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AP Forgets to Mention Identity Thief is an Illegal Alien

I hate to say it, but for a "news" service that is supposed to thrive on the "facts," the Associated Press sure seems to leave out an awful lot of them in their wire stories. We've seen dozens of examples of that when they conveniently forget to mention the political party affiliation when a public servant caught up in crime or scandal and happens to be a Democrat. We have also seen the AP somehow forget to mention when a criminal happens to be an illegal alien. Well, here is yet anther case where a crime is committed by an illegal and the AP seems to have developed amnesia about the fact that the criminal is an illegal alien. In AP's report headlined "Man Accused of Stealing 7-Year-Old's ID", the AP gives us the tale of a 7-year-old boy who's Soc. Sec. # was stolen, the theft discovered when the boy's mother tried to file her taxes. [lien] [EN]

Simon Dodd on Illegal Aliens’ Standing to Sue to Block Laws that Make It Hard for Them to Live and Work in the U.S.

The other day I discussed a case that denied standing to illegal immigrants seeking to overturn a law that would erect barriers to their living and working in the U.S. As I noted in my post, the judge in that case wrote: [C]uriously absent from [the illegal alien plaintiffs'] voluminous complaint is any challenge to the federal laws rendering their presence in this country illegal. Instead, these Plaintiffs seemingly concede the validity of the federal immigration laws, and file this suit in order to remove any barriers the state of Oklahoma has erected to their continued violation of those federal laws. These illegal alien Plaintiffs seek nothing more than to use this Court as a vehicle for their continued unlawful presence in this country. To allow these Plaintiffs to do so would make this Court an “abetter of iniquity” and this Court finds that simply unpalatable. [lien] [EN]

L.A. Times Article on Prisons Once Again Fails to Mention Cost of Housing Illegal Alien Criminals

The L.A. Times has a front-page, above-the-fold article that reports: In a proposal that would nearly double the state’s prison construction program, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration asked lawmakers Friday to approve $7 billion in new spending to bring medical and mental healthcare in California prisons up to constitutional standards. Naturally, the article does not say one word about illegal aliens in our prisons — even though, as I have told you before, the Washington Post says that “[m]ore than 10 percent of California’s prison population is in the United States illegally. If we’re spending $7 billion on new health care, that means more than $700 million could be saved if we didn’t have illegal aliens to house. A savings of $700 million. [lien] [EN]

Illegal aliens

Catch-but-don't-release policy is legislated. In Europe, not the United States. Yes, the European Union is more conservative than Congress on this issue. The EU Parliament passed one of its pseudo-laws to standardize how illegal aliens are handled. Countries will be allowed to jail border jumpers for up to 18 months. This is what happens when people are too lazy to procreate; they get run over by those who do. The human rights group Amnesty International criticized the policy, saying it does not guarantee that illegal immigrants would be returned to their home countries “in safety and dignity,” reported the Washington Post. If they want safety and dignity, they'll stay in their own damned countries. This entry was posted on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Hero. [lien] [EN]

Video: Woman’s Family Killed (Allegedly) by Illegal Alien Gang Member Criminal Speaks Out

The post immediately below is about Israel’s inexplicable appeasement of a child-killing terrorist. This post is about a similar issue: our country’s appeasement of the factions who oppose deporting anyone — even an illegal alien gang member criminal who (allegedly) ended up taking the lives of this woman’s husband and two sons. Sanctuary city policies have consequences. It’s not easy, but you might as well directly face the consequences by watching this heart-rending video. Deport the Criminals First. [lien] [EN]

NYT: AZ Prop 300 'Frightening' Away Illegal Alien Students

The New York Times wants you to know that legislators in Arizona are mean to illegal immigrants trying to go to the state's schools on the cheap. The Times wants you to imagine that Arizona's new anti-illegal laws are oppressing those poor, illegal immigrant students that come into Arizona expecting to get all sorts of loans and financial breaks just because… well, just because they happen to draw a breath. The Times wants us all to tsk tsk the state of Arizona because it had the guts to finally do something about the billions of dollars lost to this flood of criminal aliens. Somehow, I don't feel so bad, though. With the sensational headline, "Arizona Law Takes a Toll on Nonresident Students," the Times gives us the tale of woe of students that want to steal from Arizona's educational system. [lien] [EN]

Grover Norquist Hired Illegal Alien For Back-Breaking Lobbyist Work [Tragic Ironies]

As if Americans didn’t have enough trouble with The Illegals coming up from Mexico to take all of our high-paying lettuce-picking jobs, there’s a new menace on the horizon. It comes from... [lien] [EN]

Illegal aliens, Italian style

Just like in the USA, all those illegal immigrants cost taxpayers money. European immigration woes are sounding strangely like their American cousins. Earth Times reported: “Increasingly desperate African families are sending children as young as 12 on the perilous sea journey to Europe alone so they can earn and send money home.” Two reports have it that babies were thrust into the arms of strangers to try to get them into Italy, or at least the islands of Sicily and Lampedusa. While the immigration crisis in Europe usually focuses on the legal immigrants who do the jobs Europeans cannot do, the illegal trade is very much alive. Peter Schatzer of the International Organization for Migration, said: “We see this as a trend, more and more minors either go on their own or are sent by their families either to have a better life or because they hope to establish an anchor in Europe so other family members can follow under family reunification. [lien] [EN]

WSJ’s Illegal Immigration Naivete Continues, with a Small Concession

A subscription-only editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Monday propagated a carefully-worded whopper, but at least made a small change to the paper’s insufferable 23-year “There Shall Be Open Borders” mantra (bolds are mine): A recent paper by the Immigration Policy Center, an advocacy group, notes that “Numerous studies by independent researchers and government commissions over the past 100 years repeatedly and consistently have found that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be behind bars than the native born.” Today, immigrants on balance are five times less likely to be in prison than someone born here. None of this is to argue that illegal immigration doesn’t have costs, especially in border communities and states with large public benefits. In the post. [lien] [EN]

Memo to L.A. Times Editors: Illegal Immigration Is Illegal

Do the editors of the L.A. Times realize that illegal immigration is, you know, illegal? I wonder when I read editorials like this: It’s getting ugly out there for illegal immigrants. States and cities are cracking down with harsh new ordinances, and the courts are upholding them. Not only are deportations at record highs, but immigrants are being detained at places previously understood to be off-limits, such as schools. The debate about illegal immigration, labor, social justice and international trade has devolved into open season on illegal immigrants. Arizona penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, suspending their business license for 10 days for the first offense, revoking it permanently for the second. Valley Park in Missouri fines businesses that hire illegal immigrants. [lien] [EN]

L.A. Times Tries to Convince Readers that Feds Are Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration

The Los Angeles Times has a front-page story that suggests the federal government is really cracking down on people who illegally re-enter the country. However, the paper doesn’t tell you that the big “crackdown” is actually a joke. Here is the story’s lede: Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously deported and then reentered the country illegally — a crime that now makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Times review of U.S. attorney’s statistics shows. The surge in prosecutions reflects the federal government’s push in recent years to detect illegal immigrants with criminal records in what may seem the most obvious of places: the state’s jails and prisons. It sounds encouraging. [lien] [EN]

Willamina city leaders considering an 'illegal alien-free zone'

Source: [b]KATU[/b] WILLAMINA, Ore. - City leaders in this small timber town are considering a city ordinance that would create what would be called an 'illegal alien-free zone.' The ordinance would allow any law enforcement officials, within the town's city limits, to stop anyone and ask for pr... [lien] [EN]

Illegal Aliens and Other Constitutional Provisions:

The magistrate judge's opinion in the Second Amendment illegal alien case also reminded me of our own then-Judge Paul Cassell's opinion in a Fourth Amendment case involving an illegal alien who feloniously reentered the U.S. If the magistrate judge's opinion is adopted by the district court, and the decision is then appealed and affirmed using the reasoning that "the people" doesn't generally include illegal aliens, it may well have an important effect on Fourth Amendment illegal alien cases as well as Second Amendment ones. All Related Posts (on one page) | Some Related Posts: · The Second Amendment and People Convicted of Domestic Violence Misdemeanors: · Illegal Aliens and Other Constitutional Provisions: · The Second Amendment and Non. [lien] [EN]

Second Amendment Doesn't Protect Illegal Aliens:

So concludes a Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of Florida, in U.S. v. Boffil-Rivera, recommending that the District Judge reject a constitutional challenge to a federal statute that criminalizes gun possession by illegal aliens. Seems like a pretty sensible result, but what's interesting is the reasoning: That common law right [to keep and bear arms, secured by the Second Amendment,] was held only by citizens and those who swore allegiance to the Government; it did not include everyone present on American soil.... For instance, Samuel Adams and other delegates urged the Massachusetts ratifying convention to recommend barring Congress from “prevent[ing] the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.” The New Hampshire convention proposed that “Congress shall never disarm any Citizen unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion. [lien] [EN]