NBC-TV -- Dallas     sc    Footprints lead agent to illegals sleeping on marijuana    Two men found asleep on top of bundles of marijuana face federal drug charges in the Southern District of Texas. -- The men have detention hearings scheduled for Thursday afternoon. They are charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute the marijuana...

U.S.. Customs and Border Protection    Latest news releases from CBP    Philadelphia -- Customs and Border Protection officers threw a wrench into a Jamaica-to-Bermuda hashish smuggling route after arresting two "swallowers" attempting to smuggle more than 1.5 pounds of hashish through Philadelphia in the last two weeks...

Stein Report      There is no right to financial aid    The UC Irvine newspaper editorializes against financial aid for illegal alien students in the latest issue. State Sen. Gilbert Cedillo [aka 'One Bill Gil,' a notorious Mexican Reconquista fanatic] has introduced legislation to make illegal immigrants eligible for state based tuition assistance and financial aid.

Numbers USA      Sen. Grassley asks USCIS to eliminate H-1B fraud    Sen. Chuck Grassley has sent a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, asking the department's director to hold employers accountable for extensive fraud and abuse in the H-1B visa program. H-1B visas are issued to high-skilled workers and an internal assessment...

KZTV -- Corpus Christi, Texas       Stolen vehicle full of likely illegals nabbed    The Department of Public Safety, the United States Border Patrol and officers from Constable Precincts Three and Five all helped chase down the people inside a stolen vehicle outside of Bishop before noon Wednesday. -- Officers said it all started when a county police officer saw the vehicle which he said looked suspicious... [See Crime Watch]

CNN      Illegal alien patients wary of offers to return to home countries    Going back to Mexico is not an option, said the 43-year-old man, kneeling next to his wife's wheelchair. -- His wife, 45, lost her eyesight to diabetes. She also has high blood pressure. And her kidneys are failing. -- For years, he has taken her to a dialysis clinic attached to a public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia...

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Despite a 50 percent drop over the past two years in the number of people caught illegally entering the United States from Mexico, the number of those who died while trying to cross the border increased this year and is the highest since 2006, according to new U.S. data and a study by human rights groups in both countries...

Michelle Malkin      An illustrated guide: All the president's Olympic cronies    Chicagoans of all political stripes who oppose massive government funding of Mayor Richard Daley's pet project have inundated my email-box. Reader Will P. sums it all up by noting that the games would "protect the current corrupt structure" and paper over Chicago/Illinois's myriad woes, including...

Connie Hair -- Human Events      Dems insane health care rhetoric    Just a couple short weeks ago, an overly emotional House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) warned the American people about the level of rhetoric in the health care debate. She choked back crocodile tears as she expressed her fears that the level of discourse in the debate could lead to violence...

Chuck Baldwin -- VDare.com      U.S. to break up soon?    According to Macedonian Radio and Television On-line (MRT), a Russian professor predicts the United States will fall apart in July 2010. MRT reports, "'Mr. Obama is similar to the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev was also making great promises for the Soviet Union, but the situation was only getting worse,' he said.

Californians for Population Stabilization         Tell Governor Schwarzenegger we need E-Verify     Governor Schwarzenegger has yet to take a position on the bill passed by the legislature that would restrict usage of the federal E-Verify system in California...

KGBT-TV -- Harlingen, Texas      Men caught with 22 illegals in Brownsville     Two men remain behind bars after federal authorities allegedly caught them taking 22 illegal immigrants to a stash house in Brownsville. -- U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents charged Edgar Villanueva-Sanchez and Apolinar Rocha-Morales with human smuggling charges on Monday...

McAllen (Texas) Monitor      Man pleads guilty in deadly illegal alien smuggling case    The overseer of a group of immigrant stash houses admitted his role Tuesday in a smuggling ring responsible for the deaths of nine Central American migrants. -- Jorge Hernandez Hernandez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens, abruptly ending a jury trial that started Monday on a total of 12 counts...

Cato Institute      Repressive Feds Overreact Again: Bill would ban offensive speech online    Federal prosecutors moved to criminalize internet harassment last year by prosecuting Lori Drew. Lori Drew, as you may recall, is a Missouri woman who created a fictional MySpace profile named “Josh” and started an online relationship with Megan Meier...

Don Cobb -- RenewAmerica.us      We really did it this time......    Granted, after the 8 year lashing Bush gave America it's no wonder people ran away from Republicans in the last presidential election. Let's be honest about this, however -- more people voted against McCain than voted for the unknown Marxist Obama...

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    This photo shows tire tracks leading from Mexico to the U.S., in the San Pedro River riverbed. Very reliable sources told Glenn Spencer that two drive-through vehicles had crossed the border at this point...

Michelle Malkin      What's happening in Hardin, Montana?    Tons of readers are asking about the American Police Force jail contract in Hardin, Montana. -- Neil Katz at CBS News reported: This is the strange story of how American Police Force, a little known company which claims to specialize in training military and security forces overseas, has seemingly taken control of a $27 million, never-used jail... [Related items here, here and here]

CNN      ICE touts $41 million cash seizure in Mexico, Colombia    Mexican and Colombian officials working with U.S. agents have seized about $41 million in cash hidden in shipping containers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced Monday. -- The U.S. agency, commonly called ICE, says the seizures were made September 9-18. It called them...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    Three elements of the Federal Forces for Support of the Federal Police were arrested in Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacán, presumed to have leaked information to "La Familia Michoacánana" regarding operations performed by police...

Reuters      Senate panel rejects public healthcare option    A Senate panel on Tuesday rejected a government-run "public" insurance option as part of a broad healthcare overhaul, setting up a fight over one of the bill's most contentious issues. -- The two votes in the Senate Finance Committee were the first of several battles expected in Congress over a public insurance option...

KNXV-TV -- Phoenix      MCSO: 40 illegals caught within 4 hours    Forty suspected [illegal aliens] were reportedly arrested within a four hour period in the North Valley Monday night. -- During a human smuggling saturation patrol, Maricopa County Sheriff's federally trained deputies made the arrests during four separate traffic stops near Anthem Way, according to MCSO...

Dallas Morning News       Dallas bomb plot suspect stayed on expired visa    Like millions of others classified by the government as illegal [aliens], the Jordanian teen accused of plotting to blow up a Dallas office tower last week arrived in the United States legally and stayed long after his visa expired. -- Federal immigration officials said Tuesday that Hosam Smadi, 19, arrived on a visitor visa...

Business & Legal Reports      Illegal aliens cost company $1.5 million plus    Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company, Inc., of Houston, has been ordered to forfeit more than $1.3 million to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and pay a criminal fine of $250,000 for harboring illegal aliens. In addition, the company's president pleaded guilty in Houston District Court...

Business & Media Institute      Bette Midler warns Glenn Beck could set off Rwanda-like civil war    It's just what the primetime cable news lineup needed – another hour-long program tilted toward left-of-center politics with character assassination on conservatives. -- CNN Headline News debuted its "The Joy Behar Show" on Sept. 29, which included appearances by lefty comedian Janeane Garofalo, CNN's Jack Cafferty and actress Bette Midler...

Numbers USA      Border fence deba te stalling Homeland Security spending bill    The debate over Sen. Jim DeMint's border fence amendment is stalling the reconciliation of the 2010 Homeland Security spending bill. Sen. DeMint's amendment requires the completion of the fence along the Southwest border and was approved by the Senate, but the House leadership is reluctant to support the measure...

Dave Gibson -- The Examiner      Illegal alien child molester secretly awarded $4 million by Orange County, CA    On April 17, 2009, the Orange County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3.75 million, plus an additional $900,000 in medical expenses to an illegal alien who was severely beaten by other inmates in the Orange County Central Jail. The Mexican national filed a lawsuit shortly after the incident...

Robert F. -- 9 News      Opportunist Gutierrez is at it again... more amnesty legislation    Remember the STRIVE Act a couple of years ago ? It sought to make America's illegal aliens, legal. It was the handiwork of Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who represents Chicago, IL and environs. Now Rep. Gutierrez is introducing legislation for amnesty again. I wonder if there isn't a cap on how many times legislation, which has been soundly defeated numerous times, can be raised, again and again...

New York Times      Immigration crackdown with firings, not raids     A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800 [illegal alien] employees in the coming days — more than a quarter of its workforce — after a federal investigation turned up irregularities in the identity documents the workers presented when they were hired...