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Obama pick could mean amnesty, GOP Reps say

December 1st, 2008, 11:59 am · 57 Comments · posted by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano

The selection of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of Homeland Security signals the battle of amnesty is going to have to be waged again, say Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Ed Royce.

Obama announced his national security team in Chicago this morning.

“I think that it sends a clear signal that we’re in for a long fight on this amnesty issue because she’s clearly an open borders advocate,’’ said Royce, R-Fullerton.

Royce said Napolitano opposed Prop 400 in Arizona in 2004 that would have required the state to verify the immigration status of people applying for welfare and requiring them to verify citizenship when voting. And, he said, she only signed Arizona’s law requiring employers to verify the employment status of workers after it made it to her desk a second time and clearly had overwhelming public support.

“Napolitano is someone who is not committed to stopping the most important security problem that we’ve got in America today and that’s illegal immigration, said Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach.

UPDATE: Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez has a different view.

Napolitano was among the group of cabinet-level officials Obama announced today. It includes Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, former Clinton Justice Department official Eric Holder as Attorney General and Clinton foreign policy expert Susan Rice as U.N. Ambassador. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will remain in his post for now. Retired Gen. Jim Jones will be the new president’s National Security Advisor.

Napolitanohas been hailed by immigration advocates as someone who supports comprehensive immigration reform and as a border governor who has been intimately involved in such issues. But some immigration proponents point out that the Arizona governor has supported expanding the ability of local governments to enforce federal immigration laws, something they oppose.

Royce allowed as how Napolitano also called for the National Guard to continue to patrol the border, something he supports and open border advocates have opposed.

“I would say that her choice is no better or worse than what George Bush has done on homeland security,’’ said Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher, Royce and the rest Orange County’s GOP congressional delegation have criticized the Bush administration’s policies on immigration.

I wrote in my most recent Letter from Washington about the prospects for immigration reform under Obama. Check it out.

Overall, Rohrabacher gaveObama a “B” for his national security team, saying the new chief executive would have gotten an “A” had he not chosen Napolitano.

“That’s pretty good, considering I was expecting an “F,” Rohrabacher said. Obama’s good grade came mostly because Rohrabacher said he was worried that Obama would pick people on the extreme left for his cabinet.

Rohrabacher called Obama’s picks middle of the road Democrats but still questioned whether Clinton has the credentials and personality to be secretary of state.

“She’s more comfortable being a monarch than being the diplomat for the monarch,’’ Rohrabacher said. “I don’t think Hillary is known for her diplomacy at all.’’

Royce questioned her experience and brought up her gaffe during the campaign when she said she was under sniper fire in Bosnia when in fact her delegation was never in any peril.

Both Republicans welcomed the holdover appointment of Gates and said retired Marine general Jones would bring good order and discipline to foreign policy decision-making.

They both railed against Holder because of his involvement in President Clinton’s last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Mark Rich, something that no doubt will be brought up by GOP senators during the Senate confirmation process.

Obama’s appointments, as expected, have received overwhelming support from Democrats as well as from some Republicans, including Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, who called the team “excellent” this past weekend.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement this morning saying Obama picked “an extraordinarily experienced national security team to advise him as he navigates the challenges ahead. In my view, it’s about as good a team as one can get.”

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57 Comments

57 Comments

  • R.L. says:

    Obama as well as Napolitano are both dedicated open border illegal alien amnesty supporters. Fortunately, so where Bush and Chertoff and we the American people stopped their amnesty attempts and we will again.

    Isn’t it amazing that the American people have to fight their own government leaders to protect are borders and are countries sovereignty. I believe their actions as well as their non-actions pertaining to this issue are and will be in the future treasonous. And should be labeled as such. What a shame!

  • Warren says:

    I voted for Obama knowning that I opposed his illegal immigration views. I will continue to email my Representatives to let them know why I feel amnesty and driver licenses are not good for the USA. By given the illegals amnesty will bring more and more illegal 3rd world uneducated and unskilled labor to the US. We must also do something about the anchor baby/jackpot baby problem. American tax payers can not support the world.

  • tracy says:

    change we dont believe in……

  • just me says:

    I wish Ron Paul would have won specifically because of this issue.

    Now illegal immigration will only become worsened 20X what it is now (which is 20X worse than it was since the last amnesty). Legalizing the illegals makes it sooooo much better! More welfare babies and crime we get to pay for and the less we get to take home in our paychecks. Woohoo!!!

  • Octimes says:

    Why doesn’t anyone address the cost of the illegals for welfare, education, healthcare, free school uniforms, etc. etc. etc. . And what happens if we grant amnesty. How much is the cost of that program to process these illegals in such a way that we can separate terrorists from illegals.

    Has it every occurred to anyone that there is only so much land and so much money that keep letting everybody and anybody into the US?

  • American says:

    Taxpaying Americans already work 1 day a week to pay the taxes that support all of the programs that support all of the illegal aliens and their anchor babies. This Christmas tell you family that they will get fewer presents because you had to buy the illegals their gifts first. Maybe they will understand.

  • Linda says:

    I don’t agree with any of these comments. First of all illegal immigrants are not qualify to get any of the benefits mention above, you need to have legals papers in order to received welfare. I belive that we do need to have a more secure border and the we need to penalize people for coming here ilegally but by open an amnesty they have to pay for the cost and not the tax payers. We need to be more educated and for the DL we can get the state do much money by giving these people the right to drive legally.

  • mark says:

    John Mccain was going to allow amnesty too. He made that overwhelmingly clear. SO what if that is going to happen?

  • Patriot says:

    Frankly I look forward to the open borders. I look forward to the following:
    1. Trash strewn all over the country side
    2. Gang Graffiti
    3. Having my car windshields cleaned at every stop light by people jumping on top of my car.
    4. The constant smell of human waste in the air
    5. Housing contruction incomplete by leaving the second story unfinished so we can save on propety taxes
    6. The police bribing and stealing from us.
    7. Police protecting and working with the drug cartels.
    8. Donkey shows
    9. Bars on the windows of every home.
    10. More gardeners
    11. More maids
    12. More illiterate people
    13. More crime
    14. More people to give my money to through welfare
    15. A chance to learn spanish by the immersion process
    16. A chance to save money by not flushing my toilet and placing to used toilet paper in the trash can next to the toilet
    17. Ice cream and produce trucks in my neighborhood so I won’t have to travel to Food 4 Less.

  • luvdaisies says:

    Warren,
    Well said. I’m Latina, born and raised in the USA. I’m tired of all the freebies. We need to stop. They need to say, NO MORE ANCHOR BABIES! NO CDL. NO AMNESTY!!!!!

  • Cally says:

    We can count on ER waiting periods going from a dismal average waiting time of 5 hours to who knows what as all these folks will continue to use our ERs as thier “free” doctor’s offices…..that is until we give them all “free” universal healthcare …its going to be a long 4 years….

  • jim says:

    Obama bin Laden is already pushing for illegal aliens to be legalized. I am afraid to see what will happen once he actually takes office.

  • ocmom says:

    Keep fighting go to http://www.numbersusa.com.

  • Pants says:

    Hey Patriot,
    Maybe when the amnesty does come through for some of these hard working illegal immigrants, we can send them to you so you can teach them how to write properly!

    … I’m just saying. We do need to make them productive and literate members of our society right?

    Cheers!

  • Octimes says:

    Linda..you are so wrong. Women come over the border and have babies at NO CHARGE. Nada. That is so wrong. So called ‘businesses’ just open up trucks and sell food on the streets of Santa Ana. Meantime, restaurants have to go thru hoops to get approval from the State Health Dept. That is so wrong. CA Parents max out credit cards to pay for their kids unifoms, books, food and essentials. And pay thousands in health care, if they can afford it. Meantime, illegals get food stamps, school uniforms, free lunches at school and pick up their kids in their Suburbans. That is so wrong.

  • adam says:

    Government services should only be for citizens, legal residents, and visa/passported visitors. That is it!

  • Ed Morgan says:

    Congratulations, Warren. Your man won. Now suck it up and live with it. May a thousand illegal aliens inhabit your back yard.

  • mememe says:

    i don’t know whats worse, border hoppers or corporate outsourcing to mexico. I dont’ see that many people coming over here since all the wonderful us of a corporations are sending all there factory work to mexico…

  • just me says:

    Yeah, exactly, Octimes. And they also set up illegal car washes in parking lots of commercial spaces, like near the Tarbell Realtors corporate headquarters in Santa Ana on Tustin Ave.

    Linda, in response to what you said, they get around that loophole by simply stealing someone else’s identity or obtaining fradulent documentation. More illegal activities! Not to mention they come here and purposely procreate so they can get welfare thinking that’s the way to get their back-door citizenship.

  • sickntired says:

    saveourstate.org

  • biggie says:

    Ya’ll voted for him…

  • R.L. says:

    OC Times why do immigrants as you labeled them need amnesty. Immigrants by the very definition are here legally and documented as such. Oh, you must mean illegal aliens. Only illegal aliens would need to recieve amnesty for a crime they committed.

    Stop with the white washing and “political correctness”. I buy the use of the term immigrants to describe illegal aliens when you start referring to bank robbers as “unscheduled withdraw specialists”, or drug dealers and “unlicensed pharmacists”. Let’s just be honest and factual cannot we?

  • OCVOICE says:

    yes - more good news from the scubbags in charge of our country - including the spineless repubs that call themselves conservatives

    BUILD THE WALL AND DEPORT!

  • ocmom says:

    I was in the Westminster Mall the other day in the Target store and they had an illegal immigrant working as a janitor that didn’t speak any English. We had an issue with the bathroom privacy as he blocked the entrance with the door wide open while the woman were still inside. We all told him when we were done he could clean the restroom all he did was point to his watch. I ask him to get the store manager but he couldn’t understand what I was saying. I called corporate as the general manger never returned my phone call until corporate called him. The store manger then called me 4 days later and apologized but he also told me that he didn’t believe that there was an issue with him not speaking English. I told him that we speak English in this Country and we all need to communicate and this Spanish speaking older man didn’t speak English so therefore we could not communicate and that was a problem that I had with him and the store, as he had me closed in with his cart while I was on crutches. So there you go the mentality employers have and btw the store manager was also from Mexico as I also had a problem understanding him as well. Unbelievable!

  • barbiemacs says:

    The illegals do get benefits…emergency services at our hospitals (they cannot be refused treatment - hence our emergency rooms being constantly crowded, free pregnancy services, welfare, food stamps,Medi-Cal, schooling, free lunches etc. for every little “citizen” they drop here. Once they have their little “citizens”, they give their SSN’s etc to legal relatives and use them as “TAX dependents” and split the earned income credits, stimulus checks etc while drawing welfare etc. They even get HUD housing once they have their little “citizens” here. Once they are given asylum, the adults get welfare, SSI, and all the other perks of a US citizen. I say enforce the borders and immigration laws, send them back to Mexico and save Calif from the welfare state it is becoming. It would solve the classroom overcrowding, give US citizens jobs, and free up the govt services for the citizens. And don’t tell me they dont have good paying jobs…look at every company they bust…how many do you see in the fields…how many Americans could have landscaping contracts and businesses without the illegals?? What about construction jobs, brick layers..trust me they dont pay them minimum wages, they get what the going rate is but nothing taken in taxes or social security. They are draining the US!!! AND WE ARE PAYING FOR IT!!!!!

  • BuckWild says:

    You guys act as if it is the governmants fault exclusivley, its not. How many of you have a gardening service? Ever check their papers? I believe it has more to do with driving down labor costs by big business than anything else, you guys ever question that “new hire” at work that “dont speak to much English”? It is the employers of illegals that need to be dealt with, big fines and jail time with real enforcement will probably stop the flood better than a fence. All of you cry about deportation, how bout dealing with the scumbag employers that hire them? It would cost way less and be way more effective.

  • barbiemacs says:

    AMEN BuckWild!! I’m with you,,,,=)

  • Stan Switek says:

    With every pick in Obama’s administration, I fear more and more for our country.

  • tracy says:

    To Linda……have you EVER heard of an anchor baby?

  • tracy says:

    idexer,com

  • tracy says:

    In TJ 9 bodies with there heads cut off thrown in a lot this weekend 24 people dead in 2 days. THIS is not what I want for my country!No on amnesty.

  • ocmom says:

    Obama will try and give drivers license to illegal immigrants, as he already said he would. Remember 9/11 the terrorist had drivers licenses. Why are they so against deporting illegal immigrants who came here illegally. I just don’t get it. It’s unfair to all Americans. It sets an example to every one who is not an American. It says you come here and we will pay your way and if you have a child here we’ll give your child automatic citizenship. It’s ridiculous!

  • Malik says:

    this is a moot point

    The Economy is the only Issue right now

    how do I know

    more people entered the country legally last year than illegally

    people are actually going back to their home countries

    money being sent by Mexican and other is down 12%

    and quite frankly nobody should be listening to a bankrupt Party like the Republican party

    8 years in the white house 6 in congress and 7 trillion added on to the debt after you add this year’s deficit, bailout or what it should be called corporate welfare.

    The Appointment means she can do the job

    appointing one measure you know nothing about but what the Republicans tell you is your problem

    after 20 years of being a registered republican i would change my registration if I didn’t live in Orange County.

    As far as immagration goes

    in terms of California

    it’s not how many it’s that one third come to California

    if it were more even distributed with systems in place over time they can be absorbed because it is cheap labor and keeps inflation down.

  • LadyM says:

    Last year alone illegal’s cost American taxpayers $338 BILLION. This is money that would have gone a long way to assist in education and medical coverage for our citizens. Illegal immigration will be the downfall of this country. I didn’t vote for either Obama or McCain because of their insistance on granting another amnesty. We were promised that there would never be another amnesty in 1986 when 3.6 million, mostly Mexicans, we granted amnesty. 20 years later we have more than 20 million illegal’s and some say as high as 40 million that are expecting amnesty. What will it be in another 20 years? American citizens must stand up and tell their leaders that this is not the answer to solving our illegal immigration problems. We have good laws, we just need to start enforcing them. And we need to stop giving credences to groups like LaRaza, MALDEF, MeCHa and the rest of the open borders zealots. The American citizens have to stand up for the sovereignty of our country even if our politicians fight us, we must fight back. Join the groups out there that will help us, like NumbersUsa, ALIPAC, Grassfire, to mention a few. It won’t be as easy this time to defeat them, but we can if we stick together.

  • Edie says:

    Remember, if you don’t let your voices be heard, they will take your silence as a “yes”. Contact your congressman/senator and let them know - absolutely no legalization or amnesty.

  • Aztlan Buster says:

    If the muz of dubious citizenship (that would be Hussein Obama) pushes for an amnesty for border-hopping vermin in this economy he’s gonna have Civil War II on his hands.

    Illegal aliens are criminals and parasites, one and all. Their very presence here and practically everything they do on U. S. soil is illegal. They need to be ferreted out, rounded up like cattle, punished for their numerous crimes, then booted back to whence they snuck in from with such extreme prejudice that they will never, ever think of violating our sovereignty again. Enough is enough.

  • it is time for white people start cleaning houses, start do gardening jobs, babysitting, cooks, farm work… it is time white pople STOP making easy money like realtors or dancing in the pole in an night club

  • Jimi says:

    I need a new country. The government has messed up this one so much it will never get fixed.

    I was born in a second world country, the USA. I will end up dying in a third world country, the USA.

  • Ali says:

    Linda Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
    I don’t agree with any of these comments. First of all illegal immigrants are not qualify to get any of the benefits mention above, you need to have legals papers in order to received welfare. I belive that we do need to have a more secure border and the we need to penalize people for coming here ilegally but by open an amnesty they have to pay for the cost and not the tax payers. We need to be more educated and for the DL we can get the state do much money by giving these people the right to drive legally.”

    Illegal aliens CAN AND DO COLLECT welfare on behalf of their U.S. citizen children. For that matter, Barack Obama’s aunt, illegally here in the U.S. from Kenya after her asylum petition was denied, lived in SUBSIDIZED housing in Boston and had a “protected” job there paid for by taxpayer funds, not to mention her medical care. Illegal aliens are also heavy users of social services such as K-12 education and in some states, in-state tuition for college, while U.S. citizens, including our military, need to pay out of state tuition. Nor would legalizing illegals do anything but make them eligible for MORE benefits. Pay taxes? Uh huh. Try collecting the earned income tax credit. We’d end up paying them. In fact, we already are. The State of Colorado identified 1,300 instances where illegal aliens had filed federal tax returns with both the ITIN and fraudulent/stolen Social Security numbers in order to get tax refunds averaging about $2,000 each.

  • Ali says:

    BuckWild Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
    You guys act as if it is the governmants fault exclusivley, its not. How many of you have a gardening service? Ever check their papers? I believe it has more to do with driving down labor costs by big business than anything else, you guys ever question that “new hire” at work that “dont speak to much English”?”

    Try it, and you’ll get charged with discrimination. EMPLOYERS such as the owner of a gardening service, should check the papers of the employees, but all a client can do is ask if the workers are legal. A fellow employee can’t even really do that. By the way, in D.C., we’ve had a couple of instances where elderly people were targeted by illegals for robbery and were beaten to death. One was an elderly woman who gave her gardener a check (he’s Salvadoran and possibly has TPS) which he raised from $75 to $7500. He then got together with a buddy and his wife to beat her to death and burned down the house while she was alive.

  • Bobby says:

    Is that right? Obama choices could mean amnesty. I have a question for the writers at the Orange County Register Newspaper and other so called sources of information. Here is the question,”Where exactly does the American public’s concerns fit into this amnesty plan by the Democrats and some traitorous Republicans? Informed Americans would like to know? I guess we have come to the point where decisions concerning 20-30 million people’s illegal entrance and stay in this nation is none of the American citizens business. All will be decided by a central elite in Washington D.C. and on Wall Street.

    Conclusion: Some of you teachers in the U.S. should at least start to care enough about your students to inform them that the democratic process as carried out by Washington elites is one big hoax that they need not worry themselves about. Lawlessness is what should be taught. That’s how things really work, right? Get what you can, however you can, as long as you get away with it. Why don’t some of you newspaper “reporters” who claim to be informing the American citizenry just resign and go into an honorable profession–like say, used car salesman, or well, I’ll leave it to the readers imagination.

  • Buzzm1 says:

    SUPPORT THE ALL-AMERICAN STIMULUS PLAN!!!

    THE ALL-AMERICAN STIMULUS PLAN WILL PROVIDE JOBS FOR MANY OF THE 10 MILLION UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN WORKERS AND IT WON’T COST ANYTHING!!!

    Illegals, using forged, and/or stolen identities, have illegally obtained up to 8.7 million jobs; these are jobs that Americans will do, jobs in food processing, jobs in manufacturing; these are jobs that rightfully belonged to American workers in the first place.

    MANDATE E-VERIFY, FOR ALL EMPLOYEES, AND FOR ALL EMPLOYERS, AND IT WILL GENERATE 8.7 MILLION JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN WORKERS!!!

    THE ALL-AMERICAN STIMULUS PLAN WILL SAVE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS 300 BILLION DOLLARS EACH, AND EVERY, YEAR (the estimated annual cost of illegal immigrants to American taxpayers)!!!

    SUPPORT THE ALL-AMERICAN STIMULUS PLAN!!!

    REMEMBER, IT WON’T COST ANYTHING!!!

  • Buzzm1 says:

    ENFORCE OUR LAWS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!!!

    THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY!!!

    OUR ACCEPTABLE IMMIGRATION REFORM

    #1. Make Illegal Entry a Felony Permanently Barring Citizenship
    #2. Secure Our Borders with our National Guard!!!
    #3. Mandate E-Verify for ALL Employees!!!
    #4. Cut Off ALL Public Assistance to Illegals and Their Children!!!
    #5. Stop the Underground Economy!!!
    #6. End Birthright Citizenship for Illegals!!!
    #7. End Chain Migration!!!
    #8. Make English our Official Language!!!
    #9. Cut Off Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities!!

    NOTHING MORE!!! NOTHING LESS!!!

  • Buzzm1 says:

    U. S. OVERPOPULATION GROWTH

    YEAR ——– U.S.—- —–DECADE GAIN –GREEN CARDS —
    1920 —-106,021,537
    ————————- ——17,181,087 —-
    1930 —-123,202,624
    ————————- ——-8,961,945 —-
    1940 —-132,164,569
    ————————- ——19,161,229 —-
    1950 —-151,325,798
    ————————- ——27,997,377 —-
    1960 —-179,323,175
    ————————- ——23,888,751 —-
    1970 —-203,211,926
    ————————- ——23,333,879 —-4,323,688
    1980 —-226,545,805
    ————————- ——22,164,068 —-6,750,168
    1990 —-248,709,873
    ————————- ——32,712,036 —-9,447,963
    2000 —-281,421,906
    ————————- –est. 33,568,094—10,214,981
    2010 —-315,000,000

    THE MAJORITY OF OUR POPULATION INCREASE, OVER THE LAST 22 YEARS, IS DUE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

    STOP THE INVASION AND YOU WILL STOP THE OVERPOPULATION OF OUR UNITED STATES!!!

  • Buzzm1 says:

    STOP THE INVASION!!!

    UNITED STATES BORDER APPREHENSIONS (Source DHS/CBP)
    1987–1,190,488——1995–1,394,554——2003—-931,557
    1988–1,008,145——1996–1,649,986——2004–1,160,395
    1989—-954,243——1997–1,412,953——2005–1,189,075
    1990–1,169,939——1998–1,555,776——2006–1,089,902
    1991–1,197,875——1999–1,579,010——2007—-876,704
    1992–1,258,482——2000–1,676,438——2008—-723,825
    1993–1,327,259——2001–1,266,213——2009—-(beginning 10/01)
    1994–1,094,717——2002—-955,310

    FACT: In the last 22 years, over 26 million illegals, have been apprehended, after crossing the border, into our United States.

    THE PROBLEM IS: Less than 1, out of 4, of the invading illegals, are estimated to have been apprehended.

    According to the U.S. Immigration Service another 6 million illegals in our country are visa overstays. That is, they got a visa legally in their home country, they came here to visit and then they never left.

    In the last 22 years, there have been another 4 million anchor babies born to illegals. Anchor babies are now being born at a rate of 350-400 thousand per year in our United States. All at our expense!!

    Then the ANCHOR BABIES qualify for welfare, food stamps, section-8 housing, all at our expense.

    American Taxpayers are getting screwed, over, and over, and over, again!!!

    Each illegal immigrant, on average, costs taxpayers $9,000 PER YEAR, over, and above, anything they might contribute in taxes!!! A total cost to American taxpayers of over 300 billion dollars each, and every, year.

  • Buzzm1 says:

    Dear Legislators,

    Mandate, AND STRICTLY ENFORCE, E-Verify for ALL employers, for ALL employees, and for ANY benefit, and the I.C.E. raids, as well as all of the expemsive new detention facilities, would not be needed.

    The illegals would have to begin leaving of their own accord.

    Think of the economic effect of giving the 8.7 million jobs, that the illegals have illegally obtained, using forged, or stolen documents, back to Americans.

    Think of the economic effect of 65 billion more dollars being spent in our United States, rather than being remitted to Mexico, and South America.

    Think of the money saved by decreasing I.C.E.’s effort.

    Think of it, and then let’s do it!!!

    BOYCOTT ANY BUSINESS THAT HIRES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!

    AND LET THEM KNOW ABOUT IT!!!

    DURING HARD TIMES, WE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT!!!

  • Buzzm1 says:

    STOP THE INVASION!!!

    BUILD THE FENCE!!!

    MANDATE E-VERIFY!!!

    Southwest Border Patrol Sector Apprehensions (Source DHS/CBP)
    Fiscal Year————-2005———2006———2007——-2008 (ends 9/30)
    San Diego————126,879—–142,104—- 152,460— 162,390
    El Centro————–55,725——-61,465—– 55,883—– 40,961

    Yuma—————–138,492—–118,549—– 37,992—— 8,363*

    Tucson ————–439,053—–392,074—- 378,239— 317,696
    El Paso—————122,624—–122,256—– 75,464—– 30,312
    Marfa ——————10,532——–7,520——- 5,536—— 5,391
    Del Rio —————–68,547——42,636—– 22,920—– 20,761
    Laredo —————–75,268——74,840—– 56,714——43,658
    Rio Grande Valley –134,136—-110,528—— 73,430—– 75,473
    Apprehensions—-1,171,386–1,071,972—–858,638—-705,005

    *The Yuma Sector now has a total of 94 miles of fencing. The difference is apparent.

    The Yuma Border Patrol Sector is under control:
    ——-Yuma Border Patrol Sector Apprehensions——–
    ———–OCT
    FY2009—338
    FY2008–1094
    FY2007–3478
    FY2006–9428
    FY2005–8872

    The El Paso Border Patrol Sector will soon be under control
    ——-El Paso Border Patrol Sector Apprehensions——–
    ———–OCT
    FY2009–1468–
    *The El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol is currently in the process of constructing 80 miles of vehicle fencing in New Mexico and approximately 56 miles of pedestrian fencing in New Mexico and Texas, officials said.
    FY2008–3605
    FY2007–6183
    FY2006-11027

    KEPP BUILDING THE FENCE AND SECURING THE BORDER!!!

  • Ahwatukee T says:

    Per the Heritage Foundation, the “average illegal alien family” nets $21,000 more per year than it contributes in taxes.

    http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed060807.cfm

  • Brittanicus says:

    FIGHTING FOR THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
    Anti-illegal advocates will be on their guard against the new team under president elect Obama who has promised a path to Citizenship-AMNESTY

    When I subscribed freely to Judicial Watch, I found out that citizens, legal residents had a strong legal advocate and that we are not alone fighting corruption in Washington. Tom Fitton, president of this group has had outstanding success of using the court system in fighting pro-illegal immigration groups, the corrupt politicians and special interest lobby who pander to the invaders. IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T STOP THOSE ALREADY HERE, MILLIONS MORE WILL EXPECT A WELCOME MAT.

    Go to their website http://www.judicialwatch.org/ and learn more about the ongoing investigation into unlawful ‘Sanctuary city and state’ laws, pariah employers, criminal aliens and the growing costs to American taxpayers.

  • Brittanicus says:

    Anti-illegal advocates will be on their guard against the new team under president elect Obama. In the past Napolitano has vetoed numerous measures to halt the waves of illegal aliens squatting in Arizona. But she strongly apposed the border fence and may try to rescind the raids on parasite employers who is the main cause of illegal aliens attracted by employment opportunities. The fact that Governor Napolitano was picked for heading Homeland Security instead of the possibility of New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson shows a realistic attitude, that the administration doesn’t need a politician who panders to illegal immigrant organizations such as La Raza. Even with the advent of 9/11, Richardson issued drivers licenses to foreign nationals, without qualifying their right to be here.

    Politicians like Napolitano have either intentionally neglected to understand the difference between an legal Immigrant and an illegal alien. The difference being the ‘Rule of law’ that illegal aliens have no sovereign rights in this land. Yet because current and many previous administrations have neglected their oath to the American people, we have seen massive growth of radical groups of people with no loyalty to this country. With a centralist view as governor she was one of the first politicians to call for deployment of the National Guard along the border and also declared a state of emergency in her state’s counties nearest Mexico.Yet at the same time opposing the immigrant crackdown launched by the courageous Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and vetoing laws that would have denied state social services to illegal immigrants.

    As the new Homeland Security chief, Napolitano can be expected to follow the lead of Chertoff and the Democratic Party in insisting that current immigration laws be enforced to some degree.

    1.Arizona hospitals spend $150 million annually to provide care to illegal aliens, according to the Arizona Hospital and Health care Association

    2. Arizona taxpayers over $1 billion annually in services for schools, medical care, welfare anchor babies, loss of tax base and prisons.

    3. Illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars last year according to Harvard Professor George Borjas. College and high school kids cannot find a summer job in yard care, landscape, fast food or service jobs. Why? Illegal aliens work them at a third the wage and often, under the table.

    4. When an alien criminal gets caught for rape, murder or drug distribution, you pay $1.6 billion annually in prison costs to house, feed and clothe those filling 30 percent of our federal and state prisons.

    5. Over 300,000 women annually arrive pregnant and drop them on U.S. soil. You pay food, housing, medical and schooling for them to age 18 PLUS their mother. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, average annual cost per child K-12 is $7,161.00 and exceeds $109 billion annually per cycle of anchor babies. That’s your money given out to 300,000 moms and their kids annually and all they did was get pregnant and birth that child on U.S. soil.

    6. The average head of household illegal alien costs you $2,700.00 in welfare money over and above any taxes he or she pays in their meager paying jobs. With 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in the USA, that figures exceeds $20 billion of your tax dollars, according to Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004)

    7. $56 billion in pure cash illegal migrants sent to their home countries last year and every year? That’s after their kids enjoyed free education, free lunches and free medical care paid for by you.

    8. With a minimum of 37 million illegal aliens in our country, (according to the Tucson Border Patrol Union) these figures are the tip of the iceberg. Average bilingual education is $1,200.00 per illegal alien student. We educate 1.1 million illegal alien children each year. You paid $27 billion to provide forms, ballots, interpreters and brochures for languages other than English in 2003.

    9. An estimated one-third to one-half illegal aliens work off the books. It costs $200 million to provide for emergency health care for illegal aliens in the Border States annually. California with over three million illegals paid $79 million, BUT four of their major LA hospitals bankrupted and shut their doors in 2004. Texas with 1.5 million illegal aliens paid $74 million in hospital care. Who is Texas? You, the taxpayer, that’s who! Because you, in your state, pay commensurate medical care according to your illegal alien population. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for 64,000 unpaid doctor visits to their Grady Health Care system in 2002. In the same year, Georgia taxpayers paid $27 million for 11,188 anchor baby hospital births. Georgia taxpayers paid a whopping $242 million for educating illegal alien kids in 2003. What is it in your state?

    What are the consequences? One in two adult African-Americans in New York is unemployed. African-American children’s poverty grew by 50 percent since 1999. Why? Their dads can’t find work.

    10. Illegals are arriving at over 4,000 per night according to Time Magazine, September 12, 2004, “Who Left the Door Open?” I quote, “That total of illegal aliens flooding into the United States this year will total three million. An additional half-million are coming every year.

    In 1996 Illegal aliens were then displacing 730,000 American workers a year, so says Rice University.

    It is estimated that the cost to supporting illegal aliens is over a $1trillion dollars a year in government handouts.

    Read about http://www.judicialwatch.org winning court cases against parasite employers, illegal immigrant groups and corrupt politicians.
    http://www.numbersusa.com is your HQ, to find the ugly facts not lies. http://www.capsweb.org has different petitions to fight the illegal alien pestilence.
    Read about the unrevealed war going on at http://www.americanpatrol.com

    Our future free of OVERPOPULATION, is up to YOU?

  • mile says:

    I know illegal immigrants that are makiing $14.00 per hour,IN A FACTORY AND THE FACTORY OWNER KNOWS ABOUT IT IN MA.
    And, I’m a naturalized U.S. citizen don’t have a job receiving unemployment benefits.
    It’s just no fair; that ILLEGALS ALIENS ARE WORKING AND LEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT WORKING AND LOSING THEIR HOMES
    UNBELIEVABLE!

  • tax payer says:

    People pass this on to everyone….this is the truth!

    Subject: The video clip that was not allowed in USA

    What the ruling party does not want you to see. Now they also want to turn out the lights on what is and has happened in Illinois and Chicago .
    This video shows that George Bush tried to warn Congress starting in 2001 that this economic crisis was coming, if something was not done. But congress refused to listen, along with Barney Franks. This video says it all.
    The liberal AMERICAN media did not want this video on You Tube, so they had Time Warner threaten a law suit (proprietary rights) if it was not taken off.
    This link is of the same video but is routed through Canada . Everyone in America needs to see this!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1

  • Rob N says:

    I am a Democrat and voted for Obama, but I also voted for Rohrabacher. Any benefits gained by letting the Illegals in the USA are WAY out weighed by the problems they(Mexicans) cause. Please Obama, I love your platform except for the immigration policy. Obey the law - no illegals. It is not fair to other Nationalities wanting to come here and doing it legally by waiting their turn.

  • sarah collen says:

    First off all all of you need to think about how your ancestors came about to the US. For all I know this is land is rightfully the Indians which are people that were banished from Spain and came here for there own freedom but hey the pale faces had to take something that aint theres in the first place.

    Oh and to those that don’t want more maids and yard cleaners please please think about what you are saying, all i know is that there cant be to much smart people in this world because life aint that great to support all Phds and Master degrees holders. Come on now would you like to get on your lazy feet and do all the dirty work come on now WHO IS GOING TO DO ALL THE DIRTY WORK FOR THIS COUNTRY. OH and did you ever think that out those illegals they have children that are 4.0 and have high IQ come on now be more realistic. Statistics say that High crimes are made by our own citizens cool huh dont try to blame things bad that happen here on those that try to come about and find a life.

    PUT YOUR SELF YOU THEIR SHOES AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THE LAW DOESNT APPLY BECAUSE THESE ARENT ANIMALS THEY ARE PEOPLE. HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE YOU AND ME.

  • lisa says:

    I think President Obama plan for the Amnesty for Illegals are good because they are the most important part of the country. they are working hard then American people and doing all kind of odd jobs what american doesnt want to do. And they are working hard being living in the country and they are not geting any benefit like health care ,S S , etc which every working people deserevd….We are talking for every body right they have the right to get Citizenship because that is our broken immigration system we cannot bring people Legally in the country…….I Support Obama for the Early Amnesty to all those prople they are suffering …

  • lisa says:

    I think President Obama plan for the Amnesty for Illegals are good because they are the most important part of the country. they are working hard then American people and doing all kind of odd jobs what american doesnt want to do. And they are working hard being living in the country and they are not geting any benefit like health care ,S S , etc which every working people deserevd….We are talking for every body right they have the right to get Citizenship because that is our broken immigration system we cannot bring people Legally in the country…….I Support Obama for the Early Amnesty to all those prople.

  • vr says:

    OBAMA - YOU LISTEN TO ME - I’M SICK OF LISTENING TO YOUR BS !

    Illegals are NOT here to work. They are here to make anchor babies and collect FREE government money, rob us, rape american white women and little white children …

    Every time there is a murder, an elderly women rapped, a child rapped on the news it’s “suspect male Hispanic” !

    They wont even take a second to learn English. BUT, they will sell drugs on the side to make extra money to supplement their free welfare.

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