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by John HillStand With ArizonaFox Phoenix TV (KSAZ FOX 10) on Thursday showed a ridiculous propaganda piece purporting to show "the Arizona border" and how "safe" it is, as they follow Americans from around the nation on a "tour" of the border. Here's how they describe the piece: Make your own decision about life on the border. What is life on the border really like? Hop on the Border Bus Tour, and do your own fact finding about what it means to have a secure border. And in the video, the tour leader, Bob Feinman, tells us on the bus...

The city of Gretna's simmering dispute with a local lawyer over the removal of a fence from his home is heating up again after the homeowner came up with a novel idea for a replacement. Gretna attorney Mark Morice first squared off with the city in October 2010, when Gretna building officials told him a fence at his home was too tall, and ordered him to remove it. When Morice refused, the city cited him, and found him guilty in city court of failing to comply. Morice challenged that ruling at the 24th Judicial District Court, but the city removed...

<p>Editorial: You just thought Arizona was anti-immigrant Let’s check in on the virtual fence, over in Arizona, to see how this high-tech solution to our porous border is delivering on its promise. If the goal along our southern flank is to secure every inch, then electronic eyes posted along the 1,900-mile frontier are in our future.</p>

Herman Cain once again walked back his joke about building an electrified fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, telling Univision in an interview that the comment “wasn’t intended to offend” Latinos.Then Cain outlined a border policy he supports – relying on state-level initiatives to control illegal immigration – and specifically praised the Arizona and Alabama immigration laws that Latinos loathe: SANDRA PEEBLES: Mr. Cain, many Latinos were offended by your comment on the electric fence. I understand that you support legal immigration, but regardless of the fact there are 11 million undocumented people in this country. What do we do with...

A huge drug tunnel under the U.S. border south of San Diego, apparently dug by a Mexican drug cartel, has yielded 14 tons of marijuana, say U.S. and Mexican authorities. The narrow opening of the 400-yard-long tunnel, outfitted with structural supports, electric lights and ventilation, was discovered by federal agents in a warehouse in the border neighborhood of Otay Mesa, California. After officers stopped a van leaving the warehouse and found three tons of marijuana aboard, they searched the warehouse and found more than six tons inside.

As we watch Italy's 10-year bond yields near 7.5pc and threaten to detonate the explosive charge on €1.9 trillion of debt, it is time for the world to reimpose order. You cannot allow the biggest bankruptcy in history to run its course – with calamitous domino implications – before all options have been exhausted. One can only guess what is happening in the great global centres of power, but it would not surprise me if US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao start to intervene very soon, in unison and with massive diplomatic force. One can imagine joint telephone...

At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally. But by Sunday morning, in a dramatic change of tone, Mr. Cain, a former restaurant executive, said he was only kidding. “That’s a joke,” Mr. Cain told the journalist David Gregory during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about the electrified fence. “That’s not a serious plan. I’ve also said...

Herman Cain: Electrify the Border Fence Doug Powers October 15, 2011 It’s now a “9999� plan: 9 percent personal income tax, 9 percent national sales tax, 9 percent business tax, and a 9 amp jolt if you try to illegally cross into the US.New York Times: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies in Tennessee as part of a barnstorming bus tour across the...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally... Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops “with real guns and real bullets” on the border to stop illegal immigration. The remarks were among the most pointed yet by Mr. Cain about illegal immigration, and they come as he is enjoying a surge in national political polls on the back of his victory in a recent Florida straw poll.. It...

The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has proposed the use of "fencing and other barriers" on the 49th parallel to manage "trouble spots where passage of cross-border violators is difficult to control." The border service is also pondering options including a beefed-up technological presence through increased use of radar, sensors, cameras, drones and vehicle scanners. In addition, it might continue to improve or expand customs facilities at ports of entry. The agency considered but ruled out the possibility...

According to the survey, which was released Monday, 28 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they support Perry as their party's presidential nominee, with Romney at 21 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is at ten percent, with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who's making his third bid for the White House, former Godfather's Pizza CEO and radio talk show host Herman Cain, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, all at seven percent. The poll indicates that Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is at four percent, with former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania at three...

Illegal immigration has become a heads-we-win / tails-you-lose proposition in this country. If the supporters of amnesty and open borders could get that codified into law, they would. Since they can't, they support comprehensive illegal immigration reform, with the idea being that the amnesty will occur, but they'll stall and slow-walk the security measures into oblivion. Since the people are onto that ploy and have demanded security first, the latest tactic is just to refuse to enforce the law. We can pass a bill that says we're putting a fence on our southern border, but we can't get the fence...

On July 20th Arizona launched a website to BUILD THE BORDER FENCE. As of today, 3,633 people donated and raised $172,974 dollars. They need 50 million dollars. We could raise 20 million overnight if 1 million people gave 20 bucks. I believe this needs to be a priority for folks against illegal immigration. We need to have a goal other than complaining about illegal aliens and how the government wont do anything. Where is the drive Americans once had to get things done ourselves? Do we need some kind of celebrity to come in and tell us what we need...

MILFORD — The family of Matthew Denice is organizing a peaceful anti-illegal immigration demonstration outside Town Hall tomorrow before representatives of the Ecuadorian consulate are expected to meet with town officials, according to an e-mail from Denice’s stepfather, Michael Maloney.

Anyone with cash in their pockets and a concern about security on the porous Arizona-Mexico border can make a donation to help the state build its own fence as of Wednesday. An Arizona law that went into effect July 20 allows the desert state to build the barrier, provided it can raise enough private donations and persuade public and private landowners to let them build it on their land. Steve Smith, the Republican state senator who sponsored the law, hopes to raise $50 million. Donations are being taken through a website -- www.buildtheborderfence.com --- which went live at midnight. "It's...

Current and proposed border fences between the United States and Mexico pose significant threats to wildlife populations, with those animals living in border regions along the Texas Gulf and California coasts showing some of the greatest vulnerability, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows. "Our study is the first comprehensive analysis of threats to species across the entire U.S.-Mexico border," says Jesse Lasky, a graduate student in the laboratory of Tim Keitt, associate professor of integrative biology. "The scale at which these fences stretch across the landscape is large, so it's important for us to also...

When “relocating” to the United States, it’s best to avoid states that have selfishly put the interests of their legal residents ahead of yours with laws that hinder your access to jobs and benefits. But many attractive destinations remain, endorsed by millions of illegal aliens already living in each. 1. California California’s state motto “Eureka” (I have found it!) aptly applies here. The state's population includes 3.2 million illegal aliens -- almost 24% of all illegal aliens in America -- have chosen the Golden State as their preferred domicile. Despite its $26 billion budget deficit, the state spends $21.5 billion...

The Bili'in-area security/separation fence is being dismantled, four years after the Supreme Court ordered the government to reroute the barrier and one year after an initial rerouting of the barrier and a first-stage replanting of trees. Palestinian Authority Arabs, accompanied by Israeli and international leftists, have rioted nearly every Friday for years over the barrier, part of which was built to run directly through the village of Bili'in. Once dismantled, the IDF will rebuild the anti-terrorism barrier at a cost of some NIS 26 million, and this time only 400 meters away from Modi'in Illit. The new route enlarges the...

President Obama recently gave what was billed as an important speech on immigration near the border in El Paso, Texas. Unfortunately, it was one of the most demagogic moments in recent presidential history. Nearly everything Obama said was either factually incorrect or deliberately misleading. Why, 28 months into the Obama presidency, is there now a sudden push to pass "comprehensive" immigration reform? After all, from 2009 to early 2011, Obama had large Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. Why hasn't Obama already rammed through his own immigration bill, as he did with health care? The answer, of course,...

To President Barack Obama, securing the border is a laughing matter -- and a lying matter.When Obama spoke in El Paso, Texas, yesterday, he claimed that (1) the federal government has now "basically" completed the border fence that security minded Republicans wanted built and (2) El Paso and other border communities are "among the safest in the nation.""They wanted a fence. Well, the fence ... is now basically complete," said Obama. "Maybe they'll need a moat," he added. "Maybe they want alligators in the moat.""El Paso and other cities and towns along this border are consistently among the safest in...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- President Barack Obama says his administration has answered the concerns of Republican lawmakers who want the U.S.-Mexico border better secured before they are willing to take on comprehensive immigration reform. Standing at the border Tuesday, Obama mocked Republicans for never being satisfied and always changing the conditions about what's needed to secure the border. Said the president: "Maybe they'll say we need a moat. Or alligators in the moat."

Arizona has got to do what it's Federal Government won't do, secure its border with Mexico. The State of Arizona is building a fence along its border with Mexico. The State government has authorized the public raising of funds to build a fence and a website is set up for the Fence-A-Thon.

Arizona lawmakers want to erect a fence along the border with Mexico - whether the federal government thinks it's necessary or not. They've got a plan that could get a project started using online donations and prison labour. If they get enough money, all they would have to do is get cooperation from landowners and construction could begin as soon as this year. Governor Jan Brewer recently signed a bill that sets the state on a course to building a permanent barrier along its borders, and a website is being launched to raise money for the work.

A home owner is £20,000 out of pocket and could end up homeless after a long-running feud with the couple next door over five inches of land. lan Chisholm and his wife Teresa have been ordered to pay £19,690 legal fees after losing a court battle over the position of a garden fence. David Roberts and his wife Dr Lorraine Foreman, from Paignton, Devon, went to court to get the fence removed saying it was on their land, too high and an eyesore. After a two-day hearing at Torquay and Newton Abbot's County Court, Recorder Robin Tolson ruled the fence...

U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation, the Unlawful Border Entry Prevention Act, to allow for additional infrastructure to be built along the Southwest border. The bill provides the Secretary of Homeland Security with full discretionary authority to build as much as 350 miles of additional infrastructure on the border. The legislation is co-sponsored by congressmen Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), Vista’s Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Ted Poe (R-Texas). It follows a report by the Government Accountability Office, stating that only 44 percent of the Southwest border is under operation...

Press Release Monday Feb. 7, 2011, Phoenix, AZ State lawmakers in Arizona filed a Border Fence Fund Bill today joining the State of Mississippi in an unprecedented effort to get the border fence built by the States without waiting for the Federal Government to do it. Representative Michelle B. Ugenti of Arizona filed the bill on behalf of the North Phoenix Tea Party, the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots and the Mississippi Patriots. Representative David Burnell Smith of Arizona co-sponsored the bill. Mississippi’s bill, SB 2255, which was authored by Senator Joey Fillingane, will fund the border fence by imposing...

If you can make a call, you can get this legislation introduced in your State. The following States have a Republican majority in the House, Senate and Governor. If you live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, this legislation will pass and it can be introduced in less than 24 hrs after your legislator learns of it. These States have filing deadlines for this session coming up real soon. Idaho Jan 29 House Wyoming Jan 31 House/Jan 26 Senate South Dakota Jan 31st...

If you can make a call, you can get this legislation introduced in your State. The following States have a Republican majority in the House, Senate and Governor: If you live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, this legislation will pass because it is a revenue generator but from illegal aliens only not taxpayers. It can be introduced in less than 24 hrs after your legislator learns of it. We spoke to a legislator and the next day it was filed on the...

SB 2255 Border Fence Fund Act has been filed. Please ask your State Lawmakers to join Mississippi and fund the border fence through remittance from people unlawfully in our country. Folks in AZ are being asked to contact Senator Pearce and other Representatives now because that is where the fence will begin. AZ needs to participate for the legislation in MS to pass. Check out mspatriots.com for more information

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's administration plans to pull the plug on the troubled "virtual fence" project that was meant to better guard stretches of the U.S. border with Mexico, a senior lawmaker said on Friday. The project, being run by Boeing Co, has cost about $1 billion so far and was meant to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to detect smugglers trying to cross the porous border. "The SBInet program has been a grave and expensive disappointment since its inception," Representative Bennie Thompson, the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee,...

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Sen. Fillingane Announces Border Fence Bill (MS) on Supertalk radio. The Federal government has abandoned American citizens. If this idea fails, we will truly be at their mercy. It is our only chance to raise that kind of money. If other States join Mississippi, we could get this done without anymore begging or trading. I hope someone else likes the idea and tries to get some legislation passed in their State. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsYJqU9nRE

PRESS RELEASE December 14, 2010 Mississippi Patriots Spokesperson Marvin Cox 901 488 2628 email: mississippipatriots@gmail.com MISSISSIPPI TO BUILD THE BORDER FENCE Senator Fillingane (Hattiesburg) will be introducing legislation this January on behalf of the Mississippi Patriots group that will fund the border fence. It will be funded by remittance fees from people unlawfully present in our country and in cooperation with other States. This unprecedented step will get the border fence built by the States after more than 24 years of waiting for Washington DC to make good on the 1986 Amnesty Act that they passed into law. State Legislators...

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) - Paul Babeu, the sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, says give him half an hour, and he could tell President Obama how to secure the U.S. border with Mexico -- if only the president and other administration officials would listen to him.Babeu joked that he must be on the White House “do not call” list, even though he’s the president of the Sheriff’s Association for the State of Arizona.In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Babeu lamented the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Tuesday at the hands...

A project to give the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability for detecting and tracking space objects has passed its system design review. The Raytheon Co. said the system design review of its "Space Fence" program included the prototyping of critical system elements to demonstrate increased technical and manufacturing readiness levels. "As our nation's defense becomes increasingly more dependent on the space domain, a system like Space Fence will be a critical component in the space surveillance network, tracking tens of thousands of objects daily," said David Gulla, vice president, National & Theater Security Programs for Raytheon Integrated Defense...

Go to http://www.votejessekelly.com for more information. Jesse Kelly supports the double border fence, workplace enforcement, and adding more Border Patrol agents. Kelly will oppose amnesty. Gabrielle Giffords opposes SB 1070, Giffords voted to stop the fence, and Giffords is for amnesty.

Reporting from Guatemala City, Danilo Valladares of the Inter-Press Service (IPS) notes that there will be one more barrier for Guatemalan immigrants in their trek to the United States. In addition to dodging dangerous drug traffickers and immigration officials, the latest obstacle is emerging: a wall between Guatemala and Mexico. According to the head of customs for Mexico’s tax administration, Raul Diaz, the Mexican border state of Chiapas is constructing a wall along the country’s southern border with Guatemala, along the river Suchiate which divides the countries. Diaz says the purpose of the wall is to prevent the passage of...

The superintendent of the Little Red Schoolhouse has ordered a seven-foot-high fence topped with barbed or concertina wire to be built around the facility as protection against border-related crime.vJames Cruice, superintendent of Santa Cruz Elementary District No. 28, said he wants a barrier between the school and the Santa Cruz River, where people and contraband move north from Mexico, he said. And so on Friday, as teachers hauled books to their classrooms in preparation for the start of classes Monday, workers assembled the fence behind the school complex on Duquesne Road at State Route 82, approximately 3 ½ miles north...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - Newport News police say a man died while trying to scale a fence overnight. It happened at the Anderson's Home and Garden Showplace on Jefferson Avenue. According to investigators, a man and his girlfriend drove into the garden center's parking lot after an argument. They say the man, 26 from Newport News, tried to scale the fence and got his head caught between two posts. As he tried to flip over the fence, he was killed. The victim was removed from the fence by the fire department and was transported to the medical examiners office...

Wildlife officials have killed a grizzly bear in Wyoming and a grizzly bear in Montana to head-off potential lawsuits. The Montana grizzly killed and partially consumed Kevin Kammer at a Gallatin National Forest campground near Cooke City, Mont. on July 29. The Wyoming grizzly killed 70 year-old botanist Erwin Evert on June 17 on the Shoshone National Forest near the East Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The circumstances were quite different, but the decision to kill the bears was undoubtedly influenced by a 1996 court case over the terrible bear mauling of 16 year-old Anna Knochel at a U.S. Forest...

Dick is right. "Every American should see this." It is real and it is striking. In some places it stands 18 feet tall and looks like the gates of Mordor. In other places, it is barely 10 feet tall and looks like it was put together with a stapler. It runs from the Colorado River directly into the Pacific. It is big, intense and intimidating. And it is unfinished. Gaping holes are everywhere. Physically it’s confusing. Politically it’s puzzling. Ideologically it’s complicated. But for Dick and Ron, who both live within a few miles of the border, defending it is...

The Department of Homeland Security Reports that it has nothing to show for spending 1.3 Billion during the last five years to build a fence to keep out illegal aliens, the fence along our border with Mexico doesn't exist and the money is gone. Mark Borkowski, executive director of DHS's Secure Border Initiative, told a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight that the department will likely scale back its plans to install sensors, cameras and radar towers along the Southwest border. Borkowski's admission came after withering testimony from Randolph Hite of the Government Accountability Office on the...

“Gaza border: 2 terrorists killed” By JPOST.COM STAFF 06/01/2010 09:49 SNIPPET: “Two would-be Palestinian terrorists were killed on the Gaza border on Tuesday morning, as the IDF foiled and infiltration attempt. No IDF injures were reported.”

In an editorial posted on its website Sunday night, Sarah's Palin's hometown newspaper in Wasilla, Alaska, warned author and journalist Joe McGinniss (who has moved next door to Palin as he conducts research for a book on the former governor) about a state law that allows the use of deadly force to defend one's property. The editorial, titled "Wasilla fence fascinating for national media outlets," paints a disparaging portrait both of McGinniss' work and the national media's coverage of his controversial decision to take up temporary residence so close to Palin. Its concluding sentence reads, "Finally, those who are fond...

President Barack H. Obama (D, Trier Tavern Club) has announced his plan to secure the United States’ southern border: he will direct up to 1200 troops to report there to provide desk support for the red tape that chokes our border agents, and spend at least $500 million more on unspecified projects. The intent is of course to give the impression that this President gets it at last… that he understands the public outcry for border security, and is making a real effort in sending troops and spending money. But how many Americans are naïve enough to believe this line,...

Security: After letting Mexico's president trash Arizona's immigration law and his immigration enforcement chief say he won't enforce it, the president wants to send a token National Guard contingent to the border. There's something disingenuous about the president's plan to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to the Arizona border to help the Border Patrol catch illegal aliens. His director of immigration and customs enforcement, John Morton, has said he might not enforce immigration crimes reported by Arizona officials, though the state's new law merely copies federal law. Morton is director of ICE, not chief justice of the Supreme Court. He...

Sarah Palin on with Glenn Beck this morning talked about author Joe McGinniss moving in next door to observe her and her family while writing a book about her. Glenn described him as a voyeur, able to look into Piper's bedroom! "This is harassment. Stalking and harassment. Leave people's families alone!" It's tantamount to stalking, and Sarah says they're building a 14-foot high fence between them. Kim Priestap has the details and the video of Beck talking about it yesterday during his show. Back to this morning's conversation, Sarah told Glenn and his listeners: "I feel more protective than ever...

SNIPPET: "Israel Air Force jets attacked three tunnels in the Gaza Strip in a joint Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet operation on Thursday night, several hours after a Qassam rocket hit the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. Two of the targets attacked were in the southern Strip and one was in the northern Strip. According to the IDF, terrorists were using the tunnels to try to infiltrate Israel. The IDF Spokesperson's Office said the tunnels were located about 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) from the border fence and that the targets were hit. There have been no reports of injuries among...

Immigration: An Arizona official asks a good question: If California wants to boycott Arizona over the way it enforces federal law, what about the electricity California gets from there? The problem with righteous indignation is that when others call you on it and tell you to put your money where your mouth is, it can cause an embarrassing leak in your hot air balloon. Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, has done just that, calling the bluff of the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Pierce wrote Villaraigosa a letter saying in essence that...

Diplomacy: The administration's apology tour continues with a mea culpa to the world's worst human-rights violator for Arizona's enforcement of U.S. immigration law. You'd think Tiananmen Square was in Phoenix. In talks last week with China on the subject of human rights, the U.S. delegation volunteered how sorry we were for Arizona's decision to protect its citizens and its border against illegal immigration — the operative word being "illegal." You would assume the Chinese broached the subject to blunt any criticism of their policies and record. But our delegates beat them to it by groveling on their own initiative in...