[movermike] movermike: Guard the Borders Blogburst

[Email subscription to blog articles]

Posted by movermike:
Guard the Borders Blogburst
http://www.movermike.com/posts/1159202120.shtml


   This Blogburst is also available as a [1]Podcast. by Toni at [2]Bear
   Creek Ledger

   All of these stories were found in the last couple days posted to
   [3]Lucianne.

   [4]'Border Baby' boom strains S. Texas - There's a picture with the
   story of an illegal alien who's given birth to her fourth child on
   American soil at American taxpayer expense who thinks it's owed to
   her!

   Of course the real story is how 'anchor babies' are breaking the backs
   of South Texas hospitals.

     Doctors and health officials say they are overwhelmed by both the
     new arrivals and those immigrant mothers who already are in the
     state. Even Houston's feeling the pinch. An estimated 70 percent to
     80 percent of the 10,587 births at Ben Taub General Hospital and
     Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital last year were to undocumented
     immigrants, administrators say.

     Also feeling the strain is Starr County, an already poor South
     Texas county that has the region's only taxpayer-supported hospital
     district.

     Immigrants "want a U.S.-born baby" and know that emergency room
     staffers don't collect any money up front, said Dr. Mario
     Rodriguez, an obstetrician in Starr County.

     "The word is out: Come to Starr County and get delivered for free.
     Why pay $1,000 in Mexico when you can get it for free?" Rodriguez
     said.

   This story is more than disconcerting. Gives me a lot of confidence in
   ICE/DHS! The corruption is disheartening, read the list and weep.

   [5]Corruption Involving Immigration Workers:

     In the past 12 months, dozens of U.S. immigration employees have
     been accused of corruption-related charges. Some cases, drawn from
     a review of court records and government announcements, and listed
     by agency:

     U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

     - David Duque Jr., a Border Patrol agent since the mid-1990s, faces
     up to 15 years in prison at his November sentencing after pleading
     guilty to bribery and the unlawful transfer of documents. While
     being recorded by investigators, Duque sold some 70 identification
     documents to a source cooperating with law officers - including
     passports, birth certificates, green cards and Social Security
     cards. He also took a $5,000 bribe to allow cocaine through a
     highway checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas.

     snip......

     U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

     - Santiago Efrain Valle, an agent with Immigration and Customs
     Enforcement in El Paso, Texas, was charged in March with trying to
     extort $20,000 from an immigration detainee at the El Paso Service
     Processing Center. Federal agents arrested Valle after he allegedly
     accepted $20,000 from undercover officers. According to court
     documents, Valle agreed to accept the money in exchange for
     dismissing pending immigration charges against the detainee and
     also changing his risk classification. If convicted, he faces up to
     three years in prison.

     snip.....

     U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES

     - Robert Schofield, a USCIS district office supervisor in Fairfax,
     Va., was arrested in June, accused of illegally granting residency
     and issuing naturalization certificates to more than 100
     unqualified immigrants. Qiming Ye, a Chinese citizen, also was
     charged for allegedly brokering deals between Schofield and Asian
     immigrants. One unqualified immigrant was granted residency status
     after meeting Schofield's wife in the Philippines, and then living
     with Schofield and baby-sitting his stepchild for a year, a court
     affidavit alleges. When stopped by Customs officials at an airport,
     the immigrant provided Schofield's name, cell phone and home
     telephone number from memory, the affidavit said. Passports seized
     from Ye's residence included green card stamps bearing Schofield's
     ID, and phone traces showed dozens of calls between Ye and
     Schofield's home number and his Department of Homeland Security
     cell phone, the court documents allege. "Numerous" allegations of
     bribery involving Schofield have been reported in the last decade,
     an investigator said in an affidavit. A trial date is pending.

   I've only posted one of each area from the story. There's many more in
   the story and the dollars involved can be staggering.

   Then we have more great news from ICE/DHS. [6]Told of immigrant
   arrests, Feds often failing to act:

     The lack of response by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
     has fostered confusion among municipal officials already resentful
     of being designated as surrogate federal agents in the national
     policy debate over illegal immigrants.

     This comes at a time when a suspected illegal immigrant who was
     once in Denver police custody stands accused of dragging a woman to
     death behind his vehicle. There are conflicting reports as to
     whether Denver police notified immigration officials after he was
     arrested in April.

     Law-enforcement agencies in Colorado placed 9,429 inquiries about
     suspected illegal immigrants to ICE in the 2005 accounting year.
     ICE requested detainment for 330 of those suspects, according to
     agency statistics.

     This year, ICE has received 13,063 inquiries from Colorado
     authorities, placing holds on 284.

   Well that really confirms the story from [7]TBone's buddy!

   Now this is a story which gives me a modicum of hope.

   [8]GA Lawmaker may apologize to Latino's

     A Georgia Republican says he'll apologize to a national Latino
     advocacy group he accused of supporting racism and illegal
     immigration if the organization agrees to a list of conditions.

     In a press release this week, Rep. Charlie Norwood called the
     National Council of La Raza a "radical," "anti-American"
     organization that "supports racist groups calling for the secession
     of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland."

     In offering a conditional apology, Norwood asked NCLR to sever all
     ties with a leftist student group and its "racist doctrines," to
     repudiate all claims that any American territory belongs to Mexico,
     and to seek outside supervision to ensure that NCLR-sponsored
     programs do not discriminate.

   La Raza uses all the typical name calling of the left when they are in
   the wrong and have nothing left to use in their defense except for
   race-baiting.

   Cry me a river on this story. I know, that's harsh but I'm sick and
   tired of the woe is me illegal alien injured illegally crossing the
   border into the US; then the American taxpayer has to pick up the tab
   for their medical expenses.

   [9]Woman finds scaling fence is a costly painful gamble:

     A U.S. Border Patrol agent crouches in front of her. He slowly
     wraps her severed ring finger in a shirt. He places it in a bag of
     ice.

     "I knew I couldn't do it, I knew I couldn't do it," she says
     quietly in Spanish to the man sitting next to her, Victor Perez.

     Rosario, 25, and Perez, 24, sit with their heads down on a frontage
     road next to a 10-foot corrugated steel fence that marks the border
     south of Campo, Calif., about 50 miles east of San Diego.

     About one hour earlier, the two climbed over the landing-mat fence
     as part of a group of Mexican illegal entrants.

     The men and women helped each person climb over. Rosario caught her
     hand on the razor-sharp anvil point on top of the fence.

     When she fell to the ground on the U.S. side, pain shot up her arm.
     Her hand was bleeding. The top third of her ring finger lay on the
     ground.

   Just what do these illegal aliens think the fence is there for? It's
   To. Keep. Them. Out!

   My BS meter sprang wildly out of control when I read this piece of
   scare mongering:

   [10]ID Program Will Cost States $11 Billion, Report says:

     The cost to consumers for helping to secure America became clearer
     yesterday as a coalition of state groups tallied the bill for
     implementing the Real ID Act and federal officials divulged the
     price that some of its workers must pay for new smart cards.

     In a report released by the National Governors Association, the
     National Conference of State Legislatures and the American
     Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, state motor vehicle
     officials estimated it would cost more than $11 billion over five
     years to implement the technology required by the Real ID Act.

     Under the law, states must start to re-enroll about 250 million
     holders of U.S. driver's licenses after May 2008. The states must
     train workers to verify copies of original birth certificates,
     Social Security cards, marriage certificates and various
     identification documents.

   There's any number of ID's which could be incorporated into this
   program including a Voter ID! But the Democrats don't want any of this
   to happen since it would mean losing potential voters from the likes
   of illegal aliens, dead people, people voting twice......

     House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. [11]James Sensenbrenner Jr.
     (R-Wis.), who introduced the Real ID Act, strongly disagreed with a
     similar cost estimate presented by the groups last year, saying it
     was bloated. The chairman cited a Congressional Budget Office
     report that estimated the cost of implementation at $100 million
     between 2005 and 2010.

   The dollars saved on entitlement and social services and law
   enforcement to illegal aliens will more than cover the cost of this ID
   program.

   Then we have the jailbreak from a detention center. This story was
   actually a bit confusing. There were 6 federal fugitives from this
   escape (which begs the question why these fugitives were only being
   held in a detention center) of which 5 of the six were held for
   repeated immigration violations (read: illegal aliens who have been
   deported multiple times). The sixth was a former McAllen cop gone bad,
   now a drug smuggler.

   [12]Outside help seen in Valley jailbreak:

     The breakout's suspected leader is a former McAllen cop facing drug
     charges. Five Mexican nationals held on repeated immigration
     violations escaped with him.

     snip....

     He said investigators believe Francisco Javier Meza Rojas, 41,
     orchestrated the breakout.

     "The only reason why we think he was the ringleader was because he
     had the money," Magallan said. "He could have arranged everything.
     He was (in the narcotics business) and a former cop."

     A federal indictment from April alleges Meza, also known as "El
     Ocho" and "Chacho," led a drug trafficking organization that
     included his three brothers. U.S. District Judge Randy Crane on
     Thursday revoked the bond of one of them, Jesus Meza, a former
     Edinburg police officer.

     The three now are being held in jails in McAllen, Raymondville and
     Karnes County, Magallan said.

     The Mezas, along with other defendants, are scheduled to be tried
     in October on drug charges that include trafficking cocaine and
     marijuana from a rural area near Mission.

   Yeah, that makes me feel real secure. Nice to know how prosperous the
   Mexican drug trade is in the US.
   
               _____________________________________________

   This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was
   started by [13]Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues
   in the forefront of our minds as we're going about our daily lives and
   continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the
   trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst!
   Just send an email with your blog name and url to admin at
   guardtheborders dot com.

References

   1. http://guardtheborders.euphoricreality.com/?p=39
   2. http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/25/guard-the-borders-rollup-of-illegal-alienimmigration-stories/
   3. http://www.lucianne.com/
   4. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4209908.html
   5. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Border_Corruption_Cases.html
   6. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4377265
   7. http://bearcreekledger.com/2006/09/24/a-bit-of-perspective-from-an-immigration-special-agent/
   8. http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-immigration-apology,0,7335969.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
   9. http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/metro/147907
  10. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092100965.html
  11. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s000244/
  12. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/stories/MYSA092306.01B.escapefolo.34d17fc.html
  13. http://www.euphoricreality.com/