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GOP BORDER TWO-STEP (first the fist, then the handshake)
NY POST ^ | April 28, 2006 | TAMAR JACOBY

Posted on 04/28/2006 3:27:59 AM PDT by Liz

Does the Republican right hand know what the Republican left hand is doing? It's been easy to wonder over the last week or so, as both the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist moved first to crack down on illegal immigration and then announced that they were backing efforts to make the nation more open and welcoming to foreign workers.

Some read the two-step as sign of uncertainty and confusion. Others saw deliberately mixed signals - a politically driven effort to curry public favor with a little something for everyone, whether pro- or anti-immigration.

Both interpretations miss the mark. In fact, the "two step" is a preview of the era that President Bush and Frist hope to usher in by overhauling the immigration system - an era in which it will be much easier for foreign workers to enter the United States but, at the same time, the law will be enforced far more vigorously.

First came the fist.

Department of Homeland Security agents fanned out through 26 states to arrest some 1,200 illegal employees and seven managers of IFCO Systems North America, a Houston-based firm that sells packing materials. The largest such sting in U.S. history, the action sent shudders through the underground world of illegal immigrants and the companies they work for.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff drove home the point the next day, announcing that this was only the start - that from now on the government was going to treat hiring illegal immigrants the same way it treats organized crime. What's more, he's bringing on a raft of new federal agents to do the job, including hunting down and deporting some of the million-plus foreigners who've been arrested or have ignored orders to leave the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; illegals; mexico
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1 posted on 04/28/2006 3:28:01 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

They must get a clear picture of who the illegal aliens have hooked up with, on other threads read about how Muslims have joined their cause, can that be a good thing? I think NOT!


2 posted on 04/28/2006 3:30:42 AM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: stopem

When pols assume the Hyphenate-Fellate position, their eyes glaze over. Visions of campaign contributions and voting blocs dance through their heads.


3 posted on 04/28/2006 3:34:29 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Liz; stopem; All
I have been covering, ( Or, as Seamole calls it...-backhoe's pseudoblog--... ) psuedo-blogging, for years, a couple of the elements in WWIV ( III being the Cold War ), in which we find ourselves engaged.

The first element?

Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

The other, somewhat interlocking element is this one:

"Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

Notice that upside down American flag?


What is happening under the radar is that the alien lobby, certain elements of radical Islam, and some on the Left share common goals, tactics, and exploitations of our system and society.

4 posted on 04/28/2006 3:35:55 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: Liz
A few raids for show mean nothing. Just meant to fool the yokels while Bush and Congress pursue the real agenda of bringing their illegal amigos out of the shadows and into the voting booth.
5 posted on 04/28/2006 3:40:29 AM PDT by isrul
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To: Liz

I remain an unabashed conservative but no longer consider myself a Republican. They have become the other vote whore party who no longer represent me. I refuse to support them just for the sake of political expediency.


6 posted on 04/28/2006 3:40:31 AM PDT by putupjob
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To: Liz
I still don't like it, call it the Bush-Tamar Jacoby 2, 3 or 4- step.

Chertoff has a long way to go to convince anyone of anything.

Frist: I have no idea what he stand for, if anything.

7 posted on 04/28/2006 3:47:10 AM PDT by beckaz (Deport, deport. deport.)
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To: Liz

The immigration will cause the cowardly republicans to lose control of congress in 2006.


8 posted on 04/28/2006 3:48:53 AM PDT by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: isrul; backhoe; putupjob; stopem
We get the kind of governance we allow. It's time to reverse the equation----as the Founders intended----and go after the governance we deserve.

FREEPER ACTIVISM: Public officials who represent you are required to be bonded, and might have incurred imprisonment, fines, or other criminal penalties for violating the terms of bonding, for lying on bonding applications, and may have filed false bonding applications and/or claims. Similar penalties apply to insurance organizations. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co--is one such company that provides bond insurance for public officials. Check it out in your area.

FREEPER ACTIVISM: Time to play hardball; the rule of law demands consequences for ignoring lawbreaking

It's time to play hard ball. Our lawmakers seem to have forgotten that there are real consequences for ignoring lawbreaking. Lawmakers will get this done or taxpayers will know the reason why. The rule of law demands serious consequences for ignoring lawbreaking. Now is the time for law-abiding citizenry of America notify the US Dept of Justice, that many of our "so-called lawmakers"---who are under oath---are ignoring our laws, and are aiding and abetting illegal alien activities on US soil. Failing to report crimes is a crime in itself.

PARTIAL LIST OF IMMIGRANTS' FEDERAL CRIMINAL FELONIES


1 - Use of illegal ID or documents
2 - Federal income tax evasion
3 - Re-entry into USA after deportation
4 - Obtain/Operate vehicles with illegal ID
5 - ID theft/fraud - Social Security fraud
6 - Knowingly gaining employment fraudulently
7 - Recruiting other illegal aliens workers
8 - Transporting illegal aliens
9 - Harboring &/or housing illegal aliens
10 - Undermining US national security
11 - Registering/Voting using fraudulent documentation
12 - Conspiracy to violate federal statutes
13 - Uttering false statements to public officials
14 - Obstructing law enforcement

FREEPER ACTIVISM: If duly elected officials, under oath, are encouraging ILLEGALS to break the law, to obtain the unlawful right to vote, and obtain unauthorized government benefits using fraudulent documentation, and if elected and appointed officials did, in fact, allow illegals to break the law to serve on municipal councils, and if illegals are making monetary (taxing) decisions for U.S. Citizens, this might be a violation of the Hobbs Act. If elected officials took campaign contributions from said illegals, this could be characterized as extortion, and/or bribery, and a violation of the Hobbs Act.

The Hobbs Act was used recently to nail four TENN state legislators and their aides in an extortion scheme. The TENN group was arrested under the federal Hobbs Act, charging extortion, conspiracy to extort and attempted extortion, and accepting bribes as agents of the state. The Hobbs Act covers extortion by public officials, as follows: 2403 Hobbs Act -- Extortion By Force, Violence, or Fear

SOURCE October 1997 Criminal Resource Manual 2403 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm02403.htm

9-131.000 THE HOBBS ACT -- 18 U.S.C. § 1951
9-131.020 Investigative and Supervisory Jurisdiction

Primary investigative jurisdiction of offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1951 lies with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Inspector General's Office of Investigations, Division of Labor Racketeering (formerly the Office of Labor Racketeering), United States Department of Labor, is also authorized to investigate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 in labor-management disputes involving the extortion of property from employers by reason of authority conferred on investigators as Special Deputy United States Marshals. Supervisory jurisdiction over 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is exercised by the following offices with respect to the offenses noted:

1. Extortion under color of official right or extortion by a public official through misuse of his/her office is supervised by the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division.

2. Extortion and robbery in labor-management disputes is supervised by the Labor-Management Unit of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Criminal Division.

3. All other extortion and robbery offenses not involving public officials or labor-management disputes are supervised by the Terrorism and Violent Crimes.

9 posted on 04/28/2006 3:53:28 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Liz
We get the kind of governance we allow. It's time to reverse the equation----as the Founders intended----and go after the governance we deserve.

Agreed, Liz- it's time to demand better from our "critters" in DC and our state capitols.

10 posted on 04/28/2006 4:02:22 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: Liz

Even the dimmest bulbs out there see through the obvious ploy of pretending to enforce the existing laws while our officials wink and grin at each other.

I hate election years.

We have 100 senators and 435 CONgressment who think politics instead of actually solving the problem is the way to hoodwink citizens regarding immigration and energy, and I am sick of them.


11 posted on 04/28/2006 4:02:58 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: All
Elected officials under oath misusing your tax dollars are engaged in fiduciary negligence and have placed the financial interests of tax-exempt investors and bondholders of your state's transportation and highway bonds, municipal school bonding, and utilities bonding, in jeopardy.

WHen elected officials ignore illegal aliens registering to vote using phony documentation, and ignored illegal aliens fraudulently voting on bond issues referenda, that might be classified as a felony, and could negate a state's school and municipal subdivisions' tax-exempt bond issues.

The SEC wants to know when the financial interests of tax-exempt bondholders have been jeopardized, and whether other illegalities occured. They should be advised of these concerns. EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov

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Bonding agents, and banks, doing business with states and their municipal subdivisions are registered broker-dealers and members of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). NASD and SIPC should also be contacted regarding your concerns about fiduciary negligence, and use of tax funds for illegal activity.

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Banks doing business with your municipalities that are conducting illegal activity are jeopardizing bank patrons, shareholders, and depositors and should be reported as follows:

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is the primary federal regulator for national banks. The OCC's Customer Assistance Group is available to assist customers with questions or complaints concerning national banks. Email to Customer.Assistance@occ.treas.gov.

You can reach one of the OCC Customer Assistance Specialists by calling toll free number, 1-800-613-6743, Monday-Thursday, 9-4, and Friday 9-3.

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Moreover, if banks excercised fiduciary negligence and misused the sanctioning power of the FDIC in improper ways, and engaged in illegal activity with government funds, that should also be pursued with the FDIC.

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And of course, elected officials fiduciary negligence conducted in collusion with state agencies, banks, and securities dealers that jeopardize tax-exempt bondholders should be reported to the IRS. ======================================================

FREEPER ACTIVISM

EMAIL THE DEPT OF JUSTICE: ASKDOJ@USDOJ.GOV

PHONE THE IRS IN YOUR AREA

ICE Phone 1-866-347-2423 http://www.ice.gov/graphics/about/index.htm

12 posted on 04/28/2006 4:06:05 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: OpusatFR

See post #12.


13 posted on 04/28/2006 4:06:55 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Liz
" We get the kind of governance we allow. It's time to reverse the equation----as the Founders intended----and go after the governance we deserve "

Well said, well said.

14 posted on 04/28/2006 4:07:33 AM PDT by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: backhoe

On Fox and Friends this morning they said,

on MONDAY MAY 1......BUY! BUY! BUY!
and they said tell your congress critters HOW GREAT a day WITHOUT latinos was ;)
AND they said that we should keep pen and paper handy and jot down names of all businesses who close that day and send the list to ICE and Congress Critters.

On Fox and Friends they are OUTRaged that the illegal aliens threaten our country on may 1.


15 posted on 04/28/2006 4:12:16 AM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: stopem
May 1 Is Conservative Shopping Day!
16 posted on 04/28/2006 4:14:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: backhoe
Because they have the power of the purse---and control your tax dollars---public officials who represent you are required to be bonded.

They might have incurred imprisonment, fines, or other criminal penalties for violating the terms of bonding by misusing your tax dollars.........specifically by aiding and abetting the activities of illegal aliens, and failing to report that crimes were being committed.

PARTIAL LIST OF IMMIGRANTS' FEDERAL CRIMINAL FELONIES


1 - Use of illegal ID or documents
2 - Federal income tax evasion
3 - Re-entry into USA after deportation
4 - Obtain/Operate vehicles with illegal ID
5 - ID theft/fraud - Social Security fraud
6 - Knowingly gaining employment fraudulently
7 - Recruiting other illegal aliens workers
8 - Transporting illegal aliens
9 - Harboring &/or housing illegal aliens
10 - Undermining US national security
11 - Registering/Voting using fraudulent documentation
12 - Conspiracy to violate federal statutes
13 - Uttering false statements to public officials
14 - Obstructing law enforcement

Officials might have lied on bonding applications, and may have filed false bonding applications and/or claims.

Similar penalties apply to insurance organizations. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co--is one such company that provides bond insurance for public officials.

Check it out in your area.

17 posted on 04/28/2006 4:14:31 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: stopem; backhoe
EXHIBIT ONE

State and other government agents in league with illegals to boycott US businesses could be a violation of RICO laws----organized activity that hurts the economy is prosecutable. Report these activities to the US Dept of Justice----email ASKDOJ@USDOJ.gov.

EXHIBIT TWO

Government officials would also violate The Hobbs Act by aiding and abetting illegal activities......some state government have passed resolutions in favor of the boycott. This should be prosecuted.

The Hobbs Act covers extortion by public officials, as follows: 2403 Hobbs Act -- Extortion By Force, Violence, or Fear. If elected officials took campaign donations from illegal aliens to pass government resolutiuons for illegal boycott activity, this might be construed as bribery.

EXHIBIT THREE

CRIMINAL SECTION The federal criminal civil rights statutes provide for prosecutions of conspiracies to interfere with your federally protected rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, the use or threat of force to injure or intimidate someone in their enjoyment of specific rights (such as voting, employment, education, public facilities and accommodations).........and might include government agencies ignoring fraudulent doumentation to allow access government benefits, to obtain drivers' licenses, and to allow the undermining of the election system using fraudulent documentation. For further information, or to file a complaint about your civil rights being violated, contact:

U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Office of the Assistant Attorney General
P.O. Box 65808 Washington, D.C. 20035-5808
(202) 514-2151 (Voice)
(202) 514-0716 (TDD) (202) 307-2839 (Fax)
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/

SPECIAL LITIGATION SECTION The Section also investigates state and local law enforcement agencies alleged to engage in a pattern or practice of violating citizens' federal rights (for instance undermining the government system with fraudulent documentation) and may bring civil lawsuits to remedy such abuses.

18 posted on 04/28/2006 4:27:14 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: putupjob

I agree completely!


19 posted on 04/28/2006 4:36:19 AM PDT by Mister Da (Nuke 'em til they glow!)
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To: Liz

It's not a Handshake. It's an Ass Kissing.


20 posted on 04/28/2006 4:56:31 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
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