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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 Dale [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***scroll for updates*** 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, [...]

***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 [...]

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 [...]

***scroll for updates*** 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

See, I told you so. This morning I told you that the immigration raid dog-and-pony show would result in most of the illegal aliens arrested being released. The New York Times reports in tomorrow’ edition (hat tip Thomas Galvin): The arrests took place just days before the Senate reconvenes with immigration laws on its agenda. [...]

Quote of the morning comes from the incomparable Thomas Sowell (via RealClearPolitics): How often have we heard that illegal immigrants “take jobs that Americans will not do”? What is missing in this argument is what is crucial in any economic argument: price. Americans will not take many jobs at their current pay levels — and [...]

Photoshop courtesy of the Stein Report My syndicated column today follows up yesterday’s post about Arlen Specter’s Gold Card program for illegal aliens. Buy now, pay later: This proposal is a gargantuan political and bureaucratic disaster. It’s a slap in the face to millions of naturalized Americans who followed the rules to follow their dreams, [...]

Last week, I wrote “They are all profilers now“–mocking Democrats for their expedient embrace of profiling to exploit the ports fiasco. This week, I’m sick of conservatives playing the race card to attack skeptics of the ports deal. From my syndicated column today: It’s one thing for feckless grievance-mongers on the Left to accuse Americans [...]

Paging the Department of Homeland Security. Hello? Hello?! *New* via the San Diego Union Tribune : Two tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end. The tunnel begins about 85 feet below a [...]

The Inland Daily Bulletin reports on the latest armed Mexican incursions on our southern border: Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI. Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be [...]

I’ve reported before on the illegal alien gang MS-13′s past threats against American law enforcement officers. Now, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports on a new threat on Border Patrol agents: Mexican alien smugglers plan to pay violent gang members and smuggle them into the United States to murder Border Patrol agents, according to a [...]

Haven’t seen much coverage of the standoff over the weekend between US Border Patrol agents and armed Mexican bandits. The El Paso Times reports: A marijuana-laden dump truck got stuck in the Rio Grande on Thursday evening in Hudspeth County, leading to a standoff between U.S. law enforcement and what appeared to be the Mexican [...]

If you’re in southern California, check out the Liberty Film Festival for fair and balanced entertainment. Looks like there are some very interesting films, documentaries, and panels on tap for tomorrow. Also visit the Libertas blog for more info. Congrats to Jason, Govindini, and the rest of the organizers and sponsors. *** These features looked [...]

If you were paying attention, you read rumblings about the Department of Homeland Security’s shakeup in one of this blog’s special reports back in May. Well, now it’s officially done. DHS chief Michael Chertoff wil unveil the plan publicly at 1pm EST today. The key details via CQ: Many of the expected changes have long [...]

Tons of readers are asking me to comment on the story of Gregory Despres, the Bloody Chainsaw-Toting Freak, who crossed the Canadian-U.S. border in April carrying his entire murder kit. The Ottawa Citizen has a good overview of the story and this scary photo: (CP PHOTO/HO/WHDH-TV) (AP) It’s scary. It’s bizarre. Great water-cooler and cable [...]

I just obtained a May 2, 2005, memo (after the jump, below) from a Department of Homeland Security source. Bottom line: They’re moving around some bureaucratic furniture and getting rid of some dead wood. But it’s not all good news. The document reveals that Robert Bonner, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, has been asked [...]

Item #1–As noted by Chris Kelly last week on The Immigration Blog, Minuteman Project co-founder and newspaper publisher Chris Simcox was barred by Bush administration officials from attending a Department of Homeland Security press conference with DHS chief Michael Chertoff. The Washington Times follows up today: The press conference, at the Border Patrol’s field office [...]

Let me sum up the state of the immigration debate over the past two decades: 1986–I think we should protect our borders and enforce immigration laws. Response: Racist! 1996–I think we should do a better job of protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws. Response: Racist! 9/12/2001–I think we should really, finally get serious about [...]

My tribute to Deputy March is up at The Immigration Blog.

Here’s my column today on the status of the border-bungling pols in Washington. Headed down there now for the Hold Their Feet To Their Fire dinner. Back later with more.