Reuters – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday sought to blunt political attacks on the Obama administration over a botched gun sting operation, saying that the idea of allowing weapons to go across the border to Mexico came from field agents and prosecutors.
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Democrats defend Obama administration over bungled gun sting
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From the Spokesman-Review today comes a video of Sunday’s annual wife-carrying at the Winter Carnival/Family Fun Day at the Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area on the border of Idaho and Montana, just off I-90: Having been born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and having just recently returned to the area from a 12-plus-year sentence career in the Nation’s Capitol, all I can say is: I love these people .
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Sexist, wife-carrying Neanderthals . . . or whatever
At Washington Post , ” Dozens of Pakistani troops die in NATO attack ,” and New York Times , ” NATO Strikes Kill Pakistani Forces, Raising Tensions .” And at Fox News, ” Pakistan Tells U.S. to ‘Vacate’ Air Base as Border Strike Inflames Tensions .”
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Airstrike Over Pakistan Inflames Regional Tensions
A portion of the bloodstained message left with a decapitated body discovered Wednesday in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo. The man was purportedly killed for Internet postings about drug cartels. (Image source: KLDO-TV)
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Mexican Blogger Decapitated for Reporting on Drug Cartels
“You’ve got to have a president, first, who’s committed to securing the border.”
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Rick Perry on Federalism and Immigration
(The Blaze/AP)- A second unmanned drone to patrol the Texas-Mexico border for U.S. Customs and Border Protection is scheduled to arrive in Corpus Christi next week. Officials announced in July that Texas would get a second drone to patrol its 1,254-mile border with Mexico. Along with another planned for Arizona, the drone brings CBP’s total to six on the Southwest border. The first drone went up in the sky over texas in June. The newer Texas drone will be based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi alongside the existing one, which also patrolled the Gulf of Mexico. It will fly reconnaissance and drug interdiction missions in support of U.S.Border Patrol and other federal agencies. The Predator can fly for 20 hours without refueling, extending by many hours the surveillance capability of a helicopter. Flight crews control the planes remotely. Given the violence across the border in Mexico, perhaps it is only a matter of time before the drones become fully armed– and fully operational. Here is a video that gives a good overview of a similar drone program in effect in Arizona, courtesy of Fox News : Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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Another Drone Heading to Help Patrol…Texas Border?
Imprissoned border agent Jesus Diaz.
AP PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge Friday dismissed Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s lawsuit that accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce immigration laws or maintain control of her state’s border with Mexico. The dismissal by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton comes in a counter-lawsuit filed by Brewer as part of the Justice Department’s challenge to Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law. The Republican governor was seeking a court order that would require the federal government to take extra steps, such as more border fencing, to protect Arizona until the border is controlled. Bolton said Brewer’s claim that Washington has failed to protect Arizona from an “invasion” of illegal immigrants was a political question that isn’t appropriate for the court to decide. The judge also barred some of Brewer’s claims because the issues were dealt with in a 1994 case by Arizona and can’t be litigated again. Court precedent also requires the dismissal of some claims, Bolton wrote. “While Arizona may disagree with the established enforcement priorities, Arizona’s allegations do not give rise to a claim that the counter-defendants (the federal government) have abdicated their statutory responsibilities,” Bolton wrote. Brewer said in a written statement that she wasn’t surprised by Bolton’s ruling. “It is but the latest chapter in a story that Arizonans know all too well: The federal government ignores its constitutional and statutory duty to secure the border. Federal courts avert their eyes. American citizens pay the price,” Brewer said. The Department of Justice issued a one-sentence statement saying it was pleased by Bolton’s decision. The DOJ sued the state of Arizona last year in a bid to invalidate Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Bolton put key parts of the law on hold, such as a provision requiring police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if officers had “reasonable suspicion” the person was in the country illegally. Brewer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her appeal of Bolton’s ruling. Brewer’s attorneys had argued that her lawsuit was necessary to help bring relief to Arizona from the burdens of being a busy illegal entry point into the country. The governor’s lawsuit didn’t seek a lump-sum award, but rather asked for policy changes in the way the federal government reimburses states for the costs of jailing illegal immigrants who are convicted of state crimes. Such changes would have given the state more money. Justice Department lawyers, who asked the judge to throw out the lawsuit, argued successfully that federal court isn’t the right place to consider the political questions raised by Brewer. The judge also agreed with their contention that several claims by the governor should be thrown out because a court rejected similar legal claims in a 1994 case brought by Arizona, and an appeals court decision prohibits Brewer from moving forward with her case.
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Jan Brewer’s Immigration Lawsuit Against Obama Administration Thrown Out
**Written by Doug Powers It’s now a “999 9 ” plan : 9 percent personal income tax, 9 percent national sales tax, 9 percent business tax, and a 9 amp jolt if you try to illegally cross into the US. New York Times : Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally. The remarks, which came at two campaign rallies in Tennessee as part of a barnstorming bus tour across the state, drew loud cheers from crowds of several hundred people at each rally. At the second stop, in Harriman, Tenn., Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops “with real guns and real bullets” on the border to stop illegal immigration. It is not the first time that Mr. Cain has floated the idea of an electrified fence. He has told the story many times of a caller to his former radio show who chastised him for talking about building a border fence, saying that such an idea was impractical. Mr. Cain often says he told the caller that he had recently returned from China, and if the Chinese could build the Great Wall then America could build a border fence. Before we assume that Herman Cain’s suggestion will cause Democrats or even select Republicans to throw even more scorn in his direction, I’d suggest this: Cain could win over many of them simply by saying that in his border plan, the fence would be electrified with power provided by solar panels the government purchased from stimulus-backed green energy companies. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Herman Cain: Electrify the Border Fence
