Invasion: May 23-24, 2011
Migrants worry remote West Texas area’s residents
Fort Hancock, Texas — Some residents of remote and sparsely settled areas of southern Hudspeth and El Paso counties in West Texas call their area “almost America.” Residents live on edge in the rugged area founded on the south by Mexico and on the three other compass points by U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints. The reason: illegal border crossers, including drug smugglers, trying to elude U.S. Border Patrol agents. (Read Full Story)
Supreme Court may hear case on tuition breaks for illegals
California’s policy of granting lower, in-state college tuition to illegal [aliens] who graduate from its high schools is facing a challenge in U.S. Supreme Court from those who say it violates federal immigration law. — At issue is a little-known provision in a 1996 law that bars states from giving “any postsecondary benefit” to an “alien who is not lawfully present in the United States…” (Read Full Story)
Recycling illegals so they can commit more crimes in the U.S.
The May 6 unsealing of a federal indictment against Manuel Osorio-Arellanes revealed new details about the night of Dec. 14, 2010, when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered on Coronado National Forest land northwest of Nogales. — Terry’s elite, four-man tactical unit was conducting operations at Mesquite Seep, along the dangerous Peck Canyon smuggling corridor, when they encountered armed bandits… (Read Full Story)
Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates
The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that “needless suffering and death” had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions… (Read Full Story)
Alligators, moats and other nonsense
Obama gave what was billed as an important speech on immigration last week near the border in El Paso, Texas. Unfortunately, it was one of the most demagogic moments in recent presidential history. Nearly everything Obama said was either factually incorrect or deliberately misleading… (Read Full Story)
