A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state of Arizona against President Barack Obama in a case with election-year political ramifications for him and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

In its second-biggest case this term, the court - fresh from hearing the Obama healthcare overhaul case - will consider on Wednesday whether a tough Arizona immigration crackdown strayed too far into the federal government's powers.

A pro-Arizona decision would be a legal and political setback for Obama, who has criticized the state's law and vowed to push for immigration legislation if re-elected on November 6.

A decision against Arizona would deal a blow to Romney, who has said the government should drop its challenge to the law.

Americans generally support immigration laws like Arizona's and are ambivalent about the federal and state roles at the core of the case, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found.

About 70 percent of those surveyed favored state laws that let police check a person's immigration status and make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to work in the United States; about 30 percent opposed such measures.

On the question of who has responsibility for immigration laws, the core of the Supreme Court case, 59 percent said immigration was a national issue and laws relating to it should only be made by the federal government; 55 percent said individual states had the right to make such laws, too.

The oral arguments on this essential point set the stage for a rematch of the attorneys in last month's healthcare battle.

Paul Clement, a solicitor general during Republican George W. Bush's presidency, will represent Arizona.

Donald Verrilli, a former White House lawyer and solicitor general under Obama, will represent the federal government after what some deemed a lackluster performance in March.

The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez's stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her three-month-old daughter from her arms....

By: LAUREN GILGER, CHARLES GORRA, and BRIAN ROSS - ABC

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The explosive issue of immigration is poised to creep back into the Republican primary battle as the candidates prepare to barnstorm South Carolina, one of a handful of states being sued by the federal government for their illegal immigration crackdowns

Published : Friday, 06 Jan 2012, 8:19 AM MST

PHOENIX - Parents at Arcadia High School get a letter from the school, and now the school is working with Phoenix police to investigate something that was posted on YouTube and Facebook

WARNING: Video Inappropriate: Graphic Content

“This law is about the new law that just passed in Arizona legislature for you f****** illegals to go back to your homeland. Yeah, so grab your burritos and get the f*** out of our country, because you make our life a living hell.

"Go back to f****** Mexico. Get your f****** green card like everyone else and then come back. You f****** morons. It’s not that hard. Let me get a green card. Let me hop the fence, you retard. How about this -- teachers not holding the rest of the class back because they're teaching these a******* how to speak English. It’s obvious that you are not an American citizen. Otherwise, you would have learned English first.”

NOGALES, AZ (KPHO) - CBS 5 News is kicking-off a 5 Investigates special: "24 Hours On The Border," with reports from Tammy Leitner and Morgan Loew.  Here's the first of their reports:

The new border fence cost roughly $16 million per mile, but law enforcement officials say it is worth the price as an improvement over the prior fence. Still, smugglers are already finding ways around and sometimes through the new fence

By:  Morgan Loew and Tammy Leitner

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's camp kicked off another day with yet another attack against Rick Perry, whacking him this time for "promoting liberal policies that encourage illegal immigration."

By:  Seth McLaughlin

(The Wall Street Journal) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano fired back at critics of the Obama administration's immigration policy in a combative speech Wednesday at American University

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been a battletested advocate for immigration enforcement for more than a decade in one of America’s most conservative states. Now, in what would have seemed implausible just a few years ago, the rising Republican star is in a fight  to...

CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit.........

Gutierrez has lobbied for comprehensive immigration reform. Monday, reacting to President Obama's address to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza in Washington, he criticized the president and his administration for not doing more to pass the DREAM Act.

"This White House is proud of their deportation and increases in border security, but it is simply not the case that the President's hands are tied when it comes to enforcement and people, like those in the audience, know it," he said in a statement.

Beginning today, MVD will be sending letters to a random sample of 10,000 foreign nationals who have obtained New Mexico driver’s licenses. Each individual who receives the letter will have 30 days in which to contact MVD to schedule an in-person appointment to verify their residency in New Mexico. They can call 855-784-8407 or go online to www.mvd.newmexico.gov to make appointments.

"In Arizona, where immigration put the state in the national spotlight, local businesses felt that attention has been an attack on Arizona’s image, Bolton said".

“We needed to do something to repair it,” she said, but those businesses that did step up faced a backlash from the public."

"She said many members experienced such a backlash — with some even receiving death threats — when the chamber became involved in discussions on immigration legislation in 2007."

"She said it also paid off in the form of a letter from the Mexican consulate thanking the chamber for “standing up and doing something.” Mexico is one of Phoenix’s biggest trading partners."

"The Maryland referendum will really give lawmakers at the state and federal level a gauge for how American taxpayers feel about extending taxpayer benefits and subsidies to illegal aliens who are not taxpayers themselves," said..........

One Democratic aide said Obama and Sen. Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican leader in the Senate, exchanged some testy words after Obama objected to the way Republicans were negotiating.

A Democratic official familiar with the session said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., was especially adamant that any deficit reduction package could not contain tax increases and that any new tax revenue would have to be used to pay for other tax benefits.

Obama and the congressional leaders met in the Cabinet Room of the White House for the rare Sunday session. Most appeared in casual Sunday clothes, with open-collared shirts underneath blazers.

With great fanfare and elite media sympathy, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly declared himself an "undocumented immigrant" this week. "Undocumented" my you-know-what. In the felony-friendly pages of The New York Crimes -- er, Times -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned illegal-alien activist spilled the beans on all the illegal IDs he amassed over the years. He had documents coming out of his ears.
        
The Times featured full-color photos of Vargas' fake document trove -- including a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a Social Security card his grandfather doctored for him at a Kinko's. He committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines.
        
Following the rules would have meant a 10-year bar to reentry into America. Making false claims of citizenship is a felony offense. Document fraud is a felony offense.

As the 2012 presidential candidates prepare their political platforms to pitch to citizens all around the country, can they afford to take a firm stance on the controversial issue of comprehensive immigration reform?

WASHINGTON - A group of Arizona students went door-to-door
asking friends and businesses for funds to help them take a message
to Congress: Th…

In Texas, a Republican lawmaker has run afoul of the political correctness police. They're calling him ignorant and intolerant, after he bluntly criticized an open-border's activist opposed to legislation outlawing sanctuary cities.

Phoenix - They are working using a U.S. citizen's ID at a job that could have gone to an unemployed U.S. citizen.  They try to tell us that they only take the jobs that no U.S. citizen would take.  Truly unbelieveable!

Phoenix - At the last minute the Obama Administration filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit Court, saying that Arizona does not have the right to ask for information from applicants in order to vote, whether or not they are citizens.  What??

 Our forefathers are turning over in their graves.

You have got to be kidding! This has to be the best lawsuit that has ever hit Washington, D.C. An illegal immigrant suing the U.S. Federal Government?

Pima County, AZ. -- Yes, straight out of the old wild west where wild mustangs are rounded up, tamed by prisoners in Colorado; then assist the US Border Patrol.

The DREAM Act would give illegal immigrant students who grew up in this country a chance to earn legal status after six years if they're in college or serve in the military.

KGUN9 News called Senator John McCain who once co-sponsored the same legislation. McCain's press office did not return our phone calls or respond to our emails. Neither did Senator John Kyl or Representative Jeff Flake, who's running for Kyl's Senate seat neat year.

So many guns in that home, and the mother thought they were all "toy" guns. She didn't even check them out to determine if they were real! It turns out that the grandfather is an illegal alien.

Another example of how our government agents have to consult with Mexico first before confirmation can be made. It was discovered on the US side of the Border, by our Border agents.

This has got to stop.

The flagrant disrespect for the laws of the land. The inhumane treatment of those who have been sold a illegal way to a better life, and the miscarriage of justice allowed by this and past administrations who have been and are controlled by the corporations .

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 states that an immigrant unlawfully present in the U.S. for more than six months, but less than one year, must remain out of the country for three years, absent a pardon. More than a year merits a ten year ban, absent a pardon. Anyone returning without a pardon cannot apply for a waiver for ten years. More importantly, prior to the act, immediate deportation was triggered only for offenses that could lead to five years or more in jail. Now, minor offenses make an individual eligible for deportation, with one exception: a 2001 Supreme Court ruling said the law could not be applied retroactively to anyone who pled guilty to a crime that was of a non-deportable nature prior to the law’s enactment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996

 Obama is attempting to pass a immigration "REFORM" opportunity for those who have broken the laws of the United States by crossing a known border and trespassing in order to find a fairy tale life of social services, handouts and freedom they were too afraid to fight for in their own land.

Many of these poor people pay thousands of dollars to enter illegally into the United States, only to be held for ransom against their will in drop houses across the southwest. Many of the women and children are raped and sold into the sex trade. Yet, we still allow the borders to be as porous as possible.

  The President of the UNITED STATES went as far as to Name the State of ARIZONA in a U.N. Report that claimed that Arizona was GUILTY of "Inhumane" TREATMENT of Illegal Immigrants because of a bill introduced to force the FEDERAL government to secure the border.

Arizona Republican state Sen. Frank Antenorri told Fox News on Monday that he thinks it is an insult to the American people, who overwhelmingly support the state's right to enforce the law, to include Arizona in the report.

He added that nothing in the lawsuit makes any mention of human rights or the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal justice. The Justice Department argued the 10th Amendment in its suit, claiming that the state does not have the authority to enforce federal laws.

"Name a human rights violation. Name it," Antenorri demanded of the Obama administration.

"Tell the people of this country where in this U.N. report you are defining a human rights
violation occurring in the state of Arizona. It's garbage," he said, adding, "I find it comical to kowtow to dictators in this global effort to demonize the United States.

"The federal government, the president should be ashamed of himself for putting this on an international stage with a commission that is put together by countries that commit actual genocide and atrocities," he added.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/30/state-department-stands-decision-include-arizona-human-rights-report/#ixzz1LyAJpiJd

If anyone is guilty of HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS it is President Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano for ignoring the problem and refusing to secure the border to the south.

 This administration has looked the other way and lied concerning the safety of both Illegal Immigrants and Citizens of the United States.  This administration was to be the most open and accountable in the history.

 I don't see it. I see the exact opposite. 

 Laws are not being enforced to make our borders secure and  keep the citizens of the United States safe.

 It is a crime to enter this country illegally and we need to enforce the law, capture those who have violated the laws, overstayed there visa's, students, parents, non U.S. Residents, confiscate all property they own for the cost of returning them to their home.

Secure the border, build a fence, use drones, but enforce the laws and hold the elected representatives fully accountable for their NON ACTION.

 It is time for AMERICA to start acting like a sovereign country again.  Before it  becomes a mirror of  the United States of Europe.

COH will be enforced. Please back all statements up with links to facts.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/10/2011-05-10_president_obama_to_push_immigration_overhaul_at_usmexico_border_in_el_paso_texas.html?r=news/politics

http://savannahnow.com/west-chatham/2011-05-09/buddy-carter-tougher-immigration-law-necessary

Ariz. takes immigration law to U.S. High Court
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110510/NATION/105100357/1020/nation/Ariz.-takes-immigration-law-to-U.S.-High-Court
Texas House calls for immigration law enforcement

http://www.argus-press.com/news/national/article_e6e40e16-929e-5872-bf81-10573c61df6f.html

New Call in Albany to Quit U.S. Immigration Program

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/nyregion/albany-lawmakers-protest-giving-immigrant-data-to-us.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

States Resisting Program Central to Obama’s Immigration Strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/us/06immigration.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=%22Secure%20Communities%22&st=cse

"These are foreign-born criminals that are here in our country," Babeu said, "That's what we're finding is going on here, and not only is it unacceptable, it has created a situation where now, there are as few as 75, as many as 100 lookout posts from drug cartels just for this one smuggling corner- drug cartels hold high positions on terrain features or mountains to provide safe passage for their drug cartels. That a cartel from Mexico can have this mature an organization in our country is outrageous."

"A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that wants to restrict immigration, says that immigrant households with children in Arizona use welfare programs at a higher rate than in any other state."

"The report also found that households headed by illegal immigrants used welfare programs more often than households headed by legal immigrants, 71 percent compared with 52 percent."

Interesting set of events, I guess the policy is let them come if trying to chase them away doesnt work.

More than 130 "criminal aliens" are behind bars after a three-day round up across northern Virginia, but the arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement with help from local police and the U.S. Marshal Service have not stopped the criticism of immigration enforcement or policy.

The roundups took place in 14 Virginia jurisdictions and included illegal immigrants who had been charged or convicted of crimes. At least 10 of those arrested had been previously deported and had re-entered the country.

"State Rep. Virgil Peck, a Republican, declined to talk to a CNN en Español journalist who was waiting for him at his office Thursday. On Monday, Peck made headlines when, during an appropriations committee meeting, he made a reference to an agricultural program that controls the state's feral hog population by shooting them from helicopters".

"Looks like to me, if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a (solution) to our illegal immigration problem," Peck said.

Frustration is the primary reason why individual states are enacting laws following Arizona's attempt to curb the problems associated with the Illegal immigration. Hellow Federal Government....are you listening??

Go figure. Sheriff Joe Arpaio gets tough on illegals, and they flee those jobs that liberals claimed Americans were "unwilling" to do. And now, lo and behold, LEGAL Americans (one with a Master's degree in this clip, even) are waiting in line to get those left-behind jobs that pay around 8 bucks an hour.

The truth is that the only "unwilling" folks out there who think they're above a job washing dishes are the ones who buy into the entitled mentality that's become a cancer in this country.

You go ON, Sheriff Joe.

Two state lawmakers running immigration reform bills were e-mailed perceived death threats over the weekend and Utah Highway Patrol authorities confirmed Monday they are investigating the matter and taking it "very seriously."

Reps. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, and Chris Herrod, R-Provo, were the only two state lawmakers to receive the one-and-a-half page letter, confirmed top state law enforcement officials, who said they were too early in the investigation to determine the severity of the threat.

Utah Public Safety Commissioner Lance Davenport, who oversees the UHP, said in the wake of the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in Tucson, as well as "living in a post-9/11 world," even veiled language needed to be scrutinized.

"We don't want to overreact, but at the same time, we don't want to risk not taking it seriously," Davenport said. "Because the world we live in now is the way it is, we want to do the right thing and protect our legislators."

"Opponents of Harris are saying he inflated Phoenix's kidnapping numbers to land nearly $2 million in federal funds."

"If there is anybody in this community that does not believe we have a kidnapping/home invasion problem in this community, they either just got off the bus today or they have been living under a rock in this community for the last several years," said Harris."

"Some 300 kidnappings were reported in 2008 and were used to obtain a $1.7 million grant from the federal government.".....more in article.

"Pearce said safety concerns led to the change."

"Police arrested six people at the Senate last week, four of them were accused of disrupting a news conference."

"Due to recent events within the Senate building that directly impacted the safety of the public, members and staff,"

The Indiana senate passed a sweeping immigration bill that echoes Arizona's tougher measures on illegal immigrants and despite opposition from some of the largest employers and business groups in the state.

The measure, passed on Tuesday night by a vote of 31-18, would allow state and local police to ask a person stopped for infractions like traffic violations for proof of legal residency if the officer has a "reasonable suspicion" they may be in the country illegally.

House Bill 3, the immigration bill, would require employers who get public money to use the federal government's E-Verify system when hiring to ensure that workers are authorized to work in the United States. It also would require public agencies to use E-Verify.

Under Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes the same Congress who had adopted the Fourteenth Amendment, confirmed this principle: "All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States."

Who are the subjects of a foreign power? Thomas Jefferson said "Aliens are the subjects of a foreign power." Thus, the statute can be read as "All persons born in the United States who are not aliens, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States."

Today I had to stand by and watch as a bunch of children used and abused their own Hispanic parents; it was enough to make a normal person sick to their stomach, at the act’s that some low life people will stoop to.

The place was the Arizona State Capital building; the people, a group of Illegal Immigrant supporters protested and used their own children to help them carry signs of their protest. Most of these children appeared to be 3 to 8 years of age. Their heads filled with lies and hate about the United States by their own parents. . These children are far too young to have any grasp of what they are even protesting other than what their own low life parents put into their minds, as most didn’t even look old enough to read yet.

What kind of Monster involves and uses their own toddler to adolescent child in their own political fight? I think I can answer that a Coward.

With the recent violence that has taken place at a "Congress on Your Corner"talk event, no sane person would take a small child into a “political charged demonstration”. Let alone make them carry a protest sign.

I have spoken with both the Police and the Department of Child Protective Services on this type of action by Hispanic Illegal Immigration supporters involving and using their toddler children in this kind of protest. Both have stated that while they view this as a bad idea, they cannot do anything as far as arresting the Parents till one of the children would be hurt or injured.

What was being protested against was something that is allowed the American people and Our leaders under the Constitution of the United States, the “Right” to look into changing a Constitutional Amendment (the 14^th Amendment). The 14th Amendment has been changed twice before by our Leaders and the American people once on Aug. 18, 1920 and again on July 1, 1970.

Today State leaders were looking into a law that they hope will set in motion a plan to actually change the 14th Amendment to make it were it can no longer be used as a weapon against the United States by people that illegally invade Our Country. We are not alone other States and the United States Congress are also looking into the same plan.

Below is a Poll in which you may express your feelings on what happened today.

A few months ago, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said publicly that the claim that illegal aliens are working construction jobs in Nevada (17 percent of those jobs) is "absolutely without foundation."
However, on Tuesday, The Pew Hispanic Center released a report which shows that illegal aliens make up 10 percent of Nevada's workforce. That is up from 2009, when illegal aliens accounted for 9.4 percent of those working in the state.
It is no coincidence that Nevada also has the nation's highest rate of unemployment. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the state's unemployment rate is now 14.5 percent.
Of course, Nevada is not the only state in which U.S. workers are being replaced illegal aliens.
In 2007, the Fiscal Policy Institute released a study revealing that there were 374,000 illegal aliens employed in New York City, accounting for 10 percent of the city's total workforce.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: The state with the most illegal alien workers also has the highest unemployment - National Immigration reform | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/the-state-with-the-most-illegal-alien-workers-also-has-the-highest-unemployment#ixzz1DK85cxdI

Pamela Anderson may be more famous for slow motion running down the "Baywatch" beaches in the 90's, but the now mother of two teen sons and animal rights activist has another issue she is passionate about: illegal immigration.
The Canada-native recently penned her thoughts on a vast range of politically-driven topics in Playboy magazine, and published the unedited version on her website. In the transcript, she expresses her views that those seeking refuge in America need to respect the country and do it by the books.
"I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work. The American Dream is seductive, but there is a legal way to do it and there would be more jobs here for people if it was honored," she wrote. "There is something about the process that has to be honored—and respected."

Our lawmakers sure are busy. Quite a contrast being heard, from guns to babies........

ABC and reporter John Quinones on Thursday stretched the bounds of journalism, hiring an actor to play a racist security guard as a way of testing how the people of Arizona would react to the state's "anti-immigration law."

Previewing the network's "What Would You Do?" segment for Friday's 20/20, Quinones explained the undercover concept: "So, I go undercover, pretending to be someone who is about to be arrested and deported, simply by the way I look."

The piece featured a cartoonish "security guard" harassing Mexican actors in Tucson, Arizona. Presumably, ABC chose a security guard because impersonating a police officer is illegal. The actor walked into a restaurant and spewed, "I'm just looking to make sure these guys are legal citizens. And if they're not legal citizens, they shouldn't be here. They should be deported. They look Mexican."

"Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days."

"A gunbattle is all but certain, Babeu told The Arizona Republic, because his deputies and members of a regional SWAT team are now routinely working to stop smugglers from pushing cargo through Pinal."

" Babeu said. "In the event that any of them decide to point their weapons at our deputies . . . my directive is there had better be rounds going downrange to neutralize that threat."

A few days before Thanksgiving, I went to a Mexican store in Provo. I noticed business was slow and asked the manager if he had an idea why. He replied, "I don't really know why but people stopped coming," and then added, "It almost feels like people are afraid to go out and buy things."

He said business dropped off three to four months ago. I asked him if he thought it had anything to do with the unauthorized release last summer of 1,200 names of purportedly illegal immigrants receiving government assistance.

"Yes! That must be the reason why," he said. "People used to come and cash their food stamps. This was great business for me. Now, many have lost their entitlements from the state and this has affected my business, too."

The man explained how some of the people who frequented his store would tell him how they beat the system.

It's not hard to tell Arturo Morales-LLan is proud to be an American: the evidence is plastered all over the walls of his Orem home. In a over-sized portrait hanging above the stairs, his four children, dressed in red, white and blue, stand in front of an American flag. His shelves are full of books about the Constitution. His desk is cluttered with Americana paraphernalia.

"I take my citizenship very seriously," said Morales-LLan in a rolling Spanish accent. That's why — despite his own Mexican ancestry — he has stepped up to publicly condemn illegal immigration and lend his support to Rep. Stephen Sandstrom in the quest to outfit Utah with an Arizona-style law. In collaboration with about 25 other immigrants, he recently started the lobbyist group Legal Immigrants for Immigration Law Enforcement.

In some ways, Morales-LLan is an illustration of a national trend. Hispanics are becoming increasingly divided over the issues surrounding illegal immigration, according to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center. In a 2007 survey, 50 percent of Hispanics said the growing number of undocumented immigrants had a positive effect on the community. In 2010, only 29 percent said the same thing.

"This issue is just as heated for Latinos as it is for the rest of the population," said Tony Yapias, director of Proyecto Latino de Utah.

Perhaps even more so.

This bill would give them the authority if they have reasonable suspicion to believe the person is in the country illegally would be able to seek to verify that individual's citizenship."

Ramsey says the bill encourages local governments to partner with the federal immigration enforcement authorities.

As the debate on illegal immigration rages in Washington and state capitals, it's troubling to see both sides rely on emotional rhetoric to the detriment of facts. The impact of illegal immigration on public education is a case in point.

No one can deny that increasing numbers of children of illegal immigrants attend public schools in the United States and that U.S. taxpayers pay the costs. Those sympathetic to illegal immigration tend to remain silent about these costs, while illegal-immigration opponents often fall short on specifics. In the interest of more informed discourse, here are the numbers.

According to a study released last year by the Pew Hispanic Center, as of 2008, 11.9 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States, more than triple the 3.5 million who lived in the country in 1990.

Among the states, California has the largest number of illegal immigrants with 2.7 million, nearly double the 1.4 million in Texas. California's illegal-immigrant population has swelled by 1.2 million since 1990, while Texas has added a million. A large proportion of illegal-immigrant households are families.

During the President's 2011 State of the Union speech, Obama said: "I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration. I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows."
Of course, Obama is the president and as such can order the active duty military to our border with Mexico (with orders to actually stop illegal crossers) at any time. If there is an immediate threat to this nation, the president can order as many troops and equipment as is needed to confront that threat.
The invasion of this country by the violent Mexican drug cartels and the hellish life they have created for those Americans living in the American Southwest presents a clear and present danger, and is one that only the U.S. military can adequately answer.
Futhermore, federal law already dictates that we "protect our borders." However, we have simply not had a U.S. president who has chosen to actually carry out that order and enforce immigration laws in 50 years, since President Dwight D. Eisenhower did so.

Riley Black, 8 months old, began to cry after dropping her bottle on the floorboard of the family's Nissan Altima.

Her mom Stephanie Mason was driving on Highway 41-A to visit family in Clarksville. Lorne Black, Riley's father, unbuckled his seat belt and turned around to find the bottle.

Suddenly, Mason screamed Lorne's name. A white truck veered off the road, overcorrected and came toward the car that held Black, Mason, their daughter and 2-year-old son Tristen.

"I saw the truck coming." Mason said. "I tried to go to an opening on the side of the road. I jerked the wheel. I slammed on my breaks. But I didn't make it. ... It was bad."

The truck caught fire. The driver was severely burned and Lifeflighted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Black almost died. He spent 26 days in the hospital with his eye sockets crushed, 28 fractures in his skull, a shattered jaw and a split knee cap.

The driver of the truck was later identified by Immigration Customs Enforcement agents as Geremias Morales-Martines, now 31. He did not have a social security number, driver's license, registration or insurance.

He had a job, though. Morales-Martines worked at a tobacco farm in Cheatham County. It is still unknown if he had the proper documents to work there.

States have pushed their way to the forefront of immigration-related lawmaking in recent years, citing the absence of federal legislative reform, and the tenor of their efforts is expected to intensify this year.

The number of such bills in 2011 probably won't increase over past years', but immigration experts said the proposals will be more confrontational in nature. The measures include a campaign to remove automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants, efforts to replicate a controversial Arizona law and creation of state guest-worker programs.

The most divisive bills, if they become law, would likely provoke lawsuits or other action from Congress, the White House or the U.S. Supreme Court.

"They are reflecting Congress' inability to move" on the issue, said Ann Morse, program director for the National Conference of State Legislators.

"Some Ofiicers are worried that they will be accused of "Racial Profiling in the future !"

"The Dallas Police Department is now requiring officers to answer a question on the traffic ticket that reads "Race known prior to stop?" The patrol officer has to check yes or no when he stops the traffic violator."

"Dallas police spokesman LT. C.L Williams says, "New state law requires us to collect the information. We have no idea how the state plans to use it." According to Williams, the information is not being collected to use against the patrol officers. The DPA president isn't convinced."

more in article....

"Phoenix and other parts of Arizona may becoming "less brown" every day, but according to the latest U.S. census data, Aztlán could become a reality. "The Southwest will become part of Mexico by the year 2060," says MEChA professor Luis Maldonado. However"

"California has pretty much been given back to Mexico. There are several Latinos in Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico who believe in the Latino homeland of Aztlán. These people are producing children at a rate four times as much as those of other races and educating their children about the stolen lands. All these people will vote"

If Harry Reid wants to invest in our country's future, and the armed forces were looking for a recruiting tool, then re-instate the draft.

DREAM Act students vow revolution after act fails in the Senate
"This is war!" claims Phoenix student Aldemar Cruz. "Republicans may have stopped the DREAM Act, but they won't prevent La Reconquista from happening. "White people, watch out!"

"Olivia Perez, Latinos need to fight back. We need to march. We need to scream. If necessary, we need to riot."

The Senate just voted down the Dream Act. In a vote for cloture the Dreamers went down in flames as 41 Senators chose not to grant a back door amnesty to the children of illegal aliens.

The law would have given the children of illegals the right to go to college on the American Tax payer's dime. They would have been eligible for Stafford loans which are paid for by tax dollars and they would have been eligible for work/study positions. This law would give those children, who are also here illegally, up to 10 years to earn two years of college or to complete two years of military service with no stated recourse against them if they failed.

Many advocates in their arguments for the passage of this Bill touted the CBO report that estimated that by allowing the Bill to pass, it would reduce the National Debt by $1.5 Billion dollars over the first 10 years of the program. However, those same Advocates do not mention the fact that the same CBO report estimates that the Bill will add in excess of $2-3 Billion dollars to the deficit over the following 10 years.

Some other facts the advocates for Dream leave out is that the CBO estimates that over 50% of these "best and brightest"will drop out of the program after the first five years. The CBO also estimates that only 15% of these "kids" will default on student loans even though the National default rate for student loans in two year colleges is over 31%. These Dream Advocates also overlook the fact that this Bill would have allowed the illegal alien parents of these children to benefit from their original crimes of breaking the immigration laws of the United States. The law applies to all children 12 years to 29 years of age., the parents of the younger children would have been allowed to stay due to their children needing supervision and a place to stay at least until the age of 18.

There are several other problems with this Bill including the fact that Janet Napalitano, the Chief of Homeland Security, had the power to waive many of the requirements in the Dream Act and that applicant could have up to three misdemeanor convictions and still be eligible.

This vote should put an end to any hope for this back door amnesty program especially since the face of the House of Representatives will change so much after the New Year and the Democrat majority in the Senate will be much smaller. With several of the States lining up with anti-illegal immigration laws, like Arizona's SB1070, the Congress may be forced to actually enforce the immigration laws on the books and deport all detained illegals instead of deferring action for years.

"This latest episode took the life of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry. Details are sketchy as of now, but it appears Terry came upon a group of presumed smugglers at Peck Wells, which is part of Peck Canyon, when the shooting occurred.
The Border Patrol's public-information office in Tucson confirms that at least four suspects are in custody, and one more is being pursued. A massive manhunt is underway as Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies try to apprehend the suspect, believed to be trying to flee into Mexico."

"Janet Napolitano—who keeps telling us the border is just fine, nothing to see here, move along—should be put under hot lights over the Terry killing.
She needs to explain why she thinks it's safe for American citizens to venture onto this Coronado National Forest land. Would she go there herself? Would she take her family, her dog? Or would she go only with a heavily-armed security detail?"

From his ranch headquarters this morning, David Lowell says: "I feel bad about the really lousy job our government is doing—not Border Patrol, but the politicians. If the same Border Patrolman had shot first and killed the (presumed) Mexican that killed him, he'd probably have a ticket to go to prison. It's a really dumb way to try to protect our southern border.

As part of the county's participation in a local-federal partnership called the 287(g) program, which officially began in November 2009, 18 sheriff's deputies were trained to enforce certain federal immigration laws. Inmates suspected of being in the country illegally are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after their cases are disposed of. ICE then will initiate deportation proceedings against them. The detainees still have the opportunity to go before an immigration judge to plead their case.

MIAMI – The illegal immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012, even though they'll likely be too old to benefit if the law ever passes.

The measure that passed in the House on Wednesday is unlikely go anywhere in the Senate, and the House is unlikely to revisit the issue once the new Republican leadership takes over.

Groups like The National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic and immigrant advocacy groups know the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform are dim for the time being. So they've turned their attention to a measure that they believe will spark more sympathy from most Americans, bringing with them a coalition of labor groups, the Conference of Catholic Bishops and even Defense Secretary Robert Gates. And come 2012, advocates say, Spanish-language media will be filled with ads slamming lawmakers who voted against the Dream Act.

A bit of good news is better than no news at all on this..............

Frederick County officials are lobbying Maryland lawmakers for tighter illegal immigration laws, including a proposal that would require county schools to report a head count of undocumented students.

The county's board of commissioners is forwarding the proposals to Frederick's state delegation for consideration in the upcoming legislative session.

After facing separation from his family prior to Christmas, Guatemalan-born Ramon Gonzalez-Solares, an illegal resident of the United States who has been ordered to leave the country, will celebrate the holiday with his family after all.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the following from the article about Police busting a "Drop House" for Illegals here in Phoenix Az.

"Police said they were working to reunite the children with their families."

I dare that the Police/ICE return these children to known "Child Abusers"! The Police should not put these inocent children right back into the hands of the very people (the Families) that put them in harms way to start with !

These so called parents involved their children in a criminal felony, they put their own child's life at great risk during that felony crime, they purposely payed dangerous felony's to transport their children. These so called parents are what most would call and by definition of the Laws of this Country are "Child Abusers".

Under the Laws of this Country any American parent that did any of these things to their own child would be charged with Felony Child Abuse, and rightly so, and locked away for a very long time in a prison.

These so called parents should be hunted down like dogs for what they did to their own children and put in prison for the Max sentence for Child Abuse, after which time they should be deported, and hopefully never allowed to be around any child again !

The quote mentioned in this article was from a msnbc article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40487648/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

Jose Perez-Gonzalez, 31, broke in through the rear door of the victim's upscale Daly City home in January 2008, Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Perez-Gonzales believed the woman, who was 77 at the time, was not home -- and when she surprised him, he beat her severely enough to blind her, Wagstaffe said.

"This guy took her life," Wagstaffe said, adding that the woman must now live in a residential facility. "The evilness of it is dramatic."

Police arrested a man they say had a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old girl for more than a year.

23-year-old Juan Lopez Rios was charged with rape for the crime. Police also say he bit the 11-year-old victim on her chest.

A Denver judge sentenced an illegal immigrant with a history of alcohol abuse to 12 years in prison on Wednesday for driving drunk and slamming into a car driven by a 45-year-old single mother.

I first wrote about illegal alien murder suspect Ingmar Guandique's possible role in the Chandra Levy case in 2002. Justice has been long delayed for the Levy family.

Today, a jury convicted Guandique on all felony counts of first-degree murder.

More:

A jury on Monday found an El Salvadoran immigrant guilty of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy.

Jurors deliberated four days before finding Ingmar Guandique, 29, guilty in the 2001 disappearance and killing of Levy.

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[Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda] Haines said Levy's death fits a pattern of two other attacks committed by Guandique on female joggers in Rock Creek park in May and July of 2001. Guandique was convicted in those assaults and is serving a 10-year sentence.

The North Carolina News Network is reporting that;

The City of Durham has become the first municipality in North Carolina is approve a policy of accepting identification issued by the Mexican government as legal ID. The Durham City Council voted 5-2 in favor of police accepting what is known as the Matricula Consular as a valid form of identification.

On June 26, 2003, Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI, testified before The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims on Consular ID Cards, the following; (the entire testimony can be read here)

...there are two major criminal threats posed by the [Consular ID] cards, and one potential terrorist threat.

When detectives searched Nelson Garcia Flores's apartment to investigate a rash of burglaries, they found jewelry, cash, electronics, clothing and toys, according to court records.

The judge also pointed out a number of past charges against Suarez, from Caroline County and even Maryland. Those charges were all centered around driving.

An illegal immigrant from Sonora was sentenced to prison this week for assaulting two Border Patrol agents during a foot chase near Nogales in which he was shot.

The bill has already been approved – and vetoed – four times.

But California's Latino Legislative Caucus expects it to become law next year when Gov.-elect Jerry Brown takes office.

In its current form, the bill would let undocumented college students apply for financial aid from a pool of money that is private but administered by state colleges and universities.

An Iowa citizens group opposed to illegal immigration is launching a statewide petition drive aimed at urging Gov.-elect Terry Branstad and lawmakers to approve a tough, Arizona-style immigration enforcement statute in Iowa.

The measure would require state and local law enforcement officers to investigate the immigration status of anyone they lawfully stop and "reasonably" suspect may be in the country illegally. It would also make it a crime for illegal immigrants to seek work while concealing their legal status and for employers to "intentionally or negligently" hire them.

An illegal immigrant who has been on the run for 10 years will soon receive his sentencing for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year old girl.

But he said he felt the tower was an appropriate response response to the increasing dangers associated with the state's illegal immigration problems, specifically Mexican gang activity.

"My dogs would bark their head off at 2-3 in the morning and I didn't know what they were barking at," he said. "And if I were to go and get my gun and my flashlight to go and find out, I'd be putting myself at a lot of risk."

This week, the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation of its kind targeting previously deported criminal aliens was carried out all over the greater New York City area. Dubbed Operation RAPID, 54 previously deported aliens with criminal records were arrested on federal arrest warrants during a four-day targeted enforcement operation.

Today in Arizona the War on Illegal Immigration got a brand new tool ! The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Joe Appaio swore in 56 of it's first new armed Posse to deal soley with Illegal Immigration. These New armed Posse member have under went many hours of training in weapons, Law Enforcement procedure, detention training and tactic's, as well as enforcement of Illegal Immigration Law.

These newly sworn in Posse members will aid and assist Sheriff's Deputies in the transportation of suspected Illegal Immigrants and handling any demonstrators that try to interfere with immigration patrols. The new posse member seem to come from many different backgrounds and jobs, and freely donate their time to helping the Sheriffs office. Luo Ferrigno (the Incredible Hulk) as well as Steve Seagal also serve as Posse members already.

Current Posse members numbers are at around 3,000 volunteers, and aid the Sheriffs office in a variety of different tasks from crowd control, ride along with Sheriffs Deputies to search and rescue of lost or injured hikers and missing children. And Patrol in donated planes and choppers to off road vehicles.

To see people come forward to donate their time and lives to help us fight the War on Illegal Immigration is a wonderful sight, it shows just how much Americans will contribute to the defense of their Country even as civilians.

"Thank You" to all of the newly sworn in Posse members !

From: "ArizonaBill"

While I have often joked about being the "Self Appointed Head Illegal Immigration Opponent" of Arizona,,

I in no way side with these people ! Sorry guys but a line must be drawn.

While I do not in any way support Illegal Immigration or anti-American hate groups (in my opinion) like LaRaza, or Chicanos Unidos.

I also do not support people that seem to hate based only on a person's Race ! I do not want or need their help.

I would hope that my brothers also speak out about this as we are against Illegal Immigration ,,Not against the color of a person skin !

Time to stand and be counted brothers !

The below article is the one ArizonaBill is responding too, from Chl 10 Fox News in Phoenix Az.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/neo-nazis-protest-in-downtown-phoenix-11132010

"PHOENIX - The National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States, has been marching and rallying against illegal immigration in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Court Building in downtown Phoenix since about 12:45 p.m. Saturday. But it's the counter-protesters who have been receiving negative attention from law enforcement.

The NSM members, carrying American flags that have been partially covered in swastikas, have been chanting nearly unintelligible rhetoric protesting the gutting of SB 1070 inside the police-protected area near the courthouse at 401 W. Washington St." Read more at the Link above.

An illegal immigrant admitted to killing a Nashville man last Christmas when driving drunk. But the question now is what kind of consequences will he face. Immigration officials want him deported; a local judge wants him punished.

Clayton County police said an illegal immigrant is responsible for two homicides and a string of armed robberies across three metro Atlanta counties.

Artemio Hernandez, 31, is charged with murder in the death of 17-year old Monica Ambriz. Ambriz vanished during a lunch break from work on Oct. 10. Police discovered her body behind a Jonesboro office building 10 days later.

Now the illegal immigrants have a train to bring them into the United States illegally. No longer need to walk all night and survive the desert and those pesky border patrol agents.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/04/5406576-border-ride

DETROIT - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Detroit said Tuesday it had levied one of its largest fines - $1 million - against clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch for violations of federal immigration law at its Michigan stores.

(Kansas City) -- Local authorities will only say there was a police presence, but DHS confirms an immigration compliance check at a Kansas City nightclub.

Early this morning, federal agents walked into the Club Oasis, at 28th and Southwest Blvd in Kansas City.

COLLIER COUNTY — An illegal immigrant charged with killing a 34-year-old pedestrian during a hit and run in Immokalee in December got lucky when an eyewitness disappeared and another was deported before trial.

The incident occurred about 11:58 p.m. Sunday at 6609 Valero Lane near Edinburg, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said in a statement. Deputies shot Ubaldo Martinez, 41, once in the lower leg after he allegedly tried to stab another deputy about 20 minutes before at the intersection of Tower and Richardson roads.

For a Waynesboro illegal immigrant suspected of murdering another man, the difference between accidental freedom and deportation depended on the journey of a single fax.

When Graciela Bolaños of Nogales, Sonora gave birth to her two sons, she did it at Corondelet Holy Cross Hospital in Nogales, Ariz.

Bolaños, who works as an accountant in Mexico and has a tourist visa to visit the U.S., said she chose to have Mario, now 6, and Santiago, now 1, at Holy Cross, "to give them two options when they are grown: to work in the United States or Mexico."

SEATTLE -- When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk to advertise
to strangers that she's here illegally -- but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.

The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers -- many of them illegal immigrants -- canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.

Luis Valencia kidnapped a woman and burned her alive three years ago this week -- all for a pound of stolen pot.

Judge John Kirihara sentenced the 27-year-old illegal immigrant Thursday to life without parole for murdering 27-year-old Rosa Avina. Merced County sheriff's detectives investigating the case said it was one of the most brutal crimes they'd ever seen.

Deputies said a suspected sex offender on the run for years, has struck again.

This time they said he molested a nine year old girl.

Lalo Gandara thought he'd be on his way to Mexico, but instead the illegal immigrant is in jail.

The laws of this state are known as Arizona Revised Statutes or ARS. I think most pope would be amazed if they went online and read ARS 41-1604.14.

Two Boiling Springs residents pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to file bogus tax returns, costing the federal government thousands in fraudulent refunds.