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January 17, 2010

KING: Illegal immigration tore the Rosas family apart

The 2010 push for amnesty for about 20 million illegal aliens will soon be in the news. We will hear that it would somehow help the unemployment crisis. While we follow the ridiculous “we need amnesty again” arguments from the illegal immigration industry, we should remember an American hero named Robert Rosas.

D.A. King

The 2010 push for amnesty for about 20 million illegal aliens will soon be in the news.

We will hear that it would somehow help the unemployment crisis. While we follow the ridiculous “we need amnesty again” arguments from the illegal immigration industry, we should remember an American hero named Robert Rosas.

Robert Rosas is a name that is sadly unfamiliar to most Americans. It shouldn’t be. His tragic story is one of many that represent the other side of the illegal immigration debate that is routinely avoided by the various anti-enforcement, open borders groups and in much of the media.

Rosas, a three-year United States Border Patrol Agent, was gunned down while on patrol on the U.S.-Mexico border near Campo, Calif., in July. He was tracking suspected illegal border crossers — future “undocumented workers” — who were headed north from Mexico looking for a better life when he was killed by multiple gunshots.

In November, Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez admitted entering the United States illegally from Mexico and killing Rosas.

Other individuals believed to be involved in the murder are reportedly still at large.

Who knows, maybe they made it into the interior of the U.S. Maybe they have been rewarded with business licenses somewhere. Maybe they have been hired by an employer trying to save a buck or two on labor expenses. Maybe they will be given a traffic ticket for a broken tail light by an American policeman and then sent on their way as the ACLU demands.

Maybe you will soon see some of them marching with other resentful illegal aliens in American streets demanding legalization, U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.

Killed at age 30, Rosas was one of more than 100 Border Patrol Agents who have died in the line of duty. He leaves behind a wife, Rosalie, a 2-year-old son, Robert, and a now 1-year-old daughter, Allysa.

Rosas’ death — and the legalization agenda — should be remembered when we consider a recent Zogby International opinion poll conducted in Mexico on American immigration policy.

As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico provide insight into the impact of another amnesty, as well as other questions related to immigration.

Among the findings taken from a report on the poll from the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C.:

A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal aliens in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would go to the United States illegally.

As happened with the “one time” 1986 legalization scheme.

Of Mexicans with a member of their immediate household in the United States, 65 percent said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally. Imagine that.

More from CIS:

• Interest in going to the United States remains strong even in the recession, with 36 percent of Mexicans — 39 million people — telling Zogby they would move to the United States if they could.

• An overwhelming majority — 69 percent — of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans — Mexico- and U.S.-born — should be to Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure.

Like most Americans, Robert Rosas was sure of his loyalty. He died defending his country. His dedication to duty represents the majority pro-American side of the immigration debate.

Radical anti-enforcement, amnesty-again groups constantly howl that any enforcement aimed at illegal aliens who make it past the Border Patrol tears undocumented families apart and makes the community less safe.

They should be reminded of Robert Rosas and his American family.

D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. You can e-mail him through his Web site at www.thedustininmansociety.org.

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Dave Gibson — The Examiner

Illegal immigration fueling U.S. population explosion

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the United States population has reached 304 million. Illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, and the rate at which they are giving birth in this country is fueling the population explosion…

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Breitbart.tv

Coakley admits she looked the other way on illegals

” I think we need it. And I think we have for too long looked the other way. I think we’ve had a federal policy that doesn’t make sense. I firmly believe that we need a good pathway to citizenship. And I know serving as district attorney we always paid attention to the person and not their status.”

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U.S.. Customs and Border Protection

Latest news releases from Customs and Border Protection

In five separate incidents over the past week, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Douglas Station apprehended illegal aliens who had prior arrests for sex crimes. Agents quickly identified these criminal aliens using the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System…

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Athens Banner Herald

D.A. King: Immigration law isn’t optional

Published Friday, January 15, 2010
A recent Banner-Herald story about Athens-Clarke County businesses and a “new” Georgia law brought a nod of sad amusement (Story, “Law change catches businesses off guard,” Tuesday).

In 2006, amid public outrage over illegal immigration, the Georgia legislature passed the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Essentially, it says Georgians must obey existing federal immigration, employment and benefits laws.

Among other things, the law requires government entities and their contractors to use federal tools to verify eligibility for employment and public benefits. It is a federal crime to knowingly hire illegal labor – and by federal law, most public benefits are denied to illegal aliens. The immigration status of noncitizens, and thus their eligibility for public benefits, is verified using a federal online database called SAVE.

The state law used language from federal law to define public benefits to include “any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license, retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a state or local government or by appropriated funds of a state or local government.”

It should be easy for people to understand that a business license, by any name, is a commercial license and thereby a public benefit. Yet like many immigration laws that do not directly benefit the illegal aliens or the Americans who have created an industry out of using and rewarding them, the 2006 state law was treated as an optional requirement by virtually all local governments in Georgia.

In the 2009 legislative session, another law was passed, despite great resistance from the taxpayer-supported Georgia Municipal Association and Association County Commissioners of Georgia. The 2009 law merely clarified the language of the 2006 law and allowed for potential appropriations problems for agencies that continued to encourage illegal immigration by ignoring state and federal laws.

We now have a law that says we must obey the law that says we must obey the law. And I’m sure I’m not the only one asking why a law is required for any responsible local government to do everything possible to discourage already-illegal actions.

Yet the anti-enforcement crowd surely will regard as “intolerant extremism” any effort to deter illegal aliens from residing in Georgia and taking American jobs, taxpayer benefits and services, while we watch unemployment hover at 10 percent and a legislature that again must cut the state budget.

D.A. King

• D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for the enforcement of immigration laws.

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Michael Cutler — Family Security Matters

Better security needed in visa process

This recent Washington Times article focuses on the efforts of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to highlight the need for better security in the visa issuance process. I’ve raised this critical issue on a number of occasions, and I’m pleased that Sen. Grassley has once again demonstrated leadership in this vital area…

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This is our continent, not yours!” exclaimed one banner.

“We are indigenous! The only owners of this continent!” said another.

“If you think I’m illegal because I’m a Mexican, learn the true history, because I’m in my homeland,” read another sign.

“One of the more negative parts of the march was when American flags were passed out to make sure the marchers were looked on as part of ‘America,'” said the group’s commentary on the L.A. rally.

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Orange County Register

Man claims illegal status to evade charges

SANTA ANA – A man misidentified himself, claiming to be in the country illegally to evade attempted homicide charges in Santa Ana, Border Patrol agents reported today.

This morning, border agents in the Ajo Station in the Tucson, Ariz., sector arrested a man who was hanging out with a group of people in an area known for drugs and human smuggling, agent David Jimarez said.

Adolfo Aparicio is accused of attempting to fatally shoot his wife in October in Santa Ana.

Officials said the man first misidentified himself and claimed to be in the country illegally, possibly hoping to be deported, instead of having to face charges for the attempted homicide of his wife in October in Santa Ana.

Santa Ana police identified the man as Adolfo Aparicio, 29, of Garden Grove.

It wasn’t until officials ran Aparicio’s fingerprints through a records check that they discovered his true identity and that he’s a U.S. citizen. The check also revealed a felony warrant for Aparicio’s arrest on charges of attempted murder. He will be extradited from Arizona to face charges in California.

“The fingerprints never lie,” Jimarez said.

Aparicio is a documented gang member who assaulted his wife and sister-in-law Oct. 23, Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.

Police initially responded to a domestic violence call in Santa Ana where they saw the two injured women, before they went looking for Aparicio at his home in Garden Grove.

While there, someone told them Aparicio had left with a gun in hand. Soon after, they got a call of shots fired at the Santa Ana residence, Bertagna said. Police soon discovered the woman was shot at but not hit. Police said Aparicio soon left the area. The District Attorney’s office soon issued a warrant for his arrest, Bertagna said.

Jimarez said agents have seen an increase in people with criminal backgrounds claiming to be in the country illegally so to avoid charges in the U.S.

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