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ATTENTION: Monday, June 27th: if you’re able to go to the Capitol. Please go to the rotunda 2nd floor, West wing. Go to the pages desk & ask to fill out a message card to your member. The page will then hand carry your note onto the House floor to your member. You may then watch the proceedings from the gallery (on the 3rd floor) or attend the Sen. Transp. Comm. hearing to register your support of HB 41/SB29 (attached and safe to open).

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Steve Baysinger
Chair, Tenth Amendment Center (Texas)

http://tenthamendmendmentcenter.com

From Judicial Watch

In a perplexing development ignored by the mainstream media, the Obama Administration suspended tens of thousands of deportations last year and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano lied to a Senate committee to cover up the astounding figure.

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From NumbersUSA, relating to votes last night (June 2, 2011) in the U.S. House dealing with immigration:

CRUSADES TO ATTACK ARIZONA ‘SPOTTER NESTS’AND SUPPORT THE ‘SHADOW WOLVES’

This was really quite a savory moment for Rosemary Jenks, your NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations.

By voice vote and after colorful descriptions by the sponsor, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), the House approved by voice vote two amendments that would:

- set aside $1 million for the Border Patrol to use to eliminate the Mexican drug cartels’ look-out posts along the borders,
- set aside $1 million for hiring additional Shadow Wolves, the extraordinarily and uniquely talented Native Americans who track illegal aliens and foreign para-military along the Mexican border.

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The title of the video is “Patriots Chew Out Illegal Alien Squatters.”  I don’t think that’s accurate.  At least some of the men are day laborers who live in Mexico and work in the U.S. during the day.  But that’s neither here nor there.

I neither condone nor condemn the behavior of either party in this video.  Both sides have their reasons for being there. 

The reason I posted the video is to start a discussion about methods.  Is this a good way to protest failed immigration policy?  Is this a good way to advocate for a more secure border?  Is this kind of direct, confrontational method effective?  If so, how is it effective?

What do you think?

It’s baaaaaaaack – the call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, otherwise known as Amnesty for those courageous enough to admit the truth.  Chris Cillizza has written an article for The Texas Insider that warns GOP presidential hopefuls to be mindful of the growing Hispanic population or suffer the consequences.  The underlying message seems to be that the GOP has no choice but to embrace “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (amnesty); otherwise, Hispanics will vote for the Democrat candidate en masse.  Once again, the Hispanic voter is characterized as monolithic and driven by this single issue. If only the GOP could phrase the issue the right way, Hispanics would flock to the GOP in droves thus sparing the nation from the evil and wicked LibProgs that constitute today’s Democrat Party.

What a crock.

First of all, the conservative base of the GOP overwhelmingly support securing the border before anything else. Any GOP candidate who advocates amnesty or amnesty lite or kinda-amnesty-but-not-quite will be sidelined immediately. No conservative voter will support another McCain.  Period.  Been there, done that.

The idea that inside the typical Hispanic voter is a Republican just waiting for the right “messaging” on illegal immigration insults my intelligence. Are there many Hispanics who reflexively vote for Democrats? Of course there are. But does their vote hinge on this single issue?  I seriously doubt it.  But for this one issue – illegal immigration – Hispanics would vote Republican? Really?

I think there is more – much more – to the Hispanic voter than that.  It’s high time we looked past convenient labels and got to the heart of the matter.  What do the Democrats represent, and why do their constituencies support them? It’s not an Hispanic thing.  It is much larger than that, and calls into question what motivates people to vote for Democrats in the first place.

Look at all the chaos and uncertainty that the Democrats have wrought in just 5 short years.  Trillions and trillions of dollars of debt, perpetual high unemployment, soaring fuel prices, the specter of a double dip recession or even full blown depression looming over the horizon, stagflation, inflation, a foreign policy in complete disarray, military misadventures based on mere whims, racialism as public policy, and on and on and on.

And on top of all that, we are BROKE.

If Hispanics vote for any Democrat after all the damage they have caused, is it even conceivable that their vote could have been affected by smart messaging on illegal immigration?

Not likely. Besides, where is the money going to come from? Let’s assume for the moment that the right “messaging” has been achieved, and conservatives are now on board with “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” which we all know amounts to amnesty, or at the very least a blanket grant of benefits to millions of illegals living “in the shadows.” WE’RE BROKE. There is no money to give to these people. This is no secret. Everyone knows we’re broke. So what good does it do to even entertain the notion that we would grant amnesty to millions of people, thus extending benefits to them that we cannot bestow?  It would be a lie, a bald-faced lie.

But maybe that’s what the Neocons are advocating.  Just lie.  Tell the Hispanics what (we think) they want to hear.  We don’t have the money to follow through on amnesty, anyway.  Just lie, get them to vote the “right” way, and we’ll worry about the aftermath later.

I think we should just be honest and forthright about the whole thing. We must first secure the border and develop some assessment method that objectively demonstrates that fact to the point where any reasonable person would say “Yup. The border is secure.” Maybe by that time, we will have averted a fiscal stroke and we will be able to calmly and rationally discuss the prospect of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (aka Amnesty). Until then, there’s really no point, mainly because WE’RE BROKE.

Folks,

The San Antonio Express/News has published the point/counter point editorial on immigration in today’s (Thursday, Dec.23, 2010) paper.

I am asking everyone to please write in to the letters to the editor to comment about the piece.

We need to show strong support for the conservative point of view when they are published so the editors can see our strength. Otherwise, we will be drowned out by the liberal left.

Please circulate the attached below guest editorial piece I wrote to all you friends and ask them to send in comments. Also, if you want to share it with your local newspaper, please be my guest. Let me know if I can help you in anyway.  

George Rodriguez
210-367-2058

MySanAntonio.com: Securing-U-S-border-tops-immigration-strategy

Texas Alliance for America Legal Defense & Education Fund

Texas Alliance for America Legal Defense and Education Fund

IRCOT – Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas

A Mexican law enforcement official involved in the search for missing American man David Hartley has been killed.

via Mexican investigator in David Hartley case decapitated.

How many more decapitations will it take before the border is closed?

By Chris Rowan
Originally puslished at NewsRealBlog.com

Barack Obama is the nation’s first-ever Affirmative Action President. It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder, would dispense Affirmative Justice.

Affirmative Action, simply put, seeks to correct past negative discrimination with positive discrimination. Call it “racial preference,” “employment equity,” “smiley-face discrimination,” or whatever, but Affirmative Action is basically a form of government-sanctioned discrimination that favors a particular group of people on the basis of some quality other than merit. This is not necessarily bad. Private employers do it all the time. My own father hired me on the basis of some quality other than merit – namely, the fact that I was his son. But he was not forced to hire me on the basis of some arbitrary federal quota, goal, or “guideline.” Such coercive measures are inevitably harmful both to people and institutions. The rule of unintended consequences applies.

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This is how one citizen from the state of Arizona views the illegal immigration issue in his state. 

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