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• The Fiscal Burden of Educating Children of Illegal Aliens

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

  Great article from American Thinker here, by Bill Costello.  Enjoy!
  According to a new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the single largest cost of illegal immigration is educating the children of illegal aliens. Of the estimated $113 billion the U.S. spends on illegal immigration annually, roughly $52 billion goes [...]

• National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens

  Monday, August 9th, 2010

  1,200 National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens
  Friday, August 06, 2010
  By Edwin Mora
  (CNSNews.com) — The 1,200 National Guard troops that are being deployed incrementally to the southwest border “will not be doing direct law enforcement,” said U.S. National Guard [...]

• The Border: A Dirty War

  Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

  Local dogs were the first to see them. Their frantic barks were easy to translate, “My loved ones live here! Stay away!”
  It was hard not to feel bad for the locals. They live in fear from the enemy every night. They say the first casualties of war are the civilians. This war is [...]

• The facts on AZ border decapitations…

  Sunday, July 11th, 2010

  You’re a head behind the facts on Arizona border decapitations
  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is being blasted in liberal precincts for some less-than-precise rhetorical formulations about the increasingly dangerous crime situation on the border between her state and Mexico.
  Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, for example, mocks Brewer at some length for repeating [...]

• Memo Reveals Refuge Officers’ Struggle to Secure Lands Along Southwest Border

  Sunday, July 11th, 2010

  As the threat of violence stemming from illegal immigration hangs over federal lands in southern Arizona, an internal memo from 2007 reveals that refuge officers have been spending most of their time struggling to deal with border-related activities instead of protecting wildlife habitat.
  The memo is three years old, but it [...]

• How Much Abuse Should Officers Take?

  Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  For all those hand-wringers out there who are shaking their collective heads in disbelief that a fifteen-year-old Mexican boy was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent because he was attempting to brain the guy with a rock, let’s be clear. A rock, colliding with your skull, can kill you just [...]

• Clinton: Obama wants immigration reform passed this year

  Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week told an Ecuador television reporter that President Barack Obama is courting lawmakers’ support for immigration reform and wants it to happen this year.
  “He’s working very hard to get that support and I know he wants to do it in the next months,” Clinton told NTN24 reporter Gabriella [...]

• Mexico anger high as US Border Patrol kills teen

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues.
  About 30 relatives and friends gathered late Tuesday to mourn Sergio [...]

• FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
  The killing of the Mexican by U.S. [...]

• Feds Sentence Two Illegal Immigrants for Carrying Nearly 150 Assault Rifles Into U.S.

  Friday, June 4th, 2010

  McALLEN, Texas — Two Mexican nationals caught in Texas with 147 assault rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, high-capacity magazines and bayonets have started serving short federal sentences after pleading guilty to entering the U.S. illegally.
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