Illegal Protest

Excellent article by Michael Cutler - former INS agent - in NewsWithViews. Here is a brief synopsis of his background:

Michael W. Cutler graduated from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1971 with a B.A. in Communications Arts and Sciences. Mr. Cutler began working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in October 1971 when he entered on duty as an Immigration Inspector assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport. In August 1975 he became a Criminal Investigator (Special Agent) for the INS at NYC.

He rotated through virtually every squad in the Investigations Branch. From 1988 until 1991 he was assigned as the INS representative to the Unified Intelligence Division (UID) of the DEA in New York. In 1991 he was promoted to the position of Senior Special Agent and was assigned to the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) which required that he work with members of other law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Customs and local and state police as well as law enforcement organizations of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan, to conduct investigations of aliens involved in major drug trafficking organizations. He retired from the INS in February 2002, after a career that spanned some 30 years.

I’d say Michael Cutler has a lot of credibility that backs up his opinion on our immigration laws wouldn’t you? Here is what he has to say on the subject…

by Michael Cutler
January 11, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

An excellent article appears in today’s edition of the Houston Chronicle and focuses on two criminals. One criminal, a man identified as Juan Leonardo Quintero, an illegal alien from Mexico committed a series of crimes including what is described as “indecency with a child and unlawful re-entry after deportation. Upon his unlawful re-entry into the United States he is now accused of the cold-blooded murder of a Houston police officer.

The other alleged criminal, a United States citizen, Robert Lane Camp, is charged with violations of federal immigration laws.

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Time and time again we have heard politicians from both sides of the political aisle assert that illegal aliens do the work that Americans won’t do. Perhaps the loudest cheerleader of this flawed reasoning has been none other than President Bush himself. As I have stated on so many occasion that I have lost count as to how many times I have said this, I am compelled to make the point that if there are Americans who will trudge off to work in coal mines and steel factories, if there are Americans who will go to work as firefighters, racing into burning buildings at huge risk, to their own safety to attempt to rescue total strangers, if there are American law enforcement officers who have no idea about what may await them the next time their two-way radio crackles and if their are Americans who are willing to drive garbage trucks and others who will do what my dad did, go to work on a construction site, one of the most hazardous jobs you can do, then I believe that Americans will take any job, no matter how arduous, no matter how dirty and no matter how dangerous, provided that when they receive their paychecks they are able to support themselves and their families. As the author Homer Hickam stated when he spoke at the Sago Mine disaster memorial service in West Virginia two years ago, “There is no water holier than the sweat off a man’s brow!”

The issue is not that Americans are lazy or afraid of an honest, hard day’s work, it is a matter of wages and working conditions. Illegal aliens are vulnerable and hence easy to exploit. They work for wages that would not provide the average American with the ability to support themselves and their families.

The failure of our government to enforce the immigration laws against those American citizens who violate the immigration laws is, in large measure, responsible for the massive influx of illegal aliens who have poured across our nation’s borders.

While many of these illegal aliens simply seek to get an unauthorized (illegal) job to send money home, a significant portion of the illegal alien population have criminal histories and/or are involved in various criminal activities and even terrorist activities. The problem is that our officials have no way of knowing the true identities of these illegal aliens. We have no way of knowing how many are her. We have no way of knowing who among them are fleeing prosecution in their own countries or a third country for committing serious crimes. We have no way of knowing who among them have come to support terrorist activities, whether this means fund raising, conducting surveillance or planning the next attack.

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Police Officer Rodney J. Johnson lost his life, for several reasons and all of them go back to the failings of the federal government to secure our nation’s borders, prosecute, as a matter of routine, those Americans who aid or abet illegal aliens to either enter the United States illegally, or to enable them to violate various laws once they have run the border by providing them with jobs or other incentives that encourage them to ignore and violate our nation’s borders and ignore and violate our nation’s immigration laws which, also may enable these illegal aliens to commit crimes not comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act alone but include, other criminal statutes that deal with drugs, weapons and crimes of violence. I found an additional article about the murder of Police Officer Johnson. According to the news story that ran last year at ABC News:

“Johnson received a commendation for valor for pulling several children from a burning building.

He leaves behind a wife who is also a police officer and their five children.”

What words of consolation or any other act can undo the horrific damage done to the lives of heroic Police Officer Rodney Johnson’s wife or children? About the others who were members of his family or were his friends? The point is that with all of the stories about the rights of illegal aliens, it is rare if not downright impossible to find stories about the rights of decent people who lose their lives to the crimes committed by individuals who don’t even, legally, have the right to be inside the borders of our nation?

The children of Officer Johnson will never see their father again. His wife will never again see him or take comfort from him. He was her husband and the father of their children. Unfortunately he is not the first law enforcement officer to die at the hands of an illegal alien nor will he be the last. While the article did not address the crime committed against a child that initiated his ultimate deportation from the United States, I wonder who the child was and how badly he hurt that child. I wonder about the future of that child who may well have been terribly traumatized. Why is no one talking about the rights of that child?

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A final thought. In reading the article, consider how the apparent close cooperation between ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with members of the Houston Police Department yielded the results that this joint effort brought to fruition. It is time for all communities to work with ICE and other agencies to address the illegal immigration crisis confronting our nation. It is time that those who seek to become our nation’s next president speak out clearly on their intentions to deal with illegal immigration and the huge risks this creates for our nation and our citizens.

We the People need to make our frustration, indeed, rage known about the need for our nation to secure the borders and create meaningful integrity within the entire immigration system.

Full article here

 

 

 

When is this government going to consider our southern border important enough to put the military there? How many Americans will have to die before they do something? This is a WAR WITH MEXICO. Mexico is NOT OUR FRIEND. They are a parasitic scumbag of a country and it’s time that our government GROWS A BACKBONE and shows what has made this country great - standing up to our enemies. Meanwhile, Bush sends thousands of our troops to places like Iraq to “defend freedom” when the entire time our freedoms and our ability to live peacefully is UNDER ATTACK on OUR OWN SOIL. WAKE UP AMERICA! YOUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT TO PROTECT YOU.

The story from World Net Daily:

Border Patrol agent killed by ’smugglers’

Officer run down while laying spike strips to stop 2 vehicles fleeing toward Mexico

Posted: January 19, 2008
6:30 p.m. Eastern

A U.S. Border Patrol agent is dead in California after being struck by one of two vehicles fleeing toward the U.S.-Mexico border during a pursuit by law enforcement today.The officer, whose name has not yet been released, was laying spike strips across the road in the Imperial Sand Dunes recreation in the southeast portion of the state at about 9:30 a.m. when he was hit by a Hummer believed to have been driven by smugglers.The Hummer and a Black Ford F-150 pickup truck escaped into Mexico, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Jeremy Schappell told the Yuma Sun. It is unknown whether the vehicles were carrying drugs or human contraband.”Right now our Mexican liaison unit has contact with the Mexican authorities … try and track these individuals down,” Schappell said.

Witnesses said the two vehicles were being pursued on I-8 between Calexico, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., when the drivers left the interstate and turned into the dunes, fleeing toward the nearby border.

“It was at the entrance to the Buttercup Recreation Area, where the duners usually park,” Schappell said.

Because of the proximity of interstate and the dune recreational area to the border, the area is popular with smugglers, he said.

“It actually happens quite frequently out here. What they try to do is, they hope to blend in with the usual dune traffic to increase their chances of going undetected,” Schappell said.

Today’s death is the first for an agent in the Yuma sector in over four years, Schappell said.

“It’s not easy. No law enforcement agency wants to lose one of their own. What we’re focusing on now is making sure the agents at the scene are taken care of, mentally. Our primary focus is on the family, helping them cope and deal with their loss.”

Article link

The investigative work that makes up this post was exclusively conducted by myself, Ruth of IllegalProtest.com. Doing the job that the media won’t do. If you use this material, please give the credit to my hours of work.

I had many questions about the details of this story, that many in the media seemed all too happy to overlook in their zealous quest to elevate Jesus Manuel Cordova to hero status. Imagine that! An illegal alien who did something we would all consider normal human behavior - he chose not to abandon a 9 year old boy in the desert after the van his mother was driving rolled down a steep embankment in the desert.

So I requested and received a copy of the police report from the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s office. There are some very interesting differences in the report vs what was reported in the media.

Now I do agree that what Jesus Manuel Cordova did was indeed above and beyond what one would expect of a regular illegal alien who was sneaking into the US. He did a very kind thing by staying with the boy. However, he did not *rescue* the boy and after I received the initial police report of the incident today, I can safely say that perhaps he was actually *negligent* in his “heroic efforts”. A question came to my mind immediately upon reading through the report.

Here is the paragraph that begs for more information - this is the account given by Jesus Cordova to the police after the incident and it immediately follows his description of having encountered the boy in the area of the van accident approximately 1.5 hours after the accident (5:00pm) which had occurred at 3:30pm:

Manuel Jesus told me he approached the van and could hear a female’s voice complaining of pain or in agony. He told me he could not see or reach the female to aid her due to the rough and steep terrain. Manuel Jesus then told me he came back to the top of the canyon and started a campfire in hopes that someone would see the smoke and come to their aid.

Ok.. here is what bugs me about this. He HEARS the boy’s mother IN PAIN in the van. He tells the police he can’t reach her, but SHE WAS ALIVE WHEN CORDOVA ENCOUNTERED THE BOY AND THE ACCIDENT SCENE. It was 5pm - not exactly the dead of night. It was just beginning to get dark. They were located about 6 miles from State Route 289 and they were also about 6 miles from the Pena Blanca Lake campground where the boy and his mother had been staying.

And it gets better… this is what Cordova told Amanda Lee Myers of The Associated Press:

By the looks of the mangled van down below, Cordova said, it was obvious the boy’s mother had died. The child was distraught but did not cry.

“I felt frustrated and sad because I couldn’t do anything for the mother,” Cordova said. “And I didn’t know how to console the boy, so I just sat next to him.”

Cordova gave the boy the sweater he was wearing, climbed down to the van and found chocolate and cookies to feed him.

So Cordova was able to get to the van and find chocolate and cookies but he couldn’t help the mother? You would think a “hero” would have tried to get help for the mother while she was still alive. What kind of person makes a fire and sits next to it for fourteen hours while a woman lay dying nearby?

AND he told the police who couldn’t reach the van.. but he told Amanda Myers of the AP that he was able to find chocolate and cookies in the van.. Anyone thinking to ask Mr Cordova a few more questions???

If he were truly a hero as everyone is making him out to be, he would have tried to get help RIGHT AWAY before the boy’s mother died HOURS LATER while in agony the entire time. What kind of hero is that I ask you?

Thanks to Digger for reading the police report and finding this little gem of information in it regarding the condition of Dawn Tomko’s body found by the firefighter Teddy Sang:

Teddy Sang stated that he noticed the onset of rigor mortis.

This was after he pronounced her dead at 8:23am. So if you know anything about how long it takes for rigor mortis to set in, then that means Dawn Tomko, the boy’s mother, did not die until 3 or 4am.. about TEN HOURS after the so-called hero Jesus Manuel Cordova came upon the scene. Rigor mortis does not occur for at LEAST 3 hours after a person has died. Her injuries were not noticeable except for a large gash on her arm. So to anyone coming upon the accident scene it certainly was not apparent that she had died and now we know THAT SHE HAD NOT DIED until only 3-4 hours before help arrived! Had this so-called “hero” traveled the 6 miles to the White Rock Campground (average walking speed is about 3-4 miles per hour) , or in fact traveled in ANY direction to get help, he may have been able to save her life and that would have made him a true hero.

Here are directions to the Sycamore Canyone area where the accident happened, near the Pena Blanca Lake campground:

Access: Turn west off Interstate 19 at the Peña Blanca/Ruby Road ( AZ Hwy 289). The exit is approximately 8 miles north of Nogales. Follow this road 9 miles to Peña Blanca Recreation Area where the pavement ends and the Arivaca-Ruby Road becomes FR 39. Drive a total of 8.5 miles from the end of the pavement to the Sycamore Canyon Road (FR 218) which turns left (south) to the trailhead at the Hank and Yank Ruins historical marker.

To get to the Border Trail turn off FR 39 onto the Summit Motorway (FR 39A) 2.5 miles from the end of the pavement at Peña Blanca Lake. FR 39A is a 4-wheel drive road.

More details about Sycamore Canyon:

About 5 miles downstream of the trailhead, the canyon opens out and crosses a barbed wire fence that marks the Arizona/Mexico border. Here, you can either turn around and return the way you came or turn east and travel along a little-used pathway called the Border Trail. This foot and horse path was put here to provide access for maintenance of the international boundary fence. It leads over the grassy foothills of the Pajaritos to the end of the Summit Motorway (FR 39A), which may sound like a thoroughfare, but it’s a 4-wheel drive road.

Here’s a map of the Pena Blanca area as well:

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And here is the description from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office police report of the accident location:

From the reporting officer: I then proceeded onto State Route 289 until I reached Forest Service Road 39. I reset the vehicle odometer at the entrance of Forest Service Road 39 from State Route 289. I proceeded in a southwestern direction on the narrow mountain road until I reached the collision scene at approximately mile post six on Forest Service Road 39.

In my mind, if Jesus Manuel Cordova had truly been a hero, he would have walked to find help that was not that far away, rather than passively setting a fire and waiting for someone to discover them. Why did he wait until morning to do so? Why did he not try to get help for the dying Dawn Tomko? Why did he let her spend her last hours dying in agony?

And I have some other questions too. How in the world did Christopher Buchleitner AND two dogs escape this accident with only minor injuries? That is truly the miracle in this story - not that Jesus Manuel Cordova did what any human being would have done.. but then again maybe he didn’t.

Other posts on this topic can be found here

Oh and in case you didn’t hear, Rep Raul Grijalva introduced a private bill on December 7th, 2007 to get this illegal alien, Jesus Manuel Cordova, a special Visa for his heroic actions. The bill is HR 4339. Chances of this bill ever getting passed are slim but there are people like Luis Gutierrez and Sheila Jackon Lee on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration so you never know what under-handed crap this committee might succeed in slipping in. Call your House Representative and let him know you don’t think Jesus Manuel Cordova deserves any part of citizenship for what he did on November 22nd. If someone thinks he deserves a reward, why don’t they send him some American dollars to his Mexican family?

Now isn’t this special? These businesses and people who live here as “Americans” are shameless in their support of illegal alien slave labor. They will stoop to any depth to keep their supply of slaves and they don’t even mind committing outright treason to do so.

I’d like to remind everyone that before slavery of the blacks was eliminated, the businesses who relied on their cheap, enslaved labor, cried the same alligator tears about how doing away with slavery would ruin their cotton industry.

From this link we find:

As the production of cotton increased following the invention of the Cotton Gin, there was a corresponding increase in the demand for labor. The only way this demand could be addressed, Southerners believed, was through the importation of slaves. Increasingly, the South came to be convinced that slavery was fundamental to the economic well-being of the region. British and New England textile mills were calling for more cotton, and the demand could be meet only throught servile labor.

We can see clearly now that this was NOT the case now was it.

That argument reminds me of the same argument a drug addict might have against being denied their drugs when they are caught and imprisoned for illegal drug use. The use of illegal aliens is an addiction that many unscrupulous businesses have and they will do *anything* to continue to have their cheap labor and it’s not altruistic of them - it is pure GREED.

Tipped by Kathleen Appel, Tony Dolz and many others for this story. It’s lighting up the anti-illegal alien newswire - as it should!

Adman to Pitch Immigrants’ Story

By MIRIAM JORDAN -The Wall Street Journal

January 16, 2008
Page B1

Las Vegas — The nation’s heated debate over immigration is headed to television advertising, in the form of a business-funded campaign that will tout the benefits of legalizing illegal workers and try to counter hardening rhetoric on immigration.

The campaign is spearheaded by Lionel Sosa, a media strategist who is credited with delivering nearly half of the Hispanic vote to President Bush in the previous presidential race.

Yesterday, Mr. Sosa gathered here representatives from the construction, lodging, agricultural and banking sectors, as well as from churches, grass-roots groups and both political parties, to review the ads and finalize their strategy.

Mr. Sosa says he has raised $25 million for the campaign from one group he didn’t identify. His independent nonprofit organization — Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together, or Matt.org — plans to match that with other contributions from business interests that benefit from immigrant labor, he says. His long-term goal is to invest $100 million in a national ad campaign, though he acknowledges that is a tall order in a presidential election year.

“The anti-immigrant groups have smashed all of us who back immigration reform. It’s time to respond,” Mr. Sosa said in an interview. “Americans have to see why it’s in our interest to make these workers legal.”

Taking the group’s immigration message to the airwaves has risks, however — particularly if it sets off a well-funded, anti-illegal-immigration TV campaign from the other side of the issue. Indeed, on hearing of Mr. Sosa’s initiative, Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which calls for restricting all immigration, said that his group and its partners plan a campaign of their own. FAIR, which has 100,000 paid members, lobbied fiercely to defeat the Senate immigration bill this past spring.

“We are in the process of developing ads to try to educate Americans about the negative impacts that immigration has on wages and working conditions for certain segments of the American labor force,” Mr. Stein said. He declined to disclose the timetable or funding sources for such an effort.

Anti-illegal-immigration groups argue that undocumented immigrants are a burden on U.S. social services, education and health care and contend that they undermine U.S. wages and culture.

Mr. Sosa, 68 years old, in 1980 founded the agency Sosa Bromley Aguilar, which specialized in advertising to Hispanic consumers, selling it in 1990. Matt.org — based in Mr. Sosa’s hometown of San Antonio — employs three advertising strategists who worked with him at the agency. Among them is Cesar Martinez, who in 2002 created ad campaigns targeting Hispanics for Jeb Bush’s Florida gubernatorial campaign and Rick Perry’s Texas governor’s race.

Mr. Sosa said he plans to launch the immigration ads on TV nationally after the presidential conventions this summer.

Among those at the Las Vegas gathering was J. Allen Carnes, president of the Texas Vegetable Association, who has testified before Congress on immigration issues. In the past two seasons, Mr. Carnes has lost more than $600,000 worth of crops, he says, because he couldn’t secure enough workers. “Every year the shortage becomes worse and worse. If we continue down this path the agricultural industry in Texas as we know it will no longer exist,” he said. According to the Texas Produce Association, half of the fruits and vegetables being shipped in Texas are already being grown across the border.

Until now, business interests have mainly lobbied legislators and their staffs in Washington to press for legalizing undocumented workers. But some businesses are reshaping their strategies, responding to the collapse of a Senate bill last spring, the introduction of state ordinances to punish businesses that hire undocumented workers, and emotive rhetoric on immigration during the presidential campaign.

“There’s a lot of anxiety in the business community, and we have come to the point of realizing that something big has to be done,” said Eddie Aldrete, a senior vice president of the International Bank of Commerce, a Laredo, Texas, bank that also operates in Oklahoma. The bank has pledged an undisclosed sum to Mr. Sosa’s campaign, he added.

Craig Silvertooth, director of federal affairs at the National Roofers Contracting Association, said he would encourage his members to fund Mr. Sosa’s effort. “The business community was largely missing in action when the bill went through the Senate,” he says. “We were outgunned financially and at the grass-roots level by anti-immigrant groups. We will continue to lose until we get our story out there.”

Potential donors for Mr. Sosa’s effort include trade groups, such as Western Growers, whose 3,000 members grow, pack and ship half the nation’s fresh produce. “It’s important to communicate to the American public the importance of providing a legal, stable work force for agriculture,” says Paul Simonds, communications manager for Western Growers. “We have a work force that is predominantly falsely documented or undocumented. Anything that would further our efforts we will definitely look into.”

In the $1.2 trillion construction industry, at least one-third of the work force is undocumented, according to an estimate by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Industry experts believe the actual figure is much higher: In 2006 alone, nearly half of new construction workers were Hispanics who had arrived in the U.S. since 2000. In agriculture, about 70% of all workers are illegal immigrants, according to independent estimates, and an existing guest-worker program supplies less than 2% of the work force required each year.

Mr. Sosa’s team has created a series of 30-second pilot TV spots that highlight the work of immigrants in several industries and warn of the consequences of losing that labor force. One of the spots, entitled “Drive Them Out,” focuses on the New Jersey town of Riverside, which fell on hard times after it passed an anti-illegal-immigrant ordinance last year that prompted thousands of undocumented residents to leave. The spot’s closing statement: “Let’s be careful what we wish for.”

Another ad shows “Help Wanted” signs for jobs such as orange-picking and roofing, followed by signs that read “Can’t Hire Immigrants” or “Immigrants Need Not Apply.” In the end, a voiceover states: “Today’s immigrants do the work Americans need done. Can’t we find a way to make them legal?”

The ads consciously avoid the term “illegal” because it “connotes a negative,” Mr. Martinez says. “We want to concentrate on the positives.”

Mr. Sosa, who has worked on several presidential campaigns, says he began thinking about a national ad campaign after the Senate defeated a bipartisan immigration bill last spring. In Mr. Sosa’s view, Senate leaders were cowed by a deluge of calls, emails and faxes from a vocal minority that opposed the bill and, more broadly, promoted negative images of Hispanic immigrants. By contrast, the pro-immigrant proponents didn’t communicate a clear message, Mr. Sosa says.

What others are saying on this topic:

Alipac
Tucson Citizen (you can comment at this link)