Illegal Immigration

[HisDaughter]

[scarsm]But illegal entry into the US is not a problem. They'll probably give the illegals a medal of honor or something, you know, since they put two agents in prison for doing their job.[/scarsm]

These people have no respect for human life and yet, we have our borders open wide for them.

They will say, that he "either did his duty wrong"  or "he had no right to stop that vehicle". This is disgraceful  put up the fence already and give the agents the authority to actually protect us!!

We lose many Border Patrol Officers each year while in the line of duty, whether air, land or sea interdiction. Most of the time you never hear about it. But it's a huge deal to us and we lower our flags.

I would also like to see Officers Ramos and Compeon be set free. In my opinion, they are political prisoners.

Let me be the first to "second" that.

[nChrist]

I'll third this!

Brothers and Sisters, it's been a bad year for law enforcement deaths and injuries. I don't think that many people know JUST HOW THIN THIS BLUE LINE IS! If people knew the facts, they would get behind their law enforcement officers, support them in any way they can, and certainly show appropriate respect when one or more gets killed or seriously injured in the line of duty.

Think of this "Thin Blue Line" as getting thicker in places where citizens support and respect them. If NOTHING else, it would be nice for them to feel that their actions and sacrifices for the people are appreciated. Their families also pay a price when a loved one serves in the line of duty. This is really much like service by members of the armed forces. The main difference is that the law enforcement officer gets to come home more often. Both services involve a very thin line between CHAOS..........and PEACE AND SAFETY. It must be a labor of love because it can't be for the inadequate pay.

[Soldier4Christ]

States may force immigration reform, says legal immigration spokesman

Immigration reform activist William Gheen says his organization will work with states that are trying to pass legislation aimed at battling illegal immigration. He believes the states may be the last line of defense if the federal government continues to shirk border protection.

When the Virginia General Assembly opened its 2008 session this month, more than 100 bills pertaining to illegal immigration were introduced in the first two days alone, filed by Republicans and Democrats alike. A recent editorial in the Washington Times said the bills were unprecedented in number and scope and signaled that Governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat, needs to take the issue seriously.

Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, says a number of states like Virginia are being forced to take action because the federal government is not doing its job. "Having a handful of states that crack down is creating pressure on illegal aliens across the whole country," notes Gheen. "They're feeling it -- and in some cases, even though they're intolerant or illegal alien-welcoming states, they're still feeling the pressure and thinking about going home, and going home in larger numbers."

The immigration activist believes strong enforcement by a select number of states will force the hand of those state legislatures that are rolling out the welcome mat to illegal immigrants. "So for each state that cracks down and starts moving the illegal aliens out into adjacent states," says Gheen, "the political pressure grows ... for change."

Gheen expects a flurry of similar activity in several more states.

[Soldier4Christ]

Texas suburb adopts new anti-illegal immigrant law

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - Leaders of a Dallas suburb that was blocked from enforcing a ban on leasing apartments to illegal immigrants approved a new rule Tuesday to require prospective tenants to get a city license to rent homes and apartments.

The measure, approved unanimously by the City Council, requires tenants to provide information to the city, which would then check with the federal government to determine the person's immigration status. Anyone deemed an illegal immigrant would be banned from renting.

"This may be in the courts forever. I hope not, but the decision is: Let's go for it," said Councilman Jim Smith.

Nearly 200 people packed into City Hall for the council vote. Dozens lauded the council, while dozens more denounced city officials for continuing to push immigration-related measures. "Here we go again. ... I believe that this will not stand, also," Farmers Branch resident Jose Galvez said.

A November 2006 ordinance barred apartment rentals to illegal immigrants and was revised in January 2007 to include exemptions for minors, seniors and some mixed-immigration status families. Residents endorsed the law 2 to 1 in May.

Nationally, many local governments have proposed, passed or rejected similar laws. But Farmers Branch gained extra attention as the first community in Texas -- where many Latino families trace their roots here to the era before statehood -- to propose such laws.

A federal judge blocked Farmers Branch from enforcing its first ordinance after finding that city officials tried to regulate immigration differently from the federal government. The case remains in court.

The city hired a law firm to rework the ban, officials said.

Under this ban, Farmers Branch would use a database employed by state and federal agencies to verify whether immigrants are entitled to certain benefits, such as housing and food stamps, said Michael Jung, an attorney with Strasburger & Price LLP.

With the new proposal, a person who isn't a U.S. citizen would provide a number issued by the federal government that shows their lawful presence in the U.S. The number could be from any of a variety of legal documents.

If federal authorities cannot confirm legal residency status, the person would have 60 days to provide proof.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said there is no such database the city can use for the purpose they say they intend to use it for.

"There is no database where the city or anyone can pick up the phone and give alienage, like yes this person is legal or no that person isn't legal; there is no such database," Maria Elena Garcia-Upson said. In addition, the database the city refers to is used to verify whether legal non-citizens are eligible for public benefits. But many people who are in the country legally, such as foreign students, are not eligible for federal or state benefits, she said.

The city's measure would take effect 15 days after a ruling on the ordinance currently being contested in court.

[Soldier4Christ]

Most-wanted immigration fugitive captured 
Once-deported member of MS-13 gang picked up in Los Angeles

Authorities snared a once-deported gang member who is one of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 10 Most Wanted fugitives in Los Angeles, according to MyFOXLA.com.

David Rivera, 33, a member of the MS-13 gang, has alleged links to several murders and prior arrests on sexual assault and drug charges as well as a conviction for gun possession.

He was arrested in an apartment complex in the Rampart section of Los Angeles by ICE agents and detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division.

Rivera attempted to escape out the back of the property before agents nabbed him, ICE said.
In addition to Rivera, officers also arrested two other suspected gang associates on immigration violations.

Rivera had been deported and illegally re-entered the country, ICE alleged. If convicted, Rivera could receive up to 20 years in federal prison.

He had been sought by authorities for four years and is expected to make his initial court appearance this afternoon in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles, ICE said.

"This arrest is the pay-off for perseverance, great police work and partnership with local law enforcement," said Jennifer Silliman, deputy special agent in charge of the ICE office of investigations in Los Angeles.

"We will continue to work closely with our law enforcement counterparts in Los Angeles to target gang members like this man who put our communities and neighborhoods at risk," she said.

[Soldier4Christ]

Texas hospital locked down to protect Mexican official 
Police commander targeted for assassination, locals fear drug-war spillover

With Thomason Hospital still under lockdown to protect a Mexican police commander targeted for assassination, El Pasoans wonder whether the drug violence in Juárez is spilling to the U.S. side.

But El Paso Interim Police Chief Greg Allen said that the opposite might be true, and that it was improbable that Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval would be attacked while being treated at Thomason.

Esther Sanchez went to the county hospital Thursday for a doctor's appointment, found the front door locked and was redirected to the emergency room entrance. There, she had to go through a metal detector. Outside, armed sheriff's deputies and police officers stood guard.

"It makes you think that something could happen," the elderly woman said. "Usually, stuff like that happens in Juárez."

Another visitor, Antonio Puga, was at the hospital to take his newborn baby home. He said standing outside made him nervous.

"The security is not going to stop anyone who wants to come and start shooting at the building," he said.

Allen said such a scenario was unlikely. "I don't think they're going to be as bold in the United States as they are in Mexico. I don't think they will make a big scene in front of Thomason Hospital. That type of behavior would meet a much stronger response here," Allen said. "If they want this guy bad enough, they'll plan it in the future, but I don't think it'll be in the U.S."

That seems to be the conclusion of the family of Lozano, of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency.

Lozano's brother-in-law, Sergio Belmonte, who works as a spokesman for the Juárez mayor, said the family was concerned about Lozano's security despite a deployment of Mexican soldiers to guard the Juárez hospital where he was being treated.

Lozano was ambushed by gunmen Monday night as he drove his SUV in Juárez. He was shot twice in the chest, and one bullet tore his left lung, Belmonte said.

His family, through officials of the state of Chihuahua, asked for help to take Lozano to El Paso.

Lozano's attackers "are not stupid," Belmonte said. "They are not going to come across."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said they agreed to help because Lozano is a U.S. citizen and "because of his severe medical condition," they said in a news release.

The Chihuahua state police are paying Lozano's medical bills, Belmonte said. But El Paso taxpayers are paying for the round-the-clock security at Thomason Hospital.

So far, the drug violence that has plagued Juárez for more than a decade has stayed south of the border.

Last year, Juárez, which has a population estimated at between 1.2 and 1.5 million, counted more than 300 homicides. El Paso, with a population of about 600,000, had 16.

Hit men from the Juárez drug cartel did not hesitate in the past to follow a wounded target to a hospital to finish the job.

In December 2006, a man narrowly survived a street shooting in Juárez, only to be followed by his attackers to a Juárez clinic, where he shot as he lay on a gurney receiving treatment. That man, César Alonso Gándara Reyes, 30, was an alleged drug smuggler.

Juárez city officials said Thursday that they were expecting a large number of Mexican federal police officers to arrive in Juárez soon to help local agencies combat drug traffickers.

Tuesday, about 50 Mexican soldiers were deployed on the streets of Juárez to conduct checkpoints after the attack on Lozano.

In El Paso Thursday, Jethro Armijo, a spokesman for Thomason Hospital, said he received phone calls from worried patients, asking, " 'Is this dangerous? Are we safe? Can I still come in and get my lab work done?' We tell everybody that the hospital is under elevated security measures and they can come in through the ER, then it's business as usual after that."

One patient on Thursday, Arturo Gomez, had to take the long way on crutches to get to his physical therapy. But he did not complain.

"I like how they have secured the place. That's the way to do it," he said. "That's how they should do it in Mexico."

[Soldier4Christ]

Border Patrol expands to U.S. interior
Heartland crackdown 'pretty much a shocker for the smuggling organizations'

Detective Nick McLendon, on stakeout duty along a dark stretch of eastbound Interstate 20, noticed a red Chevy Suburban with heavily tinted windows and no light over its rear Texas license plate. He pulled the SUV over.

Packed into the Suburban, he discovered, were 14 illegal immigrants, two suspected smugglers, and a spiral notebook on the front seat, listing the passengers and their destinations in Spanish — "Arterio Ramires to Nuy Yersey; David Luna to Nueba York; Marcelina and Jasmin to Carolina del Norte; Jose Aguilar to Alabama; Josefina Ortega to Chicago; Gustavo Ribera to Florida."

The arrests — some 800 miles from the Mexican border — represented a new and dramatic shift in U.S. immigration enforcement strategy.

Federal agents, with help from local law officers like McLendon, a Pearl, Miss., detective, have begun intercepting illegal immigrants and smugglers along stretches of highway deep in the U.S. interior.

"They think they're pretty much home free once they get up here," said Bill Botts, the assistant chief patrol agent in charge of the Border Patrol's Gulfport, Miss., station. But Operation Uniforce, as the two-week crackdown begun Jan. 13 is called, "is pretty much a shocker for the smuggling organizations."

More than 300 immigrants and suspected smugglers had been arrested as of Tuesday, more than a week into the operation.

Interstate 20 has become a major corridor for immigrant smugglers. It peels off from I-10 in West Texas and runs across the South, passing through Atlanta and linking up with other major highways, including I-95, which leads to Miami to the south and Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston to the north.

About 40 Border Patrol and customs agents who normally work at or close to the border have been temporarily assigned to the crackdown. They and local law officers have spread out along several miles of I-20 and some of its connecting highways, parking their vehicles out in the open in the median or by the side of the road.

After the two weeks are up, they will return to their usual jobs and evaluate what they learned. In the coming weeks or months, they may return to I-20 and do it again.

The hope, though, is whether they come back or not, the crackdown will put immigrant smugglers on notice and disrupt their business by forcing them to take longer, slower and more costly detours.

Border Patrol spokesman Ramon Rivera said the vast majority of those caught in the crackdown are Mexicans headed to the East Coast, where they typically land jobs in agriculture, construction and manufacturing. Agents also found a Mexican who had paid a smuggler $400 to get him home to avoid a murder charge in Chicago.

But perhaps more important, the agents also uncovered vital information about a few prolific smuggling rings and a popular Texas stash house where immigrants were being kept after crossing the border.

"The intelligence we are getting is absolutely priceless," Rivera said.

The Border Patrol said it had no immediate estimate of the cost of Operation Uniforce.

Federal agents ran three such operations closer to the border last year: two in Baton Rouge and one in Mobile, Ala. Those efforts seemed to force the smugglers north from I-10 to I-20. So this time, agents picked up and moved deeper into the interior to I-20, some 800 miles from the nearest border crossing, at Brownsville, Texas.

The Associated Press was allowed to document the operation during a nighttime ride-along last week in Mississippi.

On that night, McLendon, who normally pulls over motorists in a search for drugs, found the exhausted immigrants crammed in the Suburban, shoes off, a few blankets on the floorboards, a half-empty jug of water in the back. The passengers, including a girl of about 10, had crossed into the United States from Mexico near Nogales, Ariz., some 1,200 miles away from this Mississippi town.

It was unclear whether they sneaked across the open desert on foot, or passed through a border crossing station and then climbed into the SUV. But the Suburban had made it all the way from the border in Arizona — a receipt in the vehicle showed that someone bought a new battery there on Wednesday — and passed through Dallas on Thursday — the driver stopped for an oil change about 1:30 p.m. — before being stopped outside Jackson, Miss.

If McLendon had come across these immigrants a week earlier, he would have issued a ticket for the missing light and sent them on their way. The nearest fixed Border Patrol station is 160 miles away in Gulfport, and he wouldn't have called it in because the agents wouldn't have made the three-hour trip for such a routine matter.

This time, Border Patrol agents posted along the highway promptly arrived on the scene, and all 16 people were arrested and held for deportation.

"When Border Patrol pulled up you could see the disappointment on their face, that they would be going all the way back," McLendon said.

[Soldier4Christ]

Middle-eastern illegal aliens nabbed in Mississippi

A Mississippi-based immigration activist is appalled that potential terrorists were among a group of illegal aliens apprehended by federal agents in a sting operation along Interstate 20 in the Magnolia State.     

 

Operation Uniforce was conducted during a two-week period this month by a special Border Patrol task force targeting I-20 because federal agents believe it is a new corridor for smugglers to ferry illegal aliens to the East Coast. A similar operation was conducted on I-10 last year at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. According to the Border Patrol, greater scrutiny of the I-10 corridor prompted smugglers to move further inland to I-20 -- which is 800 miles from the Mexican border.
 
While most of the illegal immigrants nabbed came from Mexico, two individuals from "special interest" countries -- one Egyptian and the other a Palestinian from the West Bank -- were also apprehended. Rodney Hunt with the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement says people are concerned that terrorists are entering the U.S. across the porous border. "And I think this just shows [that] these people from these special interest countries ... [are not just] ... people coming here taking jobs from Americans, but we have potential ... terrorists," warns Hunt.
 
Hunt is also fearful that Mississippi's illegal alien population in general will grow dramatically because I-20 cuts right across the state. "You know one of the things I think that'll be a big problem here in Mississippi," he continues, "[is that] we'll become a sanctuary state. We already have a large illegal population probably of 120,000."
 
The activist believes Mississippi will have to take a more active role in dealing with the issue of illegal immigration into the state.

[Brother Jerry]

http://www.waff.com/global/story.asp?s=7799159
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327109,00.html

Ok so for those of you who do not thing illegal immigration is a problem.  There is a story from right here where I am at, that lets you know that even legal immigration under the guise of guest workers is just plain bad.

Where are the workers?

Updated: Jan 31, 2008 11:45 AM
   Cinram is missing workers
   Foreign workers vanish

Vanished.

About 100 foreign workers at Cinram Incorporated are missing.

Immigration agents are trying to determine what happened to the Nepalese workers under temporary contracts.

WAFF 48 Investigator Eric Sollman says the company is one of the largest manufacturers of pre-recorded cd's and DVD's in the world and their workers come from all over the world.

But when so many of their foreign workers disappear from the same plant, it effects more than just Cinram.

Mary Snopl is a full-time landlord/caretaker for immigrant employees at Cinram.

The majority of her Cinram tenants are from Nepal.

Snopl says from the day they arrive, the workers are leased an apartment, taken to the grocery, even helped with checking accounts and social security cards.

They even have their own office. 

"We pay all the utilities, water, sewer, garbage, and the power," says Snopl.

She says there were originally about 240 people from Nepal, and about 150 have left.

Leaving her some unfinished business. 

"Unfortunately so many people have left, and that's been a financial hardship because they left without paying for an apartment," Snople adds.

A lot of stuff that could be carried is gone, and Snopl says their $25 deposit doesn't fit the bill or the bed.

She said it won't even cover the cost of a comforter.

The tenants are staying in one and 2-bedroom apartments with new beds and televisions. 

"I don't think that Nepalese guy has taken anything," says one Nepalese worker.

"I want to request that the media listen to both sides," says another.

Both Snople and these guys from Nepal showed us their apartments to show everyone how they're living.

One guy tells us the people who left may be at fault for something, but stealing's not one of them. 

"They didn't inform that they are leaving the apartment, that is their fault, that is their fault, I agree with that."

Who's responsible for keeping up with those missing foreign workers?

1,142 workers were brought to Huntsville under temporary visas.

About 250 were from Nepal.

Cinram Spokesperson Lyne Fisher told us in a phone interview the workers left without proper notification.

"The first step was to contact The Department of Homeland Security, and also to contact the Nepalese recruitment agency that helped coordinate their employment with us," says Fisher.

Fisher says the temporary employees go through several screenings before they're eligible for Cinram's worker program.

"If the workers decide to leave, they're free to go, they're free to go home, if they're homesick or something like that," adds Fisher.

That's what Cinram and the temporary employment agency Ambassador involved say happened to the nearly 150 people who left their short-seasoned jobs.

District 21 Representative Randy Hinshaw says there's no downplaying the fact that the immigrants are missing, and they're not doing what they came here to do.

"We can't just blow this off and act like it's not a problem, we're repeating the same mistakes we've made in the past and we need to get a handle on it," says Hinshaw.

So who's responsible?

Hinshaw says no one knows where these workers are or what kind of threat they pose.

"How do they know, how do they know they've gone home?" 

"Obviously if homeland security's involved then they don't know where they went," says Hinshaw.

"I'm hoping our industrial relations and Homeland Security have a better worker relationship in the future so we can solve these problems." 

So where are these workers?

WAFF 48 News spoke with Doug Wilson, President of The Ambassador Temp Agency.

He says most of the missing workers have gone home, others are making a short stop in New York before departure.

There official whereabouts have not been confirmed.

The Fox News article stated "said it turned to foreign workers because the area job market couldn't fill its needs"
I do a quick google and see that my lovely home town is pretty good for unemployment, on par with the national average.  And that puts us at about 5,000 people unemployed.  Which is not too bad.  But I would really think that this is enough of a market to get people to work out Cinram.  The article stated that they were paying the guest workers $8/hr.  Which means the temp agency is getting at a bare minimum $10/hr, more than likely $20/hr.  I tell you what I would go and stuff CD's for $20/hr.  And if I was out of work $10/hr is better than $0/hr.

[Soldier4Christ]

That is a serious problem. There are many known terrorists in Nepal and screened or not it would be easy for them to get through to the U.S. in this manner. This is a problem that I posted about on here before, about our government not knowing where many individuals are that are on temporary visas. They have come into the country and then taken off with no way of knowing where they are. Some of those individuals are ones that have been caught and charged with plotting terrorist activities but there are many, many more that have not been located and there is no program in place to track or locate them.

Yes, there are many unemployed people here that would be willing to stuff cd's for a lot less than $20 an hr. even without all those freebies they are throwing away on people that just leave. It would save the company lot's of money and cut down the strain on the government programs.

That would defeat the socialist movement though and that is totally unacceptable. 

[Calvinite]

Pastor,
With all due respect, you and the community of Huntsville have all their facts wrong concerning the H2B situation.  While there are missing workers and this is a huge problem, H2B is a legal program and may have been executed in good faith. What is the motivation for the attacks on Cinram?  Those who are barking loudest, might require a closer look!  How many tractor trailer loads of cheap furniture do you think it would take to haul off several hundred thousand dollars worth in the middle of the night?  Why would a company pay $20 (Which they obviously would not do) an hour to an employment service if they could get locals for $10-$15/hour.  The minimum wage is under $6/hour.  It is my understanding that the poor (Which includes the lazy 2.6% in Huntsville) will always be with us. This does not make sense!  2+2 always = 4 and this is not adding up. I would think Cinram was trying to make money. I think the landlords were likely looking for a profit as well. All that I am suggesting is that the drive by media very rarely gets it right.  I believe that time will tell a different story.  However, when the truth comes out, I doubt the media will cover it on the front page.
Calvinite

[Soldier4Christ]

Hi Calvinite,

Welcome to Christians Unite forums.

I think that you need to reread what was said and who said it. The primary comments were in reference to the government. Yes, a few were made on Cinram but the majority was on the government and the illegal aliens. Yes, I said illegal since they violated the terms of their work visas they are now in fact illegal.

With the government programs that are in place Cinram probably gets reimbursed much of the $20 an hour they pay to the employment agencies. I don't know the details on how things are in the area of Cinram but here where I am a business does get reimbursed for much of that by the government.

[Brother Jerry]

Hello Calvenite,

As far as H2B.  PR nailed it.  Not a problem with the program, however we have no way of tracking people once they get here.  Guest workers such as this are supposed to be on chains of sort...they are limited to either a task or time period.  And what is supposed to happen once they hit their mark is that they are supposed to go home.  But we have many that are still here on expired visa's.  And that is a problem. 

As far as attacking Cinram...well I remember when they opted to bring in 300 jobs from overseas.  There was quite a few folks that were not happy about that, I am talking about folks that were out of work and willing to work.  There was also some folks that had been laid off shortly before that as well.  As far as companies to work for in Huntsville, Cinram is not one that is high on anyones list now days.  And as far as them paying $20/hr.  Well the article mentioned that the workers were getting $8/hr and most temp agencies will try and get at least twice what they are paying the worker, if not more.  $20 is not a known figure but a guestimate.  There also appears to be some other subsidizing going on as well...the apartment folks mentioned that the security deposit was only $25, which they may as well not even have one at that price.  But there is indications that the workers were getting a cut rate on their apartments as well, plus they were completely furnished.  So it would seem that these were set aside just for the guest workers.  So either Fed was paying someone for it, or the temp agency was getting a pretty penny from Cinram for the workers, and thus the temp agency was able to keep retaining the apartments.

as far as walking off with stuff...if you have 100 people walking away, they could pack away some stuff, specially when it comes to electronics.  And there are pawn shops and such all over the place.

And I agree that the media rarely gets things right.  Nothing new there.  However it is a fact that 100ish workers from Nepal have not shown up for work, nor checked in with their employer, or the embassy, or anyone else since Tuesday.
And that fact alone is just plain scary to me.

[Soldier4Christ]

Something else to think about ... Nepal is the home of many islamist extremist. It is already known that many have been recruited from Nepal to go to Afghanistan to aid their agendas there and in Pakistan. It is also well known that islamist are building up forces right here in the U.S. This would be an excellent way to achieve just that.

[Soldier4Christ]

Cable news blamed for rise in Latino 'hate crimes'
'La Raza' targets guests who call illegals 'invaders,' blame them


The fierce debate over illegal immigration on cable news channels could be the cause of a purported increase in hate crimes against Latinos, charges the radical Hispanic rights group National Council of La Raza.

The group, which says it's launching a campaign against vilification of immigrants and Hispanic Americans, wants to meet executives of the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN and press them to stop "handing hate a microphone" on their programs, the Dallas Morning News reported.

"This surge of hate is being driven by a relatively small but vocal and extreme segment of our society," said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president and chief executive.

Murguia claims a 25-percent increase in hate crimes against Latinos between 2004 and 2006, according to FBI statistics the group compiled.

The group, the Dallas paper reported, has called on Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to renounce his endorsement by Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, an opponent of open borders who frequently appears on cable news shows.

Gilchrist responded to the Morning News, calling La Raza a racial supremacy group that "dwarfs the combination of Black Panthers, KKK, American Indian Movement and Asian gangs."

As WND reported, La Raza, which means "The Race," was condemned in 2006 by Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., as a radical "pro-illegal immigration lobbying organization that supports racist groups calling for the secession of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland."

The Dallas paper said a variety of civil rights organizations have monitored the rise of code words or phrases to describe illegal immigrants, such as an "invading force," "a massive horde" or "swarm." The groups also object to illegals being accused of "bringing crime and disease" to America, including "gang warfare," and of being part of a conspiracy of "reconquista" or "Atzlan" – the taking back of lands in the southwestern U.S.

The Morning News said CNN Worldwide's CEO agreed to meet with the group, and Murguia will be interviewed Monday night by host Lou Dobbs, a strong opponent of illegal immigration.

Fox News declined comment, and MSNBC officials said they look forward to receiving NCLR's letter, according to the paper.

Murguia said her group wants to solve the problem amicably, but indicated the growing Hispanic community might use its economic clout and put pressure on the advertisers if the networks don't respond.

She also warned that anyone running for political office who embraces the same rhetoric risks defeat.

WND reported in November that La Raza issued a report calling for the release of any illegal aliens who are arrested, if they happen to be parents.

In May, WND reported La Raza had virtual veto power over the immigration bill promoted by the White House that failed amid charges it granted "amnesty" for millions of people who came to the U.S. illegally.