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Comment by Charles Ayala on February 2, 2010 at 1:05pm

Patriots,



I am pleased to announce our third annual Immigration symposium. Bring a friend.

Please join us for our 3rd annual

informational evening February 18th, 2010 at 7:00pm

At the Historic Santa Maria Inn

801 South Broadway, Santa Maria, Ca. 93454

“The Problems and Risk of Illegal

Immigration

and

What you can do about it.”



Distingushed Speakers

Alex Alexiev

Mr. Alexiev is a distinguished author on the topic of national security, Islamic extremism and terrorism. He has directed numerous research projects for the Department of Defense and is widely published.



Susan Tully

Ms. Tully is the National Field Director for "Federation for American Immigration Reform". Susan is a former business owner, manager for municipal code enforcement, and president of Citizens Committee for Immigration Policy. www.fairus.org

Please R.S.V.P., seating is limited.

Call for reservations

805-937-7021 or 805-345-5689

There is no charge for this event.

Event sponsored by Central Coast Minuteman Corps of California

For more information email p.james5@verizon.net





Paula James

p.james5@verizon.net

Minuteman Corps of Ca. Chapter

Phone: 805-934-0434

Central Coast Patriots Coalition

http://ccpatriotscoalition.ning.com/

http://icaucus.ning.com/

Comment by TheEarthisNotFlat on January 20, 2010 at 3:32pm

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Comment by Alexander Freeborn on October 15, 2009 at 11:07am

Why efforts to secure our boarders are failing and will continue to fail.

The American Public, news media, and politicians are quick to go on and on about the problems related to illegal immigrants, but of all the discussions, news articles, and political rhetoric there has been over illegal immigrants over the years, not once has the real problems ever been mentioned.

The death penalty and the current programs implemented to securing our boarders have two things in common. First, neither are deterrents to the problem they are designed to eliminate simply because neither has been implemented equally, and to an extent that it makes any sufficient impact. And second, illegal immigrants and murders have no fear, no fear of man, no fear of God, and no fear of any personal loss. Some one once wrote “The man who feels no guilt, shall never have any fear.” If the American Public and Judicial System was to establish as fact that;

You murder someone, you will die.

By all measures of understanding, this would reduce the number of murders in our nation significantly. But because of the enormous division within our American Society, and the drastic effects of Political Correctness, this policy will never be implemented. Simply stated, too many people do not believe in cold hard justice, and the fact that many do not want any one to die regardless of their lack of humanity. The irony of all this is the numerous times those convicted of murder are release from prison, and then murder again.

The reason why any efforts to stop the problems of illegal immigration is because of two facts;

1. Those who do not want to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into our country.

2. Those who profit from illegal immigrants.

Although many will disagree with my statement “not once has the real problems ever been mentioned.” And state that these two facts have been mention on several occasions; the fact is no one dares to examine the very foundation of these two facts because the answers are sheer political poison and would result in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

To provide an efficient annalist of this would not be possible considering restraints of this type of forum, but there is one dire warning that must be made clear. There are people who are meeting on regular basics that are analogizing past, present, and current events, and based on eye witness accounts, and testimony, my colleagues and I have established as fact, that Barack Hussein Obama has fully realized that he has lost the 2010 elections, and must do what ever he can without any limitations to regain the 2010 elections in order to secure his position of ultimate power.


By establishing a Democrat sponsored immigration bill which has always included an amnesty component, Barack Hussein Obama and the Liberal Democrat Party stands to gain millions of new voters, and a minimum of a hundred million dollars in campaign financing. Unless you are willing to accept these facts, consider your actions in regard to the problems of securing our boarders, and illegal immigration a lost cause.

There is a guaranteed proposal being developed at this moment that will secure our boarders, and will be released shortly. But there is a need of members to work on this proposal. I will announce a means of joining with in the next seven days. In the mean time if you are interested, please message me, and I will see that your name be place on the list of potential staff members.

Comment by RooForLife on October 14, 2009 at 7:42pm

Tea Party Against AMNESTY 4 Illegal Aliens Nov. 14,09! http://www.againstamnesty.com/

Comment by Texas Gypsy on September 8, 2009 at 11:34pm

Say hello to the B.E.A.R. — the Rio Grande Valley’s newest tool to fight potentially violent standoffs and manhunts.

Valley Armed With B.E.A.R. Vehicle

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/adage-30357-armed-old.html

Comment by Charles Ayala on August 16, 2009 at 12:09pm

NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - A week-long investigation by U.S. Forest Service Special Agents, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit and Fire Investigators has revealed the cause of the La Brea Fire. Investigators revealed that the La Brea Fire was started by a cooking fire in a marijuana drug trafficking operation.
( Mexican Terrorists )
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit has confirmed that the camp at the origin of the fire was an illegal marijuana operation believed to be run by a Mexican National Drug Organization. The Narcotics Unit has been working in the area within the last month eradicating other nearby marijuana cultivation sites.

Comment by Charles Ayala on July 28, 2009 at 12:46pm

Message from
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
President Carmen Mercer


Freedom is never Free!

My Fellow Americans and Greatest Patriots,

It saddens us that we ask for you all to send more cards of condolences to another fallen Border Patrol agent's family. We know we all have our troops in our prayers and support all our fallen warriors but let us take a moment to appreciate the dedicated work and oath to duty that the men and women of Border Patrol swear to uphold. As citizens we have worked with so many courageous agents who deserve better than going into the dark desert alone.

So we ask that you reach out in a time of need to the Family of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas - they need our help. We are certain that this address is secure and will alert you to any other family sanctioned support fund becomes available.

Please send donations and letters of support to:
United States Government Border Patrol
2411 Boswell Rd
Chula Vista, CA 91914
For: Robert Rosas Family

Keep making those calls and send messages to your congresstional representatives in Washington - we need more agents, not fewer.

For Liberty,
Carmen Mercer
Al Garza
Chris Simcox -founder

Comment by Charles Ayala on July 9, 2009 at 6:24pm

New legislation would stymie efforts to gain control of our border. HR 2076 by Representative Raul Grijalva [D-AZ] would delay indefinitely all efforts to stop illegal immigration at our borders.

Ostensibly, the Border Security and Responsibility Act of 2009 seeks to avoid environmental and community disruption in building infrastructure to secure our border, but the reality is that it would create an open border by prohibiting all efforts to control illegal immigration.

Consider this language: "The Secretary of Homeland Security shall not commence any construction of fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, sensors, or other tactical infrastructure along or in the vicinity of an international land border" until 2010, and then only if DHS has developed and submitted a new border protection strategy.

That's right - DHS could not even put up a camera. Let Congress know that Americans demand effective border control and want it now.

ACTION NEEDED

Tell your Congressional Representative to reject this bill. Send a fax or an e-mail by entering your ZIP Code and clicking "Go!" below.

Comment by Benjamin on July 3, 2009 at 11:32pm

OUR NATIONAL SECURITY HAS BEEN COMPROMISED



By Michael Cutler
June 28, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

I receive news reports from a number of people including a highly placed official on Capitol Hill whom I have had the privilege of working with for more than a decade, as well as Bruce DeCell, a good friend and a founding member of 9/11 Families for a Secure America, an organization created by the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Before we delve into the news article and the obvious success of the agents and prosecutors, I think it is extremely important to put things in perspective.

How many times have you exceeded the speed limit and not been pulled over by the police? How many times have you witnessed some prime examples of idiotic driving and were frustrated that "There are no cops around when you need them?"

I do not intend to minimize the achievements of the law enforcement officials who collaborated in this case and succeeded in the successfull prosecution of 5 outrageous criminals. What I want to make clear is that for every criminal who is arrested, there are ever so many others who go unidentified and unpunished.

I can assure you, without any equivocation, that there are many, many more individuals "out there" conspiring with aliens to enable them to commit immigration fraud and successfully game the immigration system each and every day.

I also must call your attention to a sentence that appears at the beginning of the report:

Prosecutors said it was one of the most audacious immigration scams in the nation, one that resulted in hundreds of foreigners winning asylum in the United States by concocting phony claims that they were being persecuted in their homelands.

Now I ask that you consider the sentence that appeared towards the end of the article:

Meanwhile, immigration authorities must decide whether to review the cases of hundreds of immigrants who were granted asylum through the scheme.

Please stop and consider that sentence. The immigration authorities must decide whether to review the cases of the clients of the lawyers who were granted on committing fraud on a wholesale basis, running what appears to have been an assembly line?

Is this a serious question that needs to be asked?

The attorneys were just convicted of conspiring to commit immigration fraud and the authorities need to ask if they should review the cases involved?

How in blazes could this question even be asked?

Do you think that the IRS would not review all of the tax returns of an accounting firm that had been involved in large-scale conspiracies to commit tax fraud or tax evasion?

Immigration fraud is an embedding tactic of terrorists. Don't take my word for it, check out what the 9/11 Commission had to say about immigration fraud.

An extensive report was prepared by staff members of the 911 Commission that was entitled, “The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel. You can find the entire report online.

Here is a passage from that report that I believe is of critical importance:

3.2 Terrorist Travel Tactics by Plot

During the 1990s, al Qaeda was either directly or indirectly involved in a number of terrorist plots in the United States that partially or totally failed. A study of these plots and how those involved in them moved about clearly indicates that foreign terrorist operatives were being planted in the United States and that foreign terrorist operations were being planned against Americans here at home.

The attempted operations were valuable to those carrying them out despite their lack of success: they gave Islamic terrorists critical operational experience in entering and “embedding” in the United States. Although there is evidence that some land and sea border entries without inspection occurred, these conspirators mainly subverted the legal entry system by entering at airports. In doing so, they relied on a wide variety of fraudulent documents, on aliases, and on government corruption. Because terrorist operations were not suicide missions in the early to mid-1990s, once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.

Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity. It would remain largely unknown, since no agency of the United States government analyzed terrorist travel patterns until after 9/11. This lack of attention meant that critical opportunities to disrupt terrorist travel and, therefore, deadly terrorist operations were missed.

By analyzing information available at the time, we identified numerous entry and embedding tactics associated with these earlier attacks in the United States.

Let me repeat a critical segment of that passage from that report:

... once in the United States terrorists and their supporters tried to get legal immigration status that would permit them to remain here, primarily by committing serial, or repeated, immigration fraud, by claiming political asylum, and by marrying Americans. Many of these tactics would remain largely unchanged and undetected throughout the 1990s and up to the 9/11 attack.

Thus, abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity.

In January 1993 Amir Kansi, a citizen of Pakistan who was granted political asylum committing immigration fraud, stood outside CIA headquarters in Virginia and opened fire with an AK-47 on vehicles carrying CIA officials to work that winter morning. He killed two officials and wounded three others. He fled the United States and was subsequently brought back to the United States to stand trial for his crimes, was found guilty and was executed.

On September 1, 2006 I testified before a field hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Committee at Dubuque, Iowa entitled:

"IS THE REID-KENNEDY BILL A REPEAT OF THE FAILED AMNESTY OF 1986?"

The link to the transcript of that hearing can be found here.

During the course of my prepared testimony I discussed the issue of immigration fraud as it pertained to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill (S.2611) that was, at that time, being considered by the United States Senate. Here is a portion of my testimony I would like you to consider:

"..... A nation's primary responsibility is to provide for the safety and security of its citizens and yet, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, the Members of the Senate who voted for S. 2611 are seemingly oblivious to the lessons that the disastrous amnesty of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, or IRCA, should have taught us. That piece of legislation led to the greatest influx of illegal aliens in the history of our Nation.

VOICES. We can't hear you.

Mr. CUTLER. I'm sorry. That piece of legislation led to the greatest influx of illegal aliens in the history of our Nation. Fraud and a lack of integrity of the immigration system not only flooded our Nation with illegal aliens who ran our borders, hoping that what had been billed as a one-time amnesty would be repeated, but it also enabled a number of terrorists and many criminals to enter the United States and then embed themselves in our country.

A notable example of such a terrorist can be found in a review of the facts concerning Mahmud Abouhalima, a citizen of Egypt who entered the United States on a tourist visa, overstayed his authorized period of admission and then applied for amnesty under the agricultural worker provisions of IRCA. He succeeded in obtaining resident alien status through this process. During the 5 year period he drove a cab and had his license suspended numerous times for various violations of law and he ultimately demonstrated his appreciation for our Nation's generosity by participating in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 that left six people dead, hundreds of people injured and an estimated one-half billion dollars in damages inflicted on that iconic, ill-fated complex. America had opened its doors to him so that he might participate in the American dream and he turned that dream into our worst nightmare. The other terrorists who attacked our Nation on subsequent attacks, including the attacks of September 11, 2001, similarly exploited our generosity, seeing our Nation's kindness, weakness, gaming the immigration system to enter our country and then hide in plain sight among us."

I would also ask you to consider that of 94 terrorists who were identified as operating in the United States in the decade before 9/11, some 59 of them used immigration fraud to either enter the United States and/or embed themselves in the United States once they entered our country.

Let me make this point as clearly as I know how. I certainly believe it is important to protect those whose claim for political asylum is legitimate. A large percentage of my family was slaughtered by the Nazis during the Second World War, including my grandmother, for whom I was named. The issue is that our government absolutely must do what is necessary to weed out the fraud in these programs. Without being able to do this essential mission, our nation's security is compromised and our citizens may well pay for this breech of security with their lives.

Today the administration is gearing up to revive Comprehensive Immigration Reform yet again. Senator Chuck Schumer has stated that he believes that since the border is now secure, it is time to enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

Here is my response to this madness. First of all, the border is anything but secure.

Second, and even more importantly, fraud is still a huge issue for the entire immigration benefits program. Consider how the corrupt law firm operated as noted in this quote from the article:

Supporting documents said to have been notarized in India or Romania turned out to be counterfeit, with some created on a computer in Sacramento, the government said.

If USCIS, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is unable to address the issue of massive levels of fraud in its day to day operations today, what would happen to that beleaguered agency if suddenly they had to cope with an additional ten million, twenty million or even thirty million amnesty applications that would be dumped on the desks of the overworked bureaucrats at that agency?

Consider how easy it is to create bogus supporting documents. Now consider that because we are talking about aliens who have no reliable way of proving evidence about their true identities or their actual dates of entry into the United States, what would prevent a terrorist or criminal from providing false supporting documents that created an entirely new identity for him and provided "proof" that he (she) had been residing in the United States for many years even if he had entered the United States only days earlier?

I can definitively tell you that nothing could be realistically done to prevent this. The 2007 Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill would have required USCIS to adjudicate a minimum of 100,000 applications for amnesty each and every day, in addition to handling all of that agencies "regular" work!

The adjudicators would, of necessity, be forced to operate as Lucy did in that hilarious episode of I Love Lucy when she and her friend, Ethel, worked at a bonbon factory, trying to wrap candy that hurtled at them on a conveyor belt that was cranked up to warp speed. Except, this would not be a laughing matter!

I oppose a massive amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens who have violated our nation's borders and immigration laws for many reasons, but let us focus on the issue of whether or not our inept agencies could even administer such a program. The answer is simple: NO!

To expect USCIS to deal with such a massive program would be as realistic as expecting a 90 year old man on life support to run the New York City Marathon!

Meanwhile it will be interesting to see if USCIS has the moral fiber and intestinal fortitude to attempt to identify all of the clients of the crooked law firm and then revisit the applications that these clients filed to see how many of them committed fraud.

If USCIS was really concerned about the issue of the integrity of the process, they would be seeking to identify and remove aliens who game the immigration system. I would love to know how many aliens are arrested and deported each year for committing immigration fraud.

By the way, I have been told that USCIS processes more than some 6 million applications for various immigration benefits including the conferring of resident alien status and United States citizenship upon aliens via the naturalization process. They have fewer than 700 investigators to attempt to restore a semblance of integrity to the system.

Consider the odds. You would probably face a greater threat of getting hit by a snowball at the beach in August than an alien has of being found to have committed immigration fraud and then being arrested and deported!



The safety of our nation begins at its borders but it does not end there. It is therefore essential that not only must our borders be secured, but that our immigration bureaucracy honor those who abide by the laws and seeks to weed out those who would commit fraud and those who would assist them.

An amnesty program aka Comprehensive Immigration Reform is one of the most dangerous programs our country could possibly implement. In my judgement, it could easily become a suicide pact given the reality of the way that such a program would be administered.



We the People must not sit by passively and allow this madness to be foisted upon us and our nation. We the People must take our First Amendment rights seriously and make it our business to have our voices heard by those who purport to represent us!

Good citizenship does not end at the voting booth, it simply begins there. In order for our representative democracy to represent us, we need to communicate with our elected representatives to let them know in clear and unequivocal terms what we want.

I implore you to get involved! Please make this your New Year's Resolution!

Comment by Charles Ayala on June 30, 2009 at 11:34pm

Independence Day #1 Friday, July 3 @ 7 PM- De la Guerra Plaza
Independence Day Events
Two Days of Celebrating America’s 232nd Birthday

Friday, July 3 @ 7 PM
De la Guerra Plaza
Santa Barbara, CA
Wild West Show & Freedom Rally Starring Buffalo Bill and Friends ~ On stage at De la Guerra Plaza, Hollywood actor Peter Sherayko headlines 4th of July Kick-Off Event as Buffalo Bill. The show incorporates musical performances & retro Buffalo Bill acts and a non-partisan political rally. Appearances by “Calamity Jane,” “Annie Oakley,” Tax Pro Joe Armendariz, Ryan McNichols and others make the evening memorable.

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