Democrat politicians in Maryland are trying to protect hundred of thousands of illegal immigrants living in our communities.  They are not living up to the oath of their office and are betraying all Maryland citizens.  We want legal citizens and authorized US visitors to obtain Maryland drivers licenses--not illegals.

The Maryland House of Delegates struck an uneasy compromise last week on a bill that would, in effect, allow thousands of illegal immigrants to renew their driver's licenses but require proof of legal status to obtain a new license beginning next month.

Opponents say the measure would create two classes of driver's licenses for those who can or cannot prove legal status - for example, with a Social Security number or a pay stub - and also provide a backdoor amnesty for those staying in the country illegally.

"It's a bait and switch - it's an amnesty bill under a different name," said House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell, Calvert Republican.

The amended bill, which is expected to pass the House this week, purports to bring Maryland into compliance with the federal Real ID Act of 2005, which requires states to set tighter standards for documenting residents.

Maryland is one of only four states - along with Hawaii, New Mexico and Washington state - that do not check the immigration status of persons trying to obtain a driver's license. Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, and Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) officials came out against the current practice last month.

The situation has gotten so bad that businesses run classified ads in Spanish-language publications in the District, Virginia and Maryland urging "undocumented Hispanic friends" to take advantage of the opportunity to get a Maryland ID without having to prove they are in the country legally.

In one case, Maryland motor vehicle officials say, 68 people applying for licenses and identification cards gave the same address for an 800-square-foot home in Baltimore.

It is time that even liberal US and Maryland citizens say "enough" from these corrupt politicians.  We demand security and an end to helping illegals with ID fraud.  We want our rights protected and our drivers licenses to be secure.  I hope the Maryland citizens will put enough pressure on the Governor to stop this outrageous fraud.

I have a brother who is blind and he has participated in the Special Olympics.  The President's statement was crude and says a lot about his thoughts on the disabled.

Article on the President's comments:

Appearing on "The Tonight Show," the president told host Jay Leno he'd been practicing at the White House's bowling alley but wasn't happy with his score of 129. The he rolled a gutter ball by quipping: "It was like the Special Olympics or something."

The audience laughed, but the White House quickly recognized the blunder.

On his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to say he was sorry _ even before the taped program aired late Thursday night.

"He expressed his disappointed and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population," Shriver said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." Obama, Shriver said, wants to have some Special Olympic athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.

Still, Shriver said, "I think it's important to see that words hurt and words do matter. And these words that in some respect can be seem as humiliating or a put down to people with special needs do cause pain and they do result in stereotypes."

Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters traveling with Obama that the president's offhand remark was not meant to disparage the Special Olympics, only to poke some fun at the commander-in-chief's bowling skills.

"He thinks that the Special Olympics are a wonderful program that gives an opportunity to shine to people with disabilities from around the world," Burton said.

Instead of bowling, please concentrate on the economy.

President Obama wants ACORN to help with the 2010 census.  This corrupt organization helped get him elected so now he wants them to help with fraud during the census count.  All organizations that assist with the census count must be vetted. 

Remember ACORN? If you watched any coverage of the 2008 election, you surely heard of the group. If you saw Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck voting at a polling location near you, they were probably registered by an ACORN volunteer.  This corrupt organization has faced lawsuit after lawsuit claiming the group is responsible for massive voter fraud. What did the group do after that? They moved on to "help" people break the law by breaking into locked-down, foreclosed homes and encouraging the evicted home owners to continue living in the homes, even though they could not pay the bills. Now, this group will be helping with the 2010 census.

This is an outrage to the American democratic voting system.  The Commerce Department must use law abiding groups, not corrupt political organizations to assist with the census since this population count is critical to Congressional seats and funding.

More communities need to do what they did in Victoria, Texas--boycott of illegal aliens.

An interesting event happened in Victoria, Texas, population of 55,000 and about 80 miles west of Houston.
 
Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned  businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community.  The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%.
 
Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%.  Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards.

Mayve CASA of Maryland will organize a boycott here in Maryland!!!!

The US Congress is destroying US jobs and creating debt for all American citizens for years to come with the Card Check, Protect the Unions legislation.

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) does more than effectively eliminate workers' rights to a secret ballot vote on joining a union. Section 3 of EFCA gives government officials the power to impose contracts on workers and firms. Government bureaucrats would set compensation and make most major business decisions at newly unionized companies. The bureaucrats writing these proposals would have no expertise in the company's operations or business model and would be unaccountable if their decisions drove the company into bankruptcy. Workers would lose all say over working conditions. EFCA would effectively create government-run workplaces.

This legislation will effectively eliminate millions of jobs and stop companies from expanding their businesses.  This will cause inflated prices for services and cost of goods.  This will provide the political engine for the unions and will silence small business. 

Mutual consent and good faith negotiating will be a thing of the past.  Employers will be forced to accept unions when they do not want a union.  A formal method of a secret ballot and individual rights will be eliminated.  Our constitutional rights are challenged due to the pay-off to the unions for supporting the Democrat Party. 

This government-imposed arbitration radically departs from the foundation of the collective bargaining process: the principle of mutual consent. In place of the agreement of both parties, government arbitrators would simply impose working conditions on both employers and employees, whether such conditions are workable or not.

Our federal government is imposing on our rights and will lead the US to socialism.

Drugs and human trafficking are the major reasons for the violence on our southern border.  We must put our military on our border in order to control our border from the criminals, terrorists, and inept US politicians.  We have to assist the Mexican government in their fight against a lawless society.  Our southern border with Mexico is one of the most violent and lawless in the world.

Nearly 7,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police arrived in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez this week to restore security to a city plagued by a long-standing, bloody drug war.   Random vehicle checkpoints, patrols of masked soldiers and police in SWAT gear are some of the signs of the massive military buildup ordered by Mexico's president, Ciudad Juarez police spokesman Jaime Torres Valadez said Thursday.  Thousands of people are killed each year in Juarez due to illegal drugs and human trafficking.

Extreme violence among warring drug cartels and the Mexican government has long plagued Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, but the situation has been getting worse.  And this week, the U.S. Consulate in Juarez specifically warned Americans to avoid an area southeast of the city.
"There has been a dramatic increase in drug related violence in the Guadalupe Bravo area and there is no indication that the situation will improve in the near future," the consulate said on its Web site. 

President Felipe Calderon's security cabinet met in the city last week to devise a strategy to combat narco-traffickers.  Surveillance cameras will be installed throughout the city to help police stem executions and assassinations in the streets, scene of many of Juarez's 1,600 killings in 2008.  Other security measures must be implemented to fight this out of control violence.

Human rights advocates say the military presence creates a police state in a region where confidence in law enforcement is low.  These same human rights groups in the US want American citizens to accept illegal immigrants and drugs into our country.  These groups are corrupt and just wrong in their approach to enforcing the rule of law.

Our border is just like the border in Iraq—more troops mean better security.  The surge in Iraq is the example that the Mexican and US governments should use in this fight against the drug and human trafficking cartels.

Our national security and our society depend on keeping drugs and illegal immigrants out of the US and fighting these drug cartels.

The new RNC Chairman, Mike Steele, is trying to encourage minorities to give the Republican Party a new look.  He is on black and hispanic radio and TV talk shows.  Where should he focus and why?  Will blacks and hispanics leave the Democrat Party?  What do we have to offer them?

Five years after former President George W. Bush attracted nearly half of the Hispanic vote in the 2004 presidential election, Hispanic Republicans are worrying that support for the party among Latinos is in a free fall.  Leading Hispanic Republican strategists say the natural attraction the party should enjoy with churchgoing, socially conservative Latino voters is being overwhelmed by a single issue: the party's hard-line stance on illegal immigration.

How does illegal immigration affect the major parties and the minority communities?  Should the black and/or hispanic communities be fearful of each other?  How is taking the jobs?

With the gang and drug violence along our border and the link between illegal immigration and these two critical criminal elements, should the Republican Party relax its efforts on accepting illegal immigrants?

Chairman Michael Steele told The Washington Times in an interview earlier this month he planned to revive the party by reaching "beyond our comfort" zone in the South and Southwest to the Democratic-leaning strongholds in the Northeast and Midwest.  "We need messengers to really capture that region — young, Hispanic, black, a cross section," he said. "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

Meanwhile, Hispanic Democrats are looking to cement their gains, using immigration policy as a wedge issue. Democratic members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus late last month announced plans for a 17-city "listening tour" to build popular support for fixing the nation's "broken immigration system."  Caucus members say the tour is designed to pressure the Obama administration and Congress to pass a major immigration overhaul bill this year despite the competing claims for health care, education and energy.

Former Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen told the Capitol Hill forum the immigration issue had to be handled in a "rational, thoughtful way," but said the party would do better to focus on economic and social issues as a way to woo Hispanic voters. But he said the party as a whole must continue to insist on securing the country's borders against new illegal immigrants before any discussion on how to deal with illegals already here.

We as American citizens must force our elected officials to enforce our laws, stop illegal immigration, shut down the drugs and gangs, and deny all illegal immigrants any tax payer services.  We cannot allow "bad change" just for political purposes.  We must have policy and outreach based on principles and the rule of law.  Protect our rights!