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Cutting Funds for Arizona Border Protection

What Is Chertoff Thinking?
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- July 12

Dobbs: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this week warned that he had a gut feeling that we would be hit by a terrorist attack this summer, this as a new intelligence assessment shows al Qaeda is strengthening.[...] But, incredibly, tonight, after 30 requests, Arizona is still waiting to hear back from the federal government about millions and millions of dollars that it desperately needs.

David Schanzer, Professor, Duke University: I don't think saying at one point we are going to veto a spending bill because it has too much security for our states and localities on the one hand and then saying al Qaeda is at its most dangerous on the other makes much sense.

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Associated Press

Body of missing Tacoma girl found, Thai invader in custody

Police and FBI agents found the body of a 12- year- old girl who was snatched from an alley behind her house during a July 4 fireworks celebration, police said. -- Information provided by a man in custody on an immigration complaint led police and FBI agents to an undisclosed location in Pierce County where they found Zina Linnik's body...[More family values]

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Audio File

Reconquista ex-con Bermudez on the Laura Ingraham Show

Vehement Reconquista Elias Bermudez, a Phoenix-based pro-invasion zealot, appeared on the Laura Ingraham show yesterday (July 11) to explain why he is organizing a boycott of conservative talk radio. This guy is a real whack job. Audio file courtesy of Lone Wolf. Click here or on the headline to listen... [Alternate listen link]

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Californians for Population Stabilization

Senators want to add AgJobs amnesty bill to Farm Bill!

Stymied in their attempts to pass a massive increase in immigration, proponents of this notion are trying to attach pieces of the "comprehensive" bill to funding legislation. A major effort is underway to include the AgJobs bill as part of the 2007 Farm Bill Reauthorization. -- As presently written, the AgJobs legislation would provide an amnesty...

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WGCL-TV -- Atlanta / YouTube Video Report

Invaders in Georgia self-deporting

Recent televised report tells of invaders fleeing Georgia in the wake of passage of SB-529, a no-nonsense anti-invader state law. Features activist D. A. King (The Dustin Inman Society) and a passel of invaders.

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Bakersfield Californian

2 years for ex-Border Patrol agent who smuggled invaders

A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for smuggling illegal immigrants, sometimes in his own government vehicle. -- Eric Balderas pleaded guilty in December 2005 to conspiracy to bring in illegal aliens. His plea agreement indicated that he admitted smuggling at least 100 people...

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Yuma Sun

Border Patrol agent nearly assaulted

A suspected [illegal alien... criminal] smuggler on Wednesday tried to run down a U.S. Border Patrol agent from Yuma. -- At 5 p.m., a Border Patrol video surveillance camera operator witnessed a large group of suspected illegal immigrants cross the Salinity Canal near County 9th Street.

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WorldNetDaily.com

Farah to keynote North American Union confab

WND co-founder and Editor Joseph Farah will be the keynote speaker July 19 at the 8th Annual Freedom 21 National Conference in Dallas ­ a three-day event focusing on plans for integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in a "North American Community."

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James R. Edwards Jr. -- Center for Immigration Studies

Immigration, security, and prosperity

The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, bound the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a trilateral "free trade" relationship among the three nations of the North American continent. Trade enthusiasts hailed NAFTA as holding great promise to elevate the economies of the three nations...