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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/104572

Shoving at protest starts with chant of 'Mexico'

Jill Redhage, Tribune
A pregnant woman assaulted the president of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens at an immigration protest near a Phoenix furniture store on Saturday, police said.

The tiff began as Kristina Yeo, 20, stood near Thomas Road and 38th Street and chanted “Mexico! Mexico!”

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Michelle Dallacroce, 41, of Phoenix, stood across the street with a bullhorn in her hand. She said she began chanting back: “America! America!” from across Thomas Road near Wal-Mart.

This riled Yeo, who crossed the road and began yelling “Mexico!” in her face, Dellacroce said. Police said the young woman yanked on Dallacroce’s microphone cord, then pushed her in the chest, despite warnings by police to back off.

Yeo was taken into custody, cited for misdemeanor assault and released, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said.

“She was really out of control,” Dallacroce said.

She said the assault was a big deal because of her role as the national spokewoman, president and founder of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens. The group’s focus is to "protect the city" from illegal aliens who hurt people, Dallacroce said. The organization’s Web site accuses national Hispanic organizations of attempting to “reconquer the Southwest.”

Immigration activists have gathered on Saturdays for the past eight weeks near Pruitt’s furniture store at 34 Street and Thomas Road to challenge Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s enforcement of immigration laws and Pruitt’s decision to hire off-duty deputies to keep day-laborers from gathering on the property.

Yeo’s arrest is just one in a series of arrests at the weekly protests. Sheriff’s deputies arrested the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona in early November for reasons that were not disclosed. Deputies said they arrested 11 people in the area last Saturday on suspicion of being in the country illegally after stopping them for traffic violations.

Arpaio said that brought the count of people arrested to 55 since the protests began.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon sent letters to the owner of Pruitt’s and to a local day labor organizer on Monday requesting they come to his office and negotiate a truce. It remains unclear whether the store owner, Roger Sensing, and the organizer, Salvador Reza, will consent to a meeting.

CHICAGO, Sept. 3 — An apartment fire on the city’s North Side early Sunday killed six siblings, ages 3 to 14.

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A top-floor apartment fire on the North Side of Chicago killed six siblings, ages 3 to 14. The children’s mother and three other siblings were injured. The fire was probably caused by a candle used for light because there was no electricity, the authorities said.
The fire was probably caused by a candle used for light because there was no electricity, the authorities said.

The children’s mother and three other siblings were injured.

“This is the largest multiple fire fatality we’ve had from a single fire in quite a few years,” Fire Commissioner Raymond Orozco said. “I mean, it’s children. It’s difficult for everyone involved.”

The apartment, in the Rogers Park neighborhood, had no smoke detectors, Commissioner Orozco said.

The apartment had not had electricity since May, said John Dewey, a spokesman for Commonwealth Edison. Mr. Dewey declined to say why it had been turned off, citing confidentiality reasons.

The victims were identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Vanessa Ramirez, 14; Eric Ramirez, 12; Suzette Ramirez, 10; Idaly Ramirez, 6; Kevin Ramirez, 3; and Escarlet Ramos, 3.

The fire broke out about 12:20 a.m. on the third floor of a large apartment building, a Fire Department spokesman said.

“The mother came running out with one child in her arms, screaming to the neighbors that there were other children inside,” Cmdr. Will Knight of the Fire Department said. “They asked her how many, and she said eight.”

Al Tillman, 32, who was visiting a friend in the area, said he had run up to the third floor and crawled into the smoke-filled apartment, where he managed to grab a child’s arm. Mr. Tillman dragged the boy outside and handed him to paramedics.

“I’m shaken up because the other children didn’t make it,” he said. “I only heard one child. I wish I could have saved the others.”

Two children appeared at the apartment’s window. “The kids were screaming and screaming: ‘Help! Help! We’re burning, we’re burning,’ ” said Derrell Dixon, a neighbor. Nine people held a blanket underneath the window, telling the children to jump, but they balked.

When firefighters arrived, they used a ladder to rescue one child, Mr. Dixon said.

Other firefighters went up the stairwell and found the children who died huddled in the front room of the apartment, not far from where the fire is believed to have started, the Fire Department said.

The mother and one child were in stable condition at Thorek Memorial Hospital, said Rosario Fordley, a nursing supervisor. The two other children were at other hospitals, and their conditions were not immediately released.

“The community is in shock,” Jasmin Lamb, 16, said as she placed pink and white carnations on the sidewalk near the apartment. “They were a nice, warm family.”

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BREEDMARE AWARDED 6MILLION AFTER STARTING FIRE THAT KILLED HER ANCHORS:

Family reaches $6 mil. settlement in Rogers Park fire

November 13, 2007


BY SHAMUS TOOMEY Staff Reporter

The families of six children killed in a Rogers Park fire touched off by a candle last year reached a $6 million settlement with the owners and managers of the apartment building, attorneys announced this morning.

A smoke detector had been removed from the third-floor apartment at 7706. N. Marshfield and one in the hallway never sounded, said John Perconti, attorney for the families.


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Balloons, cards, stuffed animals and various other objects are placed in front of the Ramirez family home in Rogers Park after the fire in 2006.
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”This money cannot replace my brothers, it can only provide material things,” said Yadira Ramirez, 19, an older sister of five of the children killed in the fire.

A sixth child being baby-sat for at the apartment on Sept. 3, 2006, also died in the fire.

Ramirez choked back tears during a news conference this morning while her godmother stood behind her.

The owners and managers liable for the settlement are Marshway Limited Partnership, Marshway L.L.C. and CIG Management L.L.C.

The Ramirez family, who came to Chicago from Mexico for a better life, had no power in their apartment. They were struggling financially, and ComEd had shut off their electricity the May before the tragedy.

The family used candles to light the apartment, and one touched off the blaze, officials ruled.

Lawyers for the families did not sue ComEd. They determined the company took the necessary legal steps before shutting off power to the unit.

The Ramirez children killed were Vanessa, 14; Erick, 12; Idaly, 6; Sucette, 10; and Kevin, 3. Also killed was Scarlet Ramos, 3, a family friend.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/647726,111307ramirez.article


*While I sympathize with the death of their children, it was their own fault for being here illegally and living by candle light. Now they can afford to self deport back to Mexico and live comfortably.
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I didn't see the word illegal in either article - only an Hispanic last name and the fact they came from Mexico. Assumptions can be dangerous.

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The Ramirez family, who came to Chicago from Mexico for a better life, had no power in their apartment. They were struggling financially, and ComEd had shut off their electricity the May before the tragedy.

The family used candles to light the apartment, and one touched off the blaze, officials ruled.

Lawyers for the families did not sue ComEd. They determined the company took the necessary legal steps before shutting off power to the unit.

Oh puleeeze, its not rocket science. Chicago newspapers never give status. It's an illegal alien sanctuary, you know harborer, aider and abetter currently being SUED BY HOMELAND SECURITY. The case was closed with record speed because the building is owned by a good friend and contributor of a Chicago scum ****ing politician.

You know d-amn-ed well it was an illegal alien. 10 kids and living by candelight for SIX MONTHS, in a couple of rooms, couldn't speak English and runs off and leaves NINE of her meal tickets to die in the fire, but saved one to keep the welfare payments coming in.

Here's hoping she gets her uterus removed and spends money on tickets back to Messyhole for the remainder of her brood. She can live next door to Calderon.

From our friends at AmericanPatrol.com


http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/news/bai...MNTBAILEY_S1.article

What to do about illegal immigrants

December 16, 2007
A few thoughts about illegal immigration -- some original, some not.

First, the debate is not about immigrants or immigration. It is about illegal immigrants and illegal immigration. The distinction is important.

It is the policy of The Courier News to use the term "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant." News outlets are under extreme pressure from activist groups to use terms such as "undocumented worker." That would be like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist." It is intentionally misleading. So is calling everyone -- legal or illegal -- an "immigrant."

Almost everyone in America today is descended from immigrants. Legal immigrants followed procedures, filed the proper paperwork and adhered to the laws in order to arrive in this country. Illegal immigrants did not. Calling everyone an "immigrant" diminishes the debate to xenophobia. Manipulation of language to change the perception is crucial in diminishing the issue to one of inconsequential differences or elevating it to racism, depending on the tactic.

Secondly, it can never be racism to enforce existing laws. Refusing to enforce certain laws because of the color of one's skin or ethnicity would be racism. Not extending equal treatment under the law would be racism. Claiming rights for yourself that you deny to people of color would be racism.

Enforcing existing laws is not racism. Seeking to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into this country is not in and of itself racist. American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.

Thirdly, the solution to this is very clear, depending on what side you are on. But in truth, it is anything but clear. To some, it is heartless to relentlessly persecute people who came here to work and live.

Hard-liners want the government to round up and deport every single illegal immigrant in this country. This would be done by the same government that couldn't get 100,000 people out of New Orleans -- and they wanted to go.

But open borders and a welfare state are incompatible. In fact, our whole approach to this is incompatible with common sense. We go after the illegals, but not the employers who hire them. We build a fence to stop unlawful border crossings while states discuss giving illegals driver's licenses and in-state tuition for college.

In fact, we have had a national policy of looking the other way for Mexican immigrants but using the Coast Guard to turn away a boatload of wretched, impoverished Haitians at gunpoint.

To stop illegal immigration, all the government needs to do is secure the borders, make it a felony to hire anyone without proper documentation and deny housing, education and public aid to anyone who cannot prove citizenship or legal residency. All the benefits of being here illegally will vanish.

That is what other countries, including Mexico, do. But we, apparently, are not as progressive as they are.

Links to several Videos.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5359

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvD6CHVNDSM&eurl=http://...watchdog.com/?p=5279

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5311

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2007
Woman Married To 10 Invaders At The Same Time
Posted by: The Watchdog in Uncategorized


My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
And their like
It’s better than yours,
**** right it’s better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge

Local10

MIAMI — A 26-year-old Miami woman was married to 10 men at the same time, prosecutors allege, in a marriage-for-pay scheme to enable the men to remain in the United States.

Eunice Lopez was charged with nine counts of bigamy Wednesday.

The charges say she married the men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them. In one case, she married two men in the same month.

She was held at the Women’s Detention Center on $75,000 bond, but posted bond Friday morning, according to the state attorney’s office.

# On Aug. 11, 2003, while still married to Matos, Lopez married Jose L. Ramos. A Certificate of Marriage was filed with the clerk of the court on Aug. 19, 2003.
# On March 5, 2005, while still married to Matos and Ramos, Lopez married Antonio Roberto Cordeiro. A certificate of marriage was filed with the clerk of the court on March 15, 2005.
# On Nov. 5, 2005, Lopez married Humberto Navarro Suarez. A certificate of marriage was filed on Nov. 8, 2005. Lopez was still married to Matos, Ramos and Cordeiro.
# Just 12 days after her marriage to Suarez, Lopez married Leandro Abelha on Nov. 17, 2005. The same day a marriage certificate was filed with the clerk of the court.
# On Jan. 6, 2006, Lopez married Euclides Yepes Ceballos. There were still no divorce proceedings on file for Lopez with the clerk of the court, but a marriage certificate was issued on Jan. 9, 2006.
# On May 11, 2006, Lopez married Martin Errazola Alvarez. The same day a marriage certificate was filed with the clerk of the court.
# On June 2, 2006, Marco Antonio Serrano and Lopez were married. Again, on the same day, a certificate of marriage was filed with the clerk of the court.
# On July 24, 2006, Diego M. Hernandez-Figueroa and Lopez were married and the same day a certificate of marriage was filed with the clerk of the court.
#On Nov. 21, 2006, Lopez married Fernando Jose Urroz Leguisamo. A certificate of marriage was filed with the clerk of the court the same day.

The investigation is continuing.

Illegal Rape Suspect At Large After He ‘Dove’ From Second-Floor Window
Posted by: The Watchdog in *** Crimes, Law enforcement
New York State has the second highest number of illegal aliens in the nation; one in 10 illegal aliens caught crossing the border has a prior criminal history in the U.S.; and 30 percent of those incarcerated in state and federal prisons are illegal aliens.

Poughkeepsie Journal

Victims of two rapes in Pawling have not identified a suspected rapist being pursued by police, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant who is at large after diving from a second-floor window while an officer waited for him to use the bathroom, Dutchess County Sheriff Butch Anderson said Saturday.

More than 150 people crowded into Pawling town hall to hear Saturday a forum on the rape investigation. The forum was hosted by state Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Carmel. Ball focused on illegal immigration, while Anderson and representatives of the state police updated the crowd on the rape investigation.

A sense of alarm was palpable from a majority of those who spoke during the two-hour meeting.

The first hour or so of the forum focused on the criminal investigation, but never fully abandoned the issue of illegal immigration.

The second hour, for the most part, focused on illegal immigration, with the crowd largely voicing their support for cracking down on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.

The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office and the state police Saturday continued to search for Flaviano Quintero, also known as Hector Hernandez or Hector Quintero, who is wanted for questioning in connection with two separate incidents of home invasion and rape that occurred Nov. 28 and Dec. 6 in the village.

According to police, Quintero was deported in 2006.

Police believed Quintero fled Dutchess County via Metro-North’s Harlem Valley railroad line out of Brewster, Putnam County. It was believed he got off the train at Grand Central Station in New York City at 10:35 p.m.Dec. 11, police said.

Anderson said Saturday Quintero is believed to be in New York City and the state police and sheriff’s department are working with the New York City Police Department.

“We’re hoping to find him,” Anderson said. “We don’t know when. It’s like a needle in a haystack with New York City.”

State police responded to the first alleged rape Nov. 28. The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Department responded to the second alleged rape Dec. 6.

Anderson said at the forum that his department picked up Quintero Dec. 12 and brought him back to his home in Pawling, where he has family. Quintero was not under arrest at the time, nor was he in custody. Anderson described him as a “person of interest” at that point.

Asked why the Sheriff’s Department picked up Quintero initially, state police Senior Investigator Donald Bailey declined comment.

While being questioned inside his home, Quintero told investigators he had to use the bathroom. An investigator went with him, but Quintero “dove out of a second story window,” according to Anderson. A law enforcement team of 40, including translators, was dispatched to catch Quintero, but he remains at large.

At the outset of the meeting, Ball said, “There is a large illegal alien population” and “we’re seeing an increase in criminal activity.” He added, however, “This isn’t about placing blame.”

During the second part of the forum, Ball said New York State has the second highest number of illegal aliens in the nation; one in 10 illegal aliens caught crossing the border has a prior criminal history in the U.S.; and 30 percent of those incarcerated in state and federal prisons are illegal aliens.

Ball equated illegal aliens to “robbers” and compared legal immigrants to “house guests.”

Ed Kowalski of the Town of Pawling, whose niece was murdered by an illegal alien, spoke of the need to empower local law enforcement officials with the ability to act on immigration crimes under the authority of federal law.

“Who could possibly be against that,” Kowalski said.

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2007
6 Million Applications: Immigration Agents Investigated Only 139 Suspected Fraud Cases In 2006
Posted by: The Watchdog in Visas, Homeland Security
Obviously we need to cut way back on the number of applications. We should not allow more than 80,000 new resident aliens into the country each year.

Washington Post

U.S. immigration agents investigated only 139 suspected fraud cases referred by the main anti-fraud unit of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services last year, or less than 1 percent of 1 percent of about 6 million applications for citizenship, green cards and other benefits, federal investigators reported yesterday.

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, Richard L. Skinner, blamed a DHS policy set in February 2006 requiring that 100 percent of suspect applications be investigated, saying it overwhelmed claims officers and immigration investigators with work, rendering the policy all but useless.

USCIS’s 315-member Fraud Detection and National Security office was created in May 2004 with the goal of tracking all applications with any sign of fraud. But in practice, not all 3,500 USCIS claim adjudicators turn in such forms, because doing so counts against their productivity.

FDNS referred less than 1 percent of applications to ICE for investigation in fiscal 2006, about 2,425 cases. ICE investigated less than 1 percent of them, or 139 cases, the inspector general reported. By comparison, in 2004 ICE conducted 53,376 investigations — of which 5,351 were benefit fraud-related — leading to 533 convictions.

Fiscal emergency for California
SCHWARZENEGGER TO TRIGGER PROCESS TO PRUNE EXPENDITURES

By Steve Geissinger
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
Article Launched: 12/15/2007 01:32:12 AM PST

"SACRAMENTO - Facing a projected $14 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said he will declare a fiscal emergency, which will allow the governor and lawmakers to cut spending more quickly and also sets the stage for slashing state services and programs - perhaps by as much as 10 percent.

Legislative leaders said they will meet with Schwarzenegger next week to begin working on what the governor described as "across-the-board" cuts. His aides said departments have been told to prepare for a range of possible cuts, with 10 percent a central figure.

"We are going to call this January for a fiscal emergency when the legislators come back," Schwarzenegger said. "We will make that announcement next week sometime with the legislative leaders."

California's fiscal crisis, which is beginning to approach levels that contributed to the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis, is due primarily to a collapsed housing market and related woes in the subprime mortgage industry.

It doesn't help that while revenues are especially volatile - disproportionately reliant on income taxes - the state has a number of fixed costs as well as guaranteed funding adopted by voters, most notably for public education.

Much of California's general fund budget, which totals $102 billion for the 2007-08 fiscal year that began July 1, is designated for education, transportation and other uses. Therefore, cuts often fall disproportionately on social services and the poor, elderly and disabled residents who rely on them.

Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, indicated in a statement that dealing with a fiscal emergency will not be easy.

"We look forward to seeing the specific proposals the governor is constitutionally required to put forward in declaring a fiscal emergency,"

Núñez said. "We are committed to working with him to address the ongoing imbalance between the services Californians require and the resources to fund them, and not drawing any lines in the sand."

Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for state Senate leader Don Perata, D-Oakland, said, "We will take it seriously and respond."

Democrats, who dominate the Legislature, have little choice but to cooperate with the Republican governor because of a voter-approved 2004 initiative that permits the governor to declare an emergency when revenues are substantially below what was anticipated upon signing of the budget. It also allows reductions midway through a fiscal year.

The proposition also requires the Legislature to pass and send to the governor legislation to address the fiscal emergency within 45 days. If not, the Legislature is prohibited from acting on any other bills or adjourning in joint recess until such legislation is passed.

This is the first time Schwarzenegger has exercised the authority.

Since the governor signed the current budget in August, the economy has weakened, due largely to a slump in the housing market.

Legislators, who are already scheduled to return for the second year of their two-year 2007-08 session in January, will consider the fiscal emergency on a separate "special session" track, aside from regular business.

The state's gap between revenues and spending has become a perennial problem - one that Schwarzenegger vowed to solve immediately when he became governor during an unprecedented recall election in which Davis was ousted.

"This is a common thing for California, that we're going on this roller coaster ride," Schwarzenegger said Friday during a speech in Long Beach to promote his health care plan. "What we have to do is fix the budget system."

One thing the governor said lawmakers could do to help ease the budget pinch is to pass his health care plan. Schwarzenegger estimated that his plan would bring in an additional $4 billion in federal Medi-Cal funding - money he suggested would prevent otherwise inevitable cuts to social services programs."

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7730135?IADID=Search-www....s.com&nclick_check=1


Illinois another illegal alien sancturary is broke as h-ell too . . . Hmmm . . illegal alien havens are going broke gee I wonder why.

Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim
AP
Posted: 2007-12-17 10:33:15
Filed Under: World News
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Dec. 17) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the attack who was not related to her, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.

The case had sparked international outcry. In a rare criticism of its Mideast ally, the White House had expressed its "astonishment" over the woman's sentence. Canada called it barbaric.




Karim Jaafar, AFP / Getty Images
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah pardoned a 19-year-old rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the attack.


Saudi Justice Minister Abdullah bin Muhammed al-Sheik told al-Jazirah newspaper that the pardon does not mean the king doubted the country's judges, but instead acted in the "interests of the people."

"The king always looks into alleviating the suffering of the citizens when he becomes sure that these verdicts will leave psychological effects on the convicted people, though he is convinced and sure that the verdicts were fair," al-Jazirah quoted al-Sheik as saying.

The victim in the case, known only as the "Girl of Qatif" after her hometown in eastern Saudi Arabia, was in a car with a high school friend in 2006 when they were attacked and raped by seven men.

She initially was sentenced in November 2006 to several months in prison and 90 lashes for being alone in a car with a man with whom she was neither related nor married, a violation of the kingdom's strict segregation of the sexes.

The woman, who was 19 at the time of the rape, has said she met the man to retrieve a picture of herself from him because she had recently married.

The court more than doubled the sentence last month to 200 lashes and six months prison in response to her appeal.

President Bush expressed anger at the sentence earlier this month, saying he wondered how he would react if it had been one of his daughters. But he said he had not made his views known directly to the Saudi king, a U.S. ally.

The Justice Ministry has defended the sentence, saying the girl was having an illicit affair with the man.

Al-Sheik told al-Jazirah newspaper Monday that the king was the only official who could issue a pardon, and he did so despite the government's view that the Saudi legal system was "honest" and "fair."

"The king's order consolidates and confirms what is known about the Islamic courts," said al-Sheik. "Efficient judges look into different cases and issue their just verdicts and those convicted have the right to appeal."

The seven men who were convicted of raping both the girl and the man were initially sentenced to jail terms from 10 months to five years. Their sentences were increased to between two and nine years after the appeal.



Hmm... Well this is a first for both sides.... I wonder how Saudi is being compensated/promised 4this. You can bet there is some American exploitation B S behind this decision

Is this for real? Please tell me this is a joke, a bad one at that. The women was beaten because she was raped?

Does this show the absolute uncontrollability of the men of that country? Why else would there need to be those kind of segregation laws. Are they all a bunch of drooling perverts waiting to pounce at first opportunity? Sure as hell sounds like it. Oh, maybe she exposed a single strand of hair from the rag they make women wear on their heads. Yeah, that was it. That justified it. And we actually permit those animals to come here? Sounds like we need a new category for asylum. Saudi rape victims. I'd vote yes on that. I say we smuggle them out en mass. Drop Hustler, Penthouse, ******* magazines from the air. They will be so busy making the pages stick together they won't miss their cattle, I mean women, dissapearing.

House guts border fence
By Michelle Malkin • December 18, 2007 08:55 AM Update 10:20am Eastern. The fence gets robbed, but the spending bill gives $10 million in “emergency” funding for attorneys of illegal immigrants?!!?!

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Fence? What fence?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I’ve warned several times that the border fence expansion was gesture politics. (See here, here, here, and here.) We’ve watched Democrats and Republicans undermine the Secure Fence Act repeatedly since it was passed. Open-borders zealots joined with Big Business types to stall and protest construction. It ain’t a fence. It’s a FINO: Fence in Name Only. Here’s more confirmation of the fence farce via the Washington Times:

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.

House Democrats said they were just adopting the Senate version, which was backed by a bipartisan group of border-state senators and passed the Senate several times this year.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Texas Republican who has led the charge to change the 2006 law, said she wants to give Homeland Security more flexibility and wants local officials and landowners to be consulted.

“Senator Hutchison believes that Customs and Border Protection can better decide how to utilize limited resources to secure the border than a congressman from Maine,” said Matt Mackowiak, Mrs. Hutchison’s spokesman. He said double-tier fencing has worked in San Diego, but it might not be the right solution for the entire fence.

But Rep. Peter T. King, who sponsored the Secure Fence Act, said if the goal was to give DHS flexibility, the senators have failed.

“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.”
How much of the fence has been built?

Just five miles of double-layer fencing.

Here’s what I wrote in September 2006 when the Secure Fence Act was passed:

Yes, I know. The House voted to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border…

…But forgive me if I don’t break out the pom-poms over this. There’s no funding for the fence, which will take years to build if it ever does get funded. There are so many other immediate reforms that could have been adopted this year that would have strengthened immigration enforcement, closed deportation loopholes immediately, and provided true relief at the border. (And don’t even get me started on this administration’s renewed laxity at the front door, which has been thrown open to tens of thousands of new Saudi student visa holders while enforcement against millions of current visa overstayers remain virtually non-existent.)

The 700-mile fence vote is an election season gesture, and grass-roots conservatives who have watched the GOP squander away this issue for six years are not going to be appeased by mid-September 2006 gesture politics.
Meanwhile, the Border Patrol is under siege.

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Holiday visit to Mexico becomes one-way trip
Sanctions law, crackdowns spur many illegal migrants to lea