[kingu]

Many of the hundreds who make up the self-appointed civilian patrols monitoring the border to deter smuggling of people and drugs are unemployed or underemployed ex-military men who have long resented Mexicans who come to the United States illegally and, in their view, compete for jobs, crowd hospitals and schools and threaten English as the nation's dominant language.

No editorializing in the writing, not at all.. Fair and accurate... Yeah right. And I've yet to come across any Minuteman who was extremely concerned about Mexicans showing up vs. those coming from other less compatible regions of the world. But of course, every illegal is Mexican...

[cripplecreek]

Locally we had a Canadian woman who overstayed her visa and was caught when they filmed her stealing money from a cash register where she worked. It was determined that she had stolen more than $100,000 in cash and merchandise.

The store dropped the charges because the woman was being deported. Meanwhile the woman ran out and married a drug addicted parolee thinking it would prevent her deportation.

Canada was going to take the woman back but wouldn't take her husband because he's a felon with a violent history. This sent the liberals into fits. They cried about the INS breaking up "families" etc. The paper editorialized endlessly about the poor victims.

The story finally fell out of the news so I assume that she is now a full citizen who got away theft. BTW she proudly admitted that she never had any plans of updating her visa when it timed out.