An illegal immigrant intercepted crossing the border in Texas said she was treated like a criminal. Well she was, along with others, breaking our immigration laws so that is criminal.
The government of Mexico as well as it's citizens seem to believe that they are part of the USA and can come and go as they please. The past president of Mexico Foxe was very irrate that a proposed bill putting up a fence on the border was being considered in Congress. Now Mexico has to clean up it's own problems of families running the country and making billions while it's citizens go hungry.The country is over populated and can't sustain it's growth wants to push it's surplus citizens to the USA in effect exporting people.The Nafta treaty was supposed to solve this problem but has been a hugh failure. Last year Mexicans working here sent back to Mexico 23 billion dollars it's Mexicos second biggest revenue source after oil sales. Now that is 23 billion not spent in the USA does nothing for our economy and takes jobs from Americans. These immigrants from South America and elsewhere have driven down wages in many industries and in home building. When you go to a building site all you see are brown bodies working there at way less then the wages formerly paid to American workers. The demise of unions in our country has of course contributed to this and that demise came about precisely because of the low wage immigrant labor. These workers, many, many of them illegals, are becaus of their status afraid to join unions as they would need to reveal their illegallity. It time to really get tough on our borders and though I rarely agree with republicans I do on this issue. President Bush has embraced the idea of giving these illegals a road to becoming citizens which would only encourage more of them to come here. I understand that Georges brother Jeb is married to a Mexican woman so perhaps that is part of his reasons for his stance on the issue.
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Today a Bill would mandate nicer term for illegalsBy Bill Cotterellnews-press.com Tallahassee bureau Originally posted on February 27, 200
TALLAHASSEE -- A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents."I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space."She has introduced a bill providing that: "A state agency or official may not use the term 'illegal alien' in an official document of the state." There would be no penalty for using the words.In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, "we don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in Miami, said she politely asks witnesses at public hearings on such issues not to use the term."There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn't label them," she said. "They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens."Wilson said the first word isn't as bad as the second."'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said.Asked if her bill (SB 2154) might run afoul of Gov. Charlie Crist's "plain speaking" mandate for government agencies, Wilson said, "I think getting rid of 'alien' would be nicer.
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Is this the future on our southern border??

The Town the Law Forgot
An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics
By Jeffrey Anderson
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 12:00 pm
(Photos by Ted Soqui)The first sign of trouble for Cudahy City Council candidate Tony Mendoza was a pair of thong panties mailed to his wife, with a note telling her to watch her husband’s back. Then came the phone calls — and the death threats. A political novice in a tiny city of Mexican immigrants that hasn’t had an election since 1999, Mendoza had expected dirty tricks. But to his dismay, the caller, who spoke poor English and called every day for three days, said Mendoza would be killed if he did not leave Cudahy, a 1.2-square-mile city 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. After the third call, Mendoza pulled out of the March 6 race. “I have my family to think about,” he said.Running for council seats against a slate of incumbents in a city infested with gangs and drugs, Danny Cota and Luis Garcia faced similar tactics. A truck owned by Garcia, a former city employee, was painted with graffiti, and ex-felon and Cudahy city employee Gerardo Vallejo sought a restraining order against Garcia for criminal threats. A judge tossed the complaint, but Garcia’s campaign was rattled.In late December, at a holiday gathering at the City Club in downtown Los Angeles hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Cota ran into Bell Gardens City Councilman Mario Beltran, who was perplexed to see Cota, a 29-year-old teacher, hobnobbing and being photographed with Villaraigosa and others. “Who brought him here?” Councilman Beltran asked onlookers, some of whom are friends of Cudahy’s Vice Mayor, Osvaldo Conde, who is running for re-election. “You better watch out,” Beltran warned Cota, the bright-eyed challenger. “Conde will take care of you with his cuerno de chivo.” Though Beltran was smiling as he tossed off some Mexican slang for an AK-47, Cota says he did not appreciate such talk. A witness, Maywood Mayor Sergio Calderon, a friend of Cota’s, says, “It was a joke, a tasteless joke.”Cudahy is a strange little city; some say a scary one. In 2003, city leaders fired the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — which had policed Cudahy for 14 years, focusing on gang and drug crime — in favor of a nearby municipal police force that recently erupted over public allegations of police brutality and kickbacks to police and city officials from a towing company. In Cudahy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized almost 20 times more cocaine over the past five years than in Bell, a bordering city of similar size, and the city suffers more crime per capita than small towns nearby. It’s a city with 200 active gang members, where shootings are common though homicide rare — that is, until 11 killings occurred in the wake of the sheriff’s departure in 2003.Cudahy leaders seem satisfied. Consider the tone-deaf reaction of Cudahy City Manager George Perez in early February, after the news broke on KNBC Channel 4 and in La Opinión, a Spanish-language daily, that the city of Maywood, currently under a $2-million-a-year contract to police Cudahy, was facing a state takeover because the police department — the Maywood-Cudahy Police Department — is so out of control. “Police problems in Maywood have nothing to do with us,” said Perez. “Our city council is happy, and our citizens are too.”

Mexican-style political boss: City Manager George Perez Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote. An uneducated city council, a deeply troubled police force imported from Maywood two towns over, and the raw power of the 18th Street Gang — a complex criminal organization with a knack for setting up business fronts and obscuring underground drug activity — make Cudahy residents seem like hostages in their own city.
There is more about this town but I think you get the picture by the above!
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First Americans not as old as thought
By Steve Connor, Science Editor

The belief in how the first stone-age people arrived in America more than 12,000 years ago has been undermined by a study ofartifacts believed to have belonged to the earliest Americans.
For more than 50 years, archaeologists thought the Americas had been populated by stone-age people migrating from Siberia. But now scientists have discovered that the artifacts are not as old as once thought and that the people who they belonged to could not have been the first Americans.
The study focuses on the bones and stone tools of the Clovis people, who are named after a town in New Mexico where archaeologists unearthed the distinctive artifacts in 1932.
Carbon-dating carried out in the 1960s found the remains were some 11,500 years old, but a new study using more sophisticated techniques puts the date nearer to 11,000 years ago.
This date would make it impossible for the Clovis to have moved down from Alaska to Chile within a few hundred years - which they would have had to do if they were the progenitors of all native Americans
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