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October 4, 2011
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EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, was sending a letter to President Obama on Tuesday arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself, and requesting the president instruct the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel.

The question is whether Holder knowingly made false statements of fact under oath during a Judiciary Committee hearing on May 3. At the time, Holder indicated he was not familiar with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program known as Fast and Furious until about April 2011.

Subjects: Border violence, U.S.-Mexico border, ATF, Operation Fast and Furious, Mexican drug cartels

PHOENIX -- The United States must "get real" about enforcing immigration laws, according to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, an outspoken critic of the way Mexican border issues are being handled.

"The most important aspect and sequence is the enforcement of the law. We're still not enforcing the law, we have to get real about prosecuting all these people," Babeu told Eric Bolling on FOX Business "Follow the Money" Monday night.

Babeu said he is not impressed with the suggestion of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, that U.S. troops should be sent across the border into Mexico to help fight the violent Mexican cartels. The sheriff noted Perry has defended in-state college tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.

Topics: Illegal immigration, Sheriff Paul Babeu, U.S.-Mexico border, border violence, campaigns, Republicans

Friends of ALIPAC,

We have learned just in the last 24 hours of an important event in Rhode Island. The Governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln D. Chafee ((401) 222-2080 / governor@governor.ri.gov), is pushing for licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens at a time when most others are running from the issue.

The globalists want Chafee to come out in the open like this to try and maintain the appearance that there is some legitimate support for replacing American kids in the limited seats in our colleges with illegal aliens. Only in very liberal leaning states like Maryland and Rhode Island can they advance this agenda at this time, and the brave folks in Maryland are about to reverse their in-state tuition law. More on that later.

Right now we need you doing two simple steps:

Step 1. If you are within a two hour drive of Providence, RI, we need you to adjust your schedule and drop whatever you were doing to converge on the event where patriots like us are standing up to a protest supported by the invaders. We are getting notice to you within 24 hours of receiving it ourselves, so please, no complaints about short notice.

Also, if you think whatever you had planned for tomorrow is more important, just imagine how busy running and hiding you will be if we fail and the next batch of 15 million illegal aliens come down on your life and world.

ALIPAC NOTE: All American defenders that oppose illegal immigration need to meet our brave Rhode Island lawmakers for a rally at 5pm ET, Wednesday Oct. 5, in front of the Rhode Island legislative building (side facing Smith St.).  The Legislative Building is located at 82 Smith Street, Providence Rhode Island.  American flags and appropriate signs are optional. Your presence is the most important thing.


By Randal Edgar
Journal State House Bureau
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, October 4, 2011

PROVIDENCE — Two groups with different agendas will be at the State House on Wednesday, one to “demand that Governor Chafee cease and desist” in his efforts to create immigration law “through his own system of Obama-like czars,” and the other to thank Chafee for supporting policies that help illegal immigrants.

On hand to demand that Chafee back off will be six state lawmakers who said in a statement Monday that the governor has “ignored the will of the people” and “relegated our General Assembly to the sidelines” by supporting new in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants and looking into possible driver’s permits for illegal immigrants.

For National Release

October 4, 2011

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
(866) 703-0864 Press@alipac.us

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is pointing out the hypocrisy of New Jersey Governor and potential presidential candidate Chris Christie's support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty for illegal aliens. This while he is bashing others like Texas Governor Rick Perry for supporting licenses and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

Chris Christie defeated Democratic Governor Corzine after making a top campaign issue of Corzine's support for licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens, both of which are opposed by approximately 80% of all Americans, including majorities of blacks, Democrats, and legal Hispanics according to numerous polls.

Christie's tough language on illegal immigration issues, and his public apology, led New Jersey voters to forgive him for his comments in 2008 claiming “being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry wined and dined with Republican donors Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. However, the dinner wasn’t all smiles and giggles. The fundraiser, which was held at a Tex-Mex restaurant, also drew protesters who were angry about the GOP presidential frontrunner’s stance on immigration.

According to the Charlotte Observer, the protesters carried signs with messages such as:

“Say No to Rick Perry’s In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens!” and “Rick Perry – Endorsed by Mexico!”

The protest was organized by Americans for Legal Immigration, a group that staunchly opposes what they perceive as Perry’s “soft” stance on immigration. In 48 hours’ notice, the group rounded up 15 protesters.

“The protest was a big success. We plan on announcing several other protests on Monday. We want to generate an environment where Rick Perry is protested everywhere he goes for his unpopular support for illegal immigration,” William Gheen, president of ALI, told The Christian Post.

“We are going to protest until the chickens come home to roost.”

After the dinner, Perry held a question and answer session with the media. Two men heckled Perry as he was trying to give answers. Gheen denies knowing the two men and says they had nothing to do with his organization.

“Either those two men were overzealous in their actions or they were agent provocateurs hired by Perry to make us look bad. “

“You can’t dismiss the idea that they may have been planted in order to engage in activities designed to make us look unflattering. In politics it happens all the time,” continued Gheen, who has worked on 44 political campaigns.

The Charlotte incident was just the last bump in the road for Perry on Thursday. Earlier in the day he held a press conference in Knoxville, Tenn. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that “two unidentified men with video cameras made disruptive statements about the constitution and told Texas Gov. Rick Perry to stay out of Tennessee.”
Reportedly, Perry hit back, saying he wouldn’t leave the state because “Tennessee is very important. If you look back Tennessee has been one of [the states] that has made the difference – it’s a swing state.”
Topics: GOP, instate-tuition for illegal aliens, Rick Perry, 

The first national poll conducted since last Thursday’s Republican debate shows that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s bumbled attacks on Mitt Romney and ‘heartless’ response to queries from his critics on instate tuition for illegal immigrants has cost him dearly among the Republican primary electorate.

In this new poll, Perry pulls only 19 percent of the vote, one of his worst showings since entering the race. Mitt Romney edges Perry narrowly, attracting 23 percent of the vote, while fast-food magnate Herman Cain roared into third place with 17 percent of the vote. This is the first poll that put Cain near the top of the pack.

While one poll isn’t a trend and it will take additional polls to confirm the findings, the results seem to indicate that Perry’s poor debate performance may have done more damage to the Perry campaign than originally thought.

Perry has attempted to mitigate the damage from that debate by claiming that he is truer to conservative principles, even if Romney is the more avuncular debater.
Topics: illegal immigration,GOP Debate, Rick Perry, Herman Cain

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

In Charlotte, N.C., right now, outside a Perry fundraiser at San Antonio’s Modern Mexican restaurant, the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is mounting an afternoon protest “designed to forewarn the 81% of Americans found in numerous polls to oppose in-state tuition for illegal aliens about Rick Perry’s unpopular support for illegal immigrants.”

The group announced Thursday that the protest was just one in a nationwide series, designed to tell the world that Perry, in the words of ALIPAC President William Gheen, supports the “illegal immigration invasion of America.”

“Close examination of Rick Perry shows a man that wants to appear to be tough on illegal immigration while in truth he is supporting the illegal immigration invasion of America,” said William Gheen. “Our protest today and the coming protests across the nation are designed to warn voters about Rick Perry’s real positions on illegal immigration before it is too late.”Topics: illegal immigration,Rick perry, in-state tuition,

Gov. Rick Perry was heckled Thursday in North Carolina over his stance on illegal immigrants attending Texas universities. Mitt Romney and Chris Christie joined the critical chorus.
Washington

The Texas governor was heckled Thursday by protestors over his stance on immigration at a campaign stop in Charlotte, North Carolina. To be fair, it wasn’t like Rick Perry encountered throngs of angry masses - it was more like a handful of white folks holding up signs saying “Rick Perry: Endorsed by Mexico.” Still, the protest wound up on the local news (watch the video here http://tinyurl.com/692jc2l ), which is not the kind of story the Perry campaign wants to see.

Ironically, the protest - which was organized by the group Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) - probably received more attention than it otherwise would have because the Perry campaign had actually tried to remove a Facebook invitation promoting it.

ALIPAC is now vowing to continue showing up at other Perry events.

At issue primarily is Perry’s decision as governor to allow children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition. The measure, as he has pointed out, had nearly unanimous support from both parties in the Texas legislature. But it is a position that puts him squarely on the opposite side of many conservative voters, particularly in key early-voting states like Iowa and South Carolina, who strongly believe that illegal immigrants should not be "rewarded" with taxpayer dollars.

And Perry made it a whole lot worse when, defending his stance at the last GOP debate, he said his critics don’t “have a heart.” (He has since said that comment was “inappropriate.”)
Topics: illegal immigration, Alipac, 

Texas Governor Rick Perry was loudly heckled Thursday while holding a fundraising event in Charlotte, North Carolina, despite attempts by his campaign to thwart the critics.

Some 15 members of the Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) were outside San Antonio’s Mexican Grill, where Perry held his fundraiser. Bearing signs and American flags, the immigration reform protesters made much more noise than their number, and cars driving by the protest loudly honked their horns in support.

“Rick Perry is the only candidate that signed in state tuition for illegal immigrants into law, ” ALIPAC President William Gheen told local news outlet WCNC. “I shouldn’t have to pay to replace my own kids in college because of someone else’s criminal activity.”

Topics: illegal immigration, Alipac, William Gheen,

September 30, 2011
Reuters

The Obama administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block Alabama's strict new anti-illegal immigration law after a federal judge allowed key portions to take effect.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn earlier this week backed the law authorizing police to detain people suspected of being in the country illegally if they cannot produce proper documentation when stopped for any reason.

The judge also upheld a provision that permits the state to require public schools to determine the legal residency of children. Federal judges in other states have blocked similar state laws aimed at trying to stem illegal immigration.

The Justice Department filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, and also asked Blackburn to put her ruling on hold pending that appeal.
 
Subjects = Illegal immigration, President Obama, state immigration laws, immigration court rulings

The Obama administration is ratcheting up its efforts against state immigration laws around the country, according to a new report.

After suing Arizona and Alabama over immigration measures enacted in those states, the Justice Department is currently reviewing immigration laws in four other states to decide whether to challenge the measures, the Washington Post reported. The immigration measures being examined were enacted in Utah, Georgia, South Carolina and Indiana.

The Justice Department will examine the four laws to see the extent to which the measures interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of immigration law.

Topics: Illegal immigration, state immigration laws, immigration court rulings, Justice Department

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state’s tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home this week, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.

There are no precise statewide numbers. But several districts with large immigrant enrollments — from small towns to large urban districts — reported a sudden exodus of children of Hispanic parents, some of whom told officials they would leave the state to avoid trouble with the law, which requires schools to check students’ immigration status.

Subjects: Illegal immigration, state immigration laws, immigration court rulings, Alabama illegal immigration law

Friends of ALIPAC,

We are very pleased to report that ALIPAC's rapidly assembled protest of Rick Perry and his current promotion of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants was a huge success!

With only 48 hours notice we were able to assemble around 15 protest attendees coming and going carrying some great signs.

We received a great response from citizens who saw our signs criticizing Rick Perry as many Charlotte motorists honked their horns in support.

We achieved a massive amount of media coverage and secured our objective to use Rick Perry's event to warn more voters about his unpopular stances supporting illegal immigrants.

Our message was broadcast on four North Carolina talk radio interviews, reported in both of the largest newspapers in the state and telecast on four different television news agencies out of Charlotte, NC.

September 29, 2011
Amy Cowman
WCNC-TV, Inc.

Gov. Rick Perry greeted by protestors in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Texas Governor Rick Perry made a stop on his fundraising trail in Charlotte on Thursday, but it wasn't his supporters who made the most noise. Protestors took to the streets outside San Antonio’s Mexican Grill at SouthPark.

It was anything but a southern hospitality welcome.

"Rick Perry is the only candidate that signed in state tuition for illegal immigrants into law, " said William Gheen, President of Americans for Legal Immigration, or ALIPAC.

Subjects: Illegal immigration, William Gheen, ALIPAC, campaigns, in-state tuition for illegals, Texas Dream Act

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Police in Alabama are getting ready to enforce what is considered by many as the toughest immigration law in the nation.

Beginning Thursday, authorities can question people suspected of being in the country illegally and hold them without bond, and officials can check the immigration status of students in public schools, Gov. Robert Bentley said.

Those two key aspects of Alabama's new law were upheld by a federal judge on Wednesday. The governor said parts of the law take effect immediately.

"We intend to enforce it," Bentley said.

Topics = Illegal immigration, state immigration laws, immigration court rulings, Alabama immigration law

September 29, 2011
Mike Esterl and Miriam Jordan
The Wall Street Journal

A federal judge Wednesday greenlighted key parts of an Alabama law aimed at curbing illegal immigration, rejecting the federal government's request to block them and strengthening the likelihood that the Supreme Court ultimately will decide whether states can pass their own immigration laws.

The Alabama law, widely seen as the nation's toughest, could embolden other states weighing stiff measures to stop illegal immigration after federal courts curbed such laws in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia in recent months. The federal government argues immigration is a federal matter.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn in the Northern District of Alabama upheld a contentious provision requiring police in Alabama "to make a reasonable attempt" to determine the immigration status of any individual they stop if there is "reasonable suspicion" the person is in the country illegally.

Subjects = Illegal immigration, state immigration laws, immigration court rulings, Alabama immigration law

Janet Napolitano spent much of the spring sounding like a broken record ensuring that the U.S.-Mexico border is safe when the reality is that stretches are controlled by drug-trafficking organizations.

A new federal report exposing the ugly truth about the southern border has left President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary with egg on her face. Published by the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, the document contradicts much of what Napolitano has preached in the last few months during highly publicized jaunts to the crime-infested region.

Remember this? The Mexican border “is as secure as it has ever been.” Or what about this; violence along the Mexican border is merely a mistaken “perception” because the Obama Administration has successfully fostered a “secure and prosperous” region. Napolitano also said that “misinformation about safety” is negatively impacting border communities and that the U.S.-Mexico border is not “overrun or out of control.”

Topics: Illegal immigration, DHS, Mexican drug cartels, gangs, Los Zetas, border violence

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more than 2,900 convicted criminal aliens over the past week as part of “Operation Cross Check,” a law enforcement sweep that spread across all 50 states and four U.S. territories — the largest-ever ICE criminal alien operation.

The arrests came a month after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, bowing to pressure from immigration activists, announced that ICE would focus its interior enforcement efforts in the future on serious criminals and delay deportation cases for most non-criminal immigrants who don’t pose a threat to public safety or national security.

ICE described the arrests as part of the Obama administration’s “ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators.”

Subjects: Illegal immigration, ICE, DHS, illegal immigrant arrests, amnesty

For National Release

September 29, 2011

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
                 (866) 703-0864    Press@alipac.us

ALIPAC is announcing that today's protest in Charlotte, NC, at the intersection of Carnegie Blvd. and Barclay Downs Dr. near Rick Perry's fundraiser at a Southpark Mall restaurant will be the first in a series of protests at his events across America.

This first protest, being held from 11:30am to 1:30pm, will be attended by both local and national media, and is designed to forewarn the 81% of Americans found in numerous polls to oppose in-state tuition for illegal aliens about Rick Perry's unpopular support for illegal immigrants.  

Rick Perry apologized yesterday for calling those that oppose high taxpayer tuition payments to illegal immigrants "heartless."