I've Heard That Song Before

World Net Daily 06/13/06
by Pat Buchanan

Addressing a gathering of Hispanics last week, President Bush declared: "There are those here in Washington who say, 'Why don't we just find the folks and send them home.' That ain't gonna work."

Well, deportation certainly "ain't gonna work" if the chief law-enforcement officer of the United States refuses to enforce the law, as Bush has refused for five years.

But as is his custom, President Bush is attacking a straw man. Few in this debate call for creation of a national police to begin Palmer Raid roundups of nannies. The agreed-upon strategy for dealing with this crisis of Bush's creation is, in a word, attrition.

The Solution
The crucial steps are these. Build a fence along the 2,000-mile border to stop the flood. End welfare benefits to illegal aliens, except emergency medical treatment. Vigorously prosecute employers who hire illegals. Cease granting automatic citizenship to "anchor babies" of illegals who sneak across the border to have them. Take care of mother and child; then put them on a bus back home.

Turn off the magnets, and the illegals will not come. Cut off the benefits, and they will not stay. In five years, the crisis will be over.

The Good News
As this is what America wants, the Bush-Kennedy bill that came out of the Senate – providing amnesty to almost all the 12 million to 20 million illegals here and a blanket pardon for the scofflaw businesses that have hired them – is dead. It simply cannot pass the House.

The report by Heritage Foundation expert Robert Rector, who estimated the Senate bill could mean 66 million more immigrants in the next 20 years, delivered the coup de grace.

But because the Senate bill cannot pass the House does not mean Bush, the ethnic lobbies and corporate America have given up.

The Bad News
Which brings us to the Pence plan, named for the conservative congressman from Indiana who heads the House Republican Conference and was the 2005 Man of the Year to the conservative Human Events weekly.

In "The Godfather," Don Corleone warns his son Michael that, after he dies, someone inside the family will come to Michael with an offer of peace from the Barzinis, who murdered Michael's brother. Whoever brings you the offer, Don Corleone warns his son, will have betrayed you. Tessio, lifetime friend and high-ranking captain of the Corleones, comes to Michael with Barzini's offer.
A mistake.

Rep. Mike Pence appears to have accepted the Tessio role in the great immigration battle of 2006.

As Bush backs away from the Senate bill ("we don't have to choose between the extremes – there's a rational middle ground"), Pence uses identical rhetoric to describe his plan, now being hailed by Newt Gingrich, Gary Bauer, David Keene of the American Conservative Union and The American Spectator. It looks like the fix is in.

Pence calls his plan a "middle ground" proposal, a "no amnesty immigration reform" in which "securing our border is the first step."

This is fraudulent. At the heart of the Pence plan is amnesty. Illegal aliens here return to Mexico for one week with an assurance they can come back to their jobs. Down there, they visit "Ellis Island Centers" to register as "guest workers" and return with "work permits." The illegal are made legal and put on a path to citizenship.

The only difference between the Pence plan and the Kennedy-Bush amnesty is the one-week vacation employers would happily fund, as it means blanket amnesty for them as well as their illegal hires.

What makes the Pence plan insidious is that Mike Pence has an unimpeachable pedigree. What makes his plan a grave problem is that even Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Horatius at the Bridge in this battle, is speaking favorably of it.

Why
Why is Pence proposing capitulation at the moment Americans are looking to the Republican House as their last, best hope to kill the Senate amnesty, end the "guest-worker" scam and get control of America's borders before we lose our country?

Answer: The forces in Washington pushing for an amnesty deal, by whatever name, are immense – the White House, the ethnic lobbies, the Big Media, mainstream churches, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the "conservative" front groups and foundations they finance, and corporate contributors to congressmen who fear law enforcement. Then there is a Democratic Party that voted 10-to-one in the Senate for amnesty, as it looks to legalized aliens as future voters to bury the conservative cause forever in this city.

Anyone who thinks the establishment has given up because it has lost the country does not know it. Behind closed doors, deals are even now being discussed for a "compromise" bill that will give GOP congressmen cover for selling out the cause for which they bravely voted in December. -

If the House buys the Pence plan, it will be the end of Republican control of the House in November and the end of Mike Pence as a rising star of the GOP. But that will not matter.
For the consequences for the country will be irremediable and infinitely worse. -

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Midi: Amazing Grace

Officer Kenneth Collins, 33, of the Phoenix Police Department, was murdered on May 27, 1988. Officer Collins was shot and killed in an off-duty incident as he attempted to thwart a robbery while working as a security guard at Valley National Bank in Phoenix, Arizona. Rudy Romero was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder, burglary, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and attempted armed robbery. Romero is from Mexico.

Midi: Amazing Grace

Deputy Don Willmon, 32, of the Angelina County Texas Sheriff's Department, was murdered on May 13, 1979. Deputy Willmon approached Alvaro Rodarte, and began questioning him about a burglary that had taken place in the area. During the encounter, a struggle ensued and Rodarte stabbed Deputy Willmon numerous times. Alvaro Rodarte is wanted for the murder of Deputy Willmon. Rodarte is from Mexico.

DailyBulletin.com
by Sara A. Carter

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While Minuteman keeps an eye out for illegal aliens, the Border Patrol has been ordered to keep an eye out for Minuteman -- and informing the Mexican government where they are.

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According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' [illegal alien's] rights are being observed.

"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.

"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."

Now here's a couple of basic statements for you, Mario.

The "type of lawlessness" you need to be concerned about is the lawlessness of these riffraff aliens crossing the border illegally. In case you haven't noticed, they are strutting across the border every day by the thousands.

Sorry to burst your balloon Mario, but you have no authority to allow or not allow the Mexican government anything. The Mexican government will do whatever it wants to do. It doesn't need permission from you or the border patrol or the U.S. government. If the Mexican government violates any laws of the United States, it will suffer the consequences. It's as simple as that.

Now pay attention, Mario, because this is mui importante.

All you need to be concerned about is doing...your...job. You need to be concerned about
returning illegal aliens to their own side of the border, comprende? By returning them to their own country you are helping them transform themselves from being illegal aliens in the United States into lawfull citizens in Mexico where Mexican officials can interview them till the cows come home. This is not a difficult concept, Mario. Please, give it some thought.

Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.

"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.

"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."

Chris, I admire what you and your organization are doing. We are under attack. We are being invaded. This is a war.

But I fear you and an overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens are more than a bit naieve regarding our country's government. It is not unbelievable that U.S. officials are providing critical information to Mexican authorities. On the contrary, anything the government can do to deter or nullify the efforts the minutemen is to be expected.

Decades ago, the U.S. government began to be infiltrated by people dedicated to destroying this country, destroying it in every way it can be destroyed. Over the years, they have been able to exert their influence at all levels of government and in key areas of our society -- how our children are educated, the number and value of the dollars we earn, who our next door neighbors are, what we see and don't see in the newspapers, on television, at the movies.

You cite rampant corruption and criminal cartels in Mexico. And yet you fail to mention rampant corruption in our own country and the biggest criminal cartel of all -- the U.S. government. Chris, it's sometimes painful for people to say negative things about their own country, but if they're true, they should be said and heard by others.

There are some countries which care little or nothing for the rights of its citizens -- look the wrong way, use the wrong word, admire the wrong person, voice the wrong idea -- and you go to jail. You sound shocked that the government would blatantly endanger the lives of its citizens. It cares absolutely nothing for us and stands ready to betray us at the drop of a hat.

Chris, the people administering the U.S. government will do or allow anything that facilitates the destruction of this country. If we're in danger, so what! Oh they care for these Mexicans because they're serving a useful purpose -- they're serving to financially and culturally impoverish us, to divide us and disolve the unity which once was our strength.

These Mexicans may not know it now, but when their usefulness is gone they'll be of no more value to the government than the sombrero on their head or the enchelada in their back pocket.

To sum it up, we're losing this war. We're losing it because most of us have failed to identify the true enemy. It's not poor Mexican peasants who are crossing the border in search of a green card. The true enemy is the people who are allowing and encouraging it to happen.

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Andy Ramirez is chairman of Friends of the Border Patrol, a non-profit organization. With his many contacts in the Border Patrol, Mr. Ramirez breaks important stories that have been neglected or covered up by politicians and the media. In an interview with New American magazine he describes the perilous situation along the U.S.-Mexico border. The following information is derived from a transcript of that interview.

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Military Incursion Card

The violations of our border by Mexican military units have become so common that the Department of Homeland Security produced a set of guidelines, the "Military Incursion Card," for Border Patrol agents to carry.

The card explains that "Mexican military are trained to escape, evade, and counter-ambush if it will effect their escape." But get this, the card actually tells agents to hide from Mexican military that may be operating and to "avoid" all confrontation with them.

It's incredible! The very purpose of the Border Patrol is to officially confront those who come across our borders, to protect U.S. citizens from being confronted by these law-breakers. This is an admission by the government that it is abandoning the borders and the people who live in the border areas. Of course, they have kept this all hushed up.

On March 23rd, I provided sheriffs with a copy of the Military Incursion Card. The sheriffs were floored by the incursion card since it countered previous Border Patrol officials' statements about incursions. For the sheriffs, this was the first acknowledgement by the Border Patrol of military incursions of any kind.

Now, this card is quite an amazing document and it puts the lie to all the administration's talk about wonderful cooperation with Mexico's government, which is contradicted by every Border Patrol line agent I have spoken with.

One thing repeatedly said to me by the sheriffs, some of whom walked out of the meeting with Border Patrol command, was how they just couldn't sit there and be lied to anymore. Members of Congress indicate disgusted listeners often walk out of their meetings and hearings too.

And when I say the sheriffs are completely fed up with the feds, I mean there are some who have actually told me they think its going to come down to open confrontation, where they will feel compelled to arrest Border Patrol and Customs officials who are interfering with their duties to protect their citizens.

They don't want to do this — and it certainly would not be pretty — but that's where this will lead, if we, the American people, do not come to the aid of the Border Patrol, and local law enforcement and force the politicians to give them the resources they need to protect our country.

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Officer Marc Atkinson, 28, of the Phoenix Police Department, was murdered on March 28, 1999. Officer Atkinson was working on a drug suppression detail, surveilling a white Lincoln Continental, when his partners got called away on another detail. Shortly thereafter, three men emerged from the location and entered the vehicle. Officer Atkinson began tailing the vehicle, but temporarily lost visual contact. As he turned north in search of the vehicle, 17-year-old Felipe Petrona-Cabana emerged from the vehicle's driver's side, and began firing his .357 caliber revolver. Atkinson was struck twice in the head, and died the next day. All three suspects are illegal aliens from Mexico.

About 80,000 people have taken part in a silent march in Brussels. The marchers had gathered to protest the recent murder of a local teenager.

Two weeks ago Joe Van Holsbeeck, 17, was stabbed five times in the chest after he refused to give thieves his digital music player. Many marchers laid flowers at the scene of the crime in tribute to the young victim.

Although the incident was recorded on a security camera, the murderers have yet to be identified and remain at large. The murder, which occurred during rush hour at busy Central Station, has shocked all of Belgium.

The murdered boy's parents held hands as they walked at the heart of the procession. They had requested a silent march without banners or signs of political affiliation.

In Brussels, which has a sizable immigrant population, fears of racial tension have been high since the murder. Images recorded by the security camera indicate that the killers are probably of north African origin, but the victim's mother appealed for calm.

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Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the Founder of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), a nonprofit organization that for the past 16 years has been providing unique programs and services designed to help black men and their families. He is the author of SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.

Over the years, Mr. Peterson has been a guest on several talk radio programs here in Saint Louis. His views on the impending catastrophe regarding illegal immigration and amnesty are no surprise to me.

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Ted Kennedy should be ashamed for comparing the civil rights struggles of blacks to that of illegal aliens. Black Americans are being driven out of their jobs and schools by the influx of illegals—while politicians like Kennedy sell them out for Hispanic votes.

Thirty years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District student population was 24% black and 32% Hispanic. Today, one in 10 students is black, and seven in 10 are Hispanic.

These figures should be alarming to anyone who cares about black Americans. Unfortunately for blacks, politicians like Kennedy are more interested in the next election—and blacks are a small slice of the voting pie, while Hispanic numbers are exploding.

Blacks must finally claim their birthright as Americans, and say ‘no’ to the further devastation of their workforce and communities by illegal aliens and their political accomplices.

-- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Midi: Amazing Grace

Deputy Brandon Winfield, 29, of the Marion County Sheriff's Department, was murdered on October 17, 2004. Deputy Winfield was on routine patrol when he stopped to assist what he thought was a stranded motorist. Although the details are unclear, Deputy Winfield was found shot in the head in his vehicle, which had hit a guard rail and flipped into a ravine. It appears that at least one of two suspects had been inside Deputy Winfield's patrol vehicle at some point in time. Both suspects are believed to be illegal aliens, and have been taken into custody.

Midi: Amazing Grace

Trooper Robert Clodfelter, 34, of the Oregon State Police Department, was murdered on September 30, 1992. Trooper Clodfelter arrested Francisco Manzo Hernandez for driving under the influence. Trooper Clodfelter was found seated in his patrol car about four blocks from the scene of the arrest, with four bullets to the back of his head. Hernandez was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Manzo-Hernandez is an illegal alien from Mexico.