NEW IRCOT BOARD MEMBERS & EXEC. DIR., MARIA MARTINEZ NAMED |
| IRCOT recently added two new directors to the IRCOT board, Maria Martinez and Mike Olcott. Maria has been named the NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and Mike will head up the IRCOT N. TX Chapter. Formerly with the Austin office of Americans for Prosperity, Maria was on the ground at the Capitol during the 2009 TX session to assist in our efforts to get strong immigration legislation passed in Texas last session. She will be heading up the effort again in 2011 and already has started the wheels in motion. Mike has a reputation as a dedicated and driven immigration reform activist and he has certainly lived up to that reputation since we've known him! We are honored and delighted to welcome both of these true patriots aboard! |
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Join thousands of other Americans as they maketheir way from the far reaches of America to join together on 10-10-10 at The Alamo in SanAntonio, Texas over the Columbus Day weekend to hear a great line up of immigration reform patriots!! Please attend and help send a strong message to Austin in time for the January 2011 Texas Legislative Session. . |
GARCIA: Rovian immigration fallacy There is no upside to amnesty for illegal aliens |
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[EXCERPTS] "....Second, Mr. Rove's theory rests on the assumption that newly amnestied voters will remember that the Republican Party helped pave their pathway to citizenship and reward the party with future support. But let's look at the facts. The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens have less than a high school education, and many are not even literate in their own languages. This doesn't mean they aren't good people, but it does mean they are natural recipients of the welfare state. Once they receive citizenship in the United States, will they be more likely to favor the big-government, wealth-transferring, multiculturalist nanny state promised and promoted by the Democrat Party or the smaller-government, self-reliant, lower-taxing, entrepreneurial, assimilative society championed by the Republican Party?" |
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SAN JUAN, Aug. 3 - [Excerpts] La Unión del Pueblo Entero leaders will meet tomorrow to consider what legal options are available to stop what they believe is the harassment of colonia residents by Border Patrol. The group has invited Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and the South Texas Civil Rights Project to participate. Asked what message she would like to send to the elected officials in Washington, the teenager said: “Pass immigration reform. Give something to the Mexicans, the Dream Act, something to help our education.” |
| AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that he won't attend a meeting of border state governors if it isn't held in Arizona, which some of the participants are boycotting in protests of the state's tough new illegal immigration law. |
| Signs are growing that the terror group Hezbollah has expanded its long-established influence with South and Central American drug cartels into a working presence in Mexico. |
| JULY 2010 -- The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the U.S. is a staggering $113 Billion a year- an average of $1,117 for every "native-haded" household in America - according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). |
| JUST HOW MANY OF THE FBI VIOLENT CRIMINALS ARE FROM COUNTRIES SOUTH OF OUR BORDER?? TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FBI MOST WANTED INFO & CLICK ON EACH PHOTO TO FIND OUT WHERE THESE PEOPLE ARE FROM, THE MANY WHO HAVE NUMEROUS FRADULENT IDENTIES, & BUSINESSES THEY ARE EMPLOYED IN. |
| Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law is
fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state. |
ONGOING EFFORT -- VISIT DISTRICT OFFICES OF CORNYN & HUTCHISON & TELL THEM "NO AMNESTY" - "NO GUESTWORKERS" |
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TAKE PART IN THE FOLLOWING EFFORTS THAT OUR NATIONAL PARTNERS ARE SPONSORING TO CALL, FAX & EMAIL ELECTED OFFICIALS IN D.C. TO SAY "NO AMNESTY" & "NO GUESTWORKER PROGRAMS" -- NO HOW, NO WAY! FAIR: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/washington_march_310 NUMBERSUSA: |
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Mark Cromer, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow |
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| A Houston police sergeant, widowed when her police officer husband was shot to death by an illegal immigrant, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Houston and the police department asking that she be allowed to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials regarding the immigration status of suspects she detains. Joslyn Johnson is suing for a change of policy, not money, as she continues to arrest and detain suspects as a sergeant in the burglary and theft division of HPD, said her attorney, Ben Dominguez. |
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A coalition of municipal and county officials along Texas' 1,200 mile-long border is challenging Gov. Rick Perry's statements that property owners and local law enforcement are being overwhelmed by smugglers and gangs from Mexico. "Your remarks, if accurately reported, create a public impression of lawless hordes oveerrunning the border region and do not reflect our collective experience," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, Chairman of the Texas Border Coalition said in a letter to Perry. (NOTE: SEE ARTICLE BELOW ON CORRUPTION WITH TXLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS & ELECTED OFFICIALS) |
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Corruption along the U.S.-Mxican border takes many forms. It can start as a smuggler's $50 gift to the child of a reluctant federal agent, quickly escalating to out-and-out bribes. "Everyone does it, "theagent, now in prison, recalls telling himself. Other times, county sheriffs greedily grab thousands from drug dealers. In a few instances, traffickers even place members in the applicant pool for sensitive border protection jobs. |
| Growing number of Texans demand Governor Perry get serious about securing our Texas/Mexico border. |
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More than 1,500 people braved triple-digit heat to take part in a July 4 “tea party” rally and picnic in Waller County Saturday afternoon. The event was sponsored by the Katy Tea Party Patriots. TEA PARTY RALLY – A crowd estimated at more than 1,500 turned out Saturday for a multi-county Independence Day Tea Party Rally in Waller County sponsored by the Katy Tea Party Patriots. .... Rebecca Forest, founder of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, said the proposed “earned citizenship” program touted by the administration was nothing more than a new name for amnesty. She also said the nation’s borders continue to be a potential conduit for terrorism. TOUTING IMMIGRATION REFORM – Rebecca Forest, founder of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, criticized the Obama administration’s “earned citizenship” program during the Katy Tea Party Patriot’s Independence Day Rally. “Eight years after 9-11 and nothing has been done; our borders remain open. Sadly, a great number of our legislators have forgotten who they were elected to represent,” Forest said. .... |
Governor sends letter to DHS with notice of plans A border security proposal drafted by Gov. Rick Perry would put 600 soldiers in “reconnaissance platoons” to scour 20 remote areas for drug and immigrant smugglers, part of a call-up of 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to full-time duty. In his latest in a series of anticrime border initiatives, Perry wrote in an April 2 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the patrols would “provide an immediate increase in the ‘boots on the ground.'” |
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Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say. The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S. |
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Tell Speaker Straus to Not Hinder Illegal Alien Legislation in the 2009 Session Ask him to make sure this important work is not buried in a hostile committee. Please send a send a FREE FAX NOW to the new Texas House Speaker. Ask him to do the right thing and let these bills get a fair hearing: Click on the link to read and send the FREE FAX MESSAGE to Speaker Straus: |
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Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed his concerns on the issue of Texas' Border Security Strategy at the Chamizal National Memorial and the Bridge of the Americas as a backdrop. Socoro Mayor Trini Lopez listens in to Perry's commnts. Gov. Rick Perry said he wants 1,000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border, and for the U.S. to fund strong security measures to fight the Mexican drug cartels that have spread violence and fear in Mexico, including Juarez. |
The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says. The survey, issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said that most of the money — $597 million — was spent by local hospital districts for the immigrants' care during the state's fiscal year that ended on Aug. 31, 2006. Lawmakers from both parties said they were not surprised by the millions spent and expressed hope that the report, required by the 2007 Legislature, will help prompt Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation. |
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AUSTIN — In a clampdown on illegal immigrants, the Texas Department of Public Safety has adopted a new policy requiring noncitizens to prove they are in this country legally before they can obtain or renew a driver's license. Gov. Rick Perry applauded the change, which went into effect Oct. 1, as a way to strengthen the state's security. |
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State Rep. Kino Flores, D-Palmview, will likely not be sanctioned for hiring an illegal immigrant. In the wake of a violent slaying on Flores' ranch property north of Mission, local and Mexican law enforcement agencies are tracking a 24-year-old Honduran man who had been living and working there. But federal law enforcement agencies have expressed little interest in pursuing Flores for hiring Froilan Caseres, who authorities said was in the country illegally when he allegedly beat another man to death. Flores denied any knowledge of Caseres' immigration status. His cell phone was turned off Tuesday and a message left at his home was not returned. On Monday, he told The Monitor that Caseres had only been doing a few days' worth of work on the ranch, and that because of Caseres' appearance and family connections in the area, Flores did not check his immigration papers. |
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Signaling a revival of the illegal immigration debate in the 2009 legislative session, two Republican state lawmakers have asked Attorney General Greg Abbott to weigh in on a thorny subject: "sanctuary cities." The term has been used to describe Austin, Houston and dozens of other cities across the United States that don't require police or other municipal employees to report to federal authorities people who may be in the country illegally. |
DEL RIO, Texas -- This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas. Unlike other Texas cities along the Mexican border, Del Rio actually welcomes the 15-foot-high steel wall the U.S. government wants to build against illegal immigrants. |
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The widow of slain Houston police officer Rodney Johnson filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the landscaper who employed Johnson's killer, as jurors continued deliberating Juan Leonardo Quintero's fate. Quintero was convicted earlier this month of shooting Johnson seven times after he was arrested during a traffic stop. Johnson's widow, Joslyn, said Robert Lane Camp was negligent in hiring Quintero, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. "He needs to pay for his actions," Johnson said. |
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McALLEN - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar told the Texas Legislature to stay away from enacting immigration reform. "This is a federal matter," said Cuellar, D-Laredo. "If the state gets involved you're liable to have a patchwork of laws." |
| II have a neighbor named George. He and his family have been great neighbors. We’ve exchanged gifts, attended parties together, helped each other out from time to time with one thing or another. Our kids have been friends. I like them all. They’re really great folks. However, all but the father and one son out of a family of six are illegal immigrants by way of Mexico. |
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...And it was one of our own senators, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who included some words in a voice vote that pretty much killed the fence. She said, "Nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location." Thanks to Hutchinson, the SFA has been effectively neutralized and made impotent. |
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Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California. ....
The 2006 Secure Fence Act specifically called for "two layers of reinforced fencing" and listed five specific sections of border where it should be installed. The new spending bill removes the two-tier requirement and the list of locations.
"This is either a blatant oversight or a deliberate attempt to disregard the border security of our country," the New York Republican said. "As it's currently written, the omnibus language guts the Secure Fence Act almost entirely. Quite simply, it is unacceptable." |
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Steve Elliott, the president of Grassfire, says he still wants to know, "Where's the fence?" Elliott, in a telephone interview, told WND an amendment submitted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, for the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget would gut the already-approved Secure Fence Act, which was adopted with the promise hundreds of miles of physical fencing would help secure the U.S. border with Mexico. But the budget bill now in a conference committee contains the Hutchinson amendment, and Elliott says it simply would drop the requirement for the security project. ...."Now, if the Hutchison amendment gets signed into law that fence is never going to be built," he said. Elliott said the language of the amendment from Hutchison (S. Amdt. 2466) specifically would exempt the Department of Homeland Security from having to build any fence at all. The Hutchison amendment reads, in part, " … nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location." |
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Recently Mexican President Calderon has been very outspoken, critical on U.S. Immigration law enforcement efforts and supports Amnesty for all illegal aliens from Mexico residing, working in this nation. Contrary to popular belief, Mexico has very strict immigration laws which are enforced by every police agency in the country. The Bureau of Immigration can call upon any law enforcement officer to assist in their mission. Citizens from the United States traveling in Mexico without proper documents, work permits or non immigrant visas are subject to arrest as illegal aliens. The laws regarding foreign national visitors, immigrants, non-citizens are as clear and concise in Mexico as are our own U.S. laws which are considered unenforceable by many politicians in Washington, D.C. |
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We need to ask ourselves whether Austin should continue to be a city that offers sanctuary, given recent events in Newark, N.J. At the very least, city leaders — including Police Chief Art Acevedo — should reexamine procedures so that we aren't harboring criminals who should be deported. Austin police don't check the immigration status of people they stop, question or arrest. They don't ask people who report crimes whether they are in the country legally. |
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon Sunday demanded the United States surrender its sovereignty, abandon the rule of law and accede to Mexico's inherent supremacy. In his state of the union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon established his imperialistic imperatives: "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. And, for this reason, the government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for the defense and protection of their rights." |
| The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, ....The organization is alleged to be involved in the manufacture and distribution of high-quality counterfeit identity documents, including social security cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, US and Mexican driver licenses, Matricula Consular ID cards, resident alien cards, work authorization documents, proof of vehicle insurance cards, temporary vehicle registration documents, and utility bills (many states require driver license applicants to show utility bills as proof of residence). . |