Illegal Aliens Engage in Bootlegging Beer

BY ROBERT MOORE, Tribune Staff Writer

A new state law requiring identification for beer purchases and the abundance of illegal aliens in the Lakeway Area have converged to create a new niche market, Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnagin said this morning.

What apparently was lacking in Hamblen County, the sheriff says, were stores that would sell beer to illegal aliens who don't possess legal identification.

"The Hispanics cannot purchase beer because they don't have IDs so they are opening up their little bootlegging outfits to cater to their fellow Hispanics," Jarnagin said. "We are regressing back to the bootlegging days. That's what it is."

The two entrepreneurs who responded to fill the void in the Hamblen County capitalist landscape allegedly are illegal aliens themselves, according to the sheriff.

Jose Diaz Ortiz, 44, and Pilar P. Perez, 33, allegedly were selling beer from the McDaniel Trailer Park on Fish Hatchery Road, which law enforcement officials sometimes call "Little Mexico."

When Hamblen County Sheriff's Department officials raided the trailer shortly after 2 a.m. today, they confiscated 40 cases of beer, including Corona, Model, Budweiser, Bud Light and Miller, according to the sheriff.

"They had about any kind you would want," Jarnagin said. "You could buy beer 24-7 out there. They were selling it basically at a dollar a beer. The price is not inflated a great amount. It's just serving the population, the illegals."

Authorities also confiscated a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun.

Both Ortiz and Perez face charges of the illegal sale of alcohol and illegal storage of liquor for sale.

The sheriff said this morning that he would be contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents today because neither suspect could provide a valid Social Security number.

Deputy Eric Carson, who led the operation, obtained a search warrant after an undercover informant purchased beer at the trailer on Sunday. In all, the sheriff says, Carson has three undercover buys there.

"It was so heavily populated that our informant had to wait about 15 minutes to get out of the parking lot at one time," Jarnagin said. "Everybody is to be commended on their participation in the search warrant. It went without incident, and nobody got hurt."

The sheriff says Ortiz and Perez were operating a mini-convenience store at the trailer. Sheriff's department officials confiscated receipts of foodstuffs from suppliers in Georgia and Florida, as well as establishments located on South Cumberland Street in Morristown.

Jarnagin says that deputies have been receiving reports of illegal beer sales in Hamblen County for "several months," but it took a long time to recruit an informant and get him inside the alleged Fish Hatchery Road bootlegging operation.

"Criminals, they don't have boundaries," the sheriff said. "We have to act within the boundaries set by the Supreme Court and the Constitution."

Tennessee Can Do It Too

Living in the shadows: An illegal immigrant tells what life is like and why he's going home

from the Gainesville Times Here

Illegal alien lobby and UNIVISION to hold an early August "family health fair" event in Cobb County. If it is like the one from 2005 ( it will be), it is really a follow the money event. See the promo from GALEO here. See this write-up from the 2005 version. Here. (and here )

Georgia took effective action, and the illegals are packing up and getting out. Tennessee could do the same, if only our leaders had the will to do it!

The Reconquista?

(Note: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Tennesseans for Immigration Reform and Education-T-FIRE. However, this piece does present an alternative view-the notion that the Mexican Government has another reason for encouraging so many of its people to come across the U.S. border illegally. It is worth pondering...)

This is tough news for all peace-loving Americans. But after the illegal immigrant protests over the last year or two, any American who doesn’t now recognize that we are engaged in a war of sorts with Mexican Reconquistas is either practicing aggressive ignorance or has sided with the Reconquistas against the USA.

This state of war exists now just as a state of war existed between the United States and the terrorists before September 11, 2001. Most Americans were too naive to see we were at war before the World Trade Center attacks burned that message into the national consciousness. The terrorists had been making war on the United States for years before 9-11, but we were too comfortable in our illusions to recognize that fact. However, we are no longer so naive.
As Americans, we have relearned a hard lesson since those attacks. We have relearned that we do have enemies in this world.

FIGHTING A WAR IN THE WRONG PLACE?

Thousands of our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These volunteer heroes are fighting to bring the refreshing waters of Stability, Democracy and Freedom to peoples who before have only known the parched deserts of tyranny and despotism. But while our own current ‘Greatest Generation’ fights across the sea, a foreign occupation force, the Reconquistas, are busy invading the United States of America. War has come to our homeland through our backdoor. We need our heroes to come home to defend us now!

VIVA LA AZTLAN!

Reconquistas are ‘illegal immigrant’ invaders from Mexico who, with their government’s support, are swarming northward, posing as itinerant, slave-wage workers.

The Reconquistas believe that California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and other Southwestern states were ‘stolen’ from them in the First Mexican-American war of 1846. Using history as their excuse, the Reconquistas believe that they can grab undefended American territory for Mexico through policies of ‘illegal immigration,’ invasion, infiltration, intimidation and eventual re-conquest (thus the name ‘Reconquistas).

The Reconquistas already have a name for their future captured American lands… AZTLAN.

Federal Judge Does Bidding of Unions Rather Than Citizens

Tennesseans for Immigration Reform and Education (T-FIRE) is crusading everyday to see to it that the immigration laws that we already have on the books are enforced in America. The most obvious way to enforce these laws is to run checks on social security numbers to insure that they are held by real citizens, and that people in the workforce are here legally if they can indeed produce such a number.

It sounds simple enough, but a federal judge just made it a whole lot harder.

Amnesty Included in Defense Bill?

After a public outcry stopped the huge amnesty bill this year, its proponents are trying to slip bits and pieces of it into the Department of Defense authorization bill. If they succeed in all their efforts, this exercise in stealth will give them most of the outrageous elements of the "comprehensive" immigration bill that Americans rejected.

The main thrust of this plan is to add the DREAM Act's amnesty provisions as an amendment to the Defense funding bill in the Senate.

The plan would also include an increase in the number of H-2B non-agricultural seasonal visas and an increase in the number of "hi-tech" H-1B visas, both further jeopardizing American jobs for American workers.

Please click here to learn more and to take action

No to the DREAM

Tell Your Senators to vote NO on the Durbin Amnesty Amendment!!

Summer is over and the grassroots victory on immigration seems like a distant memory to some Senators. The open borders crowd failed to push through their grand amnesty and now they are trying to do it piecemeal.

Illinois Senator Richard Durbin (D) will offer an amendment (S. Amdt. 2237) to the Defense Authorization bill ( H.R. 1585) next week that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who came here before age 16 and have lived here at least five years. Though supporters claim this bill is "for the children," adults are eligible as well. Aliens aged 30, 40, or 65 are eligible as long as they meet the amnesty requirements and their "initial" illegal entry was before they were 16.

The bill sets "no numerical limit" on the number of illegal aliens who can apply for the amnesty. Conservative estimates, including those published by the Migration Policy Institute, put the number of those granted amnesty to at least 1 million people.

The bill will also grant in-state college tuition to illegal aliens. In addition to reduced tuition fees, which millions of U.S. citizens are not afforded, this bill also allows federal aid in the form of loans and work-study to help subsidize tuition for illegal aliens.

Congress and the Administration should continue focusing on enforcement. Adding in any kind of amnesty will immediately shift the focus of Homeland Security to processing the amnesty, instead of beefing up enforcement.

Senators are expecting they can push this amnesty through without you noticing. Prove them wrong! Just because your senator voted correctly on the grand amnesty, doesn't mean they will vote correctly this time. Be sure to call and get your friends and family to call as well.

Illegal Aliens Sponsor Pot Operation

East Tennessee newspapers are reporting that one illegal alien (and perhaps more) may be behind what has been termed one of the "biggest" marijuana fields ever discovered in the Third Judicial District. The Third Judicial District is composed of Hawkins, Hamblen, Greene, and Hancock counties.

The street value of the 8-12,000 marijuana plants was pegged at nearly $1 million dollars.

Four Hispanic guards armed with various weapons including an AK47 assault rifle were posted around the illegal weed. One of the guards was captured. He had no identification, and it is assumed at this point that he entered the US illegally.

Three other Hispanic "guards" escaped on foot.

In what is probably the understatement of the day, Scott Castle, director of the 3rd Judicial Task Force said things could have been disastrous if the guard with the assault rifle had opened up on the officers with the AK47.

Castle's remark about facing an AK47 with standard .40 caliber law-enforcement side arms, "It would have been a problem."

Illegal marijuana in East Tennessee---grown by and protected by illegal aliens armed with rifles and an AK 47.

SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW.

Rudy Won't Punish Illegals

Thinking of supporting former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani for the Republican nomination? He doesn't think being in this country illegally-sneaking across the border-should be a crime.

Speaking on the Glenn Beck radio program last week, Mr. Giuliani said that illegal entry into the U.S. is not a federal crime and that he doesn't think it should be, either: "It shouldn't be because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. We couldn't prosecute 12 million people."

If you are concerned about the safety and security of the United States of America and you were thinking of supporting Mr. Guiliani for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2008, you may want to think again.

Don't Keep the DREAM Alive

This week, there have been increasing reports from the Hill that Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) intends to offer the DREAM Act as an amendment to the FY08 Department of Defense Authorization Bill (H.R.1585). Debate of this legislation and the Durbin Amendment is expected NEXT WEEK! Yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) held a press conference alerting the Capitol press corps to the growing possibility that the DREAM Act would be resurrected. Calling the bill "amnesty," he said, "We may be headed for another immigration battle."

The DREAM Act does two things: (1) it grants amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the country before the age of 16 and have met certain educational requirements and (2) it reverses current law to allow states to provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens while charging non-resident U.S. citizens out-of-state tuition.

The DREAM Act creates a three-tiered system to grant amnesty to illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16.

Illegal aliens who are over 12 and are enrolled in primary or secondary school are eligible for a stay of removal.

Illegal aliens who have obtained a high school diploma or a GED, or have simply been admitted to an institution of higher education, are eligible for conditional lawful permanent resident status (conditional LPR status). There is NO CAP ON THE NUMBER OF ALIENS who may receive conditional LPR status, there is NO AGE LIMIT, and such status MAY BE EXTENDED INDEFINITELY.

Illegal aliens who have already obtained conditional LPR status under the act and have also completed at least 2 years of a degree program or 2 years in the military are eligible for legal permanent resident status (LPR status).

Act now to stop the DREAM Act!!! Supporters of the DREAM Act insist that the legislation is not an amnesty and that it is only intended to help children. However, the details of the bill clearly prove that their claims are false! Please call your Senators TODAY, FRIDAY, and NEXT WEEK to let them know you oppose the DREAM Act. Tell them you strongly oppose rewarding illegal immigration with amnesty. Even if the children only entered with their illegal alien parents, those illegal alien parents are rewarded when their children become eligible to receive a U.S. education paid for by taxpayer dollars and are then granted amnesty.

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AND URGE THEM TO REJECT THE DREAM ACT! To find the phone number of your Senators, click here.

Is the Cost Too High?

Biased? Sure, but.....you can't explain away everything. Whether it is a basic human right to be free from governmental control or not, can we afford it?

Perhaps you need documentation?

President Bush is already being blamed for spending too much money on the war and that's why the bridges are falling down. We could repair a few bridges with this amount of money. These are stunning numbers and apparently easily verifiable...Proves once again that Washington just doesn't get it!



__1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.http://tinyurl.com/zob77__

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html__

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html__

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html__

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html__

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html __

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html__

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html __

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html __

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html__

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht__

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period." http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf__

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm__1

4. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ". http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Senate Passes Amendment to Halt Mexican Trucks on U.S. Highways

Washington DC - The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) congratulated Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for sponsoring an amendment to the Transportation Appropriations bill that cuts-off funding for a program that would have allowed hundreds of Mexican trucks to haul cargo on U.S. highways. The amendment was approved Tuesday by a 75 to 23 margin.

The program, promoted by the Bush Administration, would have cost many Americans their jobs and endangered motorists on our interstate highways because of laxer safety standards for Mexican trucks. The Mexican trucking program would also have posed a threat to homeland security, compounding the already difficult task of inspecting cargo entering the U.S. Fittingly, the vote on the amendment took place on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.

"FAIR joins everyone who is concerned about protecting the jobs of American workers, protecting the safety of people who drive on our highways, and protecting the security of our nation, in congratulating Sen. Dorgan for putting these interests ahead of the desire of large corporations to cut their trucking costs," said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "It seems it is finally dawning on members of Congress that the American people believe there are important national interests that must take precedence over the desire of some to save a buck."

The overwhelming approval of this amendment, combined with the support of organized labor, is a hopeful indication that a new coalition that supports border and immigration enforcement may be developing. "People are becoming aware that ill-conceived trade policies and unenforced immigration policies are a threat to national security and to our embattled middle class," Stein noted. "Whether by default - because we do not enforce laws against illegal immigration - or by design, such as policies that open our highways to foreign truckers, there are actual American workers and their families who pay a heavy price for some businesses' insatiable thirst for lower cost labor.

"Likewise, whether we have people and goods moving across our borders illegally, or whether we institute policies that allow people and goods to enter with little or no inspection, the consequence is the same. America's homeland security is compromised," declared Stein.

The same principles that were applied to the decision of Congress not to allow Mexican trucks to haul good across the U.S., must be applied to our border policies in general. "The basic litmus test for determining immigration policies should be, Will American workers be harmed? Will public safety be compromised? Will homeland security be put at risk? If the answers to any of these questions is yes, then the policies need to be reconsidered," concluded Stein.

The Jobs of Illegals

Becoming active in a political movement is the most enthralling, the most terrifying, and the most complex task I have ever participated in.

I like to arrange the events in my life according to that formula, and up until now, I had settled on my marriage, and subsequent divorce as the hardest undertaking. Now, I look back with a sigh of relief and an incredulous giggle--HA! That was a piece of cake compared to becoming involved with a political cause.

Then, I was fighting against ONE idiot. Now, I'm taking on an entire nation of complacent unscrupulous liberal individuals that are so caught up in steadying the boat that any deviation from the formula is unheard of. I find myself frustrated at times by the complete lack of backbone that is necessary to stand up against people who want to do nothing but shut you up by calling you a racist, and thereby continue their money making ventures. That's right, I said it. Letting illegals into this country is about money. That's all. It's not even about the money they are making, even illegal supporters don't really care about their welfare. Look at the jobs that criminal employers are giving them: Construction, cleaning, hospitality, farming---very physical, back breaking work. The most common argument that I have heard FOR the continued practice of illegal immigration is this: they do jobs that we Americans don't want to do.

What? Is that the best you have? So, there is a job out there, that an illegal is doing, that JUST HAS TO BE DONE SO BADLY that without the filling of that job the United States will cease to prosper. Just let me get this straight....we want to continue to let illegals in unchecked, so that our convenience is still maintained? Wow...I think that line of logic, or lack thereof, was used by Slavery Supporters 400 years ago. Really, now, who is the racist is this argument?

Christa

The Brits Do It Better

Apparently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn't taxed enough of our hard-earned money. Now, she wants a "windfall" profits tax on any stock earnings you might have. Who would benefit from this new tax? Among other groups, Pelosi wants to give the money to illegal aliens!

"We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as "Americans."

So Pelosi's solution is to dole out ever-more taxpayer dollars to illegals by raising taxes on citizens and legal residents, so that those in this country legally will have to subsidize those who are not on a writ-large basis.

Contrast this to Britain, whose Labour Government (a party that has its roots in the socialist trade union movement of the 19th Century) is preparing to limit its quota of non-European immigrants to those who have learned English before they are allowed into that country. Note that the position of the Conservative Party in Britain, traditionally the champion of the middle class, religion, and the nuclear family, is now in a bind. In the Tories' rush to be seen as the "compassionate" party, they have (up to now) neglected to address the immigration problem in Britain. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the Mother Country can teach us a thing or two again

Lawyer Harasses Citizens Who Report Immigration Crimes

DESCRIBE YOUR COMPLAINT IN DETAIL. Use the back of this page or attach other pages for more space.
Jeffrey Dale Ridner, Esq. was retained by our landlords Chris and Karl Chmelar who live in the Netherlands, E.U. By certified letter Mr. Ridner attempted to intimidate my wife and me with the threat of eviction if we did not turn a blind eye to a possible federal immigration crime and associated conspiracy involving him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company (a copy of his certified letter dated August 24, 2007 is attached herewith as Exhibit A), to wit:
That 6 - 8 men of Central American descent arrived at our (leased) home at approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) and commenced stripping the slate off the roof with the intention of re-shingling the house. None of the workers could speak English and there was no supervisor present with whom I could communicate.

That because of the clear and present danger posed by illegal immigrants to our national sovereignty and security, I was suspicious of these workers and immediately began soliciting help to determine their immigration status by contacting: 1) the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, 2) U. S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ Washington office, 3) the Department of Immigration’s Immigration & Custom Enforcement task force (ICE) and finally the roofing company that sent the questionable workers (Porter Roofing of McMinnville, Tennessee).
That the Sheriff’s Department was at a loss of what to do regarding the matter although they sent a Deputy the following morning who agreed with my concern about possible undocumented workers continuing the roofing job (see Exhibit B).

That Congressman Davis’ Washington assistant asked me to memorialize the facts and fax them to Washington and to Mr. Davis’ Rockwood, Tennessee office where his Immigration Specialist was assigned (Beth Hickman, phone: 865-354-3323). I complied with this request and received an email from Ms. Hickman Monday morning (August 27, 2007) stating that ICE had logged the possible crime which would trigger an investigation.

I had already contacted ICE on Wednesday (August 22, 2007) and related the facts to them.
That while the workers were still on the roof Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) I called Porter Roofing in McMinnville and asked them to either provide proof of legal status for these men or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. I was told by “Miguel,” an individual with a very thick Hispanic accent, “this is none of your business” and in effect, “go fly a kite.” Shortly thereafter Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray (of LaFayette, GA) also told me over the telephone (screaming) that the matter was “none of my business.”

That in a letter sent by certified mail on Monday (August 27, 2007) Mr. Ridner laid out erroneous facts relating to the events that had transpired the preceding Wednesday (August 22, 2007) including the false accusation that I had ordered the workers off the roof and that I had forbidden them from returning to complete the job (Exhibit A). I addressed these misrepresentations in my return certified letter to him attached as Exhibit B.

That in his letter Mr. Ridner - by implication - threatened my wife and me with eviction if we did not ignore the possible illegal status of the workers and allow them to continue roofing. In effect his demands were designed to bully us into ignoring the possible violations of federal immigration law including a conspiracy between him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company.

That I was in no way responsible for any work stoppage. I merely requested that Porter Roofing obey federal immigration law or use local workers.

That Mr. Ridner knew or had a duty to know that a potential crime - including a conspiracy - was being committed by Porter Roofing and his clients yet he chose to intimidate my wife and me by threat of eviction if we did not ignore the potential federal crimes being perpetrated.
That Mr. Ridner’s oath as a lawyer includes reporting crimes and not encouraging that state and federal laws be broken.

That my wife and I feared retaliation from Mr. Ridner and it arrived by certified mail Friday, August 31, 2007 (Exhibit C). We have leased this property at 448 Wonder Cave Road; Pelham, Tennessee for 25 months. Our lease payment has never been late and we have had no complaints from the Chmelars until this incident which triggered the lease termination by Mr Ridner. It is intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Mr. Ridner’s termination of our lease was to punish my wife and me for reporting a possible crime.

Mr. Ridner’s actions have been unscrupulous and designed to bully while ignoring a serious violation of federal immigration law at a defining moment in our nation’s history. His conduct has been at least unethical and certainly not in keeping with the high standards demanded by his oath before the bar.

I request that this matter be investigated and if my recitation of the foregoing facts prove to be true, that Mr. Ridner be severely reprimanded and/or suspended if not disbarred.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the information given in this complaint is true to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief. I am aware the the lawyer may be notified of my complaint.


DATE: September 1, 2007
cc: Jeffrey D. Ridner, Esq.
***************
August 26, 2007
Jeffrey D.Ridner
Haynes, Hull, Rieder, Ewell & Ridner, P.A.
214 NE Atlantic Street
Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388

Re: Tenancy at property on 448 Wonder Cave Road, Pelham, Tennessee and the possible commission of federal immigration crimes including a conspiracy.
and my DECLARATION under penalty of perjury

Dear Mr Ridner,
This is my response by way of DECLARATION under penalty of perjury to your letter dated August 24, 2007 to clarify the facts in this matter (this letter & enclosures will be faxed and mailed to all parties by USPS certified mail).

I will address the erroneous points in your letter, to wit:

“It is my understanding that when the contractor arrived at the property, Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was provided to him”

FACT: The 6-8 workers arrived at our house by storming over the front fence rather than walking through the open gate. No one could speak English and the promise of a “supervisor” to oversee the initial work to insure that care was given to the newly installed gutters was not kept (I had cordially discussed the re-roofing at length with Mr. Dennis Ray, the Chmelar’s brother-in-law, and was aggressively looking out for the Chmelar’s interests by telephoning Mr. Ray on more than one occasion alerting him to problems with the delivery of the roofing material, etc.)

FACT: The above mentioned workers appeared to be of Central American decent and my wife who is from San Antonio, Texas and has 50+ years experience with Mexicans voiced her concern regarding their rough appearance especially since no supervisor was present to act as a go-between. Furthermore, one of the workers took my shovel up on the the roof without my permission and used it the rest of the day shoveling slate into their trailer.

FACT: I said nothing (made no “objection”) to these workers - if for no other reason than I don’t speak Spanish. The workers did not arrive until approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon August 22nd and worked until the end of their self-determined workday. They left on their own motion. At no time did I order them off the property.

FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the Grundy County Sheriff's office and reported the possibility of illegal aliens on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.

FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the U.S. Department of Immigration and their Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to report possible undocumented workers on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.

FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted my U.S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ office in Washington to report this possible crime and to enlist his assistance. His office agreed to help and asked me to memorialize the facts and to fax the letter to them which I did. My letter to Congressman Davis requested an investigation of Porter Roofing, the contrator in question, and if an immigration crime was discovered that the parties who were responsible be prosecuted including anyone aiding and abetting the possible crime and/or any co-conspirators (as you know, a conspiracy is simply the agreement to commit an illegal act followed by one overt act in the furtherance of the agreed upon crime).
Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was
provided him.

FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted Porter Roofing (McMinnville, Tennessee) by telephone. A worker with a thick Spanish accent at their office returned my call. His name was “Miguel.” I told him that Thursday (August 23rd) I wanted to be shown proof that their workers had legal immigration status (not “identification” as you suggested) or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. He told me it was none of my business and to effectively “go fly a kite.” I was also screamed at over the telephone by Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray who also told me “it was none of my business.”
“As a result of the objection, the contractors left the property.”

FACT: See above... and

FACT: At no time did I order the workers off the roof nor did I forbid them from returning. I did ask Porter Roofing to comply with federal immigration laws or to use local workers.

FACT: Thursday morning August 23rd Grundy County Sherriff’s deputy Wiley drove into our driveway. I went out to greet him thinking it was in response to my call the previous day. He stated he was there on behalf of the Chmelar’s to say it was okay for the workers to continue re-roofing. I related the facts to him. He stated that he agreed with me, got in his cruiser and drove off.

“In accordance with the Default provision of the Annual Rental Agreement, letter is a demand by the Chmelars that the two of you allow the contractors to do the work.”

FACT: I have not and do not intend to physically or verbally prevent the work from continuing .

FACT: As a former Commander in the U.S. Navy who repeatedly swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I have witnessed a potential federal crime and I fully intend to pursue its possible prosecution including all involved parties. To quote Edmond Burke, “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” I love my country and I have a solemn duty to report the commission of a potential crime.

If within three (3) days of your receipt of this correspondence the default is not cured, then Mr. and Mrs. Chmelar will have no alternative than to explore additional remedies available to them under the agreement.

FACT: I can only construe this statement to be the threat of eviction because you are suggesting that I turn my back on the commission of a possible federal crime and associated conspiracy.
I suspect that like my oath as a Naval officer your oath as an attorney requires you to report possible crimes known to you. I have identified a possible crime that you may want to look into so the Tennessee Bar Association and the United States Attorney will be satisfied with your due diligence in this matter.

I join you in “hoping” that it will not be necessary to explore additional remedies and that no additional measures will be necessary.

I look forward to hearing from you within the three (3) days you laid down to resolve this matter as we may get the rain we so badly need and part of the subject roof only has tar paper on it.

For the soverignty of the United States of America and for the prosecution of federal immigration crimes & conspiracies... under penalty of perjury I declare that the foregoing statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief,

Davis Mauldin

cc: Congressman Lincoln Davis (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Tennessee Bar Association (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
United States Attorney, Nashville, Tennessee (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Bob Corker (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Lamar Alexander (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)

The New Slave Traffic

Back in 2003, Professor Victor Davis Hanson of Cal State Fresno wrote a book called Mexifornia that caused a sensation. It was the issue that, as Hanson put it, is "the 800-pound gorilla that nobody wants to touch." The cultural Mexicanization of the Southwest:

I got interested in the issue because I’m a fifth-generation farmer and I’ve watched changes in my community. The local school that I used to go to, which was about 60 percent Mexican or Mexican-American, [featured] assimilation, no ideology of “the border crossed us, we didn’t cross the borders”; no bilingual education, Chicano history, just simple assimilation. Those products of that school are quite successful; they run our hometown now. However, just before I came I looked at the rates of schools that are meeting California achievement levels, and in that same school – it’s a mile and a half – it’s 100 percent Mexican, and 9 percent met the minimum level of reading competency, and about 7 percent in mathematics, so something radical has happened.

But the key to it all in history is that the people who join this society must do it in numbers or in a fashion that allows them to be fully integrated and assimilated. Helots in Sparta didn’t work. Metics in Athens didn’t work. Resident aliens in Rome didn’t work, but people in the Empire who were given citizenship did work, and when they were assimilated with Italian culture, it worked.

Hanson is right, of course. Many people like to say "the border crossed us, we did not cross the border." The great difference between the days of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War, and our day today is that the Tejanos and the Californios of that time were thrilled to be free of Mexican rule, they were very proud of their new country, and they wanted to be Americans. Today, many Hispanic children aren't being taught in the English language in American class, and are being taught as if they are Mexicans or Latinos before they are Americans. In some cases they are told that they aren't Americans at all. Part of this is because of the environment and the labor that migrants and their children are subjected to as much as it is the education system.

One way I wanted to write the book, then, is to say, how did this system perpetuate and will it continue and who benefits and who loses? So I looked at each different group. Ostensibly, a person who comes from Mexico and makes $10 an hour in cash feels that he’s reached a bonanza compared to $10 a week, let’s say, in Oaxaca, and it looks great. But I’ve noticed a tragic life cycle: that we and the Mexican government almost traffic in human capital. While it looks good in the beginning, somebody typically – and again, I’m generalizing, but I’ve seen empirically, over my lifetime – people will come from Mexico at 18, 20, usually single males predominantly, they’ll work very, very hard, they’ll be delighted that they’ve had more money in their life, they can send money back and become almost heroic in their village for doing so. But if you follow that work in concrete, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, agriculture, that’s not a rite-of-passage job for people who are here illegally and who don’t know English. It becomes a permanent position, and human nature being what it is, your body cannot withstand that type of work.

So ultimately, at the age of 40 or 50, that dream has sometimes turned into a nightmare because a person may have a bad back, a bad shoulder, and then the employer who either paid cash or low wages or didn’t have a health plan says, well, go to the neighborhood clinic, workman’s comp, Section 8 housing, and the entitlement industry then picks up that added cost. Meanwhile, the children of that immigrant, whose father or mother may not know English and may not be documented, then develops a very different idea. Often he has not, or she has not, been to Mexico. She doesn’t speak Spanish in the same fluency as her parents did, doesn’t read Spanish necessarily, doesn’t know English to the same degree that people that he or she will have to compete with, and has a very different view of America. Often rates of incarceration or gang activity are higher commensurately with the population. But more importantly is the reaction to the employer, and they will tell you, don’t bring anybody onto the cement crew who speaks English because the second generation will not work like the people from Oaxaca. This is the standard – and so then we just renew the cycle and traffic in human capital.

So employers who hire illegals are not interested in bringing new Americans here and melding them into our larger cultural mosaic of peoples from all over the world (as many on the Left say), but are more interested in trafficking in human beings in what has become a modern version of the slave trade.

How are we treating American citizens of Mexican heritage who are here legally and who have done everything right according to the law? In Dr. Hanson's example, pretty crappy:

And this whole illegal universe ripples in very strange places. For example, when I'm teaching a class in the humanities, a student will come to me, often Mexican, of Mexican heritage, who’s a citizen, or a person from any heritage, from Nevada, Arizona, and say, why do I have to pay $5,000 for tuition when somebody who’s here illegally from California pays two thousand? And I usually use the standard argument, well, perhaps their parents – well, no, no, he’s only been here five years, or he doesn’t pay California State income tax. And often they’ll say, well, should I go down to Mexico and come in illegally and then perhaps I’ll get a discount?

And Californians, says Hanson, have come to depend on the new slavery to maintain their wealthy way of life.

In between it’s the California suburban average citizen who likes the idea of cheap food, going to a restaurant pretty cheap, and has developed the lifestyle of the 19th century aristocrat in some ways. Whoever thought that a Californian who was middle class, perhaps with a combined income of $100,000, could have somebody from Mexico here illegally to cut his lawn, clean his home, watch his children? And then at the same time that’s happening, he’s upset that if he goes and he looks at certain statistics of poverty, incarceration, education, that some of these groups who come from Mexico are represented in proportions that are higher than their representation in the population. So there’s all of this strange political mix, and the result in California, which we’re always a therapeutic society, is simply not to talk about it.

We have it pretty good here in Tennessee. We have a low cost of living, pay no income tax, and in East Tennessee many-if not the majority of us, are landowners. With the thousands upon thousands of people who are now pouring into our towns and hamlets from south of the Border each year and who are performing backbreaking labor at a menial wage, are we endanger of becoming dependent on a "new slave traffic," just as Hanson says has happened in California?

No Border Under Hillary

Want a good reason to make sure that New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't elected President?

Here's one from an address to the National Council of La Raza in 2005:

Clinton touched on nearly every issue that was important to Hispanics, the nation's largest ethnic group and a crucial voting bloc. She said she wanted to make sure Hispanic children got a fair education, and that families had medical insurance to ward off health problems such as asthma and lead poisoning that affect kids. She also talked of supporting legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to send money back home, which Hispanics do at a rate of about $200 per month.

Gosh Hillary, you might as well hang a big sign on the Southern border that says "Lawbreakers and Border Ruffians Welcome."

To be fair, Ms. Hillary said this while addressing the National Council of La Raza (The Race), a left-of-center Hispanic racist organization, so of course Hillary had to pander to this racist group because they are predominantly made up of Democratic voters.

La Raza is actually pretty tame compared to the militant anti-American Marxist group MEChA, which seeks the return of the entire Southwest to Mexican sovereignty, or the formation of an autonomous state that they call Aztlan. Of course, some members of La Raza are also members of MEChA.

Hillary said this back in 2005-who will Hillary protect-America or "Aztlan"?

Are the Illegal Aliens Who Work On Your Local Bridges Certified?

Since the Minneapolis bridge collapse, a national discussion has begun to take shape over the state of our national infrastructure, especially the state of our bridges. Has an illegal alien who may not be appropriately licenced to do specialized work been working on a bridge you might cross every day? A report from the Biloxi Sun-Herald says it has happened in Mississippi and two other Southern States:

The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jose S. Gonzalez, 32, at his office in Greenville Thursday, according to a news release. Tarrasco Steel was hired as a subcontractor for rebar installation services to major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The federal government considers those bridges as critical infrastructure, and they were part of routine inspections of facilities that if damaged could pose a threat to national security and public safety.

So we have people who weren't certified as welders attempting to weld vital bridges, some in this State-and these people were here illegally? That is a concern for the general public safety.

"There is a serious public safety concern when illegal aliens, who are not authorized to work in the country legally, and who do not possess valid welding certifications, are employed in the construction of bridges in our communities," said Michael A. Holt, special agent in charge of the Customs Office of Investigations in New Orleans, in a news release.

Mr. Holt is correct, of course. So how can the government put a stop to this serious threat to public safety? By enforcing our borders and keeping illegal aliens out of our country.

My Part to Stop the Invasion

It has been almost a year since I started trying to fight the invasion of illegals into this community, and overall into this country. No one event sparked my interest in this issue, except that I'm an American Citizen, and my safety in this country is threatened by people who come to this country unbeknownest to the Government, and live here without any fear of being arrested. For almost a year, I have written, called, emailed, faxed, and basically done everything I can think of to be "the change" in the world that I wanted to see. I had become a one person resource of action in the movement against illegal invasion.

As I have researched this issue, I have found that most people agree with me. They want enforcement of current immigration policies, they want to see the borders secured, they want to see the Federal Government stop permitting people to come into this country without documentation; however, they don't want to be labeled a racist, an isolationist, or a nihilist. What they don't understand is that this issue has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has to do with preserving the United States of America.

What if our Founding Fathers had been fearful of name calling? They were labled radicals, rebels, merely adolescents "pitching a fit". If they had fallen victim to the political strategy of the opposition, we would not be worrying about this issue right now. We would not be concerned with the preservation of the USA, it would be non-existent.

It takes one person to bring about change. That person is the spark that ignites a movement. I have been fortunate in meeting the members of T-FIRE. I am now a part of a group of determined and dedicated people that believe that our Government needs to be called to task for letting we Citizens down on this issue. I hope that those of you who read this blog, and visit our site, find the spark within you to become apart of this movement. We look forward to your support and your participation.

Christa

What Message Are We Sending?

As has been pointed out both at T-FIRE public events, and even at T-FIRE board meetings in discussions among our most active members, our organization is not opposed to immigration or to immigrants. We are opposed to illegal immigration-or more precisely, we are opposed to illegal aliens entering our country without going through the prescribed process for legal entry. The influx of illegal aliens places a strain on every fabric of our social structure from the health care system to education to the welfare apparatus.

Since it is often pointed out by those on both sides of the debate that we are a nation of immigrants, we must ask ourselves a much deeper question: What does it teach this latest batch of new arrivals about the meaning of law and civic duty in America if the government does not enforce the law regarding who may enter the United States and how they may do so? If you are a new arrival to the United States in the present climate, and the government allows you to simply waltz across the border as you please in violation of the law, and then expends little or no effort to apprehend and punish you for breaking your first law in America, what does that teach you about the value of law and order in American society?

It would seem to teach the new arrivals that in America, the law is only selectively enforced whenever Americans find it convenient to enforce the law.

If those who are coming here as illegal aliens are to be accepted as part of American society as many would have it, are these same people comfortable with the message they are sending to the latest arrivals-that it is okay to break the law in America?

The New Exploiters

The good news in this story is that this man knowingly hired illegal aliens, and now he is going to jail. His excuse? Everyone else is doing it!

From the Knoxville News-Sentinel August 28:

“This is happening every day in Mexican restaurants,” attorney Charles Torres argued on behalf of Pun Wun Chan. “As an immigration practitioner, I see these types of situations every day. It’s hard for me to take it as a serious crime because it’s a constant ongoing (thing).”

U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan sided with Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Mackie, who told the judge, “I don’t think there’s any justification because others may do this.”

Varlan sentenced Chan, 51, to a year in prison for conspiring to harbor, house and employ as many as two dozen Hispanic illegal immigrants at his Number One China Buffet restaurant on Papermill Drive from December 2003 to January 2005. That restaurant has since been torn down.

So because everyone else is doing it, and because even the federal government does it (in violation of its own laws) that's okay:

Citing a recent article in a Washington, D.C., newspaper, Torres contended that even the federal government has hired illegal immigrants.

“This country is somewhat dependent on this type of thing,” he said of the employment of illegal immigrants.

Everyone hears all of the so-called positive arguments for bringing illegals here and hiring them. The fact is, however, that we are bringing them here, and they are doing extremely hard manual labor for a fraction of the pay that labor is worth if the employee is a legal U.S. resident or an American citizen.

They are being taken advantage of and exploited, but very often, both the government and our Leftist friends (many of whom love to proclaim themselves to be in favor of justice for the poor) ignore that harsh reality.

Do Your Part to Fight the Invasion

*** Illegal immigration should have stopped on September 12, 2001. Actually a few dozen years before that, but too many Americans cannot remember much further back than that.

*** Remember, if you are serious about doing something about illegal immigration, or more appropriately, the illegal INVASION, at the very least for God's sake, start by acting like an American and get then STAY informed.

*** If the government of the United States was serious about stopping the invasion, they would do more about it. If you do not think this is an invasion, then try and stop it, or it will become one.

*** "We have room for but one flag, the American Flag. We have room for but one language, the English language, and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty to the American people." -- President Theodore Roosevelt.

*** Turn in an illegal alien today. ICE Phone Number: (866) 347-2423. Toll free and you do not have to give your name. Just all the information you can think of.