April 24, 2007

Activists Rally Against Illegal Immigration

Activists Rally Against Illegal Immigration
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
April 23, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - Several hundred protesters gathered outside the White House on Sunday to complain about President Bush's handling of the immigration issue, including his push for "comprehensive" reform. The protesters demanded tighter border security.

"We are in a struggle to save the sovereignty of our nation," said protest organizer D.A. King, president of the Dustin Inman Society (DIS). "The price of losing is open borders and the loss of the republic."

King said the protesters have nothing against "people who join the American family according to American laws." In fact, King mentioned that he has an adopted sister who is a legal immigrant.

DIS is a Georgia-based group "dedicated to educating the public and our elected officials on the consequences of illegal immigration," according to its website. The group is named after a Georgia teenager killed in a car crash involving an illegal immigrant.

Sunday's demonstration kicked off four days of action against illegal immigration. For the next three days, 35 radio hosts will broadcast from a Washington, D.C., hotel while their listeners visit elected officials to lobby against comprehensive reform.

Topics: Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrantion, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hold their feet to the fire, Washington DC, immigration reform, congress, White House, Capitol Hill, D.A. King, improving border security, opposing amnesty for immigrants living illegally in the country and enforcing U.S. laws, including those against hiring illegal immigrants, Federation for American Immigration Reform, FAIR, Roger Hedgecock, Col. Al Rodriguez. Latinos opposed to illegal immigration, Roger Hedgecock
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April 23, 2007

Fed wiring Social Security payments to illegals?

Officials say no, but new task force probing 'growing' benefit fraud

Amid the U.S. government's acknowledgment of rampant document and benefit fraud, the Federal Reserve is wiring 26,000 Social Security payments every month to Mexicans south of the border.

Officials with the Federal Reserve and Social Security Administration insist payments are not going to illegal aliens but admit they cannot be certain. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a new task force to address the "growing" problem of benefit fraud, including in the Social Security Administration.

Jean Tate, spokeswoman for the Federal Reserve, said 26,000 of the 27,000 payments made monthly via the Fed's "Directo a Mexico" service are for Social Security recipients.

By Jerome R. Corsi
April 20, 2007
WorldNet Daily News

Topics: Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigration, Social Security Totalization Agreement, Benefit Fraud, Social Security Fraud, Directo A Mexico, Freedom of Information Act, Social Security Protection Act,

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Arrest caps high-speed chase

Pursuit ends in Placentia after federal agents serving firearm warrant in Lakewood see man flee in pickup.

PLACENTIA – A 30-year-old man described as a violent gang member with a decade-long criminal history was arrested after a high-speed chase that started in Lakewood early Thursday morning and ended in Placentia almost an hour later.

Juan Pablo Camacho, 30, has been deported twice to Mexico and was wanted for re-entering the country illegally. He lived in Lakewood and is suspected of being involved in numerous crimes including gang activity, narcotics and illegal firearms.


The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently learned he was back in the United States and a hunt began.


Just before 6 a.m. an ICE team showed up at Camacho's residence with a federal arrest warrant and a search warrant. Agents found him in a black pickup truck. They tried to detain him but Camacho took off.


THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
April 20, 2007

Topics:  Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrant Arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
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Why Are 35 Radio Talk Show Hosts and Hundreds of Their Listeners Going to be in

Why Are 35 Radio Talk Show Hosts and Hundreds of Their Listeners Going to be in Washington to Discuss Immigration?

4/20/07
Radio Personalities, Members of Congress, FAIR, to Hold Press Conference Demanding Immigration Enforcement without a Guest Worker Amnesty
By PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While illegal aliens and their supporters take to the streets to demand amnesty and other benefits, ordinary Americans take to the radio airwaves to express their anger at their government's failure to enforce laws against illegal immigration.

During the week of April 22, the radio airwaves of America, along with hundreds of listeners from all across the country, are coming to Washington, D.C., as part of the Hold Their Feet to the Fire event, to make sure that the president and Congress hear them loud and clear. Thirty-five leading talk radio hosts, reaching millions of listeners all across the United States, will be broadcasting from a Capitol Hill hotel, focusing on one topic -- immigration enforcement -- while ordinary citizens fan out across Capitol Hill to meet with every member of Congress.

The message from talk radio will be a simple one: Enforce our nation's borders; crackdown on employers who hire illegal aliens; end all non-emergency benefits and services to illegal aliens. Above all the message of Hold Their Feet to the Fire is, NO AMNESTY, NO NEW GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS.

Topics: Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrant Arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Hold Their Feet to the Fire, Amnesty Alamo,
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9 illegal workers employed at military contractor

9 illegal workers employed at military contractor

By Leslie Berestein
STAFF WRITER

April 20, 2007

An ongoing audit of companies contracting with the military has turned up nine undocumented workers employed by Classic Party Rentals, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

According to the agency, the company has contracted with Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. Five women and four men, all Mexican nationals, were arrested yesterday morning at the company's Mira Mesa office and have been placed in removal proceedings.

All had presented false identification to obtain work, said ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack. The company was audited as part of Operation Safe Cities, a federal program launched in late 2003 to check local companies that contract with agencies connected to national security.


Topics: Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrant Arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented workers, ICE, Operation Safe Cities,


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Arizona's proof of citizenship in voting requirement upheld

Published: 04.20.2007

Arizona's proof of citizenship in voting requirement upheld
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
Arizonans are going to continue to have to present proof of citizenship to register to vote -- at least for the time being.

Without dissent, a federal appellate court ruled Friday that a 3-year-old requirement for Arizonans to produce identification to register to vote is not the same as an illegal "poll tax."

The three-judge panel rejected arguments that people will have to spend money to obtain certain forms of ID to meet the legal mandate that they prove U.S. citizenship. That, attorneys argued, effectively made that a tax on voting, something the U.S. Supreme Court ruled illegal.

But Mary Schroeder, chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, said that isn't the case here.

"Voters do not have to choose between paying a poll tax and providing proof of citizenship when they register to vote," she wrote for the court.

"They only have to provide the proof of citizenship," Schroeder continued. "Nor does Arizona's new law make the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an electoral standard."

Topics: Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrant Arrests, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, proof of citizenship, Arizona, Proposition 200, opies of birth certificates, passports, naturalization documents, driver's license or tribal certificate


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