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California Gov. Jerry Brown approved $3 million in taxpayer-funded legal aid to illegal alien children fighting deportation hearings--yet vetoed $100 million for state-funded universities, citing low property tax receipts. The funding for lawyers for the illegal alien minors comes amidst a nationwide push by outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to recruit legal talent to represent the children and teenagers--who often cross the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied-- against law enforcement proceedings. Holder is the nation's chief law enforcement officer. President Barack Obama and other Democrats have supported the legal recruitment effort. "Helping these young people navigate our legal system is the decent thing to do...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Abdi, Mohamed Dahir On probation. He violated his probation. And he....IS NOT IN THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY!! Next up... Lopez, Edgar Alvarado Ten counts. And number ten says...NOT IN THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY!! There are several more... but...the website has crashed with all of the processing of ILLEGALS.

At first blush, the mercantilists' call for "free trade but fair trade" sounds reasonable. After all, who can be against fairness? Giving the idea just a bit of thought suggests that fairness as a guide for public policy lays the groundwork for tyranny. You say, "Williams, I've never heard anything so farfetched! Explain yourself." Think about the First Amendment to our Constitution that reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and...

I want to pose a rather important and alarming issue to fellow Freepers and others. It's a problem with the Z Visa that I've yet to hear mentioned by a single MSM news reporter or news story. Yet it is a monumental and frightening problem that belies all of the proponents' mendacious statements about the added security we'll gain from "Comprehensive Immigration Reform".Among its many egregious flaws and insane propositions, "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" includes the issuance of the "Z Visa" to illegal aliens who "were illegally in the U.S. before January 1, 2007." (Administration-Proposed Substitute to S. 1348, May 22,...

Rod Fernandez, shop manager at Karl’s Custom in Mesa, is a Hispanic who voted for the anti-immigration propositions. Julio Jimenez Tribune More than 100,000 people swelled the streets of downtown Phoenix on the morning of April 10 to demonstrate for fair immigration reform. Until that day, Arizona had never seen a movement powerful enough to draw so many Hispanic immigrants into the political arena. They marched in droves to a rally at the state Capitol where they vowed to be a force in the upcoming election. But while the march’s organizers were able to rally people into the streets,...

Balsamico also began selling cuddly plush teddy bears wearing red bows and T-shirts with the slogan, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No English, No Service." Business is very brisk, he said. "We're getting orders from all over the country, but especially from California, Texas, Florida -- the border states where the real immigration problems are," he said.

Washington - An Egyptian man U.S. authorities described as one of their most wanted smugglers of humans was arrested Friday on charges of operating a ring that illegally brought people from Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries to the United States.A grand jury indictment charges Ashraf Ahmed Abdallah, 34, with one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and four counts of assisting in bringing aliens into the United States for financial gain.U.S. officials described Abdallah as an important trafficking kingpin because of his focus on people from the Middle East, though evidence does not link him to terrorism.