This Aint Your Land's Line In The Sand

Jose Medellin was convicted of the kidnapping, rape and strangulation of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena. Pena and Jennifer Ertman, 15, were attacked by Medellin and five other members of the Black & White gang as they walked near a park in Houston. After sexually assaulting Pena, Medellin reportedly strangled her because he did not want to leave a witness. Jennifer Ertman was also strangled with her shoe laces.

Texas told ‘em to bug off–and the Supreme Court backed Texas.

Medellin, the murderer and rapist of two teenage girls has gone to meet his maker. The U.N. and the international meddlers whined about it. Medellin’s lawyers filed one last-ditch appeal to subvert our national sovereignty and delay justice, but in the end justice prevailed.

America doesn't listen to Bush anymore. Nor are they listening to his bosses in Mexico who commanded him to imprison the two heroic border agents Ramos and Campeon. Let's just hope that all fifty of the subhuman scumbags they have on Death Row meet with the same fate as the illegal invader murderer / rapist Jose Medellin did. And that it finally becomes a nationwide policy to uphold the law of the land.

Illegal aliens want equal rights, so lets start by giving them equal justice and the punishment they deserve. Bush worked feverishly to save this scumbag, but America finally prevailed. Let this be a warning to the two pro open borders, pro amnesty, pro North American Union candidates who are running to replace him.

The sign reads “Build the wall, deport them all” and Davi Rodriguez (notice the last name) says it’s part of an attempt to educate residents on illegal immigration.

Davi drives the sign up and down the streets of Sacramento where day laborers wait for work, sometimes videotaping the reactions and uploading them to YouTube. Workers we talked to say they feel harassed, and they’re losing jobs.

"The people who come down here to hire us go away," said one worker, who did not wish to be identified. "They don't want to get caught in the middle."

"I call it the finger-and-thumb ride," Davi said. "I never know which I'm going to get, but it will be one of those: thumbs up, thumbs down, or the finger."

Davi has been assaulted, yelled at, and even had his sign vandalized on Wednesday at a stop light. He seemed surprised to hear that some of the day laborers described the sign as harassment.

"Everybody has different thresholds for that," he said.

Not everybody supports Davi's message.

"It's just ignorance," said Ricardo Mata. "Most of the people coming here are contributing to the economy."

Critics we talked to still agreed that Davi has the right to express his opinion, even if they don't agree with it.

Davi's sign is part of an effort to promote the group Save Our State, who engages in aggressive activism on the issue of illegal immigration. Hats off to this TRUE AMERICAN HERO who learned the meaning of honoring his country and took the time to come here LEGALLY unlike the millions who's only allegiance is to Mexico.

A large brick of cement fell through the roof of a house in Naro-Fominsk, Russia, creating a hole approximately three feet in diameter.

Ironically, the cement was part of a program instituted by the Russian Air Force to create good weather on holidays near the nation’s capital.  A dozen planes were dispatched to drop silver iodide, liquid nitrogen, and cement powder into the clouds.  The project aimed to promote rainfall that would dry the atmosphere prior to important dates.

Weather modification is nothing new.  Many programs to increase rainfall or reduce the size of hailstones are in place here in the United States.  Most of these programs are centered in the Midwest and Desert Southwest where water availability is a concern.

There is some debate, however, around the effectiveness of such programs.  One of the most famous weather modification programs carried out by the United States was Project Stormfury, which ran from 1962 to 1983.  During this time, hurricanes were seeded with silver iodide in an effort to reduce the strength of storms that were close to making landfall.  The program was discontinued in the 1980’s, as there was little evidence to determine if the program had any real impact on the strength of the storms.

What is your thought?  Should we continue to investigate ways to control when it rains?  How would you react to a three–foot brick of cement in your roof?

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Ah, San Francisco: the perfect little microcosm of liberalism in action. If you want to know what America would look like if liberals took over, then all you need to do is look to San Francisco, the place Nancy Pelosi calls home.

The newest example is the free ride service for illegal Honduran crack dealers, funded by city taxpayers.

San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city’s immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.

The city’s practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco’s policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.

Federal authorities counter that drug kingpins are indeed exploiting the immigrants, but that the city’s stance allows them to get away with “gaming the system.”

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Barred by state law from sending drug offenders to the California Youth Authority and bound by a 1989 city law defining San Francisco as a sanctuary city for immigrants - meaning officials do not cooperate with federal immigration investigations - juvenile officials settled on an unorthodox strategy.

Rather than have the drug offenders deported, they have recommended that Juvenile Court judges and commissioners approve city-paid flights home to Honduras for the offenders with the aim of reuniting them with their families.

The practice, federal authorities say, does nothing to prevent offenders from coming back, while federal deportation legally bars them from ever returning. Federal officials also say U.S. law prohibits helping an illegal immigrant to cross the border, even if it is to return home.

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Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney in charge of the San Francisco area, said he was “flabbergasted that the taxpayers’ money was being spent for the purpose of ferrying detainees home. You have to have a perfect storm of dumb moves to have it happen.”

Must be nice to know that your hard-earned money is funding a free plane ride for crack dealers. Of course, this is all done in the name of the children, with city officials crying over the “abuse” and “exploitation” of the crack dealers who police suspect aren’t really juveniles, but adults masquerading as such. A city official, William Siffermann, says that this approach is being used because deportation could keep the lovely illegal immigrant drug dealers from becoming citizens in the future.

Well, duh! That’s the whole point! Why in the world would we want to make convicted drug dealers and criminals citizens? These aren’t the kinds of people we need to be welcoming into the country. We’ve got enough criminals as is without opening our arms to MS-13 gang members and Honduran drug dealers. These sanctuary cities seem to just love these criminals and want to make them citizens, though, for reasons I just cannot understand. Wouldn’t you normally want to keep these kinds of criminals out?!

Aren’t sanctuary cities the greatest? Illegal immigrants are free to come to your city and trash it, without any interference from city officials. It won’t matter how many drugs you bring in or crimes you commit, because San Fran Nan & Co. will bend over backwards to accomodate you and to keep you there. They are, however, working tirelessly to make sure the military is completely eradicated from the city.

San Francisco: liberalism in action.

Officials are outraged after a Mexican judge released a Mexican national who allegedly struck and killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent with his vehicle.

Jesus Navarro Montes was accused of intentionally killing Agent Luis Aguilar Jan. 19 near the Imperial Sand Dunes in Imperial County, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported. Aguilar was attempting to stop two Mexican vehicles from entering the country illegally. As he positioned a strip of tire spikes into the road, Montes allegedly rammed his vehicle into the agent and killed him.

Now a Mexican judge has released Montes without restrictions.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he was shocked at the Mexican judge's decision to free Montes.

"We are working with a determined Mexican government and our Department of Justice to seek swift justice for the Aguilar murder," Chertoff said in a statement. "We have also assured Agent Aguilar's family that every resource is being called upon in the relentless pursuit of justice."

Chertoff had previously applauded Mexico's support in finding Aguilar's murderer, and he referenced the agent's slaying as an illustration of increasing violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

However, Montes was arrested in northern Mexico three days following Aguilar's murder, where he awaited a trial on charges of immigrant smuggling. He was later set free, and the details of his prison release were unclear, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The president of the National Border Patrol Council, T.J. Bonner, told newspaper he couldn't understand how Montes could be released after he allegedly killed a border patrol agent in cold blood.

"How can a guy who murdered one of our law enforcement agents just be released like that?" Bonner asked. "He could be anywhere by now."

Officials at Mexico's federal attorney general's office and Public Safety Department said they believe Montes drove from Mexicali in Baja California toward the U.S. border in a Hummer loaded with drugs prior to striking the agent with his vehicle.

According to the report, U.S. Border Patrol agents saw the vehicles illegally enter the country on Interstate 8, so they attempted to apprehend the suspects. After Aguilar was killed, Montes drove back to Mexicali and gave the Hummer to one of his friends.

According to the report, Mexican government spokesman Ricardo Alday said, "The United States, to this date, has presented neither a provisional order of arrest for Mr. Navarro Montes nor a formal extradition request."