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U.S. Senate to Look at Arizona
Will they ask Gallardo the real question?
Associated Press -- April 16
Phoenix -- State Sen. Steve Gallardo has been invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee about immigration enforcement on the day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over Arizona's 2010 immigration law.
The will hold a hearing on April 24 to examine state and local governments enforcing immigration laws.
Gov. Jan Brewer was invited to testify, but declined the offer.
The governor has said it would be inappropriate for her to speak to Congress right before the Supreme Court is poised hear her appeal of a ruling that put the law's most controversial elements on hold.
Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, the architect of Arizona's tough immigration enforcement law, will testify before the committee.
 American Patrol Report Comment
Gallardo should be asked why he walked out of an Arizona Senate border committee meeting that was considering a serious proposal to solve the border problem. Contact -- a member of the committee. |
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Tuesday, April 17, :45 PM
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Ted Nugent -- Washington Times
 With an election on the horizon, President Obama and his administration are employing age-old political diversionary tactics to keep the American public from focusing on the dismal condition of our economy. Call in a four-alarm fire on the south side while they rob the bank on the north side. Al Capone lives. -- With the economic train wreck they have engineered, it's hard to blame Mr. Obama for his misdirection scramble... |
KSAZ-TV -- Phoenix
 Students at the University of California Los Angeles walked out as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addressed the immigration controversy. -- Expanding on national security issues spanning from international threats to natural disasters, Napolitano said the government prioritizes issues of homeland security, border security and immigration... |
Birmingham (Ala.) News
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 U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said Alabama's immigration law is promoting racial profiling by law enforcement because it allows them to target anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. -- "Profiling Hispanics and immigrants is the most efficient way to get someone deported," Gutierrez said. -- Gutierrez was on the first panel of witnesses of a Senate hearing on racial profiling today on Capitol Hill... |
Politico
 A conservative legal group is suing the Department of Homeland Security for all correspondence and records related to President Obama's [illegal alien] uncle Onyango Obama. -- Onyango Obama was arrested in February in Massachusetts on an alleged DUI charge, and federal immigration authorities said they would continue deportation proceedings against him... |
WUWM-FM -- Milwaukee, Wis.
 A trail began today in Madison in a lawsuit challenging the state's new voter-photo ID law. The suit was brought by the immigrant rights group, Voces de la Frontera, and the NAACP. The group's attorney, Richard Saks says his side will show there are hundreds of thousands of voters who don't possess the required ID needed to vote. Assistant Attorney General Carrie Benedon says the number is far less... |
American Border Patrol
Photos of the day
 ABP took these photos while taking CNN on a aerial tour of the border. -- Top photo shows existing U.S. Border Patrol station at Naco, Arizona. Bottom photo shows expansion of the station under construction, about tripling its size. -- Glenn Spencer, pilot of the survey aircraft, told the CNN crew that... |
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Dustin Inman Society -- Marietta, Georgia
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal / Co-Governor Chris Riley:
Get illegal aliens out of Georgia's university system!
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Show support for SB1070
 Senate Bill 1070 passed by the Arizona legislature on April 23, 2010 has been attacked and challenged in the courts by the open borders community since its inception. After several conflicting opinions rendered at the appellate court level regarding the constitutionality of SB 1070, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review the Arizona law on April 25. This is an extremely important case from several perspectives... |
Ecopnomic Collapse Blog
 The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening. Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government. The United States once had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class is rapidly shrinking and government dependence is at an all-time high... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
 The draft agreement the U.S. Justice Department presented to resolve allegations of discrimination in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office contains detailed descriptions of the steps the Sheriff's Office needs to take to restore community trust, improve data collection and make information more accessible to suspects, family members and inmates. -- The agreement also explicitly states that a court-appointed monitor... |
Bloomberg
 Three years ago last month, a handful of [illegal aliens] in their teens and twenties stood up in front of a large crowd in Chicago's Daley Plaza and admitted to the world that they were in the United States illegally. Their message: Deport us if you dare. -- The young people weren't deported. And though their cause --- they were advocating passage of a long-stalled law that would grant legal status to those who came to the U.S... |
Juan Williams -- The Hill -- Washington
 Last week several political strategists predicted to me that every racial button is going to get pushed hard in this fall's presidential campaign. Their forecast is based on racial fears that are already being exposed. White Republican men form the strongest block of opposition to reelection of a black president --- who, in turn, has near-unanimous support from blacks, and overwhelming backing from Hispanics and Asians... |
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers Disturbing photos
 President Barack Obama promised to push immigration reform [aka amnesty] in his country in the first year after his reelection, in an interview with the Univision network. -- "I can promise to try to do it in the first year of my second term. I want to try this year, in fact," Obama said in the interview to be aired on Sunday morning to mark the closing of the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)... |
Tom Tancredo -- WND.com sc
 A recent Pew Hispanic Center report, "When Labels Don't Fit," shows that the 50 million Americans of Hispanic descent have some huge gaps still to bridge if assimilation to American society is to be achieved. It obviously has not been achieved yet for an alarming number of Hispanics into the third generation. -- To be fair, there is both good news and bad news buried in the lengthy report... |
WABE-FM -- Atlanta
 ...DA King, president of the Dustin Inman Society, which advocates enforcement of immigration laws, says that's not the real motivation. -- "They are getting a refund on the Additional Child Tax Credit," King says, "Refund is not the right word. They're getting a rebate from the government for having U.S.-born children," he says. |
KTVK-TV -- Phoenix
 Glendale, Az. -- Maricopa County sheriff's deputies arrested nine people in another employer sanctions raid. -- According to MCSO spokesman Sgt. Brandon Jones, the investigation into Circle B Grading & Hauling Inc. goes back several months, when deputies received information that the company was hiring illegal [aliens] who were using false identification... |
Dave Gibson -- The Examiner
 Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 has been described by many as the most dangerous gang in America, while Los Zetas is arguably the most violent of Mexico's drug cartels... Now, there is evidence that these two powerful and ruthless organizations have struck a deal which makes both groups even more dangerous to the United States. -- MS-13 was formed by Salvadoran, mostly illegal immigrants in the 1980's... |
James Crugnale -- Mediaite sc
 President Obama sat down with Univison's Enrique Acevedo on Friday and was questioned if reelected whether he would make immigration reform a priority. "I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term," Obama affirmed. "I want to try this year. The challenge we've got on immigration reform is very simple. I've got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it..." |
Dave Gibson -- The Examiner
 Last week, La Raza (the Race) President Janet Murguia appeared on Al Sharpton's radio show, during which she called for African-Americans and Latinos to unite and "attack" their "common enemies." -- Murguia said: "I think for us it's about understanding that we have common interests and we have to be able to understand that our demographics today, a lot of people want to pit who's the largest minority..." |
Joe Newby -- The Examiner
 Does Barack Obama meet the constitutional requirements to serve as President? That's the question many still want answered, given the results of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's investigation. -- 37,880 people have signed a petition at WND.com demanding Congress investigate the matter. -- The petition starts by noting that Arpaio's investigation found "probable cause" to believe that... |
Nogales (Arizona) International
 Drug smuggling evolves. So efforts to thwart it should, too. -- That's the thought process of Elizabeth Kempshall, director of Arizona's High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, whose executive board has the ultimate say in the operations of the state's HIDTA task forces such as the Santa Cruz County Metro Task Force. -- However, a recent vote by the board as part of its evolving anti-drug strategy... |
Katie Pavlich -- Townhall.com
 Operation Fast and Furious is the deadliest and most sinister scandal in American history. A scandal so big, it's worse than Iran-Contra and makes Watergate look like a high school prank gone wrong. -- In the early days of the Obama Administration, President Obama claimed his goal was to stop the trafficking of guns from the United States into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels... |
Daily Caller
 President Barack Obama's campaign team and the Republican National Committee will roll out rival campaigns this week to reach out to Latino voters. -- The Obama campaign's "Latinos for Obama" theme will begin April 18, with a synchronized set of house parties featuring a conference call with comedian George Lopez. -- The rollout will come just after Obama used his attendance at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia... |
American Border Patrol
Photos of the day
On April 9 and 10 a CNN crew taped interviews with Glenn Spencer and Mike King. The interviews will be part of a CNN special report on the Arizona border as part of the coverage of the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on April 26. ... |
Kris Kobach -- News & Insight
 The battle over illegal immigration heads to the U.S. Supreme Court next week, when the high court will hear arguments for and against new Arizona laws requiring police, employers and landlords to expose undocumented immigrants. Arizona of course is not alone in its crackdown on illegal [aliens], with states including Alabama, Georgia, Utah, as well as a number of cities, passing similar measures... |
KGTV -- San Diego
 Ocean Beach -- At least 15 suspected illegal [aliens] were arrested after their panga boat washed ashore in the Ocean Beach area early Monday, authorities said. -- The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m., according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -- Paramedics and lifeguards also responded in case anyone was in the water... |
London Guardian sc
 The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. -- In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world". "I am more worried than I have been in the past," he said. "It's scary." |
D.A. King -- Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal
 It has come to my attention that there exists in Cobb County someone named Kevin Foley. Who is a self described "progressive." -- And that he writes a blog here on the MDJ site. And that he has opinions on the crime of illegal immigration. And that he supports another legalization, path to citizenship program to deal with the millions of illegal alien insurgents already here in the American Republic... |
Tom Fitton -- Judicial Watch
 You remember Barack Obama's Uncle Onyango Obama, yes? He was arrested last year on drunken driving charges in Framingham, Massachusetts after running a stop sign and nearly crashing into a police car. And that's when Uncle O's shocking little secret was discovered. The native Kenyan had been living in the United States illegally since 1963 and had been ordered out of the country all the way back in 1992! |
Kyle Rogers -- The Examiner
 You didn't hear about this is the media, but on the weekend of March 24th and March 25th at least seven white people were brutally beaten by mobs of blacks in Grand Rapids, MI. Five of the victims filed police reports. At least two other victims exist, and there are probably others. The local media has refused to report the cruel attacks and the authorities are resisting any serious charges... |
 
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