Colorado to give illegal aliens college tuition discounts

Instead of helping American students who may never get the chance to go to college, Colorado has decided to assist those who are here illegally with a hefty discount on their college tuition. When we have so many legal young adults who would like the same opportunity Colorado is doing this. Will the same discount be given to those who are here legally, or born here and have lived here for their entire lives?

According to Judicial Watch, in 2009, the Colorado State Senate narrowly defeated a similar bill, but the law (Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow) got tweaked before being reintroduced and some legislators who voted against it are expected to support it. The bottom line is that both versions offer illegal immigrants discounted tuition at public institutions of higher learning.

"This is a perfect example of politicians showing contempt for American citizens. A student who is an American citizen living in New Mexico must pay a higher tuition to attend a university in Colorado that an illegal alien who is illegally living in the United States," political strategist Mike Baker pointed out."

It is time to put legal Americans first. Illegals need to leave now and not come back. Period and I wish it was the end of this but we all know, it is not.

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Colorado to give illegal aliens college tuition discounts

By Jim Kouri

At the same time as U.S. states such as Arizona are passing or pushing legislation for tougher immigration enforcement laws, one state is bucking the trend. Colorado officials are actually working to help illegal immigrants by offering them a taxpayer-funded benefit that should be reserved for legal U.S. residents and citizens.

Colorado legislators are reportedly on the verge of passing legislation to give illegal immigrants discounted in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. The measure has a good chance of passing the state’s Democrat-controlled Senate and could even make it through the Republican-led House, according Judicial Watch, a Washington, DC group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption.

Ironically, Colorado is the home state of one of the stalwarts of immigration enforcement and border security, former Congressman Tom Tancredo.

According to Judicial Watch, in 2009, the Colorado State Senate narrowly defeated a similar bill, but the law (Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow) got tweaked before being reintroduced and some legislators who voted against it are expected to support it. The bottom line is that both versions offer illegal immigrants discounted tuition at public institutions of higher learning.

"This is a perfect example of politicians showing contempt for American citizens. A student who is an American citizen living in New Mexico must pay a higher tuition to attend a university in Colorado that an illegal alien who is illegally living in the United States," political strategist Mike Baker pointed out.

The legislation’s two sponsors -- both Democratic state senators -- are promoting it as an economic development issue, asserting that children who can't afford to attend college don't reach their full potential as contributors to the state's economy. Therefore they risk becoming part of a permanent underclass, according to the lawmakers and their supporters.

"These politicians realize that their 'bleeding-heart' rationales don't work anymore, so now they fabricate arguments using buzzwords such as economy and investment," Baker said.

Ten states — including Texas, Utah, California, Oklahoma and Maryland — already subsidize the college education of illegal immigrants who graduate from local high schools. A few weeks ago Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit to stop government tuition benefits for illegal aliens in Montgomery County, Maryland where the perk is offered because officials claim it’s essential to promote the state’s security and economic stability.

Colorado’s plan comes amid a growing push by local governments nationwide to combat illegal immigration, the result of frustration over years of federal inaction. Dozens of state lawmakers plan to draft measures to curb illegal immigration and at least six states are set to introduce bills similar to Arizona’s, which bans “sanctuary city” policies, makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documentation and requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped for questioning.

More than 1,000 immigration-related bills will be introduced this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states as well as its commonwealths and territories. In each of the last two years, the figure reached about 1,500 and is expected to grow this year amid fury over the federal government’s inaction, according to Judicial Watch.

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Jim Kouri, CPP, formerly Fifth Vice-President, is currently a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for Examiner.com and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.

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Mexicans throw bombs at U.S. Consulate

As Obama now turns his focus on forcing through an amnesty program, we can find Harry Reid meeting with Latinos, many of who are probably illegal aliens and promising them the keys to our country. A free pass for being here illegaly and taking jobs from Americans. Here is what Reid told this crowd; “We’re going to pass immigration reform, just as we passed health care reform,” he said in a five-minute speech to the crowd, many of them Latinos. Latino voters, who strongly support an overhaul, were crucial to Barak Obama’s upset victory in the state in 2008. Here is more from an immigrant at this rally:“I’m very unhappy with President Obama because he said this would be the first thing he did when he was elected,” said Rafael Lopez, 21, an immigrant living in Las Vegas. “I’m worried because the Republicans are anti-immigrant,” he said, saying he feared that Republicans could make important gains in the elections in November.

Mr. Reid told the crowd that he believes he has 56 votes in the Senate to pass the immigration legislation. He called on immigrant groups to help mobilize support among Republicans for the overhaul.


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Mexicans Bomb US Embassy!

Bomb explodes at U.S. Consulate in Mexico

From ALIPAC, NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, April 11  -- The U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has closed indefinitely after somebody hurled an explosive device over a fence, officials said.

The device detonated Friday night, shattering windows in the consulate, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, but no one was injured, the U.S. embassy said.

The consulate said in a statement on its Web site it "will reopen when we are confident that we have adequate security to keep our visitors safe."

The New York Times reports the incident has renewed fears that violent Mexican drug traffickers may be targeting the U.S. government, which has supported President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug crusade.

The Mexican Attorney General of the Republic said it was looking at security-camera video and examining other evidence but did not give details about the device, which exploded about 11 p.m. local time Friday.

The incident comes after the shooting deaths last month of three people, including two Americans, linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, another town beset by violence and drug trafficking.

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Explosives tossed at US embassy in Mexico

Posted Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:00pm AEST

Assailants hurled an explosive device at a United States consulate in a northern Mexico border city, damaging windows but causing no injuries, the consulate said on Saturday.

The device was thrown over a wall surrounding the consulate in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, on Friday night (local time).

The consulate said in a statement it would be closed indefinitely.

It was the latest attack on US consulates and consulate staff in Mexico.

Suspected drug hitmen killed three people linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez last month, provoking outrage from US president Barack Obama and putting new pressure on Mexico to stop the growing violence.

Gunmen also threw a grenade at the US consulate in Monterrey in 2008.

Drug violence is raging across Mexico and almost 20,000 people have died in the fight among cartels and with Mexican security forces since president Felipe Calderon launched his army-led crackdown on drug gangs in late 2006.

Nuevo Laredo and the surrounding state of Tamaulipas have seen a surge in drug-related violence since the start of the year as the Gulf cartel fights its former armed wing, the Zetas, for smuggling routes into the United States.

The violence is scaring off tourists and worries Washington, which is giving anti-drug aid, equipment and police training to Mexico.

Some investors have frozen investment in factories in cities on the US border, especially in Ciudad Juarez, the most deadly spot in the drug war.

Sen. Harry Reid Promises Comprehensive Amnesty to large Mob of Illegal aliens!

Illegal Alien Supporters Plan May 1 'Mega March' for immigration reform Amnesty

Unemeployment. Yes, that is what it is all about.

No need to write much in front of this post, so I will not. As they like to say: Just connect the dots or in this case, the unemployment numbers and illegal aliens in this country.

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Unemployment tied to lack of immigration enforcement
By Jim Kouri

Law Enforcement Examiner , Although President Obama says creating jobs is his top priority, his failure to enforce immigration laws at worksites has led to job losses for American workers. That is the message of a new television ad campaign by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and allied organizations concerned about unemployment.

"The United States is suffering its highest unemployment rate in decades, yet President Obama has cut jobsite enforcement of immigration laws by 60 percent. How seriously should we take his claims that he is focusing on this issue?" asked Diana Hull, the President of CAPS.

The ads note that over 8 million jobs are held by foreign workers who are in this country illegally and ask Americans to call the President to complain.

Even when illegal workers are apprehended, they are typically released and free to take other jobs. Furthermore, the Obama Administration annually admits more than a million legal foreign workers under various immigration programs.

"Obama is truly hypocritical on this important issue. Even as he claims to generate jobs for American workers, he removes them with his immigration policy," Hull said.

It's the Unemployment Line, Stupid

James Carville coined the axiom "It's the economy, stupid" to deftly underscore the electorate's anxiety that swept Bill Clinton into the White House in 1992. Nearly two decades later, the Washington power elite now trumpets an economic recovery even as Americans watch living-wage jobs disappear faster than the Dodo bird. Despite brutal job losses that have hammered the American working and middle classes, more than 125,000 foreign workers continue to arrive legally in United States every month. Joining these legally imported workers each month are nearly as many illegal immigrants, most of whom are hungry for work and in need of social services that were created for America's most at-risk and in-need citizens.


The 2010 Forecast: American workers shouldn't expect any more appreciable relief from Washington this year than they received in 2009. Most Democrats favor open borders and mass amnesty in order to boost their voter registration in key states, while many Republicans generally oppose them only as a means to leverage greater concessions from the Democrats on foreign worker visas for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The Late, Great State of California

The Golden State's make-believe economy of the past two decades has vanished with the bursting of its ethereal dot-com and fantasy real estate bubbles, leaving nearly 40 million Californians to face successive budget deficits of more than $20 billion annually, crumbling infrastructure, sustained drought and jobless rates deep in the double digits. Yet the professional politicians perpetually roosting in Sacramento appear alternately paralyzed and punch-drunk; frozen in partisan acrimony one moment and stumbling around with tax-and-spend proposals the next.


The 2010 Forecast: Hope for little and expect even less. This train of unrestricted growth and wild-eyed spending has been out of control for years now and Sacramento has proven itself unable and unwilling to act decisively. Even at its present population growth rate of around 1% -- almost all of which is due to immigration and birth to immigrants -- California will hit nearly 60 million people by 2050 and 85 million people by the end of this century. If you think things look grim now, try to envision what your kids will be facing in a state twice as crowded but with dramatically less resources than it has today.

CAPS and its partners in the Coalition for the Future American Worker are running the ads to educate the public about immigration policy and its impact on unemployment. The current ads can be viewed at www.CAPSweb.org.