This is a huge victory for everyone who believes that real public safety comes from strong communities, not more deportations. I can only hope that California will follow the lead of New York and Illinois and pass the TRUST act so that counties can opt-out of this destructive program. It is great that more and more people are seeing through the lies of this program to how it will actually impact immigrants, domestic violence survivors, and young people. As a member of San Francisco's vibrant LGBT community, I am proud that our city and leaders are standing up against this program! I hope our senators and governor will do the same and pass the TRUST Act!

Those legislators and elected officials who don't oppose illegal immigration will be vividly remembered by the growing TEA PARTY membership. If we used zero tolerance policies to remove illegal aliens from America, it would save us trillions of dollars in the years ahead. Each of the thousands of TEA PARTY cells will be looking to oust those who have pushed our country into this financial chaos. Governors such as Andrew Cuomo called the “architect or ruin”, which had much to do with the real estate collapse and low income and illegal immigrant mortgages. Such Mayors as Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, for evasion of implementing E-Verify and Secure Communities, in exposing foreign nations in the workplace and criminal aliens through a ICE fingerprinting. A new poll conducted by Rasmussen found that 82% of likely voters think businesses should be required to use E-Verify. Because of the incompetence of the major parties the border fence is incomplete (NOT COMPARABLE TO THE 2006 Secure Fence Act) and the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration laws not enforced.

California like so many other States are going it alone, to protect their own residents from economic illegal aliens. Then you have Sheriff Michael Hennessey, in the ultra-Liberal fortress who is illegally opting out of policing laws such as mandatory Secure Communities, that is a resonating signal for parasitic economic illegal aliens to quickly arrive there. Releasing any illegal aliens is incorrigible, and ICE being implicated shows that the Obama administration has a no intentions of enforcing laws.This is the same fiasco with highlighted States like Nevada and cities as Chicago and Denver named infamously as Sanctuary cities and states, which are ignoring federal law. ICE doesn’t seem to be reigning in these policies and apprehending the officials behind these illegal people havens. Cops and citizens-legal residents are dying, at the bloody hands of illegal migrants and immigrants that the city councils and managers have no interest in rescinding these anti-sovereignty laws and ordinances?

The House of Representatives is debating and voting on amendments to the 2012 Homeland Security spending bill. Several immigration amendments will be offered and receive votes. It will be the first votes cast on immigration during the 112th Congress. An amendment that increases spending for the administration of the 287(g) program passed in the House of Representatives. In addition two border security amendments offered by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to the 2012 DHS spending bill were passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The two amendments would reallocate funds to provide funding towards removing mountain lookout posts along eh U.S.-Mexico border. These lookout posts are used to aid illegal aliens and drug smugglers in avoiding border patrol agents stationed in the desert. Funds to hire shadow wolves, who are an elite unit, that track smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Attn: When we have 15 million people out of work nationally, why is the federal government giving contracts to foreign countries. watching C-Span today, Congress listened to Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) pleading that US contracts for US Coast Guard diesel engines, should be made in America and not Germany? Another Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) brought to attention of both House parties, that a company in San Francisco was given a contract to manufacture TSA uniforms, and turned around and outsourced the work to Mexico. All patriotic Americans should bombard Federal and State Representatives and demand that all government contracts should go to USA companies and not outsourced to foreign countries.

The People's power is invincible, but we must stand together against many entities who are only interested in profit and exploitation. We can join NumbersUSA and band together by demanding a--MANDATORY E-VERIFY--nationwide, from our federal, State representatives or call Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121.

If the federal government wants to stop illegal immigration, then it should close the border instead of creating a police state where illegal immigrants are fed to the private, for-profit prison industry.

So on the one hand, we're all for open borders when it comes to capital. As long as you're a business, you can go anywhere you want, screw anyone you want without limits. Because see, business needs the freedom to move anywhere where economic conditions are best.

But the minute ordinary working people respond by going where economic conditions are best for them... oh no, we can't have that.

That's both hypocritcal and unconscionable. If you're going to open the borders, then open the borders. If you're going to close the borders, then close the borders. But in a sane and just society, human beings should have at least as much freedom as capital.

No one is for free trade. NAFTA became law by... divine intervention?

"You over state things so much that it makes it all meaningless. You need to keep in mind that you are not at the coffee house blabbering with other true believers. "

I'm well aware of the fact that I'm on a board frequented by assorted trolls and curmudgeons.

Evans' schtick is that he's an old crank. Yours is that you love to disagree for the sake of disagreeing. Even when you agree with the progressive position, you have an itch to say something disagreeable because you just don't like progressives. If I say that the sky is blue, you'll feel a need to chime in with some sarcastic remark disagreeing.

All I'm saying is that
1) Free trade means open borders for capital. Many politicians advocate free trade. And though they don't like to use the phrase "open borders," because it hints at their hypocrisy, few would actually disagree with the overall characterization. In fact, sometimes they do speak of the need to break down barriers (ie., borders) to investment (ie., capital).

2) Many of the same people who are for open borders for business (in other words, capital), are for closing the borders for immigration (in other words, human beings)

3) I believe this is rank hypocrisy, and I think that human beings should certainly have as much freedom as capital.

Perhaps you don't like my characterization, because it exposes your own hypocrisy on the issue, but I fail to see any overstatement here.