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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is calling on President Obama to secure the border between Texas and Mexico, following a Tuesday incident where shots in Juarez, Mexico crossed the border into El Paso and struck City Hall. Speaking Sunday on Fox News, Abbott said the U.S. - Mexico border, two-thirds of which lies in Texas, is a “very violent place” and that he’s been “underwhelmed by the show of force” coming from the Obama administration.

Congressman John Culverson just stated he has just received informantion from Southern District U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby (Texas)that Al Quida members have been entering from our southern border and have been entering through Texas and blending into towns....He stated this was classified and he given the OK to release this information. The congressman may be a former congress memeber, I didn't hear his complete title. He is on KFI Los Angeles now.

Boosting For Billions July 11, 2004 Approximately $10 billion worth of merchandise is stolen from stores every year.  (Photo: CBS/60 Minutes) “When you talk about shoplifting, not a lot of people think about organized crime. Most people think when you say shoplifting, it's the opportunistic shoplifter"Craig Matsamato, security consultant for major retailers Retailers are just beginning to realize that a huge chunk of stolen merchandise is being taken by well-organized gangs from South America.  (Photo: CBS/60 Minutes) (CBS) "Boosting" is organized shoplifting, and if you think it's a petty crime, think again. As Correspondent Steve Kroft first reported in February, approximately...

<p>The House yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a bill to require hospitals to identify illegal aliens before the federal government would reimburse the hospitals for their care.</p> <p>It was a severe defeat for immigration-control advocates, with just 86 Republicans and two Democrats voting for the measure and 331 members voting against it, including the House Republican and Democratic leadership. And the loss followed a harsh debate that included charges from one side of immigrant-bashing and from the other side of ignoring the needs of legal residents.</p>

By all reports, the wave of illegal immigration across our nation’s southern border has accelerated threefold since President Bush announced his confusing guest worker proposal in January 2004. Just last week, estimates of unauthorized border crossings range from 10,000 daily, according to Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, to a shocking figure raised by Bill O’Reilly during the March 31 broadcast of “The Radio Factor.” “The Border Patrol now estimates that a million illegals are coming to the U.S. per month. Yes, that's per month,” said the nation’s top talk show host. This figure is entirely plausible, and in fact,...

Republican fundraiser learns firsthand that the GOP grassroots resent the president’s amnesty proposal. By Phil Kent The telephone rang and an old wealthy conservative friend answered. After the usual pleasantries, I told him I was a co-host for the upcoming Jan. 15 Bush-Cheney event at Atlanta’s World Congress Center and pitched him for $2,000 to attend and see the president on a rope-line. For $20,000, I explained, he could have a personal audience and photograph with the commander-in-chief. Before I could even finish my last sentence, though, I was cut off. “You should know I wouldn’t be writing a check...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN GRANTS FOR IMMIGRATION-RELATED EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Department of Justice today announced $675,000 in available grants for public education efforts regarding immigration-related employment discrimination. The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), a section of the Civil Rights Division, announced the availability of funds for public education programs regarding employees’ rights and employers’ obligations under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Eligible recipients include non-profit organizations as well as state and local government entities that work with potential victims of discrimination. The INA prohibits...

According to what's been proposed so far of the President's plan for Illegaliens, America will offer them a chance to "register" and "stay for three years" (as if they would); they now can bring as many as five family members into this country. With currently an estimated 8-12 million Illegaliens in America, that's a potentially new total of 48-72 million. The originally registered Illegalien can't support those five new, so six are now on the public dole - since the first realized early on that not reporting all his income means plenty of "public assistance". Three of the six become...

PHOENIX, March 15 — Federal officials have become increasingly worried about a surge in violence and instability along the Arizona-Mexico border and will begin what they describe as a major air and ground initiative to help keep out illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and possibly terrorists, officials said on Monday. The $10 million plan, to be announced on Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, will include the first use of unmanned aircraft for border patrol, the addition of several hundred agents and the creation of seven tent complexes to detain illegal border crossers. Asa Hutchinson, an under secretary for domestic...

Federation for American Immigration Reform The Sinking Lifeboat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Healthcare System   Executive Summary America's health care system is in crisis: Costs and insurance premiums are skyrocketing, the number of the uninsured is rising rapidly, providers are reducing staffing and services and increasing rates, and hospitals are closing or facing bankruptcy. As states cut their health care budgets to try to make ends meet, high rates of immigration are straining the health care system to the breaking point. One out of every four uninsured people in the United States is an immigrant. When the 3.5...

<p>Important American industries including top Republican campaign contributors see President Bush's proposal to create a foreign guest-worker program as the best way to address labor shortages in their fields. Employers from farm and construction work to restaurateurs and Main Street stores say the current system that allows millions of illegal workers to enter the country and work under the table for subminimum wages is not serving businesses or workers well. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents 3 million small businesses across the country, supports the plan as a simple acknowledgment of reality: Despite strict rules against hiring illegal workers, the practice is widespread and growing. "Our immigration system is broken," said Randel Johnson, a vice president at the Chamber of Commerce. "Our immigration and visa policy must ensure employers are able to fill jobs critical to our economy when American workers are not available." The plan would allow U.S. employers to fill job openings with qualified workers from other countries if Americans are unwilling to take the jobs. It also would provide temporary work permits to an estimated 8 million undocumented workers already in the country. Businesses that stand to benefit from tapping into a potentially huge pool of cheap foreign labor are major donors and political activists campaigning for the president, helping him to set fund-raising records early in the 2004 campaign cycle. Even some businesses that have been caught in the Bush administration's enforcement net for employing undocumented workers, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc., contribute largely to President Bush and Republican causes, though Democrats traditionally have provided the political base of support for immigration-reform legislation. Mr. Bush and other advocates of such legislation say providing a legal avenue for immigrant labor would enable the government to focus its enforcement efforts on the most pressing threats from abroad: terrorism and illegal drugs.</p>

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island and Beaufort County are looking at ways to prevent illegal immigrants from opening businesses in the coastal areas. At a City Council retreat this week, Myrtle Beach officials asked their city attorney to draft an ordinance that would allow the city to ask on its business-license applications whether an applicant is a legal worker and whether the applicant will employ only legal workers. The extra measures were suggested by Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride, who is running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Myrtle Beach also passed an...

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas -- Mexican President Vicente Fox arrived at the "Western White House" last night to press his case for looser immigration laws to a leader largely powerless to enact them this year.</p> <p>President Bush continues to push his immigration reform plan that would allow at least 8 million illegal aliens currently working in the United States to keep their jobs and open the door for millions more to follow.</p>

Fox says immigration on agenda of visit with Bush MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that he plans to hammer out more details of a guest worker program for Mexicans in the United States when he meets with President Bush at his Crawford ranch this week. "The initiatives are there, and we have to keep on working," Fox said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle and other Texas newspapers. "The purpose of this visit is to follow up on the proposal." Fox said the issues of Mexicans on death row in the United States and his nation's...

<p>The U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, bolstered by dozens of additional agents temporarily assigned to Phoenix, has rounded up nearly 750 undocumented immigrants and arrested 20 suspected smugglers from 13 drop houses in the past 23 days.</p> <p>The response marks a dramatic change from just a year ago when local police agencies, frustrated by the federal government's inability to deal with the illicit immigrant-smuggling trade flowing through Phoenix, frequently were forced to let undocumented immigrants and smuggling suspects go free after encountering drop houses.</p>

<p>Public can't afford it, federation contends; Hispanic advocate says workers help economy.</p> <p>The financial impact of Indiana's burgeoning Hispanic population will be the topic of discussion when immigration reform advocates conduct a public forum tonight in Speedway.</p> <p>Diane Osborn said she organized the meeting because she is concerned the state is spending too much to assist immigrants at a time when the state's budget deficit exceeds $1 billion.</p>

An illegal immigrant pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants for the fourth time in four years. Andres Lopez-Cortes, 31, has been deported at least once to Mexico, but returned to the Seattle area where he slammed into a car driven by a 17-year-old who was stopped at a traffic light Dec. 31, the local King County Journal reported. The teenager, Paul Conley, suffered whiplash. Lopez-Cortes also pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of hit-and-run driving. A judge in Auburn, Wash., fined him $5,000, but suspended $3,500, and ordered him to pay court costs and restitution for damages...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A federal court ruling in Virginia that allows colleges to deny admission to illegal immigrants could spur public debate over the issue in Nevada, a university official said. Nevada Chancellor Jane Nichols said last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis III in Alexandria won't have any legal bearing on policies in this state unless it reaches the U.S. Supreme Court. Still, Nichols said it's a problem all states are facing. "This is certainly an issue in Nevada, where we have many children who were brought to this country by their parents when they...

"The Nation-State Is Finished" by William F. Jasper Robert Bartley, a closet one-worlder at the WSJ, used his newspaper’s "conservative" clout to seduce American business leaders into sacrificing U.S. sovereignty for trade. ‘‘What in blazes can President Bush be thinking?" That has been the general response — on talk radio and in media surveys, Internet postings and letters-to-the-editor — of many current and former Bush supporters angered and confused by the president’s immigration proposals. These folks would not have been surprised by the president’s outrageous announcement on January 7 or his remarks the following week at the Summit of the...

HAYWARD -- Jeff Cook didn't see this one coming. Cook was assailed during the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night by members of the Latino community who were outraged by comments the new trustee made prior to a meeting last month. A procession of leaders and members of the Latino community took turns calling Cook a "racist, bigot" and "xenophobe" after he referred to Latinos as "illegal aliens" and "selfish" during his opening comments of the Jan. 14 board meeting. Cook called Wednesday's attack "pretty vicious," and said he simply wanted to voice his disapproval...

In virtually every debate about illegal immigration, the other country primarily involved in this American problem – Mexico – is never held to account, despite its role in actually encouraging its citizens to break into the United States. What is equally less known about this problem is that Mexico does this despite its potential to care for its own citizens. As I document in my new book, "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," Mexico is simply not taking responsibility for its primary role in the U.S. illegal immigrant problem. It's high time the United States forced...

<p>Immigration policy is a key factor in a growing increase in the uninsured and the fiscal crises burdening public health care systems nationwide, officials at the Federation for American Immigration Reform said in a report yesterday.</p> <p>The report, "The Sinking Lifeboat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Health Care System," said that as states cut their health care budgets to try to make ends meet, high rates of immigration are straining the health care system to the breaking point.</p>

(KSL News / AP) Strong statements, bordering on anger, came during a news conference on Capitol Hill this morning. The issue is illegal immigration and House Bill 109. Both the Mexican Consulate and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made strong statements about it. Both the consulate and church made it very clear they are upset with allegations coming from a group called Utahns for Immigration Reform. That group is apparently suggesting that Mexico's president is encouraging his people to cross the border into the U.S. illegally. Joe Reyna, Advisor, Institute of Mexicans Abroad: "The group, Utahns for...

A federal judge in Alexandria ruled yesterday that Virginia's colleges and universities may deny admission to illegal immigrants -- a ruling that experts said was the first of its kind in the nation. The decision by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III came in a lawsuit filed against seven Virginia schools accused of violating the rights of the immigrants by refusing them entry. "It is clear that denying illegal aliens admission to public colleges and universities simply removes another public incentive for illegal immigration," Ellis wrote. He stopped short of dismissing the case, however, ruling that it could proceed to...

Maine is one signature away from becoming the first Illegal Alien Sanctuary State in America. Immigration lawyers supporting illegal aliens are pushing Governor Baldacci to sign an executive order that will stop state agencies from questioning a person's immigration status. More distressing is the fact that all major newspapers in Maine are owned by the same family. That family favors illegal immigration. Therefore, this executive order is being shoved down citizens' throats while they sleep. A spokeswoman said, "They are working so fast and quietly to leave this a 'done deed' before word of the sell-out can hit the national...

<p>If you scrutinize the U.S. labor market numbers from the last two years of economic recovery, you're left with what seems to be a paradox. Since the recession's low point, in November 2001, the number of employed people 16 and older has risen, but the number of jobs on the formal payrolls of employers remains below recessionary levels...</p>

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico agreed on Friday to tighten security along their border and start sending illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the frontier back home by bus or plane. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexican Interior Minister Santiago Creel signed an accord to step up cooperation on security on the border, seen by some as the soft underbelly for the U.S. war on terror. The agreement includes a controversial plan to start repatriating illegals to their hometowns rather than simply dumping them on the Mexican side of the frontier. The two countries have...

"The rich will always require an abundance of the poor." - Voltaire Six weeks and five days ago, our president brought forth to this nation a new amnesty proposal, conceived in political cynicism and dedicated to the propositions that public opinion and American workers don't count, the rule of law is passé, and future generations should suffer for today's political expediencies. Now we are engaged in a great civil war of words, testing whether this proposal, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Immigration lawyers say that the most often-heard question is, "When's the next amnesty?" That figures, because...

Sheriff: Hereford kids were brave during incident, did right thing BY BILL HESS Sierra Vista Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA, ARIZONA - On Friday night, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever honored the bravery and courage of two Hereford children Brittany Smith's actions while trying to fend off an illegal immigrant who was beating her mother while he tried to steal a family vehicle, were an act of bravery under stress that many adults would have found difficult to do, Dever said. As for her brother, Cody McDaniel, 11, the sheriff said he had the unique courage of remaining in his home while...

Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan (D) and other local officials came to Annapolis yesterday to protest nine bills they consider anti-immigrant, including one that would outlaw Montgomery's acceptance of consular identification cards from Mexico and Guatemala as proof of identity. Other measures would require local police to detain suspected illegal immigrants and to suspend the driver's license of anyone who knowingly permitted an illegal immigrant to use his or her vehicle. Officials and immigrant advocates predicted that the bills would be voted down in committee. What prompted them to speak out, they said, was concern that, taken as a...

<p>On Jan. 27, the Copley News Service reported that shortly after President Bush announced his plans to amnesty millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., more than half of the Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. through San Ysidro (search) told authorities they were doing so to position themselves for the amnesty.</p>

STEIN REPORT XXXXX Tuesday, February 17 2004 16:00:26 ET XXXXX VIRGINIA SENATE OVERWHELMINGLY PASSES BILL CLOSING LOOPHOLES ON ILLEGAL ALIEN BENEFITS In a lopsided, veto-proof vote, the Virginia Senate passed SB521, a bill that requires most people claiming Virginia residence to prove that they are lawfully in the U.S. This comes on the heels of a major victory last year to deny a Virginia drivers license to illegal aliens. Activist groups across the state, who have been pushing measure like this since 9/11, expressed their gratitude for the expertise and advice offered by FAIR during this important fight. "Our Coalition...