WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, says a provision to build more fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border was cut out of a federal spending bill. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday the provision, which would have added 300 miles to current border fencing, is no longer part of a $42.8 billion spending bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. Kruschev, meet Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Simcox, meet Mr. Delgado. OK, maybe the posturing that’s going on between the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps of Texas and the Brown Berets isn’t anywhere near the nuclear standoff between the U.S. president and Soviet premier, but it sure has people worked into a tizzy. Chris Simcox organized the Minuteman Project to address the illegal immigration issue. He and a group of like-minded folks assembled along Arizona’s southern edge to do what they say the Border Patrol doesn’t do well enough — patrol our border.
So, just who are the “illegal” in California and elsewhere, and who has a greater right to live and work here? As he stated was his goal was on his inaugeration night, President James Polk stole California (and much more) from Mexico by violent force, just a few generations ago. Now we pass laws making it illegal for most Mexicans to live and work here, and forcibly remove them when they cross the border “illegally” (having exhausted all legal means for entry). Let’s examine and expose a few of the racist myths behind the outrage against “illegals” that’s all the ….Read More
Looking back on 2007 and ahead to 2008
What a year 2007 was. The war in Iraq continued and the casualty count is now well over three thousand and for what? To allow KBR civilian contractors and others to get rich scamming the government as those who were recently indicted in Afghanistan have shown us. Blackwater security employees used Iraq as their personal killing fields, putting themselves above the law, and now it appears, they will succeed. And how about the new “training” facility being built in San Diego county just a few klicks north of Tecate Mexico? That ought to make the hard core anti immigration folks ….Read More