Archive for December 2006

A new group of illegal immigration watchdogs is setting up shop in Utah’s Dixie.

It’s actually a new branch of the minutemen. St. George resident Vic Shade is starting it up, saying it’s time to take steps in that community.

Vic Shade: “It’s beginning to foment. I’m trying to get things cooled down in a good way, and get this settled down somehow.”

Shade says rather than recruit for a volunteer border patrol, he wants the St. George group to focus on legal means of solving illegal immigration problems. He says he’d like to get people voted out of office who aren’t supporting the legal citizens of this country.

Hispanic community leaders say they aren’t scared by another anti-illegal immigration voice in Utah.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. and Mexican immigration authorities are investigating the arrival of small groups of Iraqis at the San Diego-Tijuana border in the past week and their possible connection to smuggling organizations, a newspaper reported.

In the last week, Mexican officials found a group of four at a Tijuana hotel, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Thursday. Two groups of two or three Iraqis turned themselves in to U.S. inspectors at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry, asking for political asylum.

“We’ve continued to see a steady trickle of Iraqis coming into the United States through Mexico, requesting asylum once they’re in the United States,” said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego.

The vast majority of Iraqis who show up along the California border are drawn by San Diego’s Chaldean community. Their numbers now are nowhere near those of six years ago, when Tijuana was a major transit point for Chaldeans trying to get to the United States.

They say more than 31,000 migrants reached the islands in the Atlantic - more than six times as many as in 2005.

The coastguard intercepted fewer than 5,000 of them in small wooden - and often overcrowded - boats.

The Canaries is one of the most popular destinations for Africans trying to reach Europe to escape poverty.

“We’re talking about a dramatic number of dead,” Froilan Rodriguez, the Canary Islands’ deputy director of immigration, told Spain’s Cadena Ser radio station.

Mr Rodriguez said that about 600 bodies had been picked up on the shores of the Canaries and the African mainland in the past 12 months, but the total of migrants killed had been about 10 times higher.

Jose Segura, Spain’s interior ministry official in the Canaries, said that almost as many Africans had reached the islands in 2006 as in the previous four years combined.

He described the increase in the numbers of the arrivals as “spectacular”.

Spain has repeatedly called for more European Union help to deal with the problem, the BBC’s Danny Wood in Madrid says.

In a bid to stop this migration, boats, planes and helicopters from the European Union’s border control agency are now patrolling the shores of Senegal and Mauritania, our correspondent says.

The Government’s race relations advisers compiled a list of areas at risk of race riots following the 2001 disturbances in the North of England.

The head of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) at the time named nine “areas at risk” of further riots, aside from the three towns where trouble had already flared.

Gurbux Singh suggested that the Notting Hill Carnival and Asian “mela” festivals could be possible triggers for disturbances.

Riots in Oldham, Bradford and Burnley in the summer of 2001 led to scores of injuries and millions of pounds of damage, and were blamed on segregation of white and Asian residents living “parallel lives”.

The nine other areas named by the CRE were Rochdale, Preston, Bolton, Huddersfield, the London boroughs of Camden and Tower Hamlets, Nottingham, Leeds and the towns of Ilford and Barking in the London borough of Redbridge.

The list was obtained from the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr Singh’s letter to then home secretary David Blunkett in June 2001 said: “We have to find new ways of really engaging with young people in these hot spots - both white and Muslim youth.

“It is Muslim youth who are hardest to reach.”

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West Sacramento — A police officer stopped Robert Sanchez one night in April as he walked near his home in this blue-collar city, though Sanchez wasn’t suspected of committing a crime.

Sanchez, 18, admitted he was a member of the Norteño gang, the officer said. He also wore a gang tattoo and was with another Norteño, his sister’s fiance.

“You are being served with a permanent gang injunction,” the officer told him.

With that, Sanchez lost the right to move freely in his neighborhood. He’s now prohibited indefinitely from hanging out with more than 125 other alleged Norteños, some of them relatives, in a wide swath of the city. He must also obey other restrictions, including a 10 p.m. curfew.

The court injunction against the Norteño “Broderick Boys,” named for the neighborhood where many of them live, has stirred controversy since a judge issued it nearly two years ago, dividing residents who feel safer because of it from those who see it as racial profiling.

West Sacramento’s experience may be a lesson for San Francisco, where City Attorney Dennis Herrera secured the city’s first anti-gang injunction last month and is preparing to ask for more.

Herrera’s action against the Oakdale Mob is narrower than the West Sacramento injunction, applying to a housing project in Bayview-Hunters Point instead of a 3-square-mile “safe zone” in West Sacramento. But it raises many of the same legal and cultural issues.

The toughest question is whether the injunctions work well enough to justify their rigidity.

“It’s absolutely worked,” said Jeff Reisig, the Yolo County prosecutor who sought the injunction before his successful run this year to become district attorney. “The fact that San Francisco has decided to pursue a gang injunction is telling. This works, and it’s legal.”

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A campaign group which opposes mass immigration has called for tougher measures after government figures showed immigrants are entering the UK at the rate of nearly one a minute.

Government data published last month showed more than 1,500 foreigners, who were intending to stay for at least a year, arrived in the UK every day last year.

Migrationwatch said the figures were probably an underestimate - particularly as only 65,000 Eastern Europeans arriving here in 2005 were classed as immigrants. It said immigration from Eastern Europe accounted for only just over one in five foreign immigrants last year - the vast majority of the others were from Asia and Africa.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data revealed 565,000 people came to live here for at least a year during the course of 2005. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people a day left the UK to live abroad - an estimated 380,000 - half of whom were British citizens.

It means the country’s net population rose by 500 a day, or 185,000 during the year.

Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green said: “The Government has had some success in reducing asylum claims. But as a result of their ‘no limits’ policy, immigration as a whole has shot up.

“We now have a migrant arriving in the UK almost every minute - and these are just the legal ones we know about.”

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Britain spends more of its national wealth on law and order than any other industrialised country yet still has a higher crime rate than most, new figures show.

The statistic was unearthed during a policy review ordered by Tony Blair which took a long-term look at public services and whether they had delivered value for money.

A paper prepared by the Downing Street Strategy Unit shows that Britain spends 2.5 per cent of GDP — about £5 billion a year — on public order and safety.

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This is more than any other country in the OECD group of advanced countries. Among the rest, only America spends above two per cent of GDP and France spends just over one per cent.

Yet, according to the latest edition of the European Sourcebook of Crime, Britain has 4,200 offenders for every 100,000 people compared to a European average of 1,600. Only Finland has a higher rate and it spends far less than Britain on law and order.

Measured by the number of offences per 100,000, Britain again comes out close to the bottom with 11,200 — a figure surpassed only by Sweden.

Out of the 37 countries, which include Russia, we have more chance of having a car stolen than every country except Sweden and more chance of being burgled than all 36 other countries.

The poor return for the British taxpayers’ investment in anti-crime measures has been conceded by the No 10 strategy unit, which has warned of rising lawlessness and overcrowded prisons in a leaked report.

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Hepatitis carrying food preparers at Chi Chi restaurants in Pennsylvania two years ago infected and killed several unwitting Americans. E. coli killed another American this year and infected dozens of others by the simple act of eating vegetables at Taco Bell outlets. Hundreds of cases of tuberculosis outbreaks across the United States erupted in the past year.

Drunken illegal alien Mexican drivers killed hundreds of Americans in recent years. A U.S. Marine, back from Iraq, two weeks ago, suffered death by a drunken illegal who slammed into his car. The Marine’s girlfriend died in the crash. In Denver, Justin Goodman suffered death as a drunken Mexican T-boned him at an intersection. Goodman left a wife and daughter. Another drunken illegal named Francisco Montero drove into and killed Dale Englerth near my house last fall. Englerth left a wife and several children. Colorado University quarterback John Hessler, promising NFL quarter back suffered a hit and run by two illegals that left him in a wheelchair for life. Police Officers Don Young of Denver and Brian Jackson of Dallas suffered executions at the hands of illegal aliens.

Eight Colorado coeds suffered multiple gang rapes by illegal alien Mexicans. All fled back to Mexico, save one, who now serves behind bars for 16 years at taxpayer expense. His victims serve a life sentence of emotional pain and degradation.

There have been two slayings in the Cherokee National Forest during the past year, both occurring on the forest’s south end. Last summer, the body of a 24-year-old was found inside a burning car near the Tennessee-Georgia line, not far from the Ocoee River. The two men arrested for the killing claimed allegiance to the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, that began in California in the 1980s. That gang numbers 11,000 members operating in 33 states while distributing much of the $128 billion in drugs annually to America’s youth.

The aforementioned examples exemplify thousands of tragic American stories suffered by our citizens at the hands of illegal aliens.

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Of all the strange, shoot-self-in-foot statements from Durham, N.C., District Attorney Mike Nifong in the last few days—and there are so many—one stands out. In explaining why he is continuing to prosecute three former Duke lacrosse players on kidnapping and sexual offense charges—despite dropping rape charges—Nifong told the New York Times, “If she says, yes, it’s them, or one or two of them, I have an obligation to put that to a jury.” Nifong is talking about the woman who says she was attacked in the bathroom after being hired to dance at a lacrosse-team party last March. In other words, the district attorney is claiming that as long as she continues to accuse any of the Duke guys, he must press charges against them. That’s so basic a misunderstanding of his own job that it raises questions about whether he is even qualified to hold it.

Prosecutors don’t have an obligation to take a professed victim’s accusations to a jury. They have an obligation to listen to her story, test it against the other evidence, and then decide whether to move ahead. This is the root of prosecutorial discretion. Victims don’t decide when to press charges in criminal cases. District attorneys do. And much of the time, that means a victim’s accusation doesn’t get anywhere near a courtroom. This makes prosecutorial discretion an alarming sort of power. Prosecutors do their most important work outside of public view and are free to make decisions that they never have to explain. That’s one reason they’re either elected or appointed by a governor or the president—we don’t give this authority to officials who simply move up the bureaucratic ladder. More to the point, the discretion they exercise is necessary. Courts don’t have the resources to sort through every allegation. And they shouldn’t have to, given the damage criminal charges can inflict to the accused’s reputation, even if they fall apart at trial or earlier.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A populist party that opposes immigration and defends Danish traditions blasted the Foreign Ministry on Thursday for using the phrase “Season’s Greetings” instead of “Merry Christmas” on its official holiday cards.

The Danish People’s Party, a key backer of the center-right government, accused the ministry of “buttering up” Muslims and caving into a “silly tendency” of political correctness it said has gained foothold in Britain and the United States.

On the official greeting cards, the ministry has printed translations of “Merry Christmas” in Danish, German, French and Spanish, but opted for “Season’s Greetings” in English.

The reason for the different phrasing in English was to be able to “use the card in the whole world,” the Foreign Ministry told the Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper.

Soeren Espersen, a senior member of the Danish People’s Party, said the cards were “laughable.”

“The fact that it has to say ‘Season’s Greetings’ and not ‘Merry Christmas’ is in itself an expression of another unbearable way of buttering up Muslims,” Espersen said.

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