Posted on 12/27/2007 5:25:28 PM PST by doug from upland
Police: Immigrants Part of Pa. Coke Ring (Associated Press)
Submitted by Small Town Defender on Sat, 2007-09-08 12:05. ::
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have charged 40 people, including suspected illegal immigrants and gang members, with bringing cocaine from New York to this eastern Pennsylvania city, already a flash point in the immigration debate.
Officers had arrested about 33 members of the group, which is accused of distributing $31 million worth of the drug over three years, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said Thursday. The investigation is ongoing, Corbett spokeswoman Shonna Clark said Friday.
Investigators tapped phones and listened to hundreds of conversations between the suspected ringleaders and their customers, according to a criminal complaint. Undercover officers made numerous drug buys and worked with confidential informants to make the case, prosecutors said.
They want Hazletonians to pay (Hazleton Standard-Speaker editorial)
Submitted by Small Town Defender on Thu, 2007-09-06 12:00. ::
When a group of lawyers filed a petition last week to recover the legal costs fighting Hazleton’s illegal immigration law, they may have stripped their work of any nobility it might have once had.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund and other organizations that successfully fought the Hazleton’s ordinance want a federal judge to force the city to pay their legal fees and costs.
The tab is $2.4 million. A total of 37 lawyers and paralegals from seven different law firms and organizations submitted bills showing 5,409 hours of work. If you divide the amount sought by the number of hours, you get an average fee of $444 per hour.
Hazleton appeals immigration-law decision (Hazleton Standard-Speaker)
Submitted by Small Town Defender on Fri, 2007-08-24 12:00. ::
BY JILL WHALEN
STAFF WRITER
The city of Hazleton has filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge James M. Munley’s ruling that its Illegal Immigration Relief Act is unconstitutional.
The appeal was filed Thursday with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
“I think today further proves that the city of Hazleton is not going to roll over and back down,” Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta said.
Not only is the city appealing Judge Munley’s main judgment in the case, it is also appealing several of Judge Munley’s pre-trial orders, Mr. Barletta said.
“I feel very confident, and I’m anxious to move this case on to Philadelphia,” Mr. Barletta said.
Okay, Doug, you’ve nailed the point that the forces of evil are combined to nail Barletta’s butt to the wall as an example to the rest of us. Other than sending donations to his legal defense fund what do think? Beyond criminal solutions.
I guess we make sure that we pass on this info and get it out on talk radio. I didn’t know about it until I heard it today from Roger Hedgecock broadcasting from Iowa.
Perhaps the judge needs a YouTube shoved you know where.
http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/11/us-district-judge-james-munley-should.html
Anonymous said...
I live in a small town in Texas around 60.000. I think it is too late for us but the people of the cities in the north had better wake up. The small town of 60.000 that I live in has probably 20.000 illegals. These people are not honest hard working people as you are told they are robbers rapest car thieves and MS13 members. Our streets that once were beautiful are now littered with garbage, just like the border towns in Mexico. No honest person would break the laws of a country. The word illegal means against the law. I think this is something that our judges need to think about before making stupid rulings. James Munley stated that certain rights were quarenteed to everyone even illegal aliens. I wish he could show me this in the constitution. James Costello Nacogdoches Texas
Mayor Lou Barletta was a guest on Roger Hedgecock’s radio show live from Iowa on Wednesday...
he sounded great...
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That’s why I posted this. :)
Y’OK
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Don't know who this guy is but he plays a good guitar and love the message. Click to hear his song from youtube.com
I've Got a Crush on FRED THOMPSON Politics
FRED THOMPSON 2008
A REAL CONSERVATIVE
No liberal DEMOCRATS , i.e. - Huckabee need apply
Conservative should understand that once the shell of PC is cracked there is nothing of substance behind it. The left being mostly a batch of arrested development mental basket cases.
Doug,
I had the distinct priviledge to met Mayor Barletta in Iowa this past week at Radio Row put on by FAIR.
I cannot explain how grateful I am to men with backbone like this Mayor. The best part of it all is there are no “Airs” about them, they are just simple men who know the were chosen for “Such a Time as This”
They remind me of a scripture verse...
A COMMITMENT TO THE TEAM
One of David’s strengths was the quality of his team - some prominent and extolled, others in the background of whom we know little or nothing.
The men of Issachar (1 Chr 12:32) were an important component of David’s team. They possessed three exceptional and essential qualities. They “understood the times” - they were men of accurate perception and penetrating analysis.
They “knew what Israel should do” - they were gifted with vision, and shaped their vision into a coherent strategy.
And they had passion. They had energy. They had enthusiasm. From the record of Chronicles, that passion was contagious, and Israel went from strength to strength as the nation was at last ignited by these relatively unknown men of Issachar, and as the nation was blessed by David’s extraordinary leadership.
KEYS TO THEIR SUCCESS
Where did this uncommon strength and amazing success come from? I discern five positive themes in the Chronicler’s narrative: faithfulness (10:13); unity (11:1); godliness (11:9; cf 11:10; 12:17, 38); teamwork (12:22); and radical dependence on a great God (11:10; 12:18, 23).
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2684.htm
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