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In response to Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration bill...
Obama Signals Immediate
Action on Amnesty-for-Illegals Bill —
But You Can Help Stop It

Dear Fellow American,

If you’re worried about the flood of illegal immigrants into our country — and the danger it poses to our national security and social fabric — then President Obama’s reaction to Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration bill should be a cause for alarm.

“I’ve instructed members of my administration to closely monitor the situation and examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation,” said the President. “But if we continue to fail to act at the federal level, we will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country.”

Now, if you know the President’s views on immigration, you know that what he means by acting “at the federal level” does not mean enforcing the federal immigration laws that are already on the books. If he did, Arizona would not be forced to take matters into its hands, which is essentially what its new law allows.

What the President does mean is this: It’s time for Congress to pass an immigration “reform” bill that would make the illegal-immigrant problem disappear by ... making illegal immigrants legal.

That, in essence, is what the President means by giving the millions of illegals already in our country a “path to citizenship” — a polite term for “amnesty” — which is the cornerstone of Obama’s proposed “reform.”

And make no mistake: Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress know that, as with their monumentally unpopular health-care “reform,” they must enact immigration “reform” before the midterm elections or lose their chance forever.

That’s why we must act today to stop them in their tracks.

Being retired, I have a little more time on my hands to pay attention to things that are going on around us than when I was working 60 hours a week. I initially saw this video and was a bit surprised of how bad things are in Arizona. Initially, I had no intention of passing this information on until I allowed the contents of the video to digest for a few hours. Now I feel compelled to do so, primarily because of all the bogus “anti-immigrant and racist” chants that are being voiced by political pimps who twist, turn, obliterate and make a mockery of of the truth for the sake of cheap politics at the expense of others. Your politics is your business, not mine. I am center-right and make no excuse for my beliefs. To each their own. But the bottom line, the Democrats are playing the race card and that offends me greatly.

There has been much said about the recent immigration bill signed in Arizona. Some may feel differently that I do and that is fine. It is no secret, I wouldn’t piss on Obama if he were on fire. Not everyone feels that way and I respect your misguided feelings :)

Below is a link to a recent Fox News story surrounding the exploding and violent crime rate within Arizona. There is no twist, or spin to this story, it is all factual and it is shocking. The utter failure of Obama, Bush and down the chain, to control our borders and stop the flow of violence and narcotics into this country is pathetic. None of them have done anything for the simple sake of bullshit politics and fearing they would piss people off and potentially lose votes. It is disgusting.

In my opinion, the Arizona bill really doesn’t have anything to do with being anti-immigrant per se’. I do NOT begrudge anyone South of the border wanting to come to this wonderful country to work and provide a better life for their family. If I were on the other side, I would to anything to get to America to work. I get it, and I always have. To those who “really” know me understand my heart.

This bill is an attempt to control the out of control violence inside the Arizona border. All of the violence depicted in this video is directly linked to our open and unchecked borders as well as the importation of violence and narcotics into our nation, right under our nose. The Arizona bill was enacted out of frustration because of Washington’s (for 20 years or so) failure to do anything but pimp and pander themselves for the sake of ugly politics and a vote.

Please watch this video and then imagine if you lived in Arizona. What would you want your law enforcement and the State government to do? What would you want done if this were happening in California? It is only a matter of time.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3930044/theyre-armed-with-guns

WAY TO GO ARIZONA!!

Way to go Arizona!!! Texas, California and New Mexico should be NEXT!!

Monday Madness is alive and well in AZ after Gov. Brewer refused to listen to the pleas from all the protesters outside her office and signed a bill last Friday that will make being an ILLEGAL Alien a lot tougher in AZ. The law abiding, tax paying citizens here had grown tired of the Federal Government’s inaction and out of frustration with what’s been going on, came up with this legislation. It has a lot of illegals and their supporters and their relatives around here pretty steamed up. But, according to the “Lame Stream Media”….it also has president Obama worried that the state might be infringing on these people’s “civil rights”…..huh!

What part of ILLEGAL doesn’t he understand.

Folks not familiar with the situation might wonder …..why all the righteous indignation in Arizona? Well consider the following …….

This information was compiled from F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security reports:

* 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for ILLEGAL aliens.
* 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for ILLEGAL aliens.
* 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are ILLEGAL aliens.
* 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 29% (630,000) of convicted ILLEGAL alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
* 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by ILLEGAL aliens.
* 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are ILLEGAL aliens.
* 71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by ILLEGAL aliens or “transport coyotes.”
* 47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are ILLEGAL aliens.
* 63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are ILLEGAL aliens.
* 66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are ILLEGAL aliens.
* 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. to ILLEGAL alien parents in just one year, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens.
* 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers.

Obama National Security Policy: Hope Their Bombs Don’t Work
by Ann Coulter
05/05/2010

It took Faisal Shahzad trying to set a car bomb in Times Square to get President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to finally use the word “terrorism.” (And not referring to Tea Party activists!)

This is a major policy shift for a president who spent a month telling Americans not to “jump to conclusions” after Army doctor Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly jumped on a desk, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” and began shooting up Fort Hood.

After last weekend, now Obama is even threatening to pronounce it “Pack-i-stan” instead of “Pock-i-stahn.” We know Obama is taking terrorism seriously because he took a break from his “Hope, Change & Chuckles” tour on the comedy circuit to denounce terrorists.

In a bit of macho posturing this week, Obama declared that — contrary to the terrorists’ wishes — Americans “will not be terrorized, we will not cower in fear, we will not be intimidated.”

First of all, having the Transportation Security Administration wanding infants, taking applesauce away from 93-year-old dementia patients, and forcing all Americans to produce their shoes, computers and containers with up to 3 ounces of liquid in Ziploc bags for special screening pretty much blows that “not intimidated” look Obama wants America to adopt.

“Intimidated”? How about “absolutely terrified”?

Second, it would be a little easier for the rest of us not to live in fear if the president’s entire national security strategy didn’t depend on average citizens happening to notice a smoldering SUV in Times Square or smoke coming from a fellow airline passenger’s crotch.

But after the car bomber, the diaper bomber and the Fort Hood shooter, it has become increasingly clear that Obama’s only national defense strategy is: Let’s hope their bombs don’t work!

If only Dr. Hasan’s gun had jammed at Fort Hood, that could have been another huge foreign policy success for Obama.

The administration’s fingers-crossed strategy is a follow-up to Obama’s earlier and less successful “Let’s Make Them Love Us!” plan.

In the past year, Obama has repeatedly apologized to Muslims for America’s “mistakes.”

He has apologized to Iran for President Eisenhower’s taking out loon Mohammad Mossadegh, before Mossadegh turned a comparatively civilized country into a Third World hellhole. You know, like the Ayatollah has.

He has apologized to the entire Muslim world for the French and English colonizing them — i.e. building them flush toilets.

He promised to shut down Guantanamo. And he ordered the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to be tried in the same courthouse that tried Martha Stewart.

There was also Obama’s 90-degree-bow tour of the East and Middle East. For his next visit, he plans to roll on his back and have his belly scratched like Fido.

Despite favorable reviews in The New York Times, none of this put an end to Islamic terrorism.

So now, I gather, our only strategy is to hope the terrorists’ bombs keep fizzling.

There’s no other line of defense. In the case of the Times Square car bomber, the Department of Homeland Security failed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service failed, the CIA failed and the TSA failed. (However, the Department of Alert T-Shirt Vendors came through with flying colors, as it always does.)

Only the New York Police Department, a New York street vendor and Shahzad’s Rube Goldberg bomb (I do hope he’s not offended by how Jewish that sounds — Obama can apologize) prevented a major explosion in Times Square.

Even after the NYPD de-wired the smoking car bomb, produced enough information to identify the bomb-maker, and handed it all to federal law enforcement authorities tied up in a bow, the federal government’s crack “no-fly” list failed to stop Shahzad from boarding a plane to Dubai.

To be fair, at Emirates Airlines, being on a “no-fly” list makes you eligible for pre-boarding.

Perhaps the Department of Homeland Security should consider creating a “Really, REALLY No-Fly” list.

Contrary to the wild excuses being made for the federal government on all the TV networks Monday night, it’s now clear that this was not a wily plan of federal investigators to allow Shahzad to board the plane in order to nab his co-conspirators. It was a flub that nearly allowed Shahzad to escape.

Meanwhile, on that same Monday at JFK airport, approximately 100,000 passengers took off their shoes, coats, belts and sunglasses for airport security.

But the “highly trained federal force” The New York Times promised us on Oct. 28, 2001, when the paper demanded that airport security be federalized, failed to stop the only guy they needed to stop at JFK last Monday — the one who planted a bomb in the middle of Times Square days earlier.

So why were 100,000 other passengers harassed and annoyed by the TSA?

The federal government didn’t stop the diaper bomber from nearly detonating a bomb over Detroit. It didn’t stop a guy on the “No Fly” list from boarding a plane and coming minutes away from getting out of the country.

If our only defense to terrorism is counting on alert civilians, how about not bothering them before they board airplanes, instead of harassing them with useless airport “security” procedures?

Both of the attempted bombers who sailed through airport security, I note, were young males of the Islamic faith. I wonder if we could develop a security plan based on that information?

And speaking of a “highly trained federal force,” who’s working at the INS these days? Who on earth made the decision to allow Shahzad the unparalleled privilege of becoming a U.S. citizen last year?

Our “Europeans Need Not Apply” immigration policies were absurd enough before 9/11. But after 19 foreign-born Muslims, legally admitted to the U.S., murdered 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in a single day, couldn’t we tighten up our admission policies toward people from countries still performing stonings and clitorectomies?

The NYPD can’t be everyplace.

GOP: DRY UP WILL TO CROSS BORDER
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on May 4, 2010

In their desperation, President Barack Obama and senators with large Latino populations in their states (like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.) are seeking to polarize Hispanic and Anglo sentiment over the issue of illegal immigration. In his frequent messages calling for higher Latino and black turnout and his condemnation of the Arizona immigration law, Obama is trying to recapture over immigration the voter approval he lost over healthcare.

Arizona acted as it did because of a lack of federal enforcement of federal law barring undocumented immigrants. With a porous border, they felt that they were left no choice but to pass a law allowing potentially intrusive searches to ferret out illegal immigrants. Because this law could subject American citizens of Hispanic origin to undue scrutiny and perhaps to needless trips to the police station, the Arizona law antagonizes the jump ball in the immigration debate — Latino-American voters. If there were a real national identification card, the requirement to produce papers might be less intrusive. But, as it is, with the burden of proof on the citizen (or the illegal immigrant), the law is bound to raise tensions between Anglo cops and Latino citizens.

But being forced to support or oppose the Arizona law is a false choice. It reflects the unimaginative politics of confrontation that jeopardize race relations and elect demagogues like Barack Obama. (Obama’s share of the white vote was the same as Kerry won in 2004. He was elected only because of a three-point increase in black turnout and a shift in Latino votes to his corner. He won because of race, and now he schemes to keep control of Congress by using the immigration issue.)

The real answer is not to round up Latinos in the streets of Phoenix and hope to catch illegals in the net. Nor is it even to pretend that we can stop determined men and women from crossing the border by way of more guards, more troops and better equipment. The answer is to dry up the will to cross the border in the first place by stopping employers from offering jobs to undocumented workers. If there were felony penalties — jail time — for hiring illegals, they would not be hired. And if there were no jobs, there would be no illegal immigration.

The Republican position on illegal immigration should be to demand tough employer sanctions, including jail, and coupling that program with a vigorous guest-worker program to bring needed workers in legally, pay them a living wage and then escort them out when they are no longer needed. The United States, in need of a younger population to pay for our current and future retirees, should also raise the allowed levels of immigration.

Both parties are hypocritical on immigration. Democrats, controlled by unions, want Latinos to vote but not work. Republicans, controlled by agribusiness interests, want them to work but not vote. The answer is to stand up to union and to agribusiness pressure and take tough action to stop the hiring of illegal immigrants.

If there were no jobs for illegals outside of guest-worker programs, there would be no need for amnesty. They would all go home of their own accord or wait until they got legal status.

We would need a foolproof, biometric identity card to speed identification of those eligible for employment to accompany the sanctions against hiring illegals, but this is a small price to pay for an answer to so pressing a problem.

But Obama will not take the step that could end illegal immigration. Why? Because he wants immigration. He seeks to reshape the partisan balance in America by increasing the number of Latino voters and marrying them to the Democratic Party by provoking Republicans who just want law and order to appear racist to Hispanic-Americans. His is a game of great duplicity and racial opportunism. But good legislation can defeat his designs and solve one of our most pressing domestic problems at the same time.

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