Former President Clinton Volunteers as TSA Screener to Reduce Federal Workforce by One and Save Taxpayer Money

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Mexican Drug Cartels Send Well-Armed Assassins To Arizona

In a memo from the Department of Homeland Security, Arizona law enforcement authorities have been warned that well-armed and trained drug cartel assassins have been sent to the state to protect the illegal drug shipments from thieves and others. According to the specious claims of the Obama Administration and the supremely inept Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Democrat Governor, Janet Napolitano, the state is as safe as ever.

Unless you are in a persistent vegetative state, any person would comprehend the dangers that these unfettered cartels present to the citizens of Arizona and the nation in general. Add this to the impact of millions of illegal aliens and countless terrorists crossing our unguarded borders and one can see the absolute arrogance, incompetence, and demagoguery of the Obama Administration in refusing to secure our borders and even suing the State of Arizona which is trying to protect its own citizens.

Which is all the more reason why the Democrats need to be voted out of office in November and impeachment proceedings against Obama and several others in his administration need to be expeditiously begun.

Mexican hit men stalk U.S.
Drug lords' gunmen target narcotics thieves, feds say
Jerry Seper     The Washington Times   October 17, 2010

Drug-smuggling gangs in Mexico have sent well-armed assassins, or "sicarios," into Arizona to locate and kill bandits who are ambushing and stealing loads of cocaine, marijuana and heroin headed to buyers in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security has warned Arizona law enforcement authorities.

In a memo first sent in May but widely circulated since, the department said a group of "15, very well-equipped and armed" assassins complete with body armor had been sent into the state to identify, locate and kill the drug thieves, who are thought to be independent operators.

The memo said the assassins had been dispatched to the Vekol Valley, a well-established and widely travelled drug-smuggling corridor running north and south across Interstate 8 between the Arizona towns of Casa Grande and Gila Bend. The valley is a direct link to both the interstate and to Phoenix, giving drug smugglers the option of shipping their goods to California or to major cities both north and east.

Disguised as groups of backpackers but carrying empty boxes covered with burlap, the memo said the paid assassins would attempt to "draw out the bandits." Once identified, it said, the assassins "will take out the bandits."

"We just received information from a proven, credible confidential source who reported that a meeting was held in Puerto Penasco, in which every smuggling organization who utilizes the Vekol Valley was told to attend," the memo said. "This included rival groups within the Guzman cartel."

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera heads what formally is known as the Sinaloa Cartel, which smuggles multi-ton loads of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico into the United States. One of the most powerful and dangerous drug gangs in Mexico, it also is known as the Guzman cartel and has been linked to the production, smuggling and distribution of Mexican marijuana and "black tar" heroin.

The federal government recently posted signs along Interstate 8 in the Vekol Valley warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers. The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, warning travelers they are entering an "active drug- and human-smuggling area" and may encounter "armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed."

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county includes the valley, told The Washington Times earlier this month that Mexican drug cartels have posted scouts on the high points around the valley to control movement in the area. He said they have radios, optics and "night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has."

"This is going on here in Arizona … 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States," he said.
The sheriff said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but got 15 signs along Interstate 8 instead.

Rising violence along the border has coincided with a crackdown in Mexico on warring drug gangs, who are seeking control of smuggling routes into the United States. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has waged a bloody campaign against powerful drug cartels, and more than 28,000 people have died since he launched his crackdown in late 2006.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has called the signs "an insult to the citizens of border states." He said American citizens should not have to be fearful for their lives on U.S. soil.

"If the federal government would do its job of enforcing immigration laws, we could better secure the border and better protect the citizens of border states," he aid.

Two years ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigative arm of Homeland Security, said in a report that border gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless and had begun targeting not only rivals, but federal, state and local police. ICE said the violence had risen dramatically as part of "an unprecedented surge."

The Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center, in its 2010 drug-threat assessment report, called the cartels "the single greatest drug-trafficking threat to the United States." It said Mexican gangs had established operations in every area of the United States and were expanding into rural and suburban areas.

It said assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers along the southwestern border were on the increase — up 46 percent against U.S. Border Patrol agents alone.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/15/mexican-assassins-headed-arizona/

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Illegal Alien Criminals Are Being Released Back On Our Streets Thanks To ICE

The more we learn about our government, the worse it gets. Innately and thoroughly inefficient, corrupt, incompetent and duplicitous. Millions of Americans are being duped daily, under the false impressions that our government may actually be performing its assigned functions.

One of the basic charges of the federal government is to protect the citizens of our country. This includes securing the borders and deporting or incarcerating criminal illegal aliens. Unbeknownst to most, this is not happening as revealed in the article below.

Such examples provide additional fodder for the ideological position that smaller government is better. Why should taxpayers pay billions more in tax dollars and get nothing or worse in return?

We could do far better keeping the money that we worked hard to earn rather than having the government take it away from us.

'Illegal immigrant criminals back on street, thanks to ICE’
Barbara Hollingsworth   10/20/10

Prince William Board chairman Corey Stewart told The Examiner that a top aide at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted to him that ICE has released more than a half million convicted criminal illegal immigrants back into American communities instead of deporting them.

Stewart also says that he is still waiting for information he requested about the whereabouts of some 2,739 criminals convicted in Prince William County since 2007 and sent to ICE for deportation. County police officers have already recaptured 249 of these felons.

Here is ICE’s response, received after deadline Tuesday:

“ICE has been in contact with Virginia law enforcement as well as state and local officials, including Mr. Stewart, on this issue.
These officials are aware that ICE is currently in the process of gathering an extensive amount of information in response to their request.

“Once this information is compiled, ICE has offered to give a briefing to Mr. Stewart and his colleagues. ICE has also alerted Virginia officials to the fact that any personally identifiable information they have requested about aliens encountered by ICE in Virginia is protected under the Privacy Act and will be redacted from any materials shared by ICE.”

So the federal agency whose main mission is to enforce federal immigration law is not only releasing convicted criminals who entered the U.S. illegally and victimized American citizens back into local communities, it’s now in the business of protecting the “privacy rights” of these felons and refusing to share “personally identifiable information” with duly elected local officials and law enforcement.

Draw your own conclusions.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/update-illegal-immigrant-criminals-back-on-street-thanks-to-ice-105345073.html

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Obama Administration’s Abuse of Power and Intimidation of Those Who Oppose Its Policies

Thomas Jefferson warned us over 2 centuries ago that:

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

The highly partisan, ideological, elitist and radical Obama Administration, abetted by a Democratic supermajority in the Senate and control of both houses, are contemptuously disregarding the will of the American people. They are imposing extremely unpopular legislation much of which steals our hard earned money, restricts our rights and increases and consolidates federal government power.

Because they essentially have “absolute” power, they are using it to intimidate average Americans and those who oppose its policies or actions.

Quintessential examples include the Obama Administration’s lawsuit against the state of Arizona which is enforcing federal law to protect the security and welfare of its citizens and its harassment and lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona.

THE TYRANICAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MUST BE “OVERTHROWN”!!

Sheriff Joe Arpaio In The Dock
Investor’s Business Daily    09/07/2010

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., speaks to the media.

Abuse Of Power: Our misnamed Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against an Arizona sheriff at the top of the administration's enemies list. Prosecute border sheriffs and sue states but protect the Black Panthers? Gotcha.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the county itself and outspoken Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The suit alleges that the sheriff's office is in violation of civil rights laws by refusing for 17 months to fully cooperate with an investigation into police practices and jail operations.

The federal probe itself deals with alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in the jails.

"The actions of the sheriff's office are unprecedented," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department's civil rights division. "It is unfortunate that the department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities."

What is unprecedented and unfortunate is the administration's war on Arizona for enforcing federal law and protecting its border, our border.

The feds have sued the state over the implementation of SB1070, which mirrors existing federal law, alleging that it's racist even though the law specifically prohibits racial profiling. The administration, in a report to the United Nations, has cited the state as a human rights violator.

Now it's Arpaio's turn. What makes the case interesting, as the Washington Examiner's Byron York reports, is that in September 2008, four months before the Obama administration took over and nine months before the Justice Department first informed Arpaio of its investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted its own investigation of Arpaio's office and procedures and found nothing inappropriate or illegal.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has 189 officers trained under the federal 287(g) program to enforce federal immigration laws. According to the ICE report, "The OI (Homeland Security's Office of Investigation) and DRO (Detention and Removal Operations office) consider the conduct and performance of the MCSO ... officers to be professional and meeting the standards of the MOA."

The Homeland Security Department has memorandums of agreement (MOAs) with some 70 state and local law enforcement agencies to participate in 287(g) partnerships to enforce federal law.

Arpaio's lawyers have a March 21, 2009, e-mail from an ICE employee to John P. Torres, then the acting assistant ICE secretary, that said, "Did you see this?" — referring to an attached news report of the DOJ investigation. "Yes," Torres responded a few minutes later, "interesting politics at play." Interesting politics indeed, for the charges and the investigation are clearly without merit.

We note with some interest that Perez was the Justice Department point man in explaining to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission why Justice was reluctant — no, refused — to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for its voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. Perez testified before the commission in April that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes."

But the case against Joe Arpaio is rock solid, right?

While Arpaio is being persecuted, er, prosecuted by the Justice Department, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu notes that when 3,000
National Guard troops were requested by Arizona law enforcement and both U.S. senators, the Obama administration sent a paltry 30.

Incredible.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Land Management has felt it necessary to place 15 signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 that links Phoenix, San Diego and Tucson warning travelers that they "may encounter armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high speed." The signs are 70 to 80 miles north of the border in what may now be called "occupied Arizona." This is unbelievable.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig crisis hit, the administration's first response was to send a team of Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents to determine whom to prosecute. When Florida's Marco Rubio threatened the Senate bid of the Obama-friendly Charlie Crist, the IRS and the FBI opened investigations into the alleged misuse of Republican Party credit cards. And ObamaCare is riddled with fines and threats of imprisonment if you don't do what the government tells you.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't the administration's only enemy threatened with government punishment. He's just at the top of the list right now.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/546283/201009071858/Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-In-The-Dock.aspx

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Obama Administration’s Policies Pervert the Intended Purposes of ICE

The Obama Administration’s policy positions for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Dept. (ICE) have not only rendered the agency impotent for its originally intended purposes but even worse, has transformed it into an advocate, supporter and facilitator of illegal immigration and associated illicit activities.

This has even created a unique and unprecedented action by the foot soldiers in the agency who vehemently assailed their superiors unanimously in disgust to these policy changes (ICE Agents Unanimously Critical of their Leadership and Politicization of Illegal Immigration Policies).

This should be one more issue to closely examine if and when actions are taken to impeach Obama.

Enforcement On ICE
Investor’s Business Daily 08/27/2010

Politics: If there's one agency that's been made useless by its leaders, it's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If, under a new policy, being here illegally is no longer reason enough for deportation, why does it still exist?

The Obama administration has effectively declared open borders to millions of would-be illegal immigrants — not through legislation, but with a sneaky policy move.

On Aug. 20, its man at ICE, John Morton, wrote a memo stating that being in the U.S. illegally is no longer sufficient reason to send someone home. An illegal immigrant now has to be a security threat or else commit a crime — and a violent one at that. To everyone else, ICE turns the blind eye.

Director Morton says it's a matter of priorities. But make no mistake: This is amnesty by another name.

Adding insult to injury, ICE will empty its costly, just-built detention centers of 17,000 existing deportation cases as long as an illegal can show that he or she has applied to become legal.

This, says the New York Times, will "pare huge case backlogs." And to ICE bureaucrats, it's proof they're doing their jobs.

In fact, it's an astonishing abrogation of duty. The policy turns ICE into a $6 billion border-jitney service for the subset of illegals who were picked up by other law enforcement agencies, convicted of violent crime and have served their time, and whose jailers didn't forget to put them on an "immigration hold" list.

Any others can make themselves at home.

That goes for the Mexican Zeta cartel members who are busy recruiting assassins in barrooms around Phoenix, as Fox News reported Friday.

Nothing violent about recruiting, you know — and that goes for illegal immigrants who've illegally voted in U.S. elections.

In the latter case, Fox reported that ICE itself helpfully sent a form letter to an illegal who admitted doing that, coaching him to take his name off the voter rolls first so his application could go through smoothly. ICE didn't mind that the man had admitted to committing a felony. The bureaucrats just wanted to issue him his U.S. citizenship so they could clear the backlog.

It also goes for the Mexican cartel members who may be buying off city governments like that of Cudahy, Calif., which is under FBI investigation. It also goes for illegal immigrants who invade rural properties at night in Arizona, terrifying ranchers.

Not surprisingly, there's no one angrier about this mission-nullification than ICE agents themselves. Last June their union issued a letter expressing a membership consensus of "no confidence" in Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven.

They have "abandoned the agency's core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their attention to campaigning for programs and policies related to amnesty," the agents declared.

By extension, no one's happier than the Mexican cartels that have muscled into the immigrant-smuggling business, making about a third of their income from fees charged for such assistance.

Morgan's no-deport policy is just the enticement they need to bring in new business that will fatten up the fee income they use to make war on the Mexican state.

Last Monday's discovery of a massacre of 72 would-be illegals in Tamaulipas, Mexico, on their way to Los Angeles makes clear what lies ahead. Human smuggling is an evil ICE should not encourage.

The cartels are monopolies that make $500,000 or so per human "load" into the U.S., but they also press many illegals into becoming foot soldiers. Some are forced into sex slavery, and others — as the sole survivor of the Tamaulipas massacre claimed — are ordered to become cartel assassins in the U.S. — or else.

The fact that the U.S. no longer enforces immigration laws for anyone except those with violent criminal or terrorist convictions will draw would-be immigrants into this racket like a magnet.

At a time when U.S. diplomats' families have been ordered to evacuate the consulate in Mexico's second-biggest city, Monterrey — as happened Friday — any encouragement of illegal immigration works at cross purposes to the real national security mission of defeating cartels.

ICE leaders talk smugly about "priorities," but they've effectively abandoned their agency's core law-enforcement mission and become servants of the immigration lobby. ICE should be allowed to do the job it's tasked with. Failing that, it should be disbanded.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545372/201008271903/Enforcement-On-ICE.aspx

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Are Secure Borders Asking Too Much?

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The Real Extremism of Obama and the Democrats

Our politicians are suppose to be our representatives, our employees, our servants. They are to represent our ideas, feelings and goals - to do what is in our best interest.

Unfortunately, "president?" Obama and most Democrats are pursuing actions that is in their best interests and diametrically opposed to our wishes.

Obamacare. Intentionally unsecured borders. Reckless federal spending of money that we don't have. Pork projects. Pro-Muslim/anti-Christian actions including Ground Zero support for a Trojan Horse mosque. ETC.

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Florida Seeks To Enact An Illegal Immigration Bill Similar To Arizona’s

Arizona is at the vanguard of states addressing their untenable illegal immigrant problem with its enactment of legislation, SB 1070. It appears that at least 20 states are considering such legislation with many using Arizona’s law as a paradigm. Among these other states that are strongly pursuing this course of action is Florida which hopes to construct a legally bullet proof version.

A majority of Americans strongly support these measures and vehemently oppose the Obama Administration’s position of abdication of its responsibility to protect the borders and secure America.

Florida AG McCollum, Lawmakers Unveil Immigration Bill Modeled After Arizona's
FOXNews.com     8/11/2010

Florida's attorney general and a group of state lawmakers moved Wednesday to push the Sunshine State into the forefront of the national illegal immigration debate with a bill modeled after Arizona's controversial law -- only, they claim, with a better shot of withstanding a court challenge.

Florida's attorney general and a group of state lawmakers moved Wednesday to push the Sunshine State into the forefront of the national illegal immigration debate with a bill modeled after Arizona's controversial law -- only, they claim, with a better shot of withstanding a court challenge.

State Attorney General Bill McCollum, following the lead of Virginia's top prosecutor, also issued an opinion saying state law enforcement already have the right to ask about immigration status in the course of their duties.

"This legislation will provide new enforcement tools for protecting our citizens and will help our state fight the ongoing problems created by illegal immigration," McCollum, a Republican, said in a written statement. "Florida will not be a sanctuary state for illegal aliens."

McCollum helped write the legislation, though Florida lawmakers will be responsible for pushing it in the legislature.

The move comes after a U.S. District Court judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's law. The battle between Arizona and the U.S. government, as well as civil rights groups, could make its way to the Supreme Court -- but while that fight plays out, several states are putting similar legislation on the table.

The Florida proposal would, like Arizona's, require law enforcement officers to check the residency status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant in the course of a "lawful stop."

It would require state businesses to use a national registry to ensure new employees are legal and would increase penalties for illegal immigrants who commit other crimes. The bill would also require non-citizen immigrants to carry immigration documentation or face a misdemeanor charge that could carry up to 20 days in jail.

Though McCollum's office said in a statement that the legislation was adjusted to "strengthen it" against a possible court challenge, the proposal would go beyond Arizona's by letting judges consider a defendant's illegal immigrant status during bond proceedings.

State Rep. William Snyder wrote the bill with McCollum.

The unveiling comes after Virginia State Attorney Ken Cuccinelli last week issued a ruling saying police can ask people about their immigration status during routine stops. The move prompted an objection from the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, which urged state police to ignore the opinion.

McCollum did something similar Wednesday, releasing an informal opinion to a state lawmaker saying "it appears that state and local law enforcement have the authority to inquire into the immigration status" of anyone detained under state law providing the questioning doesn't "prolong" the detention.

As Cuccinelli said, McCollum clarified that under current law, officers are not required to ask about immigration status.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/11/florida-ag-mccollum-unveils-immigration-modeled-arizonas/

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