Feds Might Not Process Illegal Aliens From Arizona

The Obama Administration has decided to stick another finger in Arizona's eye.

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper reports. [...]

In response to Morton's comments, DHS officials said President Obama has ordered the Department of Justice to examine the civil rights and other implications of the law. [...]

Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said ICE is not obligated to process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.

"ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel," Napolitano said. "It also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even its own."

Got that? The Obama Administration, members of which couldn't even be bothered to read the short Arizona legislation before attacking it, may now play the "we don't like your law, so we won't process the criminals that you send to us" card.

Well, if the administration follows through on that, then I'd like to make a suggestion for a new piece of legislation that should be passed by the State of Arizona: Anyone convicted of a crime that was committed in Arizona while the offender was in the state and the nation illegally will be sentenced to 5 years in prison if the crime that was committed was a gross misdemeanor, and 15 years to life if the crime that was committed was a felony. Arizona doesn't need to turn them over to the feds; they can just hold them in work farms where the fruits of the inmates' labor can be used to offset the cost of the facility and the cost of enforcing the law that the feds won't.

Support Arizona!

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Hezbollah In South America

MSNBC has a story on Hezbollah's presence in South America. Considering that Iran has spent some time now becoming cozy with Venezuela, and that three of the six Muslims arrested in the Fort Dix plot were in the country illegally, this adds to the concerns that every American should have regarding our border security.

My concern here would be Iran getting nuclear, biological, or chemical materiel into Venezuela undetected under diplomatic seal. Following that, Hezbollah terrorists could collect that materiel and smuggle it across the U.S. southern border. At that point the materiel can be secreted by those who smuggled it in, or the materiel can be passed on to a sleeper cell, either way being maintained until it can be used in a terror attack on U.S. soil. It's a definitely possibility, if it hasn't been attempted or happened already.

When Iran thumbs its nose at the U.N. Security Council again over its nuclear program, we'll probably ratchet-up the rhetoric on not allowing a nuclear Iran. If we make good on that claim, there is a terror group sympathetic to Iran that is poised to our south and ready to retaliate against us for Iran. If we don't make good on that claim, and if Iran creates a nuclear weapon, then the stakes increase even more because Iran will have the ability to threaten all the nations of the Middle East and some European nations with nuclear attack, and to also direct their terrorist proxies in South America against the U.S. Either way, this isn't good.

The enemy won't be appeased, and they won't disengage even if we attempt to. This is going to be a very long war, and we must continue to bring the fight to them so that we can reduce their resources and keep them as occupied as possible as far away as we can.

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Lawb (What? You Don't Speak Hmong?)

Lawb - [Hmong word of Laotian origin] (v) Get out or get off; leave.

This is just beautiful. First, back on 3 January 2007, armed members of the National Guard are forced to leave their observation post on the Arizona/Mexico border because they aren't allowed to "confront or attempt to apprehend border crossers."

A Border Patrol official says National Guard troops acted appropriately this week when they abandoned their post near the border southwest of Tucson as four gunmen approached from Mexico.

Now, English-speaking American kids are not allowed to ride a bus to their school because the bus is for Hmong-speaking students.

The school bus driver let Rachel Armstrong's three kids board the bus Monday morning, but he warned them that he wouldn't give them a ride home that afternoon, nor could they ever ride his route again.

The problem: Armstrong's 10-year-old twin girls and 8-year-old son speak English. The driver told them the route had been designated for non-English speakers only. [...]

It turns out the bus route was meant to serve one of the district's three language academies. Phalen Lake's is for Hmong kids learning English, and the academies all have separate bus routes to keep their students together.

The district decided to begin enforcing the separate routes Monday -- but failed to tell the Armstrong family.

Isn't that nice? Now, when I looked for this in the St. Paul newspaper today, the school district's story had changed slightly. According to a mouthpiece for the St. Paul Public Schools, the kids weren't kicked off of the bus because they spoke English, but rather because it just wasn't their bus.

The route was created to pick-up "non-native English speakers" and special-ed kids. Basically, according to the public school spokesperson, the route is a segregated route, and the district just made a mistake putting American kids on a specially created segregated route. See, isn't that much better?

And if that wasn't enough, it still gets worse for those three American kids trying to attend their American school. The Armstrong family moved last year; a move that landed them just outside of their school's attendance area. The school's principal wants the Armstrong kids to keep coming to the school, but the St. Paul Public Schools have said that the American kids would now need to transfer to another school in order to receive bussing, or find their own way to get to the school that they are currently attending.

Isn't this great? We order our National Guard not to defend our borders, and then we make sure that we give special privileges to "non-native" students that would be otherwise considered discriminatory if provided to only American kids. Talk about mixed-up priorities.

This has got to change.

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