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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
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"Government must defend us against INVASION by others"
-U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"It is a sad day in America when the law-makers side with the law-breakers against the law-abiding citizens." -Ezola Foster

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds, however, the timid join him...for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -Mark Twain

"While we slept, the United States was stolen." - author unknown

"At the current rate of invasion the United States will be completely over run with ILLEGAL aliens by the year 2025...only 20 years away. ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the U.S. and will have made such inroads into the political and social systems that they will have more influence than the U.S. Constitution over how the U.S. is governed. That ugly consequence is already taking place. The United States of America is under invasion." --- James Gilchrist - The MinuteMan Project

" Let's Roll !"- Todd Beamer -Deceased Hero of Flight 93, September 11, 2001.

Come on 'Merica, since our government doen't giva diddley, I spose we're a gonna hafta... Hope to see ya all there...!

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Ridge Outlines Progress in Security Cooperation With Mexico
U.S. Department of Homeland Security press release, November 9, 2004
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/MS-13.HTM

The United States and Mexico are making progress in efforts to secure their common border and are working together to dismantle terrorist and criminal networks, according to Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge.
Ridge traveled to Mexico to participate in the 21st meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission (BNC) and in a November 9 joint press conference with Mexican Secretary of the Interior Santiago Creel, he outlined progress made in securing the two nations. See the full text.

U.S. Cites Immigration Reform with Mexico as a Priority
Fact Sheet, United States-Mexico Binational Commission, November 9, 2004
Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced November 9 that immigration reform with Mexico will be a high priority during President Bush's second term, according to a U.S. State Department fact sheet.
The two cabinet secretaries stressed the importance of immigration reform at the 21st meeting of the United States-Mexico Binational Commission (BNC) in Mexico City, Mexico. See the full text.

White House Press Briefing
Excerpts of statements made by White House Spokesman Scott McClellan during a November 9 press briefing

Q: On immigration?

MR. McCLELLAN: ... the President has put forward a temporary worker program that he has had some discussions with members of Congress on, and he will continue to discuss with members of Congress and work to move forward on that initiative. It is a priority where he believes it's something that will help meet our -- an economic need, as well as provide a more humane treatment of those workers who are coming into the United States....

Q: Is the President going to move forward on his immigration plan that he proposed almost at the beginning of the year and didn't go anywhere, the three-year plan of legal work and then extend it for another period?

MR. McCLELLAN: He remains committed to that proposal. It's something we started discussions with members of Congress on previously. And it's something that he intends to work with members on to get moving again in the second term. It's something he believes very strongly in. America has always been a welcoming society, and this is a program that will match willing workers with willing employers. It will promote compassion for workers who right now have no protection, and it will protect the homeland by helping to control our borders better. And it also provides incentives for those temporary workers to eventually return home to their country of origin.

U.S. Hopes to Move Forward on Migration Accord with Mexico
U.S. Department of State transcript of Secretary Colin Powell's press briefing aboard a plane en route to Mexico City, Mexico, November 8, 2004
As President Bush looks to his second term, he hopes to move forward on a migration agreement with Mexico, particularly the temporary workers proposal he announced in January 2004, according to Secretary of State Colin Powell. En route to the 21st meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission in Mexico City, Mexico, Powell outlines the issues he and other members of the U.S. delegation will discuss with their Mexican counterparts. See the full transcript.

President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry
FDCH Political Transcripts
Excerpts from a transcript of the third presidential debate
Tempe, Arizona
October 13, 2004

The candidates' answers to a question on U.S. immigration policy follow:

SCHIEFFER (Bob Schieffer of CBS News, moderator): Let's go to a new question, Mr. President.

I got more e-mail this week on this question than any other question. And it is about immigration.

I'm told that at least 8,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Some people believe this is a security issue, as you know. Some believe it's an economic issue. Some see it as a human-rights issue.

How do you see it? And what do we need to do about it?

BUSH: I see it as a serious problem. I see it as a security issue, I see it as an economic issue, and I see it as a human-rights issue.

We're increasing the border security of the United States. We've got 1,000 more Border Patrol agents on the southern border.

We're using new equipment. We're using unmanned vehicles to spot people coming across.

And we'll continue to do so over the next four years. It's a subject I'm very familiar with. After all, I was a border governor for a while.

Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.

And so in order to take pressure off the borders, in order to make the borders more secure, I believe there ought to be a temporary worker card that allows a willing worker and a willing employer to mate up, so long as there's not an American willing to do that job, to join up in order to be able to fulfill the employers' needs.

That has the benefit of making sure our employers aren't breaking the law as they try to fill their workforce needs. It makes sure that the people coming across the border are humanely treated, that they're not kept in the shadows of our society, that they're able to go back and forth to see their families. See, the card, it'll have a period of time attached to it.

It also means it takes pressure off the border. If somebody is coming here to work with a card, it means they're not going to have to sneak across the border. It means our border patrol will be more likely to be able to focus on doing their job.

Now, it's very important for our citizens to also know that I don't believe we ought to have amnesty. I don't think we ought to reward illegal behavior. There are plenty of people standing in line to become a citizen. And we ought not to crowd these people ahead of them in line.

If they want to become a citizen, they can stand in line, too.

And here is where my opponent and I differ. In September 2003, he supported amnesty for illegal aliens.

SCHIEFFER: Time's up.

Senator?

KERRY: ... Now, with respect to immigration reform, the president broke his promise on immigration reform. He said he would reform it. Four years later he is now promising another plan.

Here's what I'll do: Number one, the borders are more leaking today than they were before 9/11. The fact is, we haven't done what we need to do to toughen up our borders, and I will.

Secondly, we need a guest-worker program, but if it's all we have, it's not going to solve the problem.

The second thing we need is to crack down on illegal hiring. It's against the law in the United States to hire people illegally, and we ought to be enforcing that law properly.

And thirdly, we need an earned-legalization program for people who have been here for a long time, stayed out of trouble, got a job, paid their taxes, and their kids are American. We got to start moving them toward full citizenship, out of the shadows.

SCHIEFFER: Do you want to respond, Mr. President?

BUSH: Well, to say that the borders are not as protected as they were prior to September the 11th shows he doesn't know the borders. They're much better protected today than they were when I was the governor of Texas.

We have much more manpower and much more equipment there.

He just doesn't understand how the borders work, evidently, to say that. That is an outrageous claim.

And we'll continue to protect our borders. We're continuing to increase manpower and equipment.

SCHIEFFER: Senator?

KERRY: Four thousand people a day are coming across the border.

The fact is that we now have people from the Middle East, allegedly, coming across the border.

And we're not doing what we ought to do in terms of the technology. We have iris-identification technology. We have thumbprint, fingerprint technology today. We can know who the people are, that they're really the people they say they are when they cross the border.

We could speed it up. There are huge delays.

The fact is our borders are not as secure as they ought to be, and I'll make them secure.

Al Qaeda Seeks Tie to Local Gangs: Salvadoran Group May Aid Entry to U.S.
By Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, September 28, 2004
According to this report, al Qaeda may be working with a violent Salvadoran gang to smuggle terrorists into the United States.
Al Qaeda leader Adnan G. El Shukrijumah reportedly met in July in Tegucigalpa, Honduras with leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (also known as the MS-13, because many members identify themselves with tattoos of the number 13) criminal gang requesting help in infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border.
Seper writes that the MS-13 has established "a major smuggling center in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, where it has arranged to bring illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico into the United States." The Mara Salvatrucha gang, Seper writes, is actively involved in alien, drug and weapons smuggling and their members in the United States have been tied to "numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings, extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults -- including at least seven killings in Virginia and a machete attack on a 16-year-old in Alexandria (Virginia) that severely mutilated his hands."
El Shukrijumah, who was born in Saudi Arabia but is thought to be a Yemen national, is known to carry passports from Saudi Arabia, Trinidad, Guyana and Canada. He is said to have been in Canada last year looking for nuclear material for a so-called "dirty bomb." He was named in a March 2003 material-witness arrest warrant by federal prosecutors in Northern Virginia in connection with potential terrorist threats against the United States.
El Shukrijumah is thought to have been involved in the 9/11 attacks and was among the seven suspected al Qaeda operatives identified in May by Attorney General John Ashcroft as being involved in new plans to attack the United States.

Special Investigation: America's Border
By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Time Magazine, September 20, 2004
This long, detailed story is featured on the cover of the September 20th edition of Time magazine. According to this article:
-- In a single day, more than 4,000 illegal immigrants walk into the United States along the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico.
-- According to Time's estimates, some 3 million illegal immigrants will enter the United States this year.
-- Most of the illegal immigrants entering the United States are Mexicans. But from October 1, 2003 through August 25, 2004, about 55,890 apprehended illegal immigrants were "other than Mexicans" (OTM). The OTMs who were apprehended came from Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela), Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia, China, Egypt, Iran and Iraq. An estimated 190,000 OTMs entered the United States undetected so far this year.
-- From October 2003 though August 25, 2004, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 1.1 million illegal immigrants in all its operations around the United States. But for every one illegal immigrant caught, an estimated three get into the country undetected.
-- The number of U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the 1,951-mile southern border with Mexico is now more than 9,900; up from 8,600 in the year 2000.
-- Last year, illegal immigrants sent $13 billion in remittances to their families in Mexico. The money sent back represents the third largest source of revenue in Mexico's economy, after oil and manufacturing.
-- Of the 400,000 illegal immigrants who have been ordered to be deported, 80,000 have criminal records.
The article focuses on the impact illegal immigration has had on the State of Arizona and its citizens. Among the issues:
-- Environment. Illegal immigrants crossing ranches along and near the border "turn the land into a vast latrine," according to the authors, "leaving behind revolting mounds of personal refuse and enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart."
-- Property damage. The refuse left by illegals is often ingested by cattle and horses, which become sick and sometimes die. The illegals cut fences, allowing livestock to escape into Mexican territory. Cattle from Mexico wander into the United States, where they are supposed to be in quarantine for 30 days and tested for disease. However, this seldom happens because there aren't enough cattle inspectors or holding corrals.
-- Health. The small community hospitals are racking up debt from emergency care administered to illegal immigrants whom they are required by law to treat. The illegals frequently suffer from dehydration, auto injuries, tuberculosis, AIDS and hepatitis. One small 14-bed hospital, the Copper Queen in Bisbee, Arizona must deal with some 500 emergency visits each month; its losses this year are estimated to be $450,000.
-- Crime. Smugglers (also known as "coyotes") frequently steal cars to transport their clients. Arizona now ranks first in cars stolen per capita; about 56,000 cars were stolen last year. In addition, the sheer numbers of illegals in some neighborhoods make the people living there feel unsafe.

Mexico Migrant Smugglers Turning to the Sea
By Will Weissert, Associated Press Online, Dateline Mexico City, September 16, 2004
There appears to be an upswing in the number of small boats, including pleasure craft, being used by human smugglers, according to this report.
This year, U.S. authorities in San Diego, which is across the border from Tijuana, have seized 12 boats carrying 48 Mexican and Chinese illegal immigrants; last year the number was three