McCain’s Pandering to La Raza

John McCain flip-flops like crazy over the issue of border security and illegal aliens.

During a townhall meeting, he confronted “La Raza” radical Enrique Morones. Morones is a member of “Borders Angels”, another group of scofflaws who aid and abet illegals.

McCain: Let me just tell you sir, I talked about the people who have come across here illegally and those who have died in the desert. I know that — I come from a border state. I’ve been in Mexico many times. But there’s also drugs coming across our border, sir, that are killing Americans too. And they’re working right there [applause] — yes, sir, and they’re working right there and sending people who just want to come across the border illegally to cover their own activities. [voice rising] The United States of America has to have secure borders, sir, and I will do that. And that’s necessary even if you may disagree. Our nation’s national-security requirements are — that we have secure borders. But we can address this issue in a humane and compassionate fashion, I am committed to that and you have my commitment to it, and we will make it the highest priority, and if you don’t think that we have to secure our borders, then I respect your view but we just disagree.
Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/15/audio-mccain-rips-la-raza-activist-that-obama-praised/

This is what happened behind the scenes after  the exchange:

On a Mexican radio program on 1420 AM in Tijuana hosted by Odilon Garcia, Morones called in and gave more information on what Morones and McCain talked about after their public conversation took place.

Morones told Garcia that while McCain was talking on the microphone about the fact that drug smugglers are using migrants to cross over illegal drugs, Morones told him that the United States should stop the demand for illegal drugs.

After McCain ended his Q and A session, Morones and McCain spoke face to face and McCain told him about the need for Border Security. Morones asked the Senator to meet with him privately without cameras so Enrique could make the point that Immigration raids are “separating families” and border walls are “killing immigrants”. He told the Senator to ask Enrique’s good friend Juan Hernandez, whom Enrique had dinner the night before, to set up the private meeting. McCain told him that he would. Enrique said that he would ask McCain to sign an executive order to stop Immigration raids.

Enrique then adds, that he called Juan Hernandez about the mistake the McCain campaign is doing by portraying the picture of John McCain with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the background at the NCLR convention. Morones then told the story that on Saturday some students called him at the convention that they were upset with the McCain booth having a picture of Senator McCain with the Virgin of Guadalupe because the senator was using the image of the virgin for political purposes. One of the students took the picture and ran away. Some security officers ran off and caught the student but that the picture was not hung back. The next day the picture was not seen and Morones called that a victory.
Link: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

McCain was also a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, a proposed bill that would have granted amnesty to illegals.

But,this is what he told conservative bloggers:

As for the Dream Act, McCain told us that he would have voted against cloture (i.e., in favor of preventing a vote) because he “got the message” this summer that Americans want the border secured before we “go on to the rest.” McCain would deem parts of the border secure when the governor of the relevant state so certifies.
Link: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/10/018851.php

On the other hand, at a recent address to La Raza, Juan McAmnesty told an audience member that he’ll support the DREAM Act.

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivKVWGE2mU&eurl=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

He also has open-borders radicals like Juan Hernandez, on his staff:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/juan-open-borders-hernandez/

Dear Juan McAmnesty:

How about ENFORCING the law and preventing anymore MS 13’s, rapists, murderers, thieves, and terrorists, from traipsing across our sieve-like borders.

In other words, grow a pair, help secure the border, and stop pandering to illegals.

But, one can only DREAM.

ICE Attorney Arrested for Abetting Illegal Aliens

Like the fox watching the henhouse:

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife were arrested on suspicion of accepting thousands of dollars from both legal and illegal immigrants in exchange for immigration benefits, authorities said.

ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and wife Maria Kallas, 39, both of Alta Loma, were arrested Thursday at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, where authorities believed they were accepting such a bribe, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek said in a statement.

A search warrant affidavit said the couple, using a pair of companies they had set up, filed false employment petitions with federal authorities for 45 illegal immigrants and two legal permanent residents.Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_re_us/immigration_corruption

It’s bad enough the Border Patrol can’t stop the thousands who sneak in without detection, and that the Federal government rufuses to secure the border, but we also have to contend with slimeballs in the ICE who make it easier for more illegals to skirt the system.

I hope they throw the book at these two assholes.

Mexico Frees Murderers of U.S. Border Patrol Agents

Our ‘freinds’ the Mexicans:

U.S. officials say they are outraged that a judge in Mexico has released a man suspected of killing a Yuma border agent this year by ramming a Humvee into the agent’s all-terrain vehicle.

The release of 22-year-old Jesus Navarro Montes comes as U.S. Border Patrol agents grapple with an increase in vehicle-ramming attacks along the Mexican border in recent years.

Since Oct. 1, the Border Patrol in Arizona has logged 24 truck assaults on agents or their barricades along the border. The number hit a record 44 the previous year, which was before work crews built dozens of miles of vehicle barriers along the Arizona-Sonora line.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its agents also have seen a steady increase in vehicle attacks in recent months, although ICE does not keep statistics.

The ICE doesn’t keep track of illegals, either.

Navarro’s release last week, which since has come to U.S. officials’ attention, drew outrage from the Border Patrol and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

In a written statement Wednesday, Chertoff said, “We are shocked and appalled,” calling the death of Agent Luis Aguilar “a heinous act of violence.” Paul Beeson, head of the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, said he was “outraged” at the news.

Chertoff should be even more shocked and appalled at the fact that two border agents were imprisoned in 2006 for doing their jobs.
Links:
http://archive.glennbeck.com/realstory/10-23-06.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249478,00.html

But one Mexican official suggested it was U.S. authorities’ failure to act that led to Navarro’s release.

“The U.S. has not issued an arrest warrant or an extradition request and has presented no evidence of Navarro’s guilt,” said Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Yeah, maybe we shoulda sent Duane “Dog” Chapman, the Bounty Hunter, to get the sonofabitch since the government won’t do it. He had success nabbing a fugitive serial rapist, Andrew Luster, who fled to Mexico in 2003. Chapman was not only charged by the Mexican government for ‘kidnapping’, but arrested by the imbeciles in the Federal Marshals for doing the job they refused. All charges were subsequently dropped.
Links:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan30/0,4670,ChapmanExtradition,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213856,00.html

……Aguilar, a Yuma Sector agent, was killed in January when he laid a spike strip to stop a suspicious truck from returning to Mexico through the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area in California.

A Humvee struck Aguilar, 32, and crossed the border. Navarro, accused of being the driver, was arrested later in Mexicali. Navarro was held in a Mexican jail on prior human-smuggling charges until his release last week.

The diplomatic exchange over Navarro’s release comes as the Bush administration pushes for a $1.6 billion aid package to help Mexican law enforcement fight its drug war.
Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/26/20080626ramming.html

How about spending that money to build a BORDER WALL, George?

BTW: The scumbag illegal shot by the wrongfully imprisoned agents, was himself arrested:

EL PASO, Texas — The arrest of an admitted Mexican drug smuggler shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents is prompting renewed calls for the former law-enforcement officials’ release from prison.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso; a sealed indictment issued in October charged him with drug smuggling offenses.

“These guys absolutely need to be pardoned,” Rep. Tom Tancredo, R.-Colo., told FOX News on Friday.

The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were convicted last year of shooting Aldrete and lying about it. The agents were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

“This whole thing with Davila shows you how rotten the deal is they got,” Tancredo said.
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311996,00.html

Gotta love the ass-backwards mentality of the Department of Homeland Stupidity.

SCOTUS OKs Border Fence Expansion

This, in spite of enviro-wackjobs.

The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t stand in the way as the U.S. extends its security fence hundreds of miles along the border with Mexico, allowing building to proceed full-speed despite claims that it harms the environment and animals that live in the area.

……Given sporadic attention for years, the concept of a border fence took on new life after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which also revived the nation’s heated immigration debate. Intelligence officials have said the holes along the southwest border could provide places for terrorists to enter the country.

On Monday, the court declined to hear arguments in a case brought by environmental groups that could have slowed or even halted the multibillion-dollar fence project that stretches from the Pacific surf at Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. Some 331 miles of fencing had been constructed as of June 13, with about as much still to go.

The case involved a two-mile section of fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz. The section has already been built. Environmentalists have said the fence puts already endangered species such as two types of wild cats — the ocelot and the jaguarundi — in even more danger. The fence would prevent them from swimming across the Rio Grande to mate.
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/june/0624_border_fence1.shtml

More importantly, it will prevent the illegals and terrorists from swimming across.
For once, national security and common sense trump asinine causes like the snail darter….remember that one?

GW Orders Government Contractors to Hire Legal Workers

President Bush has signed an executive order requiring contractors and others who do business with the federal government to make sure their employees can legally work in the U.S.

Bush signed the order Friday and the White House announced it Monday.

The federal government has had some embarrassing moments when illegal workers have been discovered to be working for contractors they’ve hired, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a news conference. For that reason it’s trying to get its own house in order, Chertoff said.

No shit, Chertoff. I lost count of how many times I called the ICE over illegals working at Ft. Meade and Bolling AFB, when I was stationed in D.C.

“The federal government should lead by example and not merely by exhortation,” he said.

Wow. I think a light bulb finally went off over his bald dome.

The order says federal departments and agencies must require contractors to use an electronic system to verify that the workers are eligible to work in the U.S.

Homeland Security operates the Web-based E-Verify system, which Chertoff said 1,000 employers a week are signing up to use. The system allows employers to check Social Security numbers provided by employees. The order would affect hundreds of thousands of workers, at the least, and potentially millions, Chertoff said.

……”It is the policy of the executive branch to enforce fully the immigration laws of the United States, including the detection and removal of illegal aliens and the imposition of legal sanctions against employers that hire illegal aliens,” the executive order says.

Great. Now how about enforcing the laws against the ones who illegally cross the border. And build a wall, while you’re at it.

Most employees fill out I-9 forms and submit accompanying documents that employers generally look over to determine whether the worker is legitimate. With E-Verify system, employers enter a name and Social Security number into a computer using the Internet.

That’s horseshit. I’ve seen the hoards of illegals throughout Maryland, Northern Virginia, and D.C., and there’s no way in hell that each of them has a legitimate I-9 form.

……Also Monday, Chertoff said Homeland Security is awarding Boeing Co. contracts to build two sections of Arizona “virtual fence” that are a version of a prototype known as Project 28 that failed to perform as expected. Chertoff said Boeing will use fixed towers, radar, remote-controlled cameras, sensors and other technology in two areas of Arizona.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_immigration

That’s funny as hell. A “virtual fence”. So, that means the illegals will simply smile and wave at the cameras as they skip across the border.

How about a real  wall, roving armed Border Patrols, and guard towers with personnel equipped with rifles? That would be real  border security.