SwiftVets.com

[NYCnative]

Here is a website right up our alley!

First page reads as follows:

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING WARNING AND EXPLANATION BEFORE ENTERING

THE AMERICAN RESISTANCE FOUNDATION (T.A.R.) has taken the apparently extreme and radical position that American borders should be secured (as the Constitution demands) and that our laws should be enforced - and we are actually actively working to that end. In public! Out loud! This position has reportedly been deemed as worrisome to many Americans, and more than a few have chosen to keep a politically safe distance from us. While it is nice to know who is who, and to learn that patriotism comes in degrees of acceptance, we feel that the visitor should have fair warning.

If you want to be able to say that you care, without going out on a social limb… click here. Nothing will happen, as should be expected, but you may feel better for it. Your children however, will not. Even the French had a resistance.

If your goal is active participation, and to help stop the colonization of our nation that is occurring as a result of illegal immigration - and to stop the powers that are assisting in that process, please click here to continue. For motivation to make this decision, see this 2003 column on illegal immigration by D.A. King.

Enter THE AMERICAN RESISTANCE website

http://www.theamericanresistance.com/
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"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof." -Inscription on the Liberty Bell

[Beatrice1000]

COLORADO - here's one to watch:

“Colorado delegate determined to end illegals aid,” by Valerie Richardson, Washington Times, 2/7/05

DENVER — For state Rep. David Schultheis, the choice is clear: The Colorado legislature can pass his bill preventing illegal immigrants from receiving non-emergency state and county services. Or legislators can watch the proposal ignite an Arizona-style political wildfire as it goes before the voters as a November 2006 ballot initiative. ….

…."Most of the Democrats, frankly, will be opposed to this," he said. "But I really think the Democratic machine is out of touch with what the citizens want. I think they presume a lot because they have Hispanic support, but I think a lot of Hispanic citizens will be in favor of this." ….

….polls show most voters would support cutting off services as a way to discourage illegal immigration. A survey taken in Mr. Schultheis' district found that 86 percent of respondents agreed: "Only legal residents of Colorado should be allowed to receive benefits and services funded with tax dollars."

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“Vincente Fox, Labor Pimp,” Mac Johnson, 2/8/05

(excerpts)
….. Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, has made increasing the flow of his people out of Mexico and into America his highest priority in his relationship with the US. His expressed desire is that the border should pretty much cease to exist -- at least for Northbound traffic. He would prefer that America voluntarily acquiesce to his desire to depopulate his nation's poorest neighborhoods, but he is also prepared to achieve this depopulation unilaterally. ……With his enthusiastic support for emigration by the tens of millions, Vicente Fox has essentially said to his people "My best idea for Mexico is to send Mexicans someplace where people have better ideas." ….

…..America's acceptance of refugees by the millions has made it, effectively, the safety valve for tyrannical and incompetent governments the world over. Normally, bad government is unstable government. When a government makes a substantial part of its population destitute or unhappy, it can expect them to work against that government, first as individuals and over time as political parties, gangs -- or even armies. But with America close-by to absorb the most unhappy, bad governments have found a release for those segments of their populations they most fear: the poor, the ambitious, the disgruntled. …

…..There is no shame in poverty and no sin in seeking work, but there is something unseemly in a leader who sees people as a product for export. In all the discussion of the immigration issue, the one aspect I have not seen bluntly assessed is what a failed and myopic leader Vicente Fox is. In America, men are made rich and families are well fed by the energetic labor of Mexicans. An admirable Mexican government would set about reforming the country so that that same energetic Mexican labor could create riches and feed families inside Mexico. Fox's government simply wants to avoid the issue, preserve the established power structure, and make sure it gets a cut when Mexico's workforce auctions itself off to more efficient economies. Seeing his people forced to sell their labors abroad, Fox simply wants to act as pimp on the sale.

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[NYCnative]

That was an excellant article! Right on.. a failed leader that Fox is.. and a pimp!


Some in politics are working hard. I just saw Tom Tancredo on C-span and he believes he can make progress in this fight to keep our social programs and employers from accomodating the illegals.

This is an old article, but the House Reps. are paying more attention than the Senate. After all, how could the Republicans let Hillary take the lead in her "saying" she is going to fight the fight of open borders? She is seeing what the people want and she is positioning herself in that direction... The Republican party better wake up. This could be THE issue in the next election.. I missed the beginning of the program on C-span, but I think they are going to vote on Special Order 40 tomorrow.. Explanation below.

George Putnam
Sunday, May 16, 2004
It is this reporter's opinion that we face a nationwide crisis, with immigration laws completely out of hand and local law enforcement looking the other way in refusing to confront millions of illegal aliens invading America.

Whether it's Dearborn, Mich., or Los Angeles, Calif., too many officials are criticizing federal efforts that would require local police to assume a major role in enforcing federal immigration laws.

Let's face it: Greater efforts by local police would enhance the enforcement of our ungainly immigration laws. The fact is there are too few federal immigration agents pursuing some half-million illegals with standing deportation orders.

Those opposed to bills pending in Congress that would require police to play a larger role say that such crime-fighting relationships would destroy the trust in community policing they have developed over the years. What trust? With illegal aliens who violated our sovereignty when they invaded our porous borders?

The job of immigration authorities is not to assure illegal aliens that they can work and travel without fear of arrest or deportation; their job is not to make life easier for illegal aliens and their advocates, but to protect our nation and its citizens.

In Los Angeles I have met five chiefs of police in 50 years. The most recent is Chief William Bratton, whom we inherited from New York. Amazing as it may seem, Bratton actually supports Special Order 40, a police mandate that does not allow LAPD officers to inquire about the immigration status of criminal aliens.

Chief Bratton also supports LA's official recognition of the unverifiable Mexican Matricula I.D., in spite of testimony by the assistant director of the FBI's office of intelligence who says the card is not a reliable means of identification. And Chief Bratton supported the recalled Gov. Davis' signing of a driver's license bill for illegal aliens who would not have to pass background checks. But that's LA.

The whole issue becomes insane when we see an administration official and a U.S. congressman actually take pains to publicly assure illegals that they have no plans to enforce the laws they're sworn to uphold.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., head of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, has called for a White House investigation into public statements made by Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE) agent in charge Joseph Webber and U.S. Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, that they have no plans to arrest, deport or in any way hassle the scores of aliens illegally living and working in the Houston area.

Perhaps there may be some hope in our continuing battle against this overwhelming invasion by illegals. Recently, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has proposed legislation to stop the pay of federal bureaucrats who refuse to enforce our immigration laws.

Says Culberson: "I will do everything in my power to change federal law so that any federal official who does not enforce immigration law doesn't get paid. And that's just for starters." Culberson and Tancredo and a few others are now getting tough.

Additionally, California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican, has put forth HR 3722, which would require hospitals to report illegals seeking medical treatment. The bill, known as the Undocumented Alien Emergency Medical Assistance Amendment, aims to correct what the sponsor calls "the worst excesses of congressional actions favoring illegal aliens." Rohrabacher's bill would supersede an existing federal law that prohibits hospitals from asking patients about their immigration status.

Says Rohrabacher, "If we know that [illegal aliens are] in the U.S. consuming resources, that are taking health care resources away from our people, they should be deported and their own country should take care of them."

Make no mistake about it; we're talking about big money being spent on illegals, who in California have an open-ended tab on health care that is costing Los Angeles County more than $333,000,000 annually. Of the 800,000 indigent and uninsured served in LA County last year, 30 percent to 40 percent were illegals.

It's time for law enforcement, from the lowest cop on the beat to the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S., to enforce our immigration laws. Rep. Culberson has it right: Enforce immigration laws or lose your pay!
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"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof." -Inscription on the Liberty Bell

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Juarez Drug Gang Tries to Control Border
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050212/D886QK5O0.html

Feb 12, 2:02 AM (ET)
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexico's Juarez cartel, once thought to be in decline after its former leader died during plastic surgery, has formed alliances to gain control of smuggling routes along nearly all of the U.S. border. Authorities believe it has even infiltrated President Vicente Fox's office.

The Juarez cartel has become Mexico's most powerful drug gang, avoiding the arrests that other major gangs have suffered. Its only competitor in the drug trade is the Gulf cartel and its alliances, analysts and law enforcement officials say.

The Juarez cartel's battle to control the few spots out of its reach along the U.S.-Mexico border - mainly the city of Tijuana to the west and the stretch of border between Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros to the east - has left scores of people dead and even prompted U.S. officials to warn against travel to Mexico's northern border area.

Since taking office in 2000, Fox has repeatedly pledged to wage "the mother of all battles" and "continue the frontal attack" against drug traffickers.

Law enforcement officials have captured the top leaders of the Gulf and Tijuana cartels. But federal authorities have had little success breaking up the Juarez gang.

Speaking to reporters in Spain on Thursday, Fox said some news media and analysts had "exaggerated reports" that his administration had been infiltrated by drug traffickers.

But before leaving on his visit to Europe, Fox himself acknowledged that the influence of drug traffickers "has arrived at the level of the presidency" and that officials had increased his personal security after the arrest last week of Nahum Acosta, director of the office coordinating the president's travel.

Federal prosecutors accuse Acosta of selling information to the Juarez cartel, prompting fears the gang may have been planning an attack against Fox. The Attorney General's office says that was not the case, however.

"What we have is a bad public official who committed an illegal act," Deputy Attorney General Gilberto Higuera Bernal told a meeting of border state prosecutors this week. Higuera said federal officials are investigating whether Acosta acted alone or was part of network within Fox's staff.

The arrest came weeks after officials revealed that imprisoned drug lords were running their cartels from federal penitentiaries, bribing guards and planning escapes. In response, Fox sent federal police to take over the country's three maximum-security prisons.

The Juarez cartel, headquartered in the border city of the same name, across from El Paso, Texas, first flourished under the leadership of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died after botched plastic surgery in 1997.

Analysts say the cartel remained powerful because it paid off hundreds of law enforcement officials, including the head of Mexico's anti-drug agency, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, now jailed. Its operatives also killed anyone who tried to enter its turf and infiltrated Mexican intelligence.

"The Juarez cartel has always been the one that operates based on intelligence because other organizations function based on brute force," Mexico City analyst Jose Reveles said.

Mexico's top drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, said last month that Juarez was the country's strongest cartel, with only the Gulf gang as its competitor. Only two years ago, Mexico had at least eight major drug gangs.

Vasconcelos also said Juan Jose Esparragoza, once the operations chief of the Juarez cartel, is now its leader.

Esparragoza is known as an alliance-builder with close ties to cocaine producers in Colombia.

It was under Esparragoza's leadership that a pact was reached with two of the most powerful drug lords in Mexico: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from a maximum-security prison in 2001 and is known for directing the construction of drug tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border; and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who controls drug routes along the Sonora-Arizona border.

Now with operations all along the Pacific Coast, the Juarez cartel has launched a two-pronged attack, with Zambada fighting the Tijuana cartel for control of the lucrative smuggling routes on the California border, and Guzman trying to take over the drug trade in Tamaulipas, across the border from Texas, officials say.

Mexican authorities said the massive offensive by the Juarez cartel has prompted the formation of a rival alliance: that of Osiel Cardenas, who allegedly ran the Tamaulipas-based Gulf cartel, and Benjamin Arellano Felix, who police say led the Tijuana-based smuggling syndicate bearing his family name. The two are said to have joined forces behind bars at one of Mexico's top-security prison. They were separated as part of the crackdown.

On the front-lines of the fight, drug-related violence has intensified in Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas.

The area has been the scene of gunfights between operatives working for Guzman and the Zetas, a group of army deserters who authorities say have carried out dozens of drug-related killings for the Gulf cartel. The confrontations have left dozens dead.

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