Got Meth? Georgia Does!

Cross posted from Take Back Georgia

**PROTEST WATCH**
Are you ready for this weekend? Because the Illegal’s are at it again. Watch for the Marching Masses of Instant Immigration in a town near you!!

**DRUG BUST**

As you may already know, a HUGE Mexican Meth bust happened yesterday in our fair city. However, we are now getting a look at the details:

– The 341 lbs. of Mexican Crystal Meth was worth nearly $50 Million.

– The drugs were buried in the ground behind the house (just like the bust in Buford a couple of weeks ago.)

– Alejandro Martinez-Menera, 23; Socorro Martinez-Menera, 25; and Sacarias Martinez-Menera, 21 and a fourth suspect, 32-year-old Arnulfo Pineda-Rivera of Gainesville, also are suspected of growing marijuana plants on U.S. Forestry land.

– 300 plants on a 1-acre tract of the Chattahoochee National Forest was found.

– Alejandro Martinez-Menera and Pineda-Rivera have been arrested…but the other two Martinez-Menera brothers are fugitives.

– ALL four men are illegal immigrants from Mexico who were living in Gainesville. Pineda-Rivera re-entered the U.S. after having been deported.

– Mexican drug rings have been responsible for similar large-scale operations in the past near metro Atlanta.

– “The shift we’re seeing is that the large Mexican drug organizations that also deal in marijuana and cocaine are bringing in enormous amounts of methamphetamine.”

– Less than two weeks ago, federal authorities seized 187 pounds of meth buried behind a Buford home. At the time, the meth bust was the largest seizure in Georgia history.

– Four men, part of a Mexican-based drug ring, were arrested, authorities said.

– North Georgia meth labs are being stamped out, but an increase in the drug coming from Mexico is a concern.

– Chief Hooper – “The message we want to send is ‘don’t come in our backyard to do this business,'” he said.

God bless him…

Now here’s the kicker…

– Alejandro Martinez-Menera’s records show that he was charged July 30 with no proof of insurance and no driver’s license.

– Pineda-Rivera was charged with second-degree forgery Aug. 22, and A report of his arrest said he had fake Social Security and resident alien cards.

– Socorro Martinez-Menera had been charged with minor moving violations in Hall, according to court records.

So, all but one have priors and another had been deported before. What more proof do we need??? CLOSE THE BORDERS.

**IN POLITICS**

Election time is growing near and the border issue is getting out-of-touch politicians nervous. Good.

UGH – you aren’t going to BELIEVE this one…just…go

there and read it for yourself.

Well…here it is in full color…the beginnings of the North American Union.

**EDUCATION WATCH**

We touched on Georgia’s failing SAT scores yesterday, but here we have Gainesville’s official numbers. Yes, folks…Illegal Immigration has done it again. We didn’t even make our State’s average…sickening.

**ACTION ALERTS**

I want to try something new. I don’t know about you, but when I see a story like this, the first question that comes to mind is: “Was he illegal?”

So, when an article does not mention whether the person is a legal citizen, I’m going to e-mail the author and ask.

I think it’s relevent to the story, don’t you?

How ’bout you do the same and see what kind of a response you get.

Moving on…

Well – we heard back from the Borderwar Movie people and they said that they have no screenings scheduled for Georgia. How about you all try e-mailing them at, smanfredi@sbpublicaffairs.com – and see if we can’t get one, eh?

The Minutemen in Joplin need our help – an illegal immigrant group is mucking up the poll here. Please vote in favor of the Minutemen.

I LOVE this idea – Private Police Force– look for them deporting illegal’s in a town near you!

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration(CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

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Illegals Issued Drivers Licenses

Cross posted from InMuscatine 

ABQjournal: Bogus Licenses Issued By Tijeras MVD:

The Tijeras Motor Vehicle Division office was closed for several hours Tuesday after allegations surfaced that the office was issuing drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants who submitted fake documents.

The MVD office was open Wednesday but Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies and state Department of Taxation and Revenue officials continued to investigate.

Auditors and investigators from Taxation and Revenue were sent to Tijeras as soon as news reports surfaced about the licenses, department spokesman David Harwell said Wednesday.

Auditors found records of about 100 drivers’ licenses issued to illegal immigrants through the Tijeras office, he said.

All of the license numbers have been flagged in the MVD computer system used to check driving records, so that law enforcement officers will know the licenses are invalid, Harwell said.

Auditors were still combing through the paperwork at the Tijeras office Wednesday, he added.

If found guilty, the workers should be imprisoned for a very long time. Don’t give me this crap about innocent until proven guilty, either. The illegal aliens didn’t issue themselves licenses. Someone at that office done the deed, if not all of them. They broke the law, or know who did. Lean on everyone until someone starts singing like a battalion of canaries.

But let’s not digress too far. IF this story is accurate there are about 100 illegal drivers on the road. What about them? Surely the purchase of an illegal license and the conspiracy which goes with it are worth serious jail time and deportation. I think it would be a good idea to offer to the authorities in the area a bounty for every one of the 100 arrested. A nice, round, tax-free number like $1,000.

Then let’s see how long these illegal, wanna-be felons are loose on our roads.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let us know at what level you would like to participate.**

Illegal Aliens Linked to Gang-Rape Wave

Cross posted from The Uncooperative Blogger

I hope this wakes up the American people about the dangers of illegal immigration.

From WND:

A wave of illegal-immigrant gang rapes is sweeping the U.S. while public officials and law-enforcement authorities fear drawing the link, experts say.

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, a Ph.D. researcher of violent crimes, told WorldNetDaily, “It appears as if there is a fear that if this is honestly discussed, people will hate all illegal immigrants. So there is silence. … But in being silent about the rapes and murders, it is as if the victims never even existed.”

Schurman-Kauflin, who runs the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta, participated in a 12-month, in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders from January 1999 through April 2006. The study found approximately 240,000 illegal-immigrant sex offenders reside in the United States – while 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders come across U.S. borders illegally every day.

Gheen told WND he believes the number of gang rapes is increasing as the population of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases.

“Many illegal aliens have a rape and pillage mentality toward America,” he said. “The government has shown them they can break our laws on many levels without much fear of enforcement. Why should they think of rape or gang rape any differently?”

Gheen said, “Illegal aliens are more likely to engage in these crimes because rapes and gang rapes are much more common in the gang-rule Third World areas they come from.”

MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, a highly organized and well-funded Central American gang, is infiltrating at least 33 states across the U.S., according to law-enforcement authorities. The gang is well-known in Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., for excessive brutality. Any person suspected of cooperating with authorities is hunted down, tortured and killed. Initiation rites include kickings, beatings and gang rapes.

Gheen said, “These gangs are forcing new female gang members to undergo gang rape to enter the gang and they are asking their male initiates to gang rape American women to become an official member of the gang.”

MS-13 relies on metropolitan areas with highly concentrated populations of illegal aliens to boost its spreading membership. Chapters require that initiates perform random acts of violence, such as participating in gang rapes, to gain acceptance, confirm law-enforcement officials.

Three MS-13 gang members were charged in the brutal rapes of two deaf girls, one 14, the other 17, in a Massachusetts park in 2002. One victim, who also suffered from cerebral palsy, was pushed out of her wheelchair before being raped repeatedly.

Illegal alien rapists often maintain several aliases, making escaping justice easier.

Jorge Villa-Gutierrez, 25, is in prison for the gang rape of an 18-year-old Douglas County, Colorado woman. He claimed to have paid only $100 for a fake ID and Social Security number.

Manuel Cantu, 28, pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court February 2005 in Cambridge, Mass., to six counts of rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years old. Cantu also went by the aliases Angel Meza and Angel M. Salvador, according to court documents.

Gheen said, “Illegal aliens have been walking out of American prisons after serving their time at taxpayer expense without being deported. Our government can’t or won’t find the hundreds of thousands of known felon illegal aliens walking America’s streets tonight much less stop the new felons coming in tonight across our unsecured borders.”

The Violent Crimes Institute study established a pattern of escalating offenses among illegal aliens, whose first offense was illegally entering the U.S.

Schurman-Kauflin told WND, “Illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes first cross the U.S. border illegally, then gradually commit worse crimes and are continually released back into society or deported. Those who were deported simply returned illegally again. There is a clear pattern of criminal escalation. From misdemeanors such as assault or DUI, to drug offenses, illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes break U.S. laws repeatedly.”

Most of the offenders reported in the study were located in states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California was No. 1, followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Florida. The 1,500 offenders studied had a total of 5,999 victims – averaging four victims each. Of those studied, 525, or 35 percent, were child molestations, 358, or 24 percent, were rapes, and 617, or 41 percent, were sexual homicides and serial murders.

“Gang rape is a form of terrorism. It has been used throughout history as a weapon of terror,” Gheen said. “Most Americans do not see the war that is already upon us in our communities and neighborhoods.”

Some high-profile gang rapes by illegal immigrants include:

* December 2002 – In New York, several criminal aliens, who had passed in and out of Rikers and other jails without being detected by immigration officials, brutally beat and gang-raped a Queens mother of two near Shea Stadium. Three of the five rapists were illegal Mexican aliens with multiple prior arrests for crimes including assault, weapon possession and armed robbery.

* January 2004 – Four illegal aliens were among the five men who brutally gang-raped a New York City woman. “They punched me so hard that I was knocked to the floor,” the 43-year-old victim wrote before Supreme Court Justice Randall Eng sentenced one of her attackers, Victor Cruz, to 21 years in prison. Cruz, Luis Carmona, Carlos Rodriguez, Armando Juvenal and José Hernandez pleaded guilty in December to rape and kidnapping charges in exchange for sentences of 20 to 23 years.

* October 2004 – a 37-year-old North Carolina woman was gang raped by at least seven illegal aliens in Huntersville, N.C.

* Oct. 4, 2005 – In Immokalee, Fla., 14 field laborers, ranging in age from 18 to 56, broke into an 18-year-old woman’s home, dragged her across the street and then took turns raping her. The victim said the men choked and hit her until she became unconscious. When she awoke, a man poured alcohol in her mouth. The men removed her clothing and each one raped her.

* June 28, 2006 – Texas’ Waco Tribune Herald reported illegal immigrants Javier Guzman Martinez, 18, and Noel Darwin Hernandez, 22, have been charged with one count of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated sexual assault of an 18-year-old Tehuacana woman. The girl had been cut with a piece of glass or “other unknown object.”

* July 10 – In Sayre, Pa., the Evening Times reported “Gasper Almilcar Guzman” was among a group of men who were found July 10 to be in this country illegally following a routine traffic stop in Athens Township. Guzman had been convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl in Alabama in 2005. Guzman was deported before he could begin serving his five-year sentence.

* July 13 — In Noblesville, Ind., an illegal alien named Miguel Gutierrez, 20, faces two counts of rape for taking a 14-year-old into a garage and participating in a four-man gang rape on the girl. Following the gang rape, the girl was forced into a car and raped again, according to news reports.

* July 17 – In Greenville, N.C., Fernando Cruz, 41, Walter Ramires, 26, Luis Morales, 24, and Pedro Vasques, 27, were charged with first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping of a woman. They drove the woman to a field path on the edge of town and took turns raping her.

* July 21 – Sinoe Salgado Garcia, a 28-year-old Fontana, Calif., man convicted of kidnapping and raping a 4-year-old girl, was sentenced to a 30-year-to-life prison term, according to the Riverside Press Enterprise. The child was found hours later inside a shed, thrown over a 6-foot-tall block wall, investigators said. She underwent surgery to repair damage caused by the rape and sodomy, court records show. The site reported that she also suffered three facial fractures.

* Aug. 3 – Two young illegal aliens living in Charlotte, N.C., were charged with gang raping an Asheville teenager at the Red Roof Inn. They are 22-year-old Pablo Vasquez Osorio and 23-year-old Marcos Guerrero Fuentes. Both were charged with first-degree rape and kidnapping of a 17-year-old Asheville girl at a Red Roof Inn.

Does this make you angry? Does this make you want illegal alien invaders out of this country?

Let us not forget about the hospitals closing, the taking over of towns, the drain on taxpayer services, the impact on our Public Schools and all the other crime that are perpetrated by illegal alien invaders.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.

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Pro-Illegal Marches Planned: I Say Go For It

Cross posted from CommonSenseAmerica

It seems the illegal immigrant population, and their activists, can’t wait to take to the streets of our cities once again to parade their illegal presence and march for the right to ignore the sovereignty of our nation.

From The Washington Post:

After four months of relative quiet, immigration reform advocates are mobilizing a new round of protests in Washington and other cities to put pressure on a returning Congress and reinvigorate a Latino movement that awakened in massive demonstrations this spring.

The events will begin tomorrow in Chicago, where demonstrators plan to set out on a four-day march to the district offices of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R) in Batavia, Ill., and will continue with one-day rallies throughout next week in Phoenix, Washington and Los Angeles.

In the Washington region, activists are distributing leaflets, and Spanish-language radio is buzzing about a Sept. 7 rally that organizers hope will be the biggest yet. Organizers say their goal is 1 million protesters from up and down the East Coast for a rally on the Mall and a march to the White House.

“We want to make sure that Congress and this administration get a very clear message that the immigrant community is still paying attention to what’s happening in the immigration debate and that we know that it’s election time,” said Jaime Contreras, chairman of the National Capital Immigration Coalition, the rally’s organizer.

Local organizers said they are improving on spring rallies that were hastily planned amid a spontaneous groundswell of activism. To avoid a backlash against foreign flags, they are directing all protesters to carry U.S. flags. They are starting the rally at 4 p.m. so student demonstrators, who frustrated school administrators by walking out earlier this year, can participate. And organizers have nearly tripled their budget for portable toilets.

Some believe it could be risky. The spring protests roused supporters but also stirred fierce hostility, said Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors lower levels of immigration. That kind of intensity might make members of Congress, which is approaching midterm elections, even less likely to touch the immigration issue.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “Go for it”. This in-your-face arrogance and defiance is exactly what the average American citizen needs to wake them up and get them involved in politics again. These marches and rallies do nothing more than anger the American people and stir them to actively begin calling on their elected officials to stop this insanity.

So, just keep on marching as the Senate returns next week and then right up until election day because you are pushing even those that may ‘sit on the fence’ to see this issue more clearly as you demonstrate the arrogance of those who break the laws of this nation and then make demands upon the American taxpayer/voter.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.**

Illegal Immigration: Oh What A Tangled Web…

Cross posted from CommonSenseAmerica

As an elected official, when you turn a blind eye to one form of illegal activity in your nation, you also bear the responsibility for all of its tentacles.

Here are just a few:

On Saturday, August 26, 2006, approximately 70 supporters of Save Our State and the Minutemen gathered in Maywood, California to protest the city’s decision to openly declare themselves a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. They were met by an angry mob of illegal aliens that displayed offensive signs, damaged property, assaulted Americans, and removed the US Flag from the post office replacing it with a Mexican flag.

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WASHINGTON — A veteran U.S. diplomat will spend the weekend in jail on charges he traded work visas for lavish dinners, New York City hotel rooms, jewelry and Las Vegas trips with exotic dancers.

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TAYLOR, Mich. Authorities say a federal immigration agent has been charged with making false statements and accepting a bribe.

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A custodian at Saguaro High School accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Scottsdale campus is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and shouldn’t have been eligible to work in the United States, an immigration official said Wednesday.

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An illegal immigrant abandoned a 16-month-old baby in the desert after the baby began to cry.

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Moreno, who is thought to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico, admitted to police that he struck Sadler after he went to her house to get money, said Metro police spokesman Don Aaron.

Moreno was arrested yesterday on a charge of criminal homicide.

He also faces two charges of assaulting police officers during his arrest and a domestic assault charge after threatening his wife in Spanish that he would kill her if she cooperated with authorities, police said.

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An illegal alien previously arrested on a domestic dispute but not deported is accused of shooting dead three men outside a bar in Altoona, Pa., after telling police he had been experiencing blackouts.

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A Mexican citizen who admitted he transported undocumented workers was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison…Each had allegedly paid up to $5,500 to be smuggled into the country.

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TIJERAS, N.M. (AP) – The head of the state Motor Vehicle Division says an audit has found the MVD’s Tijeras office illegally issued up to 100 driver’s licenses.

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ICE agents, in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), conducted an enforcement operation July 29, 2006, on brothels operating in Austin, Dallas and Oklahoma City. The brothels catered primarily to illegal aliens. Those arrested include Juan Balderas-Orosco, Francisco Castillo-Celaya and David Mendoza-Magana. The remaining indicted defendants are fugitives.

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Feds Bust 25 Illegal Alien Sex Predators in L.A.

A Mexican national who attempted to kidnap a seven-year-old girl from a local Laundromat is one of 25 persons arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles during the past three days as part of a joint enforcement effort with the United States Attorney’s Office targeting foreign nationals with prior convictions for sex offenses, many of them involving children.

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A feared Zeta gang member is in federal custody.

While no one will talk on camera about the arrest, a DPS officer who works in criminal intelligence admits the Zetas are getting more dangerous on this side.

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MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, a highly organized and well-funded Central American gang, is infiltrating at least 33 states across the U.S., according to law-enforcement authorities. The gang is well-known in Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., for excessive brutality. Any person suspected of cooperating with authorities is hunted down, tortured and killed. Initiation rites include kickings, beatings and gang rapes.

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An illegal alien charged with running into a house on 45th Street and causing the death of a 91-year-old woman will be deported.

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The drunk illegal alien, Samuel Avalos Gallardo, was arrested at the scene, tried and sentenced to 40 years for the death and injury he caused.

Incredibly, the Nevada Department of Corrections wrongly placed Gallardo on a minimum security work detail, from which he escaped just six months into his sentence. Ten years later, this criminal is not behind bars where he belongs, but lives free somewhere.

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LOS ANGELES — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers today repatriated a former Mexican police officer wanted in his native country for his role in a drug-related “massacre” last year in the state of Sinloa that left five persons dead and two others critically wounded.

On May 19, 2005, Gallardo, Zavala, and the other suspects allegedly kidnapped the victims, tortured them, and used an arsenal of pistols, machine guns, and AK-47 assault rifles to carry out what the Sinaloan media described as “the massacre“.

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So much for “family values”.

Shame on our government, our elected officials, and anyone that supports this anarchy along with the further corruption of our nation by not securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws.

Every death, every rape, every drug charge, every stolen identity, every violent gang crime, and each and every innocent hurt by an illegal immigrant is as much their responsibility as it is the criminals.

Our elected officials have the choice to stop this illegality from pouring across our borders. They took an oath to do so and then cowered from their responsibility.

The blood of American citizens is on their hands.

See also:

Immigrations Human Cost for more American victims of our governments lack of will to enforce our law.

And this page named, “Heroes” that states,

“Every day, brave men and women place their lives in harm’s way to protect America and Americans, from foreign nationals who would do us harm, with little or no regard for their own personal safety. This page is dedicated to those heroes who pay the price for the freedoms that we enjoy.”

And for more posts on this issue see:

“Illegal Immigration Meeting Draws Protesters” from DeMediacratic Nation

“Illegal Immigration a problem for politicians” from Right Truth

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.**

Against criminal invaders? Your labeled a nut! (and what about some legislation?)

Cross posted from Right Truth

Pat Buchanan is making the rounds trying to sell his new book, “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America”. To hear some of the interviews, folks are trying to make him sound like a raving lunatic. There is much truth to what he is saying. If nothing else, his book should make people think!

America in Peril, by Bill Steigerwald, is an interview with Pat Buchanan about his new book, “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” here:

Pat Buchanan makes his case that we must move quickly to erect a stronger, more restrictive immigration policy to stop and reverse the invasion of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants across our southwestern border. If we fail to do so, says the conservative populist, the United States as we know it will disappear in 50 years. I reached the former presidential candidate, political pundit and syndicated columnist by phone on Thursday, Aug. 24 in New York City, where he was in mid-book tour. [snip]

Q: What do you say to those who call you semi-hysterical ­ that these problems are not as dire or inevitably destructive to the United States as you fear?

A: They called me that in 1991 and now I sound like a moderate compared to what they’re saying. If they don’t follow these prescriptions, all I’m saying is, “Bye, bye to America.” I think the American people agree with me and understand this. (go read it all here)

For a review of what our politicians are proposing, “The Border Within: Breaking down immigration plans in Congress” Which breaks down the proposed bills, ‘these are the components of the House and Senate bills on immigration reform, as well as a compromise proposal being floated.’

One example is the ‘incentive for illegals to leave the USA’.

House Bill: Incentive to return to home country: None.
Senate Bill: Incentive to return to home country: Would help fund economic opportunity and health programs in Mexico. Guest workers would get travel authorization to visit relatives at home.

Compromise proposal (no bill yet): Incentive to return to home country: Workers here illegally would have an incentive to return home quickly because they would lose their jobs to another worker who had gotten in line for a new work visa, which could only be applied for at an “Ellis Island Center” abroad.

Go read all the comparison categories here, like ‘Citizenship’, ‘Guest Worker Program’, ‘Criminals’, ‘Detention… A very worthwhile article if you are truly interested in reform.

Also posting:

“Record Mexican Meth Bust/Illegal Immigrant Gives us the SMACKDOWN!“, from Take Back Georgia

“Roots of Resistance: San Diego Sept 8-10“, and, “Border States Push Congress for Amnesty” from The Uncooprative Blogger

“Let’s get off the fence and into border reform“, from DeMediacratic Nation

“Obrador Ready To Form Own Government Inside Mexico“, Red Hot Cuppa Politics

bRight&Early has a “CAII Roundup”

Dumb Ox News also reporting

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let me know at what level you would like to participate.**

Illegal Immigration a problem for politicians

Cross posted from Right Truth

Campaign ads involving anything about immigration are presenting big problems for candidates this year.

Capturing the immigration debate in political ads this campaign season _ without upsetting Hispanics _ is proving tricky for the parties and candidates.An ad criticizing Stephen Laffey, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee for the Republican nomination in Rhode Island, set off grumbling in the Latino community. The ad criticized Laffey, mayor of Cranston, for allowing city police to accept ID cards issued by the Mexican government as identification.

Chafee’s spokesman had no comment about the ad. Laffey’s campaign called it an insensitive attack on the mayor’s attempt to empathize with “people who struggle and who try to make a better life for themselves.”

The National Republican Senatorial Committee said the ad, which it sponsored, raises legitimate questions. “This ad is about our national security, and it speaks to concerns raised by the FBI,” spokesman Dan Ronayne said Monday.

Polls have shown Laffey and Chafee running neck-and-neck in a race that has gained national attention.

The winner of the Republican primary will face Democratic former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse in the November election.

The immigration debate was left hanging when Congress adjourned for the summer. Rather than negotiate a compromise on the vastly different bills passed by the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats have traded barbs over immigration at field hearings and in political ads.

“Both parties are crossing the line,” said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, which is calling for an end to such ads. “The issue of what to do about immigration is fair game for this election, demonizing an entire community is not.”

On Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus called on national Republicans to stop airing its ad in the Chafee-Laffey race, saying it implies falsely that “Mexican immigrants will carry out acts of terrorism against government buildings and airplanes.”

The Chafee-Laffey race is not the only one facing the challenge of using the immigration issue in political ads.

For example:

_In his first campaign ad, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., boasted of his immigrant heritage, but said some immigrants today have sinister motives for entering and lists how he’s tried to beef up border security. The ad was intended to appeal to voters worried about losing their jobs to immigrants. —Washington Post

Others Posting:

Common Sense America, Illegal Immigration: Your Help Needed NOW!!!

I just got off of the phone with Michelle Dallacroce of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens and she is asking for our help. Let the phone blitz begin! Below is the urgent message she sent to me via e-mail:PRESS RELEASE – PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU CAN

MAIA needs YOU! WE NEED TO SUPPORT THE MAIA MEMBERS IN CHICAGO!!!!

You can be a valuable asset to making this Rally an AMAZING SUCCESS BY DOING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: (go read it all and see how YOU can help)

The Uncooperative Blogger, “Cops Comment on Maywood Protest”, and “Groups Support Border Patrol Agents Who Shot Smuggler”, “Cops comment on Maywood protest”

*This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email the coalition and let Brian know at what level you would like to participate.*