An item on LAObserved says that

Alvaro Luna-Jara, a member of the Dogtown street gang, is suspected of shooting and killing 12-year-old Steven Morales on Avenue 58 in 1998. Luna-Jara fled to Mexico and was nabbed on a remote ranch near La Yesca in Nayarit by agents of the Agencia Federal de Investigacions and officers from the Nayarit State Judicial Police, acting on information provided by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the LAPD, the Los Angeles Regional Fugitive Task Force, and the Mexico City Field Office of the United States Marshals Service.

He’s been hiding in Mexico for eight years, and like many wanted murderers, he has been protected by the Mexican Government, which hates the death penalty. I checked–he’s been mentioned on VDare.com:

Alvaro Luna Jara is charged with the murder of a 12-year-old boy and the attempted murder of three others. Although Jara is not a Mexican national, Mexico refused to extradite him because his parents are.

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Luna-Jara was arrested by the AFI, Mexico’s FBI. The press release issued by the US Marshal’s Service says

Adam Torres, United States Marshal for the Central District of California, applauded the efforts of all the participating agencies for their continued cooperation and assistance and remarked, “Many people believe that they can commit any type of heinous crime and simply go to Mexico and hide. The District Attorney’s Office, the United States Marshals Service and Mexico’s federal agents have a message for those people…by working together and combining our recourses, we will find you and bring you to justice.”

But no mention is made either of the death penalty or life without parole, two things that the Mexican Government doesn’t like happening to its citizens, no matter how much they deserve it.

Today’s example of how unlawful immigration rots the moral fabric is from two Southern California Catholic dioceses, where the men in cassocks have chosen free labor over protecting children from sexual predators.

Not wanting to lose illegal immigrant volunteers, the Los Angeles and Orange Roman Catholic dioceses have quietly backed away from a pledge to root out pedophiles by running fingerprint background checks on anyone who works with children.
[Diocesan Screenings for Abusers Give Slack to Undocumented, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2006].

Apparently the SoCal Vaticrats are too arrogant to care about the further loss of Catholic credibility regarding pedophilia. If they still aspire to any moral authority at all.

Hasn’t the Catholic Church had enough lawsuits because of protecting its pedophile priests? (Trials and legal actions continue around the country in places like Washington and Illinois, but news coverage is local only.)

Now they are inviting more of the same, by acting in a way that can only be called immoral.

Fans of classic science fiction will be interested to know that many of the works of H. Beam Piper are now available online for free at Project Gutenberg.

I came across this depressing quote in Null-ABC (1953) which was printed by Ace Books as Crisis in 2140:

The “North American Anthem,” which had replaced the “Star-Spangled Banner” after the United States-Canadian-Mexican merger, came to an end.

Aargh. Of course, in the 1953 science-fiction version, it was partly the result of the aftermath of nuclear war, and partly a result of a total breakdown of the education system.

The first part hasn’t happened, as for the second part…Recently the Michigan Department of Education ordered its teachers not to use the words “America” and “Americans” to describe the United States and its citizens.

We’re All “North Americans”

The Department of Education asserts that “Americans” includes Mexicans, Canadians and others in the Western Hemisphere, so referring to U.S. residents as Americans is inappropriate. In the department’s view, “America” happens to include South, Central and North America. Accordingly, when referring to the colonial period, the state bureaucracy requires teachers to refer to “the colonies of North America” or “North Americans.” After the American Revolution, the nation is called the United States (not of America).
[Keep 'America' in Michigan schools By Michael Warren, The Detroit News Online, May 24, 2006]

Karen Todorov, [send her mail] of the Michigan Department of Education is quoted as saying “It is ethnocentric for the United States to claim the entire hemisphere.”

Ah, but what if the hemisphere wants to claim you?

The words of Butch Cassidy come to mind when perusing the names of the 500 economists who signed an “open letter” on immigration (celebrated by, of course, the Wall Street Journal editorial page). The letter consists of the usual combination of sentimental flapdoodle and duplicitous doubledealing, such as confusing the debate over illegal immigrants by citing statistics on legal immigrants. Which might explain why, although the organizers got 500 people with doctorates in economics to sign, they signally failed to get most of the economists that the public has ever heard of.

Indeed, most of the best known economists have publicly expressed dissent with the open letter’s happy talk.

Here are five very famous American economists. Are they on the list?

Milton Friedman — No

Thomas Sowell — Not on the list

Paul Krugman — Negative

Paul Samuelson — Nada

Gary Becker — That’s a negatory good, buddy.

What about economists who specialize in studying the empirical effects of immigration?

George Borjas - Nein

Barry Chiswick — No way

How about Edward P. Lazear, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors? — Nah