Border Patrol pot busts up 110 percent from last year
BY BLAKE SCHMIDT, SUN STAFF WRITER

In separate pot busts this weekend that mirrored each other, Yuma sector Border Patrol agents seized more than $2 million worth of marijuana, according to a U.S. Border Patrol news release.

The patrol said the two busts were some of the largest seizures in what is shaping up to be a record-setting year for pot seizures in the Yuma sector.

Halfway into the fiscal year that started Oct. 1, Yuma sector agents have seized 27,658 pounds of marijuana valued at more than $22 million, which is more pot than was seized in the sector in all of 2004, and a 110-percent increase over seizures in the same time last year.

In both cases this weekend, smugglers drove across the Colorado River from Baja California, saw Border Patrol agents, abandoned their pot-loaded pickup trucks and fled back into Mexico on foot.

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Agents nab suspected DVD smuggler
BY BLAKE SCHMIDT, SUN STAFF WRITER

Apparently, it's not just drugs and people that are being smuggled into the United States.

Yuma sector Border Patrol agents on Sunday arrested an illegal alien who allegedly was trying to smuggle pirated DVDs through a highway checkpoint.

Agents stopped a man driving a Toyota at the Interstate 8 checkpoint east of Yuma Sunday at about noon, and found that he was an illegal alien from Mexico, according to a Border Patrol news release.

Upon searching his car, agents found a box of 90 pirated DVDs, the release said.

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Bush: Deporting won't work
By Bob Keefe
COX NEWS SERVICE
Photo by Jebb Harris / Orange County Register

IRVINE, Calif. — With Congress preparing to renew its debate on comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush on Monday denounced calls to deport the nearly 12 million immigrants already in the country illegally.

"Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic," Bush said above the sound of protesters chanting outside the hotel where he was speaking. "You can hear people out there hollering it's going to work … but it's not going to work."

Bush said he favored both strengthening the borders and creating a guest-worker program that would let illegal immigrants who have been here for more than five years remain in their jobs and gain citizenship, as a Senate bill proposes.

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31 migrants caught this weekend
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times

On Friday night, El Paso police called the Border Patrol with a tip from an anonymous caller who suspected undocumented immigrants at a house in the 10200 block of Kellogg Street. Border Patrol agents went to the house and found 16 migrants, 15 from Guatemala and one from Honduras.

"All are being processed and will be removed to their native countries," Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said.

Then Sunday morning, sheriff's deputies followed a tip from an anonymous caller and visited the Cotton Valley Motel at 1590 Clint Cutoff Road. They found 15 undocumented immigrants, including three women.

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Banning Patriotism
By Aaron Hanscom
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2006

But why should students in America feel threatened or insulted by the display of the American flag? After all, they pledge allegiance to it at the start of each school day. The reason seems to have something to do with American educators’ unwillingness to offend the sensitivities of Hispanic students. Conversely, these educators see nothing amiss with encouraging Mexican pride. For instance, upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebrations in schools around the country will feature children dressed in the Mexican colors of red, white and green. Parents were notified of them with letters home written in Spanish.

Unfortunately, such efforts to promote “multiculturalism” often have an adverse impact on the minority students they are intended to benefit. Elementary school students in the largely Hispanic schools in Los Angeles, where I am a substitute teacher, cannot hum “America the Beautiful” or even distinguish between George Washington and George Bush. Yet they have no problem knowing why some schools are named after union icon Caesar Chavez. By contrast, Hispanic students who gain an appreciation of America are less likely to harbor resentment over its imperfections and to romanticize the countries from which their parents and grandparents sought refuge.

To encourage American pride, however, is to encourage assimilation -- and assimilation has become a dirty word in American education.

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Pew Hispanic Center Fact Sheet

The Labor Force Status of Short-Term Unauthorized Workers

Download the complete factsheet

In order to better understand the impact of some proposals before Congress, this fact sheet examines the labor force status of unauthorized workers who have been in the country for five years or less. These short-term illegal migrants would not be eligible for a legalization program under some proposals. Estimates based on the March 2005 Current Population Survey show that 2.5 million unauthorized workers arrived in the country between 2000 and 2005, accounting for just under 2% of the U.S. labor force. More than half of them are employed in construction and service occupations where they make up a larger share of the labor force. For example, short-term unauthorized workers make up about 10% of all persons employed in food preparation and service. This fact sheet provides estimates of the number of short-term unauthorized workers by industry and occupation as well as their weekly earnings and unemployment rate.

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From the National Border Patrol Council

Patrolling Chaos.

An insightful portrayal of life in the U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas. Sociologist Robert Lee Maril rode with agents from the McAllen Border Patrol Station for two years, and details these experiences in a manner that captures and holds your attention. He concludes with a number of recommendations for improving the Border Patrol's ability to accomplish its mission, as well as for attracting and retaining highly-qualified employees.

Read an Excerpt From the Book Here

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As Guest Worker Amnesty Looms—Remember The GAO Fraud Report!
By Juan Mann

[Also by Juan Mann: 03/27/06 - Do Reconquistas Already Run Federal Immigration Bureaucracy?]

Another illegal alien amnesty looms on the political horizon. But as long as the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) division administers it, an immigration benefit fraud free-for-all will certainly result.

Why do I make such harsh judgment?

Look no further than the staggeringly comprehensive Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in March—IMMIGRATION BENEFITS: Additional Controls and Sanctions Strategy Could Enhance DHS’s Ability to Control Benefit Fraud (GAO-06-259) [PDF].

The Treason Lobby and its handmaidens in the Senate of the Untied States would rather have this report seized and burned than allow it to ever see the light of day in the mainstream media, which hasn’t reported it at all.

But here at VDARE.com, the GAO report is still right on the front burner.

So to review, here’s what the GAO wrote about the agency that will be charged with passing out millions of uninvited “guest worker” cards sometime in the future, if the Treason Lobby carries the day.

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Statewide ICE operation nets 183 fugitives and immigration violators
43 felons among the arrested including a citizen of Guatemala who molested a three-year-old child

MIAMI- Fugitives and immigration violators were among 183 arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and removal officers and special agents during a weeklong statewide operation that culminated Friday.

The operation was spearheaded by ICE Fugitive Operations teams in Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando. The arrests are part of an ICE ongoing effort to identify and arrest those who pose a threat to our community and who have no legal right to remain in the country. Among the arrested were 130 fugitive criminal aliens that were ordered removed by a federal immigration judge but failed to comply with their lawful orders. Some of the fugitives have been in hiding evading law enforcement for years.

The remaining 53 arrested were illegal aliens amenable to removal from the United States. All have been charged administratively for being in violation of immigration laws.