Germantown, Penn. police say that 26 year old Jesus Ivan Arandaluna committed a dozen burglaries in the area, is an illegal alien and was previously deported:

Arandaluna was identified by an associate, Santos Perez Sibrian, after Sibrian was arrested. Sibrian had tried to sell a $12,000 watch in an area pawn shop for $1,000, arousing the suspicion of the shop keeper, who came to believe it was stolen, police said.

During the execution of a search warrant on the men’s residences, both located in the same trailer park where Arandaluna had lived with his girlfriend, jewelry was found from what police said could be a dozen homes.

This girlfriend mentioned above is the real story here. In 2004, when Arandaluna was 22 remember, he was living with his 14 year old girlfriend. With daddy’s permission!

This is as confusing as anything I have read.

In February 2004, Arandaluna was sentenced to three years of probation for having sex with his then 14-year-old girlfriend, court records show. But before he could be processed by parole, he was deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

So, in February of 2004, he is convicted and deported. But, six months later:

Arandaluna moved into a Germantown trailer park with his girlfriend. Court records say her father allowed it because she threatened to run away with him, as she had for nearly a month that same summer.

And in November 2004, rape charges were pressed against him. I am guessing that the February 2004 date may be a typo, and is supposed to be 2005.

Either way, this child rapist has now victimized twelve homeowners because of our lax border security.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a hated man. Advocates of illegal immigration can’t stand the man, referring to him as Hitler or a member of the KKK. But with an approval rating of 80 to 90 percent, the citizens of Maracopa County love the man:

The opprobrium heaped in Arpaio’s direction is water off a duck’s back: after 16 years in office, the veteran lawman is showing no signs of mellowing.

“It just makes me more vigilant and go out more,” Arpaio told AFP in an interview. “They ought to shut their mouth, let the system take its course, and if they don’t like the laws, go out and get them changed.

“But don’t try to intimidate me to stop enforcing the laws. It will never happen … That’s how I take care of business.”

During nearly two decades, Arpaio has garnered world-wide publicity for creating a tent city in the Arizona desert to house county jail inmates, sending out men and women in chain gangs to pick up trash, and clothing inmates in striped suits and pink underwear.

Sheriff Joe started cracking down on illegal immigration about 18 months ago. He says he has nothing against illegal immigrants personally, but:

“The minute you crossed the border, you violated the law,” Arpaio said. “There’s no doubt that illegals are involved in drug trafficking and other crimes. Many of them, maybe the majority, come here to work.

“Still, it’s illegal to come here. I’m going to continue to enforce the law. I took an oath of office. I’m the bad guy. That’s okay. It’s alright with me.”

Arpaio’s last sweep sent 200 deputies, helicopters, and an armored car into a one square-mile Latino-dominated town, pulling over anyone with a cracked tail-light or a broken windshield.

He rejects claims that his department is targeting anyone with brown skin.

“We don’t racial profile,” he said. “We lock everybody up. I’m an equal opportunity guy.”

If the federal government had a quarter of the heart concerning this issue that Sheriff Joe has in his little toe, I don’t think we would be waiting until 2011 for the border fence to be finished. America could use a few more men like Joe Arpaio.

How hard can this really be, folks?

When asked by Cybercast News Service if the border will be secure by the end of the Bush administration, Chertoff was upbeat but implied that finishing the job will fall to the next president of the United States.

“I think we will have made a dramatic amount of progress,” he said. “I think if we continue on the course we’ve set now we can get the border secure … sometime in 2011.”

Uh, what? 2011? You guys are just trying to secure the border? Not curing cancer or creating anti-matter? For crying out loud, Roosevelt won World War II in less time than it has taken you clowns to close down OUR borders!

Back in February, Pat Buchanan wrote:

Securing a border is not that difficult. In 1954, President Eisenhower sent an Army general to Texas to do it. He began repatriating thousands of Mexicans and had the situation in hand within a year. Along the San Diego corridor, a crude fence of corrugated steel matting from U.S. airfields in Vietnam has stopped illegal trucks from crossing, cut back 90 percent on the illegal alien traffic, and virtually eliminated murders and assaults in the border area.

Measures taken lately at the state and federal level, though grudgingly by the administration, have begun to bear fruit.

After Arizonans voted to cut off all social benefits to residents who could not prove they were in the country legally came reports of people pulling their kids out of public schools and leaving the state.

From the border come reports that added Border Patrol agents have reduced the number of illegal aliens apprehended, suggesting word has gone out south of the border that it is no longer so easy to walk in. And deportations of criminal aliens, long demanded, is actually going up.

Let it be said: Our border can be secured; the illegal aliens can be sent home; the magnets that draw them here can be turned off. This crisis can be resolved if the courage and will are there. Unfortunately, we have a government that does not seem to care and probable nominees neither of whom is committed in his heart to doing it.

So, which candidate for president in going to finish this program in 2011? Obama or McCain?

You know the answer as well as I do: neither.

Not to be confused with the Parker and Stone “Team America,” Tom Tancredo is running a PAC called, Team American PAC.

He recently sent out a letter to supporters:

Dear Friend,

I am writing to you today about a matter of critical importance for our immigration reform movement. But before I do, I want to tell you again just how deeply I appreciate your loyalty to our cause, and also your tremendous sacrifices for me during our presidential campaign. Literally, not a day has gone by since I ended my candidacy for the Republican nomination that I have not thought about you and the thousands of Americans who worked so hard, and contributed so generously, to help me force discussion of the illegal immigration crisis on to the presidential campaign stage.

Thank you, again, for all you have done for our cause and for me personally. I owe you a debt of thanks that words alone can never repay. Although our campaign ended, the fight to secure our borders and preserve our national identity has not. Far from it!

Last year “We the people” taught the elites a lesson when we killed the Bush-McCain-Kennedy bill, and the other side has not gained any ground in Congress since then!

But in November, we will elect a new Congress, as well as a new President. Whatever happens in these elections, we must be ready to stop the next effort by the open-borders lobby to jam amnesty for illegals down our throats.

And let’s face it: both the major presidential candidates have shown plenty of willingness to respond to pressure of the Hispanic and big business lobbies, and compromise America’s security at our borders! So it is imperative that we elect some strong pro-immigration reform, anti-amnesty candidates to Congress this year! And that is why I am writing to you today.

My good friend and conservative activist Bay Buchanan (who headed my presidential campaign) is chairman of the “Team America Political Action Committee.” Team America PAC exists for one and only one reason: to support the election to Congress of candidates who share our commitment to supporting full border security, and opposing all amnesty measures for illegal aliens (whether they call it amnesty or not).

In other words, Team America PAC only supports candidates that you and I would support. Team America PAC’s endorsement is the “Tancredo Gold Seal of Approval” for congressional candidates who support real immigration reform and oppose amnesty. Now that our presidential campaign is over, Bay is turning her attention to Team America PAC and to the upcoming congressional elections. One great benefit of our presidential campaign is that we helped inspire some really great immigration reform activists to run for office this year… now we need to help them!

Can I count on you to help our cause today with a generous contribution to Team America PAC? Bay and Team America need to raise money immediately to help our candidates, and since I don’t know of anyone more committed to this cause than you, I really hope you can help them today.[Click Here to contribute to Team America PAC]

I know you will do all you can to help Team America. You were always there when I needed you, and our cause needs you today! Thanks so much.

My best to you and your family,
Tom Tancredo
Founding Chairman, Team America PAC

PS. I’m continuing to fight hard in Congres for our cause. When my term in Congress ends, I will be continuing to work with you in the fight to secure our borders. Until then, your support of Team America is one of the best ways you can help our cause this year. You can visit their website and read about some of these great candidates at http://www.teamamericapac.org

Sounds like an organization we should be getting to know.

We have covered the illegal immigration topic extensively, and have come to the conclusion that our open border policy results in the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, the unnecessary deaths of Mexicans and other aliens in the desert and unnecessary deaths of American on the streets.

One of the many things that have been jaw-droppingly outrageous was the attempt by John McCain and Ted Kennedy to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” The American people spoke very loudly on that issue, demanding security first, then we can deal with the illegals in the country. It was loud enough that even McCain could hear it on the Democrat side of the aisle. Or so he said:

“I will secure the borders, I will secure the borders first.”

Fast forward to yesterday’s New York Times:

“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”

He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”

Mr. McCain asked others on the panels for suggestions about how to “better mobilize American public opinion” behind the notion of comprehensive immigration reform.

His attachment to this movement is enough to push away even those who swallowed hard and supported his candidacy, even when they didn’t care for him. People like John Hawkins at Right Wing News:

John McCain is a liar. He’s a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his “Read my lips, no new taxes pledge,” except that Bush’s father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.

Under these circumstances, I simply cannot continue to support a man like John McCain for the presidency. Since that is the case, I have already written the campaign and asked them to take me off of their mailing list and to no longer send me invitations to their teleconferences. I see no point in asking questions to a man who has no compunction about lying through his teeth on one of the most crucial election issues and then changing his position the first time he believes he can get away with it.

Moreover, I genuinely regret having to do this because I do still believe the country would be better off with John McCain as President as opposed to Obama or Clinton. However, I just cannot in good conscience cast a vote for a man who has told this big of a lie, for this long, about this important of an issue.

Welcome to the club, John. We’re expecting more, so grab a chair and let’s try to figure out what to do. I personally think a sandwich is a good start, but I usually do. After we eat, then maybe we can start lobbying for Tancredo as Veep.

Alberto Perez crossed the border into America illegally with the sole intent of robbing stores and taking the loot back across the border into Mexico. He smuggled a gun into the country, also illegal, and entered Soccer City.

He left in police custody:

Alberto Perez, 22, entered Soccer City around 5:40 p.m., pointed a gun at owner Lionel Sanchez and demanded money, according to police.

Police said Perez locked the store’s front door from the inside.

Sanchez told police Perez was talking to someone on the phone and indicated he planned to shoot.

When Perez momentarily let his guard down, police said, Sanchez lunged for the gun and wrestled it away, then shot Perez three times.

Sanchez has been studing martial arts for five years and said it is what gave him the confidence to go for the gun. He is not being charged with a crime.

Once again, drinking, driving and an insecure border has cost the lives of American citizens just minding their business:

Friends and family mourned the death of a prominent attorney, a young couple soon to be married and a Mexican immigrant who had long struggled with a drinking problem — all four of them killed in three-car collision Wednesday near the border of Merrillville and Winfield.

As Hough and Weiss pulled into the intersection of Randolph and 101st Avenue, Mario Cadena sped west, past a stop sign and into Hough’s Ford Explorer, driving the truck into Weiss’ Mustang. No one emerged alive from the twisted wreckage.

Is it just me, or are they trying to turn Mario into some sort of sob story because he “had long struggled with a drinking problem?” Mario was in the country illegally. He was driving illegally. He was driving under the influence. He is not the victim in this article.

He is the killer.

“I know people are going to say he was illegal and he was drunk,” Rodriguez said.

That’s because he was illegal and he was drunk.

“He was battling (alcoholism) as hard as he could. He was still reading his Bible every day, and he had things he wanted to do.”

So did Garry Weiss. So did Steve Hough. So did Amy Bartelmey.

Here in Arizona, drophouses for illegal aliens are a very real and common thing. While the pro-illegal people are busy protesting enforcement of immigration laws and calling people like me a racist, illegal aliens are getting raped, beaten, and shot in these drophouses.

The recently formed task force of federal, state and local detectives, called IIMPACT Arizona, dispatches investigators from its Phoenix headquarters when they get word that people are beaten, raped or shot at a drophouse. Detectives interrogate immigrants to identify and prosecute the coyotes. The team also builds files on who owns, runs and profits from such drophouses. [source]

It irritates me when this is framed as an issue of race. For the young girls who are raped while their captors hold the phone out so her parents can hear, I’m sure the word ‘racist’ isn’t even on the table. Illegal immigration is more than just Pedro coming across the border to pick lettuce. There is a great deal of human suffering inherent in the current system. Anybody who truly cares about “undocumented immigrants” shouldn’t be defending this system, they should be joining people like me in calling for change.

This isn’t a bad number of people to show up on a Thursday morning.

Brandishing American flags and signs reading “Stop the Invasion,” about 200 people showed up Thursday morning at De Anza Park to take part in a march against illegal immigration. [source]

As an American, I am proud of these folks getting out to march in support of enforcing immigration law and border security.

Across town, about 300 people showed up to march “for immigrant rights”.

A few miles away, another group - carrying images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and activist Cesar Chavez - promoted immigrant rights and condemned racism and the war.

Well that seems like a pretty wide range of things to march for in one shot, but God bless them for getting out to practice free speech. Somehow I don’t think they were marching on behalf of legal immigrants. I think they were probably marching to support people who break immigration law. They were trying to frame illegal immigration into an issue of race, which it is not. And they were throwing in the war protest part just because it’s in the liberal DNA and they can’t help it.

I think this quote from a ten-year illegal resident from Mexico at the pro-illegal rally is hilarious…

“I want to stay here,” she said in Spanish.

Honey, after ten years if you haven’t learned to say “I want to stay here” in English, you don’t seem committed to becoming a legal American citizen.

Read the full article here.

This is pretty regular news for the part of the country that I live in, but I think it’s important to bring it up from time to time so the rest of you don’t forget what’s happening along our southern border.

A Mexican teen found in the remote southern Arizona desert with extreme dehydration was rescued by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Border Patrol spokesman Mike Scioli said the rescue was triggered by a resident who called Tohono O’odham police, who then called the Border Patrol.

Agents found the 17-year-old boy from Chiapas in a remote area of the desert where he had been reported missing. Scioli said the boy was unable to walk because he was suffering from exposure to the elements and extreme dehydration.

The teen was taken by helicopter to a Tucson hospital, where he is recovering.

Monday’s high temperature of 95 degrees was about 14 degrees above average for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector have rescued 96 people in life-threatening situations between Oct. 1 and March, Scioli said.

In that same time period, 55 illegal immigrants have been found dead, according to the Pima County and Cochise County medical examiners offices. [source]

For the sake of those 55 human beings, we need to get our border secured, and make it possible for migrant workers to come into the country legally. How many Mexicans have to die in the desert before people stop pretending there’s not a problem?

I think this might have been an assignment I actually turned in on time. Make a protest sign for an issue or against an issue, and bring it to school. This should end well:

It was an assignment for history class–to make a protest sign for or against an issue, and Melanie said she chose illegal immigration. Her sign read, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.” Somehow, Melanie said the sign got passed around lunch and angered a group of Latino students.

Don’t these students know that Latinos getting angry at an illegal immigration sign is, like, reverse racism or something. I think they are stereotyping themselves somehow.

So, in the spirit of academia and free speech, they decided to not only beat the crap out of Melanie, but threaten to rape her also:

“I didn’t know any of these people,” she said. One young, she claimed, jumped on her back and he put her in a choke hold. “We have brick walls in the middle school and he slammed my face on the bricks.”

Melanie said a group of boys also threatened to rape and kill her.

Of course, since a high school is filled with people trained to teach your children better than you, and since we know that schools are there to protect children, you can rest assured in the knowledge that the school would handle this situation.

Eventually, the boys let her go and when she went for help, she was ordered back to class, and told she could not call her parents, she said.

Well, yeah. Isn’t that what you would do? If not, you are obviously not educated enough to handle complex issues like this. (Is my sarcasm coming across thick enough? This is print, so I have to lay it on pretty thick…)

So, here’s my questions? Will these kids be brought up on hate crime charges? This was obviously racially motivated.

And have the students been suspended pending review? Will Al Sharpton march for young Melanie, or the Latinos who assaulted her?

And why would you assign such a stupid assignment for history class?

Hat Tip: Wizbang

UPDATE:

Via KLTV 7:

Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District Attorney’s office for filing a false report, said AISD officials today.

Bowers claimed earlier this week that she was beaten and threatened - with killing and rape, no less - by a group of students at Athens ISD last Friday, for creating a protest sign saying, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.”

After Melanie’s accusations, administrators reviewed school survellience videotape of the incident - which, instead of showing students beating or attacking her, showed Bowers scratching herself on her arms, face, and neck, and walking through the halls of the school calmly long after she claimed the incident happened.

After Melanie’s parents were presented with that information and the video, the school confronted Melanie, and she admitted that she made the story up.

What a stupid thing to do. This girl needs to be severely punished.

With the borders as open as ever, the federal government has decided to pull the National Guard from the southern border in New Mexico, without explaining why:

Sate [sic] homeland security said the National Guard on the border will leave in July, six months earlier than expected. Officials said border agents won’t take over until December at the earliest, leaving more than 180 miles of border virtually unwatched.

The original plan was to have the National Guard watch the border until 6,000 new agents could be properly trained.

Border patrol officials said that won’t happen until December, but state officials said that’s not stopping the feds from pulling the plug early.

New Mexico’s Homeland Security, uh, person, says he is worried about a six-month “gap” on the border. Since I am a problem solver, I have three solutions to your problem.

1. New Mexico Minuteman Rough Riders
2. New Mexico Constitutional Militia
3. New Mexico National Guard

I say, “DAMN THE FEDS! WE’LL DO IT OURSELVES!” I’m sure you could find 6,000 volunteers. Why does the federal government have to do it? They are obviously not interested. Do it yourself. Your citizens will love you for it.

Wow. Thanks for finally noticing:

This video was added to Live Leak today, but this story might be a older than that. Still, good to see this topic is finally getting some mainstream attention.

Warren Meyer over at Coyote Blog comments on using E-Verify for the first time:

After some research, it is becoming clear to me that the federal government’s official position and the one that companies must agree to adopt when using e-verify is this: When using e-Verify, it is against the law to screen out anyone in the hiring process based on immigration status. Even if a company were to develop very strong evidence in the hiring process that a person is not a legal worker, that worker must still be hired (or at least not not-hired based on immigration status, if that makes sense). Then, and only then, after the person is on the payroll, may the company begin the process of checking to see if that person is legal. After weeks of various government steps, it may be required that the company fire that person, but apparently it could bring strong penalties to fire the person before the process has played out.

Is this nuts or what?

He is dealing with the federal government so it is almost expected. This is where the immigration issue is today because the federal government won’t pull its weight. Employers like Warren are now dealing with the federal government and all the B.S. that comes with it.

Meanwhile, the government can’t even build a fence, even a virtual one, in the same amount of time it took FDR to win World War II. One might wonder if they even want the border secured.