Illegals Today

Maybe Obama and Calderone could have discussed how to reimburse the state governments for incarceration of Mexican citizens instead of criticizing Arizona.

"It is estimated the federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens — Bureau of Prison's cost to incarcerate criminals and reimbursements to state and local governments under SCAAP — totaled approximately $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004. BOP's cost to incarcerate criminal aliens rose from about $950 million in 2001 to about $1.2 billion in 2004 — a 14 percent increase. Federal reimbursements for incarcerating criminal aliens in state prisons and local jails declined from $550 million in 2001 to $280 million in 2004, in a large part due to a reduction in congressional appropriations. At the state level, the 50 states received reimbursement for incarcerating about 77,000 criminal aliens in fiscal year 2002 and 47 states received reimbursement for incarcerating about 74,000 in fiscal year 2003. For the 5 states incarcerating about 80 percent of these criminal aliens in fiscal year 2003, about 68 percent incarcerated in mid-year 2004 reported that the country of citizenship or country of birth as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, or Cuba. Four of these 5 states spent about $1.6 billion to incarcerate criminal aliens reimbursed through SCAAP during fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Estimates are that the federal government reimbursed these four states about 25 percent or less of the estimated cost to incarcerate these criminal aliens in fiscal years 2002 and 2003."

Criminal alien incarceration hurts states' budgets

Labels: Arizona, Barack Obama, Calderon, criminals, incarceration

I don't know the cost of Wagyu steak, but a hamburger is $40.00 for half a pound. It's over the top that Obama so lavishly entertains a "neighbor" who is so critical of us, when Calderone's own immigration policy is much more harsh than ours.

State Dinner Menu for Mexican President Calderon: Oregon Wagyu Beef in Oaxacan Black Mole. Briefing Memo - Lynn Sweet

An immigrant who becomes a naturalized Mexican citizen can be stripped of his Mexican citizenship if he lives again in the country of his origin for more than five years, under Article 37. Mexican-born citizens risk no such loss.

Foreign-born, naturalized Mexican citizens may not become federal lawmakers (Article 55), cabinet secretaries (Article 91) or supreme court justices (Article 95).

The president of Mexico, like the president of the United States, constitutionally must be a citizen by birth, but Article 82 of the Mexican constitution mandates that the president’s parents also be Mexican-born citizens, thus according secondary status to Mexican-born citizens born of immigrants.

The Mexican constitution forbids immigrants and naturalized citizens to become members of the clergy. Article 130 says, “To practice the ministry of any denomination in the United Mexican States it is necessary to be a Mexican by birth.”

The Mexican constitution singles out “undesirable aliens.” Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.”

The Mexican constitution provides the right of private individuals to make citizen’s arrests. Article 16 states, “in cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.” Therefore, the Mexican constitution appears to grant Mexican citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution.

The Mexican constitution states that foreigners may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

http://www.c4ads.org/files/waller_csp_apr2006_mexico.pdf

Labels: Calderon, Mexico, Wagyu beef

Center for Security Policy J. Michael Waller
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"Mexico certainly has every right to control who enters its borders, and to expel foreigners who break its laws. The Mexican constitution is designed to give the strongest protections possible to the country’s national security. Mexico’s internal immigration policy is Mexico’s
business.

However, since Mexican political leaders from the ruling party and the opposition have been demanding that the United States ignore, alter or abolish its own immigration laws, they have opened their own internal affairs to American scrutiny. The time has come to examine Mexico’s
own glass house."

http://www.c4ads.org/files/waller_csp_apr2006_mexico.pdf

Labels: borders, constitution, immigration, Mexico

This morning thousands and thousands--maybe millions--of Americans heard SB1070 read aloud on the Glenn Beck radio show. I realize you have no love for him because he embarrassed our city a few years ago over that student sexual assault. However, can you say you have read it and understand that it is absolutely in line with federal laws on illegal immigration? That it absolutely forbids racial profiling (does Columbus do that?). That it really comes down hard on human trafficking (does Columbus do that?). Think again, Mr. Mayor. Let's not have Glenn embarrass the city again by pointing out your behavior. He might say you are soft on drug lords or human trafficking because you don't support a sister state closer to the problem.

Labels: Arizona, Columbus, Mayor Michael B. Coleman, Ohio, SB1070

Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor wants to declare that his Orange County city not only doesn't welcome illegal immigrants but doesn't want them and is, in fact, a "rule-of-law city" that will enforce immigration laws strictly.

Mayor wants Costa Mesa to be a "Rule of Law City" | immigration, city, mansoor - News - The Orange County Register

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano admits she hasn't read the Arizona immigration law, but passed judgment on it anyway. "That's not the kind of law I would have signed," she declared.

RealClearPolitics - Video - Napolitano Admits She Hasn't Read Arizona Law But Says She Wouldn't Sign It

"Holder has denounced the Arizona law. He has said that the federal government would be closely watching its implementation and will consider suing to keep it from going into effect. All without actually reading the bill."

We have a bunch of idiots running the country.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2010/05/15/20100515arizona-immigration-law-robb.html#ixzz0o5SR8DHW

Why the Arizona law is necessary.

AUDIO: AZ Sheriff says 64 High-Speed Pursuits Last Month, Not One Perp a US Citizen | National Policy Institute

Labels: Arizona

Labels: Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, sanctuary, SB 1070

Article by David A. Patten--"Legislators in nearly a dozen states are considering tough new laws against illegal immigration that mimic the Arizona measure that has triggered a firestorm of controversy nationwide. . . A plethora of polls suggesting state-level legislation, in the absence of stiffer federal enforcement and border control, would be very popular with voters."

Newsmax - Arizona-Style Rebellions Over Immigration Spread

Labels: Arizona, SB 1070

Things are probably pretty quite in Indiana, at Notre Dame where he teaches and over reaches. Let him live inside of Arizona--close to the Mexican border and see how long he remains an "expert" and an authority on the human rights of migrants.

"Jorge Bustamante is Eugene Conley Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues, of which he is also the founder. Bustamante also serves as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants.

His research and teaching interests focus on U.S.-Mexico border studies, international migrations and human rights, and U.S. population of Mexican origin in the United States. He is a leading participant in international scholarly networks dealing with these themes and has played a major role in building and sustaining scholarly linkages between Mexico and the United States.

Bustamante has been quoted as a leading expert in the field of international migrations by most major newspapers in the United States and his commentary has been featured on programs such as Night Line, 60 Minutes, and the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour. He has published over 200 articles on Mexican immigration to the United States, US-Mexico border phenomena and US-Mexico relations in scholarly journals from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Venezuela, Spain and Mexico."

Mershon Center Announcement

Labels: Jorge Bustamante, Mexico, Notre Dame, Ohio State University, scholars

Neither were they loyal, truthful, and brave, nor did they love America.

"More than a dozen people with American citizenship or residency, like [Faisal] Shahzad, have been accused in the past two years of supporting or carrying out terrorism attempts on U.S. soil, cases that illustrate the threat of violent extremism from within the U.S.

Among them are Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S.-born Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, charged with fatally shooting 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas; Najibullah Zazi, a Denver-area airport shuttle driver who pleaded guilty in February in a plot to bomb New York subways; and a Pennsylvania woman who authorities say became radicalized online as "Jihad Jane" and plotted to kill a Swedish artist whose work offended Muslims." Link

According to reports I read Faisal Shahzad (accused in the NY planned SUV bombing of Times Square) became a citizen last year and his wife still lives in Pakistan.

Labels: citizens, extremism, Faisal Shahzad, Najibullah Zazi, Nidal Hasan, terrorism

From the Tucson Citizen, Sylvia Allen:

"The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border. Federal prisons have over 35% illegal’s and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegal’s. In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal. The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.

The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the border states . We have been over run and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education costs have been over a billion dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars. Our State is broke, $3.5 billion deficit and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop.

The border can be secured. We have the technology and we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under. I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem, we dare not do this until the Border is secure."

Labels: Arizona, border, Homeland Security, SB 1070

It sounds a lot more violent than the Tea Party groups.

"Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has said the law is necessary because the federal government has failed to enforce border security with Mexico, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to move into the state. She said changes to the law she approved Friday, which clarify that police could only stop suspected illegal immigrants while enforcing some other law or ordinance, should eliminate concerns about racial profiling."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/01/immigration.rallies/

Labels: Arizona, illegal immigrants, Jan Brewer

"Has anyone actually read the law? Contrary to the talk, it is a reasonable, limited, carefully-crafted measure designed to help law enforcement deal with a serious problem in Arizona. Its authors anticipated criticism and went to great lengths to make sure it is constitutional and will hold up in court. It is the criticism of the law that is over the top, not the law itself.

The law requires police to check with federal authorities on a person's immigration status, if officers have stopped that person for some legitimate reason and come to suspect that he or she might be in the U.S. illegally. The heart of the law is this provision: "For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency…where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person…" "

Byron York, A carefully crafted immigration law in Arizona | Washington Examiner

Labels: Arizona, illegal immigrants