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Family Security Matters Open Border Shyster John McCain Deserves a Dunce Cap

Pam Meister

In the days of yore, students who did not make a valid attempt to learn their lessons and acquitted themselves badly at recitation time were sometimes relegated to a corner of the room in order to shame them. Sometimes a pointed cap would be put on their heads as a warning to other students: learn your lessons or you’ll be the next fool on display.

In today’s world, putting a student in a corner – much less with a dunce cap – would land the teacher in hot water, not the student who would rather play video games than study history or science. But I’d like to slap a big, fat dunce cap on John McCain, the man who claims to have learned his lesson when it comes to border security and amnesty for illegal aliens.

As a quick refresher, proposed bills with amnesty provisions – the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill and the Dream Act – were both soundly trounced in Congress. Why? Because Americans, tired of our borders resembling a revolving door and illegal aliens barging in and demanding the rights of citizens, made their voices heard loud enough for the bills to be voted down. The Maverick, as McCain is endearingly called by the media, said, “I got the message. We will secure the border first, then move on to other issues.”

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico

By John Dillin WASHINGTON – George W. Bush isn’t the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.

Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.

President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents - less than one-tenth of today’s force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.

Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike’s official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.

General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said “Amen” to Senator Fulbright’s proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: “The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican ‘wetbacks’ to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government.”

Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower’s first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.

America “was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale,” Mr. Brownell said. “When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.”

They ought to lop this guys nuts off!!! 

SAN DIEGO—A former U.S. Border Patrol agent was sentenced Friday to 36 months in federal prison for helping immigrant smugglers in exchange for cash.

Jose Olivas Jr., 46, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to smuggle aliens and launder money. A 10-year veteran of the Border Patrol, he admitted helping more than 100 illegal immigrants get into the U.S. from January 2006 until his arrest a year later.

Prosecutors said he pocketed as much as $15,000 from smugglers, who paid him $100 each time he agreed to act as a scout by driving past a highway checkpoint on Interstate 5 at San Clemente, about 60 miles north of San Diego. If the checkpoint was closed, he would call the smugglers and give them an all-clear to follow with carloads of migrants.

According to Olivas’ plea agreement, he worked with others who brought illegal immigrants from Mexico at border crossings in California, including San Diego. He also admitted showing Border Patrol reports to members of the smuggling ring.

Olivas faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Democrats get set to reward lawbreakers What is the value of citizenship, when a country decides to reward assaults against it?

There’s a pro-illegal move afoot in Maryland that is infuriating, but not at all surprising. The Democrats control the state, and they’re worse than the Republicans on immigration issues. Governor Martin O’Malley is apparently set to grant illegal aliens in-state tuition prices at state universities.

As states nationwide are embroiled in battles over immigrants’ rights, Maryland lawmakers are again wrestling with the contentious issue — and showing signs of easing some restrictions.

State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants

I’m liking Arizona more the more I read.

Arizona’s treasurer plans to investigate whether Arizona State University is breaking a new state law by providing private institutional aid to some of its students who are undocumented immigrants, according to The Arizona Republic.

Dean Martin, the treasurer and a former Republican state legislator, was the lead sponsor of a ballot measure, approved last fall, that bars illegal immigrants from paying in-state tuition at public colleges or receiving state-based financial aid, among other state services.

Thousands of Arizona College Students Denied In-State Tuition - Chronicle.com

Good show Arizona. Really should be done nation wide.

While Arizona’s major public universities have had to reclassify hundreds of students from in-state to out-of-state status under a 2006 immigration law, the number is in the thousands for the state’s community colleges, The Arizona Republic reported today.

In all, nearly 4,000 students in the state’s colleges and universities were denied in-state tuition this year and are being charged rates that in some cases are more than three times as high. The law, Proposition 300, requires students to document that they are in the United States legally before they can receive in-state rates.

Arizona’s largest community-college district, the Maricopa County Community Colleges, had the most students who could not document their legal status, with 1,720. The University of Arizona and Arizona State University had earlier numbered their reclassified students only in the hundreds. —Katherine Mangan