MEXICAN NARCO-PARAMILITARY RIGHTS

If you are buying large quantities of automatic weapons along the southern border for the purpose of arming the Mexican drug cartel, you're in luck. 
 
The House voted to block the administration's attempt at implementing a mechanism to give the Fed the authority to track and catch gunrunners to Mexico. I know, it's one of the last items we make and export. So what gives?
 

Reports all over the internet confirm that the NRA was firmly opposed to restricting this export. I'm guessing they are protecting the Mexican 2nd Amendment too. Wait, do they have the same amendments?
 

Here's the point you're all going to love. This vote actually got bi-partisan support  and it was lumped in with all the other spending measures to keep the Gubmint runnin until September.

Now, you might think of Oklahoma as the source for such an amendment, but from a Democratic Congressman? Not so much. Enter: Dan Boren. Soon to be ex-Congressman of course. Once the DCCC gets done with him. 
His proposal  prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from using federal money to require licensed firearm dealers to report multiple sales of assault weapons.  
 

About 35K people, [men, women & children] have been killed in Mexico since President Calderon took office. His administration implemented a sustained effort to eliminate violent drug-trafficking cartels. Bloodshed along the border is the result. To help with Calderon's effort, the Obama Administration proposed the rule requiring the 9,000 dealers just north of the border to alert authorities when they sell within five consecutive business days two or more semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable magazines. Colderon is in favor of the proposal. 

Colderon is well aware that 65K of the guns recovered at village slaughters were traced back to US gun dealers. I'm expecting someone from the NRA to give us a good reason as to why we should ignore this mass sale phenomenon along the border. That clarification should come in the comments below.
There's a war going on right here on our continent and the main stream press is missing it entirely. You know it and I know it. When the CIA sanctioned arms sales in the 80's for human trade, the public went wild. Now we are simply ignoring the obvious because the task of securing the border is too great and we are embarrassed that the "war on drugs" has failed.
Making the access to semi-automatic WMDs more difficult to the Mexican Drug Cartel should be the minimum we do. 
 

The Senate must send this back to the House for repair.

SANCTUARY CITIES: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

A few weeks ago, in a land far, far away, Mr. Bologna, who was stuck in traffic along with his two kids, were shot to death by a 21 year old with a short temper. Sad isn’t it?

What’s sad about it is the shooter, Edwin Ramos, used an AK47 assault weapon in broad daylight. Where he got that, no-one knows. What is truly ridiculous is Ramos is an illegal alien who has been in custody several times recently; Assault, Petit larceny, and drug trafficking.

Why is he still in this country? Well the location of the crime is San Francisco. Does that answer your question? SF has sanctuary city status and does not allow federal INS officials to do their job within its borders.

Shortly after the incident, police arrested Ramos, an El Salvador native and a reputed member of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13.

The case has put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, igniting a nationwide debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Last year, a similar incident happened in a school yard in New Jersey, prompting the AG Anne Milgram and Gov. Corzine to place a blanket enforcement policy throughout the state mandating the deportation of illegal immigrants when authorities are engaged in criminal pursuit, thus eliminating the jurisdiction confusion for the INS and ICE in NJ.

This is the only option that Mayor Newsom and SFDA Kamala Harris can really consider, now that the greater SF public is outraged that this happened almost with consent of the administration.

The victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times prior to the shooting and evaded deportation, largely as a result of San Francisco's self-imposed sanctuary status. The policy was adopted in 1989 by the city's elected Board of Supervisors.

Mr. Bologna’s brother-in-law Frank Kennedy was quoted in the SF Chronicle: "All San Francisco's sanctuary ordinance has done is bring violence and death to this once-great city. We want other sanctuary cities in the country to observe this closely and end their policies of non-cooperation."

The Bologna family, it should be noted, is a legal immigrant family. They followed the rules, completed the immigration process and contribute to the greater society in complete sunlight. Why do I point this out? They are the SF Citizens asking for the change in policy. This makes it difficult for LaRaza to claim racism when the voices of reason are of Latin descent and recent immigrants.

So why post this news article from the West Coast? Because a number of cities across the country have similar sanctuary status for illegals. New York State is not immune to this phenomenon. NYC, Albany, Buffalo and many others ignore the illegal status of those in custody for minor crimes and I have never heard of any such deportation occurring in Ulster County or Kingston.

Of the 20+ Million alleged illegal aliens in the US, 30% are “overstays”, meaning they are documented, but overstayed their visas. The other 70% are ghosts in the system. No documents, no criminal or health history while enjoying the emergency rooms and DSS services across the country. These are the folks who would fail the process required to legally enter the US.

Why? I’ll repeat: health and criminal history?

I have so little concern for the “overstays” amongst us, they are working and paying taxes and eventually get their papers in order. This country was built by legal immigrants from across the world and we cherrish every one of them.

I have issues with those who would usurp our laws on the way in, and provide bodies for the underground workforce which exacerbates the unemployment numbers of the born or naturalized citizens. Do you think the City of Kingston will shed it’s Sanctuary status? No chance!

Mind you, neither of our Presidential hopefuls think illegal immigration is worthy of their attention nor do they care to address it. We are so S. O. L.

BORDER PATROL AGENTS; CLOSE TO JUSTICE

Have you been following this? The Texas District Attorney had pulled out all the stops to convict Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean last year.

While on patrol along the US border, they startled and tried to stop a well known drug smuggler in his attempt to sneak into the country illegally in a van full of pot.

While brandishing what looked like a gun, the officers shot in the smugglers direction and while thinking they missed, they lost him in pursuit southward.

With an aggressive pro-amnesty DA Johnny Sutton, appointed by the president, negotiations between US and Mexico authorities brought the suspect back to US soil, with immunity, to testify that he had been shot in the butt.

Knowing that Aldrete-Davila, the smuggler, had been caught smuggling heroin two additional times during border crossings during the trial, the DA chose to keep the judge and jury unaware of this fact as he pressed on.

Well new efforts are underway to free the patrol guards. They have been jailed all this time, with evidence of physical abuse and family based threats as well as loss of income and self esteem. Petitions have been circulated and members of congress have asked the president to grant a pardon, but no success.

Attorneys for Ramos are arguing for his immediate release on bond because they say the remainder of his prison term is likely to be overturned by an appeals court anyway. Compean’s attorneys may mount a similar appeal.

Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who prosecuted Ramos and Compean, is facing ethics charges. The charges compare him to Mike Nifong, the discredited prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case.
Considering the circumstances, I would ask that he be disbarred from law practice in Texas.

The two officers, Mexican-American US natives, were just doing their job. This particular case takes the whole xenophobe issue out of what is obviously a criminal act against federal laws. Illegal entry and drug smuggling.

If President Bush would simply pardon these unjustly imprisoned former Border Patrol Agents, we could all rest much easier knowing that in the United States, a foreign drug smuggler's word does not prevail over the word of federal agents in the line of duty.

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