Fear and Loathing in Prince William County

It’s crunch time in Prince William County. The crackdown on illegals has just started, and of course the Washington Post has picked sides with an article full of complaints and “sob stories of the undocumented.”In the article of just over 750 words, Post staff writers Pamela Constable and Nick Miroff manage to get quotes from two different representatives from the same hard-core open borders group “Mexicanos Sin Fronteras” or in English, “Mexicans Without Borders.” What a coincidence.

To give you some context for Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, the group’s leader, Macrina Cardenas, has been previously quoted in Socialism and Liberation Magazine as saying:

“Our central objectives are permanent residency for all undocumented workers residing in the country and the establishment of legal channels for future waves of immigrants.”  

Today, Ricardo Juarez, one of the group’s spokespersons quoted for this article, takes a whack at County officials and the law abiding citizens who support their efforts “They say this will not be a witch hunt, but we think it will be a silent and gradual witch hunt.”

Read the whole irritating thing here including the part where even though Prince William County has been pretty darned good to Santos Perdomo 38, a legal resident who owns a business and two houses in the county, he’s still mad. “This law has ruined all the good feelings. When I came here 12 years ago, my neighbors sent me pies. Now they look at me differently.”

Did he say pie? I could go for some pie.

Prince William County VA begins crackdown today.

Prince William County’s crackdown on illegals who break the law begins in earnest today. (Let’s not forget that illegal immigrants already broke the law when they entered the country illegally…)

Prince William County is a suburb of Washington D.C.. Naturally, the Washington Post, which never complains about millions in government overspending on hundreds of social programs around the region, is very concerned about how this is going to blow the county’s budget.

While “immigrant rights” groups such as Mexicans Without Borders plan their court challenges, highlighting budget worries has been the media’s preferred means of attacking the measure.

But of course, one of the costs is $3.1 million for installing dashboard cameras in each of the county’s 250 police cruisers so that the county can better defend itself from the inevitable law suits for “racial profiling.” That’s in the first year alone. The county will also be spending more money on “foster care services for children displaced from their parents.”

Read the whole thing here, including the part where County Supervisor Martin E. Nohe (R-Coles) says of Prince William County’s adventure in dealing with illegal immigration:

“We are the national poster child for local government getting involved in immigration. Whatever we do is going to be praised. Whatever we do is going to be criticized. There’s a decent chance we are going to get sued. We can’t screw up.”

We went to the moon with computers less powerful than a pocket calculator, but we can’t build a virtual fence.

After all the fuss and the promises about “securing the border first.” After President Bush in May of 2006 called the virtual fence “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.” We find out that there are so many problems with what Boeing has developed, the project will have to be delayed another three and a half years while the project managers and bureaucrats work out the kinks.

This will put completion near the end of the next president’s first term in office, which almost certainly means “never.”

According to the article in the Washington Post,

“Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president’s first term.

Those problems included Boeing’s use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software.”

Read the whole sickening thing here, including the part where Richard M. Stana, the GAO’s director of homeland security issues says:

“The total cost is not yet known,” testified Richard M. Stana, the GAO’s director of homeland security issues, because DHS officials “do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed, the materials to be used, or the cost to acquire the land.”

Good Lord. Six-and-a-half years after 9/11. Nearly a year after the Amnesty Bill went down in defeat, and this is the best we can do.

Just wait until these same people start providing you with universal health care. Who knows how long you’ll have to wait for an MRI.

An Arizona District Judge Who Gets It

According to a report in the Tucson Citizen, Arizona District Judge Neil Wake has denied a request by certain Arizona business groups to put the employer sanctions law on hold while an appeal is heard. The law, which took effect on January 1, provides fines and strict punishment for businesses who knowingly hire illegals. Businesses who care more about cheap labor than they do a secure border have been kicking up a storm of protest to get the law overturned. Judge Wake said in his ruling that the business groups “don’t have a probability of success of appeal, much less a strong probability.”

Oh, I hope he’s right.  

The Plight of the Undocumented: College Graduate Style

I know I said I would have to take a hiatus from posting, but this one caught my eye this morning. It’s a perfectly idiotic piece by Jessica Chou, a staff writer for the Daily Bruin. The Daily Bruin is the student newspaper for the University of California, Los Angeles.

This is a story about a young woman named Stephanie Solis who’s parents never got around to telling her that she was in the country illegally. Now she’s graduating college from a top program, and feels nothing but betrayal. Poor Stepanie. She had to work odd jobs to put herself through school. It was exhausting. It took her extra time. Waaa.

Here’s a pic of the poor dear looking glum even though she’s about to graduate from one of the finest universities in the country, and a link to the article.

I’ll be back.

You may (or may not) have noticed that it has been a few months since I have posted to this blog. It’s not because everything is hunky-dory on the border. Far from it. It’s actually because I have been working on a book of family history for my grandkids, which has turned into an enormous project. It took me a while to figure out that I just can’t do everything at once, but eventually I had to reluctantly put the blog more or less on hold. I wasn’t even going to mention it, but people do still drop by from time to time, and I didn’t want anyone to think that something bad had happened. It’s nothing like that. So never fear. I will continue to post from time to time, and then come back to do my bit in earnest as soon as I can. 

In the meantime, of course, the border is still porous. Police and right-minded government officials are doing what they can. The open borders / sanctuary crowd is as busy as ever taking everyone to court, and the rest of us continue to suffer the ill effects of illegal immigration on our culture and economy. So it looks like all of this will still be here when I get back. For now, let’s steal a line from a certain political candidate (although he would never mean it this way) and “hope” for some order on the border.  

Prince William County VA “No means no.”

Twelve hours of public debate. More than 350 speakers. Thousands of people in attendance. And when the smoke cleared after 2 AM this morning, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to block many county services to illegal immigrants.

Next stop for the activists, court.

Texas program nets 1,600 illegals in a year. Activists are angry.

In Irving Texas (you know, where the Irving Cowboys play football) a program that dovetails the efforts of local law enforcement with ICE has netted 1.600 illegals in just the past 13 months. The program, called the Criminal Alien Program or “CAP,” allows the local police to turn suspected illegal immigrants over to federal authorities for deportation.

The program has been effective. The total number of illegals turned over is an astonishing 11 percent of all arrests made in Irving, which means more than one in every ten arrests nets an illegal alien.

Naturally, Hispanic leaders are angry and want to kill the program. They have done what they do best, which is to organize a big march to the steps of the town hall.

Read the article about the demonstrations in the Dallas Morning News,including the part where the marchers yell “We are America!” in Spanish, and also where one brave woman says the illegals: “have this nonexistent sense of entitlement, and folks are tired of it.”

Oh, and in El Sol de Mexico, a Mexico City daily which also covered the event, an activist named Carlos Quintanilla of “Action America” (whoever they are), says that in the coming days, several lawsuits will be presented to get the program stopped.

Yep. Multiple lawsuits. The activist’s weapon of choice.

A little piece of puffery in the Post.

In the Washington Post (which is basically the New York Times lite), a little piece on the “Plight of the Undocumented” in Prince William County Virginia. The good citizens of Prince William County have decided, by way of their board of supervisors, to take a firm stand on the matter of illegal immigration; which is mainly that they are against it.

Civil rights groups of all kinds, including “Mexicans Without Borders,” the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Woodbridge Workers Committee (whatever the heck that is) have come out of the woodwork to see that this does not happen. They want the flow of illegals into the county to continue unabated, regardless of the cost to the community.

The big vote on the resolution and plan to deal with illegals is Tuesday. So naturally the Washington Post weighs in today with a ridiculously sympathetic piece that contains one sob story after another.

Read the article here if you must, including the part about Rubin Ochoa Contreras. After living in the United States for eight years he fears he may “not be able to effectively communicate with officers or other county employees and, accordingly, may be needlessly, unlawfully detained or denied benefits or services to which he is entitled.”

That’s right Rubin. Keep an eye on those benefits to which you are entitled.

Trash on the trail.

Why is it that environmental activist groups who oppose the fence because of its impact on pristine lands never talk about this kind of environmental degradation?

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