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Amped up about illegals

**Written by Doug Powers Translation: We don’t need people who live 1500 miles away telling us what’s going on under our noses: Gov. Rick Perry (who had plans with a friend today) wasn’t willing to travel all the way to El Paso to meet President Obama on the tarmac, his spokeswoman said after the White [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Word is that Sheriff Joe — no, not this one — is considering a run for Senate: Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012. Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti-immigration [...]

Let’s get ready to rumble

**Written by Doug Powers When I heard that August 1st was the target date for National Guard troops at the US/Mexico border, I thought they meant August of this year, but that was a naive assumption. June 3: Mrs. Brewer said Mr. Obama promised to send administration officials to Arizona within a couple of weeks [...]

“We’ll leave the light on for ya…”

You’ve no doubt read about the Palin family’s snoopy new neighbor, author Joe McGinniss, who has rented a house 15 feet from the Palins’ backyard to conduct binocular-aided research for his Random House book. I’ll share more thoughts later on the media ethics issues and media double standards involved. For his part, Todd Palin wasted [...]

Yes we can!

Wink, nudge

Last week, I noted the murder of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas. He left behind a wife and two children. His community in Arizona has set up several memorial funds. The website “chipin” has a memorial page set up in honor of Agent Rosas. People can pay via credit or debit card. Proceeds will go [...]

Dude.

As expected, John McCain’s appearance at the annual convention of La Raza/The Race yielded no Hermana Souljah moments. Ed Morrissey points to McCain’s mild, almost apologetic rejoinder to open-borders zealot Enrique Morones and compares it to Barack Obama’s embrace of the radical activist. That’s a relief. But it’s the very least we could expect of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 blogmates [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

***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. [...]

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 [...]