When I heard McCain’s Hispanic Outreach guy was none other than Smiling Juan Hernandez, I knew John McCain has heard nothing we have had to say.

Smiling Juan Hernadez
We know who he is, we know his loyalties are to Mexico, we know he wants to erase our borders and immigration laws.

JOHN MCCAIN, YOU NEED A NEW HEARING AID

Smiling Juan Hernandez
In case you don’t know him, he used to work for the Mexican govt., lately he has been shilling for “rights” for illegal aliens in this country. He has said he wants Mexicans to remain Mexicans even if they are living here. His loyalties are to Mexico, not U.S.

Gregory D. Lee

Ask any U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent about his job, and he or she will tell you that the vast majority of people they investigate and arrest for drug trafficking are primarily criminal illegal aliens from Mexico.

Having spent half my 20-year career with the DEA assigned to the Los Angeles division, I arrested my share of Mexican nationals. On one of the few occasions I arrested a Caucasian American citizen, other agents walking by the holding cell did double takes when they saw him. That’s how rare it is for the DEA to arrest an American citizen for major drug trafficking.

Please don’t misunderstand; Mexican nationals don’t have a monopoly on U.S drug trafficking. I’ve worked cases involving Cubans, Iranians, Venezuelans, Thais, Chinese, Cambodians, Nigerians, Frenchmen, Britons, Canadians, Pakistanis, Afghans, Israelis, Bolivians and, of course Colombians, who control the cocaine trade. But the overwhelming number of Mexican nationals I arrested far exceeded all others combined.

Once I posed undercover as a drug trafficker to negotiate the purchase of two kilograms of black tar heroin from a Mexican illegal alien. The suspect proudly told me he was the nephew of Rafael Caro-Quintero, the drug cartel leader who kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena while he was on diplomatic assignment to Mexico in 1985. When the man delivered the heroin to me, he was arrested, and we served a search warrant at his home where he had a loaded gun. His Mexican wife, also an illegal alien, was briefly detained and released. When it came close to the trial date, the man’s defense attorney actually offered to have his client plead guilty if the government wouldn’t deport his wife. That speaks volumes about the lack of respect for our immigration laws back then. The man later unconditionally pled guilty.

What struck me about that case, and many others I’ve worked, is that Mexican national drug traffickers will sometimes personally return to Mexico to pick up the drugs and return to the U.S. the next day, or would make a phone call to have an associate smuggle the drugs into the U.S. for them. This illustrates how porous our borders are.

As a DEA supervisor in Santa Ana, California, my office almost exclusively worked illegal alien Mexican national drug traffickers who sell the vast majority of methamphetamine in this country. An Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) special agent assigned to the group, who was supposed to handle the illegals we encountered, was so overwhelmed with work he became ineffective.

After encountering illegal aliens time and time again, I told my agents that the next time we did a search warrant and there were uninvolved illegals present, we were going to arrest them for immigration violations, even though it wasn’t in our investigative purview. As federal agents, we could arrest anyone for a federal violation committed in our presence. My plan was to arrest and immediately transport illegal aliens to the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint located just south of Santa Ana. Without exception, friends, relatives, wives and paramours of these suspects were arrested and handed over to the Border Patrol that day, and by that night, they were on a bus back in Tijuana.

My worst nightmare was mistakenly detaining a U.S. citizen and sending him back to Tijuana just like in the movie, Born in East L.A. with Cheech Marin. INS agents weren’t very happy with what we were doing, because we were essentially doing their job. They told me I should back off since immigration law was so complex.

How complex can it be? I asked everyone we detained if they were citizens, had a green card, held a U.S. visa, was eligible for immunity or was an asylum seeker. When the answer was no to every question, they were arrested. Without exception, the detainee admitted being here illegally and viewed the arrest as a minor inconvenience. Border Patrol agents told me that about half of those we arrested had prior arrests for illegal entry, yet the U.S. attorney would never prosecute.

Every local police officer should have authority to question a person’s immigration status during the normal performance of their duties and make arrests for federal immigration violations when appropriate.

It’s time for Congress to fund immigration law training for local law enforcement and mandate they enforce its provisions. Those states and “sanctuary cities” that refuse should be cut off of all federal funding until they go along with the program. Doing so would be a manpower multiplier for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. It would have a significant impact on crime in our local communities and make millions of jobs available for deserving Americans.

It’s not unusual to hear of a physician faced with criminal charges after making a mistake that causes harm or death – even if the error was made under stress (e.g. a crisis in the OR). Same thing for cops: act to save your own life and face years of litigation and personal ruin. Yet elected officials lay a trail of screw-ups from here to eternity and face no consequences worse than having to get a real job after the next election.

No matter the problems government officials cause, the taxpayers get stuck. Even if the victims of sanctuary policies could sue, the taxpayers get the bill. Which brings up an idea:

What needs to happen is that someone sues for billions and wins. San Francisco citizens then get draconian tax assessments to pay the damages – enough to trigger foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Once this happens a couple of times, people will start taking this voting thing seriously.

On August 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm, fred5676 said:
Please let me know when I can join you (Pelosi) in demanding that President Bush enforce our federal anti-sanctuary law. I will be happy to fly to Washington to join you and many others in this effort.

And would you please let ME know when I can join you to acknowledge ANYTHING that you plan to do that makes ANY COMMON SENSE AT ALL. I am not holding my breath either.

Here, since you asked, just click on the purpleish/maroonish lettering.

McAmnesty, still waiting for you to fire your Latino outreach director

Again, he was a nobody and if you were actually interested in doing anything about the problem and not just complaining you would join FAIR and vote McCain.
That might actually help the situation but getting involved in the fight against illegal immigration and open borders is more difficult then spending time here.

On August 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm, John Ansell said:
L.A. elected a former gang banger to be the Mayor. Villar. Or V!agragrossa.

Mayor MEChA

On August 21st, 2008 at 2:14 pm, TimothyJ said:

Fred, could you provide a link to mccain’s website? Thanks.

Please tell me you’re joking. Hard to believe someone who is registered here to participate in political discussion doesn’t know how to search on the web and/or has yet to get informed on the candidates for the most powerful elected office in the world.

Is this your browser’s home page?

Hello,

I have been trying for months to find out if Senator McCain, if elected President, will start enforcing the 1996 federal law against sanctuary policies for illegal aliens. President Bush has been AWOL on this issue.

I will be happy to vote for ANYONE who will pledge to enforce this 12 year old federal law. The recent murders and knife attacks by illegal alien gang members, shielded by San Francisco’s sanctuary policy, have made this a top priority with me and millions of others.

Will Senator McCain pledge to enforce this law?? If not, he does not deserve my vote. I hope he will, and please contact me if he does, and he will earn my vote.

Again, not holding my breath.