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This could be the year that the number of babies born to minorities in America outnumbers babies born to whites.

That’s because immigration has boosted the number of Hispanic women in their prime childbearing years. Hispanic women have an average 2.99 children to 1.87 among white women. In 2008, 48 percent of the children born in the U.S. were minorities.

Sociology professor Kenneth Johnson of the University of New Hampshire says by mid-century, census projections suggest that America “may become a minority-majority country.” But at the moment, whites make up two-thirds of the total population.

The birth numbers highlight the nation’s growing racial and age divide. There are strong implications for the 2010 population count, which begins in earnest next week.
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Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is announcing protests across America to be conducted on April 15, 2010 in conjunction with existing Tea Party events in protest of the current push for Amnesty legislation in Washington and as a counter measure to the ‘March For America’ marches held nationally on March 21 by bill sponsor Luis Gutierrez.

“Despite the fake polls, bought and paid for by the Open Borders Lobby groups, the truth remains that 80% of Americans oppose Amnesty for illegal aliens and turning millions of illegals into voters would have a catastrophic effect on America,” said William Gheen of ALIPAC. “We will be sending tens of thousands of people out to support Tea Party events on April 15 to properly represent public opposition to illegal immigration and Amnesty for illegals.”

ALIPAC helped build the initial success of Tea Party events in April and July 2009 by leading a coalition of over 20 immigration enforcement groups behind the effort.

On November 14, 2009, ALIPAC directed “Tea Parties Against Amnesty” which rapidly organized protests in over 50 American cities and towns successfully pushing Congressman Luis Guitierez back from his original dates to file his Amnesty bill.

“This time we have let Gutierrez make his move first,” said William Gheen. “We are moving into position to channel the massive public backlash against Gutierrez’s ‘Marches for America’, which are designed to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens. Our counter protests will be in the Tea Party events on April 15.”

ALIPAC is revamping and re releasing the website www.AgainstAmnesty.com, which is designed to coordinate the April 15 events. The website was used for the first round of Tea Party Against Amnesty events in 2009.
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Thomas Jefferson was no George Washington, but he was nonetheless quite a brilliant member of the Founding Fathers and perhaps the most gifted writer of the group.  One of the things about which he expressed his opinion most often was the subject of debt as it affected the new United States of America.

As Jefferson said in a letter to Samuel Kercheval, written in the early 19th Century:

“To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”

It is nothing short of astonishing how prescient these men were. Thomas Jefferson went on in yet another missive to Kercheval, clearly an effective sounding board for Jefferson in his thoughts regarding debt:

“[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

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MEDFORD — A Wolf Creek man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for masterminding a large-scale marijuana garden staffed by armed illegal immigrants he recruited from California.

Henry Xavier Villa, 54, was sentenced Monday in Medford’s U.S. District Court for growing 8,918 marijuana plants on his 160-acre property in Wolf Creek. The property also was seized by the federal government in a forfeiture action.

Drug Enforcement Administration investigators determined Villa’s crop was valued at approximately $6 million, according to a press release from prosecuting U.S. Attorney Judith R. Harper.

“Like several marijuana grows we’ve encountered, there was millions of dollars involved,” Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters said Tuesday.

The case began in 2007 when DEA agents, with help from several local law enforcement agencies, including the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and Ashland police, raided Villa’s property.

They encountered three illegal immigrants residing on the property who helped tend the marijuana garden.

“These grows are very labor-intensive,” Winters said. “It takes more than one person to handle a grow of 9,000 mature plants.”
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An LA County Welfare Office

LOS ANGELES COUNTY - Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich released figures from the Department of Public Social Services showing that illegal aliens’ children born in the United States collected more than $50 million in welfare benefits (CALWORKS + Food Stamps) for the month of January.

Approximately 23 percent of all CALWORKS and food stamp issuances in Los Angeles County are made to parents who reside in the United States illegally and collect benefits for their native-born children.

“When you add this to $350 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, the total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year - not including the millions of dollars for education,” Antonovich said.
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By Edwin S. Rubenstein

The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February, according to the Labor Department’s estimate on Friday, as payrolls shrank by a less than expected 36,000 jobs. The figures suggest a stable job market with little or no new hiring.

Indeed, economists believe that the month’s horrible weather may have increased job losses by as much as 100,000. Implication: absent the snow, the economy likely would have seen a net job gain in February, for only the second time since the recession began two years ago.

A snow job? Perhaps. But the Household Survey, which does a better job of canvassing small businesses, home based entrepreneurs, and—more importantly (from our perspective)—illegal aliens, reported a gain of 308,000 new positions.

While considerably below January’s 541,000 job pop, this is still far above the level needed to reduce unemployment.

That’s the good news. The bad news: the job figures also show a resumption of American worker displacement. Despite being overrepresented in occupations impacted by weather— construction, agriculture, and landscaping, etc.—in February, Hispanics gained jobs at nearly four times the rate of Non-Hispanics:

• Total employment: +308,000 (+0.22 percent)

• Hispanic employment: +118,000 (+0.60 percent)

• Non-Hispanic employment:: +190,000 (+0.16 percent)

The VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (VDAWDI) rose by 0.44 percent January—to a record 126.1:

VDAWDI for February 2010 is calculated like this:

• For every 100.0 Hispanics employed in January 2001 there were 123.1 in February 2010

• For every 100.0 non-Hispanics employed in January 2001 there were 97.6 in February 2010

• VDAWDI equals 126.1 (=100 X 123.1/97.6)

Hispanic employment is still the best proxy we have for month-to-month trends in foreign born labor.

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Professor Carol M. Swain

In case you missed the story, last November 4th a polling precinct in Philadelphia, PA was patrolled by an organization called the New Black Panther Party, a Marxist group that in 2000, was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a racial hate group. Video footage shot in 2008, show Black Panther precinct workers intimidating white voters. This was covered by the news organizations, and resulted in charges being filed by the Bush Department of Justice, whose job it is to defend and protect the voting rights of all Americans.

What should have been an open and shut case has become something more troubling, after the Eric Holder-led Justice Department dropped charges against the Black Panthers, who supported President Obama. Currently, this decision to drop the charges, is being challenged by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, (an organization with which I am affiliated).

Now this is the part where things really get interesting.

The SPLC has been mum on the issue, despite the fact that in 2000, it included the New Black Panther Party among its annual list of hate groups. In fact, what is most shocking is that the SPLC has spent far more resources hounding conservative organizations, such as the Center for Immigration Studies, and prominent citizens like CNN’s award-winning anchor Lou Dobbs, than it has protecting the civil rights of American voters, which includes white people as well as black. The unrelenting attacks on Mr. Dobbs and others are shameless. The once venerable organization wages war against conservative individuals, principles, and organizations. How unfortunate for America. How unfortunate for the organization’s founders.

There is a name for what has happened. It is called “mission creep.” Mission creep occurs when an organization strays beyond its original purpose and engages in actions antithetical to its goals. Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students.

Higgins, of Laguna Niguel, was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who allegedly helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing English-proficiency exams for them - and then helped them hold onto those visas by taking college courses, passing finals and writing term papers in their names.

The allegations outlined in court papers reveal a potentially dangerous security breach in the country’s student visa system and underscore the vulnerability of a tracking process that relies on schools and testing centers to verify the identities of people taking the mandated exams.

Higgins made an appearance in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud as federal immigration agents arrested 16 of his suspected clients who remained in Southern California. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

In one case, authorities said, a blond woman working for Higgins was allowed to take an exam using a fake ID that paired her photo with a man’s Arabic name.

Authorities have not said any of the clients were engaged in terrorist activity and have yet to determine their motives for hiring Higgins.

Six of Higgins’ alleged clients face criminal charges, while the remaining students face deportation proceedings, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for ICE. Ten additional students were not arrested but will be questioned by agents in the ongoing investigation, Kice said.
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Five black teens on a violent rampage brutally murdered 53 year old Edward McMichael.

The man was a Seattle icon known as “Tuba Man,” for playing the tuba outside of sporting events. He was dubbed “super fan” by Sports Illustrated Magazine. He performed in several symphonies but said he preferred to play outside for tips.

McMichael was knocked down and kicked while he laid in the fetal position by five teenage monsters. He was fatally injured and died later. The sole motivation seems to be race. The same thugs viciously attacked two other teens the same night. Two of the perps have been arrested and they are only 15 years old. You can bet that they will be slapped on the wrist due to age and will probably commit even worse crimes when they are older.

If the races were reversed, this would be the biggest news story in America! Instead it is guaranteed to some minor local coverage. The Seattle media is even censoring the fact that the thugs were blacks and information on the other victims is not being reported. Had the races been reversed every article would start by mentioning the races of perps and victims.
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Cartoonist Lars Vilks

Police in Ireland have arrested seven people suspected of an alleged plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

Vilks’ cartoon, published in a Swedish newspaper in August 2007, outraged many in the Muslim world and led to a 100 thousand dollar bounty being put on his head by a leader of a group with links to al-Qaeda in Iraq. The audio threat was posted on the internet.

At the time, Swedish security forces placed Vilks under protection while prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt moved to diffuse tensions by calling a meeting between representatives of 22 Muslim countries over an issue which had been inflammed in 2005 by Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to media reports in Ireland on Tuesday, the four men and three women are all Muslim and were arrested in Waterford and Cork following investigations carried out by European security services and the CIA and FBI in America.

“The operation… is part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit a serious offence (namely, conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction),” said a statement from Ireland’s national police service.
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