A very interesting post from www.alipac.us about the murderer of Brian Terry. This follows this post about Mark Zuckerberg's pro-amnesty ad.  REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Illegal alien Mexican gets 30 years in killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

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Published on 02-11-2014                         

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U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, shown in an undated photo, was killed in a December 2010 shootout that led to the unraveling of the failed federal gun-tracking operation called Fast and Furious. (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol / November 20, 2007)

TUCSON — A Mexican man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's slaying, which led to the unraveling of the failed federal gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious.

Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, 37, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in October 2012 in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, apologized in court.

"I regret what happened, sir," Osorio-Arellanes told the judge in Spanish. "I too was hurt. I don't know what else to say. Please forgive me."

He was part of a group of bandits who engaged in a shootout with Terry and three other Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona, just south of Tucson, in December 2010. Terry, 40, was a member of the U.S. Border Patrol's elite tactical unit that had been working the area for several nights, a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Cindy Carcamo
February 10, 2014, 7:11 p.m.
Los Angeles Times

During the confrontation, the bandits scattered toward Mexico, but Osorio-Arellanes was shot in the torso and unable to run. Agents discovered a live round in the chamber of the rifle he was carrying and 24 more in the magazine. He also had another magazine on him loaded with more rounds.

Two weapons recovered from the shooting scene were traced to the Fast and Furious operation led by the Phoenix field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That triggered the unraveling of the operation and one of the biggest controversies of President Obama's first term.

At Monday's hearing, Terry's mother, Josephine Terry, told U.S. District Judge David Bury her family had suffered through the worst years of their lives. "I will never hear the words, 'I love you, Mom,'" she said.

"Brian is my hero," Josephine Terry said. "Brian was a dedicated American. He would always say this was the best country in the world."

Brian Terry's sister Michelle Terry-Balogh told the judge: "The pain will never go away. Where is the justice in that? Let me answer that; there is none."

Her brother's absence has been felt during touchstones of their lives, she said, including her daughter's wedding. "My parents both have holes in their hearts that will never be repaired."

Osorio-Arellanes' wife and sisters attended the hearing but did not speak. Afterward, they rushed out of the courthouse and declined to talk with reporters.

The judge said Osorio-Arellanes would be imprisoned in an Arizona facility so he could be close to his family. After he has served his sentence, Osorio-Arellanes is to be deported and banned from the U.S.

The search continues for the rest of the bandits.

Fast and Furious was intended to encourage gun dealers to sell thousands of illegal firearms so the ATF could track the buyers to Mexican drug cartels. Most of the firearms vanished, however, and several have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the border.

The ensuing scandal drove out the head of the ATF and left Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records to a House committee.

Monday's events were a long time coming, said Robert Heyer, Terry's cousin and chairman of the Brian Terry Foundation.

"We do not celebrate this sentence today," he said after the hearing. "But we do acknowledge justice."

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Federal Judge: Obama's DHS Involved in Human Trafficking‏

A timely post about from HTTPS://PrayFor.US about the corruption in the Department of Homeland Security. This follows this post about the Knockout Game NOW being acknowledged as a "hate crime." This follows this post about Christmas in Mexico.  In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.



Federal Judge: Obama's DHS Involved in Human Trafficking

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Ask yourself this question: If Obama's federal officers in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are willing to aid and abet the Mexican drug cartels in their human smuggling operations, is there anything that these officers would NOT be willing to do to you and your family, if Obama gives them an order? In a court ruling in Texas this month, a federal judge stated that he is seeing cases EVERY WEEK in which DHS is helping the drug cartels carry out their mission to smuggle more illegal aliens into this country. Your tax dollars are paying for this and the drug cartels are profiting from it.

This is the stark, ugly truth:  The DHS is violating our border security laws to swell the number of illegal aliens in this country on behalf of Obama's efforts to create a permanent Democrat majority. Obama is making you a partaker in these evil deeds by spending your tax dollars to help enrich the drug cartels.  This government-sanctioned crime is as low as it gets.

Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

The case that US District Court Judge Andrew Hanan ruled in last week involves a child of an illegal alien.  While that might tug at your heart-strings, keep in mind that Judge Hanan says the parents of the child, the DHS officers and the drug cartels ALL placed this child in danger while carrying out a conspiracy to break our laws.
Here's what is happening on a regular basis, according to Hanan's ruling in United States v. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez.
Ms. Nava-Martinez is a human smuggler. It's her job to sneak illegal aliens and human slaves across our southern border on behalf of the drug cartels.
She was caught by federal officers at the border this year with a child in tow.  The child belongs to an illegal alien hiding out in Virginia.  The parent had paid the drug cartel that employs Nava-Martinez $6,000 to transport the child from El Salvador to Virginia.
So, the DHS agents delivered the child to her parent in Virginia and walked away.
They didn't arrest the parent for conspiring to thwart our border laws or start deportation proceedings against them.  The drug cartels still got their $6,000.  The illegal alien now has a child on U.S. soil, making it next to impossible to deport her under Obama's executive order amnesty. Mission accomplished all around.
Judge Hanan says that in one case that he has presided over, DHS agents took a child on four separate airline flights to deliver him to his parents.
Your tax dollars are paying for these crimes!

Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

The head of the labor union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed everything in Judge Hanan's ruling on Fox News.
The drug cartels know that even if they get caught at the border, they'll still get paid because Obama's DHS agents will finish the mission for them.
Obama has made us all unwilling participants in his unfruitful works of darkness, by using our tax dollars to encourage and maintain a criminal enterprise that endangers children and in some cases, costs them their very lives.
The only way that we will be able to stop this is if Congress investigates and prosecutes Obama's law-breaking DHS agents.


Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

Human rights organizations say the cartels smuggle up to 20,000 slaves across our southern border every year. (The Justice Department used to track these numbers more closely, but stopped doing so the year that Eric Holder became Attorney General.)

Judge Hanan alleges that DHS is assisting in those operations as well, and again, your tax dollars are therefore paying to perpetuate these crimes.

If you know anyone else who would be willing to speak out against these crimes by the Obama regime, please send them this link:

HTTPS://PrayFor.US/Stop-Obamas-DHS-Crimes/

A very interesting post from www.alipac.us about  the timeline of increased immigration under the Obama Administration. This follows this post about those who use the bible to advance breaking immigration laws. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Timeline: The Obama Administration’s War on Illegal Immigration Enforcement

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Reports that the Obama administration had been actively abetting the smuggling of illegal immigrants into the country are merely the latest example of the administration’s longstanding efforts to ignore existing immigration laws. The office of Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) has compiled the following extensive timeline of the administration’s “systematic dismantling of immigration enforcement”:

Timeline of Administrative Non-Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law

Many Americans may not be aware that a law enforcement officer who apprehends someone for speeding and discovers the person is illegally in the country does nothing. They just release them on the spot. It is even being applied to people in prison and jails.

By Andrew Stiles
December 19, 2013 2:32 PM
nationalreview.com

How did we get here?

In early 2009 there was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, initiated and planned while President Bush was in office.

In a statement about the operation, ICE said they were investigating criminal activity. They discovered hiring records revealing a significant number of people who were using bogus Social Security numbers and counterfeit documents. They found 26 illegal immigrants working at this company. It was a completely legitimate and justified law enforcement action, but President Obama had just taken office and he had clearly promised this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. Shortly thereafter, certain pro- amnesty groups criticized him. As a result, Secretary Napolitano vowed she would “get to the bottom of it.” An article in the Washington Times quoted a Homeland Security official as saying, “The Secretary is not happy about it.” And instead of enforcing the law, the Secretary investigated the law enforcement officers for simply doing their duty–apparently in response to some secret demand made or promises made to advocacy groups during the campaign.

Esther Olavarria, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, said on a call with employers and pro-amnesty groups that ‘we’re not doing raids or audits under this administration.’ This was the symbolic end of worksite enforcement in this country.

Then, in 2010, the administration began the systematic dismantling of immigration enforcement:

On May 19, 2010, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, then- Director of ICE John Morton announced that ICE may not even process or accept illegal aliens transferred to the agency’s custody by Arizona officials.

On May 27, 2010, an internal ICE email revealed that “low-risk” immigration detainees will be able to have visitors stay for an unlimited amount of time during a 12-hour window, be given access to unmonitored phone lines, email, free internet calling, movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance and cooking classes, tutoring, and computer training.

On June 25, 2010, the National ICE Council, the union that represents more than 7,000 agents and officers, cast a unanimous vote of “No Confidence” in Director Morton. According to the union, the vote reflected “the growing dissatisfaction among ICE employees and Union Leaders that Director Morton . . . has abandoned the Agency’s core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws and enforcing public safety, and has instead directed their attention to campaigning for programs and policies relating to amnesty.”

In August 2010, ICE began circulating a draft policy that would significantly limit the circumstances under which ICE could detain illegal aliens – in effect, ICE agents were no longer authorized to pick up an illegal alien for illegally entering the country or for possessing false identification documents. Now, illegal aliens could only be detained if another law enforcement agency made an arrest for a criminal violation. This was the beginning of what would come to be known as “administrative amnesty.”

In a December 2010 Washington Post article based on internal ICE emails and communications, it was revealed that ICE had padded its deportation statistics. According to the article, ICE included 19,422 removals in fiscal year 2010 that were really from the previous fiscal year. The article also described how ICE extended a Mexican repatriation program beyond its normal operation dates, adding 6,500 to the final removal numbers.

In a March 2, 2011 memo, ICE Director Morton outlined new “enforcement priorities” and encouraged agents to not enforce the law against most illegal aliens and to only take action against those who meet these “priorities.”

On June 17, 2011, ICE Director Morton issued a second memorandum further directing ICE agents to refrain from enforcing the law against certain segments of the illegal alien population – criteria similar to that under the DREAM Act – despite having no legal or congressional authority to do so and despite the fact that Congress had explicitly rejected the DREAM Act three times.

On June 17, 2011, ICE Director Morton issued a third memo instructing ICE personnel to consider refraining from enforcing the law against individuals engaging in a protected activity related to civil or other rights (for example, union organizing or complaining to authorities about employment discrimination or housing conditions) who may be in a nonfrivolous dispute with an employer, landlord, or contractor.

On June 23, 2011, the ICE agents and officers union expressed outrage over Director Morton’s actions, noting that since the administration was “unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, [it] is now implementing it through agency policy.” It also accused top ICE political appointees of working “hand-in-hand” with the open-borders lobby, while excluding its own officers from the policy development process. In effect, ICE officers alleged that the political appointees at ICE were advancing the agenda of those here illegally and maneuvering against their own law enforcement officers trying to do their duty.

On June 27, 2011, internal memoranda revealed that ICE officials attempted to publicly distance themselves from the administrative amnesty policies and deny that they ever existed, after the Houston Chronicle exposed DHS’ directive to review and dismiss valid deportation cases then in process.

On August 1, 2011, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop Alabama’s immigration enforcement law.

On August 18, 2011, Secretary Napolitano announced that DHS was reviewing all pending and incoming deportation cases to stop proceedings against those illegal aliens who are not DHS “priorities.”

On September 28, 2011, at a roundtable with amnesty advocates, President Obama admitted that his deportation statistics were misleading: “The statistics are actually a little deceptive because what we’ve been doing is . . . apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours.”

On October 12, 2011, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Director Morton admits that Cecilia Munoz – former National Council of La Raza Senior Vice President and now Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council – assisted in preparation of the administrative amnesty memoranda.

On October 18, 2011, ICE refused to take any action after the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors voted to stop using county funds to honor ICE detainers, except in limited circumstances.

On October 19, 2011, ICE refused to act after District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray issued an order to prevent D.C. police from enforcing U.S. immigration law. Among other things, the order prohibits all public safety agencies from inquiring about an individual’s immigration status or from contacting ICE if there is no nexus to a criminal investigation.

On October 31, 2011, the Justice Department filed suit against South Carolina’s immigration enforcement law.

On November 7, 2011, USCIS issued a memo stating that USCIS will no longer issue “notices to appear” in immigration court to illegal aliens who do not meet the administration’s priorities.

On November 22, 2011, the Justice Department filed suit against Utah’s immigration enforcement law.

On November 22, 2011, ICE refused to act after Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a measure ordering all New York City jails to ignore certain ICE detainers issued to deport illegal aliens from those jails.

On December 15, 2011, DHS rescinded Maricopa County, Arizona’s 287(g) agreement – a cooperative agreement whereby local law enforcement receive training in identifying and apprehending illegal aliens. Director Morton told the Maricopa County Attorney that ICE will no longer respond to calls from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office involving traffic stops, civil infractions or “other minor offenses.” DHS’ legal reasoning is unclear, given that federal law requires the federal government to respond to inquiries by law enforcement agencies to verify immigration status.

On December 29, 2011, ICE announced the creation of a 24-hour hotline for illegal alien detainees to be staffed by the Law Enforcement Support Center – the same organization that ICE claimed was too understaffed to keep up with immigration status check requests from state and local law enforcement. ICE then revised its detainer form to include a new provision that says ICE should “consider this request for a detainer operative only upon the subject’s conviction.” This change in policy explicitly ignores that illegal presence is a violation of federal law.

On January 3, 2012, a report by the Inspector General revealed that USCIS officials pressure employees to approve applications that should have been denied and that employees believe they do not have enough time to complete interviews of applicants, “leav[ing] ample opportunity for critical information to be overlooked.”

On January 10, 2012, the President promoted Cecelia Munoz to be the new director of his Domestic Policy Council. Munoz previously served as a senior vice president of La Raza.

On January 17, 2012, DHS stopped the roll out of Secure Communities in Alabama, according to a DHS email, because the administration disagrees with Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law.

On January 19, 2012, ICE attorneys in Denver and Baltimore recommended that the agency voluntarily close 1,667 removal cases, resulting in the release of illegal aliens already in proceedings without consequence for violating U.S. immigration laws.

On January 19, 2012, the President issued an executive order waiving certain screening safeguards, allowing those applying for nonimmigrant visas to obtain them more easily in China and Brazil. On the same day, the State Department announced it will waive the long-standing statutory requirement of in-person interviews with a consular officer.

On February 7, 2012 ICE announced the creation of the ICE Public Advocate, who is to serve as a point of contact for aliens in removal proceedings, community and advocacy groups, and others who have concerns, questions, recommendations, or other issues they would like to raise about the administration’s executive enforcement and amnesty efforts.

On February 13, 2012, the President revealed in his budget a proposed cut in funding for ICE and the 287(g) program, effectively gutting it.

On April 17, 2012, the administration announced it would reduce the National Guard troops stationed at the border from 1,200 to 300.

On April 25, 2012, ICE officials announced it has offered to voluntarily close over 16,500 illegal alien deportation cases pending background checks in connection with the administration’s larger review of 300,000 cases. The administration also announced that the number of illegal aliens whose cases it has already dismissed is up to 2,700 from just over 1,500 the previous month.

On April 25, 2012, Secretary Napolitano testified that DHS would not implement the statutorily mandated biometric exit system to track visa overstays for at least four more years and then only if DHS determined it was cost-effective.

On April 27, 2012, ICE announced that it will no longer ask local jails to detain illegal aliens stopped for “minor traffic offenses,” weakening the effective Secure Communities program. Instead, ICE would only consider detaining an alien if the alien is ultimately convicted of an offense. Also, despite claims of limited resources, ICE announced it planned to take action against jurisdictions with arrest rates the agency deems too high.

On June 5, 2012, ICE released its latest statistics in its case-by-case review of pending deportation cases. Of the 288,000 reviewed, ICE says it plans to voluntarily dismiss 20,648; over 4,300 of these cases had already been processed and the remaining will be closed pending background checks.

On June 11, 2012, then Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Tom Perez announced that the Justice Department would sue Florida for its effort to remove ineligible voters, including illegal aliens, from its voter registry.

On June 15, 2012, the administration unilaterally implemented the DREAM Act, circumventing Congress under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion.” The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program, would give millions a reprieve from deportation and work authorizations to illegal aliens under the age of 30 who claimed they arrived in the country before the age of 16. ICE officers would later report that this amnesty was being applied to adult illegal aliens who have been arrested for criminal offenses.

On June 25, 2012, immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the heart of Arizona’s immigration law requiring law enforcement to take reasonable steps to verify the immigration status of those lawfully stopped or detained where there is reasonable suspicion to believe they are in the country illegally, DHS rescinded all of its 287(g) agreements in Arizona.

On July 6, 2012, Customs and Border Protection announced that it would close nine border patrol stations throughout the country – Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio, Abilene, and San Angelo, Texas; Billings, Montana; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Riverside, California. A CBP spokesman claimed it was being done to more effectively use its personnel.

On October 4, 2012, ICE refused to act after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced a plan to circumvent federal law and ignore ICE detainers for illegal aliens apprehended for certain crimes, releasing them back onto the streets instead of transferring them to federal custody.

On December 21, 2012 – the Friday before Christmas – ICE Director Morton issued a memo stating that ICE agents can no longer detain illegal aliens if the only violation of the law is being in the country illegally. ICE agents can now detain only those who have committed a crime independent of their illegal status.

On January 3, 2013, USCIS issued its final rule allowing illegal aliens to circumvent federal law and remain in the country if they show that being separated from their U.S. citizen spouse or parent would cause “extreme hardship.” During a stakeholder call, USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas emphasizes that USCIS will consider granting the same waiver to illegal alien relatives of green card holders and clarifies that even illegal aliens who had been in deportation proceedings but had their case administrative closed are eligible for these waivers.

On February 14, 2013, USCIS released DACA statistics showing that the administration had, to that point, granted deferred action to 199,460 illegal aliens.

On February 26, 2013, the GAO released a report that DHS had no official metrics to determine whether the border is secure and had no plans to adopt any such metrics until late 2013. Since 2004, DHS had used “operational control” as a metric. However, through the lens of this metric, it was clear that the border was far from secure – at the end of fiscal year 2010, DHS reported it had operational control over only 13 percent of the 8,607 mile northern, southwestern and coastal border, and only 44 percent operational control of the southwestern border.

In late February 2013, after news leaked through several sources, ICE confirmed that they had been releasing illegal aliens in federal custody due to the sequester. According to the Associated Press, more 2,000 had been released before the sequester even took effect and the administration planned to release 3,000 more. On March 14, 2013, ICE Director Morton admitted that the administration released 2,228 illegal aliens, contradicting earlier statements by DHS officials who claimed the number to be in the hundreds. More than 600 of the released illegal aliens had a criminal record.

On March 21, 2013, the New York Times reported that administration officials admitted that they delayed producing a border security metric for fear that the results would present an obstacle to an amnesty bill.

On April 10, 2013, DHS officials testified before Congress that illegal border crossings had increased.

On April 23, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in the ICE agents lawsuit against Secretary Napolitano, Director Morton and Director Mayorkas, affirmed that Congress has the plenary power to set immigration law and that the administration’s prosecutorial discretion and DACA directives violate federal law.

A very interesting post from www.Alipac.US about pro-amnesty staff being hired by DHS that you should complain to your Representative and Senators about. This follows this post about a good immigration bill. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Amnesty Incorporated: DHS Hires Activist Immigration Lawyers

 

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Amnesty Incorporated: DHS Hires Activist Immigration Lawyers

Despite the sequester, the Department of Homeland Security has just completed a hiring blitz of attorneys to oversee and manage immigration litigation. Almost all of these new civil service attorney hires hail from an activist pro-amnesty and pro-asylum background. Sources within the Department of Homeland Security report that the process for hiring these new career civil service lawyers was unconventional and was conducted by an Obama political appointee within DHS.

The new attorneys have activist backgrounds with a variety of pro-amnesty groups such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Advancement Project, and open borders groups funded by the Tides Foundation.

December 4th, 2013 - 5:20 pm
by J. Christian Adams
PJ Media

PJ Media previously reported on attorney hires within the Justice Department Civil Rights Division in the Every Single One series. That series demonstrated that every single attorney hire had a leftist or Democrat activist pedigree. The Department of Justice Inspector General criticized those DOJ hiring procedures as producing ideological outcomes. PJ Media only obtained the resumes of DOJ hires after this publication was forced to sue Eric Holder in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act.

Now, sources inside DHS have provided PJ Media with the employment history and pro-amnesty backgrounds of the newly hired lawyers who will be enforcing federal immigration laws.

The ideological histories of these new DHS lawyers undermine confidence that the federal government will vigorously enforce federal laws, notwithstanding any congressional “mandates” to do so.

These lawyers were hired through unconventional means by former DHS chief counsel for Citizen and Immigration Services Stephen Legomsky. Sources at DHS report that when Legomsky was hired by Secretary Janet Napalitano’s Department, he was not even an active member of any bar association. After resigning in October 2013, Legomsky is now a professor of law at Washington University. His scholarship is most notable for its hostility toward barriers to entry for foreigners coming to the United States.

Here are the backgrounds of the new lawyers hired at the DHS in the recent hiring blitz:

Blumeyer-Martinez

Kristy Blumeyer-Martinez is a new attorney in the DHS Office of the Chief Counsel. Prior to joining OCC, Kristy served as law clerk to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, and RAICES in San Antonio, Texas. In law school, she also clerked with the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic and Sacramento Child Advocates/Children’s Law Center. She also worked at American Gateways, Refugee Services of Texas, and Caritas of Austin.

Cantor

Esther Cantor was hired into the refugee and asylum law division as an associate counsel at DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.. She participated in the Immigration Clinic and volunteered with the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, an open borders organization.

Flores

Nicole Flores is a new DHS lawyer in Chicago. She graduated from Harvard Law School, where she worked at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and served as the co-president of the Harvard Immigration Project, an organization dedicated to ensuring foreigners get to stay in the United States. She was also a legal intern at the leftist open borders organization LatinoJustice-PRLDEF. According to DHS sources, there she worked on project to badger businesses who implemented English-only rules in the work place. Before law school, she was a volunteer activist at a “workers’ rights” organization in Madison, Wisconsin.

Fricker

Erin Fricker is a new DHS lawyer formerly employed by Lutheran Social Services of New England, where she was a staff attorney representing detained foreigners attempting to stay in the United States. While in law school, Erin participated in the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project as an immigration clinic student.

Grossman

New DHS lawyer Elizabeth Grossman established her Obama-era ideological bona fides by serving on the executive board for the University of Michigan Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a leftist law school student group.

Gunter

Elizabeth Gunter’s resume includes a stint in the Obama-era DOJ Attorney General’s Honor Program after graduating from Washington University, the same law school where Legomsky, the person doing the hiring at DHS, was a professor while Gunter was a student.

Heidelberg

Cindy Heidelberg comes from the same Holder-era Attorney General’s Honor Program, after a long activist background with open borders groups. Cynthia graduated from Georgetown Law in 2011, earning a J.D. with a certificate in “Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies.” During law school, she interned at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, the ACLU National Prison Project, and the AARP Litigation Foundation.

Hicks

Celia Hicks is a new lawyer with the Litigation and National Security Coordination Division in Washington, DC. She served as Protection Fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and previously worked for the Legal Action Center of the American Immigration Council, an organization notoriously hostile to Border Patrol agents.

Higgins

New DHS lawyer Leila Higgins previously worked as a student attorney in the Immigrant Justice Clinic at her law school. This organization, according to its website, represents “immigrants on cutting-edge asylum claims based on gender and sexual orientation.”

Hummel

Lawyer Stephanie Hummel previously worked at the ABA Center for Human Rights in Washington, as well as the pro-amnesty Immigration Law Project, and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2008, she spent time in Cairo studying Arabic. In law school, Hummel won a CALI Award for “Representation of Non-US Citizens in Immigration Court Proceedings.”

Lee

Before joining DHS, attorney Jennifer Lee was an advocate for illegal aliens obtaining in-state tuition at public universities, though she naturally called them “undocumented immigrants.” Lee also worked at the Legal Aid Justice Center, a organization which advised illegals “what to do in the event of a raid.”

Love

Katelyn Love is now a DHS lawyer in Washington, D.C. She once worked at Lutheran Family Services, where she represented foreigners in their attempts to stay in the United States. Katelyn spent her junior year of college in Morocco studying “formal and colloquial” Arabic.

Ooi

New DHS lawyer Maura Ooi previously worked in militantly activist roles with militantly activist open borders organizations such as the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Also, prior to joining DHS, Ooi penned a report for the leftist National Immigration Law Center bashing DHS. Titled “DHS Proposes Fantasy Remedies to Cure Fundamental Flaws in the Secure Communities Program” (emphasis mine), Ooi complained about efforts to fingerprint captured illegal aliens. Without collecting biometric data such as fingerprints, deported illegal aliens may repeatedly return to the United States and their prior illegal entries would remain unknown.

Parikh

Reena Parikh also worked at the American University Immigrant Justice Clinic, where she represented foreigners in removal proceedings. She also worked as a legal intern at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a group knee-deep in trying to ease immigration laws.

Plastrik

If you were starting to think that Stephen Legomsky only hired young women to be DHS lawyers, meet new DHS lawyer Steven Plastrik. What Plastrik lacks in femininity, he makes up for with a deep commitment to making sure foreigners get to stay in the United States. He prepared asylum applications at Freedom House and on behalf of other organizations.

Shah

New DHS lawyer Liza Shah just completed a stint with the George Soros-funded Advancement Project working to ensure felons get the right to vote in Virginia (with the tragic and politically suicidal aid of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell). As a law student, Shah naturally helped in litigation to keep foreigners in the United States.

Yao

Before becoming a DHS lawyer, Connie Yao worked at the Tides Foundation-funded East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, where she assisted individuals with asylum applications. At Cornell Law, she participated in the Advocacy for LGBT Communities Clinic.

Sharma

Amisha Sharma is on the board of directors of her local Planned Parenthood when she isn’t busy as a newly hired DHS lawyer. She also worked at the ACLU. She received a dual degree in religious studies and women’s and gender studies from Louisiana State University. At Fordham Law, she was on the board of “Law Students for Reproductive Justice,” worked at the “Center for Reproductive Rights” and volunteered for the “Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Activist Council.”

Shay

Catlin Shay has a history of aiding foreigners seeking to remain in the United States as well as activism against laws prohibiting felons from voting. She wrote “Free But No Liberty: How Florida Contravenes the Voting Rights Act by Preventing Persons Previously Convicted of Felonies from Voting,” and advocated a position wholly rejected by federal courts.

Shewchuk

Cara Shewchuk once worked at the pro-amnesty National Immigration Law Center and the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, providing free legal help to illegal aliens.

Siders

Melanie Siders worked for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network prior to her time as a DHS lawyer.

Smith

Lindsay Smith is a graduate of Smith College and Michigan Law, where she was “a Jenny Runkles scholar” for her commitment to public interest law and “diversity.” She also worked at the open borders, pro-amnesty group Americans for Immigrant Justice.

Esber

Prior to joining DHS, Shahna Esber was an “Immigration Law Fellow” at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, where she helped foreigners stay in the United States. She also worked with the Immigration Center for Women and Children, an organization “proud to assist immigrant youth applying for Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”

DeSalvo

DHS lawyer Bria DeSalvo graduated from Georgetown University Law Center “with a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. ” In law school, DeSalvo volunteered for the CAIR coalition.

Croizat

DHS lawyer Jessika Croizat served as a union organizer for AFSCME before deciding to attend law school.

Celone

Before his job as an attorney at DHS, Michael Celone was a Hill staffer for Democrats. He worked with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) helping prepare research to attack the Bush Justice Department regarding the firing of political appointees who were serving as United States attorneys. He also worked for Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin from Rhode Island. He also authored an article revealingly titled “Undocumented and Unprotected: Solutions for Protecting the Health of America’s Undocumented Mexican Migrant Workers.”

If you are an attorney with a background in enforcing immigration law as opposed to representing foreigners attempting to stay in the United States, don’t expect to be hired by DHS during the Obama administration. And based on this recent batch of hires, if you are a male with a background in immigration enforcement, forget about it.

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After Four Months, Genocidal Black Supremacist Ayo Kimathi Still Employed by DHS

A timely post from http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com about a black supremacist employed at the DHS. This follows this post about the “Knockout Game” and “Polar Bear Hunting.” In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

After Four Months, Genocidal Black Supremacist Ayo Kimathi Still Employed by DHS


By Nicholas Stix


Last Resistance has the story.

Six Senators Question DHS Nominee on Lack of Immigration Enforcement

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A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the new DHS secretary hearings. This follows this post about fighting against the current immigration surge. This follows this post about Barack Obama and “Faith Leaders” attempting to pass immigration amnesty.. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post or about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.   Comprehensive Amnesty Threat

Six Senators Question DHS Nominee on Lack of Immigration Enforcement

posted on NumbersUSA
Six GOP Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary nominee Jeh Johnson about the administration's lack of enforcing immigration laws. The Senators posed more than 50 questions asking Johnson for his opinion on how former Secretary, Janet Napolitano, dealt with enforcement and whether or not he would pursue a more aggressive approach to enforcement.
The letter was signed by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jon Cornyn (R-Texas). Not suprisingly, the letter was not signed by the two GOP committee members who cosponsored the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill - Sentators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).
"At your confirmation hearing, you stated that, '[I]f confirmed, I will work to implement all legislation enacted into law,' the letter reads. "While we may have different views than President Obama on how to reform our immigration system, we have all repeatedly expressed our strong disapproval of the refusal of this administration -- and DHS in particular -- to enforce our immigration laws, contradicting duly enacted federal law through administrative orders and internal memoranda.

"These actions have eroded the rule of law and undermined Americans' confidence in their government. We hope you will commit to discontinuing these lawless policies if confirmed."

For more information, see the Daily Caller.

So What's the Right Way to View the Gay Marriage Debate as a Christian?

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about the Gay "Marriage" debate. This follows this post about evidence of God.  For a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown (not the book discussed below) for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

So What's the Right Way to View the Gay Marriage Debate as a Christian?


by Mitchell Moss


The U.S. Supreme Court building, where the issue of gay marriage is being debated.



Source: Wikimedia Commons/Wikiwopbop I got a certain number of responses to my last blog post about Christians who support gay marriage. One response I got essentially asked, “How should I feel about gay marriage as a Christian on a secular level?” In trying to answer, I came to realize that even after writing that piece taking everybody to task for lacking resolve, I still have a bit of cognitive dissonance in my own mind. On the one hand, I enjoy the freedom in the U.S. to practice my religion as I see fit, and those same freedoms make it possible for somebody else to live the way they see fit as well. I greatly enjoy that liberty. So when it comes to gay marriage, there’s an aspect of me that feels: “What do I care? They can have the same liberties I have that afford me the privilege of living my lifestyle.” But then on the other hand, there’s the clear and direct teaching of the Scriptures. So I go back and forth on the issue—I enjoy the secular governmental system we have in place that gives me freedom of religion. But I also know the difference between right and wrong, which is defined by our Creator.



The foundational principles of Scripture have more or less served as the foundation of society in the United States since its inception. Or as John Adams, second president of the United States, put it: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The more people ignore the morals and religious foundation of the Constitution and the more they begin to judge what’s right and wrong based solely on secular man-made laws, the more inevitable it becomes that we will write into law whatever makes us feel good. And that’s the gay marriage debate now—men and women arguing that what makes them feel good (their homosexuality) should be recognized and institutionalized by the secular government. It ignores completely the moral underpinnings of the Constitution, arguing solely from that document itself (“equal protection under the law”).



Look, we live in what Paul called “this present evil age.” There is a god of this world, who is the prince of the power of the air. He is at work trying to undermine Jesus Christ and His message.



At this point, it seems gay marriage is inevitable in America—more than half the country supports it according to polls.



So as a Christian, here’s what I know is true. Practicing homosexuality is a sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 [9] Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

[10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

[11] And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.





See All..., Romans 1:24-27 [24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.





See All..., Romans 8:5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.



See All...). God hates sin and will judge the earth according to its sins. As a nation, if we enact laws that institutionalize sin, we will reap what we sow. Whether abortion, gay marriage, injustice, greed, mistreating the poor or whatever else. God will judge the nations. He did it way back when with Sodom and Gamorrah, and He’ll do it in the future (Genesis 18:20And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;



See All..., Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.



See All...; Revelation 14:6-8 [6] And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

[7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

[8] And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.





See All...).



My citizenship is in heaven. My King is Jesus Christ. The only goal that matters in my life is making my calling and election sure. My sole purpose is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. I do not condone the practice of homosexuality—but neither is it my place to condemn people. In this present evil age, my responsibility is to live a life worthy of repentance, to let my light shine, to love my neighbor as myself, and to practice godly love. Sigh and cry over the abominations of the world, and pray every single day, “Your kingdom come!”







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ICE Director Morton says agency could have shifted funds to prevent illegal-alien detainee release

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about the RNC's new immigration recommendation.  This follows this post about U.S. Catholic bishops increasing poverty among America's poor.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

ICE Director Morton says agency could have shifted funds to prevent illegal-alien detainee release

Contact your Representatives about this here.

posted on NumbersUSA





ICE Director Morton

ICE Director John Morton was forced to defend his agency's decision to release thousands of illegal aliens from custody during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Morton said he could have requested a reprogramming of department funds from the Appropriations Committee to prevent the release, and he also couldn't say with certainty that the illegal aliens released don't pose a threat to the safety of the American public.





Morton said the release was a direct result of the department facing a 5% cut in its funding because of the budget sequester that went into effect earlier this month. He said the agency was forced to save $300 million, while still trying to maintain an average detention rate of 34,000.





"The reduction was a direct result of ICE's efforts to stay within its budget in light of the continuing resolution and the possibility and now reality of sequester," Morton said.





The purpose of the hearing was to determine whether the agency did indeed release the detained illegal aliens because of the sequester or whether it was part of a greater public relations strategy by the Obama Administration to highlight the effects of the budget sequester. Morton testified that the decision came solely from within ICE.





"It was a decision made by the career officials made within the agency, specifically Mr. Mead and our Chief Financial Officers," Morton said. "Was the decision made by anyone outside of the agency? The answer is categorically no."

Rep. Bob Goodlatte



Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) asked Morton why he didn't consider tapping into other agency funds to prevent the release of the detainees.





"All the other accounts in ICE carried a balance of $240 million for the year, and $120 million for the past six months," Chairman Goodlatte said. "Additionally, your CFO indicated ICE carried forward $100-120 million in user fee balances. Can you tell me why ICE never submitted a reprogramming request to appropriations? Isn't it true that ICE could have submitted a reprogramming request to pay for the release of these detainees?"





"We can seek reprogramming requirements, that is absolutely true Mr. Chairman," Morton said. "We did not in this instance. I am trying to live within the appropriations that Congress gives us. … We are not going to rob Peter to pay Paul."





"The appropriations committee is very used to dealing with excess expenditures necessitated by changed circumstances and they do respond quickly to those requests," Goodlatte said. "I am pleased that you did acknowledge that you could have dipped into surplus funds from fees or from other funds carried over from other operations within the department rather than releasing criminal aliens onto our streets."

Rep. Raul Labrador



Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Id.) questioned Morton about his management of funds, but took a different angle. He said ICE was able to maintain the same levels of detention and deportations with less than funding than during the sequester during Morton's time with the agency.





"Your budget in 2009 was $4.9 billion," Rep. Labrador said. "Your budget in 2010, it was $5.3 billion. Your budget in 2011 was $5.4 billion. And your budget in 2012 was $5.5 billion. So in the last four years, your budget has been raised by at least 10%. Is that correct?"





"That is correct," Morton said.





"You're now telling us that because you have to cut 5% of your budget, you can not do the job you were doing in 2009 and 2010," Rep. Labrador said. "Is that what you're telling us?"





"No," Morton said. "I am telling you that we are operating at an all-time high in both detention and removals."





"But you just testified that in 2009 and 2010 you were detaining and deporting about 400,000 a year," Rep. Labrador said. "You were taking credit, which I think you should for deportations and you had a budget that was actually less than what your sequestration budget is going to be."





"Our removals were the highest ever," Morton said.





"And for the last four years you've averaged 400,000 deportations a year, and you've done it with a budget that was smaller than what we're talking about here," Rep. Labrador said.

Rep. Trey Gowdy



According to Morton, four of the 2,228 illegal-alien detainees that were released were level one offenders, meaning they had been charged of or convicted of a felony. House Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Morton why they couldn't find the funding to keep the level one offenders in custody.





"If it's $122 a day to house four level one aggravated felons then releasing them saves you what - $600 a day?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Each day, that's right," Morton said.





"You can't find $600 a day anywhere in your budget?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"We make determination on a case-by-case basis," Morton said.





"Can you find $600 somewhere else in your budget?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"The question is whether that $600 is well spent on those people or someone else," Morton said. "When it comes to someone who was a 40 year lawful resident…"





"I don't care, was he a level one?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"He is a level on offender," Morton said.





Rep. Gowdy, like many of the other Committee Members then shifted his line of questioning to whether or not the released illegal aliens could pose a threat to the American people.





"Did you release any recidivous drunk drivers?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Yes," Morton said.





"How many?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"I don't have the exact number, but we have released many individuals that have DUI offenses," Morton said.





"Repeat offender DUI?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Repeat offender DUI," Morton said.

Rep. Randy Forbes



Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) asked Morton if any of the released illegal aliens were members of a violent gang.





"I think there are two cases, at least one that I know of, that when we went back and looked at the information there was a gang affiliation," Morton said.





"Do you ask the individuals that you detain whether they are members of a violent gang or not?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"We try wherever we can," Morton said.





"Is that part of your questioning? Do you have that information on the people you released?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"I don't know if we ask each and every person," Morton said.





"So you can't really answer for the 2,228," Rep. Forbes said. "All you can say is that two of these individuals had a known gang affiliation, but you don't know if the other 2,228 had a gang affiliation or not?"





"I can't speak to every individual that we released," Morton said.





"So it's possible that someone who was here illegally, who had been charged or convicted of a crime, and could have been voluntarily part of a violent criminal gang, you wouldn't know that?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"On convictions, yes. But on general gang affiliation, I can't say that we would know," Morton said.





Rep. Lamar Smith asked Morton directly if he thought any of the illegal aliens released could pose a threat to the American people. Morton tried to dodge the answer after Rep. Smith asked in several different ways, so Rep. Smith finally told him what he thought the public perception of the release was.





"Let me answer the question the way I think the American people would answer it," Rep. Smith said. "The American people think you releasing illegal aliens who have committed felonies or multiple misdemeanors is a threat to their safety."

Tell Washington What You Think of Obama's Terroristic Threats and Release of Illegals

A very interesting post from www.Alipac.US about the release of illegal alien criminals from jails last week. This follows this post about the CATO Institute. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Tell Washington What You Think of Obama's Terroristic Threats and Release of Illegals


by

ALIPAC

 Friends of ALIPAC,



We are sending out a national press release this morning expressing our concerns about the Obama administration's terroristic threats against American citizens and Congress, and the release of 10,000 illegal aliens with broader criminal charges.



Obama Using Illegal Immigrants As Form of Terrorism Against Americans

http://www.alipac.us/content/obama-u...mericans-1409/

Please help us in many ways.



Step 1: Please share, post, forward, and circulate our press release to other American activists, your local talk radio shows and media, your social media accounts, state and federal elected officials, to the Drudge Report and national media sources. If you agree with what we are saying, express your agreement by circulating this release with us today!



Step 2: Call Obama, McCain, and Graham, and their backers Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio, to express your concerns. Call to say



"I am angry that Obama is releasing illegal immigrants from detention and threatening the American public with more deaths and destruction from illegal immigrants if he does not get his way. His terroristic threats and meetings behind closed doors with McCain and Graham as representatives of the 'Gang of 8' should not be tolerated by Congress, the media, or the American public!"



Share your version of this talking point far and wide online and on talk radio shows, starting with the office staff of Obama, McCain, Flake, Rubio, and their child prostitution user Robert Menendez (D-NJ)



White House Number: Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Toll free 1-866-220-0044

John McCain: (202) 224-2235

Linsdey Graham: (202) 224-5972

Marco Rubio: (202) 224-3041

Jeff Flake: (202) 224-4521

Robert Menendez: (202)224-4744



Step 3: Then take actions that can help destroy the Amnesty 2013 plans by circulating this release, this talking point, and the new Reuters Poll showing most Americans want illegal aliens deported with your member of Congress and your US Senators.



Here is the poll again--

Majority of US Citizens Say Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported

http://www.alipac.us/content/majorit...deported-1399/



Here is the link for you to find the contact info for your Reps. Remember, to have the best impact CALL them first, then send in a written reinforcement. It takes more time than some other automated means, but this is the method ALIPAC has shown to have the greatest impact!



Congressional Rep locator link

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/



Step 4: The previous steps should only take you about 15-30 minutes of volunteer time. If you have more time, please saturate the following Republican senate targets with the ALIPAC press release, the talking point in Step 2, and the poll in step 3. Applying pressure to these offices has a good chance of causing some of these GOP lawmakers to back away from the "Gang of 8."



Please target your calls and written messages to this list at this link...

http://www.alipac.us/f8/illegal-alie...ay-you-271631/





Special thanks to all of you volunteering to help today!