Hopefully Pat Herrity can get to the bottom of this. I don’t think much of him, however, because he publicly criticized PWC’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Maybe ICE thought it should think through the steps required to become 2.5 times bigger overnight as an alternate to first drooling and then humping the leg of the RPV.

Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) said he introduced a bill Monday designed to challenge the 14th Amendment, which he said does not give birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents.

Berman said if the bill is signed into law, it will immediately be challenged in federal court by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union. Berman hopes the case will go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to change the interpretation of the amendment.

“We want to be sued,” Berman said.

The bill, one of nine illegal alien bills Berman filed Monday at the capitol, would not give birth certificates to children born in Texas whose parents are illegal aliens. The child would be given a certificate that proves it was born, then it could go to the family’s home country to prove citizenship.

“We have approximately two million illegal aliens in texas at a cost to texas tax payers of $4 billion every year,” he said.

Berman said since illegal aliens do not have jurisdiction in the United States, neither should their children.

“We are handing out 350,000 U.S. citizenships to children born here illegally,” he said.

Berman said taxpayers are paying for 12,500 incarcerated illegal aliens in state prisons, and as many more in the county and municipal jails. Texans are paying $39 million a year to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Hospitals in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth see more than 70 percent of new child births from illegal aliens. This puts a financial burden on hospitals, Berman said.

A federal mandate to give health care services anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.

“It really bothers me that illegal aliens have better health benefits than many of my middle income constituents,” he said.

States around Texas like Oklahoma and Arizona passed legislation to deal with the illegal alien problems in those states. As a result of that legislation illegal aliens began to leave, but they came to Texas, Berman said.

Berman is now introducing an identical bill to Oklahoma’s illegal immigration law. The law authorizes law enforcement officers to take 287 G training from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The bill also severely punishes employees of illegal aliens and those who transport or house them. The Oklahoma law also deals with identity theft, “much of which is being done by illegal aliens,” Berman said.

Berman’s bills will be among 30 or so filed this session trying to prevent burdens caused by illegal aliens on Texas taxpayers, he said.

“If we cannot pass legislation to deal with a huge illegal alien problem in texas, then at the end of the next session I will consider running for governor of the state of texas, to be able to use the executive powers of the office of governor to deal with this major problem.”

SOmething is rotten in the County of Fairfax. Just curious, did Fairfax City apply independently, or can they?

Meeting in Mexico’s capital, the regional officials pledged to do more to fight migrant trafficking, but indirectly condemned a U.S. bill that would make illegal entry a felony and extend border walls.

“Migrants, regardless of their migratory status, should not be treated like criminals,” they said.

The countries represented at the meetingincluding Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and Panamacreated a working group to design a regional policy to avoid migrant abuse and to follow the course of the legislation.

“There has to be an integrated reform that includes a temporary worker program, but also the regularization of those people who are already living in receptor countries,” Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said.

Derbez has called the measurewhich passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month but still must go before the Senate”stupid and underhanded,” but was somewhat more restrained on Monday, saying “it’s not the Mexican government’s position to tell the U.S. Senate what to do.”

The U.S. proposal has caused widespread resentment in Mexico, where some have accused President Vicente Fox’s administration of not being assertive enough in opposing it. Fox has called the bill shameful.

Mexicans working in the United States are a huge source of revenue for Mexico, sending home more than $16 billion in remittances in 2004, Mexico’s second largest source of foreign currency after oil exports according to the country’s central bank.

Fox’s spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, defended the administration’s record on Monday, telling reporters that migration has declined in recent years, though official figures show it remains at historically high levels.

Aguilar also said migrants “don’t emigrate because they lack work, but rather for a series of other reasons, cultural reasons or better living conditions.”

By the way, won’t it be nice when April 15 rolls around and those of us who make less than $250K per year realize a tax cut? Can’t wait….:)

DHS took the first step towards technically “legalizing” illegal aliens in the work force by exempting Federal Contractors with contracts less than $100,000 from verifying worker eligiblity and eliminating all ICE Raids as an added incentive to hire illegal aliens.

Obama AND McCain promised to revisit Immigration Reform, and I don’t doubt for a moment Warner, Moran and Connolly are doing high-fives.

SECTION VI: 287(g) ENFORCEMENT

The table below provides statistical data in relation to the Town of Herndon’s Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A detainer is generally obtained when the investigation, or ICE authorization, calls for detention. Detainees are held in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and eventually processed through the federal court system. Final disposition of these cases is under the purview of ICE.

2008 Investigations Detainers Issued
January 15 4
Februar 17 5
March 16 12
April 12 6
May 21 10
June 2 0
July 27 12
August 44 11
September 21 11
October 29 16
Year to Date 204 87

[Ed note: yes. Looks like a habit got the best of me. Thanks for the correction.]