AZ AG Tom Horne confronts illegal immigration ploys

Border states not Washington bureaucrats should certify when the border is secure.

A single political appointee should not be entrusted with the job of certifying border security for the United States, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne told Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake in this May 20, 2013 letter.

Horne also issued this follow-up statement on Tuesday expressing his concerns regarding the partisan Janet Napolitano being the sole authority to certify border security:

“Last week’s report from the Department of Homeland Security confirming that more than 600 immigration detainees released from federal custody in February were convicted criminals was outrageous, and shows the federal government’s lack of commitment to border security,” Horne said.”As Congress prepares to discuss immigration reform, I am very concerned about any language that gives the Secretary of Homeland Security sole authority to certify the border as secure. The current Secretary is well-known for her pronouncements that the border is ‘as secure as it’s ever been,’ but people who live and work along the border tell a different story. The border, especially at the Tucson Sector, is not secure, and for any one person based in Washington, D.C. to be given the sole authority to certify it as secure in any new immigration reform package is a mistake. I urge the Senate to include language that eliminates the certification role for this or any future D.H.S. Secretary and instead require a panel of local and state stakeholders in border states affected by these issues to objectively measure and certify border security.”

The British newspaper The Sun exhibits more awareness of the dire situation than either the Obama regime or the dishonorable “Gang of Eight” gangsters — including McCain and Flake — who place political maneuvering above national security and the rule of law. Don’t expect to see such coverage in the pro-amnesty Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic).

In fact, today the newspaper delivered yet another biased report regarding the national Remember 1986 rally that took place yesterday. The coverage of the local demonstration outside of McCain and Flake’s senate headquarters repeatedly described American citizens desiring border security and respect for our laws as “Migrant reform opponents.”

And buried deep in the 2-page report is the fact that the Jesus Cabrera Molina, 24, described as “the non-citizen” (not illegal alien) and “the owner,” (not the driver) of the SUV involved in the hit and run death of Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz. In March 2012, Cabrera Molina was placed in removal proceedings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after being arrested. He was released from ICE custody when an immigration judge granted him a $5,000 bond.

Today’s report soft-soaps Cabrera Molina, saying he was charged with possessing “a small amount of cocaine” when picked up after his vehicle was identified as being involved in the officer’s death.

Officer Raetz, 29, a Phoenix native, leaves behind his wife and 5-year-old daughter. 

Gang of 8′s Jeff Flake fudges on border security

Duck, dodge and obfuscation become hallmarks of AZ’s junior senator

Chris Chmielenski writing for NumbersUSA exposes AZ Sen. Jeff Flake’s exaggerations during questioning by Sens. Jeff Sessions and John Cornyn. The back story and exact quotes are riveting.

Flake also stretched the facts when describing the makeup of the Southern Border Security Commission — which comes complete with a $2 billion authorization — saying it will be made up of “border governors, local ranchers, and others.” Not quite.

Read the facts here. The actual bill — all 867 pages of it — is here. The third word in the third sentence after the bill number (S. 744) is about as accurate a description as we can expect.

Let your voice be heard. The Phoenix “Remember 1986” Coalition has scheduled a press conference at 10:00 am, Tuesday, May 21, at Sens. John McCain and Sen. Jeff Flake’s Phoenix Offices, S/E Corner of Camelback and 22nd Street to denounce the comprehensive Amnesty Bill and to remind McCain and Flake of the failed 1986 Amnesty. The event is part of a nationwide “No on S744” day. Participants are urged to bring visuals (signs). “The Remember 1986 Coalition advocates for true immigration reform without a controversial amnesty element which has scuttled previous attempts at federal immigration legislation, according to spokesman Barbra Heller. Contact Heller at (602) 505-8760.

Check out the national grades on the Immigration Report Card Locator  In Arizona, junior Sen. Jeff Flake is rated D+. His mentor, John McCain comes in even lower, with a D-.

Immediately below them are Arizona Democrats Raul Grijalva and Ed Pastor each earning an F-.

Weekend reading guaranteed to make you smarter

Amnesty lies revealed

Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell is a favorite for a reason. His brilliant mind clarifies and distills issues that have been analyzed and debated ad infinitum. Here’s Sowell’s take on “Comprehensive” immigration reform, which he argues “serves the interests of politicians who like to be on both sides of a controversial issue, and it serves the interests of those foreigners who want to game the system in the United States, at the expense of the American people. But it does not serve the interests of American society.”

On the issue of anchor babies, Sowell minces no words: “If nothing else, putting a legal end to the “anchor baby” racket might suggest to the American public that they were regarded in Congress as something more than expendable suckers who can be mollified with rhetoric.”

Today’s recommended reading is the incisive, icing-on-the-amnesty-cake commentary Immigration Sophistry to bring you up to speed on the truth behind what we are being sold by the disreputable “Gang of 8.”  Sowell hits all the glib distortions being fed as facts to the American people. For additional background, read Immigration Gambles: Part II and Immigration Gambles.  

Here in the border state of Arizona, we are particularly vulnerable — even more so since two of the gangsters are Arizona senators. The deceptive John McCain is leading this massive sham as well as the ultimate destruction of the Republican Party, along with his open-borders protégé Jeff Flake.

US Rep. Steve King exposes ‘Gang of 8′ deceivers

844 page amnesty bill: “Being stampeded without enough scrutiny”

Plain spoken conservative Congressman Steve King is, without a doubt, the man many Arizonans would eagerly take in trade for our two double-talking, Democrat-colluding ‘Gang of 8‘ U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.

No waffler, the Iowa Republican even posts his voting record on his website for all to see.

On the issue of “immigration” McCain’s site has a pull-down linking to Homeland Security, with no actual position — but crammed with staffer-written press releases dating back to 1999.  Jeff Flake evasively has no issues page at all, though following his McMentor, has press releases. 

No big surprise, neither of these two have their votes recorded. Here’s the deception you won’t read on Flake’s sanitized site. And not a single word about the $6.3 trillion price tag of implementing this mammoth and deliberate destruction of the Republican Party, known innocuously as S 744 

Another honorable statesman, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) says illegals now in the United States should not be allowed to get green cards or become citizens until the dangerous visa entry-exit system is fixed. He has also warned that the bill gives Department of Homeland Security chieftain Janet Napolitano, “virtually unlimited discretion to waiver” prohibitions on obtaining legal status, such as criminal activity or previous deportation. His amendment mandating controls failed by a vote of 6 to 12.  Just two Republican senators — Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham– both under the mesmerizing spell of John McCain, joined the 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to defeat the proposal.

“The big question I would pose out there is, why?” U.S. Rep Steve King asked. “Why is that 844-page bill, why is it good for America and Americans? I can’t get that answer on why it’s good for us,” he said.

Take the time to read King’s entire immigration policy statement.

Even the leftist, amnesty-supporting  Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) admits in a front page report today that the “Feds lack key data to how to stem illegal crossings.”

For more, read this CNS News report detailing how the Gang of 8 Immigration Bill Destroys the Rule of Law. The video included is worth your time. Listen as U.S. Rep King clearly states the consequences of rewarding lawbreakers with citizenship.

Obama implodes: Feds stop at nothing to silence critics

Scandals, Benghazi, IRS scrutiny, phone taps = “I” word

MyWay News reports the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. When an agency clearly favorable to the Obama administration is under siege by the very regime they helped put in place, the impact of now seeing them bite the hand that fed them is monumental.

The Washington Post writes that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative and tea party affiliated groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed.

Breitbart News reveals Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s assertions regarding “the Obama effort to shut up opponents isn’t limited to the IRS. It applies to the FCC [Federal Communications Commission], SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], FEC [Federal Elections Commission], HHS [Department of Health and Human Services”

The Wall Street Journal exposes the IRS’s scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names — as the agency admitted Friday — to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to “make America a better place to live,” according to new details of a government probe.

The UK’s Daily Mail includes this threatening 11-page IRS questionnaire sent out to the Richmond Tea Party after it applied for tax-exempt status.

The Benghazi cover up alone has reached a level of either incompetence or deceit that makes Watergate — the senate hearings which began 40 years ago this week May 17, 1973 — resemble chump change.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on his radio show this week, “I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term. As bad as Watergate was because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did in fact die. And President Obama has yet to explain why did they did.”

No wonder Sen. James Inhofe the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee  told broadcaster Rusty Humphries that President Barack Obama could be impeached over the growing White House cover-up following last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya. Inhofe accused Obama of overseeing “the most egregious cover-up in American history.”

But the ubiquitous John McCain wants none of it.  No siree.

Although McCain told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that he believes the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, constituted a “cover-up” because “there was willful removal of information, which was obvious” — he has also defended his friend Obama against impeachment, saying, “I do not believe that the president has committed impeachable offenses — that’s high crimes.”

McCain might think covering up the Obama administration’s malfeasance, is not a high crime.  But even Señor Juan McCain should agree that illegally tapping the phones of reporters and the illegal targeting of conservative groups by the IRS do rise to the impeachable level:

“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ….cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”

— Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against then-President Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974.

MoveOn demands Paul Ryan apologize for truth

Anchor babies are a fact of life in the world of illegal immigration. Birthright Citizenship is the costly, automatic granting of citizenship to children born within a nation’s borders or territories. The United States and Canada are the world’s only industrialized nations still offering such an extravagant gift to both tourists and illegal aliens.

Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on American soil. They are called “anchor babies” because, as U.S. citizens, they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including their illegal alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. “anchor” for their extended  foreign family.

Such births have even forged an industry aside from the children born to foreign national parents illegally residing in the United States. As an example, Dr. Jose Duran, a gynecologist and obstetrician and his colleague, Dr. Marco Saucedo, both Nogales, AZ physicians have an unusual way of bringing in business.  The two doctors advertise their services on flashing digital billboards south of the border which read: “Do you want to have your baby in the United States?” They refer to the practice as “a tradition.”

For years, Tucson Medical Center’s “birth package” has actively recruited such business, encouraging what amounts to the purchase of U.S. citizenship.

Seeing Red AZ has written about what is called “Birth Tourism” with pregnant clients arriving from China and Middle Eastern nations.

In August 2010, we wrote that the issue of birthright citizenship — an incorrect interpretation of the 14th Amendment — was getting another look by the most unlikely of people. Arizona’s own amnesty architects, Sens. John McCain and (now retired) Jon Kyl, along with Sen. Lindsey Gramnesty (R-SC) each said they intended to revisit the issue, and would look at the advisability of a constitutional amendment that would repeal the citizenship provisions. The amendment was adopted in 1868 after the Civil War. Its intent was to allow American-born children of freed African-born slaves to have all of the rights and privileges of citizenship. It was necessary then, but has no relevancy today.

We hope you weren’t holding your breath waiting for such actions from the amnesty loving senators.

With this as background, why would the far-left extremists at MoveOn.org be waging a war, complete with a petition drive, against U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, demanding that he apologize for using an “offensive anti-immigrant slur”– anchor babies — while discussing immigration reform.  In Racine, Wisconsin, a group of liberal Wisconsinites gathered at Monument Square to demand Ryan apologize.  As this video shows, these charming and well-informed folks have targeted him before.

Sorry. Anchor babies live and breathe.  They are a fact of life. Apologies are not in order.

Amnesty trickery: Jeff McFlake votes with Democrats & Update

This is a simplified version of the facts from Matthew Boyle at Breitbart.

Read his entire report titled, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake Join Dems to Kill Border Security Amendment here.

An amendment submitted by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley requiring the security of our nation’s borders before granting amnesty to at least 25 million illegal aliens, has been voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 6 -12 vote. Every single Democrat on the Committee voted against the amendment — not surprisingly joined by McCain sycophants and “Gang of 8” Sens. Jeff Flake (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC). Democrat Committee members, Sens. Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer are also part of the Gangster group, casting their votes against the reasonable amendment to provide security to American citizens.

The three-page amendment can be read here.

Did you really expect anything more from this compliant trickster? Warning: Read the Breitbart article before you eat.

 H/T  euby

The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), which has recently called Flake “a coward,” is today extolling his virtues for colluding with the most liberal of Democrats on gifting legal status to those who illegally invaded our sovereign nation. Today he wins the daily’s praise for “fending off key changes” to the amnesty bill.

It’s happened before, as we pointed out in Oops — Jeff Flake’s crown slips as he sinks to mere McPolitician,” when, as an unwavering amnesty-supporting former CD 6 congressman, Flake did an about-face, worthy of an accomplished contortionist, to win conservative votes for the senate seat he so blatantly coveted. At the time, editorialist Doug MacEachern called Flake’s change of heart on legalizing millions of illegal aliens “jarring.” Imagine our surprise as the Republic declared the vacillating Flake to be a mere “politician” — no longer a “statesman” — for emulating John McCain’s border fickleness during his own 2010 senatorial campaign.

It matters not that opposition to the Gang of 8’s $6.3 trillion amnesty bill continues to grow, as evidenced by these quotes from noted conservatives. Flake is keenly aware that his rocky start in the senate could further harm him with the liberal press he needs in order to remain in DC.

As we’ve previously noted, “Such is the duplicity of Jeff Flake. Get used to it or get rid of him before he becomes further entrenched. He already sways like a monkey on a branch.”

Seeing Red AZ has dedicated an entire category to Jeff the Flake for a reason.

Amnesty’s actual costs skyrocket to $6.3 trillion

Jeff Flake, when given clear choices, sides with far left

What a surprise! The Soros-backed “Media Matters” is running interference for the McCain/Flake Amnesty Gang. 

Media Matters (MM), a reliable arm of the Obama regime, with far reaching tentacles in every aspect of the left-wing MSM, goes to the mat attempting to undercut a new study by the conservative policy group Heritage Foundation which details the enormous costs — $6.3 trillion — associated with the implementation of the latest version of amnesty for those in our country illegally.

The radically liberal group (MM) then claims the report “has been repeatedly debunked, even by conservatives, and is a revision of a 2007 study that utilized “fatally flawed” methodology.” 

This blatant deception is an interesting position for Media Matters, which manipulates news by placing its talking points into the eagerly colluding hands of the liberal press. The group even orchestrated the pressuring of advertisers to drop their sponsorship of Glenn Beck’s former show on Fox News.

So why is this liberally biased site the go-to for Arizona’s junior senator Jeff Flake who professes to be a Republican? Here’s Flake, outfitted in his amnesty cloak offering his obnoxious tweet.

For the facts on amnesty’s unsustainable costs, check in with the Heritage Foundation and read the just released findings in the new report by scholars Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D.: The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer.

Pay attention to Heritage President Jim DeMint’s analysis of this dire situation:

The $6.3 trillion number is the cost to taxpayers of supporting illegal aliens under amnesty, including any taxes they would pay into the system versus the amount of government benefits and services they would take out.

On an individual level, the number is just as stunning. The study by Heritage reveals, “the average adult unlawful immigrant would receive $592,000 more in government benefits over the course of his remaining lifetime than he would pay in taxes.”

With amnesty, unlawful immigrants become lawful — and eligible for ObamaCare benefits, Social Security, welfare, and Medicare. The study addresses the massive costs after the Gang of Eight’s 13-year waiting period for benefits. As a result, government spending and fiscal deficits would increase dramatically – clearly not a concern to the deceptive “Gang of 8” gangsters, including Arizona Sen. John McCain and his open-borders seatmate protégé Jeff Flake. These nominal Republicans will also be opening the floodgates for millions of new Democrats, ensuring a path to oblivion for the GOP.

Opportunism not playing well for Jeff Flake

Even when Flake inadvertently votes the right way, he backtracks when confronted

The latest Public Policy Polling survey does not bode well for Arizona’s junior senator Jeff Flake. In fact, after just 3 months in office Flake has already become one of the most unpopular senators in the country. We’d understand if Flake lost favor over his stance on granting amnesty to the at least 25 million illegal aliens who have invaded our country, but that’s not the reason for his decline.

It’s no secret where Seeing Red AZ stands on Jeff Flake. We strongly supported conservative businessman Wil Cardon in his bid for the senate seat, open through Jon Kyl’s retirement. Our previous regard for Club for Growth fell to zero after the group ran vicious back-to-back, distortive, independent expenditure campaign ads intentionally misrepresenting Cardon.

Flake has done nothing to earn the trust of conservatives. From laughingly breaking his term limits pledge — declaring “I lied” — or using the flimsiest excuse to cravenly avoid casting a responsible vote opposing “cap-and-tax,” the junk science-based, massive national energy tax, to doing a pre-senate race waffle on his always liberal stance on illegal immigration. Flake’s opportunistic moment, was so  “jarring” to the pro-open borders Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), it even editorialized the guy they idolized as a “statesman” had become a mere “politician.”

So imagine our plight as we find ourselves defending what we know to be his self-serving vote, parting company with mentor McCain on expanding background checks for gun purchases. For his vote, the República, which writes lengthy reports on bullying, again engages in name calling, this time calling Flake a “coward.”  We were rapidly thrust back to our senses when finger-to-the-wind Flake vacillated the day after his vote.  Flake flim-flamingly said he cast his nay vote because the language was “too broad.”  Constitutionally-based conservative convictions never entered the picture. 

The raucous protestors outside his office, along with his “long time friend” Gabrielle Giffords and her hypocritical, carpetbagging husband Mark Kelly — who despite their friendship, have pledged they will support a senate challenger, have prompted Flake to now propose a “streamlined” version he hopes will win Congressional support.

In appeasing the gun control advocates demanding he apologize for failing to support Barack Obama’s prized legislation restricting firearms, the aptly named Flake alienates conservatives who believe in the relevance of the Second Amendment of the Constitution. He’s lucky he doesn’t face the Republican voters he needs until 2018.

The polling questions regarding Flake asked by the left-of-center — they call themselves “Democratic-leaning” — Public Policy Polling, run from page 3 through 7 of the 21 page report and can be viewed here. Their polling on the same topic also includes Alaska, Nevada, and Ohio.

Think you know McCain? He’s the Dem’s best friend

During the 2008 presidential race the common refrain among frustrated Republicans was, “Why is John McCain campaigning for Barack Obama?” McCain put Obama’s middle name “Hussein” off limits, although Obama proudly used it during his swearing-in ceremony. The inarticulate McCain even told his own supporters that Obama is “a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.”

Discouraged Republicans have had to acknowledge that McCain often works hand-in-glove with Obama. The two have evidenced shared beliefs on a variety of issues from granting amnesty to upward of 25 million illegals and Second Amendment restrictions to tax issues, offshore drilling and even climate change. McCain has stood firm with Obama on an array of his appointments, giving the nod to numerous radical selections requiring senate confirmation. McCain, who was unable to remember who he was endorsing in 2012, was concerned enough about the Democrat ticket that he even advised Obama to replace Vice President Joe Biden as his running mate.

Back in 1982, the fundamentally liberal McCain had to be coaxed to run as a Republican for the U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring AZ U.S. Rep. John Rhodes. That might explain his praise of the Dems in this 2004 quote, “I believe my party has gone astray.  I think the Democratic party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and in their philosophy.”

When Biden was in Phoenix during the 2012 election cycle, he brought Democrats to their feet asserting that Arizona and its 11 electoral votes could go to Obama. But such actions are water off McCain’s duck-like back. This Friday, Biden will headline the McCain Institute for International Leadership, taking part in a “conversation with” John McCain. McCain released this statement regarding the event:

“I am very pleased that Vice President Joe Biden, my friend of many years, will speak at this year’s Sedona Forum. From his decades of experience in foreign policy in the Senate to his critical role in the White House today, Vice President Biden has a unique perspective on America’s role in this complex and dangerous world. We are pleased that he is joining this important gathering in Sedona and look forward to hearing from him.”

Last year actor Ben Affleck headlined the McCain event. It should come as no surprise that Affleck gives 92% of his campaign contributions to Democrats and during the 2012 election hosted a $250,000 star-studded fundraiser benefiting far-leftist Elizabeth Warren who ended up beating Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

Biden’s lobbying has been credited with McCain’s recent decision to once again cross party lines — one of only four Senate Republicans to do so — this time in support of a bill that would have severely constricted Second Amendment rights.

John McMaverick has long held conservatives and their positions in contempt. Keep your eyes on his new senate protegé Jeff Flake, a committed amnesty supporter, mindful of political expediency. Although Flake parted company with his mentor on the amendment to S 649, his overall votes and aisle crossing will be no different.