Illegal immigration down? Really?

An SUV stuffed with 11 illegal aliens slammed into a brick wall during a high-speed chase as the vehicle was fleeing U.S. Border Patrol agents early this morning. The agents were following two vehicles in Casa Grande when the crash occurred. Four people died and 7 were injured following the crash which took place as the driver lost control while trying to negotiate a corner.  The brick wall surrounded a home that was– fortunately — unoccupied.  A Deputy from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said the vehicle  reached speeds of 100 mph before the driver lost control.

Still, the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) repeatedly assures its few remaining readers that Arizona’s illegal population has “plunged” in recent years. The newspaper cites a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report to bolster its contention. 

Reminder to Arizona newcomers: Janet Napolitano, who previously was the state’s liberal and veto-prone governor now heads up DHS where she has played politics to the hilt and done nothing to eradicate the massive influx. Napolitano gained notoriety for her laxness on the issue of enforcement and was known for her blasé retort when frustrated Arizonans pleaded for border action: “Show me a 50-foot fence, and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.” (lower your voice several decibels to sound more authentically Napolitano-like.)

Stealth Amnesty: Napolitano assures Dem vote

The Federal Register which bills itself as the “Daily Journal of the U.S. Government,” reports on another immigration policy change from Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Insecurity.

It carries the incomprehensible and calculatingly deceptive title: “Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers of Inadmissibility for Certain Immediate Relatives,” as it turns the United State’s immigration policy on its head.

Read the summary here. The double talk is astonishing. But make no mistake, this is an in-your-face government approved chain migration* with a flare. We hear once more, now from the stridently secular Obama administration, the whine most often associated with faith-based groups, calling for the “reunification” of families. “We can’t tear families apart” is the cry.  Missing is any acknowledgment that families would not be separated if they all either stay home or return home together.

The Obama Administration, facing a contentious 2012 campaign is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal aliens by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”  If you suspect there could be accompanying election shenanigans, you move to the front of the class. This undercover video shows the ease with which voter fraud can be accomplished, with our own government’s acquiescence.

Judicial Watch’s Corruption Chronicles blog explains this latest scam on the American people:

“Currently such aliens must return to their native country and request a waiver of inadmissibility in an existing overseas immigrant visa process. In other words, they must enter the U.S. legally as thousands of foreigners do on a yearly basis. Besides the obvious security issues, changing this would be like rewarding bad behavior in a child. It doesn’t make sense.”  Read the rest of the exposé here.

* For an excellent depiction of chain migration, take time to view this clarifying visual and accompanying explanation, showing the impact of a single “employment-based” immigrant admission under this plan. NumbersUSA has more on the issue here.

Take the time to acquaint yourself with this important issue.  Then get active.  Speak up. There won’t be any do-overs.

Meet John McCain’s new chum: Jack Abramoff

The strangest of McBedfellows

Back in 2005, playing the role of Capt. Pureheart, John McCain led the charge of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, as he showcased Jack Abramoff’’s shady dealings in his pre-presidential campaign crusade to reveal public corruption on Capitol Hill.

Now, nearly 7 years later, according to this report in The Hill‘s Briefing Room blog, Arizona’s self proclaimed “Maverick” is “lauding the disgraced former lobbyist’s efforts to reform campaign finance rules.”

Who can forget McCain’s unconstitutional campaign finance reform scheme, bearing the name McCain-Feingold?  He co-sponsored it with Wisconsin Democrat and former Sen. Russ Feingold, in another of his aisle-crossing maneuvers characterized throughout the years by alliances with liberals such as Ted Kennedy, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry and John Edwards. He has heaped praise on Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore as well as Janet Napolitano.

Fortunately, the McCain-Feingold effort at hamstringing Republicans was largely dismantled by court rulings, most notably the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision in 2010.

What an amazing turnabout. The new McCain-Abramoff twosome is beyond odd, given that Team McCain tried to use Abramoff against former Congressman and consistent conservative J.D. Hayworth when he had the temerity to challenge McCain — after nearly three decades of disservice — in Arizona’s 2010 U.S. Senate race. Out came the long-knives attempting to link Hayworth to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff — even though Hayworth was vindicated by the Justice Department and cleared of all allegations.

So typical.  So John McCain.

ICE falls in Obama, Napolitano mode

Unenforced laws are meaningless

The decision by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials not to deport six illegal alien demonstrators arrested Tuesday after protesting in front of Trevor Browne High School and obstructing traffic for more than two hours is not unique to Phoenix.

This is a repeat of contrived and practiced performances all around the United States as those in the U.S. illegally make demands, aggressively blocking busy roadways while chanting “Support the DREAM Act!” and “We will no longer remain in the shadows.” As an example, this was the scene in Georgia during a protest of immigration reform legislation. Seven protestors boldly disclosed their illegal status, knowing they would face no penalty.

In a statement ICE said, “Upon further review, ICE has determined that these individuals do not fall under ICE’s enforcement priorities and the agency has lifted the previously lodged detainers. ICE is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes the removal of criminal aliens, recent border crossers and egregious immigration law violators, such as those who have been previously removed from the United States.”

“Smart and effective…priorities?” Could those include getting out the vote for Obama from a grateful new voter base? Democrats, including Jeff Flake’s liberal Democrat congressional chum Luis Gutierrez, cheered the lenient policy. Gutierrez is the one who complimented Flake for helping “turn more red states blue.“ (Read fourth paragraph from bottom of linked article to the end.)

Homeland INsecurity Secretary Janet Napolitano has sent a clear signal that “student demonstrators” who could qualify for the nightmarish DREAM Act are not an enforcement priority for ICE. Under government directives, ICE officials now say their focus centers on deporting violent illegals.

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has just released its list of endorsed federal candidates for 2012. The list of 125 candidates will continually be updated   These incumbent members of Congress are those ALIPAC has supported due to their support for the existing border and immigration laws, rather than replacement laws that would exacerbate illegal immigration, such as Dream or Comprehensive Amnesty plans.

A group called Dream Activist, an online organization based in several states, has organized acts of civil disobedience in numerous cities in recent years. This page links to the organized training received by illegal youth to demand college tuition, and conduct protests. The guide book can be seen here.

Car jack used to breach AZ border fence

 A sobering reminder of our vulnerability

In this shocking video taken along the Arizona border, a group of Mexican drug smugglers use a simple car jack to lift open a portion of the border fence and deliver hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs onto American streets.

With no border patrol agents in the surrounding area, the smugglers were able to make their way into the U.S. completely undetected. So much for the “border being more secure now than it’s ever been,” as Department of Homeland INsecurity chieftain Janet Napolitano persistently boasts.

It is inconceivable that illegal aliens smuggling drugs or terror suspects intent on doing harm to our country are able to use an automotive jack to break open our border fence faster than ICE can set free “non-violent” illegal aliens.

This “fence” would be a joke if not such a serious a threat. Can the fence in your backyard be raised using an automotive jack? The fence surrounding the yard of an average American’s home is more effective than the fence protecting our nation’s southern border from terror suspects and illegal aliens flooding our neighborhoods with illicit drugs.

This U.S. Government Accountability Office report to Congress warns of an “ever-present threat of terrorist infiltration over the Southwest border.”

Chelsea Schilling writing for WND provides a chilling account of the numerous ‘Special-interest countries’ and ‘sponsors of terror’ including Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, whose nationals make their way into the U.S. through the porous border that remains unsecured under the Obama administration.

Facts fly in the face of Janet Napolitano

Mexican meth labs flourishing, imports to U.S. soar

MSNBC, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, reports that the number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has surged in the last five years while shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow, according to government statistics. But Homeland Insecurity Chieftain, Janet Napolitano, continues to claim  “the border has never been more secure.”

“There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been,” Napolitano said at the l Paso border crossing last April. “That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been.”

Arizona border Sheriff Larry Dever noted at the time that his agents were ordered “not to catch anyone or arrest anyone,” the Cochise County Sheriff said. “[They were told] their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back.”

The increase in drug trafficking highlights how Mexico’s cartels have expanded beyond their previous focus of exporting cocaine, heroin and marijuana by transforming their operations to also make methamphetamines on an industrial scale. Methamphetamine is an extremely addictive drug with disastrous affects on users, including severe paranoia, addiction, and psychotic behavior. Damage to the brain caused by meth usage is similar to Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and epilepsy. More on the extreme dangers of the drug can be read here.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has observed “a sustained upward trend in Mexican methamphetamine availability in U.S. markets.” Research by the U.S. government also shows that methamphetamine prices are falling and that the purity level of seizures is rising. China and India are the main countries involved in the trafficking of key precursor chemicals — used in Mexico’s manufacturing of the drug.

Read more here.

Union-backed Stanton already sells out to Obama

Democrat Greg Stanton was sworn in as Phoenix’s 52^nd mayor this past Tuesday. In his speech, he promised those often repeated but elusive qualities of “transparency, openness and inclusion.”

Talk is cheap. His oversized transition team, which he claims “looks like Phoenix,” doesn’t.

“Over the past year, I came to understand that not everyone was in my corner,” he solemnly acknowledged . “But for the next four years, I will be in your corner.”

“Especially,” we imagine him mumbling under his breath, “if you’re a far-left Democrat or unionist.”

Greg Stanton has been exposed for the unsavory company he keeps.  Read more here. Yet after winning the election, his phone was ringing off the hook with congratulatory calls from uber-liberals. President Barack H. Obama and former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, now the chieftain of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expressed their elation.

A giddy Stanton was quoted as saying that Obama told him Arizona is an important state to the White House and that he (Obama) looked forward to having a good relationship with (Stanton) as we deal with issues in the state and western United States.

 Stanton responded by telling Obama “I look forward to having a good working relationship with you, and the White House and our congressional delegation.”

Only the delusional would think he meant the entire delegation.

There you have it folks. Clear as a bright, sunlit morning. Phoenix is in Obama’s sights and Greg Stanton can’t wait to be accommodating.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the AFL-CIO’s Maricopa Area Labor Federation, America Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Professional Firefighters of Arizona, Iron Workers Local 75 Political PAC,  — along with numerous other unions — have long supported Greg Stanton. And for his part, Stanton has  been a longtime supporter of  big labor. It’s a perfect fit.

Look for the union label.

Sheriff Arpaio object of politically motivated assault

Obama welcomes illegals: Mi casa, su casa

The Obama administration has had its long knives out for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio with a concerted effort, over an extended period. Nowhere was that more apparent than with the Justice Department accusing the career lawman of responsibility for his office’s “pattern of misconduct” that supposedly permitted unlawful arrests, excessive force against Hispanics and resulted in the failure to provide constitutional protections to illegal aliens against attacks along the Southwest border.

 Since Maricopa County does not abut the border, there is more than enough reason to see this as an exercise in “throw it all at the wall, and see what sticks.”

One gleeful news report even went as far as stating that “preliminary findings by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division come as Arpaio has been hinting of plans to seek national political office.” The statement is absurd on its face. At nearly 80 years of age, Arpaio is not likely to be seeking national office when his term expires.

The pro-open borders Arizona Republic, emboldened by the recent removal of Senate President Russell Pearce from his post by radical activists, is on a rampage today with Page One headlines, columnists, cartoon and a lengthy slanted editorial– all blasting Arpaio.

Under Arpaio’s leadership, the MCSO is committed to enforcing the law, while working with federal, state, and other local law enforcement agencies to prevent acts of terrorism within the county and state of Arizona.

Along the way, the popular sheriff has also incurred the wrath of Arizona’s former governor Janet Napolitano. She sits at the right hand of Barack Obama. And in the upcoming 2012 election, Obama needs the votes of grateful Hispanics to whom he intends to grant amnesty. Joe Arpaio stands in his way in that effort.

Napolitano, now Secretary of Homeland Security, has curtailed the successful 287(g) program in which MCSO deputies are cross-trained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to identify illegal aliens booked into county jails.

This federal investigation reeks of Obama’s Chicago-style politics, with Napolitano part and parcel of the effort to impede the sheriff. The timing of the allegations is suspect, with the release of the Department of Justice report coming on the heels of congressional calls for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for his role in the deadly gun-running scheme known as Fast and Furious. These Arizona charges are obviously intended as a deflecting device, since the report was released on the first anniversary of the murder of Arizona Border Patrol agent Brian Terry — a murder for which Holder, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to apologize to Terry’s grieving parents.

At yesterday’s press conference, Arpaio criticized the report, saying “Don’t come here and use me as a whipping boy for a national and international problem. We are proud of the work we have done to fight illegal immigration.” Denouncing the Obama administration, Arpaio said it is putting a greater priority on going after law enforcement than securing the border with Mexico, stating that “by their actions today, President Obama and a band of his merry men might as well erect their own pink neon sign at the Arizona/Mexico border saying, ‘Welcome all illegals to your United States. Our home is your home.’”

How right he is.

Sheriff Arpaio’s press conference statements and response to the DOJ letter can be seen here.

Janet Napolitano: “I’ll look into that, Mr. Chairman”

…someday, maybe

U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to Homeland INsecurity chieftain Janet Napolitano, who has deliberately ignored his requests for information regarding the Obama administration’s policy of releasing illegals identified as criminals.  Specifically, Smith wants to see a list of names of the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens identified in local jails across the country through the federal Secure Communities program whom DHS has not deported. Instead he received general information in the form of statistics.

“The American people have a right to know what crimes these 300,000 illegal immigrants committed after ICE intentionally chose not to detain them. The Administration has a decision to make: Will they be open and honest or will they continue to hide information crucial to the health and safety of the American people?” asks Rep. Smith.

This Oct. 26, hearing video, though nearly four weeks old, is extremely relevant. It shows the exchange between Rep. Smith and the stridently stonewalling Napolitano during her appearance before the Immigration Subcommittee.

A letter from Rep. Smith to Janet Napolitano and responses from her DHS aide and an Assistant Director with ICE can be read here.

Obama, Napolitano call congrats to Dem Stanton

The Arizona Republic and its gaggle of liberal hangers-on would have us believe partisan politics should be a thing of the past — differences in party platforms and positions on the issues be damned.  Yet they are also fans of concealing the political bent of the Phoenix mayoral and council candidates during the city election cycles.

Despite the slippery suppression maneuvers, this last time around a few candidates proudly rolled out their credentials.  District 2 City Councilman Jim Waring’s signs actually acknowledged he was a Republican and mayoral candidate Jennifer Wright identified herself as a Conservative. Greg Stanton boldly displayed his union support. Is there anyone in Phoenix– not living under a rock — who didn’t know outgoing Mayor Philly Gordon was an unambiguous Democrat?

Now with mayor-elect Greg Stanton, the big-game cat’s outta the bag from day one. Sure, we all know he won with major union support — those reliable folks who turn out en masse for city elections. But even those leftwing ties pale in comparison to getting congratulatory calls from uber-liberals President Barack H. Obama and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, now the chieftain of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Stanton is quoted as saying that Obama told him Arizona is an important state to the White House and that he (Obama) looked forward to having a good relationship with (Stanton) as we deal with issues in the state and western United States. Stanton responded by telling Obama “I look forward to having a good working relationship with you, and the White House and our congressional delegation.”  Obviously he doesn’t mean the entire delegation.

There you have it folks. Clear as a sunlit morning. Phoenix is in Obama’s sights and Greg Stanton can’t wait to be accommodating.

In a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking after last Tuesday’s election, it was a miscalculation of massive proportions for Wes Gullett’s campaign to tack those “endorsed by the Arizona Republic” snipes on his campaign signs.  He might have fared better without that suspect alert to drive away the very voters he needed.