Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams
American Patriot & Politician
1722 - 1803

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
—Samuel Adams

Thank you Elvira

I truly love how a woman who is a proven felon via stealing others Id's (Felony) and breaking back into our country after being deported (Felony) thinks her premeditated crimes will change our laws. I guess a couple of felonies under your belt is a good way to make law abiding citizens listen to you in Mexico, but I do not think that will fly far here in the United States of America. I am sure I am missing a few other crimes committed by this woman.

Now, I truly have to ask you, who the hell would leave their child behind? This lady doesn't care as much for her kid as she says. She reminds me of the "Right to Life" protesters that would shove their kids in front of cars going into an Abortion Clinic. When your politics cause you to forsake your own child's safety and well being, you have become a nutter!

Here is what I am talking about. Whats next? Is she going to strap her kid to the front of a van and ram the border wall and blame us for his injuries?

Son of Deported Immigration Activist Urges Congress to Bring Mom Back to America

CHICAGO — American-born 8-year-old Saul Arellano, who took refuge in a Chicago church with his mother to avoid her deportation, lobbied Congress Wednesday to help bring her back to the United States.

Elvira Arellano, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was deported last month when she left the church where she lived with her son for a year to avoid a deportation order.

Saul Arellano led about 150 pro-immigration activists and children through the halls of Congress carrying a sign "Born in the U.S.A. Don't take our moms and dads away." Capitol Hill Police arrested two activists for disorderly conduct.

Elvira Arellano emerged as a leading voice — albeit a controversial one — in the fight for the legalization of Mexicans seeking U.S. citizenship. Arellano took this position as she intentionally evaded capture from federal agents who first deported her in 1997, then arrested her in Chicago five years ago for stealing a Social Security number to get a job.

"Elvira has really been a terrible poster child for this cause; she broke into this country twice. she stole American jobs. She stole identities," said Rosanna Pulido, spokeswoman for the American Hispanics Against Illegal Immigration.

Despite Elvira Arellano's deportation last month when she left the church to attend an immigration rally in Los Angeles, her cause continues to be championed by her son, who remains in the United States with his godmother.

"We need to stop this madness. This hate ... We all want to be here. We all want our families to stay together. And there is really no reason why this can't happen," said Emma Lozano, Saul Arellano's godmother.

Anti-illegal immigration activists say the boy is being exploited for a wrong-headed cause: the legalization of some 12 million illegal immigrants.

"He's being sacrificed. What are the ramifications of using him as a human shield?" Pulido asked.

When supporters of Saul Arellano led the boy to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional office to deliver a letter, he was clearly overcome by the noise and crush of people and cameras.

Elvira Arellano has insisted her son wants to take part in the immigration battle, that no one is taking advantage of him.

Elvira Arellano spoke to FOX News by phone in Mexico, responding to Latinos who say she has set back the immigration movement after breaking the law twice.

"It's only people who are ignorant who ignore the situation. I didn't have the opportunity to come legally. If I had the opportunity to come legally, I would have accepted it," she said.

Anti-immigration activists say, ironically, Elvira Arellano has helped "their" cause, by drawing attention to how some immigrants break laws to stay in the United States.

Meanwhile, Elvira says her son will move to Mexico and start schools next month. Together, she vows they'll continue their immigration crusade, but from the other side of the border.

FOX News' Jeff Goldblatt contributed to this report.

Another reason I say NO to Rudy G.

Giuliani: Illegal Immigration Not Criminal Comments Draw Fire From Romney

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said illegal immigration is not a crime, prompting rival Mitt Romney to accuse him of not taking the problem seriously.

The two have clashed for weeks over illegal immigration, an issue that inflames GOP conservatives who influence primary elections. The irony is that both candidates have in the past taken more liberal stands on the issue.

"It's not a crime," Giuliani said Friday. "I know that's very hard for people to understand, but it's not a federal crime."

Giuliani's comments came in an interview with CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck.

"I was U.S. attorney in the Southern district of New York," he said. "So believe me, I know this. In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it's not a criminal proceeding. It's a civil proceeding."

Illegal immigration shouldn't be a crime, either, Giuliani said: "No, it shouldn't be because the government wouldn't't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million."

He added: "My solution is close the border to illegal immigration."

The former New York mayor has been defending his city's so-called sanctuary policy, which stopped city workers from reporting suspected illegal immigrants. The policy is intended to make illegal immigrants feel that they can report crimes, send their children to school or seek medical treatment without fear of being reported. It did require police to turn in illegal immigrants suspected of committing crimes.

A Romney spokesman said the comments show Giuliani doesn't take the problem seriously.
"His advocacy for sanctuary city policies and his troubling lack of interest in making enforcement of our nation's immigration laws a priority puts him at odds with those who want to secure our borders and end illegal immigration," said Romney spokesman Matt Rhoades.

Giuliani's campaign accused Romney of showing a lack of interest in enforcement as well, pointing out that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney did not try to punish sanctuary cities in his own state.

Giuliani spokeswoman Katie Levinson said: "Mitt Romney's position of the hour probably shouldn't be taken seriously considering he rewarded four Massachusetts sanctuary cities with hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid and allowed the illegal population to skyrocket.

"We'll wait a minute and see if he changes his mind again," she said, alluding to criticism that Romney has changed his position on several issues.

If he is right, we need to change our laws. I find it interesting that he came out tough on this issue earlier, but flipped over to this now. Rudy is not a Republican, he is a Democrat, and a bad one at that.

Lessons from Arizona

Economy Forcing Illegal Immigrants To Leave
By KTAR.com

PHOENIX -- Illegal immigrants are leaving the state, but not for the reasons people might think.

A Valley research economist says it's not because of the tougher laws targeting illegal immigrants; it's because of a cooling economy.

"Jobs slowed down. Job growth slowed. And it's just natural. They come for jobs and when there are no jobs they leave," said Dawn McLaren with Arizona State University's WP Carey School of Business.

She said businesses are between a rock and a hard place with the tough new law on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

Some businesses may decide not to locate in Arizona, while some that are already here may choose to bail out because of the legal headaches.

"Once they consider the expense of that they may weigh the cost of leaving with the cost of that prospective litigation," said McLaren.

Arizona's employer sanctions law takes effect Jan. 1.

Amazing what happens when a state passes laws which punish those who hire Illegal Immigrants. Perhaps Colorado and other states need to do more. If there is nothing here to attract Illegals, they will leave and go home. No need to deport them if we take away the things they come for!

What rules Mexico? Guns or Law?

Mexican Officers Arrested At Phoenix Gun Show

PHOENIX -- Three high-ranking Mexican police officers were arrested over the weekend after for after they reportedly bought weapons at a gun show in Phoenix in violation of a law barring non-citizens from purchasing firearms, a federal official said Wednesday.

The three include the director of the Baja California state police and a commander of the federal police in Baja California, said Tom Mangan, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.

The three had crossed the border at Calexico, Calif., in an official police vehicle and driven to Phoenix. They were arrested by Phoenix police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after buying three handguns and about 450 rounds of ammunition Saturday at the gun show, Mangan said.

He said it appeared the officers were buying the handguns for their personal use.

Phoenix police booked Carlos Alberto Flores, 36, the Baja California state police director, on state weapons misconduct and conspiracy charges, according to a Phoenix police report. State police Commander Guillermo Valle Medina, 33, was booked on the same felony charges, as was Jose Santos Cortes Gonzalez, 41, a commander in the federal police, the Mexican equivalent of the FBI.

Flores and Cortes posted $2,000 bond each and were released from jail, and Valle was released on his own recognizance, Mangan said.

A woman who answered the telephone in Flores' office in La Paz said he was still in charge but not in the office or available for comment. A spokeswoman for the state Office of Public Safety that oversees the police, Alejandra Borquez, said she was unaware of the incident.

Phoenix police, Mesa police and ICE agents running an enforcement program at the gun show overheard Gonzalez negotiating with a dealer for two guns, then watched as he bought them, according to the police report.

Officers followed Gonzalez and Flores back to their Chevrolet Suburban, which was armored and equipped with bulletproof windows. They went back inside, met up with Valle, and continued buying ammunition and gun supplies before leaving, according to the report.

Police stopped their vehicle after they left the gun show, searched it and found the three handguns and the ammunition, the police report said.

Mangan said Mexican officials have been pressuring U.S. officials to cut off the supply of weapons going south.

"It is ironic we are receiving a great deal of criticism regarding our efforts to stem the tide of illegal weapons, and then we have three law enforcement officers trying to buy weapons here," Mangan said.

Mangan said gun shows in Arizona can have a mix of federally licensed dealers and private citizens selling weapons. Licensed dealers must run check identification documents and run background checks, but private sellers operate without those rules.

The guns were bought from a private seller, he said.

What do you think he means?

Mexican president's blatant hypocrisy

NEW YORK (CNN) -- 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."

Calderon protested the U.S. government's increased raids on illegal employers of illegal alien employees and work site enforcement. In what is little more than a faint nod to the Bush administration's responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration law, the Department of Homeland Security had planned to send out notices to employers from the Social Security Administration informing them of non-matching records between an employee's name and Social Security number. These employers would then be forced to resolve any discrepancy within 90 days or be required to dismiss the employee or face up to $10,000 in fines for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

But then, ethnocentric advocacy groups and some labor unions, trying to bolster their membership, sued to stop the crackdown on hiring illegal alien workers. A federal judge in California last week issued a temporary restraining order blocking the plan, giving a victory to the AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center, all of which brought the suit alleging DHS exceeded its authority in making the rule.

That U.S. District Court judge ruled as if she were an employee of the Mexican government, rather than the U.S. government. Homeland Security was simply enforcing existing immigration laws. Are we not a nation that follows the rule of law? If not, we're no country at all.

Calderon must have been delighted by the judge's decision. Calderon, like his predecessors, Carlos Salinas and Vicente Fox, has failed miserably to establish policies that would create jobs for the Mexican people and to eliminate shameful, unchecked corruption and incompetence in the Mexican government.

Even by Mexico's standards, Calderon's blatant hypocrisy is breathtaking. Calderon told the Washington Post more than a year ago that he believes laws are not a relative concept, nor subject to a personal concept of justice. Calderon declared a big difference between himself and his rival for the Mexican presidency, Manuel Lopez Obrador, was this: "I believe in the rule of law." Obviously he does not believe in the rule of U.S. law on U.S. soil.

Calderon can't have it both ways. He cannot fail his citizens at home and then act as the Great Imperialist Protector of his citizens who are driven by poverty and corruption to enter the United States illegally. The United States provides Mexico with an annual surplus of $65 billion in trade, an estimated $25 billion in remittances from Mexican citizens living and working here illegally, and at least another $25 billion generated by the illegal drug trade across our southern border.

But it is President Bush and this Congress who should be most embarrassed, because they are failing to assert rights for Americans in their own country, rights far short of those demanded by Calderon for his citizens living illegally in our nation.

This was taken from CNN Lou Dobbs

What I loved about North Dakota

Way to go Dorgan!

Senate Votes to Ban Mexican Trucks

By SUZANNE GAMBOA
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 11, 2007; 8:18 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways, rekindling a more than decade-old trade dispute with Mexico.

By a 74-24 vote, the Senate approved a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., prohibiting the Transportation Department from spending money on a North American Free Trade Agreement pilot program giving Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. highways.

The proposal is part of a $106 billion transportation and housing spending bill that the Senate hopes to vote on later this week. The House approved a similar provision to Dorgan's in July as part of its version of the transportation spending bill.

Supporters of Dorgan's amendment argued the trucks are not yet proven safe. Opponents said the U.S. is applying tougher standards to Mexican trucks than to Canadian trucks and failing to live up to its NAFTA obligations.

Until last week, Mexican trucks were restricted to a commercial border zone stretching about 20 miles inside the United States, except in Arizona, where it extended 75 miles. One truck has traveled deep into the U.S. interior as part of the pilot program.

Blocking the trucks would help Democrats curry favor with organized labor, an important ally for the 2008 presidential elections.

"Why the urgency? Why not stand up for the (truck) standards that we've created and developed in this country?" Dorgan asked.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who drafted a Republican alternative to Dorgan's amendment, said the attempt to block the trucks appeared to be about limiting competition and may amount to discrimination against Mexico.

"I would never allow an unsafe truck on our highways, particularly Texas highways," said Cornyn, whose amendment failed.

Under NAFTA, Mexico can seek retaliation against the U.S. for failing to adhere to the treaty's requirements, including retaining tariffs on goods that the treaty eliminates, said Sidney Weintraub, a professor emeritus at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin.

John Hill, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, decried the vote saying it is "a sad victory for the politics of fear and protectionism."

But Teamsters general president Jim Hoffa, whose union has sued to stop the trucks, cheered the decision. "We don't want to share our highways with dangerous trucks from Mexico," Hoffa said.

The trucking program allows up to 100 Mexican carriers to send their trucks on U.S. roadways for delivery and pickup of cargo. None can carry hazardous material or haul cargo between U.S. points.

So far, the Department of Transportation has granted a single Mexican carrier, Transportes Olympic, access to U.S. roads after a more than decade-long dispute over the NAFTA provision opening up the roadways.

One of the carrier's trucks crossed the border in Laredo, Texas last week and delivered its cargo in North Carolina on Monday and was expected to return to Mexico late this week after a stop in Decatur, Ala.

The transportation bill is S. 1789.

Awesome move on Dorgan's part. This is why North Dakota, a republican state has always supported Dorgan. He makes common sense votes. I wish more of the people warming seats in Washington would do such, it would solve many problems....

What I like about Colorado

So, here is one reason I like Colorado. Our representives need to pass this bill into law!

Arrestee Immigration Status Senate Bill 06-90 Reports to Federal Government

In accordance with Article 29 of Title 29, Colorado Revised Statutes, all Colorado local governments, including every town, city, city and county, and county are required to cooperate with federal officials in matters concerning the enforcement of state and federal laws regarding immigration as follows:

1) Any peace officer who has probable cause to believe that an arrestee for a criminal offense, except domestic violence, is not legally present in the United States must report the incident to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office (ICE) whenever the arrestee is NOT detained.

2) If the arrestee IS detained and the county sheriff reasonably believes that the arrestee is not legally present in the United States, then the sheriff must report the arrestee to the ICE (except arrestees for domestic violence).

3) A person who is arrested for a domestic violence offence and who is believed to be in the country illegally must be reported to ICE when he or she is convicted.

Each governing body must report to the Legislative Council of the General Assembly annually, on or before March 1 of each year, the number of reports made to ICE.

For your convenience, this report may be filed by printing out and completing a paper form (see below) and mailing the form to the office of the Legislative Council via the U.S. Postal Service or by faxing the completed form to the office of the Legislative Council at 303-866-2534.

Please note that the on-line reporting has been discontinued. The address for the Legislative Council is:

Legislative Council
Room 029 State Capitol Building
Denver, CO 80203-1784

Once we have received the report, you will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of the report by either e-mail (if address was provided) or a fax.

Questions about reporting procedures may be addressed to the Legislative Council of the Colorado General Assembly by e-mail at LCS.GA@State.co.us or by calling 303-866-3521.

Click on this link to read the Enacted Senate Bill 90

This needs to pass along with other laws to protect the citizens of this state and of this country.

Federal Report on Illegal Immigration and the Southern Border

Alright, I am sure that you might read my material and ask yourself where does he get this junk? All over the place. I scan new stories nationwide and follow up stories mentioned by others. I, sadly, cannot spend all of my time finding every story out there. However, I believe that this report "PREPARED BY THE MAJORITY STAFF OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS MICHAEL T. McCAUL, Chairman" might get you attention.

The report is titled "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border".

Here is the official link to this report. http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

If you do anything here regarding Illegal Immigration, I plead with you to read this report.

Take action now, it might save your life or someone's you care about!