Idaho lawmakers want out of SPP

Resolution urges Congress to use 'all efforts, energies and diligence'

Lawmakers in Idaho have approved a "joint memorial" that urges the U.S. Congress to use "all efforts, energies and diligence" to get the United States out of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a multinational plan that opponents believe is being used to blend the U.S., Mexico and Canada. By Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily.com, March 25, 2007

Illegals to sue imprisoned deputy sheriff

Mexicans say civil rights violated when injured during escape from officer

In a case eerily reminiscent of the controversial jailing of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos while the illegal-alien drug-smuggler they wounded went free, two illegal aliens are now suing imprisoned Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez for injuries from shell fragments that struck them as the officer shot at the tires of a van in which they escaped from a routine traffic stop. By Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, March 24, 2007.

Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes

Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2007

Mexican Hit Team Gets Another Cop

Texas Sheriff Goes To Prison

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- March 19

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Bush hears from Mexican president that U.S. needs to do more

President Bush, working to rebuild strained U.S.-Mexico relations, promised Tuesday he would do his best to get a deeply divided U.S. Congress to change American immigration policies that are hated south of the border.

“My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderón in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven. SignOnSanDiego.com, March 13, 2007

Gang crackdown raises touchy issue

Questioning suspects' immigration status has been taboo for L.A. police. But the results of jail screenings revive calls to relax that policy.

A spot check by federal agents has identified 59 street gang members in Southern California jails who are illegal immigrants subject to deportation, sparking a debate about the role of border enforcement in the region's battle against violent gangs. latimes.com, March 10, 2007

Hispanic workers' lead U.S. job growth

Construction is key industry for rise in Oregon and nation

Hispanics make up 13.6 percent of the U.S. employment population but accounted for 36.7 percent of the 2006 U.S. job growth, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
StatesmanJournal.com, March 11, 2007

Eagle Forum working with legislators to halt globalists' plans

A dozen states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a "North American Union," or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure.
WorldNetDaily.com, March 9, 2007

Sheriff sees pattern in border agents' cases

A Texas sheriff says a 2001 case against another U.S. Border Patrol agent set the pattern that was used by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in his recent cases against Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who now are serving prison terms for shooting at a drug smuggler fleeing back into Mexico, as well as Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez. by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, March 6, 2007

Corsi co-hosts Liddy show on border agents today

It will be an all-star lineup today when U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., join National Border Patrol Council chief T.J. Bonner, Rocksprings, Texas, Sheriff Don Letsinger, Andy Ramirez of Friends of the Border Patrol and others for a three-hour discussion on the court cases against former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. WorldNetDaily.com, March 7, 2007

Bush in a quandary over border agents' case

WASHINGTON — For weeks, defenders of the two former Border Patrol agents imprisoned for shooting a Mexican drug trafficker have bombarded the White House with calls, e-mails and petitions.
Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau, March 3, 2007

Hiring illegals trumps law, agent alleges

An illegal alien involved in a traffic accident that killed a 64-year-old Kentucky woman probably was driving that night ­ instead of back in his own country through a deportation ­ because of political pressure local farmers applied to the county jailer, a federal agent has told WND.
WorldNetDaily.com, February 24, 2007

Feds Push Border Patrol Over The Borderline

Their task of securing our nation's borders is perilous. They do not need the additional stress of being concerned about being persecuted by the very government they protect. Yet, there is more and more evidence that persecute seems to be an appropriate description for what is happening to Border Patrol Agents (BPA) along the U.S.-Mexican border.
By: Michael P. Tremoglie, The Bulletin, 03/02/2007