…that Homeland Security publishes an annual document called Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. It contains all sorts of charts and graphs to show what is happening in Immigration.
The Yearbook has (well, HAD) five sections. They are:
Legal Permanent Residents
Refugees and Asylees
Naturalizations
Nonimmigrant Admissions
Enforcement
You can see the link here:
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data/
For some unexplained reason two sections do not appear in the Yearbook for 2007. Nonimmigrant Admissions and Enforcement are missing from the report.
Does anyone know why? Does anyone care?
I was snooping around the Homeland Security website today and I discovered that the Gary Mead was twice called to testify before Congress regarding his operation, Detentions and Removals.
Congress was not calling him in to ask if he needed more money or more help in housing and removing the illegal alien population. No sir.
Congress wanted to investigate allegations that he was detaining citizens, not aliens. And the second time they were concerned about the health and welfare of illegal aliens in custody.
Here are his remarks to Congress:
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/pi/news/testimonies/garymead_testimony_ice_interrogation_detention_and_removal_procedures.pdf
and
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/pi/news/testimonies/071004icetestimony.pdf
Has our country gone completely mad?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
The rights of the left - Part 2
In case you missed it, there is a You Tube of the Denver convention where a mob goes after Michelle Malkin.
You hear chants of "love, peace, justice" interspersed with "Kill Michelle Malkin." These aren't chants edited in. No sir. They are just as they took place and both chants are repeated several times.
What I didn't know is the power of this one tiny woman. Malkin is personally responsible for:
*The Iraq War
*9/11
*Halliburton
*The mortgage crisis
*Torture
*The New World Order
*Katrina
*FEMA Internment Camps
*Horrid age spots
*Body odor
*Bugs that won't come off the windshield
*Global warming
*Adolf Hitler
*Hunger (I mean "Food Insecurity")
*Pearl Harbor
...pretty much all the evils of mankind can be linked directly to her and her influence on government.
Of course, they leave out the fact that Bush and the RINOs despise her because she is constantly calling them out on the illegal alien crisis. And it won't improve with McCain in the White House. She's very clever, isn't she?
She was courageous and held her ground for the better part of ten minutes and then walked away. They followed her for a couple of blocks before finally giving up.
Not once did I see a Denver cop or anyone in security lift a finger to cool the confrontation.
Well, if you've got 10 minutes and the bandwidth take a look for yourself.
You hear chants of "love, peace, justice" interspersed with "Kill Michelle Malkin." These aren't chants edited in. No sir. They are just as they took place and both chants are repeated several times.
What I didn't know is the power of this one tiny woman. Malkin is personally responsible for:
*The Iraq War
*9/11
*Halliburton
*The mortgage crisis
*Torture
*The New World Order
*Katrina
*FEMA Internment Camps
*Horrid age spots
*Body odor
*Bugs that won't come off the windshield
*Global warming
*Adolf Hitler
*Hunger (I mean "Food Insecurity")
*Pearl Harbor
...pretty much all the evils of mankind can be linked directly to her and her influence on government.
Of course, they leave out the fact that Bush and the RINOs despise her because she is constantly calling them out on the illegal alien crisis. And it won't improve with McCain in the White House. She's very clever, isn't she?
She was courageous and held her ground for the better part of ten minutes and then walked away. They followed her for a couple of blocks before finally giving up.
Not once did I see a Denver cop or anyone in security lift a finger to cool the confrontation.
Well, if you've got 10 minutes and the bandwidth take a look for yourself.
The NEW Merida Initiative
I suppose you all know that all the necessary approvals were given to spend $1.6 BILLION on the Merida Intiatives, a taxpayer subsidy of the war on drugs South of the Border.
Mexico already has its first installment of $400 MILLION.
Merida is quite a nice place. Why else would these leaders meet there to divvy up our money? It’s close to Cancun. Lots of Mayan ruins to look at.
So, what’s the NEW Merida Initiative? Well, someone has dumped some bodies in town; 11 of them to be exact.
Quoting from the AP story, “The heads were not immediately found.”
Drug war deaths have become common in Mexico. So far this year the death toll is 2,600. But Merida is off the beaten path and a tourist town. Tijuana sure, but not Merida.
Lest we get too comfortable here, that same drug war has moved north. El Paso is on alert because Mexican hit men are looking for their own who have come here thinking they were safe.
But wait…there’s more. There are news reports from Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Florida and Alabama where the drug lords are killing people throughout their supply chain.
And Utah officials are now cleaning out a hybrid marijuana field with thousands of plants eight feet tall with two-inch thick stalks. Mexican illegals were arrested as they tended the fields off in remote canyons.
And Operation Community Shield, a Homeland Security program, is specifically dedicated to combating the infiltration of foreign criminals into the street gangs of the United States. They can’t keep up with all the activity. And frankly, picking up 50 at a time will not put a dent in the problem.
Where this all fits in with NAFTA and “Jobs Americans won’t do,” is unclear at this time.
Mexico already has its first installment of $400 MILLION.
Merida is quite a nice place. Why else would these leaders meet there to divvy up our money? It’s close to Cancun. Lots of Mayan ruins to look at.
So, what’s the NEW Merida Initiative? Well, someone has dumped some bodies in town; 11 of them to be exact.
Quoting from the AP story, “The heads were not immediately found.”
Drug war deaths have become common in Mexico. So far this year the death toll is 2,600. But Merida is off the beaten path and a tourist town. Tijuana sure, but not Merida.
Lest we get too comfortable here, that same drug war has moved north. El Paso is on alert because Mexican hit men are looking for their own who have come here thinking they were safe.
But wait…there’s more. There are news reports from Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Florida and Alabama where the drug lords are killing people throughout their supply chain.
And Utah officials are now cleaning out a hybrid marijuana field with thousands of plants eight feet tall with two-inch thick stalks. Mexican illegals were arrested as they tended the fields off in remote canyons.
And Operation Community Shield, a Homeland Security program, is specifically dedicated to combating the infiltration of foreign criminals into the street gangs of the United States. They can’t keep up with all the activity. And frankly, picking up 50 at a time will not put a dent in the problem.
Where this all fits in with NAFTA and “Jobs Americans won’t do,” is unclear at this time.
If the election were held today...
…I’d vote for Obama.
Why? Because of what he said when he made the surprise appearance at the convention on Wednesday night. I am told it was an unscripted statement, which means someone else didn’t write it for him.
(By the way, why don’t we elect those great speechwriters instead of the guys who are good at reading from a TelePrompTer?)
I’m assuming Barack was speaking from the heart on August 27th when he said: “I am so proud to have Joe Biden with me on this journey to take America back.”
That’s exactly what we need. FINALLY!…a candidate who understands it.
Take back America by eliminating citizenship at birth to children of illegal alien parents.
Take back America by sealing the border.
Take back America by getting a handle on expired visas.
Take back America by stepping up the deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
Take back America by putting employers of illegals in jail.
Take back America by requiring positive identification of job applicants.
Take back America by prosecuting those who harbor illegal aliens.
Take back America by prosecuting those who aid and abet them, instead of our current practice of giving them government grants.
Take back America by throwing the Mexican government out of our cities and towns.
Take back America by exposing globalization for what it really is; an effort by socialists to redistribute world wealth. (Ditto for global warming.)
Take back America by lowering the immigration levels to around 250,000 per year.
Take back America by ending chain migration.
So, I’ve got a call in to the Obama campaign just to make sure I understood him correctly.
Update:
Scratch that. False alarm. I misunderstood. In the background campaign workers were practicing the chant, “Yes we can!”, a phrase first used by Cesar Chavez in the 1972 United Farm Workers campaign.
Naw, he doesn't want to send the illegal aliens packing. He wants to embrace them and care for them and increase their wages and benefits. Heck, he wants to make sure the Social Security they paid under fraudulent circumstances gets credited to them.
How is that supposed to take back America?
If Obama plans to take back America I sure hope he has the receipt. I’m thinking this America was a gift he didn’t pay for. And there’s the rub in Barack’s utopia; how do you pay for it all.
Why? Because of what he said when he made the surprise appearance at the convention on Wednesday night. I am told it was an unscripted statement, which means someone else didn’t write it for him.
(By the way, why don’t we elect those great speechwriters instead of the guys who are good at reading from a TelePrompTer?)
I’m assuming Barack was speaking from the heart on August 27th when he said: “I am so proud to have Joe Biden with me on this journey to take America back.”
That’s exactly what we need. FINALLY!…a candidate who understands it.
Take back America by eliminating citizenship at birth to children of illegal alien parents.
Take back America by sealing the border.
Take back America by getting a handle on expired visas.
Take back America by stepping up the deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
Take back America by putting employers of illegals in jail.
Take back America by requiring positive identification of job applicants.
Take back America by prosecuting those who harbor illegal aliens.
Take back America by prosecuting those who aid and abet them, instead of our current practice of giving them government grants.
Take back America by throwing the Mexican government out of our cities and towns.
Take back America by exposing globalization for what it really is; an effort by socialists to redistribute world wealth. (Ditto for global warming.)
Take back America by lowering the immigration levels to around 250,000 per year.
Take back America by ending chain migration.
So, I’ve got a call in to the Obama campaign just to make sure I understood him correctly.
Update:
Scratch that. False alarm. I misunderstood. In the background campaign workers were practicing the chant, “Yes we can!”, a phrase first used by Cesar Chavez in the 1972 United Farm Workers campaign.
Naw, he doesn't want to send the illegal aliens packing. He wants to embrace them and care for them and increase their wages and benefits. Heck, he wants to make sure the Social Security they paid under fraudulent circumstances gets credited to them.
How is that supposed to take back America?
If Obama plans to take back America I sure hope he has the receipt. I’m thinking this America was a gift he didn’t pay for. And there’s the rub in Barack’s utopia; how do you pay for it all.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The rights of the left
Activist judges and modern interpretation of the Bill of Rights sometimes results in unintended consequences. It is one thing to demand the right to criticize our government and expect the publication of pornography to be protected.
It is quite another when that same logic works against you.
Case in point is a recent radio program on WGN in Chicago. WGN is owned by the Chicago Tribune’s parent company. It is a cut above some talk radio stations known for being conservative. It does not host Limbaugh or Ingram or Savage or any of the other celebrities who cause apoplexy among the progressives.
In fact, WGN Radio has had a dynasty of sorts in some time slots. Everyone in Chicago knows the names Wally Phillips, Bob Collins, and Spike O’Dell.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this Obama controversy is the target –Milt Rosenberg. For 35 years Milt has been on the air at night with intellectual fare that disregards the rules of radio and allows PhDs to discuss their favorite topics for two hours straight. The model can’t work, but it does.
So Milt has Stanley Kurtz on the air Wednesday (8/27) to talk about his analysis of a recently-released collection of documents from the 1990s. Barack Obama was the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a group charged with dispensing $100 MILLION in grants.
Obama worked with Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn in conjunction with the project. The University originally sealed the collection and refused public inspection. (Duh! A surefire way to generate interest in the files.)
So Monday night the university released the collection, Stanley came out to review it, and Wendesday night he’s on the air to talk about it.
Podcast segment one starts here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wgnradio/x720uncut
So the Obama campaign fires up the blitz machine and they start calling the radio station. They are calling from all over the country. They call an hour and a half before Stanley even opens his mouth.
Their complaint: WGN is biased and rude for having this man on the air during the DNC Convention in Denver. Stanley Kurtz is a kook with an anti-Obama agenda. Take him off the air.
Wrong approach, liberals! Here’s why:
1) WGN can do you a lot of good if you are friendly to them.
2) Spike O’Dell has been trying for months to get Obama on his morning drive show.
3) Stanley Kurtz is NOT a tinfoil hat hack. He’s a respected, conservative writer.
4) No one was out to compete with Obama for attention.
5) It sounds like censorship.
6) It calls attention to the papers.
7) More people will hear the podcast now than ever before.
Why would the party of openness and ideas shun the comments of two very articulate scholars? Maybe because they have something to hide? Maybe they don’t like dissention?
There is talk of changing media regulations as a direct assault on talk radio. Welcome back to King George III.
It is quite another when that same logic works against you.
Case in point is a recent radio program on WGN in Chicago. WGN is owned by the Chicago Tribune’s parent company. It is a cut above some talk radio stations known for being conservative. It does not host Limbaugh or Ingram or Savage or any of the other celebrities who cause apoplexy among the progressives.
In fact, WGN Radio has had a dynasty of sorts in some time slots. Everyone in Chicago knows the names Wally Phillips, Bob Collins, and Spike O’Dell.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this Obama controversy is the target –Milt Rosenberg. For 35 years Milt has been on the air at night with intellectual fare that disregards the rules of radio and allows PhDs to discuss their favorite topics for two hours straight. The model can’t work, but it does.
So Milt has Stanley Kurtz on the air Wednesday (8/27) to talk about his analysis of a recently-released collection of documents from the 1990s. Barack Obama was the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a group charged with dispensing $100 MILLION in grants.
Obama worked with Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn in conjunction with the project. The University originally sealed the collection and refused public inspection. (Duh! A surefire way to generate interest in the files.)
So Monday night the university released the collection, Stanley came out to review it, and Wendesday night he’s on the air to talk about it.
Podcast segment one starts here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wgnradio/x720uncut
So the Obama campaign fires up the blitz machine and they start calling the radio station. They are calling from all over the country. They call an hour and a half before Stanley even opens his mouth.
Their complaint: WGN is biased and rude for having this man on the air during the DNC Convention in Denver. Stanley Kurtz is a kook with an anti-Obama agenda. Take him off the air.
Wrong approach, liberals! Here’s why:
1) WGN can do you a lot of good if you are friendly to them.
2) Spike O’Dell has been trying for months to get Obama on his morning drive show.
3) Stanley Kurtz is NOT a tinfoil hat hack. He’s a respected, conservative writer.
4) No one was out to compete with Obama for attention.
5) It sounds like censorship.
6) It calls attention to the papers.
7) More people will hear the podcast now than ever before.
Why would the party of openness and ideas shun the comments of two very articulate scholars? Maybe because they have something to hide? Maybe they don’t like dissention?
There is talk of changing media regulations as a direct assault on talk radio. Welcome back to King George III.
Local coverage of Denver
I opened the Daily Herald this morning and the front page was laid out like this:
Under the banner was the story about the railroad tracks. It's a long story.
Right under that, still above the fold, is a sequence of photos showing Blago and Mike Madigan in a big hug at the DNC in Denver
THEN comes the historic Obama nomination.
The big Illinois story isn't that Obama was nominated. The big Illinois story is that the Governor and Illinois Speaker are actually talking to each other for a change.
In fact, all sorts of former enemies are now talking to Blago. They aren't just gestures of friendliness to put on a show for the public. Nor are they a smokescreen to blunt the Emil Jones comment that Hillary hold-outs are "Uncle Toms."
The story behind all this affection is this: Blago holds the cards for Obama's Senate seat if Barack wins in November. Blago will name the replacement. And the gift of a free Senate seat is a BIG gift.
Obama spent over $14 MILLION to win in 2004.
Plus, whoever is sitting in that seat come the next election has the incumbent advantage.
This is no small potatoes for any politician.
And to think that the only people who would even be seen photographed with the gov at the state fair a week ago were Emil Jones, his daugher and a pig. Even his daughter was reported as saying, "Oh Daddy, do I have to?" (That last one was a flat out lie on my part!)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Obama's Cone of Silence
You will hear all sorts of messages coming out of Denver this week. You might even hear some discord as the Clinton camp flexes their muscles on national TV.
But there is one thing you will not hear. You will not hear Obama say much about Illinois politics. Why? Well, because there is very little positive to say. In a masterful piece on the front page of the Daily Herald today, John Patterson, the political reporter held hostage in Springfield, explains Obama’s pals and how things are working out for them.
First there is Obama’s mentor, Emil Jones. The same Emil Jones who was pitching for a 12% raise this year until the political process shut him down. The same Emil Jones who anointed his own son to replace him when he retires later this year. The same Emil Jones who has been caught over and over again providing family and friends with state jobs and state contracts.
Then there is Todd Stroger, endorsed by Obama as Cook County Board Chairman. Todd was another political “anointment” when his father had a stroke. Todd has been instrumental in creating the county with the highest sales tax in all the land. Todd has trouble with big words at press conferences. Todd had decreed that he is too important to wait for elevators so he had an elevator at his office designated as his own.
Then there is Governor Blagojevich. His name is all over the papers in connection with Tony Rezko, Obama’s next door neighbor (sort of) and the current darling of influence peddling. And Blago is no model politician at consensus-building, which is Obama’s magic bullet solution for everything from foreign policy problems to high oil prices.
Shifting away from personalities to programs, Obama would do well NOT to mention state-run health care programs in Illinois. Problems there include:
1) Doctors and hospitals not getting paid
2) Doctors refusing to put their names on the list of providers
3) Freebie health care to illegal aliens
4) Lawsuits for medical mistakes and poor quality care
5) Failed legislation to expand the program
Patterson's article is a good read at:
http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=229757
You would think the Illinois GOP is gaining support like crazy with the Democrats in such disarray. Think again. Carpetbagger Alan Keyes is the reason Obama is in the senate in the first place. ‘nuf sed.
But there is one thing you will not hear. You will not hear Obama say much about Illinois politics. Why? Well, because there is very little positive to say. In a masterful piece on the front page of the Daily Herald today, John Patterson, the political reporter held hostage in Springfield, explains Obama’s pals and how things are working out for them.
First there is Obama’s mentor, Emil Jones. The same Emil Jones who was pitching for a 12% raise this year until the political process shut him down. The same Emil Jones who anointed his own son to replace him when he retires later this year. The same Emil Jones who has been caught over and over again providing family and friends with state jobs and state contracts.
Then there is Todd Stroger, endorsed by Obama as Cook County Board Chairman. Todd was another political “anointment” when his father had a stroke. Todd has been instrumental in creating the county with the highest sales tax in all the land. Todd has trouble with big words at press conferences. Todd had decreed that he is too important to wait for elevators so he had an elevator at his office designated as his own.
Then there is Governor Blagojevich. His name is all over the papers in connection with Tony Rezko, Obama’s next door neighbor (sort of) and the current darling of influence peddling. And Blago is no model politician at consensus-building, which is Obama’s magic bullet solution for everything from foreign policy problems to high oil prices.
Shifting away from personalities to programs, Obama would do well NOT to mention state-run health care programs in Illinois. Problems there include:
1) Doctors and hospitals not getting paid
2) Doctors refusing to put their names on the list of providers
3) Freebie health care to illegal aliens
4) Lawsuits for medical mistakes and poor quality care
5) Failed legislation to expand the program
Patterson's article is a good read at:
http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=229757
You would think the Illinois GOP is gaining support like crazy with the Democrats in such disarray. Think again. Carpetbagger Alan Keyes is the reason Obama is in the senate in the first place. ‘nuf sed.
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