Conservative Rumblings

Ah, yes, The Obamessiah’s amnesty plan in action…despite the fact that “illegal immigrants” are, by definition, committing a crime, we’ve been babying them for years with sanctuary cities and other similar devices that enable them to continue to flaunt our laws.

Now, the DHS is making it even harder for police to arrest them.

Opponents said the program, known as 287g, was intended to identify criminal aliens but instead has led to racial profiling; it allowed local police to identify and arrest illegal immigrants for such minor infractions as a broken tail light. Program supporters said it has been an effective tool for combating illegal immigration.

The new guidelines sharply reduce the ability of local law enforcement to arrest and screen suspected illegal immigrants. They are intended to prevent sheriff and police departments from arresting people “for minor offenses as a guise to initiate removal proceedings,” according to Homeland Security. The program will instead focus on more serious criminals.

“In a world of limited resources, our view is that we need to focus first and foremost on people committing crimes in our community who should not be here,” said John Morton, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Morton said his agency would sign new contracts with local law enforcement that would bolster federal oversight.

In what reality do we order police officers to NOT perform their duty and instead let illegals go about their merry little way? This is insane…another brick in the sidewalk of socialism.

We need to focus on people committing crimes, he says? What part of “illegal” do these amnesty freaks not get. Illegal immigrants are criminals and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Actually, that’s a bad thing to say; once Obama and his czars change the laws (as they have here) it no longer becomes proper to say “fullest extent of the law” because that extent is essentially nothing. Illegals do not belong in this country and everyone needs to follow Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s example and aggressively pursue these criminals.

Besides…despite Obama’s obsession with amnesty, most Americans are against it.

Despite the success that immigration raids had under the Bush administration, Obama and his cadre of illegal-supporters and open-borders fanatics aren’t big fans of enforcing the law (which is obvious given how many of them have tax issues, but that’s another story).

Now, we have a front being pushed forward to suspend raids. Democrats are claiming it’s not enough that we provide illegals with free healthcare and let them sit here without penalty, but now we need to add them to the Census as well.

Of course, the main point isn’t about the Census (although that’s part of it). The main thrust of this is to create an excuse to stop the raids and stop punishing criminals.

Some lawmakers are calling anew for the U.S. to relax its immigration laws — not to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants, but to ensure statistical accuracy.

The calls come as the Census Bureau prepares to kick off the 2010 Census. Critics argue that unless the government is willing to relax immigration laws, millions of people — afraid to their share their personal information — will be left out of the count.

U.S. Rep. William Clay, D-Mo., who chairs a House oversight subcommittee on the Census, said he plans to ask the Obama administration to suspend immigration raids over the next year.

He wants the raids put on hold so illegal immigrants don’t worry that sharing accurate information with Census workers could somehow expose them to punishment, even deportation.

I’m sorry…I don’t get it. Why are we including ILLEGAL CRIMINALS WHO DON’T BELONG HERE IN OUR CENSUS? How about, instead, we just try to enforce our laws and deport those who don’t belong here. Maybe that would be a better idea…just a thought. I’m pretty sure that the whole “illegal immigrant” law was created for a reason, and I doubt that the reason was to be ignored.

They are here illegally and they deserve nothing more than being rounded up and shipped back to whatever country they wandered over here from.

Maybe we should go through with this…let the illegals give their information, and THEN swoop in and start deporting them via flatbed trucks (and then go merge/purge the Census data to wipe them out).

God forbid a government department actually enforces the law. Nope, let’s arrest a bunch of illegals, shake our finger at them and then send them back to work. Sounds like successful immigration enforcement to me!

This is what we get for putting an amnesty and open-borders nut in charge of DHS.

SEATTLE — The Department of Homeland Security freed 27 illegal immigrants arrested during a workplace raid in February and offered them legal work permits, signaling a major departure from the immigration enforcement policy of the Bush administration.

The Feb. 24 raid of an auto parts plant in Bellingham, Wash., netted 28 illegal immigrants. While one was deported, the remaining workers were released from custody and given employment authorization documents, or EADs, in exchange for cooperating with an ongoing investigation of their employer, Yamato Engine Specialists.

Oh wow, we deported ONE out of 28. Amazing. At that same rate, that would mean DHS would deport less than 500,000 of the 12 million illegals in the country.

Change We Can Believe In? You bet it is; the old way was to enforce the law. The ‘change’ is allowing criminals free reign.

Criminal arrests of employers who hired illegal immigrants skyrocketed from 25 in 2002 to 1,103 in 2008. The number of deportations jumped from 485 to 5,184 over that same time period. The Obama administration has sought a freeze on immigrant arrests.

Enforcement advocates say Americans should be outraged by the government giving illegal immigrants a right to work when unemployment is so high for documented workers.

Great point. I wonder how Obama is going to ‘create’ all these new jobs when he supports keeping criminals in our country who are stealing our jobs.

Are you KIDDING ME???

I first reported on this situation last week. The gist of it is an Arizona rancher who captures and detains illegals crossing his property was being sued by a group of said illegals who said he violated their non-existent rights.

Now, since apparently we’re living in communist Russia or maybe socialist France, some jury of activist morons has found him guilty and ordered him to pay CRIMINALS more than $70,000.

A U.S. federal jury awarded more than $70,000 in damages to a group of illegal immigrants who claimed they were held at gunpoint by an Arizona rancher after slipping over the border from Mexico five years ago.

The civil jury at the U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, found Roger Barnett liable for assault and intentionally inflicting emotional distress in the incident in March 2004. It ordered him to pay four women $73,352 in damages, attorneys for the plaintiffs said.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which backed the suit, said the group of Mexican nationals was resting in a dry streambed in Douglas, Arizona, when they were approached by Barnett, who was armed with a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

“Intentionally inflicting emotional distress?” So let me get this straight; you willfully and knowingly violate the sovereignty of the United States, trespass on this man’s land, litter on his property, remain unapologetic for all of the above, and then have the audacity to sue him for INTENTIONALLY INFLICTING EMOTIONAL DISTRESS? These illegals should be lucky he didn’t intentionally inflict PHYSICAL distress. My God. What is happening to our country.

Your blood boiling yet? Just wait. This gets worse (as if a citizen being told to pay criminals who spit in the face of his property and civil rights isn’t bad enough, right?)

David Hardy, an attorney representing Barnett, said his client was found not liable on claims of battery, false imprisonment and violation of civil rights, and planned to appeal.

The trial highlighted the issue of vigilante violence in southern Arizona, which is a major thoroughfare for illegal immigrants and the place where several civilian border patrols have operated in recent years.

Oh, well golly gee, I guess we should be happy that he didn’t get nailed with battery, false imprisonment and violation of (non-existent) civil rights too, eh? This is just sick. This should set a record for quickest appeal in history; whatever judge allowed this verdict needs to be yanked from the bench and tossed into the Rio Grande.

There’s some good news bias for you: “vigilante violence.” How about “vigilante justice?” I think people are starting to forget that WE are the good guys and the illegals are the bad guys.

Yes, you read that right: illegal immigrants are SUING the owner of an Arizona ranch because he held them at gunpoint and turned them over to the Border Patrol.

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

I fail to see what’s wrong with that. In fact, this guy should be given an award. On top of that, it makes me furious to see illegals whining and complaining about their “rights.” Silly illegals, rights are for citizens. If you want them, learn English and become a citizen. If you are here against the law, you’re lucky we don’t just put a .357 Magnum bullet in your leg and throw you back across the border into your piece of garbage country.

Illegals…don’t…have…rights. I swear I’ve been repeating that for six years and we still have idiots thinking that we should give illegals the same rights as citizens.

This story is an amazing (and ridiculous) one of an American citizen standing up for his rights when the government is doing nothing to prevent the horde of criminals wandering across our southern border.

A more in-depth read and you find some serious examples of the efforts this man has gone through to try and protect his property and his rights.

Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.

Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil - which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their “clients” to keep them running.

He said he carried a pistol during his searches for the immigrants and had a rifle in his truck “for protection” against immigrant and drug smugglers, who often are armed.

Another part of the article says that he has turned over 12,000 illegals over to the Border Patrol. That is insane! I give this guy a huge amount of credit for standing up for himself and his rights, and it will be beyond ridiculous for any judge to not summarily dismiss this lawsuit. Of course, MALDEF is the organization behind the illegals so you can bet this is going to get ugly.

Illegal immigration was completely forgotten this election cycle. After the primaries, you rarely saw Obama or McCain even mention the issue (most likely because they had the same stance on it).

Thankfully, DHS was still moving on it, building the border fence along the Mexican border (which is slated to be completed this month).

Now, open borders advocates are lobbying Obama to halt the construction of the fence.

Open border advocates and some in Congress are urging President Barack Obama to stop construction of the 670-mile fence along the Mexican border (which, by the way, was to have been completed this month).

American citizens, during the congressional debate on immigration in 2007, emphatically informed their congressmen and senators in no uncertain terms that they wanted a fence built along our southern border, and they wanted that fence built without delay.

During the recent presidential elections, the illegal immigration crisis was downplayed by both major party presidential candidates and virtually ignored by the elite media and pundits. Many “Washington political experts” stated that illegal immigration was no longer an issue.

Oh, it is most definitely still an issue. We’ve forgotten it amid socialism bailout schemes, tax increases, declarations of defeat to Al Qaeda and other ridiculous happenings, but it is still an issue.

What’s funny is that the Washington elite and the MSM don’t speak for the people:

But according to a recent Rasmussen Reports national survey, most Americans support the continued construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and the use of the military if necessary in border areas.

Sixty percent say the government should continue to build the fence, while 26 percent disagree and 13 percent are undecided.

The open border anti-fence activists are emboldened because Arizona’s Gov. Janet Napolitano — recently confirmed as Obama’s choice for secretary of Homeland Security — is perceived to be one of them and may try to halt or further delay construction of the $2 billion border barrier.

Thank you President Bush! Last day in office and he FINALLY gets around to fixing this absurd situation. While it’s not technically a pardon, they still get out of prison in March.

On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.

The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the two men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.

Their prison sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.

The two were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.

This is great news. Border patrol agents have been shy about firing their weapons in the last few years because of how badly these two were treated for doing their jobs and now we can all breathe a sigh of relief that our border patrol agents can get back to defending the border without worrying about a Federal judge locking them up for shooting a dangerous criminal.

The forgotten issue of illegal immigration, ignored almost entirely after the presidential primaries, is still around. Thankfully, people are still doing their jobs, as ICE deported more than double the number of illegals this year than in 2004.

Nationwide, deportations have also increased, with nearly 350,000 immigrants sent home through September 2008, compared with about 174,000 in the same period in 2004.

The trend is expected to continue. But experts and immigration officials aren’t certain whether deportations — which affect less than 3 percent of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. this year — are an effective means of controlling that population.

ICE’s count also does not specify how many people, like Arellano, have been repeatedly deported.

The majority of those deported in the six-state Midwest area are from Mexico. More than half, about 6,800, have not been accused of crimes. o the failure of new comprehensive immigration reform.

This seems great on the surface; deportations are up, illegals are going away…except…the only problem is at this rate, it’ll take 35 years to get all the illegals out. That’s not even counting the influx of illegals that will modify the totals each year.

We need to ramp this up even more. Let’s shoot for one million deportations next year. The government can spend less money on over budget visitor’s centers in D.C. and buy some large flatbed trucks, add some haywagon-esque rails on the site and just start truckin’ em out!

Do you know how many trucks you could buy for $360 million? And how many more ICE officers you could hire? That would be a glorious day.

The 3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento has ruled that a lawsuit filed by out-of-state students challenging a California law granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens can move forward. The three judge panel went even further by stating that California’s law was unconstitutional because it violates federal law. The panel also said that the law violates the equal protection clause and immunity clause of the constitution.

And:

California (as well as nine other states) are currently violating the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which allows a state to provide subsidized, lower in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens but only if the state also provides the same low rate to U.S. citizens who are residents of other states. You might remember that the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to hear a case brought by out-of-state students attending Kansas universities.

Full story here

From Anchorage Daily News:

SEATTLE — Deportations from Washington, Oregon and Alaska have spiked by nearly 40 percent, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Friday.

Immigration officials said the number of illegal aliens deported from those three states was 7,345 for the first nine months of the fiscal year. That number was up from 5,256 for the same period last year.

If the monthly average continues, the agency is on pace for a record-breaking year in the region, said Neil Clark, field office director for ICE detention and removal operations in Seattle.

Hey, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast…Great Plains…Midwest? Take notice; someone has the right idea.