Category — Mexico

We can keep out the tomatoes, why not the illegals

Salmonella fear traps tomatoes in Mexico

MEXICO CITY - Export-quality tomatoes labeled “Ready to Eat” in English flooded Mexico City markets on Thursday after a salmonella scare in the U.S. trapped them south of the border.
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Instead, he now sends his top quality tomatoes to markets around Mexico where they sell for a third the U.S. price. He leaves lesser-quality produce, normally sold in Mexico, to rot.

At the capital’s bustling central food market, truckloads of tomatoes are now arriving in boxes originally meant for the U.S. “Sweet treat. Premium quality,” says lettering in English _ wording lost on most Mexican Spanish speakers.

The top quality tomatoes now sell for 35 cents a pound (8 pesos per kilogram) in the capital _ a third below normal prices.

Most customers don’t know about the U.S. salmonella scare, and those who do, don’t seem alarmed. Some shoppers said they’ve always been more careful than Americans in preparing produce _ they have to be, because vegetables sold in Mexico are not held to the same standards as those certified for export.

“What ends up here is second-rate,” said Sergio Martinez, a 40-year-old bricklayer who bought 4 1/2 pounds of tomatoes at the central market Thursday.

“Almost all vegetables are contaminated with something because they water them with sewer water and put on a lot of chemicals,” he said, noting that he washes all his produce with bleach and water.

About 120,000 people were sickened by salmonella in Mexico last year, according to Mexican health authorities _ three times the average 40,000 cases reported in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [snip]

We let the salmonella laden illegals come up here to pick our food, circumventing the prophylactic measures the FDA and USDA has in place.
Hey McCain, let as many illegals in as we currently let in tomatoes. Spray them with bleach and water too!

Sometimes I just shake my head wondering how I voted twice for George Bush.  Those were some really bad Democratic candidates.  Fortunately, the president’s Supreme Court appointments saved him from committing a miscarriage of justice.  Chief Roberts and Justice Alito joined a 6-3 vote against his attempted intervention in the death penalty case of Jose E. Medellin.

Mr. Medellin, human refuse, gang member, and rapist/murderer of 2 Texas teenage girls wasn’t informed that he could seek help from the Mexican embassy.  The International Court ruled this was a violation of the Vienna Convention.  The president, siding with Mexico and the IC, asked the Texas judiciary to reconsider the case.  God Bless Texas, they refused, and after today’s decision, prosecutors are pushing for an execution date. 

Why would the president try to interfere with the Texas judiciary on behalf of a murderer?  And, not being satisfied with no, drive it to the Supreme Court?  I simply don’t buy the excuse he was trying to fulfill our international obligations.  He ignored every international body conceivable to start the Iraq War.  As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, it was his duty to do the same here.

Finally, we have a 1.4 billion Mexican border security package to stem the flow of illegals. Oops, wrong border! This is for the southern border of Mexico, to help them control illegals. What controls do they need? I thought they machine gunned transients down there.

Give the money to the “political” thugs running the governments down there; I think we’d get a better return investing with mob.
Where is the GOP on this? Why are they not screaming? AND where is McCain? Is he letting his good buddy Juan Hernandez cover for the U.S. in this matter?
Our border is a sieve, spend that money building the fence up here!

The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico

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The plan is called “The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.

We can’t finish our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America–with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget. (emphasis added)

Naturally, the State Department has taken a lead role. They’ve held meetings in secret and cut out members of Congress from discussion. You’ll love the explanation for the secrecy: Mexico is “sensitive,” you see. Also, according to one expert, “Mexico is very protective of its sovereignty and very worried about any incursion of U.S. security forces or private contractors—like Blackwater—coming in to train Mexicans.” Yeah, they’re worried about incursions and sovereignty.

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Meantime, Mexico refuses to extradite criminal suspects who’ve fled from the U.S. down to Mexico unless our prosecutors drop death penalty charges against them.

Oh, and just in time to mobilize pro-illegal immigration activists during this heated campaign season, Calderon landed in the U.S. yesterday for a five-day visit…[snip]

The usual gang of suspects will be meeting with him.

So, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is coming to the US to criticize us for our immigration policies.  Yawn.  But I do have a little advice for el presidente—stay home and clean up your own mess.  11 million of your citizens wouldn’t be here illegally if you’d turn your own country around.  And when you leave, take some of your law breakers with you.

Is it possible for this country to descend further in to idiocy

Mi Casa, Sue Casa

Nancy Pelosi tries to force the Salvation Army to hire people who can’t speak English.

It’s been less than a week since New York’s Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Eliot Spitzer had to climb down from their support of driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican from Tennessee, is dumbstruck that legislation he views as simple common sense would be blocked. [snip]

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a moderate from Maryland, was beside himself. Congressional Quarterly reports that he jabbed his finger on the House floor at Joe Baca, the California Democrat who chairs the Hispanic Caucus, and yelled, “How dare you destroy this party? This will be the worst loss in 10 years.” [snip]

After testy negotiations, the Hispanic Caucus finally agreed to let the tax bill proceed after extracting a promise from Ms. Pelosi that the House will not vote on the bill funding the Justice and Commerce Departments unless the English-only protection language is dropped. “There ain’t going to be a bill” with the Alexander language, Mr. Baca has told reporters.

Sen. Alexander says that if that’s the case, “thousands of small businesses across America will have to show there is some special reason to justify requiring their employees to speak our country’s common language on the job.” [snip]

Republicans have their political problems with Hispanics over some of their approaches to illegal immigration, but they may be nothing compared to the problems Democrats have if they continue to cave in to their anti-assimilation extremists.

The ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” befits the liberal portions of the Pachys and the Donks. In 2008, voters will go through illegal immigration proponents faster than Ebola through a village, with concomitant results.

In places like Laredo, Texas, and along the Arizona and New Mexico borders, ethnic cleansing is in process. It’s no different from the Balkans except here the courts are complicit too.

Getting the proper cleansing in Serbia and Bosnia became job one in the ‘90’s. We stopped the process in Serbia while the Islamos finish the killing or removing of the last Christians in Bosnia.

Complecting the southern border with illegal melanin matches the Bosnia process, especially in Laredo where cross border kidnapping and drug shootings are common.

The balkanization of America disgusts real Americans. For those not disgusted, emigration to Herzegovina is desired.

Quack…..wheeeeeze….cough….Quack!  He’s back!

When Don Imus was brought to ground by a few liberal jackals, race-profiteers and media hounds a while back, his removal from WFAN was a mercy killing.  With the comic motility of a Maine potato, Imus was painfully lodged at the lowest regions of nasty talk radio.  Now, he’s about to stage a comeback, by displacing  Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa and the old William Koenstler associate, Ron Kuby at WABC.

That Imus would have lasted beyond 1989 is itself, improbable.   True, he’d walked the standard reformative path admired in the liberal media - re-hab for drugs and alcohol, an irreligious book demonstrating his ability to concentrate and willingness to villify the defenseless, but that wasn’t enough.  Along the way he also became a humanitarian, with the Imus Ranch for Kids With Cancer.   That punched his ticket.

With the Imus Ranch came two essential, and several unfortunate, things.  The first essential was that some children with dreaded disease were helped.  The second essential was the approval of liberals, who poured into the show through the chute provided by Westwood One Entertainment.  David Gregory, Howard Feinneman, Chris Matthews, Kerry, Dodd, Lieberman, Frank Rich, a list too long for this post.  

The unfortunate things attributable to the ranch were Imus’s very young, insufferable twit of a wife, the unknowable and uninteresting spawn Wyatt Imus, the maundering brother with his obliterating stupidity, and the product line, which stretched to the New Mexico horizon and was just as interesting.  

The Imus in The Morning Show on WFAN was a sustained and relentless commercial for the Imus family and its marketing wing.  Maybe it’s just me, but the true iconoclast, the indignant rebel doesn’t shill for cowboy hats, baseball caps, denim shirts and salsa.  What Imus is, in addition to everything else, is a phony, a charlatan.

Up against these concerns for children with cancer, was the bizarre counterpoint of a show so nasty, vile, vindictive, slanderous and gratuitously vulgar that the people involved seemed oblivious to the infected popular culture they created for the same kids they were helping in New Mexico.  Were they just cynical about their charitable pursuits, or just craven in their pursuit of wealth through shock radio, or both?  Or neither?  

I don’t know.  The existence of some things seems to reduce or expand the likelihood of other things.   Real goodness has a way of spreading through the person who’s trying to be good, which always made me wonder how the supposedly religious Charles McCord could be so obsequious to Imus, and how he could write such clever but vulgar routines.  

Imus himself, so misanthropic and awful in his judgements,  seems unfastened from the human qualities necessary to manage  a ranch for children.   That’s a question about the soul and the mainspring of human effort.  I’d like an answer, even though I don’t deserve one. 

I obviously used to listen to the show, though it became clear years ago that hearing one edition means you’ve already heard the others.  So I stopped listening, and suggest to Imus that his new format do/not do the following.

1. No Bo Dietel, all the time

2. No mention of “my friend Kinky Friedman”

3. No mention of Lobster Newburgh.

4. Stop saying “what a nightmare”

5. Let Delbert McClinton slip into obscurity

6. Stop saying “get Lupaca on the phone”.

7. Talk for three minutes without saying the proper name “Imus”

8. Take your own advice, and “Get Out!”

Kucinich sees UFO, new book claims

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has seen a UFO, writes Shirley MacLaine in her new book, “Sage-Ing While Age-Ing.”

Kucinich, she writes on page 143-144 of the book, “had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. …[H]e saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

The directions told him to run for Prez to inject humor into the race.

Representatives of Kucinich’s presidential campaign and congressional office have not responded to calls and e-mail asking whether the Cleveland Democratic congressman in fact saw a UFO or if there is another explanation for MacLaine’s recollection. [snip]

MacLaine also recommended in the 1980s that Kucinich visit New Mexico spiritual adviser Chris Griscom, whom MacLaine featured in her then-best-selling book, “Dancing in the Light,” describing how Griscom helped her communicate with trees. [snip]

Kucinich now counts among his ardent supporters the lower three plant phyla. In a bid to the transgender community, Kucinich says he will select an euglena for VEEP. Pelosi suggested one from Frisco to bond the country around core beliefs.

Pelosi declined when asked to consider the position.

Oink! Oink! Senate Republicans still slobbering over earmarks

WASHINGTON (News) - Democrats might want to keep in mind the old rule in politics that you never stop an opponent while he’s committing suicide. They are about to have the distinct pleasure of watching a slew of Senate Republicans jump off a political cliff. [snip]

Take for example the roll call vote on Sen. Jim DeMint’s amendment to kill a provision in the Senate Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill directing $2 million to three construction projects for a college in Harlem.

The South Carolina Republican’s amendment would have struck the provision first inserted in the legislation by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. All three projects are named for Rangel.

But when it came time to vote on this crude effort by Rangel to use tax dollars to promote himself, it was preserved on a 61-34 vote. Two Democrats — Sen. Evan Bayh, Ind., and Sen. Russ Feingold, Wis. — voted for the DeMint amendment…[snip]

16 GOP Senators voted for the pork: Alexander—Tennessee, Bond—Missouri, Cochran and Lott—Mississippi, Collins—Maine, Craig—Idaho, Domenici–New Mexico, Hagel–Nebraska, Hatch–Utah, Lugar–Indiana, Murkowski and Stevens–Alaska, Shelby–Alabama, Specter–Pennsylvania, Voinovich—Ohio, and Warner–Virginia.

No New England Donk Senator voted no; they spend everything and would print more money if they could get away with it.

Sanders-VT votes for all government spending, at least he is truthful about it. He a communist, prefers the tern Progressive, who wants government running everything. Leahy-VT on the other hand, says he wants a democratic form of government, but votes like Sanders every chance he gets.

Four of the 16 GOP senators are leaving the senate: Craig, Domenici, Hagel and Lugar. Craig’s seat will be filled by a Conservative. Domenici is a toss up. Hagel and Lugar found they would not get past a primary, so ta-ta.

Collins has a fight; MoveOn has targeted her re-election. Any change with Collins seat would be cosmetic. She is as liberal as Leahy is.

Unless there is a big change in the philosophical makeup of who’s running, expect more of the same. If the above gang of RINO’s quit, the GOP picks up a different look and clout.

While you’re here, say hello to Juan. They are voting tomorrow to let him and his extended family have amnesty. Why he may even move in next door and diversify your neighborhood, overnight!

Bush says economy is in good shape despite recession fears.

more below from him

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright

Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.

China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.

· Blog - Dollar to collapse?

Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.

Canada’s Dollar At Parity on U.S. Weakness, Commodity Surge

Canada’s dollar rose, trading equal to the U.S. dollar for the first time in 31 years, as climbing commodity prices boosted the outlook for the world’s eighth-biggest economy.

Oil prices jump above $82 a barrel

Commodities prices on Wednesday rose with crude oil hitting its sixth consecutive record high above $82 a barrel and spot gold approaching a near 28-year high of $730 an ounce troy. Base metals registered rises of between 2 and 10 per cent.

Agricultural commodities were down on profit-taking and signals that some food importing countries, such as India, had bought enough cereals for their inventories.

Crude oil jumped to a $82.51 after a larger-than-expected fall in US crude oil inventories last week.

China Freezes Some Prices in Move to Contain Inflation

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has ordered some prices frozen and told officials to closely monitor others in its most drastic step yet to contain a surge in inflation.

The order, issued late Wednesday, came after inflation rose to 6.5 percent in August — its highest monthly rate in 11 years — propelled by a double-digit rise in politically sensitive food prices.

The order stressed the importance of maintaining “market stability” ahead of a key Communist Party meeting next month. It said controlling inflation would affect China’s development, reform and stability.

Oil Up Again As Low Dollar Spurs Buying

Crude Futures Surpass $83 a Barrel, Driven Largely by Weakening Dollar

NEW YORK (AP) — Crude oil prices surged further into record terrain Thursday, breaching $83 a barrel as the weak dollar and some worrisome weather in the Gulf of Mexico spurred buying.

Gasoline futures jumped as well. {snip]

A weak dollar supports oil prices by making futures cheaper for foreign investors, noted Antoine Halff, head of energy research at Fimat USA LLC.

It also prompts buying by domestic investors, who sense that demand for Nymex oil is rising overseas, said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill.

Bush Optimistic About Economy

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Thursday cited “some unsettling times” in the U.S. housing and credit markets as he sought to assure jittery Americans that the economy basically is in good shape despite worries about a recession.

…and the question is, what’s this all about?”

For starters, it’s about our failure to save for the future. With childish glee we buy anything we see in a hedonistic frenzy: plasma screen TV, cars with a 60 month loan package, 5000 sq ft houses with ARMs, lavish vacations, spa treatments, plastic surgery, every electronic gewgaw, and oversized waistlines. If not borrowed through a bank, then on plastic it goes.

Given that we ceased manufacturing most of these items through offshore means and outsourced many more jobs, our capital (dollars) followed the production and jobs. This is one reason.

Here’s another. We will not fix the drain on the tax base by Medicare, Medicaid, Prescription drug plan, and Social Security. Instead, we financed this huge burden by selling Treasury bonds and T-bills. Worse, the government uses abnormal accounting methods to cover the gaps. When they amalgamated the Social Security fund with the general fund, it permitted the Great Society programs to survive until they enrolled too many voters to scrap it. When one robs Peter to pay Paul, Paul never complains.

So what happens?

The entire outflow of capital (dollars) goes somewhere; they convert to treasury notes with a guaranteed rate of return of principal and interest (future taxes). Countries are investors like everyone else; they go where the return rate is best.

The pop of the housing bubble forced banks and mortgage companies, by banking law, to initiate foreclosure proceedings. By law, at 120 days, bad loans are collected or written off against profit, which really electrifies the stockholders. The market saw them bail out of lending institutions, resulting in the drop in stock prices: Countrywide, Citi, Stanley Morgan, and Merrill Lynch to name some.

The Fed jumped in to improve liquidity by reducing interest rate by 50 basis points. The stock market went up, the banks took happy pills, and there was joy in Mudville.

Except

Other countries didn’t like the rate change (they lend money from overnight to 30 year investment bonds) and cashed in dollars for something other than greenbacks. Anything worked fine. The US is required to redeem these notes, which we pay for with Pounds, Euros, Swiss Francs, Ryials, clamshells, or worse gold. The US just became poorer.

To correct this, we will have to reduce the National Debt, (not just the deficit) by either cutting spending, raising taxes plus manufacturing goods here once more. Putting Americans to work in jobs we offshored starts the program. Getting the illegals out and cutting welfare programs forces the non-workers to change or get hungry.

We will find foreign imports more expensive; buying them will be inflationary (Remember Carter’s stagflation). To cut off the outflow of money, interest rates go up on short term borrowing which cuts into corporate growth, further damaging the economy. What say you Yogi. Something about Deja?

We can correct all this. We will have to put the socialist/liberals/Marxists on Thorzine to quiet them down

Now read the above links again to see just how serious this will be.

One more item needs addressing. China is threatening to utilize the “nuclear option” of dumping dollars onto the open market ($1.33 trillion), which would require our redeeming them, or suffer bankruptcy.

In past times, this construed an act of war.

Remember Bush saying,

“We can’t deport all…!” Wrong again.

With city shelters filled and a surge of further refugee claimants expected to flood into Windsor, Mayor Eddie Francis is pleading for financial help from Ottawa.

“When there is a possibility of adding thousands to the local social assistance system as a result of refugee claimants crossing the border into Windsor, we will become overwhelmed and our current resources will not suffice,” Francis wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. [snip]

Come on, Canada is veerrrry progressive so they should absolutely love having the companionship. They’ll stay indoors, out of the way, for 10 months of the year.

“I don’t believe that Windsor’s residents and taxpayers should have to foot the bill for U.S. immigration policy,” Francis told The Star. He was referring to the suspected source of the problem — a recently begun crackdown on illegal immigrants in economically struggling regions of the U.S. South. [snip]

But a group operating out of Naples, Fla., vowed to continue sending the so-called economic refugees to Windsor.

“They ask, ‘Is Canada an option?’ and I say, ‘Yes, it is an option,’” Jacques Sinjuste of the Jerusalem Haitian Community Center said in a phone interview Wednesday. For a US$300 “donation” (most of those interviewed in Windsor claim they paid US$400), [snip]

That is far less than they pay to the Coyotes escorting them into the US. Ha! It’s a bargain and they can cross in the daylight.

“This is a problem the U.S. has allowed to create. It’s really unfair for Canada to have to face this,” said MP Joe Comartin (NDP — Windsor-Tecumseh), his Party’s public safety and national security critic.

“This is very much being driven by (the U.S. Department of) Homeland Security,” he said, predicting that, “with few exceptions,” most of these “economic claimants” will eventually be sent back.

When Canada sends them packing, make sure it’s via Air Pancho non-stop direct to Mexico City. That way Calderon can be there to embrace the prodigal peons when they get off the plane. Possibly, he will even give them back their travel expenses.

The House and Senate approved funding cuts for a NAFTA program that would give Mexican trucks access to US roadways. Critics charge the trucks are unsafe. Supporters cite the required truck inspections and driver drug testing as proof the program is safe. Additionally, some supporters, in a move that must make Al Sharpton smile, play the race card and claim detractors are “anti-Mexican”.

However, my objection centers on the corporate welfare our government proposes here. Not only are US taxpayers subsidizing big business, they’re foreign big businesses that are going to put Americans out of work. So as the “happy” byproduct of our government’s largesse, US taxpayers will also pay for the unemployment benefits of US truckers who lose their jobs.

Therefore, since I generally support free trade, and we’ve already tacitly admitted there are safety concerns since inspections were required under NAFTA, let the program continue with the Mexican trucking companies paying for the inspection stations. Their cost structures are still going to be very competitive in our markets. Corporate welfare is bad enough, but when you ask US taxpayers to fund a program likely to put US citizens out of work, you’ve gone a step too far.

Calderon blasts U.S. immigration policies

MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying “Mexico does not end at its borders.”

The criticism earned Calderon a standing ovation during his first state-of-the nation address.

“We strongly protest the unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government that have only persecuted and exacerbated the mistreatment of Mexican undocumented workers,” he said. “The insensitivity toward those who support the U.S. economy and society has only served as an impetus to reinforce the battle … for their rights.”

He also reached out to the millions of Mexicans living in the United States, many illegally, saying: “Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.” [snip]

Isn’t this just fantastic! Wait until Juanita says you need a visa to enter your kitchen.

Outside the house, Big Labor is on Felipe’s side when he tells you it is now 75 bucks an hour for the lawn care. Furthermore, it’s like garbage collection, now lawn care has protected territories, you will deal with him.

On Bush’s orders, the EPA will dun every American household 2-year’s income to clean up the newest superfund site, Mexico.

As Dubya says, “Cisco and Pancho are the good guys, remember.”

Keep deporting and close the border!

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.

Ranks of anti-illegal immigrant groups swelling

LOS ANGELES - Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame.

The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood “a Third World look.” [snip]

One group, the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a civilian volunteer group patrolling the border, says it has collected $600,000 for a proposed border fence.

The American Border Patrol, another civilian group that turns immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border over to authorities and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says donations are up 25 percent.

And in San Diego, a newly formed Minuteman group went from just two members late last year to 200 today.

“People are joining us so fast because they are frustrated with our government,” said Jeff Schwilk, the group’s founder. “They see all the wrangling, all the political posturing, and I think people are fed up with the inaction of their government.” [snip]

“We know the anti-immigration movement is exploding, that there are certainly more and more organizations and chapters of organizations of chapters being developed all the time,” said Heidi Beirich, deputy director for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks hate and anti-immigrant groups.

The danger comes when they focus attention on one ethnic group such as Mexicans, who make up about half of all illegal immigrants in the United States, she said.

“What a lot of these organizations do is … defaming a group of people, like they bring disease, they are terrorist, they are criminals, they are trashing the environment. [snip] (emphasis mine)

Why not examine these statements.

1. An illegal caught crossing the border, tested and proved positive for TB. How many are ill and not caught for testing?
2. OTM’s crossing the border can be terrorists; we have no idea who or from where they arrive.
3. All are criminals by definition for violating immigration law. Many others are far worse, guilty of murder, rape, drug running, felonious pandering and members of gangs.
4. Litter strewn along trails used by the coyotes authenticates they trash the environment. Surrounding lands are not immune as new routes created to avoid the Border Patrol become landfills.

In the low-budget CAPS commercial that motivated union member and Sacramento Democrat Warren to join, swarms of pro-immigrant protesters wave the Mexican flag. A voice-over comes on: “The last thing California needs is more traffic, crowded schools, bankrupt hospitals. The last thing California needs is more immigration. The other side has had its say. Isn’t it time you had yours?”

The commercial targeted the thousands of residents whom Hull believes were incensed by the immigrant protests, which she says is further evidence of plans for a “reconquista” or reconquering of California by Latinos seeking land lost during the Mexican-American war. [snip]

What part of this does not fit the label of Invasion? Demanding the foreign language be spoken by fiat, special rules and regulations, covers much of that label. I’ll accept marching under a foreign flag as solid proof of loyalty to a different government.

Another piece of the problem are cities that declare themselves as “sanctuaries.” Giuliani on sanctuary cities How this hurts our citizenry, health care, insurance rates and the horrible drain on social services is ignored.

Allowing illegals to evade punishment and deportation compounds citizens’ troubles in many ways, one is zoning violations where large numbers of unrelated persons reside in a single-family residence, a real disruption to real estate values.

How about the courts in Orange County CA. promoting this:

The court has contracted since March 2006 with Cal Coast Data Entry, Inc., a Cerritos company that has a facility in Nogales. Information from tickets – including drivers’ license numbers, car license numbers, birth dates and addresses – are scanned at the Cerritos facility and sent electronically to the Mexican facility.

Has the court ever heard of pencil and paper for copying data? The information is very salable to those making false IDs.

“The company and the staff they employ are dedicated to keeping the public’s data secure and safe,” the statement said. “The court wants to ensure the public that private data is safe.”

One thing that brings fear to knowledgeable individuals is government assurances about anything. (Ron Paul is whack, but here he is right) We’ve seen how they protect the country from invasion, then coddle the invader to our detriment.

La Raza threatens to cancel convention in KC, cites controversial park board appointee

The nation’s largest Hispanic rights group is warning it may cancel its 2009 convention here because of a controversial Kansas City park board member.
The head of the National Council of La Raza said Thursday that the organization is already looking at several other cities because of the appointment of Frances Semler. [snip]

Janet Murguía, head of the Washington-based La Raza, said Thursday that Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s appointment of a member of a militant group opposing illegal immigration gave pause to the Hispanic rights organization.

Semler is a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration and has suggested a moratorium on legal immigration.

Murguía said she told Funkhouser in a telephone conversation last week that the conference all but certainly will go elsewhere if Semler doesn’t step down.

“It is very troubling that we would be in a position to reconsider but in fact we are,” Murguía said during a trip to Kansas City. “I don’t know there is a way short of her stepping down that we could salvage this. This is offensive on many levels. We want the mayor to understand it is something that sends a very wrong signal to the Hispanic community about what the city represents.” [snip]

This is the particular signal we wish to send to La Raza.

La Raza mission statement:

Partido Nacional La Raza Unida (PNLRU) supports a revolutionary alternative that will change current power structures, realize economic democracy and foster spiritual and cultural growth. Re-education of Raza, control of our communities and a commitment to our families are essential to our self-determination.

Hmmm! Nothing in their logo to suggest US goodwill. Was the background borrowed from the Nazis?

To facilitate their get-together, a suggestion is in order . Try booking the Loco Room at the Mexico City Motel 6 for the assemblage. They have a great buffet at the snack machine and very easy on the pocket. Be sure to savor the local water; it has piquancy not found in the 1^st world.

The North American Union Versus One Nation

[snip] The globalists’ primary goal is the North American Union merging Mexico, the USA, and Canada by 2010! …the NAFTA Highway [is] being built by a Spanish company (emphasis mine) so that no information about it gets out.

The NAFTA Highway has it’s first stop in Kansas City. Plans are for it to go through to Canada. No customs checks until KC. All trucking will be Mexican trucking with Mexican vehicle inspections done in Mexico.

“What can we do to defeat this?” [snip]

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• Listen to talk radio, get informed, and call in.
• Talk to your local county officials: some Virginia counties are restructuring illegal immigrants’ access to services.
• Support H. CON. RES. 40: ask your congressmen to halt work on the Highway.
• Support H.CON.RES.22: demand that we withdraw from NAFTA
• Demand that the fence between Mexico and the US be built now.
• Demand that current immigration laws be enforced
• Demand an end to “anchor babies.”
• Demand an end to “chain migration” which comprises 2/3 of illegal immigrants.
• Discuss the issue! Spread the news!

The Coalition to Block the North American Union, Vienna, VA, 703-893-2777,

The American Council for Immigration Reform, Washington, DC, 202-659-9499

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Further Reading: Blog posts related to this topic

Bush is working this through the Executive Office so no treaty needs to be ratified. Neatly cuts out the electorate by circumventing Congress, doesn’t it.

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