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Executive Summary Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers. Government provides four types of benefits and services that are relevant to this issue: Direct benefits. These include Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation. Means-tested welfare benefits. There are over 80 of these programs which, at a cost of nearly $900 billion per year, provide cash, food, housing, medical, and other services to roughly 100 million low-income Americans. Major programs include Medicaid, food stamps, the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, and Temporary Assistance for Needy...

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said today that the Senate immigration bill is even worse than feared, since it legalizes illegals' relatives and even those previously deported: "It's hard to believe, but the Senate immigration bill is worse than we thought. Despite assurances, the border is not secured before almost everyone in the country illegally is given amnesty. The bill guarantees there will be a rush across the border to take advantage of massive amnesty." Rep. Smith says the Senate immigration bill shreds current immigration laws: "And the Senate proposal offers amnesty to far more illegal immigrants than we thought. In...

I want to welcome this groundbreaking scientific expedition to the savage lands of the Left Coast. You are here in California to answer an important theoretical question and now you have your answer. Yes, this is what Barack Obama’s second term would look like. Study it. Fear it. And then go home and make sure that it never happens to the rest of the country. Of course, in spite of all of its problems, California is still one of the best places in the country to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a...

.......The letter by substitute teacher Tony Hill was read aloud Thursday as the state Senate considered one of five bills on illegal immigration. Hill wrote that a majority of eight-grade students at an unnamed suburban Glendale school said that "We are Mexicans and Americans stole our land. Hill..."most of the Hispanic students do not want to be educated but rather (want to) be gang members and gangsters." Democratic lawmakers...questioned the veracity of the letter, which was addressed to Senate President Russell Pearce and was circulated among Republican senators. Democrats called the writing offensive and questioned whether Hill was actually a...

SANTA ANA – More than 200,000 revelers are expected to descend on Santa Ana this weekend for Fiestas Patrias activities marking the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain. Organizers say this year's celebration has been kicked up a notch in honor of the milestones. A 15-day film festival, for example, was added, and the Disneyland Resort is a new sponsor. On Sunday afternoon, a parade lead by Mayor Miguel Pulido and Mexican Consul Alejandra García Williams will travel south on Main Street. Mickey and Minnie Mouse are also slated to appear...

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons: 1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963 2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after 3. Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later by coincidence On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day — every day) A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the...

CASA GRANDE - Pinal County officials have found two dead bodies in the desert off I-8 and milepost 150, not far from where a deputy was shot and injured in April. Dispatch received a 911 call in Spanish from a man Sunday night stating that he and a friend had been shot. Then the cell phone signal was lost. About an hour later, officials found the victims, dead. Two weapons, one an automatic rifle, were found nearby. Detectives say the bodies were found about 500 to 1,000 yards from some sort of migrant camp. "Detectives are telling us that this...

The Illegal Alien/Open Borders lobby true agenda: Photos from the May 29, 2010 Phoenix protest against the Arizona immigration enforcement law. What the Mainstream media won't show you. These photos come from Americans who were there and made it out safely. The radical anti-American protestors in opposition to Arizona's immigration law were sponsored by and supported by anarchist, communist, and open-border groups who are against any border or law enforcement to protect America. Be sure to pass these pictures around to your friends, so they can see what the anti-Arizona law protest was really about. These are the images the...

Some Mexicans use the term "reconquista," which is Spanish for reconquest, to describe their desire to see California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas acquired by Mexico and named the new country of Aztlan. They are teaching their youth that the United States "stole" those areas from Mexico and that they should be "returned."

Mexican senator calls for US to vote Democratic El Universal (Mexico City) 5/20/10 Speaking from the US while part of President Calderon’s entourage, the president of the Mexican senate, Carlos Navarrete Ruiz, called on the Hispanic community to deliver a triumphant victory to the Democratic party in order to assist the White House in negotiating an immigration reform. The senator of the left-leaning PRD party said, “I have no problem expressing that, as I see the circumstances in the US Congress, it would be useful and would serve Mexico if the migrants give a victory to the Democrats to increase...

Arizona’s new law has apparently come just in time. Regardless of the façade presented by Mexican President Philippe Calderone, as he moralizes to the feckless Barack Obama, Mexico is a sinking cesspool people will risk prison terms to escape. The U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson sector shows a year to year increase of 8,000 apprehensions between October and April. Not even SB 1070 can stem this tide “Roberto Santos” a self identified illegal alien from Mexico doesn’t care about Arizona’s new law designed to detected and expel those who are in Arizona illegally. Santos who has been kidnapped by bandits, caught...

Illegal immigration, especially from Mexico is once again a huge issue in the United States. It is an issue that could provoke violence from both sides and has the potential to cause major social disruption if President Barack Obama presses forward with plans to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants this year. Like most radical social movements in the United States, the "immigrant rights" was initiated (and is maintained) by communist and socialist forces. Communist Party and Democratic Socialists of America member David Bacon is a leading immigration rights activist. He made an interesting admission in an article published...

Here is more about the now infamous L.A. teacher, Ron Gochez, who called for Mexican revoltution in the U.S. (video link below) GOCHEZ & HIS RADICAL CONNECTIONSRon Gochez was chairman of MEChA, a radical separatist group that believes Southwestern USA belongs to Mexico (!!!) MEChA & Reconquista (Reconquest): Their most chilling demand is the call for “La Reconquista” or the retaking of the Southwestern states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah) to form an independent nation called “Aztlan”. Equating the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the two-year Mexican War and granted the United States...

Ron Gochez is a high school social studies teacher at the Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles. In his spare time he calls for a Mexican revolution from the steps on the UCLA campus, of which he has determined to be stolen, occupied Mexican land. La Raza is also mentioned in the video presentation. By visiting the Santee Education Complex website, I’ve confirmed there is a Ronald Gochez in the School of Public Service and Social Justice. There is no picture of Gochez on the website, but I did find a video (included below) from NBC 4 -- the Los...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqPo5ofk0s Here's the comments of the person who posted the youtube: "Where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico"....Calif. tax dollars at work. More gems: 'Communist Revolution', 'Frail, racist white people', 'La Raza' (the Race), Fidel Castro, 'Northern Front of Latin Revolution'..."40 million...revolutionaries...in the belly of the beast". "Our enemy is Capitalism and Imperialism". Sedition anyone? We are revolutionary Mexican organization here. We understand that this is not just about Mexico. Its about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism At the forefront of this revolutionary movement is La Raza. We will no longer fall for these lies called borders....

Per Drudge... Yesterday, a listener’s son was offended that his school, Klein Collins High School, displayed the Mexican flag prominently. His mother called to complain, and the school wouldn’t return her call. The student took the sign down. The school pitched a fit, reviewed the surveillance tapes, found the student, and suspended him for 3 days. AND he has to pay for the flag.

CHICAGO (May 1) -- Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters - including 50,000 alone in Los Angeles - rallied in cities nationwide demanding President Barack Obama tackle immigration reform immediately. "I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened a sleeping giant," said labor organizer John Delgado who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered. From Los Angeles to Washington D.C., activists, families, students and even politicians marched, practiced civil disobedience and "came out" about their citizenship status in the name of rights for immigrants, including the estimated...

Santa Barbara, Calif. Walking the sandy beachfront in this ultra-affluent city, I chanced upon two Hispanic men rummaging through the trash. Startled at the sight, I stared momentarily. One of them yelled at me, “You look now, but in 50 years we will own all this!” Given the tsunami of illegal immigration and the prolific Hispanic birthrate, I responded, “I believe you will.” US Census statistics suggest the scavenging man was right. California, now about 37 percent Latino, is expected to be majority Hispanic by 2042. A quarter of all Americans will probably be Latino in 40 years. This trend...

“Their purpose is to come to the United States and take over. And the way they take over is very violent” Special Agent William Newell, ATF