Political stars born of Arizona law

Washington Times ^ | Sept. 6, 2010 | Stephen Dinan

[AuntB]

Immigration takes larger role in races across U.S.

Despite being waylaid by the courts, Arizona's immigration law is still growing as a powerful political force, shaping elections across the country and creating a new generation of campaign stars in and out of the state.

The law's sponsor has become a sought-after kingmaker in Republican primaries, one of the chief legal advisers is running for statewide office in Kansas, and several Arizona sheriffs backing the law have earned substantial television airtime.

Maybe the most obvious example is Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who has used the law to take control of her race and all but guarantee she'll win in November.

"The truth is, probably 80 to 90 percent of Americans support this bill," said state Sen. Russell Pearce, the law's chief sponsor, who has been at the forefront of Arizona's immigration fights for years ..... "I suspect this will be an issue through the presidential election in 2012. It's not going to go away."

Mr. Pearce wrote Senate Bill 1070....It was amended later by another law and then, at the end of July, altered by a federal court, which blocked key provisions.

But after years of massive illegal immigration, the law struck a chord with voters nationwide, and it joins a small set of state laws throughout the years that have gained instant nationwide recognition.

Although Mrs. Brewer has been outspoken in defending the law over the past four months, the governor was not the driving force behind the Arizona measure. It wasn't even clear that she would sign the bill until she stepped to the lectern moments before she affixed her signature.

At the time, the Arizona Republic said Mrs. Brewer was facing "a stiff primary challenge," but that situation changed the moment she signed the legislation.

[AuntB]

Here is another item we need to be aware of (can't be posted because of copyright)

SB1689

....John McCain....Just doing the Dem's bidding....AGAIN!

Senators support illegal immigration super highway http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-opinion/ci_16005398

Sept. 7, 2010

Twenty-three Senators gave their support to a deceptive bill that will, among other things, create an illegal immigration superhighway, remove access to natural resources, and strip ranchers of their grazing rights, all under the excuse of “preserving” wilderness. 23 voted to move S.B. 1689 to the floor including, McCain, Alexander, Landrieu, and Lincoln.

A July, 2010 article:

“Members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee gave unanimous approval today to a bill that would designate hundreds of thousands of acres in Doña Ana County as wilderness.

With that approval from 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans, the Organ Mountains – Desert Peaks Wilderness Act now heads to the Senate floor for a vote.”

http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2010/07/senate-committee-oks-wilderness-bill/

The Committee:

Democrats Republicans

Chairman Jeff Bingaman (NM) Byron L. Dorgan (ND) Ron Wyden (OR) Tim Johnson (SD) Mary L. Landrieu (LA) Maria Cantwell (WA) Robert Menendez (NJ) Blanche Lincoln (AR) Bernard Sanders (I) (VT) Evan Bayh (IN) Debbie Stabenow (MI) Mark Udall (CO) Jeanne Shaheen (NH)

Lisa Murkowski (AK) Richard Burr (NC) John Barrasso (WY) Sam Brownback (KS) James E. Risch (ID) John McCain (AZ)*********** Robert Bennett (UT) Jim Bunning (KY) Jeff Sessions (AL) Bob Corker (TN)

http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=About.Members

[Waco]

No other Country puts up with this nonsense, and if these illegals were assumed to vote for the GOP you wouldn’t be hearing all this talk of amnesty either. That’s what it’s all about,,,,,votes,,,,,,for RATS.

[Balding_Eagle]

Whether AZ itself wins or loses in the first court go-around, Conservatives are going to win big on this one.

It’s important to keep that in mind as this rolls forward.

Remember, we’ve won the gun-control battle, the abortion battle, we’re going to win this one, AND the muzzie battle too.

[AuntB]

“No other Country puts up with this nonsense, and if these illegals were assumed to vote for the GOP you wouldn’t be hearing all this talk of amnesty either. That’s what it’s all about,,,,,votes,,,,,,for RATS.”

Yep!

The next thing is the liberals going after our guns, the 2nd amendment. Radio news this morning from ABC....

The so called ‘study’ was done for a bunch of liberal mayors. I’ve posted other articles about the guns Mexico gets from N.Korea, etc.

- 2 hours ago
By RICHARD ESPOSITO A shocking new report obtained by ABC News says that as ... at a US gun dealer, and the bulk of the guns came from Texas, New Mexico,

[snip]Study of ATF Data Says Three Of Four Guns Used in Mexican Violence Come From US Border States
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, noted that Congress had initially blocked the release of the ATF data used to generate the group’s new report. The data analyzed in the study was requested in 2009 and not provided till March of this year.

“This is information, previously hidden by Congress, that the public needs to see, to show how guns bought in the US are fueling the drug wars in Mexico,” said Bloomberg. “[It] again proves it is too easy for criminals and traffickers to get guns.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mexican-crime-american-guns/story?id=11574583

[AuntB]

Be sure to see post # 4 ...they’re coming after our guns instead of illegal aliens.

News today from Center for Immigration Studies

1.
Birthright Citizenship in the United States: A Global Comparison
By Jon Feere
CIS Backgrounder, August 2010
http://www.cis.org/birthright-citizenship

Excerpt: This Backgrounder briefly explains some policy concerns that result from an expansive application of the Citizenship Clause, highlights recent legislative efforts to change the policy, provides a historical overview of the development of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, and includes a discussion of how other countries approach birthright citizenship. The paper concludes that Congress should clarify the scope of the Citizenship Clause and promote a serious discussion on whether the United States should automatically confer the benefits and burdens of U.S. citizenship on the children of aliens whose presence is temporary or illegal.

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Mark Krikorian Discusses Declining Illegal Population
FOX News, September 3, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/user/CISORG#p/u/0/SYcGxYLz5Vk

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The Uses and Abuses of the Asylum System
By David North
CIS Blog, September 6, 2010
http://www.cis.org/North/AsylumUsesandAbuses

Excerpt: The recent release of data on the immigration judges’ asylum decisions by the TRAC system reminded me of the uses and abuses of the asylum process, an interesting but relatively minor part of the immigration system.

These data also cast some light on our role in Iraq, as noted below.

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Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part II: How Many Illegals?
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, September 5, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/behind-pew-study-2

Excerpt: The recently released Pew report on the decline of the illegal population in the United States has garnered a lot of attention, though a great deal of it for the wrong reasons. Obama administration officials are already touting their policies to account for the decline. A DHS spokesman went even further, saying that ‘the downward trend in border crossings has continued since Obama took office in January 2009, citing Homeland Security statistics that show decreases in illegal-immigrant apprehensions during the past two years’ (emphasis mine).

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‘Machete’ Splashing Its Gore on a Movie Screen Near You
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 3, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/machete-reviews

Excerpt: The New York Times says it’s ‘conveniently timed to sprinkle gasoline on the fires of the immigration debate.’ Get ready for some talk-show rumbling as ‘Machete’ splashes its gore across movie screens starting this weekend. Here are excerpts from five reviews:

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A Right to Immigrate?
By Steven Camarota
CIS Blog, September 3, 2010
http://www.cis.org/Camarota/a-right-to-immigrate

Excerpt: I recently came across a paper by University of Colorado philosophy professor Michael Huemer entitled ‘Is There a Right to Immigrate?’ Huemer’s answer is clearly ‘yes,’ there is such a right. By a ‘right to immigrate’ he means the right to enter another country of one’s choosing, rather than just a right to leave one’s country. While only a tiny share of the American people would agree with Mr. Huemer, such people constitute a large share of immigration thinkers on the far left and the libertarian right. Although generally not part of the public immigration debate – few if any actual elected office holders imagine a ‘right’ to enter our country – many advocates of high immigration seem to either privately agree with Huemer or at least strongly sympathize with his position. Thus, his perspective is important, even if it is not currently discussed openly outside of academia circles. Below I list some of my objections to his formation, in no particular ! order.

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Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part I: First the ‘Good’ News
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, September 3, 2010
http://www.cis.org/renshon/behind-pew-study-1

Excerpt: The new report from the Pew Hispanic Center is certain to be widely discussed and widely misunderstood. The report delivers the conclusion most likely to be quoted in its title, ‘U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade.’

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ICE Caving on Secure Communities
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, September 2, 2010
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/caving-on-secure-communities

Excerpt: The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that ICE is going all wobbly in defending Secure Communities, its marquee program for identifying and removing criminal aliens.

Secure Communities ought to be one of the most uncontroversial enforcement programs ever launched. It provides for the fingerprints of all those booked into county jails to be screened against immigration databases as part of the same process by which they are screened against other criminal history databases. Launched officially in 2008, so far it has found nearly 300,000 criminal aliens, including 43,000 very serious offenders. It is in more than 500 counties nationwide. Because it is based on fingerprints, criminal aliens cannot escape detection by using aliases or by claiming U.S. citizenship. It eliminates the need for local officers to make separate, manual requests to check an inmate’s immigration status, and provides for automatic notification to the local ICE office, so they can take custody of the criminal aliens and remove them at the appropriate time. There is no cost and no additional work for the local agencies. Everyone is screened, so there is no possibil! ity of discrimination

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TRAC Study Mirrors Pew’s – Aliens Less Interested in the U.S. Than Before
By David North
CIS Blog, September 2, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/TRAC-asylum-data

Excerpt: It was probably a coincidence, but two quite different studies of alien populations were issued within 24 hours of each other, each showing that migrants appear to be less interested in the U.S. than formerly.

The more numerically significant of the two, the report of the Pew Hispanic Center, as noted in a posting by Mark Krikorian, estimated that the number of illegal aliens in the country had dropped to 11.1 million from 12.0 million two years earlier. That’s a decrease, over two years, of 7.5 percent.

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Jorge Castaneda Blames U.S. for Migrant Massacre
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, September 2, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/castaneda-migrant-massacre

Excerpt: That’s the provocative headline of today’s column in the Mexican daily Reforma by Jorge Castaneda, who as Mexico’s foreign secretary from 2000 to 2003 pushed the Bush administration to pass ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ legislation. He is now Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.

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If Pew Says It, It Must Be True!
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, September 2, 2010
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/pew-illegals-estimate

Excerpt: A slew of news stories today about a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center estimating that as of March 2009, the illegal population had dropped to 11.1 million. Pew, though institutionally inclined toward amnesty and mass immigration, does honest work, and this is no exception. But many of the press reports are treating this as momentous, previously unknown news when, in fact, it’s already been reported — twice.

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DHS Issues Dark, Mixed Message to Pregnant Foreign Visitors
By David North
CIS Blog, September 1, 2010
http://www.cis.org/north/pregnant-visitors

Excerpt: An arm of the Department of Homeland Security is apparently paying some subdued, indirect attention to the 14th Amendment controversy – should ‘anchor babies’ be allowed, as they are now, to become citizens at birth?

It has issued a somber message to pregnant alien women thinking about coming to this country. (For more on the birthright citizenship controversy see the new Backgrounder by my colleague Jon Feere.)

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From Sanctuary to Safer City
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, August 31, 2010
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/from-sanctuary-to-safer-city

Excerpt: The police union in Houston, a former sanctuary city, is taking a look at the experience of Phoenix, which two years ago implemented a policy to allow its officers to call ICE to report suspected illegal aliens who were connected to other crimes. The implementation of this policy, which is similar to the one signed into law by Arizona governor Jan Brewer and later blocked by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in response to a Justice Department lawsuit, has contributed to a steady decline in violent and property crime rates in Phoenix, without generating a single complaint of civil rights violations or racial profiling, according to officer Mark Spencer. Spencer is president of the Phoenix police union and recently gave a presentation to officers in Houston.

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Mexico’s Elite Emigration
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 31, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/mexicos-elite-emigration

Excerpt: ‘A new form of migration much more elitist and selective, but migration in the end, has been taking place for months in various zones in the north of the country, especially the border states,’ writes columnist Salvador Garcia Soto in today’s edition of the Mexican daily El Universal. ‘The narco violence, the lack of security, and the misgovernment in these places is pushing out entire families of Mexicans who have changed their residence and their activities to various cities of the United States.’

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Abuse of Migrants Gets More Attention in Mexico
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, August 30, 2010
http://www.cis.org/kammer/abuse-of-migrants

Excerpt: The often brutal mistreatment suffered by Central American migrants passing through Mexico on their way to the United States is receiving increased attention in that country following the discovery last week of the bodies of 72 migrants who had been gunned down. The victims were reportedly murdered by one of the criminal gangs involved in the trafficking of both drugs and human beings.

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[AuntB]

Today’s NAFBPO M3 foreign news report.

Over the weekend: Los Zetas doing poorly; news blackout in Tamaulipas explained
By m3report

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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

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Saturday 9/4/10

El Universal (Mexico City) and Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 9/3/10

A day’s work: Mexican Army 32, Los Zetas 0

In less than 24 hours, the Mexican Army in Nuevo Leon reduced the ranks of the mercenary killer group, Los Zetas, by 32. The first event in the thinning of the criminal organization took place in the municipality of General Trevino, Nuevo Leon, when 27 of the militant criminal group were killed in a gun battle in which the Army suffered two wounded. In that operation, three kidnap victims were freed. Less than 24 hours later, a vehicle with five gunmen was reported parked along a highway. The military responded and the ensuing gun battle ended with the five Zetas dead and the military no worse for the wear.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/706221.html

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/03092010/466831.aspx

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Four survivors of last week’s massacre now reported

A pregnant woman and her daughter survived the massacre of 72 Central Americans last week in Tamaulipas, according to an Ecuadorian who also survived, along with a Honduran. There were 76 which included a pregnant woman and her daughter that they didn’t kill, related the Ecuadorian. He didn’t know what they did with them. “There were four of us who survived. The rest were all killed,” he said. The witness, under protection in Ecuador, was wounded in the neck and left for dead at the scene of the massacre. [A video accompanies the link to this story and its narrative follows below under the next heading.]

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/706290.html

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Mexican hospitality

[Narrative of the video taped in Ecuador, as related:]

The route

I traveled from Ecuador to Honduras, from Honduras I went to Guatemala – everything was okay. I stayed in Guatemala about 15 days. It was okay. From there I went to Santa Elena. From there I crossed in a boat into Mexico.

The kidnapping

Saturday night about 10 p.m. they rounded us up into three cars. About eight well armed people came out. They rounded up all of us. We got out of the car and they put us in another car. We traveled in two cars. They took us to a house. They tied us up, hands and feet, the hands behind. They kept us there overnight.

The massacre

Afterward, they threw us face down and then I heard a sound of them shooting. I thought they were shooting off to the side, but no. I heard that they shot my friends and then they came shooting me and killed all the others. They finished shooting and left. They killed all of them.

The escape

When they left, I waited two minutes, got up and left the house. I walked all night and arrived at a light that was very far. I asked for help. Two men came out and wouldn’t help me. I went away and saw a light far off. I ran about 10 kilometers. I walked and walked in pain, asking for help. No one would help me. I walked and walked until daylight. At daylight I walked more. About 7 a.m. I saw the Marines that were there, the migra [immigration]. I went where they were and asked for help.

The Zetas

What would you say to Ecuadorians who want to leave?

That they don’t come, there are many bad people who won’t let them pass, that they don’t come anymore. Seventy-six came with me and they killed them all. I say to all Ecuadorians not to travel anymore because the Zetas are killing many people.

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 9/3/10

Investor donates $1.5 million to SB 1070 defense

Phoenix, Arizona (Notimex) – Timothy Mellon, a multimillionaire investor from Wyoming, donated more than 1.5 million dollars to the fund created by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to pay the cost of legal defense of the “anti-immigrant” law SB 1070. Mellon’s contribution is the largest so far and raises the amount of defense funds to 3.6 million dollars. Arizona’s legal defense [against the United States Attorney General ] in the past two months cost more than $400,000.

http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/cfpages/contentmgr.cfm?docId=283357&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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La Jornada (Mexico City) 9/3/10

Mexico urged to turn from kidnapping and extortion to aiding and abetting

Guatemala – Central American countries urged Mexico to observe human rights to protect the security of migrants who seek to cross its border en route to the US. The Guatemalan Minister of Foreign Relations reported by joint communique that he and his counterparts in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize and the Dominican Republic request that Mexico adopt, within the short term, mechanisms for preventing violence against Central American migrants during their journey to the US.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2010/09/03/paises-centroamericanos-instan-a-mexico-instalar-un-observatorio-de-derechos-humanos

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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 9/3/10

A barrel of money

A search for drugs and arms by Salvadoran authorities in the rural areas of the central Pacific coast department [state] of La Paz resulted in the discovery of a barrel filled with packets of mostly $100 bills. After hours of counting, the official total amount was over $9.2 million. An investigation continues on suspicion that the money is connected with organized crime.

http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-salvador/judicial/139992-autoridades-ya-contabilizan-4-mill-en-barril-encontrado-en-zacatecoluca.html

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El Espectador (Bogota, Colombia) 9/2/10

Panama active in intercepting drugs

Cocaine is the major drug coming from Colombia through Panama en route to the US market. Between July 2009 and August 2010 Panamanian officials have confiscated 71.2 metric tons of the drug. [Trivial data: 1 ton = approx. 1 million snorts ] According to the Minister of Public Security, Jose Raul Mulino, drug interception is Panama’s most important police function and has distinguished the country in this respect. Marihuana and heroin are also intercepted in much smaller quantities.

http://www.elespectador.com/articulo-222296-panama-ha-decomisado-71-toneladas-de-cocaina-procedentes-de-colombia

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La Hora (Guatemala, Guatemala) 9/3/10

Temporary Protected Status urged for undocumented Guatemalans in US

An opinion column in La Hora concerns an appeal by a number of Guatemalan organizations requesting President Alvaro Colom to convey to the US government the necessity for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for undocumented Guatemalan migrants living in the US. The column points out, “the support of US personalities who have considered TPS to be a minimum measure of solidarity with Guatemala.”

http://www.lahora.com.gt/notas.php?key=72724&fch=2010-09-03

[Excerpt from USCIS publication: The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately. USCIS may grant TPS to eligible nationals of certain countries (or parts of countries), who are already in the United States. The full publication can be accessed at

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=848f7f2ef0745210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=848f7f2ef07
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Sunday 9/5/10

El Tiempo (Bogota, Colombia) 9/4/10

Ton of cocaine seized

Colombian police stopped two dump trucks at a highway checkpoint in the department [state] of Santander, Colombia, transporting a total of one ton of cocaine. The load was presumed to belong to Jesus Ovidio Isaza, alias “Roque,” son of Ramon Isaza, the ex-chief of the demobilized paramilitary group AUC. The drug was hidden in a double bottom of the dump trucks under sand and construction material.

http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/incautan-mil-kilos-de-cocaina-en-dos-volquetas_7891420-1

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Prensa Libre (Guatemala, Guatemala) 9/4/10

Deported Guatemalans without work

A study by a Guatemalan human rights organization of those deported from the meat packing plant in Potsville, Iowa in May of 2008, 64% remain without work and 36% have only temporary employment. This is a reflection of the status of most Guatemalans deported back to their own country because of Guatemala’s lack of development opportunities, the study found. “They emigrate and are exploited for their labor. On returning they are victims of the incapability of the State to reestablish them.” The study also showed that 98% of those deported from Iowa were in debt [assumption: smuggling fees], but only 12% have already paid them.

http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Deportados-trabajo_0_329367102.html

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Guatemalan youth migration a worry

A Guatemalan youth study indicates that 50% of Guatemalan youths have either tried to travel illegally to the US or have thought of trying. Those that try go into debt to pay between the equivalent of $5,000 to $7,000 to “coyotes” to smuggle them north, but often are abandoned in Mexico and left to their own luck. Those who make it back home are left with huge debts and no way to pay them off. Those experiences do not seem to dissuade others from trying.

http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/comunitario/Preocupa-migracion-jovenes_0_329367116.html

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Monday 9/6/10

La Jornada (Mexico City) 9/5/10

News silence in Tamaulipas explained

Mexico, D.F. (IPS) – The Mexican northeastern state of Tamaulipas has become a black hole of organized crime. The “social disintegration” has been going on there for the past six months, but the local press is totally silenced. “We have no option, simply no option,” a reporter of a national newspaper, who asked that his identity not be revealed, said by phone to the Inter Press Service news agency. Like other reporters in the state bordering Texas, he refuses to report any criminal activities in the area.

Tamaulipas is the operating area of the Gulf drug cartel and of the violent gang known as Los Zetas, formed from military deserters previously trained in combat techniques and counterinsurgency by the CIA. “The original Zetas began executing select targets with military efficiency and economy of bullets,” said IPS reporter Jorge Luis Sierra, a specialist in security and militarization. “But the excesses began and now Los Zetas are no longer old army deserters, but mixed units of civilians, police, ex-military and hired killers from other groups that carry out three strategies together: as narcos, as terrorists and as guerrillas, all at the same time,” he added.

In reference to the recent massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in Tamaulipas, presumably by Los Zetas, Sierra explains that Los Zetas never justify their actions. Their “communicational policy” is the act itself. On the other hand, their enemies are using psychological tactics of combat, like car bombs. In this sense, he conjectures, it is possible that a rival gang “killing 72 immigrants and attributing it to Los Zetas could be an act of propaganda and form part of a strategy of psychological warfare,” to exterminate Los Zetas from the area.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2010/09/05/desintegracion-social-y-prensa-silenciada-en-tamaulipas

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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 9/5/10

Mexican intelligence center unveiled

Mexico City – The Mexican government is expanding its intelligence capabilities in a subterranean bunker equipped with up to date technology aimed at the anti-organized crime struggle. “In this center resides all of Mexico’s criminal information,” said Francisco Niembro, head of intelligence operations for the federal Public Security Agency, as he guided the press for the first time through the underground facilities that were inaugurated 10 months ago. The center’s equipment allows real-time surveillance of petroleum, hydraulic, telecommunications and electrical buildings and installations. The data banks are kept current and allow for effective real-time analyses from police reports throughout the Republic.

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1771655.htm

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[RWGinger]

I’d like to see the actual study and the data.

[calcowgirl]

Here is their press release and a link to a pdf copy of the report:

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/media-center/pr007-10.shtml

http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/downloads/pdf/issue_brief_mexico_2010.pdf

[calcowgirl]

This author does a pretty good job of dissecting the language of which guns they were using to develop their statistics. First, the gun had to be recovered in the crime, then it had to be submitted “for tracing.” Start with a warped dataset and end up with a warped conclusion.

http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2010/09/robert-farago/abc-gets-it-wrong-on-american-gun-in-mexican-drug-war/

ABC Gets it Wrong on American Guns in Mexican Drug War
Posted on September 7, 2010 by Robert Farago

[wolfcreek]

LOL! Austin, Tx. not on the list.

Even those scum sucking Libs know better than to even try and take our guns away.

[blackie]

Do not trust progressive socialists!!

[AuntB]

The Price John McCain Paid Per Vote on Tuesday (Literally)

So, considering the $21 million cost of his campaign, the septuagenarian maverick paid approximately $74.64 per vote.

To put this desperation in perspective, McCain's 2008 presidential campaign spent $293 million for 58.3 million votes, averaging $5.03 per lever-pull. For his 1982 congressional campaign, McCain spent $550,000 for 89,116 votes, or $13.54/vote in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Of course, McCain still has to defeat Democrat Rodney Glassman in November to keep his Senate seat — but he probably won't break a sweat while doing so. Our advice to the heavily unfavored newcomer: start buying lottery tickets immediately.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/john-mccain-primary-results-082510

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Dante3]

We must not become complacent.

[blackie]

Sad stuff!!