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NJ Jury Selection Begins for Trial of Sixth Suspect 2007 Shooting

NEWARK — Powerfully built, with a weather-worn face and menacing scowl, Jose Carranza stood out as the oldest and toughest defendant among the six young men charged in the Newark schoolyard killings.

Twenty-eight at the time of his arrest and now 32, Carranza still stands out, but for a very different reason.

He remains the only defendant never to have given a statement to police about his alleged role in the execution-style slayings that shocked a city and drew national attention. Four college-age friends gathered behind Mount Vernon School on Aug. 4, 2007, listening to music and enjoying the summer night together, were robbed, brutalized and shot in the head. Only one survived.


Topics: illegal immigration, Jose Carranza, ICE, NJ gangs, 

Bachmann On Immigration: Deport All The Undocumented

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) insisted on Saturday night that as president she would see to it that every undocumented immigrant in the country be deported.

Speaking at a Fox News forum hosted by Mike Huckabee, the Minnesota Republican was fairly broad in describing how she would round up and ship out of the country the 10 to 12 million people living here without documentation. But the implication was that she would empower government agents to do the deed.

"[I]t would be enforcement: Enforcement both at the border but also by the [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents. Right now the ICE agents -- those are the agents in the interior of the country who are tasked with enforcing the law -- they are not enforcing them and we also have sanctuary cities now where they don't enforce the laws on deportation. I think that what we simply need to do is to start enforcing the laws which we are not doing and begin the process of deportation," she said.

Subjects: Illegal immigration, campaigns, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Republicans, deportations, illegal immigration costs

Illegal immigration - Sheriff Babeu unthreatened by negative responses

December 3, 2011
Kristen Smith
SanTanValleyToday.com

Sheriff Paul Babeu has recently been called an “anti-immigration activist” by online site Media Matters for America, but is unthreatened by the comments, stating they couldn’t be further from the truth.

Chris DeRose, leader of the Sheriff’s exploratory committee, spoke with Today Publication’s about the situation.

“The Sheriff’s opposition to illegal immigration is well documented,” said DeRose, “Paul is strongly in support of legal immigration, and an advocate for enforcing the rule of law.”

Sheriff Babeu addressed the issue in his own words on his website SheriffPaul.com. There he states that calling out representatives when it comes to the reality of the current state of the boarder and securing does not make him anti-immigration.

Subjects: Illegal immigration, Sheriff Paul Babeu, legal immigration, enforce rule of law, Operation Fast and Furious

1 million illegals could live & work in CA under newly introduced AMNESTY Bi

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others.

Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Democrat, is helping to spearhead the measure, called the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act.

The proposal was filed Friday with the state Attorney General's Office, marking a first step toward a drive to collect the 504,760 voter signatures needed to qualify for the ballot.

Fuentes called the measure a "moderate, common-sense approach" necessitated by the federal government's inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

"I hope this shows Washington, D.C., that if they fail to act, California will take the lead on this critical issue," Fuentes said in a written statement.

Topics = Illegal immigration, state initiative, Democrats, amnesty, illegal workers

Plans for ALIPAC 2.0

Friends of ALIPAC,

Many thanks for the new contributions that have come in closing the gap on our yearly budget shortfall.

We are hard at work behind the scenes laying the plans for ALIPAC 2.0 and it is our strong hope that we will relaunch our new efforts full force after the New Year begins.

Our mission is to improvise, adapt, and overcome.

One of the most important things for ALIPAC 2.0 will be your suggestions and feedback on how to make the Alipac website and operations better. We have heard from many of you with good ideas and we are all ears . We want want our supporters to have maximum input into this new venture...

Justice Department sends Congress 1,400 pages on 'Fast and Furious'

December 2, 2011
Cable News Network
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Washington (CNN) -- An intense struggle among several senior Justice Department officials was revealed Friday as internal documents on the gun-running Operation Fast and Furious were released by the department.

About 1,400 pages that had been demanded by Capitol Hill investigators were sent to three key congressional committees in advance of what is expected to be a contentious hearing next Thursday when Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on the subject.

The documents lift the veil on conflicting views among Justice Department executives, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Arizona U.S. attorney's office over whether and how to respond to allegations made in letters from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

Grassley had demanded to know whether, as whistle-blowers claimed, the ATF was allowing firearms bought by suspected straw purchasers in Arizona to "walk" across the border into Mexico, and into the arms of drug cartels. Grassley had alleged the ATF's surveillance operation lost track of weapons and two of them ended up at the scene where Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered last December.

Topics: Border violence, Operation Fast and Furious, U.S.-Mexico border, ATF
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