PHOENIX ARIZONA IS THE SECOND LARGEST
CENTER FOR MEXICAN KIDNAPPING NEXT TO MEXICO CITY. IT IS THIS NATION’S LARGEST
CENTER FOR MEXICAN CAR THEFT AND HOME INVASIONS BY MEXICAN GANGS! IT IS ALSO
THE GATEWAY TO AMERICA FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!
SUPPORT SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO AGAINST
THE LA RAZA DEPT. OF JUSTICE'S NEVER ENDING HARASSMENT!
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“Those claims are
absolutely false,” said Kobach, in his defense. “The Southern Poverty Law
Center engages in slander against people that oppose illegal immigration. They
fail to mention that many of the people I defend in court are Hispanic. They
happen to be Hispanics that believe the laws need to be enforced.”
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Arizona Sheriff Arpaio to Unleash 800 Deputies on
Undocumented Immigrants
New America Media, News Report, Text and Photos: Valeria
Fernández , Posted: Feb 15, 2010
PHOENIX -- Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced last week
that he would train 881 of his own deputies to arrest undocumented migrants in
the course of their normal duties.
The announcement by the Maricopa County sheriff has come
under fire from some legal scholars who argue he would be acting beyond the
scope of the law and immigrant advocates who say this would further weaken the
immigrant community’s tenuous relationship with law enforcement officials.
Arpaio’s controversial immigration sweeps of Latino
neighborhoods led to claims of racial profiling. In October, the federal
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked an agreement, known as 287(g),
that allowed 160 of his officers to act as immigration agents.
Now, Arpaio says he can do this under his own authority. He
has enlisted the help of Kris W. Kobach, a University of Missouri law
professor, who was an advisor to former attorney general John Ashcroft during
the Bush administration. Kobach, who works as an attorney for the Immigration
Reform Law Institute, was paid an undisclosed amount of money to oversee the
two-hour training.
Kobach argues that local police have “inherent authority” to
stop, question and arrest people in order to enforce immigration law.
He based his legal advice on a hotly contested 2002 Office
of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo issued during Ashcroft's tenure.
Several legal scholars contend the opinion is flawed.
“Legally, it is highly suspect because there’s a long
tradition on the other side of the opinion, ” said attorney Muzaffar Chishti,
director of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), referring to a series of OLC
memos from 1989 to 1996 that state the contrary. “Secondly, if there was an
inherent authority to enforce immigration law, then there would be no need for
Congress in 1996 to enact what’s now known as 287(g). If they had it, why would
you need it?”
ishti said that Congress has historically assumed that it
has plenary power on immigration enforcement.
“It doesn’t mean that states can’t play a role, but that
role is highly limited,” he said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the enforcement
arm of Homeland Security, has distanced itself from Arpaio’s new plans in a
recent statement, which stated in part: “Sheriff Arpaio’s efforts to conduct
immigration enforcement actions do not derive from any ICE-delegated federal
authority. ICE has no engagement in MCSO’s [Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office]
operations outside of our standard procedures of responding to a local law
enforcement agency’s request for assistance.”
Arpaio’s critics say his latest announcement is in keeping
with the aggressive tactics employed by his deputies. “There’s nothing new in
this," said Jorge Mendez, a local community activist. "Those who were
trained under 287(g) and those who weren’t were questioning people anyway.”
“You’re opening Pandora’s box,” said Omar Jadwat, a staff
attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrants’ Rights
Project. He said Arpaio's action is sending a message to police officers on the
streets that they have broad power to detain and arrest solely on suspicion
that people are illegally in the country.
“When you have local cops getting some short video training
and making decisions about someone’s immigration status, it is hugely dangerous
because it is a complex and difficult area of the law,” he said.
Legal advisor Kobach is known for litigation involving
immigrants. Kobach filed suit in Kansas, California and Nebraska challenging
those state's policies of offering in-state tuition rates to undocumented
students. He also represented Hazelton, Penn., when its harsh anti-immigrant
policies were challenged in court. Kobach, a law professor at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City, is now running for secretary of state in Kansas.
Kobach has also worked with the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR). FAIR was identified by the Southern Poverty Law
Center as a hate group financially supported by the Pioneer Fund, a group with
an alleged white supremacist agenda.
“We find it absolutely outrageous that Sheriff Arpaio has
chosen an individual with an obvious bias, who works on behalf of an
anti-immigrant group to conduct training on immigration law and ethnic
profiling," said Bill Straus, Arizona Anti-Defamation League regional
director.
“Those claims are
absolutely false,” said Kobach, in his defense. “The Southern Poverty Law
Center engages in slander against people that oppose illegal immigration. They
fail to mention that many of the people I defend in court are Hispanic. They
happen to be Hispanics that believe the laws need to be enforced.”
This is not the only controversy Arpaio is embroiled in. A
federal grand jury is investigating allegations of abuse of power by his office
unrelated to his immigration enforcement. His agency is also the subject of a
federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of civil rights violations.
His office could also face judicial sanctions for destruction of evidence in
connection with an ACLU lawsuit that alleges his deputies engaged in racial
profiling during his immigration sweeps.
“This is going to magnify what he has been doing during the
sweeps,” said Shana Higa, a criminal defense attorney who has been monitoring
Arpaio’s immigration sweeps in Latino neighborhoods for the last two years.
Higa believes this has made some Latinos afraid report crimes to the police,
making them more vulnerable to criminals.
Deite criticism about his tactics and associations, Arpaio
continues to defend his policies saying that since 2007 his deputies have
detained 30,000 undocumented immigrants, often for something as simple as a
traffic stop, and turned them over to immigration.
In fact, the great majority of those arrests could be
attributed to other law-enforcement agencies in Maricopa County, including the
Phoenix and Scottsdale police departments.
But Arpaio is trying to go further, according to legal
experts.
“The difference is that it looks like they claim they have
the right on their own to hold someone up without the ICE detainer,” said
Chishti. “What will be challenged is that they can’t just hold people on the
basis of an immigration suspicion.”
If Arpaio's deputies could do that, the Arizona state
legislature wouldn’t be trying to pass a local law that allows police to arrest
undocumented immigrants, said Alessandra Soller Meetze , director of the
Arizona ACLU. SB 1070 would criminalize undocumented immigrants for trespassing
in the territory of the state.
“If it passes, Arizona would be the first state in the
country to make this specific state crime of immigration trespassing,” said
Meetze. “We still think the Constitution prohibits Arizona from passing that
law.”
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WHILE SHERIFF ARPAIO IS PROTECTING HIS COMMUNITY FROM THE
MEXICAN LA RAZA “THE RACE” CRIME TIDAL WAVE, HISPANDERING OBAMA IS FIGHTING TO
BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS BY SUING STATES ON BEHALF OF LA RAZA!
WHEN OBAMA IS NOT HARASSING STATES WITH LAWSUITS, HE’S
SABOTAGING OUR BORDER SECURITY TO ASSURE HIMSELF, AND HIS WALL ST CRONIES,
HORDES OF ILLEGALS POURING OVER OUR BORDERS FOR OUR JOBS. ALL THAT “CHEAP”
LABOR, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY SUBSIDIZED BY MASSIVE “DREAM ACTS” AND WELFARE,
DEPRESSES WAGES FOR AMERICANS (LEGALS) BETWEEN $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR!
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WHILE BARACK OBAMA SQUANDERS BILLIONS EVERY MONTH OVER IN
MUSLIM LAND “FIGHTING TERRORISM”, HE DOESN’T HAVE A DIME TO FIGHT THE MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS, FOR WHICH !!! PHOENIX !!! IS THE GATEWAY FOR THEIR DRUG EMPIRE!
OBAMA HAS JUST STATIONED 2,500 TROOPS IN AUSTRALIA AS HE
TAKES TROOPS OFF THE NARCOmex BORDER!
WE ALSO PAY FOR MORE TROOPS ON THE SOUTH KOREAN BORDER THAN
WE HAVE ON OUR OWN!
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FAIR Legislative Update February 9, 2010
Obama Proposes Cuts to Important Immigration Enforcement
Programs
On February 1, President Obama released the details of his
Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget Request, which seeks to cut funding for important
immigration enforcement programs. (See The President’s Budget Message, February
1, 2010). Specifically, the president’s budget would slash funding for the
Secure Border Initiative; cut funding for US-VISIT; and cut 180 agents from the
Border Patrol. The president’s proposed
budget also proposes to merely maintain funding for the critically underfunded
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).
The Secure Border Initiative (SBI) “is a comprehensive,
multi-year plan to help secure America’s borders” through fencing,
infrastructure, and technology. (CBP Factsheet). SBI is a critical element of
the larger DHS-CBP effort to increase border security, which includes
construction of the border fence. Last
year, Congress approved $800 million to fund SBI through FY2010. President
Obama is requesting only $574 million for this program in his FY2011 budget, a
$226 million cut. (FY2011 Budget Request Appendix: DHS).
US-VISIT, or United States Visitor and Immigrant Status
Indicator Technology, is an entry-exit tracking program that collects
information, including biometric identifiers, on foreign nationals attempting
when they enter the United States. This information is then used to, among
other things, determine whether foreign nationals should be denied entry and
whether exiting aliens have overstayed or otherwise violated the terms of their
admission. According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report
released in November 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not
have a unified schedule to completely implement a comprehensive exit function
for US-VISIT, and it is difficult to determine when and how US-VISIT will be
completed. (GAO Report, November
2009). Despite this failure to complete
implementation, President Obama has proposed a $39 million cut to US-VISIT,
from $374 million in FY2010 to $335 million in FY2011. (FY2011 Budget Request Appendix: DHS).
In addition, President Obama’s budget provides for a
reduction of 180 Border Patrol agents. According to Acting DHS Chief Financial
Officer Peggy Sherry, the administration does “not believe the 180 personnel
reduction will in any way reduce the overall operating effectiveness of the
Border Patrol because over the past five years, the Border Patrol has doubled
in size.” Sherry continued: “A lot of the agent workforce, the substantial
portion of it, has only a couple of years experience. As they become more
seasoned and more mature in their jobs, their effectiveness will increase.”
(See DHS Conference Call Transcript).
The administration
has also requested only $330 million for SCAAP – a federal program administered
through the Department of Justice that helps states pay for the incarceration
of criminal aliens. (FY2011 Budget Request: DOJ). Congress recently cut the
annual funding level for SCAAP from $400 million in FY2009 to $330 million in
FY2010. (See FAIR’s Legislative Update, December 22, 2009). This cut drew
significant criticism from border state Governors Rick Perry (R-TX) and Arnold
Schwarzenegger (R-CA), yet through his request, President Obama suggests that
he wants to make it permanent. (Id.).
Although President Obama’s budget is a significant barometer
reflecting his policies and priorities, it represents simply a funding request
to Congress. Congress has the true power to appropriate money and can choose to
wholesale adopt, modify, or reject the President’s budget request. As Congress
and the administration negotiate the complicated budgeting and appropriations
process over the coming months, stay tuned to FAIR for in-depth analyses of
important immigration-related funding decisions.
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The American Legion Takes A Stand
Against Illegal Immigration
The America Legion recently released a statement on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, a very
pointed statement. The Legion published their policy in a 30 page booklet,
spelling their policy out in detail:
The nation’s largest veterans organization released this week a policy bulletin
that takes a firm stand against illegal immigration and calls on its members to
hold elected officials accountable for implementing and enforcing U.S.
immigration law.
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The 30-page bulletin is officially
titled, “The American Legion20Policy on Immigration: A Strategy to Address
Illegal Immigration in the United States.”
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It is about
time that a group who stands up for veterans of all services, whether they
served in peacetime or wartime took a tough stand on a problem that is
overwhelming this country. We have roughly 25 million veterans in this country
who served honorably to protect the legal residents of this country, not the
people who invade our borders nearly unchecked.
More from WND on the American Legion:
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“The American Legion members have served in the U.S. Armed Forces throughout
the world so that Americans can be safe at home,” the organization’s website
explains. “This gives them a unique perspective to the threat that open borders
present to their homeland.”
“America is a nation built by immigrants and the American Legion recognizes and
celebrates that,” said National Commander David K. Rehbein in a press release.
“We do take strong issue, however, with illegal immigration. It’s a matter of
national security. The 9/11 hijackers and three of the men who plotted to kill
innocent Americans at Ft. Dix were perfect examples of terrorists exploiting
our weak immigration laws and our lack of enforcement. This booklet is a good
reminder that America has a serious problem that needs to be addressed.”
The Legion’s stance on illegal immigration is clearly stated o n page 1 of the
booklet, it stands alone:
“The American Legion is opposed to any person or persons being in this country
illegally, regardless of race, sex, creed, color or national origin,” the
bulletin states. “We believe the current laws governing immigration should be
enforced impartially and equally.”
The America Legion has a long history that dates back to Theodore Roosevelt.
The Legion knows something about supporting veterans and the laws of this
country. Read on:
Originally founded in 1919 on an idea proposed by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (the
president of the same name’s eldest son), the Legion has now grown to a
membership of more than 2.6 million wartime veterans organized in more than
14,000 posts nationwide.
The policy bulletin explains, “Legionnaires subscribe to a creed, ‘To uphold
and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law
and order and to foster and perpetuate a 100 percent Americanism.’ These words
are recited in unison at Legion meetings and represent a continuing contract of
service to benefit America and it is this commitment by Legionnaires that is
the fuel for action on illegal immigration and other national security concerns
facing this country.”
The Legion hopes the policy booklet will educate the American public on how
“the security, economy and social fabric of the United States of America is=2
0seriously threatened by individuals who are illegally in this country.”
“Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime,” the booklet states. “The poor,
minorities, children and individuals with little education are particularly
vulnerable. It causes an enormous drain on public services, depresses wages of
American workers, and contributes to population growth that, in turn,
contributes to school overcrowding and housing shortages. Directly and
indirectly, U.S. taxpayers are paying for illegal immigration.”
In financial terms, the booklet cites a report by the Center for Immigration
Studies that claims the average illegal alien household in 2003 paid
approximately $4,200 in federal taxes while, on average, created $7,000 in
costs at the federal level.
The booklet does highlight a real problem that the USA faces despite the
formation of the Department of Homeland Security. It spells out that it is
about educating all people on the dearth of security issues still face this
country today. Not only did they publish this booklet for education purposes
but it also contains language that discusses ways to prevent these security
issues:
In response to what it sees as a contributing factor to crime, terrorism,
unemployment and depressed wages, the Legion proposes the following five-point
strategy urging the federal government to enact the following steps:
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1. Secure the borders and other points of entry in the United States, including
construction of a physical barrier and sufficient Border Patrol presence.
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2. Eliminate the jobs magnet and social services benefits that draw illegal
immigrants to the U.S. by enforcing laws sanctioning employers who hire illegal
aliens, implementing employment eligibility verification and eliminating
government benefits for illegal aliens. (47% of those with a job in Mex occupied Los Angeles are ILLEGALS!)
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3. Eliminate amnesty laws that permit illegal aliens to break the law and
remain in the U.S.
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4. Reduce the U.S. illegal alien population by attrition through workplace
enforcement, interagency and interstate cooperation, rejection of driver’s
license plans, mandating English as national language and establishing
parameters for noncriminal deportations.
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5. Screen and track foreign visitors legally entering the United States. The
plan further calls for reforms to current legal immigration policy, including
alteration of the non-immigrant visa program that allows some nations’ citizens
entrance to the U.S. without a visa application, elimination of the visa
lottery that randomly approves visas from countries with low immigration rates
and expanding visa allowances for seasonal and temporary workers.
The five step program is a good program. It is workable with some change in
legislation and enforcement of current laws. It becomes more important when one
considers the following report from WND:
Costs for securing the nation’s borders are expected to increase 20.6 percent
in fiscal year 2009. These include expenses for border patrol, electronic
surveillance, the border fence and other security needs. President Bush
allocated $44.3 billion for the Department of Homeland Security – a 4.5 percent
increase from last year’s budget of $42.4 billion.
While
the U.S. builds a fence across much of the border, many illegals are taking a
different route. Underground,” Rubenstein reveals. “Authorities have discovered
dozens of illegal tunnels across the international border in recent years.
Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and immigrants takes place daily through these
underground passageways.”
Illegal aliens also use drainage systems to travel across the U.S.-Mexico
border – from El Paso to San Diego.
“One tunnel, actually a system of two half-mile passages connecting Tijuana
with San Diego, is by comparison a superhighway,” he wrote.
While the Border Patrol attempts to stop these underground incursions with
steel doors, cameras and sensors, harsh weather conditions and human smugglers
destroy the equipment and barriers.
These costs, and the expenses of providing “enhanced driver’s licenses” as
alternative passports for citizens, RFID chips, government databases and watch
lists are expected to soar.
In his research, Rubenstein finds that the average immigrant household
generates a fiscal debt of $3,408 after feder al benefits and taxes are
considered. At the state and local level, the fiscal debt amounts to $4.398 per
immigrant household.
“There are currently about 36 million immigrants living in about 9 million
households, so the aggregate deficit attributable to immigrants comes to $70.3
billion,” he writes. “… Immigrants could deplete the amount of funds available
for infrastructure by as much as $70 billion per year.”
Rubenstein cites figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, projecting that the U.S.
population will reach 433 million by 2050 – increasing 44 percent, or 135
million, from today’s numbers.
A full 82 percent of this increase will be directly attributable to new
immigrants and their U.S.-born children.
“The brutal reality is that no conceivable infrastructure program can keep pace
with that kind of population growth,” he wrote. “The traditional ’supply-side’
response to America’s infrastructure shortage – build, build, build – is dead,
dead, dead. Demand reduction is the only viable way to close the gap between
the supply and demand of public infrastructure.”
He concludes, “Immigration reduction must play a role.”
The five step program that the Legion proposes is a sound one. It will require
the federal government to tighten immigration policies. The policies don’t
appear to require bigger government. It does require ou r Democratic-led
government to take a tough stand on illegal immigration, one I believe they
will never take. Since our government at this point in time will never toughen
the laws, this booklet will go largely ignored by our representatives in DC and
that is the shame.
The American Legion wants to remind of us the facts surrounding 9/11 and the
plot to kill Fort Dix soldiers, nothing more, nothing less. It is time for
Congress to listen to the more than 2 million veterans who claim membership in
this organization. It is time to secure our borders, it is time that the
American people realize our security is at risk as long as our borders are not
secure
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/obamas-open-borders-for-la-raza-as-he.html
PENTAGON MAY HAVE TO USE TROOPS
FINALLY TO DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST MEXICO. ISN’T IT ABOUT TIME? TIME WE
STOPPED DEFENDING THE FILTHY SAUDIS OVER THERE AGAINST THE IRAQIS, AND PROPPING
UP MUSLIM DICTATORS???
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Please report, broadcast,
distribute, deliver to lawmakers, post, forward, and relay far and wide!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/alipac-william-gheen-exposes-wikileaks.html
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“What's
needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known
for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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Secret
WikiLeaks Document Confirms North American Union Plan
May 18, 2011
For Continental Release
CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
The secret document recently released by WikiLeaks reveals a
high level US ambassador promoting a merger of the United States, Canada, and
Mexico into one combined consumer and labor market, with a common currency and
a mutual electronic security perimeter with less focus on physical borders.
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Pentagon
official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
Article Link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
WND Exclusive PREMEDITATED MERGER
Obama quietly erasing borders
Dem administration advancing 'North American Union' agenda
December 15, 2010
By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
NOGALES, AZ - DECEMBER 10: U.S. agricultural inspector Mike Ollman questions a
motorist entering the United States at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing on December
10, 2010 at Nogales, Arizona. Despite Arizona's tough immigration enforcement
laws, thousands of Mexican citizens have permits to work in the U.S. and
commute daily from their homes across the border in Mexico. Border crossings,
known as ports of entry, are run by the U.S. Office of Field Operations, which
is part of the department of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Port personnel
are the face at the border for most visitors and cargo entering the United
States and are authorized to stop, question, search and examine everyone
entering the country. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Acting quietly, below the radar of U.S. public opinion and without
congressional approval, the Obama administration is implementing a key policy
objective of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP,
to erase the border with Mexico and Canada.
The administration is acting under a State Department-declared policy
initiative described in a March 23 fact sheet titled "United States-Mexico
Partnership: A New Border Vision."
"Mexico and the United States have a shared interest in creating a 21st
century border that promotes the security and prosperity of both
countries," the State Department declared. "The U.S. and Mexican
governments have launched a range of initiatives that challenge the traditional
view of 'hold the line' and are developing a framework for a new vision of 21st
centuryborder management."
At the same time, CTV News in Canada has obtained a draft copy of a declaration
between the U.S. and Canada entitled "Beyond theBorder: A Shared Vision
for Perimeter Security and Competitiveness," to be implemented by a newly
created Canadian-U.S. "Beyond the Border Working Group."
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The two documents strongly suggest the Obama administration is pursuing a
stealth bureaucratic methodology to establish a common North Americanborder
around the continent, encompassing the U.S., Canada and Mexico, while
simultaneously moving to erase the borders between the U.S. and Mexico as well
as between the U.S. and Canada.
Under the Bush administration's SPP, the U.S., Mexico and Canada organized some
20 different "shadow government" bureaucratic working groups composed
of agency heads and undersecretaries in the three nations. The groups span a
wide range of policy areas, from e-commerce, to aviation policy, toborders and
immigration, trilateral travel, transportation, energy, environment, food and
agriculture, health and financial services.
WND has reported since 2006 that a blueprint published in 2005 by the Council
on Foreign Relations entitled "Building a North America Community"
called for the establishment of a common security perimeter around North
America by 2010 to facilitate the free movement of people, trade and capital
between the three nations of North America.
In his 2001 book, "Toward a North American Community," American
University professor Robert Pastor, a co-chair of the CFR blue ribbon committee
that authored "Building a North American Community," called for the
creation of a North American Commission, a North American Parliament, and a
North American Court on Trade and Investment.
The language of the documents declaring "A New Border Vision" with
Mexico and Canada could easily have been lifted directly from the CFR report or
Pastor's book.
The 2005 CFR report "Building a North American Community" called on
page xvii of the Foreword for the "establishment by 2010 of a North
American economic and security perimeter, the boundaries of which would be
defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter."
CTV News reported that the language of the draft agreement specified that
"A New Border Vision" for the U.S. and Canada would involve "a perimeter
approach to security, working together within, at, and away from theborders of
our two countries in a way that supports economic competitiveness, job creation
and prosperity, and in a partnership to enhance our security and accelerate the
legitimate flow of people and goods between our two countries."
Similarly, the U.S. State Department fact sheet calling for "A New Border
Vision" with Mexico specified five areas of "joint border management,
co-responsibility for cross-border crime, and shared commitment to the
efficient flow of legal commerce and travel," namely: enhancing public
safety, securing flows of people and goods, expediting legitimate commerce and
travel, engaging border communities, and setting policy.
Under "setting policy," the State Department fact sheet with Mexico
called for achieving rapid policy change through "an agile inter-agency
process within each country as well as a means by which both governments can
easily coordinate at a bi-national level."
This provides additional support for the conclusion that the bureaucratic
"working groups" established under SPP in the Bush administration
will continue to operate under Obama administration.
CTV News reported that the draft declaration of "A New Border Vision"
with Canada similarly also specified a cross-border policy agenda, including:
* An integrated cargo security strategy;
* A joint approach to port and border security and screening;
* Cross-border sharing of information between law enforcement agencies;
* A closer working relationship between the two militaries in the event of
emergencies;
* A new level of collaboration on preventing and recovering from counter
attacks.
Affirming the continuance of the working group process, the draft declaration
with Canada specifies the U.S. and Canada "intend to address threats at
the earliest point possible, including outside the perimeter of our two
countries."
The origin of the SPP can be traced to a trilateral summit meeting in Waco,
Texas, March 23, 2005, between President George W. Bush, then-Mexican President
Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
At the end of the Waco summit, the three leaders simply declared that the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada were now in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, without
the signing of any international agreement between the three countries or the
ratifying of any trilateral treaty by the U.S. Senate.
The SPP in the administration of President Bush appeared designed to replicate
the steps taken in Europe over a 50-year period following the end of World War
II to transform an economic agreement under the European Common Market into a
full-fledged regional government, operating as the European Union, with its own
currency, the euro, functioning as the sole legitimate currency in what has
become known as "the eurozone."
The concern was that under the SPP, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or
NAFTA, could evolve into a regional government, the North American Union, with
a regional currency, the Amero, designed to replace the U.S. dollar, the
Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar.
WND has reported analysts have believed the North American integration plan
will proceed incrementally, largely below the radar, since the SPP was declared
"dead" by one of its chief architects, American University Professor
Robert A. Pastor, who for nearly 15 years has been a major proponent of
building a "North American Community."
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FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing
the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she
described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the
administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to
serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and
workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s
alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control”
and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may
be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the
American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s
record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration
enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Go to
http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
and read articles and comments from other Americans on what they’ve witnessed
in their communities around the country. While most of the population of
California is now ILLEGAL, the problems, costs, assault to our culture by
Mexico is EVERYWHERE. copy and pass it to your friends.
CONTACT THE HISPANDERING LA RAZA PARTY PRESIDENT HERE:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7165215?fr=yvmtf
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ke up America!!! Illegal Immigration
has to be stopped. Take a look at this website and see where all your tax
dollars are going: http://immigrationcounters.com/
See: CFR’s Plan to Integrate the
U.S., Mexico and Canada
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"Bush Secret Border
Wars" Mayhem and terror in Southern states to protect government drug
cartels
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/140805borderwars.htm Mexican/Bush Crime
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TEN MOST WANTED
CRIMINALS IN CALIFORNIA ARE MEXICANS!
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Pentagon
official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”