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ICE Sting nets 165 arrests

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 165 people Tuesday after raiding three locations looking for undocumented workers.
American Staffing Resources is a contract company that provides staffing service for fruit and vegetable processing plant, Fresh Del Monte.
ICE officials raided the ASR office on North Lombard, their satellite office inside Fresh Del Monte and Fresh Del Monte itself. It was at these locations where officials arrested three managers for knowingly hiring undocumented workers and supplying them with false documentation...
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...Portland Mayor Tom Potter says he's unhappy with how the raids were carried out.
He released this statement: "I am angered by this morning's arrest by federal officers of approximately 150 Portland residents who were working at a local produce company. I certainly understand why federal officials executed criminal warrants against three individuals who stole and sold Social Security numbers. But to go after local workers who are here to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses for their labor is bad policy."

This is what the ICE is supposed to be doing. Portland's mayor can be as unhappy and angry as he wants to be, but Del Monte, which I believe is controlled and partially owned by the husband of Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA) is subject to federal law just like companies that aren't as well represented by politicians. I only hope that ICE is very busy working on the next major law enforcement operation.
This type of sting is exactly what is needed to address the underlying problem with illegal immigration. If illegal immigrants realize that they can't work here without risk of deportation, many won't even make the trip. You don't need to round up 20 million illegals to deport. Many that are here now will go back if they don't find work.
The argument that produce companies and other businesses that presently use illegal immigrant labor provide products at reasonably cheap prices is a phony one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The associated costs of illegal immigrant crime, law enforcement, medical services, social services and the like, far outweigh the savings you may see on a head of lettuce or maid service in a hotel.
If the main draw for illegals is a job, then denying that option is a very important piece of an effective immigration policy. Del Monte and the managers involved should be prosecuted to the full extent of the existing law, as should all employers of illegals. I'm perfectly willing to pay more for food and less on taxes that actually support the illegal occupation of our country by people who aren't interested in becoming Americans, but only interested in the criminally generated dollars they can send back to their home country.

Where's the Fence?

grassfire.org

Amnesty plot by Kennedy and McCain?

This throws most of the conservative vote further away from McCain. He is being more clearly seen by conservatives as a half-hearted supporter of conservatism. His main goal sometimes seems to be poking the conservatives in the eye with his rollover cooperation with Dems like Kennedy and Feingold.


Blogometer at National Journal agrees.
5/18: The End Of McCain Online

Let's hope and assume that this newest version of amnesty nonsense goes nowhere fast, and let's start enforcing the current laws on immigration, including the completion of the border fence and securing our borders first.
The Duncan Hunter website has lots of info about the fence.

Get ready for Amnesty, Part 2
Insider Politics Blog

NumbersUSA: "These Senators have sold out the American public" on Immigration Agreement

Block amnesty plan; it's a slap in the face
By TOM TANCREDO

How could anyone who describes themselves as Americans, whether conservative or just short of the most moonbat liberal, ever voice support for this? I don't know, but I'm willing to listen to the mysterious logic of this potential sellout of the American Citizen.

Duncan Hunter

The Center for Strategic and International Studies
Decision 2008
Duncan Hunter CSIS Video
Duncan Hunter (R)CA speaks for about 40 minutes about successes and solutions in the Mideast, solutions for border enforcement, crime, and comments about our lousy trade deal with a cheating China.

"A Keyboard and a .45" interviewed Congressman Hunter. Good read that makes his 2nd ammendment stance very clear and unambiguous, unlike that of some Republican candidates.

“Gun control laws directed at law-abiding citizens are not a crime deterrent. In fact, studies show that private ownership of firearms by Americans reduces crime. You and I both know that the one thing criminals prefer more than any other is unarmed victims.”
Duncan Hunter

Here is Congressman Hunter's video request for help from conservative bloggers for his presidential campaign. 44 seconds and right to the point.

Reagan and Coulter on Marx and Illegal Immigrants

A couple of quotes for the day from REAL conservatives...

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."
Ronald Reagan

"Of course illegal immigrants will "work for less." They don't have to pay taxes at all now, and under Bush's plan they will have to pay taxes for only -- at most -- three of the last five years. Not only that, but illegal aliens don't require their employers to comply with OSHA regulations, overtime and minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, disability laws, the Family and Medical Leave Act, a slew of oppressive environmental regulations, and 4 million other ways the government has developed to make it extremely expensive to hire legal employees. Instead of creating a separate class of citizens who are immune from oppressive government rules, how about relieving all of us -- even us shiftless Americans -- from the cost of government?"
Ann Coulter
You can read all of Ann's columns on her website, AnnCoulter.com

Top Ten Myths about the Iraq War:

Top Ten Myths of the Iraq War: (Some of these are cited by Mr. Jackson at BlogDecatur as fact on a regular basis.)

Colbert seems to get it right sometimes.
Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

Is this one of the early bird commercials for his bid for the Presidency?
Duncan Hunter on the Border Fence

Theodore Roosevelt and the Muslim Rave Party

Ted, On assimilation:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Ok, I admit that the Muslim Rave Party video clip has nothing to do with Mr. Roosevelt, but I think you'll get a kick out of it anyway. Funny stuff. Thanks to Wild Thing for the clip and the quote.
Click here to view the Muslim Rave.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

I've heard a lot of complaints in the press by illegal immigrants about exercising their "rights."

Bull****. The constitution imparts rights to CITIZENS. Not foreign invaders.

Bill of Rights
"During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens."

Legal Immigration Historical Contrast

Seems to be quite a contrast in the early 1900's immigration and the present in attitudes and implementation of controls and assimilation.

Take a look at this Ellis Island medical examination.
Keeping disease out of the country was as important then as now. Obviously not a pleasant experience, but the trials and tribulations of immigration were worth the price of admission to America. Add terrorisim to the mix and our reasons and need for legal processing are clear.

I think we've lowered the price of admission far too much in the last half century, and yet illegal immigrants are still sneaking in, unwilling to go through the process of being lawfully admitted, and hurting the image and understanding of immigrants in general. Our lax policies, including several amnesties since '65 have probably caused the general change in the motivation of illegals. Why wait in line if you can likely cut in front of the line with little or NO penalty, but actually gaining a fast track to citizenship with the generally anticipated Next amnesty plan.

Chicago news and the illegal alien nation

Busy day, more later...
Here are some interesting headlines.
Enjoy, or object, you decide...

Chicago scandal keeps on truckin'

No Agenda

Immigration and the law

Immigration madness

Guests or gate crashers?

My bid for the United States Presidency

Mixed message

Undocumented Suicide Insurgent (Liberal blur)

Calling ILLEGAL immigrants "undocumented" is a big part of the left wing blurring of the facts. Tell it like it is, without beating around the bush and trying to be politically correct. They have broken our laws to enter this country. They are ILLEGALLY in the country. Calling them "undocumented" is as deceptive as calling murdering terrorists "insurgents." Another example of this is calling people that blow themselves up in public places, "suicide bombers." They are not. They are "HOMICIDE BOMBERS." Calling them "suicide" bombers is a distortion that implies that the murderers are simply offing themselves.

Congress does the funding, not GWB. Do Senators Durbin and Obama support enforcing illegal immigration laws that are already on the books? Do they support increased funding to stop the flow of Illegals at the borders? I don't think they do. Why would ILLEGAL immigrants care about following our laws when we don't enforce them anyway?

The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave

Stop hiring them and they will not come... Enforce the laws on the books, and they will not stay.
This wave of ILLEGAL immigration is nothing short of an invasion by a foreign power that is tacitly encouraged by lax laws, sleazy employers, and cowardly politicians who support amnesty.
Immigration is not the problem of the day... It is ILLEGAL immigration that is the problem.

The following article is interesting and points out some of the crime problems that are caused by ILLEGAL immigrants.

from a January 2004 FrontPageMag article by Heather MacDonald
The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave

...The only way to dampen illegal immigration and its attendant train of criminals and terrorists—short of an economic revolution in the sending countries or an impregnably militarized border—is to remove the jobs magnet. As long as migrants know they can easily get work, they will find ways to evade border controls.

...Hispanic advocates have helped blur the distinction between a legal and an illegal resident by asserting that differentiating the two is an act of irrational bigotry.

...Of the incalculable changes in American politics, demographics, and culture that the continuing surge of migrants is causing, one of the most profound is the breakdown of the distinction between legal and illegal entry.