Border Patrol Agents, already understaffed taken off patrol to construct fence.

From the Washington Times:

Border Patrol to build fencing
By Jerry Seper and Stephen Dinan

The U.S. Border Patrol is asking for volunteers among its agents to help build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Bush is withdrawing half the National Guard troops he sent there last year to build fences.

A memo circulated last week to Border Patrol sector chiefs said fence-building efforts on the Southwest border were going to fall short of Mr. Bush’s goal of finishing 70 miles in fiscal 2007, which ends Sept. 30, “so the Border Patrol is now going back into the fence-building business.”

The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, called on the chiefs to provide lists of agents who “can and have built fences in the past,” adding that the agency was looking for welders, equipment operators and “anyone else with construction experience.”

“They are moving quickly on this, so your sector’s response will be needed back here by noon tomorrow,” said the Aug. 6 memo, which asked that the entire Border Patrol be canvassed for agents qualified and able to work on fence construction….more

Change of Heart on Immigration? The White House thinks it is calling America’s bluff on illegal immigration

Mark Krikorian on the new White House policy to enforce existing laws. HERE from NRO.

People are begining to understand the “why” on the fact that the American president has refused to secure our borders.

I post below a short column I wrote for MICHNEWS.com on September 6, 2005.

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration

Connect the dots on the true goal of illegal immigration
By D.A. King
MichNews.com
Sep 6, 2005

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.” George W. Bush…Presidential candidate, August 2000, in a speech on Latin America in Miami Florida.

Where ever I go, people who are paying even a little attention to the invasion and colonization of our nation ask me the same question: “Why is our government allowing this to go on”?

I normally give the short answer…”follow the money” I say – and hope that it is enough for most to connect at least some of the dots.

Not everyone pays enough attention to do so.

The issue of illegal immigration is closely related to the erosion of United States sovereignty.

Our intentionally unsecured borders and our government’s deliberate and unapologetic lack of enforcement of our immigration and employment laws is merely a necessary step to a much larger goal – a “New America” in a “North American Community.”

A New America that would replace the traditional self-governing “Old America” for which our founders sacrificed and our grandfathers fought to pass on.

In March 2005, President George W. Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada announced the establishment of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America”. This represents the official public beginning of an ongoing series of agreements and implementations aimed at combining the economies, populations and cultures of the nations of North America into a borderless “North American Free Trade Zone”.

Think: “I pledge allegiance to the Continent and to the Commerce for which it stands.”

Along with mass, uncontrolled immigration, legal and illegal, trade agreements are a favored tool in the transformation. The North American Free trade Agreement [NAFTA], the recently passed Central Free Trade Agreement [CAFTA], and the looming attempt to put the Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA] in place would guarantee a unending “free flow” of goods and people across our traditional borders.

While most Americans expect to pass on to their children a nation of law, with defined, secured borders – and a common language, the Globalist elite who are actually making the decisions concerning our future have a far different America in mind..

..Please read the rest here.

The TAR site has been dormant and not updated for more than a year…

The Seattle Times on the effect of illegal labor on prices, from last year.

Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices
By Drew DeSilver

Seattle Times business reporter

More than 7 million illegal immigrants work in the United States. They build houses, pick crops, slaughter cattle, stitch clothes, mow lawns, clean hotel rooms, cook restaurant meals and wash the dishes that come back.

You might assume that the plentiful supply of low-wage illegal workers would translate into significantly lower prices for the goods and services they produce. In fact, their impact on consumer prices — call it the “illegal-worker discount” — is surprisingly small.
The bag of Washington state apples you bought last weekend? Probably a few cents cheaper than it otherwise would have been, economists estimate. That steak dinner at a downtown restaurant? Maybe a buck off. Your new house in Subdivision Estates? Hard to say, but perhaps a few thousand dollars less expensive.
The underlying reason, economists say, is that for most goods the labor — whether legal or illegal, native- or foreign-born — represents only a sliver of the retail price….THE REST HERE.
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The media is now on a full court press to make America believe that we will somehow perish as nation if we secure our borders ( Bush will never secure our borders) and enforce our immigration and employment laws. It is the warm-up for the next amnesty attempt. Below is just one of dozens of stories in the media from the last few days on how threatening to the profiteering business community it is to begin to eliminate illegal labor.

If anybody knows Tommy Bagwell or this Hively person, please convey my disgust and contempt to them? If I see either or both in the Georgia Capitol next session, I will happily tell them myself.

Michael Hively, general manager and chief financial officer of Glennville-based Bland Farms, said illegal workers are necessary to the economy.

“I think we’re all being pretty narrow-minded when we sit back and say we don’t need this illegal work force,” he said. “Let’s face it. It’s a part of our culture and economy. So I think as a country we need to figure out how to deal with it instead of passing laws to put more pressure on employers.”

Tommy Bagwell, chief executive of American Proteins, a poultry by-products rendering business in Cumming, said illegal immigrant labor is indispensable in the U.S. economy for business and homeowners.

“Everybody better learn how to run your lawnmower because there ain’t going to be nobody to cut your grass,” he said

More from today’s AJC:

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.Found in The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Marilyn Geewax
Posted on 2007-08-11

Georgia firms bracing for big headaches: ID crackdown would hurt hospitality, chicken processing and farming, say business owners and economic analysts.

By Marilyn Geewax
Cox Washington Bureau

Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration’s new crackdown on illegal immigration could have a devastating impact on key industries in Georgia, business and legal experts said Friday.

Forcing companies to fire employees whose Social Security numbers and names don’t match government records may disrupt the state’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries, they predicted.

“I think there will be a fairly significant impact on employers,” said David Whitaker, executive director of the Georgia Employers’ Association, a Macon-based organization that provides members with management and human resource services.

Under current laws, “you could be penalized for doing too much investigation,” because employees could sue for discrimination, he said. “Now the pendulum is going to swing the other way.”

Foreign-born workers make up 11.9 percent of Georgia’s civilian work force, Census Bureau figures show, and two-thirds of those are noncitizens, including many illegal immigrants.

The top occupations for foreign-born workers in Georgia are construction, manufacturing, and professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services.

Michael Lucas, who heads the labor and employment practice of the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman LLP, said much of the Southern economy could be hit hard by the new rules.

While the impact will be felt in the Northeast in places such as restaurants and golf courses, he said, the South has entire industries that depend heavily on immigrant labor, such as chicken processing, vegetable growing and hospitality.

“I think you’ll see the major impact on small- to medium-sized businesses,” he said. “This greatly increases the risks,” so they will have to fire illegal workers, he said. Read the rest here…from Jerry Gonzalez’ Websitesite. Thanks Jerry! BTW, again: Do you get paid per illegal alien…or is a salary draw sort of arrangement? We hope the former…

Feds go after illegal workers: Firms face fines if they ignore warnings about false Social Security numbers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Written by Eunice Moscoso

By Eunice Moscoso Cox Washington Bureau Published on: 08/11/07

Washington —- The Bush administration on Friday announced a broad crackdown on illegal immigration, including increased fines or criminal prosecution for companies that hire illegal workers. The rules drew heavy criticism from immigrant advocates, labor unions and business groups. But they received cautious praise from conservatives, who have long advocated using existing laws to crack down on undocumented border …[Read More…from Jerry’s site….thanks Jerry!]

All, for those of you who did not read the guest column in this week’s AJC from U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, I link to it here from Jerry’s site ( thanks Jerry). Below is my letter to the editor at the AJC that is published today. I cannot say it enough, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SEND LETTERS TO EDITORS OF OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, THE LETTERS SECTION IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT ELECTED OFFICIALS READ…OR SHOULD BE.

Specter doesn’t get it on crisis

Arlen Specter is hilarious proof – again – of the disconnect on the illegal immigration crisis between the American people and those elected to represent and protect them in Washington. He clearly does not “get it”.

Americans will never again stand quietly by while politicians reward illegal aliens with amnesty and green cards.

His clueless admission that taking the millions of illegal aliens out of ‘fugitive status’ must be the price of Congress appropriating the money to begin to secure American borders and the American workplace is astonishing. And totally un acceptable.

No one thought that Bush and those in Congress who ask “how high?” when their corporate masters say “jump” would give up on amnesty, but few thought them brazen enough to begin the warm-up process just a month after the American people made their own position so clear.

( text that was edited out of original letter to AJC, I like my version better –Most illegals could care less about American citizenship. They come for the money. Jobs that pay five times as much as at home, free education and medical care in their own language and near immunity to prosecution is understandably hard to resist. The criminal employers want the bargain priced labor at any cost…including their children’s national future.)

That Specter has been sent out to start the amnesty attempt so soon brilliantly illustrates the importance it holds to the Washington elite…the American people be damned. ( End of printed letter)

( Edtited out of original letter – This should be interesting to watch during the coming presidential campaigns…how many ways can a candidate – and an editorial page editor – be for legalization but against amnesty? We look forward to counting.)

D.A. King

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta -based non-profit organization actively opposed to illegal immigration.

AUDIO LINK ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG…a grin.

Lots of information in the embedded links if you have time.

Part of the story so far in Georgia and Cobb County where I haved lived for 24 years:

For those of you who still may not have heard, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529) that went into effect on July 1st requires all public employers ( this year, with over 500 employees, next year, 100, 2009 – any) to use the Basic Pilot Program to verify the eligibility to work in the United States of America – for all newly hired employees same for contractors doing business with those governments with more tha 500 employees.

It is a crime to knowingly hire illegals.

The Basic Pilot Program ( now known as Employment Eligibility Verification System- EEVS) is free and available to all employers nation wide. According to CNN about 19,ooo use it which is less than a third of 1% of the total employers.

Lou Dobbs Tonight: About 19,000 companies participate in the employment verification system, less than a third of one percent of U.S. employers. It conducts about two million social security number checks each year.

Read it here…and more.

Also, SB 529 requires all governments in Georgia to use the federal Systematic Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to verify eligibility of all applicants age 18 and over for public benefits ( think taxpayer funded social benefits)

Cobb County (Georgia) began using both programs far earlier than required by the state law. Many local governments are not yet doing so, putting them in violation of the state law authored by Georgia state Senator Chip Rogers.

My advice…ask your (Georgia) city and county governments if they are in compliance and using these federal tools…and why not if the answer is “NO”. If you live outside Georgia, as a growing number of Dustin Inman Society supporters and friends do…ask them anyway, your governments can do the same thing with the same federal tools.

Also, Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren is the first Sheriff in Georgia to begin using section 287 (g) of the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act to get the federal training to expand his existing and inherent authority to enforce immigration laws. Since beginning the effort July 1st, his office has begun deportation proceedings on nearly 50 illegal aliens who came through his jail for having been arrested for additional crimes. Jerry and friends don’t like that.

We do.

Hold on, you are going to enjoy the pay- off here, I do, and we worked very hard to make all of this happen.

About two weeks ago, the Cobb County Commission, with Chairman Sam Olens as its leader, enacted housing codes that deter multi-family boarding houses in single family homes and neighborhoods. Jerry ( and MALDEF) doesn’t like that either.

Soon, Cobb County will consider an ordinace to deter daylabor sites where illegal aliens collect to work for unreported cash payments that go unreported to that pesky IRS. ( As an American or legal resident of the U.S. – don’t try this at home, you will likely be punished)

So…Jerry was on the a local NPR station this morning whining as usual about the fact that these laws actually also apply to…illegals aliens and Latinos .

NONE of our Latino pals have any problem with this, but they are not making their living promoting and defending illegal immigration and employment.

PAYOFF: Listen to Jerry on the radio from this morning and read what he has posted on his Website. I thought you would all enjoy the grin…I did.

(Direct from Atlanta Radio WABE and GALEO)

Latino Leader Blasts Cobb Commission
Found in WABE NPR Radio
Written by Steve Goss
Posted on 2007-08-08

ATLANTA (2007-08-08) In the last several months, the Cobb County Commission has enacted legislation to limit the number of unrelated family members who can occupy a single residence, to check the legal status of foreign inmates, and to require residency checks of employees of companies doing County business.

Critics complain the ordinances are targeted at the Latino community.

Earlier, Morning host Steve Goss spoke with Jerry Gonzalez, head of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials about his views and his recent resignation from the Cobb County Hispanic/Latino Initiative. Steve first asked about the original intent of that group.

Follow this url address to listen to the interview: ( Look for ” Latino Leader Blasts Cobb Commission ” in “ALSO” list (recorded 8 August 2007)

http://www.pba.org/newsroom/atlanta_news/

Thank Cobb Chairman Sam Olens and Sheriff Warren here and here.

For those of you who have not yet heard of DIRECTO MEXICO….

See here too.

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