I have blogged numerous times that America is often its own worst enemy when it comes to illegal immigration. For decades we sat back and did little while the problem exploded. Now we have millions of illegal immigrants we can’t handle, many of whom are out committing violent crimes against innocent, real Americans.

This story goes beyond outrageous. It’s one thing to throw up our hands and say the epidemic is such that any effort to stem the tide is futile. But to bend over backwards to assist illegals? That’s unconscionable, but it’s happening.

“San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city's immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.

The city's practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco's policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.

Federal authorities counter that drug kingpins are indeed exploiting the immigrants, but that the city's stance allows them to get away with ‘gaming the system.’

The practice, federal authorities say, does nothing to prevent offenders from coming back, while federal deportation legally bars them from ever returning. Federal officials also say U.S. law prohibits helping an illegal immigrant to cross the border, even if it is to return home.”

Read the rest in the SF Chronicle.

Your government, working on behalf of illegal immigrants. Is it any wonder we’re in the mess we’re in?

Thursday, May 1 has been designated as, “A Day Without Latinos.”

This is the day when people who are here illegally, know they are here illegally, and nothing is done about it swarm the streets to complain about how bad they have it here in America.

The militant group, Voces de la Frontera that instructs illegals on how to act when confronted by authorities is an active organizer and sponsor of this rally.

If you don’t know remember Voces de la Frontera, this is the bunch of goons that harassed former state Senator Cathy Stepp at her home a few years ago.

A day without Latinos?

I prefer to envision, “A Day Without Illegal Immigrants.”

One year ago, I blogged the following. It remains valid today.

Thursday, the local news media will be tripping over itself to cover a group advocating for criminals.

There’s rain in the forecast Thursday. Maybe the whole deal will be a bust.

I do know something else is going on Thursday, May 1, but I doubt it will get much media attention. Too wholesome and positive.

Last week, I blogged about the serious problems with stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border fence designed to keep illegal immigrants out.

The Christian Science Monitor offers more reasons to be concerned:

“After driving 10 miles along the expanded US-Mexican border fence near her farm, Dawn Garner offers her dour assessment. ‘Anyone can plainly see this wouldn't stop a flea, let alone a migrant or terrorist. This [fence] is just too easy to cut into, climb over, or go under or around,’ says Ms. Garner. Twenty to 40 illegal migrant workers cut across her five-acre farm daily, she says.”

Pretty sad.

We can put a man on the moon, but can we build a fence that really works?

Actually, the answer is, yes, we can.

But it better be tall. Otherwise, why bother.

Make sure you also check out this photo gallery.

The Associated Press is reporting:

“Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them.”

Great.





Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Victor Guzman points to an apparent cut mark on the border fence west of Columbus, New Mexico, port of entry.





A widening gap between posts, each set a few inches apart, as the ground settles, is seen in the border fence near Columbus, New Mexico.

“People who commit crimes who are aliens, whether legal or illegal … need to go back to their home countries. They have no business being in America.”

I certainly wouldn’t argue with the sentiments of Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, a Republican.

But talk is one thing. What is Virginia doing about the problem?

Actually, a lot.

The state has joined efforts with the feds on “Operation Cold Play," a crackdown that  is deporting at least 171 illegal immigrant  sex offenders.

Here’s a report I’ve linked to in the past documenting how serious this problem is in America.

Meanwhile, back home in Wisconsin……how about we follow suit?

Jim Doyle?

J.B. Van Hollen?

Anybody paying attention?



RELATED STORY

That’s quite a story UWM’s online newspaper came up with.

After a three-month long investigation, Frontpage Milwaukee discovered that 188 previously deported felons identified as illegal immigrants by federal and local officials were booked into the Milwaukee County Jail on new criminal charges, municipal violations, and other violations in the past four years.

We’ve got illegal immigrants in our community offending and re-offending, being deported, yet finding their way back to commit more crimes.

Kudos to the student journalists at UWM. Here’s their story.

HT: Jessica Bucher

In Wisconsin, local law enforcement recently were given a manual courtesy of the Attorney General’s office on how to handle traffic stops of suspected illegal immigrants.

In a nutshell, if police stop an individual and discover after a check that he/she is in the country illegally, the illegal immigrant is not to be detained.

Wonderful.

Such an absurd policy has to be frustrating for some (not all) law enforcement officials.

Contrast that to the policy procedure now being discussed in Georgia, one that eminently has far more common sense.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:


Some Atlanta police welcome law that allows seizure of illegal immigrants' cars

By MARY LOU PICKEL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/29/08

A proposal that would allow police to seize vehicles from illegal immigrants could help remove egregious drivers from the roads, some metro police say.

"I think it has the possibility of being a good thing," said DeKalb County Police Department spokesman Officer J.T. Ware. The seizure powers might be best used to focus on habitual traffic offenders, he said.

The proposed law, House Bill 978, was approved by the state House of representatives this week. It still must pass the senate. The measure would allow police to seize cars of illegal immigrants who are involved in accidents or violate traffic laws.

While the proposal stimulated debate on the House floor, including questions about how police could identify illegal immigrants during a traffic stop, the reality is that police already impound cars.

"It's really not going to change anything," said Gwinnett County Police Corporal Illana Spellman.

"If they don't have a valid license, the vehicle is going to be impounded anyway."

The usual procedure in DeKalb and Gwinnett counties is to arrest those found driving without a license rather than issue a ticket. As part of that arrest, the vehicle is often impounded because the officer can't leave it on the side of the road. In some cases, if a relative or friend has a valid driver's license, the officer allows that person to drive the car home.

Illegal immigrants cannot get a valid Georgia driver's license because they don't have the proper paperwork.

If the seizure bill were enacted into law, it's an open question how a police officer would identify a driver as an illegal immigrant.

Police say it would likely be up to the jail to determine.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has officers in some jails who review jail records and determine which inmates are here illegally. That's the case in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties. Cobb County has a special program where every inmate's legal status is checked, no matter the charge.

Other jails don't have ICE officers, and it could take longer to determine legal status. For the system to work, jails and police would have to cooperate.

"You have to work out what the line of communication would be," said DeKalb County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Mikki Jones.

Frank Rotondo, executive director of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, opposes the legislation, saying it would make extra work for officers. In many cases there are hearings before property can be seized and there's lots of paperwork to fill out.

"It could be very time consuming," Rotondo said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


And if you need a good reason and reminder why we should take their cars away…

 

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I don’t claim to be an expert on immigration law but one thing I am pretty clear about is that the United States is partially blame for its out of control illegal immigration problem.

Wisconsin Attorney General A.G. Hollen admits wherever he goes, the topic that is most often brought up by others is illegal immigration. Van Hollen says the public has many questions but so does law enforcement. In an attempt at clarification, Van Hollen earlier this week issued an eight-page manual to help authorities deal with encounters with foreign nationals.

Here’s an excerpt:


Law enforcement officers may not stop vehicles solely on the basis of racial or ethnic profiling simply to question the passengers about immigration or citizenship status. Further, when officer make a lawful stop, they may not ordinarily detain the vehicle’s passengers beyond the period required for disposition of the matter that justified the initial stop.

The United State Supreme Court has held that reasonable suspicion of an INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) violation is not needed in order to ask any lawfully detained individual about his or her immigration status. Thus, there is no 4^th Amendment violation if an officer asks the driver of a vehicle that was lawfully stopped about immigration status.

Officers are not obligated by State or Federal law to question individuals about their immigration status. While an officer may ask an individual about his or immigration status during a stop, the individual does not have to respond. Officers have the authority to determine the identity of a driver of the vehicle, including the right to ask for identification necessary to run an NCIC (National Crime Information Center) record check. Officers can run an NCIC record check when individuals are lawfully stopped. 

While officers may not compel passengers to identify themselves in most circumstances, officers may ask passengers to provide e information that permits them to conduct an NCIC record check. However, the officer has no recourse if the passenger refuses to provide identifying information. Officers should not request immigration documents, but they may consider immigration documents drivers and passengers provide to them for purposes of conducting an NCIC record check. 


Sounds as clear as mud.

Let’s boil it down.

You can’t stop someone based on how they look.

OK.

You can’t stop someone just to ask them about their legal status.

OK.

You can stop someone for a suspected violation and ask about legal status.

But the people inside the vehicle don’t have to answer.

You can do a background check with the NCIC to see if an individual is in the country legally. If you find out the person is an illegal immigrant, the person can’t be detained. So the officer knows the person is in the United States illegally and can't detain him. He' s allowed to leave the scene, and we're fully aware of illegal immigrants who've had encounters with the law, only to be set free to commit more serious crimes.

Does this sound frustrating or what?

Why do we even bother?

There are groups right here in SE Wisconsin that are training illegal immigrants on what to do when confronted by police.

Is it any wonder our nation is bursting at the seams with illegals?

Here is Van Hollen’s entire guide.

 

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It was the greatest girl’s basketball team to ever play at Franklin High School.

In March of 1999, Franklin entered the state championship game against Kettle Morraine undefeated at 26-0. While the Sabers failed to capture the title, the team was clearly the best in school history.

One of its amazing stars was Christine Rathke, a gutty, hard-nosed player with tremendous hustle and determination, the unquestioned leader on the team.

In February of 2000, Bobbi Roquemore of the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel wrote, “Over the past four years, Franklin has gone from a doormat to the dominant team in the Southeast Conference. Rathke, a flashy, do-it-all guard, has been the catalyst in the rise of Sabers' basketball program and has smashed records along the way. Rathke has played all four years on the varsity and owns the school's all-time scoring mark with 1,446 points.”

Roquemore told of little children in Franklin asking for Rathke’s signature.

"I didn't expect to be signing autographs, but I like it when the little girls come up and talk to me," Rathke said. "I tell them what it takes to get to that level."

After leaving Franklin, Rathke played for Southeast Missouri State University before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 2002.

On Sunday afternoon, February 16, 2003 at about 1:00 pm, Rathke was driving from a UW-Parkside team banquet heading west on Ryan Road at about 36^th Street when a car heading eastbound crossed the centerline and collided head-on into her car. Rathke died at the scene. She was 20 years old.

The driver of the other car was Victor Sanchez, who was 19 at the time and living on the city of Milwaukee’s south side. He was charged with homicide by negligent use of a vehicle. Sanchez was speeding and passed in a no-passing zone at the time of the fatal crash.

Former Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel reporter and WTMJ-AM talk show host and well-known blogger Jessica McBride has confirmed that Sanchez was an illegal immigrant. Another highly reliable source involved in law enforcement has confirmed for me that Sanchez was in the country illegally at the time he killed Rathke. Sanchez is no longer in the United States. He has been deported, not soon enough to save young Christine Rathke.

Rathke came to mind as my blood boiled reading the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel’s report that some local police departments are caving in to a radical pro-illegal immigrants’ group. Voces de la Frontera is asking police departments to develop new policies to prevent officers from asking potential suspects about their citizenship status.

Shockingly, as the newspaper reports, “Some departments are going along.”  (The article is a typical Journal/Sentinel puff piece, relating incidents intended to drum up sympathy for illegals).

We also learned that the Milwaukee Police Department, under the leadership of outgoing Police Chief Nannette Hegerty, implemented its new policy in April. And yet, despite the normally chatty, far from camera shy Chief and her spokeswoman, we didn’t hear about the policy until October 8^th.

“Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz released a copy of her department's policy and confirmed that it was updated in April, but she declined to comment further. According to the policy, Milwaukee officers can question a person's immigration status or alert federal authorities only in cases of violent crimes, suspected terrorism, street gang crimes or other limited cases.”

This is outrageous on several counts.

The MPD institutes a new policy on procedures dealing with the public, but doesn’t go public about it for six months.

Police officers in Milwaukee are not going to question certain suspects about their immigration status in effect, giving them a free pass for possibly violating the law.

How many other police departments are going to cave to a radical pro-illegal immigrant group? Who’s in charge of protecting our streets, the police, or Voces de la Frontera?

Does Hegerty or any other police chief contemplating this go-easy policy need to be reminded that not long ago, one of their own, a Kenosha deputy was killed by an illegal immigrant?

Rathke’s and the deputy’s killer were both familiar with the criminal justice system prior to the offenses I referred to. Our lenient, politically correct methods let them back on the streets to break the law again, and this time, kill decent, innocent people. These deaths were preventable, but a system that isn’t tough enough on illegal immigrants is partially complicit for these deaths.

In our country, the rights of those here illegally are paramount. It’s disgusting and indefensible. Shame on any police chief or police department that develops a policy to look the other way when confronted with illegal immigrants.

Christine Rathke should serve as a reminder that too many people are in the United States illegally, and yes, a great many of them are not nice people who are only here to try to better themselves. Rathke’s picture should be posted inside every police department to remind our officers that illegal immigrants are here and they are committing violent crimes against the law-abiding citizens our police are entrusted to protect.

Last month, I wrote about a disgusting trend I saw developing in the pro-illegal immigrant movement: the exploitation of children.

More evidence of this trend is reported in today’s USA TODAY.

The goal is to whip up sympathy for children of illegal immigrants and essentially reward them for the illegal acts of their parents. 

Here’s the story.  

 

The United States shoulders a great deal of the blame for today’s current epidemic of illegal immigrants. Our country has done little for decades to stem the flow of illegals, and in many cases, not only tolerates the problem, but encourages it.

The LA Times reports, “A multimillion-dollar human smuggling enterprise is bringing thousands of Cubans to the U.S. on high-powered speedboats at a price of up to $10,000 a head, and the flourishing business has increased the number of Cubans illegally entering the U.S. by double-digit percentages in each of the last three years.”

At issue is an ill-advised policy known as "wet-foot, dry-foot” that allows Cubans Cubans who make it to dry land to then stay and obtain legal U.S. residence. Those intercepted at sea are sent back. It has led to an influx of thousands of illegal immigrants.

Here is the entire LA Times article:

Cuban smuggling business is thriving
The multimillion-dollar trade brings more immigrants to U.S. borders. Authorities propose targeting the money source: exiles paying for their relatives' passage.

By Carol J. Williams
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

September 17, 2007

MIAMI — -- A multimillion-dollar human smuggling enterprise is bringing thousands of Cubans to the U.S. on high-powered speedboats at a price of up to $10,000 a head, and the flourishing business has increased the number of Cubans illegally entering the U.S. by double-digit percentages in each of the last three years.

More than 16,000 Cubans have arrived illegally this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Most arrived on remote beaches in the Florida Keys or in Mexico, where they could enter the U.S. Southwest through official border crossings.

Under a practice known as the "wet-foot, dry-foot policy" -- stemming from immigration accords negotiated between Washington and Havana -- Cubans who make it to dry land can stay and obtain legal U.S. residence. Those intercepted at sea are sent back.

Coupled with the 20,000 visas issued to Cubans each year for legal immigration, the numbers arriving now rival the 35,000 who crossed the Straits of Florida in 1994 to escape the poverty that gripped communist-ruled Cuba after the Soviet Union disintegrated, ending the billions in subsidies it once sent to Havana.

The mounting numbers have alarmed law enforcement officials.

"We don't know at 3 a.m. when we see a 'go-fast' boat running without lights if that's migrants seeking a better life or terrorists coming here to blow up a nuclear power plant," said Zachary Mann, senior special agent and spokesman for Customs and Border Protection.

The smugglers' success using so-called go-fast boats -- light, open craft fitted with powerful outboards enabling speeds as high as 100 mph -- has convinced South Florida Cuban exiles who put up the money for their relatives' passage that they are paying for a service rather than committing a crime, authorities say.

"I get calls here in my office all the time with people saying, 'Hey, my cousin Jose was supposed to have arrived last night and I haven't heard from him,' " Mann said.

"The families clearly know who's coming, when they're coming and where they're going. We have cases where families are waiting at the marina for them to arrive."

Stepped-up Coast Guard and Border Patrol surveillance has netted record numbers of go-fast boat operators and their human cargo. Authorities have also seized 159 of the specially outfitted vessels over the last year.

Fifty-eight men have been arrested and prosecuted over the last 18 months, according to the U.S. attorney's office for Florida's Southern District in Miami. There have been at least half a dozen deaths resulting from erratic maneuvers by boat captains trying to evade capture or from smugglers tossing paid passengers overboard to force authorities to stop chasing the boats and rescue the jettisoned men, women and children.

Some law enforcement officials and immigration policy analysts have proposed targeting the people whose money sustains the thriving network of smugglers.

"The bottom line is that anyone involved in a conspiracy may be held accountable and may be criminally charged," said Barbara Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the Miami office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

But Miami's powerful Cuban exile community opposes any such move and appeared to have shot it down as soon as it was voiced by another customs official last week.

"We aim to pursue and identify the criminal infrastructure, the owners of the boats, the arrangers, the recruiters," said Gabriel Garcia, deputy special agent in charge. "Our focus is on the criminal enterprise itself."

The U.S. attorney's office also balked at the idea of going after the funding sources.

"To date, we have not charged family members who paid to have their relatives smuggled," said Alicia Valle, special counsel to the U.S. attorney.

Camila Ruiz-Gallardo, director of government relations for the Cuban American National Foundation, said prosecution of family members would be politically untenable.

"Everyone in this community can identify with the desperation of individuals who want to get their family out. We don't fault anyone trying to find whatever vehicle they can to do that," she said.

Not that we condone illegal actions, but how far do you go with this? Do you prosecute someone who gives a family member money who then uses it to buy drugs?"

Back on July 27, I blogged and predicted the following:

The next strategy that will be employed by illegal immigrants and their advocates will be a play on sympathy exploiting children.

(Chicago Tribune reporter Richard) Olivo writes about 36-year old Nixon Munoz who came to Minnesota from El Salvador and married Sara, a shy Mexican woman whom he met while she was visiting on a tourist visa to attend a wedding. They were very happy, Olivo reports, until last month. Cue the attempt at sympathy.

That changed last month. Arriving from the grocery store with his children, Munoz said he saw his terrified wife handcuffed in front of their two-story stucco home. With the family in tears, she was taken away and, eventually, deported to Mexico, where she tries to continue to parent her five children through long-distance calls.

The couple's eldest daughter, Joanna Munoz, who turned 14 the day before her mother left, has stepped in as a mother figure. The hazel-eyed teen cooks, cleans and tries to comfort Edwin when he calls for his mother at night, sometimes in uncontrollable tantrums during which he hurls himself against walls.

"He still thinks my mom is visiting family," she said of her brother, unsure how all this will affect her dream of attending college and becoming a marine biologist.

The impact that such arrests and deportation have on the estimated 5 million children of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is troubling, said Randy Capps, a researcher at the Washington-based Urban Institute who has been studying the aftermath of raids in several states.

Many of these children are likely to grow up harboring resentment against law enforcement. Others will have psychological problems that stem from seeing their parents ripped from their lives, he said.

"If they stay in the country, they've been through this traumatic experience and will continue to be separated from their parents for some time," Capps said. "These are people that didn't choose to come over."

Isn’t it true that American prisons are filled with inmates who have children on the outside? Do we still not lock these criminals up?

About 26,500 illegal immigrants (are) imprisoned nationwide on a given day, according to a recent report by the federal Government Accountability Office.

Again, that’s not a bad thing.

The pro-illegal immigrant movement is poised to use children as their pawns.

Betty Reyes, 9, tries to shrug off the experience with jokes or one-word replies. Occasionally, however, the facade crumbles in tears and she will not let anyone answer a door knock, friends and family members said.

Her experience has inspired plans for a "children's march" in the neighborhood clustered near a row of Mexican restaurants and shops that began sprouting along the Lake Street business corridor in the 1990s.

"We're training the children now to become activists," said Mariano Espinoza, director of the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network. "They are going to take this movement to the next level."

Here’s hoping America doesn’t fall for this nonsense.

----From my blog, July 22, 2007



Not surprisingly, the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel editorial board fell for it. An editorial today entitled, “A little boy’s tears,” (of course) was basically a big sob job for children of illegal immigrants, citing the case of the deported Elvira Arellano.

The editorial had the sub-headline, “An 8-year-old boy is now without his mother — a reminder that we're talking about real families and real heartache as fallout from the lack of immigration reform.”

Far less sympathetic was commentator Ann Coulter. In a column on Townhall.com, Coulter wrote:

“……we were treated this week to a weeping Mexican woman on TV, claiming the U.S. government was tearing her from her infant son and saying she knew the American people would be outraged if she were deported. (I note that her message might have been more effective in English.)

Still, if Elvira Arellano is the best they've got to change public opinion on deporting illegal aliens, don't expect public opinion to change anytime soon.

Arellano has already snuck into the country illegally twice (that we know of). After being deported in 1999 -- under an administration that, astonishingly, was more serious about enforcing immigration law than the current one -- she illegally ran across the border again a few days later.

Only after 9/11 was she arrested again and convicted for using a stolen Social Security number to get a job as a cleaning woman at an airport. In lieu of jail time, Arellano was to be deported. Instead she took refuge in a left-wing "church" and began to bellyache about being thrown out again.

Despite living in this country illegally for a decade, Arellano hasn't mastered the most rudimentary English. She doesn't want to assimilate and become a "Mexican-American." She wants to be a Mexican-Mexican living in and off America.

So far, the only thing Arellano has contributed to America is one illegitimate child.”

Coulter concludes her piece with:

”Arellano can go, and take her kid with her.”

Read Coulter’s entire column.

Because liberal hearts bleed, watch for more of these tactics in the future, using children as pawns, just as I predicted.

Want proof? Look at this picture.



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Could our country finally be taking some tough steps toward illegal immigrants?

Richard Olivo writes in today’s Chicago Tribune:

Breaking the silence in a middle-class enclave of tract homes and cul-de-sacs, federal immigration agents recently swooped in and grabbed Sara Munoz, carting away the illegal Mexican immigrant before her five crying U.S.-born children.

In nearby Minneapolis, community activist Juana Reyes was nabbed for her illegal status as she stepped out of her car, spurring a rapidly transforming neighborhood into action on behalf of her 9-year-old daughter, an American citizen.

And, 110 miles south in Austin, Minn., a divided community seethes after several recent deportation arrests. Latin American immigrants are afraid to open their doors, while longtime residents press the mayor to do more to stop the changes in a former union town built around the global headquarters of the Hormel Foods meatpacking operation.

Similar scenes nationwide are part of a ramping-up of federal arrests of illegal immigrants, activity that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently warned is "gonna get ugly" after immigration legislation failed in Washington last month.

Arrests from workplace raids have skyrocketed from about 845 in 2004 to nearly 4,000 already this year, federal records show. Arrests of illegal immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country have doubled since last year to a rate of about 685 per week.

And this is bad, how?

Olivo continues:

"We're gonna do more enforcement actions," Chertoff said during a recent Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting where he lamented Congress' failure to move immigration reform forward and predicted extensive grief. "And, if they have kids at home, even if we make arrangements with social services to take care of the kids, the kids are gonna be scared because Mommy or Daddy is not coming home that day."

Though the arrests will be "as humane as possible," Chertoff said, "We do have to get control over this general problem of illegal immigration."

That’s a good thing, a very good thing.

Now, read the way reporter Olivo describes this new wave of enforcement:

As state legislatures and cities nationwide consider their own local measures for enforcement, a menacing cloud has swelled over America's immigrant landscape, advocates say.

Did you catch that......enforcing the laws of our country is compared to “a menacing cloud.”

"We have a tsunami coming at us in terms of enforcement measures," said Angela Kelly, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, an immigrant advocacy group in Washington. "That's pretty terrifying in terms of what it means for the 12 million undocumented immigrants and their families."

It should be terrifying, lady! Those millions of people are here ILLEGALLY!!

The next strategy that will be employed by illegal immigrants and their advocates will be a play on sympathy exploiting children.

Olivo writes about 36-year old Nixon Munoz who came to Minnesota from El Salvador and married Sara, a shy Mexican woman whom he met while she was visiting on a tourist visa to attend a wedding. They were very happy, Olivo reports, until last month. Cue the attempt at sympathy.

That changed last month. Arriving from the grocery store with his children, Munoz said he saw his terrified wife handcuffed in front of their two-story stucco home. With the family in tears, she was taken away and, eventually, deported to Mexico, where she tries to continue to parent her five children through long-distance calls.

The couple's eldest daughter, Joanna Munoz, who turned 14 the day before her mother left, has stepped in as a mother figure. The hazel-eyed teen cooks, cleans and tries to comfort Edwin when he calls for his mother at night, sometimes in uncontrollable tantrums during which he hurls himself against walls.

"He still thinks my mom is visiting family," she said of her brother, unsure how all this will affect her dream of attending college and becoming a marine biologist.

The impact that such arrests and deportation have on the estimated 5 million children of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is troubling, said Randy Capps, a researcher at the Washington-based Urban Institute who has been studying the aftermath of raids in several states.

Many of these children are likely to grow up harboring resentment against law enforcement. Others will have psychological problems that stem from seeing their parents ripped from their lives, he said.

"If they stay in the country, they've been through this traumatic experience and will continue to be separated from their parents for some time," Capps said. "These are people that didn't choose to come over."

Isn’t it true that American prisons are filled with inmates who have children on the outside? Do we still not lock these criminals up?

About 26,500 illegal immigrants (are) impri

Illegal immigrants have chutzpah.

They will crawl, burrow, dig, run, leap, and do just about anything to entire our country.

Once here, they will flaunt their illegal status, and shove directly in our faces their demands for services, programs, and “their rights.”

This past Sunday, at St. Anthony’s Church on 9th and Mitchell where I usher, an area that has a heavy Hispanic population, I noticed in the vestibule of the church on the tables, someone had left a large pile of fliers promoting a forum or seminar for immigrants sponsored by the group, “Voces de la Frontera.” Also on the tables were stacks of the latest “Voces de la Frontera” newspaper.

The newspaper included a column entitled, “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.”

It read:

PROTECT YOUR IMMIGRATION STATUS

1) The right to remain silent: If you are arrested, you have the right not to answer the questions of law enforcement officials. Do not lie. Do not say anything except “I need to speak with my attorney.” (Gee, that form of English they’re willing to learn).
2) If you are arrested, follow these steps:
a) Do not reveal to the agents or the government anything about your immigration status.
b) Do not lie.
c) Do not give the officials false documents.
d) Do not turn in documentation from another country. If you do, the government can use this information in order to deport you.
e) Show them the card below.

The card reads:

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!

If you are detained by immigration or the police:

Hand the card to the official, and remain silent

The card explains that you are exercising your right to refuse to answer any questions until you have consulted with a lawyer.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Please be informed that I am choosing to exercise my right to remain silent and the right to refuse to answer your questions. If I am detained, I request to contact an attorney immediately. I am also exercising my right to refuse to sign anything until I consult with my attorney. Thank you.


The column also offers advice on what to do if police or immigration comes to your workplace, detain you on the street or in a public place, and if arrested. One of the pieces of advice is to request bail.

Advocacy groups, like “Voces de la Frontera,” are providing how-to, stay out of jail cards to immigrants to flash when confronted by authorities. Even though here illegally, the immigrants, without knowing a lick of English, take out their handy dandy cards and demand the same rights of law-abiding U.S. citizens. They demand attorneys and bail.

By the way, the legal rights presentation the fliers in the back of my church were promoting is taking place later this month at a Milwaukee Public Schools’ high school….your tax dollars at work.

Come to America, illegally.

Get legal advice on how to deal with the authorities.

Learn about it, free, at a taxpayer supported public school.

America, what a country. A foolish, foolish country.

I fully support the construction of a fence along our southern border to combat illegal immigration.

That’s the “above” ground solution.

But what about the turmoil underground?

Dozens of tunnels have been discovered that are used by illegals to get into the United States. Illegals crawl through raw sewage and chemical runoff.

At least one recently discovered tunnel is far more sophisticated. Rush Limbaugh fill-in Roger Hedgecock talked about a tunnel used by illegals to burrow under a fence in San Diego this week on WISN’s Early Spin Program. Hedgecock described the tunnel as having, “mining technology, air conditioning, electricity, a cement floor and a railway line.”

You can hear WISN’s interview with Hedgecock here.

A resident of San Diego, Hedgecock says, "I have locks and an alarm system. Anybody with any degree of sanity has those things." Homes in many San Diego neighborhoods have bars on the windows; the more affluent areas have elaborate security systems, he says.

Hedgecock talks more about illegal immigration in this article.

And we should just give illegal immigrants a free pass?

No way.

I’m really not sure how to describe this story. So many adjectives come to mind: astonishing, breathtaking, surprising, laughable.

Somehow, the organization New America Media was recently able to find and contact and survey 1600 illegal immigrants in America. These 1600 people in our country illegally were interviewed in, what else, Spanish.

And what do you think the interviewers found?

I quote from the New American Media’s very own web site:

“Undocumented immigrants by an overwhelming majority are following the debate over immigration reform with close attention and would comply with proposed legislation to legalize their status, including paying stiff fines and fees and undergoing criminal background checks. Eighty-three percent say they would apply for the new “Z” work visa. Their greatest anxiety is over any requirement to return to their country of origin without a guaranteed right to return.”

The results of the survey were announced by an illegal alien’s best friends, Senators Ted Kennedy and Dianne Feinstein who stood side by side at a news conference.

Where, oh where in the world do I begin!

1) The illegal aliens said they would comply with the rules and regulations of the immigration reform bill, if enacted into law. And we should believe them……why?

We should trust someone from another country who has already broken any number of our laws for years and years and years and believe that suddenly they’ll now obey this law?

2) Of those surveyed, 83% said they’d they would apply for the new “Z” work visa, meaning 17% would not. Who do you believe? The 83% or the 17%? That’s what I thought.

3) Their greatest anxiety is having to return to their country of origin. OF COURSE IT IS! If they break the law there, they suffer the consequences. Do it here and our country takes care of you.

4) If this run of the mill news organization could find 1600 illegal aliens in a week, why can’t the federal government? Why the hell isn’t our government following up and arresting these people?

What an absolute travesty. This poll isn’t “historic.” It’s a joke.

Here are more details.

Earlier this year during one of my fill-in stints on WISN Radio, I talked and later blogged about a New American article that exposed how Wisconsin DMV centers were willingly and knowingly issuing driver’s licenses and state ID cards to illegal immigrants.

The article got a great deal of attention on the air and at my blog.

During my Internet surfing, I came across another great New American article, and though it was published May 1, 2007, it carries the same, if not more significance now that the Senate ponders a highly controversial amnesty bill.

The focus of the New American article is that illegal immigrants are organized and demanding, and will get what they want if real Americans don’t fight back.

Here’s a portion of the article:

Worked into a rage by the "Latino" media, the Internet, and radical activists over proposed legislation on Capitol Hill to stop illegal immigration, Hispanics repeatedly stormed American streets to demand their "rights." In no uncertain terms, they told the American people they are here to stay and no one can do anything about it, least of all the feckless politicians.

The protests here occurred because our border with Mexico, or La Linea, as the Mexicans call it, is essentially gone. And so is any respect for it. For Mexicans and the kleptocracy that keep them poor and illiterate, the border is no dividing line between two sovereign nations. Instead, it is a mere geographical obstacle to relative prosperity for Mexico's unwanted, unskilled masses.

The Mexican government published a pamphlet with instructions on safely and illegally crossing the border. It lobbies American politicians to open the borders. American Border Patrol agents face regular incursions by Mexican soldiers escorting drug gangs.

Aside from the Fox regime's blatant assault on American sovereignty, we have the illegal aliens themselves. Thousands daily cross at will. Some of them, too many, are criminals who terrorize American citizens.

According to Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), 10 percent of the population in U.S. jails and prisons is illegal immigrants. Criminal or no, these illegals bear children in American hospitals, leaving taxpayers with the bills. They send those children to public schools, again, leaving Americans holding the bag. Then they "protest" and hoist Mexican flags.

Meanwhile, Mexican and American authorities, as well as immigration activists, tell these illegal aliens they have a "right" to cross the border illegally, and further, that they have a "right" to stay and demand work, public welfare benefits, free healthcare, and a free education.

Sheer numbers aren't the worst news on illegal immigration. Half of illegal aliens, the Center for Immigration Studies reports, did not graduate high school and a third never made the ninth grade. Immigrants, legal and illegal, "comprise about 12 percent of America's workforce, [but] they account for 31 percent of high school dropouts in the workforce.... Between 1979 and 1997, immigrant households increased their representation in the U.S. population by 68 percent, but over that same period their share of the total poor population increased 123 percent."

Yes, illegal aliens are criminals, but that truth aside, that hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many of them illegal, could swamp American streets with impunity to make haughty, ridiculous demands is a sign they feel economically and politically empowered. Yet their power is derived solely from the inability of real Americans to makes changes via their representatives in Congress.

Of course, there is no reason for the illegals to leave under present circumstances. The current lax immigration policies must be changed, but those policies will not be changed unless we demand that they be changed.

Here’s the entire New American piece.

Illegal immigrants will do just about anything to get into this country.

Smugglers are giving illegals a dangerous cocktail made of Red Bull and ephedrine to give the stamina to make a wild dash across brush country to enter the United States.

Border Patrol agents say the deadly mix can be fatal.

Here’s the story.

Here are some of the e-mails I got in response to my segment yesterday on the Mark Belling program on Newstalk 1130 WISN about the article in the New American. The article exposes how the state DMV assists gang members, illegal immigrants, and terrorists.



Mr Fischer -

Interesting this FINALLY made some news outlet.

I was told everything you mentioned about this over two years ago by someone I know who is an examiner at the DMV.

Thanks for bringing it to the public's notice.



Mr. Fischer,

I know I am talking to a wall here, but I must correct you on a statement that you said on your 2/27/07 fill-in program for Mark Belling in which you said that illegal immigration is a slap in the face to all legal immigrants in this country. Wrong!

I am one, and your assumption is only yours, as I certainly do not share it, and neither do many. I agree with the caller from Cedarburg who said that you are only fanning flames in pursuit of ratings; -he hit it on the nail! I would only add that you do it in pursuit of racism and bigotry.

You are wrong in associating terrorism with illegal immigration. Do you know for a fact that the 9/11 perpetrators were illegal immigrants? You very well know that they did not cross any river swimming nor walked through the desert from the neighboring country to the south. You know that none of those terrorists went to the Wisconsin DMV to apply for a driver's license to get on those planes. Do you call that "reality" as you expressed on the radio? Sir, this is your flawed reality, as I would call it "fanning the flames of racism and bigotry against people with different skin color and with voice accent".

I share the views of the people of Wisconsin in regard to standing up against terrorism. I enjoy living in Wisconsin, in a suburb just as you do (are you panicking knowing that I could be your neighbor?), but I totally disagree with you and with people like you who see us immigrants as scapegoats for your own fears. If people from the Middle East caused 9/11, why do you direct the blame toward Mexicans? -because that is what you are doing.

So illegal immigrants don't pay taxes? Wrong again! Taxes are taken out from their paychecks just like from yours and mine. The difference? You probably get tax credits and deductions at the beginning of the year, while illegal immigrants abstain from filing for tax refunds, thus leaving the collected taxes the government's hands. Social Services? Most of the brown skinned children than you refer to are actually American citizens, born in the US, who happen to speak their maternal tongue. If you criticize these people, you most likely are also condemning your grandparents or your great-grandparents who did the same thing, or are you going to tell me that the last name "Fischer" is Native American? Your ancestors were immigrants too and came over to this country seeking prosperity and a better life.

Do you know that the meal that you pay at most restaurants $15 - $20, would probably cost $40 - $50 bucks if the restaurant you patronized hired only American citizens, or if the fields where the potatoes that you ate weren't harvested by immigrants? If you don't realize this, you are very shortsighted, as I assume you are, as by now you are probably infuriated from hearing another side of the story... your story that is far from the truth.


Sincerely,

A Mexican



Hi Kevin,


Heard you on the radio this morning and just read your blog and the article about the DMV.

I have no doubt that the anonymous DMV employee who gave up this information is telling the absolute truth.

Two years ago, my husband and I moved up here from the Cincinnati/Northern KY area. We went to the DMV office in Waukesha to change our drivers licenses over to a WI license.

As we were standing in the line, I can tell you that there was a group of no less than 15 Hispanics waiting in line behind us and a group of no less than 10 ahead of us.

Most of them either could not or would not speak English.

There was one older woman, in particular that I remember, who had just finished her written test with the help of another individual. I remember her walking up to the counter and she couldn't speak a word of English.

I thought to myself, "this woman can't speak English, how in the hell is she going to read a road sign?"

It is disgusting that this is going on. The state of WI and the rest of the country had better wake up or all our road signs are going to be in Spanish one day.

I have absolutely no issue with anyone who wants to come to this country
to make a better life for themselves or their family... legally.

My great-grandparents came here from Italy nearly 100 years ago through Ellis Island, as did many European immigrants at that time. They came here with pride, with honor, with respect and didn't expect a handout.
Their names are now listed on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island.

There is a good reason why it's called the "Wall of Honor". What is happening today is a disgrace to the immigrants of 100 years ago, a disgrace to the Statue of Liberty and a disgrace to our flag and this entire country.

The United States of America is becoming a homeless shelter for any illegal who wants a free ride and those that continue to allow it to happen have got to held accountable NOW. Or perhaps when Osama bin Laden comes calling again, we should send him to their front doorstep.



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