THEN DON'T MAKE IT ABOUT RACE.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Awsmom! That's just gruesome.

One can't help but wonder WHY 81% of illegal immigrants are of Hispanic or Latino descent.  Why is it that the Latino governments can't run their countries in such a way as to keep their citizens home?

And Gube, you completely left out illegals managing, somehow, to vote in our elections.  (Which, of course, is part of the reason nobody wants to do anything about illegal immigration.)

Free health care?  We do have free health care....it's called Medi-Cal and Medicaid.  And the illegals have free health care too.  Just ask KMC, which is gradually going broke treating illegals.  But it's only free to the patients; you and I are paying for it.

And I'm sick and tired of seeing Mexican flags flying in Bakersfield.  America....love it, or go home!

 by  pang

You quoted a fictional, 8-year old character (Ramona Geraldine Quimby) in my blog, now you're talking to yourself in your own blog. I am seriously starting to worry about you.

Ooooh, now I see... You're copying and pasting from someone else again. You can't respond to me on your own??

Have you ever made an effort to validate the statistics you quote for illegal immigration, or better yet, to find out why those numbers might be so high?? That may be an enlightening course of action for you, and more people might listen to (or read and respond to) you if you did.

riceme validate this.....I would suspect the numbers may even be higher in 2008

gube: I don't have to validate anything. YOU do. I can't even read who the source of your information is. MY dumb a** could make a fancy looking pie chart on Power Point and type some illegible name at the bottom of it and post it here, not to mention that it's 4-years out of date. I could give a shiny nickle if you SUSPECT that the numbers are even higher now. Who are YOU?? And you SUSPECT?? Who gives a damn??

Illegal Aliens are parasites on our economy.............Suck, suck, suck...........take, take, take......

Raids net 32 area illegal immigrants

Nearly three dozen illegal immigrants in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have been arrested as part of the federal immigration enforcement agency's largest-ever operation in California, authorities said Monday.

A three-week enforcement surge led to 1,157 arrests of "immigration violators" statewide, according to officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Of the 436 people detained in Northern California, 22 were from San Mateo County and 10 from Santa Clara County, said Craig Meyer, assistant director of the agency's San Francisco field office.

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 Turn in all illegal aliens....

illegal aliens are criminals that need to be punished..............They rape, steal and rob from the good honest American citizens....Its time to stand up and demand that they are arrested and deported deep into what ever god forsaken country that they crawled out of. With bad economic times on the horizon America can no longer accept these leaches that are law breakers....................Illegal immigration is a crime and as a American Citizen I have the right to speak out against what i consider one of if not the biggest threat to this great country................Be a good and responsible American and turn in an illegal alien today.....

Hey Gube!! Are you saying good old Americans don't rape, steal and rob?  Or just Illegal aliens?  Too broad of a statement. And you should be happy that the Mexican banks are reporting a 12% drop in money sent to Mexico from the USA compared to August of last year.  The fat, lazy Americans have gotten off their arses and starting working again and taken the jobs that they had the slaves illegal aliens do.  Recessions will do that- put people back to work where you get a days work at a reasonable wage.

No awsmom the fat lazy Americans are still fat and lazy.............The economy is the main reason for the drop in American dollars being sent to Mexico.......Stronger enforcement of immigration laws is also part of the reason..............But believe me the fat lazy Americans are still here..............jobs are disappearing every day.........

True ...Americans do rape and robe and steal but this blog is not about American criminals its about the criminal illegal aliens that are destroying and tearing down American values.................If you want to comment on American criminals then start your own blog.....................

 Turn in an illegal alien today.

The illegal immigration population in America has stopped growing, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The center's study of census data found there are 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the United States this year. That is down from 12.4 million last year and up from 8.4 million in 2000.

Jeffrey Passel, who analyzed the data, affirmed that fewer illegal immigrants are coming to America. From 2000 to 2005, 800,000 illegal immigrants were arriving annually. That number has declined to an average of 500,000 the past three years.

"Each year seems to be less," Mr. Passel told USA Today. "If we look at the most recent one to two years, there's no indication of growth."

For the first time in a decade, the number of illegal immigrants entering the country each year has fallen below the number of newly arrived legal permanent residents.

Of course, stricter enforcement of immigration rules has been a factor in the decline. Workplace raids have done their part. Authorities have arrested hundreds of workers at a time, thus discouraging other illegal immigrants from seeking work in the United States as well.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent more than 339,000 illegal immigrants home in the past year.

But the struggling economy has something to do with the decline in illegal immigrants as well. Said William Frey of the Brookings Institution: "Illegal immigrants follow the networks of their friends and families. They hear about jobs drying up, and they decide this isn't the time to come."

The message is getting across.

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS NOT A VICTIMLESS CRIME
Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime.  But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children

It pisses me off when illegal aliens act like victims................illegal aliens are not victims they are criminal..........They knew they were braking our law when the criminally entered our country............They came here illegally and they deserve no less then to be arrested and deported.

 Community torn apart by SC immigration raid

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — When Magdalana Domingo Ramirez Lopez moved to this South Carolina city nearly two years ago to work at the chicken processing plant, she felt at home.

On weekends, the neighborhood near House of Raeford's plant was filled with the sounds of salsa music and the scents of Guatemalan cooking. She would shop with her three young sons at nearby businesses that catered to the immigrants — some in the country legally, others not.

While the sights and sounds reminded Lopez of her native Guatemala, she said she was happy living in the United States — a place that offered a better life for her family.

But those hopes were shattered Tuesday when federal agents swooped into the plant, arresting 330 suspected illegal immigrants, six of them juveniles, effectively shutting down the factory and tearing apart the close-knit community.

Lopez was arrested and could be deported, as her husband was two years ago.

"My whole life has changed," she said as tears rolled down her cheeks. "I don't want to go back. My sons are better off here. The country is so poor. There's nothing there."

A day after the raid, families waited to hear from loved ones at detention centers. Meanwhile, businesses and streets were vacant because those not rounded up stayed home, afraid agents would return.

Just days before, poultry workers visibly filled the neighborhoods around the plant.

The community's transformation was slow but steady over the last 15 years as the newcomers replaced working-class whites and blacks. Neighborhood residents who knew about federal charges against plant supervisors accused of helping illegal immigrants forge documents didn't think the trouble would trickle down to them.

After all, they were only here to give the plant long hours of joint-aching work and local officials didn't seem to mind. That thought was likely shared by immigrants in communities nationwide including states throughout the South, Iowa and New York who have been caught in similar raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lopez, 29, believed she was safe. But she spent most of Tuesday being fingerprinted and questioned by federal agents and a day later was coming to grips with being sent back to Guatemala. Her sons — ages 4, 5 and 6 — were all born in the U.S.

"The whole time I was there with police, I cried. I kept thinking about my sons. That I wouldn't see them again," she said.

She left Central America because she didn't want her family to grow up in a place where she was so hungry at times that she had to eat grass and dirt.

"I came to the U.S. for work. I came in peace. My goal was to help my sons grow up in a better place. Now that's gone," she said.

House of Raeford processes chickens and turkeys in eight plants in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Michigan. The Greenville plant and its nearly 900 workers have been under scrutiny for almost a year as authorities looked into allegations the company knowingly hired illegal immigrants. Eleven supervisors and the plant's human resources director have been arrested, mostly for falsifying immigration documents.

The company has issued a statement saying it never knowingly hired illegal immigrants and was cooperating.

Many workers say they had no idea about the legal troubles or that a raid was imminent.

"We never thought they would come in and start arresting everyone," said 35-year-old Jorge Mendoza, who missed the morning raid because he works second shift. "That would be like shutting down the plant. They wouldn't do that, we thought. The plant is too busy."

Mendoza said he plans to move his family because it's too dangerous to stay.

Greenville County deputies couldn't do much about illegal immigrants because no provision in South Carolina law makes it illegal to be in the U.S. without permission. Instead, deputies who thought they arrested or spoke to an illegal immigrant were told to contact federal immigration officials, said Master Deputy Michael Hildebrand.

Those arrested in the raid face various charges, including re-entry after deportation, counterfeit documents and false statements. All are in the U.S. Marshal's custody and have been processed for deportation.

Luis Garcia, an interpreter in the area, said removing so many people will devastate the community.

"They're breaking families. Everyone is worried," said Garcia, who visited Lopez to see how she was doing.

Lopez is under house arrest and has to wear an ankle monitor until her deportation hearing Nov. 14. She has no money to hire a lawyer.

Her 4-year-old son, Issias, is recovering from surgery she doubted he would get proper medical care in Guatemala, where she plans to take her children to rejoin their father.

When immigration officials asked her to sign a deportation order, she said she refused, replying: "First you kill me, then I'll sign it."

Several miles down the road, Emilio Espinoza manages the Guatemala Restaurant in a strip mall with a grocery store, bakery and nightclub, all catering toward Hispanics.

His usually packed restaurant was empty at lunchtime Wednesday for the first time since he opened seven years ago. Half his employees didn't show up because they were scared immigration agents might be in the area.

"People are afraid to leave their homes," said the 35-year-old Espinoza.

David Wynn said he has watched the neighborhood change around his heating and air conditioning supply store across the street from the plant.

Everyone knew the plant hired illegal immigrants, said Wynn, who added no one wanted to do anything about it because they figured the workers were doing jobs no one else wanted. With the economy getting worse, that's probably no longer true and he worries what is going to happen to all the people caught up in the raid.

"We need to pray for them," Wynn said.

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BUSH GETS TOUGH ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

BUT HIS FLIP-FLOP IS HURTING MCCAIN'S CHANCES WITH HISPANIC VOTERS

Overshadowed by the economic crisis and the presidential race is the United States' recent, widespread crackdown on illegal immigrants, the most aggressive effort to arrest, detain and deport since the dragnet-style sweeps of the 1950s known as "Operation Wetback." Almost every month brings new stories of raids on workplaces - 300 arrested at a clothing factory in Massachusetts, 400 at a slaughterhouse in Iowa, another 600 at a computer technology company in Mississippi. This year there have been nearly 5,000 arrests, 10 times the level of just five years ago. While this remains a tiny fraction of the roughly 12 million unauthorized immigrants in the US, the raids are conducted in headline-grabbing fashion designed to incite fear among other undocumented workers.

These are only the tip of the enforcement campaign. On any given day, more than 30,000 illegal immigrants are crowded into jail cells awaiting deportation. Annual deportations now exceed a quarter million, the highest level in US history. And, as the Department of Homeland Security proudly displays on its home page, 352.1 miles of fence has been built along the Mexican border, and 17,327 Border Patrol agents are deployed to guard what's left.

It's a staggering turnaround for President George Bush, who only a little more than a year ago was fighting for extensive immigration reform, pushing for a new guest-worker program, and urging that unauthorized migrants already here be given some path (albeit long and difficult) to citizenship.

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