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Invasion. (UPDATE)

Be still my beating heart…

Somebody fax this to McCain.

The bloody consequences of open borders, part 99,999,999:
A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said.
The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border [...]

Poof!

Not welcome
A Border Patrol tipster e-mailed me about this earlier today. New Black Panther Party blowhard Malik Zulu Shabazz was turned away by Canada for his hate-mongering views:
The leader of the U.S.-based New Black Panther Party, whose invitation to Toronto angered Jewish groups, was denied entry into the country Tuesday morning, the Black Youth Taking [...]

Via Lucianne: Border Patrol Agents Under Attack
Judge rejects Padilla torture argument
Iraqi police recruits killed by female jihadi who hid a bomb under her abaya. Plus: New dispatch from the ground in Baghdad at Iraq the Model.
Ohio soldier missing in Iraq for 3 years
Where in the world is Ali-Reza Asgari?
In defense of Spc. Mario Lozano [...]

When I was writing Invasion five years ago, I interviewed immigration officials who joked that the rule for border-crossing prosecutions in southern California and Arizona was “thirteen strikes and you’re out.” So this new story from the Associated Press headlined “Border crossings rarely prosecuted” in Texas is no surprise. Same old, same old:
Guidelines issued [...]

Rest in peace, BP. There’s a No. 72 car waiting for you in the sky. When I used to cover NASCAR, I was near BP’s home track in Rockingham. Benny exemplified the down-home, approachable, good-humored charm that still draws people to NASCAR.
He was one of the best guys to talk to about the old [...]

This post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards, not by our dearest Michelle. No, seriously… I really mean it. I don’t look anything like her, and I’m married to a lady, not a dude. And I think I’m taller than she.
~^~
I must take unusual exception to the conclusion of one of my [...]

First, check out this reaction to yesterday’s illegal alien worker raids published in the Des Moines Register:

Caption: Hector Angel, a Marshalltown business owner, states his point of view about the raid as ICE buses roll away from the plant.
A natural response from open-borders zealots who’ve been giving the finger to immigration law for years. Right [...]

Allah points to this Fox News report on Pelosi’s pick.
The Dems will play up Reyes’ Border Patrol experience as evidence of his law enforcement bona fides and trustworthiness.
I remind you of Reyes’ crony scandal involving a no-bid contract for a broken U.S.-Canadian border camera system run by a firm that employed Reyes’ daughter as [...]

Jerry Taylor: Targeted on a Tucson golf range
Lee Malvo, one of the convicted Beltway-area snipers, has confessed to another murder:
Convicted Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo confessed to police that he and cohort John Allen Muhammad were responsible for the 2002 killing of a 60-year-old man on a Tucson golf course, Tucson authorities said Friday.
“He admitted [...]

President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act this morning. (Video here.) Efforts to water it down, such as it is, are still underway:
Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, both Texas Republicans, had wanted to amend the fence bill to give local governments more say about where fencing is erected. They lost that battle, but [...]

***Update: The border fence clears a Senate hurdle***
No, I’m not making it up:
U.S.-Mexico border fence may harm animal migration
A plan to fence off a third of the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
The House of Representatives [...]

I’ve already told you how underwhelmed I am by the GOP’s empty, election-season, unfunded border fence gestures. Mickey Kaus detected signs of a Frist fence flake-out on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulous yesterday, and I think Mickey’s radar is dead-on:
Has Sen. Frist given up on the border fence? It sure sounded that way [...]

Getting lots of alarmed e-mails asking about beheadings at the southern border and why they’re not being reported. Some readers are claiming the murder victims were US Border Patrol agents. Wrong. Others are attacking the media for ignoring it. Terrible crimes, no question. But there’s no cover-up. Here’s the story. Here’s more. Q&O blogger [...]

That’s what the president of the National Border Patrol Council calls the Senate immigration bill. Sounds right to me.
Diana West dubs it the “Dissolve America Now bill:”
The bill’s crazy provisions for allowing 66 million new legal immigrants into the United States by 2026 (twice the population of Canada) aside, the Senate bill grants citizenship [...]

The Minutemen began a fence-building project in Arizona today–and they didn’t ask Mexico’s permission. Chris Simcox issued a statement announcing the construction project now underway:
Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC”), today announced plans by the MCDC to work with local Arizona land owners to build border security fencing on private land [...]

Illegal immigrants hop the border fences and head for the storm drains on their “path to citizenship:”
Armando Reyes climbed over the border fence and prepared for the dash into San Diego. But his smuggler instead led him and four other migrants through a patch of reeds to a stinky drainage pipe, and ordered them inside.
The [...]

11pm EDT update: Video highlights of tonight’s O’Reilly Factor in which I try to make O’Reilly see the light here.
1030pm EDT update:
The only good thing about watching the speech was getting to watch it in the Fox News green room with Colorado GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, a stalwart immigration enforcement advocate. It was nice to [...]

Here we go again.
President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive “guest worker”/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush’s Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids…which, as I predicted, [...]

President Bush may finally be coming around to beefing up the border with National Guard troops, but it’s not stopping foreign governments and activist judges from interfering in the enforcement of our immigration laws. The Mexican consulate is investigating our immigration agents for arresting illegal aliens in northern Kentucky:
The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis has launched [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security is working overtime to quell citizen outrage over the Border Patrol/Mexico/Minutemen story. The contradictory spin doctors are not doing a very good job. I’ll have more in a moment.
But now is a crucial time to step back and look at this disturbing episode in a larger, informed [...]

***update from Daily Bulletin: ” Scott James, a former Tucson agent, resigned after eight years of service in February, citing a lack of support for agents by the Department of Homeland Security. He said that U.S. Border Patrol officials provided office space inside their headquarters to Mexican consulate officials, allowed the consulate to dictate the [...]

The Customs and Border Protection agency at DHS has issued a statement, much-ballyhooed by blind Bush supporters, which calls the Inland Valley Bulletin’s story on the Border Patrol/Minutemen/Mexican government “inaccurate.” Let’s examine the full bluster:
Today’s report by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, “U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols,” is inaccurate. Border Patrol does not report [...]

I’ll keep updating my first post on this subject with reader feedback. Meantime, the Minutemen Blog has details not reported by the Daily Bulletin:
Sara Carter, a reporter with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, reports today that she found documentation on Mexican government websites that show higher ups in the United States Border Patrol have been [...]

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Who does the U.S. Border Patrol work for? Apparently, not for us.
If you have high blood pressure, don’t read on. The Daily Bulletin reports:
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling the Mexican government [...]

Not that this is a surprise to anyone who has actually listened to President Bush’s open borders-sympathizing over the last five years, but here’s the “news” from AP tonight:
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 7:54 PM
A more accurate headline: Privately, Bush Says He Favors Amnesty
More:
WASHINGTON — President Bush [...]

The open-borders lobby has been phenomenally successful at getting the Beltway elite in both parties and in the media to embrace its blanket overgeneralizations and platitudes about the illegal alien population.
“They just come here to work.”
“They’re all Americans, too.”
“Illegals aren’t criminals.”
And so on.
Those who impertinently challenge such characterizations in an effort to bring the [...]