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A lot is happening on the immigration front, mostly bad. Hugh Hewitt has taken to labeling it McCain-Kennedy Amnesty 2.0, which is fairly appropriate. Not sure what I would call it, except that anything Ted Kennedy supports and thinks is good, has got to be bad for this country. And this is. Here's a clip from MyWay News on what it does:

The proposed agreement would allow illegal immigrants to come forward and obtain a "Z visa" and - after paying fees and a $5,000 fine - ultimately get on track for permanent residency, which could take between eight and 13 years. Heads of households would have to return to their home countries first.

They could come forward right away to claim a probationary card that would let them live and work legally in the U.S., but could not begin the path to permanent residency or citizenship until border security improvements and the high-tech worker identification program were completed.

A new crop of low-skilled guest workers would have to return home after stints of two years. They could renew their visas twice, but would be required to leave for a year in between each time. If they wanted to stay in the U.S. permanently, they would have to apply under the point system for a limited pool of green cards.

There is a lot more to it than that, including to reports that the wall/fence has been cut and half and may be killed altogether.

Anything this loose on the handling of illegal aliens is bad, and amounts to amnesty. That is not something I would advocate as illegal aliens routinely use forged documents and harvest the Social Security numbers of working Americans in order to get jobs. That is not exactly law-abiding, and also leads to identify theft and bad credit ratings because of the illegal's activities.

This is something I currently have to deal with. It turns out an illegal alien has been using my social security number for sometime. I ma not HAPPY about that fact.

Now I learn they intend to grant them amnesty and let them stay.

Okay, it may be unrealistic to deport 12 million people, but to let them get off so easy for their criminal behavior is simply NOT RIGHT!

We must build a wall and secure our borders, north and south. After that, we can determine the best way to handle the growing problem of illegal aliens within our borders. Whether that means they are given a choice to go home and return as temporary workers or deport them and close the gates on those who violated our laws can be debated. But allowing them to stay and pay a $5,000 fine, which is way to little to discourage this kind of behavior, as they have violated more laws than just the manner in which they entered the U.S. , is plain wrong.

There may not be a perfect solution to the issue of illegal aliens within the U.S., but anything short of securing our borders first is a non-solution.

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Somehow, I am not surprised to learn that one of the border patrol agents now serving time for his involvment in the shooting of a drug smuggler has been assaulted while serving his sentence. From FoxNews:

One of two former Border Patrol agents sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting and wounding a suspected Mexican drug smuggler was beaten by a group of inmates last weekend, a Texas congressman confirmed Tuesday to FOXNews.com.

Ignacio Ramos, who was transferred to the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex in Mississippi last month to begin serving his 12-year sentence for the February 2005 shooting of Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, was placed in a special housing unit after the incident pending an investigation, according to T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council.

From Grassfire.org:

Less than one week after being transfered to a federal prison, Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos was severely beaten by as many as five illegal immigrants who, during that attack shouted, "Death to the Border Agent!"

These two agents were only doing their job, and it is an outrage that the drug smuggler in this incident, who was attempting to bring 800 pounds of drugs into the U.S., was sought out by Federal Agents in order to prosecute Ramos and Compean.

By allowing their convictions to stand, the U.S. sends a signal to smugglers and terrorists that they have free reign to violate our borders and destroy the careers of our law enforcement agents. It also tells our Border Agents that the U.S. will not stand by them in the aftermath of a shooting when drug smugglers are involved. With signals like that, it makes their job harder, and more dangerous.

Please consider signing the petition to pardon these two agents at grassfire.org.

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The news has been full of the recent shooting of an illegal alien named Oscar Gallegos by Santa Anna police. FoxNews:

More than 50 shots were fired between Santa Ana police officers and 33-year-old Oscar Gabriel Gallegos on Wednesday, Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters said.

Gallegos was a suspect in the Dec. 22 shootings of two Long Beach officers during a traffic stop.

It is obvious that the police did the right thing defending their lives when fired upon by this criminal illegal alien. Gallegos was killed during the exchange of gunfire.

What you don't read in the first few paragraphs, and in fact, do not find out until reading to the bottom of the article is that Gallegos was an illegal alien (the article says illegal "immigrant") and had previously been deported THREE TIMES. He also had a rap sheet dating back to 1990.

Gallegos was an illegal immigrant who had been deported three times and had a criminal record dating back to 1990, including arrests for drug offenses and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said.

Two Long Beach police officers are in the hospital, shot by this criminal. They are listed as critical but stable. These two officers, Abe Yap and Roy Wade would not be there now if we enforced our borders to keep these criminals from entering our country on a lark.

I pray for the speedy and full recovery of both of these officers.

It is regrettable that the Democrats that will soon control Congress will back off from the commitment to secure our borders and protect the American people from the criminals that routinely, and illegally, enter our country.

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With all the rants going on comparing America's leadership to Nazis and Hitler, why am I not surprised that illegal aliens and their supporters are now using the same tactics. Check this report on Yahoo:

U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

Let's look at some obvious differences. Germany's Jewish population were legitimate citizens of that country, not illegal aliens. The Nazis murdered MILLIONS of Jews (and others). America has NOT murdered any illegal aliens. We even do a pretty lousy job of deporting illegals.

They are calling such raids as took place in the Midwest earlier this month as being racist in nature, ignoring the fact that what was being done is rounding up hundreds of criminals, many of whom may be deported. some were found to be involved with identity theft, a very serious criminal activity.

"We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated," said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.

"This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up," Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. "Now they're coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?"

No, they are coming for illegal aliens. The fact that they do not resemble Mr. Spock of Star Trek does not mean they are not aliens, or not here illegally.

To claim that these raids were racist and reminiscent to Hitler and the Nazis is a repugnant attempt to silence opposition to their agenda of providing amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens.

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For anybody who still doesn't believe we don't need to secure our borders, check out this report on CNS News:

Gun-toting members of the Mexican military are crossing regularly into U.S. territory, where they are partnering with drug cartels and criminal gangs to protect sophisticated smuggling operations, according to Texas sheriffs and lawmakers.

The gist of the problem is that the Mexican Army has sided with the drug cartels and have routinely crossed into U.S. territory, running interference for the smuggling operations, interdicting our border and law enforcement officers efforts.

They are using fully automatic weapons and military equipment, including Humvees, and have been known to fire upon U.S. officials to protect drug shipments.

More than 200 incursions by the Mexican military of the U.S. southern border have been documented since the late 1990s, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) said in an interview.

"Our federal government denied it occurred until the Texas sheriffs took photos," he said. "There is no nation in the world that would allow this invasion to occur except for the United States."

Sounds like it is time to bring some of our troops that are currently occupying Germany home and posting them on our southern border. Unfortunately, I have my doubts that this will happen anytime soon, especially now since the Democrats control Congress.

In the meantime, our law enforcement officers on the border have to contend with drug runners protected by heavily armed Mexican soldiers, many of whom are believed to have been trained by (and in) the U.S. to fight the drug cartels. It is apparent that the lure of easy money has drawn many of these soldiers to perform these acts which are not only criminal in nature, but also constitute an act of war by Mexico against the United States.

No other country in the world would tolerate such acts. Why should we?

Samaniego recalled another Mexican military incursion he said had taken place in Santa Teresa, N.M., located across the state line from El Paso. Mexican soldiers in two Humvees "chased after" a U.S. Border Patrol agent until backup arrived while another U.S. agent also came under gunfire, Samaniego told Cybercast News Service.

Mexican soldiers chasing OUR Border Patrol agents? This should not be tolerated. Putting up a wall may stem the tide of illegal immigrants entering the United States. It may even help guard the border from these acts of war. However, there is nothing like placing a couple of divisions of troops on the border to get the message across to our "friends" to the south that these incursions will no longer be tolerated.

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