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One of the worst consequences of illegal immigration is the crime some immigrants perpetrate. Illegal alien gang members commit violence across the country -- even in places like Boise and Omaha. They seep into the country, creating cross-state connections rooted in nearly unbreakable, blood-bathed bonds. The statistics show that it’s a huge problem in California and several southwestern states. Now, Congress and President Bush are preparing to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants without providing adequate safeguards against that amnesty being granted to gang-bangers such as MS-13 members.

"At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? "I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." So said Abe Lincoln to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield. Observing the Senate last week, and looking over the latest figures from the Census Bureau, America is now risking national suicide. Last week, senators meeting in secret produced a bill to...

Cook Rosa Maria Salazar's eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. "We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly. break "We hadn't seen anything like this here before, and it came as a shock," said Antonio Bernabe, a community worker who runs a day labor program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "The police...

Entitlements: About to become law is an agreement allowing illegal aliens to get Social Security benefits after only 18 months of employment in the U.S., further burdening a system on the brink of collapse. Surveys have shown that more Americans believe in the existence of unidentified flying objects than in the promise that they'll ever get back what they've put into the Social Security system. It also is against current law for employers knowingly to hire individuals who are in this country illegally. So it must be somewhat disconcerting for them to find out that about to become law is...

ELBA, N.Y. — A cold December rain gusted across fields of cabbage destined for New York City egg rolls, cole slaw and Christmas goose. Ankle-deep in mud, six immigrant farmworkers raced to harvest 120,000 pounds before nightfall, knowing that at dawn they could find immigration agents at their door. The farmer who stopped to check their progress had lost 28 other workers in a raid in October, all illegal Mexican immigrants with false work permits at another farm here in western New York. Throughout the region, farm hands have simply disappeared by twos and threes, picked up on a Sunday...

BRIDGEPORT -- A Waterbury woman who worked as an examiner for state Department of Motor Vehicles has been convicted of participating in a scheme to sell hundreds of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and felons. Janette Rodriguez-Roman, 34, of 56 Diane Terrace in Waterbury, collapsed into sobs as the verdict was announced Thursday in Bridgeport Superior Court. "Oh my God! Oh my God, my children, my children," she cried as marshals handcuffed her and led her away. Her lawyer said she has "four or five" children and was in process of adopting another. Rodriguez-Roman was convicted of 38 counts, including...

According to a Des Moines Register news story, "In a blunt and stinging letter, the governor and the top officer of the Iowa National Guard on Tuesday called federal immigration officials' actions in the Swift raids "completely unacceptable," saying agents undermined the public's trust in government, potentially jeopardized the safety of law enforcement personnel in Iowa and could have compromised undercover operations." For the full story, see here.

They came to tell the stories they say aren't being told. In the wake of last Tuesday's raids at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Worthington, Minn., and five other states, a group of about 200 people gathered Monday afternoon outside the St. Paul offices of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman to condemn the federal action and demand immigration reform. After a 40-minute rally, a smaller group walked into the Republican senator's office and read stories about families affected by the Minnesota roundup of more than 200 workers on alleged immigration violations. "One woman is pregnant and is terrified to leave...

Board refuses to consider requiring illegal immigrants to register, pay $200 fee PAHRUMP -- One radical ordinance was killed outright and the other was threatened with repeal on Tuesday, as Nye County's largest town inched back from its controversial entry into the national debate over illegal immigration. Before a large and mostly appreciative crowd, Pahrump Town Board members refused to even entertain a proposal that would have required illegal immigrants to register at the town office, pay a $200 fee and supply the names of their family members and The decision was greeted by thunderous applause from the audience of...

Actually, it's the "Pears Are All Gonna Die!" Without Illegal Aliens rant. Brought to you by ABC. Get your little violin out. Pear Crop Rots As Field Hands Kept From Crossing Border Nick Ivicevich has been growing pears in northern California for 45 years, but never had he seen as good a crop as the one that blossomed here this season. "I thought I died and went to heaven," he said. "I kept pinching myself. I could not believe how beautiful my crop was." But now, much of his crop, almost two million pounds, lies on the ground — rotting...

It's time to call things what they are with the illegal immigration issue, and the Prescott City Council should approve the resolution it unveiled at this week's study session. The draft resolution: • Urges the federal government to seal the borders against entry of "illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists." • Opposes amnesty for illegal aliens currently in the United States. • Urges the federal government and state to secure that state border and the city borders against illegals and to let the state and city enforce existing laws on illegal immigration, Social Security and related federal benefits fraud and laws...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence will damage relations between the two countries. The Foreign Relations Department said it was "deeply worried" about the proposal, which is working its way through the Senate, adding it will "increase tension in border communities." "These measures will harm the bilateral relationship. They are against the spirit of co-operation that is needed to guarantee security on the common border," the department said in a statement. The House of Representatives and Senate are maneuvering to speed construction of a 700-mile fence along the United...

The San Francisco Chronicle detailed some of the numbers for the Hispanic invasion in its Sunday edition. OK ... so the SF Chronicle is a bit too liberal and politically correct to actually call this invasion an invasion, but the numbers are interesting nonetheless. Here are some tidbits: Ten percent of Mexicans now live in the United States. Fifteen percent of the Mexican workforce lives in the U.S. One in every 7 Mexican workers "migrates" to the U.S. Mexicans make up 56% of what the Chronicle refers to as the "unauthorized U.S. migrant population." I'll translate: Mexicans make up 56%...

PENDLETON — According to Sheriff John Trumbo, Umatilla County spent $318,843 in tax dollars to house 360 illegal Mexican immigrants in its jail for crimes allegedly committed in the county during 2005.

NAJAF, Iraq (Army News Service, Jan. 25, 2006) — In addition to training Iraqi soldiers and conducting joint counter-insurgency operations, Border Transition Teams are helping Iraqis secure their borders. BTT leaders from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, met with members of the Iraqi Department of Border Patrol, 5th Region, at its headquarters in Najaf Jan. 12. The 5th Region controls a long stretch along the Saudi Arabian border, a section where terrorists are known to smuggle drugs and weapons into Iraq, said Lt. Col. John McCarthy, BTT commander, 2nd BCT. McCarthy met with Iraqi Maj. Gen. Hussein...

Pronunciation: 'tree-zun Function: noun Etymology: Middle English tresoun, from Old French traison, from Latin tradition-, traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over, betray -- more at TRAITOR 1 : the betrayal of a trust : TREACHERY 2 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family --- It's an especially sickening and orchestrated plan that is selling out our nation's sovereignty, perpetrated by a cabal of globalists and the big business money men...

Tales of a nation under attack, which recur when public anxiety rises, multiply at theaters and on TV. Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" is acutely attuned to the zeitgeist of post-9/11 America. In this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel, Earth is still the most desirable piece of real estate in the Milky Way, the envy of the galactic neighborhood. But this retelling of the alien-invasion story, set in modern-day New Jersey rather than Wells' Edwardian London, tacitly acknowledges American fears of an attack on US cities. A principal aspect of the film is the way a nation unites...

City Journal The Immigrant Gang Plague Heather Mac Donald        Summer 2004 Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for America’s multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School in Los Angeles’s overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart district. “Upward and onward” is not a phrase that comes to mind when speaking to the first- and second-generation immigrant teens milling around the school this January.“Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the school have dropped out,” observes Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien from Guatemala. “Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five graduated,...

County Commissioner Bills Mexican Government For Illegal Aliens Caldwell, ID - Thousands of migrant farm workers are here legally but many are here illegally. It was that portion of the migrant labor population that Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez singled out for special attention today suggesting that the Mexican government should reimburse local taxpayers for their expenses. "My fellow American's, constituents, friends and neighbors expect their county commissioner to spend the taxes on services for American's not on illegal alien's healthcare, education or detention." That is why Vasquez today showed off a $2 million bill he is sending to...

<p>On any given day, Juan Francisco Aparicio will drive his children to the doctor's office, his wife to the grocery and himself to work. Yet, he doesn't have a drivers license.</p> <p>He can't apply for one because he doesn't have a Social Security card, which he can't get because he is not a legal resident. He moved to Illinois seven years ago from Sacatecas, Mexico, and, like hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers who lack a license, drives a car anyway. Every day.</p>