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| Obama's
True Immigration Agenda |
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Back
in July Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama promised
the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) that
he would make comprehensive immigration reform a priority
in his first term. He then went on to say, "We need
a president who isn't going to walk away from something
as important as comprehensive immigration reform when it
becomes politically unpopular."
When
asked the same questions McCain replied, "we must first
prove to them (Americans) that we can and will secure our
borders first, while respecting the dignity and rights of
citizens and legal residents of the United States."
Obama's
True Immigration Agenda
was brought to light just days before the Election. November
1st The Associated Press released this story:
Obama
aunt from Kenya living in U.S. illegally
Woman was denied asylum, ordered to
leave U.S. 4 years ago.
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT
The
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
-- Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly
living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States
illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request
for asylum four years ago, the Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni
Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in
Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States
by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request,
a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday.
This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one
was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
Information
about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by
two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment
official. The information they made available is known to
officials in the federal government, but the AP could not
establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush
administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved
in its release.
Onyango's
refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative,
non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning
such cases are handled outside the criminal court system.
Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more
than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.
The
AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one
answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday.
It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in
2004.
Onyango
is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances
and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone
who has been part of the public discussion about his personal
life.
A
spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,
Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an
individual's citizenship status or immigration case.
Onyango's
case -- coming to light just days before the presidential
election -- led to an unusual nationwide directive within
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations
prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the
level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement
official told the AP.
The
unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration
is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's
case coming to light so close to the election.
Kenya
is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country
has been fractured in violence in recent years, including
a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007
that killed 1,500 people.
The
disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's
presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that
Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South
Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's
side.
It
was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified
for public housing with a standing deportation order.
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| Kosher
Plant Defaulted On Loan |
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published
online: 11/1/2008
Kosher plant defaulted on loan
By NIGEL DUARA
The Associated Press
CEDAR
RAPIDS -- A St. Louis-based bank is seeking to seize and
auction all of Agriprocessors' assets, claiming the slaughterhouse
defaulted on a $35 million loan.
First
Bank said in a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court
in Cedar Rapids that Agriprocessors overstated how much
money it has available and that the company is either unable
or unwilling to meet its loan payments.
The
suit names Agriprocessors owner Aaron Rubashkin, his son
and former CEO Sholom Rubashkin and slaughterhouses in Postville,
Iowa, and Gordon, Neb. In addition to livestock and plant
equipment, the suit includes the Rubashkins' personal property
as collateral.
"(Agriprocessors)
have repeatedly made misrepresentations to First Bank by
providing inaccurate and misleading Notices of Borrowing
and other documents that misstated the value of the collateral,"
the lawsuit states.
The
bank and the slaughterhouse held a phone hearing Friday
in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, and agreed to reconvene
next week. If the bank prevails, the suit states it will
hold foreclosure sales of the company's assets.
The
lawsuit follows a May immigration raid at Agriprocessors'
Postville plant that resulted in 389 arrests. The Rubashkins
and others at the plant also have been charged with violating
state child labor laws (Over 9,000 incidents), and on Thursday
Sholom Rubashkin was charged with illegally helping illegal
immigrants get fake documents.
Agriprocessors
did not immediately return calls seeking comment Friday.
The
suit follows the announcement Friday that Des Moines-based
Jacobson Staffing pulled its 450 workers from the plant
this week. The staffing company, which had served as the
slaughterhouse's human-resources and recruitment arm, did
not give a reason for the decision.
The
departure of the 450 Jacobson staffers leaves the company
with about 250 workers.
In
the suit, First Bank said Agriprocessors and Aaron Rubashkin
are liable for repayment of a 1999 loan for $35 million
to its branch in nearby Decorah called Decorah Bank &
Trust Co.
First
Bank said Aaron Rubashkin made a $2 million down payment
on the loan, but that the total amount could exceed the
remaining balance because of interest, late charges and
costs of collection.
The
suit said the slaughterhouse bounced about $1.3 million
in checks in October, and the bank wants the court to appoint
an overseer, or receiver, to make sure the money is repaid.
First
Bank said Agriprocessors kicked bank representatives off
company property on Thursday.
The
suit also said Sholom Rubashkin is liable for up to $1 million
plus interest. Federal agents arrested Rubashkin on Thursday
on charges of conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants
for financial gain, aiding and abetting document fraud and
aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. He made an
appearance that day in federal court.
His
attorney said he will plead not guilty to the charges.
First
Bank said Agriprocessors defaulted on the loan when it claimed
multiple times to have more money in the bank than it did,
and also when it opened a second account at the Luana Savings
Bank in nearby Luana, where it deposited $1.3 million for
checks that bounced this month.
First
Bank also said in the suit that the plant owes its electric
company $188,000 and an $88,000 deposit. If it doesn't pay,
the suit states the company will cut the plant off Nov.
3.
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| Agents
Arrest Plant Manager |
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published
online: 10/31/2008
Agents
Arrest Plant Manager
Son of Agriprocessors owner to wear ankle bracelet.
The Associated Press
CEDAR
RAPIDS -- A former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse found
to have employed hundreds of illegal immigrants was arrested
Thursday by authorities who allege he helped many of the
workers get fake documents.
Prosecutors said Sholom Rubashkin, the 49-year-old son of
Agriprocessors owner Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, is charged
with conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants for financial
gain, aiding and abetting document fraud and aiding and
abetting aggravated identity theft.
After
an initial appearance in federal court on Thursday afternoon,
Rubashkin's attorney F. Montgomery Brown said Rubashkin
intends to plead not guilty.
Rubashkin
waived a preliminary hearing and agreed to be released on
his own recognizance on the condition that he put up a $500,000
bond by Nov. 5 and wear a GPS tracking bracelet on his ankle.
In
court, Brown said Rubashkin's bond would be paid by a cousin
in Brooklyn.
Rubashkin
smiled but declined comment outside the courtroom.
Prosecutor
Peter Deegan said Thursday in court that Rubashkin is a
flight risk because he "has access to substantial assets."
Deegan also said Rubashkin is "likely to face one of
the lengthier sentences" of anyone involved with the
Agriprocessors raid and subsequent fallout.
Rubashkin
agreed to forfeit his and his wife's passports and agreed
not to leave the northern district of Iowa.
Rubashkin's
next appearance in court has not yet been set.
Brown
said Rubashkin is "of good humor, he's doing fine."
Immigration
agents said in a federal affidavit that one witness said
Sholom Rubashkin gave him $4,500 to buy identification documents
for illegal-immigrant workers. Another allegedly said that
Rubashkin saw nothing wrong with hiring a group of workers
who had new-looking resident alien cards and may have been
fired from the Agriprocessors plant in Postville just two
days earlier.
Agents
raided the plant May 12, arresting 389 people in what officials
said at the time was the largest single-site immigration
bust in U.S. history. State prosecutors allege that more
than 30 of the workers were children.
Agents
also seized dozens of fraudulent permanent resident alien
cards during the raid, according to the affidavit.
The
U.S. attorney's office and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement
spokesman declined to comment on the case Thursday.
The
affidavit said an unnamed witness, a former supervisor in
the beef kill area, told investigators he or she met with
Rubashkin in a barn area of the plant the week before the
raid. The witness told Rubashkin that $4,500 was needed
to help employees fired from the witness' department because
they had bad papers. Rubashkin apparently asked if the money
had to be in cash and the next morning agreed to loan it.
Later in the day another employee gave the witness the cash
in $100 bills.
That
witness said he or she then gave up to $200 each to employees
to purchase new identification documents. The new documents
were obtained and given to plant foremen to give to up to
40 employees a day before the raid, according to the affidavit.
Earlier
this week, Laura Althouse, a human resources employee with
Agriprocessors, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor undocumented
immigrants for financial gain and aggravated identity theft.
Trial is scheduled for Nov. 17 for another human resources
worker, Karina Freund.
Associated
Press writers Amy Lorentzen and Henry C. Jackson contributed
to this report.
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| Ottumwa
Man Charged In Gang Recruitment Case |
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By
Matt Milner, Ottumwa Courier staff writer
Published June 17, 2008 11:48 pm -
OTTUMWA
- An Ottumwa man has joined two juveniles as the first people
charged in the city with gang recruitment.
Felix Alberto Figueroa, 20, was arrested Monday afternoon
at Fourth and Washington streets on a warrant for gang recruitment.
The arrest followed last week's charges against a 15-year-old
and 13-year-old.
Police say the charges are new for Ottumwa law enforcement
and reflect changes in gang activity in the city. The three
were allegedly enticing students as young as sixth grade
to steal as part of a gang initiation.
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| Two
Juveniles Charged With Gang Recruitment |
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BY
MATT MILNER, Ottumwa Courier staff writer
Published June 16, 2008 11:50 pm -
OTTUMWA
- Police charged two juveniles last week with gang recruitment,
a first in Ottumwa.
Police reports show Juan Carlos Bethancourt, 15, and Jose
Edwardo Pivaral, 13, both of Ottumwa, were arrested and
charged with gang recruitment and theft.
"Those guys were the ones ... that were arrested for
trying to recruit kids into gangs. They were committing
thefts as part of a gang initiation," Clark said.
Two gangs, the Latin Kings and the Two-Sixers, were involved
according to Clark. The efforts reportedly targeted sixth-grade
students in Ottumwa.
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| Ethics
Complaint Against Johnny Sutton |
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Don
Swarthout, President of CRAVE
filed an ethics complaint with the Texas Bar Association
against Prosecutor Johnny Sutton. Swarthout, in this complaint,
charges Sutton's office with willfully misleading the jury
in order to convict Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and
Jose Compean.
Known
drug smuggler Aldrete Davila was portrayed by Sutton as
almost an "innocent bystander." In fact, he was
involved in a second drug delivery to the United States
during Sutton's prosecution of Ramos and Compean. This fact
was covered up by Sutton's office.
Swarthout
has asked the Texas Bar Association to investigate Johnny
Sutton for actions strikingly similar to Prosecutor Mike
Nifong's mishandling of the Duke lacrosse rape case. The
evidence suggests Johnny Sutton is just as guilty as Mike
Nifong of unethical prosecutorial behavior.
More
than 90 U.S. Senators and Congressmen have reviewed this
case and have asked President Bush to pardon Border Agents
Ramos and Compean. These 90 elected officials represent
both Democrats and Republicans. All of them agree Johnny
Sutton's prosecution leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
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| Congressman
Tom Tancredo's Tribute To Buck |
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| HONORABLE
TOM TANCREDO OF COLORADO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May
9, 2008
Madam
Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Paul Edward Moore,
better known to his friends as Buck. Buck's untimely death
in a motorcycle accident is a tragic loss to his family,
community, and indeed the nation.
Buck
was the founder of Riders Against Illegal Aliens, an advocacy
group dedicated to immigration reform and preserving American
sovereignty. Buck led numerous rallies protesting the influx
of illegal immigration, the unjust incarceration of Border
Patrol agents Ramos and Compean, and the government's lack
of will to enforce immigration laws. He will be missed.
Madam
Speaker, I want to express my sincerest condolences to Buck's
friends and family. He was a dedicated patriot and will
not be forgotten.
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Buck
Young, our founder and leader, 53, of Phoenix, Arizona,
passed away on May 5, 2008. Killed by a 19 year old Hispanic
female that turned in front of him at an intersection. She
has numerous prior traffic violations on her record. Buck
is survived by three daughters, four sons, two sisters,
one brother, and eight grandchildren. He will be greatly
missed by us all.
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| Ramos
& Compean Humpday Campaign |
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HUMPDAY
CAMPAIGN
Rider Against Illegal Aliens Is inviting every organization
and American that believes our two border agents, Nacho
Ramos and Jose Compean, are unfairly imprisoned and need
to be released. We need to put Nacho on the front burner
as a constant reminder, not just once in awhile. Last month
an organization had a good idea to call D.C. and tell them
that the agents should be released. While this is a good
idea, why settle for one day when our agents are suffering
in prison everyday. What could be more perfect than Humpday.
It's a day everyone looks forward to. It's in the middle
of the week so everyone is kind of caught up, and not so
rushed like on Mondays or Fridays. But, most of all, we
all know that Nacho got screwed. So, every single Humpday
is when every American needs to call all Congress Representatives,
Senators, and State Representatives that hold an office.
If you don't know how to contact your Senators
or Representatives
on our site click the "Information" link. There
is a section with links to all Congress members. Our object
is to assert so much constant pressure they have to let
them out. Hell if nothing else the people that have to answer
the phone will want to strangle their bosses and break Nacho
out themselves. I have spoken with Monica Ramos and family,
they welcome the idea.
Buck Young
BUILD THE FENCE!!! SEND EM BACK!!!
Write
Ramos & Compean
Ignacio
Ramos #58079-180
FCI Phoenix
37910 N. 45th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85086
Jose
Compean #58080180
FCI Elkton
PO Box 10
Lisbon, OH 44432
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| Podcast
With Frosty And Buck |
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| AZ
Officer Killed By Illegal Alien |
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R.A.I.A.,
Riders
USA, and United
for a Sovereign America would like to thank all that
attended the support ride for officer Erfle's children's
education fund Sunday Oct. 14th. A special thanks from R.A.I.A.
to all the members that showed... you guys are great, keep
up the good work.
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| Arizona
Benefit for Ramos Family Is A Huge Success |
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Saturday,
September 8th: R.A.I.A. wanted to thank all who attended
the Arizona benefit for the Ramos Family. Especially Bone,
Rhonda, Craig and Hogg. You guys are an inspiration. The
event couldn't have turned out better. It was truly an honor
to escort Monica and the El Paso crew.
Click
Here to read personal comments and see photos
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| Arizona
March To Take Back America |
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RAIA & Riders
United for a Sovereign America wish to thank all that
were able to attend the rally at the Capitol & say job
well done. If anyone has pictures of the ride on Saturday,
please send
them in a jpeg format and we will try to get some posted.
Click
Here to read the story on immigrationbuzz.com &
see photos/videos
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| Victims
Of Illegal Aliens |
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There
is an enormous number of Americans who have been harmed
by the criminals who pass through the nation's open borders.
For that reason, this section can only provide a symbolic
tribute to the many unnamed victims who have been killed,
raped, robbed, crippled and otherwise personally violated.
Click
Here to go to www.immigrationshumancost.org's CRIME
VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS tribute page.
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| Controversy
Over The 14th Amendment Continues |
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Still
waiting for clarification from Congress on this. Does this
pertain to all immigrants or only those that are in the
U.S. legally.
All
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens
of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
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Finally,
one site that finds the totals for you, which until now
has been difficult to find. Providing the public a free
source of totals on the most pressing categories resulting
from illegal immigration in America. Using the latest government
and private organizational sources available, they have
continually updating counters for;
· Illegal Immigrants in Country
· Money Wired to Mexico
· Cost of Social Services for Illegal Immigrants
· Illegals Enrolled in Public Schools K-12
· Cost of Illegals Enrolled in K-12
· Illegal Immigrants Incarcerated
· Cost for Incarcerations of Illegal Immigrants
· Illegal Immigrant Fugitives
· Anchor Babies
Click Here to visit ImmigrationCounters.com
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| ICE's
Most Wanted Criminal Aliens |
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Click
the images to the left to download and/or print off these
ICE Most Wanted Criminal Aliens posters. Click
Here to go to ICE's home page. Report Suspicious Activity:
1-866-DHS-2-ICE
1-866-347-2423 |
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| ICE's
Most Wanted Fugitives |
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Click
the image to the left to download and/or print off this ICE
Most Wanted Fugitives
poster. Click
Here to go to ICE's home page.
Report Suspicious Activity:
1-866-DHS-2-ICE
1-866-347-2423 |
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