The Senate decided Wednesday it didn’t want to interfere with the Obama administration’s lawsuit challenging Arizona’s strict new immigration law.
GOP Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana introduced an amendment to a jobless benefits bill that would have barred federal funds from being used in any lawsuit seeking overturn the Arizona law. But the amendment failed 43-55, on a mostly party-line vote.
Arizona’s two Republicans senators, John McCain and Minority Whip Jon Kyl, backed the amendment.
You Idiots. 
Originally posted by Brentnauer
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How does an illegal immigrant cast a ballot?
Originally posted by Brentnauer
reply to post by guohua
How does an illegal immigrant cast a ballot?
A graffiti message found Sunday night in Juárez warned U.S. law enforcement that another car bombing will occur if they do not arrest corrupt federal police agents.
The unsigned message told the FBI and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate authorities that support the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Otherwise, there will be another car bomb placed in Juárez to kill federal police, the threat stated.
"If in 15 days, there is no response with detention of corrupt federales, we will put a car with 100 kilos of C4," the message read.
Composite 4, or C-4, was the plastic explosive used for an attack that killed three people Thursday in Downtown Juárez, according to military officials in Juárez.
FBI officials in El Paso said they will not investigate the nature of the message because it is in a foreign country.
"We only offer assistance when requested by that government," said Andrea Simmons, spokeswoman for the FBI.
DEA officials also said they only assist Mexican authorities when these ask for support.
Mexican federal police said they do not regard it as a credible threat.
"We don't give importance to those messages," said José Ramón Salinas, spokesman for the federal police.
A similar message, known as "narco-pinta," was found signed by the Juárez cartel warning they had more car bombs targeted to authorities helping Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Military officials in Juárez said 10 kilos of explosive rigged in a car were detonated from a cell phone that day.
It was the first attack of its kind since the Mexican government began cracking down on drug cartels
The Situation
The conflict sweeping the nation is expanding rapidly. Areas under the influence or control of drug cartels are increasing. The "drug war" is taking a very sinister turn.
The drug cartels are constantly on the offensive now and have been for much of 2010, threatening the fabric of society.
The government is unable to impose the rule of law within ever increasing areas of the country as organized criminal groups destabilize society through the terrorism of both deliberate attacks against state institutions and the random violence against civil society.
The perception to the rest of the world is that in these areas law enforcement is irrelevant and only the military is capable of imposing order and only temporarily at best.
The bodies of rival criminals, police and innocent civilians, many decapitated and dismembered, now appear in the streets on a daily basis in a campaign of intimidation of the population and a show of impunity.
Humberto Moreira Valdés, Governor of the state of Coahuila
The following post is based on an e-mail received by Borderland Beat from citizens of Coahuila, a state in Mexico that borders Southwest Texas. It is a call to action against the current governor of the state, Humberto Moreira Valdes of the PRI party, by citizens of the Torreon, which has been hit especially hard this year by the violence, crime and murders being perpetrated by organized criminal groups.
Many of his constituents despise the governor as the prototype of political corruption in Mexico today. He is rumored to own million dollar homes in San Antonio, Texas and Vail, Colorado. How these properties were obtained on a public servant’s salary is open to conjecture.
Governors are known as the “New Viceroys” of the Mexican political system. They hold and exercise much more power than U.S. Governors and in most cases are not answerable to the President of the Republic. They control access to public funds in a political system not known for its transparency.
Guard to deploy to border Aug. 1
By Army Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill
National Guard Bureau
WASHINGTON (7-19-10) - Starting Aug. 1, up to 1,200 National Guard troops will deploy to the Southwest border with Mexico, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said in a joint announcement with Obama administration officials at the Pentagon here today.
"We're very pleased to be in support of our interagency partners," Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley said. The 1,200 troops will support Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
The largest number of troops – 524 – is slated to deploy in Arizona. Meanwhile, an estimated 250 will deploy in Texas, 224 in California and 72 in New Mexico. Additional troops from these states will also serve in command and control or support positions.
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US official: Mexican car bomb likely used Tovex
by ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
To create the Small Business Lending Fund Program to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make capital investments in eligible institutions in order to increase the availability of credit for small businesses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for small business job creation, and for other purposes.
Sec. __. No funds made available in any provision of law may be used to participate in any lawsuit that seeks to invalidate those provisions of the Arizona Revised Statutes amended by Arizona Senate Bill 1070, 49th Leg., 2nd Reg. Sess., Ch. 113 (Az. 6 2010) (as amended by Arizona House Bill 2162, 49th 7 Leg., 2nd Reg. Sess., Ch. 211 (Az. 2010)).
