Attorneys general from at least 11 states say they will challenge the constitutionality of the healthcare reform bill passed by the House of Representatives Sunday night.  The threatened action suggests the controversial measure is about to move from the legislative realm into what could become a protracted and messy fight in the courts. The attorneys general say they will sue once President Obama signs the bill into law. They are pledging to take their battle all the way to the US Supreme Court

DURBIN: We want to bring a bill forward this year in the Senate, in the House, that deals with comprehensive immigration reform, the things that are absolutely essential. And if I never do another thing in the rest of my Senatorial career, I’m going to pass that Dream Act.

Democrats in the House needed 216 votes to pass the Senate’s version of a sweeping health-care package Barack Obama has been pushing with all his presidential might.  They tallied 219.  Democrats hailed the vote as a landmark victory.

“When a Free Country forces anything upon it’s people, it is not a free country, rather, it’s a Facist Dictatorship!”  Say’s Jon Healy

(Media-Newswire.com) - Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) Secretary Janet Napolitano met with stakeholders today to discuss ongoing efforts to work together to create a comprehensive approach to immigration reform.

Secretary Napolitano stressed that the broken immigration system is a problem that has been ignored too long, and said today’s meeting was another important step forward in this administration’s efforts to work with our colleagues in Congress and representatives from law enforcement, business, labor, the faith community, advocacy groups and others to fix our current laws.

Los Angeles Angels’ African-American superstar center fielder Torii Hunter detonated the first of the 2010 baseball season’s field atomic bomb when he claimed that Dominican players are not really black.   According to Hunter, Dominicans are “impostors”  Here are Hunter’s exact words:

“We need another one ¶ It’s been more than 23 years,” Jimenez said referring to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 which paved the way for her legalization and American citizenship. “I’m here to give my support for others to become legal.”

On Sunday, a day when Washington, D.C. was busy dealing with the health care package, Jimenez was among 10,000 people who filled the streets of Salinas to send a message to President Barrack Obama: Don’t forget about immigration reform.

IPCC Reports claim with certainty that increases in global temperature since the 19th century are due to human addition of CO2. There are a multitude of problems with the claim not least the omission or lack of understanding of major temperature altering mechanisms. We are in the middle of an El Nino event, more commonly called El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that is modifying temperatures beyond human effect (Figure 1).

On Friday, Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) appeared on Fox News in an interview with Martha MacCallum, in which the Congresswoman took issue with the idea that the so-called health care reform bill is full of “sweetheart deals” used to buy votes.

During her interview, Schultz interrupted MacCallum to claim that there were no sweetheart deals in Obamacare, saying: “They are not in the bill.”

Texas Congressman Ron Paul warns that last night’s passage of the health care reform bill will prompt the government to hire thousands of new IRS agents who will be used to steal money from taxpaying Americans to fund the new program.

Paul also told Fox News that the passage of Obamacare will only be repealed once the United States enters bankruptcy as a result of its exploding national deficit and runaway spending.

In the Middle East and other places where America is reviled, we often hear chants of “Death to America” by anti-American protesters. Who needs anti-American protesters when we have our own government working against our interests?

With the House passage of health care “reform,” Americans now must purchase an “approved” health insurance plan or pay a fine. Approved by whom? Why, the government, of course, and the IRS is now in the happy (?) position of playing Gestapo.

The Obama administration is practically out of the business of deporting illegal immigrants arrested at work sites in America. It has instituted a new version of “catch and release.” What the new policy should be called is “virtual amnesty.”Last year in Bellingham, Wash., 28 illegal immigrants were arrested during a raid at a manufacturing plant after they admitted getting their jobs by false documents. Not only were these individuals released, 24 of them were given permits to find jobs!

Thanks to the endless barrage of feel-good propaganda that daily assaults the American mind, best epitomized a few months ago by the “green shoots,” everything’s-coming-up-roses propaganda touted by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, the citizens have no idea how disastrous the country’s fiscal, monetary and economic problems truly are. Nor do they perceive the rapidly increasing risk of a totalitarian nightmare descending upon the American Republic.

We are moving our office today, updates will resume Monday.

Reporting from Riverside — Describing it as “urban terrorism,” California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials Thursday in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force.  “It is incredible and even unprecedented for police officers here to be subject to terrorist attack,” Brown said at a Riverside news conference. “We have seen it south of the border, but not here yet.”

The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said.  The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released.

This recent Washington Times article makes it clear that the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano is finally, at long last, conceding that the outrageously expensive “Virtual Fence,” also known by a number of other military sounding names such as SBInet (Secure Border Initiative), is not performing as was claimed or was it was purportedly hoped it would. I say “purportedly” because I am convinced that the the current administration, as well as several previous administrations, had absolutely no intention of securing our nation’s borders – but intended to provide the illusion that they were working towards this goal.

Merida Initiative doomed to failure?

Responding to comments about the inability of the Mexican Army from USA Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who said “The deployment of the Mexican Army in Juárez has not accomplished anything”, Secretary of State Fernando Gomez retorted that she (Napolitano) needs to understand the impact of such statements before launching a “holy war”.  “Those statements should be retracted”, said Gomez.

Our immigration system is badly broken. Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave when they are supposed to. And employers are burdened by a complicated system for verifying workers’ immigration status.

Last week we met with President Obama to discuss our draft framework for action on immigration. We expressed our belief that America’s security and economic well-being depend on enacting sensible immigration policies.

Sixty-four arrests were made and more than 900 pounds of marijuana were seized in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest crime sweep of the Valley before deputies hit the roads again on Friday.

Of the people arrested, 47 were determined by deputies to be in the country illegally, Arpaio said in a press conference Friday afternoon.

You just can’t get around it. Public education always involves the teaching of certain standards. And some authority or group of authorities must decide on the standards. The only question is, what authorities?

In the teaching of social studies, particularly history, there are all sorts of decisions that must be made. What historical personages and movements are emphasized? What is left out? How is it taught?

NEW YORK — Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them undocumented Hispanics, to dramatize their pleas for immigration reform.

The laborers, walking more than 250 miles from Hempstead, N.Y., hope to join immigrants aboard more than 700 buses from at least 28 states and numerous caravans from the South and Southwest.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the war involving drug cartels once again escalating along the U.S.-Mexico border, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX 10) urged the Department of Homeland Security to reprioritize the installation of long-delayed security measures, some of which are part of SBInet, a program that has been plagued with cost overruns and delays.

The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it is halting funding of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, but 59% of Americans believe the United States should continue to build that fence.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of adults disagree and think the building of the fence should be stopped. Fifteen percent (15%) more are not sure.

On issues ranging from light bulbs and medical marijuana to health care mandates and gun regulations, states in a rising tsunami are challenging the federal government’s authority to micromanage their affairs.

“Since 2007, more than two dozen states have passed resolutions or laws denouncing and refusing to implement the federal REAL ID Act, which imposes rigorous issuance standards for driver’s licenses and state ID cards,” wrote Suzanne Weiss in an analysis titled, “Sovereignty measures and other steps may indicate an upsurge in anti-federal sentiment in legislatures” at the National Conference of State Legislatures.

CAMPO, Calif.—Jim Wood doesn’t think the U.S. government is adequately guarding the border with Mexico here. So he has taken on the job himself.

While the federal government fumbles with mishaps and delays in the so-called virtual fence—a network of cameras, sensors and radar that has cost more than $600 million—Mr. Wood is installing his own surveillance system with equipment from Fry’s Electronics and eBay.

Organizers of a march for immigrants rights in Washington this Sunday are reaching out to African Americans, hoping to bring the two communities together around an issue that has been a wedge between them.   The campaign includes ads for the march on urban radio stations along the East Coast, asking for listeners to lend their support. “Everyone has been hurt by the economy, especially African Americans and immigrants. The truth is, together you can demand real change,” the ads state.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio just announced plans to launch another crime and immigration sweep this week, with the exact location and time remaining classified. It will be the 14th such raid in the last two years.  In 13 recent sweeps, Sheriff Arpaio’s deputies have arrested 669 people, about half of whom proved to be in the country illegally.

Brownsville, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge discovered cocaine hidden within a Nissan Tiida.

On Tuesday, March 16, at the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge, CBP officers encountered a tan 2009 Nissan Tiida driven by a 20-year-old female Mexico citizen who resides in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

On Tuesday, deputies in Charles County, MD arrested six illegal aliens in their residence on Nicholas Road. Detectives say the men are responsible for a gang rape which lasted several hours, which ended when the victim was able to escape her attackers.

Detectives from the Special Victims Unit said that the woman met one of the men the night before, at an Alexandria, Va. nightclub. The man offered to drive her home, and she accepted

The level of intense anger at Washington is heating up as several high-profile groups are calling on millions of Americans to slam Congress with phone calls, e-mails and faxes demanding that lawmakers vote “no” on the health-care bill.   As WND reported, reforms pushed by President Obama and other Democrats may be approved without ever actually having a direct vote, but could be “deemed” to have been passed and then signed into law by Obama. The process is called the “Slaughter Strategy,” named for Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., who chairs the House Rules Committee.