Posted on 06/14/2010 9:34:22 AM PDT by AuntB
Seventy-one percent (71%) of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania support sending U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to help prevent illegal immigration, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state.
Sixteen percent (16%) are opposed to such a move, while 14% are not sure.
Nationally, 79% of voters believe the U.S. military should be used on the country's southern border for that purpose.
President Obama is sending troops to the Mexican border but says they are there only to prevent Mexican drug violence from spilling into this country.
The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Pennsylvania was conducted on June 2, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5% percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
The increased national debate on illegal immigration is clearly linked to the recent law passed in Arizona, which most Pennsylvanians support.
Just 22% of voters in the state believe that the U.S. Department of Justice should challenge the legality of the Arizona law. But 58% oppose such a challenge, comparable to views nationally. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.
Women and voters under 30 are more willing to challenge the Arizona law.
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to support sending troops to the border.
Republican State Attorney General Tom Corbett attracts support from 49% of Keystone State voters in his bid to become governor. His Democratic challenger, Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato, earns 33% of the vote.
Congressman Joe Sestak’s post-primary bounce appears to be over, and he now trails Republican rival Pat Toomey by seven points in the U.S. Senate contest in Pennsylvania.
Illegal Aliens, Criminals Obtain Driver’s Licenses from Corrupt Officials Sunday, June 13, 2010
Charges were filed against the final three individuals in a scheme to make cash payments to state driver’s license examiners in exchange for the issuance of authentic Pennsylvania driver’s licenses as a result of an investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Saman H. Salem, Harold Palmer, and Pierre E. Jean-Louis were charged in federal court with extortion and manufacturing identity documents without lawful authority.Salem is also charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and illegally structuring cash transactions to avoid notice to federal regulators. Palmer is also charged with making false statements to federal agents.
According to the court documents obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police, suspects Salem and Jean-Louis made cash payments to driver’s license examiners and posed as interpreters who assisted applicants in cheating on driver’s license examinations.
Meanwhile, Harold Palmer, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation driver’s license examiner, took cash payments to issue driver’s licenses. The charges are part of a two-year investigation into several illegal businesses that assisted illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and others in obtaining driver’s licenses, through fraudulent means, at various state driver’s license centers in Philadelphia.
“These defendants are charged with systematically corrupting the process of obtaining driving licenses and putting hundreds of identification documents into the hands of people not eligible to receive them,” said U. S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. [snip]
http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2010/06/13/illegal-aliens-criminals-obtain-drivers-licenses-from-corrupt-officials/
“Just 22% of voters in the state believe that the U.S. Department of Justice should challenge the legality of the Arizona law. But 58% oppose such a challenge, comparable to views nationally. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.”
If illegals know there would be no work or residential opportunities, they would think long and hard about coming.
It doesn’t matter. The entire lib machine is based on fraud. And part of that fraud is getting illegal aliens to the voting booths.
20% of these people wouldn’t know whether to step out of the way of a big truck.
The 22% would. The 58% would.
You’ve got to be a real zombie to not have an opinion on this.
“...Republicans are more likely than Democrats to support sending troops to the border....” ~ Rasmussen
B.O. had to run as a “conservative” or he’d never have won the election.
He ran on “lowering taxes” for one thing, and for another, “protecting our borders”:
Barack Hussein Obama 06/23/2007
“....as Americans, we also know that this is a nation of laws, and we cannot have those laws broken when more than 2,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. We cannot ignore that we have a right and a duty to protect our borders. And we cannot ignore the very real concerns of Americans who are not worried about illegal immigration because they are racist or xenophobic, but because they fear it will result in lower wages when they’re already struggling to raise their families. ...” ~~~
A Politics of Conscience Hartford, CT | June 23, 2007 http://www.barackobama.com/2007/06/23/a_politics_of_conscience_1.php
As usual, he lied on both scores.
Another overlooked article:
Drug cartels smuggling illegals create security risk, officials say
By: Sara A. Carter
National Security Correspondent
June 8, 2010
Smuggling of potential terrorists across the border is evolving into a billion dollar industry for Mexican drug cartels while posing a significant threat to the United States, according to federal law enforcement officials.
That was echoed in a recent assessment by the U.S. military’s Southern Command that found drug cartels are taking advantage of a “largely unregulated” border to create security risk for the United States.
“Of particular concern is the smuggling of criminal aliens and gang members who pose public safety threats to communities throughout the border region and the country,” said the Southern Command report obtained by The Washington Examiner. “These individuals include hundreds of undocumented aliens from special interest countries, primarily China, but also Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan.”
Department of Homeland Security policy requires that many illegal immigrants from countries that have been breeding grounds for anti-American sentiment, known as “special interest aliens,” be released unless there is specific evidence of threat. Most fail to appear for hearings.
“We don’t always know who we have in custody,” said a DHS official who asked not to be named. “We still have a catch and release program, and we don’t always know if those are good or bad guys. It’s difficult to coordinate with our Mexican counterparts, and many times we have no idea who made it across with the aid of the cartels.”
Rafael Lemaitre, senior spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection with DHS, said “upon apprehension, DHS makes determinations on admissibility and custody of special interest aliens on a case-by-case basis based on a variety of factors, including legal status, prior criminality and intelligence.”
In the first five years after Sept. 11, DHS reported a 41 percent increase in arrests of illegal immigrants from countries known to have large populations of terrorists from al Qaeda or other anti-U.S. groups. In 2008, the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics reported that federal law enforcement agencies detained 791,568 deportable aliens. According to the agency, 5,506 of them were special interest aliens.
“Available reporting indicates that some alien smuggling organizations (ASOs) in Mexico specialize in moving special-interest aliens into the United States,” stated a February 2010 National Drug Threat Assessment by the Department of Justice.
The DOJ threat assessment said no known terrorists had been apprehended at the U.S. border in the past five years. That did not surprise federal law enforcement agents and intelligence officers interviewed by The Examiner. They pointed out that reports on foreign nationals with terrorist ties caught at the border would not be made readily available to the public.
“As the cartels begin to realize the enormous amount of funding that’s available in transporting special interest aliens, they’ll do more of it,” said a military official with knowledge of cartel operations. “We need to be mindful because this type of human smuggling is a definite threat to security and human smuggling is a billion dollar industry.”
The Examiner first reported in March on the apprehension of 23 Somali illegal aliens in Mexico who were released in January by Mexican immigration officials. It was later discovered by U.S. intelligence and Mexican authorities that one of the men was a member of the Somali terrorist organization al Shabab, which has direct ties to al Qaeda. So far, the men have not been located.
In 2006, a federal report documented that a man who called himself Miguel Alfonso Salinas was apprehended by chance off a deserted highway near the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico. He was just one of 165,000 persons from countries other than Mexico who were apprehended that year. Of those, 650 were from special interest countries.
After a week of interrogations, the FBI discovered Salinas was really an Egyptian by the name of Ayman Sulmane Kamal. He was taken into custody, and no further information about him has been released by the federal government.
The Kamal case was an “example of getting lucky,” a U.S. official said. “Just think, for every one that is captured, maybe two or three people from special interest nations get through. We don’t know who they are or if they’re planning anything — we just keep hoping that we’ll keep getting lucky.”
Police break up $31 million Hazleton cocaine ring (Hazleton, PA)
...State Attorney General Tom Corbett said that some of the suspects are believed to be illegal immigrants - a disclosure that is sure to add fuel to the debate over Hazleton's now-defunct Illegal Immigration Relief Act.
We have enough homegrown criminals. We don't need to import them.
Today’s NAFBPO M3Foreign news report....none of it good.
OVER THE WEEKEND: MEXICO’S BLOODIEST DAY; OPEN TRANSIT OF MIGRANTS URGED
June 14, 2010 by m3report
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Foreign News Report
Saturday 6/12/10
El Universal (Mexico City) 6/11& 12/10
Mexico suffers the most violent day
Friday was Mexico’s bloodiest day of the presidential term of Felipe Calderon. Saturday’s edition summed up Friday’s organized crime-related mayhem: “In what constitutes the most violent day since the present federal administration began the frontal struggle against organized crime, 85 people lost their lives in acts related directly to ‘adjustments of affairs’ between rival gangs, confrontations and assassinations with high-caliber firearms.” This is the highest count since November 3, 2008 when 58 died in crime-related warfare. Between Thursday evening and Friday in Chihuahua state, 38 people were killed; in Tamaulipas, 20; five in Guerrero and six in Sinaloa. The other 16 deaths were reported from San Luis Potosi, Baja California, Durango, Michoacán, Jalisco, Queretaro, Nayarit, state of Mexico and the Federal District. [Some of these are reported below.]
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20 executed in Tamaulipas
The bodies of two women and 18 men were located in five different locations in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas. Police authorities said all the bodies were found blindfolded and with hands tied behind their backs. None had identification, but all had signs of torture.
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Attack on rehab center kills 19
Unknown assailants attacked a drug rehabilitation center in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, killing 19 and wounding several others, some gravely. Thirty of the inmates were made to lie face-down on the floor and were then riddled by gunfire. The targets were presumably six members of a rival gang and the other victims merely collateral damage.
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19 more in Ciudad Juarez
Another 19 murders took place in beleaguered Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, including a police captain and two agents who were guarding property seized from narcos. [This story was not found in Juarez newspapers, which have been preoccupied with the death of a youth at the hands of the US Border Patrol. ]
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US should investigate death of Mexicans
Human Rights Watch (HRW) demanded that the government of the US investigate “quickly, thoroughly and transparently” the deaths of two Mexicans at the border. HRW said that the increase in the number of incidents in which migrants die or are injured by border agents cause grave concern about the illegal and excessive use of force. ”It is necessary that the increasing number of murders by the Border Patrol be cleared up through an investigation by the US that is transparent and complete,” stated Jose Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas of the human rights organization. The article also referred to the Border Patrol’s “murder of a child who was playing with four friends in Ciudad Juarez.”
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Calderon sounds off from World Cup matches
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, attending the World Cup soccer matches in South Africa, demanded that the US government punish those guilty of killing the Mexican youth, Sergio Adrian Hernandez. Calderon referred to two “assassinations” of Mexicans at the hands of US authorities that have occurred in the past few days. In the case of the youth, he said it was a special affront because it had to do with a minor who was “killed by gunfire inside our own country.” The president expressed his indignation at the deaths of two Mexicans at the hands of the Border Patrol because it indicates a wave of anti-Mexicanism.
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Both countries condemn deaths
US and Mexican legislators jointly condemned the murders [“asesinatos”] of Mexicans Sergio Adrian Hernandez and Anastacio Hernandez Juarez by observing a moment of silence at the requrest of Senator Christopher Dodd during the 49th Mexico/United States inter-parliamentary meeting. Dodd, vice-president of the US congressional delegation, advised that he would gather forces from both countries and “commit ourselves to ending the violence.”
Get the rope!
The coordinator of the Mexican senate’s PAN political party, Gustavo Madero, insisted that the Border Patrol agent who “murdered” the youth in Cd. Juarez be extradited. The senator rejected the explanation of US authorities that rocks are mortal weapons. He said that the US agent should be tried in Mexico so that he would be punished for the crime.
El Nuevo Diario (Managua, Nicaragua) 6/11/10
Costa Rica has nothing to envy – an observation from Nicaragua
“The silence, nearly total, powerfully calls attention to the pro immigrant organizations in this country and to the Nicaraguan authorities in respect to the new Costa Rican immigration law that came into effect last March 1st.” So begins an article comparing the “anti-immigrant and discriminatory” Arizona law SB 1070 with neighboring Costa Rica’s new law, which the writer finds is about equal in that they both have the same “repressive and persecuting” elements. He concludes that, “There exist millions of voices that have been raised against the migratory reform in Arizona [and] still here there has been nothing done to face up to a reform that has nothing to envy of that Arizona law, although there exists one clear difference: there it’s for a state, here for a whole country. [The entire opinion can be accessed at the link below.]
http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/opinion/76477
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/11/10
Mexican Consulate in McAllen to add mobile services
Reynosa, Tamaulipas – The Mexican Consulate in McAllen, Texas, is planning to bring its services to the Mexican community residing in the cities located in Hidalgo, Starr and Brooks counties through a program called “Mobile Consulate.” A consular representative, Erasmo Martinez, said the intention of the Consulate is to bring its services to the Mexican community residing in outlying towns and who need attention or orientation.
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Sunday 6/13/10
Excelsior (Mexico City) 6/12/10
More on the rehab center massacre
Investigation into the massacre of 19 people in Cd. Juarez [above] will center partly on the statements of survivors of the attack on the drug rehab center. Three of those who survived the initial attack have died. There is also strong evidence that the attackers were linked to the criminal gangs La Linea (part of the Juarez cartel) and Gente Nueva (part of the Sinaloa cartel), since both groups left messages apparently explaining the motive for the ;murders. Other than this, authorities have not released further information.
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US rules out arms reform
US legislators participating in the 43rd Mexico-United States inter-parliamentary meeting assured there are not political conditions for reforming the laws relating to possession of firearms in the US. A news leak from the meeting held in Campeche indicated that the US has moved forward in the confiscation of arms. According to them, they recently closed three arms stores in Arizona. The US delegation pointed out that the “Gunrunner” program will extend throughout the country to arrest those involved in illegal arms traffic.
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El Colombiano (Medellin, Colombia) 6/12/10
Undocumented Somalis arrested
Colombian police intercepted five illegal Somalis traveling on a public bus destined for the city of Popayan. They were detained at a checkpoint on a major highway leading out of Ecuador. [No mention was made of their ultimate destination or how they reached South America. However, neighboring Ecuador doesn’t require visas for tourists.]
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Monday 6/14/10
El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/13/10
The view from Spain
Ethnic and racial discrimination of present bad immigration regulations is viewed as slavery and should be eradicated because it goes against human rights, according to Jose Luis Dicenta Ballestar, Secretary General of the Latin Union and ex-Spanish ambassador. Interviewed during a seminar in Mexico, Dicenta Ballestar advised that the world should accept the free transit of people like it accepts goods, services and money. In this sense, he maintains that the Latin Union (an organization that includes all countries that speak languages of Latin origin) should work to end the egoism of countries that take advantage of the inferiority of undocumented people. He described the Arizona law as a “brutal cynicism” by the people who support it and who then exploit the undocumented for their low-wage labor and without offering Social Security. ”Mexico is a country of extraordinary importance, per se, with a solid tradition regarding human rights. In the cultural world Mexico is a point of reference and can play an important role,” he said. The former Spanish Consul General in Los Angeles confirmed the reality behind the movie A Day without Mexicans by pointing out that, “Take the Latin Americans from California and the state would be economically paralyzed.”
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El Universal (Mexico City) 6/13/10
Welcome to Michoacán
More than 20 graphic reporters from various states’ media were illegally detained by an armed group of presumed locals and held overnight near the seaport of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacán. Full details of the matter are not yet known. During their detention, the cameramen were relieved of their equipment that, for each, was valued between 10,000 and 50,000 pesos [$800-$4,00]. The cameramen and photographers from various business publications were in the port area by state government invitation to promote tourism. All were released unharmed, although apparently their equipment wasn’t.
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Nine dead in gunfight in Nayarit
At least nine people died in a gun battle in Tepic, the capital city of Nayarit. A statement by the governor on his Facebook page related that eight gangsters and one police officer were killed in the 10-minute confrontation. Another police officer and a soldier were wounded. [No further information was released. Nayarit is a small Pacific coast state rarely mentioned in the news.]
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La Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua) 6/13/10
La Prensa made note of news report of the death of 85 people in one day in Mexico [reported above by El Universal]. One reader’s comment follows. ”Elmayasa” noted: ”85 dead and they go on griping about one killed on the border. It’s not that the boy’s life is not valued, but that every newspaper shouldn’t carry on like it’s the first Mexican to die in a month. 2006 – Oct. 2009, 15,448 deaths.”
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Cambio de Michoacán (Morelia, Michoacán) 6/13/10
Neglected part of the arms problem
Morelia, Michoacán – Enrique Bautista Villegas, President of the local Governmental Commission, said that Mexican Customs does little or nothing to stop the flow of smuggled arms into the country from the US. He suggested that Mexico guard its border with the same vigor as the US. [Ed. note: Mexico is fixated on the US as the major source of illegal arms, but little attention is focused on their Pacific seaports or virtually open border with Guatemala.]
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So, where do stand on this, Sestak?
71% in Pennsylvania Favor Troops on Border To Stop Illegal Immigration
Keep em’ all dahn there in Maryland n’at.....
I thought you were talking about the NJ-PA border and how the Delaware River is the new Rio Grande.
When I lived there I was told that the purpose of NJ was to keep the ocean away from PA.
Canada?...............
When I lived there I was told that the purpose of NJ was to keep the ocean away from PA.
The purpose is to keep Ed Rendell from eating his way to the sea a la General Sherman...
Another course to consider:
Match all outstanding WARRANTS against all applicants & recipients of ANY kind of state aid. Walfare—Food Stamps—Medicaid—Section 8 housing—low income school lunches—
ANTHING which comes from states funds.
Mexican drug violence has already spilled into this country.
Ask Robert Krentz’ family.
Meanwhile, Calderon is gaining more media attention over the death of an illegal who attacked border guards & was hit with a taser.
I think we have more Mexicans in Philly than Nogales, Sonora.
Ping!
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