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  • THE CONGRESSMAN AND THE SUBPRIME DEBACLE (how the US economy was devastated)

    04/20/2012 5:13:24 AM PDT · by Liz · 19 replies
    FACT CHECK: ERIC LIPTON | NY Times report, Sept 6, 2010 | 4/20/12
    FACT SOURCE--EDITED EXCERPTS New York Times report: Lawmakers generosity on big corporations' tab. Copyright 2012 stltoday.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/article_dfea2768-b95b-11df-bd41-0017a4a78c22.html#ixzz1rfgdnEAe NARRATIVE Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif 43rd) has achieved near celebrity status in his suburban LA district, as much for his record of giveaways — turkeys, scholarships, boots for firefighters — as for anything he has done in the US Congress. Baca's generosity is made possible by The Joe Baca Foundation, a so-called "charity" he and his family set up circa 2008 under the pretext of "aiding" local organizations....
  • Police Union Sues LAPD Over Car Impound Reprieve for Illegal Aliens

    04/19/2012 8:32:32 PM PDT · by montag813 · 8 replies
    Stand With Arizona ^ | 04-20-2012 | John Hill
    Above: Sanctuary City Clowns Villaraigosa and Beck - putting the needs of illegals aliens above public safety. by John HillStand With Arizona Finally, a voice of sanity has emerged to stand against the madness that is America's Sanctuary City - Los Angeles. The Police Protective League (PPL) - the union that represents Los Angeles police officers - has sued the city and Police Chief Charlie Beck this week over his disgraceful new policy that allows illegal alien unlicensed drivers to keep their cars instead of having them impounded for 30 days - as California state law mandates.We profiled Beck's announcement...
  • American Legislative Exchange Council to abandon gun rights, other social causes (Left is winning!)

    04/18/2012 3:48:33 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies
    The Boston Herald / The Miami Herald ^ | April 18, 2012 | Toluse Olorunnipa and Erika Bolstad
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The organization that helped spread Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law across the country is halting its push for gun rights in the wake of the national outcry over Trayvon Martin’s shooting death. The American Legislative Exchange Council said Tuesday that it would shift focus from social to economic issues, abandoning causes like gun rights and voter identification laws. “Today we are redoubling our efforts on the economic front, a priority that has been the hallmark of our organization for decades,” ALEC national chairman and Indiana state lawmaker David Frizzell said in a statement. “We are eliminating...
  • 1.06 Million New "Green Cards" Issued In 2011

    04/18/2012 12:22:28 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 30 replies
    Center For Immigration Studies ^ | 09 April 2012 | Jerry Kammer
    The Department of Homeland Security reports that 1,062,040 new "Legal Residents" were admitted to the USA during 2011. "Green Cards" allow non-citizens to lawfully work in the USA and to receive almost every form of public assistance.
  • Report: 10 Million Illegal Aliens in U.S.

    03/21/2005 11:01:53 AM PST · by tomball · 84 replies · 1,907+ views
    News Max ^ | Monday, March 21, 2005 | NewsMax
    WASHINGTON -- The nation's undocumented immigrant population surged to 10.3 million last year, spurred largely since 2000 by the arrivals of unauthorized Mexicans in the United States, a report being released Monday says. The population of undocumented residents in the United States increased by about 23 percent from 8.4 million in the four-year period ending last March, according to the analysis of government data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a private research group. Story Continues Below That equates to a net increase of roughly 485,000 per year between 2000 and 2004. The estimate was derived by subtracting the number...
  • The End of the Minutemen: Tea Party Absorbs the Border-Watching Movement

    04/16/2012 3:51:40 PM PDT · by lbryce · 6 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | April 16, 2012 | Liz Goodwin
    Back in 2004, Jim Gilchrist, a retired Marine and the founder of the California Minutemen Project, emailed a few dozen friends and family suggesting that concerned civilians personally combat illegal immigration by traveling to the Arizona border with him. Gilchrist lives in Orange County, Calif., but the Arizona border was the most heavily trafficked and sparsely patrolled. That email reached thousands of people and touched a nerve.
  • Illegal immigrant seeks admission to Florida Bar

    04/16/2012 10:33:10 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | April 15, 2012 | Rafael A. Olmeda
    Can an immigrant without a green card get a Florida Bar card? Aspiring lawyer Jose Godinez-Samperio, 25, a Tampa-area resident, is hoping the answer is yes. A native of Mexico who entered the United States legally with his parents 16 years ago on a tourist visa, Godinez-Samperio is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Law, the valedictorian of the Armwood High School class of 2004, an Eagle Scout — and an undocumented immigrant.
  • Mitt Romney on immigration: Say what? (May 29, 2007)

    04/16/2012 8:35:33 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 7 replies
    YouTube.com ^ | May 29, 2007 | Mitt Romney
    Interview with Lakeland Ledger in Florida, May 25, 2007 This from the man who says he is tough on Illegal Immigration, that he has always been Pro-Life, and that he was a "Severely" conservative governor of MA.
  • Undocumented immigrant seeks admission to Florida Bar

    04/15/2012 3:00:24 PM PDT · by moonshinner_09 · 19 replies
    Sun Sentinel ^ | April 15, 2012 | Rafael A. Olmeda
    Can an immigrant without a green card get a Florida Bar card? Aspiring lawyer Jose Godinez-Samperio, 25, a Tampa-area resident, is hoping the answer is yes. A native of Mexico who entered the United States legally with his parents 16 years ago on a tourist visa, Godinez-Samperio is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Law, the valedictorian of the Armwood High School class of 2004, an Eagle Scout — and an undocumented immigrant.The Florida Board of Bar Examiners, which grants membership to the Bar, has asked the state Supreme Court to determine whether it can accept someone...
  • The Daily Rattle-April 15, 2012 (Immigration News Roundup)

    04/15/2012 10:48:37 AM PDT · by OddLane · 1 replies
    American Rattlesnake ^ | April 15, 2012 | Gerard Perry
    This month’s Rattle brings us a host of stories that the mainstream media didn’t cover sufficiently-preferring instead to shower accolades upon the man responsible for abandoning immigration enforcement in the name of political opportunism. We’ll cover everything from the latest spate of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens to Barack Obama’s continued roll out of administrative amnesty, which now includes directives to ignore both interior enforcement and border security. But first, we’ll examine this administration’s ongoing obstruction of Congress’s investigation into the ever-broadening gun-walking scandals. Courtesy of Sipsey Street Irregulars-whose coverage of Fast and Furious is non pareil-we learn that...
  • Summit of the Americas: Obama Rips Romney for Supporting Arizona’s Immigration Law

    04/14/2012 4:58:48 PM PDT · by hope · 51 replies
    CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama, on a three-day trip to South America, attacked GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration reform today, saying his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law is “very troublesome.” “We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country. . . and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption,” Obama told Univision during an interview in Cartagena, where the president is attending the Summit of the Americas. The three-day trip...
  • Nebraska governor rejects prenatal care funding for illegal immigrants

    04/14/2012 1:21:05 PM PDT · by moonshinner_09 · 8 replies
    Reuters‎ ^ | Fri Apr 13, 2012 | David Bailey; Editing by David Brunnstrom
    (Reuters) - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman vetoed a proposal to restore Medicaid-funded prenatal care for illegal immigrants on Friday, but the initiative could still survive if the state legislature rejects his move next week. Nebraska state senators voted 31-15 on Wednesday to restore the program, which was eliminated two years ago after providing prenatal care for decades. The number of votes in favor was one more than would be needed to override the veto and the Nebraska legislature has one day left in its current session -- next Wednesday -- in which to do so. "I oppose providing taxpayer benefits...
  • Whistleblower calls out IT giant over U.S. jobs (the usual H1-B visa scam)

    04/14/2012 8:14:05 AM PDT · by jiggyboy · 131 replies
    CBS News ^ | April 12, 2012 | John Miller
    It's called outsourcing. American firms do it because foreign labor can be cheaper. But now, one company is being accused of bringing those lower-paid workers to the U.S. illegally and that may be costing Americans jobs. -- snip -- Palmer says Infosys, the global high-tech giant, engaged in a systematic practice of visa fraud, a charge the company denies. Palmer said the first thing to catch his attention was an employee that had been in the U.S. from India several times before. "He came up to me and he was literally in tears," Palmer said. "He told me he was...
  • Obama pledges immigration reform early in 2nd term

    04/14/2012 9:02:43 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 32 replies
    Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2012
    CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - President Barack Obama is promising to tackle immigration reform in the first year of a second term. Obama says in a television interview that he would work on immigration this year, but can't get support from Republicans in Congress.
  • Crowd protests immigration-enforcement proposal

    04/14/2012 6:21:33 AM PDT · by moonshinner_09 · 12 replies
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | April 13, 2012 | Don Jacobs, Matt Lakin
    Crowd protests immigration-enforcement proposal
  • Laredo man guilty of smuggling 100 aliens from numerous countries

    04/13/2012 8:47:36 PM PDT · by moonshinner_09 · 3 replies
    ValleyCentral.com ^ | April 13, 2012 | Brianna Vela
    After a three year investigative case and an arrest made in Spring 2011, a Laredo man was found guilty on smuggling 100 undocumented aliens. On Friday, the jury involved in the case, deemed Jose Rolando Ortiz responsible for transporting and harboring illegal immigrants and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana. Immigration and Customs Enforcement –Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Border Patrol agents, a chemist and undocumented alien witnesses all gave testimonies during the trial. Some methods Ortiz utilized methods to transport the illegal aliens from Mexico, China, India and the Dominican Republic that endangered their lives. The 30-year-old did not...
  • FBI Searches for Illegal Immigrant Charged with Aggravated DUI

    04/13/2012 2:38:23 PM PDT · by moonshinner_09 · 7 replies
    FOX Chicago News ^ | 13 Apr 2012 | FOX Chicago News
    FBI Searches for Illegal Immigrant Charged with Aggravated DUI
  • Sheriff Joe: “I’m Not a Social Worker…I’m a Cop” (CBS Evening News)

    04/13/2012 12:19:18 PM PDT · by montag813 · 48 replies
    Stand With Arizona ^ | 04-13-2012 | John Hill
    by John HillStand With Arizona With the Obama Department of Justice reportedly preparing to sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio to enforce "oversight" - essentially taking over his department - the CBS Evening News took a look at the Sheriff and the accusations against him. As usual, Joe did not disappoint. Asked if he enjoyed being "disliked", Arpaio said: "Well I sure don't want to be known as a nice guy. I'm not a social worker, I'm a cop!" Arpaio told CBS News that the Administration is only after him because they don't like him enforcing immigration laws. He also said...
  • Before you try to influence Congress, watch this.

    04/13/2012 7:24:35 AM PDT · by dangus · 11 replies
    NumbersUSA ^ | April 12, 2002 | Numbers USA
    This video was created for instruct members of NumbersUSA to help get a bill passed (E-Verify), but I can picture a more perfect lesson in civics for any grass-roots conservative movement. http://numbersusa.tv/ The bill being discussed would mandate E-Verify, a program which helps business detect identity fraud by illegal aliens, so that immigration laws can be enforced. NumbersUSA is *not* a conservative organization, per se; like the NRA, they focus on a single issue, which happens to be very popular among conservatives. Vast majorities of all Americans support NumbersUSA's goal of reducing illegal immigration (and certain types of "legal" immigration,...
  • READY FOR WAR? La Raza Head Advocates Black-Hispanic 'Attack' Force

    04/12/2012 10:00:22 AM PDT · by hope · 67 replies
    The Radio Equalizer ^ | 4/11/12 | Brian Maloney
    Just in case tensions weren't high enough in the Trayvon Martin case, the head of a controversial Hispanic group appears happy to pour gasoline on the fire. Calling for an African-American-Hispanic alliance against "common enemies", La Raza President Janet Murguia used Wednesday's Al Sharpton radio show to spread an incendiary message of hate. Happy to conveniently overlook George Zimmerman's Peruvian ancestry, Murguia made her divisive agenda abundantly clear.