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Part two of a two-story package. DALLAS - Diones Graciano-Navarro has been arrested at least 40 times in four states. His rap sheet began with charges of loitering in New York City in 1975. In New Jersey, he graduated to fraud. By 1988, he was in California. He was charged with obtaining money by fraud or trickery. Later came cocaine possession.

Take a look at what shows up at a stock tank in dry weather. For those of you that have never hunted in South Texas, sometimes they post motion detector cameras at their feeders/tanks to see what is going on. Check out this sequence at a water tank

WASHINGTON -- If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. "That sounds very simple, but it's historically not been done," Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday. About 113,000 criminals who were in the U.S. illegally were deported last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The agency...

ICE, Aurora Police Shift Blame Over Hernandez Kim Ngan Nguyen, Staff Writer POSTED: 5:33 pm MDT September 8, 2008 UPDATED: 6:23 pm MDT September 8, 2008 DENVER -- Victims' family members, police officers and several Republican lawmakers are wondering why an illegal immigrant who has had at least 16 arrests in the past five years was never deported, and ultimately allowed to be behind the wheel of a vehicle involved in a recent deadly hit-and-run. Police said Francis Hernandez, 23, was driving without a license when he ran a red light last Thursday and triggered a chain reaction crash that...

The Virginia State Crime Commission Thursday rejected a plan to deny bail to all illegal immigrants arrested for minor crimes, saying the proposal would be impractical. Jail overcrowding problems and financial limitations forced the commission to scuttle the idea, which is likely to come before the General Assembly in January. “If we denied bail to every illegal immigrant, pretty soon, Fairfax County would be broke,” said Del. David Albo, R-Fairfax County. Instead, the commission endorsed an alternative that would deny bail to any illegal immigrants the federal government would pay to hold as they awaited trial. It’s not clear how...

Fairfax County has about 4,500 illegal immigrants in its jail, the most of any Northern Virginia locality, according to state crime commission findings released Tuesday. Illegal aliens account for about 16 percent of Fairfax’s inmates. The crime commission, which advises the General Assembly on legal issues, estimated 8 to 10 percent of all jail inmates statewide are illegal aliens. “I had no idea it was that high,” said Del. David Albo, R-Springfield, of Fairfax’s incarcerated illegal immigrant population. “It costs the county taxpayers a lot of money — about $10,000 per inmate each year — to keep people locked up...

The Prince William County police Tuesday unveiled a new policy to allow officers to check the legal status of traffic violators and crime suspects, winning cautious praise from county supervisors determined to address the hot-button issue. Police Chief Charlie Deane said the plan would make Prince William County safer. He assured councilmembers that witnesses to crimes and victims will not be subject to immigration checks. “Our policy, I believe, is fair, thoughtful and reasonable and it’s a policy that will focus primarily on criminal aliens,” Deane said. But Carlos Castro, a local businessman and immigrant advocate, said, “It gives our...

RICHMOND — Illegal aliens comprise between 6 percent and 10 percent of Virginia's jail population and about 2 percent of the state's prison population, according to a report released by the state crime commission yesterday. The 13,735 illegal aliens in jail committed 27,148 offenses in fiscal 2007, according to the report. The majority of offenses for which illegal aliens are held in the state's jails involved alcohol or the possession of fake identification documents. There were 3,064 illegal aliens in prison from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2007, according to the report. The top offenses committed by illegal aliens in state...

According to statistics released last year by Rep. Steve King of Iowa, 12 Americans are murdered every day by illegal immigrants, and 13 more are killed by drunk illegal immigrant drivers. That's a whole lot more than we lose in Iraq every week. A report released in 2005 by the Government Accountability Office [GAO] looked at 55,322 illegals locked up in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. The study found that the 55,322 represented a total of 459,614 arrests -- around eight arrests per illegal alien. Those arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses -- averaging 13...

Whether the new bipartisan Senate immigration bill amounts to little more than amnesty for the 15 to 20 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S., as critics charge, the measure does offer one kind of amnesty – tax amnesty. According to the Boston Globe, the Bush administration insisted on the removal of a provision in the initial version of the bill proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) requiring payment of back taxes and any related fines to the Internal Revenue Service as part of the road to citizenship.

Do you want to stop shamnesty dead in its tracks? Don't let up on Congressmen and Senators, one bit. But, aim additional political fire at GOP and Democrat party officials, at every level. Precinct chairmen, County Chairmen, State Central Committee members, State Chairmen and Co-Chairmen, your state's Republican National Committee members, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Repeat with the Democrats as needed. A simple google search will give you the email addresses, fax numbers, and telephone numbers of all of these movers and shakers. You may not have access to...

This is a PDF file that I found at the National Review Online. It is subtitled "Draft- For Discussion Purposes Only"

The proposed immigration deal will throw open our doors to increased immigration from Muslim lands, not just Mexico. From the US State Department website: "The fourth and most recent wave of Muslim immigration (into the US) has come after 1965, the year President Lyndon Johnson sponsored an immigration bill that repealed the longstanding system of quotas by national origin. Under the new system, preferences went to relatives of U.S. residents and those with special occupational skills needed in the United States. The new law was a signal act in American history, making it possible for the first time since the...

Many illegal immigrants will have to overcome deep-seated fear and distrust of the U.S. government if they are to take advantage of the proposal to emerge from the shadows offered by Senate leaders and the White House. After months of roundups at workplaces and homes, immigrants are now being asked to come forward to authorities, pay $5,000 in fines and return to their homelands to apply for legal residency. Cesar Damian Solis, who earns up to $600 a month laying bricks and pipe in Phoenix, thinks most illegal immigrants would rather have a plan that allows them to remain in...

Rosanna Pulido is not a heartless person. She has spent the last few years entrenched in senior citizen advocacy – she started her own senior citizens’ radio program and works tirelessly at her small senior transportation company. She isn’t making much money, but does it because she sees it as ministry work. This isn’t the first time she has taken on ministry work. In the late 1980s she spent a year in Mexico working at a Bible school, living among the poor and teaching people how to speak English. She considers that one of the best times in her life,...

You've got to hand it to Americans. If ever there was a group of people more patient, more willing to turn the other cheek, more forgiving and tolerant – I just don't know who it would be. Every day now, it seems, hundreds of thousands of ungrateful human parasites rally in American cities condemning their host country's lack of hospitality. Think about this. Somewhere around 20 million foreigners have entered this country illegally and stayed here – taking advantage of America's health-care system, educational system, welfare system, taxing its criminal justice system and competing for jobs with those at the...

DETROIT -- Fifteen immigrant women who missed work to attend an immigrant rights rally last month have been fired. The general manager of a Detroit meat packing company said the women were warned they would lose their jobs if they skipped work on March 27. The workers said they received no such warning. All of the women are natives of Mexico. Many had worked at Wolverine Packing for several years, and some are undocumented immigrants An activist trying to get the women's jobs back said they were fired "for standing up for their rights."

HERE WE GO AGAIN By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 09, 2006 10:47 PM ***scroll for updates*** They're baaack. Illegal alien public relations experts are advising their followers to put aside the Mexican flags and tone down their radicalism, but many reconquistadors and their friends can't help themselves. Hat tip to John A. for the protest photos today from Dallas: Black Panthers came out to show solidarity with the open borders lobby... And the Che cultists were out in full force again, too... There's no photo, but the Dallas Morning News described this: Although the stars and stripes predominated, some people...

When the Minutemen set up shop at the Arizona border last year to call attention to the illegal alien loophole in US Homeland Security, President Bush foolishly chided these brave patriots by calling them vigilantes. Although chagrined at being deserted by the man who has the constitutional responsibility and authority to defend our borders, the Minutemen dug in their heels and persisted. And persisted. Their Yankee determination to do the right thing was rewarded when President Bush finally sent additional border patrol agents to Arizona. Even the Mexican government was motivated to pay greater attention, at least temporarily, because of...

SENATOR SESSIONS ON SECURING AMERICA'S BORDERS ACT Mr. President, I thank Senator Leahy, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee. I have received just this afternoon in my office some disturbing news in the form of correspondence from the Congressional Budget Office. It suggests a number of areas where the amendment we are talking about here today, No. 3424, the immigration so-called compromise, violates our budget and the rules of the Senate. Let me read from the correspondence we have received. This is something, as you know, Mr. President, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, that we never discussed...