upside down US flagAfter Alabama voters overwhelmingly voted for tougher illegal immigration laws for their state, a funny (but totally awesome) thing happened: illegal immigrants began fleeing from the state like OWS’ers running from personal responsibility (or soap).

Unfortunately, those illegal immigrants weren’t fleeing back from whence they came (Mexico, mostly), but instead were simply migrating (illegally) to other states that made it easier for illegals to live and flourish with as little hassle as possible.

So when I read that California — the only state to rival Texas in terms of the high costs of harboring so many illegal immigrants — is considering a ballot  initiative that would grant amnesty to at least 1 million illegals and allow them to work and live openly (and free from fear of harassment or prosecution) in California — I thought: Good. Let’s pick make one state a magnet for illegals in the US. Let’s give all those illegals fleeing Alabama someplace to go (especially somewhere other than Texas).

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others.

Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Democrat, is helping spearhead the measure, called the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act.

The proposal was filed Friday with the state Attorney General’s Office, marking a first step toward a drive to collect the 504,760 voter signatures needed to qualify for the ballot.

Fuentes called the measure a “moderate, common-sense approach” necessitated by the federal government’s inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

“I hope this shows Washington, D.C., that if they fail to act, California will take the lead on this critical issue,” Fuentes said in a written statement.

Supporters say the initiative could generate up to $325 million in new tax revenue from undocumented workers that could assist education, public safety and other state programs.

Regardless whether Californians would support such a measure, implementation would depend upon the federal government agreeing not to prosecute participants.

So…if this were to pass, could we expect Obama’s justice department to step in and sue California like they did when Arizona tried to enact their own immigration laws? Yeah, I wouldn’t expect them to either.

 

One of my favorite stand up comedians is 36-year old Daniel Tosh. While driving home from work yesterday — I drove my truck for only the second time this month — I happened across a 24/7 comedy radio station (102.7 FM) and they played this clip from Daniel Tosh:

Daniel Tosh – Personal Line of Decency
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“I have no problem with illegal immigration in this country,” Tosh announces, jabbing the Right before leveling the Left with this emphatic sucker punch, “except for the fact they don’t serve on jury duty. That’s horseshiiiiiiit. It should be the other way around; they should serve exclusively on jury duty..

[pause to set up the punch line]

Yeah, then it finally would be a jury of ones’ own peers.

It’s not a stereotype if it’s always true. Yeah, then it becomes law. That joke is called, ‘Latinos Are Criminals.’ That’s just a title, it doesn’t mean anything.”

I like Tosh because he’s not afraid to cross boundaries to deliver well thought out jokes. As he says, “If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. It’s not my intention. I’m not going to guess what your personal line of decency is. I cross my own from time to time; it’s how I know I still have one…”

 

So while Mittens has been busy bashing Texas Governor Rick Perry for supporting instate tuition for a limited group of children of illegal immigrants, he was hoping that the MFM would ignore the portion of his Obamacare-blueprint healthcare plan that he signed into law in Massachusetts that gave free health care to any and all illegal immigrants in his state:

Reporting from Washington— The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.

Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.

Thine name is hypocrite, Mitt Romney.

Again…the law that Gov. Perry signed allows a subset of children of illegal immigrants to get instate tuition for college. That’s not free college for any of ‘em — but rather instate tuition for those that are eligible. NOT for every single illegal immigrant who wants to go to school in Texas at a reduced rate.

Meanwhile, Romneycare is available for any and all illegal immigrants. Not just a limited subset of their children who qualify, but all of ‘em.

In his hypocritical remarks about Perry during the recent Fox News-Google debate in Florida, Mittens said, “We have to turn off the magnet of extraordinary government benefits.” Uh huh…you mean like free healthcare to any and all illegal immigrants?

 
Illegal immigrant prisoners

While you're busting your ass to pay for your own tuition or for your kid's college fund, these illegal immigrants are getting free degrees from UT

Reason #6798 to secure our borders and cut off all benefits to illegal immigrants in our country — ALL benefits, to include birth-right citizenship for their off-spring, free schools, welfare, free healthcare…

This is from a story in the illegal-immigrant loving Austin-American Statesman describing how convicted criminals in Texas prisons are begging to be deported back to their home countries as part of a proposed plan to deport foreign convicts in order to save tax payer money:

Take, for instance, the 29-page filing by Mexican citizen Adrian Rosales, 36, serving a 65-year sentence for aggravated kidnapping from San Antonio.

Without an expedited review, Rosales, housed at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont, doesn’t become eligible for parole for another 18 years — and might not complete his sentence until 2074, when he’s 99 years old.

“I’m writing in hopes that you’ll consider me for deportation,” Rosales’ letter states. “I am one of 80 illegal aliens convicted for kidnapping — THE LOWEST AMOUNT OF ALL VIOLENT CRIMES.”

He goes on to list reasons he should be paroled and deported: He’s been imprisoned for almost 12 years with a spotless behavior record, his deportation order has already been signed, he helped federal investigators break a child pornography case in 2003, he has a brain tumor that is expensive to treat, and he has earned a business degree from the University of Texas and a master’s degree from California State University.

Full stop.

Digest that for a few moments.

This piece of shit came to our country and committed the violent crime of kidnapping. While incarcerated in our prisons, being housed and fed and given medical care all at the expense of the Texas tax payer…he was also able to get a business degree from the University of Texas and a Master’s degree from California State University.

And who exactly do you think paid for those degrees? That’s right…we did. Well, at least we probably only got charged in-state tuition rates…

Of course this entire article begs the question: Why the hell don’t we just deport them all anyway as a standard practice? And not to Mexico either…too easy for them to sneak right back in and go back to their life of crime in the United States. Once a week we should load up a C-130 with convicted illegal-immigrant convicts and drop them off in Afghanistan or Iraq. Let them worry about finding their own way back to Mexico, Honduras, or Guatemala. After word gets out, we might see a drop off in the number of violent criminals illegally entering our country.

 

The Austin-American Statesman has a lengthy article today on the thriving drug cartels operating in Austin. Of course they don’t try to assign any blame to our city’s Sanctuary City policies or to our Federal government’s complete refusal to do their job of securing our borders and controlling illegal immigration.

But still, a good read.

Austin’s Liberals and their liberal sanctuary city policies have allowed Mexican drug cartels and all of the insidious crimes they traffic in (drugs, sex, humans, children, etc.) to grow and thrive under what the head of the Austin’s Public Safety Commission admits has been their ‘benign neglect.’

“We’ve been a little slow to recognize” the cartels’ local growth, said Michael Lauderdale, the head of the city’s Public Safety Commission. “We’re starting to feel the consequences of that benign neglect.”

Most of these drug cartels and a swarm of other illegal immigrants come primarily from one Mexican town:

Stroll through the small, bustling main plaza in Luvianos and you’re likely to hear residents sprinkle their conversations with references to nightclubs on Riverside Drive and taquerias on Cameron Road. Immigration to Austin began in the 1970s, according to local residents, driven by deep poverty and a lack of opportunity in the rural, mountainous region. Since those first migrants landed in Austin to work in construction and open restaurants, money sent home from Austin has helped keep the Luvianos economy afloat, paying for quinceañeras, weddings and retirements.

[snip]

After making the trip north, most immigrants from Luvianos and its surrounding towns have landed in a small area of Northeast Austin near Reagan High School, filling a string of moderately priced apartment complexes.

The pro-illegal immigration editorial policy of the Austin American-Statesman won’t report it or admit it…but the overwhelming majority of these immigrants from Luvianos into Austin are illegal immigrants. Criminals.

And the worst part of our city’s sanctuary policies? We know exactly where large enclaves of these illegal criminals live. And yet they are allowed to do exactly that. Live here openly and without fear of deportation. They open businesses, send their kids to our schools, and overwhelm our health and family services.

Several restaurants and businesses have been started by Luvianos natives, and three days a week residents can board a bus at a record store on Cameron Road for a direct trip to Tejupilco, a regional capital next to Luvianos. In the middle of the neighborhood, residents walk past an idyllic mural of Luvianos, complete with the quaint gazebo that dominates its central square and the emerald Nanchititlan mountains that ring the city.

For longtime Austin residents from Luvianos, the appearance of La Familia in the city is a painful reminder. “Many people come to live here because they have fear” of La Familia, said one Luvianos-born business owner who has been here since 1985. The man did not want his name used because he feared retaliation against his family in Mexico. “Here, people aren’t so scared because there have not been threats. And if the government hears about (cartel members) they grab them up.”

Greg Thrash, who was named the resident agent in charge of the Austin DEA office three years ago, said decades of immigration from Luvianos to Austin have made it easier for La Familia to set up shop locally. “Austin is a stronghold for La Familia; we know that,” said Thrash, who led the effort to bring Austin into the federal drug trafficking program. “I believe it’s generational and familial. They will deal with those they feel comfortable with. That’s why you see the presence in certain parts (of the United States), because of family.”

So, our city has a allowed a huge drug cartel to set up shop in our cities. All out of benign neglect.

It’s beyond time to completely seal and secure our southern border. Build a wall. Bring all of our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and then put ‘em on the ground at our border and Drones in the air. All of them well armed and instructed to shoot anything coming over or under that fence.

 
Mexican workers

Papers? We don't need no stink'n papers...Gracias, Senor Obama.

Good for them. This bodes well for other states seeking to do the same — after all, if our Federal government refuses to do their job in securing our borders and controlling illegal immigration, I guess it’s up to the states to do their job for them.

Via the NY Times:

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law that had been challenged by the Obama administration, including portions that had been blocked in other states.

The decision, by Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of Federal District Court in Birmingham, makes it much more likely that the fate of the recent flurry of state laws against illegal immigration will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. It also means that Alabama now has by far the strictest such law of any state.

“Today Judge Blackburn upheld the majority of our law,” Gov. Robert Bentley said in a brief statement he delivered outside the State Capitol in Montgomery. “With those parts that were upheld, we have the strongest immigration law in the country.”

I’m guessing that the Obama administration will appeal the decision and/or sue the state of Alabama in about 3…2…1… (after all, we can’t have other people doing the job that the Federal government refuses to do):

There are three separate lawsuits against the Alabama law, including a challenge from President Barack Obama’s administration. Blackburn’s ruling is expected to be appealed.

I also fully expect the illegal-immigrant Lefties at the Texas Tribune to quickly find an illegal immigrant from Alabama but now resides in Texas (in order to get in-state tuition, yo!) and post her tear-filled interview decrying the heartless and unjust treatment of her and her people who have a GOD DAMNED right to be here (illegally).

 
Emma_Coronel

Emma Coronel might be hot she's a disgusting and evil whore, too

Just one more reason to amend the Constitution of the United States to eliminate birthright citizenship:

Joaquin Guzman is head of the Sinaloa Cartel (the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world), one of the world’s most wanted men – and now the father of two American citizens.

The L.A. Times reports that Guzman’s 22-year-old wife crossed the border in July in order to give birth to twin girls at a hospital in Los Angeles County on August 15. Following the birth, the multibillionaire fugitive’s wife and children returned to Mexico.

“Name of the Father” was left blank on the birth certificates, but U.S. law enforcement confirm the children‘s mother is Guzman’s wife Emma Coronel, a former beauty queen who already holds U.S. citizenship, thus making the children eligible for U.S. Citizenship. The 54-year-old drug lord nicknamed “El Chapo” (Shorty), married Coronel in a lavish ceremony on her eighteenth birthday.

Though, since the mother was a US Citizen (though, I’d argue that her citizenship should be revoked), I guess it is possible that one of her Heir to the Cartel Throne sons could become President of the United States…

Unfortunately for those two children, they’ll likely never grow up to know their parents — as both mommy and daddy will likely end up dead or in prison before those boys are teenagers.

 
Illegal immigrant prisoners

An important voting demographic for the Democrat party

Good for our Governor. And of course it’s purely symbolic; if we can’t get the Federal government to simply do their damned job and secure our borders, why should we expect that they’d pay for the consequences of their failures?

Via Fox News:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs he says Texas has incurred incarcerating illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Perry reiterated a claim he’s often leveled against the federal government: that it’s not doing enough to secure the border with Mexico and as a result, has allowed illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and use taxpayer-funded resources, including the prison system.

The letter was dated Aug. 10, three days before the Republican governor formally announced he is running for president.

Obama and his Justice Department has made it abundantly clear that immigration enforcement is a Federal government responsibility; just ask Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona what happens when a state tries to help the Federal government do their damned job. In which case, they need to pony up the costs incurred by the states for housing the results of their failures.

If Perry can get the Obama campaign to respond to this, or if Perry can force a response or play it up in media appearances, it’s a smart campaign tactic, keeping Obama on the defensive with regards to his numerous failures.

 

Nothing to see here, folks. Just another Obama thumbing his nose at the laws of our nation. Via the Washington Times:

A number of media outlets have already reported that an illegal immigrant from Kenya by the name of Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he nearly rammed his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts.

He was later charged with DUI among other violations. I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied: “I think I will call the White House.”

[snip]

According to article, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement has warrant for his arrest and ICE previously ordered him to be deported back to Kenya. In the meantime, a judge has not set bail on the driving charges but ordered that he be held on the ICE warrant.

 
Mexican workers

Papers? We don't need no stink'n papers...Gracias, Senor Obama.

When I first read this headline, Obama to deport illegals by ‘priority’ I misread it and thought it read, Obama to make deporting illegals a priority.

And I though, “Hey…something I can finally get behind our President on and fully support. That’s good.”

Of course, reality quickly set in, and I realized that our Panderer in Chief was, once again, refusing to enforce the laws of our nation. Instead, he signed an executive order (when you can’t get the courts or Congress to pass your hugely unpopular agenda, simply sign an executive order, effectively telling American citizens to sit down and shut the fuck up. I won.) authorizing work permits and amnesty for illegal aliens. In other words, he passed the Dream Act that Congress has already rejected 3 times.

Bowing to pressure from immigrant rights activists, the Obama administration said Thursday that it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria, such as attending school, having family in the military or having primary responsible for other family members’ care.

The move marks a major step for President Obama, who for months has said he does not have broad categorical authority to halt deportations and said he must follow the laws as Congress has written them.

But in letters to Congress on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she does have discretion to focus on “priorities” and that her department and the Justice Department will review all ongoing cases to see who meets the new criteria.

“This case-by-case approach will enhance public safety,” she said. “Immigration judges will be able to more swiftly adjudicate high-priority cases, such as those involving convicted felons.”

Complete and udder bullshit. From Nap-head and the Vacationer in Chief.

If they wanted to enhance public safety in the most efficient manner possible, they’d just mass deport their illegal asses as quickly as we catch them. There is no “due process” or courts needed. Not here legally? On the next bus back to Mexico, senor. You’re not from Mexico, you say? You’re from Honduras? Well, when we drop you off in Mexico, keep walking south till you get home, amigo.

OTHER reactions:

Daniel Horowitz at Red State: I Refuse to Obey the Law:

In yet another demonstration of contempt for the rule of law and the separation of powers, the Obama administration has announced that it will no longer enforce our immigration laws. Secretary of Homeland Insecurity Janet Napolitano proclaimed in a letter to the Senate that she will suspend deportation proceedings and grant amnesty to those who ostensibly fit the criteria of the Dream Act – a bill that was defeated with overwhelming bipartisan support of Congress. Hence, Obama is publicly declaring that he will ensure our laws are not executed faithfully.

This unprecedented abdication on the part of the president begs the question – what sort of message does this convey to our youth regarding the inviolability of the rule of law?

What other laws will this president refuse to execute faithfully? Will he direct the EPA to enforce cap and trade, or instruct the DOI to block the issuance of drilling permits? Oh, he is already doing that.

And, most importantly, if the president is above the law, then why should any of us be compelled to adhere to laws that we regard as undesirable or unfair? If Obama can refuse to enforce his core constitutional duties, why can’t we disregard his individual insurance mandate – a law that is an anathema to the constitution?

The moment of pitchforks and torches and tar and feathers gets closer and closer everyday in this country.

Joshua Pundit:

In other words, the DREAM act by presidential diktat without the consent of Congress, who have already repudiated the DREAM Act three times.

 

For those aware of Gunwalker/Fast And Furious/Operation Castaway or not, this is a running link of the reports on those operations.

As serious as the crimes involved in these operations are, a new report posted at Pajamas Media reveals that the State Department has been involved in a grosser criminal transfer of weapons to the most dangerous Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas.

From PJM, Worse Than Gunwalker? State Dept. Allegedly Sold Guns to Zetas.:

Phil Jordan, a former CIA operative and one-time leader of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center, claims that the Obama administration is running guns to the violent Zetas cartel through the direct commercial sale of military grade weapons:

Jordan, who served as director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center in 1995, said the Zetas have shipped large amounts of weapons purchased in the Dallas area through El Paso.

Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot, told the Times he supported Jordan’s allegations, adding that the Zetas have reportedly bought property in the Columbus, N.M., border region to stash weapons and other contraband.

“From the intel, it appears that a company was set up in Mexico to purchase weapons through the U.S. Direct Commercial Sales Program, and that the company may have had a direct link to the Zetas.”

The U.S. Direct Commercial Sales program is run from the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
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An El Paso Times article – as of now ignored by mainstream media — went into much more shocking detail:

“They’ve found anti-aircraft weapons and hand grenades from the Vietnam War era,” Plumlee said. Other weapons found include grenade launchers, assault rifles, handguns and military gear including night-vision goggles and body armor.

“The information about the arms trafficking was provided to our U.S. authorities long before the ‘Columbus 11 investigation began,” said Plumlee, referring to recent indictments accusing several Columbus city officials of arms trafficking in conjunction with alleged accomplices in El Paso and Chaparral, N.M.

If you haven’t already, read the entire report and tell every one you know. Old Foggy Bottom, and its current head Hillary Clinton, have some serious explaining to do.

To further corroborate this story, you may remember a video confession by a captured Zeta member a few weeks ago stating that they were getting weapons directly from the U.S. Government. Here is a link to the video complete with an English transcript.

So, we have an ongoing investigation of the ATF and the Eric Holder JustUs Department concerning Gunwalker/Fast and Furious, now this.

The criminality of this administration is without peer and if it wasn’t already time before, it is certainly time now for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the administrations illegal arming of dangerous criminal organizations.

 
Border wars

The US/Mexico Border: More Dangerous than Afghanistan and Iraq (combined)

….despite Janet Napoliatano declaring that our southern border with the failed narco-state of Mexico is “open for business.”

Of course she made that claim from 1725-miles away in Washington D.C. where the safety of distance (and the Capitol Police) make such asinine statements much easier to make. Perhaps Janet Nap would like to defy the DPS warning and spend her holiday weekend in Nuevo Laredo….or hell, we’ll make it easier (but only marginally safer) for her…she can spend her holiday across the border in Laredo, TX. Without her security detail. Just her, wandering the streets of our totally safe border towns.

Ok…she can bring Obama with her, too. But no Secret Service. I mean, if the border towns are safe enough for US. Citizens to be unconcerned about, surely they’re safe enough for Naphead and BHO, right?

Though the alert does beg the question: Why would you go to Mexico to celebrate America’s Independence Day anyway?

LAREDO, Texas — Texas authorities are urging U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to a Mexican border town this July Fourth weekend saying tourists may become drug-cartel crime victims.

The Texas Department of Public Safety and Webb County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday issued a travel advisory that says the Zetas drug cartel plans to target Americans who visit Nuevo Laredo and its surrounding Mexican suburbs this holiday weekend.

DPS Director Steven C. McCraw says according to information they’ve received, the crime spree may include robberies, extortions and car-jackings aimed at U.S. citizens.

Although officials say there is no indication the cartel-related activities will occur in Texas, the DPS and local authorities insist they’re prepared should anything cross into the state.

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