Postcard from Mexico; Ain't nothin' but a (g) thing (WAUKEGAN TAKES ON VIOLENT ILLEGALS)

Congratulations, Waukegan, you didn't bow to the band of activists that commuted from the city to pump Hispanic residents up with fear and lies in order to bully you into dropping an application for 287(g) to get two of Waukegan's finest trained to deport violent criminals. Here's the story behind the story coming from someone who knows Lake County -- and all the players involved: A few people in Waukegan were concerned about how police officers certified by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport violent criminals would treat nonviolent illegal aliens. Fair enough.

The pro-illegal immigrant activists were called into town and in a matter of days had canvassed the neighborhoods telling tales of building code inspectors who were busting into homes terrifying non-English-speaking grandmothers in search of occupancy violations. Tales of evil policemen stopping anyone with the slightest tan and demanding their green cards. Wild prophecies of midnight raids in homes, scaring the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens who would, in a decade, return to their birthplace bent on revenge against their law-minded oppressors. Oh, the humanity!

None of those allegations were even remotely true, the predictions even more stupid. But people got scared and the activists took that fear and turned it into anger. Not a small feat considering that the absolute lunacy and ignorance coming out of some of these people's mouths. I'd been out of the country for all of six hours and I was getting phone calls that the riot gear was being issued for Monday's courtesy vote to see if any of the council members had changed their minds.

Nope. And good for them -- clearly Waukegan will not be bullied by a bunch of imported fear-mongers.

You live in Waukegan and don't want to deport legal and illegal child molesters, rapists, drug dealers and the like? Pack your bags.

This article is a few days old, but I found it very interesting that Mexico STILL isn’t cooperating with extradition for us. Weren’t we told by Chertoff that was in the past?

Suspect in deadly hit-and-run hid in Mexico
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_071607_news_powell_arrest.802ff341.html

One year to the day after a jogger was hit and killed by a car in the Columbia Gorge police made an arrest in the case.

Out for a summer jog in Dodson, Kimberly Powell was hit and killed by a passing car July 14, 2006.

Kimberly Powell in a photo from her myspace web page.

Powell, now referred to as Kimberly McDaniel by family, was found barely alive in a blackberry thicket along Frontage Road.
The aspiring drummer was rushed to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where she died one day later.

Her case had dragged on for a year without an arrest until Saturday. On the one-year anniversary of the collision that took Kimberly’s life, detectives arrested 25 year-old Rosendo Rosales-Corona in Lodi, California.

Hands Tied

Detectives had been following Rosales-Corona since February. A confidential informant tipped them off to his location in Michoacan, Mexico. Unable to cross the border to make an arrest, detectives began to work with the Mexican government. For months it proved fruitless. Their hands were tied.

“If I could have driven into Mexico I probably could have driven to the exact location where he was at and me and my partner could have grabbed him and brought him back,” said Detective Jay Pentheny of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.

Detectives continued their negotiations without success.

Looking for Work

In late June, Detective Pentheny and his partner Detective Jason Servo of the Gresham Police Department got a tip. Rosales-Corona had moved to Lodi, California to look for seasonal farm work. The detectives worked to confirm an exact location.

With information in hand, Servo and Pentheny traveled to Lodi last week. By Friday, their efforts had turned up no sign of Rosales-Corona.

“Everything fell apart Friday night. We went back to the room Friday night and went, ‘Crap. We’re out of leads,’ ” said Detective Jason Servo.

The Arrest

Out of options, the detectives continued knocking on doors and asking questions. Their work led them to a local store. It was now July 14, 2007. It was the anniversary of Kimberly’s collision.

Out of the storefront appeared Rosendo Rosales-Corona. Detectives approached and identified themselves.

“Basically, he looked down and said Portland and shook his head. He knew that he had been caught and his time was up,” says Pentheny.

Pentheny and Servo held Rosales-Corona until officers from the Lodi Police Department could make the official arrest. Rosales-Corona was taken to the Lodi Police Department where he agreed to be interviewed by Pentheny. The Multnomah County Detective says the interview was satisfying and Rosales-Corona indicated he would not fight extradition.

A Family’s Relief

News of Rosales-Corona’ arrest was slow to travel to the family of Kimberly Powell (McDaniel). Janet Tremain, Kimberly’s mother, was camping near Government Camp. After a difficult day marking the one-year anniversary of Kimberly’s collision, Tremain returned to her camper to notice eleven missed calls on her cell phone.

Tremain’s husband, Allen, called detectives and finally received the good news.

“We all cried and talked about it and it was just a great day,” said Allen Tremain.

For months the Tremains knew police were following Rosales-Corona. They knew he could not be extradited back from Mexico. Now one year to the day that Kimberly was hit, a suspect was behind bars.

Janet Tremain says she went home and told Kimberly, “Kimberly we got him. I told you we’d get him. We got him.”

There is a massive INVASION, the dam had burst, with illegals flooding in here from Mexico and CA. However, that flood can and should be REVERSED by the millions, in fact thousands each day!!!

The way to do it is through panic. Panic will instill a strong motivation for these people to SELF DEPORT. It will save is millions of dollars to deport them, if they do it themselves.

The more emotional the Hispanic media (in this case, two Spanish language stations in the Chicago area) become, it works. That is precisely what is needed.

Anybody who is LEGAL has not a thing to worry about.

Anybody who is ILLEGAL has the world to worry about.

We can successfully delink LEGAL from ILLEGAL, as the enemy just rolls this into one nice, clean, pristine basket caled "MIGRACION", or IMMIGRATION.

Here we can separate the two and get a prairie fire rolling across the USA. It is now time. ACLU and other would be suing parties will be totally overrun and routed.

I’m all for deporting every last one of them. But we are spinning our wheels and lots of money to do so...they’ll be back tomorrow. I’d rather see the criminals released into our ‘civilian’ camps until the borders are effectively secured.

SECURE THE BORDERS, NOW!

ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT!

ABSOLUTELY NO AMNESTY (PATH OR EARNED CITIZENSHIP)

Towns like Waukegan are taking strident steps to do what the federal government refuses to do. Until the federal government gets the border effectively secured, the deportations are a minor inconvenience to illegal aliens. If the federal government refuses to do so, is it going to be up to the states, towns, and American citizens to see to it that the borders are effectively secured too? Duncan Hunter claims that at the rate Chertoff is working, the border will not be effectively secured for something like 40 years. At the same time, effective border security should not be the end all, be all either and enforcement must prevail. It just seems we just have our actions/priorities backwards. But there is hope...should Duncan Hunter be elected, he has stated that he will have the fence, just like the one in San Diego, built in 6 MONTHS. Not one other candidate has made a promise that even comes close.

DUNCAN HUNTER ‘08

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