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Seeing Todays Immigrants Straight
Seeing Todays Immigrants Straight
Heather Mac Donald
Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform let ideology blind them to the dispiriting facts on the ground.
The immigration debate has divided the conservative movement, with each side accusing the other of betraying core conservative principles. Amnesty proponents argue that Americas best traditions require legalizing the 11 to 12 million illegal aliens already here and opening the door wide to would-be migrants the world over. Illegal immigration, these conservative advocates say, is the inevitable and blameless consequence of misguided laws that foolishlyand vainlyseek to prevent willing workers and labor-hungry employers from finding each other. Hispanicsthe vast majority of aliens and the real center of the immigration debatebring much-needed family values and a work ethic to the American polity; refusing to grant them legal status would destroy Republican hopes for a large new voting bloc. Since popular opposition to large-scale Hispanic immigration stems from economic ignorance and nativist fear, policymakers should protect America from its own worst impulses and ignore the anti-immigration revolt.
Conservative opponents of amnesty and liberalized immigration respond that the rule of law is at stake. Rewarding large-scale lawbreaking with legal status and financial benefits will spark further violations. The mass amnesty protests of the spring were part of a growing international movement challenging national sovereignty. Conservative respect for facts should encourage skepticism toward claims of superior Hispanic values. And the conservative preference for local decision making cautions against dismissing the popular backlash against illegal immigration; it is just possible that people closest to the problem know something that Beltway insiders do not.
Vexing the debate further, the popular revolt is not just against illegal immigration but against high levels of unskilled Mexican immigration per se. As political scientist Peter Skerry observes, the public dislikes the effect on local communities of large numbers of poor Mexicans and their progeny, legal or not. Some of the effects, such as crime, worsen dramatically from the first to the second generation of Mexicans, who not only are legal but are American citizens.
Since criticizing illegal immigration often draws charges of racism, few relish going further and challenging the wisdom of our current immigration flows, legal or not. Yet unless we accurately diagnose the immigration problem, any legislative fix that merely converts the current illegal flow to a legal one will fail both as policy and as politics. Herewithin an effort to sharpen the internal debateare the conservative principles that militate against amnesty, for immigration-law enforcement, and for a radical change in immigration priorities.
Principle 1: Respect the law. This years illegal-alien demonstrators put forward a novel theory of entitlement: because we are here, we have a right to be here. Protesters in Santa Ana, California, shouted: We are here and were not going anywhere, reports the Los Angeles Times. Anger at the widespread contempt for American law contained in such defiant assertions drives much of the public hostility toward illegal aliens. Conservatives, with their respect for the rule of law, and appreciation for its fragility, would ordinarily honor this gut reaction, rather than dismissing it as some atavistic tribal impulse. Poverty and other grounds for victim status do not, in the conservative worldview, create a license for lawbreaking.
The rule of law ensures that like cases are treated alike and unlike cases distinguished. But if the immigration protesters have their way, someone who ignored all the procedures for legal entry will achieve the same status and benefits as someone who played by the rules. During the Senates immigration debates in the spring, amnesty proponents claimed that it was unfair that people who have worked for American employers be forced to live in the shadows. Left out of the equation was the question of justice to people who have waited for years in their own countries for permission to enter lawfully.
Protecting one form of lawbreaking may require protecting others as well. The city of Maywood in Los Angeles County declared itself a sanctuary zone for illegal aliens this year. Then it got rid of its drunk-driving checkpoints, because they were nabbing too many illegal aliens. Next, this 96 percent Latino city, almost half of whose adult population lacks a ninth-grade education, disbanded its police traffic division entirely, so that illegals wouldnt need to worry about having their cars towed for being unlicensed.
Principle 2: Protect sovereignty. Todays international elites seek to dissolve discriminatory distinctions between citizens and noncitizens and to discredit border laws aiming to control the flow of migrants. The spring amnesty demonstrations are a measure of how far such new anti-national-sovereignty ideas have spread. The last large-scale amnesty in 1986 was not preceded by mass demonstrations by illegal aliens but was rather a bargaining chip among American legislators, negotiated in exchange for employer sanctions and a national worker-verification card. Predictably, the card never materialized, and the sanctions were never enforced; only the amnesty lived on.
By contrast, this years protesters spoke the language of the anti-sovereignty intelligentsia. This increasingly influential discourse was on display at a May conference of Latin American diplomats at the Library of Congress, which spun endless variations on the identical theme: migration is a fundamental human right. As Nicaraguas minister of foreign affairs, Norman Caldera Cardenal, put it: It is the responsibility of all nations to respect the dignity, integrity, and rights of all migrants. (The delegations dutifully acknowledged the U.S. prerogative to decide its own immigration policy, but these ritual genuflections were insignificant compared with the invocations of migrants rights.) In less diplomatic language, Mexicos bicameral permanent legislative commission calls American immigration policy racist, xenophobic, and a profound violation of human rights, reports George Grayson in The American Conservative.
Less than a week before the Library of Congress conference, illegal aliens on the streets of Southern California were making the identical demands: We just want some respect and human rights, a Santa Ana protester told the Los Angeles Times. Were fighting to give [immigrants] equal rights, explained a marcher in Riverside, California, holding a Legalize, Not Terrorize sign.
This call for human rights is a clever one, for it hides its radical status in a rhetorical safe harbor. What, exactly, are the human rights that the U.S. is denying illegal aliens? They have unfettered access to free medical care, free education, welfare for their children, free representation in court when they commit crimes, every due-process protection during criminal prosecution that the Constitution guarantees citizens and legal immigrants, the shelter of labor laws, and the miracles of modern industrial society like clean water, the control of infectious diseases (including the ones that they bring with them), and plumbing. The only putative right that they lackand that, of course, is the human right to which they and their ambassadors referis the right to legal status regardless of illegal entry.
So when the illegal-alien demonstrators and their government representatives demand respect for migrants human rights, they are asserting that U.S. immigration laws must fall before a more powerful claim. Despite the nondiscriminatory procedures for entry that Congress established, merely subjecting an illegal alien to an unequal status compared with legal migrants or citizens violates his human rights. Simply creating in his mind the teeniest thought that he may be penalized for his violation of American sovereignty is itself a callous abuse. The director of a Hispanic social-services agency in Georgia complained to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the federal governments modest immigration arrests in April have created a mental sickness, where people are depressed. Who wants to be thinking any minute youre going to be arrested. Mexicos consul general in Austin, Jorge Guajardo, echoed this sense of outrage at the fear the immigration arrests had caused: It doesnt help society or anyone to have these people running scared, he told the Austin American-Statesman.
The Bush administration and its conservative supporters have defended American law against international claims to override it. To the applause of conservative pundits, the administration has unsigned the International Criminal Court treaty and withdrawn from the Kyoto global-warming protocol. It refused to wait for UN Security Council approval to start the invasion of Iraq. It has claimed the right to interpret international human rights laws for itself during the war on terror, rather than defer to nonelected bodies like the UN or the International Committee of the Red Cross. Conservative pundits have supported Israels right to erect a security fence, despite the protestation by the UN International Court of Justice that the fence is illegal. Yet when it comes to immigration law, conservative open-borders advocates and the White House adopt the identical position as the growing anti-sovereignty movement, downplaying the violation of our border law and elevating the rights of the illegal migrant to sovereign status.
The illegal-alien rights movement has deployed another powerful contemporary rhetoric: ethnic victimology. As frequent as the demands during the protests to recognize illegals human rights were the demands for respect. People have to learn to respect Mexicans, to respect immigrants and the work we do here, an L.A. demonstrator told the Los Angeles Times. Respect for the migrant is fundamental, Costa Ricas minister of foreign affairs told the Library of Congress conference. According to this perspective, immigration policy insults aliens by subjecting them to different statuses according to whether they obeyed the law or not. While the rhetoric of wounded ethnic pride is long in the tooth by now, what is new about todays protests is not only the sense of entitlement with which lawbreakers strike such an attitude, but also that many conservatives back them.
If the Bush administration and its supporters believe that they can reassert the supremacy of American immigration law after yet another amnesty, they are fooling themselves. No one will take the assurance that this time we mean business seriously. If the executive branch is not willing to enforce the current law against violators, a new set of laws will not suddenly strengthen its resolve.
The fictions of the proposed guest-worker law are particularly self-deluded. No AWOL guest worker is going to think that he faces the slightest risk of deportation, knowing that the government wont even penalize people who entered the country illegally from Day One. If the proposed amnesty becomes law, expect illegal immigration to explode, just as it did after the 1986 amnesty, when illegal entry increased fivefold.
Principle 3: Support law enforcement. Come-and-get-it immigration advocates endlessly assert that immigration enforcement cant work. This claim ignores the most important demonstration of conservative principles in the last 20 years.
Elite wisdom for decades held that the police cannot affect crime. The social forces pushing criminals to break the lawpoverty, racism, addictionwere too powerful; policing could at best try to solve crimes after they happened. New Yorks Mayor Giuliani and his first police chief, William Bratton, rejected that fatalism. They empowered the New York Police Department to enforce aggressively laws that had long lain moribund. The targets of the new public-order push complained bitterly that it was unfair to arrest them for marijuana sales and other crimes after years of de facto decriminalization. The NYPD continued its enforcement drive anyway and brought crime down 70 percent in a decade. It turns out that the well-founded fear of getting caught changes behavior.
Conservative open-borders advocates do not explain why policing brings domestic crime down but can have no effect on border crime. Nor can they point to any evidence to support their claim, since immigration laws have never been enforced in the interior of the country. To be sure, border defenses have been fortified over the years, but the drill has been: if you can get past the border patrol, you are home free. The most important action the government could take to end illegal immigration would be to penalize employers that unlawfully hire illegal aliens, but in 2004, it issued fine notices to only three companies. With such a negligible risk of punishment, the laws deterrent effect has been zero. Illegal aliens, for their part, know that in none of their interactions with state services will anyone check their statusincluding, in most cities, when they are arrested for a crimenor, if their illegal status is obvious, will anyone report them to the federal government.
Not only is the claim that enforcement doesnt work based on no evidence whatsoever, but in fact what evidence there is runs in the opposite direction. The merest hint of enforcement leads employers and illegal aliens to make different calculations about the advantages of breaking the law. Employers in Gwinnett County, north of Atlanta, have grown reluctant to hire illegals after highly publicized federal raids on an international pallet company in April and the passage of an omnibus Georgia law that, among other measures, punishes employers for breaking the immigration rules. The state law has not been enforced yet, but already fewer employers are seeking illegal day laborers. A Mexican from Guanajuato told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he is going back home if the jobs picture doesnt pick up soon; others like him may be making similar plans.
Phoenix teaches the same lesson. Home Depot, on the citys central business artery, for years tolerated the hundreds of illegal Hispanics congregating outside the store and in its parking lot. Neighboring businesses complained bitterly about lost customers and the constant littering, trespassing, and public urination. This May, Home Depot posted signs against trespassing and picking up day laborers, and hired off-duty police officers to enforce the rules. Since then, the day laborers have almost completely disappeared.
Federal agencies have designated a stretch of the Texas border a zero-tolerance zone for border trespassing since December 6, 2005. Rather than releasing illegal entrants upon capture, the feds jail them for their border crime, then deport them. One Border Patrol agent told the Washington Post that the 51 percent drop in apprehensions since the operation began are the most dynamic results he had seen in 19 years on the force. The Post concluded: Operation Streamline II has shown what it takes to stop the flow of illegal immigrants: aggressive enforcement of the laws on the books.
After 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security deported 1,500 illegal Pakistanis. An additional 15,000 then left voluntarily, reports Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies. There is no reason to think that this enforcement-through-attrition strategy wont work as well for Hispanic illegals. Simply requiring employers to verify the status of their workers would deny jobs to 3 million illegal workers, which should lead many to leave.
Immigration liberalizers wield the threat of mass deportations as the only alternative to amnesty. By now this argument borders on bad faith, since it has been refuted so many times. The attrition strategyrelying on illegal aliens to leave voluntarily as their access to American benefits diminisheswould work just as effectively, without coercion.
Many open-borders boosters are hawks in the war on terror. But since many of the methods that maintain the borders integrity overall are essential to keeping terrorists out of the country, these boosters should explain why they think we can wink at immigration-border violations and still protect the public against foreign enemies. Either we should give up on keeping immigration lawbreakers and terrorists from entering the country, or we should remain vigilant against both, since border security is key to terror protection.
Principle 4: Pay attention to facts on the ground. If someone proposed a program to boost the number of Americans who lack a high school diploma, have children out of wedlock, sell drugs, steal, or use welfare, hed be deemed mad. Yet liberalized immigration rules would do just that. The illegitimacy rate among Hispanics is high and rising faster than that of other ethnic groups; their dropout rate is the highest in the country; Hispanic children are joining gangs at younger and younger ages. Academic achievement is abysmal.
Conservatives pride themselves on reality-based thinking that rejects utopian theories in favor of facts on the ground. Yet when it comes to immigration, they cling, against all contrary evidence, to the myth of the redeeming power of Hispanic family values, the Hispanic work ethic, and Hispanic virtue. Even more fanciful is the claim that it is immigrants children who constitute the real value to American society. The children of todays Hispanic immigrants, in fact, are in considerable trouble.
Without doubt, many Latinos are upwardly mobile. But a significant portion of their children are getting sucked into street life, as a trip to almost any urban high school and some conversations with almost any Hispanic student will verify. In the field, the conservative fact-finder would learn that teen pregnancy is pervasive and that Hispanic boys increasingly regard fathering children as the prerequisite to becoming a playah.
Conservatives have never shrunk from pointing out that dysfunctional behavior creates long-term poverty among inner-city blacks. But when Hispanics engage in the same behavior, they fall silent. From 1990 to 2004, the number of Hispanics in poverty rose 52 percent, accounting for 92 percent of the increase in poor people. The number of poor Hispanic children rose 43 percent, reports Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson. By contrast, the number of poor black children has declined 17 percent since 1990. The influx of dirt-poor Mexicans drives the Hispanic poverty increase, of course, but their behavior once here doesnt help.
Our immigration policy is creating a second underclass, one with the potential to expand indefinitely if current immigration rates merely stay the same, much less treble, as they would under the Hagel-Martinez Senate bill. Given the rapid increase in the Hispanic population, the prevalence of the following socially destructive behavior among Hispanics should be cause for serious concern.
Illegitimacy. Half of all children born to Hispanic Americans in 2002 were illegitimate, twice the rate for American whites and 42 percent higher than the overall American rate. The birthrate for Hispanic teens is higher than that for black teens. In Santa Ana, California, which has the highest proportion of people who speak Spanish at home of any large U.S. city74 percentthe teen birthrate was twice the national teen average in 2000. This predilection for out-of-wedlock childbearing among Hispanics cannot be blamed solely on corrosive American culture, since the illegitimacy rate for foreign-born Hispanics is 40 percent. The illegitimacy rate in Mexico is 38 percent; in El Salvador, it is 72 percent.
It is hard to reconcile these statistics with the durable myth of superior Hispanic family values. A random walk through Santa Ana encountered ample evidence of Hispanic family breakdown. Livia came illegally from Mexico six years ago and then bore two illegitimate children; she now sells fruit from a pushcart on Main Street. A few blocks away, a 23-year-old illegal unmarried mother from El Salvador is protesting for smaller class sizes (an irony lost on her) outside a Santa Ana school board meeting. She came to the U.S. at age ten, dropped out of high school, and had her son really young. He is now on welfare. This unwed mother prides herself on not having had any more children. So many Latinas are having so many kids, she says disapprovingly. Kids are having kids.
Even the mainstream media cant help stumbling across the Hispanic illegitimacy epidemic. Reporting on this springs illegal-alien protests in downtown L.A., the Los Angeles Times turned up Guadalupe Aguilera, the mother of five illegitimate children. Aguilera thinks herself self-sacrificing for putting her children only on the WIC federal food program. If she had documents, she said, she could take advantage of a far greater range of welfare benefits. I lose money that I could give my children, she complained to the Times. Increasingly, Hispanic family values mean collecting welfare for out-of-wedlock children.
Academic failure. It would be useful for open-borders optimists to spend some time in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is 73 percent Hispanic, and where just 40 percent of Hispanic students graduate. (Nationwide, 53 percent of Hispanics graduate from high school, according to the Manhattan Institutes Jay Greenethe lowest rate among all ethnic groups.) Of those Hispanic students who do graduate, just 22 percent have completed the course work necessary for admission to a four-year state collegewhich means that of all Hispanic students who enter in ninth grade, fewer than 15 percent will graduate ready for college. Immigrant advocates have fiercely opposed in court a long-deferred California high school exit exam, which would require students to answer just over 50 percent of questions testing eighth-grade-level math and ninth-grade-level English. The California Research Bureau predicts that if the exam becomes a reality, Hispanic graduation rates would drop well below 30 percent.
A recent Los Angeles Times series on high school dropouts put some faces on the numbers. Eleven male Hispanic friends entered Birmingham High School in Van Nuys together in 2001; only three graduated. Because the boys spent so much time cutting classesusually hanging out at fast-food restaurantsmost failed to log any academic progress and saw no sense in staying enrolled. Drugs, turf rivalries, and fathering children also contributed to their failure to graduate. Birminghams teachers despair at their students lack of academic commitment and at their belief that seat time should entitle them to a passing grade. Reports Ronald Fryer in Education Next, hostility toward academic achievers is even higher among Hispanics than among blacks.
Schools spend huge sums trying to improve the Hispanic graduation rate, even hiring outreach consultants for dropout prevention. One Santa Ana consultants approach is predictably multicultural. We need to teach teachers that students need to be proud of where they are coming from, she told me. But of course Hispanic school failure derives not from ethnic neglectthe Santa Ana schools glorify the Hispanic heritage to a faultbut from parents who dont demand rigorous academic application and dont stand up to corrosive popular influences. At Santa Ana High School, I spoke with a former student, Julio, who had been expelled as a troublemaker in ninth grade, then returned briefly in the tenth grade but didnt take a single class. Me and my friends ditched; our parents didnt know. It is the cultural capital that immigrants bring with them that most determines their success; the work ethic of poor Mexicans does not carry over to their childrens schooling, and we are all paying the price.
The more-immigrants-the-better proponents counter that early-twentieth-century Italian immigrants were also indifferent to schooling but eventually joined the middle class. But by contrast with the economy of a century ago, todays knowledge-based economy values education above all else. College-educated workers have seen a 22 percent increase in real income since 1980, while high school dropouts lost 3 percent of their wages. High school dropouts will almost certainly remain poor, imposing huge welfare and health-care costs on taxpayers while lowering tax receipts. Native-born Hispanics collected welfare at over twice the rate as native-born whites in 2005; the foreign-born Hispanic welfare rate was nearly three times that of native-born whites.
Gang culture. In his prime-time May radio address promoting amnesty, President George Bush invoked a marine, Guadalupe Denogean, as the embodiment of immigrant values. Like Denogean, todays immigrants are willing, said Bush, to risk everything for the dream of freedom. Many immigrants do share Denogeans patriotic ethic. But for every immigrant soldier, there are as many less admirable counterparts. A selection of Hispanic portraits could just as well have picked out Connie Retana, a 38-year-old Anaheim, California, resident, who in February egged on her 18-year-old son, Martin Delgado, as he and his gang friends raped a 23-year-old for seven hours in retaliation against the young womans boyfriend. A survey of Hispanic family values might also include the Santa Ana mother who threatened in 2004 to kill her neighbors if they testified against her gangster son in a gun-assault case. Then theres the extended family of criminals in Pomona, California, who raised Valentino Arenas: the 18-year-old sought membership in Pomonas 12th Street gang by killing a California highway patrol officer in cold blood in April 2004. Following a sweep in May of the gang, which specializes in large-scale drug trafficking, murder, and extortion, Los Angeles district attorney Steve Cooley excoriated the families across the California Southland who are aiding and abetting murders in Los Angeles County by refusing to cooperate with authorities or curtail their childrens crimes.
Open-borders conservatives point to the relatively low crime rate among immigrants to deny any connection between high immigration and crime. But unless we can prevent immigrants from having children, a high level of immigration translates to increased levels of crime. Between the foreign-born generation and their American children, the incarceration rate of Mexican-Americans jumps more than eightfold, resulting in an incarceration rate that is 3.45 times higher than that of whites, according to an analysis of 2000 census data by the pro-immigrant Migration Policy Institute.
California, with one-quarter of the nations immigrants and its greatest concentration of Mexicans and Central Americans, is the bellwether state for all things relating to unbridled Hispanic immigration, including crime. The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, conducted by sociologists Alejandro Portes of Princeton and Rubén G. Rumbaut of the University of California, Irvine, followed the children of immigrants in San Diego and Miami from 1992 to 2003. A whopping 28 percent of Mexican-American males between the ages of 18 and 24 reported having been arrested since 1995, and 20 percent reported having been incarcerateda rate twice that of other immigrant groups. Anyone who speaks to Hispanic students in immigrant-saturated schools in Southern California will invariably hear the estimate that 50 percent of a students peers have ended up in gangs or other criminal activities.
Gang lifeboth Hispanic and blackimmediately asserted itself last July when the Los Angeles Unified School District opened a model high school to ease overcrowding. Despite amenities that rival those of private schoolsa swimming pool, Mac computers, a ballet studio, a rubber track, and a professional chefs kitchenit instantly gained the distinction of being one of the most violent campuses in the system. Shots rang out in front of the school on the second day of classes, reports the Los Angeles Times, and three days after opening ceremonies, police arrested a student with an AK-47 on the campus perimeter. Brawling students attacked safety officers and tried to grab their guns in December, while cops pepper-sprayed a dean breaking up a gang fight in March. Students sell meth in the classrooms, graffiti covers the stairwells, textbooks, and high-design umbrella-covered picnic tables, and a trip to the bathroom requires an adult safety escort.
Uncertain assimilation. Multicultural cheerleaders argue that assimilation is proceeding apace by pointing to the fact that virtually all third-generation Hispanics can speak English. Even so, linguistic and cultural segregation among Hispanics is increasing. The percentage of Hispanics living in Hispanic enclaves rose from 39 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2000, reports Robert Samuelson, and as more and more aliens from Mexico and Central America enter, the size of Spanish-speaking-only areas expands. Livia, the unmarried mother selling fruit on Santa Anas Main Street, says that no one she associates with speaks English. A coffee-shop owner down the block observes that its too easy in Santa Ana not to learn English. Its all Spanish-speaking here, she says. In California, the academic achievement gap between students with little English and English speakers is widening.
Meanwhile, taxpayers are footing the bill for interpreters across a host of government functions and for the translation of countless government documents. California spends $82.7 million a year on criminal-court interpreters for those 40 percent of its residents who speak a language other than English at home. At the same time, Spanish may be developing into a language of cultural assertion and opposition. A Hispanic resident of El Paso told New Yorks radio station WNYC in May that teen workers in fast-food and other retail outlets regularly refuse to answer her in English when she addresses them. At a city council meeting this March in Maywood, California, the illegal-alien sanctuary, a resident suggested that a council member was using English as a sign of disrespect. All this adds up to a significant, and accelerating, transformation of American culture.
Pro-amnesty forces promote the Ellis Island conceit that illegal immigrants risk everything for the dream of freedom, as President Bush put it in his May address. The presidents assessment, while flattering, is not particularly accurate. However lousy the Mexican economy, there are few if any political freedoms enjoyed by Americans that Mexico denies. It is the Yanqui dollar, not untasted freedom, that brings the vast majority of illegals here. The dream that most of us hold on to is the Mexican dream, Efrain Jimenez, an official with the Federation of Zacatecan Clubs of Southern California, told me last year. The Mexican dream is to make enough money to go back and own your own business. Four-fifths of Mexicans here would say that if they had a job in Mexico, theyd go back right away. Most Mexican immigrants do not intend to become Americans; they come wanting to return to their home country, but end up staying out of inertia. They naturalize at half the rate of Asians or Europeans. This is not a recipe for assimilation.
Mexicos Posturing Elites
The immigration mess has produced one compensation: the pleasure of watching the blowhard posturing of Mexicos elites. Molières comic buffoons never achieved the sheer perfection of hypocrisy, gall, and self-abasement on almost daily display from the Mexican diplomatic and political corps.
The obsession with the Yanqui imperialist next door is Mexicos most serious wasting disease. Keeping the specter of Yanqui interference alive means blaming the U.S. for all of Mexicos problems and asserting Mexicos incapacity to solve those problems on its own. Yet this renunciation of agency does not entail humility. To the contrary, the more insistent the claim that Mexico can do nothing for itself, the louder its leaders roar, and the more aggressively they denounce their savior and nemesis.
A recent entry in this ongoing performance is a May 4 New York Times op-ed by Jorge Castañeda, former Mexican foreign minister and currently a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University. As foreign minister, Castañeda played hardball, arguing that unless the U.S. gave Mexico what he called the full enchilada, that is, amnesty for its illegal migrants and a much higher immigration ceiling, it would . . . it would . . . well, in truth it would do nothing but increase its furious criticism of American abuses.
In his Times op-ed, Castañeda continues his amnesty or else theme, but this time he has actually come up with an or else: the further leftward lurch of Mexico and Latin America.
Castañeda distinguishes between two kinds of leftism: the wrong nationalist Left and the good progressive Left. (We will pass over his classically Latin American belief in the good Left.) The wrong part of the Left is gaining ground in Latin America, Castañeda says, in the persons of Venezuelas Hugo Chávez, Bolivias Evo Morales, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a candidate in Mexicos July 2 presidential race. If López Obrador were to take the Mexican presidency (which as of this writing he apparently has failed to do, though he has not conceded), the wrong Left could end up controlling a 2,000-mile border with the United States, Castañeda declares.
Whose responsibility is it to prevent the bad Left from taking over Mexico? Americas, of course! After warning of a return of the corrupt authoritarian machinery that governed Mexico for 70 years, Castañeda follows with a non sequitur: This is where leadership on immigration reform from George W. Bush and broad-minded Republican senators comes in. Someone not stricken with Yanqui obsession might think that it is up to Mexicans to keep a destructive ideology out of their own house. But that hypothesis assumes agency on the part of El Nortes oppressed southern neighbor. Castañeda knows better. Rather, it is up to the U.S. to strengthen support for Mexicos policies of the last decade by passing sensible immigration reform and thus blocking the rise of López Obrador.
Castañeda notes more in sorrow than in anger that after Mexican president Vicente Fox staked much of his prestige on President Bushs commitment to fix immigration policymeaning, of course, opening the American border up furtherMr. Bush left Mr. Fox empty-handed. Castañeda is willing to forgive, however, so long as the U.S. lives up to its responsibility to give Mr. Fox a huge boost by granting an amnesty and liberalizing its immigration rules.
One can think of many ways in which President Fox could have given himselfand his partys designated successor, Felipe Calderóna huge boost. Purging corruption in the police forces and throughout government, freeing entrepreneurs from crippling regulations, ending state control of vital industries, and encouraging and protecting foreign investment are but a few. Such actions, however, would require dismantling the status quo. It is much easier to demand that the U.S. open the border safety valve further, so that millions of surplus Mexicans, unable to find opportunity for advancement in the lethargic, overregulated Mexican economy, can escape rather than revolt.
As a former diplomat, Castañeda can snarl as well as wheedle and whine. He warns that nothing could offer better proof to the wrong Left of Americas not-so-benign neglect and imperial arrogance as further paralysis on immigration. Oh, dear. Here Castañeda has been playing the good leftie to Hugo Chávezs and Evo Moraless bad leftie, and now it turns out that there is not much difference between them. Both kinds of leftie at heart view the U.S. as a malign imperial force, despite its billions in foreign aid and the blanket of security protection that it offers Latin America.
Like the maestro that he is, Castañeda saves his most brilliant move for the end. After a column devoted to the proposition that it is Americas responsibility to keep the bad lefties out of Mexicos presidential palace, Castañeda pulls out that hoariest of conspiracy theories: American meddling in Mexican sovereignty! By opening its borders fully, Castañeda explains, the U.S. would encourage Mexican political continuity . . . without interfering in its neighbors political process. Just when you thought that Castañedas combination of chest-thumping bravado, cultivated helplessness, and hypocrisy could not get any more shameless, he tops himself. Hardly a day goes by when Mexican officials dont hand out identification cards to illegal Mexicans in the U.S. and promote the cards as a de facto legalizing device, dont advise their citizens about safe illegal travel into the U.S., and dont berate American policymakers for distinguishing illegal from legal migrants. Yet here is Castañeda snappishly warning against American political interference, even as he demands that America guarantee President Foxs political legacy.
A more economically and psychologically stable southern neighbor would benefit the U.S. enormously, but it would come at a considerable cost in entertainment value.
Principle 5: Prefer local decision makers over remote elites. Illegal immigration has prompted a powerful grassroots democratic reaction, as people in areas most affected by Hispanic immigration try to regain control of their communities. Cities, counties, and states have passed laws to regulate day-laborer sites, to push employers into compliance with immigration laws, to allow police officers to cooperate with federal immigration agents, to prevent illegal aliens from collecting welfare and from voting, and to tighten drivers-license requirements, among other initiatives.
After appeals from illegal-alien advocacy groups, judges have struck down many of these laws. Ordinarily, conservatives would deplore such thwarting of the peoples will. When it comes to illegal immigration, however, they side with the elites in robes and on Capitol Hill who dismiss the public as know-nothing rubes. Open-borders conservatives denounce Californias Proposition 187 as vehemently as any Hispanic activist, even though the judicially overruled referendumwhich denied nonemergency free health care and free public education to illegal alienswas simply a cry for help from California taxpayers, struggling with the enormous strains that illegal aliens were putting on their states social welfare systems.
Conservatives have historically trusted local decision making over distant Washington solutions. The tradition of federalism holds that people closest to a problem are best able to assess and resolve it. Yet the open-borders Right waves away the fervent local lawmaking around illegal immigration as merely an outbreak of xenophobia. Would such conservative legalizers argue that the 63 cities and counties that founded the Coalition of Mayors and County Executives for Immigration Reform, a movement trying to alert Washington to the burdens of illegal immigration, have been taken over by racists? Do they really think that they themselves see matters more clearly than angry local residents whose local hospital has gone bankrupt under the strain of serving immigrants with no insurance, or than parents who no longer feel welcome in their local schools, or than business owners harmed by the crowds of day laborers on the sidewalk who scare their customers away?
Connecticuts Greenwich Hospital recently treated an illegal Guatemalan with severe drug-resistant TB, after his local hospital in Port Chester, New York, had gone bust from uninsured immigrants. The uncompensated bill for two and a half months of in-patient treatment totaled $200,000, not including the fees for the numerous specialists on the case, which probably added another $100,000 to $150,000. One surgery alone to remove a crippling accretion on his spinea condition unknown outside the Third Worldlasted an entire day. All of the Guatemalans associates tested positive for TB, and all worked in restaurants, reports his surgeon, Dr. Katrina Firlik, in the Wall Street Journal. Such episodes, invisible to conservative elites, make a deep impression on local taxpayers and insurance policyholders.
Arizona and California lawmakers want to free taxpayers from the nearly $1 billion a year burden of detaining illegal criminalsand the even costlier burden of detaining those illegals children. In Fresno, now 45 percent Hispanic, 20 percent of the county jail inmates are illegal immigrants, as are about one-quarter of emergency-room patients. No wonder Fresnos mayor called in November 2005 for securing the border. The county of Riverside, California, voted in April to start turning in its illegal-alien jail inmateswho make up between 12 and 25 percent of its inmate populationto the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, joining a handful of jail systems now abandoning the long-standing taboo against checking criminals immigration status. Naturally, immigrant advocates in Southern California have branded the new policy a civil rights violation.
Lived experience fuels these citizen movements for immigration control. If conservatives dismiss them as delusional, the Republican Party will pay dearly at the polls. Rather than dismissing the publics anguish over large-scale lawbreaking, conservatives should honor the publics commitment to the sanctity of the legislative will.
The proponents of amnesty have manufactured an artificial crisis. They say that it is imperative to legalize the millions of illegals here now, so that the illegals can come out of the shadows. In reality, the minor inconveniences imposed by illegal status are nothing more than what the illegals bargained for. Illegal aliens have no legitimate claim to be legalized before the country makes sure that its border control is working. Enforcement must precede a liberalization of immigration ruleswhich is why comprehensive immigration reform (the conservative code word for amnesty and increased levels of immigration) is not the solution to our border crisis but rather a guarantee of continued anarchy. Amnesty and the impossibility of enforcing a complicated new immigration scheme will undermine border control, just as they did in 1986. The first item of business on the conservative agenda should be enforcing the law already on the books.
But the most important value that conservatives can bring to this debate is honesty. Many of the costs imposed by Mexican immigrants are a function of their lack of education, their low incomes, and their own and their childrens behavior, not their legal status. Without question, we must balance those costs against the immigrant generations admirable work ethic. But immigration reform that institutionalizes the present immigration mixor, worse, increases its volume by three to five timesis certain to expand the Hispanic underclass. There are many educated foreigners patiently waiting for permission to migrate to the United States. The United States can better honor its immigrant heritage by accelerating their entry rather than by continuing to favor the most low-skilled of our neighboring populations.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_i ... eform.htmlIt's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.
What a great article. Notice Santa Ana, CA is mentioned several times. That city has been a sanctuary city for decades. It was the first one in Orange Co. and it is the county seat. It is not a pretty city.
I'm so disgusted with most politicians, bunch of traitors that have got to go.Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
08-27-2006, 01:59 AM #3Native-born Hispanics collected welfare at over twice the rate as native-born whites in 2005; the foreign-born Hispanic welfare rate was nearly three times that of native-born whites.
"Forbes magazine notes that Mexican illegals aren't clogging up the social-services system: only 5 percent receive food stamps or unemployment assistance; 10 percent send kids to public schools."
"As for crime, the picture doesn't quite conform to conventional wisdom. Heather McDonald discovered that illegal immigrants in 2004 accounted for 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants in Los Angeles and two-thirds of unserved felony warrants. (Gangs, aided and abetted by laws that prevent local officials from handing illegal-immigrant criminals over to federal authorities, account for much of the mayhem.)
On the other hand, the most comprehensive survey to date of national crime data concludes, "In the small number of studies providing empirical evidence, immigrants are generally less involved in crime than similarly situated groups, despite the wealth of prominent criminological theories that provide good reasons why this should not be the case."
Authors Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Matthew T. Lee note, for instance, that the Latino homicide rate in Miami is three times that of El Paso, Texas, which has one of the nation's largest immigrant populations.
That's not just an anomaly. Another major study, "U.S. Impacts of Mexican Immigration," by professors Michael J. Greenwood and Marta Tienda reports that "crime rates along the border are lower than those of comparable non-border cities."
This doesn't mean immigrants from Mexico are saints -- it just means that they may not be the marauding horde some make them out to be. As it turns out, crime rates in the highest immigration states have been trending significantly downward.
Total crime and property crime in California are half what they were in 1980; violent crime has fallen more than a third. The state's Hispanic population during that time has increased 120 percent.
Similar trends apply in other high-traffic states, with the exception of Colorado. While Arizona's population grew 41.8 percent between 1993 and 2003, for instance, the rates for every major category of crime fell."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... _sens.html[b][i][size=117]"Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. Through love of having children, we are going to take over.â
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08-27-2006, 11:44 AM #5Originally Posted by jeanIt's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.
Tony Snow has sold his soul to the devil I wonder what it is like to wake up every morning and look in the mirror and see no reflection
This is the kind of opinion peice that helps keep me strong in this fight. The writer peels away all the layers of propaganda, false statistics, and downright lies that the open borders lobby and our traitors in government are trying to foist upon the American people....by presenting the undeniable FACTS!
Is this America? Where every U.S. citizen is equal under the law..except illegals, who get a free pass:
The city of Maywood in Los Angeles County declared itself a sanctuary zone for illegal aliens this year. Then it got rid of its drunk-driving checkpoints, because they were nabbing too many illegal aliens. Next, this 96 percent Latino city, almost half of whose adult population lacks a ninth-grade education, disbanded its police traffic division entirely, so that illegals wouldn't need to worry about having their cars towed for being unlicensed.
People REALLY need to read this.
08-27-2006, 06:25 PM #9Originally Posted by greyparrot
It's long, but well worth the time it takes to read it.It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.
This article again clearly explains why we cannot give these illegal aliens amnesty and to secure our borders. It has been stated by numerous polls and studies that 12-20 million illegal aliens will not be a benefit to our country. Mexico has clearly benefited by sending their poor and uneducated people to America for us to support while benefiting from their remittances back to Mexico. And the blatant refusal of our government to enforce our existing laws is again highlitedFreedom isn't free... Don't forget the men who died and gave that right to all of us....
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Alfred J. Cipolloni
I want to thank everyone for coming here today to be with us
as we say our last goodbyes to the man we all loved.
Alfred was known by many names - to some he
was Al, to others Alfred. To some he was uncle or unc,
cousin, or brother. Still to others he was father, dad and
grand pop. To our mother he was hon, Alf, 'your father', or My
To all, he was a FRIEND, a BUDDY, …….and
most of all to everyone he was loved.
A lot of tears have been shed these past few
days for this respectful, strong and reserved GENTLE – MAN,
but let's put aside those tears for a moment and reflect on
the happy times, and the example he set for all of us.
In fact, I believe one of the true measures
of a gentleman is how he treats others. For Dad, or Al, it
was ALWAYS with a smile, and probably also with a hug or a
Even while he was dying in the hospital in
his last days, his body ravished by the terrible disease of
cancer, barely able to lift his head, he always reached out
and embraced your hand with his and said, "How ya doing" Joe,
Brian, Steve, or whatever your name was, and he did it with
a SMILE, happy that he was able to see those so dear to him
one last time.
And if it wasn't with a smile he cried, he
cried maybe because he was scared, but more likely because
he loved each and every one of you and he didn't want to
leave all his friends behind. He loved life and all those
around him.
And the measure of a man's love for his
fellow man is reflected in how they treat others. For Dad he
never refused a request for help. In fact many times he
would offer it before you could ask. Dad was never too tired
to lend a helping hand to those in need.
And what a pleasant man he was. I think only
twice in my 51 years did I ever see my father angry, and I
don't think I ever heard of anyone who did not like him.
What was there not to like about this man who came from
simple means. He may not have had a college education, nor
was he rich with money, but he built a legacy rich with
dignity, respect and love.
Speaking of dignity and respect - I bet if you look up those
two words in the dictionary, you'd see his picture next to
both definitions. Dignity - Respect - Alfred.
And it was with these characteristics that
Dad treated everyone, whether you were family, a lifelong
acquaintance, or a total stranger off the street.
Dad was a QUIETLY PROUD man. He had an inner strength that
carried him through life's most difficult challenges. He was
proud of his heritage and he never boasted about himself,
but when he would talk about the five people he most
cherished - his wife, his two children and his two
grandchildren Steven and Kristen, there was always that
sparkle in his steel blue eyes, and perhaps even a giddy
To many Dad was a buddy. A fishing buddy. A hunting buddy. A
racing buddy. A drinking buddy. No not alcohol, but everyday
he had to "go for coffee" with his brothers and his friends.
It was like a ritual. Why? Because he cherished their
companionship, their love, and their camaraderie.
And it was the simple things in life that gave him much
pleasure. His father Vincent, loved to grow things in his
garden and so did Dad. After a hard day's work in the warm
months, where could you find Dad? Probably in his garden
tending to his lettuce, tomatoes, and even his fig tree.
Anyone who knew Dad, knew he loved to tell stories. And we
all probably heard them more than once. Whether it was
stories from his childhood, or when he served in the army,
fishing stories, hunting stories, or racing stories. He had
many. Most of the time they made you laugh, or in the case
of my brother and I, perhaps it was to deliver a lesson in
life, in growing up to be men.
Alfred has done much in his lifetime to be proud of - but
there's one thing he did which I believe meant more to him
than any of his other achievements - and that is the 57
years he was married to Mom.
Anyone who knows Filomena, Phil to most,
knows she could be demanding in her own loving way. And my
brother and I were not exactly angels by any means. But he
never complained and always worked hard to keep us on the
straight and narrow and together as a family. Of course I
wasn't there to witness it, but he always talked fondly
about "the day I met your mother."
There are many pictures that chronicle the life of Alfred,
some of which you may have seen last night at the viewing.
Two in particular caught my eye the other day – one of my
son Steven, and one with my daughter Kristen, his
grandchildren, both taken when they were young.
Oh how he loved his grandchildren. And what
struck me most about those two pictures? That they were both
smiling from ear-to-ear and so was he. And that is how
Alfred would want us all to remember him. Smiling. With
dignity. With respect.
I guess Mom always said it best. I may not have married the
richest man in the world, but your Father is a great Husband
and Dad, and I wouldn't trade him for all the money in the
Amen Mom. Amen.
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Your article on the new political action committee, Virginia Family Values, [January 6: "Whose values? Lefty PAC fights for families"] mentioned our fight to stop Delegate Dave Albo from lowering penalties for child sexual abuse, but we'd like to correct his misrepresentations.
The National Association to Protect Children, Protect, did oppose Albo last year on his legislation, H.B. 1054 (not H.B. 1053, as the article stated).
The original text of Albo's bill would have drastically lowered the penalties for molesting children. It added intercourse, sodomy, and other extreme forms of abuse to the list of acts covered by the crime of "taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in custodial or supervisory relationship" (a minor, class-6 felony).
The bill's original language would have made an outrageous situation even worse. How outrageous? Under current Virginia law, child molesters already receive preferential treatment if their victim is their own child or a child in their care.
A father, step-father, coach, minister, or teacher who commits "indecent liberties" by propositioning or fondling children ages 0-18 can get off with a fine or probation. And if Albo's original bill had become law, those same people violating children ages 0-18 might have received this same low sentence for child rape, sodomy, or other serious crimes.
Under pressure from Protect and a coalition of Virginia citizens, Albo backed down. He now claims that not a single attorney in Richmond could make heads or tails of this criticism. Nevertheless, Albo understood us well enough to remove every last word of the language we opposed when he discovered that Protect was a political lobby, not a charity.
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"In the advancement of the Texas Blown Fuel Association and the belief it will strengthen the nostalgia drag racing scene in this region, we feel this is a step to take our effort to the next level. We highly anticipate the 2013 season and look forward to bigger and better things in the future with the Southwest Heritage Racing Association," said TBFA President Rick Grindstaff. The same can be said from OJFA President Rick Huckabee.
What originally was to be a three race debut season for the SHRA has now developed into a six race Nostalgia Eliminator series, with stops at North Star Dragway, Texas Motorplex, Little River Dragway and Ardmore Dragway. The Spring, Summer and Fall Nationals will be held at North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas and feature the full SHRA series including bracket classes and junior dragsters. The SHRA Nostalgia Eliminator I, II, III classes will showcase their talents at the Texas Motorplex's "Old School Showdown" on April 20th in conjunction with the NHRA Division 4 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event. The same Nostalgia Eliminator classes will also be featured June 1st at Little River Raceway in Temple, Texas and included in the line-up for the 2013 Ardmore Hot Rod Reunion in Ardmore, Oklahoma on August 31st.
2013 SHRA Schedule: April 6 - North Star Dragway - Denton, TX *April 20 - Texas Motorplex - Ennis, TX *June 1 - Little River Dragway - Temple, TX July 6 - North Star Dragway - Denton, TX *August 31 - Ardmore Dragway - Ardmore, OK October 5 - North Star Dragway - Denton, TX (* Nostalgia Eliminator Classes Only)
Working together with like goals in mind, the SHRA can now carry a firm support group forward and is in high anticipation of what the future will hold. The nostalgia eliminator classes will allow blown, injected and carbureted front engine dragsters, altered and funny cars to compete at a performance level of their choice in an economic fashion, that in turn produces stronger car counts and more entertainment for the nostalgia drag racing fans of the southwest. With a six race program confirmed, the SHRA series is dedicated to bringing the best in old school drag racing entertainment to the participating tracks in 2013, we'll see you at the drags! For more information, visit us online at www.shraracing.com.


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Firefox 7.0 nightly builds have started and it seems to be quite fast. So, if you dont care about some sites not opening or once in a while your browser crashing, been using for 2 days on Windows , has not crashed so far and worked on all sites so far :), then you should install the Nightly build.
Head over to the nightly build site and install the appropriate build for your OS.
If you really want your browser to be fast, enable pipelining and display render delay, you can follow the following post to do that:
3 Hacks for Firefox That Will Double Your Internet Browsing Speed – Gnoted.com
And to enable the support for your addon's foll0w the link below:
Check of Firefox 7.0a1 Nightly Build for Disable Addon Compatibility | AbdulRehman.net
With all these now my Firefox process shows only ~130MB memory and decreases to ~12MB when minimized and am really happy with the speed. Also noticeably the CPU used is also quite low compared to Aurora I was using 2 days back 😉
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Hartford Police Chief James C. Rovella to Host Promotion Ceremony; Appointing Five to Rank of Deputy Chief and promoting Four New Sergeants
(Nov 29, 2012 Hartford, CT.) - Police Chief James C. Rovella will host a ceremony on Friday, November 30, 2012, beginning at 2:00 p.m., in the Atrium of Hartford City Hall, to promote five current members of the HPD to the rank of deputy chief and four officers to the rank of sergeant.
Chief Rovella will be joined at the ceremony by Hartford Mayor Pedro E. Segarra.
To be promoted to the rank of Deputy Chief:
Deputy Chief of Police Neville A. Brooks
Appointed a Hartford Police Officer in September of 1994, Deputy Chief Brooks was assigned to the Patrol Division before joining the Street Crimes Unit. As a detective he was assigned to the Major Crimes Division. In 2000, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and assigned as a supervisory investigator with the Internal Affairs Division. He also served as a supervisor with the Vice and Narcotics Division, Major Crimes Division, the Disorder Control Team, Emergency Response Team, Hostage Negotiation Team, the Court Liaison and Warrant Unit, and commanded the K-9 Unit. Promoted to Lieutenant in 2007, Deputy Chief Brooks was assigned as C-Squad Watch Commander, then Commander of the Detention Facility, Bicycle Unit, Special Events and the Internal Affairs Division. Deputy Chief Brooks is a past President of the Police Benevolent Association, has served as a former Board Member of the Hartford Police Federal Credit Union. He has also served as an EAP Peer Contact, been active with the Police Explorer Program, and was an adjunct Instructor with the Hartford Police Academy.
Deputy Chief of Police Joseph J. Buyak
Deputy Chief Joseph Buyak was born and raised in Hartford, attended local public schools, and graduated from South Catholic High School in 1980. He attained the rank of Eagle Scout in 1979 as a member of Boy Scouts of America Troop 105 in Hartford's Southend. A thirty year veteran, Chief Buyak joined the Hartford Police Department on December 19, 1983. He has served with the Field Services Bureau and in a variety of Patrol Division assignments focused on crime suppression and vice and narcotics interdiction. In March of 1992, Chief Buyak was promoted to the rank of sergeant, in 1995 to lieutenant, and in 2001 he was promoted to the rank of Captain. Chief Buyak has held numerous command level positions including Evening Watch Commander, Commander of the Crimes Against Persons Division, South Police Service Area Executive Officer, Commander of the Investigative Services Bureau, Commander of Inspections, Ombudsman, Commander of the Southeast Police District and currently Commander of the Northwest Police District. He is the recipient of numerous Hartford Police commendations and holds a degree in criminal justice. Chief Buyak's family has a long history of service with the Hartford Police Department that includes his grandfather, brother and sister, uncle and numerous cousins.
Deputy Chief of Police Emory Hightower, Jr.
Born and raised in Hartford, Deputy Chief Hightower graduated from Annie Fisher Elementary, Fox Middle, and Weaver High Schools. He was appointed a Hartford Police Officer in April of 1994, and was subsequently assigned to the South PSA Operations and Community Service area. As a sergeant he served with the Patrol Division and as a supervising sergeant with the Hartford Police Academy as the recruit and citizen academy coordinator. He also has served as a POST Certified Instructor and taught various law enforcement subjects at the Bridgeport, Meriden, and New Britain Police Academies as both a sergeant and lieutenant. In 2006 Deputy Chief Hightower supervised the Northeast Violence Reduction Initiative and in 2007 he supervised Operation True North. As a lieutenant he commanded Zone 4 in the Northeast Police District and supervised and coordinated the Weed and Seed Program, during which he initiated a quality of life inspection team made up of all city departments. Deputy Chief Hightower has also served as an Evening Watch Commander. He is a former supervisory instructor for the Gang Resistance and Education and Training Program (GREAT). He currently is assigned to the ATF Task Force, the Hartford Shooting Task Force Cold Case Unit. Deputy Chief Hightower attended Trinity College and is currently studying organizational management at Charter Oak State College.
Deputy Chief of Police William F. Long III
Deputy Chief Long joined the Hartford Police Department in 1994 and has moved up through the ranks from patrol officer, detective, sergeant, lieutenant and captain. As a patrolman he served with the Field Services Bureau and Street Crimes Unit. Appointed detective in 1999, he was assigned to the Juvenile Investigative Division and became a supervisor in that division when promoted to sergeant in 2001. He also served as a sergeant in the Traffic Division and Field Services Bureau. As a lieutenant, Deputy Chief Long commanded Zone 1 in the Northwest District and the highly successful Operation True North in 2006. He has served on the Disorder Control Team, as a voting member of the Accident Review Board, on the HPD Uniform Committee, and is a certified bicycle patrol officer. Promoted to the rank of captain in 2011, he currently serves as Headquarters Commander. Deputy Chief Long is the recipient of 3 Exemplary Service Awards, 2 Chief's Letter of Commendation, 4 Merit Awards, and 3 State Police Unit Citations. He is also the recipient of a Presidential Debate Citation and a State of Connecticut General Assembly Official Citation. Trained in Critical Incident Management, Deputy Chief Long is a graduate of the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Police and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Clemson University.
Deputy Chief of Police Luis A. Rodriguez
Deputy Chief Rodriguez joined the Hartford Police Department in 1994 and was assigned to the Patrol Division and Street Crimes Unit. In 1999 he was appointed a detective and served with the Vice & Narcotics Division and Statewide Narcotics Task Force. After his promotion to Sergeant in 2000, Deputy Chief Rodriguez was assigned to the Internal Affairs Division; he also served with the North and South Community Response Divisions, Intelligence Division, Northeast Violence Initiative and the Major Crimes Division, and supervised the Emergency Response and Disorder Control Teams, and the HPD Honor Guard. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 2006 and assumed Command of the Vice & Narcotics Division, after which he commanded the Intelligence Division and the Inspections Bureau. Deputy Chief Rodriguez has also served on the Crisis Negotiation Team and as an instructor at the Hartford Police Academy. An eight year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Deputy Chief Rodriguez served on active duty with an anti-terrorism unit in Europe and in California with a Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable deployed to the Los Angeles riots in the early 1990's. Deputy Chief Rodriguez has an Associate's Degree in Criminal Justice from Tunxis Community College.
To be promoted to the rank of Sergeant:
Officer Julie T. Holmes
Officer William D. Labelle-Boucher
Detective Sean Patrick Michel
Officer Paul West
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Earlier this year, I killed some time with Tiny Barbarian, an adorable little platformer made by indie dev Michael Stearns.
Good news for me, and hopefully Michael too: evolving from its "download for free" roots, it's being turned into a bigger thing.
With a new engine, more features and just promising to be an all-around bigger game, Stearns is developing a full-fledged version of the game for the PC. With, in case you haven't guessed by now, a little help needed by prospective fans.
Planned as an episodic series, he says you pay once for the game, up-front, then have the remaining episodes sent out free of charge.
Seeing as the original, free version was so much fun, I can't wait to try out this meatier one.
Tiny Barbarian DX [Kickstarter]


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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra presents a magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music – visit five European homes where exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Marais are played against a backdrop of gorgeous paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto and Watteau. Beautifully filmed in Toronto, at the Handel House in London UK and in the gondolas, historic buildings and cafés of Venice, Italy. This is a totally memorized performance by the virtuoso players of Tafelmusik. DVD includes a bonus track interview with Handel House Director Sarah Baldwell. A CD soundtrack is included.
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text: Friday, April 11, 2014 Burwell Nominated to Replace Sebelius at HHS President Barack Obama moved quickly today to nominate a replacement for Kathleen Sebelius, who announced her resignation as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday, by nominating Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell for the post. The Sebelius announcement came about 6 months after the flawed rollout of HealthCare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace intended to serve uninsured Americans. Although problems were fixed and the program met its goal of getting 7 million signups by March 31, Sebelius weathered harsh criticism for the initial problems. Burwell has been involved in the federal government since the Clinton administration, having served as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Before taking the OMB job, she ran the Walmart Foundation and served as president of the Gates Foundation's Global Development Program. She received unanimous consent from the Senate for her appointment to OMB.


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Two emergency shelters for horses have been licensed by the state of Illinois and a third is in the process, a Department of Agriculture official said Wednesday.
Two emergency shelters for horses have been licensed by the state of Illinois and a third is in the process, a Department of Agriculture official said Wednesday.
Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society (HARPS) in Barrington and Hooved Animal Humane Society in Woodstock have completed the licensing process developed by the agriculture department.
Meanwhile, the Society for Hooved Animal Rescue and Emergency (SHARE) in Champaign is completing the licensing process, said Dr. Colleen O'Keefe, veterinarian and manager of food safety and animal protection for the department.
O'Keefe said the state wants emergency shelters to meet basic standards for barn space, cleanliness, feed, fencing, health care and other factors that will ensure they are run by people qualified to care for the animals.
Donna Ewing, founder and president of HARPS, concurs with the licensing idea.
"So many people are purely emotional (about horses) and are not horse people," Ewing said. "They just like the pretty horsies. There are a million things that can go wrong with a horse."
Emergency horse shelters are for horses what animal shelters are for cats and dogs. They take in sick, injured or abandoned animals, nurse them back to health and try to find a new home for them. And like other animal shelters, there are limits to what the emergency horse shelters can do.
Ewing said she was recently contacted by a woman whose mother had six Arabian horses she needed to get rid of because she was in danger of losing her home. Ewing couldn't take them because her facility was full.
O'Keefe said there is a "huge demand" by people trying to place horses in emergency shelters. Sometimes animals are abused or neglected. Sometimes longtime horse owners realize they can no longer care for their animals. Sometimes it's economics.
"Hay is very expensive this year," O'Keefe said. "People are also getting strapped because of energy bills."
Hay's rising price stems from its lack of supply, as more and more fields are being used for lucrative corn, she said, plus there are weather factors.
Less clear is the effect that closing the nation's last horse-slaughtering plant in DeKalb last summer has had on the people trying to place animals in emergency horse shelters.
"It's pretty hard to quantify right now," O'Keefe said. "We expected there would be an issue for the first year or two."
Ewing, though, said the closing has had a "tremendous effect" on demand at her facility. With the plant closing, she said, some owners have turned to less-humane ways of disposing of horses.
"I've got about eight cases on my desk now," she said. "What I'm concerned about is the quality of life and the quality of death."
The Illinois plant was operated by Cavel International Inc. It was closed after state lawmakers passed a bill banning the import, export, possession and slaughter of horses for human consumption. The DeKalb plant slaughtered up to 60,000 horses a year and sold the meat primarily for human consumption overseas.
Cavel challenged the Illinois law in federal court and lost. Papers were filed Jan. 18 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case. Cavel attorney J. Philip Calabrese said it could take another one to two months for the court to decide if it will review the case.
Doug Finke can be reached at (217) 788-1527.


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Mid summer crit racing returns to the streets of the City of Welland on Saturday August 1, 2009. This year marks the 20th year for this criterium which moves from Chippawa Park to be held under the street lights of historic downtown Welland, Ontario.
The race is organized by the same group that brought the Niagara Classic, Ontario Provincial Road Race Championships, Ontario Time Trial Championships, Canadian Road Race Championship and the UCI sanctioned 2003 Nella-Cramaro Grand Prix.
The course is a closed circuit and features two bridges over the old canal, which forms a sweeping left hand turn, with long wide straightaways with new pavement.
It promises to be an evening of fast spectacular racing! Join us after for a street party with music and food!
Start Time Category
3:45pm Sr.3&4 men - Jr.men
4:45pm Mstr 3 men& -& Cad.men
5:45pm Mstr.2 men & Sr.Women
7:30pm Mstr 1 men& Sr. 1& 2 men
There will be prize money and primes up for grabs, which will make the races interesting.
You can sign up for the race at ontariocycling.org under Online Registration.
Course maps and directions to the race can be found on the race website at: thewellandrace.ca
The Welland Twilight Criterium is made possible by the fantastic co-operation of the City of Welland and sponsorship from the City of Welland, St Catharines Cycling Club, The CSL Group, Cramaro and Rexroth Bosch Group!
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text: At the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Omaha, Nebraska, 9 different administrative law judges (ALJ) conduct Social Security Disability (SSD) hearings and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) hearings. Currently, in Omaha, the average wait time for a SSI or SSD hearing is 11.0 months. The average case processing time in Omaha is 444 days.The Omaha average for winning a SSI or SSD disibility hearing is 40%. Click on the name of one of the ALJs below to see detailed information about their hearing results. This information for the Omaha ODAR office was last updated on 6/11/2019.


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I was at World Cup a couple weeks ago and saw that the Dennis Matthews paintings have been replaced by the work of an artist named Tom Harte. The stuff at World Cup is kind of all over the place - he's got a mother and child, a vase of flowers, something completely abstract, some stylized drawings - and all more than a little amateurish looking except for one piece in particular which struck me as something I could imagine seeing at Zach Feuer's. It was a smallish portrait head of a woman with one cyclops-like eye and a rainbow-ray halo.
Less than a week later I was flipping through ADA Gallery's 12 by 12 racks and saw more Tom Harte portraits, very lovely and sweet. They're wonderful. These seem to be portraits of specific people, as opposed to Cyclopic Madonnas, and are real treasures. Don't they say that when you are looking at someone or something you really like your pupils dilate*? The woman in the drawing above must really love Tom Harte, her eyes are radiating.
Harte has left his initials and the completion date at the earrings of the portrait above but in this one he writes the woman's name, half at each lobe, and in this one he includes a little picture of a horse and cart over one eye and a fish over the other. Those things hard to see or notice, sorry, but they're hard to notice in "real life" too. Here's the final one I got a picture of.
I don't know anything about Tom Harte or his history/education, but I'm thinking he's a bit of an outsider artist. Some of the work is dated as far back as 1994 ( like the piece above) and his pricing makes no sense. The small drawings I mention seeing at World Cup are $100 but the nice Cyclops painting is only $50, and all his 12 x 12 works-on-paper at ADA are also $50. Whatever the case, these portraits are very good.
*I just looked it up - it's called pupillometrics.