The wheels on the bus go thumpity-thump.
Over the weekend, the Associated Press reported that Barack Obama's beloved Aunti Zeituni Onyango -- a Boston public housing resident -- was an illegal alien deportation fugitive who was ordered to leave the country by an immigration judge four years ago. Despite her illegal absconder status, she not only obtained federal housing benefits, but also...
Read MoreTerapon Adhahn charged with kidnapping, raping, and killing 12-year-old Zina Linnik.
Update: Prosecutors not seeking the death penalty. Murder charges filed this afternoon against Terapon Adhahn:
The battle to stop the criminal alien revolving door is being waged in the heartland of America. Washington, are you...
Bumped (original post 7/16/ 11:34am)... 11:00pm Eastern update. Late-breaking update...despite heavy open-borders pressure, the city of Waukegan will proceed on its partnership with the feds to deport criminal aliens. The Sun Times reports: Officials will not reconsider a proposal that could lead to local police enforcing federal immigration laws, a measure that has galvanized activists...
Read MoreGERALDO: "At this point, I have to point out how in my view, this awful case was distorted by anti-immigrant radicals...
Update 9/1: Geraldo Rivera is insane and unhinged. He has threatened to spit on me. *** If you want ignorant ranting about immigration and the Zina Linnik case, go watch Geraldo Rivera (thanks to readers for e-mailing me about it over the weekend and AP for clipping the vid). Utterly shameless. Geraldo teased his Saturday...
Read MoreZina loved Fruit roll-ups, swimming, and tetherball.
7/16 7:29am Eastern update: Zina loved Fruit roll-ups, swimming, and tetherball. 7/16 12:00am Eastern update: Thousands gather to say goodbye to Zina Linnik *** Via the Tacoma News Tribune, here's how to help the family of Zina Linnik. Three accounts have been opened for donations fto memorial funds: • The Zina Linnik Memorial Fund at...
Read MoreWe need to stop the criminal alien revolving door.
7/14 7:27am update. Via the AP..."Adhahn, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., could not have been deported for the incest conviction because it was not an aggravated felony and it was his first offense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Friday. But a 1992 conviction for intimidation with a dangerous weapon...
Read MoreA suspected illegal alien rapist is let go. The feds say they'll deal with him "later." Meantime, he is accused of...
Update: Don Surber takes the media whitewash/coverage of this story to task and asks,"Is it too much to ask AP reporters to quit dancing around the fact that illegal aliens may be violent criminals? Apparently." *** The Commercial Appeal reports: Paging Michael Chertoff...paging Michael Chertoff...
***Bumped with video update: Watch me get smeared by Geraldo Rivera. I wear it as a badge of pride. Pay attention to his answer about deporting criminal aliens. John Lennon?!?!*** I'll be on The O'Reilly Factor tonight for a quick "Week in Review" segment. Tune in at 8pm Eastern. The topics were immigration and, yes,...
Read MorePatterico has launched a series of case studies that your members of Congress should hear about: "Deport the criminals first." Part One is here. Part Two is here. Guess he's just another member of the "Foaming at The Mouth" mob. Someone should make a T-shirt.
This is Manuel Flores. He is an illegal alien fugitive from the law. He is accused of raping and sodomizing his girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter. Nine-year-old daughter. Manuel Flores is free, reportedly headed back to Mexico, because federal immigration officials screwed up, according to a local Denver report. I linked to this story earlier today, but...
Read MoreYeah, yeah, DHS and the White House say they've ended catch-and-release policies for illegal aliens. Here's a reality check from a West Virginia law enforcement official: Reader Rob Ives sent me an e-mail along similar lines: Dear Ms. Malkin: For eleven of the last twenty years, including the last four, I was the elected prosecuting...
Read MoreJerry Seper at the WashTimes reports that two execs of the Golden State Fence Company--hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States--have been sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job. The judge in the case, and...
Read MoreI've reported on the absconder problem extensively in Invasion and in my columns. This is nothing new: What is new--this fun fact: Despite the creation of the absconder apprehension initiative and the allocation of more than $204 million since 2003, the backlog of fugitive alien cases has inc
For most people, the Beltway-area sniper case is a distant memory. Over and done. But in Montgomery County, Md., the pain and suffering caused by convicted killing spree murderers Lee Malvo and John Muhammad is as fresh and raw as it was three years ago when the pair terrorized the area--leaving 10 dead and three...
Read More11pm EDT update: Video highlights of tonight's O'Reilly Factor in which I try to make O'Reilly see the light here. 1030pm EDT update: The only good thing about watching the speech was getting to watch it in the Fox News green room with Colorado GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, a stalwart immigration enforcement advocate. It was...
Read MoreThe open-borders lobby has been phenomenally successful at getting the Beltway elite in both parties and in the media to embrace its blanket overgeneralizations and platitudes about the illegal alien population. "They just come here to work." "They're all Americans, too." "Illegals aren't criminals." And so on. Those who impertinently challenge such characterizations in an...
Read MoreSee, I told you so. This morning I told you that the immigration raid dog-and-pony show would result in most of the illegal aliens arrested being released. The New York Times reports in tomorrow' edition (hat tip Thomas Galvin): Released...never to be seen again. *** Reader H. reports from H
I speak regularly with dedicated men and women who work for the Department of Homeland Security, and especially agents from across the country who work for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I can tell you based on my reporting over the last five years that the Bush administration's belated efforts to look tough...
Read MoreThis is a wake-up call to the White House. On PBS this evening, GOP Rep. Jack Kingston, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said there are enough votes in the House to override a presidential veto: I think that the House would override a veto, and I think the President will see those numbers....
Read MoreThe parent company of Dubai Ports World participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reports in an exclusive today (hat tip Thomas Rosser): "Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced," Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of...
Read MoreA serious, pro-enforcement measure on border security and immigration control has just passed the House. Three years after I published Invasion, many of the policy recommendations included in the book have been embraced: The House acted Friday to stem the tide of illegal immigration by taking steps to tighten border controls and stop unlawful immigrants...
Read MoreMore bloody consequences of lax immigration enforcement...from Dallas, Tx., via the Dallas Morning News: The Dallas Morning News does not mention in the above-linked story that Lizcano has been here illegally for the past two years, and had at least two prior run-ins with the law. According to WFAA, h
***scroll down for 9/1 updates...gun defenses tracked...*** The mayor of New Orleans has declared martial law, reports the WWL blog. I've covered the uncertainties surrounding this question several times over the past few days. Mike Wiser at Brendan Loy's blog writes: If there any experts familiar with Louisiana law, please help out and shed light...
Read More^&*$%#@$%^#! Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined "Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:" The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill. The Bush administration wants "an effective bill that...
Read More9:45ish: Finally, finally! Bob Schieffer asks about illegal immigration...but both candidates bomb. Bush's perfunctory reference to how he has sprinkled a few more Border Patrol agents across the southern border glosses over the horrendous policies instituted under his Department of Homeland Security that have resulted in undermining those agents. As I noted recently: When a...
Read MoreThe Washington Times reports on an alleged meeting between suspected al Qaeda operative Adnan Shukrijumah and the savage El Salvador-based gang, Mara Salvatrucha: A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States including a stronghold in the Washington area ...
Read MoreYou've heard about the two men who were busted for allegedly plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station. You may not have heard that one of the men, Shahawar Matin Siraj, a 22-year-old Pakistani national living in Jackson Heights, New York, had run into problems with immigration authorities. According to this article, Siraj was...
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