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Paraguay named an undocumented U.S. immigrant to run its consulate in New York, discovering his illegal status only when the man returned home to get his diplomatic papers and was denied a U.S. visa. Paraguay's foreign ministry acknowledged Wednesday that it was a mistake to name Augusto Noguera as the consulate's "first official," but said President Fernando Lugo annulled the decision as soon as he was informed of the U.S. Embassy's visa denial. Vice Foreign Minister Manuel Maria Caceres told The Associated Press that the decision to name Noguera as a diplomat on Sept. 21 was made in good faith...

SEIU Funneling Cash from Illegals Into US Elections http://www.breitbart.tv/is-seiu-funneling-cash-from-illegals-into-us-elections/

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This afternoon Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano announced that President Obama Plans push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.” in other words to give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens so Obama can get 14 million new voters and the unions that bankroll him can get millions of new members . “A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status will mandate that illegal immigrants meet a number of requirements—including registering, paying a fine, passing a criminal background check, fully paying all taxes...

WHARTON -- An undocumented Honduran immigrant, whose bail became the subject of a New Jersey Supreme Court case earlier this year, pleaded guilty today to sexually-assaulting a 8-year-old girl.   Manuel Fajardo-Santos, 31, admitted today to sexually assaulting his girlfriend's younger sister in Wharton on Aug. 24, 2008 after returning home from a party. Superior Court Judge John Dangler set sentencing for Jan. 29.Under a plea arrangement, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office will seek a sentence of seven years in state prison, with a minimum 85-percent parole ineligible, while public defender Michael Fletcher will argue for a five-year sentence.   A detainer...

The illegal immigration issue is emerging as the biggest threat to passing healthcare reform in the House. Congressional Hispanics have threatened to vote against the bill because of a last-minute threat from within the Democratic Caucus to bolster the House bill’s immigration restrictions to match those included in the Senate Finance bill. And they’re also fighting President Barack Obama, the original sponsor of the language prohibiting illegal immigrants from accessing the public health insurance exchange. On Thursday afternoon, four leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) traveled to the White House to meet with Obama on behalf of the entire...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A new charge has been issued against a man police describe as a suspected serial rapist. Mauricio Morales is already in jail and charged with raping two Nashville women in separate cases. Metro police believe Morales is the man behind the rape of a 10-year-old girl in her own South Nashville home near Old Hickory Boulevard and Nolensville Pike. The alleged incident happened back in April. Crime Scene investigators collected evidence from her room and the TBI crime lab determined the DNA matched Mauricio Morales. A Grand Jury indicted him Friday on the new charges. Morales had...

Harris County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to continue screening jail prisoners for immigration status and referring those in the country illegally to federal authorities. County Judge Ed Emmett and three commissioners voted for a three-year extension of the controversial 287(g) program expected to cost local taxpayers nearly $1 million a year. Since the county began participating in the program, more than 10,650 inmates have been referred to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The court was undeterred by pastors, civil libertarians, civil rights leaders and immigration activists who insisted the program is a drain on local resources, spawns racial profiling...

Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty. Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does not exist in the city, will be reimbursed, Kunkle said. "I was surprised and stunned that that would happen, particularly in the city of Dallas," Kunkle said. "In my world, you would never tell someone not to speak Spanish." The citations were issued in several different...

Is Target's 'illegal alien' costume offensive? Yes, and it should be removed. Yes, but it should remain on store shelves. No, it's all in good fun. No, some are just too politically correct.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Immigrant rights activists are calling on U.S. retailers to stop selling two controversial "Illegal Alien" costumes that have surfaced for Halloween, saying the outfits are a broadside attack on illegal immigrants. The "Illegal Alien Adult Costume," manufactured by Forum novelties, includes an orange jumpsuit, similar to prison garb, with "Illegal Alien" stamped in black across the chest; a space alien mask; and a fake Green Card. The "Illegal Alien Mask with Hat" also includes a space alien mask, this time with a dark handlebar mustache and a baseball cap

Stopped by State Police on suspicion of driving while intoxicated Monday morning, the driver identified himself as Carlos Billamarin, 22, of Hampton Bays. But a fingerprint check revealed a sinister secret life almost a decade in the making, police say. Billamarin, police said, turned out to be Erick Morales, 27, a fugitive wanted in the 2001 stabbing death of a 15-year-old classmate in Daly City, Calif. State Troopers Matthew W. Stumpf and Andrew Gargiulo stopped Morales' 2000 Kia Sportage on Springville Road near the Long Island Rail Road station in Hampton Bays Monday at 2:50 a.m. Police said Morales was...

DALLAS – A 19-year-old Italy resident was arrested by federal authorities after he attempted to blow up a prominent downtown Dallas skyscraper last Thursday. Italy, a town of 2,000 located south of Waxahachie, was home to the Jordanian born Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, who worked at a Shell gas station on Interstate Highway 35 and lived in a Monolithic dome house in town. Smadi was arrested in a sting operation when the phony bombs the Federal Bureau of Investigations provided to him to detonate failed to go off. FBI agents, in widely reported news accounts, monitored Smadi for several months...

Police are looking for a man convicted of an Arlington rape more than 10 years ago in connection with the recent rape an 11-year-old girl in Oklahoma City. Melvin Urbina, 33, was sentenced to two years in prison for the 1998 sexual assault of an Arlington woman. He was deported to Mexico after his release in 2001. He returned to the United States illegally and worked in Oklahoma City. Police want to question Urbina about the July 25 sexual assault of a girl who was trying to find some extra chairs for the guests at her godfather’s wedding anniversary party...

Terror Plot Targeting Dallas, Texas Skyscraper Foiled By FBI Well, if anyone still has any doubt that our borders aren't well protected, this should send a clear and decisive message that we need action NOW! The FBI reported that James T. Jacks, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Robert E. Casey, Jr., Special Agent in Charge for the Dallas Office of the FBI, announced today that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, 19, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Smadi, who was under continuous surveillance...

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      Mr. President, We Are Not Demagogues -- Please Talk With Us    By Roy Beck, Thursday, August 13, 2009, 11:30 PMIn Mexico, Pres. Obama called us a bad name.He was using his appearance in a foreign country to promise that he is determined early next year to "legalize" 12-20 million illegal aliens and put them on a path to U.S. citizenship.He made it pretty clear that he has a lot more admiration for citizens of other countries who break our immigration laws than he does for his own fellow citizens who oppose a blanket amnesty.  The New...

Stuart, Fla. (AP) -- A South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his family and legal guardian did not act unreasonably, a jury ruled Monday. Health care and immigration experts across the country have closely watched the court case in the sleepy coastal town of Stuart. They say it underscores the dilemma facing hospitals with patients who require long-term care, are unable to pay and don't qualify for federal or state aid because of their immigration status. Deputy Court Clerk Carol Harper said the...

Saturday, July 25, 2009 STAR-LEDGER STAFF An unlicensed driver who struck and killed a 72-year-old Newton woman in a hit-and-run collision in Morristown in December was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation and fined $500. The Dec. 13 incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. when Andy Maguino, who was driving a delivery car for a local pizzeria, hit Alice Myers as she was walking across Mount Kemble Avenue near Doughty Street, authorities said. Myers died several hours later at Morristown Memorial Hospital. Much to the dismay of Myers' family, Maguino, a 30-year-old native of Peru who authorities say is in...

A violent sexual predator is expected to be sentenced today to anywhere from 10 to 50 years in prison for chasing down, beating and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman on a street here two years ago. Eric Rangel, 22, was found guilty by a jury in March of committing the April 22, 2007 attack at 3 a.m. on North Beverwyck Road. At the time of the assault, Rangel, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was employed as a cook at a pizzeria about a half-mile from where the incident occurred. In the trial in Superior Court in Morristown, Rangel's attorney, public defender...

FamilySecurityMatters.org introduces a weekly series to remember those United States citizens killed by illegal aliens. Are American lives worth nothing to the President and the Congress of the United States? And now, the first in this groundbreaking series: California – Jamiel Shaw An illegal alien gang member has been charged in the shooting death of high school football star. "Illegal aliens are not the responsibility of the American people. The lives of fellow citizens are."

President Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan immigrant who has been fighting deportation proceedings for several years while living illegally in Boston, may be heading back to Kenya, according to a family member. It was not clear if the aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was being deported or if she was going back voluntarily, but in 2003 a judge ordered her to leave the country. She appealed that ruling and lost, with another judge ordering her deported in 2004. She had a third hearing in April in which she was seeking asylum; the outcome has not been made public. [Snip] The White House had...

Secretary of State Karen Handel, in a statement released by her office, noted: “DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.”

The little girl flung from a minivan yesterday morning in west Omaha has died, according to the Omaha Police Department. Josie Bluhm, 4, was in a 2007 Chrysler Town & Country driven by her mother when the crash occurred. Her mother's minivan was southbound on 180th Street about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday when a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup driven west on West Center Road by Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa, 27, ran a red light and slammed into it, authorities said. Josie was the most severely hurt of those injured in the crash. She suffered brain hemorrhaging and was eventually declared brain dead. Life...

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SAN DIEGO — A Mexican man convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter for running over a man on a bike in Mira Mesa and dragging the body more than 500 feet was placed on three years' probation Wednesday. In addition to manslaughter, Marcos Garcia Jeronimo, 23, also pleaded guilty April 8 to hit-and-run causing death, in connection with the Aug. 20 death of Marcelo Bolom. San Diego Superior Court Judge Melinda Lasater also ordered Jeronimo to spend a year in county jail, but she acknowledged he has credit for more than 380 days and is expected to be released immediately. Jeronimo...

MIAMI - Immigrants and their families gathered at rallies across the country Friday to push for changes to U.S. immigration policy, but as a swine flu outbreak continued to spread, attendance at some events was smaller than organizers had hoped.

An undocumented alien and his wife were turned over to the Border Patrol on Saturday after police were dispatched to Wal-Mart in reference to children left inside a vehicle. Someone notified Safford Police at about 12:26 p.m. that children were alone in a blue 1996 Chevrolet Lumina and they were sweating. Officer Herschel Medlin arrived on scene and confirmed three children were alone in the car and sweating. The ages of the children are 8, 9 and a 5-month-old baby. The older children told Medlin their father, Omar Marquez, was inside Wal-Mart shopping. Medlin then had the store page Marquez...

Lawmakers have secretly approved awarding an illegal immigrant child molester more than $4 million because he was beaten by fellow inmates while in custody. Fernandez Ramirez, 24, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who molested a 6-year-old girl in a park. The back door settlement, paid with tax dollers, gives the illegal alien's family $3.75 million and $900,000 will go to medical liens rendered while in custody. Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors refused to comment on the settlement even though constituents have the right to know since it's their money.

Benjamin Ramirez, an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record, was convicted this week of robbing Pizza Patron in Denton last July, and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. The sentence follows four prior felony convictions, including a prior robbery, sexual assault and human trafficking incident, along with five misdemeanor theft charge convictions, said Jamie Beck, an assistant with the Denton County district attorney’s office. Ramirez had previously been deported from the United States twice and is not a citizen, she said. “With as many priors, I’m not surprised with the 60 years,” Beck said. In closing arguments, the...

WASHINGTON—Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Tim Johnson announced that Maximino Mondragon, 57, was sentenced today for his role in a scheme to smuggle Central American women and girls into the United States and to hold them in a condition of forced labor in the Houston area. U.S. District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore sentenced Mondragon to 156 months incarceration, three years post release supervision, $200 special assessment and further ordered that he, jointly with his co-defendants, pay $ $1,715,588.05 in restitution to the victims. Maximino Mondragon is...

A Cuban national who was ordered deported, but was released from custody because he could not be removed to Cuba, is expected to make his initial appearance in Los Angeles this afternoon on charges related to a scheme in which he allegedly assumed the identity of an attorney and charged aliens to represent them in the very immigration court where he had been ordered deported. Raul Ernest Alonso-Prieto, 60, was turned over to federal authorities in Fresno two weeks ago after he was indicted on March 19. The 22-count indictment charges Alonso-Prieto with five counts of wire fraud, two counts...

Published: April 19, 2009 3:00 a.m. Illegal status clouds future for graduates Angela Mapes Turner The Journal Gazette José speaks with frustration, but not bitterness, about the principle of American life that most inspires him. “Everybody has the opportunity to do something,” he said of his adopted country. “Well, not in my case. A lot of people have the opportunity to do something.” José pays attention to detail, from the tips of his carefully spiked hair to his layered T-shirts and shiny, clean Nikes. Attention to detail helped the 19-year-old high school senior learn English in a few short years....

Illegal immigrant gets 15 years for molesting 13-year-old By Logan G. Carver | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Saturday, April 18, 2009 Story last updated at 4/18/2009 - 1:57 am A district judge on Friday sentenced a Mexican national who entered the country illegally to 15 years in prison for forcing his way into an apartment and assaulting a 13-year-old girl. A Lubbock County jury on Tuesday convicted Julian Vasquez of indecency with a child for the July 2008 assault. Vasquez forced his way into a unit in the Cora Apartments in the 300 block of Avenue U after the girl opened the door...

Special treatment for illegal alien drug dealers at the expense of the rest of us? That would be insane! Of course, that's exactly what's happening in NY State. EC interviews NY State Assemblyman Greg Ball, who's doing his best to expose this aspect of the rewrite of NY's notorious Rockefeller Drug Laws. Assemblyman Ball takes us inside the upside-down world of Albany, where the quickest way to a government benefit may soon be to be an illegal alien with a pocketful of drug money.

At Chapel Hill, the glow of winning the 2009 NCAA basketball championship still radiates, and the university can understandably puff with pride. Until Tuesday, that is, when UNC’s reputation was badly tarnished. That’s when a bunch of student rabble-rousers muzzled a controversial speaker and thus trampled the principle of free speech. Here’s what happened: Tom Tancredo, a former Republican presidential candidate and former congressman from Colorado, was scheduled to speak at UNC’s Bingham Hall. Tancredo is a fierce opponent of illegal immigration. So fierce, in fact, that when he was in Congress, he asked federal immigration officials to raid a...

Sheriff says suspected illegal immigrant paid $85K a year April 15th, 2009 @ 7:14am by KTAR Newsroom PHOENIX -- Two men have been arrested at a Scottsdale business in a case related to the state's employer sanctions law. One of the suspected illegal immigrants arrested was earning more than $85,000 a year, according to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio said the owner of Stealth Demolition had a high regard for the man, identified as Gabriel Jiminez. "He was commended by the owner of the company -- who said he was the best ever and a very honorable person who...

Where is the fairness to all immigrants that came to this country LEGALLY? They also came seeking economic opportunity to provide for their families but they had to go through established legal processes. Why shouldn’t America enforce its immigration law fairly and across the board?

UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp responded to Tuesday night’s events and said, “We’re very sorry that former Congressman Tancredo wasn’t able to speak. We pride ourselves on being a place where all points of view can be expressed and heard.” REALLY? Where is the fairness to all immigrants that came to this country LEGALLY? http://www.thedailychange.com/unc-illegal-alien-supporters-putz/

BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A Foley man accused of vehicular homicide lied to police about his role in an accident in February because he was "scared of being deported back to Mexico," Foley Police homicide investigator Jack Nelson testified in court today. Carlos Padilla Carlos Padilla, 28, originally told officers on the scene that he was not driving a 2002 Ford Focus that collided with a motorcycle but later recanted his story to a Spanish-speaking investigator, Nelson said. Padilla was arrested after the accident on Baldwin County 12, police said. Padilla's case will go before a grand jury in May.

Photo by Matthew RatajczakWEST PALM BEACH — Victor Leon is alone in the hospital most days. The 26-year-old was paralyzed nearly three years ago when he fell from the roof of a three-story building in Palm City while working for Jupiter-based Altec Roofing. Since then, Leon has been mired in a legal battle to get workers' compensation benefits or legal damages from Altec. Leon is an illegal immigrant. His status puts him at the crux of a legal debate over what rights, if any, illegal workers have after being injured on a job for which the American government says...

Prosecutor: Illegal aliens killed teacherBy ARTEMIS COUGHLAN Staff Writer Published: Friday, April 10, 2009 MOUNT HOLLY — Two illegal alien brothers from Mexico were arrested several hours after their pickup truck broad sided a car, killing a beloved teacher on her way to school. Jose Luis Galindo-Sanchez, the 26-year-old driver, was charged with hindering apprehension, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said yesterday. Lucio Garcia-Sanchez, the 19-year-old younger brother and passenger, was charged as a material witness. The brothers live on the 900 block of 19th Street in Camden. They were on their way to...

Fifteen years after Congress promised that Washington would help states pick up the tab for imprisoning illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes, California is receiving but a fraction — less than 12 cents on the dollar — of its nearly $1-billion annual cost. The unfulfilled promise is perhaps the most glaring example of the federal government shortchanging California. Officials from states heavily impacted by illegal immigration long have argued that their taxpayers should not have to bear the burden for Washington’s failure to control the border. But Congress this year provided $400 million nationwide to cover the cost of keeping...

Apr 9, 2009 7:15 pm US/Eastern Proposal To Let Illegals Vote Sparks Outrage A Framingham representative admits her idea to allow illegal immigrants to vote in town elections is controversial. Rep. Pam Richardson pitched the idea to fellow democrats in a meeting. But when word hit the Internet the angry calls started coming. Now Richardson is doing some damage control. "Its probably not likely I will push for this," she said. Richardson admits she is backing off. She floated the idea in a meeting with democrats over their state party platform. She said let illegal immigrants vote locally and they...

<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Women and girls as young as 16 were smuggled into this country from Mexico and brought to Charlotte to work as prostitutes. For $25 and $30, authorities said, they performed sex acts — sometimes with 20 men a day.</p>

Mariana de la Torre crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in the trunk of a car soon after her boyfriend beat her and threatened to kill her. Several months arriving in the U.S., she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She used an ID purchased on the black market to get roughly $530,000 worth of hospital care, some of which was paid for by Medicaid. The Chicago Tribune told her story in a recent front-page article last month, and ran her obit this morning. She died back in Mexico at age 28. Her story illustrated how medical identity theft works: de...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- An illegal immigrant working maintenance at a West Knoxville motel has been indicted on charges he broke into a guest's room, raped and killed her, and dumped her body into the Clinch River in September of 2009. A Knox County grand jury indicted Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 20, Tuesday on charges of first degree murder, felony murder, aggravated burglary, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, and abuse of a corpse in connection with the murder of Jennifer Lee Hampton, 21. Hampton was staying at the Days Inn on Lovell Road on September 20th last year when according to...

Illegal Immigrant Pleads To Raping Child Tuesday, April 07, 2009 WBAL Radio as reported by Anne Kramer Prosecutors in Anne Arundel County say an illegal immigrant from El Salvador has pleaded guilty to the second degree rape of an 11-year-old girl. The Annapolis Capital reports Danilo Ramirez who is 30-years-old is expected to be deported after serving an 18 month jail sentence. The State's Attorney's Office tells the paper that the victim thought that Ramirez was her boyfriend and would let him in to her home to have sex while her father slept. Prosecutors say that someone reported what the...

Women and girls as young as 16 were smuggled into this country from Mexico and brought to Charlotte to work as prostitutes. For $25 and $30, authorities said, they performed sex acts – sometimes with 20 men a day. Jorge Flores Rojas, a 44-year- old undocumented Mexican national accused of running the sex trafficking ring, has been sentenced in Charlotte to 24 years in prison, authorities said Tuesday. He was ordered to pay $117,000 in restitution to one woman. He also must register as a sex offender. Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Ryan said Tuesday that prostitution rings like the one...

The Reverend Al Sharpton must be running out of things to protest, today he went after Sheriff Joe Arpaio. According to a report by Reuters, the opportunist Sharpton, called on Sheriff Joe to resign accusing him of racially profiling Hispanics because of his attempts to enforce US immigration laws: Under a deal allowing them to enforce federal immigration laws, the deputies have arrested more than 1,500 people who they determined were in Arizona illegally, triggering street protests and condemnation from Latino activists who accuse him of racial profiling."I am first calling for the resignation and or removal of Sheriff Arpaio...