Drug Shooting in Phoenix
June 26, 2008
Sunday night, close to midnight, police were called to a home on W. Cypress Street because of a shooting. There they found Andrew Williams dead after having been shot numerous times. More than 100 rounds of various calibers were used in the attack.
Phoenix police arresed three suspects after a short car chase. The suspects discarded numerous assault rifles and handguns, tactical gear (including Kevlar helmets, bulletproof vests and kneepads) and plenty of ammo.
One suspect, Daniel Garcia-Saenz is an American citizen who spent five years in jail for kidnapping and other charges. Phoenix police are confirming to Ankarlo Mornings Garcia-Saenz moved to Mexico upon his release from jail where he may have picked up some military training. He has told police he received the training south of the border. Police are working to confirm…
The other suspects, Manual Garcia-Trejom and Rodolfo Madrigal Lopez are Mexican nationals who had already been deported for criminal activity. Obviously, it wasn’t hard for them to sneak back in.
Phoenix police also confirm they are working with ICE and officials in Mexico to obtain more information. Sources tells Ankarlo Mornings, the victim, Andrew Williams was originally from Jamaica and most likely involved in the marijuana drug trade.
More details to follow…
ASU Artists Protest Treatment of Illegal Aliens…
April 23, 2008
A few ASU students held a protest on campus Tuesday by erecting a cage. The performance was called “aliens in a cage” and it was to protest the treatment of illegal immigrants in this country.
One of the students involved, Renato Ramos said, “We want to get people to see what is going on with all the anti-immigration rhetoric that we’re hearing these days.” More from the article: On the wire cage hung slips of paper with “Sheriff Joe Arpaio” and other names written on them - all representing groups or individuals Ramos and his friends consider unfriendly to the cause of undocumented workers.
I wonder if Ankarlo’s name was put on the cage? Speaking of Ankarlo, remember he was banned from the ASU campus buses. The reason he was banned was because one student found him to be offensive and distasteful. Couldn’t some consider the “aliens in a cage” performance offensive? ASU seems to have no problem with it though since I haven’t heard of any performance art bans on campus.
I’ll point to another part of the article: Theater Professor David Coffman also stopped by and dropped some change on a table set up beside the cage.
“I support any free expression of ideas,” Coffman said. “There are students at ASU who through no fault of their own are undocumented and are suffering from other people’s political posturing. We’ve had students stop coming to school because of that.”
Coffman might support “any free expression of ideas,” but does that include allowing Ankarlo (or any other radio station) to be aired on the campus buses? Does ASU support the same philosophy? Or do they only support it in some cases?
One final part of this story stood out to me: Student Carlos Garcia, 24, was part of the project on the mall and said the cage symbolized “not just the literal cage that ‘illegal aliens’ might be put in, but there are many undocumented people at ASU who don’t come out about their status and they’re in a psychological cage. It’s a bad place to be.” Give me a break Carlos. If an illegal immigrant feels he is in a psychological cage he put himself there. What ever happened to that personal responsibility? Every illegal immigrant knows they are breaking the law. True, they are trying to earn a better life for themselves and their families. But, if you sneak across the border and struggle, who’s fault is it really?
A caller on my Sunday show threw a hypothetical at me. A illegal immigrant meets and falls in love with an American woman. They have three kids (who are all American citizens). The illegal immigrant has a job and isn’t on any government assistance. But, he gets deported and now the wife and kids end up on welfare. The caller asked me if it was better to keep the illegal immigrant here to take care of his family. I said it’s a heart breaking situation. But, did this illegal immigrant steal a social security number to get his job? This could have potentially ruined someone else’s life. I also said that he was taking personal responsibility out of the equation. This man knew he was here illegally and he knew he was breaking the law. He knew that at any moment he could be deported. He then got married and had children knowing he could be shipped home. This man might be the greatest father to his kids in the world, but shouldn’t he have tried to become a legal citizen for his family? Maybe he have thought about doing things the right way and he wouldn’t be in this situation or in a psychological cage.
They love Sheriff Joe!
April 7, 2008
San Fran: A city for illegals
April 7, 2008
San Francisco has long been the most liberal city in America. They have openly promoted gay marriages and have welcome people from all walks of life on their city. Now, the city by the bay has announced plans to spend $83,000 on an advertising campaign promoting city services for illegal immigrants.
The ads will run in English, Spanish, Chinese Vietnamese a Russian. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
City officials on Wednesday unveiled the $83,000 ad campaign, which features images of smiling residents and the iconic city skyline and spreads the message in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Russian. Brochures, which will be handed out in public buildings like police stations and hospitals, promise safe access to city services for the undocumented and a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy when it comes residency status.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said, “We are standing up to say to all of our residents: We don’t care what your status is. We care that you, as a human being, are a resident of our city and we want you to participate in the life of our city.”
San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano said, “We’re taking a big bite of the reality sandwich in admitting that there are people who live here who may or may not have citizen status.”
The city by the bay declared themselves a sanctuary city in 1989. Since then they have openly promoted illegal immigration. A policy doesn’t allow city employees to cooperate with federal authorities such as ICE in any immigration investigation. Now, the openly tell illegal immigrants they won’t ask about your immigration status if you come in for services. Isn’t San Fran aiding and abetting? In August, San Fran will hand out municipal ID cards to everyone–including illegal immigrants–so everyone can receive city services.
It gets even better. San Francisco has a $338 million dollar budget shortfall. Somehow though they have money to promote city services for all.
Sheriff Joe: I Arrest Everybody!
April 7, 2008
Arpaio: No Racial Profiling
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crackdown on illegal immigration may have only just begun in the East Valley, with last week’s patrols in the town of Guadalupe.State lawmakers from the East Valley, led by Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, have sent the sheriff a letter inviting him to their district, and Arpaio said Mesa might be next on his list.Arpaio said he is not bothered by accusations of racial profiling that have come from protesters of his special patrols at two Phoenix locations where day laborers gather and in Guadalupe.
“We got other enforcement that we are doing, not just illegal immigration,” he said. “That’s just a small part of our operation… We stop everybody. I’m an equal opportunity guy. I lock up everybody.”
Arpaio said he was not surprised to learn that he has the backing of Matthew Allen, the newly-named head of of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Arizona. Allen said Arpaio’s sweeps do not violate his agreement with the feds.
“We know,” the sheriff said. “We’ve been doing this for a year, this is our year anniversary. We know how to operate, regardless of all our critics.”
One of those critics has been Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, whom Arpaio has accused of dragging his feet on signing a new police policy that would allow Phoenix officers to call ICE when they encounter a criminal suspect who appears to be an illegal immigrant.
Asked about Arpaio’s claims, Harris said, “My comment is there’s just no comment.”
Harris said the new procedures “have been finalized, and they will be due out within the next few weeks.”
Arpaio responded, “That’s great. Then he’ll be able to assist me more in enforcing the illegal immigration laws in the City of Phoenix.”
Fewer Border Crossings Show Troubled Economy
March 25, 2008
An Arizona State University research economist says she could see rocky times ahead for Arizona’s economy a year before the real problems emerged.Dawn McLaren with the W.P. Carey School of Business said a slowdown in border apprehensions of illegal immigrants tipped her off.“When the work starts to dry up, then they don’t come,” McLaren said. “And this happened long before our slowdown. It gives us about a year’s heads-up on the turnaround.”
McLaren said illegal immigrants are highly networked.
“The one who has a job here will call home to his hometown and say, `Hey, we need more people on our construction crew, we need more people doing this type of work or that type of work.”
McLaren said as soon as more illegal immigrants start trying to cross the border, “I’ll feel better. I’ll say, `Well, here comes the upturn in the economy.’”
Authorities credit the drop in illegal border crossings to stepped up enforcement and tough employer sanctions against hiring illegal immigrants.
McLaren said Arizona may have a tougher time digging its way out of the current economic slup than it did in the 1980s.
“We had Motorola and we had Intel, we had the semi-conductor industry then that we could say, `This will pull us out of it,’” she said. “We also had affordable housing, we were really an affordable place to live.”
New AZ Ice Chief will crack down on illegals
March 21, 2008
Check this out from Forbes:
Matthew Allen, the new chief of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, said illegal immigrants would be less likely to come to the state if they knew employers wouldn’t offer them jobs.
This is true. I look at the illegal immigration issue as a supply and demand problem. How can we more easily control it? We can either cut down the supply of illegal immigrants crossing the border or cut down the demand on employers looking to hire them. The employer sanctions law attempts to do this by making employers use the E-Verify system.
Allen goes on:
“We can’t arrest our way out of this problem,” Allen said. “No one in the U.S. government - whether that’s (the Department of Homeland Security) or (Department of Justice) - has the capacity to arrest, go out and physically arrest, every alien who is here illegally.”
Again he is right. The battle against illegal immigration will take efforts on many different levels. The police and ICE will be able to arrest some. The employer sanctions law will keep people from coming to Arizona. E-Verify will make it harder for employers to hire illegal immigrants. If you take a multi-pronged approach to fighting illegal immigration you are more likely to win the battle.
Employer Sanctions Law
March 20, 2008
This story is from the Arizona Republic:
A Tucson Panda Express restaurant where 11 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested during an identification-theft case won’t be prosecuted under Arizona’s new employer-sanctions law, authorities said Wednesday.
Can I ask a simple question? What is the point of having the Arizona Employer Sanctions Law if we aren’t going to enforce it? The point of the law was to hold employers accountable for “knowingly” hiring illegal immigrants. If authorities know Panda Express is hiring unauthorized workers, then why not go after them? Here is more from the story:
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said it won’t be looking into whether Panda Express knowingly hired the illegal workers - which would be a violation of federal and the new state law and could lead to a business losing its license if it knowingly or intentionally hires illegal workers.
We already have proof that they are hiring illegals, but we won’t be looking in any more restaurants. Just to add fuel:
The agency did not refer the case to the Pima County Attorney’s Office or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Officer Quentin G. Mehr, a DPS spokesman.
I mean really, who cares?
NY Times: America is Hunkering Away From Immigration
March 4, 2008
From today’s New York Times editorial:
From San Diego on the Pacific to Brownsville on the Rio Grande, a steel curtain is descending across the continent. Behind it lies a nation so confused and conflicted by its immigration problems that it has decided to wall itself off and wait for things to fix themselves. This country once was a confident global magnet for an invigorating flow of immigrant workers and citizens-to-be. Now it is just hunkering.
I hate to write this, but the New York Times is almost right. However, it is the politicians in Washington, not us, who have failed us so miserably. As Sen. John McCain continues to say on the campaign trail, “I got the message,” Americans want the border secured first. This is the message Americans have sent to Washington, D.C. for at least the past six years. Have they listened yet? No. They haven’t. I am not a proponent of erecting a fence across the entire US-Mexico border, the border should have been closed right after September 11th and the U.S. could have completely re-done our outdated immigration policies.
This brings me to the “experience” question. Both Sen. Hillary Clinton and McCain tout their experience in Washington as reason to vote for them. But, what has their experience brought us except for more broken policies? Our immigration policy is broken, our debt is out of control, and social security and medicare are in trouble. What have they done about it?
I’m still waiting for our politicians to lead.
Don’t worry about learning the language
March 4, 2008
Less and less immigrants becoming citizens in Canada are learning one of the two languages spoken there, English and French.
As Toronto’s Daily Star writes:
In B.C. and Ontario, the provinces where most immigrants land, a large number reported using a language other than English or French at work. The proportion held steady at 30 per cent in B.C. over a five-year period and dipped only slightly to 20 per cent from 21 per cent in Ontario.
You can be sure this is happening in America right now. Most of us are not opposed to legal immigration. As Americans, we can appreciate the value of making a better life for yourself as long as you are willing to work hard and not exploit the system. Is it too much to ask you learn the language of the country you are coming to? I don’t think so.
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