Assemblyman Joel Anderson, 77th District (Ca), is giving Compean an Accommodation for his service and attached is a copy of the last letter the Assemblyman wrote to George Bush asking him to pardon or commute the Agent's sentences.
It is truly shameful, that in America today, liars and cowards, such as Ramos and Compean are, are hailed as heroes and Patriots.
In the words of Jim Gilchrist, leader of the Minuteman Project and close associate of indicted Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde;
Or perhaps that is too strong of a statement because it disrespects a horse’s hind end.
Tom Tancredo, Colorado representative who tried to run a Presidential campaign on one issue, ridding the US of all Hispanics, while in the past he hired illegals to remodel his Boulder mansion amongst other things. This man is a hypocrite and a fraud.
Border mayors, Colorado lawmaker fight over ‘no border’ comments
Members of the Texas Border Coalition are sparring with Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo over his muttered suggestion that if politicians think a border fence will disrupt the region’s multiculturalism, the best place for it might be north of Brownsville.
Tancredo sent a letter to Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada and Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster on Thursday “clarifying” the comment, which came during a congressional field hearing Monday at the University of Texas-Brownsville, which could lose land to the fence.
Tancredo and U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., strong proponents of the fence, were at odds with Democrats on the panel who said the fence will be an ineffective blight for a region that thrives on social and economic ties with Mexico.
“Securing the border is not a local issue,” Tancredo wrote to Ahumada. “Local communities have expressed multiculturalist sentiment by suggesting that ‘there is no border’ between the U.S. and Mexico, and refusing to cooperate with federal authorities over the congressionally approved border fence.
“This is a matter of national importance, and the American public should not be asked to sit back and allow a handful of local governments and their friends in the ‘open borders’ lobby to exercise veto power over something that impacts not only our national security, but our national sovereignty.”
Ahumada and Foster responded Friday by accusing Tancredo of misquoting them and suggested Tancredo take Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s advice to “grow up.”
Chertoff made the comment during a January interview with the Associated Press. He was referring to critics of new documentation rules at border crossings.
“We have never said, ‘there is no border,’” the mayors wrote. “The Rio Grande … has been our border since the agreement to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. To ascribe that quote to us, even by inference, in your tirade is ridiculously juvenile.”
Their letter ends, “Best wishes in your post-congressional career.”
“Best wishes in your post-congressional career.”
That probably went over some of your heads. What they are referring to, and I am still laughing my ass off over this is that Tancredo, during his first campaign, he promised to only be a two-term Congressman. But, he lied! What new with that.
Tom the tool! e’s just another pathetic tool who abandoned his integrity to become a permanent, mediocre fixture in Washington D.C.
Editors Notes: What utter crap! With our economy in the crapper, Bush’s Iraq fiasco. And now this meaningless piece of legislation, which with luck, will never clear committee.
Let’s see, 2 years imprisonment for crossing the border a second time, as if our prisons are not already overcrowded. Can’t open bank accounts when most don’t have bank accounts and have no desire for one, and the kicker, speak English when dealing with a Federal Agency, as if they have any dealings with Federal Agencies other than the Border Patrol?
And one wonders why the GOP is getting their ass kicked in the elections. But, I guess pandering to the right wing zealots is about the only trick they have left in the playbook.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are set to announce today the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures seen yet — one that would require jail time for illegal immigrants caught crossing the border, make it harder for them to open bank accounts and compel them to communicate in English when dealing with federal agencies.
Most of the bills stand little chance of being debated in the Democrat-controlled Congress, but the move by some of the Senate’s leading Republicans underscores how potent the issue of immigration remains, particularly during a presidential election year.
The bills give Republicans a way to put pressure on the presidential candidates of both major parties to take a tougher stance on immigration.
They also reflect a shift toward harsher immigration rhetoric and legislative proposals from both parties since Congress failed to pass a comprehensive overhaul in 2007.
The package, an enforcement smorgasbord assembled by at least eight lawmakers, consists of 11 bills but could expand to include as many as 14. Some elements echo House bills, but others go beyond House proposals.
One would discourage states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants by docking 10 percent of highway funding from states that do. Another would extend the presence of National Guard on the border. A third would end language assistance at federal agencies and the voting booth for people with limited English ability.
A bill by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who is leading the effort, would impose a maximum two-year jail sentence on someone caught crossing the border for a second time.
“The point is to reinforce the idea that most of us here feel that we need to make enforcement and border security a first step to solving the overall problem,” said Sen. David Vitter, R-La., one of three Senate sponsors.
They’ve set up surveillance on the Rio Grande and filmed illegal immigrants crossing the river by night.
They’ve mapped border crossing spots from Texas to California in airplanes mounted with cameras. They’ve confronted day laborers on street corners and parking lots in Houston.
But now activist groups working to limit illegal immigration are stunned and dismayed by the rise of Arizona Sen. John McCain as the likely Republican presidential nominee — and a threat to their work and cause.
In their world, McCain is a traitor because he fought for a landmark bill last year that offered a path to citizenship for undocumented residents, a move some critics derided as “amnesty.”
Members of these groups were discouraged Thursday after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — who took a hard line against illegal immigration — dropped out of the presidential race.
Some now joke about voting for Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton. Others say it’s time to switch to Republican Rep. Ron Paul, while others hope that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee can somehow surge to the fore.
”There is no scenario anymore, everything is gone,” lamented Shannon McGauley, founder and president of the Texas Minutemen, whose members have conducted operations on the Southwest border.
Curtis Collier, the head of U.S. Border Watch in Houston, said McCain’s ascendancy, simply put, ”is bad for us, I’ll be honest.”
”None of the candidates are strong on immigration, and Romney probably was the strongest,” said Collier, whose group regularly confronts day laborers at informal hiring centers around Houston. ”Now that he’s gone, many of our issues are in trouble.”
The depth of the negative feelings for McCain can be seen in comments by conservatives such as commentators Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who liken the GOP candidate to his Democratic counterparts.
”I don’t see much difference between Hillary and McCain on immigration,” said Louise Whiteford, president of Texans for Immigration Reform in Houston, which has 400-plus members. ”That doesn’t give us much of a choice.”
Consequently, Whiteford said her organization will begin focusing on local elections to advocate their agendas.
Meanwhile, pro-immigrant groups insist that Republican presidential candidates who hoped to win primaries by taking a strong anti-illegal immigrant stance have learned a bitter lesson.
Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said Republicans are committing political suicide, dividing their party, mobilizing immigrant voters and alienating swing voters who want a solution to illegal immigration.
”The anti-immigrant dog barks, but it doesn’t bite,” Sharry said. “There’s a lot of noise from anti-immigrant activists, but they can’t produce a lot of votes.”
Romney’s tough talk on illegal immigration failed to win him many primaries. In fact, it likely hurt him with a key voting bloc. Exit polls in the Florida primary show that McCain received 54 percent of the Hispanic GOP vote, while Romney took 14 percent. Hispanics in numerous surveys have said they are troubled by hard-line approaches to immigration.
The attempt at making immigration a wedge issue simply backfired, Latino activists say.
”It has been remarkably effective in the mobilization of Latino voters,” said Cecilia Munoz, vice president of National Council of La Raza. ”There is lots of clear evidence this is a community that feels it’s under attack.”
In a speech Thursday in Washington, D.C., before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, McCain was jeered when he defended his immigration record.
He assured the conservative group ”it would be among my highest priorities to secure our borders first,” before addressing other aspects of immigration.
The senator acknowledged in his speech that many in the audience have disagreed strongly with some of his positions.
“It is my sincere hope that even if you believe I have occasionally erred in my reasoning as a fellow conservative, you will still allow that I have, in many ways important to all of us, maintained the record of a conservative,” he said.
In Arizona, state Rep. Russell Pearce, who helped pass four recent state referendums to limit bail, jury awards and public benefits to illegal immigrants, said McCain is out of step not only with his conservative base, but with mainstream America.
”That’s the bridge McCain has to fix,” Pearce said. ”McCain has been on the wrong side of this issue. And it’s not just his base — 80 percent of Americans want the border secured.”
Pearce said McCain must apologize for ”pushing amnesty” and demonstrate to the American people he will put them, and the rule of law, first.
Rebecca Forest, a member of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas in Austin, said she would like anybody but McCain. And she says the best “anybody” left is Huckabee. She hopes Huckabee reviews his immigration stance, hires top-notch campaign advisers and returns to the offensive.Glenn Spencer, an Arizona rancher who founded the American Border Patrol in 2002, maps the border from a small private plane. He is outraged that the federal government has allowed the border to remain open for so long but says McCain’s pledge to get tough may help his cause.
”He is much more acceptable now that he’s taken this very clear position on the border,” Spencer said. ”There’s no way he can back out on this.”
Hopefully it will send them back under the rock they crawled from! I’m loving it!
Super Tuesday sorta restored my faith that there is perhaps some sane and logical people with a brain remaining amongst the electorate.
Illegal Immigration was not on the radar as State after State proved the peoples interest is in the economy (stupid) and the war in Iraq.
It is interesting to note that in a society where a segment make outlaw Border Patrol Agents and convicted felons into heroes, and some do their damndest to defame and slander a real American hero such as John McCain, they failed!
McCain is well on his way to winning the Republican nomination for the Presidency. And despite some idiots who deride McCain for his common sense approach to immigration reform, and talk crap about Mike Hukabee, another good choice, for allowing a Mexican Consulate to be built in Arkansas, the people spoke and spoke loudly.
A tremendous Thursday with the announcement by Mitt Romney that he was putting his campaign on the back burner. Seems the electorate did not care for his brand of conservatism and with good cause.
In Illinois, the voters there decided that pee bottles on the side of the highway were enough and they didn’t need a PSak in the halls of the Senate. Good choice. This fringe candidate who had this wild idea to raise $5 million in campaign funds from America’s truckers fell way short of his goal. He received only $11,000.00 and 11% of the vote. Dick Durbins Senate seat is secure for another 6 years.
Yep! It’s turning into an interesting campaign and I can only imagine the neo cons squirming at the thought of what lays before us. Perhaps we’ll get some common sense solutions in the White House now.
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