Dear Members (click links for full articles) 1. A Letter to the Editor - you may find interesting just a FYI - somewhat off topic http://www.examiner.com/christianity-culture-in-fort-worth/what-has-america-become-by-ken-huber-of-tawas-city ******************************************** The Chamber of Commerce and the Obama Administration is now going after AZ for it's Employer Sanctions Law which is meant to curtail employment of illegal aliens and promote the hiring of American Citizens When will the attacks against a State (AZ) for enforcing the law ....end. - This should be interesting Ruthie 2. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/05/20101205legal-arizona-workers-act-questioned.htmlSupreme Court to look at Arizona's employer-sanctions lawArizona again will be in the national spotlight regarding illegal immigration when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday on whether the state can punish employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers. At issue is the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, commonly called the employer-sanctions law, which was among the first in which a state tried to assume control of what previously had been strictly a federal function. The landmark has withstood challenges in U.S. District Court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which have said the law is constitutional. The act emboldened Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who unlike other sheriffs across the state has used it to conduct 40 raids on businesses accused of employing illegal immigrants. Those busts have resulted in 308 arrests for identity theft and forgery, while two employers have faced civil sanctions. ********************************************** 3. http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/11/24/harper-proposes-state-sanctioned-militia-to-patrol-border/ Harper proposes state-sanctioned militia to patrol border By Luige del Puerto - luige.delpuerto@azcapitoltimes.com Published: November 24, 2010 at 8:56 pm Sen. Jack Harper has plans to deploy a state-sanctioned, civilian force to observe and report on illegal activity along the U.S./Mexico border, which would likely put Arizona at odds with the federal government. An Arizona lawmaker's idea to deploy a state-run civilian force on the U.S.-Mexico border could set the stage for a dramatic showdown with the federal government if the Legislature and the governor follow through on it. Sen. Jack Harper, a Republican from Surprise, said he plans to introduce legislation next year that would create a government-sanctioned militia that would be allowed to patrol the border to observe illegal activity and report it to enforcement authorities. Under Harper's plan, the civilian force would be under the supervision of the Arizona National Guard. Its members would be allowed to carry weapons for self defense. Volunteers would need a fingerprint clearance card or undergo a background check to qualify. "We can't afford to have illegal aliens continue to sneak into our state and staying and bringing their children so we get stuck with their educational costs. We can't afford to continue to provide for them in our hospitals and incarcerate them when they get caught," Harper said. "We just need to stop them at the border." The proposal is yet another example of Arizona's attempt to take matters into its own hands, which arose from a widely shared belief among the state's residents and lawmakers that the federal government has failed in its job to secure the border. But the idea of deploying a state-sponsored militia on the U.S.-Mexico border raises red flags for some legal scholars. *************************************************** 4. http://blog.al.com/wire/2010/12/us_fails_to_tackle_student_vis.html US fails to tackle student visa abusesPublished: Monday, December 06, 2010Lured by unsupervised, third-party brokers with promises of steady jobs and a chance to sightsee, some foreign college students on summer work programs in the U.S. get a far different taste of life in America. An Associated Press investigation found students forced to work in strip clubs instead of restaurants. Others take home $1 an hour or even less. Some live in apartments so crowded that they sleep in shifts because there aren't enough beds. Others have to eat on floors. They are among more than 100,000 college students who come to the U.S. each year on popular J-1 visas, which supply resorts with cheap seasonal labor as part of a program aimed at fostering cultural understanding....
*************************************************** 5. Land-hungry Mex thugs end up eating leadBy GINGER ADAMS OTISLast Updated: 7:25 AM, December 5, 2010 Posted: 1:56 AM, December 5, 2010 He defended his home like it was the Alamo. A 77-year-old rancher gave drug-cartel thugs the fight of their lives when they tried to take possession of his sprawling property in northern Mexico, becoming a folk hero in a region ravaged by violence. Alejo Garza Tamez turned his humble farmhouse into a fortress for his last stand -- lining up his numerous hunting rifles in windows and doorways -- after receiving an ultimatum on Nov. 13 from the drug-gang guerrillas to vacate within 24 hours or die. The lionhearted rancher was ready when two truckloads of heavily armed gang members returned the next morning. THE LONE RANCHER: Mexican rancher Alejo Garza Tamez (pictured) ferociously defended this ranch in Northern Mexico from a heavily armed drug cartel in a courageous one-man resistance."He'd told me he'd gotten threats, but he didn't notify the authorities. He never trusted them," his daughter Sandra Garza told Telediario Nocturno. Authorities said the cartel first rolled up that Saturday to Garza's ranch, located about 15 miles outside of Ciudad Victoria, to tell him the house he'd built by hand 34 years ago was on land they needed to expand their cocaine and marijuana routes to the US border. Garza immediately dismissed all the workers on his ranch and told them not to come to work the next day. Then the hunter and gun collector gathered up every weapon he could muster. He perched guns in the windows and doors, lining the floors with extra ammo. And he waited in the dark and silence. It was close to 4 a.m. on Sunday when the distant sound of roaring engines came to his ears. The cartel members drove onto his property in large trucks, toting assault rifles and firing shots into the air. As they clambered down, one of them shouted that they'd come to claim ownership of the ranch, and anyone left inside should come out with their hands up. Instead, the sole inhabitant opened fire. Pandemonium broke out, with terrified gang members diving for cover while Garza moved from window to window, picking them off one by one. The ranch was not taken without a serious price to pay. He shot so fast and furiously that the confused cartel assumed there were several people inside. Dropping their assault rifles, the thugs lobbed hand grenades into the ranch house until the shooting stopped. When the Mexican army finally showed up after the gunfight, they found four dead and two injured gang members piled in a heap outside the shelled, bullet-pocked farmhouse. Unknown numbers of other gang members were wounded but mobile. Inside, amid a pile of rubble, was the lifeless, bullet-riddled Garza, two weapons at his side. The unassuming timber businessman was given a hero's burial last week in his native Monterrey, Mexico. gotis@nypost.com Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/high_noon_at_not_ok_corral_95TSj4qIZSQuVHRTWDVvzN#ixzz17SW79xht Ruthie Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform "Restore Order - Secure Our Border" "The Ruthie Report" 8 pm CST every Thursday |
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