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The Future American Worker

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A prominent Miami civil rights activist has taken a leading role in protesting legislation that would give illegal immigrants amnesty (citizenship).

Miami Herald - 04/26/07
by Lesley Clark

Miami Activist Opposes Push For Immigration Amnesty

T. Willard Fair, an ally of former Gov. Jeb Bush, is the new face of opposition to proposals like one championed by President Bush to allow undocumented immigrants to gain citizenship.

Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, is appearing in ads in The Washington Post and RollCall, a Capitol Hill newspaper, saying that “to black Americans, amnesty is an immoral seizure of our jobs.
The ads are sponsored by the Coalition for the Future American Worker. Its members include the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which wants to beef up border security, end illegal immigration and cut legal immigration in half. :up:

Fair, a political independent, said in a telephone interview with The Miami Herald:
I see illegal immigration and the adverse impact that it has on the political empowerment of African Americans, and the impact it has on the job market.
Lost Jobs

The ad quotes Fair saying black Americans have lost “hundreds of thousands of jobs to foreign workers willing to work for next to nothing,” and blames undocumented immigrants for “40 percent of the decline in employment among black American men.”

It cites a 2006 National Bureau of Economic Research paper that suggests a “strong correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates and black incarceration rates.”
“It’s not true that immigrants take jobs from black folks,” said activist Mel Reeves, who participates in demonstrations on behalf of low-wage workers. “The solution is not to pit one group against the other, but create jobs so everyone can be gainfully employed.” :rolleyes:

But Fair said in the interview he also is worried that unchecked immigration could cost blacks politically—by diluting mostly black congressional districts:
As we are at a zenith of our political power; with what’s happening with illegal immigration we could easily lose six or eight seats.
Fair said he hasn't talked about his stance with Jeb Bush, who appointed him to the state Board of Education and with whom he co-founded the state's first charter school in Miami:
I don't need permission to talk to people about things that are important to me. This is not disrespectful of Jeb or George. I'd be a puppet if I agreed with everything they did.
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Finite Resources and Services

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The Times - 12-05-06
by Richard Ford

Blacks and Asians fear losing jobs to new migrants

Working-class blacks and Asians are just as likely as white people to resent new migrants as they fear that they will compete for jobs, housing and other services, according to a report published yesterday.

It gave warning that such attitudes could cause problems for community relations as 70 per cent of the black and minority ethnic population live in the 88 most deprived wards.

In addition, many of the places to which asylum-seekers are dispersed are the most deprived areas of the country, such as parts of Liverpool, Glasgow and Hull.

The study also suggests that new migrants are being exploited by employers in jobs that traditionally pay low wages. Ministers are also paying insufficient attention to the impact of new migration on community relations, the study said.

Ministers have already imposed quotas on the number of Bulgarians and Romanians who will be allowed to enter Britain to work when the two former Soviet bloc states join the EU in January.

The quotas were imposed amid growing public concern and worry among Labour backbenchers at the level of immigration in recent years and the strain it is putting on schools and other public services.

Yesterday’s report said that though there was a lack of qualitative information on the impact of new migration, the survey suggested that it was not diversity but immigration that preoccupies people.

The report, Refugees and other new migrants, said:
White and black minority ethnic respondents displayed similar attitudes towards recent migrants which corresponds to reports that tensions do not necessarily arise along racial lines.

Rather, where competition over scarce and finite resources and services is the greatest, relations with newcomers are most likely to be negatively affected.
Website: timesonline.co.uk

EU: Coping With Immigration

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AP - 11/25/06
by J. Keaten and P. Benczenleitner

European Minorities Torn Between Worlds
As Europe goes through a wrenching debate over integrating immigrant populations—and at a deeper level about what it means to be European in a globalized age—the children of those immigrants also find themselves grappling with issues of identity in an environment where tensions are complicated by the scarcity of jobs and distorted by the fear of terrorism.

The wave of riots that engulfed impoverished, largely Muslim French suburbs around this time last year awakened many people to the reality that something was fundamentally broken in one prominent European model of assimilation.

Terror attacks in Madrid and London, the slaying of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, menacing protests over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad—a series of crises since Sept. 11, 2001, involving young homegrown Muslims has given urgency to the debate on integration.
Perceptions that Muslim Europeans are halfhearted in condemning terrorism—or even try to justify it—have swung much of public opinion against the Islamic minority and caused people to question whether its values are compatible with the West’s.

The fact most of the perpetrators of last year’s London transit attacks were homegrown Muslims has fueled the backlash against cultural tolerance.

Many views once limited to the far-right have become mainstream. In the Netherlands, a strict new immigration law requires people seeking citizenship to undergo assimilation training and pass a test on Dutch culture and language.

In France, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the center-right’s leading presidential candidate, seemed to echo the extreme-right National Front’s love-it-or-leave-it rhetoric last month when he declared his country “doesn’t want those who don’t love it.”

A Dutch poll released in June found that half of Dutch people dislike Muslims, though the numbers shrink sharply when the questions get specific—only 10 percent consider themselves smarter than immigrants, while 17 percent said immigrants tend to be criminals, rude and lazy.
Across the European Union, several countries have been working to implement EU guidelines against discrimination.

Europeans say their societies are not a U.S.-style melting pot, and their citizenships are inherited and not easily acquired by naturalization. And most of the young people interviewed didn’t seem keen on the melting-pot idea either, expressing a preference for marrying within their own ethnic background and religion.

Ozturk, a Muslim, broke up with a Catholic Peruvian girlfriend; he is now dating a Muslim Turk:
I always thought it wouldn't matter what religion one has when you're in love, but ... I think that if I was married to a non-Turkish woman, we could have problems raising our kids.
Many Muslims said the terror threat has put them under scrutiny they find stifling.

Ali el Hamamy, a 19-year-old student of Egyptian origin at London's City University, said:
When I'm asked what my ethnicity is on an application form, I say Egypt. Before, I used to say Arab. Arab now is a term used for terrorism. Egypt is a holiday destination.
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Hispanic Family Values?

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"Hispanic Family Values?"
by Heather Mac Donald

Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass

Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability.

Hispanic immigrants bring near -- Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.)

Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wed-
lock, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down.


Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in the future.

The government social-services sector has already latched onto this new client base; as the Hispanic population expands, so will the demands for a larger welfare state. Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly, because the problem is here -- and growing.

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England: Exodus In Progress

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The Spectator - 11/11/06
by Rod Liddle

Not funny, but it struck home

Apparently almost a million British citizens have left the country since 2000, to live somewhere else. Last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, 380,000 people left Britain, of whom about 200,000 were British citizens. At the same time, though, 565,000 immigrants arrived in Britain, the overwhelming majority from the Indian subcontinent (largely Pakistan and Bangladesh).

These facts were reported as if they were entirely unrelated. Nobody dared to venture that there was perhaps a very direct and even causal relationship between the record numbers of British people leaving the country and the record numbers of non-British people coming in. This seems to me a bit of an oddity, because, colloquially, one hears emphatic verification of such a causal relationship almost every day

I know a couple of people who have recently left Britain and the reasons they gave were very simple: we’re being flooded with immigrants, it’s madness, it is not our country any more. Sometimes these views are preceded by the more polite, ‘We don’t like the way the country has changed’, and that they merely wish for a better life. There will then be a quick rundown of just how things have changed -- too crowded, don’t want the kids brought up in schools where the majority language is Urdu, don’t want to be blown up on the Tube, etc. -- a litany of complaints leading in one direction only. And then, after a while, when they think no one else is listening, it comes: too many immigrants who seem to get preferential treatment over the indigenous Brits. You know, I ain’t racist, but . . .

It may be that my friends are wholly untypical of the other Brits who have left, but I would guess that the reverse is true. They are working-class, hard-working, low-paid and disillusioned. They are not mad on the huge influx (80,000 last year) of immigrants from Eastern Europe and especially Poland. These incomers depress local wages, apart from anything else - talk to your local English sparkie or plumber about his views on the recent competition from Gdansk and Bratislava.

But that isn’t their main source of discontent by a long way. Their real objection is to those arrivals -- a city the size of Sunderland every year -- from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Somalia. That is, people who are a different colour, and from formidably different cultures, who may speak no English at all and who may have no wish to integrate with the rest of us. That’s truly, unapologetically racist, I suppose. If they were opposed to immigration per se, one could argue that it was a laudably non-discriminatory state of mind. But, in fact, they are very discriminating indeed.

What surprised me, at first, was that nobody seemed prepared to report this very common and increasingly prevalent sentiment. After all, one could write about these Brits fleeing the country and state the likely reasons without necessarily concurring with them. Good riddance to these awful people, one might cheerfully conclude. But even for our most free-thinking and dependable think-tank, Civitas, this was a bridge too far.

Its spokesman, Robert Whelan, ventured that perhaps the parlous state of the health service was to blame for the exodus. You know, I suspect the majority of those who left have had next to no contact with the NHS: they are, in the main, pre-middle-aged and healthy. No, it seems patently clear to me that an important reason -- perhaps one of several reasons but significant nonetheless -- that so many Brits are getting the hell out is that they think there are too many non-European foreigners here, and underneath it rankles that these foreigners may abuse our hospitality and be treated rather better by the authorities than are the indigenous working-class whites.

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Related Post: 12/13/05

Kriss Donald Race Murder -- Update

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BBC News - 11/08/06

Trio Jailed for Kriss Donald Race Murder

Three men have been jailed for life after they were found guilty of the racially-motivated murder of white Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald.

Faisal Mushtaq, 27, Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and his brother Imran Shahid, 29, had denied murdering Kriss, 15, in 2004.

Kriss’s mother Angela—quiet during the trial—shouted: “You bastards,” as the jury delivered its verdict.

Imran Shahid must serve a minimum of 25 years, Zeeshan Shahid, 23 years minimum and Mushtaq, at least 22 years.

Outside the court, Ms Donald, 42, thanked police, the prosecution and witnesses.

She said: “Justice has been done, thank you—it is over.”

The six week trial had heard that her son had shouted: “I’m only 15, what have I done?” as he was dragged from the street and into a car.

The gang took him on a 200-mile journey to Dundee and back while they made phone calls looking for a house to take him to.

Having no success, they returned to Glasgow and took him to the quiet Clyde Walkway, near Celtic FC’s training ground.

There, they held his arms and stabbed him 13 times before dousing him with petrol and setting him alight while he may
still have been alive.

The jury of nine women and six men took about eight-and-a-half hours to reach its verdict.

Imran Shahid was found guilty by a unanimous verdict and the other two guilty by majority verdicts.

Sentencing, Lord Uist described Imran Shahid as “a thug and bully with a sadistic nature not fit to be free in civilised society”.

He said Imran Shahid, known as Baldy, was the leader of the expedition.

“It was pre-meditated cold blooded execution, it truly was an abomination,” Lord Uist added.

“The savage and barbaric nature of this crime has rightly shocked the public.

“Racially aggravated violence from whatever quarter will not be tolerated in Scotland.”

‘Horrendous crime’

Eyewitness accounts of the abduction, statements said to have been made by the accused, mobile phone records and forensic evidence against one of the men helped secure the convictions.

Kriss was stabbed 13 times and burns covered 70% of his body.

His death triggered an investigation that lasted more than two years and took detectives around Scotland and to Pakistan.

Asst Ch Const John Malcolm, of Strathclyde Police said: “As a force we would like to extend our personal thanks to Kriss’s family for their co-operation, support and their understanding as the true nature of this horrendous crime unfolded.

“It is also important to acknowledge the support of the broader community.

“Everyone came together to support and inform our investigation, and through these actions, the community made it very clear that this sort of violence is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any community.”

Kriss was abducted near his home in a random act of racially motivated revenge by the gang on 15 March, 2004.

The Shahid brothers and Mushtaq had fled to Pakistan after murdering him.

It was more than a year before they agreed to return and stand trial, after warrants were issued for their arrest.
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Related Post: 10/19/06

Securing the Border? --- Maybe.

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San Francisco Chronicle - 09/23/06
by Carolyn Lochhead

Political tide turning on illegal immigration

House Speaker Dennis Hastert stood before the cameras Thursday placing big red check marks on a list of nine border-enforcement bills that have passed the House -- including a 700- mile, double-layer fence ridiculed by critics all year but headed for the Senate floor next week.

At least for now, House Republican leaders have succeeded in their take-no-prisoners approach to immigration despite nationwide protests by Latinos last spring and White House warnings that they are endangering their party's future.

Refusing to compromise with the Senate and their own president to widen paths to legal entry and give the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country now an avenue to citizenship, Hastert and other House GOP leaders have successfully framed that approach as amnesty.

The House has prevailed "because that's where the country is," said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-California. "This is a situation where members in both the House and the Senate have listened to the folks back home."

Critics conceded a setback but argued that it would be temporary . . . For now, however, the political tide clearly favors enforcement first, legalization later.

"Not even a year ago, if you talked about a fence, you were an extremist who wanted to wall off the United States," said Rosemary Jenks, government affairs director for Numbers USA, a group opposing immigration on population grounds. "Now the fence is a no-brainer."

By large margins, with the votes of as many as 105 Democrats, the House passed three enforcement bills Thursday. One, which was approved unanimously, outlaws building an unauthorized tunnel across the border.

Whoa! Slow down a minute and run that by us again. An unauthorized tunnel? What the heck does does that mean? Are there currently "authorized tunnels" which cross the US-Mexico border? Are there plans to build "authorized tunnels" in the future?

The 12 million (or more) illegal aliens currently in the United States -- they didn't cross the border by tunneling under or by flying over it. They got here by walking or riding or swimming across at surface level.

If politicians are in earnest about securing the US-Mexico border, it would behoove them to focus their attention and remediation upon where the problem (illegal border crossing) is most manifest -- at surface level. If they are not in earnest, well . . .


The measures were plucked from a larger bill by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., that passed the House in December and sparked widespread protests that brought millions of Latinos and their allies into the streets of major cities. That bill would have made illegal presence in the country or aiding illegal immigrants a felony -- ideas House Republicans dropped after sharp criticism.

Two other bills would allow state and local law enforcement authorities to enforce immigration laws, and a third would allow indefinite detention of illegal immigrants considered dangerous and would speed deportation of those who have committed crimes or belong to gangs.

House leaders plan to attach those measures to the homeland security spending bill.
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Ironically, the fence legislation coincides with the Department of Homeland Security's award of an $80 million contract to Boeing -- the first stage of a plan expected to cost much more than $2.1 billion -- to construct a "virtual fence" along all 6,000 miles of U.S. land borders, north and south. The new technology -- including sensors, ground radars and other technology in addition to physical barriers -- will begin in a 28-mile sector near Tucson, Ariz.

Hey! Back up a few steps all you fine ladies and gentlemen of congress. You're getting just a little bit ahead of yourselves. A "virtual fence" 6,000 miles long? No, no, nooooo! We haven't been paying close attention to our constituants, have we? Come on, now -- tell the truth and shame the devil!

Please, listen carefully. What the beleaguered citizens of this country want and need is an actual fence 3,000 miles long. The United States is not being deluged by illegal aliens from Canada; if there are illegal aliens here from Canada, their number is relatively miniscule. No, the deluge is coming from Mexico -- Mexico. It's the southern border (all 3,000 miles of it) that needs to be secured and it needs to be secured now!

Later on we can consider a "virtual fence". Although it may or may not be a 2 billion dollar boondoggle, rest assured we citizens will not object to paying for a virtual fence to enhance the security already provided by an existing actual fence .

Later on we can consider constructing fences (virtual and non-virtual) along our northern border to allay any apprehension of a forthcoming "Canadian Menace" which may, as yet, be in its embryonic stage.

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Waiting For <i>Aztlan</i>

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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
collect their 30 pieces of silver. - :worried:

Website: cofcc.org
Related Post: 06/02/06

Los Angeles Sting

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LOS ANGELES - A three-day sting operation targeting foreign nationals who prey upon children has resulted in 25 arrests in the Los Angeles area.
AP - 08/25/06

All of the suspects have prior convictions for sex offenses, and four of them have previously been deported from the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Thursday.

Eleven of the suspects were found to be living in the country illegally. The other 14 were legal permanent residents but face deportation for their criminal convictions.

"These pedophiles pose a serious threat to the well-being of our children, our families and our communities," said Robert Schoch, special agent-in-charge for the ICE office of investigations in Los Angeles, said in a statement. "We can not only take them off the streets, but we can seek to have them sent out of the country."


Among those arrested was Jose Angel Pakas-Murcia, 46, a Honduran national who was deported in 1995 after serving time for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Florida. He faces prosecution for re-entering the United States after deportation - a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison.

Gabino Chavez-Rosales, a 43-year-old Mexican national with a prior conviction for lewd acts with a minor, also was arrested on suspicion of attempting to kidnap a girl playing in a laundromat parking lot. The Glendale resident faces deportation.

Also taken into custody was Jose Luis Rodriguez-Lucatero, 41, who entered the country illegally from Mexico after his conviction for the attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl.

The arrests are the latest to be announced as part of Operation Predator. Since July 2003, the program has led to the arrest of more than 8,200 sex offenders nationwide, including 1,100 in the Los Angeles area.

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Deport <i>ILLEGAL</i> Aliens Now!

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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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When Eisenhower Was President . . .

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CSM 07/06/06
by John Dillin
George Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border. Ike's solution was simple and effective: 1.seal the border and 2.send them home.


Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.

President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075
United States Border Patrol agents - less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still
highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.

In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.

Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said.


But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.

One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.

Then on June 17, 1954, what was called Operation Wetback began.

Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.

Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.

Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south. The sea voyage was "a rough trip, and they did not like it," says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.

There are now said to be 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.

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Stealth Amnesty?

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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. - :worried:

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. - :worried:

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Have You Heard About Aztlan?

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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!



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!



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

This should prove . . . interesting?

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There are now significant signs of an impending collision between Mexican separatists and Jews in California.

The signs were first manifested during the state's 1998 election primary when a Mexican defeated the Jewish candidate Richard Katz in the state's 20th Senate District and when a wealthy Jew, Ron Unz, was successful in having an anti-bilingual education initiative approved by the state's electorate.

The battle lines between Mexicans and Jews in California have been drawn and they have been drawn most clearly in the City of Los Angeles.

The Jews of California, about 3% of the state's population, have an overwhelming and disproportionate share of the state's wealth which they utilize effectively to wield immense influence on the state's political apparatus, principally through dominance of the Democratic Party.

Both U.S Senators of the state are ladies of Jewish descent and there is no sector of California society, either private or public, in which Jews are not significant policy makers. The sectors that they can not control directly, they will control indirectly through the purchase of influence as well as the cunning manipulation of ethnic and other minorities.

The Mexican candidate's victory in the 20th Senate District has been a turning point in the relationship between Mexicans and Jews. It is the very first time that a significant clash for political control, at the state level, has taken place between the two ethnic groups.

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Your Senator: Patriot or Traitorous Dog?

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United States Senate
Bill: S.2611 (immigration)
Vote Date: May 25, 2006
Vote Result: Bill Passed

Alabama.................... Sessions (R) Nay ....................... Shelby (R) Nay
Alaska........................ Murkowski (R) Yea ..................... Stevens (R) Yea
Arizona....................... Kyl (R) Nay ................................... McCain (R) Yea
Arkansas................... Lincoln (D) Yea ........................... Pryor (D) Yea
California.................. Boxer (D) Yea ............................... Feinstein (D) Yea
Colorado................... Allard (R) Nay .............................. Salazar (D) Not Voting
Connecticut.............. Dodd (D) Yea ............................... Lieberman (D) Yea
Delaware.................. Biden (D) Yea .............................. Carper (D) Yea
Florida....................... Martinez (R) Yea .......................... Nelson (D) Yea
Georgia..................... Chambliss (R) Nay ..................... Isakson (R) Nay
Hawaii....................... Akaka (D) Yea .............................. Inouye (D) Yea
Idaho......................... Craig (R) Yea ............................... Crapo (R) Nay
Illinois........................ Durbin (D) Yea ............................ Obama (D) Yea
Indiana...................... Bayh (D) Yea ................................ Lugar (R) Yea
Iowa........................... Grassley (R) Nay ......................... Harkin (D) Yea
Kansas...................... Brownback (R) Yea .................... Roberts (R) Nay
Kentucky.................... Bunning (R) Nay ......................... McConnell (R) Yea
Louisiana.................. Landrieu (D) Yea ........................ Vitter (R) Nay
Maine......................... Collins (R) Yea ............................ Snowe (R) Yea
Maryland.................... Mikulski (D) Yea .......................... Sarbanes (D) Yea
Massachusetts........ Kennedy (D) Yea ......................... Kerry (D) Yea
Michigan.................... Levin (D) Yea ............................... Stabenow (D) Nay
Minnesota................. Coleman (R) Yea ........................ Dayton (D) Yea
Mississippi............... Cochran (R) Nay .......................... Lott (R) Nay
Missouri.................... Bond (R) Nay ................................ Talent (R) Nay
Montana.................... Baucus (D) Yea ............................ Burns (R) Nay
Nebraska.................. Hagel (R) Yea .............................. Nelson (D) Nay
Nevada...................... Ensign (R) Nay ............................ Reid (D) Yea
New Hampshire...... Gregg (R) Yea .............................. Sununu (R) Nay
New Jersey............... Lautenberg (D) Yea .................... Menendez (D) Yea
New Mexico............... Bingaman (D) Yea ...................... Domenici (R) Yea
New York................... Clinton (D) Yea ............................ Schumer (D) Yea
North Carolina.......... Burr (R) Nay ................................. Dole (R) Nay
North Dakota............ Conrad (D) Yea ............................ Dorgan (D) Nay
Ohio............................ DeWine (R) Yea .......................... Voinovich (R) Yea
Oklahoma.................. Coburn (R) Nay ........................... Inhofe (R) Nay
Oregon....................... Smith (R) Yea .............................. Wyden (D) Yea
Pennsylvania............ Santorum (R) Nay ....................... Specter (R) Yea
Rhode Island............ Chafee (R) Yea ........................... Reed (D) Yea
South Carolina......... DeMint (R) Nay ............................ Graham (R) Yea
South Dakota............ Johnson (D) Yea ........................ Thune (R) Nay
Tennessee................ Alexander (R) Nay ...................... Frist (R) Yea
Texas.......................... Cornyn (R) Nay ........................... Hutchison (R) Nay
Utah............................ Bennett (R) Yea .......................... Hatch (R) Nay
Vermont..................... Jeffords (I) Yea ............................ Leahy (D) Yea
Virginia....................... Allen (R) Nay ............................... Warner (R) Yea
Washington.............. Cantwell (D) Yea ......................... Murray (D) Yea
West Virginia............ Byrd (D) Nay ................................. Rockefeller (D) Not Voting
Wisconsin................. Feingold (D) Yea ......................... Kohl (D) Yea
Wyoming................... Enzi (R) Nay ................................. Thomas (R) Nay


Race Riots: Setting The Stage In The USA

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The President's Immigration Address
by Cal Thomas - May 17, 2006
Throughout his address, the president kept referring to the immigrants and their rights and desires.

What about those of us born in America, or who legally immigrated to this country? Do we have a right to preserve the nation the way it was handed down to us, with our English language, our culture and our loyalty to America first with no agenda other than this country?

According to Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation, the 614 page Senate bill would allow up to 193 million new legal immigrants into the United States in the next twenty years. Such a staggering number comprises 60 percent of the current U.S. population.

This isn’t about “fairness,” or being a “welcoming society.” If anything close to the current Senate bill passes, we will be a different nation.

Senator Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, says the Senate bill would make immigration to the United States an “entitlement.” Sessions told The Washington Times, “The decision as to who may come will almost totally be controlled by the desire of the individuals who wish to immigrate to the United States rather than the United States government.”

President Bush employed the classic “melting pot” metaphor, but changing the character and culture of America through uncontrolled immigration – legal or not – would drop a glacier in the pot that would never melt,

This is more about politics and votes. It goes to the nature of who and what we are. Current citizens had better make sure this is not an invasion masquerading as immigration.
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Mum, Zip, and Tick A Lock !

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Dear George Bush,

My morning paper informs me you're going on TV tonight and make a speech about sending thousands of national guard troops to the Mexican border. Make sure you tell all those troops to bring a shovel with them. Civilians in Arizona have already started working on the fence and they could sure use some help.

What? You're not sending them there to help build the fence? Why not? No wait, let me see if I can figure it out on my own.

You don't really care about the citizens of this country who are being plagued by millions of illegal aliens. You've admitted that you want the illegals to remain here. And I, along with millions of other citizens, suspect you would like to see even more of them.

But most of the citizens and some of the politicians have been clamoring for action -- even republicans. And elections are only six months away! What are your options? Well, you could go ahead and build a 2,000 mile long fence, of course. But that would be a permanent solution, wouldn't it. No, that won't do.

You want to keep your options open. Besides, a permanent solution (permanent fence) could possibly hinder your multicultural globalist agenda a little further on down the road. So what excuse can you give for not wanting to build a fence along the border, for not wanting a permanent solution to this problem?

Well, you could say that a fence would be too costly. But no one would believe you. Thanks to the darn internet, too many people know that your spending a billion dollars a day of their tax money on "no win" wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hmmm. What to do, what to do!

Say, I know! When you make your speech tonight, don't even mention the word fence. You can try to give the impression that a fence is not a viable option. You can try to convey the idea that anyone who thinks it is a viable option, is just plain cukoo.

Just skip right over the idea of a fence and move on. I'll bet a lot of them won't even notice. And a lot of them who do notice won't say anything because, because . . . because you're the president! Yeah!

So listen, George Mr. Bush, go ahead and start your speech in the usual way. You know: "My fellow Americans blah blah Freedom blah blah Democracy blah blah etc." And then move straight on to your "National Guard" thing.

Gosh, I hope no one realizes that national guard troops can be ordered to the border just as readily as they can be ordered away from the border. All it takes is a few strokes of the presidential pen.

I mean, what if an important emergency pops up and the troops guarding the border suddenly need to go to the other side of the world or to Iran or some place like that? Well, they'll just have to leave the border and go -- for reasons of "national security", of course. Don't forget to say "national security". The citizens will know what that means. They always do.

In the meantime it's mum, zip, and tick a lock on the "f" word. Okay?

In the Line of Duty --- Kenneth Collins

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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.

In the Line of Duty --- Saul Gallegos

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Midi: Amazing Grace

Deputy Saul Gallegos, 35, of the Chelan County Sheriff's Department was murdered on June 26, 2003. Deputy Gallegos was shot and killed after stopping a vehicle in a routine traffic stop. Jose Sanchez-Guillen, 22, who had been deported three times, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in the shooting death of Deputy Gallegos. Sanchez-Guillen is an illegal alien from Mexico.

In the Line of Duty --- Don Willmon

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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.