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St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 03/20/07
by Stephen Deere

Board, mayor differ on course in Valley Park

Valley Park, MO -- Aldermen voted Monday night to abandon Valley Park's efforts to enforce an ordinance targeting illegal immigrants amid concerns over a costly legal battle, but the mayor may not go along.

Mayor Jeffery Whitteaker said he didn't know if he would sign the ordinance amended by the aldermen, which prevents landlords from getting occupancy permits for renters who are in the country illegally. He said he believed the board was bowing to financial concerns.
He said he stands by the ordinance as the right thing to do.

I just want people to know that as a mayor, I do not promote the presence of illegal aliens in Valley Park. The word 'illegal' is really clear. They shouldn't be here.

Roughly 70 people showed up Monday night at City Hall to debate Valley Park's anti-illegal immigration ordinances.

At least nine residents criticized Whitteaker and the ordinances, saying they were too costly to defend from lawsuits and damaging to the city's image.

"I don't want to see our city bankrupt," Valley Park resident Leo Anglo said.

But other people from across St. Louis County and beyond spoke in favor of the city's anti-illegal immigration efforts.

Nick Ivanovich, a member of the Constitution Party who lives in Kirkwood, urged the city to continue on its current path. Ivanovich said:

They deliberately choose to violate our laws. They carry false documents as proof. They come to our table intending to steal the food.

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The Arizona Republic - 01/11/07
by Daniel Gonzalez

Web site targeting employers of illegal aliens

A popular Web site that allows people to anonymously accuse employers of
hiring illegal workers has managed to irk business owners, raise the ire of immigration authorities and show that anti-illegal immigration forces are focusing their efforts on employers.

Wehirealiens.com is operated by a citizens group that says it's trying to fight illegal immigration by publicizing suspected employers of illegal immigrants on its site and reporting them to federal authorities. Critics, however, contend the site is part of a troubling movement by anti-illegal immigration groups to out businesses and individuals on the Internet.

It is among several sites that attempt to embarrass employers, but what makes the site so popular is what makes it controversial: Wehirealiens.com doesn't check or confirm accusations from contributors before posting or sending information to authorities.

More than 2,700 businesses, including 200 in Arizona, are currently listed on the site's list of "illegal employers."

The Web site is not supported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE], but the agency has used some information supplied by the site. Business and immigrant advocates say the site amounts to vigilantism, and legal experts say the site is on shaky legal grounds.

None of that fazes Jason Mrochek, the Web site's operator.

Mrochek claimed credit when federal immigration agents on Dec. 12 raided meatpacking plants in six states and rounded up more than 1,200 undocumented workers employed by Greeley, Colo.-based Swift & Co. The meatpacker, Mrochek said, is one of several companies raided recently that first appeared on the Web site's list of "suspected illegal employers."

"We're glad that ICE is investigating and raiding some of these companies, and we hope it continues," said the co-founder and director of FIRE Coalition, an anti-illegal immigration group.

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Website: wehirealiens.com

Deseret Morning News - 12/12/06
by L. Thomson and D. Bulkeley

15 Mexico citizens are indicted

Charges stem from raid at Hyrum meat-packing plant

Federal indictments were handed down Wednesday for 15 Mexico citizens who were among 145 people arrested in last Tuesday's raid at the Swift & Co. meat-packing plant in Hyrum. Some of those arrested are also facing state criminal charges.

One indictment was sealed; the 14 others allege such crimes as identity theft, false use of a Social Security number, sale of citizenship papers and illegal use of documents for employment.

The arrests emerged after federal officials grew suspicious about massive identity theft that led to raids at Swift plants in Utah, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa.

In all, 1,282 people were arrested in what was called "Operation Wagon Train." Some are not facing criminal charges, but face deportation.
Federal law enforcement officials say most people caught up in the raid will not be charged with crimes, but their situations will be handled administratively and they could be deported.

In Utah, 114 arrests were for administrative matters related to immigration status, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It remained unclear how many of those 114 remain in federal custody, or if any now face criminal charges.

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The federal government is serious about following through on its promise to crack down on employers in Arizona who break the law by hiring illegal immigrants, a top-ranking immigration official said Wednesday.

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AP - 11/16/06
by Jacques Billeaud

New Arizona chief says he's serious about confronting illegal hirings

Some businesses regard the fines they could face for illegal hirings as the price of doing business, so the government will now pursue criminal charges against the most egregious violators, said Alonzo Pena, the new chief of investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona.

If you knowingly exploit this system, you are going to jail. We are going to go after the profits that you make. We are going to make an example. -

With limited resources to crack down on the large number of illegal hirings in Arizona, federal authorities said such prosecutions will help deter other employers who might be thinking about flouting the rules.

The government also is holding classes to teach businesses about employment eligibility rules and how to spot fake documents that a prospective worker might present when applying for a job.

Employers who hire illegal immigrants are blamed for encouraging people to sneak across the border in hopes of finding better paying jobs. Many lawmakers and immigration analysts have given the federal government poor marks in cracking down on illegal hirings.

After the 2001 terror attacks, the government's employment enforcement efforts centered primarily on work sites with implications for national security -- nuclear plants, military bases, airports, chemical plants.

This spring, federal officials announced a plan to intensify crackdowns on illegal hirings, including those businesses that don't have national security implications.

Crackdowns could land an especially hard blow on the Arizona economy, where an estimated one in 10 workers is an illegal immigrant.

Immigration analysts and some politicians have criticized the government for backing down in past crackdowns after businesses complained about the enforcement efforts.

Pena said the government's decision to increase the number of Border Patrol agents and put National Guard troops at the border are signs that the government is serious about confronting illegal immigration.

Cracking down on illegal hirings is a top priority, said Pena, whose office is responsible for immigration enforcement beyond the borderlands.

"We have to have this second piece -- this interior enforcement," he said.

Website: nctimes.com

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Officials of the European Union have gathered in Finland to discuss what is proving to be a big problem -- illegal immigration.

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BBC - 09/22/06
EU nations clash over immigration

A growing number of people in Africa are using small boats to transport themselves to Europe and landing on the shores of Spain's Canary islands which just happens to be the closest 'port of call'.

Although the Spanish government is aware of the gross vulnerability of its borders, little or nothing has been done to secure them. Few, if any, of these new arrivals have been returned to their homeland. To do so would undoubtedly be viewed by some as a breech of political correctness and spawn accusations of racism.

Instead, government officials have chosen to grant amnesty to these hoards seeking employment, opportunity, freedom, whatever. Last year alone Spain changed the status of a half million newcomers from illegal aliens to legal aliens.

News of this welcome mat traveled back to Africa and has spurred even more adventurers to man an oar and risk the perilous journey to a land of milk and honey -- 24,000 during recent months.

But Spain's newly adopted "guest worker" program has not been without problems or costs. State coffers are being sapped at an alarming rate. Spanish minister of justice Juan Aguilar has made repeated appeals for financial assistance because his country's inability to "cope with the influx".

Indeed, Mr. Aguilar believes all members of the European Union should bear the cost of Spain's insecure border, its failing guest worker program, and its ill advised decision to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. He explains his belief in terms of the geographical proximity of the Canary islands to West Africa (or vice versa).

Fortunately saner heads at the gathering in Finland are prevailing.

Germany's interior minister Wolfgang Schauble said Madrid "must stop asking for the money of others". Austria's justice minister Karin Gastinger said Spain had sent "the wrong signal" by legalising the status of a half million illegals because it attracted even more of them like a magnet.

And Italy's interior minister Giuliano Amato suggested that money would be better spent in their African homelands to dispel their need to seek greener pastures in other peoples'countries.

Website: bbc.co.uk

Elegant Sentiments From Charming People?

Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over.
-- Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets

They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay.
-- Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.
-- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico

We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population. I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.
-- Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas

Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California.
-- Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party

We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back."
-- Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor

California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave.
-- Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of H.E.W. under Jerry Brown

We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California.
-- Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General

We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . .
-- Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University

Good Sportsmanship?
On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los
Angeles Coliseum. The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived in this country. They booed during the National Anthem and U.S. flags were held upside down.

As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, pelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match. The coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have ever had in this profession."

Equal Opportunity?
Did you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It's called affirmative action or racial privilege.

Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen Republicans.

Corporate America has signed on to the idea that minorities and third world immigrants should get special, privileged status. Some examples are Exxon, Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Boeing, Paine Weber, Starbucks and many more.

Justice For All?
Did you know that Mexico regularly intercedes on the side of the defense in criminal cases involving Mexican nationals? Did you know that Mexico has NEVER extradited a Mexican national accused of murder in the U.S. in spite of agreements to do so?

According to the L.A. Times, Orange County, California is home to 275 gangs with 17,000 members; 98% of which are Mexican and Asian. How's your county doing?
A Boon To Education?
"Imagine teachers in classes containing 30-40 students of widely varying attention spans and motivation, many of whom aren't fluent in English. Educators seek learning materials likely to reach the majority of students and that means fewer words and math problems and more pictures and multicultural references."

When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island. They wanted to learn English. They wanted to breath free. They wanted to become Americans. Now too many immigrants come here with demands.

They demand to be taught in their own language. They demand special privileges-- affirmative action. They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture. The schools have rewritten US History
to accommodate these demands.

What is wrong with making it mandatory that everyone receiving social benefits such as welfare, food stamps, health care, unemployment insurance, etc., be United States citizens?

Well, it would do nothing but delay the inevitable. A sizable clique of politicians are determined to confer citizenship upon this rabble through amnesty or some other device.

These traitorous dogs are betraying not only the citizens of this country, but its culture
and heritage as well. They are subject to influence by various lobbies including those promoting a global agenda, and are willing to vote for or against any law in order to
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Website: cofcc.org
Related Post: 06/02/06

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LA Daily News - 08/12/06
by Rachel Uranga

Anti Illegal Alien Groups Multiply

Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame.

The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood “a Third World look.”

“Ten or 15 years ago, the neighborhood wasn’t like this,” Warren said. “The states are overpopulated, there is oversprawl, and immigration is contributing to this.”

After seeing a television commercial that blamed many of California’s woes on illegal immigrants, Warren immediately donated $50 to the sponsoring group, Californians for Population Stabilization.

And he’s not the only one. Since the Santa Barbara-based group aired the commercials, it has collected thousands of membership applications.

Other anti-illegal-immigrant groups have watched their rolls and coffers swell, from California to New York. Most of the organizations are small affairs, started by one or two people, such as California Coalition for Immigration Reform or Save Our State.

But anti-illegal-immigrant groups say growing interest is a wider backlash against pro-immigrant street protests that swept the country last spring and frustration with federal officials whose immigration-reform bill has stalled.

Critics warn that the upsurge in activity - also being replicated among pro-immigrant groups - is evidence of a growing anti-illegal-immigrant sentiment sweeping the United States.

They say the rhetoric used by those border restrictionists, such as the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and CAPS, teeters on alarmism rather than focusing on the country’s broken border system. And, they fear, it is dangerously fanning the flames of hate.
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One group, the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a civilian volunteer group patrolling the border, says it has collected $600,000 for a proposed border fence.

The American Border Patrol, another civilian group that turns immigrants [illegally] crossing the U.S.-Mexican border over to authorities and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says donations are up 25 percent.

And in San Diego, a newly formed Minuteman group went from just two members late last year to 200 today. The group's founder, Jeff Schwilk, said:

People are joining us so fast because they are frustrated with our government. They see all the wrangling, all the political posturing, and I think people are fed up with the inaction of their government.

Supporters of these groups say they feel especially compelled to join after seeing the level of support among [illegal] immigrant sympathizers.

Bob Byrd, a 68-year-old real estate broker who recently joined CCIR, a Huntington Beach-based group, said he was simply “repulsed” watching [illegal] immigrants and their supporters carrying signs in Spanish through downtown streets.

The images fueled his own anger over a recent family experience at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Sitting for hours in the emergency room, waiting for his ill son to be seen by a doctor, all the while surrounded by patients who spoke almost exclusively Spanish:

Our country is in jeopardy, and there is something that should be done about this. We have to pay for other people’s welfare who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

I am not prejudiced; I want everyone to have equal rights, but I see more and more our language is being changed. Things that were written in English are written in Spanish now. You buy chlorine and acid for the swimming pool and it’s in Spanish and English now.

Listed as a hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center, CCIR counts 26,000 members who support their promise to fight the illegal alien invasion.

Diana Hull, president of Californians for Population Stabilization, believes that the high-octane debate reflects the dire situation.

In the low-budget CAPS commercial that motivated union member and Sacramento Democrat Warren to join, swarms of pro-immigrant protesters wave the Mexican flag. A voice-over comes on:

The last thing California needs is more traffic, crowded schools, bankrupt hospitals. The last thing California needs is more immigration. The other side has had its say. Isn’t it time you had yours?

The commercial targeted the thousands of residents whom Hull believes were incensed by the [illegal] immigrant protests, which she says is further evidence of plans for a “reconquista” or reconquering of California by Latinos seeking land lost during the Mexican-American war.
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Moreover, she and other groups pushing for tighter borders say the real race-baiters are immigrant advocacy groups like National Council of La Raza [The Race], which solely serves one ethnic group:

There’s this whole perception being perpetuated about the Minutemen and others, that they are beer drinking, swilling red necks. They are incorrectly and maliciously portrayed. It’s not true. One of our board members is a Minuteman and he is a Ph.D., a professor. It’s a smear campaign.

But, the fever-pitch debate has taken such a turn that even in the halls of Congress, accusations of discrimination have spilled over into legislation. Last month U.S. Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas, accused other members of Congress of fanning the flames of “anti-immigrant sentiment before the election” by supporting legislation that makes English the official language.

And this past week, state Republican lawmakers formed a task force against illegal immigration that will host town hall meetings and gather information on the cost of illegal immigration.

Assembly members such as Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, who led the boycott of Mexican President Vicente Fox’s speech before the state Legislature, are leading the charge.

But the intense focus on [illegal] Latino immigrants, particularly [illegal] Mexicans, has some worried about fear and anger being stoked in California, home to 2.1 million illegal immigrants [aliens].

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This is a picture of illegal aliens (Mexicans) having a parade along a main thoroughfare in Los Angeles. Look at the banner they are carrying. On the right hand side is a white shape which represents the outline of their new country -- Aztlan.

If you examine the map of Aztlan below, you'll notice that it includes Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

So, people from a foreign country invade the United States by sneaking across the border, often under cover of night. They are welcomed into the fold by all the muchachos and muchachas who have preceded them. They like it here. And why shouldn't they? Their living expenses are almost nil.

They get housing from HUD, food stamps from USDA, health care from Medicaid, education from the local school district: "Si senor, this place it is very much to our liking. Maybe we will stay here for a long time. And our cousin Pablo, we will tell him to bring his family here too!"

I doubt if it even crosses their mind that these goods and services are being provided by money taken from the paychecks of the working citizens of this country. And if you're waiting for any of these invaders to approach you and say thank you, well, you may have a very long wait indeed.

But there's no waiting for a parade, no sir! Especially a parade to celebrate their newly acquired territory, their annexation of the southwestern part of our country -- Aztlan!

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Some of you may be thinking this "annexation" is preposterous, a fancy of the imagination by some over zealous college kids from south of the border. This is not something that could really happen in reality, right? There are laws to prevent this sort of thing from happening, aren't there?

Please understand, things happen in different ways. Whether it is annexed officially or unofficially, what does it matter if the outcome is the same? In either case you are going to get an overwhelming dose of Mexico dumped on you -- a suffocating dose which will permeate your life and the lives of your children.

Do you want your kids to come home from school and tell you what they learned about Pancho Villa and all those lousy gringos? Do you want to subject them to a school lunch of tamales and enchaladas five days a week? Probably not.

In order to escape this odious deluge many people have opted to relinquish their homes and relocate to another city, another state. It's happening daily and reflects the desperation of citizens who simply want to live among people who look and talk like themselves, among people with whom they share a common culture and heritage, a natural affinity.

And the old homesteads? Not to worry! They are quickly reoccupied by the never ending stream of people from south of the border. They abide and they procreate. And they rejoice upon seeing yet another of their compadres on the school board, the police board, in city hall, the state capitol. Then one day you wake up and there it is -- Aztlan!

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Oh yes, the laws! Do we have laws which prevent foreigners from annexing part (or all) of our country? Do we have laws which prevent foreigners from crossing our border without permission? I thought we did, didn't you? But what good are laws if they aren't enforced?

It should be clear by now that the people administering the United States government don't want to stop illegals from entering our country, nor do they want to deport the illegals who are already here. Period.

These people care nothing about laws which do not benefit themselves or foster their global agenda. Through rampant immigration (legal or illegal) they seek to destroy our unity. And it is our unity which is our strength.

So what can we do about this annexation? Who can we turn to for help? Certainly not the Federal government. I hate to say it, but we may suffer the same fate as the Palestinians who underwent a similar indignity when part of their country was annexed by Israel forty years ago.

Both the World Court and the United Nations ruled the annexation of East Jerusalem unlawful. Yet to this day, nothing has been done to correct this injustice. And, in the absence of a hero, nothing will.

Related Post: 08/25/06