Archive for February, 2011
The case of Jessica Colotl…illegal immigrant college student has been indicted on felony charges.
Colotl...surrounded by her legal team
I have been following this case since it started last May. This is the story of a college student named Jessica Colotl, who also happens to be an illegal immigrant. Her parents brought her into the United States from southern Mexico almost 10 years ago (when she was 11 years old). They have lived here illegally ever since. She has attended public schools in Georgia and after graduating from Westlake High School, she went on to attend Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She has been paying the reduced in-state tuition rate.
Back in May 2010, Jessica was stopped by campus police for “impeding the flow of traffic”. She was arrested when she could not produce a drivers license (she only had an outdated Mexican passport). That’s when her gig was up. The police turned her over to ICE….and the national media circus began.
(from the Atlanta Journal Constitution)
A Kennesaw State University student on Friday criticized the national immigration system that brought her to the brink of deportation and remains a looming threat to the future of students like her who are illegally in America.
“I just hope for the best,” said Jessica Colotl, a 21-year-old who entered the country illegally when she was 10. “I hope something positive comes out of this because we really need reform for this messed-up system.”
The Mexico native gained national attention in March when she was arrested in Cobb County for a minor traffic violation on the KSU campus and narrowly avoided being deported. Colotl addressed about 50 supporters and reporters at a rally just hours after being released from jail on $2,500 bond on a second charge accusing her of lying about her address.
The young student is being held up as an example of what’s wrong with the nation’s immigration system by both pro-immigrant groups and opponents of illegal immigration
Colotl’s case has prompted pro-immigrant and human rights organizations to renew calls for the termination of the 287(g) program, an agreement local law enforcement agencies, such as the Cobb Sheriff’s Office, have with immigration officials to check the status of everyone taken into custody. Opponents say the program promotes racial profiling and tears apart families.
Colotl was handed over to immigration authorities following her first arrest under the 287(g) program. At the urging of KSU, Colotl’s friends and advocacy groups, ICE agreed to defer her case for a year until she completed her degree. She was then released from a federal detention center in Alabama.
Colotl was released from jail about 11:40 a.m. Friday. Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren secured a warrant Wednesday night to arrest Colotl, 21, on a felony charge alleging she made a false statement about her address on a jail booking form. A KSU officer had arrested Colotl in March on a charge of driving without a license.
A spokeswoman for Warren said he would be unavailable to comment about the rally for Colotl on Friday. She referred a reporter to a written statement Warren issued Thursday that said “it is sad that Ms. Colotl’s parents chose to enter the United States illegally and ultimately put her in this position.”
Warren said that his investigation revealed that she had never lived at the address listed on her booking records.
Taylor, Colotl’s attorney, said that she had lived at the Duluth address as recently as November 2009 and her motor vehicle insurance and car registration paperwork were still being mailed there.
Colotl gave deputies her old address, Taylor said, because it matched her car insurance paperwork. On the same day, she also gave immigration enforcement officers her current address in Norcross. Sheriff’s deputies should have known where to find her, Taylor said.
An ICE spokesman said Friday that the agency chose not to detain Colotl again following her second arrest. Her case will be reviewed again on its merits at the conclusion of the deferment period.
Colotl was accepted to KSU in 2006 as an in-state student, which was in keeping with the policy of the Board of Regents at the time. The following year, the rules were changed so that undocumented students could no longer receive in-state tuition, which costs about a quarter of out-of-state tuition.
Colotl was still paying in-state tuition up until her March arrest. That’s when university officials learned she was an illegal immigrant, according to a statement KSU issued Friday. The university’s administration said from now on she will be charged out-of-state tuition rates.
Well…she is now a senior at Kennesaw State University and is expected to graduate this May. On Friday, a Cobb County grand jury indicted her on charges of making a false statement. Her parents are…of course…nowhere to be found. They have vanished into thin air….although I seriously doubt they are back in Mexico…leaving their daughter to fend for herself. I do feel sorry for Jessica (just a tiny bit). Her parents brought her here illegally and did nothing to try to become legal. She’d be a US citizen now if they had applied for it when they first got here 10 years ago. She is supposed to be deported after her graduation in May but the pro-amnesty organizations are doing everything they can to stop that.
How many more Jessica Colotl’s are there out there who are illegally receiving benefits that are meant for American citizens?
Thousands?
What do you guys think?
Monday Open Thread: February 14th, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day
What’s on your minds this Monday?
What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Sunday Open Thread: February 13th, 2011
Ron Paul at CPAC
Ron Paul wins the straw poll at CPAC and the former governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson came in third. Two very libertarian candidates…..what are we to make of that? I heard that there was a huge libertarian presence at CPAC so do you think it was just a case of ”let’s go root for our guys”? Why do we still conduct straw polls?
What’s on your minds this Sunday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Allen West…Magnificent!
Did you hear Congressman Allen West’s CPAC speech?
I still have chills. I feel safer knowing he’s in Washington taking care of business. He’s…..
Amazing…Fabulous…Awesome
KICK ASS!
Illegal Immigrant charged with triple murder
I know that these murderous illegal immigrants are fairly isolated but the shear fact that this lowlife monster was supposed to be deported (almost 10 years ago)….and wasn’t raises the BIG question…what the hell does the Department of Homeland Security do all day? They aren’t protecting Arizona…they aren’t protecting Virginia. Let’s face it folks..they aren’t protecting our homeland.
(from FoxNews)
Mannassas, Va. — A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife attack in a Virginia suburb of Washington, authorities said Friday.
Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the pair of attacks blocks apart Thursday night that left three people dead and three others injured, Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen said.
Reyes Alfaro knew all of the victims, he said, but police were still sorting out the exact relationships. The county’s chief prosecutor said he’ll likely seek to upgrade the charges to capital murder, which could carry the death penalty.
A similar uproar ensued in August when an allegedly drunken driver struck a car carrying three nuns, killing Sister Denise Mosier, 66. The man charged in that crash, 23-year-old Carlos Martinelly Montano, had been turned over to immigration authorities but was released pending a deportation hearing.
I WANT MY TAX MONEY BACK!
Saturday Open Thread: February 12th, 2011
This is from the back of a t-shirt sold at www.imao.us
What’s on your minds this Saturday?
What are your weekend plans?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Hatemail of the Day: More terrible spelling from people who irrationally hate Governor Sarah Palin
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Chandra Levy’s killer convicted, receives 60 years in prison
Chandra Levy's killer finally sent to prison, in February 2011, ten years after she was murdered
I have not seen much coverage of this in the news (of course), but Chandra Levy’s killer was convicted and today received a sentence of 60 years in prison.
Not to be a broken record, or tell you things you clearly already know, but the Media in this country is terrible.
Before 9/11, the Media led a witch hunt against Congressman Gary Condit, claiming he murdered Levy (a 24 year old woman from California who lived in DC working an internship with the Bureau of Prisons). Just like with the OJ case, the Scott Peterson case, the JonBenet Ramsey case, and other sensational murder stories, the Media turned Chandra Levy’s death into a circus…and excitedly rushed to judgment about her killer before the facts were in.
Congressman Condit was a sleazeball, yes. He was an adulterer and a bad human being in almost every sense of the word, but he was not a murderer.
He is a Democrat, but bet you never heard that mentioned. The Media did it’s best to make the public think Condit was a Republican, because he was a conservative Democrat, a Blue Dog. If you haven’t picked up on this, apparently it’s taught in “journalism school” that the only time a person’s political affiliation is noted is if it’s a Republican who has done something bad or a Democrat who has done something praiseworthy. Otherwise, the Media will try to make the public think bad Democrats are Republicans and they’ll just flat-out ignore anything good a Republican ever does.
And when the Media’s wrong about something, like with Condit, the retraction comes on page 23-F of the New York Times and airs at 230am on MSNBC, if any retraction ever comes.
MEANWHILE, Levy’s real killer was found, and it was an illegal immigrant who murdered not just Levy, but two other women in the DC area. He was a predator who killed female joggers running alone in the park.
Did you know any of this?
Or, did the Media leave you to continue believing Congressman Condit murdered Levy after having an affair with her?
Shameful.
She just wants to be Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin wannabe at CPAC
Ok…so…she does look like Governor Palin but we all know that the Governor was not at CPAC. This Sarah Palin impersonator stunned crowds at the CPAC convention today in Washington and fooled a lot of people. Apparently, she even gave interviews. I know it probably wasn’t done maliciously but something about this really gets my hackles up. It’s one thing if the liberal media (redundancy alert) mocks Governor Palin….we expect that… but someone at CPAC? Cocktail Party hit job? I’m not saying this lady was mocking the Governor (because I don’t really know) but this is just wrong.
There is only ONE Sarah Palin.
Period.
Governor Jan Brewer…my hero
This is one tough cookie.
I’ve been waiting for this to happen. I have always thought that the next step for Governor Brewer would be to sue the federal government for failing to protect Arizona. I love this lady. I love her guts. I love her spunk. I love her courage. I love that she is doing the right thing for her state. I want to be just like Jan Brewer. What a wonderful role model for the young women of today.
Governor Brewer said that …“Because the federal government has failed to protect the citizens of Arizona, I am left with no other choice,”
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler declined to comment on the filing. But a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of policing the country’s borders, called Brewer’s lawsuit a meritless action and said Border Patrol staffing is higher than ever.
“Not only do actions like this ignore all of the statistical evidence, they also belittle the significant progress that our men and women in uniform have made to protect this border and the people who live alongside it,” spokesman Matthew Chandler said. “We welcome any state and local government or law enforcement agency to join with us to address the remaining challenges.”
An example of how the DHS is securing our borders.
Brewer’s lawsuit seeks a court order that would require the federal government to take extra steps to protect Arizona — such as more border fences — until the border is controlled. Brewer also asks for additional border agents and technology along the state’s border with Mexico.
When will Washington realize that our country in under siege on our southern border. Not only are illegal Mexican immigrants pouring into our country but who knows how many terrorists are also coming across. We gotta do something. Now. Jan Brewer seems like just the lady to do it.
Go Jan Go!
