ASU students: First Amendment protects their rights but not Sheriff Arpaio’s

The State Press at Arizona State University runs a puzzling opinion piece by student Dustin Volz.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been invited to participate in a roundtable question and answer session with three Cronkite School of Journalism faculty members.

Volz advises students against raucous protesting of the sheriff, citing “Like he doesn’t already know you hate him,” as a reason.  Instead, the fledging journalists, learning their craft well at a school named for the darling of the media liberals, are advised to go and listen to the session and then challenge Arpaio — although they have no idea of what he will say.

A Facebook event titled “Rally Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio at ASU Downtown” already sports hundreds of members vowing to come out and show Sheriff Joe how they feel about his treatment of illegal immigrants, according to Volz.

“But protesting Joe won’t do a thing; he’s seen thousands of picketers in his 16-year tour of duty. He continues to win elections by double digits, so the rallying efforts of angry protesters is little more than white noise to his aging ears,” the obviously wet-behind-the-ears Volz opines.

He might have missed the recent KAET Cronkite/Eight poll concluding Arizona voters like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s approach to his job and disagree with the federal government’s immigration-related decisions to curtail the sheriff. The poll indicates a 61 percent job-approval rating for Arpaio. Seeing Red AZ carried this report last month.

Volz wrote a previous article on the Fort Hood massacre in which he said “Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan may prove to reflect our apathy when it comes to news that isn’t instantly relatable. [Michael] Jackson’s death was tangible because his songs made us dance, and the suicide on campus made us pause (briefly) because we share in the often-stressful experiences of being a college student.”

The slaughter of innocent servicemen and women — one pregnant — is not “relatable” to these vacuous fledglings.

Get the picture?

If the Arizona Republic is still publishing when these students graduate, their ideal jobs will be waiting for them. All the more reason to cancel your subscriptions now.

BHO ensures dramatic decline in illegal worksite arrests; American jobs are casualty

Arrests of illegal alien workers have dropped abruptly under President Obama, according to recently released figures.

Criminal and administrative arrests along with indictments and convictions of illegal laborers at work sites have all fallen by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009 –  and not due to illegals returning home.

“The figures show that Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves — but at the expense of Americans’ jobs,” said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).

Rep. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.

Read the Washington Times report here.

Employer sanctions law at work

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has announced that his office has filed the state’s first employer sanctions case, a civil complaint against an employer accused of violating the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act.  The action alleges Michelle Hardas, the manager of Scottsdale Art Factory,  allegedly hired illegal labor  — by deliberately using a “subcontractor” who was actually an employee  not authorized to work in the United States.

Read the text of what Hardas told an investigator on an undercover video here.

In making the announcement Thomas stated, “This first employer-sanctions case is the capstone on our office’s efforts to stop illegal immigration. The idea that state and local law enforcement can successfully and legally combat illegal immigration has moved from a provocative theory a few years ago to reality today.”

Thomas thanked Sen. Russell Pearce for drafting the employer-sanctions legislation and Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio for continuing with employer raids despite protests.

Seeing Red AZ covered the initial arrests last January.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducts 13th crime suppression operation

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has undertaken his 13th crime suppression/illegal immigration operation.

The two-day long, county-wide presence of two hundred volunteer posse, reserve, deputy and helicopter air support units on the streets, highways and in the air throughout Maricopa County assures future safety in the area for the citizen residents.

The focus of the operation is on finding and apprehending smugglers and their co-conspirators who travel through Maricopa County to reach destinations as far away as New York, Florida and New Jersey. To date, the Sheriff’s Office has arrested and booked over 1,700 smugglers and co-conspirators on felony human smuggling charges.

Read more here. Get the straight scoop — without the daily’s agenized filter — on the new methods the illegals and their transporting coyotes use to escape detection.

Legalizing grateful Democrats in time for the 2010 elections

Obowma’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently addressed a gathering at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington, D.C. policy group. She unveiled new arguments for an amnesty/legalization program for illegal aliens living in the U.S. in her duplicitous presentation, Napolitano actually claims such a program will enhance national security and protect American workers from unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.

“Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” Napolitano said, adding that the “recovering economy would be strengthened as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers.”

Recovering economy? With the soaring unemployment numbers recently surpassing the dreaded double-digit marker, Americans likely missed that  piece of fabrication.

Under the administration’s plan, illegals who hope to gain legal status would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.

None of that standing in line as legal immigrants to this country do. Nope.  Sneaking in moves you right to the front of the line, encouraging the arrival of even more lawbreakers.

Some were quick to challenge Napolitano’s claims that border security had significantly improved or that American workers would be helped by bringing illegal immigrants into the system.

“How can they claim that enforcement is done when there are more than 400 open miles of border with Mexico?” asked Rep. Lamar Smith (TX) the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He said the administration should “deport illegal immigrant workers so they don’t remain here to compete with citizen and legal immigrant job seekers.”  Read Rep. Smith’s  reply to Napolitano here.

The full New York Times report can be read here.

Linda plays an ever goofier one-note tune: Open borders provide ocean ports

In today’s daily, Linda Valdez tells readers: We must recognize border benefits as well as problems. Her piece begins by taking on Sen. Russell Pearce, whom she refers to as “one of Arizona’s biggest border critics” when he says, “The greatest threat to our citizens is the failure to enforce our immigration laws.”

Linda says he’s so wrong, that “it’s time for a reality check.”

In Linda’s simplistic view, the budget deficit outweighs illegal immigration — failing to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship. She ignores the impact the wage-undercutting illegal work force has on unemployed American citizens, exacerbated by the massively struggling economy. She glosses over benefits such as medical care and public education illegals receive, and the impact of their criminal activity, both to Americans who are victims and the overburdened criminal justice system, all arenas reeling under the costly stress. Instead of mentioning the myriad problematic burdens tied to the gift of instant citizenship conferred on newborns born to illegals, her article depicts a few prosperous Mexican visitors shopping at the toney Biltmore Fashion Park.

Linda, you see, thinks there is more to the Mexico problem “than illegal immigration and drug trafficking.” She says there are “huge potential benefits to sharing a border with a nation that has a young labor force, an emerging middle class and a taste for American products — not to mention ocean access that could make Arizona a shipping alternative to Long Beach, California. Mexico, she says, could bring two ocean ports to this landlocked state.

After the economy began its free fall, and the argument that there are jobs American’s refuse to do no longer held water, Linda presented us with the sad tale of “broken families” when illegals returned home. That didn’t sell.  Now she enthuses that we will have access to a ocean port.

Give her a point for inventiveness and a goose egg for veracity.

Could there be a correlation?

The daily’s headline blasts the good news: Fewer murders expected in Phoenix.

Readers had to muddle through to paragraph five before getting a clue about the reason for the substantive drop in homicide cases in the Valley. Tucked in among the lengthy article were these telling words::

Since 2000, on average, detectives solved about 46 percent of annual cases in years where the total number of victims spiked from increased gang violence, drug smuggling and human trafficking.

These are crimes that originate with, and gain their foothold in, illegal alien populations, who originally violated our laws entering the USA . Once here, many continue in nefarious dealings, often with tragic results.

Back in July, the Republic ran this AP report: Influx of Mexican migrants falls 60% in 1 year.

The link, by the Republic’s own admission, is undeniable.

Duel in the Desert Rematch: Sat. Nov. 21, 2009

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas will face off in a rematch of their famous 2008 Duel in the Desert quick draw to determine the fastest lawman in the West.

Master of Ceremonies: J.D. Hayworth

Pinnacle Peak Patio Steakhouse

10426 E Jomax Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85262

November 21, 2009

Social Hour – 6 pm     Dinner Begins – 7 pm

For reservations, please contact: The Maricopa County Republican Committee:

Phone: (623) 977-4532     Email:  mcrced@gmail.com

More information here.

Religion of Peace update: Feds seize mosques, skyscraper

Federal prosecutors have taken steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston,  more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

USAToday has a complete report here.

Criminals “wearing crosses” haven’t committed many mass murders lately

The Fort Myers Florida News Press runs an article describing a local Islamic Center’s request for additional police patrols, although there have been no threats against the center. This action follows the carnage at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas perpetrated by a Muslim extremist — in which 13 military personnel were murdered and 30 wounded.

Alibaba Lumumba, president of the center, said anytime there is a crime committed by a Muslim, the whole Muslim community suffers.

“But when there is a Christian who commits a crime, we don’t get into his religion or whether he wears a cross or not,” Lumumba said. “It’s a lack of knowledge about what Islam is and what it is not. Such acts of violence, especially if there were women, children or elderly who were hurt, are not condoned by Islam.”

No word from Lumumba condemning the jihad attack.

Also, note that the Islamic Center for Peace’s website disparages respected Phoenix physician and devout Muslim Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser saying he uses “half truths and twisted semantics” in discussing Islam. “We will critically analyze his opinions, arguments and discuss his use of intellectual aggression and fear to promote hatred towards everyone who opposes his views.”