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Getting lots of e-mail from readers and fellow bloggers about these photos of ACLU “legal observers” (scroll down)–assigned to monitor potential illegal activities of the Minuteman Project–apparently breaking the law themselves and smoking pot on the job. I’ve contacted the ACLU of Arizona for comment. Also am tracking down the person who took the photos. [...]

Looks like I’ve been made an honorary border patrol agent.

It has been a busy news day, but I can’t let President Bush’s appalling comments about law-abiding, pro-immigration enforcement Americans pass without comment. As reported in the Washington Times: President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as “vigilantes.” He said he would pressure Congress [...]

The Open Borders mob is going after Jim Gilchrist, organizer of the Minuteman project. The Orange County Register reports: Jim Gilchrist hopes most of his neighbors won’t believe the signs held by protesters at the entrance to his quiet, gated community. They included “Minuteman, a racist domestic terrorist” and “KKK supports Minuteman” scrawled in bold [...]

Dan Stein of the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform reports that liberal House Democrats have begun to pounce on the Bush administration’s border security lapses: I attended a Capitol Hill hearing today on “Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources.” No one could have missed the fact that Democrats are preparing to pounce on the Bush administration’s [...]

The open borders lobby is going into hysterics over the Minuteman Project, a grassroots organization of 500 volunteers who will converge on Cochise County, Ariz., in April to call attention to lax immigration enforcement. The MSM has taken to labeling the citizen volunteers “vigilantes,” prompting this response from one observer: Minutemen Project volunteers are not [...]

I’m continuing to track Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13, the violent illegal alien gang that has spread from El Salvador to Honduras to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and across the heartland. The latest arrest involves an illegal alien MS-13 member in Texas wanted for masterminding a shocking bus attack in Honduras in December that claimed the lives of [...]

You know those 2,000 Border Patrol agents President Bush promised to fund–and which Tom Ridge recently derided as “fool’s gold?” Well, the President’s proposed budget only funds 210 of them. I blogged on Bush’s backstabbing of the Border Patrol here. The Tar Pit has much more. House Homeland Security Chairman Chris Cox (R-Calif.) calls the [...]

Meant to blog this on Friday, but Rush Limbaugh delivered some tough remarks on federal spending and illegal immigration that have grass-roots conservatives buzzing. “We cannot maintain our sovereignty without securing and protecting our borders in an era where terrorists around the world seek entry to this country,” Limbaugh said in his radio monologue. John [...]

Yesterday on FOX News (video here thanks to Cheese and Crackers/Wes Roth), I discussed this report on increased assaults on Border Patrol agents along the southwestern border. Now, comes word that federal agents are being targeted for kidnap/murder plots by Mexican drug cartels. From the Brownsville Herald: A plot to kidnap and kill two FBI [...]

Terry Jeffrey blows the whistle.

For those who may still be laboring under the illusion that we are not at war, I strongly suggest that you visit Cryptome.org’s Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief page before it gets taken down. The proprietor, John Young, was leaked sensitive but unclassified homeland security briefs and posted five months’ worth of the briefs (Sept [...]

We all know about Bernard Kerik’s withdrawal in the wake of his disclosure that he had hired an illegal alien nanny. But two other Bush choices–AG nominee Al Gonzales and Agriculture Secretary nominee Mike Johanns –have far worse records on immigration enforcement. Gonzales was (and may still be) a member of the National Council of [...]

Can you imagine if an al Qaeda bureaucrat had ordered the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists to wear “I heart Osama” T-shirts when they embarked on their murderous flights? No idiot would send his men on a covert mission wearing clothes that would so blatantly give them away, right? Wrong. Meet Federal Air Marshal Service Director [...]

UPI’s Christian Bourge and Washington Times occasional writer Joel Mowbray each have good pieces providing details of immigration-related provisions that made it into the “intel reform” bill. The final product gives lie to the criticism that immigration/homeland security was “extraneous” to the measure. In truth, it was the other way around! As Bourge notes: In [...]

My column today is dedicated to the OBL–the Open Borders Lobby. If you are sick and tired of hearing La Raza and the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the White House(!) smearing supporters of real border security as “anti-immigrant,” get off your duff. Intro: The obtuseness of the [...]

that Tom Ridge is handing in his resignation. Some conservatives want Rudy Giuliani to replace Ridge. Before you get on the bandwagon, here’s my column from 2002 highlighting Giuliani’s open-borders court battle to keep New York City safe for illegal aliens and, yes, terrorists. Update: News conference is set for 2:45pm. Update II: Ridge says [...]

9:45ish: Finally, finally! Bob Schieffer asks about illegal immigration…but both candidates bomb. Bush’s perfunctory reference to how he has sprinkled a few more Border Patrol agents across the southern border glosses over the horrendous policies instituted under his Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in undermining those agents. As I noted recently: When a [...]

My latest column, keying off of this blog post on George P. Bush’s shameful remarks about the Border Patrol while campaigning for his uncle in Mexico, is here. The National Border Patrol Council’s new survey, which reports on the demoralization of immigration enforcement agents, is here. For more general info on how the feds have [...]

The Associated Press reports in a story headlined, “Bush’s Nephew, in Mexico, Calls Arming of Border Guards ‘reprehensible’:” President Bush’s nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns “reprehensible.” Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. [...]

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is a Saudi terror suspect with a $5 million bounty on his head. The FBI has been hunting him for nearly a year. He has been billed as the “next Mohammed Atta.” Only unlike Atta, he isn’t flying in and out of our airports. He’s apparently dancing around the southern border, [...]

Check out this headline from the Arizona Daily Star: Border agent fires at SUV as it tries to run him over The incident actually involved 12 illegal aliens with two vehicles trying to crash through the U.S.-Mexico border. Not only do the headline and story fail to mention the law-breakers who tried to mow down [...]

Martin at nationalterroralert.com passes on new info about another arrest of a South African (or at least someone traveling with a South African passport) with suspected terrorist ties knocking at our Southern border: A South African citizen has been arrested in Mexico for alleged involvement in al-Qaeda-linked terrorist activities, South African media reported on Thursday, [...]

(Make sure to scroll down for updates on the latest press conferences, etc.) ABC News first reported last night on an al Qaeda threat to New York City corporations. This is the key: Intelligence sources say al Qaeda plans to move non-Arab terrorists across the border with Mexico. The warning is related to the arrest [...]

Ok, all you open-borders Pollyannas on both the left and right. Here is yet another example of terrorists traipsing across our southern border that you will no doubt ignore. Meet Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. Federal News Radio reports: She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York. Eddie Flores [...]

Byron York’s take on Trousergate is excellent. He mentions something that caught my eye: It is not clear why Berger would focus solely on the millennium-plot report. But it is clear that the report has been the object of intense discussions during the September 11 investigation. The report was the result of a review done [...]

And gets burned big time. Dale Franks at QandO has a great summary and analysis of the Homeland Security Undersecretary’s appearance yesterday on KFI-AM’s John and Ken show in Los Angeles. These guys are doing what the Los Angeles Times editorial page ought to be doing: holding government officials accountable when they make pander-driven decisions [...]

…to all of the John & Ken listeners visiting for the first time. Here are links to the immigration-related items I discussed with John: John Kerry’s Sister Souljah Moment? Ashraf Ahmad Abdallah You can read more about my book, Invasion, by clicking on “Books” on the left. And there are plenty of other immigration/national security-related [...]

A reader from north of the border passes along an item for my Homeland Insecurity Files – Canadian Edition. A news article from the Ottawa Citizen on grievances by overworked and understaffed Canadian border patrol agents reports: Besides salary and classification disputes, protesters took exception to the Canada Border Services Agency employing summer students to [...]