Border Towns against The Fence, The Barrier, The Wall..








The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency plans to build a nearly 700-mile fence along the southern border of the United States to curb Undocumented immigration. The fence, which could be completed by year's end, would split border towns and alter the relationships between U.S. border communities and their neighbors in Mexico. Eagle Pass, Texas, Mayor Chad Foster, a proponent of border control without physical barriers, has worked with other border communities on the issue as president of the Texas Border Coalition. American City & County talked with Foster about how a physical barrier could affect his community.

Q: What is Eagle Pass' relationship like with the neighboring Mexican community, Piedras Negras?

A: If there's a fire in Piedras Negras, the Eagle Pass Fire Department responds to it. If there's a fire in Eagle Pass, the Piedras Negras Fire Department responds to our needs. Mexico endured their first tornado in the history of the country on April 24, 2007. I called Piedras to see what their needs were. There was an older neighborhood [that] needed chainsaws and generators to [remove debris]. [The] tornado [came] from Piedras, jumped the river and hit Maverick County, Texas. The governor of Coahuila, Mexico, [went] to Piedras Negras with resources to help [the city] with their cleanup. [Then], he sent manpower and equipment and helped us with our cleanup and never asked for a dime. That's the way we work on the border. We're two countries that have historically worked as one community.

Q: How would the proposed border fence affect Eagle Pass and other border communities?

A: In the lower Rio Grande Valley, there's 69.9 miles of fencing to be done. With that fencing done, we're, in actuality, ceding 2,400 acres to Mexico [that] are going to be on the wrong side of the fence. We're going to see [our historic] Fort Duncan Park, the basis for the existence of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, fenced out. Our municipal golf course, which goes to the river's edge, and our city park will be on the wrong side of the fence.

Q: What alternatives do you propose?

A: We're not advocating doing anything less than securing our border. The Texas Border Coalition [advocates] security as our priority, but one size does not fit all. In Texas, we have a bamboo-like plant that will grow 30 feet high and in some areas of the river, [it] can be as deep as a half a mile from the river's bank. Any illegal activity that gets into that cane is out of sight. So, we're advocating the eradication of [the plant]. That facilitates line of sight for border patrol agents. [Along] the Texas border, we have camera towers along the banks of the river, and we have border patrol boats that are physically patrolling the river. We've seen a 70 percent decrease in apprehensions with no physical barriers. We feel that we can secure our Texas border without the need for any physical barriers.

Q: Why would the fence not be an effective way to secure the border?

A: Border Patrol has admitted [that] this fencing will only slow an illegal entry down three to four minutes. We just don't think that's good enough when the Congressional Research Service [studied] the expense of building 700 miles of fence. Maintaining it for 20 years will cost the taxpayers in excess of $49 billion. It makes no sense, especially when we have technology available to secure our border rather [than using] the antiquated solutions that haven't been used since the 16th century. No one knows our border better than those [of us who] live and raise our families

The Border: A wall or a Barrier?








In the current flap over building a wall between Mexico and the United States, it would be well to keep in mind Robert Frost’s injunction “something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” That “something” is that a wall is a barrier.

In the case of a “wall” between the United States and Mexico, a wall is a manifestation of conflict, just as the Berlin Wall was a manifestation of conflict. Essentially, conflict is an interactive process or behavior. That’s why the Berlin Wall escalated the Cold War. And why a wall be-tween the United States and Mexico will only escalate the enmity between the two countries.

Ronald Reagan’s plea to Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”—referring to the Berlin Wall—is not what brought down the wall. On the contrary, it was Mikhail Gorbachev’s response that brought down the wall. Instead of escalating the cycle of conflict, the Soviet leader chose to ignore the rhetoric of conflict and for whatever reasons take the first step in repairing U.S.—Soviet relations. There is no doubt that the U.S.—Soviet conflict had developed mutually destructive patterns of interactive behavior, the consequences of which heralded Armageddon.

When asked about the U.S.—Mexico wall in a 2006 visit to the United States, Mikhail Gorbachev responded that the United States seemed to be building the Great Wall of China between itself and Mexico (Midland Reporter-Telegram, 10/18/2006).

In the current American rhetoric about controlling the nation’s borders the question looms large: Why on the one hand did the U.S. want the Berlin Wall torn down and on the other hand does it want to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico? There is no evading the possibility of racism and selective amnesia about the history of walls.

While the Berlin Wall did function as the perimeter of a "prison" state, its principal objective was to keep out extra-territorial influences that were anathema to the state dictum of the Soviet Union. A U.S. wall on its border with Mexico has the same objectives -- to keep out extra-territorial influences (the uninvited, the unwelcome, the Undesirable, and the unwanted) that are deemed anathema to the apodictic values of the United States

In Europe and well understood the nature of the Berlin Wall. But a wall between the United States and Mexico is not about penetrability. It’s about “good neighbors.” Why not a wall between the United States and Canada? Or a wall along the Florida coast to keep out Cubans? The inference is that Canadians and fleeing Cubans are good neighbors; Mexicans are not?.
Will a wall between the United States and Mexico help the United States in controlling its border with Mexico?.

In a piece on “Fences and Neighbors,” Rick Toone characterized the U.S.—Mexico wall as “a shining symbol of American economic and environmental arrogance.” And in a washington-post.com article (Sunday, May 27, 2007; B01), Luis Alberto Urrea quotes the Mexican consul in Tucson calling the U.S.—Mexico wall “the politics of stupidity.” In the National Geographic (May 2007), Charles Bowden concludes that “Fences may make good neighbors, but the barriers dividing U.S. and Mexico are proving much more complicated.

Enforce the Rule of Law.....It's getting ugly out there.
Hate crime against Hispanics has been rising at top levels.!!!!!!!!.




We see too often Hispanic leaders, Immigration advocates and Hispanics has been receiving a Death Threats, hate mail, do to their position and support on Comprehensive Immigration reform.

For North Carolina's Hispanic leaders, the biggest hazards of the job were once long hours. Now, they include death threats.
A pair of the state's most prominent advocates, Andrea Bazán and Tony Asion, say that for the past several months, each time they have spoken publicly, they have gotten a raft of profanity-laced messages, some of them exhorting them to return to their home countries and others denigrating Hispanics. Several legislators say they have also gotten messages recently that cross the line into racism, and one got a menacing voice mail.

Threats of violence are becoming common enough that Bazán, president of the philanthropic Triangle Community Foundation, has requested protection at some public appearances. Asion, director of the Raleigh Hispanic advocacy group El Pueblo and a former police officer, said he has received two handwritten death threats at his office since May.

This is not about immigration," Bazán said. "This is not about debating policy. This has moved on to another sphere. This is hate."

Bazán and others say they've gotten disturbing hate mail before. A 2005 effort to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants brought reams of it, but that furor died down fairly quickly. Now, they say, threats and racist messages are becoming routine.

State legislators who supported a bill this year that would have guaranteed illegal immigrants the right to attend state colleges got a raft of messages, some of which smeared immigrants.

Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat who sponsored the bill, said she received one phone message warning that "my days are numbered." She said the message, which included profane insults, felt like a threat.

"I have not seen anything like what illegal immigration elicits," Harrison said. "It's revealing a very ugly side of humanity that I've never seen before."

Beyond the crackdown

Immigration has become an especially controversial subject in North Carolina and across the nation, fueled by the failure of a federal immigration reform bill last year.

Since then, sheriff's departments have started enforcing immigration law, the state's community colleges have barred admission to illegal immigrants, grassroots groups opposing illegal immigration have grown and some politicians have made an immigration crackdown the centerpiece of their campaigns.

Even those who have advocated a crackdown say they don't condone hate mail or threats.

"Certainly, any kind of threatening or antagonistic tone to any debate is unwarranted," said Brian Nick, spokesman for Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who has joined with sheriffs to push for the deportation of illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
But some say anti-illegal immigration activists have given the impression that Hispanics are to blame for all of society's ills, including crime, illness and unemployment.

Deborah Lauter, director of civil rights for the Anti-Defamation League, a New York group founded in 1913 to combat prejudice against Jews, said the ideas and language that have come to define the debate could fuel fringe groups.

"When you describe immigrants as Third World invaders or murderers, or say that they are swarming or coming in hordes, this is dehumanizing language," Lauter said. "That kind of rhetoric inspires others who might act out on hate."

William Gheen, a Raleigh man who has built a grassroots organization to oppose illegal immigration, often accuses Hispanic immigrants of carrying deadly diseases, raping and murdering Americans, plotting to merge the American and Mexican economies, or even reconquer parts of the Southwest for Mexico. He organizes e-mail campaigns against those he doesn't agree with.

Gheen said he does not condone violence or racism and has never made threats, and he dismissed claims that groups such as his could spark threats. "The only violence I'm seeing are the dead, maimed and raped Americans ... that are victims of illegal aliens," Gheen said.
However, other anti-illegal immigration activists say the movement has developed an ugly side.

"Something has gotten distorted, and it's creating a lot of hate," said Jim Gilchrist, the Southern California founder of the Minuteman Project, which organizes citizen patrols of the Mexican border.

Gilchrist said there are extremists on both sides of the issue and that he has received threatening messages from people on the pro-immigrant side of the debate. But lately, he said, he gets more hate mail from people on his side of the issue. He said groups are now fighting among themselves, and some have adopted messages that he considers racist.

Gilchrist said one California Minuteman chapter made a fake video depicting its members shooting a Mexican crossing the border illegally.

Blogs as soapboxes

Bazán said that in the past few months, she has gotten several nasty calls at home and has been the subject of violent talk on blogs, where she was referred to as a target.

The talk frightened her enough that she sent her children to stay with her ex-husband and stayed away from home for several days in June, when it was announced that she was the new board chairwoman of the well-known Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza.

On the day of the announcement, a person commenting on one blog about her new post commanded others to "buy guns" and referred to Hispanic immigrants as "monkeys." "The time is coming to fight back and yes many will die in this fight," the comment read.

Bazán said she has met with Durham police to make them aware of the threats.

When she speaks publicly, a guard often protects her. She had a full-time private guard last week at a La Raza convention in San Diego.

Bazán, along with some other Hispanic advocates, said they have begun reporting messages they consider hateful to the state Human Relations Commission.

G.I. Allison, director of the commission, which was formed to ensure equal opportunity in housing and other areas, said he receives regular complaints of hate messages and threats against Hispanics. The commission recorded 38 hate incidents in the first half of this year, but it doesn't track how many are against Hispanics.

Asion said he frequently receives messages that he considers racist, but the recent death threats were the most troubling.

The author claims to be watching Asion, threatens bombings and dismemberment, invokes the Ku Klux Klan and commands Asion to "go home Mexico."

Asion said he hasn't gone to police because there is little they can do. But he said he now fears for his staff members.

"I tell my folks, if you get a box and it doesn't have a return address, you don't know where it's from, don't open it," Asion said. "These are the times that we're living through."

Northwest Detention center. What you should know.


A powerful story of resistance to migrant detention in the US Northwest and how police Intimidate, violating individuals Constitutional rights and violating police Standards.

Voices on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center.














Detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., are subjected to excessive strip searches, physical abuse, insufficient quantities of food, overcrowding and a lack of due process, according to a new report on conditions at the facility

The center is where undocumented people in Oregon who are facing deportation typically are held. It also is where unauthorized immigrants who commit criminal offenses are sent to await deportation after completing their prison sentence.

The facility serves Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

The report, "Voices from Detention: A Report on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center," takes an in-depth look at how detainees are treated at the center.

It was conducted by the Seattle University School of Law's International Human Rights Clinic in collaboration with OneAmerica, an immigrant rights group in Seattle.

Gwynne Skinner, a professor at Willamette University College of Law and a visiting professor at the Seattle law school, oversaw the study.

Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security division that oversees Tacoma's detention facility, called the report a "fabrication."

Lorie Dankers, a spokeswoman for ICE, said the center meets, and in many instances exceeds, national compliance standards.

"We provide a secure and humane environment for our detainees," Dankers said. "It is a comfortable and safe environment."

The report was prepared from interviews that law students conducted with detainees. It features anecdotes by detainees about mistreatment and abuse they claim to have personally witnessed.

One incident involves a mentally ill Cambodian man who allegedly was punched by U.S. marshals during a flight to Alabama. The detainees said the man also struggled to breathe during the entire trip after the marshals placed a hood over his head.

The eyewitnesses additionally said that during the same seven-hour trip last summer, authorities refused to allow them to use the bathroom, forcing them to sit in their own feces.

"Probably the starkest finding was not a single episode, but the fact that there really are no binding and, therefore, no legally enforceable standards that govern detention, which is now the fastest-growing form of incarceration in this country," said Pramila Jayapal, executive director of OneAmerica.

Jayapal said conditions at the Tacoma center violate international human-rights laws, as well as the U.S. Constitution.

The group hopes the study will lead to federal legislation that would create legally binding standards regarding detention and explore alternatives to detention centers, Jayapal said.

Jim Ludwick, the president of Tank Oregonians for Immigration Reform, which lobbies against illegal immigration, questioned the motives behind the report.

"I think these people are just trying to turn up something negative about enforcing immigration laws, instead of talking about the fact that the people shouldn't have been here to begin with," Ludwick said. "Many people who are in detention centers are people who illegally entered into the United States and are fighting deportation. They obviously don't think the conditions are that bad or else they'd agree to deportation and go home."

The report comes two weeks after the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security recommended better access to medical care, stronger oversight and general improvements in detention standards following the deaths of legal and illegal immigrants at centers across the nation.

The deaths have sparked widespread attention and have drawn criticism from the United Nations. They also have spawned two bills in Congress that seek to improve detention standards.

"I think it's important that Congress continue to look into conditions at detention centers," said Erik Sorensen, a spokesman for CAUSA, an immigrant-advocacy group in Woodburn. "Obviously, the system is flawed and it's unfortunate that people are being treated inhumanely."

Dankers said ICE recently signed a contract with an outside firm that will conduct annual evaluations at the center.

However, she said it would be difficult to verify the incidences described in the report because the report contained "such vague references to events and individuals, whose names were changed."

Minuteman Member Harrasing and chashing Home Depot customers and finally get what he deserves.

Undocumented Workers do no paid taxes.!!!!!! That Sounds familiar to you.






Tax evasion is in progress BUT not from Undocumented workers. Citizen evaded the payment of more than $3 million in taxes and defrauded more than ten lenders, including several federally insured financial institutions and Stewart Title, of more than $6.6 million. The Punishment fit his crime.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FORMER WORCESTER ATTORNEY SENTENCED ON FRAUD, TAX VIOLATIONS CHARGES.

BOSTON, MA - A Worcester man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court on wire fraud and evasion of payment of taxes charges.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division and Tyrone G. Barney, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office, announced today that ALAN MASON, age 61, of 26 Pine Hill Road, Princeton, MA, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Saylor IV, to 9 years of imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $6,628,119 in restitution. MASON was immediately remanded into custody.

MASON was an attorney whose law practice was centered on providing legal services in connection with real estate closings, and who conducted business in Worcester under the name Alan Mason Legal Services, Inc. MASON was also involved in the purchase and sale of real estate. From at least June 2001 through June 2006, MASON engaged in a fraudulent scheme in which he took funds he received from banks for the purpose of paying off prior liens on properties for closings he was handling, and converted those funds for his own personal and business purposes.

In furtherance of that fraudulent scheme, MASON prepared documents, including checks and HUD-1 forms, which made it appear that he had in fact paid off the prior liens. Instead, MASON made monthly mortgage payments to the prior lienholders in order to prevent the loans from going into default and thus alerting the buyers, sellers and new lenders that the prior lien had not been paid off. As an agent of the title insurance company Stewart Title, MASON issued title insurance policies to real estate buyers and lenders which indemnified them against title defects, even though he knew that the titles were defective because he had not paid off prior lienholders and had not obtained discharges of those liens. MASON’S scheme defrauded more than ten lenders, including several federally insured financial institutions and Stewart Title, of more than $6.6 million.

MASON also evaded the payment of more than $3 million in taxes by, among other things, setting up and controlling multiple real estate trusts and bank accounts using the names of employees and relatives but which did not identify MASON’S interest in writing to prevent the tax authorities from attaching those assets. MASON bought and sold real estate through those trusts and used the substantial profits for personal expenses such as home improvements, an antique clock collection, mortgage payments and investments in new properties.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Boston Field Division and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark J. Balthazard of Sullivan’s Economic Crimes Unit.

Arresting Legal and U.S. Citizens are rising at a high levels.




Two U.S. citizens and one legal permanent resident were among those arrested last month in Mount Pleasant, Texas, during a federal immigration crackdown targeting identity fraud at poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride.

One 19-year-old citizen was taken from her home while still in her pajamas, and an 18-year-old citizen was shackled at his ankles, handcuffed at his wrists and tied at his waist, said the arrested workers and a relative. All three speak mostly Spanish

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, contends that such arrests are rare and that when it does happen, citizens are immediately released.

But across the U.S., reports of arrests and detentions of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are increasing.

Lawyers and immigrant-defense groups said such incidents will continue to rise as the federal government deepens its crackdown against illegal immigrants – one of the broadest such actions in 50 years.

Raids have intensified in the last two years – a get-tough approach in the absence of comprehensive immigration legislation.

Federal lawsuits

Two federal lawsuits representing 122 workers have been filed challenging mass detentions of U.S. citizens, during immigration raids. All were either citizens or people in the U.S. with legal status.

Juan Manuel Carrillo, 18, who worked at the Mount Pleasant Pilgrim's plant for $9.75 an hour, was one of 46 arrested in a pre-dawn dragnet that included 300 ICE agents and other personnel.

He said he told officials that he was a U.S. citizen.

"I said I was born in San Diego, and they said they didn't believe me," Mr. Carrillo recounted, in Spanish. "I said I was telling the truth. They said I was working with another's Social Security number."

Mr. Carrillo said that when his 17-year-old brother, Marco Antonio, brought him his U.S. passport, immigration agents insisted the pair were lying and asked him where he bought the passport.

Mr. Carrillo was taken to Mexico as a toddler by his Mexican-born parents and lived there for 15 years, before returning to the U.S. about a year ago. He speaks little English.

Xochitl Delgado, 19 and also a worker at Pilgrim's Pride, was arrested in her home in the early morning of April 16 and taken into custody still in her pajamas, said her older sister, Griselda Delgado.

She said her sister, born in the U.S., is still too traumatized to speak about the arrest.

"Every time she remembers she cries," Griselda Delgado said. "Before they take a person away, they should do a deeper investigation about who has documents."

Mr. Carrillo said he remembers Ms. Delgado sitting in a cell in her pajamas and sandals. ICE officials said Xochitl Delgado was wearing "an ample sweat suit."

U.S. prosecutor

Alan Jackson, a Tyler-based assistant U.S. attorney, said all criminal charges have been dismissed against the three workers, arrested on suspicion of using a Social Security number not issued to them.

"After the arrest, we determined that dismissal was appropriate," he said.

Asked if investigators believed that the three were using false Social Security numbers, even though they had authentic ones, Mr. Jackson said: "What it means is that we felt the evidence that they were using someone else's Social Security number wasn't strong enough."

Mr. Jackson said that his office moved quickly to dismiss charges against Ms. Delgado.
"We were racing against the clock to do it and get the district clerk to stay late enough to process it," he said.

The indictment against Xochitl Delgado was dismissed "in the interests of justice" at 5:03 p.m. April 17, about 35 hours after her arrest, according to the pleading in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division.

Mr. Jackson declined to comment on whether those arrested might themselves be victims of identity theft.

But ICE spokesman Virginia Kice noted that, in general, the burden of proof rests with the federal government for establishing what it calls "alienage" – or whether a person was born outside the U.S.

There is no comprehensive government database that establishes who holds U.S. citizenship, she added.

Jesus García, a 27-year-old legal permanent resident, was also picked up by authorities and his arrest was photographed by a newspaper owner who followed ICE agents to several locations.

Mr. García insisted that he'd broken no immigration laws. Eventually, he was released and reunited with his U.S. citizen wife and five daughters.

"I was not to blame for any of the charges," said Mr. García, who no longer works at the Pilgrim's plant.

Federal immigration agents and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, John L. Ratcliffe, said at a Dallas news conference in April that the national arrests were part of "an ongoing criminal investigation" into criminal activity involving alleged identity theft.

Of the more than 300 workers arrested at five Pilgrim's plants across the country, about a third were criminally charged, immigration officials said.

A spokesman for Pilgrim's Pride Corp. – based in Pittsburg, Texas, with $7.59 billion in revenue last year – said the company cooperated with officials and has not been charged.

Matt Yarbrough, a lawyer who has prosecuted immigration-related crimes as a former assistant U.S. attorney, said the operation at Pilgrim's Pride raises questions about excess use of law enforcement power.

"There is reasonable and then there is overly aggressive," said Mr. Yarbrough, who prosecuted an immigration raid against the Pappas restaurant chain in the 1990s.
"Those factors to a court are going to seem overreaching and ultimately the government could be liable for falsely imprisoning someone."

Peter Schey, president and executive director for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles, said he believes that U.S. citizens are increasingly facing federal immigration agents who are incredulous about their U.S. citizenship.

"If more U.S. citizens exercise their rights to seek damages in these illegal detentions," that could cause the Department of Homeland Security to re-evaluate the way they search for those in the U.S. illegally, Mr. Schey said.


February 2008: 114 workers, U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, are temporarily detained during a raid at Micro Solutions Enterprises in Van Nuys, Calif. In April, each filed federal claims for $5,000 in damages. In that raid, ICE agents blocked exits and prevented employees from leaving until more than 100 workers were arrested on immigration-related offenses, and eight more on criminal charges.

August 2007: Alicia Rodriguez, a Mansfield tax preparer, is held for 16 hours before she is able to convince authorities she is a U.S. citizen. She was picked up on a warrant for a traffic violation. Authorities mistook her for an illegal immigrant deported three years earlier, who insisted she was a U.S. citizen. "They were pretty belligerent in not believing me," said the 29-year-old Ms. Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez said she now carries a copy of her U.S. birth certificate with her.


June 2007: Jose Cesar Guzman, a Santa Fe, N.M., chef from El Salvador with legal status, is held for five weeks because of a mix-up in his legal files. He was mistaken for another man with a similar name, Jose Carmelo Guzman, said his attorney, Olsi Vrapi of the Noble law firm in Santa Fe.

May 2007: Pedro Guzman, a U.S.-born man who some say had mental health problems, was removed to Tijuana by federal immigration agents. In August, he was reunited with his family. His attorney, Mark D. Rosenbaum, the legal director of the ACLU in Los Angeles, has sued the federal government on constitutional grounds. "They had records that reflected he was a U.S. citizen and they asserted he was a U.S. citizen," Mr. Rosenbaum said. ICE spokesman Virginia Kice said the litigation constrains her comments on the case. But she said the man "made repeated assertions that he was born in Mexico."

December 2006: Eight workers with U.S. citizenship or legal permanent resident status are detained as part of an immigration raid of Swift & Co. plants across six states, including one in Cactus, Texas. Of the 1,297 workers arrested, 274 were criminally charged with violations related to identity theft or other offenses. The United Food and Commercial Workers union sued ICE, claiming the raid violated the workers' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. ICE is asking that the suit be dismissed.

Hate crime. I am tired of them. They should go back where they came from. Cosby said.



Standing before the judge with his head held high, a white man accused of hate crimes for intentionally driving his car into a black woman seemed unconcerned Tuesday afternoon.

"I have no legal obligation under Act (Corp.)," Thomas Darryl Cosby told County Judge Peter McGlashan at his first appearance in court. The statement came in response to a public defender's request that the 56-year-old Port Orange resident undergo a mental health evaluation.

However, McGlashan granted the request for the evaluation. In addition he ordered Cosby held on $60,000 bail on charges of aggravated battery and simple battery.

The counts stem from an incident at 7:50 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of South Atlantic Avenue. Police said, "for no apparent reason," Cosby drove over a curb and hit Nekedia Cato while she was riding her bike on the sidewalk.

The 25-year-old Daytona Beach resident suffered a badly broken left leg and unknown internal injuries. She was listed in good condition at Halifax Health Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon.

After hitting Cato, police said Cosby's sedan careened into a tree and then hit the front porch of a nearby home, rolled over several times and came to a stop. Cosby, who suffered only minor injuries, climbed from the vehicle and started screaming at bystanders, urging them to "help me kill these (racial slur for black people)," several witnesses told officers.

At one point, he struck another person before being detained by witnesses until police arrived.

When asked what happened to his car, Cosby told investigating officers, "I turned my car to take him out," even though the victim was not a man.
Crosby also complained to police about blacks making fun of him and having sex with his wife and girlfriend.

"I am tired of it," the arrest report states, quoting Cosby. "They should go back to where they came from."

Cosby's racially charged statements prompted the enhanced charges, Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.

"We felt that met the criteria for a hate crime," he said.

According to court records, Cosby has a history of mental illness. In 2000, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on a 1998 complaint of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Before that determination, he was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital for three months.

This is what I called a Radical Behavior and Intolerance against the Immigrant.!!!!!!!!!!








France denies citizenship to veiled Muslim woman.

The case started quietly, when a Muslim woman who sheaths herself in a head-to-toe veil was denied French citizenship because she had not assimilated enough into this society. France's highest body upheld the decision, and politicians across the spectrum agreed it was the right move.


A few dissenting voices, though, are now questioning whether the decision pushed France's secularist values too far.

"Where does it begin or end? What we are calling radical behavior?" asked Mohammed Bechari, president of the National Federation of French Muslims. "Will we see a man refused citizenship because of the length of his beard ... or a man who is dressed as a rabbi, or a priest?"

On June 27, France's highest administrative body, the Council of State, ruled that the woman, identified only as Faiza X, had "adopted a radical practice of her religion incompatible with the essential values of the French community, notably with the principle of equality of the sexes, and therefore she does not fulfill the conditions of assimilation" listed in the country's Civil Code as a requirement for gaining French citizenship.

The council said the decision to refuse her citizenship did not aim to "attack (her) freedom of religion."

But critics accuse the French justice system of breeding fear and intolerance of Islam under the guise of upholding secularism. The country is home to western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated to be at least 5 million of the nation's 63 million people - and growing.

French officialdom has struggled to instill secular traditions in Muslim immigrant communities, passing a law in 2004 barring the Islamic headscarf and other highly visible religious symbols from public schools. Proponents of that law welcomed the decision denying citizenship to Faiza X, who wears a niqab, or full-body veil, to her meetings with immigration officials.

"The burqa, it's a prison, a straitjacket," France's minister for urban affairs, Fadela Amara, herself born to Algerian parents, was quoted as saying.

The terms burqa and niqab are often used interchangeably in France, though the former refers to a full-body covering worn largely in Afghanistan with only a mesh screen over the eyes. An official state document said the woman wore a full-body niqab, which left her eyes uncovered.

"It is not a religious sign but the visible sign of a totalitarian political project preaching inequality between the sexes, and which carries within it the total absence of democracy," Amara was quoted as saying in the daily Le Parisien.

Amara told the paper she hoped extremists would get a strong message from the Council of State's ruling, which upheld immigration officials' refusal to grant citizenship to Faiza X.

The council's ruling did not refer to Faiza's niqab, which she said she adopted after arriving in France from her native Morocco, according to a report from a government commissioner to the Council.

The woman told immigration officials that she did not know anything about secularism or her right to vote, according to the commissioner's report. All the immigration officials handling her case were women. They asked her to remove her veil to identify herself, which she did only when no men were in the room, the report said.

Later, in a letter to immigration officials, the woman defended her lifestyle by noting that other immigrants granted French citizenship also maintain "ties with their culture of origin."

The woman and her husband told immigration officials that they adhere to Salafism, a strict strain of Islam.

Her statements to immigration officials indicate that "she leads a life almost of a recluse, cut off from French society," leaving the house only to walk with her children or visit relatives, the report said.

"She lives in total submission to the men in her family ... and the idea of contesting this submission doesn't even occur to her," the government report said.

Politicians on talk shows this week spoke out in support of the ruling. But Muslim groups had mixed reactions.

Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the moderate French Council for Muslim Communities, issued a cautious statement that did not come out strongly for or against the ruling. He said only that his group "rejects all forms of extremism and stigmas that would keep the Muslim component of the nation's society from living its spirituality in peace."

But Fouad Alaoui, vice president of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, said, "It's a turning point in our judiciary that should make us think.

"I don't think that clothing is part of this country's values. Clothing is personal freedom."
Then he added, "On a personal level, I too am disturbed when I see a woman hide her face.

Voices from Raids. We are not criminals. We are just looking for a better life.!!!

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Immigration arrests from worksite raids have increased tenfold in the last five years. As politicians on both sides of the aisle grapple with the issue, families are caught in the middle. ANP went to Annapolis, MD to see how people were coping in the aftermath of the state's largest immigration roundup in years.
Why in the world ICE had been treated undocumented Immigrants like criminals?
They are workers not Criminals and before workers are Human beings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ICE Raids: The Mechanism and effects in Childrens.



When ICE and immigration officials began a series of raids on meatpacking plants and other immigrant-heavy workplaces, they triggered a series of events which affected not just undocumented students, but entire schools.

More Raids in Rhode Island.



ICE continue the Raids thru the Nation and Know dozens were arrested in immigration raids on RI courthouses.

How many amendments to the Constitution are there? Can’t say offhand?








IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world


Then you would not have been among the 20 new citizens from 15 different countries who swore their allegiance to the Constitution at Ellis Island last week. They were expected to know that fact along with many others about U.S. government and history that most native-born Americans would have been hard-pressed to recall.

The goose-bump-provoking scene of men and women from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America tightly clutching their small American flags as they joined the ranks of the millions who came before them through the great hall at Ellis Island happened the day before the presidential candidates addressed a major Hispanic organization, as they courted the votes of the fastest-growing group in the population.

But even as John McCain and Barack Obama recognize Hispanic clout, just showing up at a Latino event can be politically risky these days, particularly for Republicans, given the hostility of the anti-immigration forces. Case in point: Utah’s Chris Cannon — even with the backing of President Bush, his state’s governor and two senators — was recently shellacked in his congressional primary. Cannon’s sin? Support for immigration reform.

“Any Republican who’s running for office and believes the immigration issue is dead should take another look and see what happened to Mr. Cannon,” Rep. Tom Tancredo crowed to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The leader of the opposition to immigration reform, Tancredo would argue that he is not against immigration, only illegal immigration. But the often-angry debate sounds decidedly nativistic.

Take the “English only” proposals — they’re aimed at all newcomers, not just illegal immigrants. A bill in Congress calling for “English only” ballots has nothing to do with illegals — they can’t vote. These are mean-spirited measures designed to punish new Americans, especially the fast-growing Spanish-speaking population.

Though talk-show hosts — led by CNN’s Lou Dobbs — stir up the anti-immigrant venom, the keep-out-the-foreigners feelings are real. Look at a sampling of responses to an article in the Las Vegas Sun quoting state and local officials on the positive effect of immigrants on the economy.

“I told Carpets-N-More that the only installer I would allow into my home had to be a black or white AMERICAN who spoke English,” fumed one reader. “Guess what, they sent me just what I asked for: 1 black and 1 white American, born and bred.”

“This is not America anymore,” lamented another, “no one speaks the language anymore. Everyone is catered to, the Mexicans, Muslims, Russians, Eastern Europeans, Indians, Africans, you name it.”

And it’s not just a few cranks sounding off to a newspaper who feel that way. When the Pew Research Center asked last year whether “the growing number of newcomers from other countries threatens traditional American customs and values,” almost half — 48 percent — of those surveyed said yes.

At a time when the country is experiencing the biggest wave of immigration, in raw numbers, in its history, some of this trepidation is understandable. Though the newcomers bring with them a spirit of entrepreneurship, a willingness to work hard and contribute to their new nation, Americans have never warmly welcomed strangers, people who didn’t look and sound like them.

That’s why a visit to Ellis Island, now operated by the National Park Service as a museum of immigration, is so instructive. It was the landing spot for 12 million new arrivals at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries — the period of the largest influx of immigrants as a percentage of the population. The native-born descendants of the Western European settlers were no happier about that deluge of “huddled masses” from the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe than today’s are about newcomers streaming up from Latin America and in from Asia and Africa.

But now more than 40 percent of our population can trace their ancestry through that small outcropping in New York Harbor. Given those numbers, many of those offspring of the Ellis Island immigrants must be among those who find today’s newcomers threatening.

They should go to a naturalization ceremony, especially if they could go to one at the spot where their forebears got off the boat. They should see these excited new Americans following in the footsteps of their own frightened ancestors who arrived on these shores seeking a better life.

Not only would they be ashamed of their take-up-the-drawbridge mentality, but they would also find someone who could tell them how many amendments there are to the Constitution

July 27, 2008. Let's support Justice against the Inhumane raid in Postville..






Immigration reform advocates and religious leaders from across the Midwest are planning a rally in northeast Iowa nearly two months after a raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville ended in nearly 400 arrests.

The rally, scheduled for July 27, was organized by Jewish and Catholic groups from Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota. It is expected to draw hundreds of people to the town of about 2,200 residents.

Organizers are using the raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant on May 12 as an example of what's wrong with the nation's immigration laws. Federal officials have called it the largest single immigration raid in the nation's history.

"Our national immigration policies are tearing apart and hurting hardworking, taxpaying people who are just here trying to support their families," said Tom Walsh, with the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, a Chicago-based group helping organize the rally.

He said more 175 families in Postville, including more than 500 children, "just lost not only their mother or father, but in many cases, the sole breadwinner for their homes."

Authorities said some undocumented workers who were sole caregivers for children were allowed to return home with ankle bracelets that monitor their movement. However, immigrants reform advocates claimed those parents aren't able to find work and must rely on handouts from local churches and other groups.

"This enforcement-only approach creates massive human suffering, separation of families and economic dislocation," Gideon Aronoff, CEO of the New York-based Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, said during a conference call with reporters earlier this month.

Since the raid, allegations have arisen of unsafe conditions, child labor violations and low-paid workers abused by supervisors at Agriprocessors. Before the raid, the company produced about half of the nation's kosher beef and 40 percent of its kosher chicken.

Most of the 389 workers arrested were charged with using false identification or incorrect Social Security numbers. Two plant supervisors were later charged with aiding and abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identification.

An Agriprocessors spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for a comment.

An organization of American Orthodox Jews, Uri L'Tzedek, had called for a boycott of any businesses that sold the company's meat. It backed off the boycott earlier this month after Agriprocessors hired a former federal prosecutor as chief compliance officer.

Agriprocessors, started by Aaron Rubashkin, a Hassidic Jew from New York, has recently been criticized in both mainstream and Jewish publications. The company has said little about the raid or its aftermath, but allegations have arisen that its public relations firm faked comments on an Internet blog that has been critical of Agriprocessors.

There also was an outcry after someone bought ads in Guatemala City newspapers that sought workers, noting an "excellent job opportunity in the United States meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa." Company officials denied they had anything to do with the ads.

The groups planning the immigration reform rally this month in Postville are St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Postville, Jewish Community Action of St. Paul, Minn., and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs of Chicago. They promised testimony from people directly affected by the raid, as well as talk about immigration reform and workers' rights.

"This is a call for justice. This is a call to be faithful to our American and religious values," Sister Mary McCauley with St. Bridget's Catholic Church said in a statement. "This is a call to stand in solidarity with our Hispanic brothers and sisters."
Organizers are worried that the rally could draw too many supporters, and are asking that anyone planning to attend register with their groups.

"It's so clear that the town has been devastated by the raid and they are reeling and they are trying to cope with it and trying to help the families cope with it," said Jane Ramsey, executive director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. "We want to come out with a strong support, (but) we don't want to overwhelm the community."

Contact Group:
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
610 S. Michigan Ave.
Suite 500
Chicago, IL 60605

Phone: (312) 663-0960
Fax: (312) 663-5305

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Institute Office
8380 Colesville Road, Suite 300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

Contact JCA

Jewish Community Action is located at
2375 University Avenue West, Suite 150
St. Paul, MN 55114-1633

Phone 651/632-2184
Fax 651/632-2188

ICE Raids= Misconduct and Violations of Individuals Constitutional rights.



Senator John Kerry testified Monday before a private commission examining how immigration leaders conduct workplace raids.

Family torn apart

I copied this Video from Citizen Orange were Kyledeb exposed another fact of the dysfunctional and obsolete Immigration system. That's really sad and ashamed that people needs to suffer pain, disrupted their lives, their dreams, torn families apart and banned to become part of our Society just for an inhumane and Incomprehensive Immigration system. Their punishment fit their crime?????

What part of Hardship ICE and Immigration officials do not Understand.!!!!!!!!!!



Family struggling to be together again after the father was deported to the Philippines. As I said the Hardship start it when ICE torn the parent away from their kids making a difficult to endure in their future life like suffering; deprivation; oppression, painful effort, Discomfort.
Tearing families apart is an American Value? or Unamerican? Where are those family values? Human Values? Why Immigration court do not Understand what's mean Hardship?

Foster care Would not replace the love of my parents.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What part of Humanism we do not understand.!!!!!!!!!!! See this video how the U.S. Citizens kids has been deported and torn apart from their parents.
Where are those Human Values? Where are those Moral Values? This is the lead of Country we want to be? that's really sad and ashamed. Torn apart kids from parents really touching my heart and bring me some tears. I see kids suffering a chilling effect. Why Dehumanizing Undocumented Immigrants!!!!!!!

Family torn apart just for wrong jugment and it will be reason for removal.


Parents with learning difficulties are having their children taken into care because officials say they are too intellectually slow to cope. Meaning difficulties a jugment and reason for removal but we all have some difficulties at some point.
Who's should be taken their kids away? Who should be judge me what is some normal difficulties or not? Where are those moral values? Where are those Human Values?

Exposing The Morally Corrupt Family Courts.

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A short clip complete with live interview with one father who immigrated to Canada and now says he would never have set foot in this country had he known about the Family System of Injustice here in Canada. Are we following the same path. We always boasts to the World as the most Democratic, Free and fighter for Indivuals Human righst But the mirror has been twisted too often that's sad and ashamed seen kids and parents torn apart without see their pain and human side. What crime those kids committed to taken away from parents? Do their Punishment fit their crime? Where are those moral values?

Ashamed Immigration Policy.


We see more and more parents, and kids torn apart from the Inhumane, Obsolete, and Incomprehensive Immigration Policy.

Where are those Human Values?, Where are those moral values? We as Americans we pronounced thru the Nations and retailated to those who's violating the Constitutional and Human rights for Individuals But This is the kind of Country we want to be? It's sad and ashamed.

Inspirational Quotes



I am hoping that some of those quotes inspiring me to move on with my life in those toughed times. Like the greatest Confucius said: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but raising everytime we fall.

Lord. I lifted you name on high


Sometimes we do have ups and downs and I never expected my life to be so fragile that can turns in 360 degrees in a minute. God bless you all.
Pray for me.

God save me when you come from Heaven to Earth to show me your way, from the Earth to the Cross my debt to pay. Lift my soul.

I really want to see you. Oh my Lord.



The last couple of days has been the toughed moments of my life. Please Lord I really want to see you.. I need you. talk to me.

The Border. The Environmental Nightmare.





I find this as one of the most important wildlife issues of the decade. Actually I find this as important as the drilling in ANWR or the eco mess created at Yucca Mountain. It is a very ignorant mentality to think that a 700 mile steel concrete wall will have no impact on the Environment as well as wildlife.
For those Minuteman Members showing your Patriotism at the border putting flags Made in China Happy 4 of July but you should be ashamed of the damage to the enrivonment.

U.S. Detention Centers a Nightmare.



The Horrible and miserable conditions in U.S. Detention Centers violating civil rights for detainees.

Inspiring story of an Immigrant Honor Student.



Another truly inspirating story about the struggle of the Undocumented Immigrant suffered to reach their American Dream.

Two men executed in Iran. The crime being Gay.



That's ashamed to see our human evolution are still on Rock days in some Countries.
I am still completely stunned at this video, heartbroken, angered, empowered, and will fight till my death to end the ignorance around Intolerance against the Other the Undocumented, The Homosexual, the Unwanted, The Undesirables.

Before used the Law on your own Hands think.!!!!!!! We are Human Beings.

Iranian Homosexual will die if deported.



This is Inhumane and ashamed for a statement coming from the President of Iran saying that they do not have Homosexuals in Iran. I just see how little evolution has taken place on the planet in the last few thousand years. we may have made technological advances, but we're not mature enough as a human beings to occupy this planet. that two men holding guns is more acceptable in society than two men holding hands, is a world gone wrong.

No One will replace my Father.!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Yousefe-Talouki is currently being held in North Las Vegas Detention Center awaiting deportation to Iran. He has a son in the USA who needs his father. Zak has not committed any crime.
Zak is a law abiding, decent person and has an American son who also has the right to have a relationship with his father. There is no reason that the USA must end the father-son relationship by unneccesarily deporting Zak. There is no reason to keep him detained in jail, either. Jailing and Deporting Adam's father is not helping the United States and is only hurting a small boy.

Just the simple fact that he has committed no crime violates the Genova Convention and its truly sad and ashamed that the Goverment do not see the compassion torned apart kids from their parents.

The Twisted Mirror but the same portrait.




The target remain the same but ethnicity changes. Before were Italians and Know the Mexicans as the Bad guys?.

For too long, the U.S. media were all too ready to help restrict Italians’ attempts to assimilate as white Americans. The vast majority of Italian Americans are law-abiding citizens, but you wouldn't know it by watching television, listening to the radio or reading books. They have been viciously framed by the constant repetition of negative portrayals. Most histories of mafia in America begin with the 1890 murder of the corrupt New Orleans Police Chief Hennessey. The aftermath of his murder lead to one of the largest recorded mass lynchings in this country's history. America's obsession with the mafia has overshadowed the real history of Italians in America that includes indentured servitude, mass lynchings, Klu Klux Klan terrorism against Italians, and strong participation in civil rights struggles. For Italian Americans, overt oppression has given way to more covert techniques of discrimination. Italians have replaced Indians and blacks as the accepted “bad guys” in films, and this image was regularly reinforced and perpetuated through contemporary remakes of The Untouchables and the establishment of museums such as the now gone “Capone's
Chicago.”

We all need to come to grips with the fact that there is a great diversity and much oppression within America. Until then, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the earlier histories that we are trying to correct.

Honoring Kendell Murphy a Green Card Soldier fallen in Iraq. Where is Justice?



A ceremony commemorates the life of a Kendell Murphy soldier killed in Iraq who had been working on getting his U.S. citizenship -- and a new law that will make it easier for green card military members

46 Arrested in Anne Arundel County.



ICE Continue raids around the Nation not against the Criminals instead the choose the Worker.

The Miracle Hands




Alfredo Quinonez Hinojosa a Mexican Immigrant from Picking cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes to become a major brain Surgeon.

It may sound like a movie script, but it is no fiction.

Twenty years ago, he hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.

Today, he is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a researcher who is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

Video here:

We will not tolerate illegals in this county. Said John R, Leopold. Shame on you Mr. Juan Roberto Leopoldo. I said so Proinmigrant



As I always said Tolerance has been crucial assessment on the Immigration Debate. There is not tolerance to the other, The Undocumented Immigrant, even we see in every raid that ICE feel so proud to caught undocumented Immigrants when many of them do not have any criminal record but real criminals are loose on the streets.
I said Enough is Enough.. What really bothers me is that their punishment will not fit their crime.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are causing so much pain to children's torn apart from their parents; Why choose Children's to suffer?


The cousin of the one of the 46 illegal immigrants arrested Monday in Anne Arundel said his relative was not a criminal, but he was in the country illegally.

“His baby will have no daddy. It’s like so many Spanish children with no mother and father,” said Melsar, who gave his first name because he too is wanted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE executed warrants at 16 properties, owned by Robert Bontempo, including his company Annapolis Painting Services, arresting undocumented people, including Melsar’s cousin, Jose Ruiz, and seizing documents, computers and property.

Several of the 36 men and 10 women, many of whom worked for Annapolis Painting Services, will be deported to their home countries, which include Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nigeria, officials said.

We prioritize our cases based on how egregious they are in nature, and this one was very egregious,” said Scot Rittenberg, assistant special agent for ICE in Baltimore City, referring to the large number of arrests.

Some detainees were released because of certain circumstances, such as being a caregiver, Rittenberg said.

ICE worked with Anne Arundel police, which has an officer permanently posted at ICE’s Baltimore City office, during the 18-month operation.

“We will not tolerate illegals in this county,” said County Executive John R. Leopold, who has taken a hard stance against illegal immigration through policies, such as voiding contracts with companies that hire illegals.

Rittenberg said the arrests came after an investigation sparked by a tip that Bontempo was employing undocumented workers. Surveillance revealed that Bontempo was housing the illegals, officials said.

The Anne Arundel Health Department, which monitors residential occupancy compliance, said it received no complaints from the three Annapolis addresses released to the media and raided by law enforcement.

Record of business

Annapolis Painting Services has done work for the Maryland State House and U.S. Naval Academy, as well as Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold and Rams Head Tavern and Chick and Ruth’s Deli, both in Annapolis.

Bontempo is licensed through the Maryland Home Improvement Commission, a division of the state Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation.

His license is set to expire in January, according to the commission.

ICE — not the commission — regulates the use of illegal immigrants by licensed contractors, said commission Executive Director Steve Smitson.

But contractors are informed of state and federal immigration law as part of the licensing process.

“It’s one of the subjects tested on the licensing exam,” Smitson said.

Bontempo has had no reported complaints against his license, officials said.

Bontempo, who is known to own several properties in the Annapolis area, has not been arrested, but could face felony charges, said county Police Chief James Teare Sr.

Bontempo could not be reached for comment.

At three houses where search warrants were executed, the residents wouldn’t speak to reporters.

One of the houses on Carrs Road, where an Annapolis Painting Services truck was parked, had a “No Trespassing” sign posted.

At another house on Harbor Drive, the doors showed evidence of being kicked in during the raid.

Pro-immigration groups, including CASA de Maryland, are holding a rally against the raids today at Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore City.

“Community and religious leaders will condemn the separation of families and call on ... Leopold to cease celebrating the division of families,” said Jaime Contreras, district director for Service Employees International Union Local 32.

John McCain Uniter or Divider for Latin America?
By Proinmigrant





If we ask ourselves if John McCain is united? Obviously Not. No. We are building a WALL on one side of the Southern Border, the “TERRORIST” are coming in from the NORTHERN BORDER.
We are building a WALL right in front of you as a person, a human being, as an AMERICAN.

No we are not United as a Nation, because the VOICE OF THE NATION wherever that is or whenever it is heard is leaning on the only tower left “RACISM” because without RACISM the United States would be one, and one voice. But by selling racism in the form of a FENCE, a Wall or Immigration Enforcement on the Federal and Local level, or “BY REMOVING ATTORNEY GENERAL” when it comes to anything related to the Government and the law of the land.

No you are not United, and are willing to STAY THE COURSE because if you don’t someone is going to JAIL.

If John McCain doesn’t win, he will let his Senate seat go, because there is too much hot water in the kitchen and he won't handled anytype of minor burns!

John McCain is a divider, when he could have been a uniter. But he has taken the stance of “winning” at the expense of Hispanics, Latinos, God Childrens, Secure the Borders, constitutional, and any means necessary.

So if and when Barrack Obama wins, I would just let the Republicans and all their 50.1 plus Cheney, Tancredo, Steve King, Jeff Sessions sink in their own UBoat, UVOTED for them.

The only thing America got out of the Republicans, is a lot of boys raped, Viagra, War, Racism, Anti Immigrant Sentiment, Hipocrisy. Oh I’m sorry, an attempt to define that marriage is between a man and a woman, and a girl or in most Republicans case a boy! That’s it!!!!!!!! No Human sentiment, No Compassion, No tolerance to the Other.

I understand Mr. John McCain these are God childrens... just because they are here Illegaly. Well Obviously not, When “ SECURE BORDERS, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND IMMIGRATION REFORM ACT OF 2007″ was all about putting 4.4 billion dollars “1 dollar for every one mexican american” in a border security account for “no bid corporate america” to make money on the exploitation of immigrants alike.

It’s Title he might get a clue as to what “Comprehensive Immigration” meant to John McCain. Secure the border first then we will talk about God Childrens.

So is that why Sherriff Joe Arpaio can have his “clandestine” immigration sweeps across Maricopa County as though he is a FBI / CIA / Secretary of Homeland Security, “commissioner of immigration and naturalization” and at the time of any arrest he has the right to demand a legal “ATTESTATION” of your citizenship or natuarlization.

By the way where is the Asian undocumented workers “audit of attestation”?
By the way where is the Canadian undocumented workers “audit of attestation”?
By the way where is the Chinese Undocumented workers " audit of attestation" ?
By the way where is the Indian Undocumented workers " audit of attestation "?
By the way where is the European Undocumented workers " audit of attestation "?

So we are to be just “1865″ GOD’s children to think that it is only the Latino, the Mexican, is here that is here illegally?.

It’s our fault that we allowed this to come to pass! We allowed our legislation and our judicial leaders become silent in their due dilligence when it comes to the law. Sherriff Joe Arpaio isn’t our Federal Agent “Elliot Nest” out there getting the bad guys, he’s exploiting the color of skin for his ratched up forced “attestations.
for “GRANT MONEY” to continue his midnight operations on Maricopa County.

Let's get straigh answers Mr. John McCain Hispanics, Latinos they had been suffer enough crime, bigotry, Racism, being demonized, being scapegoated from America.!!!

Shaking hands with Latinoamerican Presidents won't solve those problems.
Human beings needs Human solutions.... Where is your Humane Solution to God Childrens.?

What part of Law they do not Understand? The punishment doesn't fit their crime. By Michael Vargas.





Why Society, Politicians, News Media are talking about an Immigrant breaking the law searching a better life. They called Criminal, Lawbreakers, Offender, Illegal Aliens,Violators, rapists, murderers, Infested, Invaders, etc,

What bothers me; It's when someone in our Society breaking the law committing a worst crime they do not attempted or covers the eyes and ears to punishment them as well as the Undocumented. Where are those Moral values? and Why? We are not Human beings before being under the rule of Law in our Society?.

A person who is driving a 105 mph in a 30 mph zone. They called A Driver. There is a Law breaking at that point. Why? Read Here:

A person impersonating a police officer and robbed other Motorists. The Media called Impersonator but not Criminal or Law Breaker. Read Here:

A person stealing the Identity of Co workers to secure Loans. They called Former Employee but not a Thief, Criminal. Read here:

Look at the comments from the Secretary of Michael Chertoff.

Operation Wagon Train. People caught been in the Country Illegaly.
Secretary Chertoff: No, no, everybody was charged administratively; 65 of them have also been charged criminally. So everybody gets charged — everybody who was arrested is charged as an immigration violator, but then a subset of those who actually are accused of committing a criminal offense are charged with criminal charges. That number may change. Some of the people who are in the administrative category may also get added to the criminal category.

A former New York prosecutor has admitted in court that she had rape and sex with underage boys.
They called ex Prosecutor but not Rapist, Child Molesters, or Criminal. Read here:

Even Society taken the Law on their own hands. Sex offender body found burned and beheaded. but they found no criminals, no suspects, or Motive? Where are those Moral Values? Read Here:


Searching for sexual offenders it is an invasion of their right to privacy.

"It's the Constitution of the United States but when we talking to searching for Undocumented Immigrants is the Immigration Law not their Constitutional rights. Why? Read here:

Check this one: A suburban Chicago man was charged Monday with possessing an illegal toxin found in puffer fish. Tetrodotoxin is a poison so potent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it can "produce rapid and violent death." It is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide. Even this person claimed to be a doctor using someone else Identity. Why Society, Media and anchor news do not treated the Human being by fairly and balance news? Read here:

Image an Undocumented Immigrants with a possesion of this Toxin? I can't imagine Tommy Tancredo words.., The News Media, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Rilley, Minuteman groups and Politicians. That's sad and ashamed. They are only seems the Undocumented Immigrants as the criminal, the Lawbreaker, the rapist, the drainer, but not the hardworker, the human being, the taxpayer, their Community support, the Member of the Society. That's ashamed.!!!!!!!! Why Bashing Hispanic Community?

Canada Open Border. It’s a unique situation and it requires a unique solution.





" But from a security standpoint, most of the threats around the northern border revolve around terrorism, and most of the threats on the southern border revolve around immigration ".

Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Paul Schneider joined U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., at the Port of Scobey on Monday during a tour of the northern border between Montana and Saskatchewan.

Accompanied by Secret Service agents, Schneider arrived shortly after noon by helicopter at the U.S. Border Patrol station in Scobey, located about 14 miles south of the Scobey Port of Entry.

Homeland Security’s No. 2 man, Schneider said he was not personally familiar with the remote region of the border. But after a 90-minute flight and a tour of the Scobey facility, the Washington, D.C., official admitted his surprise at the breadth of terrain crossing the state’s northern tier.

“It’s a unique situation and it requires a unique solution, basically, in how you control the border,’’ Schneider said. “It’s absolutely essential to get a bird’s eye view of the ground. It will help inform the decision-making process.’’

Schneider’s arrival in Montana kicked off a series of border tours and community hearings that began Monday morning at the Sheridan County Courthouse in Plentywood and is scheduled to end Wednesday with a Senate field hearing in Havre.

“By his own admission, (Schneider) said he would not have believed the border’s rural nature unless he had seen it firsthand,’’ Tester said. “Because of our rural nature, we have challenges at this border that are different than anywhere else.

Tester, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, has spent the last year advocating improvements to U.S. security along the northern border, particularly the 550 miles spanning Montana and the three Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

In that year, Tester helped pass legislation securing $3 billion for security upgrades for all U.S. ports and borders, and pushed for a series of reviews on border vulnerabilities and needed improvements.

“There’s a lot of emphasis going to the southern border, and I’m not going to say that’s right or wrong,’’ Tester said during the town-hall meeting in Plentywood. “But from a security standpoint, most of the threats around the northern border revolve around terrorism, and most of the threats on the southern border revolve around immigration.’’

During the morning meeting, Tester took comments from area residents, many of whom do business across the northern border or have Canadian spouses.

Some in the audience asked why they had to travel to Helena, more than 500 miles away, to acquire paperwork for Canadian family members when a 24-hour port of entry sat just minutes away.

Other questions focused on green cards, citizenship and immigration reform and extended hours at several ports of entry.

“There’s not an awareness in Washington of the distance in Montana,’’ said state Rep. Julie French, D-Scobey, who spoke at the Plentywood meeting. “The other issue is fees. We saw a huge jump in passport fees. When you have a family of five in Scobey who travel across the border because they have family there, it kills us.’’

“My wife should have been Mexican,’’ added Gary Steinberg, an area resident. “It would have been easier for her to get a green card.’’

Tester noted the concerns and later said it was good to hear from those on the ground about the issues they’re concerned about.

Tester added that improved border security doesn’t have to take place at the expense of smooth commerce and strong U.S.-Canadian relations.

In recent months, some Canadian officials have expressed concerns that a ramp-up in border security could stop commerce in its tracks.

“On the northern tier, there’s a lot of business that goes on on both sides of the border,’’ Tester said. “It’s got to be secure, but it’s also got to work, and I think we can have both