Boycott San Fransisco!

City workers banned from official travel to Arizona

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel to Arizona after the state enacted a controversial new immigration law that directs local police to arrest those suspected of being in the country illegally.

Vacation in Arizona!

In case anyone would like to see the Grand Canyon, Lake Havasu, or any of the other natural wonders that Arizona has to offer, you can get a free guide here:

http://arizonaguide.com/

If you would like to sign a petition, showing your support for SB1070 and Governor Jan Brewer, you can do so HERE.

Another Inigo Montoya Moment

I do not think that word means what you think it means.












Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she is pursuing plans to remove some captured illegal aliens from “prison-like or jail-like circumstances” and put them in converted hotels and nursing homes.

Napolitano explained her department’s thinking at a press conference at Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C.

“Our detention system has some who have committed crimes, others whose crimes under federal law is a misdemeanor, others who have as I said before not committed a crime at all,” Napolitano said.

Bummer, Dude

Gwinnett police nab more than a ton of pot

A drug bust by Gwinnett police in cooperation with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of Mexican-grown marijuana, Gwinnett police said Tuesday.

Authorities found the drugs in a tractor trailer in Doraville and arrested five suspects between July 2 and July 11.

The 2,462 pounds of marijuana, which could set a new record for the Gwinnett police department, was transported from Mexico to a suite on Weaver Way between Buford Highway and Best Friend Road.

Four men were charged with felony drug trafficking: Edilberto Gijon-Jimenez, of Atlanta; Ramon Hernandez-Castro, of Norcross; Gilberty Riviera-Alcaraz, of Lawrenceville and Jesus Hernandez-Gutierrez, of Sugar Hill.

Pedro Mendoza-Lugo of Las Vegas is charged with conspiracy to commit a crime.

Oh, Goody

In local news,



Feds seize $6 million of meth, disrupting Mexican pipeline.
(Yes, just about 2 miles from my house)

The Drug Enforcement Administration seized approximately 351 pounds of Mexican crystal methamphetamine in Gwinnett County in the largest seizure recorded on the East Coast.

Charged with felony trafficking are Jose Rafael Lopez-Jimenez, 34; Gerardo Antonio Urena-Esquivel, 35; Luis Naranjo-Leon, 23; and Hugo Flores Rios, 29. All are Mexican natives (Illegals) and are being held without bond in the Gwinnett County jail.

Although officials have ruled out any connection between this bust and a quadruple shooting Monday down the street from the Buckingham Place home, that investigation continues, Benson said.

****More on THAT story here*****

Gwinnett police seek shooters after botched drug deal

Officers said they found three males inside the house with gunshot wounds.

One of those victims, according to neighbors, fled the house and collapsed in a nearby yard. His hands were tied behind his back and he was shouting for help, neighbors said.

The other two other victims were taken out of the house on stretchers. Their conditions were unknown, Spellman said.

Another person with gunshot wounds went to Gwinnett Place mall with a friend. He was found dead in the parking lot near Macy’s, Spellman said.

Doing the work Americans won't do.

Testimony started today for the scumbags that did a series of home invasions in Gwinnett county.
The mother testified that she was sexually assaulted in front of her infant daughter. After one man raped her, another suspect grabbed her 6-month-old daughter by the hand and leg and tossed her into a crib.

“They asked if was a boy or girl,” the woman said. “I told them it was a boy to protect my little girl.”
She said she later learned that her mother had also been raped in front of her 6-year-old sister.
The robbery crew broke into nine homes in search of cash and valuables between Feb. 25 and April 30, 2004, Fern said. They battered, shot and tortured the men, sexually assaulted women and even pistol-whipped a child.


Bios of Gwinnett home invasion suspects, all of whom are illegals.
Take special note of all the previous arrests. Either these vermin were never deported, or they were deported and walked back across our non-border. Either one is equally likely.


Paulino Gonzalez-Martinez
Born: July 8, 1982, in Mexico
Address: 4350 Jimmy Carter Boulevard apartment 1912, Norcross
Arrested: Friday
Charges: Armed robbery
Previous charges: No prior arrests in Gwinnett





Jose Martinez
Born: July 29, 1985, in Mexico
Address: 1506 Lane Ridge Lane, Dunwoody
Arrested: Friday
Charges: Armed robbery
Previous charges: No prior arrests in Gwinnett








Gustavo Cisnero
Born: July 6, 1986, in Mexico
Address: No address, Norcross
Arrested: Saturday
Charges: Armed robbery and aggravated assault
Previous charges: No prior arrests in Gwinnett







Mario Silverio
Born: Jan. 9, 1978, in Mexico
Address: 5129 Whitted Lane, Lilburn
Arrested: Saturday
Charges: Armed robbery
Previous charges: No prior arrests in Gwinnett




Cecilio Castro Delacruz
Born: July 30, 1978, in Mexico
Address: No address, Lilburn
Arrested: Saturday
Charges: Armed robbery
Previous charges: Arrested on June 1, 2002, charged with carrying a concealed weapon and impeding the flow of traffic. Arrested on Jan. 1, 2003, charged with entering an automobile with intent to commit a theft. Arrested on June 20, 2003, charged with entering an automobile with intent to commit a theft

Gonzalo Ortega
Born: May 8, 1983, in Blackfoot, Idaho
Address: 4350 Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Apt. 1912, Norcross
Arrested: Saturday
Charges: Armed robbery
Previous charges: Arrested on March 16, 2004, charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license and failure to maintain lane



Jaime Carrera Carmago
Born: Nov. 3, 1985, in Mexico
Address: 4350 Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Apt. 1912, Norcross
Arrested: Friday
Charges: Carrying a concealed weapon; driving without a license; possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and armed robbery
Previous charges: No prior arrests in Gwinnett

In Local News

Norcross man gets six life sentences, then 211 years.


Gustavo Cisneros, 22, was one of nine men indicted for a series of nine home invasion robberies in Gwinnett in the spring of 2004.

The masked, armed bandits battered, shot and tortured male victims, sexually assaulted some female victims and pistol-whipped a child. They stole money, jewelry and vehicles, authorities said.

The three men were part of an organized crew that stormed into nine houses in Gwinnett and one in neighboring Barrow County between Feb. 25 and April 30, 2004. The crimes set area residents on edge because of their randomness.

The group's last robbery ended with the suspects shooting a 40-year-old man four times at a Duluth home. The man was hospitalized with serious injuries.

In another of the home invasions, on April 18, 2004, the suspects tied up a man at a house on Shadowood Road in Lawrenceville, then burned and cut his back with a heated knife.

"They were threatening to cut his sons' fingers off if they didn't tell him where their money was," Jones said.

Three women in Gwinnett and one in Barrow were sexually assaulted in separate incidents, Jones said.


Checking the docket for the Gwinnett County Sheriff, I find that they are also being held for ICE, meaning they are illegal aliens. Thanks, Mexico, for exporting your rich culture to the US!!!

In Local News

Drug-related kidnappings on rise in metro Atlanta, says DEA

It seems that Mexico is exporting more of its culture to Georgia.

A Rhode Island man was chained in a basement in Lilburn for nearly a week by men who wanted to collect a drug debt.
The number of drug-related kidnappings has been on the rise in metro Atlanta the last 90 days.

Mexican organized crime is moving large amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the country, Benson said. Gwinnett is the focal point for the Mexican drug trade here because of easy access on I-85 and a large Hispanic population where drug traffickers can try to blend in.

Representatives of Mexican drug cartels in Atlanta are "clashing with each other," Benson said.

His three captors were armed with a military-style .223 rifle and a 9mm handgun, a DEA agent said. They fled but were captured. One man, Victor Abiles-Gomez, 20, hid in a sewer and was holding his breath under water when captured, the agent said.

Charged were Abiles-Gomez; Omar Mendoza-Villegas, 19, and Gerardo Solorio-Reyes, 23, all illegal immigrants from Mexico.

Alleged Insurance Fraud

A friend told me this story last night.

We got to talking about car accidents we'd had. He said that a few years ago, he was driving down the highway, when a car in front of his lost a wheel. The entire wheel came off the lugs and flipped end over end. He hit it while it was flat and it stopped his truck dead. He said he was looking through the windshield at the pavement; his truck was pointing that much down. He came to a stop, and got out. He was talking with a semi driver who also got caught up in the accident. The tire came off of a beatup van filled with latino men, none of whom spoke english. Immediately after the accident, the men were frantically trying to put a spare tire on their van. (To leave the scene, perhaps?) The lugs were damaged, so they discovered they were stuck. It took a while for the cops to arrive. During that time, a truck drove up to the scene and a latino man jumped out. "That guy's going to claim to be the driver because he has a license and insurance.", said the semi driver to my friend. "I've seen this before."

After the cop arrives, he asks, "Ok, who was driving?"

Sure enough, Mr Tardy raises his hand. My friend says, "Officer, if there's one thing I know, it's that THAT guy was not driving. We saw him pull up after the accident." The cop takes my friend and the semi driver to his squad car and puts them in the back seat.

He says to them, "Look, here's the deal. Either you can agree that THAT guy was the driver and get your damages covered. I've checked the guy's insurance and it's good. Or you can say it was one of the other guys and never see a dime. It's your call."

So my friend agreed it was the guy who claimed it was him and got his truck replaced.

Allegedly. Or I could have made the whole story up.

Santa Jesus

NPR has the story of Jesus Cortova. He is an illegal immigrant, who was sneaking into the US. He came upon a 9-year boy, wandering barefoot in the desert. It turns out that the boy's mother had driven their van off a cliff. The boy had gotten out of the crash. The mother was still trapped.
The boy led Cortova back to the crash site. He kept the boy on the road while he checked out the crash. The mother was still alive, but he couldn't enter the van. Instead, he built a fire, with the intent of attracting the authorities.
The authorities arrived. The young boy was safely returned to his father. The mother did not survive.
Jesus Cortova was detained and returned to Mexico.

Lucky Georgia

A new study indicates that most of the immigrants in Georgia are here illegally. It calculated that 53 percent of the state's foreign-born population — 504,000 people — are illegal immigrants.
The analysis said half of the immigrants from Mexico and Central America are in the country illegally and one-third of those from South America are illegal immigrants. It also documented the surge of new arrivals and described its impact.
"The last seven years have been the highest period of immigration in American history," it concluded. "Immigrants and their young children [under 18] now account for one-fifth of the school-age population, one-fourth of those in poverty and nearly one-third of those without health insurance."

FINDINGS:
The Center for Immigration Studies' analysis found that in Georgia:

• 7 percent of the state's total school-age population — were illegal immigrants or the offspring of illegal immigrants.

• 32.9 percent of immigrant households use at least one welfare program compared to 19.1 percent of native-born households.

• Immigrants and their U.S.-born children under the age of 18 make up 13.3 percent of the state's total population.

• The number of immigrants in the state has more than tripled in a little more than a decade — growing from 268,000 in 1995 to 378,000 in 2000 to 953,000 in 2007. Since 2000, the state's immigration population has increased 58.2 percent.

• 39.7 percent of the state's immigrants and their kids lived in or near poverty, compared to 28.9 percent of the native population and its children.

UPDATED:

Investors Business Daily has more information from the same study.

Of America's 39 million immigrants, representing 12.6% of our total population, at least 12 million are illegal. Most, but not all, come from Mexico and Central America.

What exactly do the numbers mean? Well, for one thing, they mean we're importing a lot of poverty — and it's skewing the debate over key public policy issues.

How often, for example, have we been hit over the head with the scary statistic that "48 million Americans don't have health insurance." But the statement is only partly true.

According to CIS, 34% of all immigrant households — or 13.3 million — don't have health insurance. And of those, 8.3 million are here illegally.

They make up 18% of the nation's uninsured, if you count their American-born children.

The crisis of the uninsured, in other words, is in significant part an imported one — one that is costing untold billions.

CIS also reckons that immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71% of the increase in the uninsured since 1989 — a fact that usually goes unremarked upon in the debate over health-care reform.

Nationwide, 40% of all households headed by illegal aliens use one or more major welfare programs. The share in cash programs is actually quite small — less than 1%. But 33% of all illegal households get food aid, and another 27% are on Medicaid.

Again, this means billions spent each year — and that doesn't include the growing costs associated with jailing and policing illegals who have turned to crime or gangs.

But uncontrolled illegal immigration is a big problem, especially for states such as California, Texas, Arizona and Florida.

Together, they have 54% of all the illegals and bear the brunt of the problem. States together spend $20 billion a year on illegals' welfare costs alone.

That spending has become a kind of subsidy, luring ever more illegals to the U.S. Those that come have fewer skills and less education than the rest of the population. Anyone who thinks waving a magic wand over the illegal population and making them legal will solve the problem is dreaming.

"Legalized illegals will still be overwhelmingly uneducated," the CIS report points out, "and this fact has enormous implications for their income, welfare use, health-insurance coverage and the effect on American taxpayers."

In short, they've becoming a semi-permanent, welfare-dependent underclass.

Unfortunately, when anyone brings this up, charges of "xenophobe" and "racist" get thrown around. But that only keeps us from an honest discussion — and accounting — of both the benefits and costs of our burgeoning illegal population.

My Birdhouse

*Stolen from the internet:

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And other birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and within three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be... quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal. Now let's see... our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services, small apartments are housing 5 families, you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor, your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English, Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box, I have to press 'one' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.



*Yes, it's an overgeneralizaton. Tough cookies.

Fun with TB

From the Washington Post

But I thought illegals weren't harming anyone

Atlanta's downtown hospital, called Grady, is in financhial trouble. It's so bad that they are being forced to cut out some of their services.
Grady is one of few hospitals that provide outpatient dialysis. Or at least they used to. They have decided to shut down the dialysis program because they can't fund it. Unfortunately, they are overwhelmed with non-paying patients. In fact, their report states,

"The large growth in patients has led to a system that is overworked," the report says.

31 percent of the patients are illegal aliens. What are the chances that, if these 31 percent were taken out of the equation, the remaining 69 percent of the patients would still be able to get care?

There's talk that the hospital may close completely. Grady officials announced last week the hospital is on course for the highest deficit in history, upward of $55 million in a budget of about $730 million.

Fences? We don't need no stinking fences.

According to USA Today, illegal immigrants living in states and cities that have adopted strict immigration policies are packing up and moving back to their home countries or to neighboring states.
This flies in the face of the liberal bedwetters, who claim that "We can't deport all of them".
We don't have to. If we enact laws making it impossible to work, rent, or own in this country, they will deport themselves.
There are many stories in the news to support this article, including one from Atlanta.

The Hits just keep a'comin'

This morning's AJC has a story on a raid on a dogfighting house in Snellville.

It's got all the usual gore: pitbull-bodies buried in the yard. Rape-racks, blood all over the place. Ten pitbulls were seized, along with 14 chickens.

Those arrested are:

Lui Reyes Esquival, 30

Jose Natividad Hernandez-Chable, 37

Efren Reyes, 33

Mauricio Montoya, 27

All four are being held by Agents of US Immigration, who suspect they are all illegal aliens.

Illegal Immigrant Jailed over Tuberculosis

UPDATE: ICE has determined that Santos is in the country illegally. (Shocking, I know!) Because of his age, he will receive free treatment, courtesy of American Taxpayers, until the feds can confirm that he has family in Mexico to take care of him, or the Mexican government will. It will take months.
Four of his relatives have tested positive for TB and are receiving treatment. No word on the immigration status of the rest of the family.


A 17-year old Mexican, named Francisco Santos, is being held in the Gwinnett County Detention center. He was diagnosed with active, contagious tuberculosis on friday. When the doctors told him, he refused to believe them, refused treatment, said he was going back to Mexico, and went to leave.
Gwinnett County officials put him in jail.

David Will, the county health attorney, said Santos was detained because he is a public health threat.

"He has active, contagious TB," Will said Saturday. "He is at risk of communicating that with anybody he comes in contact with."

Will said Santos is being held under a court order for confinement. He'll stay in that cell until either he starts cooperating and accepting treatment, or a judge makes some other decision at a Sept. 5 hearing. At that commitment hearing, the judge could decide to place him in a hospital with security.

Santos listed his birth place as Mexico. Will said he did not know the status of Santos' citizenship. The Gwinnett jail has two federal immigration agents who screen foreign-born inmates to determine whether to investigate their status and potentially place a hold on them for deportation.

According to the CDC's Web site, in 2006, a total of 13,767 TB cases were reported in the United States.

There has been a resurgence of TB in the United States during 1985-1992. {Gee, what immigration trend happened during that time?} A disproportionately high rate of TB in this country has been seen among Asians and Hispanics, and the CDC is working with international health organizations to help reduce TB in affected countries.

According to the CDC, in 2006, the TB rate among foreign-born persons in the United States was 9.5 times that of U.S.-born persons.

In 2006, for the third consecutive year, more TB cases were reported among Hispanics than any other racial/ethnic population. Among persons with TB whose country of birth was known, 95.6% were foreign born.

But remember, if you want to secure the border, you're a racist, nativist, inhuman bastard!
What are the chances that TB could be transmitted if Francisco, or one of his 'several siblings', cough on my burrito grande? Just wondering.

Street Sweepers

I haven't had a garage sale in a while, simply because it's not worth it to me to blow a Saturday sitting in my driveway, just so I can make $10.
Instead, if I want to get rid of something, I just put it at the end of my driveway with a "FREE" sign on it. The latinos in my community have never let anything remain there for more than an hour.
I did this with a table and chairs on Saturday. Sure enough, when I checked an hour later, the table and chairs were gone.

But so was the wooden "FREE" sign.

Man. Those guys don't miss a thing.

Immigrants and TB...Again

I know, here I go again.

According to the Charlotte Observer, 131 workers at a chicken processing plant have tested positive for TB

the number of infected workers reflects a concern about a growing health threat: immigrants increasingly carrying TB to the U.S.
"It's become more of an imported disease," said Dr. Jason Stout, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University who serves as one of North Carolina's tuberculosis consultants.

Foreign-born residents accounted for 55 percent of TB cases nationwide in 2005 -- the last year for which statistics were available. The greatest number of foreign born cases, 25 percent, or 1,942 cases, came from Mexico, followed by the Philippines, Vietnam, and India. In 1993, foreign-born residents made up 29 percent of reported TB cases.

More than 60 percent of line workers in the chicken industry are Hispanic. And experts say most of the workers probably entered the U.S. already infected.

Tuberculosis Statistics

Nationally, the TB rate among Hispanics in the United States -- 9.2 for every 100,000 people -- was about eight times higher than that for whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
African Americans, at a rate of 10.1 for every 100,000 people, are more likely to have tuberculosis than Hispanics, as are Asians, at a rate of 25.5.
From 2005 to 2006, the number of foreign-born TB cases in North Carolina increased about 22 percent -- from 110 to 134, according to the N.C. Division of Public Health.