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On Black Friday, a group of Americans witnessed over a dozen illegal aliens crossing the Rio Grande. A Harlingen couple, who asked reporters in the video below to conceal their identities, said they and others around them were outraged at what they were witnessing. What was more shocking to the couple is nobody was stopping them... "I noticed two, what appeared to be males in the water there," the husband explains. "I guess on the west side of the bridge headed northbound from the Mexico side of the water." Caught on video by the couple, men crossing the river with...

Charles Krauthammer told viewers Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that the theft of a truck carrying dangerous radioactive material in central Mexico “highlights the fact that one of the reasons we should have a secure southern border is not just to reduce illegal immigration.”

Obama on biz: You didn't build that. On website: We didn't build that. On border fence: Don't build that. On Iran nukes: OK, build that.— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) November 30, 2013

Stymied in her quest to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General in Obama's 2nd term, Janet Napolitano "settled" for a cushy $570,000-a-year job as University of California President. There,  she is continuing the betrayal of Americans in favor of illegal aliens which was the hallmark of her tenure as Homeland Security boss. As her first act as UC Pres., Napolitano announced that she’s allocating $5 million to illegal aliens students living in California.The $5 million fund will provide illegals with scholarships and special counseling to help them through their college careers -- at the same time that the state “Let...

Many gay, lesbian and transgender immigrants held in U.S. detention centers, who may be vulnerable to abuse by guards and other detainees, are placed in solitary confinement to protect them, but the isolation can cause psychological problems, according to a new report by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. “Solitary confinement is considered a form of torture,” said Sharita Gruberg-Wanker, a policy analyst at the center. “When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does this to prevent people from being sexually assaulted, it puts them at risk of other forms of trauma.”

Like many of her Allentown neighbors, Josefina Nivar knew she would need help navigating the Affordable Care Act. So when she learned there would be an information session about the insurance plans, she invited as many people as she could. Nivar, originally from Galicia, Spain, arrived at the community meeting with her elderly parents and waited for her neighbors to show up. None did. "They are afraid," she said last week. Hispanic people, many with limited English language skills, are disproportionately represented among the uninsured. The language barrier and cultural differences add levels of difficulty to an enrollment process including...

Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and pseudo prophet, called "Amnesty” the greatest civil rights issue of our time: not Nike or Apple workers making peanuts a day, the mass sex trafficking of young girls in Asia, or Muslim women, even homosexuals, being denied universal rights and murdered by Islamic nations. Hmm, for a man who is allegedly so cerebral, so acutely attuned to the fine details, I’m shocked he confuses “rights” with “illegal”. Unless I’m grievously mistaken, no one ever forced the near 20 million illegal immigrants to enter America. The fact these individuals trespassed across our borders, consciously violating...

... Obama already planned to star at a fundraiser at the SFJazz Center on Monday, marking his ninth trip to the Bay Area in the past 2 1/2 years — all of them to raise money. Local enthusiasm for this trip, however, has been lacking. As The Chronicle’s Matier & Ross reported, some tickets to the fundraiser are being offered a deep discounts.

Senator Jeff Session, one of the real heroes of the battle to defeat amnesty for illegal aliens and open borders legislation that would permanently flood America with low-cost, low-skilled workers had a few choice words for his fellow Republicans. “The White House and Senate Democrats shamelessly coordinated with a small cadre of CEOs to pressure House Republicans to yield. It’s time for Republicans to tell these special interests to get lost and to be the one party that will defend the interests of the millions of Americans looking for better jobs and better wages.” Sessions has it right on the...

The Obama administration will allow some relatives of U.S. service members living in the country illegally to stay, according to a policy directive issued Friday. The nine-page memorandum is the latest in a series of immigration policy changes made by President Barack Obama since he took office.

The Obama administration on Friday carved out yet another category of illegal immigrants it says it will no longer deport — in this case saying that relatives of U.S. troops and veterans who previously served can apply to stay in the country. The administration said it was making the move because it was worried illegal immigration was hurting military readiness, and this would be a way to relieve some of the “stress and anxiety” faced by troops whose relatives are illegal immigrants.

MONSTER: Illegal Alien pedophile Tito Pedraza-Montejo. Yet another import from Mexico's sick child-sex culture.- A 44-year-old illegal alien, already on the run from Mexico after raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl there, was jailed Wednesday after being accused of molesting a first-grader in Leesburg, Florida, police said. Tito Pedraza-Montejo of Leesburg was charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under 12 years old. He remained in the Lake County jail Friday on no bond, due to his status of being an illegal immigrant and a possible flight risk. Pedraza-Montejo also is under investigation for allegedly molesting a...

Many communities across the U.S. have problems getting reimbursed for sending ambulances to pick up patients, but for one community along the U.S.-Mexico border, the delinquent party is the federal government, which the city of Nogales says owes it hundreds of thousands of dollars for picking up immigrants. The Arizona city billed the federal government for hundreds of ambulance sorties dispatched to calls from federal agents when they find someone injured, but the government has paid less than 20 cents on the dollar — leaving Nogales to bear the burden of more than $250,000 in the past fiscal year alone.

POLITICS Obama courting CEOs on immigration widens conservative split, raises issue of corporate motives Published November 10, 2013 FoxNews.com President Obama's courting of top U.S. executives this week to help get the Republican-controlled House to pass immigration reform is furthering the divide among conservatives, with a top GOP senator and others suggesting corporate America is lending its support with hopes of getting more access to low-cost immigrant labor. The president said before the White House meeting Tuesday that he and others who support comprehensive immigration reform passed in the Senate know the “politics are challenging” in the House and that...

A drug-smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system has been found connecting San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. Authorities seized more than eight tons of marijuana and 325lb (147kg) of cocaine in the discovery. Officials have not revealed the exact length or location of the recently finished tunnel, but Mexican media report it is near Tijuana's airport. More than 75 such secret tunnels have been discovered since 2008.

New estimates show the federal government will spend nearly twice as much fighting global warming this year than on U.S. border security. The White House reported to House Republicans that there are 18 federal agencies engaged in global warming activities in 2013, funding a wide range of programs, including scientific research, international climate assistance, incentivizing renewable energy technology and subsidies to renewable energy producers. Global warming spending is estimated to cost $22.2 billion this year, and $21.4 billion next year. At the same time, the federal government will spend nearly $12 billion on customs and border enforcement this year.

Iranian authorities hanged on Saturday 16 “rebels” of an unspecified armed group in retaliation for the death of 14 border guards near the frontier with Pakistan. Iranian media said three guards were captured by “bandits.” The 16 were executed on Saturday morning hours after the rebels ambushed the border guards near the town of Saravan in southeast Iran, local judicial official Mohammad Marzieh told the Fars news agency. The border guards were killed by the armed group following clashes Friday night. “These individuals were executed this Saturday morning in response to the terrorist action of last evening at Saravan and...

Above: ICE Union President Chris Crane, whose members are suing Obama's DHS for its unlawful virtual amnesty policies for illegal aliens.- The head of the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents slammed President Barack Obama for saying he will push immigration reform now that the fiscal crisis is solved. “The president is in no position to demand Congress pass immigration reform,” Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council said in a statement Thursday. “His administration and DHS leadership have undermined ICE’s enforcement mission and put the public safety and national security at risk.”In an interview with the Los...

Above: Obama's DHS Secretary-designee Jeh Johnson, former DOD General Counsel who led the reversal of the Pentagon's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" restrictions on "gays in the military".- Barack Obama once again demonstrated his lack of interest in choosing national security and immigration enforcement officials who have actual experience in their fields. Back in August, Obama surprised many in D.C. by selecting John Sandweg for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director - despite the fact that Sandweg had zero law enforcement experience and had fought for the release of violent sexual predators and pedophiles as an attorney. Now Obama continues...

Turkey has begun building a two-metre high wall along its border with Syria in an attempt to stem border security and smuggling problems. The move comes as the United Nations forecast that another two million refugees will flee the Syrian conflict in 2014. Turkey is sheltering around a quarter of the two million people who have already fled Syria's conflict. Construction workers have begun digging foundations for the wall in Nusaybin, a border district six miles (10 km) north of the Syrian town of Qamishli. An unnamed government official in the Turkish capital, Ankara, said: "We haven't had border security...

The National Border Patrol Council has come forward to reveal to the American public once again management practices that could be risking the lives of Americans -- and the lives of illegal immigrants. Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News and claimed that Border Patrol management has begun the practice of ordering Border Patrol Agents to stand down and cease pursuing drug smugglers, human smugglers and traffickers, and illegal aliens. He also warned it could lead to illegal aliens entering the country from nations associated with terrorism. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s...

Siblings born in San Diego live with their mother in Mexico while their father works in the U.S. He's building a house for his family, but he won't be living there. Gabriela and Benigno, then 32, who were in the country illegally; Benigno for 10 years; Gabriela, four. Their doctor, Johanna Archer, paid for the treatment. "I felt they deserved the chance to have a child," she said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday pledged action on immigration overhaul legislation even as most of the attention on Capitol Hill is focused on fights over the budget and debt. Rep. Bob Goodlatte said the immigration issue needs to be solved and work is happening behind the scenes toward that goal.

MOUNT HAZEKA, Israel — Elite infantry and reconnaissance units have been moved into the long-quiet Golan Heights this spring. Bulldozers are making way for new military shelters. And at an Israeli Army outpost on a strategic hilltop here, a Merkava tank sits pointing toward Syria — poised to race up a dirt ramp at a moment’s notice. The stepped-up military presence across the 43-mile border demonstrates the growing fear and anxiety among Israeli leaders over the Syrian civil war. Already there have been clashes at the border, with errant munitions landing in the Golan some 30 times, at least five...

MOSCOW – The environmentalist group Greenpeace says two of its activists have been arrested after climbing onto an oil platform in Russia's Arctic waters. It claims warning shots were fired across the organization's ship. A Greenpeace statement says the arrests were made Wednesday in the Pechora Sea, a section of the Barents Sea. The activists, who climbed a platform belonging to state gas company Gazprom, are being held on a Russian Coast Guard ship, according to Greenpeace. The statement said the Coast Guard fired 11 shots across the Greenpeace ship that brought activists to the area. A spokeswoman for the...

Two recent cases of corruption at U.S. Customs and Border Protection stations indicate a pervasive and systemic problem at the checkpoints pedestrians and vehicles pass through between the U.S. and Mexico. The cases involve U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who have been charged or convicted of allowing shipments of drugs and human beings to enter the U.S. from Mexico illegally in exchange for large cash payments. Former Customs Officer Luis Vasquez, from the border checkpoint in Douglas, Arizona, was sentenced on August 19, 2013 for allowing more than 12,000 pounds of marijuana to cross through his checkpoint. He received...

SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A California bill to let undocumented immigrants become lawyers passed its last legislative hurdle on Thursday and will be sent to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature.

Above: Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Chief Doug Jordan meet in Phoenix.- Unbelievable! The Grantville, Georgia Police Chief has been suspended for a week - without pay - merely for visiting Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio during his vacation. Chief Doug Jordan and his wife planned a recent trip to Arizona to celebrate their wedding anniversary. They had honeymooned there 31 years ago. They paid for the trip and its expenses themselves. While there, Jordan thought it would be a great idea to see if he could meet with Arpaio. He was honored when Arpaio agreed to do so.“I meet with...

You can ask Wes Loe a lot of things about his life in Hyder, Alaska, population 65. You can ask about the mail delivery (waiting for a letter is like waiting for the “second coming of the Lord”); about the black bears wandering through town (“we all have guns”); and about living in an Alaskan community that uses Canadian currency, has a B.C. area code (250), relies on B.C. hydro for its power and sends its children to the Bear Valley School in neighbouring Stewart, B.C., population 300.

Fresh off its success in July, the National Immigrant Youth Alliance is planning to hold another immigration protest at the U.S.-Mexico border. Back in mid-summer, the group organized what become known as the DREAM 9, a group of nine activists who protested Obama administration deportation policies by turning themselves in at the U.S.-Mexico border. Six of the activists lived in the U.S. but returned to Mexico before the Obama administration implemented its deferred action plan for immigrant youth. Three more then left the U.S., essentially self-deporting themselves to join the six. In late July, all nine marched up to the...

Lady in a car is stopped at a US border checkpoint miles from the border. Stands her ground in the face of intrusive personal questions asked by a young officer.She's upset.Detained for 15 minutes.

The Obama administration issued a policy late last week telling immigration agents to try not to arrest and deport illegal immigrant parents of minor children — a move that adds to the categories of people the administration is trying not to deport. In a nine-page memo issued Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents should use “prosecutorial discretion” to try to avoid detaining parents and, if parents are detained, agents should make sure they have the ability to visit with their children or participate in family court proceedings. Snip “President Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally...

At least four people were killed when a cargo train nicknamed "La Bestia", or The Beast, on which would-be migrants hitch rides toward the U.S. border, derailed in a remote area of southern Mexico on Sunday, emergency services said. Some local media said the death toll could be as high as 50. Migrants often jump aboard La Bestia under cover of darkness.

WASHINGTON — Catholic bishops and priests from major dioceses across the country will preach a coordinated message next month backing changes in immigration policy, with some using Sunday Masses on Sept. 8 to urge Congressional passage of a legislative overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants.

by John HillStand With ArizonaThe border is “safer than ever”. So DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has told us the past four years. Again and again. Barack Obama has mocked those who say the border is unsafe: “Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied.” But for Texans, the Rio Grande is wide open - thanks to Federal failure to secure it  - and is a growing threat to the safety of citizens and law enforcement, on land and water. Wide open...and violent, as a Congressional delegation visiting the border found out this week. Three Republicans...

The majority of undocumented immigrants who have applied for President Obama’s two-year reprieve from deportation are Mexican, younger than 21 and were less than 10 years old when they came to the United States, according to an in-depth analysis. The next largest age group of applicants – with 36 percent – fell between 15 and 18 years old, the study showed. The Brookings study is the first data-based comprehensive look at the DACA applicants. Some 557,000 immigrants had applied for DACA as of late June. The vast majority, nearly 75 percent, were approved, 25 percent were still under review and...

The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a former criminal defense attorney who represented accused and convicted murderers, sex offenders and pedophiles and fought for the release of violent convicted offenders -- a background some critics say makes him a less than ideal choice to lead the nation's second-largest law enforcement agency. John Sandweg, 38, who was recently named acting director of ICE, worked between 2002 and 2009 defending violent criminals in Arizona, and helping then-governor and current Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano raise campaign funds. A former administration official said news of Sandweg’s installation as acting...

SIERRA VISTA, Arizona — Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels doesn’t mince words. He’s angry that local law enforcement and the citizens who call the Southwest border home have been left out of the decision making process when it comes to security and immigration reform. Dannels has lived along the border since 1984. He remembers when the dangers from smugglers circumventing the rocky, mountainous terrain were few and far between. Now, he says, a different breed of narcotics traffickers has amassed weapons, technology and small armies of death; threatening not only the stability of Mexico but U.S. national security as well....

A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in San Diego, forcing agencies to rent hotel rooms

Constitution Free Zones are what The Department of Homeland Security has established. The federal agency isn’t really securing the borders, but they are extinguishing the Fourth Amendment rights of nearly 197 million American citizens within 100 miles of the border….and the ocean.(VIDEO-AT-LINK) Before I begin, isn’t this really what “Freedom of the Press” is supposed to be about? Doesn’t it exist to keep elected officials and things they do in check and expose corruption and lawlessness? Yeah, I thought so too, but we aren’t hearing this on the evening news, are we? Anthony Gucciardi reports on these “Constitution Free Zones”...

NAHARIYA, Israel — The 3-year-old girl cried “Mama, Mama” over and over as a stranger rocked her and tried to comfort her. She had been brought from Syria to the government hospital in this northern Israeli town five days earlier, her face blackened by what doctors said was probably a firebomb or a homemade bomb. In the next bed, a girl, 12, lay in a deep sleep. She had arrived at the pediatric intensive care unit with a severe stomach wound that had already been operated on in Syria, and a hole in her back. Another girl, 13, has been...

The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won’t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system. The findings were revealed as Congress debates an immigration bill, and the Government Accountability Office’s report could throw up another hurdle because lawmakers in the House and Senate have said that any final deal must include a workable system to track entries and exits and cut down on so-called visa overstays....

Rep. Karen Bass meets with constituents to discuss measures being debated in Congress; the crowd is sharply divided. Keith Hardiner, 57, said he is the descendant of slaves. "They were separated from their families, but we had to fight and struggle," said the Silver Lake resident. "And now I feel like we are being set back and the country is being kind of stolen from us."

A Lake County property where two men allegedly kept a Los Angeles-area girl in a metal box and sexually abused her had been under federal investigation for the previous 18 months, court documents said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been investigating a 680-acre property in a remote section of Lakeport since December 2011.

by John HillStand With ArizonaOpen-borders fanatic Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) tells us that illegal aliens are "just trying to do the jobs Americans won't do".  Does that include rape and murder?Border Patrol agents arrested this week two previously deported men -- one a convicted child rapist and the other a convicted murderer -- trying to illegally enter the U.S.On Tuesday, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station apprehended three people who made an illegal entry near Sunland Park. Investigation revealed that one of the them, identified as 66-year-old Valdemar Rodriguez Chaidez of Mexico, was convicted of...

It seems we are destined to have immigration reform at the forefront of the political discussion in America. What we should be doing is enforcing our current immigration laws, but that doesn't seem to be in the works. Many of our politicians believe we need a massive piece of legislation to overhaul the entire system. President Obama believes he can use executive orders to rewrite the way the system works. Consequently, he has already ordered DREAMER status to be given to any illegal immigrant claiming to be brought to America when they were a child. According to Chris Cane, President...

Murders in Tamaulipas jumped more than 90 percent and kidnapping reports more than doubled over last year to the highest rate among any state in Mexico, a new travel warning issued Friday by the U.S. State Department says. The State Department maintained its stance that U.S. citizens should defer all non-essential travel to Tamaulipas, as carjackings, armed robberies, gun battles and grenade attacks continue to pervade the region, including The data on kidnappings and murders in the Mexican state that borders South Texas sheds light into a state where such information is typically difficult to obtain from local officials. “These...

No Republican should vote for legislation that perpetuates amnesty for more than 11 million people illegally in our country, leaves our southern border open for even more illegal immigration and stifles economic growth. That is why we were two of the 68 senators who voted for the immigration bill that takes the most dramatic steps in history to secure our border, end perpetual amnesty and encourage job creation.

Rafael Cruz, the father of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, invigorated the crowd during tonight’s FreedomWorks Free the People event. Describing his own personal journey escaping Cuba and working hard to build a life for himself in the U.S., the elder Cruz noted comparisons that he believes exist between Fidel Castro’s governance and President Barack Obama’s executive actions. Upon rising to power, he said that Castro, like Obama, spoke about hope and change. While the message sounded good at the time, it didn’t take long for socialism to take root in his home country. And he paid the price.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the agents of the Gulf cartel claimed to be a police officer and handcuffed the man. The victim’s wife thought police had taken her husband, but when she called the local Texas authorities, she discovered that they had not arrested her husband. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says the victim was beaten, blindfolded, gagged, and bound in duct tape. He was taken by the agents of the Gulf cartel to a nearby ranch on U.S. soil. Only then, say authorities, did the kidnappers realize they had taken an innocent man and that the victim was...