, Florencia has grown ever more powerful and influential, subsuming smaller gangs and staying ahead of the police by diversifying its criminal pursuits.

According to gang members, Florencia now has 46 active "cliques" and as many as 7,000 members.

Other large gangs -- such as 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha, which rival or exceed Florencia's size -- are composed of loosely affiliated cliques scattered across a wide area. But most of Florencia is clustered in a contiguous area that now includes not just Florence-Firestone, its historical domain, but Huntington Park, Bell, Walnut Park and stretches of South L.A. and Watts.

The cluster is five miles wide and as deep as three miles -- where a single gang is dominant, where kids can often be heard shouting "F-1-3!" That scope presents law enforcement with a daunting challenge, because the gang has become virtually synonymous with the community itself, particularly among Latino men.

"They are so deeply rooted," said Adan Torres, a veteran Los Angeles County sheriff's detective who has devoted much of his career to policing Florencia. "You can't go on any block without encountering one of them. . . . The homeowners are former gangbangers who made it, but now their kids are gangbanging. It's a cycle."

Indeed, many are born into it.

When Sonny Ontiveros was a boy, both of his parents were sent to prison; his father was killed there, and his mother served 15 years for robbery. Ontiveros, now 34 and a father of five who works the graveyard shift as a machine operator, said that he was, in effect, raised by Florencia -- "the only familia I ever had."

Florencia has become both a menacing street gang and a way of life. In that void, there are hundreds of veteranos like Roberto Becerra -- proud, unapologetic members of Florencia, yet seemingly uninvolved in the gang's criminal enterprises.

Becerra is known to all as Flaco, the nickname he has scrawled on the ceiling of his otherwise spotless RV. He lives a content, uncluttered life in an odd netherworld, a 43-year-old man with "TOWN DRUNK" tattooed across his knuckles and two hands clasped in prayer etched on his chest, a gang member with a day job and a business card.

Born in the '50s

Oh, Florence, I love you so

Oh, Florence, be true to me

"Florence," The Paragons, 1957

Borrowing its name from East Florence Avenue, Florencia began in the 1950s as a neighborhood protector near Roosevelt Park, a bustling, diverse enclave of bungalow-style housing built to serve the workers at the nearby factories. It was a time of fedoras and zoot suits, of car clubs and doo-wop music like that Paragons tune, which was adopted as the gang's theme song.

But in the ensuing years, Florencia moved into increasingly serious criminal enterprises, particularly after becoming an ally of the Mexican Mafia, a powerful prison-based "supergang" that shapes much of the state's gang activity.

Authorities say several ranking members of Florencia are also members of the Mexican Mafia. "La Eme," they say, has assisted Florencia's efforts to control the flow of drugs into a sizable chunk of L.A. It has also made Florencia famously disciplined. Members are expected to stay in top physical condition; that way, if they're arrested, they can assist in maintaining control of the prison yards, according to those familiar with the gang.

Florencia works with Latin American cartels to smuggle cocaine, according to federal officials, and recently it became one of the first gangs to introduce the traditionally rural drug methamphetamine into the city's core. Authorities say the gang also does a thriving business in identity theft and is responsible for much of the area's bootleg DVDs.

'I don't claim'

Late one Saturday, police drew their guns and raced to surround a tiny house in South L.A., part of a sweep of suspected Florencia members. Inside, officers found red beans cooking on the stove. On one wall was a needlepoint sign that read: "Love grows happy hearts."

They also found Cesar "Demon" Ortiz, 31, an alleged Florencia member with a history of drug, theft and assault charges.

"Who do you claim?" Officer Matt Ensley asked him, street vernacular for asking someone's gang affiliation. "I don't claim," Ortiz said.

Ensley looked under his T-shirt, where the word "FLORENCIA" was tattooed in block letters. "You got it on your stomach!" Ensley said.

"Yeah. But I don't walk around without my shirt on," Ortiz replied sheepishly. He told the officers he'd gone straight since prison, that he was a father now, not a gang member.

"I just got mixed up with the wrong people," Ortiz said.

"But you got the name 'Demon,' " Ensley said.

"I didn't pick it."

"But you had to earn it."

"Yeah."

Sweeps are commonplace in Florencia strongholds -- and enormously controversial.

Major investigations have sent scores of ranking Florencia members to prison in recent years, including a 2007 indictment of 102 men linked to the gang -- an action described at the time by federal officials as "the largest gang takedown in American history."

Police acknowledge that a small percentage of documented Florencia members commit the majority of the gang's serious crimes, but they make no apologies for the crackdown.

"We've gotten the main players, the most violent players, out of the game," said Torres, the sheriff's detective. "In 10 years, there is going to be a major difference."

A distinct clientele

In Florencia strongholds, many argue that young Latino men are treated harshly and unfairly -- and that the area needs jobs, better schools and youth programs, not intensive suppression.

The gang, for instance, has long held carwashes to raise money for one another; when somebody dies, the gang often pays for funeral costs. That tradition has faded because the injunctions' strictest provisions prohibit gang members from associating in public. Gang members also contend that the police crackdown has hamstrung them -- leaving them unable to defend and protect their neighborhoods.

One recent afternoon, Rene "Scrappy" Suarez Jr., 22, strolled along Pacific Avenue, in Huntington Park. The stores there are forthright about their clientele. One sells boots adorned with an image of Jesus Malverde, a legendary bandit who has become a folk "saint" among some drug traffickers. When Suarez entered another store and inquired about jeans, the saleswoman -- knowing that most Florencianos wear their pants as baggy as possible -- offered him a size-46 waist for his 32-inch frame.

Suarez said he began selling crack for Florencia at the age of 12, with a Beretta pistol in his waistband. He later became a "gunner" -- "more muscle than hustle," he said -- because it was a "more valuable trade."

More recently, Suarez says he's put the criminal life behind him and has been instrumental in developing an "understanding" between Florencia and 18th Street, a traditional rival -- something the police were never able to do, he is quick to point out.

After leaving one store, Suarez spied a piece of graffiti on a lamppost left by someone from another neighborhood. It was, he said, an affront from an outside gang that would never have occurred if Florencia had been left to its own devices to patrol the neighborhood.

"If there was any illegal business going on in this neighborhood, it was coming from us," he said. "Nobody did anything -- robbing a liquor store, nothing -- without us. It was tightly run, with pride. . . . . If you're going to harm my neighborhood, I'm going to harm you."

'It's who you are'

No matter how much pressure is applied to Florencia, men like Roberto "Flaco" Becerra, who act not as criminals but as elders and mentors, will continue to be the tendons connecting the gang with the community itself.

There is a Flaco, it seems, in every Latino gang in L.A.; it means "skinny" in Spanish. This Flaco was an excellent student, but his interest waned toward the end of high school. He was arrested for the first time as a teenager, for shoplifting magazines, and left school shortly before graduation. The gang -- he calls it "the neighborhood" -- came calling about the same time. He was brought in with a traditional 13-second beating that left him with a busted lip and a broken rib. It was, he said, simply what you did.

"It just happens," he said. "It's just your neighborhood. It's who you are."

His parallel lives began.

He began working on construction sites and was soon asked to run portions of the jobs. Today he is something akin to a superintendent, with 20 employees on several sites, most in the Hollywood area.

He is entrusted to hand out paychecks to his employees on Fridays -- and entrusted to count the 13 seconds when a new member is "courted" into the gang with a beating: "One one thousand, two one thousand . . . "

"But my neighborhood is with me too. And it's never going to go away. Never."
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SELLING US OUT TO ILLEGALS:
“Senior White House aides privately have assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation next year to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.”

“In addition to the citizenship provision, the emerging plan will emphasize efforts to secure U.S. borders against those trying to cross illegally” SECURING THE BORDERS? THAT MEANS KEEPING THEM OPEN FOR THE EASE OF ILLEGALS!
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FBI DIRECTOR:
"The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia. MS-13, has a significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said. "The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force."
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INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens. 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens. 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border. 71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes". 47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens. 63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens 66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens. BIRTH STATISTICS 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S.citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers .
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ARE YOU WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO PROTECT YOUR HOME, JOBS AND LIFE FROM THE MEXICAN INVADERS?
LIKE WHO? YOUR GOVERNMENT IS WORKING FOR OPEN BORDERS, “CHEAP” LABOR MEXICANS, OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, NO E-VERIFY, NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS!
THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN THIS COUNTRY IS MEXICO’S LA RAZA! “THE (MEXICAN) RACE”… 90 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE MEMBERS. THEY ARE THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CONGRESS.
LA RAZA DEMS FOR AMNESTY ARE OBAMA, CLINTON, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, LOFGREN, ESHOO, WAXMAN, BACA, FARR, BECERRA, AND THE TWO MEXICANS ELECTED WITH THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS, SISTERS REP. LINDA AND LORETTA SANCHEZ!
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