Finally, a bit of good news from across the Nation. First item: voters Remember who supported illegals in Herndon, Virginia and voted them out of office!! We can do it too, all across the Country in November!! REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!
Second article is a story about an Arizona sheriff who has realized that he has the power to enforce immigration laws and is doing something about it. Something people either don't realize or tend to forget is that some of the most powerful individuals across the Nation are our duly elected sheriffs and just what sort of powers they hold.
We CAN take our Country back by staying informed and working together!
If you haven't already made those calls to our Tennessee legislators, our last Alert is still linked from our home page.
Thank you for staying involved and informed!!
Theresa Harmon
Tennesseans for Responsible Immigration Policies
Labor Site Backlash Felt at Polls In Herndon
Three Who Supported Immigrant Center Ousted
By Bill Turque and Nikita Stewart
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 3, 2006; Page A01
Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum on the turbulent national issue of illegal immigration.
Residents replaced the incumbents with challengers who immediately called for significant changes at the center. Some want to bar public funds from being spent on the facility or restrict it to workers living in the country legally. Others want it moved to an industrial site away from the residential neighborhood where it is located.
The labor center forced the western Fairfax County town into the national spotlight last summer as the immigration debate grew deeply contentious. Even though fewer than 3,000 people voted yesterday, advocates on both sides of the issue looked at the Herndon election as a test of public sentiment. Outside groups such as the Minuteman Project, which opposes illegal immigration, intervened in the debate, and Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, is suing the town over the establishment of the center.
The council voted 5 to 2 last August to establish the center, but yesterday's vote created an apparent 6 to 1 majority in opposition. Steve J. DeBenedittis, 38, a health club operator and political newcomer, defeated Mayor Michael L. O'Reilly with 52 percent of the vote. Council members Carol A. Bruce and Steven D. Mitchell, who voted for the center, also were turned out of office. Jorge Rochac, a Salvadoran businessman who supported the center and was seeking to become the town's first Hispanic council member, also was defeated.
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05.02.06
(CBS 5 NEWS) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that approximately
100 volunteer posse and Sheriff's Deputies will soon begin randomly patrolling
the desert areas and main roadways in southwest Maricopa County as a part of an
operation to curb the flow of illegal immigrants entering the county.
Arpaio made the announced just as 11 more illegal immigrants were being booked
in jail after a Ford Windstar with California plates and 16 people packed inside
was stopped by a Sheriff's deputy early Tuesday morning on a traffic violation
near Gila Bend.
Despite the growing controversy about illegal aliens nationwide, the Maricopa
County Sheriff's Office remains the only Arizona law enforcement agency willing
to enforce a new state anti-smuggling law.
"There are so many illegals trying to make it into the county that it's
overwhelming my deputies, so I have called on members of my 3000 member
volunteer posse to assist," says Sheriff Arpaio. "It's not only illegals we
find and arrest out there, we've also made some recent huge drug seizures
involving illegal aliens including nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine and
approximately three pounds of heroin."
Posse man Andrew Ramsammy, who was part of Tuesday's arrest team, says that he
believes he represents many of his peers when he says that the posse is anxious
to be a part of the Sheriff's solution to the immigration problem.
"As a group of law abiding people, we are fed up with the number of people who
come into this county illegally. We're tired of the drugs that some of them
bring to sell to our young people and we're ready and willing to assist the
Sheriff's deputies in the fight against illegal immigration," says Ramsammy.
Sheriff Arpaio says Tuesday's arrests include two coyotes, one of whom may be
charged with a far more serious offense - endangerment.
Virgilio Parra Sabori may face a class 6 felony charge if it is determined that
he recklessly left one of his customers to die in the desert.
That customer who may have paid as much as $1100 to gain entrance into the
country, was a 24-year-old Mexican male found near death by deputies who combed
the desert earlier today after being told by other people in the vehicle that
one man was left behind. That young man was found lying in the sun on the desert
floor and is currently in serious condition in a west valley hospital.
Arpaio says today his deputies so far have made seven anti smuggling cases in
the last few weeks alone and that 120 illegals have been arrested and jailed.
Arpaio houses 10,000 prisoners in his jails, including almost 2000 in a tent
city he erected in 1993. Tent City is being expanded to hold an anticipated
increase in of inmates being incarcerated in the Maricopa County jails.