Friday, February 3, 2012

FAST & FURIOUS - DEPT. OF LA RAZA JUSTICE AND THE NARCOMEX INVASION

PERHAPS HOLDER AND OBAMA SHOULD DECIDE IF THEY WORK FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR THE LA RAZA NARCOmex INVADERS!



Attorney General Eric Holder Disgusted by Personal Attacks at Fast and Furious Hearing

By Jason Ryan | ABC OTUS News – 22 hrs ago

Attorney General Eric Holder faced attacks on his character and tenure as attorney general at a congressional committee hearing on the gun program known as "Fast and Furious," which was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Holder defended his record but the hearing yielded little information about the gun trafficking investigation. Instead, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attacked Holder for previous testimony, his role in the pardoning of Marc Rich at the end of the Clinton administration and his decision to open a criminal investigation into torture by CIA operatives against terrorism detainees.

The House committee has been investigating the actions by ATF and Justice Department officials involving the gun trafficking case that resulted in about 2,000 guns being allowed to go to drug cartels and criminal groups in Mexico. The ATF operation took a tragic toll when two guns linked to the operation were found near slain U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010.

A staff memo prepared by congressional investigators working for the committee with Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, released before the hearing offered a new detail about the ATF's failure to identify two targets in its gun trafficking case. However, the issue was glossed over by committee members in their questioning.

The report noted that one of the two members of a drug cartel had already been identified in a DEA wiretap log and was under investigation by the DEA and the FBI.

The report noted, "DEA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had jointly opened a separate investigation specifically targeting these two cartel associates. As early as mid-January 2010, both agencies had collected a wealth of information on these associates. Yet, ATF spent the next year engaging in the reckless tactics of Fast and Furious in attempting to identify them."

"During the course of this separate investigation, the FBI designated these two cartel associates as national security assets. In exchange for one individual's guilty plea to a minor count of 'Alien in Possession of a Firearm,' both became FBI informants and are now considered to be unindictable." the report said. "This means that the entire goal of Fast and Furious - to target these two individuals and bring them to justice - was a failure."

Holder faced some tough questioning about why the Justice Department has turned over only 6,400 pages of documents when the Justice Department inspector general has access to an estimated 80,000 pages of documents as part of the internal review.

"It appears as though we're being stonewalled, and there's something that's being hidden," said Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind.

Justice Department officials have said that the inspector general's review allows the internal DOJ investigators to have access to all grand jury materials and all unredacted documents such as wiretap transcripts.

"I've heard, you know, the magic word here, 'cover-up,' and I want to make clear that there is no attempt at any kind of cover-up. We have shared huge amounts of information. We will continue to share huge amounts of information," Holder said later in the hearing.

Holder faced a torrent of questions about his character and his time at the Justice Department.

Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., asked Holder, "So let me ask it this way: How many more Border Patrol agents would have had to die as a part of Operation Fast and Furious for you to take responsibility?"

Holder bristled at the question telling the congresswoman, "You know, I mean, really, is that the way in which you want to be seen, you want to be known? You know, I should be held accountable for, certainly, my role in whatever I did or didn't do in connection with the supervision of Fast and Furious, but I'm attorney general of the United States and I should also be accountable and perhaps even given some credit - imagine that - given some credit for the things that this Justice Department has done under my leadership, whether it deals with national security, revitalized antitrust, revitalized civil rights enforcement effort. And so one has to balance all of these things.

"I get up every day and try to do the best job that I can. I have great faith in the people who work in the department. And, you know, that kind of question, I think, is, frankly - and again, respectfully - I think that's beneath a member of Congress," Holder said.

Although Issa tried to limit the scope of the hearing to only focus on Fast and Furious controversy, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., blasted Holder for his handling of the Marc Rich pardon and for Holder's decision to reopen a criminal investigation into abuse and torture of terrorism detainees by CIA operatives and interrogators.

"Given the decision to almost engage in character assassination, I'm going to respond to at least some of that." Holder said. "I'm the attorney general of the United States. OK? And when it comes to deciding what I'm going to investigate, how I'm going to investigate, I take into account a wide variety of things. The decision I made to open up those CIA matters - and I was aware that this was something that was opposed by a great many people … that investigation has run its course. We are at a point where we are about to close those investigations."

Towards the end of the hearing, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, told Holder that he should resign and said, "You either lied or you were grossly incompetent in your actions when it came to finding out about Fast and Furious and your handling of this matter."

Labrador then showed the committee a series of statements Holder had made about the Marc Rich pardon, which drew the ire of a disgusted attorney general.

"That was among the worst things I think I've ever seen in Congress," Holder said, "You took a whole series of statements out of context, with no context."

Holder added, "The Marc Rich thing was considered in my confirmation, talked about it then. There is a whole bunch of things that I could say about what you just did, and maybe this is the way you do things, you know, in Idaho or wherever you're from. But understand something. What I've done - I'm proud of the work that I've done as attorney general of the United States. And looked at fairly- I think that I've done, you know, a pretty good job. Have I been perfect? No. Have I made mistakes? Yes. Do I treat the members of this committee with respect? I always hope that I do. And what you have just done is, if nothing else, disrespectful. And if you don't like me, that's one thing, but you should respect the fact that I hold an office that is deserving of respect. And, you know, maybe you're new to this committee. I don't know. I don't know how long you've been here. But my hope would be that, you know, we can get beyond that kind of interaction, that kind of treatment of a witness, whether it's me or somebody else, because I think in some ways what you did was fundamentally unfair, just not right."


MEXICAN CARTELS INVADE BY SEA, UNDER & OVER OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS - Boat Load Caught North of Los Angeles

Police nab Mexican drug boat north of Los Angeles

Reuters – Tue, Jan 31, 2012

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police seized a motorboat packed with more than a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles and arrested three Mexican men, the latest seizure as traffickers try to beat tougher border security by taking to the waves, authorities said on Tuesday.

U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted the open-topped "panga" style vessel packed with plastic-wrapped bundles of marijuana at Point Dume State Beach in Los Angeles County on Saturday, the U.S. Border Patrol said in a news release.

The three men on board the boat had entered the United States illegally and were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

As security has tightened in recent years along the United States' porous border with Mexico, trafficking organizations have increasingly taken to smuggling drugs and illegal immigrants by sea to the Los Angeles area.

In the 12 months to the end of September 2011, authorities recorded 26 maritime smuggling incidents in the greater Los Angeles area, including seven in Ventura County. Since then, there have been 14 incidents including three in Ventura County and one in Santa Barbara County.

U.S. authorities have in recent months ramped up efforts to target sea-borne smugglers taking the longer route to the Los Angeles area, expanding the use of marine patrols, land-based surveillance, and cooperation with their Mexican counterparts.

The seizure on Saturday followed a tip from the California National Guard.

(Reporting By Tim Gaynor; Editing by Greg McCune)


JOHN & WANDA CASIAS, MISSIONARIES MURDERED IN MEXICO - MEXICAN TERRORISM ON OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS




2 Texas missionaries found slain in north Mexico

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and KATHERINE CORCORAN | Associated Press – Wed, Feb 1, 2012



MEXICO CITY (AP) — A missionary couple from Texas were slain in their home outside the violence-plagued northern industrial city of Monterrey, the U.S. Embassy and their family said Wednesday

The embassy identified the couple as John and Wanda Casias.

Valerie Alirez, the eldest child of John Casias, told The Associated Press from her home in Greeley, Colorado, that one of her brothers found her father and stepmother Tuesday dead in their home in Santiago, Nuevo Leon.

The family was originally from Amarillo, Texas, but relatives said John and Wanda Casias moved to Mexico in the late 1970s or early 1980s and made it their home.

John Casias was a Baptist preacher and the couple ran the First Fundamentalist Independent Baptist Church in Santiago, Alirez said.

Her brother, Shawn Casias, who lives in Monterrey, said he went to his parents' home around 4 p.m. Tuesday to pick up a trailer. After he had hooked up the trailer outside he went into the home to say goodbye. He said he found Wanda Casias lying on the floor with an electrical cord around her neck and a gash from a blunt object on her head.

Missing from the house were a couple of computers, a plasma television and a safe that had been chiseled out of the wall.

The couple's Chevrolet Suburban was also missing, and Casias said he initially thought his father had been kidnapped.

But about four or five hours later, he said, a forensic investigator informed him that his father's body had been found in a storage room of a small building on the property. His father also had an electrical cord around his neck.

Fighting between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels has inflicted a surge of violence and other crimes on Monterrey and the surrounding area since 2010. In poorer suburbs, entire blocks have been held up by gunmen and young people snatched off the streets.

Casias said a sister-in-law in Dallas had spoken to their mother around 11 a.m. Tuesday and everything was fine. So he believes there was about a five-hour window when the killings could have occurred before he showed up.

He said the killers did not take everything they could have, leaving two of the three TV sets. He said perhaps they were warned that he was coming, because anyone watching the winding road approaching the home could have alerted them.

"They're scum. They're not sophisticated," he said.

Speaking from his parents' home, Casias said the house was burglarized two years ago when the couple were on one of their periodic visits to the United States to talk at churches about their work in Mexico.

"We're convinced that it's somebody he knew," Casias said of the killers. He said authorities had some leads based on people seen around the home.

John Casias was 76. He had recently priced a knee replacement because he couldn't walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67.

Casias said his parents held services and prayer meetings at a church about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from their home.

The couple maintained a website, www.casias.org, with details of their lives and their missionary work

"The only hope for the Mexican people today is Jesus in them, the HOPE of glory," they wrote in one dispatch from last summer. "I confess that it's getting easier to witness to the wealthy, at least they are listening. The wealthy are fleeing to Canada and the USA for protection. The only problem is that when they return to re-new their visas the cartel is waiting, and either kill them of (sic) kidnap them for thousands of dollars, in some cases millions. The cartel has NO mercy or value for life. They are ruthless murderers!"

It was the second slaying involving American missionaries in a year in the Mexican region bordering Texas.

In January 2011, a Texas couple who had been doing missionary work in Mexico for three decades were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of the country's most violent areas.

Nancy Davis, 59, was fatally shot in the head while her husband, Sam, sped away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup truck, authorities said.

The Davises were driving along the two-lane road that connects the city of San Fernando with the border city of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders Nuevo Leon.

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Associated Press writer Katherine Corcoran reported this story in Mexico City and Christopher Sherman reported from McAllen, Texas.


COURT CRITICES OBAMA DHS ON STEAL AMNESTY

Federal Court Criticizes Obama DHS on Stealth Amnesty Document FOIA Secrecy

Judicial Watch is locked in numerous battles with the Obama administration to force the release of government documents on a wide range of scandals, including government bailouts, Fast and Furious, Obamacare and illegal immigration, to name just a few.

In fact, we've filed over 325 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Obama administration so far. And we have filed 44 FOIA lawsuits in federal court against this administration. This number grows by the day. We'd file more, but we only have so many lawyers.

All of this is to say that we know very well the games that Obama administration officials play to keep records secret from the American people- in violation of law. But it's very helpful when a federal court recognizes this gamesmanship as well. And that's what happened last week.

On January 27, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling criticizing the Obama Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing to abide by FOIA law in a Judicial Watch lawsuit seeking records related to the agency's policy of suspending some illegal alien deportations. (By way of review, this scandal involves a new policy by the Obama DHS to "prioritize" deportations, allowing illegal aliens to remain in the United States without fear of removal, including violent criminals.)

We filed our original FOIA request with DHS on August 30, 2010, and filed a subsequent lawsuit on March 23, 2011, after DHS stonewalled the release of records. The Obama administration filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in the lawsuit on August 4, 2011, asking the court to end Judicial Watch's lawsuit.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was a bit of a mixed bag. She granted DHS's motion regarding some select records, but also denied the motion in part while chastising the agency for its inadequate explanations as to why it was withholding certain documents. Here are the highlights from her ruling, which you can read in full here.

  • Regarding assertions of attorney-client privilege, the Court listed a series of "egregious" examples demonstrating DHS's unwillingness to specify reasons for exempting documents from disclosure and concluded, "In the end, DHS's generalized and non-specific showing fails to satisfy the Court that the attorney-client privilege has been properly invoked in connection with the information withheld from Judicial Watch."
  • The Court drew the same conclusion with respect to DHS's assertion of the attorney work-product privilege, which protects materials "prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial by or for another party or its representative." The Court ruled: "Absent a more particularized showing from DHS, the Court cannot conclude that DHS has applied the appropriate standard in this case…"
  • Regarding the deliberative process privilege, which protects "documents reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations comprising a part of the process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated," Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote, "The Court agrees with Judicial Watch that DHS has failed to provide sufficient factual context for much of the information withheld under the deliberative process privilege to allow the Court to conclude that the privilege has been properly invoked."
Now, given the Obama administration's obfuscation here, Judge Kollar-Kotelly had the ability to force DHS to disclose the records. But she went another route, allowing DHS one "final" opportunity to establish the applicability of these privileges to the information withheld from Judicial Watch.

As an aside, I find it a bit frustrating that private citizens and organizations have to cross every "t" and dot every "i" in FOIA litigation or risk having the hammer thrown down by the courts. Yet the federal government can outright lie, deny, stonewall and play every dirty trick in the book to avoid abiding by the law and still receive more chances to satisfy the court.

Nonetheless, the court's ruling does clearly show the secrecy gamesmanship of the Obama DHS. And we're pleased the court would not allow DHS to continue its contempt for FOIA law. We will aggressively continue our legal pursuit of these records.

There is no question that the Obama administration wants to obscure the truth about its lawless illegal alien deportation policy. And the Obama DHS believes it should be able to withhold records from the American people without explanation or justification.

The Obama administration's campaign to suspend the deportations of most illegal aliens has been subject to intense scrutiny since 2010, when the press uncovered a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services memo that contemplated various "administrative alternatives" to bypass Congress and implement stealth amnesty for illegal aliens. A subsequent Houston Chronicle story exposed an effort by the administration to suspend the deportations of illegal aliens who supposedly have not been convicted of any "serious" crimes.

However, documents previously uncovered by Judicial Watch show that DHS officials misled Congress and the public about the scope of the immigration enforcement policy change, which gave wide latitude to local immigration officials to dismiss illegal alien deportation cases - including the dismissal of charges against illegal alien criminals convicted of violent crimes.

With the "cat out of the bag," the Obama administration then officially announced that it would effectively halt any enforcement actions (on an alleged "case-by-case" basis) against any illegal alien who has not committed any other "serious" crimes. And then the administration immediately put this plan into action, using Denver, Colorado, and Baltimore, Maryland, as test cases for this dangerous and unlawful policy. According to The Associated Press:
In a trial run of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country - perhaps indefinitely - so officials can reduce a huge backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed threats to national security.

Federal deportation hearings for noncriminal defendants released from custody were suspended Dec. 5 for the review and resume this week. Similar reviews are planned across the country to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus deportations of illegal immigrants on those with criminal records or those who have been deported previously.
So now you see why our battle over these DHS records is so important. The idea of suspending illegal alien deportations is no longer a theoretical exercise. It is established national policy. Amnesty by Obama administration fiat is here. This is a constitutional crisis that you won't hear about from the liberal media or, frankly, from much of anyone else these days.

And if the Obama administration is willing to release documents to Judicial Watch showing administration officials are lying when they say illegal aliens with criminal records will still be deported under this policy, just imagine the records they're still trying to conceal. We need to know every detail about how and why this policy has been implemented to know best how to stop it.

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WHO WOULD WORK HARDER TO EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS? OBAMA OR ROMNEY?

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/romney-vs-mormon-church-vs-la-raza.html

FAST & FURIOUS - OBAMA'S DOJ AND THE LA RAZA AGENDA

DOJ Fast and Furious Document Dump: More Evidence Holder Lied to Congress

In another "document dump" late last Friday evening, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) released 500 pages of records, including internal email correspondence, regarding the exploding scandal known as "Fast and Furious," where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) allowed guns to "walk" into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, leading to the death of at least one U.S. federal agent.

NPR detailed one of the key finds:

For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong.…

The email messages show the former top federal prosecutor in Arizona, Dennis Burke, notifying an aide to Holder via email on Dec. 15, 2010 that agent Brian Terry had been wounded and died. "Tragic," responds the aide, Monty Wilkinson. "I've alerted the AG, the acting Deputy Attorney General..."

Only a few minutes later, Wilkinson emailed again, saying, "Please provide any additional details as they become available to you."

Burke then delivered another piece of bad news: "The guns found in the desert near the murder ... officer connect back to the investigation we were going to talk about - they were AK-47s purchased at a Phoenix gun store."


Are we supposed to believe that Wilkinson "alerted" Holder to the news of Terry's death, but did not mention the more devastating revelation shortly thereafter that the guns linked to the crime were purchased in Phoenix?! This hardly seems credible.

You will recall Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2011, that he only had known about Fast and Furious for "a few weeks." However, documents released by CBS News in October 2011 show Holder was receiving weekly briefings on Fast and Furious as far back as July 5, 2010. (See the documents here.)

Holder later said he did not understand the question posed to him by the committee and amended his claim, saying he may have known about the gun-running operation for "a couple of months." But that still doesn't square with the timeline suggested by the growing heap of credible evidence, which now includes a smoking gun email to Holder's Deputy Chief of Staff linking Fast and Furious to the Brian Terry murder - all the way back in December 2010.

And yet, we still do not have an investigation of Holder's alleged perjury. Perhaps it is because he continues to get cover not only from President Obama, but from congressional Democrats as well.

On Wednesday, one day before Holder testified again before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, congressional Democrats rallied around the attorney general releasing a report that places the blame squarely on the shoulders of local ATF agents in Phoenix in an effort to shift the focus from the Obama DOJ.

Senate Republican Charles Grassley, who has been helping lead the charge to investigate Fast and Furious, said the report did not "pass the laugh test." House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) did not back down one bit from his previous threats to hold Holder and DOJ officials in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents regarding the scandal in what he suggests is a massive cover-up.

Meanwhile, in his congressional testimony on Thursday before Issa's committee Holder continued to contemptuously deflect criticism and blame.

While noting that, thus far, no one at the DOJ has been disciplined for the Fast and Furious scandal, Holder then used his testimony to blame the scandal on Congress for failing to pass more gun control laws. He also suggested the whole Fast and Furious mess was just a political witch hunt. As reported by The Washington Examiner:

Attorney General Eric Holder attributed the difficulty preventing gun-trafficking into Mexico to weak gun controls laws, when he blamed on the U.S. House, with particular reference to the House investigators asking him about Operation Fast and Furious.

"ATF's ability to stem the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico suffers from a lack of effective enforcement tools," Holder told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. "Unfortunately, in 2011, a majority of House Members - including all members of the majority on this Committee - voted to keep law enforcement in the dark when individuals purchase multiple semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and long guns - like AK-47s - in gun shops in four southwest-border states."

Holder also suggested that the political partisanship is motivating the investigation. "I am determined to ensure that our shared concerns about these flawed law enforcement operations lead to more than worn-out Washington 'gotcha' games and cynical finger pointing," he said.
This was no "flawed law enforcement operation." This was an unlawful, dangerous and deadly blunder by the Obama DOJ that has led to the death of one person, and will likely kill many more - by Holder's own admission. The attorney general must pay for this monstrous scandal with his job. A criminal investigation of his possible perjury is also warranted.

As you know, Judicial Watch has commenced a full investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal, filing Freedom of Information Act requests and related lawsuits. (You can read more about our investigation here.)





PERHAPS HOLDER AND OBAMA SHOULD DECIDE IF THEY WORK FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR THE LA RAZA NARCOmex INVADERS!



Attorney General Eric Holder Disgusted by Personal Attacks at Fast and Furious Hearing

By Jason Ryan | ABC OTUS News – 22 hrs ago

Attorney General Eric Holder faced attacks on his character and tenure as attorney general at a congressional committee hearing on the gun program known as "Fast and Furious," which was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Holder defended his record but the hearing yielded little information about the gun trafficking investigation. Instead, Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attacked Holder for previous testimony, his role in the pardoning of Marc Rich at the end of the Clinton administration and his decision to open a criminal investigation into torture by CIA operatives against terrorism detainees.

The House committee has been investigating the actions by ATF and Justice Department officials involving the gun trafficking case that resulted in about 2,000 guns being allowed to go to drug cartels and criminal groups in Mexico. The ATF operation took a tragic toll when two guns linked to the operation were found near slain U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010.

A staff memo prepared by congressional investigators working for the committee with Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, released before the hearing offered a new detail about the ATF's failure to identify two targets in its gun trafficking case. However, the issue was glossed over by committee members in their questioning.

The report noted that one of the two members of a drug cartel had already been identified in a DEA wiretap log and was under investigation by the DEA and the FBI.

The report noted, "DEA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had jointly opened a separate investigation specifically targeting these two cartel associates. As early as mid-January 2010, both agencies had collected a wealth of information on these associates. Yet, ATF spent the next year engaging in the reckless tactics of Fast and Furious in attempting to identify them."

"During the course of this separate investigation, the FBI designated these two cartel associates as national security assets. In exchange for one individual's guilty plea to a minor count of 'Alien in Possession of a Firearm,' both became FBI informants and are now considered to be unindictable." the report said. "This means that the entire goal of Fast and Furious - to target these two individuals and bring them to justice - was a failure."

Holder faced some tough questioning about why the Justice Department has turned over only 6,400 pages of documents when the Justice Department inspector general has access to an estimated 80,000 pages of documents as part of the internal review.

"It appears as though we're being stonewalled, and there's something that's being hidden," said Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind.

Justice Department officials have said that the inspector general's review allows the internal DOJ investigators to have access to all grand jury materials and all unredacted documents such as wiretap transcripts.

"I've heard, you know, the magic word here, 'cover-up,' and I want to make clear that there is no attempt at any kind of cover-up. We have shared huge amounts of information. We will continue to share huge amounts of information," Holder said later in the hearing.

Holder faced a torrent of questions about his character and his time at the Justice Department.

Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., asked Holder, "So let me ask it this way: How many more Border Patrol agents would have had to die as a part of Operation Fast and Furious for you to take responsibility?"

Holder bristled at the question telling the congresswoman, "You know, I mean, really, is that the way in which you want to be seen, you want to be known? You know, I should be held accountable for, certainly, my role in whatever I did or didn't do in connection with the supervision of Fast and Furious, but I'm attorney general of the United States and I should also be accountable and perhaps even given some credit - imagine that - given some credit for the things that this Justice Department has done under my leadership, whether it deals with national security, revitalized antitrust, revitalized civil rights enforcement effort. And so one has to balance all of these things.

"I get up every day and try to do the best job that I can. I have great faith in the people who work in the department. And, you know, that kind of question, I think, is, frankly - and again, respectfully - I think that's beneath a member of Congress," Holder said.

Although Issa tried to limit the scope of the hearing to only focus on Fast and Furious controversy, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., blasted Holder for his handling of the Marc Rich pardon and for Holder's decision to reopen a criminal investigation into abuse and torture of terrorism detainees by CIA operatives and interrogators.

"Given the decision to almost engage in character assassination, I'm going to respond to at least some of that." Holder said. "I'm the attorney general of the United States. OK? And when it comes to deciding what I'm going to investigate, how I'm going to investigate, I take into account a wide variety of things. The decision I made to open up those CIA matters - and I was aware that this was something that was opposed by a great many people … that investigation has run its course. We are at a point where we are about to close those investigations."

Towards the end of the hearing, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, told Holder that he should resign and said, "You either lied or you were grossly incompetent in your actions when it came to finding out about Fast and Furious and your handling of this matter."

Labrador then showed the committee a series of statements Holder had made about the Marc Rich pardon, which drew the ire of a disgusted attorney general.

"That was among the worst things I think I've ever seen in Congress," Holder said, "You took a whole series of statements out of context, with no context."

Holder added, "The Marc Rich thing was considered in my confirmation, talked about it then. There is a whole bunch of things that I could say about what you just did, and maybe this is the way you do things, you know, in Idaho or wherever you're from. But understand something. What I've done - I'm proud of the work that I've done as attorney general of the United States. And looked at fairly- I think that I've done, you know, a pretty good job. Have I been perfect? No. Have I made mistakes? Yes. Do I treat the members of this committee with respect? I always hope that I do. And what you have just done is, if nothing else, disrespectful. And if you don't like me, that's one thing, but you should respect the fact that I hold an office that is deserving of respect. And, you know, maybe you're new to this committee. I don't know. I don't know how long you've been here. But my hope would be that, you know, we can get beyond that kind of interaction, that kind of treatment of a witness, whether it's me or somebody else, because I think in some ways what you did was fundamentally unfair, just not right."


New Mexico Won’t Stop Giving Illegal Aliens Driver’s Licenses | Judicial Watch

New Mexico Won’t Stop Giving Illegal Aliens Driver’s Licenses Judicial Watch

IT'S SIMPLY LA RAZA SUPREMACY. IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE NATION!

Illegal Immigrants Trash Border Lands With Tons Of Waste | Judicial Watch

Illegal Immigrants Trash Border Lands With Tons Of Waste Judicial Watch

WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LA RAZA OCCUPIES NEIGHBORHOODS, CITIES, AND STATES ALREAD!

ROMNEY vs MORMON CHURCH vs LA RAZA SUPREMACY and the LAWS OF THIS LAND


FROM THE LA RAZA NEWS – NEW YORK TIMES

THE NYT IS NOW 10% OWNED BY THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, MEXICAN  CARLOS SLIM.

YOU WON’T READ ANYTHING IN THE TIMES BUT PRO-OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY AND PUSH FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY!

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PERHAPS THE MORMON CHURCH SHOULD BE PREACHING ABOUT HUMAN TREATMENT OF LEGALS IN MEX OCCUPIED AMERICAN STATES?!?!?

THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY MEXICANS THAT FLED BACK OVER THE BORDER!

CA ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORTS THAT NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEX GANGS! HALF THE PRISON SYSTEM ARE MEXICANS!

CA PUTS OUT $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR THAT!

CA’S LA RAZA INFESTED STATE LEGISLATURE JUST PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!

THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE HALF THE JOBS ARE HELD BY ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT$600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR THIS!

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The church was instrumental last year in passing controversial legislation in Utah that would provide “guest worker” permits to allow illegal immigrants with jobs to remain in the United States. The church also threw its weight behind the Utah Compact, a declaration calling for humane treatment of immigrants and condemning deportation policies that separate families, which has been adopted by several other states.
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ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, WORKING ON BEHALF OF SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM DEPRESSED WAGES, HAS PUSHED FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, AND AMNESTY, OR AT LEAST OBAMA’S CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS!

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH NEEDS HEAVY BREEDERS TO FILL THE PEWS AFTER DECADES OF PEDOPHILE PRIEST ABUSE IN THEIR CHURCHES!

In Utah, the Chamber of Commerce and the Roman Catholic church were the first to champion the compact, but after many discussions, Mormon Church leaders eventually supported it too, Mr. Shurtleff said.

February 2, 2012

Romney’s Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church


While Mitt Romney is taking a hard line on immigration even as the Republican primaries head toward the heavily Hispanic states of Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, the Mormon Church to which he belongs has become a decisive player in promoting policies that are decidedly more friendly toward immigrants.

The church was instrumental last year in passing controversial legislation in Utah that would provide “guest worker” permits to allow illegal immigrants with jobs to remain in the United States. The church also threw its weight behind the Utah Compact, a declaration calling for humane treatment of immigrants and condemning deportation policies that separate families, which has been adopted by several other states.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is known for its reluctance to be seen as meddling in politics. But on immigration, the church actively lobbied legislators, sent Presiding Bishop H. David Burton to attend the bill signing and issued a series of increasingly explicit statements in favor of allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work.

The church’s endorsement helped shift the debate on immigration in a Republican state where more than 80 percent of legislators are Mormons. It was the church’s most overt involvement in politics since 2008, when it joined other conservative churches in the campaign to pass Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California.

“They were the defining factor in passing that immigration legislation,” said Ronald Mortensen, a Mormon who is co-founder of the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration, which opposed it. “It was probably the most obvious intervention by the Mormon Church on any piece of legislation up here for years. They’re usually a lot more subtle.”

Mormons in Utah who back an accommodating approach to immigrants say they have been disturbed to see Mr. Romney align himself with his party’s anti-immigration flank and with Tea Party members. Mr. Romney has dismissed as “amnesty” any proposal to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. He at first said he would veto the “Dream Act,” which would offer legal status to young illegal immigrants in the United States if they earned a college degree or serve in the military. He later revised his position to say he favored legal status for those who serve in the military.

In contrast, the Mormon Church has said that any immigration reform must balance the principles of loving one’s neighbor and keeping families intact with the imperative to secure the nation’s borders and enforce its laws.

Church officials have made no effort to reach out to Mr. Romney to discuss their differences on immigration and do not plan to do so, said Michael Purdy, director of media relations for the church, who declined to be interviewed but answered questions by e-mail. (Two officials with the Romney campaign did not return several e-mails asking for a response.)

Mr. Purdy wrote, “The Church’s position on political neutrality states: Elected officials who are Latter-day Saints make their own decisions and may not necessarily be in agreement with one another or even with a publicly stated Church position.”

ROMNEY’S POSITION? THE LAW IS THE LAW, AND IT EVEN APPLIES TO LA RAZA ILLEGALS!!! OR DOES IT?????????

Mormon immigration advocates who know Mr. Romney personally said they did not know where his heart was on the issue. They noted that when he served as a Mormon bishop and area leader in Boston in the 1980s and ’90s, he ministered to struggling immigrants from Asia and Latin America. (He later had to explain why he hired a lawn care company that employed illegal immigrants.) But they said they understand that to get the nomination, Mr. Romney has to appeal to the Republican Party’s right wing. And they said it may behoove him to demonstrate that he departs from his church’s position on important issues.

Mark Shurtleff, the Utah attorney general and a Mormon who helped draft the Utah Compact, endorsed Mr. Romney’s candidacy and recently attended an event with him but did not bring up immigration. “I wish I could sit down with him and explain,” he said. “I would tell him there are very good law enforcement and public safety reasons to support the Utah Compact, besides that it’s right.”

Mr. Romney’s chief rival for the nomination, Newt Gingrich, has struck a softer tone on immigration, but he too is not entirely in step with his own Roman Catholic Church. Catholic bishops support the Dream Act and advocate broad immigration reform, including citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants; Mr. Gingrich said he supports only “half” the Dream Act — the part about military service.

The Utah Compact was conceived as a counterpunch to the stringent immigration law passed in Arizona in 2010, which gave the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. The compact’s principles call for federal solutions to immigration reform, policies that support families and individual freedom, acknowledgment of the contribution of immigrants in the economy, and local law enforcement focus on crime, not immigration laws.

In Utah, the Chamber of Commerce and the Roman Catholic church were the first to champion the compact, but after many discussions, Mormon Church leaders eventually supported it too, Mr. Shurtleff said. The church has faced the ire of some of its members, including legislators, who are strongly opposed

The main proponent of the Arizona law was Russell Pearce, a Mormon who served as State Senate president. In November, Mr. Pearce was recalled and replaced by Jerry Lewis, who is also a Mormon but who had spoken out against the immigration law. Mormons in Arizona said their church’s support for the Utah Compact was the turning point in the recall election.

The Mormon Church has a variety of motives for its immigration stand: it is eager to be perceived positively by Hispanics in the United States, and in Mexico and Latin America, where it is making new converts; it identifies with the immigrant experience, having fled persecution before settling in Utah; and it places a strong premium on keeping families intact, in this life and the next.

Paul Edwards, editor of The Deseret News, a church-affiliated newspaper in Utah, said, “Latter-day Saints, because of their history of persecution and forcefully being dispossessed of their livelihoods and properties, do have compassion and understanding” for immigrants.

Charlie Morgan, a sociologist who studies immigration at Brigham Young University, a church-affiliated school in Provo, said: “One doctrine that separates the L.D.S. church from others is an eternal family. You get married in a temple and you’re sealed for all time and eternity.”

The issue is not purely spiritual. Estimates are that 70 percent of Latino converts in Utah are illegal immigrants, said Tony Yapias, director of an immigration advocacy group, Proyecto Latino de Utah, and a Mormon.

“In the last year, we had some very high-profile members, a stake president — a branch president — who were deported,” he said. “People have been living in fear, and finally there’s a ray of hope for them.”
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OBAMA'S 400,000 CRIMINAL ILLEGALS - YOU THOUGHT THE WOULD NOT BREAK THE LAW AND VOTE (AGAIN) FOR OBAMA??? WHAT LA RAZA PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON?


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/obamas-40000-party-base-of-la-raza.html

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HERE ARE A FEW OF UTAH’S LA RAZA AT WORK:


Raid shuts down illegal ID and drug mill operation


Updated: 1/30 11:32 pm
Reported by:
Cristina Rendon




MIDVALE, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A raid at a Midvale apartment Friday shut down a fraudulent identification card mill and drug operation, according to the Utah Attorney General's SECURE Strike Force.

Six undocumented men from Mexico were arrested after a lengthy investigation. Authorities said the men were selling methamphetamine and false Social Security cards, driver licenses and alien registration cards ("green cards"). A cache of fraudulent documents and methamphetamine packaged for sale were discovered.

A resident of the apartment complex who wished to remain anonymous said many people are fearful to talk about the illegal activity because it is so prevalent in their community.

Francisco Javier Manenche-Bracamontes, 25, is charged with possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute, possession of fraudulent identification and obstruction of justice.

Juan Zacapala-Bacho, 22, is charged with possession of forged writing

Joel Pineda-Prudente, 27, is charged with possession of forged writing.

Flavio Sorroza-Vasquez, 31, is charged with false information to police (prior deportation).

Jose Larios-Lopez, 44, is charged with aggravated felon/prior deportation and aggravated re-entry.

Cesar Cirino Manenche-Torres, 34, is charged with prior deportation and re-entry.

According to the attorney general's office, residents of the apartment complex applauded the law enforcement officers after they removed the alleged drug traffickers.

This is the 29th fraudulent document production mill shut down by the SECURE Strike Force since it was started just more than 2 years ago. The Strike Force targets major crimes by undocumented aliens.

ABC4.com

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Newsmax

Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America

Monday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM

By: James Walsh

Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, "undocumented immigrants") with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.

While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."


Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border, especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices 60 to 80 miles inland.

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas precious to the nation.

In reaction to public outrage over the signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with the following: Visitor Information Update--Active Federal Law Enforcement Patrol Area.

As the liberal news media, far-left Democrats, and labor unions push for the "Hispanicazation" of U.S. culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. border has never been more secure.


Perhaps she is basing this on the reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning Border Patrol agents inland.

In a recent New York Times article, Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language and suggested that "Every child in the United States should learn Spanish." He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.


For decades, the liberal left has argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof states that Latin America "is finally getting its act together" but fails to mention the Obama administration's $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer money in 2009 to Brazil's Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC, until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.

Kristof suggests that one day Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with Spanish-speaking customers.


He fails to explain why these customers will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.

President Barack Obama gives lip service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are skeptical regarding the Obama administration's resolve. They resent that the United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. Border.

For instance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico, placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels' vicious murders on the United States.

In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. "Blame America" has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.

The Obama administration's plan to resolve the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama re-affirms his support of a "pathway to citizenship" (amnesty) for illegal aliens in 2011.

The administration, however, has announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S. sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the United States.

Many national forests, parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges -- once the pride of the nation -- are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs.

Former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly said to a gathering of illegal aliens in California in 2009 that U.S. immigration laws were "un-American," suggesting that they need not be obeyed. Concerned citizens can only trust that the new speaker of the House, John Boehner, as part of congressional oversight of federal agencies, will demand enforcement of existing immigration laws.

When will President Obama recognize that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos while still appeasing his Hispanic base?


To maintain his populist aura, the president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite to another.

One Obama apologist explained, "Campaign rhetoric is one thing," suggesting that governing is another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block of votes is quite another.


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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."


FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org

Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers

Last Updated: Tue, 06/22/2010 - 11:00am


Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don’t pay them fairly.

In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solisassures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”


In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.


The Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.

For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.”


"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."

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OPEN BORDERS ADVOCATE HAROLD HURTT HEADS OBAMA’S I.C.E.


ICE IS OBAMA’S AGENCY FOR NON-ENFORCEMENT.

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/obamas-ice-under-harold-hurtt-now-la.html


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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."









Racist … For Enforcing the Laws

Racist … For Enforcing the Laws


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/obamas-open-borders-agenda-to-keep.html
OBAMA’S LA RAZA AGENDA OF OPEN BORDERS
WITH NARCOMEX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED TO THIRD-WORLD SLAVE LABOR
LEVELS. NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS LIKE OBAMA, INFESTED
HIS ADMIN WITH LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS, OR SUED STATES ON BEHALF OF THE INTERESTS
OF HIS LA RAZA PART BASE LIKE THIS MAN!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/alipac-william-gheen-exposes-wikileaks.html
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