Be assured that behind this woman stand tens of millions of Americans who have absolutely no clue as to what is happening to their country, nor do they care to know. More at http://www.SHTFplan.com .
Jul
8
Guess who said in August 2006: “We live in a country of laws. We don’t do things sort of based on one person’s situation no matter how painful.” I will give you ONE guess??
”God wanted us united as a family…” (watch video)
Breitbart.tv � Flashback: Obama Argues for Rule of Law in Deporting Illegals Without Proper Papers.
Jun
20
Original Editorial by HALC Member Jeff Larson
Now With 40% More Added Unconstitutionality
- Will we be seeing more of these signs soon?
Well, this should be the third and final installment of Arizona Mythbusters, my look at Arizona SB 1070 as modified by Arizona HB 2162. If you missed the first two parts of Arizona Mythbusters, you can find Part I here and Part II here. What I’ve been doing is just looking at the plain text of the new Arizona laws, and just trying to explain what it all really means.
Can you go to jail in Arizona just for taking an illegal to church?
Full disclosure: I have an ancestor who was a lieutenant in George Washington’s Spy Corps, and I have a niece who is marrying an illegal later this year. I understand Juan’s English better than I understood some of my grad school professors, and Sammie’s Spanish proficiency has been growing by leaps and bounds…mostly from helping Juan’s family in the kitchen at family get-togethers.
Juan and Sammie are grateful that they don’t live in Arizona. Since Juan is already “in the system” and on his way to getting a green card because his mother is legal (she got amnesty a few years back), it is extremely unlikely that he’ll be deported unless he does something stupid, and Juan’s not that kind of guy. But most illegals know someone who has been deported, and are very careful to avoid that fate. In Juan and Sammie’s case, they’ve been reluctant to come to Texas for fear of him getting into immigration trouble. They absolutely won’t visit Arizona, because if Sammie was driving, she could be thrown into jail, too.
Jun
5
Original Editorial by HALC Member Jeff Larson
It’s Still The “Most Reprehensible Thing Since The Japanese Internment”
- Arizona Immigrant
Hey, I hope you had a fine Memorial Day. Myself, spent some time watching the video my daughter made for her history class, and tried to plumb the inner mysteries of Arizona SB 1070 as modified by Arizona HB 2162. That’s right, it’s time for the second installment of Arizona Mythbusters!
We last left off with the new Section 11-1051 of Title 11 of the Arizona Statutes. Today, we’ll start with the new Section 13-1509 that they added to Title 13 of the Statutes. 13-1509, subsection A:
“In addition to any violation of federal law, a person is guilty of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document if the person is in violation of 8 United States Code Section 1304(e) or 1306(a).”
Hmm. That sounds like “Your papers, please?“ That sounds reminiscent of second class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II when they had to have their papers with them at all times and were subject to routine inspections at the suspicion of being Jewish. Well, according to US federal law (Section 1304(e) referenced above), all legal aliens must have their papers with them at all times and are subject to routine inspections at the suspicion of being an alien. And that’s been the law of the land since 1940, when we were asking real Nazis in the US for “your papers, please?” All the Arizona law does is also make it a state crime to be in violation of federal law. Under federal law, the penalty for having a green card and not carrying it is a $100 fine and 30 days in jail. Ouch! Don’t leave home without that green card! If prosecuted under state law, the penalty is reduced to 20 days for a first offense, 30 days for a subsequent offense. There may be a loophole, though, that I’ll describe below.
Those Arizona legislators are real softies!
Immigrants really catch a break from Arizona if they never bothered to register in the first place. Under Arizona law, it’s still a $100 fine and 20/30 days in jail. On the federal side, failure to register is a $1000 fine and six months in the pokey. So, if I was an illegal who failed to register, I’d rather be prosectuted by Arizona than by the feds. Those Arizona legislators are real softies!
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May
23
I say if the City of Los Angeles really has a problem with the state of Arizona enforcing its borders, then, by all means, cancel the electrical grid service purchased from the state of Arizona. Let’s see how tempers flare in that stifling Los Angeles heat with no air conditioners or fans; air, road and boat travel disrupted, perhaps even stopped; food preparation compromised; storm water and sewage pump stations not operational; and other vital services are affected by your holier-than-thou denial of Arizona’s right to do what the damn federal government should be doing.
I’d also suggest that since the state of California is so accepting of people who decide to bypass immigration (and possibly other laws, as well), the state of California should GLADLY take any illegal alien caught in the state of Arizona. That would be the right thing to do, right??
Methinks those illegal aliens should have the choice of: 1) we ship, fly or walk your butt back from wherever you snuck in from; or 2) we put you on a train with well armed guards from local AZ law enforcement (or the local military base), drop you off five miles inside the border of CA, with the understanding that if you sneak back to AZ again, next time you won’t get option #2.
Talking about biting, maybe even taking off at the elbow, the hand that feeds you!! California’s boycott of Arizona would be it. It’s not like if you don’t like how HEB packages their apples, you can go to Kroger’s or the local farmer’s market and get what you want. Maybe this is more like the belligerent, not forward-thinking, pre-teen that shouts, “I hate you, Mom!! I never want to see or talk to you again! You’re ruining my life!!!!“, then slams the bedroom door shut. But then kiddo gets a call from a friend three minutes later, asks for a ride at 9:00 pm to the pizza parlor, and oh, by the way, “gimme $20, while you’re at it!!”
There are just not a ton of suppliers of surplus electricity grid producers that would be able to supply demand for a city the size of Los Angeles. Not without the costs skyrocketing to the end residential and business consumers.
My advice to the Arizona Corporation Commission, not that I think they’d really take it but at least they know they’ve got some support from people from all over, is, go ahead, let Los Angeles cancel their contract. They’ve probably eaten pizza too many times this month anyways!
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[From Media Research Center's Bias Alert for May 20, 2010, by Rich Noyes]
All three broadcast evening newscasts have repeatedly touted, as if it is a valid representation of national sentiment, the “boycott” of Arizona by liberal municipalities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. But when the Arizona Corporation Commission Commissioner on Tuesday made a tongue-in-cheek offer to help Los Angeles out in its boycott by shutting off the electricity flow, CBS and NBC were silent.
May
23
Original Editorial by HALC member Jeff Larson
New Arizona Law is “Most Reprehensible Thing Since the Japanese Internment”
Arizona Senate Bill 1070 sure has been in the news a lot lately. To read some accounts, you’d have thought Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had stolen a few pages from Adolph Hitler’s playbook, crossing out “Jews” wherever she found it and penciling in “Hispanics”. So, what’s really going on with Arizona’s new laws, and should anyone whose last name ends with a “z” leave the state now before the authorities can finish building the concentration camps?
Should anyone whose last name ends with a “z” leave Arizona before the concentration camps are complete?
The first thing to know about Senate Bill (SB) 1070 is that it’s already been changed by House Bill 2162, which was intended to head off any legal challenges to SB 1070. HB 2162 has already been signed by Governor Brewer. In this article, whenever I talk about SB 1070, I’m referring to the version that was modified by HB 2162, since the two bills taken together are the law of the land in Arizona.
So, let’s go through it and see what it says. There’s a lot to this, so I’m going to have to break it up into a least two parts.
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May
5
There has been plenty of controversy surrounding Arizona’s new immigration enforcement legislation; however, instead of being disputed, Arizona should be commended for addressing the immigration problems that the United States federal government has ignored. I would never deny anyone the opportunity to become a United States citizen, but the immigration process shall be strictly followed. The following list is my solutions to the United State’s immigration process.
The United States shall close all of its borders by:
- Establishing three military bases along the borders of California, Arizona, and Texas. All land along the border will be patrolled by the United States military, and all illegal immigrants that are caught will be processed (Picture and finger printed) returned from wherever they originated from. A second offense will result in prison not to exceed 2 years. A third offense will result a mandatory sentence of 5 years. In all cases they will be returned to their country.
- Stopping immediately all social services, e.g., Medicare, social security, Welfare, etc., for all immigrants and illegals. If these services are required, See USCIS on “How to become a United States Citizen.”
- Heavily fining any employers who are hiring illegal worker. The first offense will be 20% of the current years profits. Second offense will be 50% of the current years profits. Third offense will result in that company shutting down for 1 year and 100% of the current years profits. That illegal will be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 2 years and not more than $10,000. No exceptions.
- Instituting a 90-day forgiveness plan. During that 90-day period, all illegal immigrants will be encouraged to return home and start the legal process for returning to the United States. All paperwork shall be completed in order to return, and all immigrants shall have an ID (passport) and medical insurance. If an illegal immigrant ignores the 90-day forgiveness plan, then they will not be allowed to return to the US. If illegal is caught in anyway in the US, That person or person would face heavy fines and/or prison and lose of all properties and returned to the country of origin. (Up to, but not more than 2 years and/or up to, but not more that $10,000).
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Apr
30
April 30,2010 – Houston
The Houston Tea Party Society hosted an event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to allow candidates for the 2010 Congressional Races in the Houston and Southeast Texas to participate and sign the Contract From America. The event was open to all congressional Candidates in the South East Texas area including incumbents and challengers.
The Contract from America is self described as a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress. The initative was developed within the decentralized tea party and 912 movements. Ryan Hecker, a Houston Tea Party Society activist, developed the concept of creating a grassroots-generated call for reform prior to the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies.
John Culberson (R ) of Texas District 7 was the only incumbent present for the signing. The candidates in attendance included Libertarians Bruce West of the 8th district, David Smith of the 2nd District and Steve Susman of the 22nd District. Republican signers for the contract were John Faulk – District 18.
Congressional candidate David Smith, CD 2-TX
John Culberson was the first to sign the contract. Before signing the contract, he took exception to the 9th item which was to reduce pork. The contract states that congress will not pass any earmarks until the budget is balanced and only then with a 2/3 majority vote. Culberson declined to include that item and used a “Line item veto” with that rule.
Congressional candidate Steve Susman, CD 22-TX
All other candidates signed the contract without any exceptions or exemptions. David Smith who is opposing Ted Poe of the 2ndCongressional District, used his time to mention “Fiscal Responsibility is vital to our economy and our government.” He also noted that he had been busy campaigning in a non-stop door to door campaign.
Apr
30
Rep. Poe, we can’t capture the thousands of people who cross the border on the southern border of the United States because the members of the Committee on the Judiciary, the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership, and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, like YOU, keep giving retarded speeches that don’t do a damn thing except expel tons of CO2, which Mr. Gore is so fond of exploiting. Except maybe you can inflate your preening ego so you can try to keep attracting those 18-24 yr old females of whom you’re so fond… but I digress.
Rep. Poe Compares Immigrants To Grasshoppers
Besides Rep. Poe, you just voted to let Puerto Rico decide if they want to be annexed by voting YEA on one of the earlier votes for HR 2499, home to approximately 3.6 million people. In fact, you were a co-sponsor of H.R. 2499. Never mind the fact that Puerto Rico has had similar proposals on the ballot at least three times in the past 2o yrs and overwhelmingly turned it down EVERY time.
The median income (in 1999 dollars) for “households” is $14,412 and $16,543 for “families”. Per capita income (in 1999 dollars) is $8,185; of all ages of Puerto Ricans, 48.2% have income below the poverty level (in 1999 dollars) and an astounding 58.3% of related children under 18 yrs of age are living below the poverty level (in 1999 dollars). [See U. S. Census Bureau income and poverty statistics in 1999 & 2000 for Puerto Rico.]
Only 46% of Puerto Ricans are employed. (Ironically, “puerto rico” means “rich port” or “rich harbor.”) Of the Puerto Ricans who are employed, nearly half of those salaried people work either directly or indirectly for the government. Welfare payments (transfer payments) paid to individuals have increased drastically, skyrocketing from $69 million in 1968 to well over $8 billion in 2002. One-fifth of the islanders’ personal income is received in the form of disability, unemployment, and welfare payments. “This massive social spending, which began in the 1970s and continues today, has resulted in severe domestic disinvestment in the economy. Domestic capital investment has declined from 32 percent of GDP in 1970 to 16 percent in 2000. This means that the Puerto Rican government, rather than supporting the creation of jobs and market incentives, relies primarily on tax-induced revenue and foreign investment for any growth in the island’s GDP.”
Feb
27
[By Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press]
The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found.
The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can’t detect identity fraud, Westat said.
“Clearly it means it’s not doing its No. 1 job well enough,” said Marc Rosenblum, a researcher at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
E-Verify allows employers to run a worker’s information against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security databases to check whether the person is permitted to work in the U.S. The Obama administration has made cracking down on employers who hire people here illegally a central part of its immigration enforcement policy, and there are expectations that some Republicans in Congress will try in coming weeks to make E-Verify mandatory.
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