Invasion! U.S. 'sanctuary city' succumbs to illegals
1st municipality to fire all public employees after being forced into bankruptcy
A California "sanctuary city" has fallen victim to illegal immigration – going bankrupt and firing all of its public employees, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.
The city of Maywood, Calif., hit the budget wall after it decided not only to be a sanctuary city, but to be a completely "safe haven" for illegal aliens seeking protection from deportation.
"Predictably, mainstream-media newspapers, including the Financial Times in London, chose to present Maywood as a victim to the recession, rather than to tell the whole story – that Maywood fell victim to illegal immigration," Corsi wrote.
"Crushed by the recession and falling tax revenues, the city is disbanding the police force and firing all public-sector employees," Matthew Garrahan wrote in the Financial Times, never mentioning that illegal immigration was the problem.
Maywood is a small town comprising only about 1.2 square miles on the southern border of Los Angeles. More than 96 percent of its residents are Hispanic. The town's official population is listed at 29,000 but may be nearly 45,000 when illegal aliens living in Maywood are counted.
(Former) Maywood, Calif., in August 2006 (Photo: Flopping Aces blog)
In January 2006, Maywood's city council passed a resolution declaring that the city would not enforce any federal law such as H.R. 4557 that sought to declare illegal immigrants to be felons.
More aggressive even than sanctuary laws, this new resolution prohibited Maywood police from being involved in any immigration-enforcement actions undertaken by federal, state or county authorities.
On April 11, 2006, in writing the book titled "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders," Jim Gilchrist and Corsi interviewed Maywood Mayor Thomas Martin by telephone.
In the shocking interview available at Red Alert, the mayor strongly suggested the city of Maywood was willing to defy any federal law demanding that the police get directly involved in enforcing immigration laws.
For the full interview with Maywood Mayor Thomas Martin, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."
Red Alert's author, whose books "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command" have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks.
In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.
Source: WND
By BOB CHRISTIE (AP) – 2 hours ago
PHOENIX — The nation's top civil liberties group has issued travel warnings for Arizona, saying the new state law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.
American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Arizona, New Mexico and 26 other states put out the alerts Wednesday, in advance of the heavily traveled Fourth of July weekend. The Arizona chapter says it's received reports that law enforcement officers are already targeting some people even though the law doesn't take effect until July 29.
The alerts are designed to teach people about their rights if police stop and question them.
The law requires police to question someone's immigration status during legal encounters if they suspect the person is an illegal immigrant.
If there is any question of Obama’s loyalties and agenda check out: Obama gives Arizona a whopping 524 National Guard troops (when they need 5000), and Mexico to get more money from Obama than Arizona!
Video: AZ Gov. Brewer Takes on Obama and his ‘Border Fix’
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The Shadows Behind Illegal Immigration
The illegal immigration issue is all over the news these days, with most of the mainstream media only reporting on the protests and how people who have not even read the bill are claiming it is misguided, potentially causes racial profiling, and may violate civil rights. Some have even claimed they are already experiencing racial profiling because of the new law – too bad they didn’t understand the law doesn’t take affect for another 60-90 days! All the negative media attention, but one has to wonder why keeping Arizona’s border open is so important to the federal government.
The whole racial profiling and civil rights violations are the smoke and mirrors to what is really going on behind the issue. The stereotypical immigrant being portrayed as the “poor family who has come to America to work in the fields because no citizen will” is what they need everyone to believe to play upon your sympathies. While there are a great number of immigrants escaping the horrors of Mexico, these people are being used by our government and the Mexican government to further their own agenda. They cannot close the border to these people because they create the cover, the diversion, that they can play upon to gain support from the American people.
American citizens are also being used by their own government. As a passionate and charitable group of people, we do not want to see anyone suffering. We welcome people of all countries, but we expect and encourage them to assimilate into our society, learn and obey our laws and learn our language. Many recall the days of the civil rights movement and how the blacks had to fight to gain what rightfully should have been, equal rights. The government is now using that movement in their own twisted way to distort the truth about the Arizona immigration law in their attempt to gain American support to continue to ignore the problem.
Janet Napolitano was governor of the state of Arizona. She is very familiar with the problems the state faces because of the shared border with Mexico. During her tenure, she wrote a number of letters to Washington asking for assistance because the border was not secure. Her letters were ignored and the problems continued with an every increasing number of illegals crossing the border and taking up residency in the state at the expense of the taxpayers. So now as Secretary of Homeland Security you would think she would be sensitive to the problems of her former state, and in her position of authority could actually make something happen. Instead she removes the authority given to the state law enforcement by the federal government to work with federal immigration officials, leaving the state even more vulnerable than before. She made a statement in a federal hearing claiming that she knows that border better than anyone being the former governor and that “the border is as secure now as it has ever been.” While that might not be a lie as she knows the border has not been secure and is not any more secure now than in the past, the statement is very misleading as those asking the questions might assume her statements indicate the border is secure. But that is further from the truth. So why would the Department of Homeland Security, knowing the border is not secure, continue to claim the border is secure and not take any action to secure the border?
The Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, Jim Morton, has indicated he will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona. Being in this country illegally is a federal violation, regardless of how they are turned over to ICE. Arizona and ICE had been working together in the past, but since the regime has changed they no longer want to work with the state to process these law breakers. Why would ICE blatantly refuse to enforce federal immigration laws and would knowingly and willfully release known criminals?
All the southern Border States have had immigration issues. Of the almost 2,000 miles of shared border, Texas has approximately 1,241 miles and Arizona comes in 2nd with 373 miles. Some of this border has been secured with fencing, including California, which has a fence with razor wire at the top. But Arizona is still waiting and has been told razor wire isn’t allowed because someone might get hurt when trying to climb over the fence. Huh? Do you think this might be a deterrent so they don’t jump the fence? The promised 700 miles of fencing was defunded last year by the Obama administration. A couple of weeks ago Senator Jim DeMint proposed an amendment to the finance bill to include funding of the promised 700 miles of fencing. It was defeated in the Senate. Why won’t the federal government finish the fencing along the southern border as promised?
Senators Kyl and McCain have requested 6,000 additional border patrol agents to be deployed to the southern border, 3,000 would go directly to support Arizona’s border. There has been no response to this request and the border remains open.
The President of Mexico visits the United States and condemns Arizona’s immigration law. He apparently doesn’t understand this is also the U.S. Federal law. While he would never allow such border violations from his southern neighbors, nor his northern neighbors, we are somehow being inhumane in the attempt to enforce our own immigration laws while theirs are even more strict. President Calderon insists the U.S. ban on assault weapons be reinstated because his country is facing violence and he attributes this to the assault weapons being smuggled into his country from the United States. Do you think securing the border would help solve both our problems? Why would President Felipe Calderon then want to keep the border open?
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has written to Washington, explaining the ever-mounting problems the state faces because of illegal immigration and her correspondence is being totally ignored by Washington. This administration can do nothing but criticize Arizona for the passage of the new immigration law, yet they refuse to step up to the challenge and cooperate with the state to secure the border. Why?
Based on the actions and lack of action by the federal government, it makes a strong statement that the federal government DOES NOT WANT THE SOUTHERN BORDER SECURE. Further, for some reason the Arizona-Mexico border seems to be the gateway to whatever is happening in the shadows of the illegal immigration issue.
An open border allows anyone and anything to be brought into the country. It not only allows those poor, unfortunate Mexican families into the country, but a whole lot of other, potentially dangerous people and criminals as well. Drugs and weapons can be smuggled through these lawless borders. In the past this has raised concern over the security of our country and threats by terrorists.
A 2005 Congressional Research Service report for Congress warned, “The number of people entering the country illegally between POE, and the concomitant proliferation of human and drug smuggling networks, can present risks to national security due to the ever-present threat of terrorism. Terrorists and terrorist organizations could leverage these illicit networks to smuggle a person or weapon of mass destruction into the United States, while the large number of aliens attempting to enter the country illegally could potentially provide cover for the terrorists. Additionally, the proceeds from these smuggling networks could potentially be used to finance terrorism.”
The report also states, “The number of OTM (Other Than Mexican) apprehensions remained relatively stable from 1998 to 2002, averaging almost 37,000 a year over the six-year time period. Apprehensions increased by 33% from FY2002 to FY2003, and 52% from FY2003 to FY2004. Roughly three-quarters of the way into FY2005, OTM apprehensions have increased by 58% from FY2004. Indeed, over the last three years OTM apprehensions have more than tripled, increasing by almost 220%. This trend is in stark contrast to apprehensions of Mexican aliens, which have remained relatively stable over the same period.“
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies, from the Office of Immigration Statistics, federal law enforcement agencies detained 791,568 deportable aliens in fiscal year 2008 – and 5,506 of them were from 14 “special-interest countries.” The State Department lists the following as “special-interest countries”: Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. The following “special-interest countries” are listed as sponsors of terror: Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Iran.
How many anti-Americans have crossed the border and are living in the United States? How many Mexicans who believe the southern states of the U.S. rightfully belong to Mexico have joined the ranks of the illegals? If some group wanted to wage a revolution against the United States, could they do it from within our own borders? That is a thought that has been haunting me for over 10 years.
But the border is porous in the other direction as well. What might be leaving the country? Who might we be arming in a war against the United States, both militarily as well as financially? While there are no studies to suggest or confirm what might be leaving the country, President Calderon has claimed that 80% of the assault weapons in Mexico have come from the United States. We can only speculate on what else might be leaving the country, later to be used against us.
Arizona’s border seems to be the focal point and of international interest. Why would the President apologize to China for Arizona’s immigration law? Is China directly affected by this law? Why is the Mexican President so offended by the Arizona immigration law, which is mild compared to the Mexican immigration laws? Why is the United Nations condemning Arizona’s law, but has not made the same statements against the US Federal immigration law? Why is the US Federal government failing to respond to the outcry from Arizona demanding they fulfill their responsibilities to the citizens and secure the border?
Is there a shadow organization participating in illegal activities moving freely through the Arizona-Mexican border? Who’s behind those shadows?
By American Grams – may 24th, 2010 – Back to Basics
Napolitano: 'You're Never Going to Totally Seal That Border'
No doubt true if that is their plan!! Funny how other countries manage to secure their borders?~?
Video: 6/29 Congressman Stark Reveals His Arrogance
UPDATE: Fight the Billionaires
Open Borders Groups Raising Big Bucks to Force Illegal Alien Amnesty on America!
Pres. Obama reignited the Amnesty debate this week after two White House meetings that will be followed up with a Pro-Amnesty speech at American University tomorrow.
On Monday, Obama met with his pro-Amnesty Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, and pro-Amnesty lobbyists Ali Noorani (National Immigration Forum), Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO), Janet Murguia (La Raza), Eliseo Medina (SEIU), Juan Rodriguez (Florida Trail of Dreams), and Karen Narasaki (American Justice Center). On Tuesday, the President met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Obama obviously met with nobody from our side of the issue!
Pres. Obama's speech tomorrow will call for an Amnesty for the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens. The new White House strategy is to place blame on Republicans who are demanding increased border security before considering an Amnesty.
| WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Pres. Obama reignited the Amnesty debate this week after two White House meetings that will be followed up with a Pro-Amnesty speech at American University tomorrow. On Monday, Obama met with his pro-Amnesty Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, and pro-Amnesty lobbyists Ali Noorani (National Immigration Forum), Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO), Janet Murguia (La Raza), Eliseo Medina (SEIU), Juan Rodriguez (Florida Trail of Dreams), and Karen Narasaki (American Justice Center). On Tuesday, the President met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Obama obviously met with nobody from our side of the issue! Pres. Obama's speech tomorrow will call for an Amnesty for the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens. The new White House strategy is to place blame on Republicans who are demanding increased border security before considering an Amnesty. Open Borders Groups Raising Big Bucks to Force Illegal Alien Amnesty on America!We Need Funds from 1% of our Members to Fight Back Can You Help Us Today Beat the Billionaires Today?
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