The Moochicans aren’t leaving in any substantial numbers–no real surprise there given the full refrigerator of goodies that America offers, like the “food donations from local church groups” mentioned in the article.

Furthermore the “crackdown” they face from the Obama administration exists in the complaints of open-borders extremists only.

Many Mexican migrants stay put in U.S. despite crisis

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican workers in the United States have lost jobs and faced a crackdown on illegal immigration but are not heading home in droves despite the worst recession in decades, officials and researchers say.

There is no record of those leaving the United States by land but anecdotal reports suggest some families have packed their belongings into trucks and crossed back into Mexico as construction, food and as farm jobs have evaporated.

A record 12.7 million Mexican immigrants lived and worked in the United States in 2008, more than half of them illegally, according to a study by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The vast majority have chosen to stay and weather the crisis. Rights groups say Washington needs to pass an overhaul of immigration policies because Mexicans are not going home.

“There is no evidence of a massive return,” said Adriana Valdes at the Mexican consulate in Denver. “People may move because of the crisis, but they are not moving to Mexico where the situation is no better.”

Mexico has also suffered its worst recession since the 1930s and illegal Mexican workers living and working in the shadows say they can still earn more in the United States.

“If things are bad here, they’re worse in our country,” said Christian Dominguez, 21, who has worked in Phoenix since crossing illegally to Arizona 15 months ago from Mexico.

Dominguez earns just $80 in a bad week, shares an apartment with seven other migrants and relies on food donations from local church groups to get by. But he says it is still better than in his home state of Chiapas in southern Mexico

“Drifters” — that’s a new item for the euphemism file, and from the PC LA Times, of all sources.

Plus there is a dose of unintended hilarity of the role reversal sort, where Mexicans are the townspeople calling for troublesome foreigners to be repatriated.

Mexico town split over Central American drifters

By Tracy Wilkinson

October 15, 2009

Migrants fall prey to kidnappers and worse while the Mexican government does little to protect them, rights groups say. But others say the migrants are forming criminal bands and should be deported.

Gathered below an overpass on Independence Avenue, dressed in the multiple layers typical of homeless travelers, the migrants watched for the next northbound freight train through Tultitlan.

Many of them, mostly young men and boys, prepared to hop aboard, hobo-style, on an ever-more-precarious trip that might get them as far as the United States.

But fewer migrants are achieving that goal. Central Americans who for years have passed through Mexico en route to the U.S. are increasingly cutting their trips short as they run out of cash or become discouraged by fewer opportunities farther away from home. [...]

A new city administration that took office in August, however, feels differently. Mayor Marco Calzada said he wants the federal government to deport the migrants. When they were just passing through, it was a manageable problem, he said, but now large numbers are staying and forming criminal bands.

Officials say the Tultitlan municipality, with a population of more than 432,000, sees hundreds of immigrants arriving each week.

“The numbers are over the top,” Calzada said. “They have invaded neighborhoods. They steal, they kidnap, they rape.”

When large numbers of illegal aliens congregate, they tend to form criminal gangs–what a concept! I’m trying to wrap my mind around it.

This revelation should be a major bombshell. Terrorist penetration of the government is about as serious as it gets.

[House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to plant spies, The Hill, October 14, 2009]

Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies” within key national-security committees in order to shape legislative policy.

Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Paul Broun (R-Ga.) and Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), citing the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, called for the House sergeant at arms to investigate whether CAIR had been successful in placing interns on key panels. The lawmakers are specifically focused on the House Homeland Security Committee, Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee.

“If an organization is connected to or supports terrorists [and] is running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related offices, I think this needs to be made known,” said Broun, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee. “So I join my colleagues here today in calling for action.”

The Council on American Islamic Relations has long pretended to be the civil rights organization for Muslims residing in America, but has used its deep pockets (Middle East money, like the $50 million it got from the United Arab Emirates) to undermine the Constitution and spread Islamic sharia law in America. Anti-CAIR calls it a “terrorist supporting front organization” and fought back a lawsuit mounted by the powerful organization to shut down the Anti-CAIR website. CAIR is a creation of the terror group Hamas and exists to destroy America, all the while squawking about “Islamophobia” and “racism” as a smoke screen.

Fox News provided a brief report: CAIR - Terrorism Infiltrating Congress.

Here’s another eye-opener from the book: CAIR spent $160,000 to silence Savage.

An explosive new book based on a daring six-month undercover operation exposing the subversive agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals the Muslim group spent $160,000 in an unsuccessful effort to run top-rated nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage off the air.

Internal CAIR documents uncovered in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America” show that despite its high cost and the continued success of Savage’s show, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad believed the campaign was “worth every penny,” because, he says, the radio star lost at least $1 million in advertising.

Authors P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry recount how CAIR ran out of money before it could crack Savage’s most loyal sponsors.

As WND reported, Savage sued CAIR in December 2007, two months after the Muslim lobby group began urging “people of all faiths” to contact Savage’s advertisers to protest “anti-Muslim bigotry” on the air. CAIR cited Savage calling the Quran “a throwback document” and “a book of hate” and demanding CAIR be thrown out of the country for promulgating it.

Have we had enough Muslim immigration yet?

I saw the last of this speech last night on C-SPAN, although what I heard was a whole lot of Spanish, a language I don’t speak. So what he said may well have been far more radical than these demands. [Gutierrez on immigration reform: "We will not wait" October 13, 2009 ]

Here in ultra-diverse California, there is a new approach to the skyrocketing costs of healthcare — Mexican curanderos and Hmong shamans! Unlike Blue Cross, they are willing to deal: a live chicken can get you a special healing ceremony with authentic herbs and incense.

(Shaman Wang Pao Yang is pictured here with his healing gear.)

Actually, this story concerns Hmong refugees who want things done their way: beggars can be choosers, contrary to the old saying as long as the freeloaders are designated victims of the immigrant category.

Merced is working on its diversity in medical care…

Staff at most hospitals would be baffled by an instruction like this on a bedside chart: to prepare patient for surgery, provide 15 minutes of soft chanting and tie a red string around the neck.

It’s different at Mercy Medical Center in Merced. There, nurses know they must call a shaman.

Mercy is the nation’s first hospital with a formal policy for Hmong shamans, allowing the traditional healers, working alongside doctors, to help patients recover.

Hospitals across the country are paying attention as they seek to accommodate cultural beliefs of diverse patient populations.

In the San Joaquin Valley, the Hmong are one of a few ethnic groups — including some indigenous Mexican cultures — that practice shamanism. For those with traditional beliefs, calling on a spiritual healer is as important to good health as making an appointment with a doctor. They may go without care if they can’t have a shaman nearby, sometimes with devastating consequences.[Hmong shamans help at Valley hospitals, Fresno Bee, October 11, 2009 ]

Doctors and nurses are busy and have more important things to do than call an ethnic medicine man. But what if the shaman says an animal sacrifice is required? Where will hospitals draw the line?

In Fresno in 1995, Thai Chia Moua, a Hmong shaman originally from Laos, ordered a German shepherd puppy beaten to death on his front porch while he chanted over its body. Moua later explained that he wanted the puppy’s soul to hunt down an evil spirit that was tormenting his wife. He pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. He was sentenced to probation and community service.

[Courts asked to consider culture, USA Today, May 24, 2004]

Shaman treatments are not all sweetness and light by a long shot; animal sacrifice is common. One medical research paper found Hmong in rural California were “more satisfied” when the shaman “used live animals”.

Unfortunately, this purported “kindness” to foreigners is another message that they do not need to assimilate to American values. Is stone-age primitivism the sort of diversity Americans want? Not this one.

I remember seeing this person, Dalia Mogahed, on a C-Span presser promoting a Gallup poll about Muslims residing in America, which inspired me to write a critical blog item: Muslim Poll Omits the Negative. At that time, Muslim mouthpiece Mogahed chirped out the magical D-word, “We discovered how diverse Muslim Americans are.” So meaningful.

She is also one of Obama’s many advisors, and she has used that position to spread the lie that Islam is a “religion of peace.”

Remember that the President stated in Cairo to a Muslim audience that “the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”

Instead of assuring Muslims that they can oppress women in America, it would have been nice for the President to stand on the side of women who don’t want to be imprisoned by their strictures of their misogynous religion. But Obama appears to prefer diversity ideology over justice.

[Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood, Daily Telegraph, Oct. 8, 2009]

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism”.

They called for Sharia Law to be “the source of legislation” and said that women should not be “permitted to hold a position of leadership in government”.

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that “promiscuity” and the “breakdown of traditional values” were what Muslims admired least about the West. [...]

Miss Mogahed admitted that even many Muslims associated Sharia with “maximum criminal punishments” and “laws that… to many people seem unequal to women,” but added: “Part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.”

So very offensive remarks were made by a member of an Islamic extremist group against America and the West, with no objection from the President’s advisor on Muslim affairs. [WATCH.] No wonder some people think Obama is a closet Muslim if this is the kind of person he chose as a counselor.

Of course, sharia law is not merely oppressive toward women; it is seen by jihadist Muslims as the future replacement for the Constitution and other documents of national law when Islam triumphs over western civilization. Advocating sharia could easily be seen as seditious.

Below, a woman is about to be stoned to death for adultery in Iran, according to sharia law.

So familiar: a previously arrested illegal alien was allowed to remain in America and went on to kill — in this case, four-year-old Josie Bluhm. (See Illegal Alien Causes Crash: Little Girl Dead in Omaha.)

The admitted killer, Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa, did not feel any need to practice even normal caution and ran a red light like it was his right to do so. Several previous arrests with no punishment apparently taught him that he could behave in any dangerous way he wanted.

“The suspended driver and illegal immigrant blew a red light and slammed a pickup into a minivan near 180th Street and West Center Road in May - killing 4-year-old van passenger Josie Bluhm.
For those actions, Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa pleaded no contest Tuesday to driving under suspension, a felony, and misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide. [...]

Rangel-Ochoa’s case has been marked with questions about why he was driving and why he was still in the country after three drunken-driving convictions. [...]

Rangel-Ochoa faces up to six years in prison - five years for driving under suspension, one year for motor vehicle homicide - when he is sentenced in December. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have a deportation hold on him now - and Rangel-Ochoa is expected to be deported after he serves his sentence.” [Illegal immigrant faces prison , October 7, 2009]

Are Democrate stuck on Obamacare for illegal aliens or what? Their mouths say no, no, but their votes say yes, yes. Once again, the Dems refuse to require any normal identification to receive services.

Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.

Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.

Grassley’s amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.

The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.

But the [bill] would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill “remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification,” Grassley said. “Frankly, I’m very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment,” he said. [Senators turn back ID requirement for immigrant healthcare, September 30, 2009]

The good news: environmentalists get honest about immigration-fueled overpopulation and its negative effect on natural systems. The bad news: they’re in Australia.

The Government said the population boom was great news because it meant the economy would keep growing.

But some green groups say enough is enough.

Australian Conservation Foundation spokesman Charles Berger said the growing population was on a collision course with the environment.

More people - as outlined in the ABS data - meant more greenhouse pollution, poorer river health and struggling infrastructure.

Every extra million people added 25 million tonnes of greenhouse pollution, Mr Berger said.

He called for migration to be cut to “more sustainable levels”.

“We cannot continue to add the equivalent of a city larger than Canberra every year to Australia’s population and still expect to maintain the health of our environment and our quality of life.” [Greens say immigration bad for environment, September 26, 2009]

Houston PD Sergeant Joslyn Johnson is a brave woman to be taking on City Hall while she is still working for the Police Department. Her husband Officer Rodney Johnson (pictured) was killed in 2006 by a previously arrested illegal alien. The killer, Juan Quintero, had been deported in 1999 for indecency with a child, but returned to Houston, perhaps because of its kind-to-alien-criminals sanctuary policy.

Joslyn Johnson is suing the City of Houston, the Houston Police Department and Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. Her husband was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant during a traffic stop in 2006. Juan Quintero is serving a life sentence for the murder.

In March of this year, an El Salvadoran national who was in the country illegally shot Officer Rick Salter during a drug raid. Salter spent months recovering. Then in June, a suspected illegal immigrant killed Officer Henry Canales during an undercover sting in southwest Houston.

Joslyn Johnson says these are prime examples of a breakdown in the system that’s putting officers’ lives at risk, and she hopes her lawsuit will bring changes in the department. [...]

In the lawsuit, which names Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt as the defendant, Joslyn Johnson claims, “The Houston Police Department failed to discover Quintero-Perez’s criminal alien status and failed to report him to federal immigration authorities despite detaining him or having him in custody on at least three separate occasions.”
[Slain officer's widow sues HPD, City of Houston, KTRK-TV Houston, September 22, 2009]

The City of Houston still is not serious about the safety of the public and its police force, even after the deaths of two officers and the near-fatal shooting of another, not to mention crimes against citizens like murder victim Tina Davila. It has not implemented 287(g), even though a TV station’s investigation found around 400 illegal immigrants were charged with crimes in Harris County every month.