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Sanctuary city kills citizen

First the video. This will be hard, but go here and watch this: It is a woman talking about her dead family.

Anthony Bolognas and his family were out for a drive. He accidentally blocked an intersection. He realized it and backed his car up to allow a vehicle he was blocking to pass. The car was being driven by this nice illegal alien who decided to commit the murder that Americans don’t want to commit. In a rage, he stepped out of the vehicle and opened fire. Danielle lost her 2 sons and her husband. In 15 seconds, she became a childless widow.

The murderer, Edwin Ramos, is an illegal and a member of MS-13 with a felony record. Frisco knew he was a felon and failed to report him for deportation. After all, the enlightened liberals run a sanctuary city. Another American family is sacrificed at the altar of political correctness.

I wish someone would ask Pelosi if she still agrees with her town’s sanctuary city stand. Bush is partly to blame too. He has been lax his entire tenure on this issue. San Fran needs its federal funds frozen. They need to feel some kind of pain for this kind of nonsense. Unfortunately, our government, starting at the top with Bush, Pelosi and Reid, will never do anything. They have long supported illegals in the country. This won’t change that. Taking back the congress and forcing the next president to do something might. Start with McCain, then vote the house and senate back too.

Tonight’s Tear Jerker

From Tijuana:

The two men are led out from cells deep inside the basement of “La Comandancia,” the city’s aging police headquarters.

They have shaven heads and a shaken look. Police officers order them to lift their shirts and show off their gang tattoos, which indicate they’re from San Jose, Calif. Both had just been deported from the United States, dropped off a few weeks earlier at the public gates of Tijuana.

On an old wooden table in front of them is a display of their loot, the result of a string of petty thefts victimizing Tijuana street vendors: a backpack, two makeshift knives, some coins along with a few packets of mints, gum and a bottle of perfume.

… Tijuana’s Mayor Kurt Honald, … has protested the dumping of criminals at the Tijuana gates. He says deportees have triggered a 300 percent rise in petty crime during the last year, as criminals raise money for a return to the U.S. Others join narcotics cartels and smuggling organizations to pay for their return.

Criminal deportees represent about one-third – 84,652 in the year ended Sept. 30 – of ICE formal deportations across the United States. And they are quickly becoming the leading category of deportee being processed by ICE. Under pressure from Congress to step up immigration enforcement, the Bush administration has expanded funding for a series of programs that seek to deport illegal immigrants out of a myriad of federal, state and local jails.

Torres Gallego heads a task force that raids neighborhoods where criminal deportees are involved in crime. She said because of their criminal records, these migrants now aren’t wanted by anyone. They have no ID in the United States. No ID in Mexico. So they get shuffled from one place to another.

“It’s very sad,” Torres said.

Tijuana’s petty crime rate is up 300% and as usual it is all America’s fault. Boo friggin hoo.

This is America - When Ordering, Please Speak English

Ridiculous:

PHILADELPHIA (CBS3/AP) ― The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations held a public hearing Friday to address a controversial sign at the popular Geno’s Steaks that has garnered worldwide attention.

The hearing was scheduled after allegations were made accusing Geno’s Steaks of discrimination for posting a sign that reads: “This Is America. When Ordering Speak English.”

Geno’s owner Joey Vento said it is “free speech” and defended his policy during Friday’s hearing.

“This country is a melting pot, but what makes it work is the English language,” Vento told the commission during a hearing that lasted more than six hours. “I’m not stupid. I would never put a sign out to hurt my business.”

So simple even an eight year-old can understand it: If you don’t like the sign or the sentiment, go somewhere else.
(Which is, of course, what my daughter basically said when the story was on the news.)

You tell ‘em, Joey.

When Vento was called to testify, the 68-year-old grandson of Italian immigrants started paraphrasing Theodore Roosevelt so quickly that the court reporter had to ask him to slow down.

“To be an American, you have to be American and nothing else. For if you say you’re something else, then you’re not a true American,” Vento said, drawing on the words of the 26th president.

“I’m an American of Italian descent,” he said. “I’m not an Italian-American.”

And obviously, he is not being discriminatory.

Another sign at Geno’s that says employees have the right to refuse service to any customer, but Vento said it has been there for about 20 years and is not related to the speak-English sign. He testified that he has never turned anyone away because he couldn’t order in English.

“Nobody goes away without a sandwich,” Vento said.

To show your support please send your comments by Phone, EMail and Fax to

Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations
34 South 11th Street, 6th Floor
Philadelphia PA 19107

phone:: 215-686-4670
TTY:215-6863238
Fax: 215-686-4684
Email: pchrfaq_grp@phila.gov

If we bombard them with your comments, maybe they’ll see America’s Point of View!

You can send all to the attention of :

W. Nick Taliaferro
Executive Director

Commissioners
Rev. James S. Allen, Sr., Chairperson
Burt Siegal, Vice Chairperson
Crystal Barnett
Joseph J. Centeno, Esquire
Roxanne E. Covington, Esquire
Rabbi William, I. Kuhn
Juan Ortiz, Jr.
Haorold L. Rush

Damn. They don’t ship cheesesteaks. :sigh:

Find out how Unfettered Immigration will Affect Future Generations

This is the legacy we are leaving for our children and grandchildren.

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El Buildo De Walldo

stein hoist: Linda

Islamofascists in Londonistan

I found this set of videos via LGF; if you want to see why they call it “Londonistan,” watch this–and beware those who would create the same environment here with their claims of “tolerance” and “diversity.”

McCain’s immigration position shifts, Beauchamp’s a liar, etc.

Eh, I hate writing about the same stuff everyone else has written. Just go read Ace or something. (Sorry about including John McCain, who served honorably in the Navy, in the same headline as that lying sack o’shi’ite Beauchamp.)

See? I told y’all, I’m in a slump. Busy with other stuff, bored, sleep schedule is out of whack, you know the drill. Gimme a couple weeks; when school starts I’ll probably be more motivated. I hope. Maybe not.

Blog Apathy

If you need a little spoofy snark, check out the “Scott Thomas” blog. ;-)

Please Arlen. Stop already.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said he’s floating a plan that would grant legal status to the nation’s 12 million illegal immigrants, but offer no path to citizenship.

“It might be the equivalent of a green card,” Specter said Thursday. “The main thrust is to bring the 12 million out of the shadows,” and eliminate the fear of arrest or deportation.

What is this ‘out of the shadows‘ bullshi’ite?

Specter said conservatives who last month derailed a comprehensive immigration bill might accept his plan because it would not allow the 12 million to seek citizenship status.

“We litigated amnesty and that lost,” Specter said.

Errrrrrr. I thought it abso-posi-lutely was NOT amnesty. Not no way, not no how. Now it WAS? Then riddle me this, Pratman, why should we believe a word you say, when you’ve just admitted you were lying your farking ass off last time around?

He doesn’t get it. Immigration is fine. Americans support it. But FIRST stop the flow at the border, then we can talk about what to do with the 12 million illegals already here. Nobody is ready to give a green card to 12 million people for successfully breaking every immigration law on the books.

With the dubious exception of Arlen Specter, who’s busily slating John Roberts and Sam Alito, when he’s not trying to resurrect a dead immigration bill that pissed off every Republican and 80% of Democrats when it died.

If Bush is a lame duck with 30% approval

With 18 months left of his term, then what is Nancy Pelosi, with a 25% approval rating and 18 months left of her term?

I’m a little aggravated that Chertoff isn’t even pretending he’ll seek the $4.4 billion he so urgently needed last week. It’s all been said, but the entire Grand Bargain coalition took us for a bunch of absolute numbskulls.

I know it was to be funded from Z Visa income, but if it was urgently needed and they had ‘heard’ us, does it not seem something of an insult that they’re openly blowing us off with a big ‘fark you’?

Just saying.

With all due respect Senator Specter, the will of the PEOPLE is what counts. Sorry about that.

You farking tosser.

“We are in trench warfare and it’s going to be rough,” said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, a chief sponsor of the legislation. “But we are going to see the will of the Senate work one way or another.”

Who the hell does he think he is? I hate to remind these pompous blowhards, but remind them I will:

You. Work. For. Me.

This bill is toast anyway; the House will castrate it and send it back with a farking apple in its mouth if the Senate is dumb enough to proceed to a final vote.

Exit suggestion: Stick to creating bills the conventional way, because we the people prefer it. Just some friendly advice.

Why do we need Cabinet Secretarys?

If they can spend their entire time bribing people to vote for their shi’itety farking immigration bill?

Meanwhile, two of Bush’s Cabinet members have made almost a full-time job of lobbying for the bill. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez may as well be considered tenants on Capitol Hill, Kaplan quipped.

Disgusting. I thought protecting the homeland was more important than ensuring ADM have enough cheap strawberry-pickers.

Apparently not.

How is this horrible thing even breathing?

This should go down in flames, but it still may not.

Among the public, there is a bi-partisan lack of enthusiasm for the Senate bill. It is supported by 22% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 22% of those not affiliated with either major party. It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.

From an ideological perspective, the bill is opposed by 59% of conservatives, 54% of liberals, and 45% of political moderates. Among those for whom none of the traditional ideological labels apply, just 20% are opposed.

Support is found from 20% of conservatives, 32% of liberals, and 18% of moderates.

Just 32% believe it would be better to pass the current bill instead of doing nothing. Forty-five percent (45%) believe it would be better to pass nothing at all.

What are our side thinking? I’m at a total loss. I expect this from Ted Kennedy, but from Southern Senators? Conservatives?

President Bush - How is the same bureaucracy that let into the country a man with a virulent strain of TB, who was also on the no-fly list, going to process 12 million Z Visa applications? Let’s say that ICE has 50,000 people doing nothing else. 12m/50k = 240 applications per person. Let’s say each takes 40 hours, total processing time. 240 x 40 = 9600 manhours. 9600/2080 = 4.62 man years. It’ll take 5 years, without doing any other work, and assuming no other applications come in. How utterly foolish to think this will do anything but clog up the system for the next ten years , whereupon another coalition of open borders liberals and cheap labor conservatives will sell us another amnesty.

And why do the supporters of this bill keep dissembling and telling us that none of these provisions come into effect until the security measures are in place, when the Z visa is issued on a probationary basis IMMEDIATELY upon application? It’s unworthy of them, and it’s pissing me off.

I don’t mind being lied to by Ted Kennedy. I hate being lied to by Graham, Lott, Kyl, McCain et al.

More on that House Republican immigration bill

Unsurprisingly, there’s little ink being spilled about this one–this bill that it seems most voters would want, if you listen to the statistics given by the enforcement-first side in the immigration debate, that is:

The House bill stands virtually no chance of becoming law, or even advancing, in the Democratic-controlled Congress. Still, it casts in bold relief the split between Bush and many fellow Republicans in the immigration debate.

The bill surfaced one day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), working with the White House, resurrected efforts to pass the broader legislation Bush wants.

This is the best anyone’s going to get, and it’s what most people want. I certainly hope those who have been bombarding their Senators’ offices with phone calls and email will do the same with their Representatives in support of this bill.

What is surprising is that although it supposedly “stands virtually no chance,” this hasn’t seemed to catch on yet among the blogosphere. Interesting.

Hello? Is anyone paying attention?

I know, some will still say it’s not enough. Tough. The closest we’ll ever get to “enforcement-first” is this bill. Support it, fight for it, or you’ll start sounding like barking moonbats–simply existing to oppose. Don’t make your arguments irrelevant.

While you’re at it, regarding the Senate bill:

The bill can be stopped. Following are 17 Republican senators identified by the group Numbers USA as possibly being willing to switch and vote for cloture in exchange for giving the Senate a chance to vote down one of their amendments: Lamar Alexander (Tennessee); Robert Bennett (Utah); Saxby Chambliss (Georgia); Thad Cochran (Mississippi); Norm Coleman (Minnesota); Susan Collins (Maine); Larry Craig (Idaho); Pete Domenici (New Mexico); Judd Gregg (New Hampshire); Orrin Hatch (Utah); Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas); Johnny Isakson (Georgia); Jon Kyl (Arizona); Trent Lott (Mississippi); Mitch McConnell (Kentucky.); Lisa Murkowski (Alaska); Olympia Snowe (Maine); Ted Stevens (Alaska); and John Warner (Virginia). These lawmakers will likely decide the fate of the amnesty bill in the Senate.

House Republicans introduce their own immigration bill

Sorry, it’s the LA Times, but that’s the link I found at Hot Air.

The new bill addresses major issues in immigration but it also turns a microscope on smaller issues that particularly frustrate conservatives. It would ban the use of matricula consular cards, identification cards issued by Mexican consulates and used by immigrants to open bank accounts or buy homes. It would make three convictions for drunk driving grounds for deportation.

The bill would require the deployment of at least 18,000 more border patrol agents by Dec. 31, 2008. It would also require the full implementation of US-VISIT, a long-troubled program that is meant to track entries and exits by land, sea and air.

American citizens would be affected by many of the changes proposed for workplace enforcement, including the mandatory database checks of employee eligibility, the creation of tamper-proof birth certificates and a nationwide electronic system for tracking birth and death records.

Smith said the bill would also allow for greater information sharing among the Homeland Security Department, the Social Security Administration and the Treasury Department to identify illegal immigrants. “One of the problems we have is that databases don’t mix,” Smith said. “We have to correct that … if you’re going to have any kind of worker verification program.”

Another section would modify an existing guest worker program for agriculture alone, lowering current pay requirements and no longer obligating farmers to provide housing for foreign workers. “There’s a consensus that foreign workers are needed in the agriculture sector,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).

Workers would not be able to bring their family and would not be able to gain citizenship, and one-quarter of their wages would be held in escrow to be picked up at the border when they returned home. They could stay for up to 22 months at a time and could participate repeatedly in the program but would have to return home between work periods for a duration of one-fifth the length of their stay in the U.S.

The bill would require the detention and deportation of all gang members. Currently, gang members are not deportable unless they have committed a crime. Those from some countries can hold special immigration status, while others can stay in the U.S. as asylum seekers. The bill would close those harbors and enable tougher sanctions against gang members by adopting State Department procedures used against terrorist groups.

AP - we will evaluate proposed legislation and tell you whether it’s good or bad, morons

They don’t even try to appear objective!

WASHINGTON (AP) - Only in the arcane world of the U.S. Senate could a quirky gambit known as a “clay pigeon” make the difference between passage of an important immigration measure and its death at the hands of opponents.

Important to whom?

Reid’s plan has its risks, chief among them further inflaming the vocal conservative opponents who have vowed to do whatever they can to kill the immigration measure.

“I’ve seen ideas like this really backfire. You pay a price for this kind of thing,” Dove said, noting that the Senate functions almost entirely on consensus. “It can be done - I’ve seen it done - but it’s a difficult maneuver.”

See? You didn’t know the AFL/CIO were conservative, did you?

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