Ewald Stadler, a member of the Austrian Parliament, clearly sees what political correctness and insurgent Muslim immigrants have done to his country and its culture. Let’s just say he doesn’t like it.
This is one of those “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” moments. Except it’s in German.
Ewald Stadler, a member of the Austrian Parliament, clearly sees what political correctness and insurgent Muslim immigrants have done to his country and its culture. Let’s just say he doesn’t like it.
In this video clip, Stadler goes off on the Turkish ambassador, who made the mistake of complaining that Turkish Muslims are now allowed to integrate into Austrian society.
We could use a few more Ewald Stadler’s in the world. Correction: We need a lot more Ewald Stadler’s in the world.
In the latest sign of growing hostility to immigration in the Alpine state, 53 percent of voters accepted a proposal to deport automatically foreigners convicted of crimes including rape or trafficking in drugs or people.
The Swiss have always been known for watches, chocolates and secret bank accounts. To that list, you can now add rational laws.
"Get rid of the black sheep" seems like a simple message unless you're a liberal who sees racism in everything
Reuters reports the results of the Swiss referendum:
Most Swiss voting in a referendum have approved the easier expulsion of foreigners convicted of serious crimes such as murder, according to preliminary computer projections released on Sunday by national television.
In the latest sign of growing hostility to immigration in the Alpine state, 53 percent of voters accepted a proposal to deport automatically foreigners convicted of crimes including rape or trafficking in drugs or people.
Of course, Reuters reports that those supporting the ballot measure are “right wing.” But the political affiliation of those opposed to the law is left mysteriously unmentioned.
… The initiative was put forward by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which has played on rising fear about immigration in recent years to become the country’s biggest political movement.
Posters for the SVP’s proposal show a group of white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. They first ran when the SVP was collecting signatures for the referendum.
Last year the Swiss passed another “right wing” law that outlawed the construction of new minarets. That law was not popular with guys named Mohammed.
“First the Muslims and minarets, now criminals,” said Mohammed, a native of Lebanon who recently received his Swiss passport. “We’re not all criminals.”
Why, if we were you, Mo, we’d say, “Screw Switzerland,” give up our pretty new Swiss passport and return to the paradise otherwise known as Lebanon where rapists, drug dealers and slave traders are apparently treated like kings.
The Obama Administration plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the Texas, New Mexico and California borders by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities grows.
As if he hasn’t violated enough laws, President Obama is now violating Newton’s Third Law of Motion. That’s the one that says “to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
In February of this year the President announced that he was sending troops to the Mexican border.
"Do you see any troops, Estacio? I don't see any troops."
That action was accompanied by lots of hoopla in the media, but in a completely unequal reaction, the withdrawal of those troops has now been quietly announced in a letter to a Texas congressman.
The Washington Examiner has the details:
The Obama Administration plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the Texas, New Mexico and California borders by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities grows, according to documents obtained by The Washington Examiner.
A letter sent to various members of the Texas Congressional delegation from Texas’ Gov. Rick Perry’s office says, “In February, 2011, the Texas, New Mexico, and California National Guard forces that were deployed to the border in September, 2010, under President’s Obama’s Southwest Border Augmentation Plan, will have 30 days to complete a total draw down of forces.”
The roughly 550 troops will have the month of February to redeploy back to their units, Texas Congressman Ted Poe told The Examiner. Troops would not be pulled off the Arizona border under the plan, and about 100 of the troops would re-deploy there from other states, officials said.
Poe received the letter today. His office confirmed with Department of Homeland Security officials that the plan came from the administration.
“I’m surprised the president would so quickly remove troops from Texas. They’re not supposed to leave until July,” said Poe.
Fact is, Obama withdrew those troops faster than the French front lines fleeing a battle.
Congressman Poe shouldn’t have been surprised. It doesn’t matter where the President sends troops – the Mexican border or Iraq or Afghanistan – he seems to be incapable of doing it without simultaneously announcing a date that they will be pulled out.
He just wishes he could surrender in Afghanistan as quickly as he surrendered on the Mexican border.
A Danish politician has come up with a novel idea: Show all incoming immigrants images of naked breasts.
In a move designed to (a) reduce the number of Islamic terrorists entering the country, (b) increase the number of other tourists entering the country, or (c) both, a Danish politician has come up with a novel idea:
Leave it to the Danes to develop the world's most sophisticated terrorist detection system
Show all incoming immigrants images of naked breasts.
Al-Arabiya has the naked truth:
Want to immigrate to Denmark? Then you need to be able to handle to look at a pair of naked women’s breasts, at least if Peter Skaarup, foreign policy spokesman of the far-right Danish People’s party has his way.
According to Skaarup, a documentary film about Denmark that will be shown as part of an upcoming immigration test for foreigners needs to have a pair of breasts in it, to intimidate any extremists from attempting to enter the tiny Scandinavian country.
Because a topless woman on a beach would be a good example of the Danish open-mindedness, Skaarup points out.
This, he said, is mainly relevant for immigrants coming from fundamentalist societies where women are oppressed and are not allowed to display their sexuality or even their hair. On the other hand Danish women are allowed to wear –-or not wear— what they please, underlining that he is not trying to provoke anyone with his statements.
… Integration spokesman for the Conservative Party, one of two government parties, Naser Khader says “a pair of naked breasts is no protection against extremism.”
“It’s quite the opposite, fundamentalists are so obsessed with sex that they will be pouring in over the borders. Maybe we should try with naked pigs,” Khader writes on his page on social networking site Facebook.
He’s kidding. At least we think he’s kidding. But we also think that’s not the worst idea we’ve ever heard.
If either concept is instituted, it will no longer be the terrorists’ dynamite vests that explode, it’ll be their heads. And that’s a much better outcome.
This is the last thing the Democrats wanted to hear. One of their most reliable voting blocks is abandoning them on one of their most reliable wedge issues.
This is the last thing the Democrats wanted to hear. One of their most reliable voting blocks is abandoning them on one of their most reliable wedge issues.
The San Bernardino Sun has the details of Democrat discord:
The illegal alien P.R. committee makes a statement for the press
A new study shows Latinos have soured considerably on illegal immigration in the last three years.
In 2007, 50 percent of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29 percent.
Thirty-one percent said illegal immigration had a negative effect, and 20 percent said it had no effect.
While the wording of the question changed slightly in 2010 – striking the phrase “growing number” to reflect studies that show illegal immigration declining – several local advocates on different sides of the issue called the change in perception unsurprising.
Those Inland Empire voices diverged significantly, however, when it came to explaining the shift and what it means for immigration policy.
Raymond Herrera, president and founder of a Claremont-based group called We the People, California’s Crusader, said political will has been shifting since 2004.
Herrera said that’s when activists like him began loudly calling for reform, slowly building what he said is a national consensus that illegal immigrants should be deported.
“The Minutemen stood up six years ago and brought the awareness level to the American people,” he said. “It is now at an apex where … enough people have had their American dream stolen (by illegal immigrants).”
Somehow, we think this is going to play havoc with the Democrats’ claim that anyone who’s against illegal aliens is racist.
The following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Jerry Brown really is. “Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Every other blog that’s run this video clip has focused on the first part, where former and future California Governor Moonbeam pledges to sign a bill entitling every illegal alien in the tarnished Golden State to attend college.
Far as we’re concerned, though, it’s the following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Brown really is.
“Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Governor Moonbeam, indeed. It’s taken the state decades to get $30 billion in debt. It’s reduced two consecutive governors to blithering idiots. The state is controlled by the public employee unions to whom Brown is beholden. The legislature is controlled by lunatic leftists who refuse to cut a penny in spending. And this lying sack of excrement says it may take “a couple of months” to solve the problem. Note that it may take him a couple of months. Why this guy’s such an economic wizard that he may just get the whole thing wrapped up in a couple weeks. With a little luck, maybe just a day or two.
California is about to get what it deserves. Unfortunately, the state’s few remaining conservatives will be taken down along with the liberals who not only caused the problem, but continue to exacerbate it by electing leftist wackos like Brown.
If Congressman Ted Poe has his way, President Obama will be putting troops on the Mexican border. Lots of troops.
If Congressman Ted Poe has his way, President Obama will be putting troops on the Mexican border. Lots of troops.
CNSnews.com has the details:
Congressman Ted Poe wants 10,000 troops stationed on our southern border. We, on the other hand, would like to be stationed on Bo Derek's southern border.
Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe has introduced legislation that would force President Obama to put 10,000 troops on the Mexican border.
Rep. Ted Poe (R.-Texas), who served for 30 years as a Texas prosecutor and judge before being elected to Congress, introduced legislation last week designed to force President Barack Obama to deploy a minimum of 10,000 National Guard troops at the U.S. Mexico border for the specific purpose of patrolling the border and intercepting aliens and smugglers attempting to cross illegally into the United States.
The legislation would allow the president to deploy more than 10,000 National Guardsmen, but not fewer.
“The president could put more than that, but he must put 10,000,” Poe told CNSNews.com. “The uniqueness of this is they would be paid by the federal government, because everybody says it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect the border. So the federal government will use the resources it already has to pay for those 10,000 National Guard troops, but they will be supervised by the governors of the four states on the border.”
We love this idea, so don’t get us wrong. But we think the only way this bill will ever get passed is if the vote is held while Democrats are all struck dumb by the concept of actually defending our borders.
Loretta Sanchez, one of the House’s sinister Sanchez sisters, strikes again, this time promising a lame duck vote on amnesty if the Democrats lose in November.
Loretta Sanchez, one of the House’s sinister Sanchez sisters, made the news last week with a racist rant – in Spanish – against Vietnamese-Americans and Republicans.
Loretta Sanchez' motto: Open mouth, insert foot
This week she’s hopped into a new vat of hot water with this gem:
“The problem is this, and I am going to lay it in front of the Latino community: If we do not win, in November, there will be no vote for a reform until another 10 or 20 years. If we win, we will have a voting in November or December. I do not know if we’ll pass the law but we will take a vote. But if we do not win, we are going to have to wait another 10 to 20 years because what is happening in this country is very anti-immigration.”
Two words: Incapacitado pato (If our schoolyard Spanish hasn’t failed us, that means “lame duck” in Spanish. But the odds are 50-50 that is means “Your mother is a whore.”)
John Kerry is out there burnishing his liberal credentials by demanding that immigration agents be more “humane” while risking their lives arresting drug dealers and human traffickers.
We exaggerate, but not by much. John Kerry is out there burnishing his liberal credentials by demanding that immigration agents be more “humane” while risking their lives arresting drug dealers and human traffickers.
Politico.com has the details:
John Kerry wants to make sure immigration agents don't operate in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan
As Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano led a naturalization ceremony for more than 5,000 new Americans at Fenway Park, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday pitched a bill requiring federal authorities to take a more “humane” approach when enforcing immigration laws.
The “Families First Immigration Enforcement Act of 2010” calls for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to give state agencies advanced notice before an immigration raid so they can provide translators for the detainees.
The Kerry bill would also require ICE to check detainees to see if any should be released on the grounds that they are too sick, too old, pregnant or nursing, or fall under other vulnerable groups.
You know that the liberals will stretch the definition of “sick” until it includes the common cold. “Oops. Can’t arrest Jose. He says he feels a scratchy throat coming on.”
A few weeks ago we reported that it may be months before the new troops Obama promised to station on the Mexican border actually show up. One Arizona sheriff is now steaming mad because the government is delivering signs almost as fast as it’s delivering troops.
A few weeks ago we reported that it may be months before the new troops Obama promised to station on the Mexican border actually show up. One Arizona sheriff is now steaming mad because the government is delivering signs almost as fast as it’s delivering troops.
CNS News reports the details of the deficiency:
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state’s border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week.
“We have a whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,” Babeu told CNSNews.com. “It’s less than a half-hearted measure designed to fail.”
But the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has placed 15 signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 that links San Diego with Phoenix and Tucson warning travelers of drug cartels and human trafficking operations.
We fully expect the Obama administration to announce that these signs cost $1,000,000 each and created or saved 53,000 jobs.
The Obama administration submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week and among the many American sins for which it apologized was Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Chinese official having a spirited civil rights debate with Chinese citizen
The temptation to openly laugh at the United States must be getting stronger and stronger.
The Obama administration submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week and among the many American sins for which it apologized was Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Keep in mind that the beacons of brotherhood who sit on the UN Human Rights Council include Angola, Egypt, South Africa, Bangladesh, China, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and believe it or not, Cuba.
Let’s just say that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is less than pleased. She wrote an angry letter to the President condemning the report, demanding its withdrawl and calling it “downright offensive”.
The Associated Press has the details:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner.
The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.
“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.
Of course, the members of the Human Rights Commission listed above are confused by the concept of building a wall to keep people out. Their human rights records are all they need to do the job.
Sheriffs in Arizona seem to grow cojones the size of Yuma watermelons. Paul Babeu, the Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, has a message for President Obama:
Sheriffs in Arizona seem to grow cojones the size of Yuma watermelons. Paul Babeu, the Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, has a message for President Obama:
“If the president gave me a half hour,” Babeu said, “I am confident that I could convince him and to show him the way that he can personally secure the border, and he would be the hero of everybody that truly transcends bipartisan politics and secures that border. I believe that if a leader truly wanted to do that we have the means and the resources necessary to secure our border and to protect America once and for all, and then we can get to the point in the future, only after the border is secure, that there is some type of discussion about what do we do with the approximate 13 million people who are here illegally.”
Pinal County, located in Southern Arizona is a major route for smugglers bringing narcotics and illegal aliens across the Mexican border.
C’mon, President Obama, you visited Afghanistan in an effort to pretend you care about that war. Don’t you owe it to the people of Arizona to at least fake it for them, too?
There’s a rebellion brewing in state houses across the country. To paraphrase Network, people are mad as hell about illegal aliens and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
There’s a rebellion brewing in state houses across the country. To paraphrase Network, people are mad as hell about illegal aliens and they aren’t going to take it anymore.
Now Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, who’s running for governor, has proposed an anti-illegal alien law that’s even tougher than Arizona’s.
Reuters reports the anti-illegal immigration information:
Wimpy-looking guy introduces tough bill
“Florida will not be a sanctuary state for illegal aliens,” McCollum, who was accompanied by state Representative Will Synder, said in a statement that also gave details of the proposed law.
The legislation would require law enforcement officials to check a suspected illegal immigrant’s status in the course of a stop, or a violation of another law.
This goes beyond the existing situation in the state where officers are allowed to check for immigration status, but not required to.
Florida, especially its southern portion, is a major U.S. migration destination for nationals from the Caribbean and Latin America, making it a cultural and racial melting-pot.
McCollum’s office said the proposed Florida immigration legislation goes “one step further” than a similar law recently introduced in Arizona, which has triggered protests and a constitutional challenge from President Barack Obama’s administration.
The Major League Baseball Players union has protested the Arizona law and some players say they may boycott next Sumer’s all-star game in Phoenix. They may want to rethink this, because at the rate states are proposing Arizona-like laws, they may run out of places to play.
In what may be the least surprising announcement made in months, Janet Napolitano revealed Thursday that the troops she promised Arizona and other border states won’t be in place for weeks. Maybe months.
In what may be the least surprising announcement made in months, Janet Napolitano revealed Thursday that the troops she promised Arizona and other border states won’t be in place for weeks. Maybe months.
Arizona lawmakers asked for National Guard troops on the border and Napolitano promised to have them in place by August 1, but it looks like Tucson’s just going to have to wait a little longer. Or a lot longer.
“The first began arriving, or the command and control elements began arriving, on the 1st of august. They should all be there within, I would say, 30 to 60 days,” said Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano.
Napolitano went on to say, “Or 90 days. Or maybe 120 days. Or maybe not at all. You know what I love about my job? The more you lie, the easier it gets.”
Rick Sanchez, the poster boy for CNN’s ratings problems, once said Iceland was too cold for volcanoes. He once read the words “ad lib a tease” straight off the teleprompter. And he once asked a guest how long nine meters is in English. But he may have topped himself last week.
Rick Sanchez, the poster boy for CNN’s ratings problems, once said Iceland was too cold for volcanoes. He once read the words “ad lib a tease” straight off the teleprompter. And he once asked a guest how long nine meters is in English. But he may have topped himself last week.
That’s when he looked an Arizona state representative Rick Murphy in the eye and said, “What is your beef with illegal immigration?”
Feel free to watch the clip several times to savor the stupendous Sanchez stupidity.
South Carolina RINO Lindsey Graham must be reading the polls. He’s gone from amnesty advocate to a startling new position.
South Carolina RINO Lindsey Graham must be reading the polls. He’s gone from amnesty advocate to a startling new position.
Politico.com has the tale of a political turn-around:
Lindsey Graham reacts to polls that show overwhelming opposition to his former position on illegal aliens
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday night that he is considering introducing a constitutional amendment that would change existing law to no longer grant citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the United States.
Currently, the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to any child born within the United States.
That interpretation is a relatively recent political phenomenon and whether it’s correct will eventually be addressed by the cours, but let’s not get into that argument at this point:
But with 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, Graham said it may be time to restrict the ability of immigrants to have children who become citizens just because they are born within the country.
“I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child’s automatically not a citizen.”
Nicely done, President Obama. Well played, Attorney General Holder. Since the court decided in your favor on the Arizona illegal alien law, support for your position has skyrocketed. And by skyrocketed, we mean plummeted.
Nicely done, President Obama. Well played, Attorney General Holder.
Since the court decided in your favor on the Arizona illegal alien law, support for your position has skyrocketed. And by skyrocketed, we mean plummeted.
Rasmussen reports that a remarkable 68% of American voters now want a friggin’ fence:
One more thing, President Obama: If you're not really going to fight to win the war in Afghanistan, how about bringing the troops home and putting them on the border, too
Support for the building of a fence along the Mexican border has reached a new high, and voters are more confident than ever that illegal immigration can be stopped.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of U.S. voters now believe the United States should continue to build a fence on the Mexican border. That’s up nine points from March when the Obama administration halted funding for the fence and the highest level of support ever. Just 21% oppose the continued building of the border fence.
Support for the fence is strong across all demographic groups. But while 76% of Mainstream voters think the United States should continue to build the fence, 67% of the Political Class are opposed to it.
To say that Chris Matthews is wrong on virtually every issue is to state the obvious. But last night the Hardball host nailed the court decision against Arizona’s illegal alien law. Absolutely nailed it.
To say that Chris Matthews is wrong on virtually every issue is to state the obvious. But last night the Hardball host nailed the court decision against Arizona’s illegal alien law. Absolutely nailed it.
Matthews: Let me finish tonight with this federal injunction against the new Arizona immigration law. First of all, it is a killer issue politically for the Democrats this fall and a huge windfall for the Right. It will anger even those people who believe the Arizona law went too far. It will dramatize the main case raised by the Tea Party people, that the federal government in Washington has become too powerful, that the rights of states have been terribly abridged. That is the political consequence and it will be felt mightily this November.
CBS, the one-time Tiffany network, sent reporter Steven Fabian to the Arizona-Mexico border. He didn’t find any illegal aliens, but he did find neo-Nazis.
CBS, the one-time Tiffany network, sent reporter Steven Fabian to the Arizona-Mexico border. He didn’t find any illegal aliens, but he did find neo-Nazis.
In fact, the CBS website headlines the story “Neo-Nazis patrolling U.S. border.”
At the beginning of his report, Fabian says, “J. T. Ready is the leader of tonight’s group. He is also a member of the National Socialist movement, a group that some experts call a neo-Nazi organization that believes in a white separatist state.”
Unfortunately, Fabian never identifies these “experts” nor the source of their information. He never quizzes Ready about his neo-Nazi beliefs. And he never disputes Ready’s assertion that his group is looking for drug smugglers and illegal aliens because the federal government won’t.
Ahhh, but Fabian does mention that this armed band of neo-Nazis actually found a few illegal aliens during their patrol and reports on the brutal treatment they suffered at the hands of the evil Aryans. They were “given water and turned over to authorities.” No beatings. No ovens. No nothin’.
Later, toward the end of the report, Fabian says, “Citizen patrols like this one, led by an alleged neo-Nazi organization, worry local law enforcement.”
Again, no evidence is presented to support the assertion that Ready is a neo-Nazi. He may well be. We don’t know. There are certainly thousands of online references that say he is. But wouldn’t that have been an interesting line of questioning for Fabian to follow?
But what do we know about such things. No one’s ever called us the Tiffany of blogs.
Gone are the days when you could call an illegal alien an illegal alien. Also gone are the days when you could call a drug dealer a drug dealer. As far as the U.S. Forest Service, that combination now earns you the dignified title of “displaced foreign traveler”.
The garden grown by displaced foreign traveler Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez
Gone are the days when you could call an illegal alien an illegal alien. Also gone are the days when you could call a drug dealer a drug dealer.
As far as the U.S. Forest Service, that combination now earns you the dignified title of “displaced foreign traveler”.
The Redding Searchlight takes a hilarious look at the neologistic news:
Just a typical foreign tourist visiting California, Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez must have spent a day at the San Diego Zoo and taken in the Venice Boardwalk, then driven up foggy, twisty and beautiful Highway 1 to take in the sights of San Francisco. After shopping in Chinatown, dining in North Beach and admiring the street theater around Pier 39, he headed north to see the world-famous coastal redwoods.
But something went horribly wrong.
On the road to the Lady Bird Johnson Grove, he must have taken a wrong turn on Highway 36. Once up in the rugged mountains of Trinity County, anyone can get lost. Cell coverage is spotty. Gas stations and supplies are scarce. The poor gentleman’s vacation went terribly wrong, and the next thing you know, he found himself camped out at a remote marijuana plantation south of Hayfork.
At least, that’s the impression a reader might get from a U.S. Forest Service news release, sent out to the media Tuesday morning, about a marijuana raid earlier this month. It describes Almonte-Hernandez as a “displaced foreign traveler from Michoacán, Mexico.”
Strangely, though, this poor displaced traveler — far from welcoming his rescue by the Forest Service, Trinity County Sheriff’s Department and Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement — instead reportedly tried to flee and hide as those agency’s officers arrived at the marijuana “garden,” which contained more than 7,000 plants.
A Forest Service law-enforcement dog team ran down Almonte-Hernandez, who, the Forest Service says, faces a federal charge of manufacturing a controlled substance that, if he is convicted, could carry a 10-year prison sentence.
Is that any way to treat a displaced foreign traveler?
Look for Eric Holder to dismiss all charges against Almonte-Hernandez. And don’t be surprised if the Forest Service transforms Smokey the Bear into Tokey the Bear.
They said the individual mandate wasn’t a tax, but now it turns out it is. They said you could keep your own insurance, but now it turns out you can’t. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t fund abortions, but now it turns out it will. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t be extended to illegal aliens, but now…
The international symbol for "Illegal aliens taking their children to the doctor"
They said the individual mandate wasn’t a tax, but now it turns out it is. They said you could keep your own insurance, but now it turns out you can’t. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t fund abortions, but now it turns out it will. They said ObamaCare wouldn’t be extended to illegal aliens, but now…
Politico.com has the details:
A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to fix one of the most hotly contested aspects of the health care law … The move by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would add a contentious new element to an already monumental task — passing a bill that puts 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. But the lawmakers say they’re merely following through on a pledge they made when the health care overhaul passed in March, and they expect the White House and Democratic leadership to do the same.
The Obama administration announced Monday that illegal immigrants from Mexico have until Aug. 1 to make it across the U.S. border before it gets really serious about border security with the deployment of 1,200 additional National Guardsmen there.
We'll believe President Obama sent National Guard troops to the Mexican border when we see them there
Many years ago, we found ourselves drinking a beer or three with a couple of Kiwis in a pub out in the middle of the Australian Outback. The owner of the pub, a pleasant middle-aged woman, came around to tell us we had to leave because it was closing time. We hadn’t finished our beer, so we lingered. A few minutes later she came around again to tell us we really had to leave.
We still hadn’t finished, so one of the Kiwis asked, “What happens if we don’t?”
“Ahhh, then you’d be in big trouble” she said with a big smile on her face. “Because I’d call the police and you’d only have three days before they showed up to arrest you.”
That summarizes President Obama rapid response to violence on the Arizona border as reported by the Los Angeles Times:
The Obama administration announced Monday that illegal immigrants from Mexico have until Aug. 1 to make it across the U.S. border before it gets really serious about border security with the deployment of 1,200 additional National Guardsmen there.
The Times story goes on to say:
The Aug. 1 troop deployment, announced weeks ago and being implemented next month to supplement previous border efforts, comes just three days after Arizona’s tough new illegal immigrant enforcement is scheduled to take effect. The ACLU, Obama administration and government of Mexico, among others, are challenging the law in federal courts, seeking an injunction to halt the July 29 implementation, called S.B. 1070.
The Department of Homeland Security said the additional troops would be deployed for one year to support surveillance and efforts to combat international drug trafficking along the border.
It said 524 troops would go to Arizona, 224 to California, 250 to Texas, 72 to New Mexico and 130 somewhere else in command support roles. The troops set for Arizona equal almost two per mile of state border with Mexico.
Far be it from us to dispute the Honorable Janet Napolitano, but those numbers didn’t sound right to us.
130 of them will be stationed “somewhere else in command support roles”, which leaves just 1070 that will actually be stationed on the border. (A remarkable coincidence, isn’t it, that Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law is SB 1070 and that Obama will station 1070 troops on the border?)
According to Wikipedia, the length of the Mexican-American border is actually 1,969 miles. So rather than two per mile as Napolitano claims, there will actually be just one National Guardsman every 1.84 miles.
Assuming that they patrol in three 8-hour shifts, that means one National Guardsman every 5.5 miles.
But even that is being far too generous, because if we assume that they patrol in groups of at least ten for safety reasons, that means one group of National Guardsman every 55 miles, far from the two per mile that Napolitano touted.
Feeling more secure now?
Claiming “a sense of unprecedented urgency,” the DHS statement quoted Secy. Janet Napolitano as saying:
Over the past year and a half, this administration has pursued a new border security strategy with an unprecedented sense of urgency, making historic investments in personnel, technology and infrastructure. These troops will provide direct support to federal law enforcement officers and agents working in high-risk areas to disrupt criminal organizations seeking to move people and goods illegally across the Southwest border.
Napolitano’s press release was issued on July 19. To complete the analogy started way back at the beginning of this story, the illegal aliens, drug runners, people smugglers and terrorists only have 12 days to finish their beers before the police show up.
And even then, they won’t have to worry too much because there won’t be enough “police” to actually make a difference.
The lunatic racist latino group Brown Berets showed up to harass Tea Party patriots at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California who were, in turn, there in support of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Ever heard of the Brown Berets? Neither had we and we spent most of our lives in Southern California.
It’s a paramilitary organization that’s also called the Tan Klan or Latino KKK. They support illegal immigration as a means to create a racially-pure homeland for Latinos to be called Aztlan.
Well, this group of lunatics showed up to harass Tea Party patriots at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California who were, in turn, there in support of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Just when the latest Rasmussen poll showed Harry Reid climbing within three points of his Republican opponent, the doddering old Democrat went out and said something guaranteed to send his poll numbers in the opposite direction.
Just when the latest Rasmussen poll showed Harry Reid climbing within three points of his Republican opponent, the doddering old Democrat went out and said something guaranteed to send his poll numbers in the opposite direction.
Believe it or not, he told KLAS-TV reporter Nathan Baca that no illegal aliens are working in Nevada’s construction industry.
Baca: Why didn’t you allow for a vote? Reid: That’s the reason we need to do comprehensive immigration reform. We cannot do it piecemeal. Baca: You go to the unemployment office, though, and there’s many US citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don’t have specific jobs because, right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers. Reid: I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation Baca: We told Senator Reid of a Pew Hispanic Center study showing 17% of all construction workers are here illegally. Reid: That may be someplace, but it’s not here in Nevada. Baca: But their latest 2009 numbers show that Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of unauthorized immigrants in the labor force.
Amazing, isn’t it, that someone who opposes the Second Amendment was so quick to pull out a gun and shoot himself in the foot.
We just have one question for Harry: If there are no illegals working in Nevada’s construction industry, how do you explain those lunch wagons pulling up at construction sites while playing La Cucaracha?
