Arizona in a State of Emergency

By Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen, November 29, 2011  (PART II OF II)

Arizona is losing control of her sovereign land!

Tragedy upon tragedy, as we add the fires set by illegal aliens that have destroyed our lands! Senator McCain was correct this past summer laying blame on the illegal aliens for some of the horrific and terribly destructive fires that were purposefully set. It cost more than $70 million to fight these insidious fires, and the official U.S. Government response was to attempt to silence McCain.

Why is the apparent official policy of the United States to ridicule and silence those who are trying to protect our state of Arizona? Why are the cartels protected? Why do official U.S. government departments, sworn to protect American citizens, extend protection to gangs working with the drug cartels, and even to terrorists entering our nation from various border entry points?

In 2007, speaking on the Larry King show, former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the coming merger with Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Not only did Fox admit that he and George W. Bush had agreed to create a common currency, the Amero, he also contended that a North American Union is “inevitable.” There is, on the other hand, no will to secure our borders or to enforce our laws. There is a concerted, deliberate, and sophisticated program under way to erase our national boundaries and create a North American Union. Merging our country with Mexico and Canada would be a losing proposition for Americans. The governments of these three countries are not alike.

The gift of sovereignty handed to us by our Forefathers would be extinguished, and we would become subjects, no longer free. I do not want this for myself or my grandchildren!

Progressive groups, radicals of many persuasions, and even anti-American groups are using the cry for “Open Borders” for their own purposes, and not for the concern of migrants. Those purposes include, but are not limited to, undermining our form of government and eroding our national sovereignty.

Many of those entangled are innocent bystanders who become subject to blackmail and abuse by “coyotes,” cartels, human and slave traffickers, and radical political groups who have agendas that reach far beyond the safety and legal status of a vulnerable illegal family. With the recent recall of Senator Russell Pearce, the open borders crowd feels empowered, and they have no intention of stopping until they rid the political and governing scene of each and every individual who stands in the way of full and completely open borders, no national boundaries, and the complete remaking of America into the North American Union.

As an Arizona state legislator, I took an oath to uphold the Federal and State Constitutions and the laws of our land. If those laws need to be changed, we have a process by which people, through their elected representatives, can change them. In the meantime, elected representatives and residents are encouraged to live by the laws intended to provide order and safety for all. There is no higher calling for an elected official, state or federal, than to protect the freedom and public safety of the citizens they represent.

Border Security ranks supreme. Without first securing the border, we will never be able to solve the myriad issues involving illegal immigration.

Arizona is in a State of Emergency. If we want to protect our national and state sovereignty, we must secure our border and enforce our laws. This is NOT a political move or call to action; this is a call to declare a State of Emergency in Arizona to preserve our land, our citizens and their property, and our state sovereignty, with all the means afforded to us by the Constitution of the United States of America.

We are still seeking donations to build the border fence. Please take a look at the “Build the Border Fence” website, and consider making a generous donation.

Best wishes to all of you during this holiday season. Despite the gloomy news on the border, we have much to be grateful for! God willing, we will make some progress on securing the border in the months ahead. The next Update will discuss some solutions to the border emergency.

Arizona in a State of Emergency

By Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen, November 29, 2011 (PART I OF II)

The Arizona border remains under assault. This assault is not diminishing but increasing! Just south of Arizona, Mexico is in a state of civil war. The death toll in Mexico is more than 40,000 lives lost since 2006. Only the Mexican military is able to maintain any semblance of order, and many within Mexico are now even openly questioning “for how long?” In a recent exclusive interview with Newsmax, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said bluntly his nation was at “war” with drug cartels. “Everybody’s trying to deny that we’re going through a war but that’s what it is.”

Graphic photos of beheadings, kidnapping scenes, and mass graves are sent to me weekly in Border Briefing reports. The cartels/gangs have corrupted Mexican law enforcement at all levels, thereby protecting their illicit $12-billion-a-year criminal enterprise. You would think the United States government would be greatly concerned; you would think those in positions of public trust in Washington would spend at least as much time working on stabilizing Mexico as they do on Egypt and Libya. Yet hardly a word is said about the increasing problems and threats stemming from our immediate neighbor to the south other than the spin from Washington that “the border is safer now than ever.”

But to those of us tasked with providing security to the citizens of Arizona and beyond, nothing of substance is said or enacted and, all the while, a war is headed this way. This war is real, and it is dangerous, and soon this war will be fought with increasing measures in America.

NewsMax devoted two months last Spring conducting more than 20 interviews during visits to border areas in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. They found overwhelming evidence that Mexico’s drug cartels have already penetrated deep into our nation’s heartland, and Americans are increasingly fearful.

As Chairman of the Arizona Senate Committee on Border Security, my committee heard testimony last year from many citizens who live in the border area. They reported home invasions, vandalism, stolen property, and a host of other criminal activities. An Intelligence Briefing to a Joint Session of Selected Legislators on November 10^th, 2011, by Zack Taylor, retired Border Patrol Supervisory Agent, and Dr. Lyle Rapacki, a Threat Assessment and Intelligence Specialist, went even further than the NewsMax articles.

These experts reported how “lookout posts” are positioned in key points throughout the desert, and as far north (65-miles from the border) as the City of Casa Grande, Arizona, the I-8 corridor and Apache Junction, and along the I-10 corridor approaching the bedroom community of Ahwatukee. This briefing further revealed that the cartels (and lookouts) are heavily armed with military-grade weapons, camouflage, sophisticated and expensive night-vision goggles, satellite communications, food and water, and organized logistical support. If you go to the Pinal County Sheriff’s website, you can read many reports of drug busts, fire fights, auto chases, and other serious encounters with the cartels/gangs/human smugglers occurring frequently in Pinal County, which is far inside the border of the United States of America.

Additionally, and with as much concern, Arizona has to deal with health issues and trash, mounds of trash left by illegal aliens marching into America. Fifth-generation rancher Jim Chilton has seen his once-beautiful ranch, just a few miles from the border with Mexico, be destroyed with crushed trees and cactus, whole hillsides turned into charred eyesores, years worth of his award-winning conservation projects obliterated – and his ranch is littered with trash, tons of trash, and some of this trash is dead bodies.

Mr. Chilton stated: “I’ve got 30,000 to 40,000 illegal aliens coming right through my ranch every year, and the Forest Service says each one leaves about eight pounds of trash. This means 100 tons of trash. Some of my cows eat the plastic bags that are thrown down, and about 10 head of cattle die per year, and their deaths are slow and painful. At $1,200 per cow lost, this means I lose $12,000 a year in cows to trash!”

Adding insult is the Bureau of Land Management with their insane proposal to shut down target shooting on 490,000 acres in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, and another 1.4 million acres of additional public lands in Pinal County. The Bureau claims shooters are leaving trash behind. It is NOT the shooters who are decimating the desert but drug and human smugglers! The BLM knows this but have developed this ploy to restrict Arizonans from entering this land. Arizona Game and Fish, on their maps, warn hunters that 35 miles north of the Border the land is impacted by illegal activity from illegal aliens.

A Great Example of Community Action by a Concerned Citizen

Good Morning Mayor Winder,

As one who has been helping to gather signatures for the Salt Lake County and West Valley City Lawful Employment Ordinance, I would like to ask you to make e-verify mandatory for employers, not an option.

There are thousands of stories that you could ask the volunteer signature gatherers to tell you about how people are rushing to sign the Lawful Employment Ordinance. 

Stories about how citizens who are in the U.S. LEGALLY can't get jobs. 

Stories about subcontractors who are being underbid by people are in the U. S. ILLEGALLY and so they can't get the jobs. 

Stories about contractors who have lost business because they can't compete with the contractors who hire illegal aliens. I've met general contractors who have voluntarily given up their business license-because they cannot compete and they refuse to sell out the U. S. by hiring people who are in this country illegally. 

Stories about people who are currently working in government who verify that illegal aliens are receiving benefits that are meant for U. S. citizens. 

Stories from grand parents who are concerned about their grand children. 

Stories about citizens living next to people who are most likely illegal aliens with many families living in the same house and who are not held to the restrictive covenants of their neighborhood. (Read between the lines here, cars parked on the lawn, loud music playing, parties all hours of the night, etc.) This causes property values to go down. 

Because several families are allowed to live in one house; that is another reason that people who obey the laws of the land are unable to compete with those are NOT obeying the laws of the land. 

Oh, there are literally thousands of heartbreaking stories similar to this.

These people have hope in their eyes when they see us out there gathering signatures and a chance to make a difference with their signature. 

Interestingly enough--The Compact, which has been widely advertised on TV, radio, major talk show celebrities, full-page newspaper advertisements, with high profile people and organizations endorsing it, has only managed to gather close to 5,000 signatures in a year. Read The Compact here. And these people can sign the petition on-line without any proof of who they are. There are also people from out-of-state who have signed this petition.

Contrast that to the volunteers with the Lawful Employment Ordinance who stand outside in extreme temperatures and who must ask every person for their signature; has in a few months time garnered thousands more signatures than the Compact. And that's without any free TV, radio, or newspaper advertising. That has been accomplished by citizens who care about the future of our state. This is grass roots activism at its finest. These are the types of citizens who make the USA the greatest country in the world.

Read the Lawful Employment Ordinance here. It's all about jobs. To make our country strong, it is vital to get U. S. citizens working.

Requiring employers to use e-verify also helps to discover identity theft. I read stories in the news every day about people who use other people's identity to get a job. Sadly, most of the stories from the past year have originated from West Valley City.

Legal immigrants to the U.S. made the USA the greatest nation in the world. Those are the immigrants who came here and learned English, integrated into society, and worked hard and didn't receive or expect handouts. They also didn't steal people's identities to get a job here. 

Please, vote to make e-verify mandatory. Better yet, follow the example of Washington County and vote to implement the Lawful Employment Ordinance into law. 

Best Regards and Merry Christmas!

Janalee Tobias 

Former BPA Speaks of Dangers Along Boundry

By Bill Hess  Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA —  While many federal officials claim the American border with Mexico is safe, a retired U.S. Border Patrol Supervisory Agent vehemently disagrees.

“It’s more dangerous than I’ve every seen it during my 26 years in the Border Patrol,” Zach Taylor said Sunday afternoon.

Speaking to more than 40 people at the Cochise County Building in Sierra Vista at an event arranged by the Cochise County Republican Committee, Taylor said the Border Patrol, which is now under the Department of Homeland Security and not under the Department of Justice as it was prior to 9/11, has become more of a political tool for those who do not seem to be willing to address border issues as a law enforcement matter, he said.

One of the founders of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, he said agents of the former organization he served are being denied the right to do their jobs as federal law enforcement agents.

This is particularly true when access to portions of federal land along the border is denied to agents not only trying apprehend illegal immigrants who are seeking jobs in the U.S., but more importantly the growing criminal elements involved in a number of smuggling activities, Taylor said.

During his career he worked in the field, supervising “from a truck,” actions involving the agency’s Nogales Border Patrol Station. He still lives in Santa Cruz County and his talk was mainly about that specific area as a major pathway for hardened criminals supporting different drug cartels.

What people in the U.S. have to be wary of is the Mexican criminal activity from Mexico, which is growing in America, Taylor said. In 1952, a congressional act granted the Border Patrol unlimited access to private and state lands from the border up to 100 miles into the U.S., he said.  But now agents are denied law enforcement rights on federal land in the same area and, as many in Arizona know, many large areas of federal land abut the border and continue into the state for many miles, Taylor said.

The Mexican criminal gangs know the constraints facing the agents and that is why many of the federal land areas along the border have become access points for illegal activities, he said.

For Americans to think that Mexican gangs are only a problem on the border would be a mistake, the retired agent said. In the United States, “2,500 cities have Mexican gangs,” he said. Those gangs support different cartels and gangs in Mexico, meaning blood shed is not just limited along the border but also within the heartland of America, Taylor said.

Although the State Department has no direct oversight of the Border Patrol, it has interfered with the agency and other federal agencies in providing the correct information to the American public, so as not to upset the political leaders in Mexico, Taylor remarked.

As an example, reports by another federal agency, The U.S. Forest Service, concerning summer fires in Arizona, specifically the Monument Fire in Cochise County and the Murphy Complex Fire in Santa Cruz County, had statements that the fires were started by illegal aliens excised from its reports on the direction of the State Department, he said, as he held up what he said was a copy of the report which has been removed from official files.

Firefighters working wildfires on federal land have reported they have been shot at during their attempts to put out a blaze, Taylor said. Again such information is taken out of any official federal report, Taylor said.

The people who are crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. now are not the same type as they were years ago, when even drug smugglers in those bygone eras did not carry weapons, Taylor said.

Saying he has twice testified before congressional committees and has escorted members of Congress along the border so they can see the real-world people of Arizona and the Border Patrol face, Taylor emphasized his growing concern of harden criminal activities taking deeper roots in Arizona to the detriment of the state’s citizens.

While he is most familiar with Santa Cruz County aspects of illegal activities, he said he will be studying Cochise County between Douglas and the New Mexico state line soon.

America’s relationship with Mexico is at a point where traffic coming out of the neighbor to the south will create more harm than good unless the federal government stops ignoring the real issue, which is that Mexican drug cartels and gangs do not care who is hurt in the process of making a profit.

During his presentation, he showed photos of dismembered bodies and heads, some of which were found in the U.S. because of gangs and cartels fighting each other over lucrative smuggling routes. “The border has become lawless. The whole dynamic has changed,” Taylor said of what he envisions as more horrific events happening in the U.S.

Guest Column: Call Them "Illegal"

By Jose Aliseda (Texas Representative District 35)

I have been asked how to refer to people who are in this country illegally — as illegal aliens or by a softer term, like undocumented immigrants. I suppose as a legal immigrant to this country at the age of 4, I might have a different perspective from those who have not had at least part of those terms applied to them during their lives. I remember growing up being referred to as a green-card alien or a registered alien, and being somewhat embarrassed by the term “alien,” as if I was a little green man.

But I am a United States citizen now, and I have been a licensed attorney for 28 years. As an attorney, I have been trained that words in the law have meaning and definitions. I have been licensed to practice in federal court for 23 years. I have represented, by court appointment, many people charged with illegally re-entering this country after deportation. In the United States Code, wherein this nation’s laws are codified, individuals who are here illegally are called “illegal aliens.” So it is, for example, that you can have a statute titled “8 U.S.C. § 1365: US Code - Section 1365:

Reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals.”
Referring to persons, things and matters in their proper legal terms and common definitions is very important for a lawyer and should be important for a layperson and society as a whole. This is supposed to be a nation of laws, after all.

That is why, as a conservative, I am extremely frustrated by the liberal political-correctness movement, supported by the “style books” of the liberal media, which is devoted to promoting an alternative terminology that seeks to assert a more positive aspect to negative or undesirable qualities. For example, those who are pro-abortion rights are referred to in some publications as “pro choice.” Or those who are professional political agitators are referred to as “community organizers.”

Make no mistake about it — those political parties, organizations and people who sympathize with, exploit or pander to individuals illegally in this country are using today’s hyper-politically correct culture to try to change the term “illegal alien” to something that does not contain the negative connotations of the word “illegal.”

The word “illegal” is an adjective and means that something is prohibited by law and/or involving a crime. By slowly removing that term — and, to a certain extent, the word “alien,” which also carries with it a somewhat negative connotation — from our nation’s vocabulary and substituting a euphemism such as “undocumented immigrant” or “undocumented person,” they hope to change the public’s acceptance of people here illegally.

I, for one, will continue to use the term “illegal alien” to refer to persons who are unlawfully here, and I hope and pray that American society soon wakes up and rejects the political correctness movement before it blurs all the lines between right and wrong and destroys our country from within.
Aliseda, R-Beeville, represents District 35 in the Texas House of Representatives.

Havoc Caused by Mexican Labor Gangs

Corrupt Mexican Construction Gangs Steals Millions in Texas

20 Sep 2011 By Greg Groogan Reporter

HOUSTON - These days, it's just something you rarely, if ever, see: African-Americans laboring within the largely Hispanic construction crews working the Gulf Coast's heavy industrial projects.

Ricardo Charles says he knows exactly why and after 33 years in the building trade, he's blowing the whistle.  Charles says those who run organized, largely Hispanic crews almost never hire willing African-American laborers.

"Oh no, blacks they are out of the question. Blacks are out of the question. Nobody wants a black person in there," Charles insisted, a Mexican-American man.  The practice of rejecting black labor is deeply entrenched discrimination which extends to white workers as well, Charles says.

These men and women are effectively cut off from decent-paying construction jobs by secretive Mexican labor gangs.  "They are afraid that white people are not going to put up with their unethical acts," Charles explained.

He's talking about bribes. They call it "Mordida" in Mexico, the bite.  "This is actually just like in Mexico. It's not how much you know, it's who you know," Charles said.

For years, on nearly every major industrial construction site in Texas, workers have been quietly forced to pay the leaders of Mexican labor gangs hundreds of dollars up front just to obtain a job.  With each weekly pay-check, the kick backs from workers to gang leaders continue.

"It's not only how much you pay to go in. You pay anything from $50 to $70 a week while you are in the project," Charles insisted.  Anyone who objects to paying the price is quickly isolated and almost as rapidly cut loose from the job without cause.

"They have these groups that are going to harass you, they want to insult you, degrade you. They want to make it very, very hard on you. They want to make false accusations about you: that you don't know how to do the job, you don't know how to talk to them, but they are all in the same conspiracy. It is a gang, like organized crime," Charles said.

Over dozens of years and hundreds of sites across Texas, including the giant petrochemical complex in Port Arthur, he says Mexican construction cliques have muscled honest workers out of millions of dollars.

Money that's made gang bosses rich.

"Everybody knows. Yes, many people know that you have to belong to a clique in order to work. Mexicans exploiting Mexicans and contractors looking the other way," he said.

Why Americans Will Not do Dirty Jobs

Dirty Jobs Don't Have to be Lousy Jobsl

November 25, 2011

“Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs” is the presumptuous headline on a Bloomberg Businessweek cover. The subject is Alabama’s new no-tolerance policy toward illegal immigrants and the people who hire them.

As expected, the law has caused an exodus of undocumented workers from Alabama, depriving fish-processors, farmers and other businesses of hands willing to perform killer work at minimum wage.
As expected, the employers are complaining that Americans won’t do dirty jobs.

The politics of this are all mixed up. A modern liberal might say: “See? American business needs undocumented workers. Serves you xenophobes right.” An old-fashioned liberal might respond, “Serves you right for paying folks only $7.25 an hour to stand and cut catfish for 10 hours.”

Some conservatives would complain, “While businesses profit off illegal immigration, its social costs get dropped on us taxpayers.” Other conservatives would agree with modern liberals, but avoid the truth that their agenda is not diversity but cheap labor.

This is a complex matter, and to portray the Alabama law as being all about prejudice against brown-skinned foreigners is unfair. What usually goes unsaid is that tolerating illegal labor forces also has racist consequences. It depresses pay and working conditioning for low-skilled African-Americans, who then get accused of laziness for refusing backbreaking work at basement-scraping wages.
Worse, it has put certain jobs off-limits altogether to the native-born and established immigrants — virtually closing many fields and factories to a conventional workforce.

“Some employers have begun to reorganize work in ways that systematically exclude certain native-born workers, especially those under the age of 35,” according to a study at Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies (the authors are Andrew Sum, Paul Harrington and Ishwar Khatiwada). The pay and conditions often don’t meet basic labor standards. The jobs are frequently off the books, and the work paid in cash.

Alabama officials say shutting down this parallel labor market is an objective of the law. “I don’t consider this a labor shortage,” Tom Surtees, Alabama’s director of industrial relations, told Businessweek.

He went on: “We’re transitioning from a business model. Whether an employer in agriculture used migrant workers, or whether it’s another industry that used illegal immigrants, they had a business model, and that business model is going to have to change.”

Here’s an example of said business model: A Guatemalan field hand told Businessweek that migrants like him made about $60 for 11 hours of nonstop toil under the hot Alabama sun. Treating the tomato pickers as beasts of burden, the farm pays by the 25-pound basket, rather than by the hour. Surely that work can be done in shorter shifts and paid on a per-hour basis.

As Surtees notes, Alabamians are happy to do brute work in sweltering steel mills because they are offered decent wages and benefits.

Where the Alabama law goes wrong is in assuming that it can change the business model at the state level. Catfish processors in Alabama have to compete with catfish processors in Mississippi and Arkansas, who don’t have such tough restrictions on using lower-cost illegal labor.
The Alabama employers will add, “And what about China?” Low-wage countries have invaded the U.S. catfish market. They, too, have a point.

But go through the aisles of Walmart. The coffeemakers, sweatshirts and bicycles — all once part of mighty American industries — are also made in China. What makes catfish special?

A healthy U.S. labor market clearly has many moving parts, of which immigration will remain one. But replacing low-skilled domestic workers with illegal ones is insane labor policy.

And “Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs” is a pretend answer to a phony question.

Misplaced Compassion is Not Compassion

AMERICA WON’T ACCEPT ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY

Mark Lowry American Chronicle Part IV of IV

Americans have been polite. We have demonstrated class, character, compassion, kindness and giving that separates America from all other countries. Invading Mexicans are party crashing visitors in our home who don’t flush after using the toilet and complain they don’t like the free toilet paper’s rough texture while they shove two extra rolls in their pockets for future use.   We are the most: liberal in legal immigration in the world, giving of international aid, supportive in crisis, and caring for the world’s downtrodden masses and quickest to defend the weak. There is however a limit to abuse of our compassion.

America is a special place, a melting pot of diverse communities, races, and heritages that came together to form a most unique social fabric with common love for our country and broad freedoms we cherish. Americans are more than willing to share that greatness with newcomers but on American terms, not those of some invading bully from Mexico or international corporate terrorists.

There is a boundary to the abuse we will take that can not be crossed without great anxiety, trepidation and dire consequences. That boundary was crossed just like the Mexican military has crossed our border with drug traffickers almost 300 times in the last decade.  Ungrateful demanding invading Mexican populations disgraced America’s flag in our streets and schools while our treasonous leaders stood idly by and did nothing. Our many grievances have been made known to our representatives and they continue to refuse to honor our will.

Foreign invaders illegally living off American’s good graces have no right to disrespect their host country and desecrate the flag Americans have fought and died for over 200 years. They spit upon it; threw it to the ground and cheered as they disgraced memory of everyone who protected and are still protecting that flag and this land while they demand more handouts and rights.

A similar invasion by any other country and comparable demonstrations would lead to war between America and the invading country. War would be immediate if Communist China or Iran chooses to do what Mexico has done with help of corrupt American politicians. We have no leadership in this country that recognizes serious nature of these events shaping America’s future and possible destruction.  

We are approaching the end of American patience. There is no room for compromise. Nothing will assuage the American public short of withdrawal of all foreign invaders from our beloved land. America can not afford more time before laws of the land are enforced. America can, on our terms, and based on American needs not corporate greed, allow citizens of all nations’ opportunity to become members of this great social experiment but only if they embrace a new heritage and new beginning in the most special country of the world. We demand unity, duty and service citizenship not benefits citizenship dictated by corrupt politicians, corporate global terrorists, and foreign governments.

We demand respect for America and American citizens. We demand no Amnesty. We demand no Amnesty for our children.

They deserve a better future than what you have planned for them.